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Get Result The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Fri day; hllghtlv warmer tonight. Highest yesterday. .-..76 Lowest this morning ....87 Medford TRIBUNE San time, save worry. Qet whmt jo nut by advertising In tha elatblMed columns of. this newspsper. Many people lepend npon little ads on thla jeie because they always get emits, jm, prompt results. full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1938. No. 381. irnvm If Wis uu The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. LEHMAN KNOCKING PROPS FROM LNDKR DKWEY ISSUES GOVERNOR, RACKET-BUSTER APPEAL TO SAME ELEMENT BETTING HEAVILY ON SIDE OF DEMOCRAT REPUBLICAN IS SEEN MAKING STRONG RACE NEW YORK, Oct. 20. When the president swallowed his pride to ask Herbert H. Lehman to run again for governor of New York, ho was exceed ingly shrowd. He not only excluded from the senate an independent con servative Democrat capable of making twice Carter Glass's trouble. He may also have killed In Infancy a .new Republican party, very different from the shambling, bumbling fall guy which he has always found such an easy mark. About a month ago, Kenneth Simp son and bis Junta of Republican Young Turks asked a national sentiment-testing service to poll New York state to learn whether Tom Dewey or Senator Robert P. Wagner would be stronger In a race for the gover norship. The youthful racket-buster came out an odds-on favorite, with more than 60 per cent of the votes. Poor Simpson and his friends, expect ing Lehman to run for the senate, thought Wagner the most dangerous possible opposition candidate. Now they know they were wrong. Lehman's acceptance of the guber natorial nomination has knocked the props from under most of Dewey's Issues. As he was the man who ap pointed Dewey, Dewey can scarcely attack him for lax law enforcement. Worse still, having been an excellent and very careful administrator. Leh man appeals to precisely the moderate-conservative element which should be the backbone of the Dewey strength. A low but often effective test of a candidacy's vitality Is the willingness of the fat cats to use their checkbooks. And where the Dewey forces would have been show ered with money to beat anyone but Lehman, they are now picking and scratching for the most trifling sums. In fact, at this writing, the betting Is very heavily on Lehman. Post master General James A. Farley, man ager of the Democratic forces, la more optimistic than ever In his pri vate forecasting. And although the Republicans insist that Dewey's chances are better than they seem, the insistence has an air ofwhlatllng in the wind. On Drwey'a side, there are several things to remember. In the first place, he la the first Republican can didate in the recent memory of New (Continued on Page Bight.) LA CROSSE CHAIRMAN ROGUE SCHOOL BOARD An announcement received from Portland PWA headquarters and pub ltshed by the Mall Tribune yesterday relative to bids on the proposed Rogue River high school erroneausly stated that C. S. Hatch was chair man of Jackson county school dis trict 35. Mr. Hatch was formerly dis trict chairman but has been suc ceeded by C. H. La Crosse. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Carroll Oray uklng this week off to rest up for a vacation he's going to take next week. Florence Scherrer Insisting that her new coiffure was not an off-the-phle hair-do. Sam Houston hot-foottng It around town with his mall carriers to see that the malls went through at all erwTa, though he admitted being handicapped by the uncertainty of Eftapee chno-choos. Frank Heme? rxpoundtng many Intrusting idea?, his repertoire in cluding everything from the advan tages of long distance phone calls to wrestling matches and the bene fits of eight hours of sleep. Bunny Tollef son feigning a bundle of nerves lest she lsnd in this pillar of playfulness over her new up sw.ng. the up-ha!r being cute de pt her frlght-ned look. WHIIF RATTI INK ii IHL.U mill 1.1 1 iu i FIRES IN FOREST Incompetent Leadership and Incendiarism Reported in Pennsylvania Tragedy Rains End Inferno WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. (AP) Charles H. Taylor, acting CCC di rector, ordered an Investigation to day of the deaths of six Civilian Conservation Corps members In for est fires nesr Emporium, Pa. He instructed C. H. Kenlon, as sistant to the director In charge of Investigations, to make the check up. "We have taken unusual precau tions to avoid accidents to boys In forest camps," Taylor said. "If there have been any Irregu larities or evasion of orders, full and swift action will be taken to deal with the situation." EMPORIUM. Pa.. Oct. 20. (AP) The deaths of six members of a nearby CCC camp 'In a series of in tense forest fires brought a federal county Investigation today of re ports of Incompetent leadership and incendiarism. Gilbert Mooney, S3, of Rldgway, a clerical worker at the camp, and four of the 30 boys he led Into the tinder-dry, desolate wilds of second growth timber and scrub-land, were trapped late yesterday by a circle of flames and burned to death. Col. C. L. King, at Indiana. Pa., district CCC headquarters. Identi fied the dead boys as: Basil Bogush, 19, Conemaugh, Pa.; John Boring. 18. Johnatown, Pa.: Howard May. 18, Erie, Pa.: and Andrew Stephenlc, 18, of Wllkea Barre, Pa. Ross Hollobaugh. 18. of Rimers burg, Pa., died of bums in the Re novo hospital today. The hospital said the condition of George Vogel, 18, another CCC work er taken there for treatment, was serious, and that of Peter Damiclo. 17, of Wendell, was fair. Bodies Badly Burned May had entered the camp two weeks ago. The bodies of May and Stephenlc were described by Coroner J. D. Johnston as being so badly burned they could not be distin guished. ' Dlst. Atty. Edwin W. Tompkins said his Investigation was designed to establish "the truth or falsity" of reports he heard the CCC boys had been rushed Into the flaming Inferno without proper supervision and four fires had broken out with in an eight-mile area entered by he doomed men under what he termed "most unusual coincidences." CCC officials, who launched their own investigation, refusing to dis cuss the situation officially, said Mooney was in the technical service of the department of forests and waters. Paradoxically, almost as the boys and their leader were dying about 3:10 p.m., rain began falling. A few hours later the heavy downpour had extinguished the fires, some of which had been burning for more than 35 hours. INDEX, Wash.. Oct. 20. (API Trapped at the head of a ho;ie line fighting a forest fire tn Bear Creek canyon. William Ragan, 85. was burned to death late yesterday and Carl Chaffee. 32. saved himself by burying himself In a mud and water puddle until the flames passed- The ftre, 18 miles up the north fork of the Skykomlsh river, east of here, was still sweeping through the holdings of the Miller Logging company today. Forest rangers sought CCC aid to fight It. IS KILLED IN FRAY LA GRANDE. Ore.. Oct; 30. A mill employe was shot and killed and his woman companion wounded last night as they sat in an auto mobile parked before a residence. Shortly after the shooting a wound ed logger, previously arrested on the Injured woman's complaint, reported at the police station. A bullet struck Prank Bryant, 44. In the bark and ranged near his heart. His friend. Mrs. Elsie Carlson. 33, was waunded in the left arm. Jess Phillips, a 40-year-old logger who was released from the city Jail yesterday after aerrlng a sentence on an assault and battery charge filed by Mrs. Carlson, was Immediately re arrested when he appeared at ' the police station with a shoulder wound. NEW YORK. Oct. 20. (AP) Two robbers held up the Jewelry shop of Roy Johnson In the lobby of the Wnldorf-Atorl hotel today, and - capd w:th gems Talued by police t M.000. 'Frisco Calls Singer ii.'.:vj:,n' I Added to the woe that lias come the wav or Ruth Etting since her first husband shot her second mate is the $1.50.000 alienation of n flec tions auk fned or The latrer s second wire. Mrs. Alma Alderman, shown with her year-old baby. Norma Suzanne Aldermnn. The suit charges that MjtI Alderman, shot and seriously wounded by Martin "Moe" Snyder, has been living with Miss Etting as husband and wife "under a pretended marriage." pretended because her own divorce from Alderman does not become final until December 8. EARLY TRIAL PLANNED FOR SINGER'S" LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30. (AP) "Col. Gimp" of the great white way, Martin Snyder, again occupied a Jail cell In lieu of $50,000 ball today while the state moved- to try him quickly on charges he kidnaped and attempt ed to murder Myrl Alderman, hla successor to Singer Ruth Ettlng's love. The original charges against "Col. Gimp" were superseded last night by a grand Jury indictment voted after Miss Etting testified he shot Alder man In the music room of her Holly wood Hills home last Saturday night. The Indictment permits the case to go to trial without a preliminary hearing. Miss Etting. 42, flaxen-hatred and visibly nervous, spoke to the Jury in trembling voice of the shootlngi scrape. She said Alderman drove up to the house with Snyder holding a pistol against his back. Once inside, she said, Snyder told her, Alderman, and Edith Snyder, his step -daughter, that "I'm going to. kill all of you."' One bullet from Snyder's pistol went wild, she continued, but the second struck Alderman In the abdo men as the llghta tn the room went out. E SIOUX CITY, la., Oct. 30. P) Officers broke the Una of union pick ets In front of the strikebound Swift and company packing plant here to day. , Police Captain Carl B. Wood said "seven or eight" men were taken from the picket lines to Jail. The names of the men were not disclosed, but Wood said police arrested those believed to have had a part In the violence which brought national guard troops here yesterday. Adjt. Oen. Charlea H. Orshl con ferred with his staff and local au thorities, meanwhile. In a lengthy closed meeting. A total of 155 guardsmen were sta tioned In anal round tne Swift plant today. TELEPHONE CHIEFTAIN UNDERGOhS OPERATION NEW YOBK. Oct. 20. (AP Walter 8. Oifford. S3, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, was reported "In very good condition" today after an emerwency operation following an attack of appendicitis. Oifford was stricken at his home i (Tuesday nlffht and underwent the operation yesterday. Bay Region Warehouse Love Thief toil! again 'for COUNTERFEIT NICKELS SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 20. (AP) One-sided nickels, equipped to play a tune In slot machines rather than cash registers, led to federal court today for 22-year-old Chauncey Wes ley Black, who gave his only address "the Salem (Oregon) pen." Black, arrested October 5 In Oak land, was charged with counterfeit ing. He pleaded Innocent before Fed oral Judge A. F. St. Sures. Valentine Ham mack, assistant U. 8. attorney, said Black had 441 nickels with only one face. Asked where he lived. Black told the court; "I don't live, I exist." As to where he existed. Black answered: "No where." Hammack said Black was sentenced to 2Vi years in the Oregon prison Oct, 2. 1930, on a charge of larceny from a person, preferred In Jackson county, that he also had a police record In Portland, Ore., ond was : on a Florida chain gang 'or ' cl months. ! The court appointed an attorney I for Black and continued the case . until Saturday. The district attorney's office said that Chauncey Wesley Black was ar rested hero In 1938 under tho namo of William Wesley, and wai sentenced to not to exceed 2 . years In the state prison on a charge of larceny from a person. Wesley, the district attorney's office said, stole a claim check for a handbag from Eddie Esdes. A Jack Ryan was also arrested with Wesley on the same charge, and sen tenced to not to exceed two years In prison. LIGHT CRIME DOCKET FOR OCTOBER A light criminal docket will greet opening of the October term of court, starting Mondsy. October 3. with Circuit Judge H. D. Norton presiding. A number of elvll actions are scheduled for hearing. The new Jury panel has been drawn to report next Monday. A new grand Jury will, be drawn, consisting of the first seven names drawn .from the Jury box. A half down minor criminal cases are expected to be placed before the new body. Judge H. D. Nor on la holding court In Josephine county this week TOWNSEND RETURNS WITH NEW OPTIMISM LOS ANOEI.ES. Oct, 30 (AP) Returning from Honolulu with his wife. Dr. Francis E. Townsend made the prediction today that a ma jority of the next congress would be favorable to his old "age pension pin. H wtll Iav for Montana October 2ft and continue a trip 'through middle-western states. REDS' INFLUENCE OVER JOHN LEWIS CITED ATHEARING Former Union 'Welfare Worker Says Communists Engineered Sit-Down in Detroit Plant in 1936-37 WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. James Mitchell, of Detroit, formerly In charge of welfare activities of a local union of the United Automobile Workers. s CIO affiliate, told house Investigators today communists Ap parently "have a lot of Influence on" John L. Lewis. Testifying before a committee In vestigating un-American activities, he said communists had "engineered" a sit-down strike In the Murray body plant In Detroit In 1936 and 1937. Chairman Dies (D.-Tax.) asked him what efforts were mado by responsible labor leaders to rid the U. A. W. of communists. Heels On Inside "Homer Martin, president of the U. A. W" Mitchell said, "tried every thing In his power. But It seems they are on the Inside of the International union. Apparently they have a lot of Influence on Mr. Lewis." The witness said later communists could control the forthcoming CIO com'entlon at Pittsburgh, "as well as the chairman of the CIO." Lewis Is the chalrfnan. Rising to his feet. Mitchell shook ouS a. red flag bearing the words "communist party" In gold letter,. He said be had found It In the desk of Lloyd Jones, president of tJ.A.W. local No. 2 In the Murray plant. He said Jones told him to "keep my damn hands off of It." Previous witnesses have told the committee Jones Is a communist and was a former member of the V. A. W. executive board. Death Threat Told He said Julia Buchanan, who he sold was n communist, told him she would kill him If he ever disclosed anything, about Jones. Earlier, the committee had heard the communists try first to control ft union rnd, If that falls, to destroy It. The "rule of ruin" testimony came from Melvln Kelle of Detroit, who said he worked with an Americaniza tion committee of the American Le gion In uncovering subversive activ ities. They wanted to create a struggle among workers and to sell the union out," he added, explaining "they" wero leaders of a trade unity league In the Michigan auto manufacturing area. Before Kells began testifying, C,arrn(ln Dies (D.-Tcx.) said he was calling on the labor department to supply a list of deporUitlon cases now nen(nnR. Dies said the committee propoWd to "find out, Is possible what Is preventing deportation of communist aliens." FACE SPY TRIAL CRISTOBAL. C. Z.. Oct. lO.tPt Four youthful Oermsns, accused of photographing fortifications in the vital Canal Zone, ve-e held today for trial In the CauM Zone district court. Judge Edward J. P. Tataelman. at a preliminary hearing In the magis trates court, overruled a defense mo tion for dismissal, and held one of the suspects, 36-year-old Hans Fried rich Schackow, In $25. 000 hall. The others Ingeborg Waltrunt Outman. 10-year-old secretary; a. Wllhelm arose, 38, and Ernst Robert Edward Khurlg, 39 were held In 110.000 ball. IRIBUiOOtDll . Through reading the Bunday Mall Tribune at hts home In Msrtlner.. CaU L. J. Austin was sold on Med ford and the Rogue river valley. Wow he, Mrs. Austin and their three daughters are Medford residents. The family bought the residence at 310 aXaurel street. Two of the girls are attending senior htgh school, the other Junior hlgn. Mr Austin Is still sold on the Rogue valley. "It's ft great piece," he said. LETTERS SPY OPERATIVES AT Confessed German Agent Identifies Notes As From Co-Workers Names of Military Men Furnished ny MARY ELIZAHETII PLVMMBR NEW YORK, Oct. 30. (API Let ters tending to Implicate Erich Ola ser, former United States army pri vate, with a German spy ring ope rating in this country wero read before a federal Jury today at the trial of Qlaser and two other per sons on espionage charges. The letteia were Identified by Guenther Guitar Uumrich, United States army deserter who pleaded guilty to spy charges at the opening of the trial and became a witness for the government. Glaser sat motionless as Asst. u. S. Atty. Lester C. Duntgan read the letters, which were addressed to Rumrich and signed "Erich Glaser." Information Hinted . "Dear Ous," read one letter dated January 34. 1938. "Well, old boy, I suppose you'll be surprised to hear from me . . . are you still among those living . . . have you got any girls you don't need ... I think I'll save my say until I hear from you. I have some very (underlined) in teresting things to tell you and I don't want to miss up on that. . .v. Do you hear anything new from the old country?" Dunlgan .questioned Rumrich about visits he received from Karl flchlue ter, an alleged messenger for the spy ring, and Johnna Hofmann, one of the defendants. He also asked Rumrich about subscriptions to the Army and Navy Register, which the witness said Glaser obtained for him. Continulnp, Dunlgan said: "You told us you wanted Glaser to furnish names of army and navy men of German extraction. You men tioned that he gave you the name of one Schmidt on the weat coast. Did he give you other names1 "He gave me the name of Zimmer manstationed, I Winn, at Pan ama" said Rumrich. "I told mm i had been requested by one of the agents who visited me to furnish names of men of German extraction In the military service, I suggested to Glaser It would be a good idea for him to renew his contacts with these people whom he had not seen Yor some time. He agreed. I remem ber I wrote a letter to Schmidt." Guard HtaHons Listed Rumrich testified Glaser turned over to him, without a request on hts part, a Hat of coast guard sta tions In the United States. "Once he told me," Rumrich said, his outfit was scheduled to go Into maneuvers in the aouth and It would be a good chance for him to pick up something." Rumrich told of telephoning Miss Sent a de Wanger. who has been In protective custody as a possible wit ness, saying one of the "contact men" hsd asked him to locate her, addlnff O laser was outside the tele phone booth at the time. Rumrich said he told Miss de Wanger he was a Mr. Koltr, who had just come from Berlin and he would like to see her and give her a mes sage. (Continued on Page Three ) TEXAS LABOR FAVORS F.D.R. THIRD TERM BEAUMONT, Tel.. Oct. 30, (AP) The Texas state federation of labor today endorsed President Roosevelt for a third term "If no other lesder is found to carry forward hts pro gram to that same high degree that has been exemplified In his administration." Medford Girl Reveals How White Slaver Trapped Her PORTLAND, Oct. 30. (Pi A 10-year-old Medford domestic with a boyish bob, Anna Mae Meadows, tes tified In federal court today of being lured to a Fresno, Calif., vice resort on the pretense that she waa being driven to Portland, where she hoped to become a hula dancer. "This guy," she said, pointing to Phillip O. Specht, 88, charged with a white slave law violation, "drove ms to the state line and then stuck a gun In my ribs and says not to say a word." She claimed to have been Introduc ed to Specht by 4 boy friend and said Dispute Humorous Editor Would Be Mayor Of Grand Coulee GRAND COULEE. Wash., Oct. 30 (AP) H. A. (Windy) Johnston threw hts hat Into the ring for mayor of Grand Coulee today with the slogan: "Do unto others as they have done unto me." Johnston Is well known as the good-humored editor of the "Cou lee Dam Sneener-Gabber" at this Grand Coulee dam construction lite. "A bankrupt man for mayor of bankrupt city, that's me," John ston declared in announcing his candidacy. "T'U take good care of people on relief. I'll probably be there myself next winter." Another platform plank: Put "taxi dancers" as oonductorettes on pady wagons, "We have the best taxi dancers In the west," the Sneezer-Gabber spokesman commented, "so why not have them make the boys' ride to Jail a pleasant one." G. 0. P. WILL SEEK WARREN, Ohio. Oct. SOWffV John D. M. Hamilton, Republican national chairman, asserted today Republicans would seek amendments to the national labor act In the In terest of "fair play" for workers, em ployers and the American Federation of Labor. . . Republicans, Hamilton added In an address prepared tar delivery here, "agree generally" with amendments proposed reoently by the AFT con vention. "They agree because they b.lleve government should be an umpire to enforce fair play not a partisan of one faction of orfeanlred labor." Ham ilton declared. He did not mention by name tha Committee tor Industrial Organisa tion, APL rival, but declared Repub licans agreed with William Green, federation president, that administra tion of the labor act had been "biased POLITTBANITS 0BTA1NJEWELS NBW YORK. Oct. 30. (AP) Two polite spoken gunmen staged a dar ing daylight holdup tn a Jewelry shop Just off the crowded main lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel today and escaped with 110,000 worth of Jewels after binding and gagging three men. In" their haste, they overlooked $150,000 worth of Jewelry In an open safe In the rear of the shop. The men entered the shop, asked to see some wrist watches, and then drew revolvers. The owner and two clerks were herded Into the rear room and their hands and feet bound with rope. ArBliniClIN ROOMING HOUSE FIRE ROSEBURO, Or.., Oct. 30 (API Charles Blackford, aged about 70 years, a resident of tha Little river district, east of Roaeburg. died this momlng from suffocation In a fire which Rutted a Roseburg rooming house owned here by Mr. and Mrsk W. R. Vinson. Firemen searching tha building fol lowing the blaze, which resulted from explosion of an overheated otl stove, found Blsckford'a body, fully clothed, sprswled across the bed of ft room adjoining hla own. Specht offered to drive her to Port land to get a dancing Job promised her by a woman In a Medford dance hall. Instead of heading north, she said Specht took ber aouth In his cream-colored automobile, and put her In a Fresno hotel. Specht finally fled, she testified, telling her that police went on his trail and she aaved enough money to buy her way home, where aha un folded her story to authorities. Mlaa Meadows left hers yesterday by bus to testify In the trial at Portland. Her home Is on the Jack sonville highway. Settled EXPECT REOPENING FREIGHT ACTIVITY Bl NEXTJONDAY. Efforts of Paul Smith As Mediator Successful Basis for Amicable Set tlement Not Given Out SAN FRANCISCO, Oot. 30. (5 Settlement of an extended labor dis pute which closed 138 bay region warehouses and threw 9,500 men out of work waa achieved early today, Paul O. Smith, mediator, announced. A basis for amicable termination of the controversy was reached by union and employer representatives at 2:10 a. m. after almost continuous. meetings which started early yester day. ssld 8mlth. a San Francisco newssper executive, who stepped In ss mediator a fortnight ago when peace efforts were apparently stale-' mated. To Open" Monday "An accord settling the dispute has been reached,1 Smith announced.' "Tha agreement now goes to the un ion membership and the members of' the association of San Francisco dls-' trlbutors for ratification. If the set tlement Is approved the warehouses should open Monday." . Terms of the settlement were not revealed. The chief stumbling block. In negotiations had been a distribu tors' demand for a long-term master contract for the entire Industry. Eugene Paton, president of the CIO International Longshoremen's an4. Warehousemen's union said separata agreements would have to ba made, to end strikes at the Hiram Walker: and F. W. Woolworth warehouses, where the dispute had Its beginning loa days ago. He Indicated he anticipated ao dlf-" Acuity on that point. Throughout the day and eight yes-' terday tha negotiators 'met. some times separately to discuss vital, points and then together.' At 0 p. m. Smith called both factions together for the meeting which resulted In tha agreement. Bridges In Confab tarry Bridges, CIO west coast di rector, returned from a business meeting In New Orleans In time to Join the negotiators in their success-' ful Joint session. Another major labor dispute lit San Francisco, the retail store strike which Involved 98 of tha city's lead ing stores and left an estimated 8,000 clerks unemployed, waa believed near Ing an early settlement. Pickets con-., tlnued to march In front of tha stores, which remained open. Meyer Lewis, personal representa tive of William Oreen, AFL president, said he had conferred "with parties concerned" and felt there was "eon sldersble prospect for an early set tlement." CUT WILLAMETTE ELECTRICITY COST SALEM, Oct 30. Rata reductions from nine to 30 per cent, artectlng 9.400 commercial customers In tha Willamette valley division of tha. Mountain States Power company, were announoed today by Publle Utilities Commissioner N. O. Wallace. These customers will save about 940.000 a year. The company's street lighting rate to municipalities was: reduced by 98,300 a year. The Willamette valley division In cludes Polk, Linn, Msrlon, Lans and, Benton counties. Wallace aald further reductiona would ba established It tha company used Bonneville power. E OF HEART ATTACK Prank H. Reum, owner at tha Val ley gladlola gardens near Central Point and well-known In Medford, died of a heart stuck In hla home at 922 South Oakdala avenue at 1 a. m. today, following a lingering Illness. Funeral arrangements and com plete obituary will ba announced to morrow. The Perl funeral horns la la Reum, with hla family, earn to Medford about seven years ago from Canada, and waa active In clvlo affairs. Ha Is survived by hla wife, Sarah, and by two sons, Charles and Richard, both living at noma.
