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The Weather Forwast: Tonight nnd Friday un settled with ruin; nuniiiil temperature. Medford nn Temperature Highest yctcday 42 LoweKt tJilft nioniliiff 84 rrctlpUation Tu ft p. m. yesterday a8 To ft ii. in. today .14 n JU Ji Twenty-Fifth Year MEDFORD, OUKUOX. THURSDAY, DKCK.MBKU 11, 19:50. No. 2Gi? r Todav By Arthur Brisbane From Salem to Pittsburg. Mills, Money, Mellon. Empty Stomachs Dan-V gerous. Twice Thanks to Hoover. Copyright King Feature! 8ynd-, Inc. PITTSBURGH, l'n., De?. 10. When .traveling .through the country, if opportunity offers, gt off nt one rnilrontl stntion nnd motor a few miles to an other, observing as you fro. This is written, after nn hour nnd a linlf motor trip from Sn- 'im, Ohio, passing in that short time through parts of Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, all the way on a good road la beled "U. S. HO." Where the highway cuts through lulls, yon see holes in the bank from which tjie owner of land adjoining takes oitt coal as he needs it. Very conven- jent. Through Lisbon, Liverpool, and over the Ohio river you enter West Virginia and motor on through the rolling fields. Soon a sign announces that you have changed from West Vir ginia into Pennsylvania. Then, past mines, oil wells, gas wells, you enter this powerful grow ing city of coal, iron, gigantic mills, money, and "the Mel lons." Here every prospect pleases, for nothing coidd be more pleasing than active smoke-, stacks that show factories run ning, men employed. But there is one disturbing feature. Coming into Alleghany Coini- ty, alert policemen stand on the isomers, beside each one a. state Ir.wper, watching automobiles. Banditry, with robbing of banks, and occasional murders, lias increased suddenly, al though, thanks to the wise pol icy of big steel companies, nearly all their men are em ployed, at least part of the week. At 3 in .the afternoon a group of men in working clothes stand on a corner, evidently un employed. One watches a pow erful young man, who wears an unpleasant look as be watches the rolling automobiles. How long does anybody ex pect him to remain hungry, and sec his wife and children hun gry, without protest! His theory that a man willing to work is entitled to food may not appeal to our "best minds" but for their own protection they would do well to adopt it. They may learn from Britain, Germany nnd France, with'bis Vtorics longer than ours, that empty stomachs are dangerous. (Continued on Page Five) Abe Martin Hain't falo funny? Mm. Km Moot' brother who's lived all his llf In lilcngo win finally mis taken fer a tleor newr Obcrlln, Ohio, Who wmcnihoTM when wr ncl to slow down nn offer lo help a feller with a stalled enr? 3 TtotxTte' LvjLi- OPEN COUNT OF BALLOTS FOR MAYOR Recount of West Medford Precinct Will End Today, Is Belief Oakdale Pre cinct Count Tomorrow Attorneys On Job. The recount for the West Mcril'oiil precinct was com pleted this nl'ternoon showing the following I Inures on the mayoralty; Wilson 212 Fehl 141. , Six hiillnts for lor Wilson ami, two for Felil were pro tested, n lid n iloen ballots iiiurketl defective by the onn va.sslng hoard will he ruled upon by the court. The official count for this precinct cave: Wilson 2I Fehl NH Counting of the ballots of the West Medford precinct, in the re count and election contest filed by , :arl H. Fehl against 10. M- Wilson, successful candidate on the face of the official returns, started this afternoon. At 3 o'clojck 140 ballots had been counted, showing Wilson 91. Fehl 54, five not voting for mayor. and one ballot marked for each of the candidates being protested and laid aside for determination later. -It Is expected that the recount ing of the ballots for the West Medford w.ll be completed by court adjournment at 5 o'clock today. The recounting of the ballots in the Oakdale precinct will be start ed In the morning. Attorney Thomas J. Enright nets as tallyman for Fehl, and City At torney Frank P. Farrell in a sim ilar capacity for Wilson. Attorney K. E. Kelly reads the ballots nnd Attorney J. Neff at tests to their correct reading. When the West Medford precinct hnilot hag"' wna 'opened, Attorney Kelly called the .court's attention to the fact thnit the mouth of the ballot bag was not sealed and the keyhole of the lock also bare. For the Oakdale precinct ballot container, no key could be found, so It was necessary for Attorney Enright to take a hammer and demolish it. A dozen spectators were In the courtroom watching the -proceedings. (Continued on Page 6, 8tory 1) F PORTLAND, Dec. 11 Uids on 71 miles of highway construc tion at u cost estimated at $500, 000 were opened by the state high way commission here t o d a y. Award of contracts will be made later. The proposals included mirfac ing 10 miles of the Oregon coast highway In Lane county; regrad Ing ami resurfacing in miles of the Oregon Caves road in Jose phine county: surfacing in. 6 miles of the Oregon coast highway in Coos county; surfacing 1 1 miles of the Central Oregon highway between Hampton and the I-ake county line; resurfacing the U'in-caster-Vale section of the John Day h Ig h wa y ; g rn ding 3 miles of the Siintiam highway between llrynnt hill and Trout creek, and regrading on the John Day high way in Grant county. He's Mayor Again VANCOUVER. II. C, Dec. 11. f,pt l. p. Taylor, seven times mayor of Vancouver prior to 1928, was elected again yesterday for a two year term. He defeated Mayor W. I!. Malkin by fiOfcG votes. OPEN 1 FOR HAL MILLION TO WORK Germans Ban Battle Film As Endangering Standing Among Nations of World PEItLIN. Dec. 11. iJVi Ger-' many's board of film censors to- j day ruled the picture. "All Qulet( on the Western Front." out of the country's thentcrs. on the ground j It "endangered "rmany's Inter-: national tnnillnp." This wart the film whose show-1 A; at n thitcr here reunited In ; I riots inspired by the national cialtM political pnrty. The hxn iVean vifd after nn attorney V.r. the producer had ia;d his com pany would take the film out of Canadians Favor Wheat-For-Cash Plan By Wrigley WlNNIPEfl. Dec. 11. 0P I'nqualifind approval of the rlgley "whent-for-carth plan was expressed last night by .Ichn I. McFarland. head of the Canadian wheat pool's v central selling agency. The' William Wrigley. Jr.. 4 Company, Ltd., has derided all money owing it In the prairie provinces from le- com her 12. lltltn, to May 1. l!i."H, will he accumulated to buy wheat In May. Vj31 at or below 6' cents. , Salt Lake Blonde Refuses to Name Accomplice in Hotel Room Crime Barber Held As Suspect, Refuses Admit Connection. SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 11. 1 Jean D a y I e. 22-year-old blonde, was being held in jail today on nn open charge after she is alleged to hnve confessed the slaying of Sam Frank, 65. jewelry auctioneer of Memphis, Tenn., in a hotel room hero Sat urday morning. With the alleged confession, however, the slaying was only partly solved, since the woman i said by police to have admitted she had an accomplice, although she refused to give his Identity. "The only thing you need to know is that I killed him," she sobbed nt the end of- n four-hour grilling last night. Detectives said tho confession enmo nfter they had told her they knew her real identity. Gave Victim Drug. . In her alleged confession, the girl said she went to Frank's room Friday night and "had some drinks with him." During the night nnd early morning she said she gave him three doses of drug, and when she feared It had not taken effect she said she hit, him twice on the head with a bottle. Then she tied his hands and gagged him with one of hef i stockings. t Next nhe took a ring from his finger, robbed him of ii stickpin, and money, tied down the tele phone receiver nnd left the room Concerning disposal of the loot, police said she told them: "I- gave It to the man who planned the job and his nume will never pass my lips. I am ready to take all the blame." Police continued to hold Phil J. Ouinin, a barber, arrested Sun day In connection with the mur der. He refused either to deny or admit connection with the slaying. In her cell late Irtst night the girl told k newspnper reporter an unsuccessful marriage when he was 15 "was the turning point In my life. "My husband wasn't square nnd he went every annle to make ft hum out of me," she said. "He put me on the wrong track and Introduced me to the underworld. I've traveled a fast pace ever since." NEW YORK, Dec. 11. m The value of the press nnd life Insur ance companies In producing an informed nation was set forth to the convention of life Insurance presidents today by Frank 11. Noyes. president of the Associated Press. German circulation regardless of the censors' decision. Snakes crawling thrnutth the theater where the film was being screened caused a near-panic last night, hut the excitement suhMd ej when It was discovered that the reptiles were of the harmless garden variety. llerlln fascists. In an effort to dlfcouragM attendance at the cin ema, l.it week loosed while rats onto the theater floor, and have used other of demount rat ing their protest nt It .-bowing. GIRL TELLS OF MING AUCTIONEER TRY MAJOR FOR W ill Wyi MaJ. Charles A. Shepard, medical officer, It accused of poisoning his wife because'he was In love with Grace Brandon (left), twenty-three-year-old stenographer. MIh Brandon li a prosecution witness In the trial In federal court, Kansas f.-ity,' Kan. OTHER WOMAN JELLS AFFAIR WITH OFFICERiPLEAD GUILTY Stenographer Star Witness at Trial of Major Shepard in Alleged Poisoning of Wife. KANSAS CITY, Kas., Dec. II. (tP) Miss Grace Brandon, young stenographer of San Antonio, Tex., who, figures as tho "other woman" In the murder trial of Major Chas. A. ": Shepard, charged ' with tho poison murder of his second wife, took the stand today as the rov ernment's star witness and wept as she related what Shepard had told her regarding his relations with Mrs. Shepard. "He said he and his wife had not been getting along well the last five years,' the girl testified, "but that they kept up congenial ap pearances at social functions be cause of his rank In the army." Itclutc Arfuir Miss Brandon recovered her composure as government counsel drew from her the story' of Major Shcpiu'd'tt love affair with her which the iftosecution contends provided the motive for the alleged fatal poisoning of Mrs. Shepard at Fort Riley, Kas., In June, 1929. She related that she had met Shepard about Nov. 1, 1928. At that time he was taking a flight surgeon's course at lirooks Field, San Antonio. "Did you know Major Shepard was married?' she was asked. "Yes, I did know. 1 asked him ff his wife objected." The testimony did not bring out what Shepard's reply was. Proposed Morriii go "Ho asked me If he got a divorce whether I would marry him." The w i t n ess sa I d S h e pa r d h n d mentioned his "unhappy home life" a number of times. Miss Itrandon told of a trip to Laredo, Tex., with Shepard and another couple. They crossed tho Mexican border and had several small glasses of wine at u bar, she said. Shepard bought candy and flow ers on the trip and a silver brace let a short time later. Asked what words of affection the nrmy officer used, tho witness replied: "I don't remember exactly; he told , me he loved me and had never met any ono Just like me." EXCHANGE SEATS AT NEW YOIIK, Dec. II. fPj Sales of three New York Stock Kxchange memberships were ar ranged today, one at $206,000 and two at $205,000 each. The sale nt $206,000 was a re duction of $29,000 from the previ ous sale, a new low price for seats I ilce 1 927, when they sold as low as $170,000. BY n Ul UUHii LI'IIKKA, f'al,. Dec. II. W Tw ii earl htpni ke were left here tod.iy. The f!rnt wn at 12:51 a. rn.. and lasted 25 seconds. The econd rt;is at 4:2!' n. m.. and con tinued for five (MM-nmiA, No dam au'e .is reported. WIFE'S MURDER ' 1 ' Associated Pfss Photo E I Father Shoulders Blame for Crime Asks Clemency for Son and Third Man Implicated. George Dennett, who told the court he served two years of a ono to 20 years sentence for grand larceny, in .loliet,. Illinois prison, arraigned with his son Albert, 19, ft k'i'itpplng. youth) and O, U. Smith of La Cruees, Texus, took tho ma jor portion of the blame for tho burglary November 30, of the Will II. Wilson store and asked that leniency be extended to his boy nnd Smith, whom he descrllcd as "a Texas waif, who cannot read or write.'' Tho Bennetts entered pleas of guilty. Smith, apparently befud dled by tho court procedure, first entered a plea of not guilty nnd a few minutes later reversed it. Tho court deferred passing sen tence until tomorrow morning. Dennett told the court his home was In Chicago, and that he was un auto mechanic. His wife left , him, and ill-health beset him, bo with his son he took to the road in n Ford sedan. In Texas they found ! Smith, a wayfarer, working in tho cotton fields. They brought him along because of pity for him. 1 I cads for Son Tho elder Hennett told a straight forward story, and asked the court to give his son another chance, and that he would give him $40 so he could be sent back to his grandmother In Illinois. Dennett said .Smith had no part In the robbery, but was Intoxicated and nsleen In the hack sent of tb Chief of Police Clatus McCredle said three men were seen running from the store. 1 u BY FORES! FIRES WASHINGTON, Dec. II. W) Despite the driest season in years, fire damago to national furest hinds this year was held to $237, 370. a reduction of almost 90 per cent from lust year. This decrease, the forest service Kiild today was accomplished In face of an increase in the number of fires from 7449 In I 929, to H203 for the season Just ended. Forest ii if a burned over umounti-d to I9.r.9t;ri acres, only a fifth of last year's total acreage. CHICAGO AND ALTON Uil , WILMINGTON. III., Dec. 11 uV) An auctioneer's hammer knocked down the Chicago nd A I ton railroad today fir a bid of $23,000,000 and the 1 021-niilc line pnssed Into the hands of the llaltlrnore and Ohio system. ! Only one bid was offered for I he railroad, whose va hie has j been estimated from $so,o,ooo I to fl 30, 000,000. Xevcr Saw a Mole ftOCKFOHD. III., Dee. II OPl Mrs, Marin Mophla Anderson, who has never seen a moving picture .how or eaten In n restaurant,! celebrated her iioth birthday aunt-j veryary today. WILLI TOR BURGLAR Rl MENACE IN FRFF GRA N I HL.iL. Ul II 111 1 10 JOBLESS Legge Warns Senate Com mittee Plan Might Hurt Prices Farm Aid Board Would Be Forced to Buy Huge Supply, Is View. w s ii i si ;t ) x . l ec. 1 1 . Pl rho senate today (Missed tho cincrgciicy pulilic works I'oiistrurtlon hill after Increas ing the approprlatlou to SI 1.1,- (1110,000. The hill goes hack to tho I to use, which a p p r o v e (I it Tuesday, for consideration of amendments. The senate add ed $r,.niH),MI( to the house to tal for work on romls on un reserved puhlln la nils. 'J'Im hill carries fmids for vast publle ImprovciiiciitK lo Im HljirtiMl immediately. WASHINdTON, Dee. 11. (fl1) The senate agriculture committee today appointed a subcommittee of three to consider and report on the Capper resolution to authorize utilization of 40.000,000 bushels of grain stabilization wheat for un employment relief. WAHHIXOTON, Dec. U. Chairman Legge of the farm board, warned the senate agriculture com mittee today enactment of tho Cap per resolution , to distribute 40.- 000.000 of tho grain stabilization corporation's wheat for benefit of the unemployed might uffect prices adversely, Legge said the corporation, to maintain prices In event of such a distribution would have to buy back a large proportion of the amount devoted to relief purposes, "It would Just replace so much wheat coming from other sources of supply,' ho said of tho wheat. He pointed out the domett in prleo was now approximately 2 rents above th world' pifcnv and to maintain that, level tho board would have to bear the burden of carrying a large portion of tho surplus. Legge would not estimate tho amount of increased consumption if the 40,000,000 bushels were di verted for relief, hut said it would be small. While welcoming "any means of getting rid" of the wheat holdings, Legge said from the standpoint of relieving the suffering, there was a question whether providing one food commodity would be n help ful as a general supply of all things needed. PAYS HEAVY TAX WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. II. (A) Prom the $4,KOi,000 for tune left by Jacob Mortenson, lum berman of Klamath Palls, Ore., and prominent steamship operator, the uot'crnnient will receive $301,- 132 inheritance tax, $10,000 In come tax, nnd tho state of Ore gon will get $172,000 Inherltanro tax. He was head of the Pelican May Lumber company of Klamath Kalis, and operator of the Hed Wing Steamship company. INDICT SUSPECT IN DKTItOlT, Dec. 1 1 . fP) The Wayne county grand jury today Indicted Joe Pom marl to, reputed memhf-r of the IJcavoll rum run ning gang, fur the slaying of Itiidlo Announcer Jerry Duck ley, July 23. The Indictment was the first tho Jury hiiH returned In the Durkley murder case, which It was organ ixed primarily to investigate more thun four months ago. Mrs. Karl Jlryant wan a Med ford visitor Hniirday. Sawdust Shot From Guns Makes Synthetic Lumber N1-:W OHLHANH. Dec. I (A) An unusual synthetic lumber proceMfl, was explained here at the American Institute of Chemical engineers by Itobert II. Hoehm, or Laurel, Miss, It consist of "shooting snwdnnt and chipped Wood from guns," O Waste materia IIh parked Into, eannon-llke cylinders about 20 Inches, in diameter and five feet I In length. A uteain pressure of! about looo pounds per square Ini h Secretly Married J 1 , uma III u HA and Mrs. Fred Balzar of Nevada, r"1'"1 August. l29. tne wedding was recently an nounced in Reno. NAUR FIGHTS Klamath Slayer's Counsel Contend Admission Made Under Duress Girl Re lates Crime. KLAMATH FALI-S, Dec. 11. (P) The question of admission of tho confession obtained from Don ald Nacker, on trial for first de greo murder in connection with the death r Kred Dunbar, occu pied tho attention of attorneys for tho state and defense as court opened today. A legal battle over the confession was in progress as court recessed last night, the defense contending the confe,salon was given under duress. Sheriff L. L. Low admitted locking the defendant up In a padded coll for protection namst mob violence, hut denied third degree methods were used in securing tho confes sion of murder. At tho session yesterday Miss Ddrls Hncon, Salem, state's star witness, a reused Nacker of- killing Dunbar and told of his treatment of her following Dunbar's death, tying her hands and feet and binding her to a tree. Nacker's face flushed deeply as she testl fled In n calm manner. TRAFFIC STAR SALKM. Ore., Dec. 11. (vP) In sistence by Julius Meier, governor elect, that his chauffeur be depu tized as a state traffic officer caused Kent Shoemaker, chief of the traffic department, to confer with Governor Norblad over the problem Thursday. Shoemaker advised tho governor that Mc Meier Insists that us gov ernor ho Is untitled to a Htato traf fic officer to drive his car. Shoe maker advised Mr. Melor thut he did not see how this could legally be done. Governor Norblad stepped Into tho breach by volunteering to ap point the chauffeur as u special state agent if Mr. Meier would npply for such a commission. THE DALLES ORCHARDS THR DALLKS. Ore., Dec. 11. (P) Moisture and soil conditions for orchards are the best here in years, and a normnl winter will bring bumper fruit crops next year, tho county fruit Inspector reported today following 35-100 Inch rainfall last night. Sunshine followed the rain storm here. Is applied for a few seconds. The hydraulic valves are then opened, causing h violent explosion which shoots from the mouth of the gun a mass of long fibres. The fibres are refined, water proofed and compressed Into syn thetic I u m her and Insulation hoard. 1 William A, Mason, a former -sorbite of Thomas A. Kdison. perfected the process and applied It In Mississippi. CONSIDERATION OF CONFESSION MEIER WANTS CHAUFFER nr ATIHITW nCLHIIVMI i ill 1 1 nn in WIAKII IN i' : III I Ikal Mil 111 PEACE PLEA Einstein Arrives in United States With Hope That Country Will End Mili tarism Is Shy Before Huge Camera Squad. NEW YORK, Dee. 11. (P) -Dr. Albert Kinsteln, father of o scientific theory so complex few human beings can ' understand It, landed today In the United States nnd gave to tho American people by radio a simple, forceful mes sage pleading for an end to mili tarism. i-'rom the drawing room of the liner Belgeulnnd ho spoke In Ger man: "Kill the monster of militarism. Your political and economic posi tion today Is such you can en tirely destroy militarism when ever you set your hand to It." The physicist's wife translated his address. "Your country' throtgh Its peace and labor, has reached a pre eminent position In the world." Professor Klnstein said. "Through your free government you have put liberty - above the power of any tyranny.' ... Jests Before Camera. A hundred reporters and cam eramen met the scientist when the Belgenland reached quaran tine this morning, and he Jested with -them In hhi native tongue and caused many a photographer to miss a good camera shot by making the picture man laugh Just as he was about to make a pic ture. r ' ' ' Surrounded by n reportorlal mul titude which stood on .. chairs around him to see- over those ahead, Kinstnin -sat .with hts wife ut a table and remarked:. . : "This Is just like a Punch nnc1 Judy Show!" . ( ' - , i'Th first 'QUestuW he -went . on, "alwaya Is: ' la' everybody -here?' and the answer always la:, ,,. 'Yos.' That la the ' question and answer now." Ho eyldencfld . his "relativity complex." however, a few minutes later when he drew, a German friend aside, from the phalanx of cameramen and whispered: "I do not see them, I feel like I am nn top of a high mountain and I do not look down." - HAVANA, Dec. 11. (&h-In the face of Increasing unrest through out the republic, president Ma chado this afternoon informed the Associated Press that he . had issued a decree suspending con stitutional guarantees and estab lishing a -practical state of mar tial law throughout Cuba. SANTA CLARA HONORS PROPHET OF WEATHER SANTA CLARA, Cal., Deo. 11. fP) All business in Santa Clara wan suspended .today while funeral services wore held at Santa Clara mission for Father Jerome Rlxtun Hlcnrd, "Padre of the Rains." WILL ROGERS .says: KEVERLY HJLLS, Cal., Dec. 11. Judge Lindsey is for frflo love ii nd Bishop Manning fc holding out for the usual cler gyman's fee for the marriage ceremony. It looks like church lawn, or civil laws, don't mean anything to anybody any more. Everybody is doing just as they like regardless of -everything. They say all children reach a "smart aleck"; age some time. Well, our whole country is in t lint stago now. Every man, every denomination and every organization wants things their way. It's just one of those things we got to pass through, and we will look back and feel ashamed of ourselves after wards. Art s)MsMts(Maaahs