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I Temperature V Highest yesterday 80 Ijuwest tlita morning: 30 I'm-liiliniion ; To ft p. in. yesterday 00 To ft ii. ill. Imlny OO MEDPORD MAIL The Weather Forecast: Tonllu and Wednesday unsettled; no change In tempera ture. mmi) MEDFORIV OREGON1, TUESDAY, FKBHUARY 10, 1931 Xo. 321: Twenty-Fifth Year NJfi Todav By Arthur Brbban Defense Sidetracked. Two Pink Spots. Russia Will Nurse Babies. Prosperous Ireland. . Copyright King Features ynd, I no. ; Republican chiefs are said to have "sidetracked" the naval constructions program of $74, 000,000 to avoid discussion and !&k of a. special session. - The program would' have provided one aircraft carrier, to cost, included armor, am munition and 114. airplanes, 27,fii56,0O0 ; also one flying deck day cruiser, with 36 air planes, costing i)i20,7SO,000 ; four submarines costing $17, 600,000, and 130 planes for $5, 000,000 plus $3,000,000 for ex perimenting with Diesel en gines. ' All this would have been strictly up to date defense, but it is abandoned to save the country from another session of its legislator ; On the other hand your wise gentlemen actually propose to spend $30,000,000 to "modern ize" three oid battleships, Z'cw Mexico, Mississippi, and Idaho, i And when they are modern ized they will simply be noth ing bat targets, for bombing planes and. pleasant strutting deeks for naval officers too old to accept a new idea. v Sometimes consumptive pa tients have bright pink spots hit Fitirer piiTOir, necoitinr.TTC i-jng-of hope not to be fulfilled. Yesterday,' Wall Street had H bright pink spot on eacn -)heek, and looked remarkably well Trices .were up, from 2 to 15 dollars a share. Brokers bought and sold more than 4, 000,000, nearly four times as many as on the same day of the previous week. Hope springs eternal in the stock ticker, but nobody knows whether this is the pink spot of health; or gnawing financial tuberculosis. lu connection with Russia's plan to conscript women for industry, 'government taking care of the babies while their mothers arc at work, you rend 'that this is done because of "the present serious, shortage of labor in Russia." You wish we had that shortage here and wonder how the Russians man age it. '"' Russia's plan to open gigantic government nurseries to care for babies, while mothers are working in mills, forests, fields, mines, or factories, will present problems that not even Stalin can foresee. Separating women from, their babies may be a (Continued on Pane Four) Abe Martin Nnlliln' looks fuiinr a linll (till o' women nil krrpln' quiet while nothor woman tnlk. Jite Kite has aorvutrd a flnn poxlHon nltli n auln theft concern. (Copyright John F. Dillo Co.) CHANGES IN y""' SLAYER IS Minn rii i ixmwi mm l M m m m mm - I i - A. iv- . r tswl, , w -rtas. :.1iRS&. I ill i mm m w m mmm w NECESSARY m FOR APR Proposed Law Will Bar Copco Construction of Big Plant in Klamath County Is Declaration of Reames at Salem Meet. SALEM, Feb. 10 () Amend ments to the hydro-electric com mission act were called for today by the joint utilities committer in an attempt to meet uome objection voiced against the proposed meas ure as drawn and to eliminate con flicts between the proposed law and tlio federal power commission act. This was the decision made at the hearing today following dis cussion of the measure. Another nearlm; on the same matter will bo held tonlKht, at which time the committee hopes to conclude public sessions on the administration measure. If the proposed law is enacted the California Oregon Power com pany will be unable to construct its four and half million dollar power plant in Klamath county, declared Kvan Iteames. of that company. The elimination or such a project for the state means more than J IDO.OoO taxes to Klamath county alone, and will force erection of the project 17 miles south in Cali fornia. Financing Obstacle Reames declared the financing provisions of the bill prohibited their company from building this project. The firm nas already spent $153,000 in preliminary work and has the money ready to start work, employ 1500 men, and place the power project where power is needed, Kearney states. The pro posed bill would necessitate refin ancing of private companies In order to construct within the state. He also stated that he believed the toltr -could -be- worked-out- -to-eoa-4 form, rather than conflict, with the federal act, and secure the saino objects which the present measure proposes. SALEM. Feb. 10. (IP) The old age pension bill, which was listed for consideration In the house to day, was placed on special order of business for 2:00 o'clock on Thursday afternoon. The mensure was recently reported out of the committee with recommendation that it pnss. The decision was I reached after a public henrlng- on 1 the proposal, providing $30 a month for nil eligible dependents j past the age of 65 years. A de- bate Is expected when the bill comes up for vote. .Motion to reconsider the Port of i Portlund commission bill had not i been mndo by noon in the sen ate, but such actions was contem plated some time before adjourn ment. The Angell bill paRsed the senate yesterday but Moser, who protested the proposed selection of commissioners by the legislature ; and by election, moved it be held over for reconsideration. Chango Text Book mil The house education committee was considering a change In the free-text bill for public school stu dents. The change would elim inate high school students from its provisions. Final action will be tnken during the afternoon and a favorable report of the commit tee Jr expected later In the day. Consolidation of city and county government, ' involving Portland and Multnomah county, Is propos 1 ed' in a joint resolution signed by I all but one of the Multnomah county delegation. The resolution, I which provides for a constltu i tional amendment, specifies that a charter consolidating the two gov ernments may be proposed by a voto of the people. Warehouse code Aim A uniform wnrehouse code with Washington nnd Idnho is sought In a move for appointment of a legislative committee ' to confer with similar groups from these two states to draft such regula tions. The resolution was adopted by the house. The senate Indef initely postponed a resolution call ing for the appointment of circuit Judges by the governor. . With '.Mrs. Lota Smith of the Mnrion county delegation lending the fight for exclusion of high schools from operation of the free (Continued on Page 6, Story 1) Last Food of Poor Family Brings Death To Children nnOWNWOOD. Tex., Feb. 10 (Pl Two small boys were dead anil the other members of a family of seven were In a serious condi tion here today as a result of hav ing eaten food which authorities snld contained poison. Katlng the last food In their home at breakfast yesterday, the entire family of l.onnln Jones, 40, a tenant farmer, was stricken soon afterward. Jones had been nut of work locemly. A general court-martial was ordered for MaJ. Gen. Smedley O. Buucr ot tne marine corp as n result of an address at Philadelphia In which the officer made reference! to Premier Mussolini which Italy protested. At the left la Major General Butler stepping from plane after an air trip. Below right hewa him addreulng marines when he started a campaign to dry up Quantico, Va and upper right Is a clqgeup. ' ' '' - - L ASKED TO SET L Central Civic Council Urges Minimum of 50 Cents Per Hour - On ovNew .School Buildings, Information concerning rccom mendntions made by the Central Civic council to the Medford school board as to minimum wage scale on tho construction of the new school buildings wn.t released to-, day from headquarters of the Cen tral Civic council. Tho council made these recommendations to the school board at n recent meet Iiik of the civic group, but thia Is the first public announcement of the uggetcd scale. In order that common labor might not he impoBed upon by be ing forced to accept wages lower than, a living wage, th Central civic council nas recommenuen that a minimum scale of 00 cents per hour be established In tho con struction of the new buildings. It was felt by membaro of ihe coun cil that common labor should be nt least entitled to this minimum and that a great portion of the wages received by labor will al mast immediately, be returned to local merchants and taxpayers through the regular channels of trade. 75 Cents fop AitlsmiH. While taking no definite action with regard to the etnbtinhment of a scale of wage, for skilled la bor, It was the general opinion of mem bent of the Central Civic coun cil that no less thnn 75 cents per hour should be paid for this kind of work, and from that -figure up to the prevailing wnpe cnlo should be used, according to tho supply and demand for skilled workers. The Central Civic council has tnken this action because of'ltw program of assisting In alleviating (he unemployment - situation In Medford. having strongly endorsed the bond Issue for the construction of tho new scnool buildings, and feeling that local labor should be protected Insofctr o possible. The council also recommended to the school board that local labor nnd local materials be used exclusively in the building program. , , Hill Improvliwf. PORTLAND, Feb. 10. (Pi Hamucl Hill, famous good roadx advocate, who was stricken by severe cold yesterday, pent good night at the hospital nnd wan Improving today, nttenrtants finid. Hillary Jones, 8, and E. V. Jones. 6, died. Jones, his wife, about 35. and three other . children, Includ ing Lonle, a 17-year old girl, were brought to a llrownwood hospital, where physicians Bald their condi tion was critical. t lr. C. W. Oray, county hculth officer, said that bread which the family had eaten contained a dead ly poison. An inquest was to be beld today. BOARD V NG WA C'" i ' RUSS L IF WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. (P) Lumber and pulp wood from four localities of Russia today were barred from , the . United tates by Ihe' treasury unless tho ship pers can prove they nre not pro duced by convict labor. The action was taken under the tariff law, which prohibits impor tation of convict made goods, and under authority of treasury regu lations Issued three months ago placing the burden of proof that convict labor doeB not e,nter into manufacture of imports upon the shipper, t The order is tho first tnken un der the new regulations. 4 ON NEVADA FIELD WKLLS, Nov., Fob. 10. P) Louis , No tar, field manager of tho Boeing airport at KIko, Nov., was killed and Burr . Wlnslow, pilot, wan hurt yesterday when a Boo ing eaMtbouml lr mail plane crashed into the beacon hero while trying to land from Elko In a hrnvy fog. The plane was trying to reach Wells ahead of on ensthound train to entrain mall, ns it hnd reports, of bad weather ahead. IT POLICE PLAN FOUTLAND, Feb. 10. (P) Tho Portland Central labor council at a meeting last night lodged an unanimous protest against the proposed establishment of n state police force, recommended to the legislature by Governor Moler. Michael Rovo, president of the council, In explaining" the protest, raid: "Tho statu police. In states where such plans hnvo been Adopt ed, have hfvti used against the workor and this Is the prlnclpnl reason for the council's protest." BIG CANNERY GOING UP IN VANCOUVER VANCOUVER, Wash., Fob. 10. iff) Construction of a l'in.000 can nery here was nssured today by announcement from Washington. D. C, that the federal farm board hed approved a loan to Washing ton cooperative canneries for con struction of the plant to handle prunes. Killed at fnrve. VANCOt.'VKIl. Wash., Feb. 10. rieorge Mledle, 22, was kill ed, nnd rieorga Wells. 20. seri ously Injiircl Inst nlaht when their automobile fulled to take a curve near Iililceflclil and over turned several times, UMBER UNDER RAN CONVICT MADE TO Alocltt& I're. t'lioto GRANGERS PLAN SQUIRRE L E Poisoned Barley Will Be fepread Throughout Jack-, sorf C o u n t y County i Agent Co-operating. An orgnnlzed war on the rhod onts of Jackson county was decid ed on last night at a meeting of the county agriculture committee of the grange with Fred ('.off of Koseburg, chairmun -of the state grange agriculture committee. Tho meeting wum the monthly one of the county agriculture committee which Is composed of three mem bers from each of the eleven sub ordinate granges. - There was a full attendance and then a few more, every section of the county being represented, thirty-eight per sons being crowded into (be county agent's offices. The subject of rhodent control was the chief one discussed and the fact that the state agriculture committee of the grange Is endeav oring to interest all subordinate granges of the stale into coopera tion in rhodent control expluins Mr. Gofi's attendance at the gath ering. Worse In Dry 8eason Itecau.se of the great lack of nor mal rain and consequent dry weather, the rhodent nuisance will he greater than ever before unless curbed, the. ground scmlrrels com ing down from the hills and out from their dug outs (his year earl ier than ever bufore. j In fact they ure out In great numbers uiremly nnd have been, many Bince last fall, whereas in former years they were just be ginning to come out by this time; besides this Is the breeding sea son. Hence the recognition of the need to get busy at once in an or ganized cumimlgn to exterminate the rhodents, otherwise the last multiplying pests would do great damage to .crops. Cooperation Planned The county grnuges will cooper ate with County Agent It. O. Fow ler In this cainimlKii. More ground will be covered 111 the extermina tion efforts than In past years, and the campaign will even tuke In unoccupied lunds of tho county, to make it more effective. The program Is to scnttor poison ed barley, which County Agent Fowler will mix with poison, and sell to the various communities at cost. Last year Mr. Fowler mixed between MOO and GOOD pounds of poisoned barley, hut becauso of the organized grange campalRn he will probably mix up twice as much this year. WASHINGTON AUTO TAX MAY BE FIXED AT S3 OLVMPIA, Wn., Feb. 10. W Adverso committee reports on two of flnvernor Hartley's recommend ations affecting the state's higher educational Institutions and n favorable committee report on a bill for a $3 flat automobile li cense 'fee and a two cent Increase In (he gnx tux were brought to Washington's lawmakers today. WAR AV CROPS .3 Kingsley Hears Doom With out Emotion Leaves for Death Cell in Salem at Once Defense Moves May Delay Execution. "I have made peace with my God," said Jnmes K, Kingsley, sentenced in circuit court this forenoon to die on the gallows April Ii for tho murder of Sam Q. I'rescott, Ashland police officer, as ho was about to board the Shasta this forenoon en route to Salem. IIo had little further to say hut ndded that ho was hoping for the best. A smile on his un shaven faco failed to express hopo but rather indicated ho was re signed to his fato. Ilo was handcuffed to . Oscar Dunford, jailor, and was accom panied from tho county jail, where he had been held the past two weeks, by Sheriff Ralph Jennings, Policeman Joe Cave and District Attorney George Neilson. lie was dressed In a natty brown suit, wore a new necktie matched with a light shirt nnd had a new brown felt hat on his head. James 13. Kingsley, confessed and convicted slayer of Sam G. Prescott, Ashland policeman, with out a tremor of emotion, stood in tho circuit court this morning and heard Judge IT. D. Norton pro nounce the deuth sentence. Exe cution date was set for Fridny, April 3 next. "In accordance with the verdict of the jury and the law as pro-. vided for first degroo murder, I hereby sentence you to be hanged by the neck until dend, In the state prison at Salem, Ore., on Friday, April 3, 1930, nnd may the Creator of the universe and all thlngB, have mercy on your ifout--to ,iny''',hop,,l,,..w6ro'the- frttd ful words of the court, as he read from a typewritten document. Kingsley, unshavon and wearing a black shirt open at tho throat, black trousers, and a coat of brown, stood erect and listened to the words of doom unflinchingly. To Salens EFoilay With tho pronouncement of sen tence, the sheriff's off Ico made hurried preparations to take the prisoner to the stato prison at Salem, on the Shasta limited, de parting at 11:15. Kingsley will sleep tonight In the death cell. The court granted t the defense 20 dnys in which to perfect an appeal to the stale supreme court and prepare a certificate of prob able cause for the filing of a mo tion tor a new trial. The filing of the appeal will automatically net as n stay of exe cution. In the ordinary course of supreme court routine, a final de cision on the appeal will be hand ed down In a year or 18 months, Tho court, before pronouncing sentence, piado a lengthy review of the caso In which he declared, "The verdict was a Just one, made by a jury In accordance with tho law and ovldence." Ho comment ed there was no alternative for the court except to Impose the cxtremo penalty. No Mxteimntloii The court, In his remnrks, ob served that the case contained no extenuating circumstances and "did not possess any clement of clrcumstuntial evidence. And If It did, I would be Inclined to feel differently about it." The court declared that the de fendant though without funds, hud been "ably and competently do fended, by as strong a counsel as muney could have provided." He rIso declared, "that In view of tho circumstances, the defense inter posed the only defense that was possible an nrrnlgnment and In dictment of society, for its ad ministration of the laws." Judge Norton commented upon Dolly Joins Alice In Grin At Press Club High Jinks As Social Hatchet Buried WARHINOTO.V, Feb. 10. P Thrro was a funeral hero last night nt which the spectators, de corous ladles . nil, laughed loud nnd long. Kven Alice Longworth and Mrs. Dolly ciann gave way to mirth. A solemn cortege, wearing deep est mourning, was carrying a black casket to Its resting plnre when the first giggles brake through the sombre notes of a funeral dllgo. The box was plocM under a headstone, bearing the simple epllnpb: ' Hello Dolly; Hello Alice!" I It contained a hatchet tbe hat chet, In fact. None uiher than the fymhol of tbe capital's famous (Iniin-Loiiuwnrth feud over soda? precedence. Tho luricrul was con SI Pac. unch 7 AittxUttd Ft at PfiQf Kathleen Key, former screen actress, was accused of beating Buster Keaton, comedian. In his dressing room In Hollywood. EL LOCAL SITE Frank Earhart Property On South Riverside Pur chased Building May Rise This Season Will Include 97 Guest Rooms. Papers hnvo been signed for the purchnso of the Frank L. Earhart property, locnLed at the corner of Karhart street and South River side avenue by the Motour Hotel system, It was announced this af ternoon by Glenn B. Hite, gen eral manager, who is In this city from Portland in interests Of the company, ... The property, 280 feet by 326 teet, Is considered nn ideal loca tion by tho hotel officials, Includ ing II. H. Malott and J. Bruce Murray also of Portland, who are in Medford. A system of these structures is plnnned for the Pac ific coast with temporary plans to locute In Eugene, Ore., and Chlco, Calif. A definite date has not been set for starting construction work, but tho Impression was given that an attempt would be mado to com plete the hotel in time for the coming tourist season. All hotels of the system will bo located on the Pacific highway, and will hnvo a 7 0-car garage, coffee shop, benuty parlor and barber shop. There will be 97 guest rooms, nil having a shower or hath. Standard prices for all rooms Is one of the plans, with a small garage fee. The hotel will be a frame struc ture with stuccoed exterior and stsndnrd plaster and wall paper finished interior. Mr, Hite stated that ho expected . the entire sys tem to be completed within a per iod of five years. KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Fob. 10. l7P) Jnmes O. Nichols, form er cashior of the Chlloquln Htnto bunk, wtilved . Indictment and plended guilty to a chargo of grand inrceny by embezzlement when ho appeared In circuit court hero today. Ho admitted looting the bank of (3,500. Ilo took the money, he said, locked himself in the vuillt, pounded on alarm and declared two men had held him up. Tho time of sentenco was continued by tho court until Fri day. ducted by the national women's piei-B club. The two principals sat at the same table. Rtiet of honor nt the newspaper women's merry making. Alice and Molly met for tho first time In ages In tho center of tho ball room. "Ilellu, Dolly!" "Hello. Alice!" Of course, everybody heard, nnd word went forth the controversy was no more. Incidentally, Mm. flann enme first on the guest list last nlvht, but then It wn nlphnhetlcsl. The newnpaper womn gave Mrs. Ing worth a silver wedding nnnlver m ry pree n t . It was a framed phutMiMiii-h of the Uoosevelt fam ily o Alice's wedding day, Vebnt ary 17, IflOC, taken from old news paper files. AUTO HO TAKES CHILOQUIN BANKER ADMITS STEALING HOT DEBATE ON DRY POLL III!; I iliH.il If! Opinions Voiced at . Public Hearing in House Grow Personal Senator Upton Authors Bill for State Referendum On Law. ! Ily Clayton V. Bernliard SALES!, Feb. 10. (IP) The pro. hibition referendum again held iiwny In official Oregon last night. Five hundred people crowded Into the Hull of Representatives to listen nnd applaud for moro than three hours to debating by men and women, lawyers and laborers, . preachers and laymen, on the liquor question. Opinions, pertinent to both wet and dry causes and, many times Involving personal! ties were expressed, but no vote was taken. , Tho alcoholic traffic committee of tho Oregon state senate holds In Its hands the fate ot the sec ond attempt during the present slate legislature to refer the Ore gon dry law to a vote of the peo pie. First Attempt Falls The first attempt failed in the house on a referendum to repeal the state dry law. Thia time the matter was taken Into the sen ate on a referendum for substl tution of the Volstead act for the Oregon law. The debate on the part of the public was hold be fore the group which has the measuro for consideration. ; At the close ot the hearing, af ter vainly attempting to curb ap plause during addresses -- for - and ugalnHt the bill, Senator J. E. -Bennett, chairman of the committee, announced "the evidence Is all In nnd we will do our . duty,'' . The verdict was not announced, but will come in the r form of a re port ot the sommutee. Whatever the report, a demand on the sen ni"t loot1' f on a: .roll ' call will be murin fin Ihk mamhai- . nlnnul .nn record on the measure. Upton Is Author Sonator Jay Upton, author : of the bill, opened the discussion with the .tnlnmAnt thfli-n warn rn nmn n - lzation back of his bill, and that ' It Intrnnltnan n- .V.- of giving the people of the state a chance to express their perog atlve on a question which leads nil others In the nation. The substitution ot the Volstead law would give recognition to the man who considers his home his cnstle. The right to make wine anil beer In the home and to drink it "without pulling the blinds" Is a man's Inherent right, which the supremo court has upheld, he stated. The opposition was led by L. P. Putnam, who declared himself the floor leader of delegations from 12 of Oregon's 86 countlos. He stated moves of- this kind were "manufactured by liquor men and the wet press." He called upon A. L, Veazy, Portland attorney to doflne the Volstead act and com pare It to the present Oregon dry law. ' : A Step Backward "fluch a move is a step back wnrd," Venzy said. "It doesn't move one stop closer to a solution of tho problem of enforcement than the law we now have." Pro visions In the .Volstead and the Oregon lnw are Identical, he de clared, except the atate law takes (Continued on PQ 6, Story 3) Will IT. SMITH, Ork., Feb. 9 Say tluit Tulsa in a 'benr. We I'lnypd there .Sunday night to exnctly ;i0,000 at one sihgla performance!'' making $100,000 I the state of Oklahoma paid in I the one week,' It wasn't the at I traction, it was tho ' cause, j These people down in these I slates know that there is folks that are hungry, and they are going to feed 'em as long on they are able, and say, they go a great gag down here. They don't just open up a soup kitchen and feed a lot of pro fessional bums, they make .'em work and then give 'em tho money to buy some food. TCay ed my wife's town, Rogers, Ark., Monday and Ft. Smith Monday night. . ' iis)imni.iirssv
