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page Form President Is Overruled By 'No9 of Secret Service By FREDERICK A. STORM, (United Fresa White Howe Correspondent.) ' WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-(UP) Franklin Delano Roose velt may be President of the United States but he haa a boss. The boss happens to be a small agency of the federal govern ment that shuns publicity the secret service. Frank Wilson it its new. wiin offices In the treasury department ' la Washington, but upon tall Edwin Starling, rangy Ken tuck lan, In charge of the White House detail, falls the responsibility of seeing that all is veil at all time where the President und his family are concerned. Consequently, they plan for the chief executive and he acquiesce On bis travels Mr. Roosevelt per haps might think it a better route to drive down Market street Instead of Main, but If the secret service says no well, that's that. Why? Because for days beforn he visits a certain city, Col. Star ling has been there before him, dis cussing protective measures with the chief of police, riding over the route napped out for the Inevitable pa rade, approving this and rejecting that. Pleas of local officials that the atop here and there fall on deaf ears If Starling thinks there la even the slightest element of danger. Some persons are convinced that It la secret service opposition that keeps Mr. Roosevelt from using air planes In bis extensive traveling over the country. "Suppose he Insisted on flying, what could you do after all?" a se cret service officer once waa asked. "Lots of things," he replied. "The simplest thing we could do waa sud denly to discover the plane unsafe and have It grounded." However, excessive speed In travel 1ft not one of Mr. Roosevelt's de mands. He likes to go comfortably and rarely does his train or automo bile exceed 00 or 00 miles an hour even when he la behind schedule. When he Is In Washington, the secret service maintains routine vigil at his office door and In the lobby of the executive offices and at night within the house. Secret service men are assisted there by the White House police, picked men recruited from the metropolitan force in Washington. Following Immediately behind Is a specially-built, touring car carry ing six to eight other operatves, all of them well armed, who can pile out at a moment's notice and sur round the President's automobile when It slows down and the usual crowd gathers. They work quietly, frown on strong-arm methods unless the occa sion absolutely demands It and ap pear to be aa self-effacing as pos sible under ' the circumstances. But the secret service, like every thing else, seems to be going In for streamlining. More and more, the agency which was formed originally during the Civil war to combat Southern spies, Is recruiting young college men with in Its ranks, lured no doubt by the glamor of the Job. The day of the heavy-footed, heavy-handed op erative Is over. As a matter of fact, the White House detail now has several men who hold college degrees. When secret service men are not guarding the President .they are out In the field on the only other ac tivity In which they can, under the law, participate the running down of counterfeiters. Real Heating Economy Is Yours With a ALLEN Wood Burning PARLOR FURNACE Built To Give Many Years Service . Cast iron front and top, cast lined inner unit, fire glow window, dual draft control, full height feed door, large water prtn, cast elbow, removable top grills cooking top on inner unit. The stove has ornamental design with a por celain enamel in walnut colored finish. 20-in. and 24-in. firebox. Weights 275 and 300 lbs. PRICED AS LOW AS $51.5 Hubbard Bros. Inc. Main and Riverside Phone 231 MEDFOKP MATL TRIBUTE, MTTOrOftD. OREGON, THUBSDXY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1938. SANITY HEARING IN BASSETT CASE Meteorological Report SEATTLE, 8opt. M. (AP) A Un ity examination of Mri. Msry Elea nor Smith, accused In the 10-year old disappearance of James Eugene Bassett, was ordered by Superior Judge Howard M. Flndley today. Mrs. Smith, former Inmate of the state penitentiary, and her eon, De- casto Earl Mayer, who Is serving a life term In prison as an habitual criminal, were charged with murder In connection with the disappear ance of Bassett In 1938. Warren Hardy. Mrs. Smith's attor ney, opposed the move, made by County Prosecutor B. Gray Warner. Mrs. Smith was driven Insane tem porarily, Hardy argued, and In this condition confessed she and Mayer slew Bassett, but now she la sane. Hardy Insisted the "clever de signs" of Mrs. Margaret Padellord Fawcett, another prison Inmate, caused Mrs. Smith to become tem porarily deranged. The attorney said Boise September 29, 1938. forecasts. Medford and vicinity: Unsettled with showers tonight and Friday; not much change In temperature. Oregon: Unsettled tonight and Friday, local showers In west por tion and In the mountains, cooler northeast portion tonight: gentle southerly wind off the coast. Local Data. Temperature a year ago today: Highest. 86: lowest, 38. Total monthly precipitation, 0.87 Inch, Excess for the month, 013 inch. Total precipitation since September I, 1938, 0.57 Inch. Excess for the season, 0.13 Inch. tteiauve nummity at 5 p. m. yes terday, 80 per cent; 8 a. m. today, 100 per cent. Sunrise tomorrow, 8:07. Sunset tomorrow, 8:65. Observations Taken at 8 a. m., 120 Meridian Time. 1- fl 28 J f fl Mr. Fawcett sought a pardon for her part In reopening the Bauett case. Warner said Mrs. Smith signed t statement that she and Mayer killed Bassett for his automobile, then dis posed of his dissected body, parts of which never have been found. 6he pleaded "not guilty by reason of In sanity" to the murder charge. Date for the sanity hearing will be announced after the commission Is selected, Warner said. IN WORLD SEARCH GO 10 COLLECTION WA8HINOTON, Sept. 29 (UP) The Smithsonian Institution added 70 meteroltea to its collection during the last year and now owns more than half of the meteroltea known to have struck the earth, It haa an nounced. Meteorites added to the Institu tion's collection last year ranged In weight from a few grama to almost 90 pounds. Approximately 65 per cent of the "shooting stars" were from foreign countries, although the stones recovered In the .United States outweighed the Imported ones. The Institution said It was seek ing additional meterottes and would "reward the finders." "A rule-of -thumb way of suspect ing a peculla stone to be a meteorite la by noting Its weight," the Insti tution said. "Meteorites are all very heavy for their alee, and much heav ier than the average rock on this earth, the reason being that they sometimes consist of an alloy of Iron and nickel. When the stony meteorites are found they consist largely of heavy 'magnesium silicates and usually contHln Inclusions of the Iron and nickel alloy. The Iron alloy la attracted to a magnet or will Influence a compass." The Institution said meteorites are rather difficult to find because "only a few of the shooting stnra enter ing this atmosphere ever survive the flight. 'They are streamlined to extinc tion by the Increasing friction of the atmosphere on their mad flight to earth," the report said. "The air acts aa a brake and greatly reduces the speed, but In doing so, much of the outer surface Is stripped away." . 78 . 72 . 78 , 60 Boston Chicago Donver ...... Eureka ............ 08 Helena 78 Los Angeles 86 MEDFORD 73 New York 72 Omaha 84 Phoenix ... 100 Portland 74 Reno 72 Roseburg . 78 Salt Lake 86 flan Francisco .... 74 Seattle ...... 68 Spokane ...... 80 Washlntgon, D.O. 78 Yakima 78 Clear P. Cdy. Clear Clear Rain Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Clear Clear P. Cdy P. Cdy. Cloudy Clear JUNIOR POLICE FORCE Contrnrts Awarded WASHINGTON, Sept. 39. (AP) The reclamation bureau awarded contracts totaling $624,064 today for construction on the Shoshone recla mation project In Womlng and for electrical equipment for the power plant at Grand Coulee dam In Cen tral Washington. FrnnkUu Wins PORTLAND. Sept. 29. ffr Frank -lln beat Orant 13 to 7 last night in the first Portland high school foot ball game of the season. AS CITIZENSHIP HELP BOSTON, Sept. 29. (UP) Four teen hundred boys ana enrolled In the Boston Junior police corps, spon sored by Police Commissioner Joseph r. Timuty. Fifteen patrolmen are assigned as mentors ojf the Junior force. They will instruct the boys In first -aid life saving, drill work and other phases of police work. The corps is supervised by Lieut. William J. Carey, who for seven years was attached to the district attorney's office handling Juvenile and domestic relations cases. "We want to teach these young sters the real honest-to-goodness advantages that a olty boy has. We are teaching them not to be afraid of policemen, but rather to bring their troubles to the policeman," Carey explained. "We have no regular police work for the boys to do. We teach them what a policeman has to do. All phases of police work are explained and demonstrated to them. The bays are not 'stool pigeons.' We don't allow them to gossip. "We are instructing the boys in law and order so that they may be come better citizens." Many girl applicants have been notified that they can not be ad mitted to membership. But Com missioner Tlmllty. founder of the corps, has Indicated that a sepa rate corps for girls may be formed later. Boys from 12 to 16 years old are eligible to Join, and there are no dues or requirements of any kind. Spuds Firmer. j PORTLAND, Sept . 29. (AP) Al though there has been slight change In prices, the potato market revealed considerable firmness today. Army of Hunters BEND. Sept. 29. A) A virtual army of hunters had checked Into the Ochoco national forest at noon yesterday. Frank B. Folson. super visor, said at least 4,669 sportsmen had taken up the chase. j TYT 90 PROOF PINT 85C QUART S1 .60 j Ten High Offers Double Your Enjoyment becouse It's the Whiskey that's Doubly-Smooth! Doubly-smooth, doubly-rich TEN HIGH Doubles Your Enjoyment. It has "No Rough Edges" to mar its true bourbon taste. TEN HIGH is distilled under doubly careful scientific control in the world's largest distillery. BRITISH PRAISE ROOSEVELT PEACE NOTES TO HITLER LONDON, Sept. 29. 7P) President Roosevelt's Influence In arranging the Munich conferences was praised edi torially today by the British press. The Manchester Ouardlan said "President Roosevelt will already have seen one ray of hope of his second and finely phrased appeal to the German chancellor turned from an aspiration Into a fact . 'Let the president's second plea for action that would have the effeot of 'widening their scope Into a con ference of all nations directly Inter ested in the present controversy' also be earnestly borne In mind." The News Chronicle: "Intervention by Mr. Roosevelt has been another forceful Influence against aggres sion ..." The Dally Mall, praising Chamber lain and Mussolini: "With those names must be joined, In grateful i recognition, that of President Roose velt, whose noble appeals may well , have had a powerful Influence upon Herr Hitler's mind." . The Telegraph and Morning Post: Roosevelt, "who had been shocked by the prospect of world war over dif ferences obviously capable of set tlement by negotiation, addressed a second and very moving appeal to Hitler to avert 'incalculable disaster impending over Europe . . . President Roosevelt haa rendered to Europe vary great service which will not soon be forgotten." - HIGH SQUAD OFF FOR HOOD RIVER While Msdford high's Black Tor nado opens Its 1938 totball season at Hood River tomorrow night. Ashland and drama Pass clash at Grants Pass In tho first Southern Oregon confer ence encounter and Klamath rails, fourth member of the lsop. plays host to The Dalles. Only the Ashland- Orants Pass clash Is a conference tilt. The game at Grants Pass Is con sidered a toes-up. with the Grizzlies and Cavemen both experimenting with rather light and green outfits. The Tornado squad, 37 strong, left Medford this morning, and will hold light workout on the Hood Elver gridiron lata this Afternoon. School Burns. HILLSBOHO. Sept. 29. (AP) The Buxton school, 23 miles northeaat of here, was destroyed by fire early yes terday. A witness said the flames ap parently started near electric wires entering the building. Loss vaa es timated at more than 92,000. Use Mall TrlDune Want Ada. BRIDGES OUSTER AS COAST AGENT SOUGHT By AFL WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. (AP) The American Federation of Labor asked the federal court of appeals here today to set aside a national labor board order designating Harry Bridges' CIO longshoremen's union aa bargaining agent for west coaat dock laborers. The board In a recent order, cre ated for the first time a geographi cal unit of workers to bargain with their employers. The federation told the court tne board's order violated the Wagner act because that law does not "con template and does not lawfully per mit the designation by the board of an employe unit constituting all the employeea of different employers In different and distant geographi cal districts." 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