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Medford Mail Tribune Twenty-Kfth .Year ' ' ' MEDFORD, ORKOOX, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28. 10:10. No. 278. Today By Arthur Brisbane Restless Russia. Names of Yesteryears. Dogs Hate Wolves. Ireland? Yes. U. S. A? No. Copyright King Features Synd., Inc. Russia's fjovernment, restless nml nnergetic as the sea, in vents a new court for factories called "The Friendship Court." Each factory will have its icourt, with workers for judge nnd jury. No fines or impris onment, but other "discipline" will correct workers guilty of drunkenness, "loafinc" or care lessness, dangerous to them selves and others. Under the czars, all Kussinns from moujiks to grand dukes, every rouble, every foot of land in Russia, belonged to the czar. Stalin wants it understood that everything now belongs to vAhe Soviet, and a workman who injures himself is injuring gov ernment property; News that Howard Gould's former wife, who was Kather ine Clemnions, is dead, will in terest the old with long memo ries. When Victoria was on the, throne, John L. Sullivan champion of the world, Jay Gould refusing interviews, and William O'Brien in jail at Tul lnmoro, Kathcrino Clemmons, a . beautiful young girl With long yellow hair, brought letters to London from Charles A. Dana - "Buffalo Hill," with long hair on his shoulders, ad mired hcr-: greatly r. as-well ho ' might. Howard Gould married f her and she built an imitation Killnrney castle on Long Island overlooking the water. Now she is gone to find out what happened to Victoria, Sid livau, Jay Gould, Buffalo Bill nnd others gone before. We are such things as dreams are made of, but it' is an inter esting dream while it lasts. And perhaps waking up is even more interesting. Dogs hate foxes and wolves because they are closely relat ed, and, with human beings, it is the same. Chinese bandits t have released 14 missionaries, nuns and priests, without ran som. They killed two priests that were Chinese, India's UOO.OOO.OOO inhabi tants cannot combine to drive out the British because Hindus and .Moh.'ynmedans hate the nnd M 'lmmmedans hate Brit inns, but hate each other more is a queer hatred, as Montes quieu pointed out long ago in his "Spirit of Laws." Hindus hate Mohammedans because they eat cows, and Mohamme dans hate Hindus because they eat pigs. They murder each other while the British eat both co'.vs and pigs, and rule them all. The Shannon river power plant works admirably In Ireland. The first stage ot development provides a peak load of 48.000 kilowatts, an nnnual output of 153,000,000 units. Foreign experts thought It would take three yearn to develop con sumption for no much power, it is all used now 15 months after the beginning ol operation. American high finonce will he amazed to learn that the Irish gov ernment developed nnd owns the power of the Shannon river, In running Its power plant successfully, and, needless to say, selling power for much less than i. .. i tho I'nltorl Kin ton II tomb m i Why Is it impossible ior me rmre,i mates eovernment to man- nite any f ltH own properties, for inMum-e, Muscle Hiinnisr is u because our government Is too Inefficient and dishonest, or be cause our able corporation minds control the government? Yesterday afternoon, at IJoloma, In Portuguese (iuinea, fourteen Italian seaplanes lay on the water close together Soon twelve of the fourteen will . (Continued on Tage Seven) ptatt mil r! OlHlL HULL! i a? ?vi v, jOF FORES! BAkJ LAND URGED 1 Gov. N orb I ad to Recom mend National Reserves Be Turned Back For Sale Or Lease to Provide Rev enue Message-to Ask Auto Crash 'Liability. SALEM, Dec. 27. (fl) Oover nor Norblnd, in his message to the 1931 legislature, will recommend the fltute nenuiro all national for est landH In Oregon, ho said today, lie would recommend such lands later he sold or leased to provide additional state revenue. The governor said he would recommend the legislature np prove a resolution urging congress to release 546,000 acres of land in the Siuslaw national forest to the state of Oregon. j Home action to iix financial re sponsibility in connection with au tomobile accidents also will be 1 recommended in the message. Other recommendations will in clude a flro survey of all state in stitutions; surety bond for all state officials handling state funds; passage of a law mnking homicide justifiable in cases where a bank or other financial institution is be ing robbed. ' DOHENY DEBUT V HIT BYJRRIS Extravagance Near Bread Line, Should Give Pause 'To What's Wrong With Our Prosperity' Hunger Stalks Near High Society Doings. WASHIXOTOX. Deo. 27. Pi The debut ho re last night of Mi. Melon Iam Ka met . Do h c r t y v a s , condom noil today hy Senator N or ris, of Nebraska as "extravagant nnd wasteful, particularly In view of the fact that iho people across the street were hungry." The Xehraskan referred to o Urea d line which was served J n the same block In which the elab orate party was given hy Henry L.. Doherty, president of the Cities Service corporation for the daugh ter of his wife by an earlier mar riage. "I haven't a thing against Mr. Doherty." said Mi. Xorrls, "and I nm glad the daughter had such a fine party, hut I think she could have had Just as much fun on less money. Money was scattered away extravagantly und wasteful!)' while the people across the street wore hungry. It Is time for thinking men and women to think what is wrong with our prosperity when such a situation prevails." 10 PAY BUSINESS WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. MV The Mellon proposul to allow In come tax reduction on corporation charltlex hut been laid aside by the house ways and means com mit too. Chairman Hawloy said today j there wat no plan pending for consideration of tho proposal. s ho u Id the treasury press it.i we would give It a hearing out; of courtesy; but what the com-j mittcp would do after that nol i-no knows," he said. Hawloy K.iid he would call for! committee consideration next month a mil to ronuce innomion l ,i urntilil - "" imiwnire of another manure to pay Sl'.fiOo.Mna of war claims; to enemy aliens. The tailor would reimburse claimants to patents seized nnd sold to tho chemi' a I foundation. I Nl'.rt YORK. Dec. 27. OFi Mary McCormlc. Chicago civic opera star, evadod question shout her reported engagement to Prince Serge' M'Dvanf. recently estranged i nur,an.i .i ima as I sailed for Kurope today on th MQNE u SPLAY Olyniplc PRESIDENT SIGNS RELIEF BILLS iWsww . President Hoover signing the unemployment and drought relief bill calling for a total of $161,000,000 to provide work for the lob less and teed and fertilizer lor farmers ot the drought area. The'unenv ployment measure creates a fund ot $116,000,000 lor new obs on federal Improvements throughout the nation. The $45,000,000 carried in the drought bill is for loans to farmers. STHWER ACTSH931 WILL SEE FOR CURB UPON SLOW RECOVERY WHEAT IMPORTSFOR BUSINESS i - - Oregon Solons Favors Ear ly Increase In Tariff Duty To Block European Grain Flooding Market Legget Defends Co-Ops. WASHINGTON, Doc. 27. (P Defending its operations in the cotton and grain: futures murkots, the farm hoard today wrote Chair man . MeNary 'of the -senate 'agri culture eommlUeev'thoy were nec essary to prevent . largo financial losses nnd to avoid "seriously dis turbnlg" market conditions. The leter was a reply to cong ressional criticism of the hoard for allowing Its agents to dealj in futures and laid the ground -j work for defending the hoard against attacks which may come after congress reconvenes. Meanwhile Senator Steiwer, Ore gon, Hepublloan, advocated a high er tariff on wheat, rather than Imposition of a temporary em bargo ns suKgewted by Chairman Jegge of tho hoard. "It is absolutely essential that adequate steps be taken at once 1 to exclude imports of wheat," j Steiwer wild, "because of the farm; hoard has pegged, the price and if tho foreign market goes down to a point where they can Import over the duty we would bo buying J Canndlan wheat at the pegged price." ' Steiwer said he feared an em bargo on wheat would disturb our foreign relations nnd ho saw; no reason why the tariff onmmis-j nlon should require much time toj Investigate the adequacy of the, present 4 2 cent t a ri f f . I The farm board letter to Mc-; Nary said the wheat and cotton' marketing associations had Wen forced to use the futures markets' because of the system which hud been set up hy private opera torn "The cooperative marketing as sociations in wheat and cotton are agencies set up hy farmers to market their products in compe tition with private merchants." It is said. "In order to compete for business on oven terms, these ronperatives must he In position to give the same ser.ieos and en joy the same advantas as a pri vate merchant. OF DEATH PLUNGE PORTLAND, Dec. 27. UV) A woman identified by Coroner Marl Smith ss Mrs. Craig Baker, about 25, 145a Must Republican street. Seattle, killed herself by lenplng from an eight floor hotel room here tonight. The woman registered ns Mrs. C. Heck, Chehalis. Wash. When a bellboy showed her to her room she asked how far It wan to the ground. The bellboy reported to the manager who went to the room. lie found the window open. The body was lying on the court roof six stories below. A noie left In the room said she had been HI for A longtime ami hml given up hope of regaining her health. SALKM. Ore.. Dec. 27. , ' f'arl K'riimslrky. 4 0. u trusty ntj tho Oregon "tnte penitentiary. (aped today. " I Krutnsicky wa0 received h-re( in July to serve a term of .U'n. years for larceny by bailee. 1 : a 1 Depression Now In Final Stages Declares Trade ' Expert End of Coming Year to See 'Decided Im provement' Says Bush. NEW YORK, Dc. 27, () Irving T. Rush believes the busi ness depression has at last about reached rock bottom. Mr. Bush, who is president, of the Bush Terminal company . oT New York, director of Bush House, Ltd., of London, und an authority on shipping and foreign trade, feels "we are passing through the final house-cleaning after our re cent speculative debauch." In a year-end statement to the Associated Press he said "Funda mental business conditions are ! down to bed rock. Early In De cember It was apparent there would be a final spasm in Iho se curity market, followed by a pe riod of stagnation in security deal ings and values. Periods of depres sion seldom last longer than two ' or two and a half years. Half of this period Is nlrcady behind us.' Although he described trade with Kussin, India and China as "crippled," and world trade gen erally as "out of Joint," Mr. Bush said ho expected "slowly improv ing conditions in 1931, and a de cided improvement hy the end of the new year." 25 LYNCHEDVALL XKW YORK, Dec. 27. Ai The year l!t3i) has seen 2.1 lynchings as compared with twelve in the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People said today In an annual summary. Twenty-four of the victims were negroes, the association said. All occurred in the south. PLAN CURB UPON El LIAR WASHINGTON, Dec. 27, (JP) Recommendations for legislation to punish Individuals or groups for circulating "false and malicious' rumors which lend to runs on banks are to be submitted to the house by the special committee in vestigating communism. Chairman Pish said today he ex pected to call a meeting soon after congress reconvenes "to consider tho jiropAKsnda spread by. commu nists to undermine public confi dence in banks and causo runs und failures." MARHIIKIKLD, Dec. 27. IP Ole Hanson of Seattle and George Cook of Portland, arrested Mon day with truck containing 2 li cases of Canadian liquor, were arraigned before the federal com (TTilssloner yesterday after W I Ilia m Walsh, district attorney, ttlrned their case over to the federal nu thoritjes. WAYCROSS. Ga., Dec. 27 (At Jim I'arker, condemned slayer of his tmby, who fled the Ware coun ty Jail with four other prisoners, was recaptured neur here today. mm 1 BOND VOTE School: .B.oard Calls New . School Program Election For January 15, To Clear Slight Irregularity r- New Action Not To Delay Work. Owing to what the city schools' attorneys point out as insufficient notice given in tho call for the recent bond tMoetlon, it will be necessary to re-submit the JtMlft.Ono issue which the voters passed on December lliih by n seven to one; vote to another selection or risk a possibility of having It declared invalid later. The Oregon statute requires 15 days notice to le given in advance of such an election. The Medford election was hold on December 6lh and the first published notice railing for the election was print ed on Decern tier 1st. Tho uprcm court, however, has ruled that neither the day on which the not ice is first published nor the day, on which the election Is to be held can 1e counted in this Ui-day per iod. According to this Ruling the notice given would he onry M in stead of 1 ft days. Attorneys Ok C. Hoggs and Clus Newbury, who have been engaged by the school board to prepare the bond Issue for sale, discovered and called nttentiori to the Irregular ity.1 Although more or less of a technicality, they hold that H would be sufficient to cloud the bond issue nnd possibly Invalidate it. Both joined yesterday in rec ommending that tho issue he re submitted to tho voters at another election. Dr. R. E. Clreen, chairman, promptly -called the board Into session and an order was m(te for a second etectlon to he held on January l&th. K. 11. lied rick, city school superintendent, stated, ' "I sincerely ' regret that this 'nmfittr must be brought up again after the voters have so decisively ex pressed themselves On it. It will not delay tho letting of contracts, however, nor the time of begin ning construction. We are going full speed ahead with these things, building plans ore .expected to he completed for lioth the new Wash I Ington and the high school by j January 12th. Contracts for construction- will he lot immediately I afterward." POMES UPON TREE IN Oregon Congressman Greets Arrival of Grandchild With Supply of 'Baby Dolls' at Christmas. WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. fP) A dozen baby dulls smile and wink and sleep on a Christmas tree in the home of Representative. Daw ley of Oregon, reflecting n Christ tide arrival in their family. - A second grand child was born In Baltimore on December 21. She is Anna Kathryn llawley, daugh ter of Kenneth K. llawley, nn elec trical engineer. Tho chairman of the house ways tnd means committee explained Unit this was a "real baby doll Christmas." One of tho dolls was sent by relatives, Mrs. Hawley bought one and he bought the other 10. The representative surmised that sooner or later the bisque ba bies would find their way to the real new ones. 2613ASKSTATE E HALKM, Dec. 27. W C. H. Gram, state labor commissioner, announced today 2f!l 3 men have registered for emergency employ ment. The registrations are from 19 eotintle.s outside of Multnomah. The registration showed 6345 persons were dependent on the men seeking employment. Tit Weather j Oregon: Fair and cold Kundayi nnd .Mond.iy but with valley fogi; moderate east nnd southeast winds 'offshore. ' I HAWLEY'SHOME 111 In Honolulu J'fli ' . I Associated Pitas Photo Janet Gaynor, film actress, Is con valescing In Honolulu from an oper at Ion for appondlcitis. YULE PARTY IS STAMPEDED BY ST. E Iowa Official Acting as Santa Claus Ignited, and Burns as Mob Swirls for Exits Baby Dies In Home Blaze. BURLINGTON, Iowa, Dec. 27. (JPt IBuvey C. Jaeger, commis sioner of public safely, was prob- ably fatally burned nnd scores of men. women and children Injured tonight at a stampede causod by a blaze of unknown origin at IJa gles hall, where more than 1200 had gathered for the annual Christmas party. I"- Jaeger wiim playti.tf the nart of Santa Claus. - A small Imitation brick house . had been erected in one corner of I the hall. Jaeger had gono into tho ( house nnd emerged a moment later, his clothes in flames, j Shouts of "flro" were heard In every part of the hall. There was ja stampede for exits and those in charge failed to quiet the guests. ! Jaeger, a 'noment later, found himself In the midst of a surging mob and It was some timo before he could bo given aid. He was badly burned. Many others had slight burns nnd Injuries, RAINIER, Ore., Dec. 27. Junior. 3-yeai-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hay Jennlson, of Kern 11111, was burned to death yesterday when tho family homo caught fire. The child had been left alone in the houso while his mother was doing some chore. The fire was not noticed until tho house was a mass of flnmes. Mrs. Jennlson was burned nbnut tho hands and face while trying to reach tho boy. PLAN DEDICATION HARDING STATUE MARION, Ohln, )ac. 27. Th llnrdlnK Momorliil nHnoriiillon will nioet npxt woek to formulato plnns fur a (Icllintlon of tho tomb of tho Into nrenlilrnt, Wurron CI. llnr.lliiK. and Mm. Hurtling, Ifoko Itonlthin, ni'croliiry of tho nno r'lution, flnlil todny. . NE, SUES EOR LIBEL CHICAGO. Dee. 27. (A1) J. Charlcn Oratiata, brother of Congressman-elect I'eter C. Grans t a, obtained a wurrant today for the arrest of Representative. Stanley II. Kuns. defeated Democratic can didate. He charged criminal libel. The ntleged libel wuh mado in a printed statement. Crannta charg ed, which appeared December 5 and which was alleged to have linked him with Al Capone. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 27. (IV Two programs reminiscent of Oregon pioneer days will bo pre sented at the public nudltorium here Monday, the closing day of the Covered Wagon centennial celebration. The programs are sponsored by the Old Oregon Trail association. PORTLAND. Dee. 27. (TP) A street car motormnn was Injured seriously ami four firemen re ceived minor Injuries today when the fire engine wns struck by the street car on an Intersection. IK AFIR 4 FUEDISTSJOFFRE OF RAID JAIL 10 GEI FOE Brothers Seek Prisoners Charged With Killing Father Sheriff and Wife Wounded In Repuls ing Tennesseans Holy Gibson No More. iSALEM, Ind. Dec. 27. (P) One man was killed nnd three of ficers wero wounded In a gun bat tle here tonight when four broth ers stormed the Washington coun ty jail in an effort to solzo two prisoners who wero being held in connection with the foud slaying of their father two weeks ago. Holy Gibson, one of tho broth ers. was killed In an exchange of shots with Town Marshal Elmer Gerald, and Gerald was probably fatally wounded. Sheriff Milton Tinkle and bis wife, a deputy, were wounded but their injuries were not serious. The brothers went to the Jail and demanded the keys to the cell in which Pleas Spurlock, 45, nnd his brother, John Spurlock, 40, were held in connection with the fatal shooting of Patton Gibson, father of the four men, on Decern bor 14. Holy Gibson stood guard at the entrance while tho three brothers entered the jail quarters to de mand tho keys. Tho officer re fused nnd an exchange ot shots followed. Meanwhile Holy Gibson and Marshal Gerald wore fighting it out on the jail steps. A bullet from the marshal's gun killed Gibson instantly but Gerald suffered se rious wounds. An alarm was sounded and the city, fire department and 200 citi zens responded. Search was started for the three brothers and shortly afterwnrd they were reported sur rounded in a lumber yard. The names of Holy Gibson's three brothers were not learned . Officers said the slaying was an outgrowth of a foud that has been smoldering for a number of years since tho two families lived In Tennessee. 4 ' HEART TALK OF TEXAS COUPLE Minister's Son Held For Killing of Sweetheart Af ter Failure to Adjust Troubles Uncle of Girl Files Charge. POHT 'ARTHUR, Texas, Dec 1!7. (P) A charge of murder was filed tonight against Robert L. Williams, University of Texas sophomore, In connection with the death thU nfternnon of Miss Eliz abeth Johnson, 10. Tho charge was filed with Justico of the Peace T. 'A. Hutler ,by Assistant County Attorney H. T. McWhortor on a complaint filed hy Andrew Johnson, uncle of the dead girl. The girl's body was found in nn automobile after Williams, her former fiancee, returned from conference wllh a m.nfster over their affairs of the heart. Williams told officers ho and Miss Johnson had parked his auto mobile In front of tho home of the Reverend Glenn Klynn, pnstor of the Houlh Methodist church, and he went In to talk with the min Ister about differences that had come between him and Miss John son. When ho returned to the auto mobile he said he found Mtss Johnson dead, a bullet from sawed-off rifle having penetrated her breast. Williams told Invest igator tho gun was his. Williams father, the Rev. R. W. Williams of Austin, was Mr. Flynn's Immediate predecessor as pastor of the south church. WINNIPEG, Dec. 27. (V) Wheat slumped to K0 cents a hush el an all tlmo low at the open ing of today's brief session of tho grain exchange. Offerings were meager and entry of investment buyers soon sent prices back to higher levels. 4 WINNIPEG, Dec. 27. (JP) So lution of the western Cnnada farmer's economic problem must be sought on thu basis of next year's grain crop. W. J. Ward. president of United Farmers of Manitoba, believes. BEFOREMURDER MARNE AT LIFE'S END Famous Great War General Fails to Rally From Am putation Operation Week Ago British Industry King to Last Reward. , TARIS. Deo. 27. (Ph-Marshal Joffre, iho gallant old soldier who. turni-d back the Germans In tho first battle of the Mnrne, lay be tweon life and death tonlRht In tho hospital whore.hlfl left- leg was unipuluteU last Saturday. UanKtone developing In tho ad vanced stages of arteritis made the amputation imperative, his doctors said, but tho operation was not so successful as they hoped and the latest bulletins on the patient's condition were gloomy. It looked as though the general were going to loso his greatest battle. - It was Madame Joffre, adhering to her husband's policy since his illness began, who withheld news of the marshal's gravo illness since la::t Friday when he was taken to the hospital of 8t. Jean de Dieu. lie went there December 19 and the amputation was permormed the noxt day. The leg was taken oft above tho kneo to arrest the progress of the infection. Hut there was danger of Infec tion In tho other leg also and the doctors Bald they had tentatively decided to perform a second oper ation today. In a consultation, ' howover,' it became obvious that the old soldier he Is nearly 79 could not possibly stand it. Immediately after it . became known that the . marshal was gravely ill rumors flew about the city which loves this man whose soldiers called him -"papa'! Joffre. Ho was believed for a time to bo at his chateau In , Louveclnnes, near Versailles. Then there was a report his right leg had been am putated. HlB doctors set these things right In a .definite an nouncement describing . -the - pa--tent's condition as "grave, with a ' pulse ot IS and a temperature ot 102.2 degrees. . , - Arteritis Is an Inflamdllon of the arteries which often develops gan grene. It first struok the marshal last summer but he always denied reports of his Illness, on one oc casion going so far as to appear at ' a publlo function In hhu honor when he was tco sick to be abroad. LONDON, Do. 27. () Lord Melchett, giant pf British industry and finance and the son of a Jew ish Immigrant to Great Britain, died In London today after a long Illness with phlebitis which gave rise to general blood poisoning. By his death at 62 England has lost a brilliant genius of modern Industrial organization at a time when the country Is looking for ward to such leaders to help bring' about Its ecnomlu salvation. A leader of rare quality, both in politics and in business. Lord Mel- chett's Interest were world wide, lie was Immensely wealthy but after'one trip to the United States remarked he felt like a pauper In comparison with the multi-millionaires of that country. . Lord Melchett, who rose to prominence as Sir Alfred Mond, was a big man physically and was big In Ideas In politics and bus!-' ness and of wide vision In social problems, particularly In the rela tions of employers nnd workers, lie was an ardent Zionist, .; Mil ELTON, Wash., Deo. 27. UP) In the largest liquor haul ever mado In southwest Washington, two complete stills and more than 230,000 worth of alcohol and sup plies were confiscated by federal agents who conducted a spectacu lar raid at llammersley Inlet near here today. ' i - ; . Tho distillery, which Is the big gest ever found in this section, was located in a barn on the Gust Nelson place. Three men who gave the names of Pearson, Nelson and Ncllson already were arrested and taken to Tacoma late today by the arresting officers. when a quantity of the confis cated materials had been saved for evidence the rawing officers wrecked the premises. Bye wit nesses declared that the floor of the building was knee deep with scattered sugar, wheat, other grain and the dumped mash. 1 HA!(KM, Ore., Dec. 27. P) The two-year sentence to the state pen itentiary imposed upon Wilson Kogcrs of Portland was Saturday commuted by Governor Norblad to 16 month und Rogers was parol ed. Rogers l to receive medical treatment. He und"went a surg loul operation a few months ago. The paroled prl-ju-.-r returned to Portland. o I
