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Friday Again Tea, It U Frlduy again. Time to write that Classified Adr. for the Sunday morning edl-, tlon. Adv.. In before 8:30 p. mJ Saturday will be properly clas sified. Advs. accepted until S o'clock Sntuiday evening. The Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy and nil Id tonight and Saturday. Temperature Higlte&t yesterday 68 Lowest, this morning 44 Tribune FORD Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year Eighteen Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1938. No. 164. Med HOPES The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. REDUCTION OF HITLER'S POW ER TO DO HARM EXPECTED BRITAIN, FRANCE TO SPEED PLANE IWILDINO TO OVER TAKF. GERMANY . IF WAR IS NOT AVERTED, REICH IS PICKED AS EVENTUAL LOSER BRITISH FLEET; FRENCH ARMV HELD WINNINO COMBINATION WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 If the peace la ept this time. Hitler's power to do harm to the world will be Im measurably reduced. And even If war should now come, the German air superiority will not procure an even tual victory. 8uch Is the sum of expert opinion In Washington. It holds that even now, if the English ana Prench can recover from the devastation and dis organization of a fearful attack from the air. they can win a. war. The British fleet Is Infinitely stronger than the German, and the Prench army la still better than Hitler's constantly increasing forces. The British fleet could command the sea coast and the Prench army might well break the Siegfried line. Expert opinion here Is that while the Magln ot lines la probably Impenetrable, the new German fortifications along the Rhine are unfinished and com paratively weak. And behind the British fleet and the Prench army are tremendous man-power, ample'' raw materials, great gold hoards, and the financial resources of two empires. Behind the German air force, on the other hand. Is a nation living on synthetic foods, clothed in synthetic textiles, needing oil and Iron and rubber, with no ade quate sources of supply In sight. The Inhuman Horror The massed German air attacks which are so much feared are planned on theory of the Italian strategist. General Don net. who first suggested repeated attacks on the great cities by huge fleets of planes. How effici ent It Is In terms of the cost- dam age ratio, no one knows. Tet the ex perience of Barcelona has shown that, whatever its efficiency, it can be in humanly horrible. Once they can protect Paris and London from the Inhuman horror, Prance and England can defy Ger many at will. Because their present total of air strength Is far below Germany's 10,000 planes, and because their production capacity is ridicu lously less than Germany's ' 600 a month, they would now have to stand and survive the Immediate horror. For the future, they must build planes so fast that, If the German bombers come over, pursuit ships will be ready to drive them off. Military (Continued on Page Ten ) Wenatchee Trio Hurt KLAMATH PALLS. Sept. 30.-HP) Two women and a man. all of We natchee, Wash., were hurled through the top ot their car and rolled down an embankment to railroad tracks below the highway In a freak accl dent six miles north of here today. Let Dderglng Contract WASHINGTON. Sept. 30. 7P) The army engineers announced today award of a $360,044 contract to the Pranks Construction company, San Francisco, for dredging ship channels in Humboldt bay. California. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS A prankster trying to get even with Frank De5oura for a bit of practical Joking by sending an un s:cned missive to this Journal over Frank' typed name. tntlcti Fish talking learnedly about pear gradea, arsenic tolerance and suc technic! and scientific things. Mtrs'ret Burton accldently find ing where an old friend Urea. Jerry Jerome breaking all speed records from Rcodlng to Medford In order to see the high school foot hall gaie which he thought waa to re rlave-l here tut m-asn't. 'tn Smith serried lck for fear 5ome of his private buslneaa would be divulged In this pillar of play, fjlnrsa. Edna. Shaver mlmculouely keeping a chic sombrero chapeau aecurely upon Sit cranium. It riding in abun dance of curls witnout toppling. WAR AVERTED BY CEDING SUDETEN AREA TOJITLER German Occupation Starts at Midnight Czechs Ac cept and Pay Price Pre miers Hailed As Heroes. BERLIN, Sept. 30. (AP) With steet-helmeted relchsivehr r units poised to cross the old German-Czechoslovak border nt mid night, 3 p.m.. PST). Col. Gen eral Walt her Tnn BmuchltRch, commander-in-chief of the Cier man army, tonight Issued the following order of the day: "Beginning October 1 the Ger man army will enter the German region of Creehoslnvakla libe rated by our feuhrer. "The German army enters the relieved territory with proud Joy to be the herald of German order and discipline, (By the Associated Press) Peaceful settlement of Germany's demands on Czechoslovakia relieved Europe today of its sharpest war fears in a generation and stirred hopes for lasting peace. The Munich meeting of the heads of four great governments of west ern Europe brought Europe back from the edge of war by agreeing on pacific means for satisfying Ger many's claims on Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. Czechoslovakia, wblch was not rep resented at the meeting, reluctantly paid the price. Her government yield ed to "superior force" and her pre mier, Gen. Jan Syrovy. sorrowfully announced: "I have taken the de cision to save life and to save the nation." ' Oermany will start occupying Su detenland at midnight. By stages, her troops will enter the area to be ceded to her and In those where doubt exists an International com mission will supervise pleblcltes. Cheers For Leaders Premier Mussolini of Italy. Pre mier Daladier of Prance and Prime Minister Chamberlain, who worked out the epochal solution with Relchs fuehrer Hitler, all were hailed as heroea by thousands when they reached their capitals from Munich. Chamberlain took with him Joint declaration, reached In another meeting with Hitler today, in which he and the fuehrer expressed "the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again." In Paris. Premier Deladler and his ministers met with President Lebrun to approve the Munich four-power lecord. Parliament was summoned to approve the Munich four-power ac. cord. Parliament was summoned to meet next Tuesday. Prance held high hopes as a result of the conference but decided to keep most of her reserve forces under arms until tbr Issue war settled completely. Prom Bnyrouth. Germany. Konrad Henlcln leader of the Sudeten Ger mans, telegraphed Hitler hailing him as "deliverer" of 3.500,000 Sudetens. All fighting stopped on the Sudeten land border while Sudeten "free corps' prepared to move back to their , homes behind the German army. Poles Promised Land Poland and Hungary, spurred by the Sudeten settlement, pressed their demands for cession of Czechoslovak (Continued on Page Three.) Terms of Hitler's Bloodless Victory (By the Associated Press) The big four at Munich British Prime Minister Chamberlain. Relcha fuehrer Hitler. Italian Premier Mua aollnl, French Premier Daladier turned Europe from the brink of con flict by: 1. Allowing Hitler aymbolle occupa tion of Sudetenland Immediately Hitler's army enters at midnight. J. Arranging peaceful, gradual ces sion of Sudeten Oerman areaa, pleb iscites In doubtful areaa an Interna tional commission to regulat the an nexation. Crechoslovakla. unrepresented at the conference, h accepted the plan. A new Hltler-Chamberlaln agree ment declared "the desire of our two peoples never to go to m-ar with one another again." Daladier acclaimed mutual good will between France and Oermany. Britain hailed Chamberlain as a preserver of peace. Italy hailed Mussolini aa a sartor of peace. Oermany rejoiced In aettlement with honor. Soviet Russia Czechoslovakia's mutual aid ally and partner with Britain and France in threata to re slat force was not invited. Arrangement were made to satisfy Polish and Hungarian clalma for slices of CKCboalovakla, Potent Smiles of Big Four Dissolve War Ciouds a.,. 4l.aaBBauMJijsaj.jra With big names and hlg smiles present, these "men of the hour" In Europe met at Munich, firrmuny. to nettle the Crcch problem with words Instead of guns. This picture, first of them togelhrr, was transmitted by radio from 1-oinlon to New York, anil shows Field Mar shal Hermann Goerlng at left, partially obscurlne the face of Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Next Is Paul Schmidt. Interpreter: then Count Oale azro Ciano beams as Premier Mussolini 'greets Prime Minister Chamberlain. In the rear. Premier Ualadler of Frnhrc smile,. LENiENCYJJRGED Sentence Due Monday Plead Insanity, Self-Defense Girl Friend to Face Perjury Charge. TOLEDO. Ore.. Sept. 30. (TP) Henry S. Nelson. Portland salesman charged with first degree mur der for the shooting of Richard Earle, pleasure boat operator, last July, was convicted of manslaughter by a Jury of eight men and four women lest night. The Jury, which deliberated 11 hours, recommended leniency. Nel son's defense was based on self-dc-fense and Insanity. Nelson, facing a term ranging frbm one to IB years, will be sentenced Monday by Circuit Judge Jnmes Brand, who said he was not bound by the Jury's recommendation, but would consider It. As the Jury was discharged, Mrs. Bessie Buker, a Juror, fainted in tho courtroom. Her condition was attrib uted to nervousness. Judge Brand advised District At torney L. O. English to file a perjury charge against Miss Lucille Coenrn berg, 21, Nelson's companion on a cruise in Earle's boat. ' Both Nelson and Miss Coenenborg accused Earle of attacking her. Judge Brand eald Miss Coenenberg's testi mony to a Brand lury before the trial .i was that Earle had not actually as saulted her on the cruise that pre ceded the shooting. NEW STRIKE VOTE T HOUSTON. Tex, Sept. 30. (UP) Orowlng hostility of the American Federation of Labor toward the New Deal was displayed anew today with official disclosure that none of the administration's blg-wlg labor execut ives had been invited ta spe t the federation's annual convention be ginning here on October 8. Secretary of Labor Prances Perkins and J. Warren Madden, chairman of the national labor relations board, were Ignored, It was disclosed. T E PORTLAND. Sept. 30. (AP) The British motorshlp Sllverwlllow load ed the first pears for South America In several years today. The far-off continent hss recently developed Itt own frenh fruit Industry, POLAND MENACES MUNICH PACT BY CLAll ON CZECHS WARSAW. Sept. 30. P) Poland was reported' without official confir mation tonight to have set midnight (3 p. m", PST) as a deadline for Czechoslovakia's response to Polish territorial claims. . Should the answer to a Polish note fall to arrive from Prague or be un satisfactory, these reports said, "Im portant action" may take place. Polish radio broadcasts emphasized Warsaw was not bound by the Mu- n(h fi-,ttrn-.trr n tTrmon t nnrf U'nS fret, to achieve her aims Indcoen- ! dently. Polish authorities have not dis closed precisely what demands they have made on Czechoslovakia. The region generally mentioned, however, is Tcschen Silesia, an area of about 772 square miles, in which most of Czechoslovakia's Polish minority re sides, 4 Authoritative sources gave no con firmation the reported Polish action would be a counterpart to German military entry, to be made peaceably after midnight. Meanwhile, the Polish radio broad oast sharp statements every half hour stressing the. government ap preciated the support given Its de mands by Reichsfuehrer Hitler and Premier Mussolini but would see to their fulfillment Itself. (Reuters. British news agency, said a state of emergency had been de clared in Czechoslovak SUeMi, which Includes Teschen. the area Poland demands that Czechoslovakia re linquish.) PRESIDENT TELLS TO WASHINGTON. Sept. 30. (AP) President Roosevelt said today report ers would learn January 3 when congress meets whether he would have a new government reorgani zation bill. The administration reorganization program was pigeonholed by the house during the last session, and leaders have indicated a new attempt to pass such legislation would be made. Asked at his press conference re garding a discussion he had with administration financial officials on wheat yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt said It was & general survey of the situa tion regarding that grain. , The administration Is trying to move wheat abroad, the preMdcnt said. fianllne Kiplode DRAIN, Ore., Sept. 30. ( APj Ernest Kofoed, oil company employe, suffered first and second degree burns Thursday evening, when gas oline ha waa carrying exploded. The resulting fire destroyed the Maple Row tamp ground and service ita tlon her f, the flnmaire helni entt maind at between 15,000 and 10,000. FOR FLAG DIMMED; SPLIT WITH REDS CINCINNATI. Jlcpt. 30 (API The Pittsburgh Pirates were swept nearer elimination In the National league pennant race today by gaining only an even break with the Cincinnati Reds in a double-header. The Reds topk the opener. 7 to 1. behind Paul Derringer's 'five-hit pitching and Uuss Baucrs came back with a four hitter In .the .nightcap .to hurl, the Pirates to a 4 to 2 victory. Thus the pirates must take their two remaining games, and hope- for the Cubs to lose. In order to win the championship. Batters allowed' two hits In the second Inning and two more in the eighth In chalking up-his 18th win of the year In the nightcap. His mates collected only, seven hits, off Whltey Moore, but one of these was Arky Vaughan's homer In tho fourth. 2nd game: R. H. E Pittsburgh - 4 7 0 Cincinnati , 3. 4. .1 Baners and Todd; and Lombard!, Moore, Schott Pittsburgh 1 6 1 Clnelnnatl ....i.. ..-. ....i.... 7 12 0 Tobln, Brown and Todd; Derringer and Lombard!. BASEBALL American CHICAGO. Sept. . 30. (If) The White Sox came from behind todny to win the first pamn of a double header from the BrbWna, 1 td 5, be--htnd the pitching of Ted Lyons. (First game) R. . H. . E. St. Lsuls - ft 13 2 Cliicogo 7 8 1 Trotter and Sullivan; Lyons' arid Ttcsh. MIGRATION DRIFT TO COAST EASED SAN PRANCIHCO. Sept. 80. P) Concerted action of Calllprnls civic groups and federal agencies ha checked the migration of farm work ers into California, Ralph H. Taylar reported today. Taylor, executive secretary of the agricultural council of California. ! said he had a report from border check sutlons that "there seem to be a, good many mlgranta leaving California, and very few entering the state." W. V. Allen, California supervisor of farm placement service for the United States department of labor, told Taylor the peak of the Invasion hs passed, and the migrant motor cade is definitely thinning out. EMMETT. Idaho. Sept. 30. Prank M. Mlngus, 72, Emmett confec tioner, was found dead near the wreekaee of his automobile t-:0ay. Sheriff Bolae Rlgga, Jr.. raid the car had struck the side of ft Union Pa cific train. LEHMAN ACCEPTS ATTACK ON DEWEY New York Governor to Run for Fourth Term Con vention Lauds F. D. R. ROCHESTER, N. Y.( Sept. 30. (AP) New York's democratic gov ernor. Herbert H. Lehman, accepted a fourth term nomination by tho party's state .convention today with a vigorous attack on the Republican candidate, Mnnhattan Dlst. Atty. Thomes E. Dewey. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Sept. 30 (AP) A party platform endorsing the "vis ion and leadership" of President Roosevelt was accepted by New York's Democratic state convention today as It prepared to renominate Gov ernor Lehman' for a fourth term. The plntform, reputedly dictated In part by the governor, was pre sented to tho conclave shortly after Lehman, oncn termed my good right arm" by the president, yielded to the demand of party leaders that he make the gubernatorial race against Manhattan's district attor ney, Thomaa E. Dewey, the Republi can nominee. "We acclaim the courage, vision and leadership of the president of the United states." It read.. . . His Administration has restored the confidence of the people and strengthened the pillars of democ racy." Lehman, who yielded a draft by party, lenders, was nominated by ac clamation. "In spite of presa reporta," the governor osacrted In a brief accept ance speech, "I did not believe Mr. Dewey would abandon, almost be fore It had started, that Important work, for which ho was chosen by the people less than a year ago and for the consummation of which he accept'Mi an obligation to the peo ple." Referring Dewey's racket-busting activities, he added: "Every man and woman knows of my deep Interest In clean, honest government and In law enforcement of .which the designation by me of Mr Dewey as special prosecutor to act against racketeering, and corrup tion In office New York City was only ft part." PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. 30. Tv Mrs. Bamh Delano Ro:scTelt . v: proud of her son, the president, to day because the four-power confer ence at Munich followed 'his appeal for peace. "I sm an even prouder mother than when my son was elected pres ident." she told reporters. She changed trains here for Seattle where she will visit her granddaugh ter, Mrs. Jshn Boettlget. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 30. (API Members of the northwest regional planning council agreed here today on the appointment of a Joint Ore-ion- Wa!Hnctrir -Initio romm'sslon to study Columbia river fishing prob. Irms. Fawns Chase Coyote ONTARIO, Ore., Sept. 30. UP) Here's something hard to believe but John Buremann, Ontario hunter, swears it's so. He saw two fawns chasing a coyote in the hills tw.ir Ironside. NEUBERGER STIRS POLITICAL Washington Columnists Vic tim of 'Poison,' Relief Head Says Hopkins Praise Irks. PORTLAND, Sept. 30. (AP) A published report from Washington that "a flock of protesting letters" has been received there over Harry Hopkln'a recent laudation of E. J. Griffith, Oregon WPA administrator, drew the fire today of the tall, lean relief chief. Griffith asserted that three col umnists "are the Innocent victims of some poison recently spread by ft young writer named Neuberger, who in a Napoleonic attempt to become dictator of the Democratic party in Oregon has rather over-reached him self." The remark which was asserted to have provoked the letters was made by Hopkins on his recent visit . to Oregon. Ho said then, answering re ports that Griffith was being coldly looked At by the administration, that the Oregon administrator was ft loyal Democrat and that ha would remain as long as Hopkins did. . . , . The columnists wrote that this re mark drew letters describing Grif fith as , "reactionary" and ft "friend of the enemies of the president," Griffith. In his statement today, asserted: "Neuborger (a Portland free lance writer) conceived the bright idea that by slandering federal office-holders and party leaders he could secure for himself the Job of federal co ordinator for Oregon. The Oregon relief chief charged that Neuberger was "playing both ends against the middle by support ing the conservative Republican can didate for governor as well as the liberal Democratic candidate;" that he had attempted to rupture . the friendship between Griffith and Hess, to whom Griffith described himself as a "close advisor." and that he also had sought to estrange - the political friendship of himself and Rep Nan Wood Honeyman. Griffith- aald he and Mrs. Honey man had only one difference she wanted all Republicans thrown out of emnlovment In the WPA and he had insisted on obeying .the. orders of the president that the WPA should be conducted on a non-partisan basis. GAME AT EUGENE BUOWrB. Sept. 80. fAP) TJOLA'a hefty Bruins arrived In Eugena early thla morning. M strong, and grinned with delight at the prospects of dry field when they tangle with tha University of Oregon Webfoota here tomorrow. Coach BUI Spauldlng of- DCliA atated that hla lada would "hit the tacklea, aweep tha end and perhapa toss a few peases." Ha also atated that hla three beat passers were In fine ahape Intimating that they would aee plenty of action. Meanwhile. Oregon athletlo offtc lata announced that a flood of ticket aoollcatlona were received In the mornlng'a mall, and predicted I crowd of close to 10,000 for tomor row'a game on Hayward field. NEW DEAL LABOR ;d F4.trr Mich.. Sept. SO. (UP) local I8 of tha United Automobile Workers union, which ataged the famoua alt-down strike of 1937, will take a atrlke vote among employeea of the Bulck division of tha Gen eral Motora corporation, It waa an nounoed today. According to Jack Little, local president. Homer Martin, U.A W heed, will fly here from Washington to assist In tha poll which ha has authorized. HITLER AGREE TO PACT Two Peoples Never to Go to War With Each Other' Pledge Made at Munich Meet. MUNICH. Sept. 30. (AP) Prims Minister Chamberlain and Relchs fuehrer Hitler today added a new Anglo-Qcrman declaration ot peace to the four-power Munich accord that gave Germany part of Czecho slovakia and averted a European war. After the British and Oerman chiefs had signed with Premier Mua aollnl of Italy and Premier Daladier of France the pact for Czechoslo- vakta'a dismemberment they made a. Joint declaration of the will of their two peoplea never to go to war with one another again." Agreement Ternia The new Anglo-German agreement. announced by Chamberlain, aa fol lows: We, .the German fuehrer and chancellor and the British prims minister, have had a further meet ing today and are agreed In recog nizing the question of Anglo-German relations la of first Importance for -the two countries and for Europe. We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-Oerman naval agreement aa aymbollo of tho desires of our two peoplea never to go to war with one another again. (The 1936 Anglo-German naval treaty limited Oermany'a naval ton nage to 35 percent of that of Great Britain). "We are resolved the method 01 consultation shall be 'the method, adopted to deal with any other ques. tlona that may concern our two aountrlca, and we are determined to ' continue our efforts to remove pos sible aourcea of dlfferencea and thua to contribute to assure tha peace of Europe."- Cheered By Germans Aa the prime mlnlater left hla hotel the lobby waa packed with cheering German crowd. Women rushed up to seize hla hand. Ho smiled, embarrassed but happy. Despite a drizzling rain slanting right into people's faces a hugs crowd had assembled outside the ho tel and along tha route his auto mobile followed on the way to ths airport. There waa endless "helling," saluting and cheering. -Chamberlain, tilting s cigar at a Jaunty angle and wearing oerman thanksgiving featlval aheaf In his buttonhole, received newspapermen In hla hotel suite almoat Immediate ly after returning from ths fuehrer's apartment. ' (Continued on Page Three.) PROMISE OF HESS; PwwnT.ITTOW. Ore.. Sent. 30. UPt Henry Hess. Demoeratlo Candida for governor, speaking before 149 Umatilla county persons gathered here last night, promised a jorwara looklng. program II elected In No vember. Hess anld he favored an Intensive reforestation program in Oregon and nninted to his exnerlence ss chairman of a suits committee on forests during previous legislative service. He earn, he would work for approval of ths proposed Umatilla rapids dam and adequate old age pensions. PORTLAND, Sept. 30. P) Capital muat be encouraged to make Oregon Investments to provide employment and Improve markets, Charles A. Sprague, Republican candidate lor governor, aald In a talk at ths "hip ping club. "We must maintain healthful, sta ble Industrial relatione In thla stats If wa are to bring about an economic revival," he remarked. SEC. HULL LAUDS WASHINGTON. Sept. SO. Wl Secretary Hull said todsy that, fol lowing ths four-power Munich agree ment, he hoped efforts would b "redoubled" to maintain "principles of order under law, resting on sound economic foundation." Tha Munich agreement, he salrt. affords " universal senaa of rellsf."
