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Southern Oregon Women Throng Kitchen School Opening Medford M The Weather Forecast: Tonight and Thursday rain. Moderate temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday W lowest this morn In e 3 Tribune To Subscribers If jour .Mall Tribune u not aa llrered to joq promptly. Telephone 15. Office open untu 7 eterj etrnlnt. I'lrase call ui hefore that dm. and cop; ulll h. dellrrrrd to ronr hom Twenty-Seventh Year MEDF0K1), OREGON, WKDNKSDAY, MARCH 30, 193S No. 7. LAD Comment on the Day's News Bj FRANK JENKINS YOU must, undoubtedly, hay read this paragraph la the news: "The American dollar weakened notably In the lorelgn exchange mar keta today." WHY did the' ' American dollar weaken? Becauae It waa aold ahort by peo ple oversea who are willing to spec ulate on the possibility that the value of the dollar will go down. It the value of the dollar goes down, those who have aold dollars ahort will profit. WHY do these' people think tfie value of the dollar may go down? Becauae they see here In the Unit ed States an unbalanced budget, whose meaning waa explained In thla column the other day, and they know by observation that In every country of the world whoae budget has remained unbalanced the value of the money baa gone down. They see the failure of tax legis lation to balance the budget in the United States. So they aay to tbem aelvea: "The value of the proud dol lar la slipping. We will sell It ahort." WHAT will happen If the value of dollar DOES go down? Suppose, In anawer to that quea tlon, you have wheat for sale In Lon don. The dollar the Englishman buya and pays over to you for your wheat la now worth 100 cents In gold. But If the value of the dollar goes down the dollar the English purchaser will buy and turn over to you will be worth leas to an 100 cents In gold. So you will hav eto take lets for your wheat. YOU read the paper that the United States baa an unbalanced budget. You think to yourself. If you think of It at all: "What does that mean In my life?" It means a lot. It means that the value of the dollar In your pocket may be seriously affected If the gov ernment of the United States doesn't balance its budget that la to say, If It doesn't raise enough money by taxation with which to pay ita bills. yOU read In the paper that the English people are selling their gold trinkets to be melted up Into bullion to go Into the vault of the Bank of England. Perhaps you won der why. Here la why: The money they get for their gold will buy more commodities than Vie gold Itself. HEBE 1 how It 'works: The gold value of the British pound la approximately 14.84. The present value of the British paper pound la S3.75. So for the amount of gold contained In a gold pound sterling you can now get nearly a pound and a quarter In British paper money, which you can turn around and spend for commodities whose price Is adjusted to the present value of British money. That makes your gold trinket worth so much you can't afford to keep them. SPEAKINO of"goidTs. F. Knight, Of Hlllsboro, was afraid the country waa going to pot, so he hid all bis money In his house, where he could get hla fingers on It whenever he wanted to. His house caught fire. Remember ing the money he had hidden, he dashed Into the burning bouae to recover hla wealth and auffered burna from which he died the same day. QOOR, deluded, timid manl Instead of hiding his money, he eould have Invested It In bonds of the United Btatea government, which Is so sound that If It ahould fall to meet Ita debt when they come due the whole financial structure of the world would hare come crashing down, any ay, so that even hoarded gold would be of no value to Ita pos sessor. If Mr. Knight had Invested his money In government bonds, he would now be allre. A LSO, If he had invested his mon ey In bonds, the government would hare put the money so receiv ed back Into the bants and for each dollar of It aome ten dollars In new bank credit would have been cre ated, thus aiding In the restoration of confidence and the recovery of bualneaa. HIGHER POSTAGE GET HOUSE VOTE Ten- Per Cent Levy On Admissions Costing Over 46 Cents Favored One Cent Increase Postage WASHINGTON, March 30. A tax of 10 per cent on admissions to places of amusement costing more than 46" cents, expected to yield $40 000,000, was voted into the revenue bill today by the house. Secondary and high school athletic events are exempted from the tax. but colleges and universities are not. Neither are the academies at Ann apolis or West Point exempted. Com plimentary tickets to all events also are taxed. WASHING! ON. March 30. (P) The house today approved taxes on telegraph, telephone and radio mes sages estlmtaed to yield $33,000,000, as part of the new revenue bill. The provision exempts press leased wires and dispatches sent by bona fide correspondents and radio leased wires. It does not apply to Incoming cablegrams. WASHINGTON, March 30. (&) A one-cent Increase In first-class post age was approved today by the house. The Item, the biggest single aeve- nue raiser In the ways and means committee's substitute for the sales tax, was calculated to produce $135, 000,000 of revenue. Its adoption, over the opposition of a group led by Rankin of Missis sippi, one of the opponents of the sales tax, came in a steady march of the program of the committee through the house. The vote was 147 to 63. Throughout the day the house ac cepted a steady stream of committee proposals with opposition melting be fore the appeals by committee mem bers.. "To Jump in on the side of China concerning the economic situation in the Far East is decidedly unfair, and the United States as a government has no business siding in so em phatically with one government," waa the opinion expressed today by Edison Marshall, well known author, traveler and big game .hunter, who is visiting relatives and friends In Medford for a few days. Most people who have their minds made up in favor of China are not acquainted with the facts of the embargo." he declared, and went on to say that "the whole economic future depends upon the disposition of the Japanese-Chinese question." As Japan Is one of the strongest powers in the world today, Mr. Mar shall said ,he thought it a poor pol icy for "long-haired professors to needlessly embroil the country by suggesting an economic boycott." The author traveled through Japan and China last year en route home from IndoChlna, and expressed the belief that our own future trade and well-being depends on eliminating any break with Japan, or offending the country In any way. A graduate at the University of Oregon School of Journalism, the writer said he believed "good Journal ism if good government, and we're sunk any time that branch Is taken from the young people where they are given an opportunity to learn good government as well as good writing. "In such unsettled times." Mr. Marshall said, "good newspapers are too necessary for such a tremendous (Continued on fugs Two) Cottonseed Gasoline is Automobile Possibiltiy By HOWARD W. BLAKESLF.E Aworlated Prens Science Editor NEW ORLEANS, La.. March 30. (AP) Making high grade gasoline in stead of salad oil out of cottonseed is chemistry's latest addition to the list of potential motor fuel sources. The process for converting cotton seed oil into anti-knock gasoline was described to the American Chemical society today by Dr. OuiUt E?loff of Chicago. The present cost of 35 to 40 cents a gallon is too high to make cotton seed gasoline a competitor with es tablished commercial product In this country. The cottonseed oil Is run through a metal coll at a temperature of ftoo degree Tahrenhelt and a pressure of 150 pounds per square Inch. This breaks down and rearranges the atoms forming the oil, to that the oil yields a Pandoras box of unex pected product. TORNADO DESTROYS FACTORY IN ALABAMA RAMPAGE 0. i' f Four persons were killed when which caused widespread damane TO 1ST NATIONAL The First National Bank of this city, which recently absorbed the deposits and business of the Jack son County Bank, today announced' the following former aides of the Jackson County Bank would be em ployed by them, to handle the In creased business: Treve B. Lumsden, former assist ant cashier of the Jackson County Bank, will be associated with the First National In a capacity that will make use of his knowledge of valley financial conditions: - Ward Beeney and Richard Payne as tellers, and Morris Butz and Paul McDuffy as bookkeepers, positions they oc cupied with the Jackson County Bank, President Ben Harder of the First National Bald today that details In cidental to transfer of accounts and equipment had been completed and that the ru&h was over. At the Jackson County Bank pre liminary work Incidental to liquida tion was under way. Namtng of a liquidation agent by the directors is expected to be made within the next week. This agent will have charge of the liquidation and other details and will maintain an office. probably in the Jackson County Bank building. One of his duties will be the approval of a tenant for, or sale of the bank building. SALEM, March 30. (ft) David Lee Byers. principal of the Sutherlln schools in Douglas county, was asked to resign his position yesterday by the stats board of education. The board's action followed a recommendation last fall recommending Byers resign, but which he has failed to do. The resignation is demanded at once. Byers was recently charged with Improper conduct and hearings were held by Charles A. Howard, superin tendent of schools, and the state board of education. Howard cancelled Byers certflclate to teach, following the hearing, but Byers appesled to the board. Governor Julius L. Meier and Hal E. Hoss, the other two mem bers of the board, demurred to cen celllng the certificate, but recom mended he resign. P 1 TAYLOR 8 NEW YORK, March 30. (p, My ron C. Taylor was elected chairman of the United States Steel corpora tion late Monday, succeeding J. P. Morgan. PI nit comes a little more than 50 per cent of gasoline. Next emerges a heavy fuel for Diesel engines. After that la coke for the furnace. Then there art 13 different grws, some of them commercially valuable. Furthermore, Dr. Egtoff said, good alcohol can be obtained from cer tain of the cottonseed vapors. Like wise a widely sold variety of anti freer mixture for automobile radi ators. Adding a little sodium pro duces a rubber-like substance. A new improvement for the pe troleum industry's problems of sepa rating the various grades of gaso lines, oils and gases was reported by Dr. M. R. Fenske of Pennsylvania State college. This process Is called "fractionating," He credited the work to development of Ideas origi nally advanced by Dr. W. K. Lewis of Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology under the name of "key component," a hosiery mill In Paint Rock, Ala., was struck by one of the tornadoes and loss of Ufa in the south. The ruins of the mill are shown above. Z TAKEN NEAR HERE ENROUTE SEATTLE Hugh Smith of Seattle was ar rested by the state police last night on the Pacific highway near Talent, with 168 bottles of more or less fancy liquor stored away in the rear compartment of a Ford coupe. He Is held in the county Jail on a liquor charge and will be given a preliminary hearing this after noon. It was the first liquor viola tion arrest of any consequence in about two months, as the ruin traf fic has been light since Christmas, Papers found in the auto Indi cate the cargo cost about $1100 and consisted of brands of whiskey famed among the drinkers of the world. The labels have the appearance of genuineness and the aroma indi cates the contents are the same. The liquor was In sacks. Smith was en route from San Francisco to Seattle. Cards found in Smith's possession stated the going price of whiskey, gin, and wine, and where to pro cure flavoring extracts at lowest price. E TO CUT EGG PORTLAND, Ore., March 30 (AP) The Journal said today a "possible shortage In poultry during the season which would aflect still further the supply of eggs available. Is indicated In late surveys of the situation made by poultry and egg handlers aa well as feed dealers." The manager of the feed depart ment of one large miller here said a great percentage of the spring hatch of chickens Is being segregated and the cockerels killed off as soon as the sex is determined. Egg handlers indicate that present .holdings of chickens in this territory Is at least 35 per cent leu than a year ago. MARTINS BETTER, L REPORT Mr. and Mr. H, M. Mnrtln or Oranta Pass, who sustained injuries In an auto wreck yesterday afternoon on tha Pacific highway, north of Central Point, are reported rcatliiR easily at tha Sacred Heart Hospital this afternoon, x-rays taken this morning showed that Mrs. Martin re. celved a bad fracture of the aplne, which has resulted In paralysis of one leg. Mr. Martln'a Injuries are minor. The auto In which the Martina were driving collided with a car driven by Ernest Bcoggln of Cali fornia. The Martin car waa forced by the collision Into the ditch roll ing over several times with Its oc cupants. FRENCH EXCLUDE PARIS. March 30 (APt The of ficial Journal printed two decree today barring American flntshed wood, such as osk flooring and similar products, from France untu January 1, 1933, and common wood until July 1, 1032, because of ex hausted Import quotas. Two new clashes of electrical goods, meters and transformers. ere aodrd to the electrirsl gr-ods quota estab lished In a decree Issued January 8. AtsociMttd PtSM Pbot9 ESPEE AID ASKED PLAN FOR VALLEY Sympathetic reception was given the plan of the Rogue Valley agricul tural finance committee to raise $50,000 as capital stock In the forma tion of an Agricultural Credit corpo ration to launch the 1032 pear crop, when the committees, headed by J. C. Thompson, met with W. W. Hale, freight traffic manager of the South ern P.-.clflc, yesterday afternoon. Mr. Hals ill carry the request of the commit to for $26,000 of this amount to the Southern Pacific office In San FranciBCo. A. B. Miller, also of the Southern Pacific lines, and A, P, Johnson, man ager of the Standard Oil Company of California for this district, and representatives of the California Ore gon Power company also attended the meeting late yesterday. The committee believes that with the financial aid of the Southern Pacific the other $26,000 needed to form the corporation will be easily obtained. A decision from the San Francisco office Is expected In the very near future. With the establishment of the cor poration with capital stock of $50, 000, the much needed $250,000 will (Continued on Page Eight) KILLED IN CRASH NEW YORK. March 30. (API Captain Y. Nngoya. Japanese filer. was killed yesterday when his air plane crashed In the water between Floyd Bennett airport and Mill Basin, Brooklyn. Captain Nagoya took off with the plane successfully and had been in the air about a minute and a half when he crashed. The plane was a Bellanca with which Captain Nagoya and Sergeant K. Ashl planned to make a trans pacific flight, 4 AS SEALER NAMED GRANTS PASS, March 30. (SpU c. R. Jester, deputy state Inspector under the authority of the bureau of plant Industry, has been appointed sealer of weights and measures for tite counties of Josephine, Jackson and Klamath, In addition to hla other duties, according to Herb Howell, county agent. The anointment was by Max Oeh- lar, director of the Oregon state de partment of agriculture. Jester succeeds D. T. Lawton, Med ford, who was deputy sealer for this section for many yesrs. HUBER PACKING PLAN! WILL START IN APRIL fl. C. Huber. senior rwrnher of Hu ber Ac Bonn, who have erected park ing plant in Medford and Installed the latest machinery, has arrived from Billings. Mont., He aays they txpet to start the plant about April 10 to IS, ltttirn of Copper Reen. TACOMA, Wash.. Msrch 80. (AP) A return of copper to a "profitable level,- together with other general Improvement In the mining In dustry, was forw-n today by Ed C. Morse, of Seattle, pioneer north west mining msn. YIELD JAPANESE FLIER FIGHTING FLARES E F0RGESJV10VE UP Sharp Skirmish at Chia- wangmiao Punctuates Lull in Peace Talks Collapse of Parley Is Predicted ny morris J. hakims. Associated Press Staff Correspondent. SHANGHAI, March 30. (AP) A sharp skirmish between Japanese and Chinese forces at Chlawangmtao took place today, according to Jap anese military authorities, punctuat ing a lull in the peace parleys which are slated to be resumed again to morrow. The Japanese said the Chinese were driven to the south side oi Soochow creek, on the north side of which they were reported last week to have been digging trenches and erecting defenses. The Japanese notified British authorities then that drastic measures might have to be taken to force the Chinese to observe tha limits fixed In Gene ral Uyeda's ultimatum of last Febru ary. Hurl Accusations. The Japanese peace negotiators, meanwhile, charged the parleys were being delayed because the Chinese delegates lacked responsibility and authority to make decisions and the (Continued on Page Twelve) E PLOTTING DEATH SOVIET LEADERS MOSCOW, March 80. p) Moscow newspapers gave prominent place to day to a dispatch from Parla to the Taaa Newa Agency, quoting the Com munist newspaper L'Humanlte as aay lng that far-flung activities by Rus sian "White Ouarda" were under way throughout Europe, Including con splraclea outside the Russian border. Among tha latter, the dlspatchea said, was a proposal to assassinate Mailm Qorky, noted Kuaslan author, In Italy, and Maxim Lltvlnoff, Soviet commissar In Germany. L'Humanlte waa quoted aa Baying Russia nemlgreea were now develop ing Intensive antl-Sovlet activity "un der the protection of Prance and'vaa sal states'." It sought to ahow that the recent attempt on the life of an official of the German embassy here wsa In furtherance of "Whit Guard" maneuvers. The Russian Whites, the dispatch said, wera directed from Paris and their "terroristic" organlaatton waa centered at Prague, Warsaw, Bucha rest and Belgrade. Tha Prague or ganization. It aald, recently sent two former CrArlst officers to Moscow un der forged passports, to kill Stalin. THREATEN ACTION SPOKANE, Wash., March 30. (AP) Unemployed marchers who threat ened violence unless given food were told to report at the court house this morning and they would be ted. A committee representing 1000 un employed demanded general relief. In cluding SB a week to all men with out jobs, said if the county did not act at once stores and restaurants would be plundered. The emergency relief depot will be maintained as long as county funds can support It. Alvln Collin, chair man of the board of commissioners, told the marchers. Selenium Successful in Cancer Treatment, Claim CHAMPAIGN, I))., March 30. (AP) Successful revival of the use of selenium, an element ones reject ed by eminent scientists as a treat ment for cancer, is claimed by three resesrch workers after six years of experiments. The three are Dr. R. M. Parr, wom an professor or chemistry at the Uni versity of Illinois; Dr. C. 8. Bucher, physician and surgeon, and Dr. R. 8. Punk, woman bacteriologist associat ed with the latter. An announcement they made yes terday said their combined treatment of a selenium solution. X-rays or ra dium and a diet rich In vitamins not only serve to check cancer in pa tients but when the disease waa at tacked In early stages completely eradicated It. While, expressing belief, however, that the treatment might be of great benefit In combatting the malady, the scientists warned axalnst undue Buffaloes Stage Stampede As In Old Plains Days PONCA OITY, Okla., March 10 (P) Stampeding buffaloes roamed tll highways ot northern Okla homa today. Hard-rl1lng cowboys wera In pusult. It waa not an old-fashioned buf falo hunt, however. Tha horsemen were attempting to round up 34 shsncy veterans of the plains which stampeded from the cattle yard of the 101 ranch last night and took to the highways. DEEP INTEREST IN KITCHENCLASSES Mail Tribune's Kitchen Chautauqua, With Hester Heath in Charge, Draws Throng On Opening Day The Ilolly th-atrr waa "Jammed to tha doors' "early thla afternoon for the opening of the Mall Trl bune'a Kitchen Chautauqua, pre sented by Mlaa Hester Heath. A long line of women saaklng ad mittance after all amllahle eeata had been taken, were dlsap' pointed. Every dlstrlot In southern Oregon waa represented at the Mall Tribune Kitchen Chautauqua this afternoon, which opened at the Holly theater, to oontlnue through Thursday and Fri day artexnoons, under the able direc tion of Mlsa Hester Heath. Carrying out the Idea of a "Cook's Tour," Was Hwith took tha audience on tha "Royal Road to Romance" via the kitchen ahelves, and today's reci pes specialised In tha Italian, -dlnuor, In her charming manner, which Immediately captivated- the many nousewives who crowded tha theater, Mtsa Heath told the numerous little details which make so much differ ence In preparing the various dishes Women Mnke Notes. Among th recipes which Mlas Heath demonstrated today were spaghetti Itallenne, fried spinach, cafe granl?a, biscuit tortonl, little cakes, and grape jeiiy. Memorandum pada, supplied through the courtesy of the Mall Tribune Job Department, and pencils wera passed out to tha ladles, to make notations of tha suggestions (Continued on Psge Eight) FOUR OF FAMILY KILLED BY BLAST DETROIT, March 30. (AP) Ex plosion of a home-made heater In the garage home of Oliver Stewart, 48, in Lincoln park caused his death and that of his wife and their two children. The blast wrecked the interior of the small structure, but left Its walls standing. The four members of the family, including a daughter, Mamie, 8. and a son, Thomas, 2, were sleeping in their beds In a room off the kitchen. Chief Adolph Pernellus of the Lin coln Park fire department, said none of them had a chance to escape. YOUTH SLAYS FAMILY WITH AX IN NORWAY OSLO, Norway, March 30. (AP) A family tragedy, In which a young man of 21 killed his father, mother and five brothers and sisters with an ax and then set firs to their home was discovered at Verdal, near Trondhetm, today when the sherltf answered a mysterious telephone call. enthusiasm as its development was still In its experimental stsges and much work remained to be done. Wasserman. Keysser and other sci entists used selenium In fighting cancer tissues but discarded it In every case because, while It effect ively destroyed cancer cells tn rats they used for their experiments. It also killed most of the rats. Dr. Parr and her associates worked the selenium Into hitherto unused combinations, diluted It greatly and said they found when Injected Into a patient's blood their new solution nol only arrested the growth ot can cerous tissue but In many cases de stroyed It, this without harmful ef fects to the patient. They resorted to the X-ray or ra dium, a known treatment for cancer, I In their experiments and found, they said, that the solution of selenium acted as a reflective agent when the rays were applied, creating seconds IT radium rajs. AT FAULT IF TOT IS NOT I Intermediary Asserts That 'Nothing Has Happened' in Negotiations for Re covery Lindbergh Infant KOFOLK. Va., March 30. pi Renr-Admlral Guy H. Burrage, re tired, at a conference with newspa permen today, aald "Nothing has hap pened" In further negotlatlona here for the recovery of the kidnaped Llndbertth baby. "I will give you this statement," he said. "If there Is failure, the kid napers, and they alone, will know why." Admiral Burrage, who said he also was speaking for his fellow intermedi aries. Dean H. Dobson-Peacock and John Husrhes CurtU. refinA . plain the meaning of the statement. NORFOLK, Va.. March 30. (p) Further efforts to bring about the return of the kidnaped Lindbergh baby were planned today by three Norfolk men. who said they had Col onel Lindbergh's personal request thst they carry on. A conference of the Very Rev. Dean H. Dobson-Peacock, Rear-Admiral Ouy H. Burrage and John Hughes Curtis. Norfolk boat builder, was called for today after the dean's return yester day from an Interview with Col. Lind bergh at his Sourland Mountain es tate. Optimism Reiterated. Returning yesterday afternoon, the dean reiterated his expressions of op timism at the ultimate success of their negotiations. New Jersey officers working on the case, who previously announced that Colonel Lindbergh "attached no spec ial significance" to the Information received from the Norfolk men at a visit last week, said last night that the colonel's opinion was unchanged after his interview with Dean Dobson-Peacock, but the dean himself mdtcted"thafr tJUCfather of 'ths' kJtt naped child regarded their clue as well founded. LOCAL MAN. DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT SEATTLE. Wash., March 80. (AP) Dixon Saltsgaver, 30. of Medford, Ore., w,ho said he helped build "The Spirit of St. Louis." In which Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh made his epic flight serosa the Atlantic, was knock ed 12 feet down an elevator shaft here today by an unknown assailant. His right arm and hla Jaw were fractured, but he was expected to recover. He said he was Investigating evi dences of a burglary In the Hemp hill Diesel Engineering school, where he is a night watchman, and was struck on the head while looking up the elevator shaft. For two hours he lay unconscious at the bottom of the pit before he revived enou&h to crawl out to a nearby cot. Police said they believed Saltsgaver surprised burglars and was waylaid by them. Nothing was taken from the school. He had completed an engineering course at the school and was to have returned to his horns today. WILL- ROGERS DEVEKtr HILLS, Oil., Jlar. 29. That baby now from down in Virginia sounds the most encouraging there hag been. Of course this in a case whore everyone wants to get in on it and clnim they know something but if we trust those prominent mn like that to know what they are doing, look what it would mean to give out all this hope falsely. AYhy it would just show you how some folks could be either misled or to what means they would go to get publicity, but I believe they know something and we will all get some good news and the world will look brighter to everybody. a till, MtMagsai la'Ntaau. la..'