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The Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday with Hi lit showers and slightly colder to night. Temperature Highest yesterday -..5A Lowest this morning www..45 Losing Money Every dsy that hoiue or apart ment stsnil, vacant you ate losing money, bnt the taxes mutt be paid. The quickest and mott satisfactory &y to rind a tenant Is by advertising In the Tribune. MEDFORD TRIBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDF.ORD, OREGON, MOXD AY, OCTOBER 31, 19P.S. No. 190. fUl fnllo)o)fnlo) olRMiMA M BANO ' I HIX1(S)!JEI i The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. LEHMAN EXPECT FOl.ETTl TO BE HIS SUCCESSOR Rt'NNINO-MATE VIEWED AS LEFT-WING DEMOCRAT IRONY SEEN IN CHOICE OF A CONSERVATIVE DRAFTED TO AID NEW DEAL AFTER ASSAILED AS FOE WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. In the ex citements of the New York campaign, the meaning of Herbert Lehman's price for running again has escaped general attention. His public con tract with the worried New York Democrat called only for Charles Polettl'a nomination as lieutenant governor. But his private expectation Is that Polettl will also be his suc cessor when the time comes. Tom Dewey may steal the great In heritance, but, for the present, young Polettl Is the acknowledged heir ap parent of the governor of New York. And that (act presents a puzzle ot considerable national significance. Lehman's dislike and distrust of the president and his New Dealers, and the hearty way In which the White House returnB these emotions are open secrets. Yet. by anointing Polettl, Lehman, the acclaimed Demo cratic conservative, has not only weakened the local power ot the. New Dealers' great enemy, Jim Farley. He hna alao advanced one of the lew men In New York politics with whom the New Dealers leel themselves In com plete sympathy. Polettl la a shrowd, energetic young fellow, son of a New England stone cutter, largely self-educated, and an able lswyer. Some time ago, politics tempted him from the Wall Street office of Davis, Polk. Wardwell, Gard iner and Reed. He attracted Lehman's attention, became counsel to the gov ernor, and was subsequently appoint ed to the bench. He still remains Lehman's right-hand man, but his relations are very close with the New Deal element In Washington and the labor party leaders in New York. He served the labor party as Its floor leader In the state constitu tional convention, and, unless nil ap pesrances deceive, he la a distinctly left-wing Democrat. Fortunately lor him, he Inspires confidence In men ot different opin ions. Besides the fatherly affection of Herbert Lehman, he retains the trust of his deeply conservative former boss. John W. Davis, jho recently snnounced for the Democrats on his account. . ' The story oi Charles Polettl orlngt out the fu)l irony of the New York situations Not so very many months tgq,1spers were coming from the White House that Lehman would be quietly retired from politics. The whispers hinted that he was a sad backslider, and one who had outlived his usefulness. And now, the man whom 'thf; New Deal didn't need" has not only been drafted aa the one candidate who may keep New York Democratic. He has also won advancement tor the young liberal, Pol-ttl, where the New Dealers felled so mleerably to do the same thing for their favorite, Solicl- (Contlnued on Page Four.) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Florence Month af wearing a atun nlng pancake hat at a rakish angle over one ear. The laddies at the (Ire hall pan derln the meaning of Ajssistaut Chief Henry Harwell's vacation trip north In view of the fact he took no flKhtng tackle aa per usual. Florence Scherrer gradually regain ing use of her arm after a too en thusiastic session of badminton. Little 3-year-old Jimmy Murray roughing up the old mm who came :ff ercond best with a decolored ey-!. Ed Hoilaud running out of gas ten minutes after declaring It was foolish and needless ever to do so. It bcir.,5 reported that Fnssr 8o-k je Jsck McDonald can't trip the iuht fantastic with the skill be aiiom in t.'Aslng hulking opponents around the ring. WELLS' FANTASY PROVOKES PANIC Investigation and Corrective Legislation Is Demanded After Sunday Eve Scare Listeners Miss Point Fiction, Not News LONDON, Oct. 31. (AP) H. O. Wells, whose "War of the Worlds furnished the basis of the broad cast which spread alarm In the United States last night, said to day it was "implicit" in the agree ment for selling the radio righW any broadcast would clearly "be fiction and not news." The novelist added he gave no permission whatever for altera tions which might lead to the be lief tha broadcast material was real neu-a. By riIAKI.ES A. GROUCH NEW YORK, Oct. 31. ( AP) A horrible fantasy of war waged on the United States by fearsome, space conquering men from Mars brought near panic to that part of the na tion's radio audience which was not tuned In last night on Charlie Mc Carthy's rival radio program. In the double-quick tempo of the news broadcasters, the fiction of a Columbia program became so real istic hysteria prevailed among lis teners throughout the United States and Canada. Demands for investigation and correction came apace today with the belated reports of a most fan tastic panic. To Seek Control Sen. Clyde L. Herring (D., Ia.) said he plnnncet to Introduce In congress a bill "controlling Just such abuses aa waa heard over the radio last night. . . . Radio has no more rinht to present programs like that than someone has in knocking on your door and screaming." he added. City Manager Paul Morton of Tren ton, N. J., near the locale of the fictional Invasion, said he would dpmand an Investigation by the fed eral communications commission with "the view of preventing recurrence of what happened." Some apartment houses In New York were emptied hurriedly by frantic listeners to the program and by second and third hand ac counts that multiplied the Impending peril. Suicide Tried A woman In Pittsburgh tried sui cide, saying "I'd rather die this way than like that." At a high point in the program the electric power failed at Concrete. Wash., a town of 1000, and the lights went out in most of the homes. Many thought the Invasion had reached the west coaat. Women faint ed and men prepared to take their families to the mountains. In a statement expressing "deep regret" over apprehension the broad cast caused among radio listeners, (Continued on Page Eight.) Robert Ray Riley, 17, alleged by the state police and sheriff, to have engaged In a series of auto, thefts In the Ashland district, and the rob bery of a number of summer cabin In the Hyatt lake and Dead Indian districts, the past month, Is held In the county Jail, whence he was re turned from upstate Sunday. The youth, a parole violator from the state industrial school at Wood burn, is speclflcAlly charged with burclsry not In a dwelling. It la claimed he burglarized the summer cabin of H. O. Butterfleld In the Hy att lake district. Radio Horror Story Seen Propaganda for New Deal SEATTLE. Oct. 3 1 . A The Se attle Times (Independent) In Ita! i leading editorial today termed last' j nWht's "War of the Worlds" broad -j cast an "altmst rawly obvious" ef- ' I fort to enlist support for the nation- f at administration. It said In part: "Oettlng the utilities ready fcr i war adds an episode to the thrilling i campaign serial. Radio was Induced jto sdd another with the Sunday por trayal of horrors which made thou 1 sands think war already here. "No thoughtful American will acofl . at the chances ot international con- fllct In which the Cnl(d States mar be compelled to participate; no I Bride IP, Husband 34 I . ' ... h I Item I f y I H 1 , RnMe Columbus, 10-year-old girl who lived In a rave last winter, soon will live with her husband, Fleming Tackett, 34, a wldmver, In a mountain enliln under construction near Prestonshurg. Ky. The child hririff win iinve h 'company besides her Tiiuflmnrt In the new home her' parents, two brothers and a sister, a well in some In-laws. (AP Photo.) WARRANTS ISSUED FOR OF ,34 PRESTONBURO. Ky., Oct. 31. Floyd County Judge Edwin P. Hill today signed warrants for Fleming Tackctt. 34. his child-bride. Rose, and Tacketfa mother-tn-law, Mrs. Orace Columbus. The warrant against Tackctt. chnrgpd the miner with rape. Route, who was reported as "under 14" In a second warrant was charged with be ing a delinquent child growing up In "Idleneaa and crime." Medical records in Johnson county ahow Rosle la 10 years old. Mr. Columbuh waa charged In the third warrant with conspiring with Tackett "In the crime of rape upon the person of Rosle Columbus." Judge Hill said officers went to the Tackett cabin in the hills near here early today but found no one there. Hill said the Tarketts and Mm. Columbus wprc reported to have gone to Paintsvllle In adjoining Johnson county and Floyd county officers had token the warrants there. County Atty. Forrest D. Short ear lier had said a gunrdtan for Rose, a bride of a wpk, would be sought. Pear Markets CHICAOO. Oct. 31. (AP-UHDA) Pears: One California, one Oregon -arrived, four on track. Oregon Boac. 717 No. 1, $1.80 a 3.05, average 195, ROGUE VALLEY COUPLE GET WEDDING LICENSE FOREBURQ, Oct. 91 . (Bp!.) Marriage licenses Issued here Include Leon E. Cummlngs, Rogue River and Eleanor Wright, Sama Valley. thouelitful American will decry prop, er measurea of national defense. "But this recent upsurge on the part of the new deal administration cannot be accounted for by any Im mediate prospect of national peril. "It Is better accounted for by Mr. Phrley g speech demanding another congress pledged to do Mr, Roose velt's bidding. Mr. Roosevelt's slam at Europe's dictators, the ultimatum to Japan, the plan to stimulate util ity expansion, the radio scare of Sun day, mltfht all have been deferred with ut rl.'k to the United States, until After next week's election. "That they mere timed for eflect upon the American voter Is almost COMMITTED CRIME TO IS CLAIM OF CONVICT SEATTLE. Oct. 31. (API Paul Wallace, 35-year-old convicted forger, sought freedom on a writ of habeas corpus In superior court today with the contention he deliberately com mitted a crime bo he could continue work on a book In collaboration with Supt. Oeorge W. Rotip of the Mate reformatory at, Monroe. Roup, at Monroe, denied Wallace's statements and said he would come here to appear at the hearing, which was postponed until tomorrow. Wallace, arguing his own petition, said that before hla releaae from the state reformatory October 37, 1037. he entered an agreement with Roup whereby the prisoner was to "admit a crime" and gain confinement In the state penitentiary for further studies on a book about prison life. He snld his conviction of forgery Inst. July resulted from the "agree ment" with Roup. FIFTY ABSENTEES Absentee ballota to be cast from this ennnty In the general election a week frem tomorrow, numbered 50 today, according to the county clerk's office. More applicants were expected. The absentee ballota are Issued to voters, not In the state on election day. They may be obtained by calling at the clerk's office, until the ballot boxes are turned over to the sheriff. Last Friday was the final date for mailing out of absentee ballota. The absentee ballota are held by the county clerk, and placed in the ballot-boxes for the precinct in which the absentee Is registered. They are counted with those cost on election day. CHINESE COUPLE SHANOHAI, Oct. 31. (AP) Seventeen-year-old Pan Plh-Cherg nd nil bride today ended an eight-day hunger atr.ke when Pan'a father, a wealthy Canfon merrhant, Agreed to donate 1.000. 000 Chlneae dollars (about (265.000) to China's war cheat. It vas a compromlfte. Young Psn and his lle had fatrd to ret 4 0O0.. 000 Chinese dollars i040 000 after Pan senior agreed to gl,e only 1,000.000 (ino.ooo.) F. D. R. WILL SEEK LAW TO AIR RAIL President Promises Heads 'of Companies and Labor to Do All Possible for Constructive Program WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. (AP) John J. Pelley, president of the Asso ciation of American Railroads, said today President Roosevelt had prom ised him he would do everything pos sible to get a constructive program for rehabilitation of the carriers en acted Into law. Mr. Roosevelt expressed the hope. Pelley said, auch a program would be drafted by the Informal committee representing railroads and rail labor which the president named several months ago, Pelley said the president had asked him to ascertain the attitude of the railroads toward the fact-finding board's report recommending cancel lation of the proposed 15 per cent wage cut. To Meet Next Week Pelley aaid he agreed to do so, adding his "best guess" waa the man agement would hold a meeting In Chicago next week to outline their stand on the report. George H. Harrison, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives associ ation, who conferred with the presi dent a short time later, repeated vir tually what Pelley had aaid regarding the Informal legislative committee. He said the president "wanta rail road laixr and management, recently appointed as a committee. Immedi ately to take up the problem of de veloping a program of legislation for tne geueral rehabilitation of th. rail road Industry." He added fie' assured the president labor would be "happy to cooperate with th railroads and the govern ment to fulfill his request In that direction." Harrison said a meeting of the six man committee may be held within the next week or ten days. SIX DIE IN BUS, AUTO COLLISION JACKSON. Miss.. Oct. 31. (UP) Six persons were killed and three in jured Sunday when an automobile and a heavily-loaded bus collided nine miles south of here. The five occupants of the automo bile and the bus driver were killed. Three bus passengers were Injured slightly. The dead: Paul Oatnes, 30, New Orleans, the bus driver. J. C. Evans, Brookhaven, Miss., creamery employe, and Mrs. Evans, 18. Mrs. Mart Walker. 35, Brookhaven, and her daughter, Jewel Walker, 17. Annie Ruth AlbrUton, IS, Brook haven. Police aaid Evans cut out of a lane of traffic and rammed into the bus. . WILEY POST Mrs. Wiley Post, wife of the lsU famed aviator, la expeoted to he a brief visitor at Med ford municipal airport Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Post hss booked passage at Seattle, Wash., to Ixm Annelea on the United Malnllner due here at t;34 p. m. Wednesday, Mai c. Henne. company manager here waa notified today. The plane will be In port five minutes. Mrs. Post to returning to her home In Lubbock. Ten,, after attending the dedication of memorial to Mr Poat and Will Rogers near Barrows. Als-ka, where the two men were killed In a plane crash. TAKES LAST TEST FRIEDRICHSHAFEN. Germany, Oct. 31. (AP) With SO persons aboard. Including ft crew of 4o, Ger many's latest dirigible, the LZ-130, took off this afternoon on her final trial flight before be In? taken over by tha Zeppelin company. She was scheduled to remain In air about 24 hours and land tomor row arternoon at Frankfort-on-tht-Main air harbor. DIES CITES a E Un-American Investigation Chairman Unprepared to Charge Action Due to Ad ministration Disapproval WASHINGTON, Oct. 81. (AP) Chairman Dies (D., Tex.) of a house committee investigating un-American activities, said today two public works projects In his district had been cancelled since the committee Inquiry began. He added, however, he waa not prepared to charge the cancellations were due to the administration's dis approval of the methods of the com mittee. President Roosevelt said recently the committee had permitted Itself to be used for political purposes that were unfair and un-American. The committee also has been criticised by Secretary of Interior Ickes, the PWA administrator, and by Secretary of Labor Perklna. Dies said one of the projects for a $13,000,000 dam at Rockland, Tex., waa cancelled soon after the Investi gation began. He showed reporters a copy of a letter dated October 26, In which George M. Bull, PWA regional di rector at Fort Worth, Tex., had noti fied B. T. McWhorter, Jr., of Port Arthur, Tex., a grant for a Port Arthur causeway had been recom mended for reclalon. Dies said the grant was for 9335,000. McWhorter la chairman, of the Port Arthur bridge commission. Dies said he waa prepared to es tablish by testimony under oath, if necessary, the administration had used pressure to obtain time for Paul Y. Anderson, newspaper cor respondent, to answer a radio ad dress tonight In which Dies said he would discuss lack of administration cooperation with the committee. FAILS TO RETURN KLAMATH TAKL3, Oct. 31. (AP) A deputy sheriff and two brothers of the missing man scoured the west side of upper Klamath lake today for Sterling DeWltt, about 25. who failed to come home from a duck hunting expedition. DcWitt and his brother, Ira, be came separated Sunday morning when Sterling aaid he would He low near the lake's edge and watt for ducks to come on closer. When Ira returned to his car In mid-afternoon he saw no sign of his brother. He waited fruitlessly until after 6 p.m. Sterling did not return to his home last night. PLANE SCHEDULES E The public was reminded today of the new United Air Lines schedules that go Into effect here tomorrow. Postmaster Frank DeSoum pointed out that airmails close at the central poa toff ice 45 minutes before plane de parture time. The new schedule follows: North bound trip 3 leaves Medford muni cipal airport at 4:33 a. m.. malls close at 8:48 a. m.; trip 10 leaves at 4:03 p. m., malls close at 3:18 p. m. Southbound Trip 14 yeavea at 1:30 p. m., malls close at 12:64 p. m.: trip 8 leAvcs at 11:30 p. m., malls close at 10:44 p. m. Inciters Warned to Keep Silent on Armistice Day LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 31. A' Natlonal Commander Stephen F Chadwlck of the American Legion In en Interview today called on "mal contents, dissenters, Inciters and de structlonlsts" to keep their "soap boxes" off the streets Armistice day. "Unfortunately." Chadwlck com. merited, "there are number of groups, political and aoclal, which seize this day as a ripe occasion for spreading propaganda, Thsy howl when they should be praying." "Armistice day Is particularly a day for veterans of the World war. It Is their national holiday. as for those of us who come through with our lives, our limbs, and ill or most of our heslth. we regsrd Armistice day ss our time for eelebratlng the victory and living thanks for It. It Is Fannie Gets Divorce Above Is how FHiinle Rrlce of stngc and screen felt about It nil and her emotions are mighty Dear wh?n nhe went to a Los Angeles court anil ob tained a divorce from Hilly Rose, the atrical promoter, who has been re portedly romancing with Eleanor Holm Jarrett. Fannie charged curel- ty and desertion. (A, P. Photo.) THREE CIVIL SUITS SET FOR HEARING IN PRESENT WEEK Three' elvll actions, two of them personal Injury suits, have been scheduled for trial In olrcult court this week. Selection of a Jury In the damage ault of Mrs. Josephine N. Sleight, against Elmer N. Chlldera and Lela R. Chlldera, his wife, started this morning. Mrs. Sleight seeks approx imately 94600 for Injuries alleged):' received when shf fell to the side walk In front of property owned by the defendants on East Main street, near the Bear creek bridge. Negli gence on the part of the defendants In not keeping the sidewalk In prop er repair la claimed. Aa the result of a norma team-mule team swap about a year ago, Ralph Billings and O. H. Billings, of Ash land, seek 9200 from Con DeVore ni Medford. The complaint states that for a team of mules and 970, DeVore agreed to deliver a team of horses suitable for farm work. It Is claimed one of the horses was balky and would not perform farm work, whereupon another horse was substituted, which had but one good eye. In his answer, DeVore contends, had the plaintiffs kept the llrat horse, there would have been no trouble. In the third scheduled suit Frank P. Homer, a fruit worker seeks 98000 damagea from W. H. Norcroaa. Central Point district orchard 1st. Homer al leges that aa a result of a fall from a ladder while picking peara, Septem ber 18, 1937, ha sustained Injuries. He alleges the ladder waa defective. Hearing of testimony In the three cases Is expected to take until Sat urday, when the court will hold a session In Josephine county. , ; THE DALLES (UP) Henry Char ley, Indian, thinks Judge Glenn O. Allen's memory Is altogether too good. In 1038. convicted on a traf fic count, and fined 97, Charley promised to pay "next Monday." Re cently he was called Into court to testify in another case. Judge Allen looked him over, recognized him. and demanded payment. Charley paid up. our thsnkiglvlng ss well as our me morial. Commander Chadwlck ssld es-aerv. Icemen of the World war "are de termined that never gain shall we go to war as unprepared as we were In the lest one. The prime objective of the Legion at present, Chadwlck aaid, U 'a minimum of 6.000 plsnea, fully equip ped, modern, highly serviceable, ready for defense. We want the.n t the rate of about 1.500 a year so at no time will the body of them become antiquated," "Our country has no quarrel with another," Chadwlck continued. "It wants nothing neither land nor pow er that belongs to the other fellow. But with aggressor nations to tha east of us and west of us In Asia and Europe w must ba prepared to defend our own." DOCTORS RECORD LAST HEART BEAT OF Electro-Cardiograph Shows Rapid Pulse in Final Min utes Before Firing Squad Exacts. Death Penalty SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. SI. (AP) Murderer John W. Deerlng faced a firing squad willingly here today, but his heart pounded three times normal, an electro-cftrdlograph film showed late today. Dr. Tephen H. Besley, prison phy sician who srranged to make tha test with the condemned convict's permission, snld the film recorded for the first time the action of a hu-' man heart pierced by a bullet. Deerlng's heart bent Jumped from a normal 7a to 180 and maintained that . clip the several minutes re quired to complete preliminaries for the execution. His henrt fluttered, but the beat remained unchanged at three times normal, each time an officer spoke to the convict. Dr. Besley said tha film showed. When Deerlng wna asked for a Inst statement, his henrt bent flut tered wildly, then calmed after he spoke until bullets ended his life. Dr. Besley said the heart beat stopped 16.6 seconds after the blast,, but the body was not pronounced dead until 2'4 minutes after the shots rang out. Dr. Besley termed the experiment valuable to heart disease specialists. He ssld it showed clearly the effect' of fear on the heart. NO VANDALISM "Have a good time, but don't de stroy property," was the Hallowe'en advice today of Police Chief Clatous McCredte to the youth and not-so-youthful of Medford. Chief McCredle also Issued the warning that parents would be held responsible for any and all property damage done by youngsters celebrat ing All Saint's day. The chief said there was too much damage done last Hallowe'en, and that ateps would be taken tonight to aeep festivities happy but harmless. ' Six extra policemen wilt augment the regular night force, and every part of the city will be kept under careful surveillance. Chief McCredle stated. The sheriff's office and state police will also be out In full force to keep things under control. GRANTS PASS LISTENERS REQUEST FINAL BAPTISM GRANTS PASS, Ore., Oct. SI. (P) A Grants Pass minister confirmed the report today that after last night's fantastic radio rsma of an Invasion of the United States by men from -Mars, several persons call- -ed in excitement at his home seek-. Ing baptism and the benefit of re ligion. Radio Highlights Associated Press (Time Is Eastern Standard) NEW YORK, Oct. 31. (IP) Radio is to pay tribute to the late Minnie, the only singing mouse to be paid $500 for a sponsored broadcast. . Mlnsle, dead ot old age. will be honored by the program In which she made her microphone debut, the Chlongo Jamboree of WJZ-NBC. That waa December IT, 1(37. The tribute will oome at 10 p. m. Tuesday. Tonight (Monday): WEAP-NBO I At Pearce; 8:30 Richard Crooks, ten or; 0:30 Eddy Duchln orchestra; 11:30 Hadsssah annual convention. WABC-CB8 7:30 Eddte Cantor (west repeat 10:30); S Dick Hlmber show: t Carole Lombard In "That Certain Woman." WJZ-NBC S Chicago opera "Aide 10:30 Radio Porum, Thomas M. Wood ward on "The Merchant Marine of Tody." What to expect Tuesday: W ABC CBS 3:15 Nathan Straus and Son. Wagner on PHA accomplishments; 3:45 Seablscult-War Admiral race at Plmllco, t Chairman Dies (D,, Tex.) of th hotiss committee Investigating tin American activities, said Saturday ha would make publto letter of Presi dent Roosevelt and other adminis tration officials In an effort to show that they had "refused to cooperate In his Investigation ot communism snd fascism." In a radio broadcast at T: p. mIP-S-T.) today over th Mutual system.
