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1 0 2 COUGARS IDAHO 13 STATERS 0 The Weather Forecast: Fair today, Increas ing cloud I new tomorrow, prob ably with showers; no change In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday 75 Lowest yesterday S5 Thirty-Third Sear The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937. by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. O'CONNOR DKFKAT BRINGS JOY TO WHITE IIOISU CIRCLE. PRhSIOENT NOW KXrCCTED TO CONTROL ItLI.ES COM . MITTEE. NEW DEAL STRENGTH MAR SHALED BEHIND FAY, PRI MARY WINNER. PURSERS SHOWED TIIEV COILD HE PRACTICAL POLITICIANS. lBiowiNnTOW. Sent. 24. For the White House circle, as one member delightedly remarked, linlshlng the purgcless purgo by bcntlng Represen tative John J. O'Connor was "like Harvard losing the whole preliminary schedule, but winning the Yale game." The fractiousnesB of the purge embittered senate will not be dimin ished by the White House victory In the sixteenth Now York district. But the bumbling chairman of the rules committee was not only the most powerful single Individual whom the White House attacked. He was also the most hated. Long sgo the White House circle promised it self the pleasure of dancing on his grave, and now his political grave la dug, and he Is In it. Too much national . significance should not be given the O'Connor defeat. It apparently assures the president of tho subservience of the most powerful committee in the house. But. for one thing, the defeat was procured by a campaign on a low political level. The candidates themselves talked very big about "loyalty to the presi dent" and "White House dictator ship." Yet, when you listened to the street corner speakers, you dis covered that the real Issues were whether John O'Connor lived in the sixteenth New York district or . In Bay Shore, Long island, and whether the fact that his opponent got a wooden leg In the world war entitled him to sit among the lawmakers. The real reason for John O'Connor's misfortune Is that, In a primary, It takes an organization to beat an organization. No doubt the Issue of "Interference" counted for something In Georgia and Maryland, but It did not count for a tenth as much as -the fact that Senators George and Tyd lngs had the county courthouse gangs behind them. In John O'Con nor's district, the purge committee arranged to put the local equivalent of the county courthouse gangs be hind their candidate, James P. Fay. Mayor F. H. La Guardla was mob ilized, and lent his secretary, James Kleran, and his close political adviser Major William J. Walsh, to the Fay campaign. Ed Flynn. satrap of the Bronx, was ordered to the front oy the president himself. Edward V. Loughlln, one of the district leaders. was persuaded (by what Inducements It is not recorded) to come out pub licly for Fay. And the bailiwick of O'Connor's strongest supporter, Dis trict Leader Mike Crulw, was Invaded by Crulw'a own nephew, Jerry, a new deal henchman. Moreover, for the first time In the purge, the entire campaign was in telligently and ably coordinated. In stead of the powers of king's messen gers, the White House purgcrs were given absolute carte btsncho. They set up headquarters in New York, end they acted as a clearing house for all the Interests involved, making sure Jerry Cruise had what he need ed to convince hli uncle's precinct captains, reconciling the differences between the Flynn and La Guard: crowds, and In general doing an ex tremely shrewd Job of practical poli tics. Perhaps the moat Interesting result of the O'Connor defeat a Its proof that the purgrra can be prac tical politicians if they are allowed to Nobody should feel sorry for John O'Connor, a statesman whose virtues have been vastly exaggerated by the president's enemies, who enjoyed no! only the official Indorsement of Tammany Hall, but also the lavish backing of certain '.arje N:w York (Continued uo rage 01 1 j OREGON 'ALABAMA' 7:. TROJANS .. MINNESOTA ...15 WASHINGTON . 0 MEDFORD Full Associated Press Ul BUM SPELL gh awn US Hitler More Conciliatory as Powers Show Firmness October 1 Fateful Day All Nations Mass Arms. (By The Associated Press) Europe settled down to an uneasy breathing space today alter a week of hectic diplomatic maneuvering and waited In a state of ever- Increasing mobilization for what ap parently was to be a fateful day, Saturday. October 1. Yesterday (Saturday) the govern- ment of Czechoslovakia was informed , of Relchsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's "final" j word on the Sudeten German solu- i tion. t Der Fuehrer Softens Confronted with distinct Indica tions that Britain. France and Russia might yet rally to the defense of Czechoslovakia If pressed too far. it was said in Berlin Hitler had pre ferred peace to war. j He still insisted upon surrender of the Sudetenland to Germany as Czechoslovakia has agreed to do by I negotiations but he gave her until : October 1 to do It. i Previously the fuehrer had been represented as insisting upon imme diate evacuation by the Czechoslo vaks and occupation by German or Sudeten German forces pending for mal demarcation of the new frontier. But a Berlin Informant who saw 1 Hitler's memorandum said he de clined to become a guarantor of the i new Czechoslovak frontier unless other minorities Polish and Hun garian also attained their desires of reunion with their homelands. i Official Czechoslovak quarters In London viewed this refusal as an extension, in effect, of Hitler's de mands for "self determination" to Include Poles and Hungarians. Czechs I'mleelded The Czechoslovaks therefore re garded the "final" memorandum as going beyond their agreement of last Wednesday with the French and Brit ish to concede the Sudetenland as the price of peace. The memorandum was said by the Czechoslovaks to demand evacuation of the areas where 75 percent or more of the population Is German, and a plebiscite In remaining Sudeten dis tricts. Prime Minister Chamberlain, after returning from ills Godesberg con ference with Hitler, yesterday con ferred with his cnblnet and arranged a conference with the French pre mier, Edouard Daladlr, today In London. Czechoslovakia was turning herself Into an armed ramp behind a wall of steel and cement. 1.500,000 soldiers were mobilized under the leadership of a government headed by a one eyed military hero, and her Isolation was virtually complete. see No .surrender Under the circumstances little ex pectation was expressed anywhere in Europe that Prague again would sur render, and consequently each gov ernment concerned was taking vigor ous precaution. The British home fleet streamed In a procession eight miles long from Ivergordon In north Scotland out Into tho North sea In position, an parently. to clamp down a blockade if war came. But there was no Brltlnh conscription or mobilization which could only come after action by parliament. France ordered up 380,000 reserves, the second and third echelons, and began ovncuatlng civilians from bor- ( Con tinned on page Two.) PORTLAND, Sept. 34. (AP) Rufus Holman. state treasurer and Republican nominee for the United States senate, described the cam paign Issues today at constitutional government. cheap water powvr. flood control, sound agriculture, la bor and pension legislation and fed eral aid to develop Oregon resources. The candidate recommended wtde distribution of BonneTllle power for farms and homes and urged com plrtlm of the Umatilla Rapid ar.d the Willamette valley projects. 8WE HOLMAN GIVES OUT CAMPAIGN ISSUES . 1 9 7 BEARS ST. MARY'S OHIO U. ILLINI ... OFFICIAL BERLIN Hitler's Memorandum Held Way to Peace Six Points in Plan Outlined. By Louis P, Lochnrr (Copyright, 1938. by the Associated Press) BERLIN. Sept. 24. By October 1 at the latest the world will know whether Czechoslovakia will yield to Relchsfuehrer Adolt Hitler's final demands to cede peacefully to Ger many those sections of her Sudeten region which are overwhelmingly German. Complete dismemberment of the Czechoslovak state no longer was In sisted upon except by the Implica tion In Hitler's refusal to become a co-guarantor of the whlttled-down state's boundaries unless other min orities attained their wishes. Official Germany seemed confident tonight that a general European war or even a localized Oerman-Czeho- slovak conflict had been averted by the Hltler-Chamberlaln negotiations at Godesberg. But the German army and air force remained close tnough to the Czech oslovak border to be prepared for all emergencies. A The points In Hitler's stand, as outlined here by an informant, who saw the fuehrer's memorandum to Chamberlain and by other sources. Inoluded: . 1. Eight days, counting yesterday. are envisaged for peaceful handing over of the Sudeten Geerman terri tory to Germany. a. If Czechoslovakia refuses, she would carry the responsibility for sll that might follow; If she agrees. peace will be preserved. 3. Germany declines to become a co-guarantor of the new Czechoslo vak boundaries unless other minor ities In the republic also attain their wishes. 4. Chamberlain was assured Ger many had no Intention of annexing territory overwhelmingly Inhabited by Czechs. 8. The memorandum contained positive suggestions for effecting the transfer of such parts of the Su deten region as- were conceded to Germany by Britain ana France in the plan accepted by the Prague government. 6. The memorandum positively is Germany's last offer to Czechoslovak la. Germany believed that Hitler's memorandum to Chamberlain, which the prime minister forwarded to President Eduard Benes of Czechoslo vakia, opened the way for a peaceful separation of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia, GETS SUII RIGHT SPOKANE. Sept. 24. ( AP) Mrs. Lorna Llvcrmore, In an opinion handed down today by Superior Judge Charles W. Greenough, was given the right to sue Robert Mend ing and Bob SVe, along with North west Airlines, their employer, for the death of her husband, Joe Liver more. Mrs. Livrrmorc, who has started suit for $75,000 damages, also was granted right to sue as widow of the pilot who crashed In north Idaho In 1036, as guardian of their minor child and as administrator of the pilot's estate. The company had sought to en Join her from suing In more than one capacity. Mens! rig. district super intendent, and Slee, dispatcher, had sought to have the case dismissed as applied to them. GENERALLY FAIR Northern California: Fair Sunday; fogs locally on coast; slightly hlnh er temperature In Interior of north portion Sunday; gentle northwest wind off count. Oregon: Oenermlly clear Sunday; gentle changeable wind off coast becoming northwraterly. ' Outlook Sept. 25 -Oct. 1, far west ern states: Oenerally fair with tem peratures somewhat above normal in Interior, but unsettled in northern district about middle of week. FOR COMING WEEK war purdue DETROIT 6 0 KANSAS TEXAS .12 . 7 MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, Flood, Fire, Gale Do $4,000,000 Damage Fire, follonlnit n the wake ef a nt least $1,000,000 damage. The fire, National guard troops were patrolling UELSON PUTS ROOSEVELT FOES "PEJO PARTY" Smear Chief of Democrats Thinks Up New Name for ' Anti-New Dealers. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. (UP) Charles Mlchclson, publicity director of the Democratic national commit tee, tonight coined a new name for "the minority party, composed of old-llnc Republicans, mlddle-of-the-roaders, those who think the new deal does not go far enough, and a few disgruntled ex-democrats." The name Is the "Pejo party." Mlchclson said a "Pekorlst" Is do fined by the dictionary , as one who believes everything In nature Is growing worse. "Pejorists party," said MlchelEon In his weekly release, "Dispelling the Fog." "sounds little too long, so may I suggest that we curtail It a Uttlc and that henceforth we can speak of the Pejo party. "This will save a lot of words to describe an aggregation that has no definite policy hut Is united In the creed that whatever Franklin D. Roosevelt does, or whatever the new deal offers, must be wrong." M'ALLISTER GETS E SALEM, Oct. 34 (AP) Represen tative Ralph O. Stevenson of Jack son county has resigned as a member of the 1937 legislative Interim com mittee on state and local taxes. He has been succeeded by Representative William M. McAllister, also of Jack son county. SALEM, Sept. 34. (AP) An In terim committee of the legislature began a study today of maze of proposals upon which It planned to make definite recommendations next November for the 1930 legislature. In a two-day session here, the committee received suggestions rang ing from a state sales tax to legal izing certain forms of gambling as cures for the troubles of the state growing out of Its old age assistance program. CRIES LEAD TO PHILLY JAIL PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 34. (AP Shouts of "war ks declared" led six youths to jail today. They were charged with mallelnus mlrhlefiSwkenlng sleepy residents it I I. m. ,19 TENNESSEE , 6 SEWANEE .. 19 18 NAVY W. & M gale and flood waters at New London. Conn.. on used five (leal In nnd starting along the waterfront, destroyed between 30 nnd 40 buildings. the rlty. storm damage in this area was etlmnted at $1,000,000. BULLETIN WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 38. (Sun day) ((;p) The Polish telegraphic agency reported today that many persons were killed during the night In a series of clashes between police and Polish (minority, groups at Tes chen, Czechoslovakia. SACRAMENTO, Sept. 34 (TP) Sac ramento defeated Los Angeles fl to 2 here tonight to go three games up on the playoff series. Los Angeles won one. Tho Sacs need one more game to eliminate the 1938 pennant winners who captured 31 out of 27 gamea from the Sacs during the regular season. Tony Freltas, who turned In 34 victories during the season, hurled his second straight win of the series over the Angels. Rap Prim started and lost the game In the first Inning when he Issued three walks to force in two runs and chased home a third with a wild pitch. Lleber replaced him, held the Sacs to five hits and three runs, a homer by Cullop with one on In the fifth and a triple by Marshall In the eighth, doing the damage. Night Onme SACRAMENTO. Csl., Sept, 24.- ( AP) Nlht game: Score: r. h. E. Los Angeles .. 2 7 3 Sacramento 6 6 0 Prime, Lleber and Collins; Freltas and Franks. KILLS SALE! MAN ROSEBURO, Sept. 24. (Vic tim of paralysis induced by excite ment after he killed a deer, Mark O Ellis, Salem, became the state's sev enth fatality today in the deer hunting season which started last Tuesday . Meager reports reaching here 'rom the north Umpqua region 60 miles to tho east told how the stricken hunter summoned three companions to his side by firing rifle shots af ter the. party had become separated Tho companions found him In s critical condition and started carry ing htm to Roseburg but he died at the Steamboat CCC camp, about 40 miles from nere as a physician at tempted to save his life. The body was brought here today and will be sent to Salem. 20-YEAR TERM TO SPOKANE, Sept. U.tlPr-Donald Prause, 90-year-old Spokane youth, was sentenced to not more than 20 years In the Washington state refor matory today when he pleaded guilty to negligent homicide charges grow ing out of the automobile death Friday of Cyrus Femalld. Prauto told Superior Judge R. M. Webster he had been drinking and was undr-r the Influence of liquor when he crashed V car Into five nsrk.d automnhllea Thursday night. I killing Pernalld. .-..26 3 ,. 26 L. 0 BATES United 1938. FILED BY NELSON IN MURDER TRIAL Sea Trip in Fog Held 'Crazy Idea' Friends Testify to Conduct. TOLEDO, Sept. 24. (AP) Counsel for Henry Nelson, Portland salesman, strove today to prove that he waa the victim of an unbalanced mind last July 18 when he waa accused of slaying Richard Enrle. Depoe Bay boat operator. Through a doctor, old frlenda and a coast guardsman, dcorae Mowrey. nttorncy for Nelson, sought to estab lish grounds for Nelson's plea of In nocent by reason of Insanity. After questioning a boatswain's mate of the coast guard about the weather that prevailed the day of the slaying, Mowrey was asked by the court to explain tho objective Tho lawyer replied that he wanted to ahow that auch a heavy fog lay over the sea that the trip Nelson made that day with Eerie was a "crazy Idea." Nelson has alleged that he asked Barle to take him to sea and marry him and Lucille Coenenberg but that the boat operator molested the wo man. Later, ashore. Nelson claimed that ho upbraided Earie for his al leged conduct and shot him only af ter the sailor attacked him. Dr. C. A. Downs. Salem, one of a parade of nine defense witnesses questioned Saturday as tho court re molned open to expedite the trial, told of treating Nelson In 1033 for a broken arm and fractured cheek bone suffered In an automobile ac cident. Mowrey tried to bring out the possibility that shock from the accident miKht have Injured Nelson'a mentality. On cross-examination by the state, the doctor said he had ncvor known of a cose of insanity to result from auch Injuries. Two other witnesses, Mr. and Mra. Lynn Sherman, of Owego, friends of Nelson, told of his belief in dreams, his Interest In astrology and Sher man. a mmlo saleaman, sold that Nelson, b a boy, waa a model youth Nelson was living with tho Shermans when he came here with Miss Coen enberg and Sherman testified that his friend had changed and appeared to be a harum-scarum" person, who seemed to be Inaani. COQUILLe! Sept, 24. (AP) As sessed valuation of Cooa county, with the exception of publle utilities, shows an Increase for 103B of 1151, 000 over 11)37 figures, County Assessor J. P. nevers reported Friday. This year'a total I, 131.1105,507. compared to 121.544 137 for 1037. Rnh To Arms LONDON, Sept. 94 (API Regla- trar c'fl-e, were deluged today with a nh of eouplea getting married "before- the war breaks out." At the caxton Hall office there were two long llnea one to the mar riage license window, the other to the gns mssk fitting depot. Some coital went dire .t:r ftom being married to be fitted for gas masks CIEMSON ,...13 TULANE 10 DARTMOUTH .46 . 0 BUNE Press lira AMERICAN FLEET Sen. Glass Seeks Cut in Spending Save for Navy Not Encouraged. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. (AP) Chairman Glass (D., Va.) of the sen ate appropriations committee, said today that developments in Europe had convinced him this country should Increase Its naval expendi tures. "I have been opposed to those enormous appropriations for war purposea," the 80-year old Virginia senator said In an Interview, "but It begins to look as If It Is Inevit able and desirable to have larger naval appropriations." Funds mado available for -the navy reached a new high point for 18 years In this flacal year, totaling approx imately seie.ooo.ooo. Otass said he saw no reason why the United States should be Involved, In the event of a European war, "unless Borne country does what Ger many did before sinks our ships and murders our nationals." The Virginian said he would seek a reduction In virtually all expend itures, aside from those for the navy. In the next congress, He haa boon a long time advocate of lower gov ernment costs, "There la a tremendous opportun ity for a reduction In regular gov ernment expenditures, principally through the elimination of useless government agencies," he aaid. "But I don't know that there will be any support for cuts. There hasn't been any such support In the last three congreses. "Everything depends on whether a sufficient number of the members of congress have become ashamed of being rubber stamps. I don't fee encouraged to believe that." Observing that some senators he called presidential "coattall bangers" had been defeated In the primaries, Olasa said he found It "a very grat ifying thing." EX-U AIDE, VEXES NEW YORK, Sept. 24. W Po lice puzzled today over the mott7C for a death plunge shortly before midnight In which Dr. Raemer Rex Ranahaw, 08, New York university chemistry professor and former mem ber of the staff of the University of Oregon, and his wife, BO, died. Authorities were told that Dr. Ran- shaw was heard to yell before the fall. Detectives were Inclined to the belief that It waa a double suicide. The doctor, who was noted for chem ical reaesreb and was the author of 36 scientific papers, was fully dressed but his wife was nude. No notes were found. Bofore coming here In 1020, Dr. Ranshaw nad served at Oregon, Wei- leyan unlveralty, Iowa State college and the Harvard medical school. He and Mra. Ransaw were married In 1031, each having been married be fore. JUDICIAL FIGHT PROBE RECESSED KLAMATH FALLS. Sept. 94. (AP) Klamath county's grand Jury, which has been Investigating last Monday's bloody "courthouse clash" between Circuit Judge E. B. Aahurat and Walter P. Hannon, clerk of court, recessed today until October 17 with out submitting a report. Witnesses the Jury desires to ques tion are not Immediately available. It Is understood, tn addition. Dis trict Attorney Hardin C. Blackmer aaid his attention, at least during the week ahead, would ne required by the criminal trial of Harry W. Poole, local theater operator who Is charged with statutory rape. Poole's trial opens Monday, , and Judge Aahurat. who has been con fined to his home all week, said Saturday ha would be on band to preside TEXAS CH. . .13 CENTENARY ... 0 ARMY WICHITA . 32 P It Payi Are you In the market for a trader If so refer to the claml fled page of this newspaper. Better 11111, prepare an adr. of your own and tee whjr so many say "It pa.va to advertise." Eiperlall) In the Mall Tribune. No. 159 ERED TO KILL Homes of Cape Cod Rich Looted by Roving Bands Reconstruction in New England Starts. (By the Associated Pres) An army of 100.000 WPA workers, reinforced by thousands of volun teers, regular army soldiers and na tional guardsmen, tolled far Into last (Saturday) night on the gigantic taak of cleaning up the seven-atate hur ricane front where nearly 900 known victims Isy dead and ecorea of others were mlslng amid $300,000,000 prop erty damage. Jackala of the storm roving bands of looters led Adj. Qenf Charles H. Cole of Massachusetts to Issue "shoot to kill" orders to national guards men. As the reconstruction work went forward, Oeneral Cola rushed 2B0 gusrdsmen to Cape Cod to stamp out reported looting of rich eatates at Falmouth, Gray Gables, Bourne, Bue zarda Bay and Mashpee. "It Is open and bold-faced," Colo said. "At auch a time as this, noth ing la more despicable. I have Issued orders to shoot to kill." OfflclalB estimated the damage In -Rhode Island, New Hampahlre and Massachusetts at mora than 1130, 000,000, State and federal authorities rush ed tons of food, blankets and med ical supplies - to ' the wide-spread strlckean aroaa, where 12,000 fam ilies were homeless. Crowning the three-day ordeal ef stunned tragedy and desolation, fears of a possible disease epldemlo led to emergency measurea In many, communities. - . Relief workers Inoculated 700 per--sons against typhoid fever at Adams, Mass, and town officials at Ware. Mass., where drinking water reser voirs gave way, asked for 200 vials of anti-tetanus vaoclne. Slowly ebbing flood waters gave the "mop up" legions a chance to' bury the dead and alft through mountains of debris for the bodies of scores still missing. Tree-clogged highways and wracked llnea of communication prevented a final accurate asseaament of the life and property loss, but many officials agreed It waa the area's worst storm disaster striking with appalling sud denness Wednesday as It howled out of the tropica and raged along the Atlantic seaboard In more than a century. In New England alone, telephone company officials said 290,000 miles of wire would have to be replaced. Airplane observers reported New Hampshire's tall pines and birch treea were leveled by-the hundreds.' The little community of Peters boro, N. H still Isolated, reported, by radio that Its losses by fire, flood and hurricane totaled 1.000,000. more than . JIBED BY FARLEY SALTNA, Kan., Sept. 94. (UP) Chairman James A. Farley of th Democratic national committee aaid tonight that Senator Arthur Capper of Kansss haa auch a good New Deal record that he la Inviting him to "coma over with ut formally." Farley's Invitation to the senior United States senator from Kansas tn Inln the Democratic fold was made during a banquet address here, W fourth public appearance of the May In the Intereat of re-election of Sen ator George A. McOUI. McGllI's scat Is contested by Clyde M. need, a former Kanaas governor, and Farley's vlalt to Kansas waa for the purpose a. .mnh.il.ln. 10O Der CCIlt KeW Deal support of McOlll, New Deal stalwart, a-n.tn. r.mMr la not ud for re election. Farley's comment on ht New Deal leaning! was maae in an tronle reference to Republican criti cism of the Roosevelt administration. Yankee Ship Menaced BARCELONA, Sept. 94. (PI Th American freighter Wisconsin, out of Portland. Ore., barely escaped serious damage In heavy daylight bombing of lower Barcelona today.
