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The Weather Forecast Cloudy with rain tonight and Friday, slightly colder to night. Temperature Highest e.trrda 0 Lowest this morning .47 Lose $1 a Day StlU thera la a demand for houses and apartments. Why lose Si a day waiting for a tenant when a two-bit ad to this newspaper will turn the trick pronto? Why not take care of It today? Medford TRIBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD. OREGON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1938. No. 187. ran nniw hi ii mum- Ul iV, h UUUM nn (o fianMieR1 n a rem nhcktc 111 HI I WB S)B ran v Krt) raraw&SK ill I u u u u i . , The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. PONDER SHAKFXP FOR COMMUNICATIONS AGENCY INTERNAL FRICTION RESISTS SETTLEMENT r. R. MAY ASK ALL MEMBERS TO qtjIT NEW AGENCY FORMATION MAY RE ALTERNATIVE WASHINGTON. Oct. 27. A great government agency of the future1 la the federal communications commls alon. So far. its history Is short, and lta activities have been aimless and occasionally sordid. But, sooner or later, the federal power over the ' whole vest system of modern com munication, by telephone, telegraph, radio and television, will be used to establish a coherent national policy. And then the commission or some substitute for It will have to ad minister the policy. The importance of the problem con scarcely be exaggerated It's been convincingly argued, for example, that rapid communication makes modern dictatorship possible by bringing a great state Into the com pass of a small room equipped with microphones. And It's of the greatest general Interest, therefore, that the White- House Is pondering a drastic shake-up of the commission. The president la reliably reported to be as dissatisfied with the FCC situa tion as he was with that in the TVA before he ousted Chairman Arthur Morgan. It Isn't necessary to ' retail the. petty story of the FCC. Until a year ago, decidedly nasty rumors as to its management were current In Wash ington. At that time, the president chose Power Commissioner Frank R, McNinch to be his FCC trouble shooter, appointing him commission chairman. McNinch has done his best. But a determined minority among the commissioners has stead fastly opposed him. No concerted pol icy has emerged. And Internal com mission friction recently caused an unholy row over the dismissal of General Counsel Hampson Gary. The preside nt's attitude is the one he disclosed at the time of the re organization bill that he Is blsmed trm trouble In the Independent agen cies, and must be permitted to clear up the trouble. With this In mind, ha Is understood to be considering (Continued on Page rwelvei AVAILABLE FOR STUDY Sample ballots for the general elec tion. November 8, have been printed, for all Jackson county precincts, and can be obtained at the county clerk's office, by all who desire them. The sample ballots list candldatea and measures, the same as the official ballots, but are In pink and green colors. . The official ballots have also been printed, one for each of the 17.988 registered voters In Jackson county. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS ....,- wall Lowrv catching a 40-pound salmon while grlnled anglers fished around all day with out a strike, shs then bringing good luck to her uncle. Etha Wall, who bagged a big buck right after she Joined hta hunting party. r.il Miller and Nellie Read not relishing an antl Democratic Joke related with much gusto ny pat Republican friend. Johnny Relsscher trying" to con vine people that the blue floor In his new Pisno studio Is really good looking.. Dorothy Prultt being an excellent amateur photographer In addition to her many other cultural abilities Fletcher Fish dashing madly Into a drug store to mske a quick pur chase ol a five-cent handkerchief. he being annoyed when he hsd to wait fUr mlnutci to get alted on In the meantime nuffcnrm consider ablj from the actions of his noae. Demand Restoration Open Door Policy in Trade With Chinese (By the Associated Press) The United States put the world on notice today, in the words of President Roosevelt, this nation intends to keep foreign interference away from the western hemisphere and will not disarm "while neighbor nations arm to the teeth." Bulwarking this, Mr. Roosevelt wrote Secretary Swanson on this 17th Navy Day the fleet must be ready to insure pro tection "against any aggressor." Navy Day found shipyards humming with preparations for liny eventuality. Seventy-five craft either are on the ways or about to be started and tonnage figures showed Great Britain alone ranks with the United States in warships afloat or building. Meanwhile, it became apparent Japanese-American relations might become strained, should Japan not satisfy a blunt demand from the state department it cease' interfering with American rights in China, and keep open the "open door" to Oriental trade. WASHINGTON, Oct. 37. (AP) The United States government has told Japan in a strongly-worded note to stop "unwarranted Interference" with American rights In China. The 3000-word statement, presented by Ambassador Joseph O. Grew In Tokyo October 6, but made public of the "open door" policy In the Orient. " , An early reply waa requested. The unofficial interpretation ' here was that If a favorable answer did not arrive soon, relations - between the two countries would become strained. The United states accused JaDan oV seeking to make another Man.r choukuo out of the portlona of China she has occupied, and listed a long series of violations of American business and property rights. Monopoly Sought The note charged Japan with try ing to monopolize all trade In China through setting up pseudo-Chinese monopolies; with manipulating cur rency in north China; with altering the tarlffa; - with keeping American business mn'n from their properties: with censoring and Interfering with American mall and telegrams at Shanghai. ... It called Japan's changes In the customs offices "arbitrary and Il legal assumptions of authority for which the Japanese government has an Inescapable responsibility." , All these violations, said the note. "Indicate clearly the Japanese au thorities are seeking to establish In areas which have come under Japanese miutary occupation general preferences for, and superiority of, Japanese Interests, an Inevitable ef fect of which will be to frustrate the practical application of the principle of the open door and deprive Ameri can nationals of equal opportunity." Suffering Cited Saying Americans already have Buf fered so greatly from the Slno-Jap-anese conflict that "an early re habilitation of American enterprise In China and of American trade with China can not be expected," the note added: The American government, there fore, finds It all the more difficult to reconcile Itself to a situation In which American nationals must con tend . with continuing unwarranted Interference with their rights at the hands of the Japanese authorltlea in China and with Japanese actlona and pollclea which operate to deprive American trade and enterprise of equsltty of opportunity in China. . . "Your excellency can not fall to recognize the existence of a grest and growing disparity between the treatment accorded American na tionals and their trade and enter prise by Japanese authorities in China and Japan and the treatment accorded Japanese nationals and their trade and enterprise by the govern ment of the United States In areas within Its Jurisdiction." (Continued on Page Three ) Roosevelt Warning Brings Criticism From Nazi Press BERLIN, Oct. J7. on The eon trolled German press today .sharply criticised President Roosevelt's ad dress warning against "peace by fear" and his mention of "dispersion all over the world of millions of helpless and persecuted wanderers." The Hamburger Premdenblatt ad vised him to "remember the Indians when sobbing about the Jews." The Berlin Lokalanzelger said his mention of foreign armament and their purposes was merely an apology for America's own armament pro gram. TOKYO. Oct. 37. 't The United Staiea note demanding "unwarranted Interference" with American rights in China be stopped, will not be published in Japan. The note wasedellvered to the Jap anese government by United flutes Ambassador Joseph C. Grew Oc tober 6 but was divulged In Wash ington only today. only today, demanded continuance E TO TEETH NEW YORK,- Oct. 27. (AP)TUe United States, through ' President fiooeevelt, served; notice otj the world, today It would protect the western hemisphere from foreign Interference and, while desiring disarmament, would not disarm "while neighbor nations arm to the teeth." The president, in his first prtA nouncement on American foreign policy since the Czechoslovakia n crisis, made 4 virtually precedent shattering condemnation of nations which employ force, exile and re pression as Instruments of national policy. - . Must Not Threaten He declared the governments of foreign nations "must, not threaten the world with the disaster of war" and asserted no useful purpose ta served to suggest "either to the f American people or the peoples of other nations the American govern ment In lta policies, lta practices and Its servants are actuated by motives of dishonor or corruption. "To do so." he said, "Is, of neces sity, an attack on the American sys tem of constitutional representative government Itself." The president voiced his views last night In an address broadcast from the White House to the eighth an nual New York Herald Tribune forum on current problems. The chief executive followed his predecessor. Herbert Hoover, who urg ed the United States to Initiate re sumption of world economic confer ences as a vital step toward pence, and Viscount Halifax, the British foreign minister. British Link Urged The British cabinet minister, in a broadcast from London, urged the United States to Join hands with Great Britain In establishing world peace, and again defended his na tion's course in the recent crisis. Sitting before a microphone In the (Continued on Psge Three Although the note specifically re quested a prompt reply, ths Japanese foreign office said no definite date for anawerlng It had been set. LONDON. Oct. 37. p President Roosevelt's speech against "peace by fear" appeared today to offer new ammunition at a strategic time for critics of maintaining peace through concessions to dictators. These critics saw the president's broadcast last night as an Implied slap at the peace of Munich, which became the direct Issue In a par liamentary by-electton at Oxford today. The election was the first since the Czechoslovak crisis brought Eu rope to the brink of war. Official made . no comment but political quarters attached signifi cance Insofar as the Munich accord was concerned to Mr. Roosevelt's assertion. "Peace by fear has no more enduring quality than peace by the wort.' Rosser TO CAMPAIGN IN REM HAGUE Court Order Restrains Jer sey Officials From Inter ference With Members of Labor Organization . By MA1.C0I.M L. STEPHEN SON NEWARK. N. J.. Oct. 37. (AP) The CIO and allied organizations won a federal court order today re straining Mayor Prank Hague and fellow Jersey City officials from "de porting" members, or Interfering with their rights to speak In public parks, distribute leaflets and carry pla cards. The decision was handed down by Circuit Judge William Clark, who sat as district Judge at the trial last spring of an Injunction suit brought by the Committee for Industrial Organisation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and several co-plaintiffs. They asked Hague and his colleagues on the city administration be enjoined from Interfering with their organizational activities. Censorship Advocated Piling of the suit followed inter- ruptlon of the CIO's attempt last November t distribute literature and organize workers In Jersey City a move which Hague called an "In vasion." Police arrested 13 organizers and sympathizers and escorted scores of -others from the city. In his opinion today, which' Judge Clark . haa . expressed hope will appealed, he recommended "a modi fied form of public censorship' a requirement an advance copy of a speech must be- furnished to authorl tlea In esses where "the particular persona applying for permits had on previous occasions addressed similar audiences with resulting disturb ances." . The 16,000-word decision did not rule on the plaintiff's complaint the Hague administration Intimidated owners of private meeting halls Into refusing to rent to them. The Judge ruled there was no competent evi dence to connect city officials with the Inability to obtain Indoor meet ing place. Lnlon Rights Unmentloned -Neither did the decision deal with the prayer for relief from Inter ference with picketing, union organi zation and other rights under the national labor relations set. Judge Clark said he already had upheld these rights In another case, which la now up on appeal. Judge Clark's decision, bringing to an end the 10-month -old case In which the American Civil Libert lea Union Joined the CIO and a number of Its leaders and affiliates as cox plaintiff, did not once mention com munism. EYED BY SAVANTS CHICAGO, Oct. J7. (API every thing that moves seems upside down to elght-yesr old Richard Kenealy. The discovery by his psrents snd teachers that Richard's world la topsy-turvey made him an object of scientific curlouslty today. The boy, a second grade pupil, reads upside down snd backward A moving automobile, he said, seems as though Ita wheels are In the air but when It stops It ta Instantaneously back to normal. On the playground Richard's frlenda appear to be running upside down, and a ball thrown overhand appears to be delivered with an un derhsnd"sweep. Dr. 0. J. Krump. a public school optometrist, said the case wss unique In his 10 years of practice. NEW YORK, Oct. 37. fyfi Oregory W. O'Keefe, assistant collector of the port, aald today customs agents had raided the Park avenue apart ment of State Supreme Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer In search of gowns, hats. Jewelled slippers, cigarettes snd other goods allegedly smuggle Into the United States an the French liners Normandleand tie ds France. The application for the search war rant waa filed by Asst. U. S. Atty. Joseph L. Delaney. who declined to discuss the cast. The application was baaed on an affidavit by Gordon H Pike, customs seen Is Denied Reduction of Bail Three Principal Democratic Candidates in Coming Election Raise Loudest Denial; Propaganda Seen SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 37. (AP) Denials ranging from the amused to tho vitriolic swelled to a state-wide chorus today as witnesses before the Dies committee In Washington In volved more and more names In a widening circle they accused of "un American activities." Promptest and hottest disavowals came from the three principal Demo cratic candidates to be voted upon In the November 8 election: Sheridan Downey, for United States senator; Cuthbert L. Olson, for governor, and Ellis E. Patterson, lieutenant gov ernor. Chief target of the protests waa Harper Knowles, the American Le gion Investigator and secretary of the California Associated Farmers, who testified before the committee. Propaganda Seen Candidate Olson, whom Knowles accused of accepting "the program of the strategy committee of the communist party," characterized the testimony as "the usual political propaganda." "I do not know any communists nor any strategy committee of the communist party," he' said flatly. ' Candidate' Downey asserted he was "totally opposed to communistic philosophy" and daolared the Knowles testimony to the effect he was allied with the communist party was "unequivocally false and de liberately given out at this time for campaign purpose'" Candidate Patterson's denial or any connection with the communist party called Knowles "a madman" and "a publicity greedy stooge." fc Clark Denies John O. Clark, Democratic state chairman, was named by Knowles as having actually belonged to the com munist party. He ssld this charge waa "absolutely unfounded." Upton Sinclair, the liberal writer who unsuccessfully ran for governor on the Democratic ticket In 1034, wired Chairman Martin Dies of the committee from Los Angelea he was not and never had been a com munist. Harry Bridges. CIO west coast di rector who topped the Knowles' list of communist agents, retorted "Hsr per Knowles la pixilated." WASHINGTON, Oct. 87. (AP) Houae Investigators heard testimony today Oov. Frank Murphy of Michi gan had told a crowd of workers in Lansing "this government must pro tect you." at a time when some of their fellows were under arrest for violating a court order. , The witness, J: H. Crelghton. Lan sing newspsper reporter, said It waa "reasonable to Infer" Murphy, In speaking of protection from "dicta torial and arbitrary Judgments," waa referring to an Injunction restrain ing pickets from keeping non-strikers out of Lansing automobile plants. Crelghton was testifying before the house committee Investigating a throng of workers massed In front of the cspltol steps on Lansing's so-called labor holiday of June 7, 1837. The labor holiday, he explained, was called In protest against the ar rest of 7 or 8 persons charged with violating the court order. He ssld the injunction wss Issued by Cir cuit Court Judge Leland W. Carr. Quia To Proceed The Introduction of further testl monv sbout Murphy followed a decision of the committee to proceed with Its work, although two mem bers wanted to suspend and Presi dent Roosevelt had rebuked It for permitting previous criticism of the governor. A majority of ths seven members hare agreed to proceed, ssld Chair man Dlea ID., Tex ), overruling the suggestion of Representatives Demp sey D N. M.) and Healey (D.. Mass.) hesringa be stopped until after .the November 8 elections. President Roosevelt accused the committee of allowing Itself to be come a political forum. Dlea said he and Representatives Mosler ID., Ohio), Mason (R., III.) and Thomas (R., M. J.) hsd voted to proceed. Representative Stsmes ID.. Ala.) waa not reached. Opening today'a eeaalon. the ehslr msn excused Homer Martin, preal dent of the United Automobile Work era' Union. Martin had asked he be excused because It would not contribute to industrlsl peace for him to "reopen old wounds" before a committee which he asld had unwittingly to la Jed In partisan pollUce. Blames Bridges for Strike Harper Knowles of Onklnnd, Calif., chairman of the radical reearch committee of the American legion told the Dies un-American committee In Washington that an orgnnlratlon headed by Harry Bridges, C. I. O. maritime leader, began ngltntlon which "brought about the San Francisco general strike (In 1134) and chaos to the inn rill me Industry. Knowles, shown unwrapping some of the evidence he brought with him- to sup port his charges, also asserted Bridges wns a member of the Communist party. (A. P. photo.), EARLY MORNING BLAZE AT PACKING COMPANY DOES SLIGHT DAMAGE Negligible damage waa dona by fire at the Rogue River Orchards com pany packing plant at 1311 North Central avenue early this morning. Only alight damage was done to the loading platform near the railroad siding. ' Alertness of William T. Mllhoan. watchman, In discovering, reporting and fighting the blaze waa credited by Chief Roy Elliott with preventing a possibly serious fire. Mr. Mllhoan had the blaee partially controlled when firemen arrived, the chief stated. The fire was probably caused by a clgaret tossed Into sawdust scat tered around tho railroad tracks nd under the loading platform. Chief Elliott said. Because of the hazardous character of the neighborhood which Includes mills, lumber yards, wood yards and packing plants, a general alarm was sounded. The alarm was sounded at 4:06 a. m. , DEATH COMES TO ZIWIBALIST NEW YORK. Oct. 37. VP) Alma Qluck Zlmballst, famous opera sing er of past yearn, and wife of Efrem Zlmballst, the violinist, died today. She was 54, She died at Rockefeller Institute hospital after a long Illness. Mrs, Zlmballst was born In Bu charest. Rumania. In 1084 and came to America In 1800. She was educated In the public schools and attended Normal college In New York and Union college 1n Scheneceady. She atudled music under the fa mot is singing teacher, BuzEl-Peccta. She married Zlmballst on June 18. 1014. They had two children, Mary Virginia (Mrs. Ogden Ooelet) and Efrem. - She made her debut at the Metro politan opera in "Werther" In 1000. and during the same season sang eleven different roles, only two of which she had previously studied. STOLEN AUTO FOUND IN GOLD HILL BRUSH State police aald thla afternoon they had recovered an abandoned 1981 Chevrolet 'aedan In the brush near Gold .Hill, the mschlne having been stolen off a Klamath Falls street yesterday. The car waa registered to Clarence Mand, and carried Wisconsin license plates., tt was apparently undamaged when discovered, police said. SAILING SKIPPER MAD BOSTON. Oct. 37. (AP) The ill ver cup embjematlo of the North At lantic Fishermen's champlomhtp could not be found today as the race committee assembled to - make lta presentation io Capt. Angus Walters, whose Canadian salt banker, Blue nose, retained the trophy by defeat ing the Oartrude h. Thebaud of the United States In a three out of fire series. , . . Sputtering In anger, Captain Walt erg aald: "That eup must ba found or else." No sooner had the captain regain ed hla composure than ha waa noti fied by a nervous race committee the $3,000 prize money, part of the original deed of gift, likewise was not Immediately available. The committee, after a hasty con ference, told Captain Walters tha money would be paid eventually but it had not yet been raised. Walters domanded he be paid to day. He said It coat him between 13.000 and 116,000 to get hla schooner ready to come from Lunen burg, N, 8., to Oloucester for the races. BUNDSTERS LATE 1 IN GETTING HOI NBWARK. N. J., Oct. 37. (UP) More than 100 members of the German-American bund left Schwaben hall at 1:30 a. m. today after a threatening antl-nasl crowd outside hsd dispersed. Police escorted the bund members to their automobllea In groups of two and three, when demonstrators who had milled around for hours called It a night and went home. Following a meeting of the New. ark-lrvlngton unit of the bund last night, the members, after one futile attempt to leave, returned to the hall rather than run the gauntlet of their opponents. Police arrested flvs men In the outside crowd during the evening on charges ranging from assault and battery to loitering. JURY DEADLOCKS IN STAN LAUREL'S CASE LOS ANOELIS, Oct. 7. JPDU. charge of the deadlocked Jury at tempting to decide the guilt or Innocence of Comic Stan Laurel on charges of drunk driving and drunk ermeaa waa ordered in municipal court this sfJcrnooB- BY BALKS 'SPRINGING' OF ARSONLEADER i Special Prosecutor Moody Says Physicians Found Former Teamsters' Chief' Not Seriously III. PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 37. VPt Tlie denial of a defense motion to re duce ball on alx Multnomah county charges stymied "release of Al Rosser. former secretary of the Joint council of Oregon A PL teamsters, today. Rosser. convicted of arson compll-. city In the destruction of a box fae. tory at West Salem, la In the Polk county Jail pending appeal from e. 12-year prison sentence. In denying a request by Charles Roblson, Rosser's attorney, to cut. the S16.500 ball to S8.00O, circuit Judge Robert Tucker said: "It has been urged that the ball has been reduced In othen) Jurtsdtc tlons, but In these Jurisdictions the amount fixed waa such as after con siderable time It was considered ex cessive, and. upon the first applica tion, aa the court understands, the same was reduced. Would Involve Others "The court does not feel that at thla Juncture that this ball should be reduced to this defendant Rosser;' that if It were reduced aa to him l' would neccesaarily have to be reduced' aa to other defendants." ' Roblson obtained reduction of ball in Polk and Washington counties from a total of iso,ooo to 160.000. He urged the reduction because Ros ier was 111 and required hospitalisa tion. . . . Ralph Moody, apeclal lnveatlgator named to prosecute labor cases, aa-' sorted Independent , physicians dev oured the former AFL teamster lead.-' sr'a condition was not serious. He ealct he feared that If Rosser was released' he might "not be here" when tho state needed him because there wae evidence of lntereat from "higher tips" In getting him out of the way; While Roblson argued for the re duction. Moody recommended an In crease to at least S50.000. He stated the charges against Rosser In connec tion with labor violence here were) equally as serious aa those in Polk and Washington counties. The tie, too sum wae fixed, he added, aa "nominal" amount Inasmuch as large balls already had been demanded lm Dallas and Hlllsboro, EVIDENCE OF SPYING IS RETURNED AFTER : MYSTERIOUS ABSENCE NEW YORK, Oct. S7. P Federal officials who reported vital evidence In the government's spy case had disappeared were consoled late today when U. 0. Atty. Lamar Hardy, with out explanation, brought the missing documents Into court. "Well, there they are," he aald of a book containing photographle copies of eight letters which had been Introduced as evidence In the trial of three alleged German spies. He did not explain where the exhlblta had been found. Seven of the letters were written by Ouenther Oustav Rumrlch, 32, C. 8. army deserter and oonf eased espionage agent for the third releh, to German named Sanders In cant of the spy ring's ' "relay poet" In Duni've. Scotland. Dlsiuvery of the records quieted specu.atlon whether spies were ac tually at work within the federal eourthoue during the spy trial. INCENDIARY FIRES ROSEBURO. Ore.. Oct. 7. P)- Twelve Incendiary fires, fanned by 3ft mile wind, awept over 130 scree of timber lands In the south Cmp qua district of the Umpqua National forest lete Wednesday, local head quarter reported today. The fire waa the largest on the Umpqua forest thla year despite the lateness of the sea son. Pour fires were set In one group and eight In another, burning to gether Into two fires. They were brought under control by CCC crews from camps on the North end South Vmpqu tlrera. 1
