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Newspaper Page TextMailt The Weather Forecast: Tonight and Saturday fair, little chance in temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday . 68 Lowest this niorntnpr ..... 41 A. B. C. FNE Circulation U proved circulation. Both quality and quantity to a full messure la tha Mall Tribune's A. B. C. circulation. A. H. C. fine IfiJB. Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFORD, OREGON, F1UDAY, MAY 6. 1932. No. 39. (Ml IrTMlfl in MEDFO RD rib CO) . Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THREE years ago, the average pro duction of butterfat per cow in Oregon was 190 pounda per year, aa compared with an average of 180 pounda for the United States as a whole. NOW, after three years of Intensive effort on the part of dairymen and those Interested In dairying, average production of butterfat per cow In Oregon has risen to 376 pounds. THOSE are cold figures, and when they are taken by themselves cold figures are apt to mean little. So let's see if we can make them more .understandable. Dairy authorities agree that in or der to ahow any profit at all to her owner a cow must produce In the neighborhood of 250 pounds of but terfat per year. So. you see, In the short apace of three years, Oregon dairy cows have been raised from an average loss to an average gain. That ia quite an achievement. HOW has this accomplishment been brought about? Well, It has come about In a va riety of ways by better feeding, for example. But most Important of all has been the elimination of the boarder cow: that Is to say, the cow whose keep costs more than she pro duces. The cow testing association has been a big factor In that. . . . . . HERE la another Interesting fact: Three yeara ago, when thla in tensive effort toward dairy Improve ment was getting under way, Oregon was aelllng to the Los Angeles and San Francisco markets about two million ponds of butter per year. LAST YEAR, Oregon sold ,to these markets some six million pounds of butter. IN ORDER to make that achieve ment more understandable, let ua get something to compare It with. Three years ago, Idaho waa selling to the Los Angeles and Ban Fran cisco markets about 13 million pounda of butter. Last year, Idaho sold In these big markets some 17 million pounds. M TPHAT Is to say, three years ago Idaho sold to the big city mar kets of California six and one-half times aa much butter as Oregon sold. Last year, Idaho sold In these msr kets less than three times as much butter aa Oregon sold. We sre creeping up on our enter prising neighbor on the east. MfJOW come?" you ask; meaning: "What has made it possible for Oregon to , Increase her butter sales In the big California, markats at rate ao much more rapid than Ida ho's?" In answer to that question, these figures are Illuminating: Three years ago, . Oregon's . butter I scored, on the average, somewhere from 87 to 89, which Is low. Last year, the average was Just below 91 and a very large part of Oregon's butter output scored 92, which la the worlds standard for quality butter. IT IS hl&her quality, you see, that has made It possible for Oregon to Increase her butter salea In the big California 'markets. Higher qual ity Is the answer to a lot of our mar keting problems In these days. THIS, also, will luterest you: According to studies Just com pleted by Oregon State College, the average return on Inveatment in dairy farms In Oregon, making a moderate allowance for labor of the operator and tala family, waa five per cent last year. This In one of the worst price years known. THE flgurea here quoted were giv en yesterday by Marshall W. Dana, associate editor of the Oregon Journal, one of the best Informed men on dairying In Oregon. Mr. a)ana has played an Important part In the three-year campaign of dairy Improvement that haa been here al luded to. (Continued on Page 10) BAN DON Leveling ana ylng of; roadways in Muonic Park completed.' AGED PRESIDENT AT DEATH DOOR 2 Former Russian Cossack Fires Point Blank As Dou mer Visits Book Exhibit Police Nab Assailant PARIS, May 6. P Oxygen waa being administered late to night to President Doumer to assist his 'heart action. Shortly before midnight the Interior minister published a bulletin saying there was no change In the condition of the president, who was suffering from two bullet wounds Inflicted' by an assassin. "Ills condition Is satisfactory, with no Improvement and no aggravation." the bulletin said. PARIS. May 8. (API An official bulletin issued tonight said that two bullets entered the body ol President Doumer when he was fired upon by an assailant today. One crossed the region at the base of the skull and came out on a level with the right cheekbone, while the other entered at the level of the armpit and came out behind the shoulder, causing a heavy hemorrhage. At 6 p. m. when the patient a shock had been ameliorated Dy several blood transfusions, the sur geons tied the axillary artery, which had been completely severed. The official bulletin said the presi dent's temperature was centi grade (98.96 Fahrenheit) and his pulse 120. . His .condition . was said still to be grave. PARIS, France. May 6. (API Paul Doumer, white-bearded, 74-year-old head of the French republic, was shot three times and desperately wounded today by an assassin as he opened an exhibition of booka Dy war veterans. He had come from the Elysee pal ace with Claude ' Farrere, noted au thor. Together they entered the Baron De Rothschild foundation near the Dalace. Farrere -walked with him up the grand staircase where the president paused to sign a copy of a book by a contemporary author. Then the president moved over to a table and stood talking with Far rere and Madame Farrere. Fires Five Times Suddenly a man aprang. seemingly out of nowhere, leveled ft pistol at the president and fired five times. M. Doumer's knees crumpled. He sank to the floor. There were bul lets in the front of the head, In the head behind the ear, and In the chest. Farrere aprang forward. The (Continued on Page Two) RUFUS HOLMAN TALK ATI1 RUfus Holman, state treasurer, and candidal for re-election addressed the Realty Board at it noon meeting today, and took sly cracks at the press, the "power trust." the heads of state educational institutions, auto mileage for state employees, and thtnfliB In general. Treasurer Holman Is an entertaining speaker, with a strain of humor, and an air of mar tyrdom. "Don't believe what you rad In the papers that are opposed to us, but come down and see for yourself." Mr. Holman urged his hearers. He said that Albert Burch of this city, a member of the state board of histher education had "taken wild ex ception' to some of the economies. He explained that conditional par dons for county Jail prisoners, were printed on too large sheets, and ai lested that some of the state em ployees were charing too much for the gasoline they said they used. The administration had put a stop to this nonsense. Treasurer Holman admitted that he "had worked hard and was getting tired of It all." but Intimated he would go on to the bitter end. He modestly disclaimed any credit for the economies Invoked, "but that all the credit belongs to the governor." Treasurer Holman also alleged the state employees were eating too much, and paying too much for the bill and that a standard price for breakfast, dinner snd supper had been made. He said the employes were co-operating by eating the maximum meal cost. He touched lightly on the state institutions of learning, and declared "the presidents think they are Napo leon' He thought "6000 acres wss too much land for state farms." Treasurer Holman, three tt.ne in fifteen minutes warned his listeners not "to believe what they aee In the papers, " and the press worried him lmot as much as the alleged extra? agsnce. he U throttling. Bonus Payment CAPONE STARTS FOR FEDERAL PRISON lit s v", r ' y rSo " ' ' " ; V j - 4 . it I J" " ' - ft-- - v . t 'jiw i 1 J r ; 4V 1 1 tRnniiHiiHiiKiHiaSiiBaVi , Attonttnt Prrit Pfinl Associated Press telephoto of Al Capons, Cm'cago gangster con victed and sentenced to 11 years Imprisonment for Income tax eva sion, entering an automobile at Cook County Jail to be whisked to the depot where he started his Journey to the federal prison In Atlanta. LOCAL HIJACKER GETS STIFF JOLT IN NORTON COURT Evan Crow, 31, often In Juvenile court, and often paroled, charged with being a member of a "boy so ciety ht-Jacklng gang." which stole wine and moonshine from basements of well known people, was sentenced to serve an Indeterminate term in state prison of not less than two years and six months, by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton -this morning. Crow wept bitterly and pleaded for leniency. , James Nelson, who said. "The only home I know Is the hobo Jungles," was sentenced to an Indeterminate terra In state prison of dot less than, two years. t Wood row Wilson Shaw, 18. who made a signed statement detailing a aeries of burglaries In this city, is scheduled to come before the court later today for sentence. The court, in passing sentence upon Crow, said: "This Is a warning to the young fellows of thla city who regard pa roles as a Joke, that the court will no longer be imposed upon by themT The pstience of the law which wants to give every young man a chance, is exhausted. I gave you a chance and a decent chance, and you re turned to your old' ways, and prtjr itcd not by leniency." Several times Crow interrupted the (Continued on Page Ten) IN LARGEPARADE With faces uplifted, banners flying and the May sunshine casting warm ing rays upon uncovered .heads, hun dreds of boys from the Medford schoc. system came smllin' through the yeeta of the city this morning. Marching to the strains of music, played by the high school band, they announced the grand finale to cele bration here of National Boys' week. Beginning with the fourth grade, boys from each elementsry school in the city joined the Junior high school boys In the lineup. Crowds lined each side of Main street as the future men of affairs marched by, receiving Uieir applause with smiles, which implied "There Is no depression." WASHINGTON. May fl. (AP) A new drive for direct federal relief ' for the unemployed was launched In "I would reltersle what Mr. Mor the eenst today aa Senator Costlnsai Ran said then, and I would apply It cD. Colo ) Introduced a bill callin I to England no less than to my own S for a 5O0,0O0.000 bond issue for the j country, purpose. I "None of us hsve any means of Tne bill also is being Introduced In I knowing when or how we shall emerge the house by Representative Lewis : from the valley of depression tn ID.. Md.). ; which the m-orld la now traveling- It diners from the direct relief de- fested In the senate early in the ses sion mainly In that the money would tt raised by a bond Issue rather than by a treasury appropriation and tha; It calls for livoooooo more than t!i.-: , measure would have provided. BY MANIAC AFTER TERRIFIC BATTLE TOLEDO, O., Msy 6. (AP) Stran gled to death and criminally as saulted, the body of Miss Winifred Rafferly, 22, dietician at the Robin hood hospital, was found early today In an exclusive Toledo residential section. Police blamed a maniac for the attack, and said the young woman was killed only after a terrific strug gle. Almost all of her clothing was torn from her body, the buttons were off her coat, and her shoes had been hurled several .feet away. The body was found by Richard Csrr, son of W. C. Carr, prominent Toledo banker, on the front lawn (Continued on page fourteen) STORAGE PLANT XSTORrA; Ore.; May 8. (AP) Fire today destroyed the Kleven hauser cold storage plant at Altoona on the north shore of the Columbia river. It was one of the largest and best equipped plants of Its kind in the district. The building' was used' largely for storage of mild-cored salmon, but since all of laat season's product had been shipped, the loan was confined to the 'machinery and -the building. The company was owned by the As toria Savings bsnk. 'Don 't Sell America Short ' Still Good Advice Andy LONDON. May 9. !') J. P. Mor gan's fourword sermon: "Never sell America short." was preached ejraln today by United States Ambassador Mellon to a gathering of bankers snd business men at a luncheon in London'a city hsil. "A great and patriotic American who lived much in England and loved " his country, ones ald to a compatriot, 'Never a a 1 1 America i short ssld Mr. Mellon. But I do know thst. as in the past. a day will come when we shall find ourselves on a more aolld economic "uindatlon and the onward march of : cress will be resumed. " The amhs..-.dir said that r.M.-n It .-.. w -k..,.. - i,i Dealt Death Blow by Committee HUNT FORJ.EADER Parade of Favorite Sons and Dark Horses Begins Anew As California Pri mary Halts Roosevelt By BYRON PRICE WASHINGTON, May 6. (AP) An other parade of Democratic dark horses Is beginning, stirring the dust of new uncertainties for the party Just as the Republican stalwarts show notable signs of consolidating their position behind President Hoo ver. At no previous time since the pre conventlon campaign began has there been a more varied and conflicting discussion of candidates among the Democrats, or greater outward sftow of hopefulness among the Repub licans. In both cases the California pri mary Is largely responsible. Gover nor Roosevelt's defeat there Is stimu lating both his .friends and bis ene mies to redoubled exertion. Presi dent Hoover's unexpectedly large vote, coupled with other develop ments. Is greatly encouraging hla supporters. Acknowledgment by Senator Norrls of Nebraska last night that he would support a Roosevelt ticket aa against Hoover was hardly a surprise. He deserted the Republicans In favor of Smith tn 1928. The Democrats have come to a critical time. As the California re- (Continued on Page Pour) s- WILL BOLT G. 0. P. FOR KEVELT WASHINGTON, May O. iffy That veteran independent warhorse from the wide spaces of the northwest, Senator George W. Norrls of Ne braska, will bolt the Republican pas ture once jvgaln to support Franklin D. Roosevelt If the Democrats nom inate him. He gave assurance last night that he would back the New Yorker, even as In 1028 he stumped for Alfred E. Smith against President Hoover. "History," he said, "has demon strated thst I was right in opposing him (Hoover) four years ago. He has not done anything he said he was going to do." Senator Huey Long (D., La.) had saJd Norrls would do this in passing through Atlanta yesterday. In the same breath he pledged his own sup port and practically that of the Lou (Continued on page fourteen) DOUKHOBAR GIVEN HEAD PEN TERM NELSON, B. C, May 6. (A1) Peter Veregin, leader of the Doukhabor sect, 118 members of which have been sentenced to prison for parading un clothed In public, was sentenced to day to three years In Prince Albert penitentiary for perjury. He was con victed by a Jury yesterday. He was charged with having aworn falsely at a hearing last January In a suit growing out of a split In the sect. Eighty-four men snd 34 women among Veregin's followers pleaded guilty yesterday to having paraded unclothed and were sentenced to three years each in prison. on one side of the ocean of what Is happening on the other. "Over here," he said, "you read that our congress is having difficulty balancing the budget, and ons la apt to get an Impression that there Is a lack of will on the part of either the congress or the country, whereaa the opposite la the case. The country has determined that the government shall set Its own houss In order snd that the public credit shall be pro' tected at all costs." Mr. Mellon aald the Important thing to remember Is that congress Is aeeklng to levy over a million dol lars In new taxes and that that la not an eaiy thing for any legislative body to do. President Hoover, he aald, "his shown leadership of the highest or der." and when the full effect of the legislation he haa Inspired is felt. banking and business organlRatlona will be In position to take advantage I of any ImnrAvement In the general ' .itii.iun ia.kn I. ir,rtM, Mellon Quaffs Whiskey, Soda at London Banquet LONDON. May 8. T) Ouests at a luncheon of bankers and business men where United States Ambassador Andrew W. Mellon spoke today, observed that the ambassador drank whiskey and soda during the meal. When he first cumc to London recently Mr. Mellon, questioned as to whether there v.uM be a. cellar In the embassy, said he would follow the custom of the country. OF EMPIRE STOCK TELL AWAKENING DALLAS, Ore., May 6. (AP) Tea tlmony In the trial of Judge O. P. Coshow, former member of the state supreme court, who Is charged with four others with devising a scheme with Intent to defraud, continues to be given by witnesses with monoto nous similarity aa the first week of trial waa nearlng an end today. Six witnesses were called by the state this morning and court will recess late this afternoon until Monday, it la announced by Circuit Judge Arlle G. Walker. Barnett H. Goldstein, Portland special prosecutor, expects the state to rest its case late Mon day, Carrold J. Parker, Medford, aald he was contacted by three aaleamen and bought 20 shares for himself and wife, paying down 1316 and giving a note. He said that he had written Coshow asking for a cancellation of the stock on grounds of mlsrepie sentatloas by the salesmen, but had not been granted his request. Under cross examination Parker aald he had received the impression that the di rectors In the Empire company had paid In aao.OOO each. C. C, Leonard, Medford, subscribed for 10 shares of atock, paid down 1250 and gave a note. He made two appraisements of property In Med ford on behalf of the Empire com pany, and upon learning that a 6. ooo subscription would make him re gional board governor, took the addi tional amount. His certificate of ap pointment was placed In evidence. Altogether he paid 11.440 In cash, he said. Ernest Scott, also of Medford, who met Prank J. Keller, Jr., In Medford, said he was Informed there that all the officers had paid In at least SB, 000 cash, so he bought 10 shares, paying $26 and giving a note for the balance. His earned com missions were around 93,000 he aald, and he never knew the officers of the Empire concern were being paid or had not subscribed the full quota until the permit was suspended. L E No fur flew at the meeting of the Oold Hill school board, attended by a large gathering Wednesday night, "but there were words," ac cording to reports from the district, where a row has been enduring for many weeks. The petition, asking the board to reconsider the hiring of George Melslnger and failure to re tain Coach Angstead, around whom the row has revolved, was not pre sented. PREMIERESCAPES E CAIRO, Egypt, May (APJ An attempt to bomb a train on which Premier Bldky Pasha was traveling near Tor, on the Slnal peninsula, failed today when the bomb exploded prematurely. The premier's train was held up for a short time while repairs to the track were made. Two watchmen were killed and three others Injured by the explo sion. SIX WOUNDED BY CHICAGO POLICE CHICAGO. May 6. (AP) 81s men were wounded by police machine gun tire on the principal thorough fare of suburban Melrose park to- day when they resisted police orders n hra.k lin ll.mnn.tr.tlnn TO PROBE CHARGES AGAINS1MEANS Private Detective Declares Return of Lindbergh Baby Was Undertaken at Re quest of Mrs. McLean WASHINGTON, May 6. -(AP) A search warrant t?aa Issued today at Rockvllle, Maryland, for the home of Gaston B. Means, and department of Justice agents left Immediately to seek the tlOO.ooo. which Meana took from Mrs. Edward B. McLean to obtain the kidnaped Lindbergh baby and allegedly failed to return. WASHINGTON, May 6 (AP) A grand Jury nvestlgatlon of charges that Gaston B. Means obtained 9100, 000 on false representations that he could obtain the return of the kid naped Lindbergh baby from his ab ductors was begun today. Mra. Edward B. McLean, estranged wife of the publisher of tha Wash ington Post, who said ahe gave Means the money, waa one of the three chief wltnessea. The others were Nelson T. Hart- son, an attorney for Mrs. Mi-Lean, and Slgnor Orlfonl, an Italian butler who had served her for 30 years Hartaon aald Grlfonl was present when Mrs. McLean la supposed to have turned over the money to Meana. Knew Means Record. As she went Into the Jury room, Mrs. MoLean told newspapermen Thla Is dlatastoful, of course, but (Continued on Page Four) indaySline for negotiations on kidnaped tot NORFOLK, Va., May 6. (API- John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk negoti ator and hla associates, sailed from the naval base again today to make some further effort no complete nego tiations for the return of the stolen Lindbergh baby. They used the yacht Marcon. The Ledger Dispatch aald today It had learned that next Monday haa been set as the dead-line for the con summation of the Norfolk negotia tions for the return of the Lindbergh baby unless there Is something more tangible developed than has ao far come to light. Notice to that, effect, the paper added, has been served on the go- betweens for transmission to the principals in the kidnaping. The paper said the alternative will be to throw the full police power of the federal government and various states Into the breach. The Very Rev. H. Dobson-Peacock, one of the Norfolk Intermediaries, said today he knew of no such notice being aerved. BASEBALL RESULTS American. R. H. B. St. touts ...... . 8 11 1 Boston 8 7 0 Atewsrt, Klmsey and Perrell; Dona hue, Moors and Connally. ' R. H. E. Detroit 0 8 0 New York 17 3 Whltehlll and RtMl; Plpgras and Jorgens. R. H. K. Chicago 8 7 0 Washington I 1 Caraway, Pabsr and Berry; Weaver and Spencer. st R. H. I. Cleveland 2 8 1 Philadelphia 8 7 0 Harder, Conally and Myatt; Ma hsffey and Cochran. National, Boston 14 1 Cincinnati 14 18 0 Cantwell, Cunningham, Sherdel and Hargravs, Moore; Lucas and Lom bard!. r. h. r Philadelphia 4 12 1 Pittsburgh - - a 7 1 Elliott and McCurdy; Harris and Brensel, R. H. E, Brokljm 17 0 Chicago . 8 8 0 Munio. Shaute. Qtilnn and Lopes: Bush and Hems);. ACTION OBVIATES AT Parliamentary Situation Is Created by Ways and Means Vote Delay House Vote Past Adjournment WASHINGTON, May . (jp) AU plans for cashing the $3,000,000,000 soldiers' bonus were rejected today by the house ways and means com mit on a 15 to 10 vote. The committee further voted to report the new money bills to the house adversely. This action creates a parliamentary sltustlon that will delay any effort to force a house vote through a dis charge petition. Acting Chairman Crisp announced the committee action but declined to give out the Individual vote of mem bers. All the 25 members were re corded, some by proxies. Representative Patman, (D., Tex.), chief bonus advocate, has opposed the committee action making an unfav orable report to the house. Under the rules, Patman says. June 13, would be the first day on which a vote could be forced through a petition signed by 14S members. - Representative R a I n e y, Illinois, Democratic leader, was designated by the committee to make the adverse report to the house. The course now open to bonus ad vocates la the Introduction of a spec ial rule to give the bonus bill a pre ferred legislative status. Such a res olution would go to the rules com mittee and should this committee fall to act after seven days a dls charge petition would be in order. Ralney said In view of the forth coming adjournment of congress !n time for the national conventions, the committee action definitely kill ed any opportunity for a house vote . on the bonus Issue. OPEN TO AUTOS Breaking through the last enow barrier yeatarday afternoon, ths west entrance to Crater Lake national park waa open to traffic today, pro viding motorists with ons of ths rsrest trips of ths year In view of deep anow remaining In ths park as a result of sessonal anowfall exceed- . Ing 63 feet, or 38 feet mors than laat year. The opening of ths Med ford entrance also opens ths loop to the lake and return by Klamath Palls and Ashland. Due to leaser snowfall, the Klamath entrance w opened last month. Huskies Ahead. WASHINGTON STADIUM, Seattle. May 8 (Pi At the end of eight of ths 15 tenets In ths Washington State-Washington dual track and field meet today, the Washington Huskies held a 41 to 31 point lead. Flret places were even, with ths Cougars taking the Javelin, high Jump, high hurdles and mils run and ' Washington the century, quarter mne, aao-yard dash snd shot-put. WILL- ROGERS HOLLYWOOD, Cal., May 5. About nil these primaries prove around the country is that the Democrats got throe good men and the Hcpublieans only one. It looks to me like any man that wants to be president in times like these lacks some thing. Wall Street is being investi gated but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see whero the senate took that tax off tho sales of stocks didn't yon J Saved 'cm if 13,000,000. Now why don't somebody in vestigate the senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation. Tide tV lilt. NiNtsaai iMSKau las?