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Twenty-Seventh Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, F1UDAY, MAY 6. 1932.
No. 39.
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Comment
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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