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PAGE TEN MEDFOTCT) MATL TRTBTJNT:. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1938. FA. P. T Drama and Excitement of News Gathering Will Be Presented in Dedication of Fine New Building KEW YORK, Dec. 7 IF) The vivid pageant of 00 years of nowa gathering crowded with drama and excitement will be presented on the air to Chrlatmaa day audiences throughout the nation In a special NBC broad cast saluting the Associated Presa on the occasion of the dedication of Its new building in Rockefeller center. The hour-long program will be presented by the National Broadcast ing company over Its blue network from 10 to 11 a. m. P. 8. T., as a salute to the world-wide cooperative news gathering association. A ape clal feature will be the annual dram atisation of the 10 best stories of the year, as selected by Associated Presa editors. Recreate Rig Events It will recreate a number of the great eventa which have made thrill ing history since the founding of the Associated press in 1848 when the telegraph was a four-year-old infant and newspapers had meager news. The historical panorama Includes such outstanding stories of bygone front pages as the beginning of the Associated Press, the assassination of President Lincoln, General Custer's celebrated last stand, the devastating Samoa disaster of 1889, the sinking of the battleship Maine, the groat Sun Francisco earthquake, the World war and the rapid march of new down to the present time. Byron Price, executive news editor of the association, will apeak of the newa gathering of today. Long Cherished Idea The new Associated Press building, nerve center for a 38 5,000 -mile sys tem of leased telegraph wires, repre sent! the realization of a long oherlshed Idee,. For many yeara Kent Cooper, general manager, has looked forward to the day when more ade quate headquarters could be obtained for the nation's only non-profit, cooperative press association. The move to the modern new 17-story building, which is Just off Fifth avenue at Fiftieth street, Is the fourth In the Associated Press's long history. Back In 1848 a small cramped room up a flight of 78 steps on lower Broadway housed the head quarters. The first general manager. Alexander Jones, and one youthful assistant were the enttre staff, dou bling aa office boys, reporters, teleg raphers and messnngers, as the occa sion demanded. Many Enlargements This original office on the corner of Broadway and Liberty street was the organization's address until 1875 when the staff moved Into the dreary eighth-floor attlo of the then-new Western Union building a few blocks away at Broadway and Dey street. In 1014, the association sought larger quarters at 51 Chambers street, not far from New York's city hall, and In 182S a third move shifted the gen eral offices uptown to 383 Madison avenue. Tn contrast with the one-man stnff of 1848, the association's headquar ters now has 400 employes. The 283,000-mile leased wire web radiating from the new building will carry the news to 1,400 member news papers In every state of the union. T FOR GIANT STARS CHICAGO, Deo. 7 -iTy The Chi cago Cuba were looking for batting punch when the winter trading sea aon opened and Manager Oabhy Hartnett believes they got H in their three-for-thire swnp with the New York Giants. The Cubs yesterday gave up Bill Jurges, a fine defensive shortstop, Prank DeMnree, speedy outfielder and young Ken O'Dea. catcher. In rat urn they got outfielder Hank Letbcr. shortstop Dick Bartell and catcher Qus Mnncuso. The deal, consummated between officials of the two clubs at the New Orleans minor league meeting, was the biggest of the Young Stove league aeasnn. It waa the first evidence that Hartnett meant business when he promised a "house cleaning" after the national league champions dropped four in a row to the New York Yankees In the world aeries. Hunter Found Dead From Heart Attack TOLEDO. Dec. 7 y Searchers Inst night found the body of Bet ward Roberta, 65. missing since last Saturday when he wrnt hunting, two mile from Newport on ti e edge of the city watershed. His death, at first believed due to an arcldcnt, was latr ascribed to a heart attack. State Police Officer "Speed" Hall aald. IN SCHOOL ACAIN, two women from oppressed centers of Europe study the A-B-C' of American citizenship In a New York class. They are Dr. Edith Klemperer (left), former Vienna neurologist and psychiatrist, and Dr. Olga Brojdy-Oller. OF IDE MANDATORY IN BASEBALLMANAGERS NEW ORLEANS, Deo. 7 P) Baseball's bosses were told today they'd have to do something about the fans and players who, with in- creaalng lustiness and frequency, are pitching left hooks and empty bottles at umpires, "There has been an epidemic of assaults upon umpires during the past season," explained W. O. Bram ham, of Durham, N. C, president of the National Association of Profes sional Baseball leagues, In his an nual report at the convention here. He said umpires who "become In oculated with 'fear' of physical in Jury or loss of their positions be come totally Inefficient and easy prey to the ever-present and tempt ing gambler, or the threats of local fans, club owners or managers." He warned that the association would see to It that umpires are protected 100 per cent" and that offending players would be fined heavily and suspended for not less than 00 days. "Clubs and players are also put on notice." he said, "that sidestep ping the duty of protecting umpires from assault by Irate fans will result In heavy penalties, even to the ex tent of forfeiture of franchises." Bramham struck a cheerier note when he Bald the attendance at baseball games during the past sea son probably totaled 18,500.000, or some a.OOO.OOO more than In the previous season, 1037. , j CHICAGO, Dec. 7 B e r n e Blerman, Minnesota football coach, has completed selection of the ten midwest playera to compete with the eastern All-Stars against the west ern All-Stars In the annual j ont season game at San Francisco, Jan uary 3. Blerman and Auriv Kirr nf r-i. gate will coach the eastern squad, practice beginning December If) at Dyche stadium, Northwestern uni versity. The ten Players selected bv n,r. man are George Paust, quarterback; Francis Twedell, guard; and Larry Buhler, fullback, all of Minnesota; Ralph Helkklnen. suard. nnri rwi Slcgel, tackle, both of Michigan; jonn Pingel. Mlrhlga state back; Frank Petrlck, Indiana end; James McDonald. Illinois center: Joe Ml hal, Purdue tackle and Howard Weiss. Wisconsin back. 4 (Imln lVarrhmiv Ruriu CULDEPAC, Idaho, Dec. 7 .4i A spectacular grain warehouse and (levator fire which caused an esti mated D0OOO damage here lrt night was attributed by officials to day to friction from a clutch In thf main drive of the plant. MERMAN HOSES MIDWEST PLAYERS Where the Finer Gifts. Are to Be Found And Where the Price Is Always A Little Lower! JNO. W. JOHNSON'S Jewelry Store s ... N a La ft t hi n f Lutheran Ladies9 Annual Dinner At Armory Thursday The Ladles' Aid of St. Peter's Lutheran church will give Its annual dinner and Christmas sale Thursday evening In the armory. Dinner will be served from 6:30 to 8:00. A rmall charge will be made. Entertainment will be given during the dinner. Fancy work suitable for Christmas presents will be offered for sale. There will also be a country store offering the usual merchandise for sale; home-made candy booth, and fish ponds for children; for ladles and men. The public Is cordially Invited. Proceeds of the dinner and sale will be for the benefit of the ladles' aid and will not be used for the budget of the congregation. Schoolboy Saves Klamath Trains KLAMATH FALLS. Dec. 7 (ff A nine-year-old schoolboy who noticed a break in a Southern Pacific main line rail here and immediately re ported his discovery to a railroad yardman r.tbably averted derailment of on" of two freight trains which were due a few minutes later. General Yardmaster H. E. Hula disclosed to day. The boy. Milton Berglnnd. was crossing the tracks on his way home from school when he sighted the gap. About eight inches of the ball of one rail had broken away, enough, ac cording to Hula, to cause a derailment but not enough to affect the block signal contact. Bids On Dam Lines Asked In 60 Days SEATTLE. Dee. 7 m I n nm Bonneville dam nrnlect ndminintmtnr announced at a luncheon hero today bids for Installing lines and substa tions to transport Bonneville current In Oregon and Washington will be asked within AO days. He estimated the work at ttl.ooo.000. and materials lo cost 7.000.000. no sain communities u-milH ho f. celvlng power within 18 months af- wr conirncwt urn let. He said the Oreeon line n-miM mi from Vancouver to Eugene, with sub stations at Eugene and Hood River Closing time for Too Late tn rn. sUy Ads Is 1:30 p m. AUTO SHOW MEDFORD ARMORY Watch for The Mail Tribunes Big Auto Show Edition TOMORROW - - THURSDAY Mark Four Calendar NOW for Friday and Saturday Nights ARMAMENT FOES PUSHED TO SIDE BY DEFENSE RUSH Left In Background By Sud den Surge For Big Aero Force Will Have Say, However Before Congress By Preston Orover WASHINGTON So quickly was public attention caught by the re armament excitement that scarcely a flash of notice has been paid to ac tive and very energetic disarmament organizations which will have their say before the next congress adjourns. Likely enough It will be a forlorn and profitless outburst because the wheels are already rolling on an armament program that started up so fast It well nigh left behind even some of the foremost military lead ers. As late as last August the army chief of staff. General Mai in Craig, wrote Into hla annual report a state ment of confidence In progress of the army's alrforce. Said he, In part: "Great progress has been made to ward the attainment of the Baker board objective. Funds provided In the fiscal year 1030 will permit com pletion of thla objective." (The late former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and a committee of generals and civil aeronautics specialists recommended In 1034 that the army air strength be Increased by 1,000 planes to a 1040 total of 2320). Optimistic Report Outdated General Craig's statement on air armament officially published now for the first time, Is as out-of-date as a Civil war musket, although It Is only three months since be wrote- it. Its publication now only empha sizes the speed with which the change came. A month or so after Craig's report that the board's goal was nearly reached. President Roose velt JunkOl Its figures as "out of date." He declined to name new fig ures but others did It for him. In a speech during Thanksgiving week. Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of war. hinted that defense needs might Justify an air fleet of 7,000 or even 0,000 planes. Instead of the 2.320 which Craig had accepted as suitable only a few weeks before. "Yesterday," said Johnson, "we be lieved that a program calling for 2.320 airplanes of all types by 1040 would protect us' against enemies from the air. Today, these figures are far below our Immediate needs. . . . To meet the tremendous pace that the rest of the world la setting, we must double, yes treble and even quadruple our present air force with the best airplanes that can possibly be produced." Situation Changes There Is a further comparison. In August. General Craig wrote : "The air corps Is now being equipped .with airplanes and material that are the equal. If not superior to any military planes In design, speed, endurance and suitability for the military use for which Intended." But note the change of pace In November. Now, Assistant Secretary Johnson says: "Our air supremacy is threatened. Prom Europe comes re parts of pursuit ships and attack planes of greater speed and better performance. Even the marked super iority of our flying fortresses and our super-flying fortresses la chal lenged." Such abnipt changes always have given disarmament groups bssls for COMING! FRIDAY Saturday The Lion's Club's ANNUAL AT THE arguments that the armed organi sations take advantage of every break to whoop up the cry for greater strength. Last April peace organizations pro tested before a house committee that the navy was blowing up a war scare over Japan to Justify Its bil lion-dollar naval program. And now fear of totalitarian states In Europe forms the hook on which the ex panded sir program is hung. Dissension In Military There la much dissension among military circle over the need of a whopping defense machine in this country. In pre-Munlch days even European writers were a bit puzzled by our tenseness. Jane's of London, world's foremost military publishing house, commented: "An Interesting psychological point Is that the government of the United States should be building up an Im mense air service In spite of the Isolationist policy of the government. and In spite of the abandonment of the Phllllpplne Islands to the risks and rigors of self government. "The United States have nothing to fear from the Atlantic side, and still less from Canada or Mexico. The Hawaiian Islands should not be worth the cost of a major war in the Pacific. And yet the United States have one of the biggest and poaslbly the most efficiently armed air services In the world." Alley To Lecture On Evolution At Tabernacle Today James Matthew Alley, converted skeptic, will lecture at 7:30 tonight In the tabernacle, corner Central and Jackson streets on "Evolution, the Other Side of the Question." Mr. Alley spent four years In preparation for this lecture and has given It be fore audiences In many Btates In the last two years with much success. It has been said It Is worthy of being accepted aa a thetsis for a degree at any standard liberal arts college. Also Mr. Alley bcnim to show his film pictures of "Palestine Today" on the largo screen tonight. All Inter ested In the Jew ore urged to see these pictures of the remarkable de velopment In Palestine. A silver offering will be taken Fern Valley Club Program Is Friday PERN VALLEY, Dec. 7. (Spl.) Pern Valley 4-H Cooking and Sewing club will present an evening of en tertainment in the schoolhouse here at 8 p. m.. Friday. December 9. There will be no admittance charge but patrons will have an opportunity of contributing to tho club's funds In a variety of ways while enjoying themselves, officers stated. The pub lic Is Invited. Proceeds of the event will be used in augmenting the fund to send a member of the club to the 4-H sum mer school next year. Use Mall Trlbuno Want Ads. II, ' M,1B l i :l 1 I LI U rProuct. C, Iik. N.T.I IN By F. C. M. rfatin United Press Staff Correspondent. BUCHAREST (UP) Rumania does not plan constructing a "Maglnot line," but will rely on flexible de fense tactics In event of attack. The costs of a permanent defense line along the far-stretched frontiers, open to a potential attack, would far exceed the country's financial means. The flexible system was tried out at the "Royal" army maneuvers, late In October, to the full satisfaction of King Carol and his advisers. For eign experts, however, were somewhat skeptical regarding the value of such defense, If the country was attacked by superior force. The maneuvers were held In the eastern part where a "red army" operating from the east, thus from Russia, had penertated Into the country and had reached the river Prut near Its Junction with the Danube, while the defending "blue army" was lined up on the right bank of the Prut. The reds were supported by Ru manian Black Sea naval forces, while the blues had the aid of the Danube flotilla. By means of a aem I -permanent pontoon bridge, Invented by a Ru manian military engineer, which was thrown over the Prut In a few hours, and which permitted the crossing of the 16-ton tanks, the reds succeeded In crossing the river and In driving their cdversanes Into the, second de fense line, where they "held their positions among a range of low bar ren hills, cut by many deep canyons, admirably adapted for defense pur pose At a banquet following the mrtneu vers, King Carol expressed his high appreciation of the quality of the troops and their officers, but simul taneously Insisted on an "accelerated rhythm" In completing the country's rearmament. Foreign observers agree that the uiai-rt-nuf innrv WALI tK W. Abbtl, 9th and Bartlett T DELIVERED HERE " 1 fyij. si:i.ax . . imu mm; f-ifefW "V&&ihl?? : STANDARD tMIUIPMENT i 1 JT TiJMft)ifli Y' tW'? 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Phone 303 klvM.,,.i.u uunvi vji as you see. Come in Oregon Power Company conduct a demonstration on "Oood Grooming." Luncheon will be served at aoo 'Mr. Ouaterhout of the county ex tension committee will be special guest of the day. At the January meeting the afrudy of nutrition will be resumed, ana the making of ruga will be taken up la the near future. AU Interested are Invited. , Pboue M3. We'll naul away your "etiue. City Sanitary Service. BLUE RIBBON SPECIAL a i.cu uuuciicvauiy low pnccav see it drive it buy it today I
