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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Friday, not much chant In temperature. Temperature I Ugliest esterday 75 Lowest tills morning - 4ft Precipitation last 24 hn. .01 Every Day The house you art looklnf for may be advertised In tha Classified today. If not look again tomorrow. In lact. It'a a food practice to read the Classified every day. MEDFORD Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year BEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1938. No. 145. NOBS MARE HEADV RC WWX : .. 1 i i t - . The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. BERI.E TO QUIT CAPITAL SCENE WITH RELIEF EARLY IIRAIS-TKI'STER AT OUTS WITH LEFT-WINGERS CONSIDERED TRAITOR BY PRESENT ADVISERS OF F. R. BERI.E CONVINCE!! HIS SUCCESSORS INTRIOIERS WASHINGTON. Sept. 8. In a week or so. Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr.. re turns to tlie comfortable bosom ol Columbia university. His second ca reer In the new deal, as assistant aecretary of state, has been brief but arduous. What with one thing and another. It's likely Berle will have some relief In his heart when he shakes Washington's dust from his feet. Tf the President were a more senti mental man, he would have kept Berle around as a memento of the first brain trust a sort of undried Immortelle. With Ray Moley in deep est disrepute. Rex Tugwell In the city planning business, and Hugh John son in a rage. It was nice to know that Adolf Berle still survived in the new deal. Now that he is going, the only remaining members of the Presi dent's first set of Intellectual friends are the ones who wouldn't take Jobs. Felix Frankfurter and Justice Samuel Rosenman of the New York supreme court. It seems a little ironic, under the circumstances, that the departing Berle back should be the target for the curses of his brain trust succes sors. The new deal left-wingers, and especially those close to the White Rouse, have no names bad enough to call him. "Tory." "Morgan's man." "defender of monopoly" and "big business' borer from within," are a selection of the milder epithets. For his art, Berle leaves convinced that his successors are Intriguers, hungry for power, not to be trusted by honest men. The truth Is, of course, that the whole misunderstanding Is pretty illy. Yet It casts an Interesting Illumination on the current Wash ington scene. Berle's explanation of the new left wingers' attitude attributes to them a remarkable degree of suspicion. When he left the administration for the first time to serve New York's Mayor Florello LaGuardla, one of his tasks was to put New York financing on a sounder basis. At that time, all city bonds were handled by a syndi cate headed by the Chaso bank. In- (Conttnued on Page Eight.) WILLIAM POWELL HAS ABDOMINAL OPERATION HOLLYWOOD, Cal.. Sept. 8. &t William Powell successfully under went an abdominal operation at a hospital this morning. The movie star was said to be resting well. The nature of his Illness was not re vealed. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Reese O'Neill amusing patrons with his fly-swatting endeavors, he missing nine times out of ten and driving all the flies to one corner of the store Ralph O. Stephenson acting like a woman in changing his mind hourly on whether or not to run for the state legislature, he giving party lead rrs the fidgets. Author Isobel Stuart wearing a fancy little hat through the top of which her hair protruded in a lovely brown wisp. Madeleine Ryan. Dorothy Perl. Ann Puson and an unidentified fourth playing bridge for an hour before discovering one deck of cards had four queens missing, they apparent ly tco wrapped up In conversation to allow the missing queens to inter fere with their brio playing. Chuck Reum Mating thrilling ex periences of a neighborhood prowler whom he was not able to catch up with, the prowler doing his prowling un-lnterfered with. Jim Edmiston defending of, fake sweepstakes tickets by de claring that American money should b kpt la Am lie. HITLER EXPECTED 10 REVEAL INTENT IN MONDAY TALK Britain Summons Cabinet Meeting Sudeten Re fuses Further Negotiation Until Whipping Adjusted ROME, Sept. 8. Pf Italy, sid ing with Derma nr. advised Czech oslovakia semi-off trinity tonight to heed the autonomy demands of her Germanic minority. The Italian position was out lined In Informazlone Diplomat lea. authoritative organ Issued oc casionally by the official Stefanl News Agency. Diplomats attribute to It the Importance of a govern ment romtminlquc. By the Associated Press The critical negotiations between Czechoslovakia and her Sudeten Ger man minority on which may depend war or . peace in Europe remained in suspense today while the powers took steps to be prepared for a show down. Great Britain summoned her cab inet to meet Monday, a few hours before Adolf Hitler Is expected to tell the world what he intends to do about Czechoslovakia. Confer On Defense The call was Issued by Prime Min ister Neville Chamberlain after day long conferences of key British min isters. Including what was said to have been a discussion of muturl defenses between Sir Thomas InsklD. British minister for coordination of defenses, and Eamon de Valcra. prime minister of Ireland. Although Hitler ordered the Sude ten Germans to renew negotiation, after a break which gave Europe Its sharpest war scare In weeks of ten sion, minority leaders In Praha said there was no prospect of further autonomy talks until the whipping of a Sudeten German legislator has been adjusted satisfactorily. Hitler, self-styled protector of tho Sudeten Germans, had ordered the negotiations suspended yesterday. Hit change of mind. It was said, was be cause of his desire to convince the world he was leaving nothing undone to find a peaceful solution of the crisis. Patience Seen taw There was evidence, however. Ger man patience both with the Czecho slovaks and with British peace-making efforts was near Its end. Alarm, apparently, became more Intensified in London and Paris. The British "inner cabinet" Prime Min ister Neville Chamberlain, Sir Joh Simon. chancellor of the exchequer, and Viscount Halifax, foreign secre taryassembled in London. British labor demanded parliament be sum moned as soon as possible. While women of Lorraine prayed. 350.000 French soldiers manned the Maglnot line of sunken fortresses facing Germany, French frontier ai strength waa reinforced and the high command waa shifted to put experts In the German frontier zone. These were the grave developments before Hitler Issued -his new order to the Sudeten Germans: 1. A Czechoslovak mounted police man rode Into e. crowd at Mseh rlschoatrau. near Czechoslovakia's Polish and Oecman borders, and. Germans said, struck a Sudeten Ger man legislator with his riding crop 2. Negotiations were broken off and the feuhrer was reported to have decided to center his negotiations over the Sudeten German demand on Britain. 3. A high German official td Hitler liad Instructed Konrad Hen leln. the Sudeten German leader, to reject the latest concessions of the Prague government. In Spain, insurgent forces still ap peared to be making 'feeler" attacks to test government defenses for a weak spot against which to launch a major offensive. Fighting shifted from the Ebro river to the Valencia front with the insurants reporting slight advances north of Vlver. J. DUTY IN ARKANSAS Major George R. Owens, command ing officer of the Medford CCC dis trict since June, 1935, has been as signed to national guard duty with headquarter at Hrlena. Ark., ac cording to a radiogram received last night. Major Owens waa dlttctwl to re port for dnty at hla new post as soon as practicable and CCC head quarters said today he would leave here as soon after September 18 as possible. He will be an instructor for the nitlonal guard In Arkansas. I mas expected that official orders confirming the radiogram would be received hera shortly. Sprague River Store Strike Jams Street X - 4i ' '.. , tn, ' ' j. i '.c.yf.-,: .x..f.-.-ajF..a s...-.;-. J Im With G.orm p'tall pickets hi 27 an Francisco department stores on strike, the pickets, massing In front of the stores and endeavoring to keep shoppers out created traffic situations like the one above, a scene on Market street shortly after the strike got under nay. ndow: A shop per lind her purse ripped open as she attempted to enter a store, hut a policeman came to hrr recne. Note the open purse. (A.P. Photos) 10 BECOME DICTATOR CHICAGO, Sept. 8. (AP) Arthur Van den berg (R., Mich.) asserted In an Interview "American dictatorship, American style" waa fhe objective of President Roosevelt. The president's plan, the senator said yesterday la to pack the Judic ial and legislative branches of gov ernment with his yes men. Vanden berg was quoted as follows: "The purge that haa come to America has utterly sinister impli cations. It Is one thing for a politi cal leader to seek sympathetic politi cal supporters. But it Is a totally different thing for a president of this still free republic to seek con trol of the legislative and Judicial branches of a constitutional govern ment which Is built necessarily on the preservation of coordinate Inde pendence in these three branches." SEPT. 30 IS DEADLINE PORTLAND. Spt. 8. A C. C. Hockley, regional PWA director, an nounced today no applications for grants would be accepted after Sep tember 30. Construction must be undertaken by January 1. 191B. and completed by July 1. 1040. No allotments will h (onldrred for projects requiring bond elections unless the election la held before October U El SAY UNION OFFICIAL SOLD OUT TO BOSSES LOS ANGELES. Sept. 8. (.Bp Bitter dissension among film craftsmen flared today In a complaint to the National Labor Relations hoard pay ment of 100.000 to a union official put 12,000 union workers under "di rect control" of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc. The complaint was filed mith Dr. Towne Nylander, regional NLRB di rector, by Jeff Klbre, a studio crafts man who said he was "acting for and on behalf of the motion picture tech nicians committee." Kihre alleged William Bloff, for merly personal representative in Hol lywood of George E. Browne, Inter national president of the Interna tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, accepted $100,000 from Schenek to "sell out" IA TJi.E. con trol. "Since January 3, 1S36. Bloff haa been the paid agent for the pro ducers while purporting to act for President Browne." the complaint said. Bloff recently resigned his I.A. TA.E. part. "Thousands of workers have been paying tribute to this racket for more than two years." Klbre asserted, "only to aee their working conditions be come steadily worse." To Vote on Court house SALEM. Sept. 8. AP The Mar ion county court today ordered a new court house proposal placed on the ballot as special measure at the November election. The amount of money to be raised haa not een decided on. but th proposal will be contingent on i 49 percent PWA gran Burns LONG AND BITTER STRUGGLE LOOMS IN FRISCO STRIKE Five Pickets Arrested On Market Street Stores Will Remain Open Says Spokesman for Employers SAX FRANCISCO. Sept. 8. (AP Raymond Hanson, bond and warrant rlerk, said today he had Issued a citation for Prentiss Cobb Iliile, Jr., executive of Hale Brot hers depart inrnt store, to show cause Saturday why he should not be arrested for assault and batten-. Hanson said the citation was Issued at the request, of Lulu Darling, a picket In the depart ment store st rike, who alleged Hale, a son of the late store founder, knocked her down and shook her during a disturbance a( the store this morning. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 8. (AP) Tension heightened In the strike of several thousand department store clerks today as verbal clashes hinted at an Impending long struggle and five pickets were arrested on Market street. Police slightly augmented the 300 men who patrolled the retail area when ,the strike at 27 stores and eight branches broke yesterday, and feminine pickets resumed their march In full strength. The men arrested were named by Patrolman Daniel Dlneen as Includ ing George Hardy, hnistee of the Building Sarvtoe Employes' -(Janitors') union, . one of more than 30 A.F.L. crafts supporting the strike, and Henry "DoeC Charton. a picket cap tain. The others, all Janitor union ists, were named as Jack Goldbemer. Jack Deno and Herman Elmers. Spur Pickets They were booked for refusal to move on at police command. As they entered the patrol wagon they shout ed to the marching girls: "Keep on talking it up unfalrl" Stores announced they would con tinue "business as usual," with staffs depleted in various degree. One employer spokesman said: ". . . the stores will stay open. We have not yielded, we do not yield and we will not yield to any group of union officials the control of who our employes will be." The A.F.L.-afftllated strikers receiv ed pledges of A F.L. and C.I.O. union support and set up a committee to conduct their campaign. Larry Vail, union secretary, said 7,000 workers responded to yesterday's strike call. Store executives set the number at 4.000. No peace overtures hsd been made today by strikers, retailers or third parties in the dispute which cenVred around a union demand for a reg istered list of both union and non union clerks from which employes would be chosen, and a store-wide seniority plan. Wages Good An employer atatement said wore wages and working conditions were the best In tha country, but the union la "attempting to force upon employers the outrageoua conception of store management by union of ficials." Police precautions brought 300 ex tra patrolmen into the retail section where s flurry of trouble broke out yesterday In front of two Market street stores. The officers aaia nying fists and feminine hair pulling mark ed the passage or women employes through picket llnes.The only arrests were two spectators wno asaerMKny balked at officers' ordera to "move on." More than 20 other unions are indirectly Involved In the strike, in eluding building trades workers, ele vator operators, Janitors and team sters. Teamster union officials Bald deliveries to and from the store were at standstill. BEND. Sept. 8. f AP) A coroner's lurr exonerated L. A. W. Nixon. Bend, yesterday In the death of Samuel ellrnberger, Ashland. The Jury found the accident was unavoidable. Ellenbergar was killed and hla father. Rev. Albert J. Ellen- benter, Ashland, waa critically In jured when Nixon's automobile atrucx their truck and trailer soutn or here. Nixon testified the equipment waa parked partially on the high way. Rev. Ellcnberger, suffering a basal skull fracture and a punctured lung. waa said by attending physicians to be Unproved yesterday. - - Incendiarism ALL-TIME RECORD SET IN MEDFORD SCHOOL REGISTRY 2326 Students Enrolled in First Day Many More Yet to Start Junior High Increase Is Highest Although about 160 senior high and 100 Junior high atudents are still not registered because of employment this week, first-day enrollment at Med ford's city schools reached an all time high, according to figures re leased, from the city school superin tendent's office today. , A total of 2.326 students began the 1938-30 school year Tuesday In the six Institutions, an Increase of 36 over the 2,291 who entered the first day last year, previous high mark. In 1936 there were 2.194 first-day students. Largest Increase In enrollment oc curred at Junior high school, where 667 students registered Tuesday in comparison to S9A a year ago, and 6U In 1936. Senior high school en rollment showed a slight decline, with 616 entering In comparison to 531 In 1937. However, this year's senior high enrollment was higher than in 1936. when opening-day at tendance was 430. Total elementary enrollment Tues day amounted to 1.144, a decrease from last year, whan 1.166 started to school on the first day. The 1936 figure waa 1.133. All elementary schools are still a little short of their peak enrollment, tt was reported. Washington school reported the largest enrollment, with 333. In com parison to 368 in 1937 and 366 in 1936; Roosevelt was next with 392. In comparison to 831 last year and 276 two years ago: Jackson had 377 the flrat day this year, 371 in 1937 and 376 In 1936: and Lincoln had 342 Tuesday, 205 In 1937 and 226 In 1036. L ROCHESTER. Minn., Sept. 8. -fyp) James Roosevelt, son and personal secretary of the president, today started a hospital diet In preparation for a gastric operation early next week. Mayo clinic physicians said results of treatments for small gastric ulcer "were rather disappointing, and announced suddenly last night their decision to operate. His mother, who came here with young Roosevelt two days ago, can celled plans for a return east and her son went to St. Mary's hospital short ly after Dr. Oeorge Eusterman Issued the bulletin. The president was notified at Hyde Park. The 30-year old Roosevelt was here In May for a checkup when physi cians dlagnoaed his trouble as a small gastric ulcer which they believed was benign. They prescribed a rigid diet, which Roosevelt said Irked him, and ordered restrictions of activities tend ing to prouce physical, nervous and emotional stress. ORA COX ELECTED D. U. V. CHAPLAIN DBS MOIKES, fa., Sept. 8.(AP) Miss Ora Cox of Med ford, Ore.,, waa elected chaplain of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War at the annual convention yesterday. held In connection with the 73nd annual encampment of the OAR. Mrs. Anne Raeyllng of Philadel phia waa elected president, succeed ing Mrs. Mary M. Manning of Seattle. Miss Cox has been the principal of the Lincoln school here for a number of years and active in civic endeavors. She plana to return to Medford Sunday from Des Molnea to resume her school duties. Counterfeit Passed SEATTLE. Sept. 8. (API The passing here of numerous counterfeit 10 bills, copies of those Issued by tne federal reaerve bank of New York City, led Capt. W. R. Jarrell, district secret service supervisor, today to warn merchants and banka to be on the lookout. Within t. few hours yesterday, six wera turned In by bus! nets men. BASEBALL American St. Louis at Chicago postponed, rain. R. H. E. Detroit . 4 8 0 Cleveland . 18 3 Benton and York; Whttehlll, Gale- house and Hemaley. R. H. E. New York - 4 8 0 Boston : 0 61 Gomes and Dickey; Hnrrls, Grove and Desautcla. R. H. E. Philadelphia - 3 6 3 Washington 8 13 1 Thomas and Wagner; Chase and Ferrell, Berry. National R. H. E. Boston 4 10 0 New York 6 16 0 Turner, Hutchison and Lopez; Gumbert, Brown and Dannlng. HUGE LOSSES COUNTED JAPS GAINING GROUND SHANGHAI. Sept. 8. (AP) Japa nese army headquarters said today fighting on the south bank of the Yangtze river between August IB and September 6 cost 3.300 Japanese and 35.000 Chinese casualties. Severe fighting continued in that sector today. Abovit 300 miles to the north, Japanese troops advanced steadily toward the vital Pelplng Hankow railroad after having occu pied Kushlh. 96 miles east of the line In Honan province. (Dispatches from Pelplng quoted a Japanese army announcement that relnforcementa of "young, fresh, ex cellent troops reinforcements, not replacements" arrived Wednesday from Japan at Taugku, northern China. (The reports also said there were Indications two or more divisions might be enroute to various fronts In northern China and that this might presage an Intensification of the Jap anese drive toward Hankow, the pro visional capital.) Chinese central government troops were reported moving into the front! on the Kluklang-Nanchang railroad in an effort to block a Japanese drive on Nanchang, capital of Klangsl pro vince. WEARS FUNERAL PLANS PENDING Funeral arrangement were pend ing today for Frederick W. Mean, former city attorney at Medford, who died auddenly at hla home In fialem, yesterday, Mr, Meara waa appointed city at torney hers on January 18, 1917, and resigned April 3, 1933. For tho paat five years he had resided In Salem. Mr. Meara waa actlvo In Repub lican party circles and in Masonic and Eastern Star work her and in Salem. Ha waa born In Massachusetts and spent some time in Sioux City, Iowa, before coming to Medford In 1907. He practiced law here. Mr, Meara was 03 yeara old. TO SECYPERKINS PORT ARTHUR, Tel.", Sept. 8. (P) Rep. Martin Die (D.-Tex.) said In an Interview today Secretary of Labor Frances Perklna may face a move to Impeach her If she doesn't "enforce the law under which Harry Bridge, (west coast labor leader) la clearly deportable." The congressman, chairman of the congressional committee Investigat ing alleged un-American activities said Bridges waa becoming a nation al lasue. Die aald hla committee waa short of funds, but asserted subcommit tee hearings In New York and De troit were expocu-d to make revela tions more startling than thoas al ready uncovered. American Women Keep Curtis Cup MANCHESTER, Mass.. Sept. . (API The American women's golf team swept five of the six singles matches agalnat a band of brilliant British Invaders at the Essex count. club today to gain a S'i to 3 '4 vic tory and successfully defend the Curtis cup foe tha loiulh consecutive time Hinted KLAMATH SHERIFF HOLDS OPERATOR OF BILLIARD HALL Entire Business District of Milltown Near Klamath Reservation Goes Up in Smoke Sawmill Saved KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. 8. (AP) Jack Martin. 46, operator of a poolnall destroyed In the fire which. last night leveled the east-county mill town of Sprague RJver, was being held at the county Jail today for Investigation in connection with the disastrous blaze. In reporting that Martin was In custody. Sheriff Lloyd Low hinted at possibly other unannounced develop ments. He said he had asked tha assistance of the state fire marshal's office In conducting a further In vestigation at Sprague River. May Ask Federal Aid Meanwhile, Huntington Taylor, manager of Sprague River's Crater Lake Lumber company mill, which. entirely escaped damage In the fire, revealed he had wired Sen. Charles L. McNary to learn If federal aid. were available in rehabilitating the stricken village. "There will be a real need for aid in rebuilding and with the attitude of t he government toward helping make permanent communities de pendent upon Industry, ranchera and farmers, we wonder If there isn't some fund , or emergency fund on which the owners of property could draw for rebuilding purposes' Tay" lor's telegram said In part. KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. S. (AP) Sprague River, onoe thriving mill town of 400 on the southern fringe of the Klamath Indian reservation, today dug out from beneath the ashes of a fire which last alghft spread the length of Its business dis trict In less than an hour a time. Loss was estimated In excess of SO.OOO. Sheriff Lloyd Low, who conduct,! an Inveatlgatton last night, aald tha fire had apparently sprung from a cigarette carelessly tossed away la the rear of the Sprague River hotel. Bulldlnga razed Included two ho tels, two groceries, two poolhalla. two barbershops, two residences, a news. stand and the postofflee. All mer chandise In the stores waa lost, bus In most cases equipment and rec ord., including those of the post office, were salvaged. Two business buildings remained standing. Only fatality waa a cat, which waa mercifully put to death when the flames singed off Its fur. Disaster overtook the operator of ono of tha barbershop after he had hurriedly loaded hla car with hla equipment. The car refused to start and finally burned along with Its load. - Many mill workers were left with out lodging. A strong north wind which whip ped the flamea through tha Sprague River business district, waa credited with saving the Crater Lake Lumber company plant on the northeast edge of the town. The lumber company's box factory haa twice burned to the ground In the past two years.' MEDFORD PEARS TO K. F. rfLAMATK FALLS. Sept. (API Carloads of Rogue River valley peara began moving Into Klamath Falls this week for storage In refrig erated warehouses prior to shipping Into eastern and foreign markets. For the paat two seasons local warehousemen hare nelped handle the surplus of Rogue River peara for which no storage facilities are avail able In the valley, and this year quartera have been enlarged to ac commodate 930 oars or more than 100.000 boxes. The fruit la kept at a temperature of 30 degrees. Sen. Borah Enjoying First Real Vacation POLAND SPRINGS. Me., Sept. . (JPr-V. 8. Senator William . Borah of Idaho, here to recover hla health, today waa reported by hla wife to be "enjoying the first real vacation he haa had in yeara" and to be "much Improved" In hla physical condition. Shielded from the public by Jars. Borah, the senator answer no tele phone calls and discusses no poli tics. She said they would return to Washington September IS and visit their home- aula shortly thereat tea. )
