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The Weather EDFOR Tribune - Temperature Highest yesterday 43 IxnvesL thl morning 34 Precipitation To ft p. in. yesterday 10 To !i . in. today oa AIL J ForocaKt: Tonight ami Saturday fair; no rliauge in tcmicmturo. Twenty-Fifth Year FOURTEEN PAGES MEDFORIX OK'KOOX, FUIDAY. FKI'.Wl'.MiV '-'7. littl. o. 338.' D Todav V By Arthur Bririan A Dangerous Embargo. Can Uicle Sam Afford It? Billy Sunday Says No. Four Things You Need.. EX-SOLDER LAW Copyright King Feature Pynd., Inc. f LOS A NO ELKS, Feb. -J7 A gasoline 'price war holds pnbli.3 interest for tlie moment jyhere. Standard Oil of Califor nia's cut of two cents, made to meet erratic, price cutting, will be followed by deeper cuts by other companies. The oil situa tion is had, and an elimination process will gradually weed out weaker sisters. Then consum-j crs that have been buying gas too cheap will even up matters by paying too much. The nut inflated Sherman act preventing common sense busi ness arrangements make condi l tions worse. Some American companies demand an embargo on oil from foreign countries. Powerful companies that own inexhaustible s u b t e r ranean "lakes of oil" in Venezuela nnd elsewhere oppose the em bargo. They want to bring in their .cheat) foreign oil. They are protecting this country's in-! terests, perhaps without know- j ing or caring. An embargo would hasten the exhaustion of i American wells, putting eon-' suniers and the mother industry at the mercy of foreign well) owners. What that would mean the country learned when! lirilain controlled rubber an.! ! .regulated the price. President Hoover's veto of! the soldiers bonus bill expres sed bis sincere conviction that j the. bill would be harmful, to the country and the men. Re passage on the hill over the; veto will, perhaps, decide! Whether the president and Mr. Mellon or congressmen and 1 service men were right. M . 1 Many believe that making it possible for three million men ' to speihl a billion and u half of dollars cp.ickly will help busi ' ness and not ruin Cucle Sam. ; He found tcji billions, quL'kly wSntcd the numey and survived that, although many of the bil lions will never come back from Kuropc. M ' ' Hill Sunday, at whose name .lorgons and Chimeras dire yes, even Satan himself, shiver j and shake, refuses an enormous i sum olifered for moving picture work. He makes n mistake, neglecting to put conversion and saving of souls on a pro duction basis. His speeches lasli sinners, and describe hell in a way to keep you awake, searching your conscience. Hut (Continued on pnge twelve) Abe Martin Next !' beln Immensely rich. an' j a iletmKTiit ill funniest mmblfio Hon In bcin' amiable an' limnciixly rich. ltwre' no rxruo fcr Dan Cntil in 11 n' ft irl heart thoc (linen. i FUND FLOW OPENS WITH: FINAL VOTE Senate Follows House in Overriding Hoover Veto; Bureau Ready to Make I First Loan in Five Min utes Vets at Window. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. (A1) A thousand checks were scheduled to be on their way to veterans be fore dark tonight. Veterans Administrator 1 lines revealed this within an hour after the senate vote today to override the president's veto of the loan bill. Orders went forth immediately to start lending. Within five minutes after the senate had voted the central office of the veterans bureau released the first-loan check. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. (IP) President Hoover announced to day he had ordered the veterans bureau to give complete priority to veterans in need In the administra tion of the loan bill enacted today over hi veto. "Although I have been opposed to the bonus bill," he said, "now that it has passed we propose to facilitate its working In every way." WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. (P) The veterans loan bill wus enacted Into law today over the veto of President Hoover. The senate vote was 7(1 to 17. ' Kixtfen republiCHns - and one democrat voted to sustain the veto. Thirty-six republicans refused to support Mr, Hoover's veto and joined in passing the measure. Veterans Administrator nines was at the White House when the senate acted. As lie left, he said the bureau could make the first loan under tne bill within five minutes. Vets In JJne At the veterans bureau some ex-soldlers were in line to apply hours before the vote. Although General Hincs has not given an official opinion on the question, it was said at his office the "accepted opinion" was that the certificates would have to he two years old before being eligible for loans, as under regulations governing loans heretofore. This would affect numbers of holders. Word of the new law went forth (luickly to the 54 regional offices of the bureau so applications could he accepted nt once. To Mall Checks Checks for the InanK will bo mailed as rapidly as possible, with the first expected to be on their way tonight or tomorrow to appli cants whose requests for loans were mailed in. After the rush starts, however, checks will be issued from within ten to twenty days of receipt of loan requests. (continued on page B, story tne) Scribes In Tears and Song As Great Pulitzer Papers Merged with Scripps Chain C'oluniunisi's Valedictory. XBW YORK, Feb. 27. P) Here is the valedictory of Franklin 1. Adams, for years conductor of the Conning Tower column In the Morning World : "And so to all concerned the Conning Tower, trying to Have . the final wotd like a child asking for another drink of water before the light is turned out, says 'Ciood-hyeY' NfcW YORK. Feb. 2T (IV 1.e New York W t r I d newspapers passed to the control nf the Scripps-Howard nd ieate today. on the minute at midnight. Sur rogate Jiimes A. Fob y decided thai Joseph I'liliter's will did not enjoin h w three wms from disposing of their newspaper trust. O Ia thapQtwo bourn later In a Wall street office, the tie Was consummated by the three Pu litzer brothers. Ralph. Joseph. Jr.. and Herbert and liny W. Howard, chairman of the buard of the Scripps -Howard, for a sum esti mated at $.",oao.noo. The Rn'e went Into ef fe. t with the first edition of the Kvening World this morning, merging the Kven'ng World, the Morning World mil the Sunday World with the New York Telegram Borrowed Books Appear On Threat Of Lie Detector CHICAOO, Feb. 27. (P)- There's power in the lie de- tector. b The other day Prof, Rod- t ney Molt of the University of 4 Chicago said to his class:- "I will give you just 24 hours to return to the library five valuable books on constitu- 4 tional law, taken obviously by 4 some of you. Jf the return is 4 not made within the time 4 .specified, I shall have each of 4 you subjected to a lest of 4 the lie detector." 4 Yesterday the five books 4 were back where they be longed. So, too, were five 4 others missing from the pre- 4 vious semester. 4 AL CAPONE TO PRISON 'Must Serve Six Months Term for Contempt of Court Affidavit On Ill ness Glaringly False, De clares Federal Judge. CHICAGO, Feb. ()Al Ca pone was convicted of'cmitempt in federal court today und Renteiice.l lo six months In comity jail. Judge Wilkersou in announcing his decision declared it wus evident, the affidavit which attempted to show ('a pom was ill and in bed when he was wanted by the. gov ernment two years ago, was "glar ingly false." The effect ot the affidavit, the judge declared, was to "hamper the administration of justice," and that "this court Is not to bo lam- 1 1"-' - The contempt consisted of Ca . pone's failure to appear before a I federal grand jury in 192!).. He ! sent an affidavit accompanied by a doctors' certificate from his Miami, Fla.. home that he was too ill to risk a trip to Chicago. Later, the federal attorney charged, it was learned that Capone had been at the races and hud made a trip to Bermuda during the time of, his alleged illness. During the hearing Capone pro duced two physicians and two nurses who testified the defendant was really ill at the time he re fused to come to Chicago. In Seclusion The gang leader returned to Chicago Friday secretly nnd kept himself secluded until the case was called. He slipped Into the federal (Continued on Page 8 Story 2) The new paper Is known as t he World -Telegram. The contract provides for a cash payment of J.'iOn.oan, ?2. 000.000 in notes. $r.00.000 cash within !0 days, and $2,000,000 more contingent upon the profits i of the new enterprise. The physi cal properties, such as building and muchfnrry are not involved , in the ?ale. The I'ulitzer broilers iJ-sucd i statement saying economic condi tions hade made the sale "inex-' orable" and that $r.itO,oou of the proceeds would be disi rlbnted to . employees. Mr. Howard referred to the sale as "not the death or the N''W York World, but Its re-blrth." The task of getting the World to press for the hist time went forward in the gold-domed build-1 Ing on I'ark Row as the news of the nale came in. The 2Kfi7 workers paid their farewells In silence, tenrs and song, fathered unnnd James W. Rurrett, city editor for 10 years. the ed itorial stuff fiinir to the j uine nf "tiood Night, L-tdic." an! improvised swan song, "flood Rye ! World, we're going to leae you nvi'." Hwept through the paper-' liw-red room n nd the lawt staff ! meet Hg ber.ime history. Thus passed n newspaper, nr. (julred by Josph I'!i!iter I3 and developed by him Into an Institution. SENTENCED Mrs. Coolidge Names Ship i lir sxii". t 'i'i'"yv . it is j 1 HBiiiyiiiiiiiijUjjt; I Br .'t'JU't' tiW' ) The new Dollar liner President Coolidge was launched at NYwimrt News, a., Saturday with Mrs. i'ulvln Coolidge as siwnisor. ROAD WORK FORiPROSECUTION IN LOCAL JOBLESSjBOWLES' CASE ENDS IN IRCipSES TANGLE Emergency Relief Provision Will Be Unneeded As; Spring Employment gins, Is Belief. Be- Emergency relief work in Jack son county will be at an end by the middle of Match and the work of lapcring off the employment has started, according to Victor Teng wald, county court secretary, in chutge. Beginning next week the roed crew will he cut to 50 men and there will be no turcher rotation of workers. The week following the force will he cut further. The main employment is completing the work underway. Similar steps will be taken next week by the forest service, which will cut Its camp forces at Mc Allister Springs, Fish Lake and French (iulch to 25 men. Forestry Jobs Soon The forest service will slart. spring operations in April, when there will he a few permanent posi tions available. The emergency relief work has provided short, employment for more than MMi men in the county nnd tided them over the January und February lull. With federal, state, county and city work underway and a general opening of work throughout. I hi! Pacific coast, the worst is over for lis year. Many are already plan ning on departing for government projects hi the west, particularly the lioulder dum silo, where there Is already a surplus of labor. WIU-IAMS CRKKK. Ore.. Feb. 27.- (Spl) An ele.tne line Is be ing surveyed up William creek as far as the Williams post office. Poles are being placed re;idy for raiding and within short time thr residents of our little valley will have the convenience of electricity in their homes. DAISY LOSES PLEA FOR BAIL RELEASE I.OH ANGKI.KM. Feb. 2 7.oV' Oiiisy lie Rite ot another flhi for f recd ni todny when tb" dis trict court of iippeai denied o original application foiOrelease on 'S 1 1 . M ss 1 e I toe is s c rv i n g a term of is months In the county Jull for theft of $ Hifi from the actress, Clara Row, anil sought I Ir rty pending decision on a" appeal, Associate n Pre Photo Another Change of Venue Looms With Refusal of Washington District torney to Act. At- l I'OUTiiAXH, Ore., Feb. 2 7. (A1) With tlie trial date only four days away, the possibility was seen to diiy of h secoiirl venue change in the murder case against Nels-n C. it o w 1 e s, capita list, and li ma ! .ou-ks, his former secretary. They are charged with killing Howies wife. Tlie newest complication had as its basis an opinion by the attor ney general, handed down in 1922, and applying in the present case j to K, It. Tongue, Washington coun i ty prosecutor, who has asked to be relieved of active prosecution of i the Howies eiise. The trial was taken from Mult- nomah county to Washington ! j county on a defense motion for a ! change or venue, although Mult-' nomah county officials expected to j represent the state. Tongue told the Multnomah county prosecutor he was not dls- I posed to enter Hie case actively because of a lifelong friendship with attorneys representing Howies! and M iss l.oiicks. Then It was announced Tongue's brother, T. II. Tongue, Jr., Hillsboro attorney hud Joined the defense forces. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27 ( An attack on the radio act of I !!'", mode by Robert (J. Duncan, free-speaking radio campaigner of Portland, was heforo tlie I'tiltcd States circuit court hero today. Human Is appealing from his conviction and sentence for using Indecent language in a radio cam paign. Through his irorney John A. Jeffrey lie argued that the act Is unconstitutional In that It at tempt io remilate language used In broadniMtng He was con vfcted in Portland and sentenced to six months im-(yiw)iifiH-nt nnd fined $.vm. TRAFFIC VIOLATOR GETS BREAK FROM LAW LIMB PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 27 . There re me a t Inn at. least mi the Miynig goes when every man n' t" a bren k. C. i. Rock-w-ll g..t hn t'duy. a traffic tag commanding bint to appear In mu nicipal court at a.m. February :ti. Hood River Plans being con sidered for establishing game bird fat ni. EXECUTE SIX NEGROES IN S. CAROLINA Two Hours Required for Electrocution Four Wo men Witness Doings in Death Chamber Mother of One Refused Admission COUWIHIA. S. (. Feb. 27. (4) Six negroes were electrocuted In tlie South Carolina peniten tiary early today for the murder of t Wo Lexington county white men. They went to their deaths calm ly and with prayers on their lips. A lino -ft two lu-urs were required for the executions, each of wh ch was watched by 1 1 persons, in addition to uewnpapermen, physic tans and penitentiary officials. Tillman poozer died as the con fessed murderer of C. 1. Mills. Cuyee night watchman. The mo-: live wan robbery. i The other five. Robert "Creasy''' Kldredge. IJndsey Cnntrell. nlias John Ack wrfght, James "Snow" 1 Hickman, (ieorge Hint apd Krnest "Tee" Thomason were convicted , of the murder of R W. Hendrlx. j Lexington county merchant, who . was shot in an attempted holdup. Four of the five were arrested in lllucficld, W. Va., whero they hud fled. . Set New Itecord. Electrocution of six men at one time sot a record for South Caro lina, the greatest number pre viously being five in 19 HI. Four-Women wer luliulUed as; spectators. ' One of them wan the widow of llcndrix. She showed no emo-i Hon as Cant fa 11, her husbnnd's ' slayer, died. I Two others, daughters of Mills, j saw their father's slayer electro- cuted. The fourth woman was Mrs. ' Ciray Kit lues of Hartsville, who j saw ( Ieorge Mil d executed. ! Colonel James l'eiinnnn, super-, intendent of the prison, said ho hud refused a request of Hlrd's mother that she be allowed to see her son die. JAIL 4 MONTHS PoRTLAiND, Ore., Feb. n.(A) Convicted of beating his seven-! months-old baby, JpmH Jeroy 1 Jmiex was today sentenced to srve 1 four months in the county Jail, j Jones will convicted on n charge , of assault and battery. He wa.s nrrcHted when neighbors Investi gated after hearing the chili? scream. . . Witnesses testified at the trial that Jones told them he "tupped" the baby when Its crying annoyed him. 4 WAH1 1 1NOTON, Feb. 27. (P) The house passed an amended senate bill today to provide fed eral a hi to slat en In co-ordinated tun tern H y and Infancy and rural heiilth programs. Policeman Lobbyist Finds Salem Legislators Enjoy Little Joke During Labors He might have thought himself a second Jcthro Rass, hero of "Conlston.1 Rut he didn't wear a coonskln cap and. he learned be fore he parted with his cash that lobbying Is not for policemen so the captain went home. And the Iegfshi''rs laughed. The Policemen nnd Firemen's Pension bill has had the strongest lobby of any bill In this session of the Oregon legislature, according to the letter received yesterday from one of the nolons. which tells I the story of thcaptair Policemen nnd firemen crowded Haleni and pulled all tbn ropes they I could. And that's hovPthe captain I got Into the situation of which the j legislator writes home. Acting us ringmaster for his fol lowers In trying' to sway passage i of the bill, a member of the police sipnid took the Initiative and en deuvored to inform himself ns to what would happen in esse there was a tie on this bill, Homo syrn pathlx'T I" 0, Jocular mnnner told the polh email, t he s-i gi-ant -nt-arms hud tho deciding vote. Tho Sandy Smelt Run Waiting Flood to Start Up Stream POIUXANP, Ore., Feb. 7. iP) Hundreds of thousands of tiny fish milled in the waters of the Columbia at the mouth of the Snndy river to day, waiting for a rise of water on the Sandy bur. As soon as this rise takes place 4 an annual Sandy smelt run 4 will be on. 4 Unheralded by the usual 4 convoy nf screaming, wheel- 4 ing gulls, the run was dlseov- 4 ered by a deputy gumo war- den who had just confiscated 4 seven shorty sturgeon from a 4 group of ' fishermen. The 4 great stomachs of the fish 4 were filled with smell. 4 REQUESTED Postmaster General Shows Allocation of Funds In Public Buildings Meaure Ashland Will Get Like Sum By Action. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. (A) How $504,000,000 of tho public buildings fund is to ho spent was whown in allotments forwarded to congress today by Secretary Mel lon ana l'ostmuster General R row n. The report showed tho specific limits of cost authorized nnd ap propriated for individual projects, tho amounts allocated to projects not yet submitted to congress for appropriations, and tho amount set aside ns a reserve to meetcontin gencleH. Oregon: Aslilund $H.yono. Kugene Jl'tiO.OOO. firants Pass $150,000. Hllishoro $K0O0. Hood River $00,000. McMlnnvllto $Kfi,000. Mcrironl $HR,0(0. Tillamook $K5,000. Postmaster W. J. Warner was without definite Information as to what the $86,000 Item was for. He said tho treasury department had two plans In view, "ono for another federal building of two stories to he used as a classified station of the local postofflee." Tho other plan considered was for an addi tion to the present federal build ing. 1 Confirm Crolsnn. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. MV Tho senate today confirmed the nomination of Kdward M. Croi sun for reappointment ns col lector of customs at Portland, ore, Rogers Confirmed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. P) The senate today confirmed James O ran on Rogers of Colorado as as sistant necretary of state, i 'captain took tho matter seriously. Word was then passed around among members of the legislators imi itiicK u i I jut nuiu'iiirm. iivri y body told him the scrgeunt-ut-I arms hud the deciding vote. lie then made Inquiries ns to how J much It would cost to swing tho vote. Joe Kinger, the scrarnnt-ut-' arms, according to the story, is an I "pnd man" In nny good show, j He wns tipped off as to what .was going around and named his price nt $'T.oo. The policemen I went Into a huddle and came up I on the line with a compromise $ir.oo. The play we n t on until n f e w duA ago in lb." dlnlnOroom of the i Marlon lintel ii committee waited I on Joe ami he took a very decided j stand. He would accept $1B00 In cash- no checks. The situation wus progressing i welt until by accident tho captain , mentioned the matter to one of the senators, who wasn't In on the Joke he spilled tho brans and the : captain pulled up and wt homo, ! convinced that he' n, better pullccmun than lobbyist. $85,000 PO IN MEDFORD FIRE TAKES - N BOX PLAN! Damage Estimated at $1Cy 000 Results of Hot Box Explosion Immediate Rebuilding Planned By Operators. Damage of approximately $10, 000 resulted thlH forenoon from a fire which destroyed the box fac tory of the Fii-Pine Lumber com pany on Chestnut street. Tho factory was '.oca ted in a wing ad jo. ning the main sawmill bu.ldlntf u hich suffered no damage from the flames, placed under control quickly by the fire department, which played five lines of hose on the burning structure, sending up a thick black column of smoke visible from all parts of the city. An explosion from a hot box s blamed for the fire. The flames spread so quickly that box fac tory workers had no opportunity to fight them. The entire wing was burning in les than five min utes. The small fire department pumper was dispatched to the scene but a cull was soon made for tho big Htutz, which, pumped witter at high pressure, beating the flames into early submission. However the firemen spent an hour nt ' the blaze before large piles of box shook were extin guished. The department is cred ited with good work In placing the threatening situation under control.. Flames wore endanger Ing tho entire mill. ' " ' ' Work Is to begun immediately to rebuild the box factory and it was thought today by S. I. Brown and Walter Inch, operators, the factory would be In operation In a month. Tho lose was covered by insurance. VENTURA, Cnl., Feb. 27. (A) Two children, attending school at FA Rio, a viltnge near here fainted In their classes today. School of flclals said they were under-nourished nnd a subsequent Investiga tion disclosed that at least 15 other chlldron were suffering from a lack of food. The little tots felt from their seats at a morning class. Mrs. O. 8. Harris, principal of the school and wife of a physician, rushed to their aid and after she hnd revived them with dashes of cold water on their heads, they told her they had not eaten for two days. Will Rogers says: HEVKIUiY HIUaS, Cnl., Feb. 27 Tho stock market is pick up so thnt makes the rich hoys feel n little better. Lot of appropriation hills for gov. eminent expenditures have been passed. Business in gen eral in the last four or five weeks looks better, but all that has nothing to do with the folks that the Red Cross has to feed. IT. S. Steel can go to n thousand and one, Auburn tn a million, but that don't bring one biscuit, to n poor Negro family of 15' in Arkansaw who haven't got a ehanee to get n single penny, in money till their little ftw bales of cotton are sold away next fall. That, some places haven't reached their Red Cross quota just don't seem possible. Just because it's getting warm, that don't help tjjose folks' ap petite nnv. S llll, HtNaiwr Sl4kaU,lM. , 4
