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The Weather Format: Tonight nml Wednesday ralu; moderate tcniperaiuiv. M Mail Triktnb DFORD Temperature I Ugliest yesterday 45 lament tills morning 39 Pre-elpltution To ft p. in. yesterday. 00 To ft h. in, today 03 Twenty-Fifth Year MEDFORI OUMOX. TUESDAY. FKI! No. 328. UTAliY 17. 1!):M. Todav By Arthur Brisbane A Really Big Ocean. A Three-Word Catch. A Ground-Flea Cure. Beautiful Leg Prize. i Copyright King Feature! 8yndH Ino, ' HEARST RANCH, SAN SI M'EON, Cal., Fob. .". The house hero stands on a hill about -000 feet high. One win dow of .your room looks toward (lie Pacific, smooth as a pond, glittering in sunlight, and stretching west 7000 miles. Fold (ho Pacific over, to the cast, on your mereiitor projec tion 'map, and it. covers the 1'nited States and reaches out toward Constantinople. It's n big ocean, and who knows whai mines and oiy wells arc 'under it. Giant industrial submarines will go looking for thein some day. Mr. Owen 1). Young, chair man of General Elect rb, should start that. It would be made more amusing and worth while than the presidency. ' From another window, you look over ranges of mountains, stretching farther than the eye can reach, all covered with bunch grass, clover, wild onts, and live oak trees, so brilliant ly green that it seems unnat ural. You would enjoy a ride over these .mountains to the Pico! farm, part of the 240,000-acre ranch, and to the "Haras" for Arabian horses. Don Poncho rides along, get-j ting on and off as lightly as a! boy. To him the 20-miles ride up and down steep mountains sides, is only "a little exercise before breakfast, to start the day." ' He had Charge of the horses here for - Senator ' Hearst, 01 years ago, as he has charge of them now, for Senator Hearst 's son. But, says he, horses are not as good as they used to be. However, he supplies horses perfectly trained Hint go down a slant of 4' degrees, on soft, slippery grass, sliding on their hocks, using their front hoofs as auxiliary brakes, and iuite good enough. Can a man willing to-work make a living here? Don Pon cho says yes. "I have n friend, he came here with an extra shirt tied up in a red hanker chief. Now he has a nice fam ily and is worth one hundred .thousand dollars. He sold mill; and hay, butter and cheese, raised everything to feed his family, buying nothing but sugar and coffee. "His children all had goul education at grade and high schools. Now he buys every thing, automobiles, nice clothes (Continued on I'age Ten) Abe Martin Ml Myrt Vnsh, who git mat rlert WciliiPMlnj, lm gone Imck f her ole fnre. hat'i In-come o th' feller that umhI I' lay low mission in opjiostlon to the appli- initiate n bill to make Jj to flat 1 That involves educating the public all wwk an nil up Samnlajr. cation of Ihe Oregon Klectrlr to fee. while stallanr bill will pro- to the idea of corporate trust scr night? buildi a line pouthwem of Ktigene. vide for $3. vice. CONTRACTS LET TODAY Sig Ash Awarded General Con tract for $40,000 People's Electric and Modern Plumb ing Get Work Supplementary Is Report General contract for construc tion of the Washington scnool building was let to Slg Ash, local contractor, whose hid 1h $40,000 at tile special meeting of the school bonrd this afternoon. The wiring contract was award ed the Peoples Electric store on a Mil of (20.111 and the plumbing and heating contracts went to the .Modern I'lumhing and Sheet Metal Works with a bid of $9095. The school hoard considered 12 bids on the general contract at the meeting held hust night and elim inated all but two, which were considered this afternoon. They were Mr. A.sh's bid and a bid sub mitted by Thomas K. Tillman of Medford and Klamath Falls, which was $37.'391.87. There were four bids received for the wiring contract and seven bids on the plumbing and heating. Jiids from non-resident contrac tors had to comply with a five percent margin stipulation favor ing local men. Construction of the school which will bo located on a tract of land, Including five acres, at Peach and Dakota streets, will be started at once. ON Tho concrete building will In- qua and Rogue rivers, estimated to cludo 15 modern class rooms, a ' cost between $75,000 and $100,000 combination auditorium and gym-j each, looking towards cheap pow naslum, office, library, health ! er, transportation and ultimate at room and a teachers' rest room. i traction of new Industries are Frank C. Clark, local architect, asked in memorials .to congress working with Knlghten and How- ' passed by the house today, ell, designed the attractive struc- It Is estimated by Representn turo planned. : five John It. Lewis, joint sponsor The $265,000 Issue of bonds to ' finance the building program, was sold to Cleorge H. Burr, Conrad , And Hroom, United- lre(ton cor- i In tho development of power at ' ehaiges filed ncalnst him. Hail , huuW-l-' ' ' firm, liw do-.j )USed hydro-eloctrio power pro poratlon on very sutlsfu c t o r y profit making free barge naviga-! was placed at f 15, 000. ' tallied for MiiestlonliiK. Meets. terms. j tlon available from tidewater to I The l'uget Sound Institution's1 I'arra and Keinberg are charg- Contracts for tho mill work. ' Oakland, Ore., nnd be reflected In business was suspended Feb. 7 by k meiiioein oi uie painting, blackboards, linoleum j lower freight rates at Kugeno and j the state director of efficiency, ! communist parly, "an organization and equipment for the Washington through the Willamette valley. I Harry C. Johnson, who said a re- teaching and advocating ovcr sehnol will he let ennr.itelv iw the ! The dams tironosed for the Tlocoe ; ceivershln would be nnnointed tin- throw of tbe United States govern- board at a Inter date. Contract for construction of tho ! new high school building will be let February 28. j The bids on the Washington 1 school were: . ,.s)i General Contract Thomas H. Tillman, Medford nnd Klamath Falls, $37.S1 .87. Sig Ash, Medlurd, $40,000. R. I. Stuart & Son, Medford, $44, 500. .lohannesen & Villa, Portland, $fil!,10ll. O. II. Walnian, Portland. $48,000. Settergren Bros.., Portland, $IG fi!5. W. li. Merritt. Medford. $50,CK2. K. P. Hi'osterlmus, Klamath Falls, $tl,'143. Hargreaves & Lindsay, Eugene, $44,692. L. N. Traver, C'orvallls, $51,204. "Quinn Construction Co., Klamath Falls, $52,'.l0O. AVaale-Shattiick Construction Co. Portland, $51,000. Wiring. 1-c.oples KIcclric Store, Medford, $2.o:ir. (winner). IJimitrie Klectrie Co., Portland, $2,470. SI. .1. Walsh Kleetrlc Co., Port land. $2.ofir. Medford Flectric Construction Co., $2.1 SO. Healing and Plumbing. .Modern Plumbing and Sheet Metal Works, Medford, oDTi was W). otherH who died were Sam (wlnner). i "el .Sheiperd, (10; tleorge llowen, William Aitken, Medford. $10.-ir.S; Lena Could, 50: Arhula Hutch- 400. Plumbing and Healing Sales Corp., Portland, $11,S'J6. I'rban Plumbing and Heating Co., Portland. J10,!lti0. A. P., Itushlight & Co., Portland, ll,50fl. Heating Only. Waters Company, Klamath Kalli A. Schmldli, Medford. J4,7)0 Plumbing Only. Coffcen IJroB., Medford, $.VJfi! . S. H. Hawk, Medford, M.KT.0. SECOND PEACE 10 Ailll AVI) Oro Keh 17 (Knl Ilaltery H. Ann la ml unit of the , coast urtlllery division of the Ore- grui Nat ional Ouard, ranked ec oml In the state for drill attend ance during H30, with 1 per cent. The company lias R0 enlisted men In addition to offieers, and is com manded by Clyde Young. For the past three month the company has had l'tft per rent at- The Klamath ValU unit held first place in the state. , 4- S. P. Denies Opposition SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feh. 17 tVP The Southern Pacific today He tiied retirts It had appeared be ; fore the interstate commerce com-; Meanest Burglar Takes Lad's Bank at Pistol's Pointl I,OS ANGELES, f'nl.. Feb. 17. (XV-Ah a candidate for the "meanest inun" club, this 4 1 bandit not only ban an ex- fr cellent chance, hut mifjht 0110 4 day ho tfrand exalted ruler. Joe Wallace, !) yearn "Id, 4 reported to police the- Iohn of his hank containing one. r fr dollar. The hoy answered a fr knock at the door and found ! a man with a revolver who 4 forced him to hand over the small hank. And with hit 4 hank went Joc'h lonw-eher- 4 ished hope of that first buse- 4 man's fclove. 4 4 House Passes Memorial to Con gress Asking Funds For In vestigation Umpqua and Rogue Power and Transpor tation Possibilities SALEM, Ore., Feb. 17. (IP) Federal surveys of both the Ump- of the memorials, that three dams t in the lTuipn.ua, costing npproxl mately $15,000,000, would result river would bring barge naviga-! tlon as far as Grants Pass and bo of material benefit to Rogue Ulver valley industries nnd shippers, he says. CHERTKItTOWN, Md., Feb. 1". (!') Seven negroes, one a wom an, were dead here today and sev eral others were reported to he in a dangerous condition ns the result of drinking what the coroner said was poison alcohol. Several of tho victims attended a party Sunday night at tho home of one of the men who died. .Jake Smith, but the coroner, Dr. Hurry p n n rnn S wnli iiuiiLii uul NftMUtNl IU UHAKUtU Willi SEVEN NEGROES IMBIBE LETHAL DRINK AT PARTY L. Dodd, said his information was; posed re-routing of The Dalles t hat not all of those affected were j California highway within the city present. . i limits was expresned in a resolu- : Jake Smith, host nt the party, , er, :t5; Herbert Wolls, 'Mi, and John Ixma., 40. FLY ALONG COAST PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 17. (Pj Southeast storm warnings were flying from all Oregon and Wash ington coast stations today, anil fresh to strong winds offshore were predicted for tonight and to morrow. Kaln was general today turnout western Oregon. A storm of un usual intensity brought l.fiC Inches of rain to Seaside, Ore., In 24 n"rs' H A LF.M, Ore., Fett. IT. P) It w-fit reported here today that Oeorge Hylnnder and H. H. Stal- lard of Portland would file with the : serretary of state two proposed in- Mtatlve hill to put motor venule ' licence fees on a flat hain, lander. It was said, will attempt to THEIR MARRIAGE INVESTIGATED i iws!,5a I ! Irl .1 1 r r. mXC 'POWER SHE Kansas City notice released Frank Henjel, 61, fatm laborer, after Investigating charges brought by his relatives that the union had been debt against the girl's mother. FACE CHARGES Former Seattle Financier Is Willing to .Return to Scene of Alleged Embez zlement. RRATTLK. Feh. 17. (P) Charg ed with embezzling $1!448,085 from the Puget Sound Savings & Loan association here, Adolph Linden, nnrninriJT Tn 'nmnnrn iiiitii former proslrtont ot the institution 1 mlHsioni r, John rarrnsi, Pdltor-ln-wns under arrest toduy In .NewiCh'ff nC tbe V'lnnlsb InnKUUKe York Cltv. Wnden suid he stood newsimper Toveri, nnd Wuino 1-endy to return here whenever re- j rplesled to dn no, nnd meet any less the business was put on a l sound basis in 20 days. Depositors to Aid Depositor-shareholders, number- ing 27,000, have been asked to sign over 2!i per cent of their deposits in an effort to restore the Impair - ed capital of the association, which has canltallzation of $14. 000. 000. Officials listed the Impairment at $1,1 118,000. Prosecutor Kobert M. Hurgun- der said most ot the quarter lull. linn dollars was "IMeenllv diverted from tbe association 'funds to finance Linden's ventures in the American Hroadcastlng company and the Northwest Hadio Service company, both now defunct, of ; which Linden also was president. Tile embezzlements, Burgunder said, took place In 11)28 and 1!)20 KLAMATH. 1-WLLH, Ore., Feb. 17. Wi Oppo8itlon to tho pro- ' tlon adopted by the city council last night, to be forwarded to the state, highway commission. The commission is understood to Intend changing the route because of heavy right-of-way expense. The new route would pass thru an exclusively residential section. Oregon Weather. Pain in the west and local rains or snows In the eant portion to-! night und Wednesday; moderate temperature. Fresh to fttron. southerly winds offshore. Newspaper Best Medium For Speed and Action In Advertising Says Banker NFV YOKK, Feb. 17. (') NoVspnpcrs have outstanding ud svantageB over other Advertising media in speed nnd action and fur nish the best medium for the trust company, Charles . McMahon. as sistant vice-president of tho Firm National batik of Detroit, told the mid-winter conference of the trust! company division, American Hank- era' association, today. , ine nisL ,ot or w trust com- puny, I mm the standpoint of pub- lie relations," he said, "is to sell the whole community on the Integ- rity, soundnesft. Us perpetual Hie liy-(and Ms ability to nervo better than any Individual trustee or executor. ' Associated Press Photo Mrs. Cella Henzel, 19-year-old bride of contracted in payment of a $10,000 RED AGITATION Publisher of Finnish Paper and Assistants Arrested By Immigration Officials As Radicals. ASTORIA, Ore, Fob. 17 (T) 3-Ieltt on $000 bonil ponding lieur llitrd bi-foro Hie inimltfrution corn- Felnhcrif, nsHlHtnnt editor, were : under arrest today. luatll l.aunim, ment by means of force and vlo-j . lenco if necessary.' ! 1 "onhain, chief Inimlgra- i tlon officer In Oregon, said tbe arrests were made only after a: lengthy investigation of eominun- : 't activities. This Investigation, 1,0 revealed that the main headquarters ot tho communist. , Party In the Pacific northwest Is Seattle, with branches In Port- i land nnd Astoria, : Honhuni said the two men under arrest are reported to have return- ed recently from Hie mlddlewest I where they attended a communist demonstration, i SENATE WILL SPEED VETERAN LOAN BILL WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Ar) After conferring with President Hoover, Senator Moses .said today they Inul discussed the house- bill fur Increasing veterans' loans and predicted the legislation would be passed by Ihe senate without de lay. The Now Hampshire republican was an early caller at the White : House. He did not ay what nland j the president look In regard to Ihe Vetera, h,h' legislation. If any. GASOLINE PRICES CUT BY EUGENE STATIONS KUCJKNK, Ore., Feb. 17. (VP) Dropping two cents a gallon, gaso- line was selling at UU'j cents a gallon here today. The reduction app'mn. to bo general throughout tho city. "For this pnrposo newspapers are ideal. They reach more than Ha per cent of ail persons in the will making HasH," Mr. McMahon told (he ronfer ence (hut daily newspaper reading fs an outstanding habit of the American public. A financial advertiser has as- surance that today he run reach thn literate population of any or all communities by advertising In the newspaper," he said. 'You may not have listened to a radio today, nor have received any advertising by mail, nor read any outdoor ndver lifting, but most of you will read tho newspapers. Thus newspaper advertising duplicates the Influence of nit other advertising and touches In addition fioldn (hat are exchftvely its own." Hampering of Expansion Pro Gram On Klamath River May Cause Loss of Huge Plant for ' Oregon Would Kmploy 2, 000 Workers The California-Oregon Power company "Ih seriously considering" n.sing a site in California on tho Klamath river fur the construction of a. proposed $-1,51)0,000 project. ('. M. lirewer, general manager, said today. The power company deslrea to slart construction uh soon as pos .silde. The California site is a coiisider ahle distance helow the "Canyon site" In thiH state. Atiinnuei- Hr.uver declined to I amplify his statement in any de tail. It is known that had the power concern licet) unhampered last fall, work would have been started then, furnishing employment for hetween 1T00 and 2000 men dur ing it dull period in Oregon labor conditions. The federal permit for the Oregon work was granted, hut state permission was refused in the excitement of thq last cam paign, and has been held In obey- ; ";; ,";' thn '"ont "0"sio" of the legislature, which yesterday VVVl'V IV1,io7 on .'IT,, Jl,HPI,h- PORTLAND, Ore., Feh. 17. P) liy a vote of three to two tho city council today passed the ordinance providing that the rate firm of Carey id llarlett he r retained to make a hydro-otectrie power sur vey for the city at a cost of $25,000. Tho contract wilt be Hlgned within 30 days, and provides thut i ,, r,.m nVeHllBiito distribution, i mm kois, Hltes und rates for pro- Advertising Campaign in New York to Move Stored Fruit Is Traffic Association Pro ject Tho Itogue Kiver Traffic associa tion, at a peclol meeting held yes terday afternoon, approved the plan of the New York pear com mittee or an Immediate advertis ing campaign In metropolitan New York for movement and stimula tion of the unlo of tho winter vari eties of pears. , A majority of tho shippers of tho valley will Join tho proposi tion. Tho matter will bo acted upon thht week at u meeting of the Fruitgrower league. The plan Is advanced to stimu late sales of winter pears, to the end that they may be moved from the storage houses of tho east. ' Time Ih Hlpe. II. is thought tho tlnifi Is ripe to launch such a campaign, for quick results In sales. Kxperlence ga Ined would he used In the fur therance of a more comprehensive advertising program the coming season, and following years. Tho advertising campaign Is as follows: Creation of an advertising fund, through assessments of one cent per box on Jill sales of pears, be ginning Monday next, using tho auction com pa nies a collection agencies, such funds to he used for the purpose of giving prominence to the winter variety of pears, as the New York pear committee may deem wise. It i expected that the present advertising program will be used as a bawls for future advertising campaigns, now deemed lndlspen able In the successful marketing and sale (if pears. The plan has been approved by the San Jose district of California. The northwest districts composed of Yakima, Wena tehee, and Hood Itlver, Oregon have been asked to do likewise. MELLON REFUSES 10 TAKE STAND ON OIL WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. (!) Secretary Mellon today refused to take a position on the Capper-Ciar-ber bill to Unit oil Import a for the next three yearn at HS.Oilo.tiOO bar rels utuninlly. FRUITMEN PLAN IK CLEANUP WINTER PEARS -nee Chose Her v r r t i Though frowned on by King Gus tave, Prince Lennart of Sweden re nounced his succession to the throne for the love of Karln Nlssvandt, a commoner and daughter of a Stock holm, businessman. TAKE REINS Cannon Trained On Capital Hint Effort to Duplicate De Rivera Coup Civil Guard Mobilized Throughout City For Duty MADJUD, Feh. 17. (P) A mili tary movement, apparently intend el to attempt the OHtahllHhment of a military dictatorship, began Inte thlH afternoon. Two artillery units neur. Madrid mounted long: rune puns and trained them upon the capital, civil quanta were being mobilized throuKhout the city thin nfternoon. Machine un8 were placed ut all HtrateKic points and troops were held In their barracks in readiness ; for action if It should become noeesaary. A Bi-oup of hlRh army officers, reported to ho disgusted! heuauso tho kiiiK seemed to be yielding to the left, were reported preparing to Ht'l.o tho power and repeat the coup by which Prima de.lllvcra seized the dictatorship. -t L WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. (P) ProHident Hoover today signed tho lilll llxltiK working hours for postal employes at 44 hours per week. Announcing his approval, he said he Intended to send to congress a rccommomhillon that a commission or tho regular committee of con Ki'ess investigate means of in creasing poHloft'lco revenues. "At the present time," the presi dent said, "It appears that the post office department will have a defi cit of approximately $100,0110,000. "Tills Is largely duo to increase in pay and the reduction of work ing hours of postal employes." It Is only Just to tho country, he said, that there should be some means of Increasing postal reve nues to meet tho Increased expen ditures. 4 HALKM, Ore., Kcb. 17. n -Adequate fire protection and mod ern sanitation in the chapel and thn jrth and smith cell blocks of tho Oregon state penltontiaj-y is asked hi an appropriation measure for $7. V)00 received by the house, j Tho money would be pent under tho direction of tho atato board; of control, j The hill authorlws the removal; of all wooden floors, roofs and , feature that It .-dates make theso three sections unsafe nnd to ln-( stall plumbing and equipment ns will make the cell blocks sanitary. No I'mntllhi Action. I VA SH INOTON, Keb. 1 7 . W) 1 AlthoiiRh he Is favorahlo to thot project. Senator Thomas of Idaho ! htin wired Oeorgc c, Haer, secretary! of the CmatHla Hnpids association' In Oregon, that no action will bo: taken In the senate on the devel opment at this season of congress. ARMY MAY A MADRID 44-HOUR WEEK FOR POSTMEN BECOMES W BILLS Df III! I AM BY IS Program Prepared by Commit tees of Two Houses May Be Introduced Today Will Not Wipe Out All State Tax on Property SAI.KM, Ore., Feb. 17. () Tho tax proKrum prepared by the tax committees ot the two houses in coiiHiiltntlon with the state tax comniiHsinu again underwent revi HioiiB when the niuin tax bills to be introduced were finally decided on. They will he Introduced In the bonne, probably today. As formulated several days ago tills program was designed to wipe out completely the state tax on property, beginning next year. Re visions since, however, Indicate that this cannot be accomplished, and provisions going into the new intangibles tax bill relative to ex emptions, and particularly to gen eral Interest offsets, make It dif ficult to conjecture how near the measures will come to a complete relief of property as far as the state tax is concerned. Fix Intagibles Tax The now intangibles bill will, fix a rate of 8 per cent on Incomes from Intangibles instead of the 5 per cent of the old unconstitutional act. The bill will first apply to 1931 Incomes, collectible In 1932. It was first planned to apply It first to 1930 incomes, collectible this year, and on UiIb collection at the 8 per cent rate tax leaders ex pected a return of tl,180',000. Since the retroactive provision for 1930 has been abandoned, and reckoning on some natural increase In 1931 Incomes, the first regal returns would be an estimated $2,000,000 collected In 1932 had tt not beeu for revisions last night. Offset Worrlet ' Tho main change in the plan, aside from, the, Increase in . rate, and the one that Is causing the tax commission the most worry, IS one providing an offset for all Interest paid by the taxpayer, regardless of Whether it Is paid on borrowed capital invested in Intangibles or on money borrowed for any other purpose. This, it is said, makes estimated returns under the . bill beyond conjecture. . Another change Is that the ex-' emptlon for single persons shall be determined by subtracting from 11500 the taxpayer's net income from ull sources, and for married persons by subtracting similarly from $2500. .... Slight Excise Change No changes are made in the cor poration excise tax except the In crease from 5 to 8 per cent, and tho income tax remains as approv ed by the people In November ap plicable first to 1930 Incomes. J The tithing bill was Introduced by Senator J.. E. Bennett of Mult nomah county. Estimated to yield $750,000 a year. It Is solely for tbe purpose of eliminating the state (Continued on Page 6, 8tory 1) WILL BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Fob. 17. Now horn is something you mtiHii't Ret wron.. The Kovcrnment Saturday passed' a bill to appropriate $20,000,000 as a loan to farmers in the drouth area, but it was, to be loaned on security. Now the mini nnd bis family that are hungry down there have no security. If he had any security ho wouldn't be hungry; he would have already put it up. So this loan bus not relieved the people that the Red. Cross has been" feeding at all. They have got to go on being fed by I lie lied Cross, so you towns that hav ebecn so slow in rais ing your quota, because you have been waiting on the gov ernment to see what it would do. Now you see, so get busy, nml raise it. They have got to be fed till a new crop is raised, and when they raise it the last one is still in this country; it hasn't been sold yet, but no town loan possibly have an ex cuse now for not doing their part. f ROGERS
