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Thirty-Third Year
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938.
No. 205.
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The
Capital
Parade
By Joseph Alsop
arid -Robert
Kintner
Copyright, 1937, by The
North American News
paper Alliance, Inc.
CONSIKEHINO RESIGNING
BBANDEIS REPORTED
MAY IIEYOTK SELF TO
WELFARE OF JEWS
FRANKFURTER REGARDED
CERTAIN SUCCESSOR
SEN. POPE ALSO TALKED
FOR COURT APPOINTMENT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 There is
a chance of a second vacancy on the
supreme court before the new year.
At four score and two. Louis Dembitz
Brandcls has lived the prent life
In his youth, he competed with the
boat in the bustling market place.
In his middle years, he served the
men and women of his state, nobly
demonstrating the nature of practi
cal citizenship. In his old ape. on
the high bench, he has been the wise
and meditative conscience of his
country.
,His step Is still firm, his eyes stilt
clear. But his heart is heavy, for
now his people need him. Now he
may leave the seclusion of his study
and the court room, to lead his people
In their hour of need.
For a generation, he has acted as
the father confessor of American
Jewry, giving to Zionism and similar
movements most of the hours he
could spare from the court. In these
la.it months, when Zionism has run
on the rock of racial hatred In Pal
estine, when the final paroxysm of
savagery has seized the rulers of the
German retch, his people have flock
ed to him for aid. Not long ago.
he broke his calm routine to spend
an hour with the president, discuss
ing Palestine and other Jewish prob
lems. Now, as the one man whom
all can trust, he may step down from
the bench to become the leader of
the Zionist?, and perhaps of those
who are organizing the flight of Jews
from Germany.
Rumors of Justice Brandeis' resig
nation have been current before, but
they have always been founded on the
notion that he would like to retire.
Retirement, while there is work to
be done and he has the ability to do
It, Is not In Brnndels's character.
But to leave one v.-ork to do another
that Is a different matter. He may
well decide to remain on the court,
but now at least he has an alterna
tive to consider.
Brandels's decision may be influ
enced by the fact that, if he resigns,
his old friend and disciple, Felix
(Continued on Page Twelve)
S U. OF 0.
EUGENE, Nov. 17. (APt Donald
Richardson of Central Point was
one of the senior six selected at the
University of Oregon today ns mem
bers of Phi Beta Kappa, national
scholarship society. A half dozen
outstanding seniors are elected each
nutumn.
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Bernle Hushes accompanied by t
cluster of charming women taking
in sn evening of esthetic culture
while attending the opera ballet, he
apparently taking advantage of It all
too.
Marie Schoepen being very adept
at arranctng beautiful bouquets in
the theatre foyer for bullet patrons
to admire.
Florence Graffs blnnd beauty be
ing shown to advnntfljre hy her e!e-u-.int
erminr evening clonk. Hubby
WaH.-r a'so Jontctr.e fcMid'nme dolled
up Ir. a tux.
Mnxlne Love thinking Med ford's
climate almost :n par with tht
of Iter r.r'l' Oran Piss.
4'"
B!i ( ...if p-Miiki as
u tat Holly boxof.ice.
Agreements Strengthen
Economic Ties Between
U. S. Britain and Canada
WASHINGTON, Nov, 17. (ffV The United States and Great Britain,
enjoying two-fifths of the world's trade, signed in the white House today
I a trade agreement establishing new economic ties.
I At the same time, the United States signed a new trade agreement .
I with her second best customer, Canada.
i Signatures were affixed in the pres
i ence of president Roosevelt in the
1 mirrored, glided east room of the
White House. Prime Minister Mac
kenzie King signed for Canada, Sec
retary of State Hull for the United
States and British Ambassador Sir
Ronald Lindsay and Arnold Overton,
second secretary of the British board
of trade, for the United Kingdom.
Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and
the British colonies.
Historic Significance
Hull, In a brief address at the
ceremony, said the signing was "of
historic significance" and the agree
ments "furnish concreto and power
ful support for a future trend of
world developments along the lines
of Increasing understanding and co
operation among nations."
"Trade will be facilitated, the pros
perity of our peoples Increased, and
the arts of peace encouraged," Lind
say commented.
Mackenzie King said it was "no .
exaggcratlon" to say relations be
tween the United States and Canada
have never been happier than since
they signed their first trade agree
ment In 1935.
Mr. Roosevelt attending the cere
mony as an "interested observer"
sat at the center of a long tabic
facing the lobby of the executive
mansion. Lindsay and Overton sat
at his right, Mackenzie King and
Hull at his left.
To Hvpanri Commerce
Hull declared the two agreements
"not only provide an Instru
ment for an expansion of valuable
commerce between the countries con- ;
cerned, but they constitute an ex-1
press ion of determination on the part
of three of the world's largest com
mercial nations to maintain and
strengthen a sound and healthy basis
of International trade."
The white-haired secretary of Btato,
who has been laboring upon the two
agreements for more than a year,
added: "Our three nations have given
a new vitality to the basic principles
of a civilized world order, the ac
ceptance and, application of which
are indispensable to economic well
being and social security within na
tions, to peneeful relations between
nations, and, therefore, to the con
tinued advance and progress of man
kind." Ambassador Lindsay said. "I share
fully" Hull's sentiments "as to the
promise for improvement In relations ,
among nations which grows out of
international negotiations of the
kind which have been so happily
concluded."
Mackenzie King expressed "genuine
satisfaction" the United States and
Great Britain, "with whose fortunes
those of Canada are so closely linked,
have effectively strengthened the
friendly relations which have long
prevailed."
"It must be increasingly apparent,''
the Canadian prime minister added,
"that the stability of the civilization
we cherish depends more than ever
on the friendly association of the
great English-speaking nations of the
world and the new."
Shortly before high officials of the
participants went to the White House
o put their names to reciprocal
agreements embracing a total Amer
ica n trade of 1 ,500 .000.000 a year.
Hull declared:
"I think we may be pardoned for
rejoicing that success has crowned
our efforts and these two splendid
trade agreements are to be signed in
the next few hours.
"I am confident that In the years
that lie ahead, all of us will derive
lasting satisfaction from the oppor
tunity that was presented to us for
public service In contributing to the
successful conclusion of these agree
ments." PETIT JURY CALLED
FOR CIRCUIT COURT
The petit Jury for the circuit court,
has been called to appear for duty
next Monday morning. The civil ac
tion of Emerlck vs. Emerick for col
lection of 9700. allegedly due on a
promissory note Is scheduled for
trial.
Comic Strips Bnpllmted
Brsuse of meehantra) dlffkul
ties the Msil Tribune today is re
printing yesterday's feature page.
Fridays edition will carry the
comic strips and serial story which
should have up pes red to-lay. to
'ehr n-tn the regular Frid-n-
PACTS
.
EXPORTERS AGREE
NEW YORK, Nov. 17. (AP) The
new Anglo-American trade treaty
was welcomed by the national for
eign trade council today us an In
ducement to "a general advance" in
commerce be t ween n a t Ions.
The council, which la composed
of American Importers and exporters
and others interested In foreign com
merce, asserted: "None of the 18
aereements now In ooeratton has
presented so many difficulties In ne-
gotlation as that with Great Britain;
none offers such favorable possibil
ities for a general advance In Inter
national trade."
Expressing the belief the treaty
would benefit more than Anglo
American trade alone., the council
said : "The national foreign trade
council regards as of extreme lm
portance the effects which this
agreement . . . will have, not only
in the regulation and expansion of
trade upon mutually agreeable terms,
but also Its favorable effects,
through generalization of conces
sions, upon International trade In
general.
'This agreement denotes a closer
alignment In economic theory and
practice between two leading trad
ing nations, which together repre
sent 40 percent of the entire for
eign commerce of the world.
"An enlargement that Improves
and renders more stable and per
manent the trade relations between
two countries which between them
buy 28 percent of the world's total
imports, and sell 24 percent of the
totnl exports, Justifies the confidence
placed in the trade agreement pro
gram of the United States, as the
most effective Instrument yet de
vised for the removal of excessive
restraints upon the normal develop
ment and growth of world com
merce. . . .
"To United States exporters the
agreement Is of considerable conse
quence as the opening of the door
of opportunity to renewed American
enterprise In United Kingdom and
British colonial markets."
PEACEfRIO
OSLO. Nov. 17 (AP) The 1938
Nobel Peace prize was awarded to
day to the Nansen office for refugees
at Geneva.
It was the fourth time the famous
award had gone to as Institution
rather than an Individual. The 1022
prize was awarded to the late Frldt
Jof Nansen of Norway, whose name
was given to the office honored to
day. The Nobel Peace prize, first given
In 1901, Is awarded by a committee
of five persons chosen by the Nor
wegian parliament,
Radio Highlights
By Associated Press
(Time Is Eastern Standard)
NEW YORK. Nov. 17 Fight broad
casting via WJZ-NBC la expected to
get under way Friday night. The
Friday night battle will be a 15
round go between mlddlewelghts,
Fred Apostoll and young Corbett HI,
listed for air description at 10 o'clock.
The Hit Parade of CBS on Satur
urday nights is returning to Its for
mer plan of guest entertainers now
that the W. C. Fields comedy therein
has ended This week the guests will
be Lanny Ross and the Raymond
Scott quintet.
Tonight: Talks WJX-NBC B:30
America's town mating. Col. Theo
dora Roosevelt. Jr.. Eduard Tomilson
nd Prof. Charles Fenwlck on "How
Can American Nations Cooperate For
World Peace?"
What To Expect Friday WJZ-NBC
3 national university extension de
bate on: "Should the U. 8. and Oreat
Britain Establish an AilUnce?"
Nazis Bury Diplomatic Aide as
Fling Challenge to World at
EXEMPTIONS FOR WOMAN'S SLACKS I Kidnap Defendant in Court FUNERAL ORATION
FARM LABOR HIT AMONG EVIDENCE WZJNTVWVi CARRIES OMINOUS
AT GRANGE MEET
Report to Convention Says
Exemptions Under New
m Wage and Hour Bill More
Imaginary Than Real
PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 17. (AP)
Agricultural exemptions under the'
wages and hours bill were condemn
ed today as "more Imaginary than
real" In a report to the Nat lonal
Grange convention by Fred Brenck-
man. the Grange's Washington rep
resentative.
Brenckman. who predicted the act
would increase production costs, said
congress had destroyed the possi
bility of achieving price parity be
tween agriculture and Industry,
"making It Increasingly difficult for
these groups to exchange products
on a fair and equitable basis."
He described as a "glaring defect"
the absence of provisions to protect
the American market against com
modities from countries wtth sub
standard labor conditions.
"Many of the provisions of the act
are so confusing that court action
will be necessary to clarify the sit
uation," Brenckman sold. ". . . there
Is room for a difference of opinion
as to whether the present plan con
stitutes the right approach. . . .
There Is a higher law than the law
that Is passed by congress or than
the ruling that may be made by
some governmental bureau and that
Is the economic law. When the eco
nomic law is violated the penalty
is always swift and sure."
The report said the Grange favor
ed governmental reorganization for
simplicity, efficiency and economy
but opposed a movement to trans
fer the forest and soil conservation
services and the biological survey
from the department of agriculture
to the department of Interior.
Endorsements were given plans to
establish federal regional research
laboratories, extend rural electrifica
tion, expand rural credit and to
spread credit union movements. The
organization opposed retoucttr.u of
federal highway appropriations and
efforts to encourage the use of but
terfat substitutes.
ORDER ROSSER HELD
LEGALITY OF APPEAL
DALLAS. Ore.. Nov. 17. I API
Sheriff T. B. Hooker of Polk county
was under orders today to hold Al
E. Rosser. former head of the team
sters union In Oregon who was con
victed here on a charge of arson and
sentenced to 13 years In the peni
tentiary, pending determination of a
contest of the legality of his appeal
to the supreme court filed by the
state late yesterday.
Judge Arlle G. Walker Isst night
signed sn order setting aside a prev
ious order directing the Polk county
sheriff to release Rosser, Issued when
he posted the bond of 925,000 fixed
by the court.
Rosser will be held In Jail pending
determination of the state's motion
to set aside his appeal on the
grounds that It was not perfected
within the statutory time limit.
Judge Welker set November 38 na
the time for hearing arguments on
the state's motion.
Removed from Polk county when
he furnished ball there. Rosser has
been held In the Multnomah county
Jail since November 9 on a warrant
from Skamania county, Wash., pend
ing a decision on a request for ex
tradition to face trial In that state.
The request to Oovernor Clarence
Martin of Washington for extradition
was withdrawn yesterday by D. C.
W. Lindvllle, Skamania county pros
ecutor. petfeMrUn Killed
ESTACADA, Not. 17. (API An
aged pedestrian. Byron O. Sharver,
77, met death Instantly last night
when he wu struck by an automo
bile. Authorities absolved the driver.
Jean Armstrong 17, at Viola,
( 4
IN KIDNAP TRIAL
Garments Worn by Doctor's
Wife at Time of Alleged
Attack Climax in Kid
nap - Assault Hearing
OLYMPTA, Noy. 17. (p) A torn
pair of women's slacks dimmed the
state's collection of alleged kidnaping
accessor! es a rra yed toda y be fore a
superior court Jury trying Dr. Kent
W. Berry, 60. Olympla physician, and
three co-defendants for first degree
kidnaping and assault.
The slacks were offered as evidence,
joining a blood-stained rope, a re
volver, adhesive tape, clothing, a
blank arrest warrant, a deputy sher
iff's badge and unauthorized license
plates which the state claims were
used by Berry, William K. McAloon,
SO, James .Reddlck, 37, and Robert
H. Smth. 33, In the kidnaping and
torture of Irving Baker, Olympla auto
dealef, last August 19.
Two state witnesses had declared
Berry exhibited the slacks to them
as those worn by Elizabeth Berry
when Dr. Borry claimed she was
raped by Baker July 4. Prosecutor
Smith Troy read an alleged confes
sion by Reddlck In which he said
Berry used the same slacks to gng
Baker while torturing him.
OLYMPIA. Nov. 17. (P The pros
ecution read the purported confession
of one of the defendants into the
torture-kidnap trial records today to
Indicate the victim. Irving Baker,
handsome young automobile sales,
man, continually pleaded Innocence
of adultery while he was being tor
tured with pliers and threatened
with emasculation last August 19.
Prosecutor Smith Troy told the
Jury It was the unsigned statement
of James Reddlck. taxi driver. It said
he drove the kidnap car for 35 cents
an hour.
The state changes Reddlck and
James McAloon. former Montesano
night marshal, and Robert H. Smith,
a Brady dairyman, aided Dr. Kent W.
Berry. In kidnaping Baker on the
physician's representations Baker had
seduced the middle-aged doctor's
young wife during a Fourth of July
house party at Mud bay.
MRS. HONEYMAN ON
LAST CAPITAL TRIP
PORTLAND. Nov. 17. fAP) Rep
resentative Nan Wood Honaymsn.
Oregon's first congresswoman. left
for Washington yesterday on her last
official trip before retiring in Janu
ary. The Democrat, defeated at the
general elections by Homer Angel!.
Portland attorney, will close her capi
tal office and attend several confer-
Martin Urges
Grange Fight
PORTLAND. Nov. 17-4P O OT.
Charles H. Martin urged the National
Grange today to continue Its efforts
to obtain "the rights of agriculture,
not as a special privilege but as a
necessary foundation for the welfare
of the country as whole."
In an address prepared for delivery
at the national convention of the
Grange, the governor ssld that "In a
period which has been cursed by
selfish and grasping political blocs,
the National Grange has been notable
for Its ssne and broad-gauged ap
proach to the national agricultural
problems."
He urged cooperation between arrl
cultural and urban populations to
solve the problem of farm surpluses,
and said that without this coopers
tion there never could be real pros
perity for the nation.
Speaking of the thousands of fam
ilies which hare coma to Oregon from
the middle-west drouth areas, ha aald
"We hooe we can receive mors of
i these In the years to come, but only
Dr. Kent IV Berry, Olympla, WrtMi., society physician. Recused of the
kldnap-lorture or Irving Bilker, Is shown In court with Mrs. Berry n
the trlul or Dr. Berry unci three oilier defendants got underway. The four
are ami Ned or kidnaping anil bent lug linker, who Br. Berry claimed had
been Intimate with his wife, (.. 1. phnlo.)
WILL BE OFFERED
AT LI
The annual fall Dollar Day sale
will be held here Friday and Sat
urday with all or Med ford 's s tores
prepared to offer an extensive array
of new merchandise at prices mark
ed, down especially for the big sell
ing event.
Sponsored by the retail trade di
vision of the Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce, Dollar Days have
for weeks occupied the attention of
the city's merchants who have plan
ned the bargain event with more
care than ever before. Realizing that
shoppers today look not only for
quality but price also, the stores
have chosen stocks carefully so that
they can meet the requirements of
their patrons, said John Moffatt,
Dollar Day chairman,
"Tills Is In no sense a 'clearance'
sale," Mr. Moffat stated. "This la a
genuine sale of new merchandise
marked at attractively low prices for
Dollar Days only. Discriminating
shoppers with an eye to real values
will see for themselves that Medford
Dollar Days are real bargain days."
Troll Officers Named
LA GRANDE. Nov. 17. Pf The
Old Oregon Trail association re
elected President Charles H. Reynolds
of La Grande, and named W. C.
Calder, Baker, and W. J. Carlson,
Cascade Locks, vice-presidents.
Continuance
for Farmers
to the extent that w can offer them
opportunity for bettering themselves
and not allow them to be trans
planted merely from one subsistence
basis to another.
In Oregon, he said, only eight per
cent of the land Is tillable, yet agri
culture supplies 75 per cent of the
state's Income.
"Spurred on by competition, the
producers In these United States have
adopted such progressive and modern
methods that we have apparently
forever banished the fear of Insuffi
cient food supplies which haunts
most of the world's populations, and
have Instead the real, but much less
critical problem of what to do with
our abundant surpluses.
"Oregon's competitive situation la
based on the unfavorable factors of
relatively small cultivated areas and
great distances from primary mar
kets, together with the favorable fac
tors of excellent soli and climatic
conditions for the production of
nearly anything which will grow In
the uurth temperate sone,"
1)
STATE'S BUDGET
$510,000 LESS
SALfiM. Ore., Nov, 17 (AP) The
cost of operating Oregon's state gov
ernment during the 1030-40 blen
nlum wan estimated today at 1103,
105,337, of which 924,354.083 will be
spent by departments dependent up
on legislative appropriations.
In estimates submitted by Budget
Director Wallace S. Wharton to Gov.
Charles H. Martin. Wharton said that
head of appropriatlvo departments
would get almost $5,000,000 less than
they asked for. The total budget Is
tl3.000.000 more than th 1937-38
budget and 90,000,000 less than the
amount spent In 1936-36.
Surplus Provided
"The estimate submitted provides
for a balanced budget, with a sur
plus of 987,070 for legislative con
tingencies," Wharton said.
The state tax commission estimated
that 916.043.005 would be available
both Inside and outside the six per
cent constitutional tax Increase lim
itation. Approved expenditures by self-sustaining
departments total 978.841.344.
"If the services of the state are to
be expanded In keeping with the In
creasing demands from the public
the public must be msde to realize
the burden of the cost and realize
that state funds must be provided
In addition to those from existing
sources of revenue If the expansion
is to be sanctioned." Wharton tald
in warning that the state either must
curtail Its activities or incur debt,
Reller Kern Pruned
The state relief committee, wl.lch
first requested 930.000.000 and later
pruned Its request to 935.334.500, was
cut to 931.953,131.
During the 1037-38 blennlum, only
914075,570 was spent for relief.
The state must raise 97,798.435 of
the relief total, with the federal gov
ernment paying 98.086.033 and the
counties 96,008.664.
Salaries and wages for appropriat
ing departments total 913.767.448. of
which slightly more than half will
be spent for salaries to employes of
the department of higher education.
Salaries for employes In self-sustaining
departments total 934.917.133.
The board of high education's total
budget Is 98.430.305, of which 93,
034.106 will be paid by non-itat
funds.
Most Request ftnunri
'With few exceptions." Wharton
said, "the requests of the various
state departments for appropriations
(Continued on Pagt Ten.)
KENTON, O. UP John L. Cot
ton, 63. and Christina McElroy, 80.
are newlyweds. The bridegroom had
been married once previously, the
J bride twloa
IN
Martyr;
Funeral
HINT FOR JEWRY
Von Ribbentrop Repeats Hit
ler's Words at Like Oc
casion Jews Fear Out
break of New Outrages
nt'ltl.lN, Nov. 17. (AP) Prom I-1
nent Jews suggested today the United
Stutes "mortgage" the German Immi
gration quota for the next three years
and accept 81,000 Jews Immediately.
Frantically trying to arrange refuge
from the Nazi laws against them.
thev pleaded America. England and
France and Germany permit the Ger
man Jewish population to emigrate
wit limit passport and visas "becntiw
of the nente need."
DUESSELDORF, Germany, Nov. 17.
(AP) With a challenge to the
world, the nazls gave a martyr's fu.4
nernl today to the assassinated dip
lomat Ernst Vom Rath.
Adolf Hitler, many other high of
ficials and the whole nation by
radio heard Foreign Minister Joa
chim von Ribbentrop close a funeral
oration wtth an ominous repetition
of the words the relchsfuehrer him
self used on a like occasion In 1936:
"We understand the challenge, and
accept H."
Vom Rath was killed by a young
Jew In the German embassy In Paris
last week. The death touched off a
wave of anti-Semitic violence In Ger
many. . . -Hern
lis Giistloff Rites
Today's Impressive ceremonies In
the swastika-draped Rhlneland hall
recalled the funeral, at which Hitler
spoke, of WUhelm Oustloff, nasi or
ganizer In Switzerland who was kill
ed February 4, 1936, by a young
Yugoslav student. That event precip
itated Intensified anti-Semitism.
German Jews expected new actions
and restrictive measures to follow
the burial today.
Von Ribbentrop and Ernest WU
helm Bohle, state secretary and head
of the organization for Germans liv
ing abroad, extolled the young em
bassy decretory as a blood witness tq
the nszt cause.
They vowed the fight against In
ternational Jewry would be unremit
ting. Bohle referred to Vom Rath as "tha
eighth victim abroad of the Jewish
Bolshevist lust for murder" and as-,
serted: "The shots fired at Davos
(Switzerland, where Oustloff - was
killed), Barcelona and Paris had but
one aim Germany the third retch.
"Germans living abroad are every
where attending to their callings and
work as loyal guests of the states
In which they live.
Targets Of Hatred
"Yet they are today targets for
hatred, persecution and the calum
nies of International sub-humanity,
which concentrates all Its strength
upon the destruction of the resur
rected relch."
Hitler did not apeak.
Flags waved at half staff over all
public buildings, schools and many
private dwellings throughout Ger
many, Von Ribbentrop, wearing the black
uniform of nazl( diplomats, said the
old world apparently meaning tha
democracies was definitely sinking
and a "sinister effort of Interna
tional Jewry, inimical to everything
would be "unavailing.'
Von Ribbentrop declared 'lies and
calumnies, persecution and murder
are the means employed by Inter
national Jewdom and other destruc
tive powers which would like to
block Germany's road Into the fut
ure. "Their last victim was party com
rade Vom Rath. -
"If now a new wave of hate strikes
out at us In the world, If an attempt
la made to desecrate the sacrlfico
of our deceased party comrade by
new lies and calumnies, a storm of
indignation rises throughout our na
tion." HARTNETT RESIGNS AS
VEHICLE COMMISSIONER
ALBANY. H. T., Not. IT (API
Stiite Tu CommlMlonr Mrk Oram
today innouncm the resignation of
State Motor Vehicle Commlwloner
Charlea A. Hartnett who la under In
dictment In New York City on charge
ul brlberjr and extortion.