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The Weather Forecast; Fair tonight and Thursday; temperature above normal. - Temperature Highest yesterday fl Lowest this morning - 48 No Answer A (Rat help (a everyone are tha Claaalltci Ait, la this newspaper, 3uat iiow wools jwo p about tt to mtb ap proximately 7 .000 names to. any other Inexpensive way? No an swer expected. There lent any answer. Full Associated Frew ? i United reis Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, YTEDSESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1938. 2?o. 156, BUNE mm sis ! . I , , Bi The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. INFLUENTIAL JEWS OPPOSED TO FRANKFURTER FEAR SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT WOULD FAN ANTI-SEMITISM ' t JURIST REPORTED SEEING . RACE "BUILIHNG OWN GHETTO" . ANY OTHER CHOICE FOR BENCH HELD LIKELY ' TO BE BAD . WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. One of the truly tragic events of the last month Is the development of strong opposition to the nomination of Felix Frankfurter to the supreme eourt of the United States. Ordinary opposition was to be expected, and the chorus of indorse ment, from the best men of all shades of opinion, must have been deeply gratifying to Frankfurter. What makes this new opposition so sad Is that It comes from men of Frankfurter's own race. The truth la, a number of the wealthy and well-known Jews of New York have pressed the president to pass Felix Frankfurter over. As their representations are au thoritatively reported, they have told the president that there are too many Jews In his administration already. They have argued that, when men of their race come too prominently before the, public, racial prejudice is provoked. And, for the sake of peace, they have pleaded Ironically against the naming of Frankfurter to the vacant place of another Jew, the saintly and high minded Benjamin- Nathan Cardoso. As has been remarked before, the president Is not the man to yield to the Tulgar brutalities of race hatred or sectarian pettiness. But, presented by the leaders of the Jew ish race Itself, the racial argument against Frankfurter could not fall to have been more impressive. Before they made their plea to the president, these men might have reca lied a remark a ttri bu ted to Frankfurter himself. The theory that Jews must shirk the limelight, that they must avoid public office, and pretend not to exist, has always been common among wealthy Jews the world over. From the moment Ger many's example was before its eyes, American Jewry has grown Increas ingly troubled at the threat of anti aemltlsm. Because of these new fears, when (Continued on Page Six.) GRANTS PASS, Sept. 31. (AP) With 14 avowed candidates lor coun ty court positions, Josephine county will see its longest general election "ballot for those offices in Its his tory. SALEM, Sept. 21. (AP) Dr. J. P Rosen ot Bend filed today as an Independent candidate for state rep resentative from the 28th district (Deschutes county). SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Walt Antle refusing to sign a con tract with the Cincinnati Reds be cause he couldn't decide whether to be a pitcher or an outfielder. State police referring news enquir ies to Depplty Sherf Bill Grenbemer. Oene ThornUlke. Paul Meyers and Verne RoUe warming up for the foot ball season by getting up a betting pool on the number of flies a sheet of fly paper would catch In a given time. Fern Cherry holmes complaining on account of never getting her name In this pillar of playfulness. Grocery Manager Burt Moore and Barber Bert Moore each coming In with a large buck the first day of hunting season. Bob Conroy breathing a algh of relief and strutting about town in a superior manner because today he became a grown-up and celebrated his 31st natal day. Roy Craft whipping back Into town with a most metropolitan swagger, he hrin7 Just got In from Frisco. Bertha Falun Bell deciding to tell the press about her secret marriage of eight month ago. Just as If very ens Jn town didn't know it aires!. i BRITAIN, FRANCE I Peace, With Confusion in Europe, Say Eden and Soviet Leader Nazi Bluster Wins. LONDON. Sepr. 31. MP) Winston Churchill, one of Brit ain's elder statesmen, declared tonight "the partition of Czecho slovakia under Anglo-French - pressure amounts to complete surrender by the western democ racies to the nail threat of force." . In a statement Issued after his return from an airplane trip to Paris, the wartime first lord ot the admiralty, often a rebel , within the ranks of the con servative party, said. "Acceptance of Herr Hit ler's terms Involves a prostration of Europe before the Nazi power, of whirl! the fullest advantage cer tainly will be taken, "The Idea that safety can be purchased by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion. "Parliament should be called without further delay." PRAGUE, Sept. 31. JAP) The Czechoslovak government announced officially at 1:25 p.m. (10:25 a.m., PST) today its acceptance of the British-French plan for meeting the peace terms of Roichsfuehrer Hitler. The decision came at the end of three day of fateful discussion of the proposals agreed upon by British and French leaders In London as the price for .maintaining peace in Eu rope. The news of the capitulation' came to Czechoslovaks by radio broadcasts carried through loudspeakers in the crowded streets of Prague. (By the Associated Press) Czechoslovakia yielded to French and British pressure today and ac cepted the two nations' plan for meeting Adolf Hitler's peace terms, tfc was announced informally by the propaganda ministry at Prague. Britain and France were notified of the decision, which would hand over to Germany much of Czecho slovakia inhabited by Sudeten Ger mans. Crowds Jn the streets of the Czech oslovakia capital were in an excited mood and authorities expressed con cern about their reaction to news that the republic had given ln. Another of Europe's sore spots came to the front again with the announcement by the Spanish gov ernment premier In Geneva his cabi net had decided to withdraw all for eign volunteers fighting with the Barcelona army. Maxim Litvlnoff,. Soviet Russian foreign commissar, bitterly assailed France and Great Britain for the part they were playing In the central European crisis. Befrayn! Told Addressing the League of Nations assembly at Geneva, Litvlnoff ac cused Britain and France of avoid ing "a problematical war today In return for a certain and large-scale war tomorrow." He declared flatly: "Our war department la ready Im mediately to participate in confer ences with representatives of the French and Czechoslovak war depart ments In order to discuss measures appropriate to the moment." While he spoke new troop move ments were reported in Germany and the phrase "Germany cannot wait longer and will not wait longer," ap peared repeatedly in German morn ing newspapers. A continuous stream of trucks rushed through eastern Germany taking troops to undisclosed destina tions. Germany apparently was get ting ready for the final act in the Czechoslovak drama. Near Ultimatum Britain and Franca last night re jected Czechoslovakia's plea for fur ther negotiations on Hitler' de mands and delivered a new note, regarded as virtually an ultimatum, to President Eduard Bene in the early morning hours. The note was reported to have told Benes unless Prague gav in to Hit ler's demands, Britain and France would have to stand by and see Czechoslovakia Invaded. (Continued on Page Three.) . FOR PEACE. ASKED CASTEL OANDOUO. Italy, Sept. ai.APj Pops Piui XI, who chose th name for his pontificate hoping it would be an era of peace, today asked all Catholic churches cf Rome to devote sn hour nest Sunday Co prayers tor poses, O'Connor Beaten by Fay, First Passenger Trains Collide Head-On; 11 DiefftlR CORPS Streamlined emeries were cntahed In the terrific collision of two crank Southern Pacific passenger train on a aiding near MJsnd, Tnllf,, ami 11 person were killed nnrt )00 Injured, some rrttlcn.Vv. The s.rcam..neo coach (aboTe), shows how the Impact "cxi.iTtp.ei. It. : A brake-man's mistake; was blamed tot the- Vragtfly. . 'AMERICANS KEEP! SAYS BILL WHITE Labor and Capital Both Criticized by Bill White . in Appeal for Unity. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (ffVCtlt- 1 Iclsm ot both capital and labor came last night from William Allen White. Emporia. Kan., editor, in an appeal for them to unite In preserving dem- , ocratlc rights and privileges. White told the Seventh Interna-' ttonal Management conference labor ! had turned to political advancement of its bosses Instead of seeking better j wage and hour standard and work- j Ing conditions. , "Let me say this to class-conBcioufi ' labor," he said. "It should know the I same patriotic ' Indignation which turned upon a federal c!a,ss-conscious ; plutocracy and wrecked its power will turn upon a class-conscious prole-, tar 1 at and deny Its alms." Industry, he continued, was forced to contend with labor racketeers and the sit-down strike after It disre garded pleas for labor Justice. Em ployers' foresight rather than "recal citrant reaction" years ago, he said, would have solved problems arising from the eight-hour day, unemploy ment Insurance and collective bar gaining. "This hour has no time tor the man who refuses to compromise even to his own hurt," Whit said. "Half of the civilized world today beyond our borders has surrendered the rights, privtlegea and blessings which democracy accords to free men." 'Turning to the wage-hour Jaw. which he said arose trom inability to obtain ' industrial peace with Jus tice to child-labor and minimum wages for women. White said: "The law was generally considered by Its opponents a kick will you alio me to say In the pants for American industry. "But apparently that ts where Americans all-laborers, horses and consumers keep their brains and we got the kfrfc where ft would do the most good. Una ley GUes Library 'SALEM, Sept. 31. fAPJ Announ cement was made today that Willis C. Hawley. who for 3 years served the first Oregon district as repre sentative tn congress, hu presented his library of several thousand vol umes to Willamette university. Mr. Hawley was president of Wilismettt prior to golog to congress Can You Beat It? This is good for "Strange As It Seems" any day (n the week, ft was told by Dicjr Twyman of Cen tral Point. On June. 1ft Dick's slate? Miriam got married. On the same day his sister Evelyn Howard of Gilroy, Ca had a baby. Three month to the day later, September 18, his slater Alice, got married. The same day hla alatec Erline Flores of Wataonvllle, Cal., Csl., had a baby. Mfsa Alice Twyman was married last Sunday )n Reno, Nev to Har ry Flournoy of AVtwras, Cal. She is the daughter' of Mr. and Mrs. II, H. Twyman of Central Point, flh'j was graduated Jest year from the AUuras high school. The couple will make their home in AVtwrrr. where Mr. Flournoy la . cattle rancher. BASEBALL American DETROIT Sept. 21. UP) Hank Greenberg belted his 54th homo run of the season tn the opening inning of the tint game ot today's double hpader between Detroit and Philadel phia to Increase his chances ol equal ling or bettering Babe Ruth's It-year-old season record of 60. The blow came with two Tigers on base and put Detroit In front 4 to 3, 1 First game Score; ' B. B. 15. Philadelphia .. . 6 8 6 Detroit . : - 8 fl 0 Gumpert, Nelson and Warner; Coff man, Lawson and York. Washington at Cleveland, tancrtlcd. rain. CHICAGO, Sept. 31. MP The New York Tanker suffered their sinth straight defeat lodvj as LeUy Thornton Lee held them to seven hits In pitching the White Sox to a 6 to 3 victory. Lou Gehrig hit his 38n homer of the year tor the Yanks, New York 118 Chicago . 5.1 Oome and Olenn; Lee snd Scwell. National BOSTON, Sept. 31 PM TMi. making the second start ot hla come back campaign, blanked the Bees with seven hits today as he pitched the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4 to 0 victory In the tlrxt gams ot scheduled double-heaoer. Score. R. H. H. St. Louis 4 0 3 Boston , 0 7 3 Dean and Padgett; Turner, Dolt and Lopes. Pensions of 97.(0 weekly for all persons In New Zealand over 80 years of age ts (provided in the New Zea land gocernaient's social security bill introduced Into nsrUsmenw II OF TO BE Aged Brakeman Who Threw , Switch, Appeared in Trance, Observer States. KlLArTO, Callt Sept. SI, AV-Fed-; ersl and county officials moved today I to conduct inquiries Into the collision trains at a little water stop near here eariy yesterday, which kitted pr sons and Injured, 1Q0. The wreck was caused, Southern Pacific officials declared after their own investigation, when a fl-f-year-old toralteman. Brick Leonard Dacobson, threw a switch which sent thfc Hew Orleans to - Los Angftles Argonaut plunging at 60 miles an hour into the Los Angeles-to-Chicago Caitfor nian, standing on a siding. J. H. Dyer, a vice president of the railroad whose prlvata car was at tached to the Argonaut, said V raw Jacoheon walking about the chaotic scene as if in a trance. He quoted the brafceman as saying: "Tm renoonKlhle tor this wreck, 2 threw the switch, 1 am not crazy. but 1 do not know why did V." Deputy Coroner Herhert Hughes t an Inquest for Friday at Brawley. Hughes said he was informed by an investigator tor the fnterstate com' merce cowmlf-sion a federal inquiry also would be opened Friday into one ) Eight hundred fttt ol tr had been wulaced lata lost night and east-went aervlco naa resumed after an fntcrruntfon of nearly 30 hours. The Southern Pecllle Mid Joi ot equipment would total 13J,800, Puffy Knife Spark Causes Auto Blaze A joung mechanic this afternoon was cleaning the engine of a redan on the wash r&c e tliff Pierce-Allen Motor company, 113 Bouth Jllverslde, H. KM using gsaollna to ctean tt and a putty knU to ane the grease off. , auddral; thera as a puff. Sparks from the putty Unite hitting the metal Ignited tha gasoline, fgnltloo wire caught lire. A tin alarm was sounded. Other mechanics grabbed i extinguisher and had th about out when tha fire department ar rived. Damage was allgnt. The car waa owned by the company. Tha young mechanle glren s tttherlf Jrctut by CUM Roy KDolfc killed AT BURBANK, GAL Maj.-Gen. Oscar Westover ami Pilot Perish When Plane Spins and tgoites af Low Height. BURBANK, C&Ut., Sept, 21. MaJ, Gen, Oscar Westover, chief of thft atmy wii corpa, was killed tave tvt craah. of hla airplane near here, to day, together with his sergeant pilot. The general's speedy ship wns wrecked while Hearing a landing at the Union air terminal, near the Lockheed Mrctait corporation plant. General Westover was coming to Los Angeles f of towing the preaenfa. Wori ot a trophy to the 19th bom' toardment squadron at March field, B,WsW. " Five hundred, yards from the ale- I craft factory the plane was flying low over a bungafow court, on Son i Fernando road. It waa about 150 feet . above the street. It y.'aa stretching out fot . landing ' glide. Apparently the pilot saw he was I not going to clear the building and j attempted to climb. Tne englns stalled. Then was ViacklVr. Th plana wrrt Ivito apvi and crashed Into tha bungalow court setting two houses on fire. The wreckage caught tire fmrne dlately. At the Impact one body was thrown clear and tha other rcnmalTied imbedded. In tn wreckage, BoU bttd i were burned beyond Identifica tion. . - Westover was In California to at tend the American Legion convention at Loa Angolta. Ha vaa W v ML He waa horn at Bay City Mich, July 33, 1883, He enlisted In the army at the age at 18 and served as a second and tint class private tor a yaaT, then was appointed to West Point from Michigan, Ha waa com missioned a second lieutenant on graduation in IflOff. A short, stocky, airman, Westover had risen to bis Job as the esmy"3 No. i ly altar Z veara ol aervtaa. He flew hla own. plane and had ratltiga ns heavier than air pilot, airplane observer, lighter than air pifot, and balloon observer. Westover waa named assistant chlol ot the lr corpa In Deeeratott, 1081, and advanced from lieutenant colo nel to brigadier general while hold ing tftafc position, Wl)en President Boosevelt gave the army tha task ot carrying tha alt mail he waa assigned, tha Job ot or ganizing and directing the service During tha World war, he was a major of fho signal corps, but before the war was over was transferred to the air corps s lieutenant co'ionel LIST 25 MILLION FOR RELIEF COST Twenty-ttv million for nllef was In prospect for Oregon for lha 1030 0 Bfenniam. ra ndlatd jvm teritty tt a meeting ol the tte rt l)ei committee, TJiij would toe nn lncrceee ol about W.000.000 OVW Ml mVOT t!K. Elnwt QoudT, suta tellat .ilmlnl trator, and hla aides will aubmlt the commltt' budget estimate for the biennlum to Wallace Wharton, a(a! budget d)reclor, pwOMy toy Friday, alter atudylng ur ecnurUtV iMjMwrt, nMch irew not dlKloaed. Pear Markets CHWAOO, Sept. 3!.(APV. Dept. Agr,) Pears: Bvi cars Calltor- nl. two Oregon, arrWtdl nlna on track. California Bartletts 5,76a boxes I.16-2AS, average 7.05. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. .PV (TJ, 8. Dept. Agr.) Pears; Fourteen cars arrived, 14 California, one Waahlng- ton, ts Oregon unloaded; 10 on track. market weaker on Cellloml stock. Oregon Bsrtletta S36 boxes extra boxes fancy 1,00-180., averaga Waahlngton Bosc 470 boxes extra fancy l.S0-t.tS, tew i.0ff, average l.7; S00 oozes lency JJ0-1.70, aver age California Bartletu 1,SJ ooxu M-lit, tntt S.00.'. i"ns Anyway CAMBR1DOE, Mass., Sept. 31. CAP( Police officer Thomas Leary. who campaigned to detent himself tor tJeJests to the DrmoerslJe state convtnVion, w th homlnns to-iaj. Purge Killed In Crash j flfajbr -General Westover MftjOT-Genetal Weatover in Med ford over the week-end, com ing here to take part In the North west AWatfon Planning CouncYf con fereiice as chief of the air corps and aa an olliclal representative ol the depMtvAtnt. 1 Ha gave a luncheon address Friday I In which he stressed the increasing safety of flying as p fanes are made larger. He also talked at round-table i conferences. . , i , H Ingratiated "MvAwMt with Vc& delegates and the local men, and. women he met, H made a partlou lariy favorabte impression by taking time to talk about model airplane building with three hoys of the Wed totd Jvuatot ttawteY ot Vut national Aeronautic association. DRENCHING RAINS HIT MEW ENGUNO; New'. York and New lersey Mso Sutter, With No Re lief in Sight ' Shipping Periled PRQVltlfcXCfc, R. U ftVt tt CAP) A hurricane which at times reached TrT mffes an hour proportions today strack Prorl drnrey tore roots from drwj town h,.rtvisii, rAarovatr thira sauda of perwiua In, tha cltyv h lot ted out electric power and caused (ft enters to ne evacuated. women wera swept to their death, lata today when a bridge across the Pls- taquog: river gave way and hurled" them into flood'Swollen waters. The v-ct.ms werei Miss Maud Kennedy, M.n Av.ra Mort, Mia, tautoTft Lull Gould and tha Utter' motb.ee, Mrs, Hettle Lull. (By ABsnrhrtrn Press) J RaAn sptee.4. tVTOUl ticVv ,v.4Ma trlal and farming sections of Massa chusetts and Connecticut today as drenching rains which h&v fatten tor week along the Allan tic sea hoard toncantTated Vn loTt on tha New England, states, oaustat hundteda of thousands of dollars damage. iTieven fives had" been lost tn the flood waters of rivers and streame which hsva hurst dams, washed out aeeUovvs ol hlgh'MMt vaA ra.hoada. undermined houses and farm huild. inRS and reached levels tn places above the stages ot the devastating floods. Masaach-oiHitts fitata cole at Am herst repotted, an tlWtlove record, rainfall of 13.40 inches tor Septem ber. The old record was 13.34 inches In 1933. A total ot ten Inches fr?l since Bator?. - - At East Hampton, CotiTi, workirivn labored. desfwrAteli; to wive a ajQ-toot dam holding bsck ths waters of pond, ff the dam went, town offf 1 dais said, ths center ot the town 1 WAtiU wt atwain a n.' at 0 B"tjTV. lamUYts rt North Ka"t. wera evacuated from, their homes oy rescue workers. tCont.n.ed on Paga Thtet Switrerfsnd Is a confederation of 23 cantons whtch are Joined under a federal constitution, with large power ol locsl control rsUloto tty each cau toa. Victory DEFEAT LAiQ TO E' T House Rates Head Wins G. 0. P. Nomination, Runs in November Gurley, La Fodette Win. (By The Associated Press j The detest of Rep. John O'Connor for HemocratJc rrnominaiion is ytw ToiVt $Kv PTtattent Roosewtftt toto? h,l& fust awl only Lctcwy la Ms per sonal campaign against four Demo cratic legislators. Mr. ftoosereli's sole triumph was not complete, however, because O'Cdd- nor wWl h on the HovemheT haY.ot. waving, tow ttye RepuhUeM, tvawiv,. tlon by i(000 votes over Allen W. Dulles. The president tried ana rafted pus vlousty to prevent the return of tbree llernocTataC senators whom he classed, efiwasesrAtoeiv Geov CVeKgi.. Smith of Carolina and. Tydlngs. of. Maryland. O'Connor lost the Democrat fe nom-. Inatlon tor the seat lie has held since i ttflS to James "H. Pay, ew Iea1er who yatwhI? wAv-i 4eteistLT.3 low Years ago The. conxpleta . vo.tA gave Fay 8.3A2 and O'Connor 7,799. O'Connor, chairman of the power ft: I house rules committee, attributed h.a detest to riectton fllshonesr-y vaA VArAfc Vk tkmM. welt nrawrA. ( Regardless ot the outcome ot uch a move, however, he would have to mew fay in iVovemoer because tna latter won the American Labor party's' nom.nat.oxi without opposition,, . Tbe Fv0'Cotiv.cff xxxkpxaX waa tha only one in four stata-wldA pclmatleo, yesterdsy which had a national as pect. ., Curley Comeback Tt Massachusetts IejnocrAt3s prS TOavy R.ttvtSaKd I. tx.UTnphaTkt tome back by former Gov; James ML, delay,., who won the Democratic gubema tortat nomfnatfon from Oov. Charles P. Hurley, Curley had accused tha governor ot hay)? fatted to eoopersts n.tt. th Nftw Deal. (Continued on Page Asren.j LESI11iE SESSIONS START, Bill FEW ATTENO Br , Alormflri fxHfge AlfOELSB, Calif.. Sept. SI 1JiP) roViowlo three osvs at cere- tnonVt Vo toAtVoan lslon ooa7 got down to tha serious buslaua at Its 30th annual convention In Phil harmonic auditorium, the transao tlon o! Dualneaa. But ol tha "iStl oe'iesates A as vmmj attftmatea owlttA to tVi con ventlon from the Legion's 5a dftoaxU t menta, only 300 were on hand today whoa tfattonttl Commander Oanfef J. Doherty ot Maeancbiuetts bangei gawi. To4a5 Vsnn,l Tranfc T. Wma, ot. the veterans' bureau delivered, hla annual report on veteran affairs, , The beet newt I can gi'rs yoa, fSie genera salt), "i, that when our present hotbltat jmixtsm 1, corfi- xMA vrtU halt tyi'it 1&,C!Q mora beds In modern flreoroof build ings. It will represent an lncreaa ot about Si per cent fa ths total bed capacity we hag last year.' Today the color guard lor 9M aa TAOve4, ttaa honor going to Vast Orange, N. J., with 99.75 per cent, Morrljtown, ff. 3., was second with 91.10. no? WHmfngton, Oct.. M.00. The guarti it ehornn during aA an nnal parada. OMoato naa vmantraoMal asVeeted, for tha 1939 convention. DULLETin WMTTUT, Sept. 81, Kf Tre Wood, "Kiain, B. C pro, hcA aoataUng oar 11 ott tt.a tnomloc la hole round of the Paclfto northwest open golf tournament today to tax (he lead among fw first pttyen reach tha- it-hole mar Jn ) two flay toumamert. Bl total wa VA. tosliWlltvj a MO ta ?atatdaiC M-hoU ols.T, Two strokea behind were Ken Storey, Spokane, tow amateur fit fs terday-t play and HatoM Wsafc K )i.J) pro. yieai nsd a 71 and totj a la tn Vt motv.V'n ro'J.a4, Plaj 1st ,a Ven BatUottoa, 0Aitax
