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MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1938.
No. 381.
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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.