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The Weather Forecast: Increasing cloudi ness tonight and Saturday; lit tie change In temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday .-...-.. 80 Lowest this morning 84 Will Be Pleased Right now Is a good tlma to prepare that Classified Adv. for the Sunday morning edition. Most people spend more tlma reading on Sunday than any other day. You will be pleased with results. T: JBUNE MEDFORD Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21. 19.SS. No. 182. j mm RE ffll AS Ml it J The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Ino. BAY STATE O.O.P. LOOKS LIKE ELECTION WINNER ... CIBLEV SUCCESS RECORD SEEN DUE FOR BREAK . BIG BUSINESS OUSTED FROM O.O.P. CONTROL SEN. LODGE DISPLAYS PRACTICAL POLITICS BOSTON, Oct. 21. In this year of not too plentiful grace. Massachusetts Ua the rarest of political phenomena a state where the Republicans are generally conceded a better than even chance to win. After making all reasonable Inquir ies, your faintly lncreduloua corre spondents have to report that. In the big governorship race, the most hard boiled handtcappers give Leverett Sajtonstall a five-to-four advantage over James Michael Curley. The malodorous Curley has an eel's Ingenuity In writhing Into public of fice, and his specialty has always been licking opponents with silk stocking names. He may yet -beat Saltonstall. But the mere fact that he la expected to have a tough time makes the story of Massachusetts the logical sequel and happy ending of the atorles of New York and Pennsyl vania. In Pennsylvania, . the Republicans are still wallowing In the dank marsh, of reaction. In New York, new men In the party are fighting for enlight ened conservatism. And here In Massachusetts, the process is com plete. Big business has been reduced from absolutism to minor influence In the party councils. New men like those In New York have actually taken over, and. Instead of walling about "regimentation," Massachu setts Republicans are now surprising ly laboring to beat the Democrats. Ail this has happened because Lev Saltonstall and his brother-adviser, Richards, had the sense to profit by a sharp lesson. Both are excellent rep resentatives of the Brahmlnate -the local name for persons lucky enough to go on being rich and well educated for several generations. As Brahmins, thTf inherited a good tradition from their predecessors, for Massachusetts' extremely progressive record has been made chiefly by Brahmins In politi cal alliance with men like Louis Dem bltt Brandels and Felix Frankfurter. But, like other Brahmins of their generation, the Saltonstalls briefly forgot that tradition. In his years In the Massachusetts legislature. Lev Saltonstall had not been exactly the servant of big busi ness, but on matters of policy he had consulted members of the Boston law firms who do serve big business. He was widely regarded as an uncompro mising conservative. As an uncom- iCootinued i Pag Cweivei HEAVY RAINS CAUSE ALASKA INUNDATION JUNEAU. Alaska. Oct. St. (JP) Torrential rains which ha'e 'lashed the southeastern Alaska coast the past few days, trapped two detach ment of Chllkoot barracks aoldlers arid flooded the Indian Tillage of Klukwan. undermining many houses. It was reported here today. No 'fa talities were reported. Klukwan Is near the mouth of the Chllkat river nt the head of Lynn canal. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Rolite Bearh coming to the rescue of little Gregory Templeton Camp bell, who dropped his knife and chain down a grating at the P. O. The CofC staff looking a trifle weary after being dragged to their slaving at 7 a.m.. cn account of Im portant blr. Betty Vllm cVmrmircly pawing out rand tn forest service rsIWa. ' Jack Porter proudly telling about his setter who .topp-d with one phenitant In her mouth to freeae on another, retrieving? the second aftT delivering the first. T. E. Dan Daniels recounting a re cent day of fishing when he spent most of the day trying to start the engine of his boat and being too tired to UHx win be did FLEE I L ULN I tK Ur a a w aw , tP" l - CHINESEDEFENSE Defenders Dynamite Major Utilities Before Jap Inva sionNipponese in Fast March From Seaport HONOKONO. Oct. SI lP) Japan ese troops this, afternoon entered Canton, south China metropolis and objective of a fast overland offensive that started more than 100 miles away on October 13. An official source reported that "utter confusion" reigned In Can ton, vital supply center for Chinese troops In central China, as the In vaders pierced the city's first de fenses. Government officials fled to Yung- yun, 92 miles north of Canton. The Chinese dynamited a cement plant, a power plant and other major utilities before the Japanese en trance,, carrying out the defenders' "scorched earth" policy of leaving nothing behind for the invaders' use. Few Remain In City As the InvaHers approached, the Cantonese had tried furiously to dig trenches and make machine-gun em placements at strategic centers, while hundreds of thousands of Inhabitants fled In all directions, leaving a small fraction of the population behind. Conflicting reports had obscured the real progress of the well-equipped Japanese columns, but apparently Chinese resistance was weak during the Invaders' advance from Bias bay. A Japanese spokesman said aerial observation showed the Chinese were retreating In a, long line north of Canton. (Reuters British news agency reported from Hongkong that aenej" allsslmo Chiang Kai-Shek, the Chi neae leader, had left Hankow for Changsha, (Hankow, provincial Chinese caul tal. Is the other main Japanese ob jective about 560 miles north of Can ton. A large part of the Hankow pop ulatlon had fled aa the Japanese ad vanced to within 35 miles of Hankow. (Changsha Is approximately 200 miles airline south of Hankow and 350 miles north of Canton.) Roads Crowded In Canton, only one house In ten was found tenanted. Most shops were closed: Streets were empty. Roads from the city were crowded by a, strange procession of cart, bicycles, Jlnrlklshaws ana trucks pneo nign with refugees' belongings. The international settlement. Sha meen Island; resembled a small fort ress with sandbags everywhere. Japanese tanks were said here to have penetrated Canton past the Canton hospital to a point opposite Shameen. American consular authorities at Shameen advised the Hongkong con sulate that "a Reneral exodus la In progress. Indicating the Chinese De cided not to defend the city." Earlier official report said parts of Canton were burning aa the result of the dynamiting of factories by the fleeing officials. The Japanese unit which entered the city encountered little resistance In the ten days' fighting overland from Bias bay. The Japanese said they lost only 40 killed and 100 wounded at Walchow. where the heaviest fighting occurred, while Chinese cas ualties were estimated at 1,400 at Walchow. I The membership campaign for the newly formed Southern Oregon Con cert association will get undr way In earnest next weekr. but already committee members are reporting an enthusiastic response to the pro gram. Mrs. H. Chandler Egn, association president. Is planning to call a meet ing of committee woricre iwonomy evening, but membership tickets have already gone on sale and a number of members have already made tmposlng returns. The response Indicates that theatre-goers of the valley are hear tily in accord with the plans to brine three outstanding concerts ts the Holly theatre this season. First attraction will be the San Francisco Opera Ballet, which wilt be staged here November IS. Two fir mer Medford girls. Janet Reed, prima balrina. and Zoe Del Lent Is. the ex position "Pirate Olrl' will appear with the group. Food ale Mp PORTLAND, Oct. 3 1 .-WPi Dun ' Review reported Portland area food market sales for the week slightly under tbe previous week. Department store business was virtually unchang ed end trade grnira.ly was running even for the corresponding 1837 sea- Heroic Pilot i . ; ! j It ' t ' y ? a li I FIRE RAZES KLAMATH FORES! FIRES PERIL FURNITURE WAREHOUSE CAMPS AND TOWNS IN OF MONTGOMERY WARD WESTERN WASHINGTON KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. 31. A spectacular fire, gutting the Interior of the building and roaring through the roof, Inst night destroyed the en tire Btock of merchandise- stored in a Montgomery Ward and company .fur niture warehouse here. The building Itself was reduced to a blackened shell. The blze. one of the worst in re cent yeara here, stubbornly resisted the efforts of city firemen, who fntioht n nitrht tn control the flames '""S'1 v B- and prevent a spread to neighboring structure. Tnousanas 01 oniooRPis were warned back by police when the fir lormod at eleht barrels of oil In the rear of the building. , No specific estimate or loss naa been made today, but It was learned ttont hrtth th stock and the build ing were well protected by Insurance. The flames, breaking out in inr front of the building, swept swiftly t a the entire warehouse was a biasing furnace by the time fire equipment arrived. codoinTleEhess for governor club George Codding. Medford attorney, la chairman of the Jackson county non-partisan Hess-for-Oovernor club, It was announced today. Other officers are B. T. Slngler. secretary, and Ralph O. Stephenson, treasurer. Committee member, are Jck Dunn, M. Crabtree. rred Kelly, Porter J. Melf and Vernon Cannon, all of Med ford. Harry Johnson. Jr , and D. t. Patterson and .AAhland and V. R. Hsllcroft of Phoenll. . The club was or?snlred by Roy Stauffer of Portland. Simitar clubs have been organised throughout the state. Saves 14 as Plane Burns INDEX, Wash., Oct. 21. f AP) Logging camps closed, others pre pared for evacuation and several communities were endangered todny by spreading forest fires which al ready have claimed one life and de stroyed an estimated 3.500,000 feet of logs and down timber. Firefighters returning to Sultan alter a night of battling fires alony the Stevens Pass highway estlmateo". 3300 acres already had been burned. The fire waa out of control In three sectors; flames leaped the north fork of the Bkykomlah river and started burning In the Salmon creek canyon; a fire along Salmon creek burned Into new timber and a third blar. mostly brush but cov ering an area estimated at two square miles between Index and Oold Bar, raged out of control. The latter blate was fsnned by a strong east wind earrylng embers Into the town of Gold Bar. A fire In the Mt. Stickney area destroyed an Edlund logging com pany oemp. The Miller Logging com pany here said a fire along Bcar creek had destroyed three railroad bridges. An estimated $00 men were fight ing the fires. . Carl Chsffee, 83, who saved him self from burning to death In a fire In Bear creek canyon by bury ing himself In mud, said he was In the mud with hla face down for five hours. Hla companion. Wllllsm Raian. 39, was burned to death. Last Union Vet of Tillamook Passes TILLAMOOK. Oct. 31. (AP) Wil liam Burton Plagg, 93, of Bay City, who once sneaked through the con federate llns and captured ft drum, will be burled Aunday. He mas Tilla mook county's last survivor of the Union forces In the Civil war. Flagg, born at Yankfort. N. Y., served drummer in the 89th In- fntry. The trophy snatched from the enemy U the prized poseesifon of tbe Tillamook American Uglon posW Eleven passenger, and three rrew men escaped fiery death at Mont gomery, Ala., through the skill and courage of Pilot Dave HlMong (right helow) who brought a blazing air plane to earth as flames lup4ed about him. The passengers erarunted the Hhlp when It landed, and above Is shown all that remained when the fire was extinguished. Co-Pilot C. R, Russell Is shown with Illssong. (A. P. Photos.) MICHIGAN GOVERNOR ACCUSED OF TREASON . IN SIT-DOWN STRIKE WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. fff) John M. Barrlnger, former city manager of Flint, Mich., accused Gov. Prank Murphy of Michigan today of "treas onable ectlon In not giving us help when we should have had It" durlti a sit-down strike last year at a Fish er body plant. Testifying before a house commit tee Investigating un-American activ ities. Barrlnger said the situation In Flint would not have been so serious "If It hadn't been for the action of the LaPollette committee and Gover nor Murphy." Previous witnesses had described riots and demonstrations In connection with the strike. The LaFolIette committee Barrlng er referred to was the senate civil liberties committee headed by Sena tor LaFolIette (Prog.-Wis.) The witness asserted two agents of the senate committee, who he said he beltev to be named Cranefleld and Allen, had appeared at headquar ters of the striking United Automo bile Workers union, and then come to him and demanded the names and addresses of men who had been en rolled In a special reserve corps to eld the local police. The former manager said he re fused the list because he had ''had plenty of experience with yellow, dir ty tactics of Intimidation" and he was not going to subject reservists to those things. COSTS LEFT EUOFNB. Oct. 31. WP) Robert Torgeson, of Canby, added his name Thursday to the long 41st of deer hunters who have been killed or wounded In Oregon since the cur rent see son opened when hla gun accidentally discharged and mangled bis left hand so badly It had to be amputated at ft hospital here las, nlaht. Torgeson. hunting near Oekrldg? with A. P. Channel. Bugene. stopped to real about noon yesterday, and laid his gun against ft stump. Before he could let go of the weapon .the trigger, believed to have caught on a twig, was pulled and the gun waa fired. Besides being shot In the hand Torgeson received superficial flesh wounds In the abdomen. He waa hunting with a shotgun. LINDY HOPES DIRIGIBLE SERVICE WILL RESUME BERLIN, Oct. 31. (AP) Col Charles A. Lindbergh today expressed the hope Oerman airships soon would cross the Atlantic again In regular flights to America. The ftviator Inspected the new dirigible LZ-130 at Frlfdrtchshafen, and visited the ner.rby Dornter air plane works, where he flew several plftntft, ... HOW 10 BE A SPY TOLD IN LETTER Communication to Confessed German Agent From Al leged Leader Gives In structions for Beginners , NEW YORK, Oot. ai. (JO Quen ther Oustav Rumrich, army deserte who became a bungling nasi German spy. denied tinder cross-examination in federal court today he expected to "benefit personally" when he con fessed his guilt and testified for the government. Slightly nervous aa he took tne stand for the fifth day at the es pionage trial of Erich Closer, Jo hanna Hotfmann and Otto Voas. the onetime dishwasher said Asst. U. S. Atty. Lester Dunlgan had advised him "to mako clean breast of everything that It would be the best Interests of all concerned." Bv Mary Ellraheth Plummer NEW YORK. Oct. 31. (AP) A cryptically worded letter algned "K. Splelmsnn." the purported alias of the head of the German secret ser vice, waa disclosed today aa a sort of beginner's manual on "how to be come a good spy." The letter, made public by Asst. U. 8. Atty. Lester C. Dunlgan In connec tion with the trial of three alleged Nasi spies In federal court, gave "little hints" on "European business procedure." Plot Price Set Addressed to Guenther Oustav Rumrich, 83, former U. fl. army ser geant, who haa confessed his guilt In the spy plot and testified for the government, the letter referred to a sum of 300 the price Rumrich testified tie asked for carrying out a plot t to forge President Roosevelt's signature on bogus White House sta tionery to gain possession of secret plana for the U. a. navy aircraft carrier York town and Enterprise. - "Dear friend." it began. "In your favor. I must call your attention to ft few business mistakes. You must above all things keep atrlctly separate the representatives of the various firms. There exists in Europe a certain amount of business discretion because one firm will never tell the other what or where It haa purchased. For this reason, you must also accept this method, because whatever I purchase for my firm does not necessarily concern any . other firm. "Only I or my representative Jennl are responsible for these matters." - Jennl on Trial Praulelti Johanna ("Jennl") Hot man, 36, red-haired alleged "payoff" agent and courier for the spy ring, la one of the three persons on trial.) "For this reason," the letter con tinued, "I beg you never to communi cate to any other firm anything re garding our business connections, as to what X wish or what I purchase. Also, never tell what you have sold me and what I have taken with me. " Also you must never state a fixed price because this might lead to many misunderstandings. I shall always name to you ft price whatever the merchandise la worth to me, and you can then decide whether you will be able to deliver the merchandise at this price. "X am not Interested In what you pay for the merchandise," the latter said, "because -every business man If he wants to live and If he wants to live up to his business obligation! muat make ft living. , X believe that In time you will get acquainted with European business procedure. "I am glsd to be able to greet your brother on Feb. 18. Your friend, H, Splelmann." Rumrich, who received the letter after he had been arrested, has testl fled the spy ring engaged hla brother to act as a Nasi agent in Prague In anticipation of the Oerman march Into Czechoslovakia. In the dramatic climax of yester day's aeaslon, the prosecution read purported confession by Mlsa Hof mann, which quoted her as admitting she helped steal American military secrets because T believed X waa doing my duty to my fatherland.' WA8HINOTON. Oct. 31. W The Oregon Broadcasting System, Inc.. applied to the communications com mission today for permission to con- struct a new radio station at OrsnU Pass, Ore., to be operated on 1870 kilocycles, with night power of 100 watts and day power of 250 watts. The application listed Walter U Read as president of the company. Arthur B. Oorkrum, vice president and William E. Walsh. Marahfleld Ore., secretary -tree surer. The appli cation did not Include ftddrtssee of i &e4 efid Cocruin, Crater Lake Blue Is Sky Reflection Science Explains WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. IP) Crater lake. Oregon, known as the "bluest lake In the world," Is col orless. National park scientists assert that the water of the lake, strange as It seems, are crystal olear. The blue, they explain, cornea from reflections of the sky and the high walls surrounding the lake. ISE THEFT OF RECORDS NEW YORK, Oct. 31. (AP) -A scorching denunciation of Cuthbett J. Behan, flrat police lieutenant In the clty'a history to be displayed as a prisoner In the police line-up, waa delivered today by Police Com missioner Lewla J. Valentine after Behan was questioned regarding the theft of official records from the Bergen street station In Brooklyn. Behan waa arrested on charges of grand larceny and destroying or de facing public records, after an all night questioning by Valentine and City Commissioner of Investigation William B. Herlands. He denied the chsrge. "Tills cresturel" Valentine called him In a voice quivering with emo tion. "We hang our head In shame," the commissioner said, "but we had to face a lieutenant of police In the line-up gallery, charged with a serious crime." "Thst man, at S:30 a.m. Saturday. October 18, entered the record room of the 78th precinct and after maining there 10 minutes stole rec ords and left over the protests of a loyal member of this department-" Valentine asserted because of Be- han'a action "we were tboth shocked and disgraced; disgraced through out tbe world our standing and our reputation, our professional ability, were 'Jeopardised." , John Harlam Amen, special prose cutor appointed by Oovemor Lehman to Investigate Brooklyn affairs, said after Behan's arrest the governor's order for a probe of law enforcement agencies' in' Brooklyn "specifically covers'.' the Behan. case. .. . .. . SLAVERY CHARGE PORTLAND, Oot. 31 (AP) A fed eral couct Jury acquitted Phillip O'. Specht, 3J, of charges today, that ne had taken Anna Mae Meadows. IS-year-old Medford housemaid, to a disorderly house In Fresno, Calif, i Specht, after listening to the wo man's story that she had been lured Into Bpechfa automobile In the be lief she was going to Portland to be come a hula dancer, denied ever seeing her until Thursday morning wnen sne appeared in court here. Specht said he was selling used cars In Medford last fall, but on November 33, the date when the woman claimed he drove her south, the defendant said he was working in a card room In Fresno At one point in her testimony, the woman asserted that Sneeht. after threatening her with a re volver, drove at 80 miles an hour without stopping from the California line to Stockton, a distance of almost 400 miles. RELIEF MACHINE VALENTIN!!. Meh., Oct, 31. (API Alfred M. Landon said here today the administration of relief tn the United States, from a humanitarian point of view, "must be called the most unjust and downright political In the world today." The 1038 Republican presidential nominee. In an address prepared for delivery before a northwestern Ne braska political rally, asserted "every politician knows that Mr, Hopkins and the president are Just having their little Joke when they say relief 1 free from political manipulation, very politician In both, parties knows thst the spending machine and the WPA pressure machine will deliver votes Just Ilk the elty ma chine does. 'Nowadays folks apeak of pto Jecte." h. said. "Now, that I. a new I high-toned word for you. To the old daft we called u 'M DiTi'." MAN ACQUITTED ON DOROTHY HALE OF FALLS J DEATH Actress Friend of Harry Hopkins Plunges From 16th Floor Window New York Hotel Note Left NEW YORK, Oct. 2lypy Dorothy Hale, motion picture actress, plunged! to her death early today from a win dow of her 16th floor room In the Hampshire house, exclusive hotel overlooking Central park. Mrs. Hale, who ft few years ago was described by a Hollywood producer as a "great movie find," waa the wid ow of Gardner Hale, of Chicago, wh waa killed In 1931 when hla automo bile went over a 900-foot cliff In Cal ifornia. - ' ' Detective Jamea Leech, who made a preliminary Investigation, aald the actress may have fallen from the window when she attempted to open It shortly after she returned to her room at 0:30 a. m. Reports that Mrs. Hale had be come engaged to Harry h. Hopkins. WPA administrator, were denied last summer. 1 In Dinner Press The vlottm's body waa clad In a black dinner dress with gold orna ments. A corsage of tea roses clung to her bosom. A search of her room yielded a let ter addressed to "Mrs. Dorothy Hale which had been sent by a sister. Bet ty Donovan, of Pittsburgh. Among the outstanding motion pic tures In which Mrs. Hale appeared waa "Catharine the Great.' Dorothy Hale waa a close friend of tall-golden-halred Rosamond Pin chot. socially prominent actresa who attained fame at IT In the B t biles n spectacle "The Miracle" and was found dead of carbon monoxide pois oning In the garage of her Long Island estate near Oyster Bay last January 34. , Hopkins, sometimes called a cabi net member without portfolio, Is one of the closest intimates of President Roosevelt. His wife, the former Bar bara Duncan Hopkins, died about a year ago. Hopkins Shocked -Friends of Hopkins, who was se cluded at the home of President Roosevelt, said he waa "deeply shock ed" by Mrs. Hale s death. They did not comment on the engagement re ports, but said Hopkins and the act resa had been "close personal friends. The WPA administrator himself made no comment. A note waa found on the door of Mrs. Kale's room, apparently address ed to a maid. It read: "Mary: Do not disturb today." Detective Leech said he also found an Unfinished note In the room ad dressed to John Vinson, New York at torney. Its contents were not divulg ed. - Margaret' Case, of Vogue Magaalne. one of her closest- friends, said she waa with Mrs. Hale until seven o'clock last night and she appeared gay and happy and gave not the slightest In dication that anything might b troubling her. Vinson aald Mrs. Hale, who waa 88. had been subject to recurring Illness. 226 LOSE LIVES IN JAP TYPHOON TOKYO. Oct. 31. ) typhoon roared In from the sea today, taking at least 338. lives and Injuring more than 890 persons. About 330 persons were missing. The unseasonable storm which lash ed water, overland along the coastal reaches of Japan in the Tokyo-Yokohama district and elsewhere rendered an estimated 36,000 person, homelesa. More than 34.480 houses In Toky were flooded and some collapsed. Thousand, of tree, were uprooted and Tokyo, communication, and trans portation were partly paralysed. ' Ten. of thousand, of workers were unable to reach places of employment In the capital and moat achoola wet closed. The typhoon also caused much damage at Yokohama. A.11 (ailing, from th.t port city were suspended. Pear Markets KIW YORK. Oct. 11. (AP) (O. a Dept. Agr.) Pears, 14 cara arrived. California, I Oregon unloaded: M car. on track. Oregon Bose 3888 box. No. 1, 1.48-3.10. average 1.83; BarV letts 440 boies fancy 9.30-3.30. aver age 3.34; 730 boxes No, 1, 18-3 40, average, t.M. CHICAGO, Oct. 31. (AP) (U. 8. Dept. Agr.) Peart: 1 California. Washington car. arrived: car. cat track; Oregon Oolden Bote 744 box
