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The Weather Forecast: Rain tonight and prob ably Thursday morning. Miidt-mte temperature. MEDFORD M AILTRIBW Temperature Highest yesterday ... A9 Inmost IhU niomliiic :i9 Precrfpltaiioii To f p. in. yeaterduy T To 5 h. in, toduy .00 E Twenty-Fifth Year MEDFORIV Ol.'KClON. WKDXKSDAY, KKIiRTAKY IS. I'HH No. 3L9. Today FREE BOOK By Arthur BrUbm r I Plftfn Two Engineers. Metalized Milk. The Five Greatest. The Pendulum Swings. Copyright King Feature! Synd Inc. ) LOS AXfiKLKS, Cal., Kel. 16. In his introduction to the writings of d'porge Washington m'ennee.l fni unvf veni-'u ''(llttl. anniversary, President Hoover says Washington's engineering ability lias never been fully ap-f-reeialed. Washington's methods were surprisingly modern. He reolitimed the Dismal Swamp in Virginia, was advis or and engineer on the Potomac and .lames Hiver'canal and the first to advise a combined high way and waterway from the At lantie coast to the Ohio river. f The President describes his predecessor as "the most po tent human intellectual force in Ihe firmament of American in tellect." (ieorge Washington was the first, engineer to occupy the White House. President Hoo ver is the second. A war with England inter fered with Washington's engi neering activities. A war with bootleggers in terferes with Hoover's. Or. M'efiehce, chemist at Km ory University, Atlanta, says copper and iron in milk will correct, anemic conditions be cause those two metals, "taken in metalized milk," regenerate hemaglobin." For a long time doctors have known that red blond corpus cles, consisting chiefly of iron, contain also a trace of copper. This was long thought, to be more or less accidental and un important. Every plumber can lell the doctors what, active re Hisue when you put copper and iron together, as in iittni-hing brass pipes to an iron furnace. -M Washington reports that Lincoln's birthday was cele brated this year "more gener ally than ever." Great men are like great mountain peaks, the farther away you are, the more powerful they seem, little men and mountains having van ished. The five greatest names in history, Aristotle, Archmidcs, Michael Angclo, Newton and Shakespeare, are greater today than ever before. Which name, by the way, would you select as sixth ? Civilization expresses horror of religions fundamentalists in Turkey. They want their old Mohammedan religion restored, (Continued on I'ags Four) Abe Martin Yon never k now ome people lill you try I talk t' them ulillc their rvadin". We often hear wnne huddy "If I'll only taken ft Utile ad lct" but we've never boon I o suyhuddy that took omc. (Copyright John F. Dille Co.) 111 dll muto HARD FIGHT Divided Report By Commit tee On School Texts Doctors Lose Fight On Drugless Healers Intan gibles Tax Return Delayed SAIJ-.M. Ore., lVh. IS. The .Moil, resolution pro viding 1 1 in c no taxes lor slut' liurMsos he levied on real H'.HTly in Oregon, whs In definitely postponed Imlny tiy a viif of :ti! lo 27. Ii wax Huts automatically killed. SALKM, Ore.. IVb. IS. (P) The free text book bill, which hus passed the house uml which was bronchi into the senate this after noon on a divided report, was made a special order of business for Thursday morning at It) o'clock. Senator Woodward of Multnomah county expected to lead tho Unlit in uiibui itiit tlit iniiioritv commit tee report for the unfavorable ma jority report against t "in. tight on the reports is expected lo determine the fate of the bill. SALKM. Ore., Feb. IS One of the most bitterly contested bills of this legislative session, the ba sic sciences bill, in which the mod kill doctors and the drugless heal ing professions were pitted against each other, was killed by indefinite postponement in the senate today. The vote was lti to 14. Noon adjournment interrupted the date in the house on the Mott resolution relieving real property from taxation for state purposes. Consideration of the resolution will be resumed at '1 o'clock. Tho .senate fight on the basic Hoienees bill, which was introduced by senators Joel C. Huotn and .lay II. Upton, was on a divided report of the committee on medicine, pharmacy and dentistry. - lionjr" Delia to"-- - Four members of the committee, Senator Jones. Woodward, r.ooth and Kisher, recommended th:it the bill para as amended, while Sena tor Isaac K. Staples stood alone In a minority recommendation that it nut pass. The debute occupied the entire two-hour session of the fore noon. The vote on the question whether the minority report should be adopted, which meant the indefin ite postponement of the "bill, was as follows: l?nv P.ailcy, P.ennett, P.rown. liuike, TiMwford, Khcrhurd. Kran ciseovirh, Johnson, Kiddle, Mann. MoM4r, Shulmerirh, Spaulding, Staples, Strayer. Wheeler. Against Uillingnley, Ilooth, rarsner, Dunn. Dunne, 1-Mdy, Fish er. Hall. Jones. Kuck, Miller, lp ton. Woodward, Marks. SALKM, Feb. IS (fl) House hill 2 0 8, providing for an Immediate rotund of t8-lt4.4ri8.3ri, collected by the state tax commission under the intangibles tax act that was later declared unconstitutional, will not co tup up as a. special order In the house today as scheduled. Instead the t-iponsors of tho bill have agreed, acrording to Representative Allan liynnn, one of the introducers of the bill, to send it back to com mittee for amendment to harmon ize with the program of the three taxation and revenue committees of the house and senate. This was agreed to by Representatives liynon and Homer D. Angel as leaders of the refund movement. SALKM, Ore., Feb. 1S UV) Taxation issues have joined the power propolis on the calendar of the Oregon legislature. Late yesterday, in addition to approval of the one man utilities commis sioner net by one house, the other (Continued on Page 6, Story 1) SALKM. Ore.. Feb. IS. A bill creating a game cnmmlsHion of seven members. Including the governor, was approved by t be house. The governor serves as the seventh member of the board, each of the remaining six mem bers being divided equally between the three congressional districts. The present board has a mem bership of five. Appointments are made by the governor upon rec onunendat ions of the Oregon State fi range, the I. S. Department of Agriculture. Oregon Fire nssncin tion, Oregon dame Protective as sociation and the Isaac Walton league of Oregon, each of which will name one and nil Join In the selection of the sixth member of the board. GAME AFFAIRS Wnill n RF PI IT i SILVER MARKET AID IIUULU UL I U I I HANDS OF 7 Wins Freedom J"i V ' f Associated 1'rras Vholtt Ruth Garrison, poison slayer of Mrs. Douglas Storrs at Seattle, Wash., won a court fight and was granted her freedom after she had spent 12 years in prison following a verdict that she was insane. Ten Men Employed by Con tractor Ash in Prelimi nary Work Building to Cost $75,000. Work started today on construe Mon of the new Washington school building on the five-nero tract at Peach and Dakota streets, the con tract having been awarded yester day to Sig Ash, local contractor. The modern concrote building will cost S75.U0O. About 10 men will be employed for neveral days dig ging the footings for the building. Very little excavating will be nec essary and genenU construction work will begin sooti. All labor will be employed by the contractor, Mr. Ash, the school board announced todny. No work men will be recommended by the board or the school superintendent for employment. Must Be City Citizens The contractor, however, is un der bond to hire only laborers identified through registration at the school superintendent's office as citizens of Medford. They must have been residents of tllis school district prior to December 1, 1H:N, to register for employment. The registration cards do not guaran tee employment to nny laborers, but must be presented before em ployment can be secured on uny school building work. fhe total cost, of the new build ing Is estimated at $76,000. The high school building, contract for construction of which will be let Kebiuary 2S, will cost $1110,000. Keeisl rat ions for emnlovment I will be received at the city school superintendent s office until Sep tember. ASSAULT CASE TRIAL MAIiSHFIFLD. Oro.. FVh. 18. & Lynn Nestnith, former clerk in ! the stale legislature, and well I known in Klamath Fulls, was yes t terday denied a new trial in the j assault case on which ho was con victed recently. He Hied notice for an undertukiiiR of uppeal to the su I preme court, and wait released un 1 dor $;'oo bond. Ho was convicted i on a charge of assntiltini; u minor Klrl utul sentenced lo five years In state prison. SOUGHT BY SENATE WASHINGTON, Feb. IS. A resolution requesting President Hoover to enter negotiutions with other governments looking toward suspension of Iheir policies of de basing silver coins and selling sil ver on the worid market was ap proved today by the senate finance committee. WASHINGTON. IVh. IS (,Vi Pr"trlfnt llnnver today nominated to he iHistinuHtors the fullowif: CorvRllln. Ore., Onudo K. IncallR. Kugene, Ore., Darwin E. Vurati. 9 ( ' -tot UK mm CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SCHOOL STARTED TODAY CRIME CURE BED BY BUTLER Aroused Public Opinion Is Needed, Declares Fiery Marine Commander News Reel Photographers Rouse Ire at Club Dinner. SOUTH HKNO, Ind., Teh. 18. (A3) Alphonse Cupono, Ctitcnso's Kuntiland chief, will bo deported to Italy when public opinion In aroused, it was predicted by Major General Smedley I. Butler In an address here last night. "When public opposition is nrous ed," Butler said, "Cupono will go back to Italy hut I can't tall about Italy." The remark was one of a few referring indirectly to the Mussolini-Butler imbroglio made before the Knife and Fork club, whose members ho addressed on the sub ject of the causes and cures of crime. "God help tho man who gets in the way of an aroused public opin ion." said the marine commander. Had Experience "I've had an experience of that sort," he added For the most part Butler con fined his remarks to a description of his administration of the Phila delphia crime "cleanup" n few years ago. He recommended the constant shifting of policemen from one heat to another as a means o putting a stop to corruption. The outspoken general, who said ho had never posed for motion pictures, engaged In a blustery ex postulation at the start of IiIb speech with nowsreel men whom he finally permitted to set up their cameras and incandescent lamps before the speaker's table. "I greet, you although 1 cannot see you," he told his audience, squinting into the blinding HghtB. Halts Talk After an attempt to begin .Ills talk he suddenly halted. I wish you'd get those things out of here," he exploded, glower ing, but with some good nature, at the camera men. The machines ground on and on as the general stopped and fixed them with what his subordinates used to call his "gimlet eye." Shouts of "Throw them out," "Down in front" and "Stop the machines" came from the overflow crowd of -100 diners. The machines ceased turning but one hardy pho tographer took two more leisurely flashlight shots as the general fin ally gave in and joked with his "tormentor," then resumed his speech. Gives Crime Cure "The most effective work In trac ing criminals is through their wom en. They always come back to them. "Police will carry on if you give them hailf a break. They are hu man like us and have families to support." "1 believe in prohibition nnd will continue to until we get a better plan. "Any police chief will tell you he can clean up n city in 24 hours when the people demand it." PORTLAND, Teb. 18 (P) Wounded by a bullet fired by an unidentified assailant, Mrs. Arteno Bowles, in, was In a hospital today, lb'r injury was not serious. Police had no theory or clue upon which to work. The possibility the girl wa struck by a stray bullet was considered. M rs. Bowl e was struck In the b'ft hip as she was returning to her apartment late yesterday. Several persons saw her as she fell to the sidewalk, and a number of others reported having hoard a shot. The girt neither saw the portion who diot, nor heard the report. Bandits Take Life Savings Of Man Who Feared Home Town Bank Deposit Unsafe KKKSNO, Cal., Keb. 18. l") Pearini; for the Halety of hlo llfn i navlniiH, $ns.00ft, J. N. Kavolan, pro prietor of the Capitol Cleaners, a dry rleatilnrc eatahllxhment, with drew it from a loeal bank lant week and put It in IiIh Hafe. deposit box, Yesterday lie took the money,) mostly in $1000 bills, put It In a wallet and bought a ticket for Los Angeles. Intending to deposit 11 ln a bank there. With bis tlrket nnd the I'.S.OOO In his torket, Kavoian was pre paring to leave his office last night lo take the train when he was con- Famous War Film Flung to Flames in Holland Town KXSOIIKDH, Holland, Feb. IS. )A Somebody broke into the longest movie theatre In 4 town last night, stole the film. "All Quiet on the WeN- tern Front," ntul burned it in the hark yard. 4 Kuschfdt' is not far from the (it rnian bordrr and bun- h dri-dH of Cfniiuns have cross-d the frontier every day v 4 to see the picture which Is bnnvd in tiiTinany. 4 4 IS HALF RAISED r Drought Relief Funds Now Total $900, Is Report of Local Executive Board Members. Fifty pi-rcent of Jackson coun ty's quota in tho Hed Cross fund for relirf of the people of tho drought strirken area of the Mis sissippi valley has been raised. It waH announced today by members of the local executive board. Fol lowing announcement of tho Unit ed States government's plan, the responsibility of feeding theso starving people rests with tho Hed Cross and the Jackson county hoard urges the people of this county to ralso the other half of j their quota. ) The ease with which money has I been raised In the past to feed i the "starving Armenians" and all other foreign peoples in distress j loads tho board to believe southern Oregonlnns will not full to produce the fund necessary to save their own countrymen. - Quota Jh $1800 -. I Jackson county's quota Is $1800. Ja receipt for tho $700 forwarded to relief headquarters has been received by B. K. Harder, trcusur ; er of the local chapter and anoth er $U00 has been subscribed, which , will arrive soon ftt relief head j quarters. The receipt mailed by ' R. E. Armes, assistant manager, reads: "The amount received has been forwarded to relief head quarters, where I can assure you i It Is greatly needed. ' ( The board expects volunteer j subscriptions to complete tho quota at an early date, being con ' fident that Jackson county people. Iwbo have always gone over tho top in past drives for tho aid of i humanity will help the people of 1 this country who have been unable to produce crops thru no fault of their own. SAN' FRANCISCO, Feh. 1 8 ) 'With a blood-stained cap os their only tangible clue, police today at: templed to trace the toreh-v.sirder-ers who beat and burned Mrs. Al hina Voorhlea, lis, to death yes terday in a quest for a fortune they beloved he kept hidden In her store-home. Witnesses who reported hearing cries Monday night led police to beiinvo that the murderer or mur derers tort ii red iho woman throughout the night and early morning to force her to reveal the hidden tren.ure. wbh relatives said was non-existent. Adams Kxonernted WANHINOTON, Feb. 18. fP) The federal trade commission to day exonerated K. J. Adams, of Kugene, Ore,, of an lllegul or un worthy act in connection with his efforts to sell Urn power plant of Kugene to the P. W. Chapman Interests of New York. fronted by two armed but unmask ed bandits who ordered him bnrk Into the office and searched blm. Kvldentiy expectlnK to obtain the day's receipts, the bandits took sonic In sliver which Kavolan had. In his pants pockets, then stumbled upon the tllM.OOU which Kavolan bad In a wallet In bis coat pocket. lacking Kavolan Iff a closet then locking the outer door. Ihe rob bers escaped, warning Kavolan not to move for five minutes. Knvoian was locked In his office when po lice answetd hia telephone call for aid. I JACKSON QUOTA FOR RED CROSS E ACTION FOR Embargo, Tariff Increase or Change in Procedure Is Needed in Emergency Says Farm Board Chair man in Endorsing Bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. IK. (I1) Chairman l.egge awoalcd to the house ways and means committee today for emergency action to aid American I'annorH. "It is immaterial to us whether relief is by an embargo, tariff in crease, or change tit procedure of the tariff commission," hegge said. The farm board chairman en dorsed the Burtncss bill for a 1 mnnth embargo on certain agricul tural products. Originally introduced to include wheat, feed grains and butter sub stitutes, Representative Burtncss, Republican, North Dakota, expand ed the measure to list wheat, flour, eggs, beans and palm oil. List Approved "I agree with the list in the bill in the main," l.eggo said. "There are one or two items that other sections might be interested in." Secretary Mellon declined to take a position on the bill lor u tem porary embargo on wheat, feed, grains and butter. In a letter to Chairman Iluwloy of tho house ways and moans com mittee, Mr. Mellon said tho depart ment deemed it Inappropriate to comment on the advisability of en acting legislation. OF JAIL ON BAIL' PARADKNA. Cal., Feb. 18. (P) Sentenced to serve B0 days in tho county jail for violation of the state labor laws, Maj. Richard M. Cannon was at liberty today under $1000 bond while his attorneys pro pared an appeal. Major Cannon, a son of Bishop James Cannon, Jr., .. f tho Method ist Kpiscopal church, South, was convicted last Wednesday of fall Ing to pay Mrs. Phyllis Caso $:t:t salary us a teacher in the HI Monte boys' school of which he wus tho munuger. i ENTERS LOW BIO PORTLAND, Feb. 1 H P) Four Oregon contractors submitted pro posals for construction of the Tah kenitch river bridge on tho Roose velt Const highway in Douglas county when bids were opened hero Inrifiv liv thn burosu of nubile roads. ASKS FARMER A Tom Lllllebe of Reedsport wus.Htuto that Kings-ley is unruffled by low at $4.1,274. Kuckenberg &. Wiltmnn of il'ortlnnd. was second with $4 6,0711; Albert T. Bernl, Portland, third, at $47.82. and P. j. Crooks & Co., Portland, fourth at $4K,4R5. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (p The 10-yoiir-old deadlock between house and senate over Muscle Shoals legislation was definitely I broken toduy. The senate conferees and a ma I jorlty of tho house managers sign I ed a compromise agreement for operation of the government's $ir0, ooo.ooo power and nlruto plant and the report will he submlttted to the bonne tomorrow. f RECEIVES SENATE VOTE KAI.KM, Ore., Feb. IX. (!) Notwithstanding a subborn fight I against It the "ganollno cowboy" ' act of the session, as nniended ' at thin session, passed the senate ' late today. Hlnce it Is a house bill It now lacks' only the signature of Miovernnr Julius U Meier to muUo It effective. Oregon Wsslher Itan tonight and probably Thurs tlQ morning; moderate tempera- ture. Fresh southwest, shifting to northwest, winds offshore. vift Justice -1 L1 f s ' , 1 -V-; jVl ' . :srN ; 3$; , Associated Prats Photo A taw hours after he confessed j murdering his mothor to obtain ' $400, Albert Gruno (above), 21-year-i old Harrison, Mich., farmer, was on i his way to a life imprisonment. KINGSLEY PLEA Attorneys f o r Prescott's Slayer Allege Misconduct of Jurors and Errors By Court. Motion for a new trial will bo filed today in the circuit court in behalf of James V. Kingsley, convicted and confessed slayer of Ham Precott, Ashland policeman, January u-t last, now housed In the death cell at Salem prison. Ho Is sentenced to hang Friday, April 3, but the appeal to tho supreme court to he filed, will automatically stay the event. I'll.. I1..IU tvl.lt n,in 1..MI Kn l.tluA1 FOR NEW TRIAL CLAIMS ERRORS upon a number of grounds, At- "" torney Herbert K. Hanmt. chief Protection Obligation counsel for the condemned man. 'These obligation cannot b said today wholly met with dollars and cents. Chief among them will bo al- But B0O(1 fftlth nd gratitude re- leged misconduct of tho jury, In ulre that protection be given to reading newspapers during tho tnom when In 111 health, distress trial, one Juror being cautioned nn ln need." by the court for reading a news- "Tho country." the president paper In tho jury box while tho sai(1. however, "should not be call trial whs under way. Asserted od upon either directly or Indirect errors of the court in giving in- 'v to support or make loans to Mtructlons will also bo embodied ; thee who can by their own efforts in the plea, along with statements of tho district attorney's office that KlngNley might have been a ' hired killer." Tho ten days granted by tho court for tho filing of u new trial expires today. May (Jrant Kxtcuslon. Twenty days wore granted for tho filing of an appeal to the state supreme court. A further extension may be granted to al low more time for perfecting of the appeal and to secure a trans cript of tho testimony in tho case. Reports from the state prison ' 'y ' ( retains his the death row and Indifferent attitude only occupant of a He is the dozen or t day ho is exercise in doiH. The death cells. Knch allowed a half hour's. the block long corri-1 rent of tho time bo' spends behind bars, reading. He bus no one lo talk with during the day. At night a special guard Is main'ained and Kingsley then Hpcnds a large part of the night in conversation with tho watch. During his stay In tho county Jail he was a voluble, talker to all comers. PAN DIKflO. riil., Feb. IS. (J11) Ucsuits from what was believed to DISCOVERY OF MISSING GIRL bo tho first real clue to the whero- ,,.,,.,.,.,, ,,..j , ; i, annuls of little Virginia Hrooks. , prosperous. c used era in the ten year old school girl who drop, j war when we needed 'cm, now ped from sight a week ago today: ,,:,. ,..1, l, .. J on her way homo to school here, w! "rc uslnK whnt thcv savcd were expected toduy by tho slier- I out of tho War to help Out the Iff's office. New hope tn tho . . ,!, t search . lent by a message sent ! reNt ot ,ls' Everybody n0WR from Arizona Into yesterday by : days is suggesting ways of get- r'srnVrnrrn0.'''" ww on somebody that a girl answering the descrlp tl-.n or Virginia tirooss nan neen (seen nt Tacna, near Wellton, Affix., I U-.tur.lfiu iirwl Hnmlitv nrwt thnt ahM had been with a man of about .GO ,Qe"C who was supposed to bo or poacu as nor turner. HINT VETS LOAN VETO BY HOOVER President Says Measure Will Nullify Benefits to' Ex-Soldiers and Injure Country Committee Re ports Bill Favorably. WASiriN-CTOX, Feb. 18 (ff Tho senate agreed today to tako up the veterans loan bill tomor row. I AVASHtNOTON. Feb. 18 . ! The senate finance committee to- day favorably re.portMl the vet I erans loan bill without change and 1 despite tho opposition of President ' Hoover. I The president, In a letter to Chairman Kmoob, expressed fear tho measure "will not only nullify the benefits to tho veteran but in flict injury to tho country ba 6 whole." At the same time under Secre tary Mills, and Veterans Adminis trator Hlnes testified before the committee the administration would I accept a bill extending the loan privileges to tnose veterans actual ly In distress, which they estimat ed at 200.000 to 300,000. Moans a Veto Replying to Senator Harrison, i Democrat, Mississippi, Senator Hinoot said he believed Mr. Hoov er's letter meant a veto for the bill. Spurred by the .Hoover opposi tion, advocates in the senate re newed their drive to get the bill to the White House before Satur day when the ten-day period pre ceding an adjournment begins and a pocket veto could be administer ed. President Hoover said he would "not undertake to enumerate all tho ground for objections to thbs proposal." "I have supported," he said, "and the nation should maintain the im- portant principle that when men. have been called Into jeopardy of their very lives in protection of the nation, then the nation as a whole Incurs a special obligation beyond that to any other group of its cltl- j fupporc inemseives, He continued: "By far the larg est part of the huge sum proposed in this bill is to be available to those who are not in distress.' The president explained that be cause of expansion of public con struction tor assistance to tho un employed and other relief meas ures, the nation shows a deficit for this year. He called attention, too, to a billion dollars of early ma turities of outstanding debts. Means Ilond Sale The money asked by the bill could only be obtained, the presi dent said, by sale of securities to the public. Mills testified he believed the veteran "with gumption" would tako advantage of the 4 Interest i ralo to take tho loans and "make om money." '"Qh6 averngoi veteran without gumption would take advantage of R anyway," he added. "You are going to make a diffi cult situation for the treasury,1' he said, "and possibly do harm to the business recovery of the country." President Hoover accompanied (Continued on Page 0. Story 2) WILL ROGER? w$oys: HKVKRLY HILLS, Col., Feb. 18. Those of the soldiers that need it should get at least 50 per cent of what the govern ment, owes 'cm, but let the ones thnt are not soldiers quit hollering for it, on the grounds that it would make the country else 8 money. tilt fWi iMlsnsMM