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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
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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
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