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The Weather Forecast: Occasional rain to night; Tuesday showers, little change In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday -...6U Lowest this morning H .49 Precipitation Ia.it 24 hrs, trace. The Right Price If you an looking for Inter ment turn to tha Classified and let the little Adva tell their stories. It la not unuiual to find the very thing yoo are looking for at the right price. MEDFORD TR7BUNE Full Associated Press Jnited Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1938. No. 184. rami M9 IBB Mm i - The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. SEN. I.OnOK BECOMING BIO POLITICAL POWER O.O.P. VICTOKV WOULD MAKE HIM. STATE BOSS ... FREED MASSACHUSETTS PARTY FROM COMA TECHNIQUE DESCRIBED VERCilNO ON OEMAfiOOUE BOSTON. Oct. 34. Henry Cabot 'Lodge, the tall, personable young man who la the seventh senator of the United States In a direct line of descent. Is on his way to become one of the country's really powerful poli ticians. His Is an extraordinary success story. Six years ago. he was Just turn ing thirty, and still a newspaperman Four years ago. he was a Junior member of the "great and general court of Massachusetts." aa they call their legislature here. Two years ago. he had licked the Republican reac tionaries In the primary, knocked spots out of James Michael Curly In the election, and token his senate seat. Now, still a freshman senator, he Is the outstanding leader of a Massachusetts Republican party which haa cost off coma and Is burst ing with astonishing vitality. If Leverett Saltonstall beats Curley for governor, as he Is expected to do. Lodge .ivll! ba. the principal figure In a political combination like the Massachusetts Junta, of federalist memory. His several times great grandfather. George Cabot, ran 'the Junta with Timothy Pickering, and the Junta ran Massachusetts. In the current campaign. Saltonstall haa frankly accepted Lodge's help. and. once he- la In the governor's chair, he will maintain the alliance. And with his state administration behind him, Lodge iwlll Join the small group of certified political satraps. Whether or not he becomes i li tis;, Lodge's success stpry Is worth study by every Republicsn leader in the country. In 1936. when Lodge ran for the senate, the Republican coma In Massachusetts had the marks of permanence. A highly Industrial state, Massachusetts had been plung ed Into early depression by southern competition with her factories. A vast population of Irish and foreign bom were natural Democrats, and the Republican party, having been captured in the twenties by a group of black Tory businessmen, had lost many thousands of followers. In 1838 the state waa a Smith stronghold, and In 1833 went overwhelmingly Roosevelt.. Tet Massachusetts Republicanism Is now alive again, and, if anyone li responsible for the miracle, Lodge la. Sweeping statements are alwaya a mistake, and no doubt the Massa chusetts Democrats, led by the un- (Continued on Page Pour.) : 4 Shot, Fall Fatal WENATCHEE. Oct. 34. (AP) Ac cidentally shooting himself with a .33 pistol which he carried In his hip pocket. Earl C. Murphy, buresu of reclamation laborer, fen from e 300 toot cliff and waa killed near Leaven worth yesterday. His body was being brought out six miles by a bureau pack train today. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Earl Pete Nutter of Ashland cele brating his .aweepstakea 100-pound victory by treating himself to a ooi tie of beer. ' prank DeSouza trying to alibi him. self and Otto De Jarnett for fishing three dayi without getting a fish, he blaming a storm at sea that tent the salmon scurrying for cover. Rasslln Impressrlo Mack Llllsrd being so busy placing beta In Klsm ath Falls on Medlord hth school for Medford friends he had no time to get In on the profitable venture himself. Oeorge Patterson diligently practic ing hta Navy Day talk behind closed doors. . Mildred Reter looking much Ilk a beautiful gypsy, a gay silk bin dana about her head and silver rings in her ears forming part of a snazzy sport rnsemble. Frank Jcnes breaking up a delight ful tt.a.tt by having to run bom to m.lk th cove TO BE FIRST IN ENTERING CITY Thousands of Chinese Sol diers in Mass Retreat Wuhan Defenses Crumple British Ship Bombed LONDON. Oct. 24. (API A Reuters (British news agency) dispatch from Chungking, provis ional capital or China, said today It was officially announced over 1,000 Chinese refugees perished yesterday when Japanese war planes bombed und , sank the ' Chinese steamer Klang Hsln. A Reuters dispatch from Shang hai said Chinese newspapers there reported S.000 persons were killed when Japanese planes bombed and sank three Chinese steamers on Tungtlng lake nearf Yochow. TOKYO. Oct. 34. (AP) Japan'a determination to hold China indefin itely under military occupation and compel her to "cooperate" with Japan in all vital matters after the war Is ended was disclosed tonight In statement emanating from govern ment sources. The statement, publlahed by Domel. Japan'a only major news agency, ap parently was Issued In anticipation of the early fall of Hankow, China's I provisional capital. SHANGHAI, Oct. 25. (Tuesday) ( AP ) Japanese army and navy units were racing early today for the honor of being the first to enter Hankow. China's provisional capital. Japanese apoxcsmen here professed to expoct news, of ,-thc fall of the city momentarily. Japanese dispatches aald thousands of Chinese soldiers were retreating en masse on all Yangtze river fronts and the whole defense system of the Wuhan area, embracing Hankow, was crumbling. One Japanese army column atrlk lng from tha northeaat waa reported to have entered Hwangpei, 30 miles north of Hankow. Japanese naval officers who pre viously had reported their unlta only 30 miles down river from Hankow. said the advance up the Yangtze waa continuing with the warship commanders apparently determined to keep pace with the army's drive. Resistance none Nowhere waa effective Chinese re sistance being offered, the Japanese declsred. Japanese aerial bombing of a Brit ish warship and a customs dispute over an American passenger liner to day added two new Incidents to the long list of International complica tions In the China war. Bombs from six Japanese planes fell about and damaged the super structure of the British gunboat Sandpiper, anchored at Changsha. (Continued on Page Bight., AIR DEATH TAKES BEAVERTON, Ore., Oct. 34. (AP) Six months after his brother was killed In an air crash near Cornelius, Volney Brlggs. 39, Portland amateur air pilot, died Sunday In a crash on the Joseph Crale farm near here. Harold Brlggs, 38, lost his life last April on the eve of hli wedding. Witnesses said Volney flew low over a farm field In which several boys were playing and shouted to them to make room for him to land Hla plane cracked up In a thicket of trees apparently aa ha waa at. tempting to circle for a landing. His motor waa missing badly. Crale aald tha filer waa dead when he pulled him from tha wreckage. ORANT8 PASS. Oct. 34. (API- Funeral services were being arranged hers oday for William E. (Rainbow) Olbson. 4. known nationally among sportsmen who came from long dis tances to be guests at hla We-Ask-U Inn while fishing In Rogue river. He died Sunday In Klamath Falls of a heart attack which struck him Just aa ha waa starting on a duck bunting expedition. Born April 31, 1889. In Ware. Eng land, ha had lived In the Grants Pass Rogue river section for twenty- five years. His widow and three daughters, all living at home, eur I vlve, Scattered Astounding After one of the most astounding China metropolis of Canton, ten days north. Fleeing Chinese blew up the layout of the city and direction taken LEGIONNAIRE ASSERTS WASHINGTON. Oct. . 34 (API- Harper Knowles. California legion naire, told house Investigators today organization headed by Harry Bridges, maritime leader, began agi tation which "brought about the San Francisco general strike (1934) and chaos to the maritime Industry." Further ha testified. Dr. Louis Bloch, a member of the maritime labor board, waa at one time a mem ber of the professional unit of the communist party In California. Knowles, of Oskland, aald ha was chairman of the radical research committee of the California American Legion. He aald Bridges waa a com- munlat and the organization, ine "Equality Hall group," numbered many communists among Its mem bers. Brldgea is an Australian against whom deportation proceedings are pending. Chairman Dies, (D-Tex.), of the oommlttee Investigating un-American activities, before which Knowles tes tified, recently demanded of Secretary of Labor Perklna Bridges be deported,. Miss Perklna replied no action would be taken until tha supreme court disposed of a similar case Involving Joseph Strecker of Hot Springs, Ark. Knowles contended that aa early aa 1933, Brldgea had entered the Riggers and Stevedores union and tried to gather about him "a group of radical progressives." Two yeare later, he said. Bridges snd a few others orgsnlsed a longshoremen local union, which quickly disinte grated. a ACCIDENTAL SHOT MAY. COST BOY'S LEFT EYE ' ROSEBURO, Ore.. Oct. 34 (AP) Leroy Bond, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bond of Ollde, may lose the lght of his left eye aa the result of a hunting mishap Sunday, hla phy sician reported this morning. Bond, while on a hunting trip near hla home, waa said to have leaned hla gun against a tree. The weapon was accidentally discharged, !l fcr-i tl li Jf "T TO TSUNGfA II TO SWATOW I ! idFlipiffitm atom jr- Vn I I tiigpr s-Sjk tLOWUPPCARL J , 1 y y COHSULATCS SIT UP " A " 1 U . r i-tvf;?nj?iyn.f tl . - ' " MILES Up Shutdowns Mark Speed in Nippon Advance & I liDAHCCC TAU( faSSy I MORS JAPAHfSE campaigns of modern warfare, the Japanese army ' coptufed the south after starting an overland drive from Bias Bay, entering Hie city from the S8.000.000 Pearl river bridge (shown obove) and public utility plants. The by the1 Invaders are shown In the map. (A. P. Photos.) ' T PALESTINE TRAVEL JERUSALEM, Oct. 34. (P) British military authorities disclosed today they would take control of all traffic and communications in Palestine November 1 In the new drive to crush Arsb Insurrection sgalnst British rule in the Holy Land. MaJ. Oen. Robert H. Halnlng. com msder of British forces In Palestine and Trans-Jordsn. Issued special warnings throughout the country any person planning to travel by rail, au tomobile or otherwise' must obtsln a special military pass. Reports resched Jerusslem toddy Abdul Rahmln, commander-in-chief of the Arab Insurgent forces, has U' sued orders that henceforth his fol lowers must refrain from engaging British troops except In self defense In some Informed quarters belief waa expressed this might be the pre lude to a truce similar to that ne gotiated In October, 1938, whlcb. however, lasted only three months. TAKEN BY DEATH John W. Pernoll, pioneer resident of Jackson county, and postmaster snd general storekeeper at Applegate for many years, died In a. local hospital at noon today. He had been 111 for aeversl weeks. He waa widely known and highly respected. A couple of years sgo, Pernoll was hot during an attempted hold-up of his store. The bullet passed through the lower part of hie abdo men. Pernoll was shot aa he fled from tha thug, the latter escaping In the darkness. No arrests were made. The wound undermined Pernoll's health, friends said. Tha Immediate cause of death a typhoid fever. Mr. Pernoll Is survived by his widow. Laura, a 14-yr-old son, John, Jr.. and two brothers. Judd of OranU rass ana uarna ox utmwv, SET BY HUNGARY FOR CZECHS' COMPLIANCE BV the Associated Press Well-informed sources In Budspest today said Hungary, after receiving a fifth unacceptable proposal from Czechoslovakia, had set Wednesdsy as a deadline for the Prsgue government to comply with her territorial de mands. Unless Czechoslovakia makes , sstlsfsctory reply by then, they ssld the Hungsrlsn army would start marching across the border; and the Polish army would atart marching Into Ruthenla at the asms moment Official circles In Warsaw, however. declared these reports were "fslse," asserting the Polish aim was peaceful settlement with Czechoslovakia. In Prague, meanwhile. Soko), tha largest pstrlotle organisation In Czechoalovskla, approved a resolution urging control of Jews and expulsion of some. Outstanding In yesterday's French aenatorlal elections waa an unmlatak able shift to the right, Interpreted by supporters of Premier Edousrd Daladler aa approval of hla part In the Munich peace settlement. G. PASS COPCO LEADER IS TRANSFERRED HERE GRANTS PASS. Oct. 34. P) W J. Moyer, California Oregon Power company ealesmenager at Orsnts Psaa. will transfer next month to the Medford office, he aald today. He will assist Olen L. Jsckaon, Copco. vice president and aaleamanager. Moyer la newly-elected Chief Big' born of the Oregon Cavemen but will automatically lose his active member ship by the change of residence. He also heade Josephine county Boy Scout work. Mrs. MoyeV Is retiring as ! head of the Legion auxiliary. PORTLAND. Oct. 34 IIP) Fire Saturday night razed a coat-hangiT manufacturing plant on North Mar J cum avenue at a loss estimated at vwvy. v. .g c.r uv - Inaugural New Labor Act WORKERS PARADE BACK TO WORK IN S. F. WAREHOUSES Storage Places Closed by 'Hot Car' Dispute Reopen Doors After Long Tie-Up Contract Is Planned SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 34. ( AP) CIO warehousemen's union dispatch ers sent about 1700 men some or them idle since early July back to work today as 138 warehouse opened their doors. Nearly 1000 other work ers in the long-ctoitcd plants Joined the parade. Union headquarters, swamped with calls for men. said It appeared that every one of the grocery, drug-, hard ware, dry goods, liquor and public warehouses closed in the famed "hot box car" dispute planned Imme diate resumption of trade. As the first warehousemen at tacked the merchandise piled high In shipping rooms, officials of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union and of the Association of San Francisco dis tributors planned a meeting to In itial a master contract outlawing strikes or lockout In tha distribut ing industry until June 1, 1040. The contract, hailed by tha Ban Francisco chamber of commerce as the most Important step of the year In the city towards Industrial peace, was arrived at last week In confer ences mediated by Paul O. Smith, .youthful- San. Francisco, newspaper executive. ; Mayor Angelo Rossi's mediation oommlttee of ten had ft meeting cal endared today In an attempt to set tle the strike of 9000 AFL clerks called September 7 against 36 major department stores. CHICAGO, Oct. 84. (P) Snow, gales and aub freezing temperature marked winter's arrival to portions of tha middle west during the week end. Minnesota, Wisconsin and the up per Michigan peninsula felt the brunt of a storm that disrupted pow er and communication Unea Impeded highway traffic and Imperiled upper Qreat Lakes shipping. The snow ranged from wisp in Chi cago to eight Inches at Ishpemlng, Mich. Snowplows went Into action on highways near tha Wisconsin-Mich igan border. A power failure caused a temporary shutdown of Red Wing, Minn., fac- torlea. Phillips, Wis., waa without power for 13 hours. Broken telephone and telegraph communication lines Isolated several Wisconsin communi ties, A 40-mlle northwest gala churned Lake, Michigan and Superior. The blanket of cold reached from tha Rockies to Michigan and from Canada to Oklahoma. Lowest official temperature yesterday was 18 at Hu ron, 8. D. . STARTS SESSIONS The October term of tha circuit court, Judge H. D. Norton, presiding, opened today with selection of a new grand Jury, aa follows: A. H. Bsnwell, Medford, William A Gates, Medford: Mr, Zola Flck, Jacksonville; Vem D. Hastings, Ash land: H. B. Carter, Ashland: Stephen Nye, Jr., Talent: and R. T. Weldman, Eagle Point. Oate, wss named foreman, and the grand Jury held Its first session this morning. . The remainder of tht Jurors wars excused for the rest of tha week. Tha court explained a Jury trial might be called for next week. No criminal case, are on the calendar and not many civil actions at laaue. The district attorney's offlea re ported only a few minor matters would be called to tha attention of tha new grand Jury, and a short ses sion waa anticipated. Reservist Promoted WASHINGTON. Oct. 34. (AP) Th, navy department annonunced tha promotion today of Hollla W. Ubby. Salont. Or, to tha rank of lieutenant commander Id the naval reserve, In WPA Scandal Among 7S persons charged with political manipulation of the New Mexico WPA In wholesale Indict ments returned at Albuquerque, N, M., was Stanley W. P. Miller (above), analntant United Stated district at torney and son-in-law of V. S. Sen ator Dennis Chaves, MAN-CAUSED BLAZE COVERS 100 ACRES iE FOREST A 100-acn forest fire near Dead Indian Soda Bprlngs waa reported under control thla morning by Rogue River national forest hesdqusrtera. Seventy-five men have been comba ting the blaze stnoe Saturday after noon. Forest headquarters said tha Mr waa man-caueed, but whether from a campfira or cigaretta had not been determined. Tha blare had a good start aa lookouts had been recalled for tha eeason. Tha fire waa reported by a hunter Saturday afternoon. It waa dlffloult to suppress because tha area waa rug ged and dotted with sheer cliffs, flaming snsgs fslllng down tha hill side, and spresdlng tha blaze, head quarters stated. The fire waa brought under control at 8 p. m. yesterday but tha full crew continued on the fire line, today. Moat of tha fire fighters were CCD youths from Oampa South Fork and Applegate. The area received none of th, week end rainfall but fog thla morning aided tha firefighters. Slmerl Jam, fire chief, went to tha acen, Saturday evening aud again this morning. Ranger John Sarglnson wss in charge. A small fire off the Dlsmond lake highway, reported Saturday after noon by a motorist, waa put out by Ranger Homer Hlxon. It was Ignltod by burning debris along tha high way, headquarters aald. PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 34. OP) Harold L, Ickea, secretary of tha In terlor, arrived In Portland yesterday a few hours behind one of hla poli tical critic Senator Edward It Purke, Nebraaka. Ickes said ha had nothing to aay about tha Oregon election or any political subject, but when told that Burke had criticized him for his po litical activities Ickes retorted: "Burke hasn't ssld anything la a long while that haa Interested m,.' The secretary was met by Bonne' villa Administrator J. D. Ross. He said ha would visit Bonneville today, go on to Spokane lata today and visit Orand Coulee Tuesday. BONNEVILLE. Ore., Oct. 34. (IP) PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickas. looking out on Bonneville dam, one of the government's largest pro. Jeeta, recommended that voter, "de. termlne whom tha privately-owned utilities are supporting and then vote for tha other fellow." KLAMATH FAN INJURED IN CRASH GOING HOME Robert . Foster, 1 of Klamath Falls, confined In Aahland Comma nlty hospital Friday and Saturday nlghta with Injuries sustained when hla automobile went off the road and overturned near Klamath Junction Friday night, was taken home yeatar day, eut and bruised but not aarloua ly hurt . E OF Most Industries Complying Wholeheartedly, Is Claim Few Lumber, Textile Mills Reported Down; Oregon in Line PORTLAND, Oct. 34. (API Oregon Induatry went to work to day under tha new wage-hour law but few employes or employers had mora than a vague Idea, of how It would affect them If at all. Tha fair labor standards act ,went Into effect at 13:01 a. m. Although its inauguration ooour- red In tha midst of confusion and uncertainty the majority of Ore gon employers appeared convinced that few state Industries would be affected so far aa wages and hours were concerned. Tha majority of northwest In dustries. Including tha basic lum ber Induatry and allied woodwork ing manufacturers, are well within the 44 hour week and 3ao per hour minimum, although a taw mall non-union operations may be affected. Employment of children m In dustry, barred by the law. waa not a problem of Importance In thla state. n WASHINGTON, Oct. 34. (AP) Elmer F. Andrew,, wage-hour ad. minis trn tor, aald today ha had re ceived report of scattered shut downs of Industrial plants, preaunw ably because of tha new fair labor standards act, but believed man would probe to be only temporary. Ha added that according to hla Information moat Industries subject to. the new law war complying. "wholeheartedly." The' far-reaching law went Into effect laat midnight. A few . lumber and email tsxtlla oompsnles did not resume work to day, Andrews aald ha waa Informed, He did not name them. No Exemptions My general Information If that) In some oases they would be seasonal shutdowns anyhow," ha told newa - man. "Unfortunately, Z can't da anything about It. Wa oant exempt anyone In Interstate commerce from paying 36 cents an hour. 1 Juat hope lt'a temporary ana) that after all they don't really mesa It." - . Andrewa remarked tha faw report ha had received Indicated that sus pensions would not "causa sertoua Hl.tAMtlnn In lnrfnattv" Calvert Magruder, general counsel, . disclosed that tha American Banker' association had asked exemption for all banka on tha ground that tha were local, eervice Institutions. Andrew, remarked, however, most bsnkera wera "Just going ahead an complying." Many Fledge Aid Tha wage-hour adminlatrator re ceived pledgee of cooperation In en forcement of the new law -from many state governors. One of Andrewa' callers, J. Seng. maa, of San Antonio, Texas, press. dent of tha National Pecan Snellen of America, told newsmen ha hi reported avery pecan aliening plant In tht south had closed because of tha wage-hour law. One of Sellgman'a aesoclatta. wh declined to gtvt hla nam, aald tb Industry's planta In and around Chi cs go wen closed. Sellgman estimated 80.000 worsen won Involved. He madt tht statement Imme diately attar discussing with Andrew and other official concerning th possibility that tht pecan ensiling industry might b exempt from th new statute. Sellgman aald ht had told Andrew tha avenge wag paid In th la d us try waa from 10 cant to It cent an hour. SKIDDING AUTO CUTS POWER FOR TUALATIN PORTLAND. Oct. 34. (AP) Four persona wen hurt and power la large art of th Tualatin veller waa eut off Sunday afternoon wba ear struck a pole at Villa ftldg near Ttgard. Three other poles, bearing several 57,000-volt high tension win, war pulled over on th highway and power out off. Th car, driven by W. X. Boag. Portland, and bearing tin others, skidded out of control and struck th pole, deputy sheriffs O. L WUsoa and Arthur Pratt aald.
