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MEDFOTCT) MATL TRTBTJNT:. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1938.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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rProuct. C, Iik. N.T.I
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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
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rank and file of Rumania's army
present an excellent aspect; the sol
dier It intelligent and well disci
plined, properly fed and clad. I
In Rumania, military service Is
compulsory.
ROXY ANN UNIT MEET
IS SET FOR FRIDAY
Roxy Ann extension unit meet
at th home of Mrs. Tedrlck on
Spring street at 10 a. m.. Friday,
December , when local leaden will
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Thursday Only!
Cozy Shoulderettes
Of Rayon and Wool Yam
The Blue Ribbon Special for
tomorrow is a Gift Item in
deedWarm Wool and Rayon
Shoulderettes at 73c each in
dainty Pastel shades and White.
A regular $1.00 shoulderette.
BUY THEM FOR GIFTS
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No wonder this new Nash is taking the country by
um storm with its new automatic "Weather Eye"
INC. -lts new M-h-P- engine! And it's a beauty-a long.
Phone 303
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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.
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Pboue M3. We'll naul away your
"etiue. City Sanitary Service.
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