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Medfokd
The Weather
Forecast: Tonight and Thursday,
unsettled with rain and normal
temperature.
Temperature
Highest yesterday 54
Lowest this morning 31
Precipitation
To 5 p. m. yesterday 00
To ft a. m. today .00
Twenty-Fifth Year
MEDFORD, Om-XiOX, WEDNESDAY, DEC'EM P.Eli 10. VJM)
No.
F,
OEMS FLAY
GIRL WINS LIVESTOC i riONCH
Today
By Arthur Briibane
Let Hoover Manage.
Questions for Edison.
A Merger Needed. . .
Japan's Mighty Growth.
Anzac Ace Weds Irish Girl
tjr
SAYS HYDE
I F. TRIAL
Jl
Mail Tribime
Al UNITY
NSANITY IS
CLAIMED IN
HOOVER FOR
AID ATTACK
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Copyright King Features 8ynd Inc.
Patriots in Congress adver
tise their generosity by su
p,.Viting ways for disposing of
public monies.
Fortunately, President II'io
ver, who lins spent efficiently
in charity more money thiui
anybody that ever lived, is in
the White House, to discourage
the would-be squanderers.
Bills already introduced
would cost Uncle Sum four bil
lion, five hundred million dol
lars.'';. :
With i "unemployment" for
its excuse Oic cost would be
more than the total cost of gov
i eminent for a year;
Congress should let President
Hoover plan appropriations act
ually necessary and meet emer
gencies as they occur, support
ing him loyally, not as a parti
san, but as a public national
matter.
Next week the Rev. A. K.
Shields, head of the New Jer
sey Anti-Saloon League, will
put six questions on prohibition
to Thomas A. Edison, who is a
dry. Mr. Edison says of Dwigltt
W. Morrow: "Morrow 'knows
nothing of the business and in
dustrial world, lie has been
cooped up in his office and
away from the working man."
'
Senator Morrow inight. ask
Mr.' Edison three questions :
First : Has prohibition stop
ped the drinking of whiskey,
and is whiskey worse of better
than it was?
Second: Did boys and girls,
including high school children,
drink whiskey before prohibi
tion came as they do now 1
Third: Has crime increased
or diminished under prohibi
tion? 4 . .
News that a so-called "bil
lion dollar merger" of four
New York banks has been call
ed off, is more important than
appears in the mere announce
ment. The importance will develop
unless some kind of an absorb
ing and protecting merger is ac
complished; '.
- In spite of earthquakes, tidal
waves and restricted territory,
iscnsus returns show that .Ja
pan's population is 04,557,000,
more than four million increase
in five years.
Greater Tokio, with a popu
lation of 4,nt!S,(K)0, is the
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Abe Martin
Tver" time I po Ilie .Fur Pine
homo Ihi-y'ro n-lllier trui'kln'
Komo A III furnltnrn away "r
nnliMilln' n new fn'igUil radio.
It inl lo Hike several rear '
lwflir, bni! intiany, an' oprn
iluMvtii lo itrmliii a- criminal.
I'm tndny II ilnn'l 'mn m re
quire any prriMirntioii al oil.
Organization Broad Enough
to Plan Production and
Control Marketing Needed
Tariff Protection Also
Major Factor.'
BOSTON, Dec. 10. (P) The
Americun Fnrni Bureau Federa
tion today adopted a resolution
opposing amendment at this time
of the AKiU'Ulturul Marketing net.
The resolution approved , the
stabilization activities of the fed
eral board In wlfeat and cotton
and asked that these activities he
extended to other crops. It asked
also for the establishment of a
revolving fund by the government
of whatever amount necessary for
stabilization and other activities.
BOSTON. Dec. 10. (P) An or
ganization of farmers broad
enough to plan ' production and
control marketing, and adequate
tariff protection, are the hope of
agriculture. Arthur M. Hyde, sec
retary of agriculture, told the
American Farm Bureau Federa
tion today.
"The root of our troubles is over
production.' he asserted. '
"The job immediately ahead of
us is twofold; to stop uneconomic
expansion to new lands; to get
unprofitable submarglnat Innd out
of crop production, und by direct
positive action on the part of far
mers themselves, to regulate the
acreage in crops."
In the balancing of American
crops against market demnnds, he
said, "tariff protection, is of funda
mental importance.'1
ItldlculfS Theories
He ridiculed the theories of
those who argue that the whole
unswer to the problem Df farm
distress Is the reduction of produc
tion costs, and who assert that it
is the Inability of the world to buy
foods and fibres that causes sur
pluses. "I merely want to Inquire," he
said, "whether any member of the
farm bureau federation wants, to
live out of any price that India and
China can afford to pay for wheat,
or such price as" Africa and Man
churia can afford to pay for cot
ton." The logical remedy for over
production, the secretary insisted,
wns voluntary curtailment.
Must Have 1 1 1 1 1 1 -
Pointing out that the farmers
are still largely unorganized nnd
that their present condition places
each farmer in destructive compe
tition with all others, he said they
must achieve unity.
"They must have a means thru
which they can .speak with one
voice. By organization the far
mers can unite and cease the ruth
less competition of every farmer
with every other, collectively plan
production to meet the market de
mand; collectively stabilize prices.
and mobilize the economic power
of the American farms. Thus.
agriculture can take advantage of
the tariff nnd control its produce
tlon as Industry does."
Plundered Finest Homes of
Hollywood and Los Ange
les During 2-Year Crime
Career.
LOS ANOKI.KS. Col.. Dec. 10.
OP) A modern Raffles who used a
truck to haul hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of plunder
from the finest lxs Angeles. Holly
wood and Beverly Hills homes dur
ing almost two years of operation
Is held here, charged with bur-
glury toilay, while police, willl
more than Sioo.nuu of the loot re
covered, seek to locale more of it.
Police said telltale fingerprints
dn window ledges of the imposing
residences calmed the arrest nf the
suspected master burglar, Hazell
Koxcn Sanders, 30. alias Al While,
debonaire and handsome, whose oc
cupation is imiKrting and whose
avocation is acting in films when
not engaged In burglary.
With Sanders In jail as an alleg
ed accomplice, Peter Hyan, alias
Paul Haekley. whose methods of
operations were as unique as they
were startling, are said lo have
looted scores of homes, hauling
away lo a cache valuable rugs, ra
dios, silverware and Jewelry.
In the role of importer. Sanders
is said to have sold Oriental rugs
to mnny persons of importance, in
cluding motion picture stars, after
stealing them In ilariTis daylight
thefts.
NAB HANDSOME
FILM ACTOR AS
MASTER CROOK
1 ' ""
A romance which began 111 1H7, following Ills' ti'ans-I'aeifin flight,
was climaxed today by the marriage of White Cumiiiaudcr tiurlcs
liiiursford-Niiiltli ami Miss Mary Powell in Australia.
E
e
IN ARREST
Society Girl Victim of Bro
ker Clerk's Plot to Gain
$25,000 Letters.,, Prom
ise Fantastic Fate for
Junior Leaguer.
CHICAGO, Dec. 10. (P) The
fantastic story of an alleged ex
tortion plot against Miss Marian
Wright. lS-year-old society girl,
unfolded today following the ar
rest of William Kuhn. 23, broker's
clerk, accused of sending threat'
enlng letters. He denied their
authorship. One of them, pulli-e
aid. mentioned "poisonous darts
which would lie dispatched noise
lessly ,1000 feet."
"How would you like to meet
sucn a taie: pouce oinueu h"m
one of the Utters, after they hart
booked Kuhn last night on
charge of attempting to extort
$25,000 from Miss Wright under
threat of death to her or her
fnther, an executive of the Edge
water Steel company. Kuhn's
brother. Wendell, a broker, char
acterized the matter as n "mis
take" nnd posted bonds for I)"'
act-uned man's appearance In fel
ony court today.
"Secret Six" Aid.
Kuhn wns arrested by detec
tives co-operating with agents of
the "Secret Six" undercover In
vestigating committee of tho as
sociation of commerce.
According lo Miss Wright, who
has appeared In Junior league dra
matics and who Is to make her
social debut next Snturday. she
and Kuhn were friendly until re
cently, when they quarreled. At
that time, nho said. Kuhn re
marked that he would "get even."
A week later, she said, Hie first
of the letters, directing that the
money be sent by general de
livery, was received. It bore the
signature "Hester McKay," and
described the author as the head
of a nimoiic ring. Her father
then turned the matter over to
the "secret six."
Other alleged extortion plots
meanwhile were under investiga
tion. FOIL DEATH PLOT OF
SANTIAGO DK CHI1.K. Dec. 10.
(TP) An attempt against the lives
nf President Colonel Carlos Ibnnez
and members of his party was
thwarted last night by government
agents, who discovered a bomb set
to blow up the presidential train
as it nenred the capital from the
south.
Police nnd governmflnt detect
ives, who had been watching de
velopment of un "anarchist" plot
for dsvs. saw the conspfvatora
place dynamite under the railroad
iMMUf) across the Itio M'po.
Oregon Weather
t'nsettled '.night and Thursday;
rains In the west and snows or j
rains It. the east portion; normal
temperance, strong souiherly
winds 1 6 (he coast; occasionally,
gales offshore.
MIAN
PLAN END
CONQUEROR
WEDS
E
Romance' of Kingsford
Smith and Pretty Mary
Powell Is Climaxed by
Church Ceremony. ,
UlRLHOtinNE, Australia,' Dec.
10.- (P) Wing Commander Charles
Kingsford Smith, transatlantic nnd
transpacific aviator, was married
today to Miss Mary Powell, pretty
Irish Australian girl, In the Scots
church here.
Only Immediate friends of the
happy couple witnessed tho cere
mony, but outside the church
10,000 people waited to catch a
glimpse of the bride and groom.
A number of air force officers
were present and formed an arch
of honor nt the doorwuy under
which tho couple passed as they
left the church.
The bride was attired In white
nnd silver with a long tulle veil.
She was attended by four brides
maids. Her husband wore his air-
- ,. , ,.,.,,.,.
)y hig frpnd an() commnlon
of his transpacific flight, C. T. P.
Ulm.
The wedding climaxed a ro
mance which had Its beginning In
1917 after the aviator's transpa
cific flight when, traveling to Aus
tralia by liner from Vancouver, he
met ' the golden haired Irish girl
aboard, and fell in love with her.
Kingsford Smith has flown both
the Pacific and Atlantic oceans Is,
the only pilot to have accomplish
ed both feats, is one of two pilots
to have completed a westward
flight across the Atlantic to New
York, and holds the record for a
flight between lOnglnnd nnd Alls
tralla,
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SALKM, Ore.. Dee. 10. (P)
Attorney General Van Winkle has
informed Secretary of State Hoss
that the latter has authority to
enter Into contract with un attor
ney In Washington, D. C, to prose
cute claims of this state against
the United States for expenses in
curred and moneys paid In raising,
paying and equipping troops for
service during the Civil war.
Hoss proposes to enter Into n
contract with Charles J. Kappler,
the contract to be terminated Jan'
tiary I, lH3ti, nnd his pay to he 111
tier cent of the moneys returned
to the state.
STATE HEA.DS STUDY
EMPLOYMENT PEAK
SALKM. Ore., Dec. 10. (TP) Jnv
crnor Norblfld, Chairman If. B. Vim
Ihizer of the. Mate highway com
niinnfon nnd State Iubor 0tinlH
ninji'T Oram wf II mt flKiiin thin
iilrf-rnoon to hi'iir IpkbI ndvtm a
to whrtliiT ahout $5im,WM in kIiiU
liiKhway ftiniln i-atx Ih dlviTti-d to
county road work an a in'anM of
relieving unmp!oynif-nt. J. M. Ite-
vpth, attorney for thm mmmlnHinn,
nan lfn Investigating tho Wf-tlnn.
HUEN
M LB N
McKellar Says Assertion
Yesterday Politics Being
Played at Expense of Hu
man Misery. Unworthy
Chief Magistrate.
WASHINGTON'.' Deo. 10. (A1)
Replying to President Hoovor,
HetHitor Itoliln.son, tho dtniuicnittc
leadtM told an attentive senate to
day that If the fmssuge yesterday
of the $ti0,000,000 drouKht relief
hilt 1y the senate constituted any
aid upon the treasury, 1 am will-
Iiik to neeept the udlum which may
attach to audi a transaction. "
lly Fraiu-lH M. Stephenson
WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. (i
DemoeruiH renewed their assault
upon President Hoover today for I
hit denunciation of non-adininl- I
tratlon relief measures as the ;
einersency $1 10, 000. ut0 uppropria-I
tion for puMic works waited a i
final vote.
Chairman Jones, of the appro-1
prtation committee, sought itnme- ,
diate action on the construction
hill approved yesterday by the ,
house.
As debate continued, Senator
McKellnr, democrat, Tennessee,
jumped in to attack Mi. 'loover,
demanding an apology for yester
day's declaration.
. In n prepared speech. McKellnr
said tho Hoover stutement charp
ins" proponents of extra relief bills
with "playing- politics at the ex
pense of human misery1' was "un
worthy of the chief magistrate of
tills nation or of any nation."
Itcsont Attack
There was no opposition lo tho
house appropriation, but tho sen
ate ranks were still resentful of
Mr. lloovor's attack. The demo
crats took the occasion to belittle
the effect of the emergency bill.
MxKelUtr jaJd It would do little
Rood ln the near future. Senator
Wulah, democrat, Massachusetts,
asserted the funds were merely nn
appropriation that would have
been niado eventually, regard less
of the unemployment situation.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
the democratic leader, demanded
and won an amendment making
the funds available until expended
striking out a provision requiring
their expenditure before next June
30.
Senator Wagner, democrat, New
York, asserted It would take at
least six or seven months to put
the road funds Into use.
TASTEJIF PEAR
New York Magazine Editor
Inspired By Eating Pin
nacle Product Asks Data
for Article.
As a result of eating Medford
district pears, packed and shipped
ly the 1'lnnacle Packing company
of this city, "Today's Magazine of
America, ' published nt New York
City, has requested photographs
(Including one of the city) and
data for un article to he published
soon.
"This article," says a letter to
the chamber of commerce, "will bo
inspired by the fact that we have
just finished eating somo of the
Pinnacle pears, and must admit
we have never tasted finer.'
A request wus also made for the
booklet of prize-winning pear
recipes.
Tho publishing concern will get
the data, the photos, nnd the
redpe book.
Tho Pinnacle Packing Co. also
received a letter from A. K. Harnes
general nmnaKcr of the Fruitgrow
ers Supply company of Los An
geles, praising the valley pears.
The Jet.tpr says:
''Recently I rocoived through the
kindness of Floyd If. Hart, vice
president of tho Timber Products
company a two-layer box of Rogue
River valley Cornice pears.
"It was the first time 1 had ever
eaten this fruit, and 1 can say
without exception, that It is the
most delicious fruit I have ever
tasted."
Harnea ordered Cornice pears
shipped to friends In southern
California for Christmas gifts.
Examine Children q
HAl.KM, Ore., Dec. ID.-Yl)
A health examination conducted In
all Marion county schools showed
that ;1'J5 i dren were without
physical blemishes and 4i!Hl hud
PUBL CITY
MEDFORD
FROM
defects.
O $
ftrtt. iiw i - ,.n.-jt J'.
AssoeltdPrsiPliolt
Little Sarah Ann Tolan, 15-year.old Farmlngdala. HI, high ichoc
freshman, and "Chocolate," who won top honors In ) H club livestock
contest at the international snow,
NOBEL WINNER
Creator of 'Babbitt' Gains
Fancy of Swedes On
Stockholm Visit, By Vig
orous Personality;
OHLO, Norway, Dec, 10. (P)
WoHtorn civilization could not mir
vivo another-such oonf Hot no- the
world war, but there Is nothing to
Indicate such a conflict Is In pros
pect, Frank H, Kellogg, the former
American seerolary of state do
c hired today In a speech accepting
the Nobel peace prize for 199,
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 10.
(IV Sinclair Lewis, roil haired
first citizen of Sauk Center, Minn.,
today received from tho hands of
King (IiiHtiuf of Sweden the 1930
Nobel prize for literature.
Tho creator of (ieorgc O. Bab
bitt was the center of interest do
spilo tho. presence of tho distin
guished winners of Nobel awards
in other fields. Ilia vigorous per
sonality has seized tho popular
imagination of all Sweden.
Dr. Karl laudtttelner, of New
York, winner of tho award In
medicine, was there with Sir
Chnndrasekhani Venkata Human,
of Calcutta, India, winner of the
physics award, and I'rofoMaor Hans
Klscher, of Munich, who received
tho prize In chemlHtry.
KANSAS C1T7, Mo., Dor. 10.
(yp) Four robborn hold up tho In
terstate National hunk In the Live
stock KxchaiiKo building hero lu
ll ay and tnado off with ctirrency
estimated between $r'.000 nnd r5,
imo. Tho quartet. unmuHkod, took
chargo of the hank when the por
tor urrlved to open tho place Of
ficers and employes arriving for
work were greeted with drawn pis
tols and held hi a group until the
timo lock on the vuult permitted
ttH opening.
SUFFERS BK COLD
MIAMI, lla Hflc. in. (fl Sub
fn.'uzlMK wculhrr ami extrnalve
flnmpi'tt In truck (Tiiiih anil.frliU
Krovra III lliu Evurf-llulrR urea if
Houtluirn Klnrtriu ItiKt nlKht wore
rnporlctl to tho .Mliiml wimtlicr bu
reau twlny.
Miami !Kraii-il frt'ozlnn: tompcni
turn but tho mnrcury wuh reported
as low hh '10 ileKriM'H ul placen a
few miles from tlio city.
SINCLAIR LEWISjQAK GROVE
ISIPOPULARiDAiioniAM
DENIES SPEARS TO
COACH CALIFORNIA
Kl'flKNK, Oro., Dec. lO.-HJ'r
Dr. Robert (1. Hproiil, president of
tho I'nlverslty "of I'ulirornln. today
telegraphed thn HeMlHter-tluard a
denial that Clarence, V. Hpears,
Oregon football t:oacli, had been ap
proached with un ofrer to nucceod
iN'ibs I'rlcc? retired.
mtdgu.
DHL 0 fLH n
WA
Suburban District Would
Buy Supply From' City
-Through Master Meter.
Collect Own Fees From
;; Users Council Refuses
Following tho Joint meeting of
tho city council last night with the
water commission, to decido on the
kind of contract with the Oak
Cirovo district, for furnishing city
I water to thnt district, and which
j ended by tho council unanimously
j voting to Instruct tho water com
mission to draw up a contract,
similar to the Iterrydale district
co n t ra c t, M essrs. W . H. Oore, L.
Pennington nnd C. N. Cooley, rep
reBentativea of the Oak Grove dis
trict, who attended tho meeting,
called on Mayor pipes today and
stated that the district would not
enter into a contract on the iierry-
idalo plan.
Tln-y stated that they wanted
(he contract drawn up on a plan
by which the city would sell water
to the district through a master
meter, tho district Itself to make
Its own collections from itn water
users. Ity tho lierrydale contract
plan the city would furnish water
to tho dlntrlct and make Its own
collections from tho district's water
users.
Officials Seo Duty. '
Tho city officials assert that they
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FEHL'S BOND 10
COVER RECOUNT
FILED IN COURT
Thousand Dollars Guarantee
of Costs in Mayoralty
Contest Clears Legal
Pathway.
Ponds in the sum of $1000 were
filed In the circuit court this
afternoon by Karl 11. Kehl, through
Attorney Thomas J. Knrlght, to
cover tho expenses of his election
recount content, an required by
state law. Circuit Judgo H. D,
Norton fixed tho amount nt 91000.
Cnder the Oregon law, tho maxi
mum bond is 92000.
Tho u rot lc nre named as Cleo.
A. Porter. Will It. Wilson, II. H.
Weaver ami H, C. Hansen.
Tho bond Is pouted to cover tho
disbursements and expenses of the
recount, in the event Kehl prevails
In his suit. 0
Circuit Judgo II. D. Norton, who
Is holding court 't Urania Pass, did
not return today, as expected, bo
no nction was taken In tho election
contest. It Is expected now that
Judge Norton will return Friday
morning, and It Is unofficially stat
ed that tho matter may be called
at that time.
The filing of thd bond by Kehl
clears tho legal deck for action.
Madman Shot Dunbar On
Shore of Summit Lake Is
Declaration of N acker's
Attorney Girl Called to
Stand for Story.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Dec.
) 0. (A) A plea of Insanity hail
been established today in the de
fense of Donald Nacker, 21,
charged with tho murder of Fred
H. Dunbar, Klamath Insurance
man, who wns shot to death at
Summit lake iast labor duy.
"That afternoon at Summit lake
there was u madman on the
beach," declared H. M. Manning,
chief defense counsel, in hla open
ing statement to the Juiy yester
day. "That madman," he con
tinued, "was Donald Nacker, He
has no recollection of events of
the day -or of having harmed any
one." Dunbar was shot to death as
he and Miss Doris Ha con of Salem
were spending the holiday at the
lake. Nacker said after the shoot
ing he thought. Dunbar was a
bear. He .made no explanation
of the circumstance that he tied
Miss Bacon to a tree near the
lake. She was not harmed.
Mother Overcome.
Mrs. William Brock, mother of
Nacker, was overcome by emo
tion yesterday as the blood-soaked
clothing of Dunbar was admitted
as evidence.
Dr. George Massey, autopsy sur
geon, testified throe bullets en
tered Dunbar's body- And that
either, of the two In. the head
would have caused death.
. Miss Bacon, . chief . witness for
the state, was called today.
. She was, dressed In a modish
black dress and. wore a close fit
ting hat. , Nacker glanced at her
as she'tobk the atund. l '
Miss Bacon recounted . incidents
of her holiday with Dunbar. H
had been wading In the lake, ho
said, and was putting on his socks
and shoes when , they heard a
shot. - . . -
"That was a close call," Dunbar
remarked as the bullet whirled by.
Dunbar lilt.
There was another shot. Miss
Bacon saw - Dunbar fall. Just,
then a man jumped over some
rocks nearby and ran toward them
on the bench. Another shot was
fired, Bhe said, and then she was
hit over the head;
Miss Bacon said Nacker then
tied her hands and feet together
and hound her to a tree. She
testified Nacker admitted killing
Dunbar. She asked him why he
shot and quoted him as saying:
"I don't know. I heard you
laugh. I've been here too long.
I've been planning on doing some
thing like this; wondered It a
man could get away with it."
WOULD INCREASE LIT
PARCEL POST PACKAGE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (P)
Tho postotflce department today,
asked the consent of the interstate
commerce commission to increase
the size of packages to be handled
Ity parcel post and II x additional
postage rates to care (or handling
the larger packages.
WILL
ROGERS
HOLLYWOOD, Cel., Dec. 10.
Been nn awful lot in the ro
pers lately about RuBHiu. Fun
ny thing about humnns. "When
wp ain't feeling bo good our
selves, we always want to read
about somebody that is worse
off than we are. That was a
terrible trick that fol Stalin
played on those eight convict
ed men. They had confessed,:'
thinking' they would be hung
and put out of their misery.
Now he tells 'em they got to
live, but in Russia. Not chang
ing the subject, but somcbcRiy
was just t effing us that con
gress was in session. We cer
tainly hope, that rumor is un
founded. (IMIaMMiM