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Newspaper Page Textm Medford mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: Tonight and Wednesday flood y with alley fog. No change In temperature. , Temperature Highest yesterday CO l.owcu this morning 28 Precipitation To ft j. in. yesterday 00 To ft :i. m. today 00 I Twenty-Fifth Year MEDF0RI OWKCON. TIKSDAY il'AIIY No. VAL '. KKi:i Todav By Arthur Brlibane The World's Silver.' Italy Finds Oil. Strange British Hanging. Mohammed's Pigeon., Copyright King Fsaturei 8ynd., Inc. fleorge K. Roberts, vice presi dent of the National City Hank, says our business troubles arc due to our great gold reserve. On our huge gold pile, danger ous inflation, reckless specula tion and other evils were based. J'hey hurt all nations, and hurt us most of all. Some believe, rightly, that the butchering of silver's value, hurt the world more than the scramble for gold. Milking silver practically worthless as money made half the people on earth, about eight hundred millions, unable to buy goods. China and India, with more than seven hundred million hu man beings, are without useful money. Even high finance was made to understand the situation last week, when Mexico, with every desire to pay, was forced to suspend interest payments on five hundred millions of gold bonds. You cannot pay your debts if vonr creditors make payment impossible. The Mexican situation may cause the money power of the world to. realize that demonitiz-' ing silver is dangerous. Small bank notes in France and Brit ain, as cheap as' eight cents each in Fvancevdrovesilye.r. from circulation. And our "cartwheels" are seen rarely, rtritain attempted to put India on a gold basis when she was not really strong enough for a gold basis herself, and India's great hoards of silver, becom ing less and less valuable, were Marketed at ruinous prices. Cold and silver have been "used, side by side, as . the world's money for thousands of years, with silver the dominant metal, the greater part of the lime. The French word for money is "Argent" which means "silver" and today sil ver is practically worthless, i gold dollar being worth about fifty times its weight in silver. ) Now, we consider lending China one hundred million ounces of silver, to help her thinners. It would rid us 01 part of our useless silver, but would be, to China, about useful as the loan of a train load of confederate money. ,H It would interest W. .1. Iiryun to look down and see to what the financiers contempt for silver has led. The world's "gold" governments might well call a conference to (Continued on Pnce Hcvcn Abe Martin VlKit' iH'comr loncd dcntl-t tluit nurn't too proud V pull n tooth? SiH'akln o why girls lenvo home, ttlwit' f I'll'- tenl? tt'opyr yht John V. DUle Co.) o ilie oe fa MEIER PLAN FOR POLICE DUE TODAY Eddy To Introduce Bill Abolishing Traffic, Prohi Departments And Creat ing Constabulary Under Control Of Governor. SALEM, Feb. 3. (P) Designed lo carry out one of the major rec ommendations contained in Gov ernor Julius L. .eier' Inaugural message to the legislature. Senator 1J. V. Eddy, Multnomah county, today will Introduce in the senate a bill to create a de-partment of .-date police. The department would function under the direct control of the governor and a superintend ent of state police, appointed by the governor. The bill abolishes the state traffic and prohibition departments and transfers to the new agency all of the police duties now exercised by the game and fish commissions and the office of the .state fire marshal. For the conduct of the depart ment of police the bill would ap propriate a total of 1.03.0ft0 for the coining hiennium, an amount equal to the estimated expenses for that period of tho officers and functions it would absorb. Would Divert I"iinils. It is provided that the superin tendent of state police shall em ploy officers to carry on the work of the department; abolished and shall he provided for by tho di- I version to the state police fund of the following amounts from other state funds: From the state hatchery fund, $r2,00Q for the employment of of ficers to enforce the fish law; $300,000 from the game protection fund for officers to enforce the game laws; $100,000 from the gen eral fund for the enforcement of prohibition laws; $f."2.000 from Mate highway funds for traffic en forcement, nnd $00,000 from ntate j fire marshal's fund for work of officers detailed as fire marshals. In its organization structure tho plan proposed for the department is an adaptation of the state police laws under which the Canadian Uoyal Mounted force, the Texas! Rangers and the state police of New Jersey and Pennsylvania op erate, sponsors of the measure de clared. sob mm SALEM, Feb. 3. George O. I!mwn, clerk of the state land board, told he joint ways and means committee last night that the state has been forced to tako over about itOn farms In recent years on account of loans from the state la nil board that borrowers) were unable to repay. Some of the farniut are leased, he said, and some J nave neen soki. At present vaiues the state would lose money to sell them. Brown said. The total esti mated value of the farms was plac ed at Sr.3ri.ono. The state Irreduc ible school fund, from which the boa rd loa lis to fa rmers at fi per cent, now totals about $7,SOO.Oon. DEATH TOLL 66 PDUTLAND. Feb. 3. P( Auto mobiles claimed 6fi lives in Port land Ial year, the annual report of the coroner, issued today, reveals. Industrial accident took 24 lives, whlb' 40 were killed In miscellane ous mishepc. Murders and homicides totaled 1 : Suicide numlcred 105, of which died from prm. 23 shot! themselves, IS died by hanging, 13 j Jumped into the river, nnd six slashed their throats. Ten person? f accidentally drowned. Seven died from acute alcoholism. M u U VASHI.T.TON. Web. 3. (PI The predli'tion was mnde in the Bfmite tmluy ly Senator Hnrrmnn that there v9 tild he no leRlylatlon on rashlnK veternna nnjustiMl rom penaatlon rertidcates nt thlB Hes .Minn. nlthoiiKh lie iM-rwonally ativo cited payment of V!Xit on present value of the certificates. O The Mississippi democrat did not explain his remarks, which be put ( forward as "o belief."' New Island Seen Following Quake In Mexican Area OAXAC'A CITY, Mex.. Fen. 3. At Discovery of a new island or volcano, six miles t S off Puerto Angel, Oaxaca, in the Pacific,' was announced today by Dr. Daniel liueda, in charge of the ohservatory ( here. fr 4 He said the discovery had been corn muni cat eil to htm by the. captain of the Hten.ni- ship City of San Francisco. It is believed to have emerged ! from the sea il urine the fr 4 earthquake which rocked this 4- state Jan. 14. ; , Survey Shows Stand On 25 Legislative Matters Increased Tax On Oleo In Favored Measures Oppose Cream Grading. SALEM, Ore.. Feb. 3. (TP) Granges in the state have taken stands upon 25 legislative matters, a survey made by State Master C. C. Jlulet reveals. Some of the issues are favored by one or two granges while others have the support of a group, including Po mona organizations. Some of tho issues upon which different granges have declared themselves include increased tax on butter .substitutes, to exempt meat sold in county where pro duced from meat tag law, opposed to compulsory cream grading act, opposed to $75,000 appropriation for Pacific International Livestock exposition, for exemption from tax on farm crops in hands of pro ducer. Favor Oil Tax Reruiul A refund of state taxes on gas and distillates used on farms is favored by four granges and one Pomona group. Other issues in clude opposition to appropriation for advertising and land settlement purposes, for compulsory auto in surance, opposed to salary raises for state and county officers, for loans for seed grains, for limiting size nnd length of auto trailers on highways. Old age pensions is favored by several, while others endorse state printing and free use of text books, prohibition of gambling in grain, keeping Rogue open to commercial fishing, for one-dollar license for persons hunting and fishing in own county, for law placing 7 ft per cent of all road taxes distributed in counties in market road building and maintenace fund, for embargo nn wheat, for distribution of sur plus wheat to destitute of nation. Repeal of the school bus law, opposition to consolidation of rural schools and opposition lo Increased gasoline tax were voiced by others, as well as favoring state constabu lary, county courts fixing salaries of water masters and favor the administration power bills. SALEM, Feb. 3 (P) The train men's safety measure and a series "of measures designed to abolish the office of county court were intro- (Continued on Page 6, Story 1) i capita. Briefs SALKM, Feb. 3 Authority to collect from the relatives or estate, of persons committed to the stute asylum, or institution for the feeble-minded would be concer ted upon the stute where such relatives or estate Is able to pay under the terms of a bill Introduc ed in the house late yesterdny. Twenty dollars a month, or slightly less than the average cost of car lug for asylum imuatos, would he the charge Imposed. SAI.KM. Feb. 3 OPy Creation of tax nupi'rvilnK end conservatlnn commlssionx in all conntiea of Orn Kim exti'plltiK Multnomah, which already Iibh a Himllar connnlHslon, in pn)Ki.c(l In a house hill intro duced yesterday. The commission Is given Jurisdiction over all muni clpai corporations In ttie county that levy a tax upon property. SAI.KM, Feb. 3 (A') Senator .1. O. llalley of Multnomah county alone voted against Senator W. K. IMirke's administration hill yester day providing for the repeal of the act requiring utilities to obtain from the public service commis sion certllicates of convenience and necessity before beltiK permitted to enter any territory. SALEM-, Feb. 3 (P) T. Ft. fitl lenwater of Klnmnth Knlls urged the committer to approve n bill nppropi flit Inn Jio.ofto lo right nl falfa weevil. LAW GIVERS HEAR WISH OF GRANGES Death Claims Daughter IllIIIIIB i : i , MlMSTESSHIT MCE IN DRY LAW OF STATE PORT LA X D, Feb. 3 pt Re ports from Siilom that a bill was about to be introduced in the sen ate proposing to sutmtilule the fed eral Volstead act for the Oregon prohibition law, brought down a resolution of disfavor from the Portland Ministerial association. Tlie proposed bill was termed "sheer subtlety intended only to weuken enforcement of the ISth amendment in the state of Oregon." A copy of the resolution will he placed before the senators. "The present move has its origin Willi tho American association against the prohibition amend ment," the clergymen said, "sup ported by Oregon hop growers, thirsty discontents, and otherwise worthy citizens who have been mis led by wet ptopaganda." 4 WASH I.NflTO.V, Feb. 3. fP) rtishop L'annon, Jr., of the Metho dist Kpiscopat church, Koiilh, to day hobbled Into the Mount Ver non Methodist church on crutches to face charges. Tho doors were locked immediately. Itishop W. N. Alnsworth sent word to reporters, "this is an ec clesiastical proceeding carried on as a church law prescribe and nothing will be civen to tho public until it is over." Turkey Exacts Heavy Toll for Reactionary Movement 28 Ascend Gallows Steps My PrlM'illii Iting MICNICMKN. Turkey, Keb. 3. (,ft The bodies of Turkish mo.slcm reactionaries swung from gibbets in the cold Italkan wind today In a stem warning from t he republic that the days of the Caliphate have passed for-, ever. ! KinKly nnd in some casen by! groups tho condemned men. con -1 vieted of leading tin a hortiv revolutionary movement here on j I H'cember 2 It, were led at dawn , from th-ir cHI to tho nnll'ws. where kvpsv hanrmen with cut - j 'in cups oddly toppim: b(?i-y . Tuikinh t routers nnd scarlet sash es, swung them aloft. Leca list of the martial law which has been In effect since the revolt, citizens were kept in their homes until H.ua . in., a ml t h re were a I most n - w 1 1 - nesne. to 1 he PXCfi 1 1 If Mis beyond a few offi'lal. An oci a-ioiial scream could , be heard from wo -1 men p--pin f .m behind shut - j tend windinw, however, and with) thf ml vn net of d.iv. hitihb rniK i crowdH Oi s s e l the griiesinnej ccene. , Perhaps (he only rhewful p'o'-ej In M'-nemen tday was the priun Brilliant of Gould Line jllM' niriuiT llrlcn Vivii-n Could mailt- tilt- only hrllliiilil iniurlilii lllDDiiu Hie (ioiihl (III Itlrill. Sho niill i li il l.i, nl Drcicu at I III. iik" f III llml Ihthiiu- n H'itiilin-Ht liuuic HI l-.lli:IMi Micii'ly. slu Mils iicllvo III Itisl ( i n.s mirk lIlirlllK I III' will' mul uiiiMiiiKiiiiril hi'r liuslianil on many iiilvi'iiniiiiiis irlps Into Africa mill nihi-r inii-K nl' the unrlil. LADY DECIES HEARTATTACK Grand-daughter Of Jay Gould Famous For Social Activities, Travels 3 Children Survive. .- LONDON, Feb. , 3. (P) The former- Jlolen V-i v I n - Oouht, American heirey.-i who as a youth ful bride of tho Filth Jiaron Uecies dazzled English Koeiety, died here at dawn today of a heart nunc It which developed from Jaundice. .She was :t! years old nod had been 111 three weeks. O.'aih came in a London nurs ing hoiae. I.Sesides her husband, who has had a famous career in the army, she left three chil dren,, a Hon and two daughters. ( 'luirnitng llosiv-s The vrund-daughtpr of .lay f'.oulil, whono iailroat manipu -lailons made him a money king of the port Civil war p rlod. Lady Decies came to be known in lOngland for the spectacles she sometimes presented society, per penchn ut for the unexpected, and as n lavish but charming hostess. She was married In Hill when she was 1 !i yearn old. The cere mony was performed In Xew York, its Hplendnur and the prom inence of the principals giving it wide publicity. Triumph At Court I lor name was frequently In the headlines, particularly when on her hi ncymoon she smoked a cigarette at the railroad sta tion In Hi unswlr. On. Hr re-c- ption In tho Hritish court was a triumph. She appeared be fore tho king ami queen In a white sat In gown embroidered in diiirnonilH, pearls and crystals and a train rb-h with silver lilies and ermine. (Continued on Poe 8ory 2 where sewn persons rejoiced be cau ho their sen tent vh were com muted at the lust moment from death to 24 years imprisonment. These were nil ov-r C.'i or under 20 years of line. One of these was nn IS-year old shepherd boy, who when nuked why he prayed continually replied that he was thanking the soul of his dad mother lor not having bronchi . him Into the world two years, earlier, Two. terrified at the npproai'h; of their hour of doom, died of j heart disease. In cases where It was possible the gibbets wre erected on the) spots where the condemned men j harangued the .Menemen populace two days before the Christian; Christmas and pleaded with them to arlH In helm If of Mam. (l" siroy the we tern Innovations of Mustnpha Kemnl INifha. the Chisel. replaec! t he derby wit h n fz. I and rer-ioi-e ibe caliphate of Al- hih's Ridden sue. A young Turki'-h airnv officer, seeing what was happening. rush-j "d to give the alarm. He was caught by the reactionaries, wh'i Included MervKhert ii ml fanat i at ( mosbms of the ittld mountain country, nnd beheaded. IS VICTIM OF CHIL0QU1N i BANK PLOT s iCONFESSEDil I Cashier And Klamath Store Manager Admit Framing, Holdup Second Pair! Picked Up At Ashland As i Accessories In Crime. I KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.. Peb. 3. iA') J. J. -Nichols, cashier of the '. Chltoiiuin bank, ami ailmitted rob- , her of the institution, today led officers to the woodshed of his home and revealed the hiding ; place of SX70 of money taken from ; the bank Friday. The currency ! had been hidden in a hole in the r floor and covered with wood. ! All but $:t!0 has been recovered of the $3500 taken from the bank. , Nichols declares this amount was j spent by 1). II. Stout who, he says, I was an accomplice. I No charges have been filed t against the men. K I ,. M ATI I I A LUS. Feb. 3. UVt J. ;. Nictnd. S, c:inicr 'f the fhiloiiuin State, bank, and D. II. Stout, 111a miner of a woolen mills store here, were held ini jail today in connection with he robbery of ?:t,".uo from the b-nk lnst Friday. Sheriif Lloyd Low said the two men confessed to 1 he robbery. The sheriff said Nichols lad $ 1,;no hidden in a tree stu up near Ohiloiniln, and $740 v.as recovered from Stout who in si'd to have re.eived $t.0(Mi to re cover shortage In his neeotir.ts. Nab Acx'eHsorlcs Louis Dnvall and Carl Fasll ck were arrested at Ashland in con nection with the robbery and returned here today. Nb-hols l.ad declared he pnld them :.00 e ch to siae tlie robbery. Xichols had been employed at the bank since last Septeniler. lie was made cashier tho first of the vonr. His wife declined she still believes in her .husha v1- Thev have n small child. Friday Nichols en I led police iini! declared a man hnd held up : ho bank while ho was alone and left him locked In the vault. He ."aid Stout happened Into tne bank nnd helped release him. Planned (ietaway Stout was packing his effects as 1 he iii'rest was made. AfK'r telling peveni! conflicting stories Nichols broke down ami wept. He said his accounts were in order nnd he did not. need tho money. Stout said he used part of hi share to cover shorl ngps In his store accounts. NieholH admitted utter qocst iontng that the rest or the money was hidden nt Chlloquln. No charges had been placed against the four men early to day. Dnvall nnd Kamlake were appre hended In an Ashland pool hall by Sheriff Ralph JennhiKH, accompan ied by deputies and a number of Ashlund police officers. The two men reiufod to talk mid were taken hack to Klamath Fulls a short time later by Sheriff Lloyd Lowe of Klamath county. Tho officers ar rived at the pool hall In sufficient numbers to prevent any trouble In the possibility that tho two sus pects would attempt lo escupe. ' LIHItON. Portugal, Feb. 3. 7P) A wireless message from Captnln Krledrlch Christiansen, command er of theleiman flying boat Ixj-X. said that the plane had been dam aged at Clando Hay, Canary Iwlands, today and that the proposed flight to lirazil might have to be post poned for two weeks. BURNING COAST SHIPS SAN FltAXCIHCO. Fob. Two craft burned on tho California coast yewterday, but the crews of both escaped. Six men on n tiny launch of the novernment geodetic survey leaped into the sea when a K"oHne explosion shook tho boat. Two men on tho Canadian trawler Vertex escaped in a boat after an ermine backfire set the ship aflame off Kureka, McNARY AIDS STANFIELD PROJECT REHABILITATION WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 .(A) Senator McNury, republican, Orc Kon. today Introduced bills provid ing for rehabilitation of the Stan field h rlKatton project in Oregon and for n preliminary survey tit Scappoosn bay on the Columbia river with ft view (o widening ami deepening the channel. Prematu 'ast By Moo to cief Irtjttrtcf Makers . VIENNA. Feb. 3 A nickel experiment which its author hoped might lead eventually to a trip to the moon has ended with t lie premature explosion of the rorket on top of Mount Redotta with Injuries to three persons. The rocket was the work of hr. I a r w i n Ly o n , New Y o r k scientist, who had designed it to carry instruments into the stratosphere to determine tho density, composition and tem perature of that medium at nn altitude of about 03 miles. The rocket was of aluminum, fifteen feet high, and weighed 30 pounds. LEI RED CROSS HANDLEJEUEF Charity Of American People Can Be Relied Upon In Time Of Distress Is Assertion. A V A fJ H LWfi 'IV N, Fe b . 3. President .Hoover today opposed the proposed impropriation for re lief ns measures which would strike at the very root of self-gov ernment. While the. president expressed confidence that the Hed Cross, to Bother with local aid, could take care of both the drought and un employment situations, he said he was willing to pledge himself to nk the aid of -every reourco of the federal government in the event othor menus should fall. President Hoover nald the pres ent problem did not present a ques tion yo much hh tg whether people would go hungry or cold, but rather a question of the best method of preventing hunger and cold. The friendliness and the charity of the American people, ho said.j can be relied upon to tako care of) fellow citizens In distress. The president said he hnd re ceived reportts only today that no one is going hungry or need go hungry or cold. ILL HEALTH CAUSE PORTLAND. Feb. 3 (P) III health was blamed for the suicide of I'. J. lianlcy, R2. employment niconcy head here, who died in his hotel room in this city yentei'dny. PoiBon cnused his death. Ilanley was past state deputy of tho Knights of Columbus in Ore gon, served as grand knight of the Portland council, and wns prom inently identified with that frnter mil organization in the west. THREE KILLED AS Tl HALT LA K K CITY. Feb. 3 (A3) Three men were killed and an other was seriously scalded In a collision between Denver & Hio (ramie. Western passenger train and a truck loaded with dynamite here this afternoon. Tho dead were H. F. Kugg, Ogden, engineer of the train, und two truck drivers, whose names were iiot Immediately available. One had his licud blown off. E 10 LIFE IN CELL TOPFKA, Kims., Feb. 3 p) Major Charles A. Hhepard wus seut onced today to life imprisonment for the poison murder of his second wife after Judge Hlchard J. Hop kins denied u motion ror h new trial. TUNNEL FOR FREIGHT1 I'OltTl.AM), IVIi. n (p)A plearlnK lintian for frplKht ofir hw Itiliinn In conlnmpluti'il by Hip I'ort In nil I'lly cnmicll. Tho ilnn rnllM fur roiiHlructinii of u liilln of mihwiiy u!omt Prntit Btroof to form I he link In a bell line systum. HOOVER I D IAIH AND t ij RUIN TOLL !! OF QUAKES Fires Follow Temblors , In New Zealand Hundreds Killed, Thousands Injured And Homeless Shocks Continue In District. . AUCKLAND, X. 'A., Feb. 3. Ai--Karihquako and fire levelled the city of Napier. N. '.., today leaving a casuality list reported at loo dead and 1000 Injured, a i ul w roc I; e tl lour nearby to w n s, causing nn undetermined number of fatalities and injuries. Napier was still ublaze nnd virtually helpless tonight. tho quake having cut off Its water supply. its .stunned poptilaca stood by. unable to count Ha dead and without effective rneanrt of fighting the fire. Dynamiting was resorted to in an attempt to check the flames. The first shock came shortly before 1 1 n. m., nhaking a large portion of the conHtal region of Hnwkes Itny province, of which Napier is the capita 1. Hastings, a town 15 miles from Napier, re ported 21 dead nnd 100 injured. Oil shut orr The towns of Waipawa and Waiptikurau also suffered. Fir from tho Napier blaze caused tho shuttiJig off of oil In the tanks nt Port Ahuriri. All early reports of casualties were expected to he exceeded as no accurate count could bo mad& Immediately. The Hritish war sloop A'eron icn, anchored at Napier, was grounded but subsequently re floated. Tho steamer Northum berland bended for sea when the water in the harbor began to recede. ICarly reports of a tidal wave following tho quake were denied. Tho British warships Plomedo nnd Dunedln left Auckland for Napier with 66 doctors and 15 nurses. Town Aflro 1 A wireless report from the Ver onica reported the whole town was afire. All telephone and teleKrnphlc communication was cut off. A pall of smoke nun? over the district. The shock razed virtually every stone, build ing In the town. , ' Commander Morgan of the Arer onicn reported It was impossible to estimnte the casualties tonight. Kmergency hospitals, food do pots and police protection were organized and temporaiy hospitnla set up. Tho Veronica became a refuge for wohien nnd children. Karthquake shocks woVe still be ing felt. , The first shocks were felt ncroes the North Islnnd district from Napier to New Plymouth but were not experienced here. riHCAOO, Feb. 3. (TP) "Less science, more art and judicious newspaper advertising nre prfmo factors in modern mercantile com petition, John MclClnlny, president of the Marshall Field company told the Interstate mercantile coun cil today. ' McKinlay said newspaper adver tising wns a most effective short cut In merchandising. MILL ROGERS 9 $ays: KOIiT WORTH, Texas, Feb. :i The senate willed Satnnlny on prohibition, so there must Imve been some pretty import nnt business before them. Tliey never nrjjue over it only in the busiest times. Soldiers lire trying to K't pnit cash pnyment on their government eouipeiisatioii. Hut Mr. elloIl says tlmt would upset the bond miirket nnd cause government interest rates to raise. You owe the government something and see if they worry how mueh interest you got to pay them. Mr. Mellon is tfoinst to have that budget balanced if he has to join Al (,'apone's gang to do it. v.