Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecut: Tonight and Saturday, fair. Slightly warmer tonight. Temperature. Highest TMterdaf tt A Guarantee A. B. C. circulation li the cream or circulations, with a guarantee of both quality and quantity. This newspaper sells A. B. C. circulation. Lowest thlf morning . . 34 Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFOttD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1932. No. 21. Comment on the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS IN THESE chronicles of Southeast ern Oregon, Harney, Lake and Malheur have been referred to aa the lost counties. The extent to which they have been lost may be Judged from this Incident: Over at Lakevlew the other day, they were planning a celebration of the completion of grading and grav eling on the new Yellowstone cut off. A date somewhere between the twelfth and the twentieth of July was finally chosen. i The leeway was provided so that Governor Rolph, of California, could be present. AFTER It waa determined that lee way of a week ahould enable Governor Rolph to fit the celebra tion Into his plans, the organization passed on to other business. Then, more or leas aa an after thought, somebody suggested that It might be a good Idea to Invite the governor of Oregon, which waa done. rpHERE waa no conscious dlscour- tesy to the governor of Oregon. When the suggestion was made, it waa acted upon cordially and unani mously. The point involved la that those people assembled over there In Southeastern Oregon thought first of the governor of California when they were holding a celebration. THE best known and best loved cit izen of the great open spaces be yond the mountains la William Uanley, much better known aa Bill. Bill Hanley came to the cattle country from the Rogue River val ley, setting out to seek his fortune t an early age. When he left home, hi mother gave .him this advice:. "Be aura to wash often and thor oughly." "S," he aays, "I kept look ing around for a place where water was plentiful and washing would be easy, and when I found It I aettled down." The place where he found water enough to make washing quits easy waa about the present location of bis Double-O and Bell-A ranches HE HAD np aooner got settled. In his first camp than he set out, like a good son, to take his mother's advice about washing ofter and thor oughly. Not only did ha wash his face! get ting clear around behind the ears, but aet out to purify his clothea. He was wearing a wool ahlrt at the time, and It wasn't a marvel of cleanliness after the trip over from the Rogue River valley. . He wanted It clean. " . SO HE got him a pot and filled It with good Harney valley water, and under the pot he built i fire and kept it going. In the course of time, the water came to a boll. Bill then put in ' aome soap,' and Into the boiling aoapsuds he cast his woolen shirt, and then atood over It and atlrred long and vigorously 'with A stick. , , . . . When that shirt came out of the boiling water It waa CLEAN. a nOT, alaa and 'alack, It waa only - a ahadow of the ahlrt It had been when It went Into the boiling water as every good housewife knows Without being told. Bill says: "When I took that shirt out of the water and 'dried It and got a good look at It, It sure looked to me as If I would have to get a new and much smaller boy to wear It." . w ILLIAM HANLEY Isn't worrying much about Vie depression. He la Just taking It as ft comes, certain that in Its own good time It will wear Haelf out. "The big business men of the big cities," ha says, "have been building and building on ft bigger and ever bigger machine. They kept getting tt more and more complex, and after ft while It got so complex that they didn't know how to handle It and It got away from them. "After a while It will run Itself down and In the process will get rid of soma of Its complexities, and then It CAN be handled again." Pretty sound philosophy. Un't it? 10 Tommy Culberlson, local airplane pilot, who returned last evening from Eugene, where he Jeltvered his plane to R. A. Parks, will leave tomorrow for San Francisco bay airdrome with W. H. Pluhrer and Floyd Hart, by plane. Having sold hl craft. C'uloertJon plans to buy anoi.i.'r in fisn Frauvlftco over Ue week-end. OF Mayor Wilson, Dr. Rickert, ' Roland Smith -and Miles Stuart Tell of Heavy In vestments at Agents Trial DALLAS, April IS (API Adjourn ment over Saturday at the close of testimony tonight In the trial of Frank J. Keller, Jr., of the Empire Holding Corporation seemed prob able at the noon recess today. Nineteen witnesses have been called by the atate In Ita ease against Keller, the first of five ex-offlcera of the Empire Holding Corporation to go on trial for alleged defrauding. Thla la nearly half of the number expected to be called by the atate and equal to defense witnesses. Little additional light has been thrown upon the oper ations of the salesmen of the Empire corporation. Wilson On Stand Medford furnished the witnesses for the morning session, Including Mayor E. M. Wilson, a certified public accountant. Mayor WllBon testified that he had been asked to subscribe the full $20,000 necessary to quality for a directorship and waa told by Dr. E. R. Clancy of Medford, that a place might be found Tor him as auditor for the company, probably one of the aubsldlary Insurance unite. After two montha Mayor Wilson stat ed that he was finally satisfied with the personnel of the company and gave a $2000 mortgage and 3000 note for ,5000 worth of stock. Mayor Wilson said he asked for concellatlon and attempted to repudi ate hla obligation. Under cross ex amination by Attorney Lonergan Wilson said he understood that IB per cent Included all expenses of the promotion, commission, advertising, and office overhead of the Empire Corporation. Rickert Palrl S500 . Stock In an Insurance company was being acquired by the Investment of 500 for five shares, Dr. J. D. Rickert. Medford optomotrlst, told the Jury. He paid 350 by check and gave a note for 150. Dr. Rickert occupied the greater portion of the morning. Another Medford man to Invest was Roland A. Smith, deputy Jackson county engineer who said that the names of. Clancy, Coshow, Adams, ana Kozer "looked goon to lilm." He signed for ten shares paying a (10 deposit and later paid 500 cash for 20 shares In the Westerner Publishing company and S400 cash on hla stock, giving a $600 note for the balance. Miles Stuart, Medford contractor, said In June he was urged to get In early as one company waa expected to start early in July and that the stock would advance to $112.50 a share. In presentation of the bene fits derived, he said he heard the words "cold cash" used often. He understood that $30,000 waa the max imum anyone might Invest and that 05 per cent of the money paid In would be deposited with the state "forever." Stuart ordered ten ahares, giving a check for $250 and a note for $750 to be paid In four Install ments over a period of two years. I EUGENE, Ore.. April 1ft. (AP) A candidate for first fish of the season honors: Lloyd 8. Allen, citizen of Eu jne stood poised on the bank of he Willamette near Eugene early this morning. At precisely 4:34 a. m., one hour before , sunrise, he cast' a buck-tall dry fly on the water. Within a few seconds a fish took the fly. and at 4:26 a.m., Allen had landed a 11 -Inch speckled trout. The law says the season officially opens one hour before sunrise, which according to calendars, was 6.24 a.m. today."" LUCILE, Ida., April 15. ) The search for a plane reported to have crashed in the rugged mountain country east of here Wednesdsy, was over today, with 100 posscmen con vinced those who reported It "were seeing things."- The possemen, under Sheriff Wal ter Altman of Orangevllle, started the hunt after Geo. Burt, postmas ter here, and his wife said they saw the ship fall. GANG TRIO "RUBBED OUT" IN BATTLE ON HIGHWAY EAST ST. LOUIS, II!.. April 15. (AP) Tommy Hayes, St. Louis gangs ter, and two of his bodyguards "Willie O." Wllbert and "Pretty Boy" Lechler were killed by machine gun ners today In a running fight through Granite City and Madison. II). Hayes was leader of the Cuckoo gang In Bt. Louis during Its machine gun mar fare with the Russo gang four years ago In which 20 men were killed. Hla name was con nected with several ilaylngs recently and he was sought by police. The gangster's body was found belde his armored automobile. In which he apparently had attempted to escape from his assailants. The Hungry Python Attacks Actors In Circus Ring NEW YORK. April 13 A sawdust ring battle with an en raged python sent two circus per formers to a hospltsl yesterday and gave spectators at the show the creeps. When the snake. 35 feet long, waa being carried Into the ring. It snapped out of It torpor, wrapped Itself around Lulgt Can estrellt, acrobat, and wounded him on the arm with Its fangs. While scores of troupers fought to pry the snake loose. It lashed out at Alfred Cardona. aerlallst, and snapped one of his fingers. Finally It was subdued. Attend ants said It was hungry. WILLIAM J. BURNS FAMED DETECTIVE PASSES SUDDENLY SARASOTA, Fla., April 15. (AP) William J. Burns, the detective. Is dead. The 72-year-old founder of the Burns detective agency waa the vic tim of a heart attack at his St. Ar- mand's Key winter home here last Wllllum J. Burns k night. A few hours earllert appar ently in the best of health, he had assisted hla family In the entertain ment of guests. '. He was stricken" shortly aftet they left and died without regaining con sciousness. - , Friends said funeral services would be held here and the body prbbably1 placed In a vault for removal to New York for burial later ' in the 'spring; The widow and four children eur- vlve. William John Burns' career was the realization of a boyhood dream to be a great detective. He gave up the merchant tailor trade of his father In 1885 to enter the business of crime detection. The detective was born In Balti more but his family moved with him to Columbus, Ohio, where he spent most of his early life. His father. (Continued on Page Four) James Mark wood was bound over to the grand jury on bond set at $2000 when he appeared before Judge Glenn O. Taylor In justice court late, yesterday afternoon on a charge of burglary. Markwood was arrested last week after allegedly having stolen a num ber of articles from office buildings and residences about the city. HEALTH OF HOOVER GOOD, SAYS DOCTOR WASHINGTON, April 15 (AP) Dr. Royal 8. Copeland, Democratic senator from New York, said today after a White House consultation that President Hoover appeared "in fine physical condition." Copeland came to the White House, he said, to "look the presi dent over." He reported Mr. Hoover appearing rested, happy and fit. machine crashed through a high board fence. . . "Willie O" was founl dead near Granite City, lying In a roadster, a loaded machine gun still clasped in his bleeding hands. Beside him. dying, was "Pretty Boy" Lechler, his revolver and a shotgun at his feet. A bill of sale in the roadster showed the car was purchased yester. day In Chicago, and police assumed Haves and his men were on tneir way from Chicago, possibly after a conference with C a pone gangsters, with whom Slaves worked in many underworld enterprises. Hayes, an ex-convict, was arquttted In 1929 of the alaylng of Michael Longo, member of the Russo gang, who was killed with James Ruo. brother of their gang's leader, "Wil lie" Russo. 4 $ f ROOSEVELT FACES HARD BATTLE FOR Week's Political Develop ments Indicate Demo cratic Nomination Will Dangle to Last Minute By BYRON PRICE WASHINGTON. April 15. (AP) Heedless of the outcries of Repub lican Insurgent and Democratic "bitter enders," the presidential can didacies of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt have been roll ing relentlessly on this week, mak ing little noise, but gathering In the delegates with deadly precision. With three more states added to his list of actually selected delegates, Roosevelt now has roughly one-third of the number needed to nominate. Another one-third,- roughly, seems fairly assured by convention time. For the remaining one-third he will have to fight. Hoover Near Majority Hoover la approaching, In actually selected delegates, the smlple conven tion majority he needs. No new op position has arisen, and none Is In prospect. He will not have to fight at any stage. His Insurgent oppo sition haa almost stopped protesting. and most of It will either stay away (Continued on Page Seven) GATES SEES NEW Due to Important developments In the Northern California - Southern Oregon Development association. C. K. Gatea, president, announced to day that he had refused to accept A. H. Banwell's resignation from the position of secretary-manager and la especially anxious for him to con tinue In that capacity. Prospects for action In the Cres cent City harbor development, Mr. Gates said thla morning, are looking much brighter. , He la not able at this time, he added, to divulge the developments, but aald tUat they are of great Importance to southern Ore gon .and. northern. California, II D ATTACK VICTIM HONOLULU, April - 15. (AP) Pablo Gonsalves, 46, was held In Jail today, charged with having criminally assaulted a five-year-old girl. A howling crowd threatened to lynch him last night. The child's parents told police that Gonsalves, a friend of the fam ily, enticed the child to the home of her grandmother yesterday and attacked her while the grandmother was away. The little girl ran to a neighbor's house, crying, and told her story. She waa taken to the police station, where she repeated the tale and ac cused Gonsalves. PICKEL ESTATE VALUED $1 4,543 ' Inventory arid appraisement of the eatate of the late Dr. E. B. Pic it 1, pioneer physician of this county, was filed today with the county clerk, The estate Is appraised at a value of 14,643.83.. ...... The real property Includes Und In this city, money on hand, an unset diamond of the value of 11600, and medical library Forty shares of stock In an aircraft corporation la listed at no value. The appraisers were T. B. Lumsden, Scott V. Davis, and C. I. Hutchison. LEGION NIGHT RADIO HOOKUP FOR NATION American Legion night will be ob served throughout the entire nation next Monday night by local Legion poata In communlttea ranging from small towns up to the big metro politan cities, Bpeclal programs have been arranged and will feature a coast-to-coast radio broadcast at 7 p. m. over the N. B. C. network. Medford Post No. 15 la planning to tie In with the nation-wide move ment with a special meeting at the armory to which all ei-servlce men are cordially Invited. T.I, eesaion will be In charge of Paul B. Mc Donald, past commander of Medford post, and will start at 7 p. m. ASTORIA, Ore., April 15-(AP Charlea C. Rosenberg, described by police aa "a druglesa physician," was arrested and arraigned In circuit court here today on a charge of man slaughter in connection wl'h the death April 8 of Caroline M"Kechhle. Ilia officers said she died from an allegedly Illegal operation. Blast Destroys New Ohio 5 i - at R" 1 . 1 IV ' t t ur v tfr. n.iaiwia rv4 AMMiiited Press telephoto, showing port of t lie wwVuro cauMd by fire, In the freshly finished $6,000,0 00 utata building at Columbus, Ohio. ed and scores Injured as the force of Damage was estimated at fl.WMl.OUO. E BI1GDEATHS COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 15 (AP) The theory that a bomb explosion was responsible for the loss of seven lives, Injuries to more than two score, and heavy damage to Ohio's new state office building, was up permost In the minds of state, county and city officials as they launched investigations today. . After an inspection of the expio- alon-torn building. Harry Hako, the architect, of Cincinnati, aald the damage would run over 91,000,000. Explosive Stolen. Authorities were -investigating the theft of 300 pounds of "high pow ered" dynamite from a powder com pany near London, Ohio, last week in the belief It might have been used to bomb- the $6,000,000 struc ture, which was In the final atages of construction. The dynamite, the owners said, contained 16 quarts of TNT to 100 pounds a total of 48 quarts of TNT which could have been extracted from the slicks. The death Hat waa Increased to seven, when William Stevenson. 43. of Columbus, died of a skull frac ture. Clues Traced. City police were tracing clues. One was the strange action of an un identified man, who, soon after the blast, ran around one corner of the building, threw a brick through the window of a parked automobile and fled. The gas theory was further dis credited when It became known that all ventilating fans In the building were operating' under test lata yes terday when the explosion, centering In the aouthweat basement, blew out a large section of the west wall and devastated a large part of the .in terior. BASEBALL RESULTS R. H. K. ..8 11 0 .. a s a Chlcsgo Cincinnati ' .. Warneclie and Hemnley; Hllcher, Ogden, Wysong and Manlon. R. H. E. Boston . a b a Brooklyn 8 8 3 Zachary. Frankhouae and Spohrer, Hargrave; Clark and Lopes. American R. Washington . 3 0 Boston Weaver and Bpencer; Llaenbee and Berry. R. R. K New York 8 9 8 Philadelphia II 1 Ruffing, Uomea, Plpgraa and Dick ey; Walberg, Orove, Mahaffey, Cain and Cochrane. R. H. E. Cleveland 3 8 0 Detroit 8 7 1 Brown and Sewell: wnltehlll and Ruel. HayworVi. TAKE OIL, GAS FROM William Ry bee's tractor shed, lo cated on his ranch near Jackson ville was entered and robbed last night, the sheriff's office reported torisy. Ten gallons of gasoline, three gallons of oil and five pounds 01 cup greas crs taken. - (he blast carried away one side o t DARROW'S ILLNESS DELAYS- TRIAL OF HONOLULU, April 15. (AP) Re sumption of the trial of Mrs. Gran ville Forteaque and three navy men accused of lynching Joseph Kahaha- wal was delayed until tomorrow when George 8. Leisure, defense attorney, announced today Clarence Darrow, head of Vie defense, had become 111 with indigestion. By WILLIAM H. KWINtt. HONOLULU. April 15. (AP) De fense intimations that Lieutenant Thomas H. Massle would name him self aa the killer of Joseph Kahaha- wal and would plead Insan' - came step nearer materlallsat! today in the trial of the young ...ivy of ficer and three others accused of lynching the native. As the prosecution closed Its case. Clarence Darrow, generalissimo of the defense, called Massle to the stand yesterday and declared one of the defendants would admit shoot ing Kahahawal In a fit of insanity. By his questioning he Indicated Massle would be the one. Attackers Identified. While hla mother-in-law and co- defendant, Mrs. Granvlle Forteacue, wept, Massle testified how his wife. Mrs. Thalia Massle. had Identified the young Hawaiian and three others as her others and how the assault had preyed not only upon her mind, but also upon his own. Also he disclosed for the first time that It had been necessary for (Continued on Page Four) T HERE LAST NIGHT Two robberies last night were re ported to city poltce this morning. Brown's service station at the corner of Riverside and Stewart avenue, was entered, and Humphrey's grocery at 034 East Main street was broken Into when a brick was thrown through the window. At Brown's station, the store was opened with a key to the Yale lock, according 'to the officers. Part of a carton of cigarettes and one gal lon of cylinder oil . were reported missing. Four cakes and two cartons of cig arettes, were tsken from the grocery on the east side, and a cake and some pastries were eaten In the store, ac cording to the report. Anti-Prohibition Solons Handed Pleas for Beer WASHINGTON, April IS- (AP) While Senator Wagner, (D . ft. Y.) iwas advocating prohibition repeal be j fore a senate committee, a volumi nous jwiuon utkjuk moqiiiLiuuu ui the national liquor laws was pre sented todsy to a group of antl-prohibition congressmen on the cspltol steps. Mrs. Lorrsliif Catlln Brower of New York, vice-president of the congressional district's modification league, said the appeal for light wines and beer hsd fl.000.000 signa tures from voters In 319 of the 43A congressional districts. In his testimony. Senator Wagner decried existing conditions. Miss M. Louise Gross of New York, state chairman of the women's com mittee for repeal of tho eighteenth amendment, concurred id Warner's ite Building t V' "WW" VS t ?V"r-V l : 1 Jbj aW-VttW aa.--' , a terrific explosion, followed by Six are known to huve been kill the 13-story marble structure. CLOSES CHAPTER FOR MURDERERS WALLA WALLA, Wash., April IB. (AP) Two men died on the gallows at the state prison shortly after midnight for the slaying of Peter Jacobsen, an elderly Thurston county farmer, last July, leaving a signed statement that the deed was "all a mistake." The two were Harold, . Carpentor. 30, ' and Walter Dubuo, a lB-year-old youth, the youngest person ever executed In Washington state. The traps were sprung at the same time on a speclally-bullt gallows. Crying as he mounted the steps, witnesses said, Dubuc was completely (Continued on Page Four) 4 JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 14. (AP) Forest fires In Florida and Georgia have destroyed orange groves, pine forests and buildings and today continued their destructive advance over valuable tracts. Damage estimated at $30,000 has been done to orange groves near Jupiter, Fla., and flames were sweep ing over a 10-mlle area west of that town. A crew of 30 men has been fighting the firs since early Wed nesday. Thousands of dollars damage has been done to citrus groves in St. Lucie county. HOOVER FOR FIVE WASHINGTON, April 18. (AP) In view of factors In the business and governmental field, President Hoover believes that undue pessimism has been shown in commercial circles the last several weeks. The president feels that In review ing the entlro economic situation In the United States thst nearly a half dozen favorable factors now exist. The president feels strongly, how ever, that In any recovery from the current economic situation, the Insti tution of a, five day week not only in the government but In some phases of industry will be necessary. views and added that If the prohi bitionists formed a third party the "wets might organise one of their own." Ernest M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth college. In a letter to Senator Bingham (R., Conn.) uiade public today declared prohibition repeal as "fundamentally vital to the welfare of the country at large." Bingham placed the letter In the congressional record. The educator wrote hla views In response to an inquiry by Bingham, who Is seeking repeal. The letter read. In part: "There are few major problems, social, economlo or political before the country, wMch are not being c implicated and made more diffi cult of solution by the exiitenc of this amendment. In the Impossl JContumed on Page Seven). FOR INCOME TAX Government Moving Secretly to Invoke Law Which Proved Undoing of AI Ca pone, if Gang Captured HOPEWELL, N. J., April IS. (AP) The Lindbergh baby hunt developed today Into a search for a swindle proof schema to get Charles A. Lind bergh, Jr., back. Working secretly again, negotiators did not overlook the possibility that a second ransom attempt might lead to a repetition of the 950,000 hoax In which Col. Lindbergh was mulcted without getting the kidnaped Infant. The colonel. It was learned. Is con sidering a plan whereby a committee would pass on any further negotia tions. The committee probably would comprise the aviator. Col. Henry Breckinridge, his attorney; Gov. A. Harry Moore of Now Jersey, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City and others. Col. Lindbergh and his wife appeal ed last night for secrecy In the at tempts to deal with the kidnap gang. WASHINGTON, April 19. (AP) The federal government has been moving secretly to Invoke the Income (Continued on Page Five) F TO WASHINGTON, April 15. (AP) The weight of a national farm or ganlzatlon today was put behtnd the concerted push for full payment of the veteran bonus. John A. Simpson, president of the National Farmers' Union, called for enactment of the Patman bill to pay In the treasury certificates the two( billion dollars outstanding. . a "Thla country needs a new crop of money,'? he tol(. the ways and means committee. Representative Cochran (D., Mo.) who appeared with numerous advo cates of the Patman bin, urged legis lation of beer under a1 tax to pay the bonus. Representative Bankhead of Ala bama, one of the house Democratic chieftains, told newspapermen to day he will support cash payment of the soldier bonus "If It reaches the floor of the house." . Bankhead was the first of those high In house party councils to record himself In favor of It. Both House Leader Ralney and Senate Leader Robinson have Joined the administration In opposing It. ) . BLOSSOM VIEW IP SALEM, April 15. (AP) Sunday la blossom day at Salem. Plans have been completed by the Salem Cher rlans for the annual observance, of. the bloom season here. Visitors will be directed over ft blossom route covering a distance of 13 miles, traversing some of the most famous orchard district! in the state. -4 WILL- ROGER? 3oys: BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Apr. 11. Floyd Gibbons lias been out hero telling mo nil that I missed in China. Tho night before I would lcnvo all tho towns I would mnko a speech to nil the ass6m blcd Americans. Then the war would break out. Then on top of all Floyd's valuable informa tion, why today a chat with Sir Victor Sasoon, who knows more about China and India than nny mnn, for he is to those countries what J. T. Slorgan is to us. We have to get his O. IC. to see if we can have sugar with our coffee. Gibbons and Sassoon both feci that Jarnn is holding Mnm'huria till Russia is in shnpe to tnke it over. China returns to civil war now till gomc other outsider shows up. So pacifists haven't much to look forward to in the Far East.