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o o o .o The Weather Forecast: Tonight and Wed nesday, niia; modenito loniiera- foed Mail Twenty-Fifth Year MEDFORK Ol.MHiOX. TUKSPAY. .lANTAIJY l::. No. 'J9:J. TodiYiASK PUBLIC AID MED Tribune . Highest yeMcrduy 41 I-ow est Oils morning IJ't lro illation : To r i. in, yesterday AM T'i ."i ii.ni. ttslay AM 1 Nathan Straus, Good Man Another Fatality. Mrs. Patterson Gathers News. A Farmer's Charter. Copyright King Feature 8ynd, Inc. Tlic di'atli of Nathan Straus on Sunday in New York, two days before the completion of liis 8:(rd year, is a jjreat loss to this .'country. fr. Straus set an example of wise philanthropy, devoting more than a quarter of a cen tury of his active working years, and a substantial fortune to his fisiht for pure milk throughout the United States. As an example to others he dis tributed pasteurized milk in cluding milk properly modified for young infants in the poor districts of New York. His influence is felt in for eign countries as well as here. Because of his work pasteuri zation of milk and careful handling and bottling arc now enforced by law,- and thanks to Mr. Straus, the death rate a?iiong infants in New York has been cut down !() per cent. Mr. Straus was one of three brothers, all distinguished for good citizenship and public spirit. -His brother Isador, whose heroic death on the Titanic will be long remembered, represent ed his State in Congress, and was one of the three greatest merchants produced by the United Slates thus far. A mon ument in New York City was erected in his honor. Oscar Straus, the youngest brother, represented this country as am bassador to Turkey at Constan tinople, and was in the cabinet of Theodore Itoosevelt. Nathan Straus, who died on Sunday morning, literally sav ed the lives of millions of chil dren. Ifis memory will be en shrined in the hearts of mothers all over the world. It is feared that Mrs. l'.eryl Mart and liciit. William A. Mael.aren have been lost on their flight to Kuropc via the Azores. Ships vestcrday re ported rough seas, high winds, no possibility ot surviving a ' landing for more than a few 'minutes. The practical certainty thai two more flyers have gone into eternity makes you wonder how Ihings are arranged in the next world. Are the inhabitants seg regated in groups for the con versations of the last thousands of billions of years, the great con- (Continued on Page Four) Abe Martin roit't iy brifc nn tlM p. ik orcry U trf-t ut iiniurrnint." Mild (rs. litfe pd, president of 'The iliarmctl 1 Irclo i lub hi npiMwin' Mrs. Oscur Kite for incin berslilp. I kin remember when yUL otiuldit't hate driven a nail In Out) ltepublb-nn pany," chuck toil tile lux 1'ash, laytn' Ids ht a1de (J (Copyright John F. Dilte Co.) 10 Ull! mm rvi; UUUUIII Ul RED CROSS President Hoover's Procla mation Calls Upon People for Prompt Response Jackson County Quota Is Placed at $1800. w.vshimjtox. .inn. 1:1. Congressional conferees disagreed today on the $l.r,noo,nnl approprl atiou projKj.sed for fowl loans to drougjlit-Ntrickciu l1 n. r jii e rs, and Chairman .fours or the senate con ferees ntiiioimectl lie would reorl tlio disagreement to tliu senate to morrow. Tlie conferee's action will force anoilMT vote in the senate on the $15,000,000 item. A telegram today to J. ('. Thompson, chairman of tlio Jack son County Chapter - of the Hod Cross fi om K. K. Arm acting manager for the I'aeific coast, says: "Greatly increased demands dur ing last ton days have made Im perative Immediate campaign for Red Cross relief fund to meet emergency situation through parts of 21 states in drought stricken area. Minimum $10,000,000 need ed to prevent untold suffering and actuat starvation hy thousands of families, l'oltution of water sup ply caused by dying cattle added to winter hardships in some sec tions. "(resident Hoover urges Imme diate and generous response. Con fident your people will not fail -to meet their share tills humanitarian need but because of general condi tions desire to impress upon you necessity for most vigorous pos sible campaign. .Success of our efforts will be regarded as test of Fled Cross by president and entire nation and we must not fail. Your chapter's ipiota Is ?!8. Report action taken." Donations may be made at the First National Hank in Medford ami Citizens Hank of Ashland for credit "Emergency Relief Fund." WASHINGTON", Jan. 13. fI'J I President loover today called on the people to contribute "a mini mum of SIO.MOM.UOO" for tho relief of drought sufferers. The call was in a formal procla mation. "I a m sure that the American people will respond to the Red Cross appenl both promptly and generously," be. said. The demands on the disaster funds of the Red Cross, Mr. Hoov er said, have been far greater in the last four weeks than during the previous four months. This brought about the necessity for a material Increase in resources. In some parts of tlio Htrlcken areas, the chief executive said, small communities have been af fected both by the drought anil general business depression. ' Call on Reil Cross The Red Cross has been called upon to take care of sufferers In these communities as well as in purely rural sections. The additional $10,000,000 asked combined with what is left of the Sli. 000,000 set aside by the Hed Cross some lime ago appears to (Continued on Page 6, 8tory 1) MOW V o 1 1 K , Jan. 13. UY) The Mackay Uadio company toduy an nounced receipt of a message from the liner President Garfield saying the San MIkucI radio station In the Azores had broadcast the follow in k: "Understand airplane Tradowind fell in sea about 20 miles off Mosteiro Point. St. Michael's Island. All ships advised to keep lookout and report thin station if anythtiiK seen." Tho Island of St. Michael fSao M iKtiel is nearer to the Portu guese coast thn any-Nof the other laiKe Islands ttrmiiiff the Azores group. H is about Sun miles from PortUKul and H5ut miles east hthe Island orruyai. the planned uostination of the Trade Wind. If the airplane came down In the svt near St. MichaelYfc would indb Its pilots overshot their goal. FIT HOPE FOB l mm HnDDEOQ TARIFF APPOINTEES lUULnn iiui i iiiu If RADIO WORD Meier Installs Blue Blood Dog In New Office SAI,K.1, Jun. HI (A1) A new member has been added 4 to tlio governor's stuiT, visit 4 ors to the chief, executive's fr office today were apprized, 4 4 A new member not only bus 4 4 the keen look of intelligence. 4 ; 4 but in a congenial und well- 4- : 4 groomed addition. 4 : 4 "l-ady Hlue," a full blooded 41 4 Tobornmu Pincer dog, has 4 i 4 taken her place beside the 4 4 desk of Governor Julius L. 4 4 Meier. 4 444444!4444444 LEGGE HAS Chairman Exonerated On Charges Asserting Board Acted to Depress Prices Methods of Relief Are Held Correct. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. Chairman JLegge of the farm board wu exonerated by an Investigat ing committee of the Farmers Union today of charges that he told the wenate agricultural com mittee the farm board had acted to dep rcs t h e p K ce of w heat a n d cotton. Cal A. Wood of Kansas, chair man of a sub-committee sent here to in vest Iga to Tgej test I mony. expressed confidence in tin meth od employed by the board in han dling wheat. The investigation was made as the result of charges by John A. Simpson, president of the National Farmers' t'nloii. Wood .said be believed Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, Simpson and I.egge all had been perfectly frank in the controversy. It was a statement by Senator Thomas about r.eggn's testimony that pre cipitated the dispute. Other members of the commit tee were M. W. Thatcher, manager of the Farmers' Cnlon Terminal assneiat ion. SI. Paul. Minn., .1. It. Callab;ui of Wisconsin ami Thomas Howard of Colorado. FREE TEXT BOOK SAIj;.M. Ore.. Jan. 1 3. (A) A free t xt-book bill, making it man datory upon school districts In Oregon to provide books for all pupils in the public schools, will be introduced by Senator J. O, Bailey of Multnomah county. All free text -book bills introduced at previous sessions have made appli cation of the proposed act optional with the districts. ' WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. (TV A II six members appointed by President Hoover lo the new tariff commission had senate approval today after Kdfc'ar Hrossard. re publican, Utah, was confirmed by a vole of 4.1 to Lincoln Hlxon, democrat, 1 ndl ana. was quickly approved without opposition. KiKht democrats voted with the republican regulars for nonflrmn tfon of Ilrossard, who was assailed by the dcmocrntic-riuhllcun inde pendent coalition as "too clone to the sugar Interests." Nine republicans opposed Hns sard. Amy Going Home. MitSi'iAV Ian 3. oP A I y Johnson, tin- Itiitiih aviatrix, left this morning by train for Warsaw, from uJn to L"Mo here she plans lo fly buck abandoning lwr proj ect for a solo flight aornu Siberia to PrlplllK. Pn-x C opyright HIM. Q USHINGTo.V. Jan. zt)r Th(j) 'Um today pa sited Vestal bill to revise the copyrWt laws, Thn vote was 185 to 34. The bill now goew to the senate. FARM UNION CONFIDENCE PRISON BARS FOR A CENTURY irrmrflll 4v;f-rr! -.At, Gilbert H. Beesemyer (center), Hollywood, Cat., hanker, before tha Qatei of San Quentin prison where ho was sentenced to 10 to 100 yean for embezzlement involving $8,000,000. He is shown with Warden James D. Holohan (left) and Oan Miller, Los Angeles county deputy herlff. COUNTRY GOING REPORT SHOWS FORWARD NflWRIfi RFIHOnN! TO PROSPERITY MINE PRODUCTS Chairman of National City Bank Sees End of Large Scale Debt Paying Buy ing Will Resume. NF.W YORK, Jan. 1 3. (I') In his first public statement, concern ing business conditions in a year Charles 10. Mitchell, chairman of the National City bank, said today "unquestionably this country is going forward." In his annual message to stock holders he said llllto was n year i w.-i.i i.Hj iiik uit it Ki'-iiL m .iii" miii;ii in;rvM(Hrii.v iih'iiiih i:ur;iii- nu-nt of iiuii'liiiKcH mill ii rlii'i-k up on I'litrlpilsi-. "Jttlt It also incanH that wli.Mi Ihix policy haa run IIh rout-He nnw anil Blistalneil Ipu.vIiik power will appear In all markets. Ilradually the new roliilltioiiM will make themselves felt. A new state of mind also will be developed, more Ha tie and construct ivn than that, which ruled In the boom period. "This altitude of mind is likely to be reflected in the: bond a ml security markets even before the t tld list rial recovery Is percept Ibly under way.',' RETAINS SECRETARY KM. MM. .bin. i:t fPi Mrs 101 la Sehultz Wilson was re-elected Iiiry of the Oregon slate fa board at a session held late Mon- diiy, Mrs. Wilson has been secrc-1 tary since !li;. y. r, Marstersj of Uo('Iiiit"j; was re-elei'tod iresl-! dent of the state fair board for j the fourl h eousr'ciit Ivc term. i Belle Livingstone Flees In Red Pajamas as Prohi Agents Raid Roof Salon Ni;W YORK, Jan. 13. (I'l (.'apt u red in red pa Jam Jin on t he roof tif her salon of "culture, wli and boilhommfc." ,l ,H Hello Hiv iligstoiif! fenced With the law to day for the fourth tintf in recent j mom hi. I At the crack of midnight. ' r. i federal pi ih 1 1' it ion agents f i'"in ji'bbago. dresM'd in evcntliK cloHn-s weiirlug pink oartlfMfon. ai'o. Iriolll the table al which they c;it jwlth two fashlonatdy gowned wool len, and announced the place was I in Hi" hatiQ of ihe govei niiM-nt. lit-" Just off Park avenue in the ( m. t r w n section. Klgbt more agent. similarly altifd. burnt through the main entrance and the raid (yis on. More than a hundred guest from .1 1. 1 ' Oregon Yield in 1930 Was $176,300 Under Previous Year Copper Hit Hard By Slump. i S.MiK.M, inc. .I.iil. 1:1. A') Kicul'i'H III Ji rt-lnnl hy Vli'lnr ('. IIi'.ki-H, rci'i'i-'M'nllMK the rnlU'il SluU'H huroiiit of niimn, mIkiw thul tin' tiilal viiluo of Kolil and other iiM'tals pniriuriMl in Oregon In 1 '.t:tn v:i Hun, 1 00, a (lci'11'ii.sa of ,'ilniut $17li.:tHll ;1s I'miiiiariMl with iitviiuih yi':ir. i n vv inn whm niiiiii1 in i.ii: y(,.ili'ril;iy liiruuitn H' , urrirc ir .l;trk I). .Mel a lllstlT, Htil tc , ,,n,.,nit ion cnniinisKli r. who in j. - x - orriilo ihiilniii t Hut xliili- j liirNin of iiiIiii m. Mulalx loven il In the report are K,, silver, eopper, lead ami zinc, ( l.iiier lioeil the Iiii'kivL Iobm. i Ve.ti.rn fin-unii le.l In tl nil. ill. hut heeail.se of a new ilreilKe n intern Oregon the caste Morn portions of (he state were pmlly .llvhl. I in old out- put. The value of the the state for the ;nl( oulpllt ill I'lir was esti i decrease of silver out put a decrease of in.itcd til 52S.i.:piO, was about $;i.-'Mi in' l$l-'.H(iu. ('o)iHr was reduced to ?JM.Iilil, a heavy docrcn.se of about $!:. aoo. S'iiteiicc UoIiIm-i. I'OIt'l'I.ANO, Jan. i:t. (A) Donald M. Kenyan, -Mi, was today sentenced to serve Hi years In McNeil federal penitentiary for j robbing the posloffice at. Orenen, stole :f.::r lor blanks, the charge. and some money lie deadeil guilty Corvallis. - I'laus hefiiK i-ont-ld-erefl for const met ion of fedej a I bilfldlnt; Jiero. the circles of Ihe literati were or dered to leave, eight employes. In cluding a iung woman secretary, we to arrest e d, a ud a cert :i in amount of Moird was Hei,co. While this was olng on. Mi-s 1,1 vingstomi. mi l ll''d of the raid . hy a secret a lai m in her fourl h floor aparton-nt, haMily threw a ape fiver lier lliwlit nil Ire and t limlted thiMimh a trapdoor to the roof. One of the f.'lbters overtook , her. I ('bunging to vUi;ii he called her prison clot bos." Mlhs liivlngst ono and her employes Were tnk'(Tf) lo a police fttat'.nn. The fiu iQr aeiiess, eiu Ich trig a pink en mat ion in her hand, greet-. the police b'-utenant I with: O "flood morning! This in getting 1 to tie old-fashioned now." . CLARA SOBS "" ' ' . AT TRIAL OF Sneers of Daisy De Voe Re sented By Movie It' Girl in Courtroom-Story of Checking Account Related Checks Disclaimed. l,OS AXCKLKS, Jan. lit. !') Clara How, tripping blithely on (be arm of her "boy friend.'' Rex MHl, , made her courtroom debut today in the trial nf grand' theft charges agaitisMinr former secretary, Daisy IeVoe. Th" iol haired aetre was the fimrth state wiinews in the niMin lilK session, and she lot no time In n'iifratini; cbaiires Mis .)cVim had mnde unaiitboried wilbdraw- an nil the "Clara How special biinkj account toialiu; in all more than $lii. mi (I. She said she employed Mis De Voe 3 s her secretary In .lanimry, litL'lt. nl a week, "and that tin salary was never changed." Miss DcVoo claimed she later was paid $ I J ft a week. "How did she leave your em ploy?" "She JuM left." Italic Were Mghl. "What were lu-r duties?" "All .she bad to do wa to pay my bills and take her salary checks out of I me i la i a iiinv special naiik ao i count." "So yon were familiar with that account ?'' "Oh, very." " W h o w a s n u t h o rl.c d t o s! g n chocks for money out of lha-t an- ! count?" "Only Miss DeV'oe "Did you ever authorize her to ,""'k" ,l,,"l" "' "r V"" T"".".! to herself other than her salary? "Never did." "Did you a tit horize her to take uiMtioy out of that account and di'po.sit it to her own account ?" "I never did.' Thlrly-seven checks, drawn for bills for clothing. Jewelry and auto uioblleH ami lifted In the Indict ment, were nbown lo t ho actress and she was asked If she author ized them. "I should sny not !" she replied. Tears Well. Just then her eye caught lhal of her former secretary, and she sud denly exclaimed: "All right, go , i,,,,.,. ,.,. ,.,. . , IImi Di-V'im turned her heitd and the actress reached for a handker chief and dabbetl her eyes. A few moment lutVr she again gave way to tear when asked iiliout Miss DeVoe's alleged pur chase of a silver dresser net. She said Miss DeVoe gave II to her for her blrl hday, but she learned later that her ex-secretary had I purchased i( out of thn account. ml I Ihotiuht she wus beiiiK sweet ,! (.M, ) ,,, SE! WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. W) Largo incrcaws for enforcement of prohibition and ImmlKralloii laws were Included in the $ I. -7.'UUKtX supply bill fur Ihe slate, Justice, labor and comin'crco de parltnents reported today to Ihe house. An Increase of Jii.llU'i.rinn al lowed by thi' house appropriations com m it tee for Mm additional agent s in the prohibition bureau resulted in the filing of a minority report ,y Representative Tinkham, Uepilblb an, MaKHUchusetts. In all, the prohibition bureau Mas aiioHod 1 1 ,:u;:i.imi!) for (he next fiscal year. I ' OI.VMPIA. Wash., Jan. 13. (TH ! Membership pf house committees and the eon tool of 22 bills em liodylng tho findings of thn ndvl , sory tax commission were audited ! by Washlngtfin'H leglslaluro on tho second day of the session. Willi the "youngster bloc" In control In the lower branch, led v the newly elected speaker, ,Td win J. Templet on, commit too I iisslguiiieifdt were forecast tn In I elude chaiigon from those of the I!IL'9 session, Hpenkor Tcinpleton jsald last night they would be given out today. sec IN ENFMEMENT CALIFORNIA GETS Afsw Mff( 1'rr.tn I'hutn Amy Johnson, 23, British avia trix, who started from London on a hazardous solo flight to Peiplng China escaped uninjured when hct plane cracked up near Warsaw. BOOST OUTPUT TO HOLD WAGE Newspaper Association Sees Drastic Pay Cuts Unless Restrictive Rules Are Re moved. VICTOItlA. II. C .Tan. .W. (P) The Pacific Northwest News paper association made known to day a resolution stating' that members of the printing trades unions may hope to maintain their proMent senlu of high wages only by "increasing their individual production." The resolution, passed yester day afternoon Just before ad journment of the convention, urged that leaders of printing trades unions "give their best efforts toward removing restrictive rules, increasing their Individual produc tion and thus helping avoid tho necessity of drastic wago reduc tions in the pubtlshlug Industry." Wages High. Tho prologno to tho resolution slated that the average printing trades union day wago in tho t'nlh'd Stales and Canada was 0 per cent higher In l:i;to than In HiL'u. while prb'CM in Ihe basic Industries of farming, mining und lumbering aro So per cent lower than liny were In Pr-'M, and the average dally earnings of male skilled and uuHkllled labor In 25 leading Industries employing over l.onu.onn men are n;i per cent lower (ban In 1 : 11 0 . Thn cost of living in June, 1S3, was T. per cent lower than In tirlMi, with tho drop In prices suf fered by basic IndiistrlcH Indlcat-1 lug a. si ill fin thcr drop In tho cost of living. It said. I SAX KUANCIHCO. Jan. 1 3. t Soaking rain fell over San Fran eison and 1 be north coast section of California last n i n lit and con tinued t of lay Intermittent ly. The weather bureau sab) the oui look was for rain In tho Pa cific stales from Paget Sound Hoitt b ward to cent nil California, with local snows over the east por tions of Washington, Oregon, Ida ho and northern Nevada. No 1 in p o r taut temperature changes were Indicated. II Ml HA I, KM, Jan. 1 .1. IV-A Port land city ordinance, which at tempted to prohibit auction Miles of jewelry was held invalid in an opinion of the supreme court to day, wrlilen by. I list Ice licit. It was a test suit brouuhl nK'ilnst the city o Carl Korber. The opinion affiinis Judge Tucker of the circuit court, for Multnomah county. t Heems to the court after n survey the authorities." says thn npliifbn. "that thn business nf vending Jewelry is not Inherently and necessarily pernicious." mmm SOAKING n STATE LAW y Bill Grist Begins in Both Houses Following Organi zationMeier to Name Marion County Solons to Fill Vacancies. SA IjKM, Ore., Jan. 13. (A1) Tho way was made clear today for (.lovernnr Julius L. Meier to namo one senator and ono representative from Marion county to fill the two vacancies in the legislature. The Heunett senuto bill, provid ing the filling of vacancies caused hy tho deaths of Senator Lloyd T. Reynolds and Representative W. Carlton Smith by appointment, subject to tho confirmation of the house where the vacancy occurs, was paused by the senate and house, the latter taking but ten minutes to disposo of the bill. Tho measure, un emergency, w a s amended in the senate to make it applicable to the. present session only. Meier has not yet announced his decision on the appointments. Seek Uniform Juws The first measure introduced in (he house was a joint resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of threo to confer wltli il similar committee from Wash iugton to outlluo uniform regula tions for power dams on tho Co lumbia river. The resolution was introduced by John H. Lewis, Multnomah. Tho initial administration mcas uro appeared in tho senate today in tlio form of a senate joint me morial, Introduced by Senator Fred 10. Kittle, calling upon congress to hasten the passage of tho pending1 bill for construction of the Uma tilla rapids project. - ' A movo to eliminate to a certain extent advertising sigim along highways, was introduced fit tho scnato by Senator H. V. Johnson. Appeals of trivial cases from tho municipal to tho circuit courts would be stopped by two bills In troduced In the senato by W. P. Woodward of Multnomah county, having back of them the approval of City Attorney Trunk. S. Grant and Municipal Judgo Tonillnson of PortUmd. Itulso ApHul Ban At present a defendant may ap peal if hn Is sentenced to only ono day In Jail. One of tho Woodward bills Increases tho appealable case to 10 days. Fine of $20 aro now appealable. Tho other Woodward bill raises this to $fi0. Governor Julius L. Meier today assumed bis offices as chief execu tive In tho historical offices on the second floor of tho state house. Workers remodeling tho interior to make additions requested by thn governor, worked all night, but had not completed tho task. Con struction Is expected to be finished tonight. SAI.KM. Ore.. Jan. 13. ulV Prlnglug to a brilliant close tho inauguration of Oregon's; -Oth gov. ernor, hundreds of prominent Ore. gonians attended tho fir formal Inaugural ball to be held in the state since JK87, a tribnto lo Gov ernor and Mrs. Julius I" Meier. Formal ovenlng fcowiis of thn women and tho black ami while of ( their escorts wero dotted hero and there with unlforips of offi cers of tho urmy, navy und Na tional (iuard. Mrs1. Meier woro an Imporled gown of white satin with low-cut back. Kho woro a shoulder cor sage of garden las and carried a btrgn arm bouquet of red roses. ROSKllUHfl, Oro.. Jan. 13. ffl I la I Say ors, 22 , whs aecldontaly shot through tho left arm last night as he wan returning from a hunting trip, 1 lo had his rifle beside him In his automobile and the weapon discharged when ho attempted to move It. Ho was brought to a hospital here. 1 N ACTON INAUGURAL HOP WAS BRILLIANT CAPITAL AFFAIR o
