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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Wednesday; little change In temperature. Temperature: Hleheat yesterday S Lowest this morning 49 Will Reach Him Th buyer yon art looking (or may lire Just around the cor ner. How are you to know Regardless of where he Ilres If In this community a Mall Tri bune Adv. will reach him promptly. So advertise. TRIBUNE FORD Full Associated Press Full -5 ed Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1938. No. 155. o)lo) IMl nm Basif Med mm The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. STKTTISIUS BUSINESS HERO OF NEW DEALERS BIO TEF.I.F.'S CHAIRMAN OP POSES WAGE CUT FOR DIREC TORS ARGUES AVERTING GOVERN MENT ANIMOSITY WORTH LOSS PRECIPITATION OF WIDE SPREAD PAY REDUCTIONS FEARED WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. While all eyes follow event abroad, another crista Is slowly maturing in the dif ficult relation between government and business. The truth is that Unit ed States Steel, bell-wether of the business flock. Is still paying Its union wqrkmen a few cents an hour more than Its non-unionized com petitors. Its competitors are selling steel in Detroit at prices several dcl lars a ton below big steel's. And the conservatives on big Steele's board are onca mora talking wage cut. Thts dangerous situation's strangest re sult has been to make Edward ft. Stettlnius, Jr., son of a Morgan part ner, chairman of the board of direct ors of the United States Steel cor poration, the leading business hero of the New .Dealers. Only a few clays ago, he was In Washington to confer with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes, the president's liaison man has come to the capltol to got new strength to stand out Against the wage cut. Prom the president down, the New Dealers fear that a steel wage cut would be the signal for wage-cutting all down the line, in every industry. And, with wage-cutting everywhere, the present recovery" would end: depression would return, and the distressing story of the Hoo ver ad m 1 n 1st ratio n wou Id be re peated. Business executives rarely borrow their arguments from New Dealers, yet Stettlnius has warmly defended the New Dealers viewpoint before his board. It has not been easy for him either. Last ftpring. Stettlnius Just man aged to persuade his fellow directors to lower prices without slicing wages. Then the president's mood toward business was much angrier than to day, and Stettlnius feat undoubtedly averted a New Deal attack on busi ness of unprecedented violence and intensity. Instead of the attaik. (Continued on Pag Four.) STATE GETS ROCK PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 20. The regional PWA office received the following applications today: Oregon Ornnt of $92,421 for rock production in eastern Orrgon, MB. 032 In central Oregon, $40,140 In northwestern Oregon, and 33.278 In southern Oregon, all of state high way commission: grant of R4.f60 for city hall at Drain costing 110,000: grant of $7,364 f.-r grade school at Elkton costing 16.360. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Nellie Wall cutting out and paatlng up pictures of her favorite president ind then exhibiting them with a happy grin. Sherf 8yd Brown helping two run away gals pick their clothes from a mpa of stolen stuff,one gnl rlMmlr.g practically everything in sight -x-ceptln-g the Sherf's stick pin. Esther Sanderson getting very much involved over an order, sh? dMng and receiving many varied and complicate piione conversations nvei the matter. XIary Porter going Into ecstacles over a brand new cuddly cocker sp.tnlr-1 puppy, she thinking it the cutest thin.-; she ever saw. Vcrr.a Simpson belnz both frank and earnest while telling a friend what a mran disposition the IrlenJ portrayed rrcntly. th friend abou: tr rt liitu a decline over the WaV-I" thltii, KEY TENSENESS; SEEK 1IET AID Diplomatic Road Left Open Quick Action Needed British Premier to See Hitler Again Tomorrow LONDON, Sept. 20. (AP) Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain announced late tonlcht he would resume hi talks with Adolf Hitler Thursday. PRAGUE, Sept. 20. (AP) The Czechoslovak government announced tonight It had delivered Its reply to Britain and France on their pro posals to end the European crisis and It considered the way was left open to further "diplomatic negotia tions." The following communique was Issued: "The Czechoslovak government com municated this evening to the Brit ish and French ministers In Prague a note In which Is set forth its attitude to proposals brought for ward by the Brtlsh and French gov ernments. "The attitude adopted makes pos sible further diplomatic negotiations In the spirit of conciliation which the Czechoslovak government had always shown." (By the Associated Press) Czechoslovakia made last minute efforts to get Soviet Russian support against Adolf Hitler's demands to day while new complications wore injected Into the crlsla by border clashes and by visits of Hungarian and Polish envoys to Hitler at Ber chtesgaden. Border clashes, coming while Czechoslovakia stalled, for time on the Chamberlain-Daladler plan for ceding Sudetenland to Germany, kept Europe keyed to war dangers. Hungary Butts In A German communique 'said Pre mier Bela Impredl and Foreign Min ister Koloman von Kanya of Hun gary had placed before Hitler a demand the 700,000 Hungarians In Czechoslovakia be given the right of self-determination. They weie accompanied by the Hungarian chief of staff, Field Mar sha)! Kresztes-Fischer. Poland's pleas, understood to be similar to those of Hungary, were presented to the fuehrer by Joseph Lipskl, Polish ambassador to Berlin. Reports from Geneva said Czecho slovakia received a soviet promise of support if Oermany tried to seize the Sudeten German areas, but a possible barrier to such aid had been found In Rumania, who took the position she could not permit soviet troops to pass through her territory. Moscow Sllfnt Moscow dispatches said soviet cir cles remained silent on RusMa's posi tion, but emphasized she was not obligated to support Czechoslovakia if France refused. The Czechoslovag cabinet was said to have found "unacceptable" the British-French plan to cede Sude tenland to Germany, but was ready to use provisions of the plan as a baffl for further negotiations. The need for quick action waa em phasized by a series of clashes on the German -Czechoslovak frontier. The Czechoslovak government said (Continued on Page Eight.) -i- PORTLAND. Sept. 20. (AP) Thanksgiving day diners can sharpen up their carving knives without ap prehension. Representatives of the Oregon Tur key O rowers, Inc.. and the state council of mrat cutters and butchera have reached an agreement on kill ing and picking of the 1P38 turkey crop In the receiving plants of co operatlvee at Eugene, Roseburg, Al bany, Canby, Redmond and Hermis ton. The agreement, negotiated after weeks of discussion, will prevent a recurrence of the dispute last season when California bay cities refused to handle Orrgon turkeys which had not been handled by union members. An announcement said the union did not claim Jurisdiction over the work of killing and picking by Indi vidual farmers, but merely provided for handling In plants. t Radio Heating WASHINGTON. Srpt. HO. (AP) The communications commission said todav It would start 1-earlnra Octo br 2! i:i Its l:.vrr: :'n of r'.lrycd rr:'j:i-),.Gilstlc practice in the radio J industry. Hood River Plea for Pear Pact Revision 11 DEAD, 100 HURT ABskaaVM 4ft, axea, All IN tSPtt bra DUE TOMAN Unexplained Decision to Pull Switch Shunts Fast Train Into One On Siding at Niland, Calif. NILAND, Calif., Sept. 20. (AP) The sudden, unexplalnable decision of a brakeman to throw a siding switch waa blamed by Southern Pa cific officials for a railroad wreck today that killed 11 persons and In jured 100, many critically, O. F. Donnatln. Southern Pacific superintendent at Los Angeles, blamed the wreck on "man failure, an 'un erplainable act by Eric Leonard Jacobson," head-end brakeman era ployed by the road for 18 years. A split-second after the switch was thrown, the Argonaut, crack limited train, Los Angeles-bound from New Orleans, roared down the track, swerved sharply onto the aiding and plowed Into Its sister train, the Callfornlan. eastbound for , Chicago. The Callfornlan was waiting for the Argonaut to pass on the main single tracks. J. H. Dyer of San Francisco, a vice-president of the Southern Pa cific, and W. H. Ktrkbrlde, chief en gineer of the road, who were In the wreck, aboard Dyer'a private car. said Jacobson v apparently ' became confused as h saw the Argonaut approaching, thought the switch was wrongly set, unlocked It and threw it. The three officials of the road said Jficobson's act was in violation of "one of the most Important rules of the service,' namely, when one train la standing on a siding to allow another to pass on a main alngle line, the brakeman must not approach the switch stand, nearer than 20 feet. (Continued on Page Three ) HITLER PICTURED AS 'BOLD CAPONE'; PORTLAND, Ore.. Sept. 20. WV-A denunciation of Adolf Hitler as "the boldest International Al Capone a mother's womb ever bore" came from Father John B. Delaunay, dean or men of the University of Portland, In an address at the annual freshman day convocation of the school. "Thank God. no English or French so-called statesman, having made a hopeleas mess of Europe, can sell the United States down the Rhine to the boldest International Al Capone a mother's womb ever bore," eald the priest. - "One wonders what schools these diplomats attended and one pities the world whose problems must be set tled by such as these." Telling the student "your teach ers" have no ambition to be literary Edgar Bergens or make students "wood-headed dummies," Father De launay declared: "Your teachers will weep if 10 years from today you yell 'hell' to some paranoiac house painter screech ing poison-gas Insanities at the v orld. Lincoln, not Hitlers, we hope to train." ORDER NEW TRIAL OF JIMMY HIS NEW YORK, Sept. 30. 0t Su pre me Court Justice Ferdinand Ho cora today granted Dlst. Atty. Thom as E. Dewey's request for transfer ol the second trial of James J. H1ns. Tammany district leader, to the court of general sessions. . . Justice Pecora declared a mlstrel in the case September 12 after foui weeks of testimony on the state' charge that Hines acted as po.nai "front" for the po.te? racket headed by the 1st Arthur (Dutch Schult) Peenhelmer. The mistrial was ordered after Prosecutor Dewey made a reference to testimony before a grand Jury in another case. The defense contended the f;rr.J Jury testimony was out tld of scope of tha trial. Fog Bound v r .y zs tmsMm,A 1$$&&tMr "- ' - ' zn Mrs. Bertha Mlgnot of Wootllmni, Ore., illrrt Instnntlv Satunlnv when her nutmnolillp collided head-on In a fog with a Irurk opprutcd by ucurrc Ilarmrll of llwiilain. Wash. 1 hp. craMi occurred on Ihp Pacific highway near Wondburn. Hartneli's rat struck another truck and overturned. Above, the wreckage n( Mrs. Mlf not's auto. (A.P. Photo) SALEM, Ore.. Sept. 20. (p) Ocori Hartwell of Hoqulam. Wash., driver of a truck that collided with an automobllc near Woodburn Saturday OF AND J'VILLE GRANT Public works administration has approved the City of Medford's ap plication for a grant of $58,500 for the reconstruction of paved streets. U. S. Senator A. Evan Reames was notified by telegram today. The same Information was telegraphed the Jackson County Chamber of Commerco by Congressman James W. Mott. Medford citizens recently approved a maximum bond lsue of 573,500 to be used with the ppndlng PWA grant In the reconstruction progrnm. Next atep in the project will be the sale of the bonds and the draw ing up of precise plana and specifi cations In preparation for the call ing of bids on the construction. City Attorney Frank P. Farrell said. PORTLAND. Sept. 20. ( AP. The regional PWA office said the fol lowing projects hsd been approved today: Oregon Grant of 122.727 for Im provements to 12 schools In Klam ath county costln $272,727; grant of $50,422 for street paving at Med ford costing $132,000; loan of $28,000 and giant of $22.fi0fl for waterworks system at Jacksonville; $2500 loan and $4095 grant for gymnasium at Hereford: grant of $3837 for river terminal Additions at The Dalles costing $8300. PRESIDENT KEPT WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. (API President Roosevelt was confined to his living quarters In the White House today with a cold. Aides said it was a recurring head cold which began yeatrrdny afternoon and customary spray treatment had been given yesterday and this morn ing. The president's physician advised him not to go to the ex-cutlve office this morning and Mr. Rooaevelt ac cordingly cut down his lift of ap pointments. He atranaed to vltt the office late In the sfternoon for his usual Tuesday press conference. Win Mfrey rontrt SALEM, Sept. 20. fP Ruth Steers of Vcrnonia won the safety esiay con test sponsored by the Suite Grange. Eva Schram of Beavercreek and Mary Thompson of 81 ma placing second and third. Klamath eU Ornnt KLAMATH FALL. Sept. 20. (AP) A PWA grant of $122,727 has bn approved for school construction In the county district, school officials here were informed today In M. grams from Oregon'i oongressmea. Highway Brings Death norning, causing the death of Mrs.' Bertha Mlgnot of Woodburn, Is being held on a reckless driving charge filed by F. A. Mlgnot. the widower. Joseph BULLETIN.. 1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. (VP) President Roosevelt said today ho had asked three railway executives and three representatives of railway labor organizations to servo as rn Informal committee to draft recom mendations for legislation to ease trie plight of the carrlera. NEW YORK, Sept. 20. (AP) An army of "outlaw" truck strikers, 1,000 strong, spread through the city today to tighten the 6-day old strike In vlUil centers. "Tie up 500 trucks by S p. m.." the stoke leaders exhorted the men In the so-called "unauthorized" walk out which has partially parayzed all trucking transportation In New Ycrlt City except for perishable foods, med ical supplies and newsprint. BASEBALL American CLEVELAND. Sept. 20. (AP) Cleveland defeated Washington 0-1 today behind the nlne-hlt pitching of Denny Galehouso. With Boston also winning, tho second place situation remained un changed. R. H. E. Washington . 1 9 0 Cleveland 9 10 I-eonard, Monteagudo, Hogsett and Gultlanl; Galehouse and Pytlak. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 20. (API The Boston Red Sox came from behind three times today to blast out a 12 to 8 victory over the St, Loula Browns, scoMng seven times In the ninth Inning. It was the first game of a double header. First game: R- H. E. Boston 13 18 1 St. Louis 1 3 traces, Mrlf-ilii Wllann. RflohV ind Desfliiteta; Walktip, Cole and Hsrk- ahsny. CHICAGO. Sept. 20. -iAt The Chi cago White Sox shaded tho New York Yankees 6 to 4 today for the cham ploiw fifth straight defeat, the long est losing atrenk of Joe McCarthys regime as New York's manager. Score: R. H. E. New York 4 B 0 Chicago .'. - 8 12 4 Hadley. Andrews and Dickey; Strat ton and Rensa. Philadelphia at Detroit, postponed, rain, (Two games Wednesday.) National All games rained out. SHIFTS TO NORTH fiFATTLE. S-pt. 20. (Vpi A ftevr.-nfr-shore storm which had been pected to strike the Washington Mid Oregon coasts has moved toward Alaska and will not hit this area the weather burmu said to-lay. Cloudy and unsettled weather woif forecast tonight and tomorrow. E. Felton, deputy district attomoy. said the case probably would be, presented to the grand Jury for fur- ther lnvestlgotlon. 3 HUNTERS DEAD IN DEER SEASON EUGENE. Sept. 20. (yp) Lester Newman, Eugene, was shot and in stantly killed shortly after o'clock this morning while hunting deer near Fall creek, small community about 15 miles east of here. It was not known If Newman accidentally fhot himself or had been mistaken for a deer. He wns hunting In com pnny with Clarence Davis, Eugene; a Mr. Baker, of Eugene; and Walter Eajston, of Cedar Flats. CANYON CITY, Oro., Sept. 20. P) John Hollldny, 44, and Earl O, Thomas, 54, became the northwest's second and third fatalities of the deer hunting season today. The two Portland hunters, en- route to Grant county hunting grounds, were killed late Monday when their automobile plunged off a dangerous, narrow grade of the Rlt-ter-Heppner road on an Isolated sec tion about 15 miles south of Hitter and 30 miles north of here. The machine rolled over four times as It plunged down tho 100-foot drop Thomas was apparently killed in stantly and other hunters picked up Holllday three hours later. He died enrouto to the Dug Flynn ranch, five miles away, State Policemen George Mahtn and Ijce Trent, aftr an Investigation wKh County Corcner Charles Guernsey, anld no Inquest would be held. The coroner said tho accident waa ob viously unavoidable. The bod lea were forwarded to Portland, where Holll day hns a wife and family. Thomas has a brother at Olympln, Wash. WAREHOUSE PEACE L SAM mANCISCO. Sept. JO. (AP) A conference opened today between C.I.O. leaders and officials of- ths Association of San Pranclsco Dis tributors In efforts to work out a contract settlement of the dispute, which tied up 130 wsrehouses. Those attending the session were Harry Bridges, head of tha west cosst C.I.O., Eugene Paton of the warehousemen's union, James Toed, president, and other representatives of the distributors. The meeting adjourned at noon, but neither side would reveal what was discussed. "We met, adjourned and will meet again at a p. m." said a Joint stste ment. The principal point at Issue waa a blanket contract, for tha Industry proposed by the distributors, which the union membership had rejected I six times. GRAND JURY GOES TING; DELAYS T BOUT Z Judge Ashurst Has Photos Taken of Face Battered by Clerk, After Comment. KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. 20. (AP) A feud between Circuit Judge Ed ward B. Ashurst and Walter Hannon, clerk of court, climaxed yesterday In a bloody fist fight on the back steps of tha Klamath county court house,' today appeared to have passed tem porarily Into a somnolent stage. Neither Ashurst nor Hannon was at his desk. County Clerk Mas K. Short, of whom Hannon la a deputy, said the circuit court clerk had suf fered a relapse in his recovery from a recent attack of influenza and was remaining home. Judge Ashurst was also at nis home, ostensibly nursing the severe head and facial Injuries he suffered In yesterday's fracas. KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Sept. JO. (IP) The Klamath county grand Jury was mostly retired to deer hunting haunts today so tha case of Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst, half-brother of United States Senator Henry Ashurst, vs. Court Clerk Walter Han non waa stalemated at round two. Meantime, the Judge had a pho tographer take pictures of his face, which was considerably bruised and cut yesterday afternoon when he and Hannon tangled on the courthouse steps In as stiff a battle as probably over had been fought there. . Tha grand Jury gets Into the pic ture because the Judge haa sum moned It to consider what Hannon did to him. The Judge saya Hannon started It. The clerk says Ashurst started It. tn any event, the Judge bore all the marks of battle, which was finally terminated when County Clerk Mae K. Short, Hannon'a mother-in-law Intervened. Bad blood between the Judge ind tha clerk haa been brewing for some time and It reached a climax Monday morning when the Judge, In sentenc ing an Indian to a year In prison for forgery, suddenly interrupted himself to say something about a bill Han non had presented for overtime. In his remarks from the bench, the Judge said that "If you are going to let one office stick their nanus farther and farther into the pockets of the taxpayers, that is up to you; I consldor It the most dlsgrsceful, shomeful attempt to estort money from tha taxpayer I have ever known." After sentencing ths Indian, the court resumed Ita comment, upon Hannon's bill to this extent: "I want you to keep In mind what I have told you. Her. I had to send a man to tha penitentiary for one year. Those In the courthouse should n't do what other people are sent away for." Not long thereafter, the Judge and Hannon met on the courthouse steps and the battle that shook th. town followed. T ACT HELD VALID BAN ntANCISCO. Sept. JO. (ffV Tho constitutionality of the walnut control act waa upheld today by the United States circuit court in an action which originated In Portland. Ore., challenging the legality of the law and It. administration. In an opinion written by Judge William Denman, an order of th. walnut control board Involving Inter state shipment of walnuts and salt or free distribution of certain por tions of the crops waa upheld. The decision was on an appeal by the secretary of agriculture from a ruling by the Portland federal dis trict court, which had held an order to the Hudson-Duncan marketing firm waa void, and tha company exempt from certain provision, of th. act. Th. circuit court held th. walnut board had the power to compel grow ers and shippers to turn over to the board certain percentages of walnut, they handled for shipment Interstate. Th. court also upheld the power granted the board to dispose of th. walnuts by sale or by giving them away to charitable Institutions. Judge Denman said It waa the first time a court had upheld th. author ity of such a board to make distri bution to charitable Institutions. Denied LEAD TOLERANCE TO ..OMR LB. Upstate ' Growers' Request Held 'Unjustified Apple Men Win Spray Change. HOOD RIVER, Sept. 20. (P) Tha- requested revision of AAA marketing act grade requirements, made by Hood River winter pear growers and. shippers, has been ruled unjustified, B. R. Pooley, president of the Ore gon, Washington and California pear bureau, waa Informed yesterday by Porter R. Taylor of the AAA market ing division. The Oregon growers and shippers sought grading leniency for the Ore gon and Washington fancy grads pears. WASHINGTON. Sept. 30. (ff) Secretary Wallace, acting at the re quest of apple growers, raised tna permitted tolerance on lead spray today to .025 grain per pound of fruit. Heretofore ths quantity 'of lead: residue permitted on fruits shipped Interstate waa .018. Tolerance for ar senic and fluorine residua remain unchanged at .01 grain per pound. Apple growers and handlers had complained the lower tolerance nec essitated such washing and scrub bing of apples the fruit's keeping quality was damaged. The mora liberal tolerance figure) resulted from experiments conducted, by ths public health service under s, special appropriation. . War lilt Markets PORTLAND, Sept. JO. (TP) Ship per, noted effect, of Europe, war scare' aa far distant as this Paclfto coast port today. Foreign buyers-of fresh fruit, wheat and lumber, or dinarily In the market strongly at this season of the year, ar. holding' back commitment. In fear of being caught by a world conflict. FINAL F.D.R. PURGE TEST VOTE TODAY (By the Associated Press) The success or fsilure of presi dential efforts to defeat Chairman John J. O'Connor of the house rules committee waa being determined to day by voters of New York City's east side tenement and penthouses. O'Connor, whom Mr. Roosevelt re cently termed "one of the most af fective obstructionists" in the houM, sought both Democratlo and Repub lican nomination, for a ninth term. The double contest was about th. only one giving national aspect - to today's primaries In New York. New Jersey, Msssochusetta and Wiscon sin. It was the president's fourth and final attempt In this year's pri maries to unseat lawmakers whom ha called conservatives. He lost Demo cratlo battles In South Carolina, Georgia and Maryland, James H. Fay, aupported by Mr. Roosevelt, was O'Connor's Democratic opponent. No matter who wins that nomination. Pay's name will be on' the November ballot as candidate of the American labor party. Running against O'Connor on tha Republican ticket waa Allen Dulles, former stata department aide. Pear Markets NEW YORK. Sept. JO. (AP-OSDAI Pears: Thirty-four cars anHed; two New York. 18 California, one Wash ington, IS Oregon unloaded, at on track, market weaker. Oregon Bartletta 730 boxes extra fancy 4t.7o-l.99, average I1.M. Boac J70 extra fancy sl.. Washington Bosc 010 extra fancy SI. 66-4 .00, average tl.87; 100 fancy S1.3S-1.6S. average 11.40. California Bsrtlotts I1.J90 boxes SI. 65-3.45, average SiOfl. CHICAGO, Sept. JO. (AP-DSDAI Pears: Four cars California, two New York, one Oregon arrived, nine on track. Oregon Bartletta 7J boxes fanoy 11. 85-3.05, average 1.86. California Bartletta S.4W bows 3 00-3.50, average 3.18. AAA Views Given PENDLETON, Or... Sept. 30. (AP) n. TTm.tllta OOUtttT wheat grower Monday heard a trio of authorities stress the general purpose of th. agricultural eon. serration program, iiiv.u,b compliance and I3 requirement. s
