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The Weather forecast: Tonight and Thursdav, partly cloudy; moderate tempera lure". Highest yesterday . 54 Lowest tills morning 29 Twenty-Sixth. Year Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS IK THE MAIL TRIBUNE the other iB-a vnu rnA this statement from the bureau of home economics 01 the United States department of agri culture, which ought to be an au thority If anything Is: - "The tomato Is peculiarly Important food. NO O T H IS It VEGETABLE gives quite so many kinds of talue for the money. We have nothing to match the tomato In flavor, in color or in Tarlety of possibilities for the table." THE Rogue River valley grows the finest tomato on the Pacific Coast. It la probably within the facte to eay that it is the finest tomato in the United States. ' In addition, W. A. Gates tells this writer, production of tomatoes per acre here In the Rogue River valley Is TWICE the production per acre In other tomato districts, thus in suring low cost of production and ability to get Into the big markete. The tomato ought to mean a lot to us In the way of added prosperity In the next few years If we go about tt right. HERE is a curious thing: As late us the time of your great-grandmother, NOBODY ate to ' matoes. They were considered to be poisonous. They were known ; a lore apples." and' the .beauty, 01 their rich color was their only merit rxNE of the odd things about life Is yj that human beings know so ,. thin that aren't so. That goes for the long-faced people who JUST KNOW that good times will never come back again. DR. JULIUS KLEIN, assistant sec retary of commerce, on his way to the Pacific Coast, pauses In Utah to say: "The last figures on bank failures In the United States show there are fewer Institutions closing at present than at ANY TIME SINCE 1918." Put that down In your day book and refer to It the next time some body tries to make you feel TOO gloomy. THE STOCK MARKET has been slloplng for several days, which Isn't so good; but the less people think of the stock market In these days and the MORE thought they give to doing the things that In the long run wlU bring the stock market back up and KEEP It up, the better It will be for the country at large. 44 WHAT Is It that must be done In order to bring the stock market back? Well, first of all. business must show a profit, because profit on In vestment Is the only sound Justifi cation for stock market values. A hunch that prices are going up a few points next week, thus enabling somebody to make a quick gambler s profit, or a corresponding hunCh that prices are going down, thus providing the opportunity for a little short selling. Isn't the thing that will stabilise the stock market. "WH business back to a profitable basis?" you ask. This Is about as good an answer as any to that question : "Tend to your own Job In the very best way you know how. Do each day. In the most efficient manner pos sible, whatever need to be done. "And DON'T waste toomuch time worrying about things that are too big for YOU to do anything about." - DR. W. A. WHITINO. professor 01 biology at a little Southern col lege, advises young people to marry early and STAY married. That is pretty good advice. Our grandfathers and grandmothers fol lowed It, and the results were excel lent. These early -marrying pioneer ancestors of ours conquered s wi.- ( Continued on Psge Fuji) M LIABILITY OF DEPOSITS TO BE ASSUMED Crisis in Local Institution Induced by Heavy With drawals Recently Is Suc cessfully Surmounted The First National Bank of Md- ford today assumed the deposit lia bilities of the Jackson County Bank, which Saturday voluntarily sum moned State Banking Superintendent A. A. Schramm of Salem, and na tional bank examiners, following heavy, deposit withdrawals last Fri day and .Saturday. The action of the First National Bank, In stepping Into the breach was voluntary and under the advice and guidance of the state banking department and the national bank examiners. By the step, the city and county was spared a serious finan cial situation, and the arrangement was termed an exhibition of splendid civic unity and co-operation. Statement to Come. No formal statements were forth coming today from state and na tional bank officials, or the directo rate of the two banks concerned. As soon as the clerical work neces sary Is finished a complete state ment, however, will be made. The cessation of the Jackson Coun ty bank, established In 1886. and one of the oldest banking houses In southern Oregon was attributed by bank heads and -banking officials to whispering campaign.", under way for several weeks which spread over the city and county and which reached high tide last Saturday when heavy withdrawals were made. Saturday the Jackson county bank directorate and officials called In the state bank superintendent and the details of the waiver transfers discussed and completed. Adopt Waiver Plan. Under the waiver deposit plan, the First National Bank takes over choice assets of the Jackson county bank, which together with the amounts waived by depositors will be suf ficient to pay the remaining de posits. The remaining assets of the Jackson County Bank are to piaceo. in a trust, to be liquidated for the benefit of the amounts waived by the Jackson County Bank depositors. The text ol u,e deposit waiver signed by Jackson County Bank de posltoni Is ss follows: "In consideration of the First National Bank of Medford, Ore., assuming the deposit liability of the Jackson County Bank that shall remain after the same have been reduced by this and simi lar waivers of other depositors, I. the undersigned, being a de positor of the Jackson County Bank, do hereby waive (Continued on Page Eight) MEXICO CWi. March 31. (AP) Eleven Americana had arrived at their destinations In Mexico safe, but late, today after escaping from bandits who wrecked an Interna tional passenger train yesterday near Marlscala. Quertaro state. The train carried three Pullman cara from St. Louis and San Antonio. The fireman and an express mes senger were killed, but soldiers, act ing as a train escort routed the bandits before they could rob the passengers. The wreck wa caused by a rail which the bandits hsd loosened. Little Girl Leaves Cops Agog With Bedtime Yarn CHICAOO. March 21. fAP) The Chicago police settled down last night to hear a little bedtime story from 7-year old Oertrude Luchslnger. expecting one about a big bear, but what they got left them pop-eyed. They found her wandering around :n a park. "I was born." she said. "In New York. My mamma's name was Jean, and my dady waa killed in a war in England. Four years atro my mamma gave me to another Isdy and came to me once tn a while from Philadelphia "My srvord nm n. ma lived In New York. She came to Chicago tiiree EBFORD M Oratorical Champion Associated Press Photo Lettle Pienon of Plains, Ka., won tha Kansas state title in women's oratory with her speech on "The Jazz Ann." Sh In a aenlnr In Bethany college. FROST WARNING SERVICE SPEEDED FOR ROGUE AREA Following the first frost of the spring season last night, with a mini mum of 25 above about 8 o'clock this morning, which did not damage to the pear clusters already out in some of the odder located orchards, Boy Rogers, the government frost ex pert, announced this forenoon that he would begin the regular frost warning service tonight or twoomrow night. It was estimated by Mr. Rogers and County Agent Wilcox early this fore noon, that at least one-fourth the cluters of early pear, trees are out. which percentage would be augment ed by today's sun, and that the situ ation Is such that several days or nights of warm weather would bring out a general blossoming. Hence not only do they warn all oracbard men to fully prepare as soon as they possibly can, If they have not already done so, to smudge, aad most earnestly stress the Importance of every orchardlst having his thermom. eters tested at once. Mr. Rogers will test another batch of thermometers next Thursday, and all untested thermometers to be test- (Continued on page five) E HARTFORD, Conn., March 21. (AP) Nomination of the first Dem ocratlc presidential candidate who receives a majority vote at the nat lonal convention was urged today by Homer S. Cummlngs, supporter of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. The former Democratic national chairman termed hla party's two thirds rule-as unfortunate, and said party leaders feel no deadlock sim ilar to that In 1934 should be per mitted to develop. "While welcoming all legitimate candidates," he said, "we should set our faces again? t any attempt by a minority to block action and war down the majority." Oovernor Roosevelt, Cummlngs said, is the first choice for the nom ination of 33 states and the second choice of "practically all the others." I weeks ago on a train, but start! back three days ago. At the rail road station mamma put me and I little dog and a little baby on the ! floor And bought the tickets. Then Vie picked up the baby and the dog and forgot me. Since then I've been shifting for myself. Last night . i leaned up against a shack all night.' The wires hummed to New York .and Philadelphia, but while they I were bumming the telephone rang "My daughter." said Mrs. Luch j singer, "has been missing since early 1 iri t.ie afternoon, and" ' Vnd." interposed the desk ar .;tiii, "I think she's going to be i t,j.reat novelist when At grows up." JIEDFOliL), OREGON, MONDAY, MABC1I 21. 1932. rnw SHOT DOWN WHILE Bloody Sunday Staged in Ukrainian Border Villages When Soviet Forces At tempt to Wreck Church BUCHAREST, Rumania, March 21 (AP) Reports reaching here from Rumanian villages on the Ukrainian border today said a number of wom en were shot down while defending their churches by Soviet troops In a bloody Sunday" yesterday. The reports described alleged eye witness account of Soviet church wrecking activities which were resist ed by the villagers. In the Ukrainian village of Taalek, across the river from the Rumanian village Kltzanl, they said, Soviet sol diers attempted to destroy a church and were faced by a crowd of 300 women. The soldiers fired their ma chine guns and killed and wounded several, the reports said. Fifteen Killed Another report from the Rumanian military post at Mlhalvlteazu said the Soviet soldiers "could be clearly seen'' shooting down fifteen peasants,- In cluding several women, while the Ut ter were trying to defend the Holy Cross In the village square at Butu raga, where the soldiers were destroy ing religious emblems. v- There were reports, too, that several peasants from the Ukrainian -vllpige oj ocmouaga tnea vo escape i;n their families across the Dniester by hiding their wjveayid. -chlidr.n (Continued on Page Five) DEATH OF SEVEN E BE REDLANDS, Cal., March 21. ( AP) A coroner's Jury was to meet here this afternoon at 2:00 o'clock to hear witnesses relate how the Los Ang eles-bound transport of the Ameri can Airways, apparently trapped by a fog that filled San Oorgonlo Pass, struck a power line as It flew close to the ground and caught fire, caus ing the death of Its seven occu pants. The witnesses to the crash, which took place Saturday evening Include ranchers who rushed to the scene and attempted to extricate the men trapped In the flaming skeleton of the big trl-motored plane. One of the passengers, Arthur R. Thomas, 35, of Tuscon, Ariz., was pulled from the wreckage alive. "I don't know how It happened," gasped Thomas shortly before he died yesterday. "There waa an awful crash then I found myself outside." Besides Thomas the dead are : Ralph L. Robinson, 40, Yonkers, N. Y.; Hugh A. McKellar, 42, Los Ang eles; C. M. Goldsmith, 40, St. Louis; Albert Coburn, 31, New York; Pilot Harold J. Kelsey, Los Angeles, end co-pilot H. H. Campbell, Dallas, Tex. CLUE TQjyilSSING STEUBKNVILLE, Ohio. March 21. (AP) Parts of an airplane and a dozen air mail sacks found on the Weat Vlrrlnla bank of the Ohio river , this afternoon at Browns Is- land, five miles north of here, led to the belief an esstbound trans continental Western Air Llnra mall plane. mlsntng ten hours, hsd crash ed Into the river with Its pilot and a woman passenger. An oil tug boat, the Phil James, was ordered to proceed up the river and as certain if the ship was In the river at the Island. The river la 17 to 20 feet dep. Ezra Van Dip and Charles Oil tag,her, who reside on the Weat Vir ginia aide of the stream, reported they bad found part of the landing gear of a plane, a woman's hat, 12 sacks of mail, part of an aviator's uniform, and some watersoaked papers. The missing plane was last heard of at 2:37 a. m. today when the pilot. Hal Oeotge. asked by radio for weather conditions around Pitts burgh, His panf-nger was Mrs. Dr. Carol S, ;o, f t st. Louis, who was en route to New York. KS ail Tribune fcw HSuf lsMBB) kal MMeV skaMMtfisMsl r SsaS wt UMfiMMMIH Mel Hkat IS AS KIDNAP CLUES E Lindbergh Telephone Lines Carry Many Reports of Stolen Child Seen, But Checkups Fail of Result EAST STROUDSBURO, Pv, March 21. (jp) Investigators said today message fount, on the or a dead carrier pigeon, which was at first believed might have some connection with the Lindbergh kidnaping case. was learned to have been written by several boys as a prank. HOPEWELL. N. J.. Mscn 31. (AP) There has been no word of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., kid naped from his crib March 1. The Lindbergh te'phone lines continue to buzz with reports that bablea looking like the stolen child have been seen. Mrs, Lindbergh fre quently takes the calls, and ques tions the caller closely. All such leads have proved false but the state police have arranged for a close check on.. a 11 babies who might possibly Include the one being sought. Several details are now as signed to this task alone. Despair Enters Between the lines of the official polloe communiques there sounds an occasional note of despair. There has been nothing In several days to indicate that either police or pri vate investigators have found a clue they believe will lead to a solution. TblsidbergbAa.temaelvea-Col- unci viiiuies a. umuooinn una his wife, the former Anne Morrow, who la preparing for the advent of an other child this spring remain se cluded at the Sour land estate. Friends say they are holding up well under the strain. Henry (Red) Johnson, questioned at the Lindbergh estate last week, was able to give no Information of value, police said. He la being held for violation of the immigration laws. Pigeon Carries Clue A dispatch from East Stroudsburg, Pa., yesterday said a message refer ring to the kidnaping had been found attached to the leg of a dead carrier pigeon. There was reference In the note both to Red Johnson and to the baby's nurse, Miss Betty Oow, but the text was not made public. State police here Insisted they knew nothing of the East Stroudsburg angle. Crank calls continue to reach the Lindberghs. One of these was traced so promptly yesterday that the caller, Rudolph Schwartz, waa arrested while he t was at the phone. The arrest was made In New York. Schwartz was quickly exonerated of any knowledge of the kidnaping and waa sent to a hospital for observa tion. STATE COLLEGE IY PORTLAND, March 3 1 . ,'P Storm and strife broke loose hero Sunday when attackers and defenders of the proposal to abolish compuliorv mili tary training at Oregon and Oregon State college met In a committee hearing. The matter wll'. finally be decided at a later prlvaV. hearing of the milt lary training committee of the state board of higher education. Th's conv mlttee earlier recommended thht com pulsory military training be ellmln ated, Mn, Walter M. Pierce, chairman of the committer, acted as referee. Those lesdlng the attack on the adverse recommendation Included Col Wll Ham Henry Patterson. pr-fesor of i military science and tactlra at Ore gon State: the Rv. John Wealey Beard of Portland. Presbyrian pas tor and chaplain of the 162nd Infan try: National Ouard; Mi. John Y Richardson, regent for Ore-jr. of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion; Oeorge Koehn of the national defense committee of the amber of commerce, and Alex Barry, American Legion commander for Oregn. Would Celebrate Germs Isolation WASHINGTON, March 31 AP Prealdent Hoover today colled upon the nation to commemorate next Thursday the ftoth anniversary of the isolation of the tuberculosis germ by Robert Koca, a Gerxaa doctor. ROSZIKA DOLLY TAKES A HUSBAND VT SEEKING FEDERAL Mrt i U AID FOR JOBLESS AssocitttdPteuPhtto Roszlka Dolly, ena of the dancing Dolly sisters, Is shown with her new husband, Irving Neteher, Chicago merchant, to whom she was mar ried In New York by Mayor Jime, J. Walker. ... - MINNEAPOLIS, March 21. (Ft Wilbur B.'Foshay and H. H. Henley, founders of the Poshay enterprises. were" ooh rioted hu four- of 17 , count of using the malls to defraud, by a federal court Jury today. Judge Joseph W. Molyneaux lmme d lately sentenced each to serve an aggregate of 1ft years In the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans., and to pay a fine of 11,000 each, with a stsy of 43 days In which to move for appeal. The Jury of 11 men, the second to hear the case, returned the verdict on lt sixth day of consideration The first Jury last fall dlsag.ced. Poshay and Henley ahowed no sign of emotion. As Henley heard the sentence he chewed gum. Eoshay short, pudgy, gray-haired smiled when he was permitted to leave the court room after the court reloascd them by continuing their appearance bonds In force. T WASHINGTON, March 31. (AF) C. B. Huff of Chicago, president of the Farmers National Grain corpor ation, today defended the salaries paid officials of borrowing organisa tions to $16,000. "The mlAhandllng of a alngle day'a business would cost as much, as their combined salaries for the entire twelve months," Huff asserted. SCOOTER SPEEDSTER REGAINS HIS HEALTH Buster Medley, who wont for a daring ride on his scooter up the gravel runway at the new county courthouse and on to the Commun ity hospital Saturday afternoon, Is reported to be getting along nicely today. The little boy waa knocked unconscious by the fall down the very steep Incline, when the scooter failed to make the grade. He sus tained no other Injuries. GALES STRIKE CALIFORNIA AS SNOW FALLS IN EAST (lly the Associated Press) Belaud winter blew a apttertil blast at nascent spring today. . Snow dropped, almost generally, from the Atlsntlo vaboard to be yond the Rocky mountains. High winds and rough sea, trou bled southern Csllfornla. Trees blew down and high tension wires snap ped in Loa Angeles. Tie "worst" biiszard of the year south of Colorsdo Springs, Colo.. and four persona were missing In a motor car. Philadelphia brought out railroad and trolly snowplows for the first time this year. Traffic was ham pered. Perries on the Delaware groped cautiously through blinding jlakea. i im SOON RECAPTURED TOLEDO, Ore, March St. (AP) A bold deliver; from the Lincoln county Jail hare early yesterday of three prisoners facing trial on fed era! liquor charges- and"the -hijacking of a large quantity of liquor held as evidence enjoyed but a short lived success. After a few hours of freedom the three' prisoners were again In Jail and the seven men whom police charged with having effected the de livery by means of an acetyllne torch outfit were also behind bars, three here and four In Tillamook. William Kerr, Charles Kyall and Stanley Babcock, all claiming to be from Vancouver, B. C, were the three prisoners facing federal charges after their capture In Portland more than a month ago following the wrecking and burning of their motor craft, the Bea Island, at Whale Cove February 7. Seven men riding In a sedan and two trucks arrived at the Jail about midnight Saturday. The acetyllne torch outfit which polloe say they brought from Portland was rigged up and the visitors cut through two (Continued on Page Five) ON TAX LEGISLATION WASHINGTON, March 31. -(API Indications that house psrty leaders and anti-sales ta chieftains may reach a compromise on the revenue bill were seen today with the an nouncement by Representative La Cluardla (R., N. Y. that If food, clothing and medicines were exempt ed from the sales levy his fundamen tal objections to the bill would be removed. Cherry Growers to Plan Council THE DALLES, Ore., March 31 (API Delegates from Royal Anne cheery districts of California, Oregon Washington and Idaho who Initiated plans for a Pacific coast chsrry coun cil here February 33. will meet In Portland next Monday jwhen It Is proponed to mike the organisation permanent. Freak thunder arid lightning startled Chicago's north aide.' Snow hit Vi, loop and later became gen era). Dawn found several Inches of snow on the ground at Cleveland, the storm still blowing; sand, anow and spring arrived simultaneously Pittsburgh. New Yorkers put on rubbers and hoisted umbrellas agslnst beavy, soggy flakes. Representative temperatures at a. m.. -ere New York 38; Portland Me., 33; Chicago 38; Seattle 43; Loe Angelee. 63; Atlanta, 64. Official forecasta were for contin j nance of the snow In the New York Urea mis afternooa and, toolalit, To Subscribers "1 U your Mall Tribune It nut deJj 1 1 vert d Co you promptly, TelephonJ 15. Office opn untU 1 every vminjj flease call us before that time and ropy wilt be delivered to your home No. 339. Court Sends Telegrams to Congress Delegation Set ting Forth Need Gov. Meier Is Also Informed naq ' ' alflTOl Urgent need for federal aaalssaaic for unemployment relief In tfaWAftrf county was emphasized thli tpVgJlijJ at the meeting of the coutnyajtotiffct and definite steps takeiVUhMlMtedw noon to acquaint offldfflat'Si j&P situation, which has. egticrj,. Telegrams were sent birotfipJtturt too Senators Frederick fltelww otic? OVWJt A. McNary Hawley, anc for unemployment tii th. entire (;y-3 ;uj .'oil .1111 nWje'fto Mg'i1lm.'!ae-', sage more ariite frfeaU There are now 81 men out on county relief work and 43 nVn allotted this county. J. M, Devers, attorney for the state highway commission, will also receive a letter from the court, pointing out the necessity for state assistance. . "This county la not In a position to continue with the relief work, due to lack of funds and failure to collect taxes.- Th nted tor state msslstanoa la critical," the letter summarises tha situation. This action waa Inspired by a let- tar recently received by tha court from the state highway commission, stnlng that the county would have to care for Its own unemployed. . The only possible relief, the court stated today, la the creation of em ployment. Steps will be taken to gain the cooperation of the chamber of commerce In the program to Im press this fact upon the authorities itatlng that the county would havs the public at large. E SHENANDOAH JUNCTION, W. Va, March 31. (AP) While a fiery cross burned on a hill tn the dis tance, a dozen white-robed and hood ed men publicly whipped Lloyd Bar ron, 39, Saturday night. , Barron waa lashed to a telephone pole and whipped by four or Jive men until be begged for mercy. Later he wsa released and taken to his home. There, In the presence of hie wife, he waa accused of beat ing her. He denied It but his wife Is said to have admitted having been beaten. Thereupon Barron was whip ped again until he promised to treat his wife better. 4 WARREN. Ohio. March 31. (AP) John do Marko, 30, of Youngstown, the second of two men Indicted In connection with the kldnsplng of 11-yeer-old Jamea de Jute, Jr, of Nlles, pleaded guilty today to a charge of harboring and concealing a kidnaped person and was sentenced to one to 30 years In the peniten tiary, Dowell Hsrgraves, 31, of Youngs town, hss bsen given a life sentenoe for his part In the abduction of the boy. i I SAVES SISTER FROM DEATH IN ICE n COUNTY MINNEAPOLIS, Srisrcn si, nrt Where eight-year oW Jean Soderberg went so did her twin sister and best pai Joyoe, and that's why Jean waa alive today. Bh fell through the Ice while playing on a lake yesterday. Joyce refused to leave until she managed to pull Jean to safety at great risk to her own life. Together they ran to shore and abelter, I
