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Newspaper Page TextMedford Mail Tribune Second Section Eight Pages Second Section Eight Pages Twenty-Fifth Year MEDFORD, OKKCION, SUNDAY, DKCEMBKU 14, 19:50. No. 205. i LAWGIVERS OF LAY PLANS Legislature a Month Away, So Solons Start Organiz ingSession Expected to Be Lively Preliminary Didoes Started. By CliAVTOX V. BKHXIIAK1) As.sociiitoU Frcss Starr AVritcr With tho opening of the 36th legislative assembly In Oregon at Salem Juat one month away, lines aro already being: drawn for or ganization of the houae and senate and the 89 members of the two bodies are looking' , towurd what they consider one of the most in teresting sessions in recent years. A state senator from Marion coun ty, to fill the vacancy caused by the death recently of Senator Lloyd T. Reynolds, is yet to bo named to complete tho roster of 30 in the upper house. The house of representatives comprises 60 mem hern. While various counties having three or more legislators are form ing organizations of their own. Governor-elect Julius Xi. Meier is preparing his inaugural address, which will be delivered to a joint session of the house and senate shortly after the opening ceremon ies January 12, and Governor A. "W. Norblad, retiring executive, is likewise preparing an address in which he .will point out specific weaknesses in administration which he has noted as well as to present a tax program and a re quest for the creation of a state board of pardons. Tho Oregon legislature at this session will comprise a larger group of experienced lawmakers than recent previous sessions, a survey revealed. Ono lone Demo crat will hold a seat in the senate, while seven Democrats havo been elected to the house. Since party lines are not diawn in: the, Oregon, legislature, this situation will not affect actions of lawmakers. Tho organization of the house has not been definitely determined at the present time,- although Frank Loncrgan claims enough support to elect him speaker over Herbert Gordon, who Is determined to wage a battle for the chair. Both aro from Multnomah county and both aro veterans in tho state legislature. It is expected that tho election of cither will not bo cer tain until the vote is counted at the Initial meeting of the house. WHIard L. Marks of Linn county is generally conceded the presi dency of the state senate and there appears but little doubt that he will be named. Ho has served two terms In the senate and In the last session was chairman of several important committees. His only posHible competitor for tho chair is Senator B. J. IOtldy, Douglas county. Marks, however," believes ho bus the senate sewed and has already started work oil committee assignments. ..;,., Reports have been received of numerous measures now being pro pared for the legislative hopper, ranging in consideration of school Icvlen. fishing regulations, auto mobilo licenses, primary election law changes to the four main Is sues which are taxation, water power, control of utilities und rotid legislation. ., Of all these measures, tho tax muddle is possibly -the most per plexing. All the others present their difficulties, but since tho state supreme court's action do ctoring the Intangibles tax uncon stitutional, leaving about a mil Hon dollars collected by this tax last year to be returned to tax payers, tills subject carries enough controversial angles to engage lawmakers for considerable of the 40 -day session. The Roguo river closing, a sub ject which has been before tho legislature in the past and which was acted upon by tho electorate nt tho lust election, will again make it appearance as one of tho lending issues. Tho votors defeated the niovo to close the river to commercial fishing by a margin of votes. A niea.su lo to closo tho stream, varying slightly from tho form on tho November ballot, Is being drawn for presentation at the opening of the legislature, it was learned. The Interim fifth com mittee has been holding meetings over the stato on this subject and this week in Portland hoard the demand of the stato game commis sion to close the stream to save runs of chlnook and steel head sal mon. Commercial fishermen arc opposing closing. The matter of a higher basis of district school tax levy upon which to base annual increases will be presented as well as changes In au tomobile licenses as outlined by Secretary of State Hal IS. Hons; rhanging the time of holding the stale primary election and a meth od of filling vacancies In the legis lature, proposed under the enab ling act passed by the voters last month. The Multnomah county delega tion, comprising 21 members, met for organization last week, the OREGON WEALTHY WIDOW STRANGLED ;.' 4."; yy- ' Atsonatfd Pint Phon Lew Fook, (inset) Chinese servant, was charged by San Francisco police with having strangled to death his employer, Mrs. Rosetta Baker, well known as a clubwoman and amateur actress. Her body wai found in her apartment and there were indications the victim battled her assailant, 1 E E RIVER APPLES New, and Improved Typesi Apples and Pears Underj Observation Hood Riv.er Station No Blotch fori Boscs. HOOD ItlVKIt. Dec 1 3-- (! Some new and improved varieties of apples and pears under test at tho branch experiment station here aro showing promise for commercial use, the btennjnl re port of the station just issued, reveals. ' A wtrahi of red Kpilzenberg from the southern Oregon branch station shows a darker and more nttraetivn u I u r than the old Spitzenbeiger with more pubcaid flavor and excellent keeping qual ities. Three russet types of Rose pears are also under observation by beln it grafted on regular Hose treea. They appear to be more free from - an unidentified blotch which frequently lowers the mar ket value of the regular liosc va riety. ADORN OFFICES I'OIITLAND. Hi v. (tVt The general demand for a change in public offices tmlicutcil nt the recent election also stretched to the county judges and court; of the stale, it Is i-cvcah d in a check made by .1. K. .Smith, county commissioner, secretary of the state association of Judges and cummlH-doners. t'hef k reveals there will be 'Jn new faces out of the l"N judges and commissioners of tho state when they gather In Portland to day for their three-day annual Houston, Of these there will be eight nev county Judyes and 1 2 new county commissioner:- to re place nt many more either do fcated or falling to run for re election. U T M AllSltr 1KI.!. lire, u ,t,V! The curfew shall ring. Is the !-; HHn O ho Coos lisv W. . T. inrnitiers, who uppenred hefofi the Marshfieid city council this week to demand the enforcement of the curfew ordinance. The ,urtVw has not rung here for ten years, when thw law was set nirte ROGU IMPROV HOOD TAX LEVY ON TO SEE NEW RISE WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 13. A preliminary estimate of mo tor vehicle taxes for 1930 made public by I he American Automo bile association today shows Hint on the average tho car owners will pay approximately fourteen per cent more this year thnp they paid in UtJH. Coincident with tho Issuance of this statement, the A. A. A. an nounced that Thos. 'J. Henry of Detroit, its president, had appoint ed a national committee to study every typo of motor vehicle levy and to develop a formula to as sure equitable taxation for the car owners. ! Mr. Henry cited three reasons w h I eh he d ec 1 arod mad o It 1 m -peratlve that tho eiitlro motor tax structure and the practices and tendencies inherent in It. should be stibfeet to a comprehenwivo ex amination at this lime. First, the wholly disproportionate rise in mo tor taxes from year to year s com pared with other forms of taxa tion: the evidence of efforts at wholesale, diversion 6f tho tax' to other than road purposes: and third, the probability that tho ex cuse of "hard times will lead many of the forty-four stato leg islatures meeting early in 1131 to make further raida on tho car owners. Mr. Henry said in part: ("Our preHminairy estimate for this year showB that, tho motorist on the average will pay 33 In motor taxes In 1930 as compared to fjs.".ri6 in 1 Under alxtoen different forms the taxes on the ear owner aro being constantly pyramided. In the ten-year per iod, l!il-l!t30, motor vehicle lev ies from gas taxes and license fee have Increased 509.6 per cent. iH compared with an , In crease of !"! per cent in motor vehicle registration and 150.11 per cent In oxpciiditurcfc for high ways. "The motorists are now con fronted with a net situation which may well open the way for wholesale diversion to gen era 1 purpewes of stato and local administration of levies placed on them as a claw. Two notable precedents were established in the November elections In New Jer mv nnd In Intif)anaH fn the former Mate, bond Issues totaling $17, "00, moo were authorised for nubile Institutions and Inland wat erway, to to retired from g tax collection. In Louisiana the gas tax w raised on'i cent per gHllon In order to provide funds for port development. Tho auto mobile is not as yet a sea-going veh if le! "While I shall not Anticipate the sction of our national committee, I personally feel It la imperative that the law authorizing tho gas tax In every ntnie should specific ally and raleaorically deelaro that every cent contributed by the car own'M's must be nued for road con struction and maintenance, which would include the much nver-due hlxhway beautifieatlon. For very Mate to do this will In some In stances require cnnitltutlonal amendments. MOTORISTS RE MERGER OF TO Tl Pacific Coast Lumbermen Propose Pool of Interests to Curb : Production to Consumption Jlark Cheaper Now to Operate Than Shut Down. I'ORTI.AND, Ore., Uec. 13. (V Consolidation of tho smaller lie dependent lumber mills and tim ber holdings of western Oregon and Washington' Into units of greater resources and financial strength, was suggested today by AW R. Greeley, manager of tl West Coast Lumbermen's asso ciution. Greeley told members of tho Western division, of the Unltea States chamber of commerce. In session here, effective ' adjustment of current production of lumber to tho consumptive demand is one of the greatest problems fac ing the industry. He asked, too. for further clarl fication or libcraliaition of the present statutes dealing with r3 straint of trade. A survey of Western Oregon and Washington, he said, reveal' ed 695 "living" sawmills of which 2ill had produced no lumber dur ing tho preceding Quarter. . Ho estimated tho capacity of those U95 actual or potentinl producers, as normally customarily operated, in excess of fifteen billion board feet of lumber annually. This, ho declared. Is at least 25 per cent more lumber than the Industry h:m yet sold In Its most favorable year. "Behind these sawmills stands- some thirty years' supply of tim ber In private ownership," Oree lev said. "This vast amount of timber, in excess of 300 billion board feet, has been subject for many years to the taxes, protec tion costs. Interest and other, carrying charges' Incident to pri vate ownership. There has, tJus! been created a tremendous finan ctal pressure for liquidation) Atj tho same time the trend in lum ber values and the rate at which taxes and other carrying charges accumulate largely restrict oppor tunities for sain of timber to areas in tho path of speedy manu facture. Hence, tho liquidation of burdensome investments in raw material Is forcing timber Into the sa win Ills. "Trees must be converted Into; dollars to pay taxes, interest and bond maturities: nnd sawmills operate In the red rather than In cur tho greater loss of shutting down." Over production Is a "chronic ailment" of the Industry, the speaker said. "At times it Is un der fair control, then It breaks out afresh In an ncuto form." "And every cycle of a few months of over-production," he said, "brings In Its trail demorali zed markets, Irregular employ ment or unemployment of labor, and excessive wasto of raw ma terial as the hard-pressed opera tor discards low-grade logs or lumber whoso manufacture would only add to tho burden ' of his losses." Consolidation move monts. he said, must lead tho way for a continuing orderly control of pro duction. "And this need not take tho form of a single, giant mer ger of timber holdings und opera ting facilities," Greeley declared. "It may come about most par ticularly through a numbor of consolidations formed by group ing mills or timber holdings In each of tho principal lumber pro ducing dWtriels of western Oro-i pen snd Washington." SAWMILLS C O U N T THE YELLOW BOXES Real Proof That Country People Read the MAIL TRIBUNE EVANGELIST AT IRK IN DEATH X VALLEY PALACE Indians Gather to Hear the Singing Though None Too . Strong for the Preaching After Miles of Desert Travel, KTOVK PlI'H WKUS. DKAT11 VAI.LKY, Calif., Hec. 13. OP) "Death Valley Hcotty" has brought religion for the Indians into this desolate region. Two women evan gelists, summoned to .his $3,000, 000 desert mansion, uro holding revival Ncrvices. - "It's a great Idea for tho In dians." says tho famous prospect or. "Maybe they don't understand much of tho preaching- but they like the singing." Miss, L o u I so Qultsch. former Chicago church worker, and Miss Mary Ayera, Australian evango list, aro the workers. More than 100 Indians, many coming miles on their ponies from their homes hlddon in tho sun baked canyons of the Panamlnt and Funeral mountains, attended one Sunday service. About 50 In dians and their famlles work on Scotty's vast fenced "estate."-. , "They havo tho simplicity of children," Miss Ayers said. "They like especially well such hymns as "Whcn tho Roll Is Called Up Yonder xid repeat tho chorus over and ??v.er." v Gutte berg Bible Will Take Place in U S. Library WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (P) Ceremoniously, tho Gut- 4 tenberg Bible, highest-priced book in tho world, tonight was to tako Hs permanent place In tho library of con- -tfr"''-' ' v... . Invitations haW boon ' is 4 sued for tho event. , A solid mahogany caseT carved after a design by Ml- ( chncl Angelo, awaits tho i bible, now locked In tho H- j 4 lit-nrhm'tt Vflllll. fl E TRIAL NEXT WEEK KLAMATH FAI,I,S, Ore, Deo. 13-r-(fl') The trial of JJonuld Nuokor charged with tho murder of Frod Dunbar, will run Into next week, Judge CI. l' Mklpwortll, heurlng the cawe -announced today when It wiih evident the oaBO would not get to tho jury tonight, ami IiIh announced oppoHltloti to a night ueKBlon. After moro than an hour's re buttal, tho court reccBaed until 1:30 p. in. to allow tho district attorney to rc-vanip his lengthy hypothetical qucntlon put to Dr. D. C. Burkes, Portland. TACOMA, Due. 18. IP) Klfi! ten hundrod tons of gift". Includ ing 12.000 ChrlHtnians trees to wave In a palm-g r o wing land, makes tho Hawaii-bound liner Mullko a "nautical Santa. Claus" j bearing tho hollduy spirit tu tho mld-I'aclflc. I tllfts from all over tho west' consigned to friends and rcla tlves were put aboard. Editorial Opinions of Upstate Press Anent Grid Coach at "Old Oregon" Spears to Stay It now appears that Dr. C. W. Spears, head football coach at tho University of Oregon, has no In tention of going to tho University of California. President Hall Is glad. We aro glad. The rumors and reports which have been amanat ing from California have been cx tromely disturbing. If pot actually damaging to our interests hero. Apparently, Knuto Hockue, the great coach of Norto Dame, was largely responsible for tho episode by making over tho radio tho ex tremely tactless suggestion that Dr. Spears would bo exactly tho man for the very desiruble borth at California. Apparently the obliga tions of Dr. Spears to the relatively small university hero were over looked In the coldly professional recommendations of Itucknc, l'ossibly Dr. Spears may havo been indiscreet In making remarks about the Oregon football situation which ovor-anxlous reporters in terpreted as dissatisfaction with his position hero. Hut Dr. Spear a should not bo blamed for a situa tion which grew up faster than It could be controlled. Possibly tho delay of tho California manage ment In squelching the rumors was tho chief factor In coloring them with plausibility. But all's well that ends well. What might have been Ian awkward situation botwecn two i great schools seems to have beon removed. However, tho tenseness of tho situation only emphasises the prob lem which football has become In the educational system, tho degree to which ll Is over-emphasized. It would not tako much to bring down the storm that Is browing over commercialized athletics. It is because wo have been looking to Dr. Spears as one of tho roally Im portant men in his profession to give us a foutlng In an unequal struggle which we cannot vory well quit, that we wolcomo tho news that he will stay. liugeno Register-Guard, On tho Anxious Seat If Dr. CTarcnco Spears, who draws a salary of $11,600 a year for coaching tho University of Ore gon's football team, doesn't desert to coach the University of Cali fornia as rumored, It will be only becauso ho Is not offorcd the Job No other conclusion can bo reached from tho qualified denials Dr. Hpeara la' giving out while awaiting developments in Califor nia. Tho contract ho holds with Oregon' binds 1hetnversHy 'for' five "years but does not bind the coach to remain. . LUMBER CENTER QUIET AS FORESTS ALL GONE TULLSTON, Mich. ) Tho whlno of band.aws und the clutter of piling boards will bo heard no moro In this village, onco tho lum ber center of ndVthern Michigan. : Tho I'ollston sawmill, one of tho lament two-carrlago plants ciwt of tho Rocky Mountains, has been closed, bringing to an end the lum ber Industry liere. This winter will bo tho first in 50 years that no sawmill hn op erated here. Kxhuustloll of the timber resources was given as the rettsnn for closing- of the mill. Directory of Gifts Gift Between 50c and $1.00 Silk Neckwear Fancy Handkerchief 8ets 8llk Hosiery Cuff Links ' Garters and Bow Ties Belts Suspendera Boxed 01ft Seta Gifts Between $1.00 and $2.00 Fancy Shirts Leather Bill Folds Toilet Seta Imported Lisle Hosiery Fancy Wool Hosiery Bill Fold Seta Cheney Tiea Gifts Between $2.00 and $5.00 Mocha Qlovea ' " Drata Shirts Kid Slippers Golf Hoaa Silk Lined Capa ' Silk Tla and Handkerchief 8ea Lambs' Wool Slippers Dresa or Motor Glovea Cheney Neckwear Pajamai A amall deposit holds ny aelection until Chrlstmae Dr. Spears Is evidently dissatis fied with tho mu to rial supplied by Oregon. Ho Is quoted in a San Francisco Interview with declaring "Kor one thing I was guaranteed 50 players who would avorago 180 pounds. This spring they gave me a squad of 35 players whoso ave rage weight was only ItiO pounds." This Is a tacit admission that un less the football material la at hand, high priced coaches cannot deliver tho goods with a winning team. On tho other hand. If the material Is at hand, a high priced coach does not seem necessary. Dr. Spears Is evidently following the same pussyfooting tactics with California that ho engaged in wtth Oregon while ho was under con tract with Minnesota. If ho gets a similar iucrcaso In salary and the requlslto tonnago of players prom ised, ho can bo expected to again jump lils contract. And It will be serving Oregon right for tho uni versity to sec uro Spears broke Us own contract with Captain Mc 13 wan. Tho Incident shows tho over emphasis plaaed on football lit the universities of today, in conse quence of which "Oregon students aro still troubled" as tho campus paper, tho Emerald, remarks. Football has become the one big thing in college Hfo and tho coach outranks tho proxy. Salem Capitol-Journal. More Games Hero Some time ago the Eugene Register-Guard, which we shall here ufter refer to In this column as tho R.-G., which doesn't always stand for right Guard, had an editorial objecting to the fact that ao few of the football games played by the university are played on the local field. We think tho peoplo of tho university elty havo a right to ob J oct. Not only are the students who support the team loyally entitled to see the games without going to the exponso of a trip to Portland, but tho fans In tho town whore the school Is are entitled to some con sideration. If there Is a football player In Kugono or Corvallls who la having a hard time making it possible for htm to stay In school, the football enthusiasts down town are expected to give him prefer ence for jobs whon Jobs aro avail able. They aro expected In num erous and sundry ways to support the team and they do it loyally and enthusiastically. It Is unjust thoro fore to both tho town and tho stud ent body whon so many of the irood ffiiniDH uro taken to Portland nfarr Effort to holp Portland 'pay for Its expensive stadium. Cor- vwllfB aaotto-TImes. SEEK BODIES OF LOST FISHERMEN SANTA DAUHARA, Cal., Dcc.j 13. (P) Tho mystery veiling the fato of tho fishing craft Fidelity, missing with her crew of eleven I slnco late last month, was believed eolvod hero today, and a vigorous! search for the bodies of 10 mem born of her crow went forward. - Tho finding of tho broken body! of a man nt a point on the west1 end of Santa Rosa Island yoster- day Is seen as tho solution to tho: mystery of tho craft's disappear ance, during a chunnel etorm Sev ern t weeks ngo. I Ladies! Como in and Select "His" Jift at "His" Store Lee's MEN'S Shop , NEXT TO RIALTO Buy Chrlstmae 8eal MARKETING OF CATTLE Rocky Mountain District Stockmen Form Credit Corporation, to Better Fi nances, and Speed Ship ments. COLORADO,. SPRINGS, Colo., Doc. 13. (P) Aiplcturo of moun tain states ! livestock marketing association, organised to glvo the grower I . oompleto. marketing service and .adequately - financed, was presented -to -the 66th annual convention of the 'National Wool Growers association here today by e. N. Arnett, president of tho Intermountttin Livestock Market ing association.- r . . The organisation of which Mr. Arnett is .the head serves the so called range states, and Is a member of the Nailonal Livestock Marketing association with head quarters In Chicago. Ae a com panion .organization, the Iiltcr mountaln . Credit corporation was created with the aid of tho fed eral farm board to aid the grow ers 'in their financial problems. All tlnahclnl connections be tween the 'regional and national associations are through the Feed er and Flnanco corporation ot tho national organization. , "The plan of the directors of the rntermountaln association," said President' Arnett, "l to build up for its. members a' complete market service. For those who wish or should,' Ior: various' oc casions, sell -or' buy on :th 'cen tral markets; their own sales agency Is' available. When It Is to the best interests of the buy er and seller' tft 'go' direct from grower to feed l lot, then' direct sales service 'will bo Available to them.' ; ' 'l 1 ' ' . "The form' of marketing agroo ment -'iml; Jlstlng- uf livestock? for sales gives the grower the privi lege of sotting the1 price at which he WW sell.' The 'buyer; with- hW order, gives ; the price 1i Is will ing to pay. This service Will get tile two -together at a price satis factory to both parties. No sales service, either on the central mar ket or by tlirect -'movement, can raise or lower prices." - i President Arnett - described the functions of tho Intermountaln marketing ' association 'as threo fold. To establish and develop a sales and market service that will handle livestock on a rock bottom cost basis, whether on' tho markot or direct movement. i ' ' 'Klamath Falls. . Worn com pleted on macadam Toad from Natural Oag eompany'a new plant on Houfch Riverside to connect with AnhlandjC!amath Falls highway. , ., - The mind of his wife Is at peace: fur she knowfth where, he 4s all day;: and; 111. tho evening .he la weary, and gocth to sleep . after dinner. ' for Men Gifts Between $2.00 and $5.00 Fancy Shirts Shirts with Collars to. Match Gift Box Handkerchlefa Belt Bucklaa and Be I to- , gram 8ete Imported Silk Neckwear . Caasimere Muiflera Coat Sweater ... , Silk Mufflers . Bath Robea 4 ... , , . Gifts Between $5 and $10.00 Rain Clothing' - " Imported Silk Mufflere 811k Shlrta . Wool Bath Robea t Suede Jackets . . : Silk Bath Robea . Pullover Sweaters i - Smoking Jacket i i .'V.'' .' ,. ' Gifts Between $5 and $25.00 Novelty Pajamas' ' . '. Military Brush Sets Golf Knickers Raincoat 1 Overcoat! ' 11 Fur Lined Qlevaa ' Leather Coata . ' ' Flannel iRebes 1 Traveling Seta ' Each qift neatly wrapped All ready for the tree CONSIDERED (Continued on Page Two) by common consent. (Continued on I'age Four)