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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight but becom ing unsettled. Wednesday unset tled with rain. Highest yesterday M Lowest this morning as M EDFORD MAIL T UNE A. B.C. Circulation Is a guaranteed circulation That Is what you buy when adrertlslng In the Mall Tribune, Mprlford's only A.B.C. newkpaper. Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1932. No. 12. RIB Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS AL SMITH announces that he la In the race for the Democratic nomination to "stay to the Jlnlsh." That la another way of saying, that - he la out to stop Franklin D. Roose velt if it can be done. rpHREE Irlahroen one got together to kill a bear. One was to have the hide, another the fat and the third the meat. But while they were waiting for the bear to come out of bis den a dispute arose, and the dis pute wound up In a fight. While the hunters were fighting, the bear came out and disappeared In the brush, After the fight was over, one of the hunters discovered by the tracks that the bear, whose capture had ap peared certain, had got away. "Hell,' he remarked, "the bear's gone I" "What of It?" one of his battered companions rejoined. "We had grand fight, didn't we?" APPLY t,hat to the story any way you like. But If you will glance back over Democratic political his tory, you will find plenty of apt ap - plications. CONGRESS, in lu effort to balance the budget, places a tax of one fourth of one per cent upon sales of stocks. Whereupon Wall Street Is. sues thla statement: ''There seems to be an impression that the tax on transfer of securities enacted by the house of representa tives la a tax on Wall Street. "Of course, this Is not so. It la really a tax upon some 60,000,000 people In the United States who own securttes." CERTAINLY it la. ALL taxea rest finally upon ALL the people. Taxation la a burden on bulsness. Business must distribute Its burdens. Otherwise It would go bankrupt. In the process of distributing the bur dens of business, a part of the load geta around to everybody. That la fundamental. . S.4 f-' IP GOVERNMENT spends too much money, taxes must be too high. If taxes are too high, EVERYBODY auffers. The sooner all of us realize that fact, the better off we shall be. No theory la more absurd than the theory a few people can be made to pay all the taxea while the rest of us get off acot tree. THERE la a theory" abroad' to the effect that business can't be good In this country until business be comes good again all over the world. Those who hold the theory ask: "How can industry become active In this country until the rest of the world recovers enough to buy what we have to sell?' Unless you stop to think, that sounds like a puzzling question. BUT when you stop to think, you recall the fact that, we sell abroad only about TEN PER CENT or all we produce. That la to say, we consume right here at home NINETY per cent of our total pro duction. This goes for normsl times, and doesn't refer merely to the present period of depression. pURINO this present period of de- presslon, our volume of business la down a great deal more than ten per cent. If we could return to a Tolume of production and consump tion only ten per cent below the nor mal of good years, we should feel that we were genuinely prosperous. That la to say, we can be really prosperous WITHIN OURSELVES, without having to depend on the rest of the world at all. Recall that the next time some body trlea to tll you that we are ruined because the rest of the world Isn't In condition to buy what we have to sell. Tell him: "All right; let's buy It ourselves." S. P. STAGE SKIDS PORTLAND. Ore.. Apirl 8. (AP) Five persons were Injured today when a Southern Pacific motor stage kidded from the Pacific highway, rolled over an embankment and landed upside down 25 feet below. The accident occurred on the out klrta of the city. Those hurt were: Milton Llndau. 20, of Mnllno, Ore.; Mrs. J. W. John on, 38. of Oswego; Mrs. Charles Rog ers. 37, Oswego; Oeorge Rogers, 4, her son; Oeorge Belby, 27, Oregon City. O. E. Howell, driver, was uninjured. The stage waa bound for Portland Ambulances brought the five injured ' ersofii to boeplvaJ te:e. CUT $50,000 FOR Decreased Revenue Forces Medford Board to Act 14 Instructors Eliminated Salaries Are Lowered At a me ting of the school board last evening It was decided to cut the operating cost of the schools by at least $50,000 under that for this year. This, according to Superinten dent E. H. Hedrick, Is made neces sary because of the decreased reve nue In sight. About $20,000 of the proposed saving will be affected by the elimi nation of not less than 14 in structors. Some $23,000 more will be saved by a cut of 12 'a per cent on all remaining salaries. Between $7000 and $8000 additional will be saved on supply and maintenance costs. "These heavy cuts are being made." according to Superintendent E. H Hedrick. "first by the elimination of certain minor parts of the program not yet completely worked out, but mostly by crowding up classes all over the system and Increasing the load of the remaining teachers. We are sided a little In doing thla by the fact that our pupil attendance has slightly declined, especially in the elementary grades. Placed On Reserve list. "The teachers who are laid oft will be placed upon a reserve list. and as vacancies develop through the spring and summer months, they will be filled. In so far aa possible, from this list, The fact that a teacher Is being taken off the active list and placed on a reserve list Is nothing to his or her discredit. It simply means that his department la being reduced or eliminated. These reductions and eliminations are Impersonal and are being made all over the system wherever they can be made." Elections will be held the next few days and the teachers notified. The reductions In teaching corps planned by schools and grades are follows: Jackson From grades 4-fl, one teacher. Lincoln Prom grades X-3, one teacher; from grades 4-8 one teacher. Washington Prom grades 4-6, one teacher: subnormal and atypical, one teacher. . , , Roosevelt Prom grades 1-3, one teacher; from grades 4-8 one teacher. Junior High Prom mathematics (Continued on Page Five) BRIBE SUSPECTS ON TIL FIRS! PORTLAND. Ore., April 5. (API- Three men who are accused of having offered a 10,000 bribe to Mayor George L. Baker. In connection with the city's contemplated purchase ot a site for a municipal market, will go to trial before the cases of the other 13. Including the mayor and two city commissioners, are heard. Thla atatement waa made today by George Mowry, deputy district at torney. He aald the three. Michael E. Rogoway. Jack J. Jazurosky and John E. Wilson will go on trial at the earliest date possible. GOLD HILL SCHOOL SITUATION DORMANT No meeting of the school board or townspeople waa held at Gold Hill last night and the school situation Is on the way to peace and quiet, ac cording to reports thla afternoon. T.he meeting, reported for last night aa culmination of the school row. which has been raging for' the past week, did not materialize. C. A. Howard, state school superintendent. Invited to the meeting, wired yester day that he would be unable to at tend. In (lite Aligned SALEM, Ores April 8. (AP) Cir cuit Judge H. K, Zimmerman of As toria has been assigned to try the first degrc murder casea In Marlon county, it was announced late yes terday by Chief Justice Henry J. the Oregon supreme court. "Lost" English Explorer May Be Voluntary Exile WASHINGTON, April lp Tel mo Araujo, who believes he saw Col. P. H. Pawcett. "lost" English explorer. In the Brazilian jungle about 1027, today said the colonel may be a vol untary exile from civilization. A meeting tn the June. with an Englishman who said he waa "not going bark" to civilization, waa de scribed by Araujo, son of a Brazilian rubber exporter and now a resident of Washington. The region where he says he met the mysterious white man is near that in which Stephen Rattin, a Swiss trapper, recently reported meeting Fswcett and receiving from htm a message asking to be rescued frm Indian captivity. Araujo said he led an expedition in 1325 Into trie Mstto Orotso jungle, lowiur4 to rubber. Tie part (rav PRESS GETS NEWS -Jw 1 H 1 tpK 1 1 LI i r f I InKvI Iff: bit W r IT v f i Associated Press Photo "Watchful waiting" was the term used by Rear Adm. Guy H. Bun-age, retired, in describing to newspapermen the activities of him elf and his two Norfolk, Vs., associates, In their efforts to bring about the return ot the. kidnaped Lindbergh baby. Admiral Burrage (right) Is shown talking to reporters In Norfolk, SUMMER CABINS OFF The sheriff's office has received reports the past week that summer cabins owned or rented by local residents, had been stripped of all saleable articles the past winter, the theft being discovered when the oc cupants returned for spring surveys. In many Instances stoves, beds. bedding, cooking utensils, hammocks and furniture were carted away. It la the theory of the authorities that the vandals hauled away the fur nlshtnga and sold them for what they could get. Aacheck up of the second hand stores of Klamath, Josephine and Jackson counties le being made. The operations also Included "cat tle cabins" In the mountains and seem to have been on a wholesale, If .not a systematic basis. In a couple of Instances, the owners left a shotgun, fixed to dis charge If a door was opened. How ever, the maraudera were too sly. In both places they crawled in through a window. All the windows of the cabin or Dr. E.' O. Rlddell at 8hady Cove were broken. Now that farm and orchard opera tions are under way, farmers are urged to be on the lookout for gasoline thieves. A tractor left standing In a field in the Talent district had Its gasoline tank emptied Sunday night. FINNS FACE BARS FOR LEGAL ORIS HELSINOFORS, Finland. April 8. (AP) Hundreds of Finland's citizens lined up before Helslngfors' liquor shops this morning for the first legal sale of liquor In 13 years. The first arrivals began to gather up before the doors at fl a. m., al though the shops were not open until 10 o'clock. The longest lines were In the working class sections of the city. Order prevailed everywhere, however. Voice Of Dog Girdles Globe. SCHENECTADY. N. Y., April 8 (AP) "Short." a little wire-haired terrier, barked Into a microphone to day and the bark came back to him over a loud speaker after circling the world by way of Holland, Java and Australia. Oeneral Electric engineers were testing a round-the-world short wave hookup. eled down the Madeira and Ou spore rivers and camped at the head of a tributary or the latter, known aa the River of St. John. One day. after the expedition had been In the re gion about two years. Araujo became lost m-hlle traveling alone. "One afternoon I was walking through the Jungle, he said, "when I saw a white man coming toward me. When he saw me he stood still and waited for me to approach. He wsi about SO years old, of medium height, blond, a touch of gray In bis hair, with blue eyes and a long beard rich as all whit men grow in the Jungle. His khaki shorts were tat tered, hta shirt falling to pieces, and on his feet were native rubber shoes. "I went up to him and akd him who he wm and if he wre lot. " I am an Englishman.' be said and I aa tot lot' OF BABY SEARCH c, v. T WASHINGTON, April 5. (AP) Gov. Glfford Pinchot of Pennsyl vania today objected vigorously be fore the senate public lands com mittee to changing the present method of adding land to or taking it from national forests. The Pennsylvanian. long identified with development of the forest sys tem, appeared before the committee In Its hearings on the White House plan to transfer public lands to the western states. V He opposed specifically the plan to aet up Joint state-federal boards of five members to decide within a year what acreage should be added to or excluded from existing forests. These boards, Pinchot said, would have the right "without giving rea sons or holding hearings, to exclude auch lands as they think should be excluded, acting In secrecy." Pinchot said no provisions were made for publicity to be given the operating of the proposed board, although public auctions were stipu lated for dealing with the other lands. Former Secretary Fall, Pinchot said, "got away with what he did because he acted solely in secret," FAMILY IN TRUCE LOS ANGELES. April 5. (AP) The differences between Buster Keaton, smllelesa screen comedian, and his wife, the former Natalie Talmadge, which, for & brief period yesterday occupied the attention of the district attorney's office here, apparently have been settled. The trouble arose, so both Kenton and his wife said, when the former decided to take his two sons for an airplane ride. Mrs, Keaton aald she did not want her sons to make the trip. When the plane arrived at San Diego, Keaton waa held by police for more than an hour and finally re leased. "Any report that Buster and 1 have separated la nonsense," said Mrs. Keaton. "One doesn't separate over such arguments." 4- PORTLAND, April 5. (AP) An other victim of delayed dynamite blast waa In a hospital here In a critical condition today. Rtidle Marxer. operator of a dairy, waa blasting stumps Monday. A can of powder did not explode. He start ed toward It to aee If anything waa wrong. Aa he approached the explo sion occurred. His skull waa frac tured, one eye blinded and an arm broken. WASHINGTON, April 5. (API- Senator Steiwer R Oregon) an nounced hia candidacy for re-election today on a platform calling for farm and unemployment relief and resubmission of the 16th amend, ment. ttteiwrr outline his platform In a 500-word statenvr, not once men tioning President Hoover or the Re publican amlxostrauoa. L BE BASIS SPLEA Prospective Juror Admits Saying Society Matron and Navy Men Should Be Shot for Alleged Act HONOLULU. April 5. (AP) In tense feeling against the four de fendants in the Kahahawal murder case was expressed today by William Hulhul, Hawaiian and prospective Juryman, who admitted he had said he thought the defendants "ought to be shot." Hulhul was being ques tioned by Clarence Darrow, chief de fense counsel. Again a crowd filled the courtroom and like yesterday a majority were natives. The four defendants, accused of the slaying of Joseph Kahahawal, Hawaiian, charged with attacking Mrs. Thalia Massle, wife of the naval lieutenant and daughter of Mrs. Fortescue. were dressed In the same attire aa when the trial opened. Mrs. Fortescue appeared pale. Mrs. Massie was not present. Hulhut first said he never bad expressed an opinion about the case, but under the persistent questioning of Darrow finally admitted he had expressed an opinion. "What did you say," asked Darrow. I said they ought to be shot," replied Hulhul. Woman Unmoved. The expression on Mrs. Fortescue's face never flickered and Massle main tained his stony composure. Jones and Lord, however, grinned broadly. Hulhul waa excused. Indication the defense would plead the killing of the Hawaiian waa an "honor slaying," was given when Darrow vigorously contested the prosecution's attempt to Impress on prospective Jurors not to consider whether the killing of the alleged attacker was right or wrong. ELECT DR. LAN! CLUB PRESIDENT Medford Rotary club held annual election of officers this noon with the following results: President, Dr. W. E. Lantls; directors, 2-year-period, Edwin L. Knapp; C. L. MacDonald, Hamilton Patton and George Porter. Glenn Smith also will serve as a hold over director from last year. President-elect Lantls was called upon for a speech and responded briefly, outllnging his hopes for a successful year. . A splendid musical program was provided by Jamea Stevens and Miss Madge De Lasaux. Mr. Stevens, for fermerly of the Medford Rotary club, presented three attractive vocal num bers, accompanied by Miss DeLasaux, who also gave two enjoyable piano solos. President Shockle? spoke of the Rotary International convention at Seattle thla summer, urging a large attendance from Medford. E. C. Corn waa appointed chairman of the "On to Seattle" committee. Miss Jeunessa Butler announced a talk by Mlas Eleanor Brannan at the Christian church Saturday afternoon, sponsored by the College , Women's club, on "Europe Today." Everyone Is Invited to attend. Tarney Steward, chairman of the Rotary classifications committee, gave a short talk on this subject and distributed copies of an outline of classifications among the mem bers. Visiting Rotarlana were R. W. Clark. M. C. Clemens and Chas. C, Rarlck of Grants Pass, and J. H. Harker and Lew Hansen of Ashland, aa well as Jamea Stevena and Madge De La saux of Medford. Chicago Teachers Get First Payday CHICAGO. 111., April 6. (AP) Chicago's school teachers were get ting their first pay today for work they've done In 1032. A payroll of nearly 12.500.000. the second In cash within the last two weeka, waa made possible by the approval bond ex perts gave the city's agreement to buy some 1031 school board tax an ticipation warrants. Dollar Dividend Paid By Atchison NEW YORK. April 5. (AP) A dividend of $1 a share was declared today by the Atchison, Topeka d Santa Fe Railroad Co. The company paid 91 .50 three months ago, and before that at the rate of 910 a share annually. RECONSTRUCTION AID FOR FARMER URGED WASHINGTON. April 8. (AP) Creation of a 2 000,000,000 corpora tlon simitar to the reconstruction corporation, for loans to refinance sricuKure, waa proposed In a bill Introduced today by Senator Wheeler (D , Mont.) Hdnlrnn In Crath. BEAVERTON. Ore., April 6. (API Collision of a school bus with a wood truck injurfd 12 pupils of the lVaverton union high school Monday afternoon. Only two of the 12 were unable to Utod Cl3$ today. o TMfTACKS cr; Joint Committee Only Method for Maximum Reduction, Is Assertion Garner Scoffs Commission Idea WASHINGTON, April 5. (AP) Answering congressional attacka on his economy suggestions, President Hoover said today that without Vie creation of a Joint congressional -administration committee to consider the question, he could "see no way by which there can be a maximum reduction In expenditures.' Only a short while before, Speaker Garner had told newspaper men that if the president sent to the capltol specific suggestions for cutting fed eral cmsIi outlays, the house would approve them and do It quickly. "Mr. Hoover, at ,hls semi-weekly press conference, outlined 'three gen eral directions' In which he believes federal expenses may be reduced by aa much aa 200,000.000 In an effort to balance the budget In conjunc tion with the new tax bill." Often Advocated Referring to one of these, reor gantaztlon and consolidation of gov ernment functions, he asserted he had recommended such a atep seven distinct times but that "the action recommended has not been taken," The two other distinctions were di rect reduction of approbations and alteration of existing laws to reduce present unnecessary functions.- In the senate, Chairman Jones of the appropriations committee, Intro duced legislation to carry out the presidential suggestion for a com mission to go Into the question. Speaker Oarner, In guaranteeing house action on specific administra tion proposals, said: "If Mr. Hoover has nothing to recommend, that Is a different matter and It Is mighty late in the session for him to try to get anything done through a com mission.". Y IS S WASHINGTON. April B. (AP) The pinch of national economy brought a declaration today from Senator Har rison, of Mississippi, ranking demo crat on the finance committee against full payments of the veterans' bonus certificates. Citing the two billion dollar deflcla In prospect for the government this year and the pending bill to ratse new taxes, Harrison In a letter to veterans of his state said: '1 regret that existing conditions Impel mo. In the Interest of the country, to oppose the legislation at thla time." The stand taken by Harrison, eru pted with the known view of other senate leaders, Is believed to doom any prospect of enactment Into lew of the bonus payment measure, i FAILS IN SUICIDE ROSEBURO, Ore., April 8. (AP) Fred Stommach, 51, former Portland butcher, attempted suicide In the local camp ground here yesterday. Stommach wlth'v his wife and five chlldron had been located at the camp ground while he waa endeavor ing to secure employment. Discour aged over his Inability to secure work and with his funds exhausted, Stom mach drank a disinfectant In an ef fort to end his life. POWER CONCERN HELD AT FAULT FOR EIRE SALEM, Ore., April fl. (AP) Th ) Mountain States Power company waa held responsible for damage by firs to timber owned by J. T. Sullivan, in an opinion handed down today by the Oregon supreme court. Justice Geo. Rossman, In his opinion, affirmed the Coos county circuit court In the case charging negligence as brought by Sullivan. The defendant appealed. One-Pound Baby Cradled In Small Coffee Carton KANSAS CITY, April B (F) A cardboard carton warmed by hot water bags cradled a one-pound baby boy born here yesterday to a young couple. The child waa pronounced normal, except in alee, by th attending phy sician, who has high hopes the In fant will live. The doctor said th young eon of Mr. and Mrs. William St. John was un 4e;nfi unshed. Th Xat&er l Sturdy Automobile Saves Couple From Slide On Highway PORTLAND, Ore.. Apirl 5 (AP) A narrow escape from injury was experienced by Mr. and Mrs Ja'in A. Muewlg before dawn today when their automobile was crush ed in a rock altde on Cnnynn road a short distance outside of Port land. Three t Ires of their car were tern off, the gasoline tank wna smashed flat and the fenders and bumpers were wrenched from the body. The sturdy construction of the body saved the couple. FDR GO. CLERKSHIP Lewis Ulrtch of this city, former Jacksonville merchant, and a native son of Jackson county, today filed for county clerk on the Democratic ticket. He gave as his slogan: "A business administration for the county." Ulrich will oppose Vic H. Beck man In the Democratic primaries. The Republican entrants arc Dei 11 la Stev ena Meyer, Incumbent, and George R Carter. A score of filings for Republican committeemen were made thla after noon. William T. Grieve of Prospect gave as his slogan, "For the good of all." Mrs. Martha B. Luke of Oak Grove gave as her slogan "Try to do my duty." The rest were aloganleas. The other committeemen minus were: Stephen Nye, Jr., Talent; El mer Hull, Central Point; W. H. Meni man, Trail; E. T. Newbry, Jr., Talent; A. H. Wlllett, Medford; George M. Roberts. Medford; T. W. Miles, Med ford; W. J. Looker, Medford; Clarence Meeker, Medford; Fred L. Colvlg, Med ford; E. C. O add Is, Medford; C. E. Marshall, Medford; S. S. Smith, Med ford: B. C. Gaddla. Medford; 8. B. Gates, Medford; Carl T. Tengwald, Medford; Frank P. Farrell, Medford; I. E. Foy, Medford: Ray Coleman, Jacksonville; H. C. Meecham, Jack sonville; Ben H. Gibson, Plnehurst; Fred Dun lap, Derby; Floyd Ross, Cen tral Point; Harry Skyrman, Central Point; Ed B. Dlmmlck, Rogue River; Clyde Smith, Butte ' Falls; Royal Brown, Eagle Point; Sam Sandry, Rogue River; J. E, Judy, Griffin Creek, M. N. Charley, Climax; M. C. Boomslater, Gold Hill; M. B. Merrl man, Gold Hill; M. H. Watt, Phoenix, and John Anderson, Central Point, SWEENEY FILES T Dr. C. T. Sweeney of this city this afternoon filed answers to th dam age suits recently Instituted against him by W. H. Byars and H. B. Kellom, salesmen, as the result of an auto accident on East Main street last September. Byars seeks 916,000 al leged damages; Kellom $2600, Dr. Sweeney, in answer, asks that the suits be dismissed on the grounds that the accident was allegedly due to the negligence and recklessness of Kellom In driving the car, and that any Injuries sustained by Byars were due to causes beyond the control cf Dr. Sweeney. The answer charges that Kellom failed to yield the right of way and that the car was not un der control. The aoodent occurred on East Main street near Berkeley Way.. WITHIN THIRTY DAYS PORTLAND, April 5. (AP)-Wlth definite assurance of $500,000 loan from the Federal Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation, John F. Daly, president of the Hlbernla Commercial 4c Savtnga bank, announced today that final arrangements for reopening the bank have been made. Daly returned last night from Washington, D. C. He said the bank will be opened In less than 30 days. Graf Off Again For So. America FRIEDRICHSCHAFEM, Oer, April 5. (AP) The Graf Zeppelin took off at 0:33 a. m. today on her second non-stop flight of the year to Per nambuco, Braell, after a 25-hour de lay caused by damage to the hull during the takeoff yesterday morn ing. strapping youth of 18 and th mother is 17. The baby wann't expected for two and a half months. Only a few clothes were ready for him and they didn't fit, of course. As one of hts husky uncles remarked, the crocheted boots might do very veil for stocking caps. So for th preeent the baby's odd little cries issue from a coffee carton at the St. John home. He is about 14 Inches long. He had his first drink lea water froxa an ere-droppe. L Optimism Prevails in Sour land Home As Famed Flier Soars to Secret Ren dezvousAide Also Away HOPEWELL, N. J., Apirl 6. (AP) Investigation of the Lindbergh kid naping waited today while state po lice and firemen battled a rush fire about the Lindbergh home. The fire, which at one time ap peared within 15 feet ot the home, was still raging at 3 p. m.. but, ac cording to a bulletin issued at the home by Col. H. Norman Schwark kopf, of the state police, was not near enongh to endanger the build ing. HOPEWELL, N. J., April 6 (AP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who won his fame in the air. is using that same element In an attempt to get his stolen baby back. Optimism permeates the home on Sourlaud mountain as the head of the household cornea and goes on mysterious airplane Journeys. Twice In three days he has soared away, apparently seeking a yacht off the Massachusetts coast. The trips are believed to have some unexplained connection with rumors that ransom negotiations are being carried on with kidnapers who took Charles A. Lindbergh. 21 months' old, from his crib March 1. Taking a personal hand in the hunt, which Is enfolded In more mystery every day, he has appealed for freedom from questioning about his movements. "Cot. Lindbergh feels that under existing circumstances he should be privileged to move without the in cumbrance of either check-up or ac counting." said a police atatement. Driving hla own car, the flying colonel slipped into his estate last midnight after his second airplane Journey. About 3:30 p.m. yesterday h and his closest friend. Col. Henry Breckinridge, climbed over a back fence at Newark airport and sped away In a borrowed plane capable of 180 miles an hour. Later In the afternoon a plana ldnttfled by Its number as the craft carrying Lindbergh waa seen cruis ing over Martha's Vineyard Island. It was In, this vicinity also that Col. Lindbergh was reported seen flying Sunday with three other men. When Lindbergh and Breckinridge started their flight yesterday, they carried a suitcase and a blanket. Dr. John Grter Hlbben, president of Princeton university, who called at the Lindbergh home, with his wife, said an "air of optimism" pre vailed. Mrs. Hlbben said Mrs. Lind bergh was bearing up well. John Hughes Curtis, one of three Norfolk, Va Intermediaries who be lieve they have established contact with the kidnapers, was away from his home on another mysterious Journey that has lasted since Satur day. There were reports, uncon firmed, that he also had beaded for Martha's Vineyard, Block Booking Of Pictures Upheld NEW YORK. April 8. (AP) The United States circuit court of ap peals today upheld' the practice of block booking, a system by which motion picture exhibitors are re quired to lease films In a group la order to get one desired film. WILL- ROGERS 3ays: SANTA MONICA, Cul., April 4. Mnjor Chnmberlnin and his troiip of crnck riders of our army were just here at tha ranch. They are our represen tatives in the Olympics. They are at Snn Diego working night and day on their horses. H has represented us in previous giunes and he snys that the horsemanship events are the most popular on the whole pro gram. You talk about something coming back. Sa,y, the old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding horses today that five yrrg ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked. Tolo, racing and horse shows all doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses. Legalize racing in every state sure, pcoplo will bet, but they bet to sec the horses run and you certainly can see General Motors and General Klectrio and General Utility run when you bet on l,m. . HII. MiNissst IjrMinM, (asi