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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1931.
No. 97.
Today
By Arthur Brisbane
E. B. McLean Says No.)
Queer, General Smuts. ,
Some Good,. Some' Bad.
What We Think, We Are.
i Copyright King Feature Synd, Inc.
; WASHINGTON, D.' C, June
26. Edward B. McClean told
the court here this morning
that he did not wish to sell
, his Washington Post. That,
for the time, settles the talk of
a sale, which requires Mr. Mc
Lean's consent, under his fath
er's will. ;
M '
. Mr. McLean looked well and
cheerful, having his photo
grzrY, taken, outside the court
house, arm in arm with Mrs.
Eleanor Patterson, , editor i of
the Washington Herald, and
his rival in Washington's morn
ing newspaper field.
M
They seemed friendly rivals,
none of the old feeling tlint
Vnnde the Washington Post sail
the New York World a yel
low dog, long ago, when Mc
Lean was a little boy, and Mrs.
Patterson had not been born.
Some of that fighting rivalry
might be good for circulation.
General Jan Christian Smuts
of the South African republic,
a British dominion, appreciates
the suggestion that South Af
rica may stop paying interest
on her debt to Britain for one
year," under the moratorium,
but says NO. ' .
"We are able to pay our
debts, and therefore we shall
do si'-'K8Mjf- Ge;neral --Smuts.'
South Africa he says does not
J propose to "climb down ' on
its debt.
'
Very eccentric person, Gen
eral Smuts. Uncle Sam can
name for him great nations
able to pay, but willing to
"climb down," with a swift
ness strictly in accordance with
Newton's law.. .
The news of each day is like
an old fashioned layer cake or
a slice of Neapolitan ice cream,
one layer better than the other.
Immigration to this country
is now lowest in sixty-six years,
which means that . ambitious
j men and women,' with courage
and new1 ideas, flic sort that
made tlisT country, are ' shut
out. That is BAD news.
The American Library as
sociation,:, in conference at
New Ilaven, ' completed with
ease, a one million dollar en
dowment fund and will get
another million from a founda
tion, not named. The money
will be used, largely, for
"adult education," which is
important and neglected. Mil
lions of men and women past
thirty, and past fifty, long for
education, and would maku
good use of it. That is GOOD
news.
Washington believes that Presi
dent Hoover plans to help, finan
cially, our neighbors In South
America. Conditions there are
bad. because of the drop in com
modity prices. Argentina suffers
from the low price of wheat.
Chile Is hurt by the drop in metals,
and Brazil by demoralitation of
the coffee market.
Tbe coffee that we once bought
from Brazil, for two hundred mil
lion dollars, we now buy for forty
flvo millions, same amount, same
quality.
American business, which has
greatly Increased In South Amer
ica, steadily turning toward us,
and away from Europe, will bo
glad to know that South America
will have help.
Some modern teachers, healers,
. orientalists, etc., tell you man is
f nothUV but his own thought.
WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE.
It does not work out 100 per cent,
unfortunately. You cannot think
yourself out of a cold in tbe head,
or Into a Job. -. . i
But a general mental condition
Is Important. - For instance. Oer-
IContlnued on Pat Tour)
M-TRIBUNE
EXPANSION
ANNOUNCED
$35,000 Duplex Tubular
Press Purchased Job
Plant To Be Enlarged
New Mechanical Equip
ment Installed Offices
To Be Enlarged.
Papers were, signed yesterday
which cnll for an extensive ex
pansion program of the Mail
Tribune, the enlargement and im
provement of Its plnnt and equip
ment, and the addition of a multi
tude of up-to-date and modern
features.
These preparations have been
going on for many months, and
when news of some of them leak
ed out, the rumor was started
that the Mail Tribune was to be
sold.
The Mali Tribune has not been
sold, nor has its personnel been
radically changed.
R. W. Kuhl, present editor and
publisher retains the same posi
tion and control, he has held for
20 years; S. Sumpter Smith, who
has been associated with him all
this time as part owner and busi
ness manager, also retains a stock
Interest, but hereafter will have
exclusive charge of the Mall Tri
bune Job department.
This change has been- necessita
ted because of lack of adequate
space, and the desire for more ef
ficient mechanical service. The Job
department will be moved to the
Mail Tribune building on North
Crape street directly back of the
newspaper plant and will also be
improved and enlarged by Install
ing a linotype and other machine
ry, and equipment.
Mr. Smith's, place In the news
paper ' department will be taken
by. B. L. Knapp. secretary and
treasurer of the Southern Oregon
Publishing company of Eugene,
who .has already moved to this
city "where he will make his per
manent home.. -, . -.i
Associated with Mr. Knapp in
the Southern Oregon : Publishing
company are Prank Jenkins,
president, nnd E. R. Gilstrap.
vice president, well known and
experienced newspapermen, who
will assist Mr. Knapp In the busi
ness administration of the prop
erty. Herbert Gray who has been nu
vertislng manager of the Mail
Tribune for many years, will con
tinue in that capacity .with ' a'
trained corps of assistants, under
his direction.
The transfer of the Job depart
ment, will give space for a $35,
000 Duplex tubular press, with
color attachment In the new plant,
conceded to be the finest press
made for the intermediate news
paper field, also a Ludlow ma
chine,' with complete equipment,
which will give advertisers the
advantage of big city service. a
monotype slug caster, a new lino
type, .which will , give the Mall
Tribune a battery of five ma
chines and a new type face for
the paper, the recently invented
Ionic, which is admitted by news
paper men everywhere to be the
clearest face and the easiest on
the eyes, ever constructed.
This trnnsfer will also allow
more space for the business of
fices which will be enlnrged. re
modeled and fitted with new and
attractive furniture, as will the
news and advertising rooms.
In short everything possible Is
to be done to make the Mall Tri
bune mwhniileuUy what Its own
ers believe It hns always been as a
iicwspoiKT one of the very best
on the entire Pacific coast. 1
Work on the new construction
will start at once but It will prob
ably be sometime In September
before all the Improvements have
been completed and the new plant
Is In full operation. ,
MM' TO,
PORTLAND, Ore.. June 27. (IP)
Mrs. Minnie E. Kennedy, mother
of Aimee Semple McPherson. fa
mous Los Angeles evangelist, nn-
- tnniirht she IS to be
nuunctru n.c "
married tomorrow "to the nicest
man I ever knew."
LONGVIEW, Wash.. June
,n uinnio "Ma" Kennedy,
mother of Mrs. Almee McPherson.
Los Angeles evangelist, ana ...
Hudson, New York City, are to be
married here Sunday. It was
learned here tonight.
The Kev. J. O. Cley. pastor of
. . MiInn unit & PT"
n.rd" of Mrs. Kennedy
confirmed the report. He said the
marriage would take place on the
hank, of Lake Sacjawea. near
here. The lake, he said, had long
been a favorite haunt of Mis.
Kennedys.
MnriOVA license. It a
reported here, was Issued at Kel
so. Wash., last Thursday. Mrs.
Kennedy gave her address on the
license as the Washington hotel.
BE BRIDE TODAY
Seattle.
BULLETIN
BLAGOVKSHCtreXSK, Siberia,
Juno 28. (IP) Wiley Post anil
Humid Gntty, continued their
'rouml-Uio-world flight at 10:30
a. m. today (11:30 p. ni. Saturday
V, s. T.) Taking off from hero
for Khabarovsk, Siberia, 350 miles
distant.
The fliers announced they would
lake orf Immediately for Nome,
Alaska, after rcfuolliuE at Khab
arovsk. MAYOR ISSUES
STATEMENT ON
GITY GAMBLING
Asks Anynomous Phone
Callers to Furnish Evi
dence, and Law. Will Take
Course Women Com
plain of Husbands Losses
Mayor E. M. Wilson yesterday
Issued a statement, following
anonymous complaints against
card games in this city, in which
lie promises the support of his
own office, the city council, and
the police department in the sup
pression of any illegal practices
in this city. v
The statement follows;
"Several anonymous telephone
calls have recently come to my
office from ladies asserting that
their - husbands have lost hurd
enrned money In card games In
the city. The ladles calling have
declined to give their names. It
is a difficult matter to prosecute
an investigation of such conditions
without the evidence and hearty
support these people are able to
give.
. "Our laws govern professional
gambling. All games of chance are
a form of gambling and the age
old card games will always con
tinue. Those who cannot resist
these games, and others who live
by their wits at cards, will always
find places behind locked doors
where they think themselves In
perfect seclusion,-To what extent
these places exist ' depends upon
the ability of our police to detect
their existence from any available
evidence at hand. To the end that
any irregularities be corrected I
ayk these ladies, and all other
persons having knowledge of
benefit to the department, to
communicate with Police Chief
C. McCredle who, under his oath
of office and the desire of the
council, will make such investiga
tion as Ih possible to be made."
E. M. Wir-HON, Mayor.
Medford, June 27th, 1981.
SOUTH YET ON
MAN'S IDEN1TY
A second wire was sent to Sac
ramento yesterday by Coroner H.
W. Conger In a continued attempt
to obtain a description of the man
found dend In a box car at Ante
lope Thursday, who Is thought to
be a resident of this city, but no
Information hnd been received
from the southern coroner up to a
late hour last night.
Obstacles evidently arose con
cerning the InveHtlgatlon In Sacra
mento, Mr. Conger stated, whion
are dvluylng the information de
Blred In thlr city.
The name of the local man,
who has been missing for more
thnn a week, was not divulged by
Mr. Conger at the request of rela
tives, who still hope that he Is
living, although information od
tnined Indicates that the body
being held In Sacramento will be
Identified as his.
Police of the southern city
maintain that the man, found
dead from a bullet wound with
a rifle by his side, In the box car
shipped out from Medford, had
been dead eight or 10 days when
discovered at Antelope. If such
were the case he entered the car
in Medford prior to June 20, when
It was was sealed, and ended his
life before the car was shipped
south.
Railroad workers feel that he
would have cried for help, when
the car was sealed If he had been
alive at that time.
Despondency, resulting from
lark of funds. Is named os a prob
able cause of the unknown man's
supposed resort to suicide.
Relatives of the local man and
Coroner Conger were anxiously
awaiting Information from Sacra
mento last night which will deter,
mine whether the body Is that of
the resident missing here.
OAKLAND. Cal., June 27. UP)
AII nttfr r.f th. western unit
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers were re-elected toaay
at the closing session of the or
ganization's convention here and
Halt Lake City, was chosen as the
meeting place In 1931.
NO WORD
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STABILIZE
IRK, COT
TAXES DEEP
Billion Dollar Slash Urged
By U. S. Chamber of
Commerce In Federal
Cost Favor Changes In
Banking Rules and Anti
Trust Law. .'
WASHINGTON, June 27. (IP)
Stabilization of employment and
opposition to any increase In fed
eral taxes were given foremost
positions today In a program for
the comlngyear drawn up by the
board of directors of the United
States chamber of commerce.
In making this announcement,
Silas M. Strawn, president of tho
chamber, said the organization'
studies Indicated at least one bil
lion dollars could be saved In
public expenditures during the
next fiscal period.
"Any increase in the rates of
federal taxes in the coming year
will be stoutly resisted,"1 he said.
Other major subjects selected
for the chamber's attention were:
"Banking; transportation; agri
culture; commercial politics in
foreign relations; problems re
sulting from over production In
the natural resources industries;
distribution problems and trade
relations between government ana
business.
"American business has a vital
Interest In the stability of em
ployment and in the possibilities
of minimizing the disturbing ef
fects of seasonal and cylical fluc
tuations," Strawn said. "Employ
ment regularlzatlon experiments
' have demonstrated uninlstnkably
that the management of every
I type of business enterprise can
exert some measure of control
over the economic forces which
produce Intermittent employment.
I "The sppclul committee of the
cnumner now giving micnuun i
this subject Is exploring the pos
sibilities of supplanting Individual
efforts nt stabilization with a
wide coperative trade association
effort. Undoubtedly pleasant sue
cessful individual methods can be
applied on a much wider scale and
with much greater effect by whole
Industries."
Discussing taxation, Strawn said
the Increase in federal expendi
tures has become a question of
"real and growing concern."
"Tho exactions of tho federal
government upon the revenues of
Individuals end of business firms
are already too high," ho said.
"To sat' that these taxes are too
high Is only another way of say
ing the government Is spending
too much. Any Increase In the
rates of federal taxes In the com
ing year will be stoutly resisted."
strawn said the views of bank
ers and other business men would
lie sought on the need for moui
ficiitlon In the national banking
lnw, the federal reserve law ana
the banking laws of tile states,
A chamber committee, Strawn
snld, is giving special Bttonlion to
the ' severe depression In the oil.
eonl nnd limber Industries.
An Importnnt phase to Investi
gate, he said, "Is the extent, n
any, to which the anti-trust laws
mnv he an obstacle to concerieu
action through agreements by tho
Industries to stabilize tneir opera
tions, particularly through control
of production."
CANADIAN WHEAT
CROP TITiFUL'
WINNIPEG, Monltoba, June 27.
UP) Crop conditions In the west
have become distinctly worse In
Manitoba and Saskatchewan dur
ing the last three weeks and the
only material improvement has
been confined to northern Alberta,
according to the third general
1931 crop report of the Manitoba
Free Press published today. Three
weeks ago the Free Press report
stated thnt conditions were the
worst In 29 years.
Replies from correspondents, tho
report states, describes the length
of straw as "pitiful."' Only the
most favorable districts have
stands of 13 Inches, but scores
report four and five Inches.
LYNN. Mass., June 27. (UP)
Nine ducks drowned when heavy
rain partly Inundated their coop
here, according to a report by
Constable Ben Bears. The birds
were only eight weeks old.
MADRID, June 27. (UP) The
ninth International chemistry con
gress will meet here In I9J2, at
which time It Is expected that
2,000 foreign delegates will attend.
THREE RIVERS, Que., June 27
UP) Word reached J:;re today
that seven children were drowned
yesterday when a rowboat upset
on the rlvlerp des Envies near Bt.
Sererln d Prouxvllle,
Fight.Reds
J 1 Aasoctated t'rett t'hoto
Chiang Kai-Shek, generalissimo
of Chinese nationalist forces, plana
to personally conduct the govern
j mont campaign against communist
revolutionary force, tohe south.
TEXAS SHORES
THREATENED BY
TROPICAL GALE
Hurricane Warnings, Fly
Small Crafts, v'My
N As Waves RLi-'-mui 1--30'
Die, Crops Hit in Mid
West. V
CORPUS OIRISTI, Tex., June
27. (IP) The course of a tropfcal
storm moving through tho Qulf of
Mexico along the Texas coast to
night kept . weather observers,
coast guardsmen and - seafaring
men, guessing aaT to whether" It
would move. Inland-, nour Corpus
Chrlstl or Matagorda bay or turn
and spend Its fury outward In the
gulf.
Lute today, weather reports
from tho bureau here and at
Houston said the disturbance was
u short distance off tho coust
opposite Port Arkansas. . It was
expected to cause strong northeast
winds and gales In that section
tonight.
Unusuully high tides were re
ported nil along the coast, weath
er was squally and heavy ground
swells were lashing great waves
against the shoreline. Small craft
and shipping had been warned to
seek safety.
Haln drenched Corpus Chrlstl
throughout the day, and the tem
perature had dropped to 71. The
barometer also was falling slowly.
Little apprehension was felt but
persons living In tents and cump
houscs along tho beaches sought
safety Inland,
(Hy the Associated Press)
The central vulleys of the na
tion were parched again yesterday
as a blistering sun kept Hteadllv
ut work. Thermometers flirted
with the 100 degree mnrk. serious
damage was reported to crops and
the number of deaths from the
heat for the woek exceeded U0.
The Missouri and Mississippi
vnlleys Buffered principally, but
other Isolated areas felt blusts al
most as hot. Home sections In the
Arkansas and lower Ohio valleys
had temperatures of 100 or more.
A drizzle which the weather
bureau had predicted might bring
relief to tho northwest sections
slarted falling nt Duluth Saturday
afternoon and thermometers drop
pod to 70.
AT EUGENE MEET
EUflENK. Ore., Juno 27. (IP)
Appointment of Captain Harry
Nlies, ehlof of the bureau of In
vestigation of the Portland police
department, as assistant to Cha.
P. Bray, state police commission
er, was announced at a meeting of
the Southern Oregon Law fen
forcers' association here tonight.
Chief of Pollco U V. Jenkins,
Portland, presided as toastmaster
nt tho meeting. Sheriff Ralph
Jennings, Jackson county, presi
dent, and Sheriff Jackson, Doug
las county, secretary, were called
upon to speak.
PENDLETON. Ore., June 27.
(IP) Old times were re lived again
last night when the river steamer
Umatilla landed a cargo of 140 tons
of wheat sacks here for wheat far
mers of the Inland Empire.
BALEM, Ore , June 27. VP)
Ralph C'ronise of Albany wai re
elected president of the Oregon
Editorial association at the an
nual election of officers held here
today. Harris Ellsworth of Rose
bur was elected treasurer.
E
PLAN TALK
French Premier Agrees to
Parley With German Aide
President Optimistic
Watches Paris Meet
Closely Tedious Details
. Main Obstacle.
TARIS. June 27. IP) Androw
W. Mellon, American secretary of
tho treasury, and Premier Laval
spent two and one-half hours con
ferring this afternoon In an effort
to Iron out the issues raised by
President Hoover's wur debt mor
atorium proposal nnd the French
government's reply.
I me nrst inngiiiie result was an
niviiuiiun, issueu as soon as the
conference was over, to Chancel
lor liruentng and Foreign Minister
Curtlua of Germany to come to
Purls. The Invitation came from
the French premier.
Tho conversations will be re
sumed, probubly on Monday.
WASHINGTON, Juno 27. (A')
Tedious details tonight stood in
the way of a J'YancoK American
reparations moratorium settlement.
President Hoover postponed his
departure for his Rnpldan fishing
cump to a late hour and kept In
close communication with his
emissaries. Secretary Mellon and
Ambassador Edge, at Paris.
Confidence of an ultimate agree
ment expressed by Secretary Stlm
son. before sailing from New
York for conferences with Euro
pean leaders, wis reflected
throughout the day by his subord
inates at the state department. ,
Acting Secretary Cnsija Inter
preted the vote of the French
chamber of deputies us one of
confidence In the government It
self. It wus not, he said, an ex
pression of parliamentary support
for an unalterable stand on tbe
Frenth' countti' i)roiiHi-.te,-p res
ident Hoover's proposal for a one
year suspension of Inter-governmental
debt payments.
Sir Ronald Lindsay, British am
bassudur, expressing a similar
view, said he wus optimistic over
the Pails negotiations.
Meanwhile Washington officials
turned their attention to the eco
nomic situation In Latin America
with the disclosure that Bolivia
and Peru have defaulted on a
total of 1154,000,000 In loans.
These Included federal, state and
municipal bonds, most of which
were absorbed In the United
Htntos.
Tho federnl reserve board In
studying the wholo sltuutiun with
a view to action by private bank
ers. Ono suggestion advnnced In
reliable circles tonight Involved a
temporary extension of credits to
Latin America.
White House officials denied
that President Hoover had pressed
tho Latin American Issue, but It
Is known tho president has been
concerned for some time with the
growing ncuteness of the financial
problem there.
.
LESS IGNORANCE,
NEED OF NATION
LOS ANOELES, June 27. (JP)
A revamped code of Individualism
to form a fundamental society unit
within Itself wus offered the nat
ional council of education today
as a possible solution to a com
plex social puzzle out of which
illiteracy grows.
Twenty thousand nntlonal edu
cators, hero for the annual con
tention of the National Educa
tional association, Monday will
truln their heavy artillery on tho
stamping grounds of Ignorunce.
The council was a preliminary to
general business sessions.
Intent on wiping out Illiteracy,
Henry Lester Smith, dean of tlie
school of education, Indiana uni
versity and president of the nat
ional council of education, said
America needs a subjectlvemlndcd
as well as an objectlve-mlnded
type of human being.
"America needs a changed In
dividualism," he snld. "It needs
a mental self-sustaining, self sup
porting, creative type of Individ
ualism. Such an Individualism
should form a fundamental soci
ety unit within Itself and would
be capable of adjusting Itself
more adequately to the more com
plex units of the social structure?."
"A religious concept and prac
tice must he fostered In the pres
ent and future generations," he
said, "and this must be fostered
by the educators of the country.
It must be heralded In the far
corners ff America where the
rural chi.d may grasp Its full
meaning as quickly as tho urban,
school child."
11
MM B
Double Wedding of
Mother and Girl
PORTER V1LLE. Cal., June
27. (IP) A mother and
4 daughter, both of Stockton,
r walked to the ultur together
here today In a double wed-
ding. The mother. Mm. Car-
4 rio Hunting, 41, married Jul- 4
mar Evertzen of Stockton.
4 The daughter, Annabelle r
I Hunting, 10, married Melvtn
More of Stockton.
FREES SLAYER,
Zealous Officer Slew Mexi
can Students as Rum
Suspects Acquittal
Scored By Foreign Minis
ter as 'American Injus
tice. MEXICO CITY. Juno 27. VP)
News of the acquittal at Ardmore,
Okln.. today of former Deputy
Sheriff William E. Ouess, who
shot and killed Emlllo Cortes Ru
blo, nephew of the Mexican presi
dent, and Manuel Garcia Gomel
on June 8 was received here to
night with Indignation. .
. Genaro Estrada, foreign minis
ter, was not available for com
ment, but uttaches of the minis
try described the news as "ter
rible." There was considerable
comment In which the verdict was
described as a "demonstration of
American Injustice." ,
COURTHOUSE, Ardmore, Okln.,
June 27. (IP) W. E. (Bill)
Guess, erstwhile Oklahoma peace
offloor, was acquitted tonight by
a -Jury of slaying Emlllo Cortes
Rublo, 20-year old kinsman of
(fresldont Ortiz Kublo or -Mexico.
Out almost exuetly 22 hours, a
fugged Jury of middle aged men
who. had been deadlocked 11 to 1
four hours this afternoon, return
ed the verdict 20 days after
Emlllo and his student chum,
Manuel Garcia Gomez, 22, fell
dead before the deputy's gunfire
beside a residential street , here.
Palo, trembling wUh emotion,
Guess thunked the Jurors and de
clared he still felt Justified "In
what I did." He remnlna under
bond fur the slnylng of Gomez
nnd. bis fellow deputy, Cecil
Crosby, still stnnds charged with
the murders. GueBs took sole re
sponsibility for tho actual slay
Ings. SPENCER, Iowa, June 27. UP)
A lighted sparkler In the hands
of a small boy Ignited a fireworks
display In a corner drug store to
day starting a fire which razed
30 buildings, virtually wiping out
the business soctlon of Spencer, a
city of 6,000 persons.
Swept up the block and across
tho street hy the wind, the blaze
encouraged by occasional bursts of
fire works In other stores, razed
four blocks of business buildings,
cuuslng damage estimated at
12,000,000 by Leo C. Dulley, sec
retary of the commercial club.
The store In which the fire
started was located below the
telephone office. Several operat
ors were endangered, but firemen
hoisted ludders and carried throe
to snfoty, while others raced
through the flumes on the stair
way to the open air.
The water supply gave out as
seven fire companies Joined with
the regulars and volunteers of
Spencor. Little Bloux river water
wus pumped to the scene and
dynnmlte was used to blast a clear
space between the fire and ad
joining buildings.
Two persons were burned,
neither seriously.
Assessed $A Census Fine
LONDON, Juno 27. (UP)
Constance Stanhope was fined $6
for refusing to give Information
for the completion of the census
return.
VO.N'COUVBH,' B. C, June J7.
(IP) Charles W. Tysoe. Vancou
ver, n. c, was elected president
of Active Club International at
the annual convention here today.
Don Husband, Eugene. Ore., was
elected first vice president.
Went her Forecast -
Oregon: Partly cloudy Sunday;
Monday fair; warmer In the In
terior; moderate winds, becoming
generally narthwestrnly offshore.
OKLAHOMA) R
MEXICO
ROILED
BOY CELEBRANT TESTIMONY SHOWS
REDUCES IOWA LADY TREASURER
TOWN TO ASHES B0UGHT BIG CAR
LOCAL MEN
NAMED ON
MEIER BODY
Governor Picks Local Bank
er, Ashland Resident as
Members Tax Survey to
Reduce Local Taxes :
Hopes ,To Attract . New
People and Industry. ,
BALEM, Ore., June 27. (IP)
Governor Julius L. Meier announc
ed today he had appointed a com- .,
mlttee of prominent Oregon citi
zens to make a , survey and . re- '
port recommendations for a "rigid :
retrenchment program" in all lo
cal tax-levying subdivisions. ,
The committee has been called
to meet bore July 8. to organise
and to lay plana for Its work. -
The governor proposed that the
committee cooperate with local
tax-levying bodies In their Btudy
of local taxes, Investigate legisla
tion enacted by other states for
control of local budgeta and -tax
levies, and formulate similar legis
lation for Oregon, If advisable.
In a statement accompanying1
his announcement Governor Meier
called attention to the fact the
bulk of taxes Is levied by local
bodies and not by the state. He
said the annual tax levy approxi
mates 150.000,000 for state, coun
ty, municipal, school district, road
district and port purposes and of
this amount, he said, less than
17,000,000 . Is used for' strictly
stato purposes.
"It Is apparent," his statement
said, "that If any appreciable re
duction In tax levies 1b to be mad
In Oregon, a rigid retrenchment
program- must be Inaugurated in
each and every one, of .our -.local
tax-levying. subdivisions. . It Is for
the purpose of devising ways and
means to launch a program i to
accomplish this end, and. formula
tion ut legislation that, will, in the
future, control local' expenditures
In the' state of Oregon, that a,
meeting of the oommlttse to which
I have referred is called. -
"Let us Join to. make Oregon's
tax levy the lowest In the United
States and thereby attract, to our
state new population and new In
dustries." ; ' , f
Members of the committee and
the counties they . represent In
clude: '
Jackson ' county William H.
Gore, Medford, and Fred Holmes,
Ashland. . '..-,
Lane county Deari James Gil
bert, Eugene; Senator - H. , C.
Wheeler. Goshen. .' i '
Marlon county James Smith.
St. Paul; William s, .Walton, Sa
lem, - . I . .. .-X
BAKER. Ore!. June arl in
With thS eXCentlnn fit. 4natimnntf
to be offered by Vayne Gurdane,
deputy sheriff of Umatilla coun
ty, relative- to .finding torn bits
of paper in Pendleton following
the detention of Mrs. Kmma Fowl
er, tho prosecution rested today
In the retrial of the former treas
urer of La Grande. She Is charg-
eu wun rauure to account for
public funds in the amount of
10H,925.1 J. Mrs. , Fowler was
treasurer 12 years. .
The bits of paper, pasted to
gether on another sheet of paper,
were offered In evidence by A.
A. Smith, representing tho city of
La Grande.
The defense waived Identifica
tion of , the exhibit, admitted the
figures on the bits of paper were
written by -Mrs. Fowler, but pb-,
Jected to their admission as evU.,
dence. . . , ..
The torn pieces pasted together
were said to bear the same fig..,
ures as did a piece of paper dis
covered In the city . treasurer's
safe In La - Orande after Mrs.
Fowler left the city. ,',
The Jury was dismissed today ,
until 8:00 a. m. Monday.
Presentation of testimony rela-
tlve to purchases made by Mrs. -Fowler
during the past few years
was made by the state during the
morning session.- The presentation
of such testimony was started yes
terday after the 'court had over
ruled defense obieotlons to taxtl.
mony regarding Mrs. Fowler's re-
poriea purcnase or s large, ex
pensive automobile.
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LILLY (HertrnrriahlraV T--
June 27. (UP) "Kim," favorite
terrier of Miss Joan Alllngham.
rode on her coffin when she was
burled here recently.
RIDOEFIELD, Conn, June ti.:
-(urj: "wild west'' fiction Is
the choice -of ir. . mt . wl
who recently celebrated her 1lst -
uinnuuy anniversary here, -
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