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iWMWta..B-'- Veather: Fair Home Edition LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1935. PRICE: 0N STKEETS Sc NEWS STAMPS 6c NO. 44 " TODAY'S NEWS TODAI jHcnsH w ma I V : F fo) IPSONANGHY I1IESTIS II ACTIVITIES L.tH Executive Says fri Nobody's Business gOff MUCh He iviaft.es JoDGES SUBPOENAS U Process Server Is Foiled In crusn ax Elevator Door C..iv,:t,i An::. 1 i. W) L Wbf intieatira were tolil It kl H. t. 01S11, Lijlrf a and Electric system. It thonrnt 11 iroiruwr w .u.niiiu In co nr.viiil! into affairs" like his iici-sonul in- E!M I luigtby, dctaile.1 story of hVpioo btcame one of tins rulms i, the Associated system, knit OLonnor ol me ruies niu Y iskwl from what soursc lie kit hit income. Mm Llttla Income, What? m mimfemfnt fees, Hopson itot wis jour income for the enmple?-' O'Connor asked. Mmu'iuI. vmi. the witness niis M. -But I did have it looked up ; tronnd auil H was nDout IM roar Ivdrntsllv. I dou't think it is Ltr for these committees to go la into the private attnirs ot jii Laik." he added. '.'While some of I Irndi may think taut is n lot of i, 1 think a man is entitled to mount of privacy. A mju'a hi It nn mnrt a nn 111 If .iffnir limn irittbK Henry Furd started with Bit Jait Aims. Question I ! nt tnnp ni!-iimiii ' (VCfmiuir pti "but if you'll itst answer lntioDi, please. hi be find to bur 1 don't like jjmii uit ial'i about his income 1 two or thr?e million was a ' TMs exaRjiernv.on.'' how that roueh even :f I have m from !us!nis H r a vejr." liwrtti "rtrin- the dev 'lopnicr.t of the twiitrd ostein, winch at one time son w opcaiMJ comnmuuF. "MY INCOME? 'S'MY BUS!7 jS!" SEE HOPSON ANGERED PAGE 2 JIB HIS OFF WOIXLC, Aw. l-OP)The :nican clipper plane hopped island, IK! miles west rUt6rOS a, m. tnilny (S:3S A. PlfifiP Kt.niln.l : . i.-:t.. pat 3,900 pounds of cargo were N lanlljr a breath of wind In "ir enannel, tlie clip- Rfltwl two run, to get off the " Th t'fm . i . rt . 7 '" l 1,111 bianeu nt U J" Captain 11. 0. . Sullivan ' Plane when she failed to k&) "'ii-u Piles. m ,ne Ki T,h bifr ,llane roare(1 0ff ft weatoer Here was Mtesrfaz Is wdline For Drink Entries tT lhl! : Hn..u..- hiuT .a,m""s' Oranges. u be in this office by thnt "'ed will be eiven iiuc each will also be : orar ' na .1 ir taeN"r nd -tt ,'r i"r ir,to ,tt- " "'""Tea rame- - --a. :S. s a I Ik I,- utaiaaaBBmtaaHtUKi .T' siV.'iMsS'" .' V. Yanked before the senate lobby investigators Tuesday morning by stern G-men who trailed him to his hideout tn New Jersey, rotund Howard C. Hopson, head of the notorious Associated Gas and Eleotrlc lost some of his good humor. His Income, he told the committee, was hit own business and he delivered quite an oration on the iniquity of governmental prying Into private affairs. Hopson admitted spending vast sums to defeat the holding company "death sentence" but denied raping his companies at the expense of little stockholders and con-turners. MOQNEYTRIAL FRAMEUP SAYS AGED WITNESS Aged Baltimore Man Claims He Was Forced Into Original Story DEPOSITIONS TAKEN New Effort To Free Noted Prisoner Is Started In Maryland HEAT 13 MED MOHFIIT With the temperature six degrees cooler nt 1 p. in., Tuesday, than nt the same time the previous day, hu gene wenther prophets were- predict ing a drop .in the heat wave which gripped the city Monday and elircaten- ed to continue through tlie weeu. Monday nt 1 o'clock the mercury stood at 94 degrees, -three degrees less than the maximum for the day. At the same time Tuesday, it had only reached SS. Provided it followed the same general trend ns on Monday, Tuesday's maximum was not expected to exceed 01 or Surrounding points also reported cooler wenther. Springfield hnd the snmo temperature as Kugeue on both days, while other nenrby towns dif fered little from the local rending. Tuesdny's cooler breeze was be lieved lnrgely responsible for the lessening of the heat. Monday the wind mntched the wenther in intensity SEE HEAT IS RELAX to -PAGE 2 Question Is: Will Dad Boast Or Beat Enterprising Kids? POKTLAND, Ore., Aug. 13. UP) Unharmed, but weary and sleepy from their experience, Hugh and Margaret Bnbcock, 12 nnd 0 years old, returned to their Home today after having been missing since Sun day afternoon. The Bnbcock family 4!cllicked nt Oswego Inge Sunday. The father of the children brought others of the family to the city nnd was to return later for the children. Meinwbilc the two decided it would be a lark to walk home. They walked part of the way Sunday evening, became tired and slept under the stars. Meanwhile the family was conducting a frantic search for them. Monday morning the two continued on their woy toward home. It became Inte ns they nenred home, so htoy slept out ngain, this time in Mount Tabor park. Bright nnd early this morning the l--year-old boy and the 0-year-old girl walked in. Derby Winners Will Get Cash, Other Awards Cash prizes mvnit winners in the Itt'Kiwter-tiunnl Soapbox derby, which will be the bin event of the closing exercises of Eugene's city .play grounds on August o. For the win ner of the derby, the Itesister-Gnnrd offers prize money. The winners in each of the three oge divisions will receive $-.r.O each. In addition to these cash prizes, winners in the va rious heats, the division finals and the final race will receive merchan dise awards, which will be donated by local firms. Already n large number of merchants have expressed their wish to donate prizes for the racers, and the list of awards promises to be n long and enticing one. Trial runs for the soapbox entrants will be conducted Friday, nnd os time for trials approaches activity in the construction of racers hns speeded up, The trials will he run on the course on the Charnelton street hill from Twenty-second to Seventeenth nve nue. The side streets wll be roped off. nnd drivers will be given nn op portunity to test their mnchines for speed nnd construction defects. The trials will not be conducted ns races, nnd the outcome will have no bearing on the contestant's right to enter the finnl races a week later. The April 10 event will start nt 2 p. m., nnd will be n part jnf the nnnunl plnyground cycle tournament, which is to be held nn f'harnelton street, between Thir teenth and Fourteenth nvenues, Senate Okays New ' Rum Administration WASIIISGTOX, Aug. 13 UP) A bill netting up a new alcohol control administration to replace the one thrown out by the supreme court in the Schechter XKA decision was passed today by the Senate. The bill eliminated the provision passed the House permitting sale of distilled liquor in barrels instead of only in bottles a permitted under present treasury regulations. ' Washington Paper Wrecked By Blast WASHINGTON. Aug. H C4) A heavy explosion felt Mrwk away drtmn?el the building occupied by The Washington Pst today. It i lo cated on Pennsylvania avenue ne:ir the treasury. The extent of the damage was not determined. SALEM, Aug. 13. UP) A tri motored airplane left here shortly after 0 n. ni. today taking many lend iug state officials on a full day's trip over the entire state nnd into Wash ington for a view of development pro jects started or completed during the past, few years. Among the projects to be visited were IlonneviHe, (trnnd Coulee, the Owyhee project, the state highway system, and the five Oregon Coast bridges. The trip will cover more than 1500 miles. Those on the flight Included Earl Snell, secretary of state; Kufus C. Hnlmaii. state treasurer; Hery Ca bell, chairman state highway com mission; 'H. II. Bnldnck. highway en gineer; C 41. McCtillough, bridge engineer: C A. Howard, superintend ent of schools; I). O. Hood, state bud get director, nnd Dan Fry. state pur chasing agent. Governor Martin was invited hut stated it was impossible for him to get awny. He was reported in Vortland today. Roosevelt Signs Spanish War Bill BREVITIES STATE PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 13. (U.R) The U. 8. forest service today re ported all fires in national forests under control. A 600-acre blaze in the Chelan national forest which threat ened to spread seriously was quelled by 250 CCe'youths. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 13. (U.R) Secretsry of War George W. Dern today sent to the senate commerce committee a report requesting without reservations ennctment a nsoon ns possible of the McNnry Bonneville power bill, Washington dispatches said. Dr. Fishbein Of A. M. A. Has Expose Ready To Be Put Into Print BTLAIMOItE, Aug. V..UP) Grey-haired, paralyzed John Mnc DoiKild, key witness at the trial of Thomas J. Mooney for the San Fran risen Preparedness Iny bombing, ns serted under oath today he had never seen Mooney before viewing him in n San Francisco jail cell after the bombing. MacDonald testified lie fore A. E. Shaw, referee taking depositions for the California supreme court for consideration with Mooney' habeas corpus bid for freedom from life in prison, .lohn Finerty. counsel for Mooney, in h statement fo the referee nt the opening of the hearing, said its purpose was to show that MneDon aid's testimony in Mooney's trial bad icen "framed by District Attorney Charles M. Fickert and certain San 'rancisco police officers. Witness Tells His Story MacDonald. now a patient in the Baltimore city hospital, testified Lieut. Charles Golt nowtd him i picture of Mooney tn the Sun Fran cisco police station. He said he told Goff u was NOT that of the man who left n suitense nt the corner of Stew- nrt nnd Mnrket streets a few minutes before the explosion.- Ho said Goff took him to the pris- pm where Mcmiey "ww held." nnd he asserted then he had never seen Mooney before. When Goff and Mac- Donnld left Mooney's cell, the witness said. Goff told him "that's the man who did it." MncDonald snid he re plied thnt it did not look like him. Says Goff Forced Statement lie said Goff then took him bnck to the station nnd told District At torney Fickers: "Charlie, he identified him." The witness snid he told Fickert that afternoon Monney was not the ninn with the suitcase, identified as c ntnining the dendly time bomb. MncDonald s next testimony wns thnt he hnd never seen Wnrren K. Hillings before viewing him in the jnil cell a few days later nnd had never picked either Mooney or Billings from n police lineup. Largely ns n result of MncDonnld's testimony nt their trial, the two are now serving life prison sentences, Monney nt San Qnentin and Billings at Folsom. 1 SALEM, Aug. 13. UP) The fed eral treasury department hns no in tention, nor is It the plan of the gov ernment to demolish the old post of fice building in Portland, Governor Martin wns advised todny by the .di rector of procurement of the treas ury depnrthment. The letter wns in response to a resquest on the part of some Portland citizens that the old structure be demolished. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 12. UP) Alumni nnd friends of Willamette university will hold a picnic dinner nt Lnurelhtirst park here at (I p. m. Sat SEE WIRE BREVITIES PAGE 2 M T Word from Washington, D. C, on the question whether families selected to settle on the Donna farm rehabili tation Project will be elicible for em ployment under the WPA is anxiously awaited at the office of the rehabili tation service in Eugene, according to Howard Johnston, rural rehabilitation director for Lane county. If these families start out with ne source of income until their crops are hnrvested nnd sold next year it will be a great handicap to them, aays Mr. .Johnston, Final selection of tho families is being delayed until word is received. Several questions' have been sub mltted to Washington, but only one hns been settled. It hns been decided thnt worthy families not on the relief rolls but unable to obtnin credit from the Innd bank or other banks for their farm operations mny settle on re habilitation tracts. This means thnt some at least of the families for Donna will be "on relief. ' Another question deals with pur chase of submarginal. lands or tracts with tery poor soil from persons se lected for project membership. This plnn would retire Inferior lands nnd provide some smnll operating cash for the new work. No nnswer on this point hns been received. AT Hundreds of Eugene and Lane county Townsend club members will go to Albnny Wednesday for the con vention of all pension clubs in the first Oregon congressional district, which will fenture a personal appear ance of Dr. Francis Townsend, the originator of the revolving pension plnn, according to Charles Paine, regional organizer for Townsend clubs. Dr. Townsend will speak in the Linn county city, at 2 p. m., following morning sessions of the Townsend delegates. Each club with a membership less than 500 will be allowed one dele gate to the convention. All clubs with larger membership rolls may send one delegate for each 500 members. The delegates will discusp plans for the elections of Townsend supporters to state and federal offices, and will make arrangements for representation nt the first national convention of the Townsend movement, to be held in Chicngo the latter part of October. Most of those going from Eugene will drive their own cars, said Paine, but a bus will leave Townsend bead' quarters early Wednesday morning for the accomodation of those who do not have other transportation. Anyone wishing to go on the bus should con tact Townsend headquarters not later thnn Tuesday night. Immediately following his Albany appearance Dr. Townsend will leave by air for the south, making it im possible for bim to kpeak at other points in Oregon during this visit, WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.,. f) President Roosevelt today signed leg ishtion restoring all pension benefits which the l!Ki.'I eunnmy set took away from veterans of the Spanish American war. the Boxer rebellion, and the Philippine insurrection., - "SERIOUS CHARGE" MUNICH, Aug. 13. UP) Dr. Geb hard Mosl, German-Canadian, was arrested today by the secret police, It was charged that Dr. Mosl, who is a gentile, had, in the course of conversation, expressed sympathy for the Jews, Mosl. whn is employed In the London branch of the Ontario Net company, was naturalized in Ottowa in l!i33. He jcame here on ft visit to ms ittuer. . All Record Books Of 4-H Gardeners Needed For Fair All record books and plans for garden club members are to be turned in by the opening day of the annual Four-H club fair in Eugene, Aug. 22, in order that the members may be eligible for the cultivator to be award ed, it is announced in a letter sent out Tuesday by R. C. Kuehner, county club agent, to the garden club members. Mr. Kuehner hns already scored the gardens of the members who are to compete and the final decision on who is selected as the outstanding garden member In each district is dependent on the score they receive on their record books and plans. In addition to this, each club member is eligible to make an exhibit in the class for garden material at the fair nnd compete for cash premiums. Mr. Kuehner is urging the club members to make this the biggest garden ex hibit yet seen at the fair. Tire Company Bares Sales Differentials MEDICO HE'LL EXPOSE DENOUNCES WILLARD PURSUES F-D! Hf '-mm Cites Old Conviction And Asserts New Claims Are Preposterous CHICAGO, Aug. 13 OI.R) The American Medical Association today warned Rulph 8. Willard, Los An geles cheniir.t preparing to bring n 'human icicle back to life, that it will expose his claims publicly ns 'a vicious hoax." The threat brought nn immediate retort from Willard thnt the associa tion's spokesman, Dr. Morris Fish bein, was talking about something of which ho wan utterly ignorant. Fishbein Calls It "Pure Fake" Dr. Fishbein, editor of the Jour nal of the American Medical Associa tion, in which the threatened expose will appear this week, called Willard "a faker pure and simple." His claim of freezing revivifica tion experiments having been sue cessfully npplied to n rhesus monkey are pure poppycock," tho editor tsaid. Criminal Record Is Cited Ho added a charge thnt Willard. never a hysician, was arrested In Cnllfornin in Mny, 11)33, for practic ing medicine without n license, was find $300 and given 150 days In jail, 'The monkey trick probably was achieved by a nent trick of substitu SEE MEDICAL EXPOSE ' PAGE 2 Like the "Desperate Desmond" of fiction, Huey Long, tho King fish of Louisiana and way points of the South Is pursuing Franklin D, Roosevelt, the brave New Deal hero. Now Long announces he'll seek the Democratic nomination for president In 1936, failing that he'll run Independent or support a Republican Cm PUCES TX REVENGE ON FRANKLIN D. F. D.'s Arch-foe Lets It Be Known He'll Be In 1936 Situation STRATEGY OUTLINED Democratic Nomination Possible; Failing That Plenty Trouble If E Union representatives nnd mill own ers nt Cottage Grove Tuesday con tinued a series of discussions In an effort to reach n settlement of that city's two-weeks-old mill and timber strike. Reports indicated that neither the strikers or operators would make any concessions, awaiting the expected arrival of a labor medrator from Portland. J. H. Chambers, proprietor of the J. II. Chambers nnd Hons Lumber company, snid that the striking tim liermen were free to return to work nt any time. C. C. Ritter, president of the Cottage Grove local of the Mill nnd Timber Workers' Union, asserted that the union would relnx none of its demands made upon employers. The committee authorized to negotinte with mill owners consists of nine men: Howard Tracy, Henry Rhody, Harold Abeene. C. Williams, S. Coch ran, Ben Absher. ('. A. Crites, Leo Jones, and Lowell Hikes. The union plans nn entertainment program in place of its regular meet ing Fridny night. Wives nnd friends of the striking mill nnd timber workers will be Invited, nnd speakers will ex plain the stand of the union, according to officials. Power spenker cars operating on the streets of Eugene must be li censed, it wns ordained by city conn cilmen In their regular meeting Mon- lay litght. ihn ordinance, which wilt become effective In 30 days, provides for a $10 license fee for local firms and a $.".() payment by out of town per sons who wish to use tlii form of advertising on tho city streets. The sound trwl;s must be kept moving, and can only be operated one hour in any half day. Operators of wrecking yards within the city must enclose their establish ments by n 7foot fence following the passage of an ordinance to that effect. The fence, the purpose of which la to make the auto wrecking yards more sightly, miiwt have no apertures. Pro prietors of wrecking yards are ad vised tn comply with the rrgiihrtiont provided for in the new statute, ns a unanimous vote allowed the inclusion Chief's Son Loses Bike to Bold Thief WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 UP) A price discrimination of $7,085,444), or 4.46 per cent on the selling price of tires sold to Seam-Roebuck and company waa admitted In a brief filed with the federal trade commission to day by the Goodyear Tire and Rub ber company. The trade commission has Bought to show that through al leged price discrimination, Goodyear is cutting competition in sale of tires and tubes between other manu facturers and between Hears-Roe- buck and company and other com peting retail tire dealers, including thoae selling Goodyear products. A bicycle thief wns undoubtedly I wider than he intended to be Mon day night when he made off with the property of Join my Bergman, son of Chief of Police C. F. Bergman. The vehicle was taken from in front of the McDonnld theater, sometime be tween the hours of 0:30 and 0:30 p. m. It was n red machine with trim mings in white. Police hnd found nn trace of the lost machine Monday afternoon. War Profits Bill Waits Next Session WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 04 By agreement with the Senate mu nitions committee, action on ' the drastic war profits bill wss postpon ed today until the next session of congress. This decision was an nounced by the Senate finance sub committee which received the bill after It wss drafted by the munition investigators. Murder. Suicide Is Vancouver Verdict VANCOUVER Wash. Aug. 13. VP, Coroner E. II. Rider land today be to satiMien me case was one ot mur der and suicide end that he does not plan to hold nn inquest Into the deaths lflfft week of Mr. and Mrs. Qeorge C. Cates of Vancouver. An analysis by Dr. F. R. Menne, pathologist nt University of Oregon medical school, disclosed Mtfficient poison in Cntes' stomach to have caused denlJi. A wound on Mrs. Cate' head, probably inflicted by a poker, was said to have roused ber death. NICE PEOPLE - LONDON. Aug. 13. (P) -Advices from Bangkok snid today execution of from 15 to 2) persons wns expect ed to result from discovery of a plot for insurrection in the Siamese army and narv. WHAT THE COUNCIL DID PASSED nn ordinance requir ing lo-tid spenker cars to be li censed. PASSED nn ordinance requir ing the enclosure of auto wreck ing yards. REFERRED to a upecinl com mittee the city engineer's plans for new buildings to replace those burned In Saturday night's fire. PAWyiSD nu ordinance author- Izing nn Issue of $113,000 in city improvement, refunding bonds. REJECTED nu application for a permit to operate n Class B pnekage wine tore lu the city. DISCUSSED the possibility of clenuiiig out the Amazon swamp drainage canal. PASSED nn ordinance for tho repair of tho curb on Willamette Htreet, between Fifteenth nnd Sixteenth nvenues. By NATHAN ROBERTSON (Copyright, l't;t5, by The Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. Senntor Huey Yong (1)., La.), hns told col leagues in the senate that he hns de cided definitely to run for the demo cratic presidential nomination isj 1030, Jle told them, furthermore, that if President Roosevelt wns re nominated, he would run ns nn inde pendent, unless tho republicans nomi nated someone he could support. Long's plans were reported to The Associnted Press todny by several senators with whom he tnlked. The Loulsinnnn, however, refused to dis cuss them, saying he had no com ment. Ho did nay, though, that If ha ran, it would not be to "beat Roose velt," but to elect himself. Republicans Give Three Cheers Republican senators in whom Long confided were dared. They felt his decision was n "big break" for tho G. O. P., and might swing the elec tion their wny. lor n lotur time many republicans have felt they could win If Long would mu to tnko "radicnl' votes awny from tho democrats. , One woKtern renubliean semttoe. whoso n to hns gone democrntic in he past two elections, snid thera wns no doubt it would go republican today. If Long should run. He snid the Louis innnn would easily take enough rotes from the democrats to deliver the state's electoral ballots to the repub licans, as im f'ollette did In 11)24, Will Enter Many Primaries ' Rivalling the Long reports In Cnn- Itnl attention were denials by Sen ators Glass and Byrd thnt they would holt the democratic ticket next year; tnking notice of published intimations to thnt effect not carried by The As socinted Tress, the Virgintnns remind ed neither "hns ever bolted a party nomination, loeal, stnte or national." Img told his senatorial colleacnea that he would enter ninny of the stnte primaries and givo President Roose velt as much of n bnttle nt tho con- SEE HUEY HURLS HAT PAGE 2 4 STATE AFL PLANS SEE CITY PLACES TAX PAGE 2 4 Student Aid Plans Being Formulated By Oregon Schools PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 13. (IP) All haxtc. wan being made today to perfect the setup under which 12 per cent of the college student of Ore gon may obtain federal aid work up to ns hig-h as $20 a month. College of ficials meeting with Paul T. Jackson of Klamath Fnlkt, state director of l he national youth ndministrntlon. urged that the program be completed soon so beginning or returning stu dents could make their plans. The group nsked that tho allot ment plan be made simple so the pro gram could be carried out unhindered by red tape. The group nliso asked that half-month allotments be granted for September and June in addition to full allotments for the Intervening months. Guards Join Yegg Hi-Ho For Robin! BUCHAREST, Aug. 13. Ru mania's No. 1 bandit, the celebrated Coroju, who practices painless rob bery, escaPed from jail again today, Coroju made his break this time by persuading hi guards to join him in a life of romantic outlawry. They departed with him from the city prison nt Botosani, POET WATSON DEAD BRIGHTON. England. Aug. 13. fP) Sir i illmm Watson, eminent English poet, died today in Ditchling, Sussex, after a fortnight's Illness. He I was J7 . - . PORTLAND, Aug. 13 OP) The vision of organized labor In Oregon solidly arrayed on a single political front nroee here todny ns the stnte federation of labor went luto the sec ond day of its annual four-day con vention. Before tho convention was resolution which condemned In strong language "the action of vnri ont prominent, relegntes and members of organized lnbor in promoting the candidncy of other than the endorsed party and supporting other than the indorsed mensnres," The resolution called down the wrath of the assembly on members who last year went their own way heedless of the cause of labor-indorsed candidates. In his annual address, Ben T. Ob- borne, president of the state federa tion, told the delegates labor still has "all the power It possessed under the NRA." He snid private industry has "failed miserably" to "prove Its good faith." WEATHER NEWS The second hottest day of the year wns followed by a wnrra night but the minimum wns 53 degrees and most of the night It was comfortable. The foreenst follows: OREGON: Fair tonight and Wed nesday but fogs on const; cooler enst and rising temperature Interior north west portion Wednesday; moderate north nnd northwest winds. LOCAL STATISTICS: Minimum temperature Tuesday, 53 degrees; Maximum temperature Monday, 07 degrees. Willamette, river, minus 2.1 feet. Wind from north. SIUSLAW TIDES: Wednesday, high, 11.-3S p. m., 12:11 p. m.; low, 0:33 a. m., 0:28 p. m. Thursday, high... 12:2S a. m., 1:22 p. m.; low, 7:14 a. m.f 7:20 p. m. Friday, high, 1:10 a. m., 1:50 p. m.; low, 7:51 a. m., 8:13
