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The Weather Forecast: Showers tonight snd Wednesday, not much change la temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday , IS Lowest this morning ...... M Precipitation last 24 hre, trace It Can Happen An you looking (of buyer Did you know that Mali Tri bune . Classified Adve. being bajera to the advertiser's doort It can happen to yon. Three little Adve, are Inexpensive. Medford Tribune Try them. full Associated Press Pull Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1938. No. 73. u Nl n u 1 SUE DOB The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop - m and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News . paper Alliance, Inc. BIO FARM ROW AT NEXT CON GRESS IN PROSPECT ... HEART OF PROBLEM IS THAT MANY GROW UNWANTED CROPS VARIOUS SCHEMES OF WAL LACE AND TUG WELL HATE i FAILED ... HUGE WHEAT AND COTTON SURPLUSES HAMPER PRES ENT LAW WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. Technical and tiresome as It has always seem ed, the farm problem Intimately af fecte the Ufa of every person llvlns In the United States. Taxes, the price of food, the whole nature ot Use government are bound up In It. And. since desperately low farm prion and vast surpluses of cotton and wheat are about to provoke an other great agricultural turmoil In eongress, It's about time to try to understand the problem's elementary aspects. , Essentially, the farm problem Is quite simple. In Its most acute form. It can virtually be reduced to two crops cotton and wheat. Millions of American farmers depend on these two crops for their livelihood. Many of these farmers grow nothing else, and many of them are putting their land to a harmful use. Produotlon la so large because, historically, cot ton and wheat were Amerlca'a great eat agricultural exports. And now, unfortunately, while production re mains at the export level, all thi foreign wheat market has remains at the export level, all the foreign wheat market has virtually disap peared and the foreign cotton mar ket has been greatly Impaired. Thus, the situation bolls down to the fact that a great many American farmers are trying to get their liv ing by growing unwanted crops. Since much of the land they cuttlvate should either not be planted at all. or planted to something else, the natural remedy would be to let In exorable -economic forcea drive the farmers off their farms. Obviously, however, this Is socially and politic ally Impracticable. Therefore some compromise solution must be found, by which the economy as a whole will support the farmera whose crops are unwanted. Successive Ingenuities. At the New Deal's atart, after the disaster of the Hoover farm board, (Continued on Page Six.) Jackson county court house, banks and the state liquor store will be closed tomorrow In observance of Columbus day, a state legal holiday. The liquor atore will remain open tonight until 11. Federal agencies will be open for business. TJie postofflce will remain open and malla will be delivered ae usual. City schools also will remain open. Typhoon rialms Thlrly-Tao MANILA, Oct. 11. (API Thirty two deaths, most of them due to drowning, have been reported from V ! sols ted regions of central Philippine Islands swept by last week's typhoon. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ken Denman getting a trifle wor ried looking as 'questions started pouring In from the audience at the OOP rally. Demo Chairman Ward Spats doing 4 little scouting at the same rally. Forester Marion Nance still shud dering over the rinse call he had when a powder blast was set off without any warning. Alice Brophy havlng-he time of her life In Medford. her first small town visit, she coming from the Sen Francisco metropolis. tj. 8. Rep, Jimmy Mott and City Atty, Frank Van Dyke or Ashland f trying to get a word In edgewise In a mirtnleht political or. !st betaeen PROPOSITION F II R LABOR PEACE BY OF AFL Head Declines Com ment Think President Should Study Home Labor Conditions. WASHINGTON, Oct. ll.-J(AP) John L. Lewis, c. I. O. chairman, declined an offer today to make a radlfi speech outlining In detail his offer to resign Ills position If William Green retired as A. F. of I. president. Green also was offered an oppor tunity by a .nation-wide broadcasting company to go on the air. NF.W YORK. Oct. 11. (P) A pro jected broadcast tonight with John L. Lewis, chairman of the CIO, and William Oreen, president of AFL, discussing Lewis' offer to resign If Green would, was cancelled late to day by the National Broadcasting company after Lewla'; declined to speak. ' " . WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. IIP) John T. lwl offered today to resign as chairman of the CIO If William Oreen would resign as president of the American Federation of Labor to pave the way for peace between the two organizations. Lewis told newsmen the suggestion from the federations Houston con vention Lewis withdraw from the CIO was "manifestly not a unl-lat-eral problem." 'nhwirtiiRiv it's bl-lateral." Lewis said, "and the same euggestlon would apply to Mr. ureen wnose retem. eclty seems to know no bounds. Worth Trying In any event, I think It worth trying. ' "I advise I'm willing to resign to day or tomorrow or any day there after as chairman of the CIO If Mr. Green is willing simultaneously to resign as president of- the American Federation of Labor. "It then may be possible for the remaining leaders of the federation o flabor and the CIO to conclude a peace pact, In which event the con tribution by Mr. Green and myself may be of some value." Lewis, speaking In a slow, delib erate voice, said If the federations convention wants to accept his sug gestion he Immediately upon such acceptance would file his own resig nation with the CIO. The CIO chairman opened his re marks to newsmen by Indirectly sug gesting the president's special com mission which studied labor condi tions In Great Britain and Sweden might well investigate the situation In the United States. 'Our public commission has peer ed Into the mind, behind tho British wnnwl. .nH hm nsvehoanalvred our Swedish friends," he said, "It does seem there's an obligation to know and understand our own problems. Quotes Bible 'I think there la a scriptural In junction to pick a. mote out of your own eye before digging too far Into your neighbor's optic. "Perhapa such a commission could get the facts behind the allegations of Messrs. Green. Prey and Woll and their Ilk at the Houston convention." The Immediate reaction of Arthur O. Wharton, an AFL vice president to Lewis' propossl was: "T rlntiht his sincerity." Whartnn uirt "about 18 months ago President Oreen offered to quit as afl head ana a commuiee warn ed for months to unite the two (Continued on Page Six.) PLOT BY SAH FRANCISCO. Oct. 11. (A Ren. Jsmes B. Murray (D.-Mont.) Mid In a statement today that "Her bert Hoover la making his )sst stand for a comeback to political leader ship through his advocacy of lh candidacy of Philip Bancroft, the re actionary Republican nomine for United State senator from Cali fornia. "It It Mr. Hoover' purpose to do everything possible to embarrssa President Roosevelt, and the sena torial contest in California has De cern., therefore, a national as we'.l as state issue. Murray said. "California has a tremendous Dem ocratic majority In registration, and the strategy of the Republican na tional organisation Is to pour enough money Into the state to smear tho Democratic nominee." Turkey School Ready SALEM, Oct. It. (AP) The two day annual Oregon turkey grading school will open Thursday at the Eugene Fruit O row era' association. tjene. I Jackson County Marvin Pojfr. Ashland, and Hetty Lue Reich, Medford, photographed at the Parlflc International Livestock show. The two attended the expos ition as guests or The First National Bank of Portland, having been chosen outstanding 4-H club boy and girl from Jackson county. 54. UNABLE DODGE BIRTHDAY FETES First Lady Expects to Keep Busy Many Honors Given Past Year. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. IK Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt found it Im possible today to escape any cele bration of her 64th birthday anni versary. Two parties were arranged In her honor, despite her theory that "th; more you forpct your birthdays se you grow older, the younger you stay." The National Women's Press club invited her to a luncheon, and pro vided gifts of an orchid and a birth day cake with 21 candles. President Roosevelt, only other member of the family at the White House, personally directed, preparations for the tradi tional household celebration tonight Mrs. Roosevelt, buoyant and cheer, ful. told her press conference yes terday she expected her next ye?r to be as busy, but no busier, than the lust. That will be a large order. Day since the 53rd birthday anniversary have been packed with activities as a mother, as first lady, and as a lecturer and writer. She saw her youngest son. John, married, the lajrt of her five children to make a home of his own. She welcomed her eighth grandchild Franklin D. Roosevelt III. She flew to Seattle last Christmas when her daughter Anna was 111. and stsjvri at Rochester, Minn., when her eld eat son, James, underwent an oper ation. From many quarters, the last year brought her honors and adulation. A Puerto Rico newspaper urged her nomination for president In 1940. New York university honored her for "distinguished public service." She was given 0,000 roses at a "mother-in-law" fete at Amarlllo, Texas. But Mrs. Roosevelt went blithely about her activities. She commented once she did not think the country was ready for a woman president. FOR DEAD HORSE LINCOLN. Neb.. Oct. 1 1 . f AP) A corporation, asked by the Nebraska secretary of atate why Its occupation tax was unpaid, replied by letter: "Our capital eto-k ronsiited of one (i prheron stallion which has died. Therefore, we no longer have any capital stock. Mining Meet net PORTLAND, Oct. II. (AP) Six teen affiliated organisations In Can sda and the northwest will send delegaes to the necond annual meet ing of the northwest federation of mlnamloarlral aV--lst lev hfi ftt nr. 4-H Winners PUGILIST SOCKED BY HUSKY DANCE FOR BROKEN DATE Irish Thrush Sent Reeling by Lady Friend's Fist She Still Loves Him. NEW YORK, Oct. 11. (AP) "Boy. I hit him with everything I had!" Pretty, hazel-eyed Ellnore Troy, 32, former Hollywood movie actress and one-time "bubble dancer," thus de scribed how she biffed Jack Doyle, prise - fighting Romeo, sometimes called "tho Irish Thrush," In the Midnight Sun night club early today. Miss Troy said she walked Into the club after Doyle had broken a date with her "and here we'd only been engaged for two daya," to find him sitting with Mlchl Taka, a Jap anese dancer In the club's floor show. "I probably hurt that pretty face of his," she said, "but he had It coming. I asked him If he remembered our date and he started to stammer and said, "Yes, darling, but . , ." And then I let him have iV, smack on the nose." Miss Troy, a native of Washington. D. C, said she put every ounce of her 5 feet ll' Inches behind the punch that becrlmsoned Doyle's nose and sent him reeling. "I've known Jack two years, and some day 111 probably marry him If my temper holds out," she said. 'He's worth fighting for." Ankrd why Doyle fascinated wom en. Miss Troy aald: "He a got everything. Not Just a fost line. He doesn't need one. "Even if I did sock him, he's one In a million. "I said I'd get him yet, and 1 will." BY MARIETTA. O.. Oct. 11. (AP) Pound suffering from shock beside a highway. Joseph A. Dixon, 43, evangelist, told 'Kate Highway Pa trolman John Mundrake today he was tarred and feathered last night Dixon asserted a gsng of men broke up a revival meeting, drove him Into the country, Beat and stripped him before applying the tar. The evaruzellst, who said his home waa In Madison. 8. O.. was conduct- lng the revival In celebration of his marriage yesterday to 32-year-old Opal V. Hssley. The couple was msrrled over the objections of her father. Wesley Hasley, who preferred charges of misconduct Against Dixon in the court of Justice of Peace N, B Kldd. Justice Kldd dismissed the charges for lack of evidence. Oregon JilMIre Honored SALEM. Oct. II. (AP) Stste Su preme court Justice Oeorge Rossman was Informed today he had been appointed member of the Amcr:crn Bar associations committee on Juris prudence and. law niona. 4- PLAN OF TO Abundant Crops, But Farm . Prices Lowest Since 1934 May Limit Planting. WASHINGTON. Oct. U. UP) Sec retary of Agriculture Wallace and his aides are completing a four-point program designed to quiet rumblings of dissatisfaction over heavy crop surpluses and low farm prices. This program Includes: 1. Continuation of the existing crop control law, .with referenda on marketing quotas to keep next year's cotton, tobacco, rice and wheat crops in line with expected needs. 2. A recommendation to congress It revive processing taxes Invalidated by the supreme court In 1936. Funds raised by the taxes would supplement present farm subsidies. 3. Greater emphasis on expanding domestic markets for surplus farm products. ' 4. Reorganisation of the agricul ture department, announced a' few days ago. for greater efficiency in serving farmers. Assistants said Wallace believed thia program would fortify the ad ministration against any proposals at the next session of congress for outright fixing of farm prices at sharply Increased levels. The federal crop reporting board emphasized In its October report yesterday abundant supplies of most food, feeds, forage, tobacco and cot ton crops ere In prospect. The major crops facing excessive surpluses In clude cotton, wheat, and possibly corn and rice. The general level of farm prices la the lowest since 1034, because of heavy supplies and the business re cession. Officials have estimated the national farm Income this year will be about a billion dollar! leas than In 1937. Officials said under Wallace's pro gram growers would be asked to re strict plantings next year end to ap prove marketing quotas under which excessive production would be tax ed If sold. The department plans to hold referenda on cotton, tobacco and rice marketing quotas early in December. DEALER HELD NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DRIVER'S ABILITY SALEM. Oct. 11. (AP) Tlie atate supreme court dismissed today a Multnomah county ault in wnicn Florence O. Brown obtained 1.800 damages from the Fields Motor com- psny of Portland. Mlsa Brown, Injured In a car owned by the company, waa one of four persona who were testing the car when it was wrecked on the high wsy on the north bank ot the Columbia river. She claimed that the company ahouid have determined the ability of Charles Walsborn. 18, to drive the car. but the aupreme court. In an opinion by Juatlco Belt, ruled the company waa not liable. Wals born waa driving at the time of the accident. WATER BOOM HITS DUST BOWL TOWN DISNEY, Okla., Oct. 11, (flj It was tough when Disney waa with out water. Tt was Just as tough or tougher when water came. Short of supply since mid-July residents left their faucet open con stantly to catch every drop that en tered the mains. City engineers found a good flow hooked It on without notice. The new water aupply boomed Into the mains, the faucets, the homes. Disney suffered a miniature flood CHICAGO. Oct. 11. r,Ant0ln. LaRoae, a cab driver, complained to police he objected to taking part In pra-Hallowe'en pranks such a ringing doorbells demanded, he said, by his fare. Miss Faye Meyers. When LaRoae refused to ring any doorbells, he told police, Mia Meyers drew a revolver and began shooting out tha windows of tha cab. Foljca aireited. the fata,' CITY de: AS PEAR MART BOARD S.-M. Tuttle Named Chair-1 man of Market Control' Committees and Bardwell Manager. PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 11. (AP 8. M. Tuttle of Medford waa elected chairman today at an organization meeting of the fall and winter pear marketing control committee. Other officers were R. G. Bardwell, Medford, manager and secretary; D. R. Wood, Medford, treasurer, and Ben Pcrham, Yakima, vice-chairman. The group designated Medford for the hendquartcrs. The committee represented pear growing centera of Yakima. Wenat chee, Hood River. Medford, Santa Clara, Calif., and Placerville, Calif. The agreement, which was to be come effective today, Is designed to control the grade and In some In stancea the size of Pacific coast win ter peara In Interstate and foreign commerce. - With minor exceptions no west coaat winter peara lower In grade than U. 8. combination will be per mitted under tho agreement to enter Interstate or foreign trade. CARPENTER GIVES ROTARY VIEWS ON EUROPEAN TANGLE Thst both Germany and Italy are llankrupt, and that while there seems today to be no way to prevent a general war In Europe, dictators may die or be overthrown and therefore every day there Isn't war Is a vic tory for peace, were some of the salient points of an Interesting talk given by Leonard Carpenter to the membera of the Rotary club at their weekly luncheon this noon. Mr. Carpenter reoently returned from a three months' trip through Europe, extending front Amsterdam to Constantinople- but confined his remarka entirely to Germany and Austria, which because of the recent war crisis have been so much In the nubile eye ot late. The apcaker empnasizeo. me clean liness, order snd disciplined economy of nazl Germany, but deplored the form of dictatorship thst has been set up, and what he fears will be the consequences not only to Europe but to the oermana themselves, no aa mltted It would be Impossible for a casual tourist on a brief visit, to be an authority on exact conditions In Germany, but he did question from what he observed that the German people were 100 percent be hind dor fuehrer, though he aaio It waa practically impossible for Ger man youth to be anything else, aa they are trained from the cradle, through their moat Impressionable years, to be fanatical followers of their nar.l chief. In the recent crisis Mr. Carpenter felt no one could blame Chamberlain and Daladler, for doing everything In their power to prevent a world catastrophe, not because they might not be able to deatroy Berlin and eventually beat the German people to their knees, but becsuee they were dealing with a queatlon ot Individ ual msdness and world Insanity which might pass with time, and thereforo every delay was a victory for peace. War might prove Inevitable but It waa only aane statesmanship to save aa much from destruction as possible, by delaying the crisis and thus being better prepared to meet It. The speaker waa convinced by hla travela that both European dictator ships. If properly audited, would show themselves to be bankrupt and this waa another factor working for their eventual overthrow and world peace. The talk combined vivid descrip tion, keen observation and touches of humor, all of which waa enthus iastically received by one of the largest Rotary meetings In recent months. Pear Markets NEW YORK, Oct. II. OP) Pears 30 ears arrived. geCallfornta. B Ore gon, Washington unloaded, IB on track, Oregon Bartlette 8(0 estia fancy 3.18-35, average 3.37: 800 fancv 3.19-30, average 3.18; 1409 No. 1, 3.IS 30, average 2.22; Boae 1435 No. 1 1.00-3.30, average 3 09. 1 CH1CAOO, Oct. 11. (AP-U8DAI Peara: 4 California, t New York, 4 Oregon, 3 Washington arrived, 9 on track, Oregon Bartlette I47S autre lancj 1.99-3.30, avaraga l ie. Logic of a Boy SUMMIT, N. J Oct. 11. P The worm turned but. Its efforts were wasted on Miss Emily Qulg' protege. Miss Qulg, principal of Wash ington school, placed an angle worm, first In a glass of water where It wriggled vigorously, then In a glass of alcohol whera It promptly died. Certain her point had been made. Miss Qulg asked a boy to voice the moral. "Well," he said, "it must be that If you drink alcohol you won't be bothered anymore with worms." LADY ASTOR SAYS SOVIET CHARGES A 'COMPLETE LIE' 'No Truth' in Statement Lindbergh Criticized Rus sian Air Force at Dinner Party. LONDON. Oct. 11. IP) Lady Aa tor. American-bora member of par liament, declared today there waa "no truth" In a atatement by eleven Soviet Russian airmen yesterday Col. Charles A. Lindbergh had criticised the Soviet air force at a dinner at her home. She said the London Oommunlat newspaper, the Dally Worker, waa re sponsible for the report. The Dally Herald, labor newspaper. quoted her aa saying Colonel Lind bergh "has not dined with us alnce he returned from Russia, and In fact 1 have never given a dinner party for him." and "It la a complete He' the i-vlator ever had made "any sort of pronouncement about the Russian air force or about anytning eise aur- Ing a dinner party at my house." The Soviet- airmen's attack Lindbergh apparently was based on reports printed here the American airman had supplied . Information reaching official British ears during the Czechoslovak crisis the German alrforoe could defeat combined French, British, Czechoslovak and Russian air fleets. The most extensive report here ap peared In the leftlat organ "The Week," which said Brltaln'e Inner cabinet used Lindbergh's conversa tion to Quell much of the opposition to Prime Minister Chamberlain's sac rifice of Crechoslovak territory In preference to war. BERLIN, Oct. 11. W) Col. and Mrs. Charlea A. Lindbergh arrived at Tempelhof airdrome today on a flight from Paris by wsy or jtotteraam. where they stayed overnight. Lindbergh come to attend the an nual meeting of the Llllenthal So ciety for Aerial Research opening to morrow. "I have nothing to say now" Llnd-. bergh replied when asked for a atate ment on the letter published by 11 leading Soviet airmen, charging him with belittling the Russian airiorco and thereby Indirectly encouraging surrender to adolf Hitlers oemanas on Czechoslovakia. Y PLANES AT 22,000 FT. ENGAGE FORT BRAGG. N. C, Oct. It. W Nine giant Boeing B-17 four-er.glned flying fortremea were Intercepted and attacked by pursuit planes here to day at what offlcera termed tho record altitude of 33,000 feet. The Boeings were trying to make a bombing raid on the defense air drome here In mimic warfare at estreme altitude over a smoke screen laid by attack planes. The Interception waa made by 18 Serversky P-S5 pursuit airplanes, of 37th pursuit squadron under mv mend of Mat. Willis B. Taylor of tne air corps. All pilots In both flights used full osvgen equipment In the below-nero eold of more than four miles up. The contact between the opposing squadrons waa Invisible from tho ground and even the giant bombers were scarcely seen, except when they reflected momentarily the rays of the sun aa they passed directly over the airdrome target. The - protective moke screen was laid over camou flaged gun positions by attack air planes weaving through machine gun protected sector at almoat 300 mllea an hour and leas than 7ft feet off the ground. Offlcera pointed out that although Interceptions have been mad St 30.000 feet or slightly greater In service tests. It wes not believed the altitude for today had been equaled tlB4(( actual wat-Urn (KOdittoOf) IN MOCK WARFARE ABSOLVE HUNTER 13 DIE IN FIRES T Flames Aided by Drouth Two Mothers, Flocks Per ishSituation Alarms. MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 11. (AP) Three thousand men and an atr. plane patrol were mustered today t combat forest flrea which had takert two lives In northern Minnesota an! eleven In adjacent Canada. H. G. Weber, deputy director ot the state forestry division, aald the combination of dry weather, nigh temperaturea and low humidity made. for the most hazardous tire oondl. Hons alnce October 13, 1918, when forest fire roared out ot control. destroying the city of Cloquet an4 taking several hundred Uvea. FORT FRANCES. Ontario. Oat. 11. (Canadian Press) The bodies of two mothers and nine young ehll- dren, victims of a foreet fire which swept through Dance- township yes terday, were brought today to Fort Frances by Ontario provincial police. All the victims were believed to be long to the famlllea of Noah and Bin Labelle, brothers who had settled In the sparaley populated area through which flrea raged yesterday, destroy. lng thousands of acrea of fine tim ber on a front of B0 miles. Constable David Hamilton told how searohers had found the charred bodlea. The two mothers had dlee! with their bodies stretched aeroaa their smalleat children in a vain at tempt to save them. "Many homea ot families of settler, were burned, but we do not know whether there were other victims and probably won't have definite Infor mation until our men return." saul Hamilton. Police still were searching the countryside for possible victims Hamilton aald the flrea had bees) eating slowly through the tlmbe country 80 miles northwest of her for two weeks, Yesterday fresh winds drove them toward this town, on tha Minnesota border, and at one time) they were within a mile of FortFran eea. The constable aald the eleven bod les were found along the road frons their homes. v MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 11 VP) Tat est fire fighters, hoping for rain te aid them, battled doggedly today against widespread blasea In northera Minnesota. Two men were dead sng the fate of four other persons was unknown. The fires, burning In peat bogs,' brush lands and timber along the Canadian boundary from Warroad to International Falls, and south ward In the Iron ore region around Hlbblng and Virginia, destroyed (arm homea and forced settlers to flee. An unidentified man collapses) while fighting a fire near Interna tional Falls, and died In a hospital. Two Indians, Ed Blackbird and Pet Accobee, working with a fire crew , near Warroad, were Atlsslng, and the farmhouse from which Mr. and Mrs, Grant Abmler, north of Warroad. had refused to flee waa reported Isox isted. A CCO enrollee was killed. Acting on orders of Got. Elmer A. Benson who termed the sltuatlom "alarming" and asked all atate agen clee to prepare for any emergency, Adjt. Gen. 1. A. Walsh assigned a ra tional guard from Duluth to the fins area. The troops wVl survey the alt uatlon and aid In fighting blasea. The governor Is on a campaign tour In northern Minnesota near the fir area. T PENDLETON, Ore , Oct. ll-(AP) A coroner's Jury here last night absolved Cecil Johnson of Weston of blame In connection with the) hunting death Sunday of hla neigh, bor. Herman Graham. Johnson testified he had stumbled while hunting In Grahams company and that hla rifle waa accidentally tired. A previous report thst John son had seen a movement in tho brush and had fired, mistaking hat companion for deer, was dlacred I ted. TO EUROPE START annTt.lNn net. 11. API Oulethi lng of Europe's war Jitter waa re flected today in revival m ne irw fruit export eeason on th Columbia river. Four ships loaded BO.000 box for England. Franc. Holland tost FRUIT SHIPMENTS
