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The Weather Forecast In sett led tonight, Thursdav unsettled nlth showers, not niarh change In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday ,- u Lowest this morning M....m..4Q Advertise Them lima now to start picking np t little extra Christmas money. Here's an easy way. Just fa to the attic or store-room. Gather the unused artlrtea and idvertlse them for sale In the Classified. TRIBUNE MEDFORD Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirtv-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, XOVEMBF 1938. ' No. 192. 11 IU1 or rj MOT y The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Kobert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. UTILITIES BACK PATTING HELD UNDESERVED BAIXVIIOOED EXPANSION NEAR NORMAL INCREASE ... BIO POWER SHORTAGE FOUND BY WAR SURVEY ADDITIONAL FACILITIES LIMITED BY PROSPECTS WASHINGTON. Nov. 2. Some peo ple suspect that, while his general intention is unexceptionable, the president will not be above turning his rearmament program to politi cal account. Color Is given the sus picion by the current campaign, In which the Democrats are nonsensi cally ballyhoolng the president s a world peacemaker. As to how the president will deal with rearmament when the time comes, only the future can tell. With an election, all Issues are natu rally confused by the squawks and bellows of partisan oratory. Yet the story behind the recent announce ment that the government and utili ties would cooperate In ft national defense program does deserve present consideration. It is a pretty shabby story. The president's desire for better national defense dates from last January- At that time, he called In a group of war and navy department officials, asked them to survey the situation, and suggested that they look particularly for potential bot tlenecks in war material production In the World war, 'when he was as sistant secretary of the nnyy, a power shortage had been one of the worst bottlenecks. He mentioned the pos sibility that the shortage might re cur, and particularly confided the problem to Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson. Johnson formed a committee of other government men, and th;. made careful inquiry. They found that the power problem was indeed serious. In the first place, fifteen key manufacturing cities were with out outside power connections, so that, if war came, and the mnln plantB of New Jersey cities happened to be destroyed. New Jersey Industry would not be able to carry on with New York or Pennsylvania power. And, in the second place, a ques tionnaire on their power needs, sent to 14,000 manufacturers, plus a calculation of the facilities supply- Continued on Page Six.) REPLACEMENT JOB Youths of the Phoenix and Talent districts, who Hallowe'en night tip ped over c!ose to SO woodsheds, hen house and other structures In their neighborhoods, placed nil -the build ings back on their foundations Tuesday, under the direction of a deputy sheriff. Similar rehabilitation work was underway today In the Eagle Point district, where a score of small buildings were overturned. Sheriff Syd I. Brown said reports Indicated Hallowe'en was a hectic occasion In the rural districts, with the pranks toeing principally directed against outbuildings. The sheriff said having the boys replace the build ings was better than hailing them ;nto Juvenile court. SIDE GLANCES .by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Lila liny Hibbard politely declin ing to hold a breakfaet customer's hand In lieu of taking his order for npen-tac.d res. Ml Hncan substituting for the a'is-nt tJirry S-hd In offering the inMlon to adjourn the city council m?"ttn Mildred Thompson being the re cipient of much attention, fuss and todoo at her coing-away party, she mrprlfed by a handsome ?lft and "iraci? Craft back in v.. 't'.vnjiow iiitl li v.,r. rt:a:ny f a Mia and being r.:trvr--;l :.. .-'.1 cilnto a Oen 'vie while at'emptlng wions as per before she cut away !to retrieve a due GOVERNOR FLAYS JOHN L LEWIS AS CAUSE JHTRIFE National Guard Will Pre 'serve Law and Order in Mid'dletown, 0., Tobacco Plant Disorder, Promise COLUMBUS. O., Nov. 3. (AP) Gov. Martin L. Davey today ordered Ohio National Guard troops to Mid- dletown tonight to preserve "law and der" In connection with a strike at the P. Lorlllard Co. tobacco plant. Davey earlier announced he would "not permit the lawless invasion of Mlddletown" and condemned what he called "terrorism" by John L. Lewis and the CIO. The Lorlllard plant, which em ploys' 1100 persons, ( was reported ready to open at 11 a.m. tomorrow. Workers Skirmish A Committee for Industrial. Or ganization union called a strike at the plant October 3 and a week ago there was a skirmish at the plant between workers seeking to return to their Jobs and union members and sympathizers. Davey described the incident as a "serious riot" during which "the CIO pickets assaulted other employees, Including some elderly women," and he said "a reign of terrorism has been inaugurated in a peaceful com munity." The union is asking recognition as the bargaining agency, checkoff for payment of dues and the closed shop. Lewis Attacked The governor renewed his attacks on John L. Lewis, CIO chief, which began in 1937 when he ordered troops to protect a "back-to-work" move ment In the Mahoning valley steel area, by calling the union leader "the most dangerous man In Ameri ca." The executive asserted the na tional labor relations board was controlled by Lewis. "Ohio will continue to stand for law and order as long as I remain governor." Davey said. "We will hot permit the lawless Invasion of Mld dletown or any other community. "Nothing has ever faced the state of Ohio as serious from the stand point of peace and safety as the hruMi, lawless and tyrannical in Viision ot this state by the CIO high command. They terrorize whole com munities, thumb their nose at the laws and the courts, resort to the brutal beating of innocent citizens, and do not hesitate to use guns and dynamite wherever they think It is necessary. Ardent communists are always in the forefront of these armed invasions, inciting to rldt and rebellion against the laws, but seldom exposing themselves to per sonal danger. Strike Series Planned. "We are Informed by usually re liable sources, that CIO plans a campaign of violent strikes after the present governor retires from office. Their leaders are reported to have said that they must not do anything until after, the first of the year." Paul W. Puller, regional director of the committee for industrial or ganization at Cincinnati said "there's no word of truth" In the statement of Governor Davey a "lawless In vasion of Mlddletown" was planned. "Certainly no arms of any descrlp. tlon are Intended to be brought into the strike." Puller said. "It's all so absurd that there's no use discussing It," WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. (API Chnlrman John L. Lewis of the CIO said In a statement today Gov Ma-tm L. Davey of Ohio would be a "bloodthirsty fool" if he mobilized the Ohio national guard to Inter vene In a tobacco factory strike at Mlddletown, O. "Davey Is a lackey of the special Interests In opposition to labor." Lewis said today. "He is devoid of principle and destitute of honor. Personally, I think he !s too much of a poltroon to shoot down strikers acalo, even if he goes through with the threat to mobilize the national guard. If he does, he will be a blood thirsty fool, In addition to being a rascal in public office." IN UPPER KLAMATH KtAMATH FALLS. Nov. 3.(AP. Tne body of Sterling DeWltt. 25 duck hunter m.sslng since last Sun day, was recovered Ust night from eight feet of water on the wes'. side of upper Klamath lake. Sheriff Lloyd Low and searchers discovered the body after DcWttt's shotgun was found on the shore. Hungary Is Granted Greater Part of Demands Father, Aged 54 Would Transfer One Eye To Son WENATCHEE, Wash., Nov. 3. , AP) L. C. Snyder, M. a local laborer, appealed for funds today to transfer one of his eyes to the head of his 18-year old son Glenn, who is slowly going blind. "I'm past the prime of life now," he said, "I don't mind giv ing one of my eyes. I won't need it as long as he will." The father of 14 children launched a campaign to raise the funds to finance the operation by two Seattle specialists. Lion club members have interested- them selves In the case and will seek to have 1100, taken from flower sell ers falsely representing themselves as veterans recently, transferred to Snyder. The youth lost one eye in an orchard spraying accident last spring and is slowly going blind in the other. Local doctors give him a "chance" to see with a trans ferred eye. SPANISH SHIPS FIGHI NEAR BRITISH COAST: CROMER, Norfolk, England, Nov. 3 (AP) A Spanish warship attacked a Spanish freighter off Norfolk today, bringing the elvll war within sight of England's east coast. The identity ot the ships and the outcome of the one hour bombard ment was shrouded in the night mists of the North sea. Reports from fishing brawlers and other vessels differed on whether the warship apparently an armed traw lerflew the, insurgent or Spanish government flag. Tho freighter's name was reported as the Carthagena, but no such ship was registered with Lloyd's. A Cromer fire brigade officer said the sound of heavy gunfire at sea could be heard for about an hour, starting at 3 p. m. (10 a. m. ES.T.) The freighter was said to have been damaged considerably and to have token fire. DIVIDEND OF $1.25 NEW YORK, Nov. 3. pj Direc tors of Chrysler corporation today declared a dividend of 91.36 a share on common stock, payable Decern ber 13 to holders of record No vember 14. On September 14 last a payment of 25 cents a share was made and 50 cents was paid in June. For the full year 1037 the company paid 910 a share on common stock. The company reported for the nine months ended September 30 net In come of 99.671,877, equal to 91.53 a shsre on common stock. This com parde with 940.424.311, or 99.20 a share In the comparable 1037 period. FIGHT OVER AUTO CRASH FATAL FOR ELDERLY MAN PORTLAND. Nov. 2. ( AP) A sec ond degree murder charge was filed against William H. Smith, 40, today in connection with the death of James Qlbney, 71. Glbney, injured In an alleged fight following a minor automobile col lision Sunday, died early today. The murder complaint was filed by his ron, K. R. Olbney. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time Is Eastern Standard) NEW YORK. Nov. 2. (AP) The Orson Welles series of Sunday night dramas on the W ABC -CBS network from 8 to 0. recovered somewhat from the rtdiol7ation of "The War of the Worlds" and the panicky audience reaction that resulted, is to continue uninterrupted. However, In the future efforts are to be made to avoid any such listen ing Incidents as occurred last Sun day ntght. Talks: WJZ-NBC. 7 JO. Karl H. Von Wlegand on "Hitler's Next Move;" WOR-CBS. 10:30. Sen. A. H. Vanden ber at Newark. N. J, political rally; WJZ-CBS. 11:30. 0. of Kansas an niversary. William Allen White. What to expect Thursday: WJZ NBC. ?.30 and 5:16, national com husking contest LIGHTS SOUGHT ON COTTAGE STREET TO AVERT CRIME ' Petition for Illumination Is Filed With Council 'Near' Assaults and Po tential Danger Recited Declaring there was danger of crimes of violence because of dark ness, A. J. Anderson last night filed a petition with the city council ask ing that at leaBt three light be In stalled along Cottage street. The petition was referred by Mayor 0. C. Purnaa to the building and light committee for Investigation and report. It was signed by 45 property owners and tenants. In the past 18 months. Mr. Ander son told the council there have been a hold-up and "half a dozen near assaults upon women and children" along Cottage street and a number of near automobile accident at Cot tage and East Main streets, all of which he attributed to the darkness of the street. Prowler, Attracted The darkness attracts night prowl ers along Cottage street, Mr. Ander son declared. "We don't want to be like the farmer who closed Ms barn door af ter his horse ran away," Mr. Ander son said. "We want action now be fore something hsppens." Mayor Pumas told Mr. Anderson and several other men who came to the meeting with him that tho coun cil endeavored at all times to be economical In administering tho city government. "We don't want to economize at the expense of human life and In Jury," however." tho mayor said. He thanked Mr. Anderson for calling the council's attention to conditions on Cottage street, adding that while the councllmen make periodic surveys of the entire city they cannot see every thing and depend upon citizens co operating with them in roveaMng needs of the community. (Continued on Page Three ) 10 ORPHANAGE CARE; MATE STILL MISSING PRESTON BURG, Ky., Nov. 3. (AP)-Kentucky's 10-year-old child hride. Rosle Columbus Tackett, was ordered to an orphanage today by a six-man hill country Jury. At the urging of the court and a court-appointed attorney, the girl's mother, Mrs. Grace Columbus, pro testing her reluctance, made an X" on a legal paper giving tne court the right to place Rosle, who was married last week to 34-year-old Fleming Tackett, a coal miner, In the Kentucky children's home at Lyndon. Ky., near Louisville. Roale's husband, who Is wanted on a warrant signed by County Judge Edward P. Hill on a charge of rape. anil Is the object of a search by Floyd county deputies. At the hearing today Rosle told the court ahe wanted to go to the orphanage. "Do you want to live with this man (Tackett)?" asked Judge Hill. Rosle looked at her mother, then shook her head. Mrs. Columbus, a dark. 200-pound woman, who cried out In court she had "done everything to keep her away from that Flcm." waived exam Inlng trial on a charge she conspired with Flem "to commit the crime of rape" on her dam'-.tT. DAMAGTSDERIED IN SLEIGHT SUIT A verd let I n f a vor of El mer N Chlldera and wife was returned late Tuesday afternoon by a circuit court Jury, John S. Day foreman, in the damage suit of Mrs. Josephine N. Sleight for alleged personal injuries Mrs. Sleight sought 94500. The plaintiff claimed ahe tripped on the sidewalk In front of property on Cast Main street owned by the defendants, asserting by reason thereof she suitslned Injuries. The plaintiff was represented by .if.nvy G"orce A. Codding and the tw:aV.s by Attorneys 0orge M. Robert and William M McAllister. G-MEN HOLD FOURlf IN KIDNAP SLAYING OF Mystery of Vanishment of Young New Yorker De clared Cleared Shot to Death, Cremated, Claim NEW YORK, Nov. 3. (AP) The mystery of Arthur Fried, young busi ness man who vanished 11 months ago, was cleared today with the dis closure by J. Edgar Hoover Fried was kidnaped, held prisoner four days, then shot to death and cremated. Hoover, In a drama tlo statement last night, laid the death of Fried, 33, head of a Bronx ssnd and stone company, at the hands of a four man "kidnap syndicate" which tried for weeks afterward to collect a 9200,000 ransom. The chief of the federal bureau of investigation said "certain ones" of the quartet also had confessed they collected 914,000 In two hitherto unrevealed Brooklyn kidnaplngs and said they are under suspicion in two other kidnap cases and three hold ups. Burned Body The men, Hoover said, shot Fried to death In a lower east side apart ment and burned his body in a fur nace. He named the suspects as Deme trius 'aula, 30, a plnball operator; William Jacknls, 37, a WPA play ground instructor; John Vlrga. 34, 9 clothes presser, and Joseph Q. Bacodj,.. 37, now In Sing Sing prison for par ole violation, Hoover said all four have police records and will be turned over to local authorities for prosecution. They were arrested over the week end. Victims in the two Brooklyn ab ductions wero Benjamin Farber, 33, a coal dealer, and Norman Miller, 10, son of the head of a stevedore con cern. Hoover said the kidnapers seized Farber last April 18 In front of a Brooklyn branch of the National City bank and released him unharmed shortly after his family paid 91.000 of a 925,000 ransom demand. 913,000 Ransom Paid . Young Miller, he said, was kid naped last July 34 as he left a Brooklyn theater and freed within 34 hours when the father paid the gang 913.000. It was the youths' memory of his experience that on- abled G-men to trace the gang. The Farber ransom, at the , hid napera' oder, was tossed from the Wtlllamsburgh bridge at a designated spot and the ransom for young Mil ler, a student at Franklin and Marshall college at Lancaster, Pa., was left In a garbage can In down town Manhattan. Hoover said the gang used as their hideout a vacant store owned by Quia near a lodge hall In lower Manhattan. The building has since been torn down. The F.B.I, head refused to name other kidnaplngs In which the men still were being questioned. The chief case still confronting the G-men la the disappearance of Peter Levlne, 13-year old New Roche lie schoolboy whose headless, wire trussed body was found floating In Long Island sound three months af ter he vanished last February 34 on hla way home from school. Forced To Write Note New Rochelle la a suburban Wcet chester county community near White Plains, where Fried waa seized as he left his apartment home to drive to the residence of his mother. After taking him to Sacoda's apart ment on East 10th atreet In Man hattan, Hoover continued, the kid naper forced Pried to write a note to his family asking 9200.000 ran som. When the money was not forth coming In four days, Hoover said Aaroda shot Fried through the head nd he and Gula carried the body to a car and drove It to a fraternal organization's lodge where Sacoda was employed a a porter. , "They dragged the body to the fur nace and shoved It In," Hoover aald. "The body was burned, whtleaflacnoa and aula waited four hours lysptng morn eoal on the fire." Bogus Money Plot Bared In Portland PORTIsAND. Nov. 3. (AP Secret service agents discovered 82000 In counterfeit 95 bills today and an nounced they had halted what ap peared to be a pusv to flood Port land with bogus money. Nichols Architect was bound over to the federal grand Jury by Com missioner Kenneth McSwaln on charge of posfeMir counterfeit notes. His ball waa 12500 Machine Records Death DECISION RETURNS k ' 1 1 8GOJ300 PERSONS U r?Ste.,;vj TO OLD COUNTRY I : ; Q ( ' I win fx, av- c 1 Klrhy (9. Dawson, electric expert, awrMnanavsMsnsa shown (above) ,s lie carried the del icate clectro-uardlo-grnph Into tho state prison at Halt Lake City, ttuli, where It was used to record the death , of John W. Deerlng (below), execut- ., .-.iy. '''. ed by a firing squad. The machine -M i'P'' " revealed Deerlng's heart slopped bent- 1 Ing tff.O seconds after It was struck w : , - . . V.'w by rour .Millets mid that prior to f m' kf '' 1 the execution. It heat at three times I K ' I nn fc- DIES CONTINUES lED.u u PC A WAR- OF WORE CHANGtS IN LAW WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. (AP) Members of the National Labor Rela tions Board told Prealdent Roosevelt today they were opposed to any changes In the labor relations act. After a conference at the White House. Chairman J. Warren Madden told reporters in response to ques tion: "We don't think the act needs amendment." He and his fellow commissioners, Edwin S. Smith and Donald W. Smith he said, had expressed this view to Mr. Roosevelt. Madden said they talked obout op eration of the a?t, but did not go into any proposed amendments. Among those who have suggested changes In the act are the American Federation of Labor, which has ac cused the board of CIO bias, and Donald R. Richberg, former rfttA administrator. MRS. ROOSEVELT OFF FOR SEATTLE VISIT NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 3. (AP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt left New ark airport In an airliner (American Airlines) at 8 a. m. today for Chi cago en route to Seattle where she will visit her daughter, Mrs. Anna Boet tiger. Expect BigPWA Program To Boost Building Total WASHINGTON. Nov. 3. (AP) Puollc works officials estimated to day their 91.500.000.000 building pro gram would bring public construc tion next year up to the average 1023-33 level. The estimate was made In con nection with a meeting of PWA field men, called here for Instruction on actual construction phases of the new program. All the projects authorized by con gress this year must be under con struction by January 1 and sub stantia finished by June 80, 1040. PWA has approved grants of 9642. 348,818 and loans of 944.491,150 for 8.318 non-federal projects to be built at an estimated cost of 91,428, 842.811. An additional 8105.049,704 hs been allotted for 1.052 federal pr: Jects. Officials aald work has started on I I m G-MAN CONFIRMS SPY CONFFSSION NEW YORK, Nov, 2. (AP) An agent of the federal bun-au of Inves tigation corroborated at the German spy trial today testimony Otto Her mann Voss admitted after his arrest he gave airplane secrets to German agents. A statement quoting Voss, aviation mechanic and one of the three per sona on trial, as saying he did so "for Germany and not for money" was read Into the record Monday. Leon G. Turrou, former FBI agent who waa In charge of the Butte, Mont., division of the FBI. aald he aided agents In questioning Vosa at headquarters here and witnessed the statement. federal Jobs. Firteen small non-federal projects costing 9872.073 have been completed. Meanwhile, the administration was giving attention to another phase of the building industry In an effort to attract the capital of small In vestors Into mass construction of small homes. President Roosevelt disclosed yes terday the administration was try ing to work out a program to pro vide houses for families able to pay a monthly rental of 93 to 810 room. Those able to pay more have been provided for by the Home Owners Loan corporation and the federal housing administration, the president aald. while the government's shun clearance program has aided the lowest-Income class. , Begin Occupation of Territory November 5 Bratislava and Nitra Are Left Under Czech Banner VIENNA, Nov. 3. (AP) Hungary was granted the greater part of her territorial demands on Czechoslo- . vakla In the decision announced tonight by the arbitrators. Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop of Germany and Count Oaleazro Clano of Italy. The award transfers to Hungary about 8BO.00O persons who since; 1918 have been citizens of Czechoslovakia. The Hungarians will begin occu pation of tho territory awarded them on November 5 and complete It by November 10. In the area under dispute only Brutlslnva (Pressburg) and Nltra, In southwestern Slovakia, remain to Czechoslovakia, In a Joint 'declaration the German and Italian referees, of the dispute said: "The Rome-Berlin axis today ha acted aa successful arbiters In an international dispute of Great Im portance and of extraordinary com-, plexlty," Count Clano In a speech opening the deliberations, said Fascism ex pected "a new order and a new era in central Europe" to issue from the decision' " ' - - . Von Ribbentrop announced "our task Is to find a solution on an ethnographical basis," and added, "Tho viewpoints of the two govern ments already are well known but It Is Important they be given a final opportunity to restate them." IS WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. (AP) The war of words over the Dies com mittee's Inquiry into un-American activities still was going strong to day. After Secretary I ekes accused Chairman Dies (D., Tex.) of telling "Unlf-truths" about PWA's failure to approve two projecta In Dies dla trlct, the chairman replied: "Pew people who know the secre tary would give him that high score." Representative Mosler (D., Ohio), a committee member, protested to Charles Mlchelson, publicity director of the Oemocratlo national commit tee, "against the effrontery" of ar ranging a radio speech Monday night by Paul Y. Anderson, Washington newspaper correspondent. Immediately after a broadcast by Dies. . Anderson, replying, noted Mosler had been defeated for renomlnatton and said Mosler's real complaint was about an article he had written oa the Inquiry. IDDLElSTlSKS IN CHICAGO. Nov. J (AP) The mid dle west basked In summery weather today as southerly breeres blew warm air northwest from the gulf atatea. Forecaster O. A. Donnel aald tem peratures In many section, undoubt edly would exceed thoao of yesterday in which case numerous new "heat" records for this late In the season would be established. Readings were 30 degree, above normal In much of the middle west this morning, and the mercury head ed atesdlly upward. ANOTHliTwrTWINTER SHOWN IN SWOTS SAN JOSE, Calif., Nor. . (IPi There won't be a shortage of rain this winter If the prediction of Dr. Albert J. Newlln. University of Bant Clara aunapot expert, come true. "We are still at the peak of the wet cycle." Dr. Newlln aald today. "This winter will be similar to laat winter with an abundnnca of rain fall, particularly after thu first of the year." ( 4
