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Newspaper Page TextI City -Wide The Weather Forecast: Fair but becoming cloudy tonight ind Satur- -r Thirty-Third Year mm toll The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. TRBASURY PLANS BUSINESS AS USUAL IF WAR COMES t . MORGENTHAfJ AND AIDES HELD LONG CONFERENCES ... HOPE TRI-PARTITE COIN AGREEMENT CAN BE KEPT NO EARLY CHANGE IN GOLD BUYING POLICY EXPECTED WASHINGTON, Sept. 33. Business aa usual, at leaat Tor a while la the treasury's tentative program In the event of war abroad. The final de cisions remain to be taken oo this country's general financial policy In a world disaster. The problems are too complex, too likely to be affected by unforeseeable developments, to bs completely settled In advance. Yet the highest treasury officials feel that business as usual will be possible In the fiscal and monetary fields, as well as in tbe securities markets. Very great problems would be posed by a European war. Some Inkling of their magnitude may be gained from the fact that the United States ,1a now a party to a three-cornered cur rency stabilization agreement, of which the other two parties, Great Britain and France, are both poten tial belligerents. The tentative busl-ness-as-usual conclusion has not been reached without the most ex haustive study of all the problems' aspects. Discussion began Immediately on Secretary of the Treasury Henry Mor genthau Jr.'e return from his vaca tion at the beginning of September. Then the deathly seriousness of the European crisis was not universally understood, and even at the treas ury, where there was much appre hension, the main question at Issue was the limited one of government financing. The treasury was preparing o float a large Issue,, and It was feared that a sudden turn for the worse In Europe would upset the transactions. For days on end, Mor genthau and his aides were In pray erful hourly consultation with the state department and the American embassies abroad. Plnally it was de cided that the Issue would be safe. The S750.000.000 In bonds was offered, and sold In a day. This Incident was merely the pre face to a far broader discussion, how ever. To ponder general wartime pol ler, secretary Morgenthau called In his general counsel, Herman 011- ( Continued on Pago Ten.) urprl HARRISBURO. Pa.. Sept. 33. Wh irring Graves, 38. went back to Jail wo days after he had been exoner ated of a theft charge, to see If there was any mall for him. There wasn't but there was a warrant for his arrest on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS t - 4u ft,,! iiv!nck oarade fulling to come acrosa the railroad trscks to the west side of town. Soy Lee commenting there was enough bull on this side anyway. Gene Rlebe wondering how the kill In the pee-rsds would get siong with the girl fife and drum biers in their flaming red Jackets. Elisabeth McOalliard recovorlng through (he MT a ring she lost six tenths ago and missed only this morning. Marianne Perl all elated over- a w pair of school shoes, she test ing thm out by wearing theio home (rem the store snd doing tnwy ps on the way. mama Dorothy not quite able to keep up with her off spring. Oma Parretts beautiful blond eur'.s mo Hesutlful than ever In he new piled up hair-do she being We to comb It only every three "!'. however. Margaret Huron bubbling over ''h num'nni plans for muHcsl "ivitie tn be presented here. Dollar. Days Bargains Saturday Will Climax Merchants' Community Sale TVIlrt!WxJ-Jr Do 14 Now A aBSrsav ' ''fjy 7as U.h"WrH thst' W"'Ador l. 1,1 U 11 Ym M U lfS "57 wl ' II " Tl TT TT TTTTVTTT snV morning edition. lvlEDF0RD2ml FIBUNE uns? Full Associated Press GIVE HOPE FLOOD WILL BE AVERTED Rhode Island Hardest Hit With 120-Mile Wind in Disaster, Connecticut Next. (By the Associated Press.) Mounting slowly but steadily, the count of the hurricane dead In the North Atlantic states approached 500 today, but the cheering probability arose widespread floods would be averted. From Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, there came reports the rivers were receding and even -In Connecticut, previously the most gravely ' menaced, things looked brighter. At Hartford 1.000 booted men, throwing up sandbsgs along a half mile of the Connecticut River front, were holding their own against the flood early In the afternoon. Some 1.400 were homeless there, but a suc cessful fight to hold the dike line would localise the area - of Inunda tion to about 10 per cent of the city's area. ; For the storm area generally dls- i astrous Inundations appeared unlike ly but fresh suffering and more damage certain. Search For Dead Meanwhile, aa n. search for the bodies of victims of the hurricane the most damaging and life-destroy ing In the populous northeast m history went forward, every report from hard-hit Rhode Istsnd was more tragic than the last. Ita 1 dead numbering some quarter of a thousand, the little state suf fered damage put by Governor Qutnn at $100,000,000. In this, the most ravaged of all seven states In the hurricane's ' path. Westerly appeared the most ravaged. The Red Cross reported more than 70 known dead there, where for the first time It developed the wind had reached 120 miles an hour, smashing out the lives of whole families. The Rhode Island estimate of 100,000.000 damage was the only of ficial figure to come from any state, but the fragmentary Information at hand Indicated an arbitrary total figure of Jialt a billion could scarce ly be too high. No Damage Estimate Like Governor otwss of Connecti cut, who simply said It was the worst disaster that ever had struck his state, most officials sought to make no dollars and cents estimate. In the whole area, thousands of rescue and relief workers tolled with all speed to clear communications for food supplies, to keep down eon. tamlnatlon and possible disease, and to preserve order. Flood danger areas generally were In the valley of the Merrimack in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and on the Connecticut In that state and In Massachusetts. In New York, the Hudson crested at Albsny and rolled heavily down on the southern Dart of the state, where riverside families were evacuating. The Susquehannah and Mohawk rivers also climbed, as did tne ueia ware, on the New Jersey-Pennsyl. vsnla border. (Continued on Page Three.) BULLETIN CHICAGO, Sept. 23.-fl) Driving relentlessly on toward a successful defense of her title. Mrs. Estelle Law son Page of Chapel Hill. N. C. was seven up on Mlas Peggy Orahara of Hollywood, Calif., after nine holes of their 18 hole seml-flnala match today In the women's national golf cham pionship. FOREST HILLS. N. Y., Sept. 38. UPy Alice Marble of Los Angeles reached the finale of the national women's tennis chsmplonshlps here today by defeating Mrs. Sarah Pal rnthvun of Jamaica Plains, Mass., S-7, 7-s. 7-o. In a hard-fought match before 15 000 spectators, one win Nancys Wynne of Australia tomor row for the title. Job Applications Drop ' SALEM. Sept. S3. The active file of Job applicant of the Oregon employment service dropped one per cent Isst week, bringing the file down to 87,349 nsmes. Pendleton llcrk Hned PENDLETON, Ore, Sept. 23. (AP) Jsmes Beck, member of the Pen dleton local of the Retail Clerks Dnlon, today was fined $20 after b'lng held guilty before Police Judge Claries Burnett of a charge of plck je'lng aitnout a license July a. ui Hitler Talk Ends; Russia Plane Crash Kills Army Air Chief The army attack plane In which chief, Sam ilynes, were killed while still smouldering as water was plied IN FIERCE. FRAY Two Slain, Four Wounded When Thugs Trapped in Handbook Holdup. CHICAGO, Sept. 33. (AP) A young dancing teacher, shot down while being used as a gunman's shield, battled for her life today, the after math of a furious gunflght in which two men were slain and four persons wounded. The girl. Lucille Summcrfleld, 18, wss caught In a crossfire of bullets when three gunmen, trapped In a northslde handbook during a holdup, tried to shoot their way past police men. 8he was critically wounded In the breast. John Ba7aula, 33, part owner of the Handbook, ruthlessly slain as he sat In the cashier's cage. One of the robbers poked the shotgun Into the cage and fired when Be-zaula refused to turn over the money. One of the hundred or more terri fied patrons, many of them women, slipped out and called policemen. The officers shoved open the door and found William Wright, 29, holding a gun on the crowd of bettors. He waa yanked outside and disarmed. Charles lane, 28. former convict, seised Miss Summerfleld tor a shield and oame out of the door shooting. With him was the third robber, iden- titled by police as James (Screwball) Ollfoy, 30, also a former convict. Ollfoy retreated Into the Handbook after Lane was felled. He died In a hall of lead aa he sought to escape through another door which was locked and barred. UPON NOV. BALLOT SALEM. Sept. 23. OP) The state supreme court ruled unanimously to day that two antl-gejnbling referen dums' should be toted upon at the November general election. The court ruled against 3. A. Moore, Brooks tavern operator, who contend ed that the two referendums were Illegally passed by the legislature be cause of technicalities. The high court, In an opinion by Justice 3. O. Bailey, ruled that these technicalities were not sufficient to keep the bills off the ballot. Monitor Threatened MONITOR. Ore.. Sept. 23. (fPr Fire at 8 o'clock this morning threat ened the entire business district here and was prevented from spreading by the combined efforts of the Monitor. Woedburn. WV Angel and SllverVn fire departments. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, .1938. M5T AfflMJffi JlaJ. flen. Oscar Westover, chief of attempting to land nt Vnlon air on the wrerkage by firemen. BASEBALL National " . PHILADEPHIA, Sept. 33. W) Tho Chicago Cubs pulled up within two games of the first place Pittsburgh Pirates today by sweeping a double header from the Phillies 3 to 2 and 7 to 8. A four-run rally In the ninth climaxed by Collins' double that scored three runs, won the second game for the Cubs. R. H. E. Chicago 3 8 1 Philadelphia 2 0 Hlgbe, Russell end Odea; Mulchay and Atwood. Second game) , : R. H. F. Chicago 7 13 J Philadelphia 8 8 4 Carleton, Russell, Root, French. Odea and Hartnett; Holllngsworth and Atwcod. PITTSBURGH. Sept. 23. "(P) Bucky Walters' single scoring a mate from second base In the 12th inning gave the Cincinnati Reda a 8 to 4 victory over the National league leading Pirates today. Waltera held the Buca to seven hits. Ernie Lom bardl and Wally Berger hit homers. R. H. B Cincinnati I H 3 Pittsburgh 4 7 0 Waltera and Lombardl; Blanton, Swift, Brown and Todd. American DETROIT. Sept. 23. (Pi Hank Greenberg smashed his 65th homer of the season In the second game of doubleheader between the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians here today. Leading oft In the Tiger nan of the fourth, Greenberg hit a 8 and 2 pitch delivered by Earl Whltehlll Into the lower deck of the left field stands tying the score at 1-11. DETROIT, Sept. 23. (IP) Allowl'ig only six hits. Bob Feller pitched the Cleveland Indians to an 8 to 1 vic tory over the Detroit Tigers In the opening game of a doubleheader to day. (First game) R. H. t Clevelsnd 8 14 0 Detroit 18 2 Feller and Hemsley; Oil), Elsentat, Tebbetts, Rogalskl and York. SOCIATSEllTY HAS RECORD DAY WASHINGTON, Sept. ii.lP)TM social security administration did Ita biggest single day's giving today, dlt trlbutlng t3l.658.9S0 to 18 atates for public assistance to the agen and blind and to needy children, for the period from October 1 to December 31. The grants Included Otegon, aged 810,368, blind $17,108, children $81,. 850. Aged Auto Victim Dies ALBANY, Sept. 33. (TV- Injurlet suffered In an auto accident unday. yesterday ciaimed the life of Mrs. Oeorg Wiley 74. The car, driven by her 80-year-old husband, who suf fered a hip fracture, left the South SariUsm highway as the pair were hastening to the bedside of Mrs Wiley's M-TMr-otd father. TT the army nlr corps and Ills rrew terminal, Burbank, Calif., Is shown 10 DEPART CZECH American Envoy Issues Safety Orders, As Situa tion Grows Tense. WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. (AP) The American minister at Prague. Czechoslovakia, warned Americans today to leave that country. The state department announced that Minister Wilbur J. Carr told Americans that at any time It might become Impossible for them to leave Czechoslovakia. He pointed out that It was therefore "of the utmost Im portance that every American citizen should take steps without delay to Insure his safety by being prepared for Immediate departure," ASCH, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 23. (AP) A threatened clash between a Sudeten German armed force and Czechoslovak soldiers wss averted to day when government troops halted their advance toward the Asch area In Sudetenland near the German border. , The Czechoslovak troops withdrew one mile to the east off the main highway to Tlrschnlti from lines they had occupied at Ober Lomma, Just outside the resort town of Franzens bad. They left road patrols behind, however. The Sudeten Germans remained be hind barricades on the main highway between Eger and Asch which they had been prepared to defend to pre vent the Czechoslovaks from rcoccu pylng Asch, hometown of Konred Henleln, Sudeten German party lead er. The Czechoslovak troops had left Asch when the republic's surrender to the British-French partition plan was announced Wednesday. The Sudeten Oermana were deter mined not to relinquish the area. . , COURT HERE OCT. 4 PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 23. (UP) Judge Jsmes Alger Fee, senior Jur 1st on the Oregon federal district bench, announced today that Judge Claude Mcculloch will preside at the Medford term of court opening Oct 4. It will be the Junior Judge's tint court term away from Portland. Civ il matters only will be considered. 8lx Auto Deaths SALEM, Sept. 33. JPt Six fatali ties were among 883 accldenta report ed to the state Industrial a-.cldent commission during the week ended yesterday. " full United Press and France Aid I Sales Tax, and Property Tax Also Needed to Meet Relief Costs Interim Board Told. SALEM, Sept. 23. ( AP). Oregon'a welfare program will cost $30,000, .000 during the 1039-40 blennlum, an Increase of 819.000,000 over the present blennlum, State Relief Ad ministrator Elmer R. Goudy estl- I mated today at' a meeting of the Interim committee on stste and lo cal revenues. About $28,000,000 would be In the Federsl Social Security program, 814,000,000 of which would be con tributed by the federal government, and $7,000,000 each by the atate and countlea. The remaining $2,000,000 would be for support of county wel fare Institutions. The association of Oregon coun ties, through County Judge Earl B. Day of Jackson county, demanded that the state give counties more relief and road assistance. . "The state, has taken all the liquor money, which amounta to $5,000,000 a blennlum, and we think tho coun ties should have at least 78 per cent of It," Day said. "We ought to have a aates tax, and the state should reenact the property tax. In the last 10 years we have Increased our 'welfare ex penditures from $1,200,000 to $3,200, 000, and at the same time we have out our road costs In half. We have been spending needed road and oth er governmental funda for welfare, and It Is hurting the counties. "The people won't stand for any more taxes and we are ready to re volt. The county court are on the firing line and we are taking It right on the nose. The 6 per cent consti tutions) limit prevent us from levy ing enough taxes to carry our re lief load. We must get some revenue from the state.". ........ Day said the counties needed $5,000,000 more for roads and also recommended a property tax on au tomobiles. The committee doubted that vot ers would approve a esles tax. but did not Indicate how It felt on the other taxes which Day suggested. The Association of Oregon Cities also demanded more highway funds. WIFE OF BANDIT SENWRISON SEATTLE, Sept. 38. (AP) An 18 month federal prison sentence wss Imposed yesterday on Mrs. Marie K. B. Steyer, 38, Portland, when ahe pleaded guilty to a charge of aiding her husband, the late Harold K. Steyer, In the $3,083 robbery of a branch bank here three years ago. . She blamed her plight on her hus band, killed by Illinois polios last year, and asked leniency. She said she waa the sole aupport of her el derly mother, who was In court. Sen tence was Imposed by Judge John 0 Bowen Portland police files showed that Mrs. Steyer In 192S was arrested fol lowing the disappearance of a baby from a household ahe served aa a domestic. At that time she told po lle ahe took the child, Daniel Mad den. Jr., In an effort to "scare a suitor Into marrying hsr." PORTLAND RETAIL TRADE IRREGULAR PORTLAND, Sept. i.(IP) Irregu Isrlty marked business In tha Port land area In the past week with wholessle variety concerns reporting a normal seasonal Increase although sales were 10 per cent under 1937, Dun' review said today. The whole sale baking Industry made a similar report except that sales were down IB to 20 per cent. Garment makers expected volume to tall under 1937. Collections In wholesale fields were I remarkably good and tn soma In stances were better than t year ago. UPON DEERHUNT Verne Boyce Leeps Behind Tree and Shouts, But Hit Anyway Toll Highest on Record. KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. 23. (AP) Verne Boyce, deer hunter from Granta Pass, was In a hospital here today as the first casualty of the current season In Klamath county, Boyce's arm was shattered by another hunter In the Sycan area. along a draw In the Sycan country when he heard a bullet whistle from across the gulley. He Jumped behind a tree and shouted. When he thought he waa safe he emerged from behind the tree and walked out on a flat where a second bullet struck him In the arm. This time his yells and those of his hunt ing partner attracted two other hunt ers from across the draw. One of these, whose name waa not learned, admitted that he had been shooting but mslntalned he had aim ed at a deer and that Boyce must have been hit by a stray bullet. PORTI.AND, Ore., Sept. 23. (AP) Probably the heaviest toll of Uvea In tha history of Oregon sporta waa be ing chalked up today with six men deed since the deer hunting season opened Tuesday. With nearly a month or tne season left, as many deatha had been record ed already as occurred In the entire season of 1937 and the fatalities were averaging two every 24 hours. In the area of northern California, Oregon and Washington, 10 hunters have died, one a woman, compared to nine In the full season last year, LOVE-MAKING NOT AS DEFENSE SAYS TOLEDO, Sept. 28. W-mi fourth neraon on the boat ride that preced ed the fatal shooting or tucnara sane at Depoe Bay July 18 went on the stand yesterday and denied a defense claim of love-making as a motive for the attack. Everett Munsen, mat and pilot aboard the pleasure boat Pauline B testified that the dead man. Richard Earle, did not make love to the de randant'e woman companion. Lucille Coenenberg. as the defense claimed The defendant. Henry 8. Heison Portlsnd salesman. Indicted on flrat-degree murder count, elalmed that Earle, operator of the boat, mo lested the girl. Nelson I accused of ahootlna Earle after the cruise. He claimed he shot In self defense. When Munsen testified, defense Attorney George Wowrey leaped up with a declaration that Munsen was contradicting previous statement that he saw Earle make advances to the olrl. Munsen did not alter nu testimony, replying he did not re member making the statement Mow ray attributed to him. Stanley Allen, Portland, an eye witness to the shooting, said he was 200 test away when- he heard ;na shots. He turned and saw NeUon standing over Earle with a gun hla hand. He said Nelson then got Into the car' with his girl companion and drove away. Pear Markets NEW YORK, Sept. 33. (AP) WB, Dept. Agr.) Pear auction: 38 arrived, 18 California, 8 Oregon unloaded, 14 on track, market stronger, Oregon Bartlett 720 extra fancy IJ-7S aver- age 1.71, 720 fancy 1.59-75 average 1.88, 720 No. I, 1.86-75, average 1.71, Washington Bartlett 730 fancy 1.50 78 average 1.82, Boae 888 extra fanny 1.45-50 average 1.40, California 11,954 1.70-2.50 average 3.08. CHICAGO, Sept. 98. (AP) (TJ. i. Dept. Agr.) Pear auction: 4 Call fomla, 1 Colorado. 9 Hew York, Oregon, 9 Washington arrived, 18 on track. Oregon Bartlett 744 fancy 1.55-78 average 1 88. California Bart, lett 4270, 1.30-3 30 average 1.77. No. 158. Czechs NAZI REFUSALS TO E BREAKDOWN CAUSE Chamberlain Goes Home To morrowSoviet Warns Poland, French Troops Get 'Alert' Order Public Protest Strong. LONDON. Sept. 23. (AP) A Czech legation spokesman said In order for a general mobilization throughout ' Czechoslovakia was broadcast tonight over the Czech radio network. The order was said to have called up all officers, non-com-mlssloned officers and men un der 40 yeara of ago Immediately. It was understood the men would be enrolled during the night se thst Czechoslovakia would be fully mobilized by dawn. GODK.HRKRU. Sept. 23. (API Prime Minister Chamberlain left his hotel at Petersberg at 10:11 p. m.. (1.11 p. m. P8T) today for the Dresden hotel across the Rhine for his night conference with Chancellor Hitler at an all day stalemate In their ranks. . LONDON, Sept. 33. (AP) An Exchange . Telegraph company (British News Agency) dispatch from Warsaw tonight reported fighting on the Pollsh-Czeeho-elovak frontier. "Report front Teachen, Silesia, received here tonight declare that there ha been fighting between Czech soldier and the Polish population," the dispatch sntd. "Soldiers fired on a crowd. Two poles were killed and ten In jured." Teschen straddle the Polish- . Czechoslovak frontier extending en the Czechoslovak side Into n area Inhabited by Pole which Warsaw demands be ceded to Po- . land In any partition of Ciecho- slovakla. m PARIS, Sept. 33, P) Hava, tho French newa agenoy. In a aispeicn. from Godesberg tonight sal a ino Hltler-Cbamberlaln negotlatlona had broken down over the German ohan cellor'a refusal to give the guarantees) the Brltlah prime minister requested regarding hi future action toward Czechoslovakia. Have said Sir Horace Wilton or the British party announced Cham berlain was returning to London to morrow after bidding the fuehrer good-bye this evening. Th dispatch continued: "Although In the course of tnia Interview Chamberlain will make new effort It may be considered for tha moment negotiation definitely nave broken down." Pledges Refused (By The Associated Press) Prime , Minister Chamberlain ar ranged to am Relchafuehrer Hitler tonight a-fter a day' suspension of British-German negotiations and a series of threatening development elsewhere In Europe caused fear tha Czechoslovaklan peace deal might fail. Sir Nevlle Henderson. British am bassador to Berlin, announced th resumption of conference after ho talked with German Foreign M1n!tr Joachim Ton Rlbbentrop. Th entire British delegation waa expected to return home after tonight' fateful meeting. In Paris, meantime, It was reported the Interruption had been caused by Hitler's demand Oermany be per mitted Immediately to occupy ton In the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. War Loom PARIS. Sept. 33. P The spectra of war again stared Europe In th fee today when th International crisis developed a new and alarming phase In th Chamberlain Hitler peace conversation at Oodeabarg. The disquieting turn brought an about-face In Franc. It we Indi cated on high authority shs would tight If a German army Invaded Czechoslovakia. Simultaneously, order went out to (Continued on Peg Five.) Modern Samsoa OLADEWATTR, Tel., Sept. 98. m Marlon Ooodlng brought down th house with hla chln-the-bar tot. Whll h wss chinning himself on his porch th root collspeed. He will 'recover.