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TRIBUNE
Full Associated Press
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Thirty-Third Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1938.
No. 183.
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The
Capital
Parade
By Joseph Alsop
and
Robert Kintner
Copyright, 1937, by The
North American News
' paper Alliance, Ino.
G.O.P. BEES EVOLVING
INTO PARTY COMPROMISE
PARALLEL SEES WITH
BRITISH TRANSFORMATION
STRATEGY IS TO STEAL '
SOCIAL WELFARE THUNDER
HOOYER ADMINISTRATION
OLD POLICY CLIMAX
WASHINGTON, Oct. 35. The moat
exciting political phenomenon In the
eountry today Is, the Indication of
real change In the Republican party.
Hera In Washington, the O.O.P. still
seems moribund, but even such a
brief Inspection trip as your cor-,
respondents w have Just undertaken
reveals that the Republicans may
loon form a party of compromise.
The nature at this possible change
has already Been mentioned here,
In reports of the ambitions of Ken
neth Simpson in New York and
Henry Cabot Lodge In Massachusetts.
Thus far. the new movement among
Republicans Is in Its Infancy, yet
t seems so healthy and so promising
that It may be well to examine It
in a larger perspective.
American political history has an
odd habit of repeating that of Great
Britain but between two and three
deendes later. It la remarkably In
teresting, therefore, that British
Toryism underwent its own trans
formation, casting off reaction and
accepting compromise. In the decades
before the World war.
Speaking very generally, the Brit
ish Tory or conservative party was
dominated by tho land-owning gen
try throughout the nineteenth cen
tury. By long habit, the land-owners
approached politics more practically
than our own equivalent ruling class,
the large business men, have ever
done. The sharp lesson of the re
form bill of 1832. when really threat
ening popular discontent forced the
land-owning oligarchs to forego their
absolutism, had taught them to un
derstand compromise a little.
They repealed the Corn laws In
the forties. They made a number
of other sacrifices of self-interest
which big business In America has
never Imitated. Tet essentially they
always refused to accept the new
social forces until old Joe Chamber
lain, father of Neville, and a busi
ness man, broke the land-owners'
power in their own party. He ac
complished the, transition from Tory
ism to conservatism, teaching his
fellow party members to steal their
enemies' social welfare thunder, but
to write the new social legislation
In their own fashion, carefully, and
with a view to safeguard established
Interests.
Since then, there have been bitter
controversies. Chamberlatn ended the
(Continued on Page Four.)
MAIL TRUCK DRIVERS
TO VIE FOR SAFETY
WASHINGTON. Oct. 35. (flV-Safe
delivery of the malls Is more impor
tant than speed, postal officials said
today. Acting Postmaster General W.
W. Howes notified mail truck drivers
that extra efficiency ratings would be
given to drivers who carry the mall
six months without an accident.
SIDE GLANCES
' b,
TRIBDNX REPORTERS
Mlna Hunter of Honolulu enjoying
her valley visit and especially the
raealin riot.
Alice Egan presenting a picture of
smartness In a gorgeous chapeau of
black trimmed In a perky purple vel
vet bow.
Anne Spalding aid Margaret Henry
each aympathirlng with the other
over a respective cold and Injured
foot, they making great plana for
thelT recovery. "
Oertrude Butler being the pro
verbial vacationist who has to come
hck to work to recuperate.
Mary Parsons Day busily engaged
In telling concert tickets, she taking
lime out from her duties of assisting
in building her new home.
Jitterbug Bill Cunningham being
angry with wlfey Osll because ahe
unavoidably pulled all the tall fea
thers out of a pheasant fine was try
ing to grasp underneath fence.
SARAH E. PERDUE
IS CARRIED OUT
OF
E
Hugh Power, Iff, Hero of
Fern Valley Near-Tragedy
While Delivering Papers
Neighbors Laud Youth
Mrs. Sarah E. Perdue, of Pern
Valley today owed her lire to Hugh
Power, 16, Medford high school Junior
and son of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Power
of 101 Portland avenue.
Young Power rescued the aged
woman from her flaming, smoko
flllcd home late yesterday afternoon
as he was delivering the Mall Tribune
on his Pern Valley motor route.
Left a partial invalid by an auto
mobile accident. Mrs. Perdue had to
be carried from 'her home by the
high school student. She was chok
ing from the smoke when Power
dashed into the house to rescue her.
Furniture about her In the living
room was In flames. All the windows
were shut and the house was futy of
smoke.
j.
Flames Sighted
As Power approached the house
down a hill to deliver the Mall
Tribune he saw a flicker In the
living room window. His curiosity
aroused, he decided to investigate.
As he got to the house he discovered
that the living room was on lire.
Power called across the street to
Mrs. L. H. Hughes and she yelled to
him that the aged woman was in the
house and shouted to him to rush
in and carry her out as she was
partially an Invalid.
Meantime Mrs. Hughes ran across
the street to the Perdue home and
got- palls of water ready to fight
the blaze. After rescuing Mrs. Perdue,
Power opened the windows to let the
smoke out. Then, helped by Mrs.
Hughes, he extinguished the burning
furniture and saved the .house.
Mrs. Perdue lives with her son
James and seldom docs he leave her
alone. As the two were planning to
move to Talent, the son had to leave
hie mother alone for a Bhort time
late yesterday afternoon. In his ab
sence, Mrs. Perdue emerged from her
room to set a fire in the fireplace
of the living room, neighbors ex
plained. Not being able to see well
or to move about readily, the aged
woman Ignited some papers Just out
side the fireplace.
Fire Spreading
The burning papers set fire to the
near-by radio table and that in turu
Ignited the radio and spread to other
furniture. Mrs. Perdue, choking from
tbe smoke, was groping about the
room in a dawd condition when
Power dashed in and rescued her.
Mrs. Perdue had recovered today
from the near-tragedy.
The Perdue home la on the Swe
denburg orchard.
Young Power was modest today
when asked about his exploit but
neighbors said that if it had not
been for his alertness and heroic
action, the aged woman undoubtedly
would have burned to death.
Great Northern
Net Income Dips
ST. PAUL, Oct. 35. (AP) The
Great Northern Railway today re
ported net Income for September,
after deductions for Interest and
other filed charges of 13.799.894.
This compared with net Income of
13.287.637 for September, 1937.
The Northern Pacific railway re.
ported net railway operating Income
for September of tl,697,118, a de
crease of 9235.523 from September,
1937. .
Magic New Spray Causes
Queer Changes in Plants
By HOWARD W. BL.4KCSLEE
(Assoclsted Press Science Editor.)
CHAPEL HILL, N. 0., Oct. 25. P)
A magic new spray which grows
larger flowers waa announced to the
National Academy of Sciences here
today.
The bigger flowers are only one of
the spectacular results of spraying
this mixture on planta. It also makes
possible new hybrids that la. crosses
In breeding planta realizing a long
sought goal of agricultural scientists.
The spray la an emulsion of oil,
mixed . with colchicine, which haa
been a standard medical remedy for
gout for nearly 3.000 years. Colchi
cine la extracted from meadow saf
fron. One year ago Dr. Albert P. Blskea
lee of the Carnegie Institution of
Washington's station for experimental
evolution at Cold Spring Harbor. New
York, announced to the academy dis
covery that colchicine would cause
strange changes In planta. It dou
bled their chromosomes, and the sub
stances that govern heredity.
Held as Canal Spies
Three of the four German ymiths, held on espionage chnrges at
Cristobal, C. Z.. on accusations of photographing fort If lout Ions In ihe
Panama Canal Zone, tire thovrn with Lieut, Pnvls (left), of (he Canal
Zone police. Ift In right: (beyond !avls), Ingrhorg Walt runt (lutinaii,
19; Hans FrledrUli Srhnhkow, 2ft, and Gilbert Wllhelm Gross, 2fl. l-rn-est
Robert Edward Khurlg, 29. also ncciisrd, Is not shown. (A P. Photo).
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AS
CLOSES FOR OREGON
(By The Associated Press)
Oregon sportsmen closed camp for
the 1938 deer hunting season Tues
day with more of their numbers dead
than In any other Pacific coast state.
Fourteen hunters died half cf
them from gunshot woiifids in the
month-long season. A year ago six
died but only three were victims of
rifle fire.
California counted 10 victims and
Washington seven. Tho season closed
In the south on October 15 and
hunters left the Washington woods
at sundown last Sunday,
Hunting companions who fired at
half-screened objects in the brush
or accidentally discharged their guns
killed six persons in Oregon. One
hunter died after he hod accidentally
wounded himself.
Automobile mishaps in the Iccr
hunting country claimed three lives.
Three hunters succumbed on the
trail from heart attacks. An aged
sportsman died of exertion, exposure
and starvation after having been lost
for three days.
A Klamath county woman, whose
death was not counted in the Oregon
toll, was si sin by a companion in
Modoc county, California.
Although California had fewer fa
talities from all causes, gunshot
wounds took seven lives, the same
as In Oregon.
Gas Tax For July,
Under Last Year
SALEM. Oct. 25. (API -Gasoline
tax receipts during July were 11,143,.
118, a 'decrease of $43,000 compared
with July. 1637. Secretary of State
Earl Snell said today.
Receipts during the first nine
months this year were as. 695. 583, a
gain of 1101.813 compared with the
same period last year.
Since then the oil spray haa been
developed as a means of applying
the colchicine and Dr. Blakeslee,
with E. W. Slnnott and H. C. Warmke..
reported today tho first practical
results, obtained on more thsn 40
species of plants.
The .oil holds th colchicine on
the plant tissues until It can pene
trate. Buds or young stems are
sprayed On the aprayed parta the
leaves become a deeper green, fruits
become shorter and stouter.
. The flowers grow larger. In some
species this bigness of blossom Is so
great ahmetlmaa 25 per cent that
the praying haa Immediate commer
cial value for florieulturiata. The
seeds from these larger flowers are
larger and fewer.
The big flowers and "atoutened"
parts grow on the same plant along
side normally small flowers and slen
der parta.
The miracle la that the aeeda from
the colrhlelne-aprayed part of the
plant grow permanently larger flow
ers, and plant that Is permsnently
different from Its parent.
HOLDUP-SLAYER
GO 10 GAS CHAMBER
SAYS. SUPREME
SALEM. Oct. 2o.(AP) -The first
degree murder conviction of Leroy
Hershel McCarthy was upheld today
by tho. state supreme court. Mccarty
killed Floyd Fuelner in a service
station holdup In Portland on Au
gust 10, 1937.
McCarthy, who was to have died
In the state's new lethal gas chamber
last January 7, will be resentenced
by Judge John P. Winter of Multno
mah county.
. Fuelner, an attendant at a service
station at Southwest 13th and Yam
hill streets, chased McCarthy four
blocks after the holdup. The pair
began wrestling, and Fuelner was
shot during the scuffle. Police over
took McCarthy after a chase during
which several shot were fired.
McCarthy's attorneys contended
that the crime was not first degree
murder because they said, the hold
up and murder were two separate
crimes, but the supreme court, In an
opinion by Justice Rand, said to
day: "We think that the evidence clear
ly shows beyond a reasonable doubt
that the commission of the crime of
robbery continued and accompanied
the stolen money up to the very
moment the fatal shot was fired. . . .
We are satisfied that the defendant
has had a fair and impartial trial."
SEARCH FOR HUNTER
NEAR MYRTLE CREEK
ROSEBURG. Ore., Odt. 25. (AP)
Searching parties today were scouring
the woods of the Brushy butte area
In the South Myrtle creek district
for Dewey Kruse ol Roseburg. miss
ing from a hunting party since Mon
day morning.
Kruse was a, member of a group
which left camp early Monday' and
separated to hunt through the can
yons of the Brushy butt section.
When he failed to return last night,
the remaining hunters returned to
Myrtle Creek.
At daylight today more than a
score of men from Myrtle Creek and
Roseburg started an organised
search.
California Enjoys
Unusual Warmth
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25. (API
Indian summer continued l sway
In California today with high tem
peratures predominating.
The weather bureau said the 7i
degrees at noon here today was
"wsrmer than usual." but fsr below
the record msxlmum of 86 set on
October 26, 1917.
Sacrsnwnto reported 50 degrees at
midday, Redding 17, flurhsnk 84 and
Fresno 79, the bureau ssld.
JOHN PERNOLL RITES
AT 2 P. M. THURSDAY
Funeral services for John Pernol,
widely-known resident of the Appl'e
gste who died in a Medford hospital
yesterday noon, will be held In the
Perl chapel at 2 p. m. Thursday.
JAPANESE FORCES
CAPTURE HANKOW;
DEFENDERS FLEE
Chinese Demolish Buildings,
Set Fires Chiang Kai
Shek Leaves by Plane
' for Undisclosed Haven
, SHANGHAI, Oct. 28. (AP) The
Japanese army and navy commands
tonight announced their forces had
e to rod Hankow. China's provisional
capital, abandoned by its defenders.
Although details were lacking, Jap
anese officers said units of both
services had participated In the cap
ture of the great city on the middle
Yangtze river, major gonl of the
Japanese conquest since Nanking fell
nearly 11 months ago.
Neutral advices reaching Shang
hai aald retreating Chinese troops
demolished several buildings. Large
fires were reported In Hankow and
adjoining cities of Wuchang and
Hanyang. The city was without water,
but a foreign-owned power com
pany, which was permitted to take
over the waterworks was attempt
ing to resume service.
llrttlsh Cooperate
Patrols of British bluejackets co
operated with Chinese police in keep
ing order before antry of the Jap
anese. The first detachment to enter ap
parently was an infantry column
which previously had taken Hwang
pel, 20 miles to the north, and then
drive rapidly down the Pelplng-Han-kow
railway.
Generalissimo Chiang Kal - Shek.
military and civil leader of the Chi
nese nation, was reported to have
left Hankow by plane during the
night, accompanied by his foremost
aide, his American-educated wife.
Announcement of the Japanese
in try Into Hankow .was made f In a.
Joint communique from China head
quarters of the Japanese army and
navy.
Many Chinese Trapped
The last stages of the Japanese
advance were made with such tap
idlty overland from the northeast,
along both banks of the Yangtze
and up the river Itself that large
units of Chinese were cut off.
The rapidly driving Japanese col
umns were said to have left several
divisions In pockets to be cleaned
up later, as motorized vanguards
with tanks sped toward the doomed
Chinese capital.
Hankow (which, with Its sister
Wuhan cities of Wuchang and Han
yang, had a pre-war population of
about 1,700,000) was the sixth great
Chinese city to fall to the invaders.
Pelplng and Tientsin were taken
In the first weeks of the war that
began July 7, 1937. Shanghai fell
November 0 and Nanking Hankow's
predecessor as Chinese capital De
cember 13. Canton, metropolis of the
south, fell last Friday.
Only lessor cities, mostly far In
the Interior, remain in Chinese
hands.
Whether Japan would be content
to rest on her present conquests,
thus opening a period of undeclared
peace, remained a subject for con
jecture tonight.
Withdrawal of the Chinese de
fenders "for strategic reasons" ap
parently spared Hankow the blood
shed which marked the capture of
Nanking.
0-C FAX REFUND
A treasury department check for
41,670.69. the second half payment
for 1935, under the Oregon-California
land grant tax refund act, was re
ceived Monday by Jackson county,
The first payment, amounting to
$43,179. was made last May. Total
amount received Is I84.708.e9.
County Treasurer Ralph Awesney
said the money would be apportioned
to the county general fund, non-high
school districts for application on
transportation and tuition funds, and
to school districts with O.-O. grant
land within their boundaries.
The money will also be applied to
the 1038 budget now In course of
preparation.
GRANTS PASS, Oct. 25 (AP)
Jranette Holland, 4, only daughter
or Mr, and Mrs. Berant Rollsnd nf
Rogue River, died here laat night.
Dr. B. O. Bailey, attending physician,
ssld she wsa a victim of Infantile
paralysis.
The Rollsnd family haa lived at
Rogue River, In neighboring Jackson
county, for a year. Funeral service
were held la that city this afternoon.
ALIEN CRIMINALS
SAYS LEGIONNAIRE
Californian Says Labor Sec
retary Stands Charged
With Dereliction of Duty
in Failure Observe Laws
WASHINGTON. Oct. 25. (API
A California Legionnaire accused
Secretary Perkins today of "notor
iour." coddling of "alien criminals
and offenders against the laws of
our land."
The accusation came from Harper
Knowlea, chairman of the American
Legion's radical research committee
In California, in testimony before a
house committee investigating un
American activities.
"It Is definitely and specifically
charged," he said, "that Secretary
Perkins has been guilty of derelic
tion of duty In her failure to carry
out tho laws of the country which
In her assumption of office she sol
emnly assumed and swore to fulfill.
"Her coddling of alien criminals
and offenders against the laws of our
land Is so notorious some evidences
must already have been prosented to
your committee."
Knowles referred specifically to
Secretary Per kin's administration of
naturalization and immigration laws.
He and other witnesses before the
Dies committee have charged she
should long ago have caused the
deportation of Harry Bridges, west
coast CIO leader accused of being
an alien communist.
Earlier the committee heard test
imony to the effect California's agri
cultural industry had been a" "major
focal point" for communist party at
tack during the last five years. '
. If the same condition which he
knows to exist In California deporta
tion oases are duplicated elsewhere
In the United States, Knowles con
tinued, "there Is reflected upon the
administration of Secretary Perkins
gross malfeasance of office."
LAD IS KILLED IN
FALL FROM AUTO
KLAMATH FALLS. Oct. 36. P)
Lewis Connor, 4, Qf Chlloquln was
klUed last night when he fell to the
highway from the back seat of a
rapidly moving car, midway between
Chlloquln and Klamath Agency.
The youngster's mother, Mrs. Ira
Connor, Jumped out after her son
before the driver. B. M. Potter of
Chlloquln, could bring the car to s
stop. She was seriously Injured.
The accident occurred when the
back door of the Potter sedan flew
suddenly open. The boy was alone
In the rear of the ear, Mrs. Connor
and Potter occupying the driver's
seat.
Londoners Grope In
Grimy Fog Blanket
LONDON, Oct. 36. OP) Londoners
groped their way to work today la
fog so thick even dogs got lost. .
Road, rail, sea and air traffic was
slowed to a crawl or stopped In grlmv
darkness that blanketed a 40-mlle
circle around the capital.
Six greyhounds racing at the North
London track lost their way on t
far curve and kennel boys had to
go out to find them.
Sprague Confident Voters
Will Resent Interference
PORTLAND, Oct. 35. (AP)
Charles A. Sprague, Republican can
didate for governor, declared In t
radio speech laat night ha was "con
fident tha votera of Oregon' will re
pudiate outside Interference In local
affairs."
Sprsgue appstently referred to an
Indirect attack upon him yeaterday
by Harold L. lckea, secretary of the
Interior. '
"I would remind you that Oregon
Is a sovereign state, on of the 48
states which mske up the union."
Sprsgue also aald. "I would remind
you, too, that thla state haa been
free and Democratic alnoa Ita origin."
Sprague charged that "true Demo
crats" saw among their party's new
leadera a "body of disgruntled poli
ticians hungry for th loot of of
fice." "The hypocrisy of It all It that
thla bandit crew la operating In the
name of the New Deal." Sprague
aald. "Behind the nam of President
Rooaevelt'a humanitarian program
they connive to erect a political ma
chine to hold Oregon In pawn."
Pear Markets
NEW YORK. fVt 9.S (sn.rran.
PEARS: 25 ears arrtaferf. 9 ruiif.i.
S Washington, 13 Oregon, 1 New York
unloaded. 30 on track fHM n
00 No. 1, tl.T0o2.l5; average tl.97:
iew uuicy, ii.jbji.ou; average, 1.53.
CHICAGO. Oct. 25 lip.lmni'
PEARS: 1 California, 3 Oregon, I
Washington arrived. 12 on truck,
Oregon Oolden Bosc 720 No. 1, tl.SS
vi.nu; average, ti.77.
LOST ALL NIGHT
IN ROGUE FOREST
Lost In the woods all night, O. A.
Robblns of 420 Columbus avenue waa
found at 9 o'clock thla mornlmr hv
Lee Port, ranger In charge of the Ap
plegate district of th Rogue River
national forest. He waa none the
worse for his experience and com
mented: "I was all right but my
camp got loat." He -had been out
minting.
Robblns went on the hunting trio
yesterday morning with Mr. and Mrs.
Oren M. Murphy, Medford, and Eu
gene Mee and Edward Kiibll, Runh.
The hunters made their camp In a
cabin at Donomore, near tho Oregon-
caurornia una threo mllea south and
west of Dutchman peak.
When Robblns returned to camn
laat evening, supper waa not ready
and so ha aald he would maka a
short trek to sea If ha could scare
up a deer.
When aupper waa ready 20 minutes
later, his companions called him.
There waa no response. Then they
fired their rifles to call him In. Still
there waa no response.
Fearing Robblns had fallen off a
cliff or had accidentally shot him
self, bit colleagues telephoned for
aid to Mr. Port at the Star ranger
station In the Applegata. Mr. Port,
Albert Young, protective assistant at
tht station, and Lanes Offcnbaoher,
a neighbor, set out to Join tha hunt
ers In a search.
The men searched all night, cams
to camp thla morning for breakfast
and then resumed the hunt for Rob
blns. Mr. Port found Robblns sit
ting ui)der a bluff two mllea from
camp.
Robblns explained that after leav
ing camp at supper time ha went
down a bluff and then got loat. He
lighted a campflre to keep warn dur
ing tha night. Mr. Port tracked him
down by hla footprints.
ex-gOTs
currency czar
GRANTS PASS. Oct. 24. (API
Preston Delano, newly sworn In to
day aa comptroller of the currency,
la a former Grants Pass man, resi
dents here recall.
Ha waa for two years manager of
the clty'a California and Oregon
Coast railroad, which started 12 miles
from Grants Pass to Crescent City,
but got only a far aa 14 mllea be
fore tho outbreak of tha world war
In 114 halted construction.
J. R. Harvey, until recently secre
tary of the chamber of commerce,
said ha now uses Delano'a desk
"and therefore ought to bt next In
Una for promotion."
R. K. Hackett, branch bank man
ager, recalls Delano as "a good ten
nis player." .
The railroad haa never extended
beyond where Delano built It. He
waa In charge of tht section from
Wlldervlll to Waters creek.
BONNKVTLLC. Oct. 25 (AP) Ore
gon's "tory press" and Republican
candidates suffering from "editorial
Indigestion" were assailed yeaterday
by Interior Secretary Harold U lckea
In a speech at Bonneville dam.
Tha candidate receiving lckea at
tention apparently waa Charles A.
Sprague. editor of tht Salem States
man and Republican candidate for
governor, although lckea declared It
waa not neoeassry to nam tha per
son In question.
"It la a tribute to New Deal senti
ment In Oregon, however, that tha
Republican candidate for governor
of Oregon haa proclaimed himself as
sn ardent admirer of President
Roosevelt and the New Deal adminis
tration," lckea commented.
"But the people hare can't be
rooted. Ha (the candidate) may be
reactionary and write reactionary edi
torials then suddenly decide ha la a
liberal candidate. Ht doesn't fool
any on. He may be for th utility
Interests, then suddenly decide be
Isn't so strong for th utility Interests."
DEMOCRATS CUT
STATE GOP LEAD
All-Time Record Set With
557,620 Eligible to Vote
in Coming Election
G. 0. P. 13,189 Ahead
SAIJffM, Ore., Oct. 25. (AP) Ajs
all-time record total of 557,620 Ora
gonlans will be eligible to vote In
the November general election, a
gain of 11,588 over tha previous rec
ord aet In tha 1938 general election.
Republicans lead the Democrats
281,135 to 267,048, Republicans losing
7000 since 1936 while the Democrats
gained 20,000. In 1936 Republicans
had a 41,000 majority, and It waa
only 18,000 for the primary laat May.
Now It haa been cut to 18,139, tha
Democrats having failed again to
take the lead, something which they
have not enjoyed aince Civil war
days, .
Democrats have majorllea In II
counties, Baker, Columbia, Coos,
Crook.- Deschutes. Gilliam, Harney,
Jefferson, Klamath, Malheur, Mult
nomah, Union and Wallowa.
Both parties gained In eight coun
ties, Clackamaa, Deschutes, Grant,
Josephine, Lane Lincoln, Malheur,
and Polk. Republicans lost la all
the rest.
Democrats, loat In eight counties.
Crook, Curry, Gilliam, Harney, Hood
River, Jackson, Sherman and Wasco.
In the first congressional district
(Western Oregon) Republicans lead
143.279 to 118.040, white In tha sec
ond district (eastern Oregon) Demo-'
crate lead 83.280 to 50.442. In tha
third district (Multnomah county)'
Democrats have a 06,611 to 88,414'
margin.
Election officials laid the Bear
record waa unexpected, slnoe this It)
an "off year" and 1936 waa a nraal-
dentlsl year, but they attributed tha
large registration to the bard-fought
gubernatorial race between Charles
A. Sprague. Republican, and Henry
U Hess, Democrat.
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NEW MEXICO WPA
GRAFT CITATIONS
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.. Oat. 35. (A,
Before a courtroom packed to capac
ity, a mass arraignment waa held
today for 71 persona charged with
graft and political conspiracy through
manipulation and organisation of th
New Mexico WPA.
Only four pleas war received, aa
of them pleas of Innocent.
In virtually all other oases, tht
defendants were given until Novem
ber 8 to file objections to th validity
of the Indictment handed down last
Thursday by the federal grand Jury,
Many of th defendanta, not repre
sented by counsel, were ordered t
return later on call of the court.
Judge Colin Neblett directed no
further plea would bt received by
th court until the validity of tht
Indictments, prepared with tha
slstance of th department of Juatlos,
waa definitely eatabllshed.
V. a. Atty. Everett Grantham ex
pressed the belief thla would delay
trial until mid-November, and pos
sibly later.
Plea of Innocent war entered by
Salamon Chaves, cousin of U. . Sen.
Dennla Chaves; Vernon Baker anal
Max Robertson, WPA foreman from
stancla: and Arthur t. DanM of
Albuquerque.
Stanley W. P. Miller, who waa
relieved aa assistant United States
district attorney, stood with a alight
smile before Judge Neblett whan hi
name waa called.
Milter, Mrs. Anita Tafoya, th sister
of Senator Chavex; Mr. J. A. Werner,
wife of the Albuquerque postmaster:
Former State WPA Administrator
Ired G. Healy: Joe Martlnea, th see
re tary of Senator Chaves, and other
state, federal and WPA workers In
dicted, were arraigned under on
Indictment.
Big Steel Shows
Loss For Quart tr
NEW YORK. Oct. 26. ( AP) Tb
TJ. 8. Steel Corp. reported today for
th third quarter ended September
30 t deficit of tS,47,79l. Thla com
pared with a June quarter deficit of
.5.010.436 and net Income of ttO,
617,838, equal to 13.7 common
ahar for th September quarter tut
yssr.
For th nln month ended Sep
tember to, there waa a deficit of
812.150,188, compared with net In
earn of t90.8S2.65S. In th compar
able 1937 period. Equal to H5 k
bar ea common Mock.