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The Weather Forecast: Pair tonight and Saturday but becoming cloudy. Utile chance In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday 5t Lowest thU morning 24 Good Investment Now to pre par that Classified for tba Sunday moraine edi tion. Many people of late hare been added to the list of Sun day morning advertisers. You trlil find It a food InTfstment. Medford TRIBUNE Full Associated Press Fv .ted Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1938. No. 212. IU1 HE HE The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937. by The North American News paper Alliance,' Inc. HOOVER'S FUTURE MAY BE ISSUE AT G.O.P. PARLEY MAY HINGE ON EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PLACE SIMPSON OF NEW YORK OPPOSES F. R.'S VIEWS MRS. PRATT REGARDED AS BLOC CANDIDATE WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 There Is S definite chanoe that the political future of former President Herbert Hoover will be made an open Issue at the forthcoming meeting of the Republican national committee. In fact, the committee members may virtually be asked to vote for or against Hoover as a possible nominee In 1940. If the Hoover Issue Is raised, those who raise It will be the national com mitteeman . and commltteewoman from New York, Kenneth F. Simpson and Mrs. John T. Pratt. The retirement of the former New York national committeeman, Charles H11 les, whom Simpson succeeds, leave. a vacancy In the national committee's executive committee. Mrs. Pratt has asked Simpson to support her for the place, and Simpson, thus far, has refused. Simpson Is himself a candidate for membership In the executive commit tee, but he has placed his refusal to support Mrs. Pratt on the grounds of her friendship with former President Hoover. New York's charming polit ical pioneer among Republican wom en was an early Hoover backer. Dur ing Hoover's presidency, she was a White House Intimate, and she re ceived her original nomination as national commltteewoman largely by Hoover's Influence. At the 1936 con vention, her Intense loyalty led her to cast the only Hoover .vote In. the pre -nomination caucus of the New York delegation. She Is outspoken In her opinion that he Is the logical 1940 candidate. Under the circumstances, therefore, Simpson believes that If Mrs. Pratt Is given the executive committee place, the Hoover wing of the Repub lican party will have made a great (Continued on Page Bight.) SIX BORN TO DEATH IN TENEMENT BLAZE AMSTERDAM. N. T., Nov. 25 !&) An entire family of six persons, a 37-year-old mother and five children, waa burned fatally today In a tene ment house fire during a heavy snow storm. The victims were Mrs. Carrie De rosa, a widow of five months, and Fdward B: Dorothy, 8: Carl. 6: James. 3, and Michael, 3. Fire Chief Matthew J. Kavanaugh ssld he believed the family was hud dled around a portable oil stove In the living room of a small second floor spartment when the heater ex ploded. The father. James Derosa, waa kill ed last July when he fell from a bridge on which he waa working. t SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ken Den man telling how much the Active club enjoyed and appreciated Ln Carpenter's talk on Europe. Ann Barnes seemingly enjoying the Medford-Ashland football game even though she shivered throughout from the cold. Leah Hart being a picture of smart ness in a chic ensemble of harvest shades with the latest anaray heavy gold beads. Willie. Winkle and Laddie Selkirk being Indubitably one of the most versatile families in the city, they making a pleasant evening pleasanter by their many antics. Blllle Hammett Robertson whipping about the old home town with much eagerness and glee and especially enjoying the spring weather. FTed, Vlrg and Herb Strang ganging up for a brother act while all arguing in rhythm with an Ashland football fsn. the brothers winning at least k vocal victory over U Llthiaa. WOMEN, CHILDREN L EVACUATED FROM Pj FOOTHILL HOMES 3 Extensive Backfire Whipped to Fury by Sudden Ad verse Winds Crestline in Path of Rushing Flame LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25. (AP) Fire fighters In the San Ber nardino and Santa Monica moun tains appeared to have gained the upper hand again today In their bitter battle against devas tating brush and timber fires, which threatened to get out of control in the early morning . hours. Although evacuation of wo men and children from Crestline In the San Bernardino national forest continued, the fire dis patcher's office there reported the flames had been diverted, for the present at least from that mountain settlement. LOS ANGELES. NOV. 25. ( AP) Evacuation of woman and children from Crestline, In the San Bernardino mountains, was begun this morning when the forest fire began sweeping toward the little town. Meanwhile, on another fire front, also In Los Angeles county, a new menace arose on the ridge of a thickly populated canyon .when an extensive backfire was wtilpped up suddenly by adverse winds. It threat ened to send the fire down the main slope of Mandevllle canyon, where there are many pretentious homes. Mrs. John Hay Whitney, noted sportswoman, was among those who left Mandevllle as the flames crept ever closer. ' Near Stars' Homes The' fire is high In the canyon, at least two or three miles from the exclusive suburb of Brentwood where such motion picture celebrities as Joan Crawford. Shirley Temple and Pat O'Brien live. George Temple, the star's brother, said fine ashes were falling all over the area,' but he expressed no con cern. The .canyon flattens out as It reaches Brentwood and Temple said there are sufficient fire hydrants to protect homes,- should the fire move down. Walter Schultz, who led a caravan of three autos containing IB women and -children Into San Bernardino, said at 6:30 a.m. the flames were within a mile of Crestline. Visibility Cut . The smoke was so thick, he said, visibility was less than AO feet. Many others, Schults said, left (Continued on Page Four.) FIRES AT TAHOE TAHOE, Calif., Nov. 26. (AP) Two large fires In the Lake Tahoe region, at the resort of Meyers snd st Carnella bay, were estimated to day by authorities to have done 260. 000 damage. The most serious fire destroyed the historic two-story Meyers hotel, the general merchandise store and the post office. Loss first estimated at S7R.0O0 was raised to 2.40.000 to day by a reeheek. Late last nifiht, another fire at Carnella bay destroyed a new host house and servants' quarters at the summer home of E. 8. Houglett of San Francisco, ijofls was estimated at 10.000. Sparks from a kitchen flue were believed to have started the flame at Meyera. Cause of the Carnella bay fire waa not known. F.R. Reiterates Opposition To Policies of Dictators Br p. Harold Oliver WARM SPRINOS. Ga., Nov. 25. (AP) Through the medium of Thanksgiving telegram, President Roosevelt was on record again today at least by Implication in oppo sition to policies of dictator nations. Depsrtlng from an otherwise per functory address at a holiday din ner last night the chief eifcuttve read a telegram one of many greet ingsfrom Eddie Cantor, the actor, as follows: "May you and yours have a happy thanksgiving. I am thankful I rati live In a country where all leaders can alt down on Thanksgiving day and carve up a turkey instead of a map." The message, the president re marked before reading It over coast to const radio chains, "gives me a thought we can all think over." The president spoke st the annual founder'! day banquet of U Warm Bloody Jacket in Trial D $ -v. " ' "x Presentation by the defense of a bloody Jacket, and Its Identification by a defendant as belonging to a prosecution witness In the Alratniz slaying trial In San Francisco created a sensation. James Lucas, Alcatrox convict accused with Convict Rufus Franklin of the killing said the Jtirket be longed to Milton T. Pettljnhn. convict No. 128 of Alrotraz. Pet t (John had testified agulnst the two. A defense attorney, Joseph Sweeney, Is hold ing the Jacket. ((p) photo). TO LA PAZ. Bolivia. Nov. 25. (AP) The government today proc'aimed a state of siege a form of martial law throughout Bolivia. , The government issued the follow ing announcement In explanation of its action: "At dawn today In this city acts of rebellion against the legally con stituted authorities were committed. It Is the duty of the executive to safeguard and conserve public order. .Therefore the council of ministers has decreed the Invocation of the article declaring a state of siege throughout the republic." The communique did not describe the "acts of rebellion." Recent dispatches from .Bolivia have failed to Indicate any develop ments likely to lead to Imposition of a state of siege. The government of President German Busch on Octo ber 11 settled Bolivia's 100-yenr-old conflict with Paraguay over the Grim Chaco wilderness In an agreement depriving Bolivia of an. outlet .on the Paraguay river, but there have been no reports of subsequent trou ble. Mott Prepares For Washington Return SALEM. Nov. 25. ( AP) James W. Mott. representative in congress for the first Oregon district, ssld today he woud close his Salem office to morrow when his secretaries, Mrs. Dorothy Woodrlng and Miss Elizabeth Fletcher, will leave for Washington to get his office In order there. Representative Mott will leave for Washington before mid-December, while Mrs. Mott and their children will remain In Salem until, the end of the present school semester in Jsnuary. Springs Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Mrs. Roosevelt snt beside him as he recounted to the 80 crip pled patlenta and their families, and the foundation staff, progress of the health colony he established here a down years ago. The advance text given to cor respondents had contained no hint of fore) en affairs. It waa not until Mr. Roosevelt reached an ante room to Georgia hall, where he spoke In the huge combination dlntng-am-bly room, it became known he had decided to amplify his talk. He called a reporter over and tipped him off to watch closely at the close of his address. The president referred to Cantor as "an old friend." The motion pic-ture-radld entertainer has been a leader in raising funds for use In combatting Infantile paralysis by mens of the annual Roosevelt birth day balls. E WARN POLES AGAINST INVADING CZECH AREA PARIS. Nov. 25. (AP) The pre miers of Great Britain and Prance warned Poland today against Invad ing Czechoslovakia's eastern territory. Alsrmed by reports from their am bassadors In Warsaw and Prague, Prime Minister Chamberlain and Premier Daladler Instructed their Warsaw representatives to caution the Polish government against the "danger of such action." Prance and Britain, along with Germany and Ttnly. agreed in the Munich pact t& guarantee the new frontlera of Czechoslovakia. The statesmen, who last night concluded a vlrtusl outright anglo french military alliance were In formed Poland had massed 12 di visions of troops along the frontier of Ruthenia and Chechoslovakia was sending heavy reinforcements to the eastern provinces. If the tension continued. Informed quarters nald. Chnmberlnln and Dala dler were agreed it might be neces sary to call an immediate conference of the "Munich big four" Chancel lor Hitler, Premier Mussolini and themselves. If Germany moves to prevent Pol ish occupation of Ruthenia, which would give Poland a common fron tier with Hungary, it was ; said Prance and Britain would back up Hitler. AUTO DESTROYED IN NIGHT BLAZE Fire lest night virtually destroyed a 1031 Bulrk coupe and badly dam aged the garage owned by C A. Moore of 34 Rose street. Firemen kept the flames from spreading to the residence which was built only about a year sgo. Cause was attributed by Chief Roy Elliott to a short circuit that de veloped In the car while It was park ed In the garage. Loss on the garage was covered by Insurance, the chief said. The gasoline tank of the burning car exploded and spread flaming fuel all over the interior of the garage Just as firemen arrived. The roof of the garage waa destroyed. Firemen answered a ward alarm at 10:15. It was the first night fire In weeks and occurred Just as the an nual firemen's ball was getting Into full swing. SKYRMAN RESIGNS AS BANKRUPTCY REFEREE Attorney Harry Skvrman has re. signed as United States referee In bankruptcy, after serving ten yet? in the position. Pressure of other bus iness was given as the reason for the resignation. Attorney Kenneth Q, Denman has been named by the United Star- dis trict court Judse to Ult the bank ruptcy referee vacancy. CALLED TO HALT Fl 100,000 Workers Out and Number Growing Hourly; Daladier Determined to Crush Wave of Disorders By Robert B. Parker, Jr. PARIS. Nov. 25 , Premier Dal adier summoned mobile guards and gendarmes today as the mounting wave of strikes against his govern ment threatened to sweep over the nation. With the strike roll nearlng 100,000 and climbing hourly, he ordered 30, 000 mobile guarclB and 20.000 gend armes concentrated in the strike cen ters about Paris and In the north. Parliamentary deputies said Dal adler was determined to crush the movement and was planning to decree a state of siege, similar to martial law, unless the strikes were mastered quickly. May Arrest Icaders Some deputies said they understood Daladler even considered the arrest of the former Socialist premier, Leon Blum; Leon Jouhaux, general confed eration of labor secretary, and Mau rice Thoree, Communist party secre tary, along with dissolution of the Communist and Socialist parties. Blum, through his newspaper Le Populalre, warned France faced a "real social battle whose consequences none can longer foresee." Estimates were that 45.000 strikers were out near Lille In the north and 40,000 In the Paris region. Strikes broke out early today In western fac tories. More To Quit V- Workers In metal factories, textile mills and chemical plants of Lille voted to quit tomorrow, refusing to do a half day of work Saturday be yond the 40-hour work period. Northern railroad hands, ordered back to their posts under government requisition of the lines, were pre vented from resuming service by striking miners who occupied railway stations at Anzln and Bruay mines. Strikers also held the Renault au tomobile factory plant on Seguln Island In the Seine. Police and mo bile guarda patrolled approaches to the plant but did not storm It. Crowds stood in the rain to watch. Mobile guards with loaded carbines guarded railway stations and power plants in the north. Officers Wounded Authorities said 40 policemen and police officers were wounded In last night's battle at the main Renault plant in Paris, the first clash of the strike wave. Continued arrests of strikers and demonstrators brought the total Jail ed In the Parts region since yesterday to 100. All were accused of resisting officers of the law.' Police early today forced 800 strik ers out of the Btoch airplane factory at Orly and said they had ousted striking workers from 16 other metal lurgical plana In the Nord depart ment. The Communist party. Immediately Joined .by the Socialists, lodged for mal protest against the evictions of workers from occupied factories. - LONDON, Nov. 26. (AP British newsdealers today destroyed their copies of the December Issue of Cos mopolitan magazine to avoid nosslblo legal action by Count Court Haug-wlte-Reventlow, estranged husbnnd of the former Barbara Hutton. . The count raised objections to an article called "The Truth About Bar bara Hutton." one of a series by Elsa Maxwell, society's noted party thrower The Dally Mall reported the Amer ican five-end-ten heiress had col laborated In preparing the life story but her representative here Issued a denial. Count Court's attorneys refused to comment on the ban or confirm a report the count had applied for a restraining order. One of the two companies which distribute the magazine was quoted by the Dally Mail as saying It had a circulation of about 2.000 In Eng land. KIDNAP LAW LEGALITY CHALLENGED BY WALEY SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26. (AP) Constitutionality of the Lindbergh kidnaping law was challenged In a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed In federal court here today by Harmon M. Walffy, Alcatrae prisoner, convicted of il('.:ct1ng ji'.tng Oeorge Weyerhaeuser at Tacoma Oil May 24 1939. KAI-SHEK SEEKS BRITISHPOLICY Generalissimo Says China Must Look Elsewhere tor Aid Unless Britain Acts Dilemma for England Br Lloyd Ihrba SHANKHAI. Nov. 35 PI General issimo Chiang Kai-Shek was said by Chinese sources today to have ex pressed dissatisfaction to the British ambassador over Great Britain's Par Eastern policies and to have hinted strongly the time for a showdown hsd arrived. This waa dlsolosed as the British ambnssndor, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, returned to Shanghat from a confer ence with "Chiang "somewhere In Hunan" province. Informed quarters said the conference might be the turning point In Anglo-Chlncse rela tions. sir Archibald declined to discuss hie talks with the generalissimo other than to say Chiang was "well, fit and optimistic." Hays Britain railed Chinese sources said, however. Chiang told the ambassador Britain had fsUed to carry on the traditional Anglo-Chinese relationship. He was said to have told Sir Arch ibald unless British policies were changed and aid waa forthcoming China would be forced to turn else where. In that event, Chiang was reported to have said, Britain's dom inance In China would fade away and the power that provides the needed help would become the pars mount Influene. In Chinese foreign affairs. The Koumlntang la scheduled to open an Important session at Chung king, temporary capital, early In De cember to determine China's foreign pouoy ror the future. Ohlane was aald to have urged Britain to provide assurances of positive issuance. Face Dllrmna Britain thus waa placed on the horns of a dilemma, since Japan fre quently has asserted Britain must change her Far Eastern policies to meet Japanese approval before peace and understanding can be achieved in the Orient. French and American relations with China were understood to be slated for a similar frank review In conver sations Chiang expects to hold In the near future with ambassadors of the two countries. T EVERETT. Wash., Nov. 38. (API- Blown out of the cab of his truck, his clothing ablsre, Stewart Crans ton, Seattle, was in critical condl tlon In the Everett General hospital today after the truck he waa driving overturned and exploded on the Pa cific highway east of here about noon. Hubert Dart, dairy employe, driv ing by at the time, aided Cranston in getting away from the blsaing machine. Crsnston waa taken to the hos pital, where he was reported to have serious burns about the upper part of his body snd on hie legs. High boots saved his feet. Pieces of clothing ' were found scattered about the highway where they had fallen from Cranston as he made his way from the truck. Dies Urges Resignation of Ickes, Perkins and Hopkins WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, (AP) Representative Dies (D., Tel.), con tinuing his fued with Secretary Ickes, proposed today the Interior depart ment head along with Secretary Perkins and WPA Administrator Hop kinsshould resign and thus "restore confidence to government. "It la a consummation devoutly desired by the overwhelming major ity of Democrats." said Diss, chair man of the house committee Invest igating un-American act) Titles, Citiwns cannot feel secure, he de clared, while "crackpots" are In high federal positions. Dies' statement was Issued In reply to a press conference remark by Ickes Wednesday the Texas representative was the world's outstanding "Bany," and testimony before hit committee waa "garbage." The two men have been at odds since Ickes first criticised the tn quiry a few weeks ago. Dies and Sec retary Perkins also have been argu ing over the letter's conduct of the Harry Btttgei dapottatlon case. Re-'Union' f X- - . JJ For signing up In Actor's Equity, the actors' union organization. Nov elist Sinclair Lewla got a big . kiss from Actress Helen Hayes. Lewis, who acted tn the Little Theatre produc tion, "It Can't Happen Here," needed a member of Equity to be his sponsor. Miss Hayes nhowed up to play the part and seated the bargain with a kiss. P) Photo.) ALCATRAZ FUGITIVES SLAIN LIKE DOGS IS! APPEAL IN DENSE SAN PRANOTBCO, Nov. 26. (AP) Harold Faulkner, attorney defend ing two Aloatras convicts accused of murdering a guard In an attempt to escape, ssld today convicts in the escapade were 'shot down like dogs." The attorney, making his Inst ap peal to the Jury In behalf of James C. Lucas and Rufus Franklin, charged with hammering Guard Royal C. Cllne to death, said the government attorneys failed to prove anything pertinent to the murder. The convicts admitted they tried to escape last May 23, Faulkner said, but they couldn't be punished for that becAUse they had been charged with murder, and not for conspiracy to escape. Franklin was wounded and Con vict Thomas Limerick was fatally shot by Tower Guard Harold Stltes when the pair, with Lucas, broke through a window In the prison car pentry shop and rushed across the roof In their dash for freedom. Lucas surrendered. "Stltes shot these men down Hko dogs," Faulkner declared. T LEFT HUGE SUM WASHINGTON. Nov. 35. (AP) The national park service estimated today tourists spent S5.003.100.0OO In the United States last year. New York's shsre 846,800.000 was the largest state total, the park tervlee reported. California, with 418100.000, wss next, snd Pennsyl vanls. where tourist, spent 9337,- 890.000. was third. Estimated expenditure In other states Included: Wsr.Ungton, S9S.70O.OOO: Oregon, 180.160,000; Montana. 130,700.000 and Idaho, 833.100.000. Referring specifically to Ickes, Dies' statement said: "The secretary literally reeks with the venom of hatred. It flows from him as naturally and freely as water from a spring. "Because a witness, under oath, testified the secretary Is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, an organisation which John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers brand ed as communistic in 1024, the sec rets ry strikes viciously and savagely at the chairman of the committee, although the secretary admits his membership In the American Civil Liberties Union." When Ickes was appointed to the csblnet post, Dies declared, ha brought "his many radical associ ates" to Wellington. These "satellites," he asserted, range in "political Insanity" from socialist to communist. Dies contended th retirement of Ickes, Hopklna and Miss Perkins "would do morn to restore normal business conditions than auy other slDgl cV" IS 81 -Year-Old Holy Father Is Stricken Suddenly With Heart Trouble Another Attack May Be Fatal VATICAN CTTT, Nov. 38. (API- Pope Plus suffered a serious heart attack this morning and oxygen waa administered Immediately after his collapse to overcome a difficulty In breathing. This treatment was suspended. however, sfter the difficulty had been remedied and the Vatican an nounced officially the holy father's condition was Improving thla after noon. The 81-year old pontiff waa stricken suddenly as he waa about to leave hla private apartment for an official ante-chamber for hla dally round of private audiences. Cardlae Asthma A Vatican medical bulletin de scribed his Illness sa cardiac asthma. Another Informant aald It waa myo carditis (Inflammation of the mus cular part of the wall of the heart). Secretaries who saw the pope over come by dlazlness Immediately car ried him to bis room and put him to ed. Hla holiness' personal phyaletan. Dr. Amlnta Milan!, wsa summoned and remained with hla patient until late In the afternoon. On leaving the pope's bedside atl- lanl said that the pontiff waa "slightly better" and had been able to swallow some broth. Doctor Near "I am optimistic" Mllanl said, "but all dependsa on the resistance of the holy father's heart." He added another heart attack like that of this morning might be fatal. The doctor went to an apartment near that of the pope and prepared to spend the night at the Vatican. Cardinals and prelates, Including Oeorge Cardinal Mundeleln, arch bishop of Chicago, who were to have) been received In audience were In formed of hla Illness when they ar rived at the Vatican. Cardinal Mundeleln later left by automobile for Naples, Intending to sail for the United States tomor row on th. Conte dl Savola. Thla waa taken to Indicate the Pope's condi tion waa not considered cause for Immediate action. 22-OUNCE BABY E DRUMHELLER, Alts., Not. 38. (CP) Mollle Alice Carruthers, Can ada's tiniest baby, started her fifth day of-llfo 'quite bright," according to a report from the Municipal boa pltal today. Mollle Alio, born wrly Monday. weighed 33 ounces. She appears to be gaining weight. Miss J. Beattte, hoapltsl superintendent said. She haa not been weighed since birth, however, aa It would be too dangeroua to move her from her ap ple box Incubator. The baby la the dsugnter or mi. snd Mrs. James Carruthers. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time la Esatern Standard) Saturday football: 1:15 p. m. Army ts. Navy, WJB NBO, WAB0-CBS and MBS, also via abort waves. 1:45 Duk. vs. Pitt. WOR an special hookup of 84 stations, a-nn rmmiimatelvi Texas Chris tian vs. Southsrn Methodist, WABO CBS. Broadcast of the Army-Navy gam on Saturday It to be aa world-wide as short wave can mak. It, so that soldiers and sailors, no matter where they are, can tune in. Id ward Tomllnson, en route to th Pan-American congress at Lima. Peru, Is to put on his regular WJZ. NBO program at I p. m.. Sunday from aboard the liner Santa Clara. He plans to Interview some of th U. 8. delegates. Programs tonight (Friday): Post poned welterweight fight, WJZ-NBO; 10. Henry Armstrong vs. Oeferlne) Garcia. WABC-CBS 10KW. Hep. Hamilton Plan on "America's Answer to Relig ious and Racial Persecution." What to expect Saturday: W ABO CBS 10:18 a. m Clyde R- Miller on "Propaganda and Press Freedom." Some week-end short waves: Por Sunday HBO, Geneva, 7, Iieagu of NlbM report. 4 i
