Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 27, 1931, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI edford Mail Tr The Weather M Temperature lliirhct yesterday Bl I owet ihfs morning-; XI Precipitation ; I To r ji . in . yr-derday l I 'In .r ii. in. today FriFrt'diKt: TnnUrht ami Wet, newUiy: Cloudy und nillit. Twenty-Fifth Year MEDFORI OUKUON. TlvKSI)AV. .I.VNl'AIJV -J7. No. :;o7. Today jRIVAL RAILS Desert Bootleg Stills. . Power From Mercury. New Cosmic Eye. Billy Sunday Fights On. Copyright King Features 8ynd., I no. LOS AN'GEl-US, C'al., Jan. 2(5. You find contrasts here, at the edge of the Pacific. Com ing through the mountain pass an hour to the east, a wind, freezing cold blows down from the snow covered mountains. . . A few mimiteu Inter at flip liottom of the pass you open all , the automobile windows, take I 011 your overcoat, anil see near Azu.a miMi picking ripe straw lirni(s in 11 n-ally hot climule. On tho narrow desert trails : surprising number of new 1111 toniohiles, their drivers in fine "store" idnt lies, replace the old third hand ears held together liy straps and pieces of rope that, von once saw on the same trails. That is not, yon are told, the result of prohihition closing the saloons, and ' keeping dud from spending his money on drink." Prohibition nevertheless is responsible. "In remote parts of the desert, wherever there is water there is a whiskey still." Some pf those ears carry cus tomers going out to buy. Oth ers carry the bootleg: manufac turers. Prohibition develops a strange prosperity of its own. Ucriird Nwope. president of tieneral Electric, is here to in spect the enlargement of one of his company's numerous Pa cific Coast plants, and also to inspect the l(. K. O. 'moving picture concern in which (!cn orii I Klectric is interested. lie sees, in the morning pa per, news from his Schenectady factory of the world's slimm est plant for generating power. Vapor from mercury is used in place of steam, .'."ill.dOO pounds of mercury in a gigan tie boiler will generate power at. low cost. Waterfalls may find themselves out of fashion liel'ore they are fairly put to work. Ancient scientists seeking vainly to solidify mercury, be cause they did not know how to produce a sufficiently low temperature, little thought that the strange metal, raised to the boiling point, would be used to create artificial light ing. More interesting than bigger inanufa .'turing lants, greater moving picture studios, or even generating power, with vapor from mercury, is the giant 'JOO inch telescope for .Mount Wil son observntorv. (Continued on page nine) Abe Martin r Vonicn Imve nuiilr marvel... Hinmis in eeei mi noo in every- thins now, oet tnlkin' one at a tlnwv A mrlle breath make n clandr rhnprmn. AMm I WILL L11ILI S.F. Western Pacific Is Granted All-Rail Entrance to City Over Opposition of S. P. Means Completion of Strategic- Coast Link. I ii'(LMifv'T(v tr fiPi. Thl, 'vvesiprn pacific railroad was given permission iminy iy tiio Interstate Commerce commission , MllM ils wn ;li-r:iil entrance into San I'raneisco. liy construc tion uf a new line frnrn Nilcs via Kftlw I City to tjuinl street within the municipal limits. The commission sot aside the strenuous oppition to the ex tension which was instituted by Ihp .Southern Pacific system. l!v the decision, the Western Pacific gained full authority t" complete a strategic raili-oail ex tension through the I'acific coast, in which enterprise il had the direct co-op. ration of llie (Heat Northern railroad, the indirect support of ttie Missouri Pacific system which latter road is gen erally understood to he working out tile final stages of a com pleted orean to ocean line, that will 1)0 largely dominated by the Van sweringen interests-. Should I'se Bridge. Today's order allowed the "West ern Pacific to undertake its con struction around San Francisco hay nnd traversing San Francisco peninsula, at an estimated cost of approximately $ S.00 0.0 00. How. ever, as a condition to Its ap proval the commission said that the Western Pacific should seek to ohtain common user rights for the movement of trains ovel Inimliarlon bridge, a Southern Pa cific facility, and about I I miles of Southern I'acific trackage in corporated in the bridge ap proaches. If this arrangement Is made, the cr-st of the Western Pacific new construction will he reduced to about 3. MO.OOO. In granting the approval the commission reviewed the previous steps taken by the (treat Nor thern and the Western Pacific by which a completely new railroad will he extended down from Klam ath Falls In Oregon to a conncc t'.rn with the Western Pacific San Francisco line. liy a series of other extensions undertaken or contemplated, it was said the Western Pacific proposed to strengthen itself, to meet the Southern Pacific competition for transcontinental business. 4 RELIEF WHEAT TO BE TALKED WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. WP) The house agriculture committee tomorrow will take up the senate bill to make 2", 000. 000 bushels of the farm board's wheat available for relief purposes. Announcing tho decision, Chair man Hansen today registered op position to any bill for relief "at the expense of the farmers." "That bill defeats the purpoj-CM of the farm board because by turning this wheat loose it break the prlre the board has been trying to stabilize," he said. WAS1 1 1 NT! TON. Jan. 27. OP I Over the opposition of n Wiseon uln T?nmililtriin nmt n North Caro lina Democrat, tho house today approved u 1 1 Oii.ood.imo appro priation for the farm board, tin last installment of its $:.n.nti. fiun revolving fund. ROCKEFELLER GIVES WASH I NG TO N, Jan. 27 (&) The Red Cross announced today that $3.3 1 -3.348 had been received in its $ in. nan. noo drought relief campaign. John D. Rockefeller pent the largest check of the day. ILT.O. 000. Thf International Harvester Co. wnt a cheek for lioit.000. STUDEBAKER LOWERS BASIS OF DIVIDENDS NKW YOI1K, Jan. 27. (fl'cO ,)(,,iy l,iavrA common stock on a 2o nriTt:i.,i dividend basis 0KniiiPl $1 previously paid by de rlarini; a quarterly dividend of ? 'cents. REG ON BY COMMITTEE Dancer Dies . . ': -"s Associated I'vess t'hoto j Miih Aumi Pavlova, world fain- j mis Interpretative' mid hallet dancer 1 who dire) vividly in Holland s a I i-cMili of pneumonia contracted 1 while on loin. CITY PREPARED 10 BATTLE FOR L The city officials, aided by prominent business men and other leading citizens have prepared what they feel confident is a con vincing case In the mtcrenis of havfnf? the public service commis sion 'grant the city's petition for n crossing over the Southern Pacific trackH in order to open up Kinhth St., which information will be pre sented at the commission's public ' hearing on the petition to be hold at 10 a. m. Thursday in the court room at the court house. The city's petition also asks for a crosHiiiB over Fourth St., which matter will lie heard nt the name time and information also nets forth for the need of the opening of that street, hut efforts will he concen ' t rated on seeking to obtain the Kifihth St. opening as tho greater ' immediate necessity. I The citv officials know that the Southern Pacific will make a hard ' fight against a crossing over Kighth St.. but think it will not resist -so hard against the asked for Fourth St. crossing, as the lat ter would not affect Its' yard. SALEM, Jan. 27 (P) The ad ministration bill for abolition of the public service commission as it now exists and the creation of a one-man commission will be the subject of a public hearing next Friday night before the joint sen ate and house committees on rail roads and utilities. This afternoon at 4 o'clock the senate committee on roads and highways wilt hold n hearing on bills providing against the use of billboards and other advertising along public highway anil prohib iting the gathering of plants and flowers along the highways. MfTQ NKW YORK, Jan. 27. (tVt A d smite as to the onsltlon nf the I Canadian rum-runner Josephine K when she was shelled by the coast guard Saturday night ami her master fatally wounded added to tho International complications today. At the arraignment of the crew before United HtateH commissioner Cotter yesterday, Assistant I "ni'cd Stales Attorney Robert It, Walts demanded high ball on the ground that the vessel was idjchted within the U'-milc limit. 10 FIGHT DRUGS HAI.KM. Jan. 27. o-Ti Preven tion of illegal traffic In nai r oti s In f iregon through educational work pcrtainlriK to alcohol, stimu lants a nd nai cotlcn beyond the public schools a nd the enforce ment of needed statute? in reium- nended to the StJt h Ifqielaturo in a report of the ftnte narcotic com ! mlmn n, Men-tire1 pertaiui'ic to; ithe ret ommend.ttion have .ready j been pTCpnrcd or are under prepa- 0 at ion. CROSSINGS ASK BAN ON PRODUCT OF RED TOILER Union and Farm Spokesmen Seek Tightening of Pro visions Against Forced Labor Products Hawley Has Inside Facts. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 1-ahor and farm federation repre sentatives today urged barring of Kussian forced labor products be fore the house ways and means committee. The hearing was on proposals specifically to bar all Kussian pro ducts or to exclude them as forc ed labor products. Chester iray of tho American farm bureau federation urged passage of a bill which would tighten provisions against forced labor products. Kdward F. MeC.rady of the American Federation of 1-abor, ad vocates exclusion of all "Kussian forced labor" products. Asked If direct exclusion of Kussian pro ducts would not be better. Cray said that certain products from certain other countries should bo kept out. Ho mentioned Liberia, France, Morocco, and Czecho-Slo-vakia. DeritiHc. Policy "Russia has a well defined pol icy," said McUrady, "to make things so embarrassing by break ing down wage scales, by breaking down markets as to create havoc in tho United States and other countries." He said the present unemploy ment crisis would not be settled quickly. "There are no new manu factures appearing to give work to 1, 200. 000 workers whose jobs have been destroyed by machin ery." he commented. Medrady laid opposition to the proposals to "greed of importers." Cha irman 1 luwley of the com mittee said lie, had been informed virtually all labor In Russia was forced. "I have Information." said Haw ley, "that If the worker In Russia refuses to do the work assigned to him, he can't get a meal ticket and he is regarded as an enemy of tho revolution." HOM HAY, India. Jan. 27. (?) Mahatnia Gandhi, released lust night from a British prison ut Poona, today urged the authorities to liberate the thousands of Indiun nationalists still in juil, empliasiz ingthe necessity for general ( litinil amnesty if peace is to be re stored fn Indki. Tumultuous multitudes surround ed Gandhi upon his arrival from Verorla prison today and gave him one of the greatest ovations of tiiu ulr.'itifni ciirnor Only alter hours of cheering and acclamation could he break away, pleading with them: "If you love im go home. Go and spin yum nnd bring it to me. This Is the grcntest service that you can render India and myself. I am weary and tired after my sleepless night on the train, und If you are merciful you will disperse." Approve Nomination. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 7. P) The nomination of David Rur nelt of Ohio as eolleetor of inter nal revenue to succeed Robert H. I.ucas was approved unani mously today by the senate fi nance committee, 4 Crane Plans considered for In stalling electric light and power plant here. TIRED GANDHI ET OVATION AFTER PRISON Chicago Shoppers Witness Battle Against Bandits in Department Store Holdup CHICAOO. Jan. 27. iV Five men w-ro held by the police to day in ronn tion with a bold robbery yesterday of $I9,L'00 by five, gunmen at the Wetholdt de partment ntorp. Unco In and Ah bind avenue. The money war scized durlMK an exchange of fhots which caused M-oicsGf cus tomers to flee in f ar. Three men wenr wounded. The money was beinu trans ferred from the store to a bank Tim robbers, posted in the More. rloed in on two policeman and two bank guard os they ncared O Exile of Doom ( Congratulated Upon Birthday . Hoi tux, Holland, Jan. 27 1 i.-Vi - His mice imperial ma- jsiy. William Hobeiizollcni. today celebrated his seventy- 4 second birthday quietly at Huoin House In the Hutch village of his exile. Many messages of eongrat- illation came from Oerniaity and a number from American friends. Here, where the for mer kaiser lives like a country squire, he worked as usual In his rosarium, digging and chopping wood like one of his Dutch laborers. fr General Wood Rouses Re sentment by Refusal to Stop for Veterans' Home Consideration. ASH LAND. Ore., Jan. 2 7 (V) Guy Applewhite, commander of the American Jhcgion post here, said today protests had been for warded to the Oregon delegation .in congress against tho action of ( t e n era 1 ( J eo rge 1 1 . Wood i n re -fusing to view a site offered by Ashland for the proposed soldiers home in the Pacifie northwest. General Wood was on a tour of the west inspecting sites. Applewhite said the general had proniiscd to view the local site, but shortly before he was due to arrive he notified Ashland he would be unable to stop longer than Hi minutes, the duration of his train stop. Although Ashland had endorsed Roseburg as first choice for the home in Oregon, this city offered its Aite 'lh ovotit Hour burg was not selected. ASHLAND, (He.. Jan. 27 Hpl.) Refusal of General Gcoi-ro H. Wood, chairman of the board ot managers of national soldiers' homs, to stop in Ashland es terdav to inspect this city's site for the propose! two million dot-. lar home for the northwest is causing widespread resentment in this end of the valley. General Wood claimed the Ash land site was too far removed from the center of the north-' west to make il a feasible loca tion for the home. Learning of the general's plans to pass thru without stopping. Guy Applewhite. American legion port commander and a delei-atlon of members, mo tored to (Hants Pass to meet Gen eral Wood in that cily to induce him to at least chow the courtesy of viewing the 200-acre site, south of this city. He positively r e f us e d end would not read a carefully pre pared brief on tho site submitted j to him by tno delegation. il said the general wan Instructed to stop in Ashland and In view of his refusal, a written protest Is being prepared to sund to Washington. Further action is expected. General Wood inspected the pro posed Roseburg site and Is said to have been favorably imprewed. Roseburu is the original bidder for the home and Ashland came in the picture as second choice for Oregon. St. lb-lens was an other t iregon bidder. In the state of Washington there are eight cities In the field and each one was vifit.d by the general and his party. IDE1 MA RHHPI KI.L, On Jan. 7 Thn u-:i I nwvl J initial' iry day in ::: years was enjoyed ny i oos i..i resident today. The temperatnio at noon was 70 degree.-. In Janu- ary, 1:mi2. th Was reached. satne temperature a first floor exit. Three robbers came on out of the basement Btairs; n fourth appeared In the door way and the fifth wat Mand lnn at u counter to the rear. At the command to 'Vtlck Vm up" the flitht started. Amid thr roar nT firearms and the m-rearnn of women customers one of the robbers F-Q'.cd a box containing the money. Policemen William P.inder. lying wound-on the floor, tired at the fieetnii robbers, onn ((f them Ktautiertd and crleil out In pain, but was dnigged into the robbery automobile by a com panion. O INSPECTOR I E ASHLAND SHOULDER td a ennft lllflfca W W W I I f HIk MrKi m m m m , I Ull ULniLII OF OFFICER Kingslcy May Face Court Before End of Month Bound Over to Grand Jury at Hearing Today Wit ness Held On Heavy Bail. Kve: y effort will he made to bring James K. KiiiHsley, seH-con-fosscd slayer of Sam (I. Proscotl, Ashland police officer, in Ashland Saturday morning, lo an early trial, the district attorney's office said today. It is likely the trial will be held before the end of ill ' month. The prisoner was bound over lo the grand jury this i'ore nooiuwhcn he appeared in justice court on a first degree murder charge preferred by 'Sheriff Itnlpli Jennings. lie is held in the county jail with out bail. Kail Remington. P. hitch biker, tiding wild Kingslcy and an eye wit iles of the shoot in g, will be held here as a material witness unt i) t he trial is over. I .mid of Slu.iMiti was set for him. Grilled By Talent Kingslcy was questioned t his forenoon by Stale Traffic Captain C. P. Talent and told of Incidents surrounding the theft in Salt Lake City of the He Soto sedan, which he was driving when he arrived in Ashland. He related (he car was taken by himself and a partner, named "Irish," and the two attack ed the driver when a short distance out of the cily. Irish is alleged to have si ruck tlte driver on the head and Ihe pair though) Ihey had killed him, hut nevertheless they lied him up and drove norlli to ward Idaho and Washington. He denies of having been connected with any other deeds of violence. Kingslcy is couleni to have the law take ils course, hut is anxious over the probability or hanging. He pre fers life IhipTiRonment, but K in fnipi'ohable that ho will receive such consideration In view of the cold blooded manner by which he brought about tho officer's death. He also said he had never been to a circus nnd had never owned more than one suit, pair of shoes and overcoat at one time. He lias n weakness for cigars and prefers them to cigaretles. Waives Examination I He was brotmht to justice court this forenoon handcuffed to Oscar Hun ford and accompanied by Sher iff Jennings und Deputy I'aul .le nities. He was told his righls by Judge Glenn O. Taylor and was ad vised he could hire a lawyer, lie waived exumiiuit ion and alter be ing hound over to the grand jury was hurried back to Ins cell In the county Jail. While no mob violence Ih expec ted, special precautions are being taken to prevent a possible lynch ing, about which inulterings were fn the air nil day Saturday. Prescott's funeral was held this afternoon in Ashland nnd was at tended by a large delegation of lo cal county and city officers who had learned to know him as one of the most conscientious young men In southern Oregon. E THK DAI.LMH, Ore., Jan. 27 M - RepnrtH thai a plane was heard Tliursday nij;ht southwest of Hit fur. and that a short time later a crash was heard in a nearby can yon, sent searching patties Into the district today In the belief that Walter K. Case, m Inning Varney pi lot, may have crashed In the vi cinity. I'nllowiiiK reports from Kdgar N. Smith, a rancher seven milcH south west of Ihifur, and further corroii mative testimony of the flight or n plane n cross the fog enshrouded sky of the neighborhood, ttcth Da vidson, commercial pilot and war comrade of Case, flew over the up per Kifteen Mile creek today. On his return he discovered he had not covered the territory in which Cane's plane Is thought to liuve fallen. Hin i I h said he heard the plane, flying low and hidden by clouds. The motor neomed to he missing. A logging crew at Springer Mill, four miles beyond Smith's place, reported hearing a crash a short time later. Irene I'nder Knife. Ni;V YORK, Jan. 27. Irene Castle McUitighliiv the former diincer and now the wife of a Chl c:io sport-man iml coffee manu facturer wmn recovering here to day from ;in operation for v:irjcose Veins, performed la.-f week end at a private sa nitarlum on f;'t fitn I MISSING PILOT A Ntt DUFUR Youngest General lB'.:'.,"''"1 . ; .. ( ,:r-- . . i .,s(.v..-t-j& ' ; frV tA'-f'Y' "-Si 3 V4 , x 1 A lutHttll'.t P'tit Photo Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea of Salem, Ore., is believed to be the youngest general in tho army. He his been assigned command of the Cighty -second Brigade, composed entirely of Oregon troops. PLANE UPSETS IIALTIMOUK. Md., Jan. 27. (JP) Mrs. .Mildred Rruee. ltrltish flier on a world trip, wr injured this afternoon when her plane over turned at the Glenn U Martin air poit as she started to leave for Washington. The accident occurred as the plane's wheels hogged in mud off the runway. The plane turned completely over hut Mrs. Uruce climbed out almost immediately as spectators van up. Sim apparently suffered only a few cuts and bruises and the plane did md seem badly damaged. On landing here this morning after a flight from Tappanahhock, where sho was forced down lato yesterday on her way from Pitts burgh, the wheels of the plnno stuck in tile 'mud in a corner of the field. Mrs. Rriieo damaged her plane In u bad landing on .Mod foul air port recently. MEN TO START ON SCHOOL SITE A crew of about 12 men will be set to work Wednesday morn ing by Hupt. K. 11. Hedrlck clean- ...r ii.. t hi. (It i Irrhito ll It'h MrtlOtll site preparatory to building the new high hciiooi mere. 'I'lw. l.,,tii,l'u nlnn lu In Wblell (taltdale avenue 20 feet in front of the school site anil to take out the rot ton wood trees now on the site so It will be possible to put in a lawn. i ne large oas, me p'dwof'd, cedar, walnuts and niinlou will l.e left on the site. except where it may be necessary to remove some of the smaller lyien to effect street widening. .i ..ii,,, u.UU chit. (iron are lieing empioyeu lor iom. i..t. l.l,.l, iu i.vo...til to lust I three or four days. More than enough men are already on the list, at ding to Supt. Hedrlck. COASfBUSSNESS .ii RAN I'ltANCISI'O, Cal., Jan. 27. II') llradstreel today reported trade In I'urillc coast renters showing some Improvement. In San r'ninrisco betterment In Iron and steel lines picked up. California reports Indicated much new build ing In slchl. l,os Angeles produc ers of women's wear repnrteil sub stantial lxi(Alucs of spring busi ness. Sales continued throughout Ihe northwest, low prices moving goods briskly. Drags In flour, feed and apples were due to low prices. fatherIjsedstick Ul iL.il J'01tTt,A'l, Jan. 27 (&) For wlg'pinK h I - month - old daughter with a Mick hecauno nhc wouldn't eat. ( ', L, l,ewi whh niven a tMt-day itUHpended jail Renienee. today. Police airt the child- body wan covered with Mack nnd blue mark, MRS. BRUCE IS INJURED WHEN CLEARING WORK FAVORABLE REPORT ON ROGUE BILL Three Committee Members Withhold Vote for Final Ballot in Senate Miller, Dunn and Eberhard Are Strong in Support. SAI.KM, Ore, Jim. 2?. (JV) Without u minority adverao report Ihu snnalo comniiUei'on Kiiine will todiiy ruport luvoin'oly on tho son ate hill prnviilinK for the cloning of ltoum" river to (ommercial fish ins. There was. however, no as snranre that all meniherH of the coi'iniiUeo woultl vote for the bill when it goes to final passage on the floor. Senator Rpanlillns or Marlon county declined to vote on tho question whether the committee should report favorably, and de i lai'iiil he was deeply Impressed by the argument of the commercial interests at the public hearing last week. Senators Carsoncr and Uillings ley reserved the right to vote as they pleased when the bill goes lo vote in the senate. Senators Miller anil Dunn, both of whose nnmcs are on t lie bill, and Senator Kberhard are unqualifiedly lor it and it appeared certain that Sena tor Schulmerich would support it. STATE MOUSK, SALEM, Ore., Jan. 27. (VP) Hy a vote of 36 to 24 the house today refused to adopt the minority report of the Multno mah county delegation against re jection of tho bill providing for ap pointment of the Port ot Portland commission by the governor. The Multnomah delegation last night, by a vole of 10 to 4, rejected the house hill upon which the gov ernor curlier yesterday in a special message urged support. The meas ure would give the governor power to appoint nlno members ot the port commission. The minority re port, signed by Representatives Herbert Gordon, D, E. Keasoy, John II. Lewis and R. W. Olll, urged the passage of tha bill. Farm Department Urged A bill which would create a state department of agriculture, which has been much discussed since the opening of the legislature, was in troduced In tho senate today. It would consolidate all existing de partments and agencies pertaining to agriculture, horticulture nnd livestock. , Repeal of the state market road tax levy Is called for In a bill in troduced by Senators Kiddle and Kddy. In lieu of the tux the bill would require the state highway commission to apportion to the counties amounts of money each yenr equal to at least 1 mill on the assessed valuation of the coun ties. No county could receive in excess of 10 per cent above the 1 mill. The Benate rejected a memorial from the Wisconsin legislature ask ing the state of Oregon to Join in a memorial to congress asking for a national constitutional convention. Kill Woodward Bill Senator Woodward's bill malting criminal actions In Justice court' nppenluble only in event ot a jail sentence of 10 days or more or a (Continued on Page 6, Story 1) Will ROGERS $qys: AUSTIN', Texns, Jan. 27. The Wickpi'sliiim report has di vided pin-lies imd individuals into the following classifica tions the "retninists," that's the ones that want to retain the amendment and tho liquor thai tines with it; the "abo litionists," those are the ones that want the amendment abol ished, and vet a in the liquor; then there are the "appropria lionists." They want Borne money appropriated whether it's abolished or retained. Then there is the "Rtate riters." They want their state to handle the revenue that comes from liq uor under the present plan, or under any proposed plan. Then the big majority belong to the "willing to be convinced ns soon as they see how the peo ple will vote" plan. Kind of got Mr. Hoover hanging on tho fringes of that group.