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5DF0KD i Second Section Six Pages Second Section Six Paget Twenty-Fiftt) rM MKDKOUIl. ORKtiOX. SlWDAY. KKIllfTA l'V 1, No. m. W1AIL TRIBUNE GROG VOTE PUN IRKS DRYS-WETS Prohibition Injected Into Oregon Limelight for First Time in 14 Years Answer for Every Argu ment Produced. SALEM, Ore., Jan. 3t. yP) Ite IH'wal of the prohibition question in the Oregon legislature whb se?n in the announcement last night that Senator Jay Upton of r.eml would Introduce a nenato resolu tion similar to the referendum proposal defeated by tho house. I'rohlliition had been injected Into Oregon limelight for the f.rst time in II years by the in troduction of the .Manning prohi bition resolution several days ago. and after a public hearing, and a i five to two defeat within the com nnittee, the qu-stlon was fought out upon the floor on the minor ity report. The vote resulted in the adoption of the mujorlty rec ommendation that the resolution do not pass. Constant pounding of the offi cial gavel, nnd a threat by Speaker Frank .1 Lonergan that further demonstration would re sult in the public being excluded (rein the galleries, were required tj maintain order and a certain degree of quiet during arguments by proponents and opponents of Hie referendum provision. The 'bouse chamber was crowded with vsltors from over the entire rtate. Supporter" of the resolution, led by the author of the move, argued (hat a vote on this Issue was not a "wet" or "dry"' vote, bill only one which would stale hither the people would be glv iii an opportunity to express Ihemselves on the Important qiies t on. Opponents stated it vole would brand Oregon us "turning ilown prohibition after being one of the .first to adopt 0)0, dry, law, and the interference would be broadcast over the wcrld." Oregon's hop industry, declared I one of the leading agricultural ae ' tivitics in the state and whose future rested upon alcoholic bev erages, was given as the reason why people should be given a right to vote on the Issue by Mrs. Lottie Smith, one of the two wo men legislators In her Initial ad dress before that body, "on gon is the hop center of the world," she declared. Mrs. Dorothy Lee. an.-wered by staling the lands used for raising hops could be put to good use in other lines and that she could ' see no reason why another industry could not be substituted for bops." Tin- ballot box Is Hie sulely alvc of a republic," and the luiil I.T should be thus submitted rutted Allan Hynon. Multnomah, former assistant 1'nited States at tcmey. "There is "doubt In my 1nind bow the public fools." Op ponents declared there was no demand by the people to have the Issue renewed. And If there were they could resort to the Ini lative. Libor rcprescnlallvcs in llie bouse declared the working people were restless on the ques tion and bad a right to settle it for themselves. The matter if prohibition Itself was discussed during -Hie argui l it, and a plea to protect the 'grealest crop in Oregon, our youth," was made by Homer D. Angell. Multnomah, who bod at tempted tu lay the issue on the table. Manning in his closing state ments declared "any girl or boy above 1C years of into could get n drink any fine In Portland." The prohibition law was not the solution of protection tor the young, he said. Prohibition enforcement diffi culties, the Wlekcrshatn commis sion disagreement and Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, were eite.l by proponents in urging the matter be referred to vote. "The law can not be enforced. It Is lime for a show-down. This is oll )y Hie handwriting on the wall." stated I. t'.' Temple, t'matllla county, who said lie had always voted for prohibition. IRE AUTO FUEL SAl.K.M. Jan. 31. A iN'enrly two million dollar more gnollne tax was collected hy the state of Oregon during 1!'30 than the pre vious ye.tr. a report issued by the secretary of Mate today revealed. The total tax collected wan $fi, 7H7.29l.tls a.H enmpnred to I4.SCS. ,SN,". t I the previous year. 1 Ha !e of uafi'linc during tin I - months wa I 8.7 .".a gallons it compared t. l.'dMl j,34 In 1!2'.. an inorenff the past year of about wvcti million Kal Ion.-. Total Gal lons distillate dr-.pod 307.243 last y-ar with n totul uf Ies than fourt million gallon-. Jt U. of 0. Man Gains lar accomplishing; trie outstanding piece of research In the field ci .ot'rlmentnl hlolorrv in the I nited Stales in 1930, Dr. Krnst (id thorn, .ofessor of physiology t Ihe University of Orejon, was recentl i warded the New York Academy of Sciences award. The award Is re nrded as the foremost recognition for research in this field, nnd carried with It a cash prize of $250, which Dr. Getlhorn plans to use for further e:-reh. Oregon Editorial Press Comment Upon Ashland Horror Killing The slayer of Sam Prescott, 25 year old Ashland policeman, wants to he imprisoned for life, add ins that he can see no good to come from hanging him. Hanging would at least get a heartless, brutal kilter, who is no good to himself and a menace to others, out of the way for good. Thai is one uf tho few things you can say in defense of hang ing. There is a theory, probably fan tastic and exaggerated, that this killer was sent down by Seattle gangsters with instructions to "get" Prescott, who was making himself obnoxious by too strict and honest enforcement of tho law against booze runners. That theory, you know, makes good reading, unci we newspaper men like to give our readers some thing gotid and hot to read something with a movie scenario thrill to it. Everybody likes to give hiH cuk-. turners what they want. But lot us suppose, for the sake of argument, that there is some thing to this Seattle gangster theory, for it is thereby possible to point an interesting moral. These big city gangsters get tu thinking they are pretty hot stuff, because in the lack of good citizen ship and tho inefficiency regard ing public matters and the out right corruption that are a part of lug city government they find tht'ir opportunity and after find ing it they certainly improve it. There is no denying that. The gangster menace in the big cities is a real menace. But let's get on with our story, so wo can get to the moral. These Seattle gangsters, assum ing that this thrilling theory has something In It, got their backs 1 1 1 about this country boy at Ash land who was ctt u.si ng the rum , runners :o much trouble, so they ; .sent one of their hired murderers, down to "put him on the spot'' urttng for the moment an ex-! pres,sion that tho gang movies have made so familiar. I Thiil's where they made their mistake. The killer, of course, "got" poor Sam Prescott we're assuin- ; ing, you know, that this theory i has something to it but there the program began to go wrong. j In the big cities, in such a case,: the police would first have been baffled. Then they would have got a clew. 'After that, they would have given out a lot of statements to the papers. But, all tho while, they would have been refraining from arrest ing the killer. Down at Ashland, It was dif ferent. Homebody went right out anil arrested the slayer, anil put him in Jail. There was no hooey at all to It. Tho authorities Just simply went out and gathered him in. In the course uf time he will come tu trial, and a hard-headed, un romantic country Jury will quite surely send him to the pen itentiary for life, fit the very least, and may vote to hung him. Here Is the moral, which wo have been coming to for so long: Tho big cities tire the (dace for the gangster stuff. The low browed thugs who do tho dirty work of gangsterism nnd the smarter cr-Joks who make the plans for i he low-brow h to cary out can get away with It profit ably enough in the big cities. But when they get out Into the country they hit a snug. They run up against good, old-fashioned honesty in the persons of country officers who may not be onto all the latent rackets but who look up on the law as something to he en forred ami upon themselves as the law'n earnest agents. If these big city crooks are wise, they'll stick lo the big cities. When they get out Into the coun try, they go up against something t hat Ik too btg for them. Prank Jenkens In Husehdrg News-Be-view. TIIK SOU MM-; I-'own in Ashland other day a young man driving a stolen nut omobllo shot and killed a traffic National Honor r VMS 71iJfjHI officer who tried to arrest him. Now he has made a confession a tremendously long thing which Is in reality a life history that' : seems merely to Include the mur ' dor confession. What a sad story it is! Just a poor boy battling nil his lire against evil environ ment and poverty. Kvery tlmo he got a job they were so mean to him. Nothing left but a life of crime, although various minor criminal escapades are mentioned merely as illustrating a pathetic life history. Xews reports from Ashland just after the killing said that folks down there came mighty near treat ing Oregon to u lynching I party. We are very glad they 'didn't. The restraint which they showed under great provocation testifies to a fine conception of citizenship In southern Oregon. It will he interesting therefore to see how they react to the "sob jliue"(that is being? .handed -out by I the prisoner. Perhaps the pris i oner has an idea, that a com munity which couldn't get (ulte i "mad' enough to do a lynching 1 will l)o swayed easily Into sentl I motile! pity. Such things have ! ha ppened, We have seen some ' amazing performances right here i in Banc county, ns In the Mc Ba niels trial and the Sutherland , trials. i But that same capacity for re 'straint may not mean soft-heart-( edness. The "sob line" is one of the oldest ruses known to gang sters when the law catches up 'with them. Our hope Is that tho I people of southern Oregon will not be greatly influenced by it. Tho I mini is entitled to a prompL trial and a fair trial but nothing more. The stale of Oregon Is not great ly concerned in the young man's j unfortunate history. It is greutly concerned in serving notice on all young gentlemen who walk uround (filing personal urseimls and shoot ing officers that the law in Ore gon moves with certainty. JOu geiio liegislcr-Ouard. :.;ii.N ivs riiAMiKxnr: A staprrTering outcome befell the career of a fine, upstanding young man who was tho pride and pro duet of a well 'known Oregon com munity, lie played his part In the grammar schools that the taxpay ers provided, llo did his bit and made the grades In the high school such as every Oregon community provides. lie grew up to manhood, trust ed and respected and beloved. Then he became the arm of tho (Continued on Pago Two) COUNT THE YELLOW BOXES Real Proof That Country People Read the MAIL TRIBUNE BIOLOGIST OF UNIVERSITY IS HONOR WINNER Dr. Ernest Gellhorn's Ex periment May Enable Man to Conquer Muscuiar Fa tigueRecently from Ger many. PNIVKKSITY OP OlilCtiUN. Kugene. .Ian. ;(1. Opening up a new field of research In biology that may lead to discoveries that will enable man some day to con trol fatigue, a p a p e r entitled "Permeability and Fatigue in Muscle and Its 'bearing on th Problems of Ion Antagonism,' has won for Br. Ernest Oollhorn. professor of physiology at tin University of Oregon, tho , js'ew York Academy of Sciences award for 1 930 for experimental blologj it is announced here. The award, which It? the Creasy Morrison memorial. Is regarded as theoutsta tiding recognition for re search In this field, and that won by Dr. (iellhorn was announced at the same time that prizes wero bestowed on Professor H. von Peipel of Sweden for astronomy, and on Professor Douglas John son of Columbia for a paper on the physical sciences. It also car ries with it a cash award of $250, which Dr. Oellhorn plans to use for further research. Dr. Ocll horn's paper gives the results of a scries of studies he has carried on with cells of frogs in an attempt to prevent fatigue by use of calcium wilts. "We know that the surface layer or cells becomes marc permeable if the cell Is stimulated, "Therefore, a muscle heotnes permeable If it works. On the other hand, wo know that fatigue of muscle which sets in after prolonged periodw Is accompanied by an abnormally high degree of permeability. It k to be expected that fatigue could be retarded if It were possible to decrease the permeability of the muscle without diminishing its irritabiliay." Dr. Oellhorn came to the Uni versity of Oregon last year from Hallo university, Otymany, where for ten years he . was professor1 of physiology, lie is tho author of numerous scientific papers. SEE SLAVERY IN U. S. MOKCO VV, Jan. 3 1 . (VP) The newspapers I.vestla and 1'ravda today printed editorials replying to charges of forced labor In the Soviet Union with counter charges that slavery still existH among tho negroes in the southern United States and that In the northern sections of the same country con victs work In the timber forests under the most brutal conditions. AUTO LICENSES JIBE NATCH K55, Miss. (!) A man's telrplionc number may be his auto licenso number, too, in A d a m s county. llecauso Adams is the first In the alphabetical list and because Mississippi Issues nuto tif?s alpha betically, motorists of the county may select licenses that corres pond to their phono numbers. Many business and professional men tako advantage of the arrangement. Will Load High School Associations Next Year I Ni-nrly WW lilj;h hHiooI Htudrntn Kiilhored rcMntly nc tno univirnirv or urrgan tor the eleventh unniinl roiifrrenrn. Officer elected for the coming vciir nrc shown iiliove- Upper left, high school press conference. orflcerH! Hurold .lumber, MUwntikte high school, presi dent; Ituth t'lmpnmn, Sulcni, secretary; nnd Kuy Ynsul, Hood Klver, vice-president. Upper right, student body officers: Buy Morse, Uenson Tech, Portland, president; Uernicc Ingnlls, Eugene, vice-president; Cynthia I.lljequlst, Muitihfleld, ' secretory. " Lower, left, girls' league officers: Virginia Cooper, Uriint high, Portland, president; Judy Hyslop, Corvnllls, secretary-treasurer; nnd Ilonm Confer, West I.lnn, vice-president. At the right Is Itolicrt Kid dle, representing Grant high, Portland, which won the first award for publishing the best paper In the state in schools over 500: Junior Porter, representing Mcdford high, which won tho grand prize, tht Arnold Bennett Hall award, for publishing the best nll-around newspaper In the sUitc. Farmers Oppose (Oivjjou llurai taxpayer bloc, reflect! nt; desperate situation of farm tax- payers, will oppose refund uf in taiitfibN'H tax money, approximate ly $!HNUM)0. They realize that re tention of this .sum In state treas ury mcaiiH nearly one more mill re duction in property tax, and resent attitude of Portland intangibles taxpayers ;is uiKsympathette, iluy scout idea that intangibles taxpay ers were governed by anything ex cept desire to avoid paying taxes, and propose ' ret roaolive a mend -rnontrj to catch all who didn't, pay, thurf establishing cipiallty and sat- wyrrK-asuuos. win reo.un-ejncn - iiuinofrs iji'i ween in oho won pa to and those who didn't. This bloc Is large enough to obstruct perbap.s jm, t.uMVni.eil they cannot have defeat, enactment .if the refund I falth in Hlnio ,ux dmlnlstratlon. In measure unlcsw it members, upon'th(. ,I1K nll H wM, ,my Lh(, fJirmt,,. hearing other ide of question, ,H,tI1. tn )m,.k K,M, f;iith , change their i.leav. The farm meHi-UV(11.nn(nt ,hun jt w,u ,Q (() hers n re out for rura I tax relief and grab at possibilities In imme diate sight, .ignoring niovtly the large items of actual expenditure, In reduction of which lies real tax relfcf'far beyond what can be ae-compll-shed by attempts to shift from farm to city. Till farmer viewpoint may not be ignored by city people without serious peril of radical legislation, i With wheat, butter, eggs and other farm product selling bdmv cost , . it Is loti much to expect farmers to reject extreme proposals which on their face give promise or relief. l will not do to sit back in smug rlghteousiieJM with pharamtlc. con tempt for agrarian agitation. On the other hand, rural tax payers, if in a reasonable frame of mind, will realize that good will of Income tux payers will result in far higher returns from Income taxes than if as n clas the payers of in come taxi' are made to feel they are not treated honorably by their wtate girvcrumcnl. Refund of In tangibles tax would convince in come taxpayers that the slate gov ernment e.in he trusted lo n-decMn Dependable Abstract Service Wlicn it coiiiph tn nil inuttei'H pertaining In li Ics,wc arc equipped to servo you well. For L'O j'oiirN wc linvo limi coiii piliiiB antlioiiliitivo title recor'U enabling iih to offer I lie f input possible service. Title Insurance Jackson CcJunty Abstract Co. 127 E. Sixth St Phone 41 Intangible Refund Voter) t its reputed promise upon the Klreimth of which Intangibles tax wa.s pa id by taxtiayer.s bul to ex pend refund In event the lax was Invalidated. These intangibles tax payer now feel that their monoy is In unlawful possession of the win to and that they are entitled to its return. If the slate fa Ik lo nialie Kood, many of these taxpayers will' refuse to p:iy any income tax cx eept as they are foreed to do so. Koreiiitf thousands of striUiiiK tax payer i.s easy to talk about but not so easy to aeuomplLsh, ItevenueH from Intannlbles lax and other In come taxes will be far heavier if on..lft n cnf thvstta.nuiycrs feel they arc .mire of fair and honorable f i-r-.t t men I t li.i it 1 1 1 1 r 1 If I h,.v grab. Honesty Is not only right. but i the heist policy for govern ment a well ti for private busl- Skeletons t Heart hod hi Nevada PASA UKNA, Oil. UP) Skele tons of small horses, of mountain sheep larger than those now living, and of both little and big camels are found In (.ijpsum cave, Nevada, the latest discovered American do posit of prehistoric remains. M A telephone call i.s so quick and reassuring that most people think of it not only as a courtesy due others, but a real convenience to themselves and it costs little. Anyone, anywhere, any time from your own telephone, or from public telephones conveniently located everywhere. Home Telephone & Telegraph Co. of Southern Oregon 0 ! GIRL. 15. BUILDS OWN SHORT WAVE STATION SAX IHI-KJO, Cal.P) Doro thy Mitchell, lii-year-old high school sophomore, owns and op erates her own radio transmit ting station. j Clans! fled as an amateur, she ; Iimh made friends throughout Ihe , United Slates and Canada and has, made contact with foreign lands through her short wave tele-j graphic eode station, which uses , the call lettertt WtiOHC. j S)h put her outfit together her-: HMir, moreover.' When she finishes' a high school coiirso in science, 1 he plans to become a commercial radio opera tor. HIPS GROW WIDER AS WOMEN SHUN EXERCISE NKW YORK (A1) There's been an average Increase! of two Inches in tho American woman's hip measure in recent years, If Her bert I,, Kambor, wholesale gar ment manufacturer, has things right. lie attributes it to auto riding and easy living. Richland I T. D, Young com pleted Installation of four-ton too machine In new IMno-Kaglu creamery, ijfP " telephoned we would be there at tuT A COURTESY CALL ANY disappointments and sometimes embarrass ment result from "just dropping iu" on folks. li TANGLE UP TO SOLQNS Clark Measure Would Bring an Advocate Instead of a Judge Contract Phase a Stickler. HALKM, Jan. 31. fyi) The pub lic utilities measure, as Introduced in the legislature and drafted by A. K. Clark falls In Its purpose In creating a commission which would act us an advocate for con sumers rather than as a Judiciury It was pointed out by speakers at the public hearlng on the measure. Tho hearing was adjourned after more than two hours discussion to be resumed at a later date. Questions propounded by Senat ors J. O. Bailey and J. B. Bennett, Christ Scheubel, Oregon City attor ney, and II. Ij Gross, Portland at torney, brought from Clark expla nations of tho power of tho one man nmnilKHitn liitii-nrtnt hv fhn questioners as little changed from the power of the present pub- lie service commission. The bill proposed would abolish, the prcs ' ont service commission, create a one-man commission and establish i optional home rule for cities In dealing with utilities. "There Is no difference between, the bill drafted by Clark and In troduced in the house, and the old law except tho one-man commis sion and tho Intended operation of tho homo rule clause," declared Cross In summing up his findings in tho bill. Tho Joseph and Meier program was for a consumers' ad vocate In tho commission, not a Judge, which tho bill falls to pro vide. Gross declared. Rate making should be legislative, and not ju dicial, as It appears this hill falls to provide, 'he stated. Technical questions as ta re- course of the people In tho event municipalities and the commis sioner ugrced on a contract, meth od' of adoption of a contract, -and findings of" commissioners after hearings, were asked by Senators DafloV and Bennett. Clark answer ed that hearings wero necessary as basic reason for findings, that tho people may reopen the case, and that If "you deal In public business you must Invest someone with power to mako such con tract.' - i - ... The power of tho right for cities to bargain with utilities, as pro vided In tho measure, Is very val uable, declared Clark In explain ing tho measure. "I do not know that the regulation will bo any bet ter under the new act, but- It is known that utility regulation in this- Htate is unreasonable. This (Continued on Page Two) t , 1 ! '. 1 P w o
