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The Weather Forefault: Rain tonight and (boners Friday, cooler Friday. Temperature lllglu-st yesterday M I; west this morning 40 Precipitation T .1 p. m. yesterday .00 To 5 a. m. today 00 Keep Informfdi! There Is nothing about the classified A'J.'TWj tell a straight forwurcf Story Tribune Medford and leave nothing to, ..fti' f about. Bead them icercJiil1 I each day and keep tnfortnec'jf y Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year (Twenty Pages Two Sections) MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938. No. 223 n n A M TTo) M vll mm mm The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. HEADACHES FOR F. R. IN FILLING VACANCIES SENATE EXPECTED TO HE STl MIILINO I1LOCK SMITH REAPPOINTMENT MAY HE BLOCKED RI'CCESSOK FOR CARDOO HELD HHiC.EST PKOHLEM WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 Apportion ing patronage has generally been re garded is one ol the lighter White House duties, yet it is sure to give the president a severe headache this winter. Tho places he has to 111! are numerous and important. The sen ate which must confirm his choices is irritable and newly encouraged to rebellion. And the kind of choice he is likely to make will, in many In stances, rvrouse Jhe maximum opposi tion. Finding rood men for big Jobs is hard enough. For example, there's a gooi chance that Dean Charles Clar.1 of the Yale Law school will ac cept a seat on the circuit court of appea's in the New York district. Dean Clark is young, brilliant, ag gressively liberal, a former court plan supporter In fact, a man precisely to the president's taste. But a strong movement Is already on foot to get Clark's post for Chairman William O. Dougias of the SEC, If Clark leavc3 Jt vacant. Should Douglas' . friends . ,horn swoegle trie conservatives of the Yale corporation and persuade Douglas to leave the government, the presi dent will be deprived of one of his brst lieutenants. Add the fact that SEO Commissioner Jerome Frank is also likely to he appointed to the circuit court of appeals In the Dis trict of Columbia, and it is clear that the president may have to rebuild the SEC almost from the bottom up. The (search lor acceptable ap pointees will be as nothing, however, compared to persuading the senate of their acceptability. There should not be much trouble, to be sure, when and if the president sends So licitor General Robert H. Jackson's name to the Hill for the attorney generalship. Jackson's enemies look ed for sticks to beat him with (and found very few) when he was made solicitor general. But there is certain to be an un holy row over the president's reap- (Contiuued on Page Eight!) no TREATMENT FOR BOY GRANTS PASS, Dec. 8. (AP) Told by County Judge Omnt W. Matthew that they might be held liable If their injured son Bn. 7. did not receive proper care, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Whorley of Jerome Prairie last night consented to taking the boy to a hospital. They refused yesterday on religious grounds nfter Ben had been struck by a truck driven by Everett Dye. County Physician S. B. Ospood who said the boy'B Injuries might be ser ious, reported today he had spent a fair night. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS John Day averring he was on the verge of collapse from strenuous house moving and all the things that go. with It. Mose' Alford showing Neva Sam uels how to type a name at the bot tom of a page when there was little space left for doing so, Neva being unable to perform the trick on her typewriter. Joe Grey getting a lame shoulder by swinslng a sledge hammer too .vigorously. Jack Horner being pleased to meet n scribe as long as the scribe didn't mention Jack in any part of this family Journal. llnttle Gore being terribly curloua to find out all ebjut a surprise for her. Gwendolyn Woodcock spreading o-d cheer and kindly Vuletldc thoughts already. 10,000 SOLDIERS NORTHERNSPAIN General Belief Germany Backing Rome's Colonial Aspirations Added Worry Movement Continues By The Associated Press Reports of Italian troop concentra tions in northern Spain, within easy striking distance of the French fron tier, caused concern in France to day as Italians In Tunisia demon strated In support of Fascist colonial claims on France. France's worry over the Italian campaign also was aggravated by widespread belief Germany was back ing Rome's colonial aspirations. President Lebrun summoned Pre mier Dnladier unexpectedly for con sultations. They held a long talk, presumably on the new French-German no-war declaration and the pos sibility of German support for Italy. Scores Arrested Scores of Italians were arrested in Tunisia. They began forming in pro cessions in Tunis streets, chanting the Facit marching song, "Giovlnez za," after police had broken up anti Italian demonstrations by French residents. The reports from Spain, which lacked official confirmation, said Italian troop movements had begun November 22 and still were continu ing. They said concentrations in cluded motorized units and much artillery. About 10.000 troops were said to have been massed at Logrono, in northern Catalonia. Domel (Japanese news agency) re ported in Tokyo Foreign Minister Hachlro Arita had told the United States and British ambassadors "it may be necessary to revise the princ iples of equal opportunity and the Open Door In China." Arita, the agency said, told the en voys in separate Interviews there need be no conflict between Japan and other powers over interests in China If others would "recognize realities in the Far East." Von Rlblientrop leaves In Paris, as German Foreign Mln- (Contlnued on Page rwelve) OF WASHINGTON. Dee. 8 JP, The Labor Relations Board Issued an order today directing the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., at Santa Monica, Calif., to cease discouraging member ship In CIO's United Auto Workers Union and to withdraw recognition from Aircraft Workers' Union, Inc., as a collective bargaining agency for Its employes. Under the terms of the order the aircraft concern must reinstate with back pay 32 employes and award back pay to 13 others already reinstated after participating In a sit-down strike In February, 1837. SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec 8 IIP, Today's ruling of the National Labor Relations, Board, ordering the Doug las Aircraft Co. to reinstate 32 sit down strikers, was termed "one more absurd ruling" by Donald Douglas, president of the company. He said he would appeal, 1 Pear Markets NEW TOOK, Dec. 8. (AP-USDA1 PEARS: 10 arrived, 6 California, 7 Oregon, 7 Washington unloaded, 43 on track, Medford Bosc 7670 No. 1, S1.702.30; average, S1.99; 720 fancy, $1.701.90;. average, $1.83; Cornice 720 No. 1, $2.00 m 3.10; average, $2.02. CHICAGO. Dec. 8. (AP-USDA) PEARS: 2 Washington arrived, 4 on track, nothing offered. Highway Blocked By Tumbleweeds SILVER LAKE. Dec. 8. (AP) It wasn't snow but tumbleweeds that blocked the Fremont highway 12 miles east of here. The thomy weeds, blowing from the dry bed of Sliver lake, were massed Into $ solid wall by the wind. Motorlsta had to detour around the lake for two days. 1 Auto Show Section An eight page section of today's Mall Tribune calls attention to the annual Dons' auto show at the armory Friday and Saturday evenlnes Jacksonville Postoffice, Lethal Shock Stills Borgia's Pleas for Life 1 I? I1 -fF I SB'rlt!''l " Annn Marie Hnhn (above), con- P"(fcWMLJ lie i vlclcrt poisoner if one man am! ac- J 1SSSS8s',ss'8saaj JLsJf WM used of slaving three others, died M'lliiM -"'lahaATaii...J' g : , die Ohio state penitentiary flrrtHr 'l'wBwl'j lfLi ilJB,,l,",ewess chair lust night a she Implored ? )1 " jft'i'UmafW''" 1 Warden James J. C. Woodard to nre VMSk - It s: her life. The warden Is shown at left i 1 i " J ,,?'- ; - , I -landing hrslilr the chslr. Ills hand f'f 1 -WB!jT&tRM I n,B whirl) s'snn'8 the mmj K. F. WOMAN ARRESTED Execution of Ghastliest .By E. K. Easterly COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 8. (AP) Anna Mario Harm, her golden hair disheveled, begged vainly "Won't somebody pleosc help me?" and then was put to death in Ohio's electric chair last night aa she gasped out the Lord's prayer. "Lead us not into temptation, but dollver ..." ! The prayer. Intoned after Catholic Chaplain John A. Sullivan, was still ed as 1950 volts struck the body of the convicted slayer of 78-year old Jacob Wagner of Cincinnati, one of four old German men she was ac cused of poisoning to obtain their meager savings. A bluish wisp of smoke purled up ward from the electrode on the right leg of tho five-foot figure clad in blue cotton pajama and brown silk robe. Four and a half minutes later, at 8:13 p. m.t prison physician George W. Keil announced the death of the first woman ever placed in Ohio's electric chair. Ghastliest On Record Veterans of many executions said this was one of the ghastliest of the 314 conducted in the state's 104 year old penitentiary. "I never saw anyone protest so against death." said Warden J. O. Woodard. Mrs. Hahn, a 32-year old German born alien, was assisted Into tho ex ecution chamber by her three mat ronsMrs. Rene Tipple, Mrs. Josle O'Bleness and Mrs. Esther Lyle, first women ever to witness an electrocu tion in Ohio. "Oh. oh-h-h," she mc-aned, and collapsed as she neared the chair. Ouards quickly grabbed her and placed her. squirming, Into the brown-varnished chair of death. "No, ho, no!" ahe Implored. "Mr. Woodard, Mr. Woodard, don't do this to me." "I'm eorry, but we have to do it, Mrs. Hahn." the warden said softly. "Don't do it, oh-h, please don't." she moaned. "My boy, think of my baby." (She referred to her son. Oscar, 12, who was praying In the prison's Catholic chapel), Nnbrnly To Help "Can't anyane do something?" she asked, looking at the seated witnesses as the guards fastened her legs and arms. "Isn't there anybody who will help me?" She shook her head In despair and said. "Nobody'a going to help me." "Father, come close," she called to Father Sullivan as the black leather mssk was placed over her face. The priest took her hand and War den Woodard stepped to the button which aifrnals the three anonymous guards at the switch. "Be coreful. father, you'll be kill ed." ahe cautioned in a whisper, fearing the current would bo applied as he held her hand. "Our Father who art in heaven," she began, "hollowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come , . . Thus the condemned woman con tinued until the electricity arched her body and silenced the prayer, (Continued on Pt rioxee.) Poison Slayer in Ohio Annals Radio Highlights By the Associated Press (Time Is Eastern Standard) NEW YORK. Dec. 8. Anthony Eden's Friday night address to the National Association of Manufactur ers will be on the short waves fls well as on three networks. The former British foreign secre tary is to begin speaking about 10:30. and besides CBS, MBS and WJZ-NBC. short wavers W2XE, W3XAL, W3XL and W8XK will be in action. He will discuss "Democracy and the Modern World." MBS and WJZ-NBC will start their broadcast at 10 to Include tho speech of H. W. Prentls, Jr., on "Industry's Pro gram for the Future." Rep. Martin Dies of Texaa, chair man of the congressional committee investigating un-American activities, wilt discuss the work of his com mittee via WJZ-NBC at 8 p. m.. next Tuesday night. Tonight (Thursday): Talks WJZ NBC, 8:30, Pan-American Congress, Secretary Hull and others: WJZ-NBC, 0:30, America's Town Meeting, "How Should Democracies Deni With the Dictatorships?" What to expect Friday: WEAF- WJZ-NBC. 1:30, National Association of Manufacturers. Gerald Swope on "Labor Relations Contrasts Here and Abroad." (Radio Programs on Pago II) 4 REDWOOD CITY, Cal.. Dee. . (AP) A garbage truck from San Francisco stmrted to unload Ita cargo t the Bayshore City dump today when the body of an unidentified man, with a red beard, toppled out. Sheriff Jamea J. McOrath and Coroner William F. Crosby bi gan an investigation. The body was that of a man about 60 years old. LaGUA'THREATENED FOR ATTACKS ON NAZIS NEW YORK. Dec. 8 (AP) Mayor UGuardki said late today he received a revolver builet along with a note threatening his life If he persisted In attacks on the "German nazl party." He said the note bore a awastlka aa $ signature. UN nuWUO bLHIM SHE KILLED KLAMATH FALLS. Dec. 8 (TP) Sheriff 'a Deputy Dale MattooM last night arrested Ollle Dyer, former Plneville, Mo., farm woman, after her husband, Jack Dyer, told Deputy District Attorney L. Orth Slesmore she had killed her mother, Mrs. Mary Sullivan, near Plneville, In 1933. Dyer was arrested last Saturday by Klamath Fails police who charged him with threatening his wife. He told Siesmoro his wife killed Mrs. Sullivan by striking her over the head with a piece of wood In a barn. The Dyers had convinced authorities Mrs. Sullivan had been killed In a fall from a hayloft. At Plneville Prosecuting Attorney W. R. Tracy of McDonald county fil ed a first-degree murder '.'harge against the woman and her husband. Tracy said the murder complaint was signed by Al Maness, Plcher, Okla.. chief of police, and brother of Mrs. Sullivan. In Jefferson City, Mo., Governor Lloyd C. Stark Issued a requisition asking return of the pair to McDonald county and Sheriff Floyd Bone left for here to return the couple. - 4 IN LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES. Dec. 8. (AP) The mercury soared to 02 degrees In Loa Angeles at 1:30 o'clock today, a De cember record. The previous December high in the weather bureau's official 01-ycar records was in 1807, when the tem perature reached 80. At 1 p. m the reading was 90 and a half hour later, 92. That Is 24 de grees above normal, fulleOreaksIjwn SJ.-PORTLANDIE1 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8. (API Frank Fuller, Jr.. flying ambassador for the 1939 Golden Gate Interna tional exposition, has another speed record for his collection today. Yesterday he flew here front Van couver, Wanh., In 9 hours, 8 minutes and 40 seconds. That beat his own time flying up to Portland Monday. which was a record flight, too. made In 2 hours, 13 minutes and 27 sec onds. . , Itmitevelt ( nnfers WASHINOTON. Dee, 8. -Pres ident Roosevelt invited advisors to the White House today to discuss prospects of getting ft government reorganization bill through the next oongresav Tt ' ) Stores Burglarized ICKES UELIVERED RADICAL Dies Committee Told Secre tary's Speech Before Civil Liberties Union Attacked U. S. Supreme Court WASHINGTON, Doc. 8. (P) Sec retary Ickcs was accused by a Dies committee witness today of delivering a "radical" speech. , Latham R. Reed, the witness, told the house committee investigating un-American activities headed by Representative Dies (D., Texas)--that Ickes was addressing the American Civil Liberties union at the time. Reed, describing himself as a re tired colonel in the army reserve, also said the union was guilty of un-American activities. After associating Ickes and Felix Frankfurter, Harvard law professor, with tho union, Reed replied to a question from Representative Stamob (D., Ala.), a commtttee member: Radical In Tenor " "Ickes was a speaker at the annual banquet of the union in New York City last December. The address was on the subject of 'Nations In Night shirts'." "Do you recall the theme of It'" S tames asked. "The tenor of It was, in my opin ion, distinctly radical and It wound up with an unwarranted attack on tho supremo "court. Representative Thomas (R N, J.) asked Reed if tho Frankfurter, to whom the witness referred, was the one mentioned as a possible ap pointee of tho supremo court. "There Is no question about It," Reed replied. ' Representative Dempsey (D., N. Y.), another committee member, inter rupted to remark "a lot of people" had been mentioned for the vacancy created by tho death of Justice Car doza and asked the witness to name some of them. Pamphlets Jliown Reed said he could not recall the names of any others and said ho remembered Frankfurter "because of his connection with the American Civil Liberties union." The witness exhibited to tho com- l Continued m Page rwelve) makMalplea F( WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 tfp An at torney for Tom Mooney made today what he described as a "final appeal to the conscience" of the aupremo court in an effort to obtain the Cal ifornia convict's release from San Quentln penitentiary. Moonoy Is serving a life sentence for complicity In the 1918 prepared ness day parade bombing at San Fran cisco. The supreme court has iefus' ed several times to pass on his con viction. An application for a pardon will be filed with the newly-eleoted gov. ernor of California when he takes office next month. John F. Flnerty, Washington at torney, said in his brief the court should either grant a writ of habeas corpus or explain why it refused to do so. Official Nazi Organ Raps U.S. Armament Reasoning BERLIN, Deo. 8. (AP) The Oer- man foreign office mouthpiece today aharply crltlclreO recent American utteranoea on the United States armament program, some of which It attributed to President Roosevelt and said wen) "extremely regret table." "Admitting every state has the right to arm u it pleases, we must aharply protest against the "reasons presented for such action" In the United States, said dlplomatlsch polltlAche korrcspemdene. It contin ued: "Again and agnln American arma ment propaganda proceeds from the slanderous argument Germany U a threat to the American continent. Such propaganda also extends to LUn America, when tt U calculated Polecat Skinner Enjoys Vacation from School Desk OAKLAND, Md., Dec. 8. P) Nicholas Lon, 12, of Broad ford, enjoyed a holiday from school, loafing around the school grounds, and tho principal of the Oakland elementary school didn't beckon him to come In. A solicitous neighbor saw him and called, "Sonny, don't you go .to school?" "Yes, ma'am," he replied shyly. "Where do you go?" He pointed to the near-by school. "Well, why arent you in there now?" she asked. "I skun me a polecat," ho grinned. CIO PLANS FIGHT EGON'S L PORTLAND, Ore., Dee. 8. (AP) The nation's two lnjest unions fought for control of the Portland sawmill Industry before the national labor relations board today while one of them laid the groundwork for an attack on the Oregon onti-picketlng law and the other convened a lum ber works' convention. About 40O delegates of the Ore gon-Washington council of American Federation of Labor lumber unions arrived. The Congress for Industrial Organ imtlon planned ,a three-sided attack on the labor control measure, Hurold Prltchett, president of the Interna tional Woodworkers of America, re vealed. Ho aa!d the attack would be legal, organizational and political. To Cnmit's Soions Prltchett said the CIO would can vass Oregon legislators on the act and hinted the CIO might foster a fight for an amendment. The 48 del egates decided to call a statewide CIO Industrial convention to set up a permanent organisation in Ore gon. Tho Portland Industrial council of CIO unions passed resolution ask ing an Investigation by the Civil Liberties Committee of the Associat ed Farmers of Oregon and the Ore gon Business Council, backers of the measure. The resolution called the law a "fascist bill" and charged that of $34,516.90 put up to support it dur ing the campaign 33,338 was con trlbuted by "a mysterious organisa tion calling itself the Oregon Busi ness Council" which did not "file with the secretary of state informa tion disclosing the sources of this tremendous slush fund." Separate Attark A.F.L, chiefs asserted the CIO at tack on the bill would be proseouted apart from a similar attack already launched by the federation. Secretary Kenneth M. Davis of the Oregon -Washington council said the organization would review the Wag ner act and tho new Canadian trade treaty. He added the council prob ably would tAke the same action on tho Wagner act as the Oregon fed eration which contended the north west AFL-CIO Jurisdiction battle was "being maintained" by the national labor relations board, created by the Wagner act. The Jones Lumber company mill was closed yesterday because so many of Its employes were called to testify before a labor board trial examiner. The examiner was reviewing an AFL petition for designation as bargain ing agent for mlllmen. The CIO was recognized a year and a half ago but the AFL claimed It regained a ma jority. to poison th International atmos phere. "Extraordinarily amazing Is the fact President Roosevelt talks about the aggreaslveneaa of authoritarian states at the very moment the Ger man ministers for foreign affairs (Joachim von Ribbentrop) has con cluded a declaration of peace with Prance and when the Anglo-Italian pact (which went Into force Novem ber 16) has reduced the dangers of divergences very materially. "It seems In comprehenelbte those event could be deliberately over looked by a responsible statesman.' (Although the article apparently was Inspired by President Roosevelt's press conference of Tuesday, the president then made no mention of the totalitarian states. He merely said the arms program must be placed on a pa;-u-ycm go bails). ILED IN HUNT Wilson and Godward Stores Also Visited in Night Federal Men Join Local Officers in Investigation Robbers entered the postoffice at Jacksonville Wednesday night, rifled Christmas packages and registered mail, cracked the safe, opened the regular letter mall, and stole the stamp supply and a small amount of money. It will require an official check to determine exact amount of tho loss. The robbory waB discovered when, the postoffice was opened by tho postmistress, Mrs. L. A. Eaton, today. Letters were found opened, and scat tered about the room. A number of packages marked "Do not open until Christmas" were opened and contents scattered. The greater portion of the day's receipts hod been deposited berore the postoffice closed. lllast Heard The postoffice safe was blasted be tween 2 and 3 o'clock this morning. as near as can be determined. Mrs, Amy Dow, who lives near-by, re-; ported about that time she was roused from her sleep by a noise, but thought It might have been a mine blast. No other residents re ported hoarlng any unusual noises. The near-by stores of Ray 'Wilson and the Godward Mercantile company were also entered, presumably by the same band. At Wilson's. $29 In money, hunting equipment and cig arettes was taken. At the Godward store, $8 or $7 was obtained. Postal Inspectors, state police and the sheriff's office we're Investigating the robberies today. An effort to secure fingerprints was made. Took Their Time According to Deputy Sheriff Wil liam Grcnbemer, the postal robbers took their time, and made a "night Job" of their rifling. The letters both registered and common were opened, in a search for money, tt la thought a number of checks were taken, but the loss could not be Immediately determined. The postoffice robbery Is a federel offense, the store looting a state crime. It is the first postoffice rob bery in Jackson county In a number of years, the last being at Rucn about 12 years ago. SLAYS SON, SELF SAN JOSE. Calif., Dec. 8. p An unhappy mother who said she could not face the holiday season separated from her husbnnd, killed her 14-year-old son and herself here today, ap parently with the Jboj't consent, authorities reported. Victims of the tragedy, Coroner O. C. 8pau!dlng said,' were Mrs. Peggy Mason, 38. and Dsle Mason. Their bodies were found In their apartment by M. Stark, the manager, when ahe Investigated what she thought waa the sound of shot, Spauldtng said. The boy waa lying In bed, bullet hole In his head, and his mother waa on the bedroom floor, also shot through the head from gun found near her body, the coroner aald. Notei found In the room told of the woman's loneliness, Spauldlng reported, and Indicated the boy ap proved of the death pact by express, ling desire some of his belonging be given to playmatea. WEEK IS ENDED HERE MINUS PLANE SERVICE Medford vam to have another day without airplane service today. Unit ed Air Unea having cancelled all north and southbound trips- between Portland and Oakland. Cal., because) of unfavorable weather. There has been no United Airliner In or out of Medford alnce- lat Thursday afternoon. Two United ships flew over Medford yesterday afternoon, one southbound from Portland to Oakland, the other northbound from Oakland to Port land. Service was being operated to day between Portland and Seattle, Wash
