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The Weather ForecasX: Fair today and probably tomorrow; little change In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday t8 Lowest yesterday 36 One of Them When you read an Adv. in the classified remember you had better hurry along r-nen you find what you want. loo many people are disappointed who wait until tomororw. Why be one ot them? MEDFORD Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD; OREGON, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 11, 19P.8 No. 225. WA, LB9 f Ana MUlLlLrO)n L.. U The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop ' and Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by The ,. North American News- ' paper Alliance, Inc. MODERATES SEEN AIlMNfl HIGH COtRT PRESTIGE CREDIT KOIIEKTS WITH rAI.MINU INTERVENTION ' TWO JI lXiES YYITIIMIKll -J ROM lUCI E HEARING ONE MAI). VOICED 1II.AST AGAINST ('. I. O. ; WASHINGTON It Is a well kndn ; j fact that the moderate of the -Jjiupremo Court greatly cherish the prestige of the Judiciary, where Jus- ytlce Mc Reynolds follows a "rule or ruin" policy, and Justice Black holds "that the courts have far too much . prestige already, the chief Justice and Justice Roberts work without ceas ing to throw an aura of power and liynlty -around the federal bench. Strong circumstantial evidence in dicates that their labors recently took ah extraordinary form. r Tho story begins iWlth Mayor Hague's appeal ot Judgo Willi am Clark's famous decision holding that "the bill of rights Is as good In Jer V cy City as elsewhere. The appeal took the case to the third circuit court in Philadelphia, the character "" ; of which was lately changed by the retirement of two elderly Judges. I Formerly the third circuit was known ) as one of the most conservative in the country. The presiding Judge, -'-J. Warren Davis, is a relic of the old regime. , For reasons best, known' to himself", presiding Judge Davis recalled to the bench hts two retired colleagues, Jihlses Joseph Bufflngton and J. Wit taker Thompson, to hear the VlIaguc csjse. The recall was made post role by the Judiciary retirement jnw parsed during the court fight. Jr.di:o Bufflngton and Judge Thompson are Jointly celebrated for their -strong antt-labor records. Mor ris L. I'rnst and Spaulding Frazer, the lasers representing the Civil Lib erties TTnion and the CIO In tho assault on Hague, where somewhat naturally alarmed. They promptly aF'teci the supreme court to forbid the enlarged court from sitting in the ca..e. On v November 31, Chief Justice Hughes handed down a tech nical ruling refusing Ernst's and Kramer's petition. Jude Buffinpton immediately is sued a statement compnrlng fav orably, as a Judicial utterance, with the blasts against the Jeffersonlans which brought the testy old Fed eralist. Justice Chase, near to im peachment. Although the CIO was once of the parties at issue In the case on which he was to sit. Judge Bufflngton declared that "all right thinking Fhiladclphinns" would be rejoiced that the supreme court "had put the stamp of disapproval on the tactics of the CIO." He went on to accuse the CIO of "outrage" in the sit-down strikes, and to de nounce it for "attempting to smudge" presiding Judge Davis character. Judtrc Bufflngton 'a remarks seem ed to prove the reasonableness of the request of lawyers Ernst and Frazer Thev also seemed to Indicate an un thakeable Intention to sit In the disputed cnG". Four days later on November 23. Justice Roberts went to Atlantic City to discuss budget problems with the Judges of t he third circuit, which is In his do main. What he may have said be tween balance sheets; with whom he may have talked, whether he talk ed at all these are unknown mat ters. At any rate, after the elapse of five days more, on December 1, Judce Buf fine ton and Judge Thompson sud denly decided not to hear the Haeue case aftrr all. Their decision was announced by prrMdlng Judge Davis, who irad from them, referring to "certain MntrmenU and conten tions" which might "prejudice" the case. So far as the ordinary eye can se. Justice Roberts' visit to Atlantic City Is the only Influence which might have transformed the angry a .-termination of Judge Bufflngton's statement to the capitulatlve nvtod expressed In his letter Certainly, the legal fraternity, anion whose mem tvr the Bufflngton statement was a rau celebre. now credit JuMien Roberts with the exceedingly tact ful Intervention In their circuit af fair. Certainly. also, the prestltre of the courts which Justice Roberta has so murh at hetirt will be saved from serious damae by the Buffing-ton-Thompsnn withdrawal. (Continued on Page Eight.) SEN. BYRD CALLS E CHECK NEW DEAL 9 'Fiscal Insanity-Scored And Leadership Ufed Brain Trusters Assailed For Ideas. . I BOSTON, Dec. 104 Senator Byrd. ! Virginia Democrat, today demanded I an end to "nine years of fiscal in--anity" and declared he was con vinced the Roosevelt administration i could not be looked to for leadership toward economy despite the "tragic I failure" of its spending program. I Just before outlining a fixed point retrenchment program, which would Include a thorough going government reorganization and a "purge" of the relief rolls, Byrd declared In a nation wide radio address delivered before the Massachusetts Federation of Tax payers Associations. "We are facing a perilous situation and what can be done about it?" "Can we expect any leadership from the present administration for economy aud retrenchment? As one who has fought for five years for prudent spending at Washington, I say NO. 'Ai a Democrat I say it with sor row, as my party is In power, but the Republican party cannot escape responrlblllty for their share In the present orgy of spending. Mr. Hoover r.dded the first five billions to the public dbt, and a majority of the Republican members in the senate have voted for the huge appropria tion bills." Senator Walsh fD-Mass.) who de manded "tax reduction in every field of government," told news papermen Just before he addressed the Taxpayers' Federation he was con vinced President Roosevelt would not seek- a third term despite pressure by his supporters. Walsh asserted It was highly Im portant for both the president and the next congress to "install pop ular confidence that our economic system will be permitted un tram meled operation." Senator Byrd was caustic in a lengthy attack upon the Roosevelt ad ministration. Oood government, he said, would bo "vastly promoted if the brain-trusters from Tugwell to Cor coran would go home, and if con gress resumed Its constitutional duty." "A modern liberal." he asserted, "is tested and judged in proportion as to how liberal he Is willing to be with other people's money." Vnrbally flovlrur the "economic philosophy" of Mhrrlner SFfccJes. chairman of the feeral reserve board, Byrd said his speech In New York last week on "promoting prospelty by spending borrowed money" in dicated "to what depths of false reasoning we have sunk In the crackpot legislative Ideas of those holding Important public positions." Byrd declared the nation faced dis aster unless it soon approached a bal anced budget. He asserted the "di rect debt" of the government would be $41,000,000,000 by next July, and that when the bonds, debentures and notes of various government agencies were added the "actual debt" would approach $50,000,000,000. GENERALLY FAIR Northern California: Pair Sunday with valley fogs, continued cool, gentle northerly wind ofr coast. Oregon: Partly cloudy Sunday wlih valley fogs, little change In temper, attire, gentle variable winds off coast. Outlook far western states for week December H-17 Inclusive: Gen erally fair, except occasional rein west of Cascade mountains first of week and generally in Petflc north west latter part: temperature nor mal. F JEWELS ON TREE LOS ANGELES. Dee. 10. -f API Three 11 -year-old boys found a cose of Jewels valued at 12400 hidden In a hollow tree-trunk toda ynear the home of Mlsa Whitney Bourne, film actress, and turned it over to West Los Aneeles police. Officers said the Jewels were those taken In a reported hold-up of Mis Bourne's maid, Mnrle Hugun, by an unidentified msn while the actress was visit! nf in the east recently. Confesses Murder 5 Rodney Crelg (above,) 31-year-old Berkeley, Cat., youth, had, according to Oakland police, confessed the fatal stabbing of beautiful Iuna Yhight, 19-year-old Oakland beauty parlor operator, whose body was found in the hills above Oakland by a mushroom picker, who at first be lieved the body to be' that of a wax model. OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 10. (AP) Rodney Greig, young railway clerk. Is holding back vital Information concerning the slaying .of 19-year old Lcona Vtitght, assistant district attorney Frank Coakley of Alameda county said today. He asserted the youth's story that he stabbed the girl to death at 3 a. m.. last Wednesday because of an Irresistible ' Impulse" was not the true story of the killing and de clared: "When we have found out the true reason, It will resolve into a simple, reasonable motive." Mr. am Mrs. Leonard Vlught bur ied their daughter yesterday after noon after Gieig had been arraigned on a charge of murder and had his preliminary hearing set for Decem ber 30. He was returned to his county Jail cell. Coakley declared he believed the girl's killing was a simple crime of passion, committed because the girl resisted Oreig's advances. T BILL FOR LONGER, SALEM, Dec. 10. AF) Haro-ld Turner, representing the Association of Oregon Railroads, conferred to day with the Marlon county court in opposition to a bill he said would appear in the Oregon legis lature to Increase the length, height and load limit of trucks carrying for hire. Turner was said by a member of the court to have stated that a third of the railroads of the country are In receivership and othera In danger of going the same way, and that the coming session of con gress may have to determine whether p rl va tc owne rsh 1 p of ral I road s wi 11 continue or the- government take them over. County Commissioner Roy Melnon said the counties, he believed, did not intend to encroach on any question of load limits on state highways, this being for the state to decide, but ha believed the coun ties would unquestionably oppose any bill that would take from the counties the right to control load limits on county roads. "Such a provision was In a blU before the 1937 legislature." said Me '.son. "County opposition Immed iately developed and it was elimln atd without much argument." 4 Radio Highlights By A.MTlatrrt Press Renin Editor (Time Is Eastern Standard) NEW YORK, Dec. 10. An added program title for Sunday la "De mocracy Defined." on WJZ-NBC at 3:30 p. m. It seeks to answer the questions about democracy put by Alice Hoo per, aged 18. of Winchester, N. H., who Is to be a special a udio guest. The program la the result of a let ter to NBC. Definittona are to come from Ray mond Moley of Columbia university. Dean Virginia Olldersleeve of Bar nard college, poet Padrtae Colun. the Rev. Jerome Harris. Ruth Bryan Owen Rhode and others. Sunday brings: WABC-CBS. J:45. Secretary of Commerce Roper. WKAP-NBC. 1:00, Prank R. M.'NInch Pan-Vi'TWm ConTr", WABC-CBS. I'M and WJZ-NBC 8 45. E FRONT URGED FOR Americas Must Be Safe From Invasion, Stressed By Secretary Hull At Lima. (By The Associated Press) The Pan-American conference heard declarations yesterday (Saturday) by Secretary Hull and the foreign min isters of Argentina and Peru that the western hemisphere must be secure from invasion military or political. The firm assertions by the three keynote speakers before representa tives of 31 nations gathered at Limn, Peru, bro tight prolonged applause which pointed increasingly to the possibility of a common defense front among the Americas. Becretary Hull coupled his declara tion with a warning that defense ncatnst outside Invasion constituted the new world's immediate and para mount problem. ' Speaking for the United States, the secretary of state said that so long as the possibility of armed challenge existed, his government would main tain adequate defensive military, naval and air establishments. His stand for unity among the Americas was strongly echoed by Dr. Jose Maria Cantllo and Dr. Carlos Concha. Argentine and Peruvian for eign ministers. Despotic governments came In par tlcularly for a scathing denunciation from Hull, who declared that for centuries they had kept mankind in slavery and degradation and now cost "an ominous shadow athwart our own hemisphere." He spoke against background of political unrest extending from the Baltic to the Ble.'k sea in eastern Europe and down Into Africa all under some form of Nazi or Fascist Inspiration. Rumblings along Germany's eastern border from Rumania to Memel, once a piece of the Hohenzollern empire but now a part of Lithuania, led to speculation whether they signalized another German move In her drive to the east. Extreme Nazis in Memel closed a campaign for diet elections today with statements that they considered the voting a plebiscite to return to Germany. Responsible Nazis in Berlin regard the diet elections as a mere fore runner to complete autonomy in that former German territory on the Baltic. WHEAT BURNS IN PORTLAND BLAZE PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 10. AP Fire whipped through a warehouse and four tubular storage towers of Kerr Qlfford and company, tonight, burning and otherwise damaging 500.000 bushels of wheat. Damage was estimated at $200,000 by Peter Kerr, company president. A two-story warehouse 600 feet long and 60 feet wide was destroyed. It held the wheat. The four storage towers, with a capacity of 750.000 bushels of wheat, were damaged. The building were owned by Globe Mills of Los Angeles. Twenty fire companies and two fire boats fought the blaze, on the water front in downtown Portland. DEATH NEAR FOR SPRINGFIELD. Mo.. Dec. 10. - (APj Gaston B. Means, perpetrator of a cruel Lindbergh ransom hoax, remained In a "critical, unchanged condition at the federal medical center here today. Dr. M. R. King, warden, said Means Is near death of a heart ail ment agpravatei by a gall bladder operation Tuesday. Means' serving a 16-year sen tence for cWraudlng Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean of Washington, D. C. of 104.000 in her efforts to ran som the kidnaped and murdered Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. rgrnes Held CHATHAM, Out. Oec. 10. (Can adian Press t A negro Identified by police as Eur I Harris, alias Jack Andemon, of Moberly, Mo., was ar rested today and held for f!'hland Park, Mich., police on a murder charge. lie will be turned over to Michigan police todsy. SENATE FOES SEE DEFEAT FOR F.D.R. REVAMPING BILL M'Nary For Veto Power By Congress Over Arbitrary Decisions By President. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 Some of the senators who opposed the administration's reorganization bill in the last congress predicted today the defeat of any new proposal to give President RoostvcU e frto hand to reshuffle federal bureaus. The president told a jins confer ence yesterday he would recemmeni to the new congress enactment of a reorganization bill, but said he had no idea whether there would be any fundamental changes from the meas ure which evoked ft heated contro versy last session. In that connection Mr. Roosevelt commented that everyone agrees the government's administrative machin ery should be made more efficient. Senator McNary (R Ore.), the minority leader, echoed this view, but added : "Everyone Is for reorganization if it will promote the efficiency of gov ernment and reduce the cost thereof. Everyone Is willing to give a presi dent power to abolish offices and bureaus and transfer and amalga mate the functions of bureaus. "But in my opinion the majority of congress wants to have some con trol over arbitrary decisions by the president." McNary told reporters that the re organization program could not be enacted without an amendment gtt tng congress the veto power over presidential orders revamping the ad ministrative setup. . Such an amendment was proposed by Senator Wheeler (D Mont.) dur ing senate, consideration of the re- orguntxatlon measure last session, but was defeated, The senate then pascd the bill, but it was pigeon-holed In the house. Wheeler asserted today that tne measure still could be enacted if his amendment were adopted. COMMENT SLIGHT ON EDEN SPEECH WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Up) An thony Eden's plea for the preserva tion of democracy before the Na tional Association of Manufacturers In New York last night created little stir In the capital today. There was no official comment at the state department. One official said presumably statesmen and leg islators had taken the former foreign minister of Great Britain at his word when he said he came to this coun try purely as an individual. Of a dozen prominent members ol congress whose comment was re quested, only Senator Borah ( U., Idaho) complied. - "The speech was excellent and In good taste," the foreign affairs expert said. "It afforded the sycophancy of the usual American speech In Eng land and tho usually pedantic speech of the Englishman In the United States." KIDNAPERS FREE POLICE CAPTAIN SAN LUIS OBISPO. Calif., Deo. 10. 7P) Sheriff's Deputy Daniel Imboden said tonight he had received word that Police Captain Stowell of Banti Maria, reported In a state-wide poll- teletype aa kidnaped by three youths, had been thrown from the kidnapers' automobile at Maricpoa, Kern county. 79 miles east of Santa Maria. No other details were available Immedl ately. BULLETIN PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 10. (AP The University of Oregon whipped through a pro-season basketball Rime hero tonight, dumping tho Pacific Packard squad 64 to 39. Oregon's defending northern divi sion, Pacific const conference, cham pions showed how they won the title by stepping Into tho lead soon after the game started. Oregon was head at ho half, 39 to 16. From there on. Oregon coasted, with Cofteh Howard Hobson apparently content to let tho score remain 1n the some proportion. The Webfoots made their last stop here tonight before heading east for New York and othtr eistrrn and mld- western basketball engagements. Demonstrators Seeth Through Tunis " i France swi0 Germany! SAVOY ) ffiAf- I g "- 3l 1 V MILES I Thrones of Italians French and Arabs seethed through the streets of Tunis Tunisia, In demonstrations fired by the fascist clamor over Ttin lulti and us fust us police quelled one demonstration another broke out. Roving hands clashed Intermittently with police but few were arrested and no nutjor damage reported. Concern spread In France over uncon firmed rcpirls Italian troops In Spain were being concentrated below the. French border. PRAY FOR RAINS TO END SHORTAGE Drouth Cuts Water Supply, Menacing Crops Situa tion Critical, As Dam Dries. 8AFFORD, Ariz., Doc. 10. (AP) Whites and Indians, their difference in color and race discarded In tho common fear of unprecedented drought conditions, prepared for a season of supplication today In the hope of bringing anow and rain to fill depleted reservoirs. As officials of the Latter Day Saints churches in this area ordered a day of prayer for December 18, H. A. Ireland, extension agent for the Pima Indian reservation at Sacanto. disclosed "a very critical situation" has resulted because of tho virtual drying up of San Carlos Jake behind Coolldge dam. Water storage has been reduced from 63,105 acre feet to 1.936 acre feet during the last year. "And though water la being pump ed from 60 wells to substitute for the dam's usual flow," Ireland said, "vast arena of alfalfa and other feed arc drying up. "I don't know how much longer we can hold out. It's costing us about $1.60 an acre foot to pump and transport water here from wells above the reservation. That's almost prohibitive but wo have to save some of tho crop In the 13,000 acre tribal plot." The Indians are offering dally supplication in the hope their rain gods will fill the great Coolldge reservoir, built by the government In 1930, so they could turn their arid holdings Into lush fields. A ray of hope In the drought threat, however, was the forecast yrsterday by Dr. A. E. Douglass, University of Arizona tree ring ex pert, of a ."wet winter" for central Arizona. L PORTLAND. Dec. 10 (AP Amer ica Is nearer the conditions that cauard the French revolution "than rnont people realize," Rufus Holman. U. 8. senator-elect, told a confer ence of Oregon's district attorney! today. Holman said he favored the "least" government, outgo which did not exceed Income, and a firm position for law and order. In that connec tion, ho said he considered a "sit down strike a trespass." "This is not the time for cheer ing over the results of the last election," he declared. "Instead H Is the time for sober thought; It's time for public men not to think of their future political careers." Stripolitania L. I B Y A ji m L E TO NEXT SESSION Three New Principles Urged By Advisory Board To Liberalize Present Act. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (p) The social security advisory council con sidered today proposing that congress write three new principles Into the federal social security program. These are: 1, Acceptance of responsibility for the economic welfare of wlveo and children of workers covered by the social security act. 3. Acceptance of responsibility for the economic welfare of the workers themselves when they are prevented from earning their own livings by disability. 9. Partlat financing out of general revenue of the costs of an expanded social security program until a new security tax system can be evo'.red to meet the Increased expenditures. The council, composed of repre sentative! of employers, workers ana the public, worked on recommenda tions to congress and the president for "liberalizing" the social security act in the next aesslon of congress. Informed persons said its recom mendations would include extending old ago insurance provisions of tho act Immediately to 3,600,000 workers In banks, charitable and religious institutions and the maritime Indus try and eventually to 6,000,000 farm and domestic laborers. Tho group expected to have Its suggestions ready for presentation to the senate finance committee and the social security board early next week. Several , specific proposals have grown out of the three new prin ciples. One of these would provide that when a worker dies before reaching 66 at which ago he would beln drawing Insurance benefits tho bene fits would go to his widow along with additional allowances for ber chil dren. BEND AREA SEES BIG RED METEOR BEND. Ore., Dee. 10. (AP) W. A. Rahn, ii resident of Million. 35 mllea east of here on the central Oregon highway, reported he saw huge, red meteor drift slowly toward the north eastern hortKon and disappear In the direction of Prtnevllle at 4:45 p.m. to day. Rahn said the flaming stone was so large and Ita movement to alow he at first thought It a flare from an air. plane. He mid the object disappear ed behind Bear Creek buttes. ). Hugh Prurtt. University of On ion astronomer, waa notified. TO SHARE : N SUEZ CONTROL Mute Clamor Over Tunisia For New Objective France Strengthens Defenses. ROME. Dee. 10. ( AP) Paaclata muted their clamor over French, Tunisia today while raising demands for a ahare In the control of the Sues canal. The authoritative editor, virgins Onyda, complained In II Olornale D'ltalla about the ag.aio.ooo Italy hart to pay In Suez canal tolls during 1037. ' 'Italy's work of colonlmtloa and civilization In the territories of East Africa certainly could have been more extensive If thla burden bad been more extensive If this burden. had been less oppressive," he asserted. Oayda. declaring that Italian traf fic through the canal was four tlmea that of Prance, said Italy should have a proportionate voice In the operation ot the canal. (The 8uei canal, the northern en trance to the Bed kb, la ruled by 33 directors, ai of whom are Prench,. ten English, representing the British government, and the other la a. Netherlander. For all practical pur poses the administrative control la French.) The Sues question. Oayda con cluded. Is an "Inseparable part of the general problem of European collab oration on the basis ot equality of rights, positions end values of aH ni- tlons In compnrleon with their In-: tereste.1 Oayda's statement waa the ftrsb precise Indication of the price Italy may expeot to exact from France ttt . return for the re-establlshment of friendly relating following Italian, agitation the past week and a half over Tunisia, Djibouti, Corsica and other French territory, the exact Italian clalma for which are yet to be defined. 1 Borne foreign observers believed Premlor Muasollnl's ultimate aim !' for autonomy for Italian citizen la Tunisia, North African French pro-' tectorate, and at least Joint ' control with Franco ov DJIbout, seaport In French Bomallland and terminus nit the railroad to Addis Ababa, Ethi opia. The Foreign Affairs Review Rela-' alone Internationale asserted France, could hold Tunisia "only with Italian co-operation because the Arab popu lation Is completely hostile." II Lavoro Fascists warned of the eventual consequences of France failure to heed Italian claims. "The French err mostly In making the conflict between the two peoplea graver end wider," the neswnper said. France, the paper concluded, must choose betweon a "way of compre hension" or a way of "total and pre ventative hostility." TUNIS, Tunisia. Dec. 10. (API Bombing planes end submarine strengthened France national defense forces In Tunisia tonight. The arrival bf the sea and air equipment, authorities said, was only part of regular training maneuvers, although the presence of the plonea and submarines reinforced French colonial strength against agitation of the Italian minority In this north African French protectorate. The pilot and planes, whose num bers waa not disclosed, a-rlved from Morocco, where they had been maneuvering eftcr leaving their home bane at Lyon, France. The submarines came from Blzerte, Tunisia, and will remain at Tunl port until Monday, when they prob ably will leave for the next point on their annual cruise. Strong police guards continued tor patrol Tunis streets, although today waa calm after pro-Italian and pro French demonstrations earlier In the week. CLEARER IM ON 1 RIOTING SOUGHT PORTLAND, Deo. 10. (AP) A Ooni ference of Oregon's district attorney sought today for an amendment to) existing laws providing a clearer definition of rloU so peace office re could act more surely In making ar-, resta. 1 The proposed amendment defined riot aa any use of froce and violence, or any threat to use force and vio lence. If accompanied by Immediate) power of execution, by three or mora persona acting together and without authority of law. The district attorneys asked larger legislative appropriations for proba tion and parole law administration, and a secondary penal tiutrutlon for Brat offender!. '
