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Friday Big The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Friday: little change In tem perature. Temperature: Highest Yesterday 90 Lowest this Morning 48 Thirty-Third Tear (Fourteen Pages Two Sections) fo)o) Jl The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. - PREPARED TO MEET FINASCI.V. IMPACT OF WAR ABROAD ... BOOM HELD LIKELY AFTER FIRST SHOCK IS PAST a . EFFORTS TO BE MADE TO PRE VENT CLOSING OF EXCHANGES BASIC SITUATION HELD BET BETTER THAN IN 1914 WASHINGTON, Sept. 31. In this country, the first effect of war abroad would be felt la the tinan.:lil community. At the president's or ders, therefore, the fiscal authorities of the government have spent these last days of crisis In prolonged and anxious conference. Under the leader ship of Secretary of the Treasury Morgcnthau, Jr., they have exploded every danger involved in world con flict, and prepared plans to meet It. It may now be stated that their conclusions are distinctly encourag ing, and that their plans 'foreshadow no serious financial dislocation. Thi conclueions were well summed up by a high treasury official, who said: "With war In Europe, an eventuol boom is almost Inevitable k In the United States. All commodities are bound to be In great demand, and unless the enforcement of the neu trality act la extended beyond the mandatory provisions, heavy industry will be much stimulated. Only the first shock need be feared, and wt are convinced the financial system Is strong enough to stand It. It was very bad In 1914, but, although there Is danger of hysteria today, the basic situation Is far better than it wa& then." As for the broad plans, they in volve the establishment of some sort of national financial policy commit tee, probably headed by Henry Mor genthau, which would be charged with the control and supervision 01 the entire situation. In the discus sions between officials of the treas ury, federal reserve board and se curities and exchange commission and representatives of the great New "York banks, such a committee has virtual ly been set up already. The dangers discussed at the re cent conferences have been drama tized already. In the severe stock market break of September 13. Al though it was widely rumored to have been the result of dumping from abroad, confidential security and ex- ( Continued on Page Six.) I SET FOR NOV. 14 NEW YORK. Sept. 22 fp) Re-trta! of Tammany district leader James J. Hlnes, on policy rocket conspiracy charges was set today for November 14 In general sessions court by Dtst Atty. Thomas E. Dewey. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Dale Franklin Irlttlna a day away In circuit court waiting to be called a a Juror while It waa down atalra in JuMlre court hte Judicial service waa required. Selamoloelcal Field Seme writ ing Postmaster Frank r8ousa for data on a southwestern Oregon earthquake at 11:10 p.m.. Sept. 11. that being the first Inkling the poet master had of any temblor In lhl region. I State Trooper Paul Williams Intl..,..- KM n-a-n Ihn. rftVP In ttfir. age with only two tags, he finally calf. Ralph Green telling eTeryone In town about hla 338-lb. buck. Prof. Prank Reimer discussing the effect of heredity combined with en vironment on criminality. Hrlen Thompson whipping about In a r.at y attire of blue shotts and blouse, a pleasant harmony with her blond curls and rosy cheeks. Day of 4 MEDEORD Full Associated Press KA j DEATH AND RUIN GALE INJENTURY 250 Known Dead, Property Loss in Millions Seven States in Disaster Area Farms Flooded. (By the Associated Press) The ever-lengthening roster of the dead from an equinoctial hurricane which struck the North Atlantic states with a savageness unequalled in a hundred yeais neared the 250 mark today and still the tragic figures mounted. The damage to property to hun dreds of smashed boats, to growing or maturing crops, to homes, utili ties, public buildings, transportation and communication was beyond cal culation, rising to uncounted mil lions or dollars. Many thousands of men and wo men in the great area of disaster troeps, police, coast guardsmen, naval reservists. Red Cross workers. Boy Scouts were called to the work. Moves North Meanwhile, this morning the storm which had been accompanied by fearsome tidal waves on some sec tions of the coast moved upward into Canada, in the southern patts of the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. There was ' the gravest fear the hurricane had brought catastrophe to the isolated people of Cape Cod. extending like an upcurved fore finger from the Massachusetts main land, and to the Islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, lying to the south of the cape In the open sea. i i The first direct report, covering only the base of the cape nearest the mainland, showed at least 21 dead a tentative figure apparently certain to go much higher. From the curving finger of the outlying, less protected part of the cape, there was a suggestive and sinister silence. Rivers Rise Streams rose everywhere In the stricken area, most of which had been beaten for days by extraordi nary heavy falls of rain, and to those standing amid the debris left by the wind there came the added menace of Imminent flood. Especially hard hit were the areas of Providence, Rhode Island, and the swank north shore of Long Island. Hundreds of summer cottages were smashed In the roaring gale. The storm blew up yesteiday morn ing from Cape Hatteras, hitting Long Island in the afternoon and sweeping northward through west ern New England. Retching Ver mont, weather bureau officials said. the center bore to the west, eras ing the lower St. Lawrence valley near Montreal. i In that Canadian section, only one death had been reported, but the destruction of property was heavy. Fire And Horror To the widespread devastation of (Continued on Page Seven ) GET NEW RESPITE SACRAMENTO. Sept. 22. (AP) Oov. Prank P. Merrlam granted an other reprlve to John and Coke Brlte, Siskiyou county brothers who were convicted of killing three mem bers of a posse which tried to arrest them In their mountain camp in Au gust, 1930. The stay of execution Is until De cember 0 and was Issued, the gover nor said, because the case Is still pendtng before the pardon advisory board. NORTH BEND. Wash- 8pt. 23. (AP) Thirty-five COC men were ma rooned stop Garfield mountain tod ay by the forest fire they have been fighting since Saturday. A Pacific Nortnwest Airways plane, piloted by Harold Rath bun, flew over and Harold Knox of the forest service, dropped ropes with which the men might descend steep cliffs where the fire was not hemming them In. Knox also dropped keroeene for starting backfires, and acme food. - H Club Livestock Fair--Med ford Czechs Streamlined K ie? IV r. The terrific damage done to one of the streamlined coaches of the that collided head-on near Miami, tel.. Is shown In this Interior view. ifornlan" was telescoped by the Impact. Eleven persona were killed and L, 15, IS HELD UPON CHILD STEALING CLAIM W. P. Carroll, 46, Applegate Friend and Young Bride Taken to Roseburg. Charged in a Douglas county war rant with child stealing, Involving a 16-year-old girl of Ten Mile, near Roseburg. William Patrick Carroll. 46, of Applegate was arrested yesterday nfternoon by state police, and was returned to Roseburg last night for arraignment by Sheriff Percy Webb of Douglas county. Arrested with Carroll and also re turned to Douglns county for arraign ment was Lewis Ployd Williams, 24. of Applcgnte, who was charged In a warrant with swearing to a false affidavit relative to the girl's age. The young girl, Beaulah May Mc Altster, was also taken Into custody and returned to Roseburg last night. Carroll and the girl were married In Roseburg last Tuesday, state police said. They met each other recently while they were both employed at the Clute hopyard near Applegate. The girl left and returned to her home In Ten Mile about a week ago. and after correspondence between the two, Carrol, with Williams, drove to Roseburg and they were married. The charge against Williams atleges that he falsified the girls true age when she and Carroll applied for their marriage license. The arrests were made upon Infor mation received from state police sub-station In Row burg that the warrant for Carroll had been issued following a complaint signed by the girls' parents, charging Carroll with child stealing. They were taken Into custody near Rueh. Carroll was fined 92 AO and costs In Justice of the peace court yesterday for operating a car without an op erator's license. He was given to Oc tober 1 to pay. BULLETIN ROSEBURO. Ore., Sept. 23. (AP) N. P. Peterson, an employe at the state trout hatchery at Rock Creek, about 30 miles east of Roseburg. was found dead from bullet wound this morning, in the Rock Creek road about one mile above the hatchery. Pending a thorough In vestlgatlon, authorities are Inclined to the opinion that the tragedy rep resented the season's first hunting fatality In Douglas county. Sheriff Percy Webb reportrt. for Peterson was believed to have been out hunting. BEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Form New Cabinet; Headed by Coach Shattered in Crash FIERY DEATH OF T Three Boards to Investigate End of Maj. Gen. West over in Power-Spin Crash BURBANK. Calif., Sept. 22 .(yp) The deaths of Maj. Gen. Oscar West- over, 55, United States army air corps i chief, and his personal pilot, Sergt. Sam Hynes, In a power-spin of theli attack plane yesterday afternoon, be came the subject today of three in quiries. As Brig. Gen. H. H. Arnold as sumed the title of acting chief of the air corps, an army board of in quiry, headed by Lieut.- Col. Harvey S. Burwell, commander of the 19th bombardment group, was named to Investigate the cause of the crash which brought flaming death to the pair. An Inquest will be held Monday morning. In addition, there will be an In quiry by the newly-created federal civil aeronautics authority, Robert Hinckley of Salt Lake City, one of the authority, announced. Hinckley explained the scene of the crash. In a residential area, makes it "within our Jurisdiction to conduct an in spection." President Roosevelt In Washington sent his condolences to the general widow. The president said the gen eral was "a gallant soldier a true friend one whose loss the nation nor his friends can afford." General Westover, a short, stock) man, flew his own plane and poa sed ratings as heavier than air pilot, airplane observer, lighter than air pilot and balloon observer. Witnesses said they noticed the plane flying low for a landing. Sud denly. It appeared to make a move to climb. Then It went Into a ptn from a height of about 150 feet ploughing with terrrtfic Impact Into a house and setting It afire. Westover was returning from the army air field near Riverside. Calif., to Los Angeles for the American Le gion convention. General Westover Is survived oy his widow; a son, Lieut. Charles B. Westover. Jr., Kelly field. Texa. and a daughter, Mrs, Patricia Prudent!,!. wife of Lieut. Prudenthal at Boiling field , V. IV meant Hynea, 99, resided at Boil ing field. His widow and his two son. Donald 4. and Mark, 1, survive. View Nsty Sites SAN FRANCWCO. Sept. 22. (AP) -A naval affairs aub-commlttee which It making a 10-day tour of west roast defenses, today Inspected possible sites for rropjiwd short I construction In the San Franc lico J bay area. n two Southern Pacific passenger trains The rnaoh. belonging to the "Cal. 100 Injured. - E TO FACE-CHARGES; FOSSIL MAN SHOT Eugene Man Jailed After Error Admission Alturas Nimrod-Held for' Death of Woman. FOSSIL, Ore., Sept. 22. 7P) Ore gon's fourth deer season casualty occurred 10 miles from here yosterday when Joseph E. Davis. Fossil, was accidentally shot by his son -In -law Bunn" Plunkett of Wren. Ore. EUGENE. O r ., Sept. 22. HP) Clarence Davis of Eugene yesterday admitted to State Police Sergeant Lowell H1rt7el that he fired the shot that killed George L. Newman. 69. Eugene, while deer hunting Tuesday. He was held In the county Jail pending hearing. Davis said the shooting was acci dental. Manslaughter charges were filed against Davis. ALTURAS. Calif.. Sept. wt-UP) John Stewart, Malln, Ore., deer hunt er faces trial In Modoc county supe rior court on a manslaughter charge because he allegedly mistook Mrs. Barbara Thompson, 36, a fellow towns woman, for a deer. Stewart was held to answer to the higher court yesterday following Justice court hearing. Mrs. Thompson was fatally shot while hunting with hw husband. Lester, and Stewart in western Modoc county. Hunt Vlctln BAKER. Sept. 22. (AP) Another deer hunter was added to the list of victims this year with the discovery of Elijah Hills, 67, of Portland near Dayvllle, Grant county, this morning. Death waa caused by over-exertion and starvation, resulting from being lost for two days, according to In formation received by state police of ficers here. Hills, in company with a man whose name Is not known here, be gan hunting Tuesday. He failed to return to camp at a scheduled time. A searching party found the body this morning. . . , Boston Wool Firm BOSTON, Sept. 22. (AP-USDAl The tone of the Boston wool market was fairly firm today although the volume of business was smalt. In quiries from buyers were a little broader than last week but Interest was largely In securing, price Infor njatlon on wools offered for sale. Pur chase! were confined mostly to odd ; lots thst became available at prtees 'slightly under general asking prices. L Ilar Days Friday, : RIBUNE Full United 22, 1938. j LI 1EP0RTATI0N OF COASTJGITATOR Closing Immigration Quotas for Ten Years Also Asked, With Rigid Alien Rules. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. (API- Secretary Perkins reaffirmed today the labor department's. Intention to delay deportation proceedings against Harry Bridges until after the supreme court acts on a similar case. Questioned about the status of the case at a press conference, Miss Per ktns said It was "a matter In which ought not to express an opinion since I am the sole Judge of the facts in the last analysis." She repeated, however, the depart ment felt It should await a supreme court test of the other case. LOS ANGELES. Oallf., Sept. 22. UP) The American Legion today de manded the 'trial and deportation ol Harry Bridges." west coast CIO lead er and "like aliens" as It met In final session of Its 20th annual convention In Philharmonic hall. The Legion also demandod ths 1m mediate deportation of any alien convicted of a felony and the do , lng of all Immigration quotaa for period of ten years. Should an emml grant fall to seek citizenship paper.! after five years residence he would be deported under another section of the report. The resolution came In the annual report of the Americanism committee ; which was adopted In full. Free speech, except speech used to incite violence and crime, was em bodied in the report. The meeting hall was well filled with delegates who today will elect Stephen J, Chadwlck, Seattle, lawyer, national commander by acclamation He Is unopposed. Five vice-commanders also will be elected sa will the national chaplain for 1939. Two proposed amendments to the constitution of the Legion were re fused. One would have barred the Le gion from any participation In labor controversies, the other would have excluded from Legion membership all those associated with communis tic, nazl or fascist movements. Tho latter amendment was submitted by the departments of Indiana and New York. SALEM, Sept. 22 (AP) Elemen tary snd high school enrollment In Oregon this fall Is 210,000, five per cent more than last year, Rex Put nsm, state superintendent of public Instruction, estimated today. He said the Increase was caused largely by migration from the mid west dust bowl. Crook county had an enrollment Increase of 80 percent In high schools and 20 percent in elementary schools, largest gain In the state. Detroit high school, on the upper North Santlam In Marlon county, gained 150 percent because of resumption of road and logging operations. DAUGHTER KILLED NEW YORK, Sept. 33. (API Fearful for the safety of hla daugh ter and two grandchildren at West Hampton, former Oov. Alfred E. Smith late today sought to reach that storm-ravaged Long Island see. tlon by automobile. Smith's daughter. Mrs. John A. Warner, and her children were living at West Hampton, Lone Island, which received the brunt of yesterday's hur ricane and tidal wave. Repeated efforts to locate them by telephone were unsuccesful. . Robs Collection Plate PORTLAND, Sept. M. (AP) Port land had a new candidate for the "meanest" thief today. The Nlchlren Buddhist church told police an un I determined sum waa stolen from Its I collection plat. EH Press mm BASEBALL National PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 33. (AP) Bill Lee won hla 20th game of the season today, pitching the Chicago Cuba to a 4-0 victory over the Phll Uea In the first game of a double- header. Bill Atwood of the Phils was banished In the seventh Inning for protesting a play at the plate. First game: R. H. E. Chicago - 100 000 300 t 0 1 Philadelphia 000 000 0000 10 0 Lee and Hartnett; Butcher and At wood, Davla. (Second game) Chicago Philadelphia Bryant and Odea; Passeau and Dn- vls. NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (AP) Hal Schumacher, pitching despite a soie arm, hurled the New York Giants to a 6 to 1 victory over the Reds In the first game of today'i double- header. Schumacher also hit a homer in the fourth with the bases empty and Bob Seeds unloaded another cir cuit blow for the National league champions with one on In the eighth. First gams: R, H. E. Cincinnati .... 000 100 0001 a 0 New York .... 021 100 02x 6 10 0 Vander Meer, Weaver, Schott and Lombardl; Schumacher and Danntng. Second game: Cincinnati ..... New York R. H. E. 110 2 6 Derringer and Lombardl; Gumbert and Panning. r BROOKLYN, N. Y., Sept. 33. (AP) Jim Tobln blanked ths Dodgers with four hits as ths league lead lng Pirates stopped Freddie Fitsslm mons' winning streak at seven games with a 6 to 0 victory In the first game of today's doubleheader. First game: R. H. E. Pittsburgh .... 030 010 0306 13 1 Brooklyn 000 000 0000 4 2 Tobln and Todd; Fltsslmmons, Rodgers and Campbell. BROOKLYN, Sept. 32. (AP)- Ths Pittsburgh Pirates maintained their 3',i gams lead In the National league race today by trouncing the Dodgers In both ends of a double header. A 14-hlt attack wss good for an ll to 6 victory In the nightcap after they won the opener, 6-0. behind Jim Tobln ' four-hit pitching. Second game: R. H. E. Pittsburgh a, 004 032 02011 14- 1 Brooklyn .... 001 201 110 6 11 0 Kllnger, Brown and Todd; Hamlin, Wlnford, Posedel, Frankhouse, Ta mil! la and George, Campbell. BOSTON, Sept, 33. (AP) The Boston Bees put on a sis-run rally In the fourth Inning to take the first game of a doubleheader from the St, Louis Cardinal!, 6 to a, to day. First game: R. H. I. St. Louie 019 010 010 19 1 Boston ........... 000 000 O0 19 0 Shoun, MeOee, Lanier, Davla and Padgett; MacPayden, Hutchinson and Lopea. American OniOAOO, Sept. 33. (IP) Home runs by Joe Gordon and Red Rolfe, both with men on base, paced the New York Yankees to a 7 to 4 vie tory over the White Sox today be hind the steady pitching of Rookie Steve flundra. The win ended the Yankee'a six game losing streak. R. H. E. New York . 7 19 0 Chicago - 4 IS Sundra and Olenn: Rtgney and Rensa. Cloveland at Detroit, postponed. Cold weather and wet grounds. (Two games tomorrow). SEEK FLOOD FUND WASHINOTON, Sept. 83, (API Norman H. Davis, national chairman of the Red Cross, estimated lata to. day 10.000 families were In distress In the northeast as the result of the hurricane, floods, fire and high seas He authorised local Red Cross chapters all over the country to ac' cept contributions for relief activi ties In the area. Davla said the continued rlaa of the Connecticut and other rivers In New England waa causing concern. Red Cross workers reported by telephone the crest was expected tonight and if It reached the height of the ISM flood, hundreds of additional families would be forced to flee. Frisco nutter SAN WRANCISCO, Sept. 33. Buttr unchanged. Saturday Monthly Basis n you paying tent? Why not itep out nd buy a home through the daunted ads In thla newspaper? In many eaaea properties are aold to be paid for on a monthly basis. Just tbout equal to a rental bun. No. 157- Syrovy BRITISH PARLEY; WITH NAZI CHIEF Chamberlain Issues Appeal to German People fop Order Czechs May Re ject Peace Plan. (By the Associated Press) Czechoslovakia's anger over the Im minent loss of her Sudeten areas moved her today toward formation of a strong military government while) Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hit ler met on the Rhine to seat the bar bat n of which Prague's loss is part of the price. Gen. Jan Syrovy, 50-year-old in spector general of the army, emerged as the almost certain head of a new regime In Prague, to replace the cab inet of Milan Hod&a, which resigned, in face of a rising tide of indigna tion over Its capitulation to Britain and France. There was speculation whether the new regime would approve the Hodza surrender. Meanwhile the Czechoslo vak army continued In a state of preparedness. The prime minister of Britain and, the German fuehrer held their second fateful conference within, a week In the Hotel Dreesen at Godeaberg on the Rhine. Chamberlain was represented M hopeful of a peaceful general Euro pean settlement, but there wer ominous reports the German leader, flushed with the greatest dopltmatlo victory of his career, bad Mused his price for peace. There were doubts whether tho capitulation of the Prague govern ment yesterday now would be enough. PRAGUE, Sept. 33. (AP) General Jan Syrovy, Inspector general of tho Czechoslovak army, formed a cabinet today to aucceed that of Milan Hodea. which resigned amid rising resentment, against the Imminent cesalon of Caechoslovakla's Sudeten land. The new cabinet was said to con sist almost entirely of civil servants and non-polltloal persons. Tha only hold-over from the Hodra. cabinet waa said to be Kamll Krofta, the foreign minister. Firmness Sought There was speculation whether e. new government would approve of the "capitulation" to Germany, The Czechoslovak people have raised demanda for much greater firmness In the republic's foreign policy. An official radio broadcast said Syrovy would receive a cabinet post, but which one was not specified. It was regarded aa a eertalnty, bow- ever, the general would either suc ceed Kodna or become minister of war. The radio aald It also wsa prob able Gen. Jan Bovrattlek. . who also Is considered friendly to Russia, probably would be named minister of Interior with control of tha gen darmerie and police. Oefrnae Alert While Syrovy waa arising aa a new leader there appeared to be no slack ening of Czechoslovak defense meaa utes. Border reports said soldiers still were moving Into defense poaltlona. Many soldiers on frontier duty still had no information tha gov ernment had aubmltted to the Ger man demanda and were ready to re sist any Invasion. What Hitler Wanted BERLIN, Sept. 33. (AP) Tha eon trolled German press Indicated today tha resignation of President Bduard Benes of Ceechoelovakla waa one nf the demands Retchsfeuhrer Hitler wss presenting to Prime Minister Cham berlain In their meeting at Oodec berg. There were Intimations the British prima minister would find ths pro posals for meeting Hitler's demanda which Britain and Prance compelled the Prague government to accept, no longer would meet the situation. "Prague accepted, but too ate." aald tha Lokal Aneelger, evidently In spired, (Continued on Page Four.) Umatilla Fairs Open PENDLETON. Ore, Sept. 23. (AP) Two of eastern Oregon's fair open ed today for three-day shows one at Hermiston and tha other at John tolfr. and Mrs. W. W. Keene, a boy weighing eight pounds and tea ouncea Wednesday afternoon. Sep tember 31. at their home In Jack sonville. Tha baby has bean named Walter LaRof . mm
