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Medford Stores to Unveil. Attractive Christm as Displays Saturday The Weather Forecast : Showers tonight and Saturday, little r ban Re In temperature. Tempera turn Highest yesterday 4S Lowest this morning 42 Sunday Want Ads Just a reminder that It Is time to prepare that Classified Adr. for the Sunday morning edi tion. Ads. In by 3:30 Saturday P.M. will be properly classified. Closing time 8 P.M. EDFORD RIBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 193? No. 218. M ES 1 The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop. and Robert Kintner . Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. HOOVER MEN CREDITED IN ELEVATION OF HASTINGS EX -PRESIDENT'S ENMITY FOB SIMPSON BASIS NEW YORK PARTY LEADER DENIED NATIONAL POST MANEUVER BASED ON HARMONY VOTE PLEA WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. Dan Hast ings, the genial little Delaware old guardsmen who used to be known a "The Senator from DuPont." has the friends of Herbert Hoover to thank for hlB new place on the Re publican national committee's ex ecutive committee. Sources close to the former president strenuously deny his complicity In the maneuver by which Hastings was chosen and Kenneth P. Simpson. New York's new national committeeman, was firmly alde-traeked. But the Hoover friends acted with effective unani mity. Simpson, whose shrewd compro mise with political reality have salvaged New York Republicanism, la pure poison to Hoover. Tn the first place. Hoover hates the Simp son compromises. In the second, he bears a natural personal enmity for Simpson, for Simpson has "repeaf edly denounced the former presi dent's Influence in the Republican party. v The maneuver against Simpson be gan when Mrs. John T. Pratt, the charming national commltteewoman from New York. Intimated' that she would be a candidate for the place on the national committee's execu tive committee. Normally, It would hsve gone to Simpson. for It has belonged almost by right to New York's male member of the national committee. Mrs. Pratt's candidacy had been suggested to her some months before. She disclosed It to Hoover some time before the na tional committee meeting, so that he. Vas at least In part aware of what was up. Mr4 Pratt Is as close a friend, both political and personal, as the former president has. Therefore, when she made her intention known to Simpson, he Immediately decided to (Continued on Page Twelve) Girl Thief Gulps $350 Wrist Watch NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3. AP) Detective Joseph Mock arrested Edith Morris. 24, at a pawn shop, took her to a precinct station and asked her what happened to a $350 wrist watch that disappeared from the nome of Fred D. Kntchum. She said she swallowed It. X-rays corroborated her. Detective Mock booked her on a charge of having stolen property in her possession. Uncle Sam Duns Thirteen Powers WASHINGTON. Dec. 2. (AP) Thirteen European powers received reminders today they now owe the United States government $3,051,707, 241 on debts left over from the last war. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Karl Janouch thinking of a swell story each night and forgetting It each day. Frank Relnhart showing the ef fects of a soft life by not being able to catch up with an escaping burglar, and Frank a former athlete ton. And Dorothy and Jno. Johnson be ing quite dlusted with the burglar who ruined their attractive Christmas window display on the eve of un veiling same. Quarterback Bill Caples reporting on the girl friends the footbs'lers will tpfce to the banqtiM. And Rod Stead anticipating a romantic evening. mm tVltN UUNVINUtU I FATHER UNABLE 10 PAY RANSOiVl 18-Year-0ld Mary Brown Reaches Home Haggard, Tattered After 30 Hours in Clutches of Kidnapers OXON HILL. Md.. Dec, 3. (API William B. Brown, father of 18-year-old Mary Brown who reappeared at her home last night after a 30 hour absence, said today she was ab ducted by men who mistakenly thought he could pay a ransom. When his daughter, a business school student, convinced the men he waa unable to pay any ransom, he said, they released her. She arrived haggard and In tat tered clothes at the Brown home last night, saying the men had freed her from an automobile a short dis tance from the farm house where she lives. Girl Unharmed The girl was in fairly good condi tion, her father said. A doctor ex amined her and declared she had not been harmed. The girl said she had twice become unconscious and thought she had been struck In the stomach. Mary had been kept In a hut ever since she was abducted, she told the family. Brown gava this statement to the press this morning: "My daughter came home last night abbut 10 o'clock. "The kidnapers let her out about one-half mile down trie road from the entrance to our farm. It was near Hanson Branch. She came home wearing only a slip. She said the men burned all her clothes. "She spent a restful night. The doctor examined her and found she had not been harmed In any way by her experience. Driven to Hut "Mary said after she was shoved in the truck (described as the ab ductors' vehicle) she waa driven at fast speed to a hut where she waa kept on a mattress. A blindfold waa put over her eyes after she was put in the truck, but she waa not gagged. "There were three men in the truck when she waa kidnaped. She said the men talked In whispers while she waa kept In the hut. "The motive for the kidnaping was .ransom. When she convinced them I was not In a position to pay any ransom they aald they didn't want to have any more to do with her. and they brought her back in an automobile. They put her out on the side of the road, turned around and drove away beforo she could get the blindfold off.' The father Is an employe of the bureau of printing and engravtng at nearby Washington. MaJ. Elmer F. Munshower, super intendent of the Maryland state po lice, said officers would press their hunt for the three men who figured in her abduction. The girt waa un able to add anything to the descrip tion of the men given by Lucy, her younger sister, when the reported abd uc tlon occurred after the gl rls repulsed a "pick-up" offer on a lonely road near their home. The men did not aay how much ransom they had hoped to get, said Brown. E CLOSES FLINT. Mich.. Dec. 2 0T. The Fisher Body company's plant No. 1, employing from 6.000 to 7.000 men. closed at 13:30 p. m. when mem bent of the CIO United Automobile workers walked out on strike The men left the plant a few min utes after completion of a strike vote taken in connection with a pro longed dispute over wage rates in the press and metal department of the plant. (JAW officials said the men voted 3.434 to 433 for the strike. The plant, scene of one nf the first Bit-downs in the General Motors strikes In 1937, has been employing 6.400 men. Company officials aald sufficient workers had left their Jobs so It was impossible to continue operations. Flher Body is a division of Gen eral Motora corporation. O. M. pkes men indicated cessation of a rupply of bodies from th? Flfher plant vould necessitate closing the Buick ;;lant here which has ivn employing ap proximately 13 000 men. Windsors to Give British Workman Christmas Feast LONDON. Dec, 3. (AP) The London Star said today the Duke and Duchess of Windsor had ar ranged to entertain the family of a London working man on Christ mas day at their chateau at Cap D'Antlbes, on the French riviere. The working man has accepted the Invitation for himself, his wife, son and daughter, but his name is being kept secret. The Idea came frem the duke, "who Is anxious to spend the hol iday in the company of one of the ordinary people of his country." 'The duchess," It aald, "Im mediately suggested the children because she wanted a children's party and Christmas tree." The newspaper described the family as "staggered" by the In vitation but said It accepted Immediately. I IN FEDERAL COURT NEW YORK, Dec. 2 P) Prison terms ranging from two to ix years were imposed today on three persons convicted of espionage In federal court, and on a fourth who pleaded guilty and testified for the govern ment. Red-haired Johanna Hofmann, 36. former hairdresser on the North Oer man Lloyd line Europa, was sentenced to four yeara for her part in the so called Nazi German spy plot. Otto Hermann Vous, 38, airplane mechanic, accused of turning over aircraft secrete to German agents, was sentenced to fix years. Erich Glnser, 28. United State army private whoa waa stationed At Mltchel field. Long Island, and waa accused specifically by having turned over a code to Guenther Gusts v Rumrlch, 32, confessed spy, was sen tenced to two years. Rumrlch. Chicago-born son of Aus trian parents who Joined the United States army and deserted to become a spy, was sentenced to two yeara. He had pleaded guilty. All the terms will be served In a federal penitentiary. Vosa, Miss Hoffman and Glaser were convicted early this week after a trial which lasted six weeks. Judge Knox, addressing the court room, remarked that "the trial went to the very edge of too great In dulgence." "Had these defendant been ap prehended In the confines of Ger many." he satd, "their fate would have been much more fearful. As It la the agent of a totalitarian state are receiving the mercy of a democracy." Then, without mentioning the headsman's axe directly, he added: We have no sawdust sprinkled on our prison yards." Governor 1. ........ ... Him .i , ii ..i ..i. i........ ....... .n..,r .. .1...... tmHHW fnW,!W''W2li'MlM,!ltWm ft W? (J Gov. Charles II. Martin, retired army major-general, found mating t.impalcii when tie directed workmen ptitllng a carved rhet Into Tnenl-flrt atenue, Portland, on Ueriiieriai. The 7-Vtear old gmrr when hl term of office end January 9, vtas wan and tired hut stilt pirrtlsnd to 5alem for lit remainder of bis term. (A. P. Photo) BEUEASE IS BUFFETED BY VIOLENHREEZE Heavy Seas Close Columbia Entrance Trees Up rooted in Toledo Section Tillamook Is Drenched SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2. (AP) Whole gole warnings were posted along the Washington and .Oregon coasts today and the weather bur eau here said winds of between 70 and 80 miles an hour would atrlkc that region late today and tonight. R. C. Counts, weather forecaster, aald a storm was sweeping across the Pacific from the west and was cen tered not far off the Washington coast. PORTLAND. Ore.. Dec, 3. (AP) A warm but violent gale drenched western Oregon today, leaving a trail of destruction and at least one death. Air transport lines cancelled sched uled flights. Ships stood on both side of the Columbia river bar, unable to cross. Several communica tions lines to coastal communities were out. Blinding rain and slippery streets caused the death here of Clyde M. Barrett, 41, killed when he was struck by an atitomoblle shortly after midnight. fin to to Continue The United Statea weather bureau at North Head, mouth of the Columi bla, forecast continuation of a 50- mile gale which struck there this morning. At least nine ships stood by out side the Columbia, unable to cross Into the river although the pilot schooner Columbia wallowed In the rough seas three mils out In an attempt to reopen shipping stagnated since Tuesday. Falling trees and slides endnngeted secondary highways on the coast. A terrific wind at Toledo halted an (Continued on Page Three ) STREET AND HIGHWAY PORTLAND, Dec. 3. (AT) Street and highway accidents cost Oregon citizens about $15,000,000 annually. Hugh Rosson, state director of traf fic safety, asserted In an address here yesterday. He compared the sum to the $17,000,000 required to finance grade and high school education. Accidents killed 1337 persona dur ing the 1034-37 period, he satd. Finds Moving lift Radio Highlights Medford radio station KMED, through its NBC hookup, will broad cast the Notre Dame -University of Southern California football game to be played In Los Angeles tomorrow afternoon. The battle will go on the air at 1:45. By Associated Press (Time Is Eastern Standard) Saturday Football 1 :45 p.m. Tennessee vs. Missis sippi. WABC-CBS. 4:45 Southern California vs. Notre Dame, WJZ-NBC, WABC-CBS, MBS chain. The battle between Tony Galouto and Otis Thomas, scheduled Wednes day for 13 rounds In St. Louis, start ing at 11 o'clock is to be broadcast over CBS. Programs tonight (Friday: WJZ NBC -12, Southern Calirornla-Notro Dnme football rally. Saturday tsto bring: WJZ-NBC 12:30. Four-H Club program; 3:30, Model World Conference at XI. of Chicago. BIG ASSORTMENT OF GIFT GOODS ON STORE COUNTERS The Christmas season will be open ed formally here tomorrow when the stores will unveil their windows to display their Yuletlde merchandise. Anticipating a, busy Christmas sea son the stores hav laid in a large aasortmehT'6rttttraTj'tive gift mer chandise which thay are eager to have the public inspect. In ordering the merchandise, the merchants have kept every member of the fnmlly In mind, from tot to grandparents. Decoration of the city streets lias been completed and has elicited much praise from citizens. The dec oration are somewhat more exten sive than In recent years and include some lnnovatlona such a the big star of colored lights at Main street and Central avenue. To add to the festive spirit of the Yule season, the senior high school girls drum corps will march through the city streets December 8 after performing in the area west of the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce at 3:15 p. m. On December 15 the program will be repeated by the girls drum corps of the Junior high school. .... On December 33 a Santa Clans party for children will be held t the chamber of commerce. Santa Clans will be present himself and will distribute candy and favors. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. (AP) The civil service commission announced today it would receive applications until the close of business December 18 for the postmastershlp at Bprague River, Klamath county, Ore. Tiring Job day more trenimti. tlinn military hi new Itnme at "lift KoiitliniMl nor, wlto it til retire to I lit hone patient. He mill rommnte from AT E Meeting Monday Will Re view Proposed State Leg islationShare Tax On Gasoline Major Concern. A district meeting of the League of Oregon Cities will bo held here Mon day to consider legislation pertaining to municipalities which the 1D30 leg islature is likely to pass upon. The meeting will begin with a luncheon In the Hotel Medford and continue throughout the afternoon. ! Mayor C. C. Furnas, league director will open the proceedings as tem porary presiding officer and then turn ; the chairmanship over to Charles H. HIcKtlns of Marshfleld, league presi dent. Herman Kehrli of Eugene, ex ecutive secretary of the league Is al so expected to attend. So that Jackson county legislators may have a thorough understanding of municipal problems as they will appear In state legislation. Senator George W. Dunn and Repreaentatlves William M. McAllister and Earl New bry have been Invited and are ex pected to attend the session. Mayor Furnas said. A special Invitation to be present has also been extended to County Judge Earl B. Day and Coun ty Commlsslonera Ralph Billings and Otto Caster. . County-Wide Session Medford city officials, Including all the councilman and department heeds, and officials of all the Incor porated cities of the county also will attend the meeting, the mayor stated. i While the specific agenda has not been disclosed It la known that the meeting will give considerable time to a discussion of the proposal to re turn a small share of the state gaso line tax revenue to the cities for the maintenance, repair and reconstruc tion of streets. The League of Oregon Cities has been endeavoring to procure a small part of the gasoline revenue for tic municipalities of the state and it will go before the 1030 legislature to pro cure legislation providing for such a division. Holds Cities Pay Hulk It Is the contention of the league that the bulk of the gasoline tax ta paid by citizens of the Incorporated cities and that therefore the munici palities are entitled to at least a small part of the revenue to be used exclusively In the maintenance, re. pair and reconstruction of streets. At present city streets are financed ex clusively by original assessments against adjacent property and main tained, repaired and reconstructed ex clusively by general property taxes. The league contends that the pres ent arrangement Is unfair and unjust because - while the citizens of the cities bear the brunt of the gasoline and motor vehicle taxes, they re ceive absolutely no share of the rev venues. The cities are so greatly bur dened with taxes that they have no positive means of maintaining, re pairing and reconstructing their streets, the league asserts. It la the league's point of view that the state highway commission should return to .the cities a email share of 1U esti mated gross revenue of about $14, 000.000. The league will therefore ask about $860,000 of the commission's esti mated $14,000,000 revenue, the funds to be divided among the cities on a pro rata basts for the sole use In fi nancing the maintenance, repair and reconstruction of streets. It Is esti mated that such a division would bring Medford about $18,000 annually, a sum said to be noeded to keep the streets In first-class condition. BKND, Dec. a. (AP) TWO feet of snow falling In two hourt blocked the mlle-hih McKonrle river high way between here and Eugene to day aa the atorm tearing at the Oregon coaat moved Inland. Highway official, ordered barriers up at sinters and the Eugene ap proach to the pasa. Stiff winds piled up drift, all ntaht and by day-break the alwaya narrow section through the lava bed waa little more than trail. The road drpartment aald efforta to reopen the load would depend largely upon th duration of the storm. M'KENZIE PASS IS BLOCKED BY SNOW Diet of Marbles Cause of Pain in Stomach of Girl NEW YORK. Dec. 3. (AP) Mary Genova, 10. had a perfect right to complain of severe pains In her stomach, doctors decided, after X-rays revealed Si full-slsed marble. Mary explained ahe and a friend each had swallowed a number of marbles on a "dare" from neigh borhood youths whose sled they wished to borrow. Mary's girl friend has reported no 111 effects. Both enjoyed the sled ride very much, Mary added as an afterthought. THIEF USES ROCK 10 A man's wrist watch and two onyx rings, totaling $175 In value, were obtained by a daring, unidentified thief who last night smashed a huge rock through the plate glass window of the John W. Johnson Jewelry store. 314 East Main street, and es caped after being chased several blocks by a number of persons, led by Frank Relnhart. Apparently In his haste to leavo the vicinity of the store, the thief failed to disturb hundreds of dollars worth of other watches and rings, alt within his reach In the display window. The rock, evidently thrown with force, shattered the window In a thousand pieces, enabling the thief to reach Inside and procure the articles. The burglary occurred at 8:5ft, Just a few minutes before theatre patrons would tvavu beeti moving past the Jewelry store. As It was, the street waa comparatively deaertod, and In vestigating dty police have been un able to find anyone who actually saw the crime committed. " Frank Relnhart. co-owner of the Relnhart and Barker men's store lo cated at 300 East Main street, just a few doors west of the jewelry store, heard the crash of the window. He was In his own store at the time, and when he reached the sidewalk he stated that the thief waa walking east on Main street, Somebody across the street yelled, "Stop that man Mr. Relnhart said, whereupon he started running after the suspect. The thief broke Into a run down Main street, turned south on Bart lett street and then scurried down the alley behind Luman Brothers grocery store. Relnhart, with several others who had taken up the chase, entered the alley, but the man had disappeared In the darkness. Stolen from the window were two black onyx rings, both set with one diamond and valued at $50 and $75, and a $50 man'a Tavannea white gold wrist watch of unique design. Strangely, the burglar reached right over a display of more expensive watchea and rings to steal what he did, Mr. Johnson sated. No insurance waa carried on tihe Jewelry, the owner said. Ironically, tba rock which waa heaved through the window came from Mr. Johnson's own property be hind the Crete Man theatre, the Jew eler aald he waa certain. It waa almost as big as a man's head and weighed close to 30 pounds. City police tody went working on the case, and had questioned one suspect who answered the descrip tion of the burglar. However, the man was released after Relnhart stated he waa not the person he chased. E One pouch of Medford airmail on the plane that crashed Into th aea north of San Franclaco Tuesday morning haa not been recovered. Postmaster Prank DeSouza waa noti fied today by A. O. Wllloughby, aaala tant auperlntendent of the Ban Fran claco regional office. The miming pouch, weighing two pound, wa destined to Preano. Cal. There were aeven pouches of Med ford airmail on th plane. The other alt pouches were recovered, Including a pouch of registered mall to San Pranclaco, Mr. DftSouza wa notfled. In all, four pouche of mall were atlll mlaaing when Mr. Wllloughby mailed hla report to postmaatera. A large part of the recovered mall wa wet and wa apread out to dry, Mr. Wllloughby aald.- Some waa dry enough to dispatch on th next malls. Only a small number of let ter would be undelivered, Mr. Wll loughby aald. UlffnM uwli TAX LEVY FIXED 1.1 a LOWER $436,802 To Be Raised In Combined Levy Requires 13 Mill Tax Jacksonville Highest B. F. Lowest The Jackson county combined tax levy for 1030 haa been fixed at II. mllla by the county assessor, except Is the city of Ashland, which levle It own library and general road mill age. The combined tax levy In Ash land will be 11.8 mills. The com bined levy embrace school district, city and state and county levies. The 1039 levy la 1.1 mills lower than last year when It waa 14.1 .mllla. The amount listed to be raised by tax levy is a49.802.2g. The levy by funda Is as follower Fund Levy Mllla State elementary schools ..... 1.U General county 4 General county achools and school library a ft County library ft s General roada 1 ft Special bridge fund . Market roada .09 -.1.0 -.0.3 Emergency fund Crater Lake highway bond redemption . ft Crater Lake highway bond Interest 0.1 The high school levy for district outside of high school district 1 9.8 mills. ' The combined levy (school, state 1 and county, and city levies) for th incorporated towns of Jackson county Is: ' Town School City Stat & Total Levy Levy County Levy Ashland 21.4 Butt Palls (none) Central Pt. 18.8 Eagle Point 17.8 old Hill 18.2 Jacksonville 20.1 Medford ISA Phoenix 18.8 Rogue River 20.4 Talent 18. 10.7 11.8 S2. 12.8 18. 35.6 27.8 18. 88.8 18.8 IS. 4e.T 18.8 13. 40. 27.8 18. 804 10.8 18. 484 17J 18. 48.8 13. 18. 48.4 20.7 IS. 81.7 Jacksonville haa the high combined levy with 60.0 mills. Central Point Is second with 88.8 mills; Ashland third, with 82.8 mills; Talent fourth, with 81.7 mill; Gold Hill fifth with 40. mills and Medford sixth with 4BJ mill. Butt Falls, one on of the high district In the state for Its size, baa the lowest combined levy with as 8 mills. THOMPSON TO SERVE SIX MONTHS IN It FOR TRIAL GUNPLAY Roy B. Thompson, who plead guilty to using th Trail postofflc building for target taat Sunday night, whan he sent rifle bullet through th window, wa sentenced to lx month in the county Jail thla morning by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton. ' Thompson recommended to th court, before sentence wa Imposed, he be given a year In tha county Jail. A number of resident of th Troll district were present tn th courtroom but failed to testify. Thompson blames hi clash with th law on wine Imbibing. He I former resident of Los Angela and a former member of southern Cal ifornia cult. Bryan Worka, 41. and Paul t. Stall. 31, both of Talent, who plead guilty to entering a ator then and taking wine and cigarette, wer ach given suspended sentences of six month In the county Jail. Worka, who haa been tn minor dif ficulties with the law before, waa warned a repetition would mean a prison sentence. 8 tell la married and th father of a email child. PORTLAND TURK MART PORTLAND. Deo. 9.- (AP) Lim ited . receipt and virtually no de mand kept th turkey market nomi nal her today. Resale quotation were erratic. Buyers were not Inclined to begin eastern shipment before Monday. Price remained 10 cent for torn and 23 cent for ben,
