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edford Mail Tribune Facts Not Claims :ou take no chances on A. B. C circulation. No clalma nu-tha audltor'a figures tell tha story. Tha Mall Tribune la Medford'a Only A. B. C Newspaper. The Weather Tonight anil Friday fair and mild. Temperature Highest yesterday ..- -,- M Lowest thin morning 43 1IEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1932. Twenty-Seventh Year No. 74. am nnnnrv M p w Comment the on Day's News By FRANK JENKINS DID you aver hear o( tha cannibal bandit of toe Southern Oregon and Northern California country? Probably not. Thla writer, at least, never had until the other day, when the tale waa poured Into his ear. THIS bandit, so the story rune, waa wont to travel light, his food eup ply consisting of a ham stowed In hla saddle baga. When he became ahungered. he paused and built a fire, t got out the ham, cut tftln slices from It and fried them over hla fire. Now listen, for thla la the grisly part: Thla ham waa a HUMAN ham the thigh of s human being, smok ed and cured. MIND you, tnla writer doesn't vouch for the historical accur acy of thla yarn, but passes it on exactly aa It waa told to him by a man of good reputation, w.ho had It from a friend, who In turn had It from an old timer. ' Thla must have been a great coun try In the early daya. HERE la another one: Back In "those days of old, those daya of gold" In which North am California and Southern Oregon had their beginnings, a traveler and hla daughter atopped one evening at the old Inn at Yreka and took lodg ings for the night. The partitions of this old Inn were flimsy, and shortly after going to her room the young woman heard guard ed volcea In the next room to here. Listening Intently, she overheard two men planning to murder and rob a miner over In the Jacksonville coun try of the gold which ha had slowly and painfully taken from tha gravel In the gulches. SHE waa a young woman of aplrlt and courage, ao without saying ...... . . ..,1 mm want B-nyimng even w ., ....... out to the barn, aaddled her horse and rode tha rough tralla from Yreka back to Jacksonville, where aha warned tha Vireatened miner. When tha bandlta arrived, tha em battled miner was ready for them. Ho kept lila gold. Whether the ban dlta kent their lives, or at least whole kins, the teller of this tale did not know. A-A ' BUT tha atory get better possibly being Improved with each tell ing alncs that remote day. The father, It appears, waa an Eng lish nobleman: ao hla daughter, you tee, waa a peeress. The miner waa young, and aa young men will be un der auch clrcumstancea he waa smit ten, and amltten hard. So, after beating off the bandits and saving hla store of gold, he mounted hla horse and rode after the young lady, riding hard and fast and paring not hla horseflesh. BUT, alas, he found her not. She and her titled father had pushed on from Yreka, and although the en amored miner rode long and rode hard, not drawing rein until he reached San Francisco bay, he waa never able to coma up with her. VOU know, perhaps, of Oasquet mountain. In Del Norto county Surely you do If you traveled the Crescent city road in the old days before the new Redwood hlghwsy waa completed. It takes Ita name, the legend runs. from a Frenchman named Oasquet, who la alleged to have fought a duel In France with another Frenchman, whom he killed. Thla alaln Frenchman, this victim of the field of honor, waa of high degree of a degree ao high. In fact, that It would never do for the slayer to remain In France. So he fled, taking ship for the Western World. HIS ship touched briefly at New York, then turned Ita prow to the south, plowing Ita way around the Horn, reaching in time tha then young and lusty city of San Fran Cisco. But the young Frenchman, ridden by hla feare, remained on board, and In time the ship swung northward, following the coastline to crescent City, where It stopped and here Oas quet disembarked. He started back up the rough trail that later became the Creacent Clty Orant Pass road and held to It un-faltering!!- until he cme to a valley (Continued on Pag E SUFFICIENT FOR Republicans Reaffirm Faith in Incumbents Hanford MacNider Runner-Up in Vice -Presidential Ballot BY BYRON PRICE. (Associated Press Staff Writer) CHICAGO STADIUM. June 16. (AP) Again, as In 1028. It is Hoover and Curtis for the Republicans, In all but unanimous first and only ballot today a cheering national convention reaffirmed the commis sion 'of leadership conferred on Her-' bert Hoover four years ago, renomi nating him with 1126 '4 votes out of the total of 1154. Then, by a single ballot also, but with a scattered field of candi dates receiving votes from many delegations, Charles Curtis, choice of the administration, was made the Hoover 1932 running mate. On the Initial roll call he was Just short of the 578 needed to nominate, but the big Pennsylvania delegation changing Ita vote, gave him the mar. gin of victory. Adjourn at 3:54. It was 3:54 p.m. when the con vention finally adjourned and the delegates filed out wearily, after a continuous session of more than four hours, leaving the big stadium to stand empty until the Democrats meet a week from Monday m the same hall for their national conven tion. The final official computation gave Vice-President Curtis 633 votes. Hanford MacNider, the minister to Canada, was runnerup with 178 and General James G. Harbord, chair man of the radio corporation, third with 161. It took a switch of Penn sylvania's big vote, after the first (Continued on Page Nine) CANDIDATE CALL CHICAGO, June 16. (AP) Herbert Hoover waa renominated for the, presidency today by the Republican national convention. After Hoover's nomination waa as sured Milton R. Ktepper of Portland offered a motion which made the nomination unanimous. Oregon had cast nine votes for Hoover, three for Joseph I. France and one absent. When the tremendously overwhelm ing national vote went to Hoover, Klepper, after a conference with Ralph Williams, obtained the Oregon delegation's consent to make the unanimous nomination motion. Thunderous shouts of favor rang over the stadium aa the chairman asked for the ayes. Chairman Hawkins. Klepper, L. B. Sandblast cast the three votes for France. E. C. Sammona waa absent and the other votes went to Hoover. Only one other vote in 'addition to the three from the Oregon delega tion was cast for France. VETS THREATEN CAIfJNSTREET WASHINGTON, June 16. (AP) Nearly 3.000 of the war veterans camping here to demand their bonus threatened to become "squatters In the middle of Pennsylvania avenue" If they were evicted from a building they are occupying. A committee of 50, headed by George Alman, deposed commander In chief of the army and now bil leting officer, converged on police headquarters and protested the evac uation order. Captain William O. Stott, police officer, supervising the veterans, told Alman fire and engineer officers had ordered them out and he did not know where the men could be quar tered. Virtually all are from the south. G. 0. P. RUM PLANK WASHINGTON, June 16. (AP) Criticism and ridicule of the prohi bition plank adopted last night ny the republican national convention came today from the democratic side and the ranks of the Independent re pub'.ic&n as the senate convened. PORTLAND. Ore., June 16. (AP) Al Pritiler. 22, was released toay af ter a ooronfr's Jury hsd exonerated him from responsibility for the death of David Oropp. 21. following A fist f:g&t here Monday niv. Bonus Bill Hits REPUBLICANS CALL THEM TO CARRY : 1 CHICAGO STADIUM, June 16. (AP) President Hoover's message acceptance of the Republican nomination for the presidency to Chairman Snell of the Republican national convention said, In part: "I am deeply grateful for the highest honor that the party can con fer. It marks your approval and your confidence. I shall labor as I have labored to meet the effects of the world-wide storm which' has de vastated us with trials and suffering unequalled ln Ju.t iJvpi. jwloda of,-, our history. " ' ' ' . r. , "If the American people shall again commit to me the high trust of this great office, I pledge to them the full measure of my devotion to their service." NOT TO DEBATE SILVERTON, June 16. (AP) Educational disputes at the annual convenMon of the State Grange In session here will not be over the pro posed consolidation move, but over teachers' pensions and other phases, it was determined last night. The two factions agreed not to bring the Initiative matter before the Grange at this time. Pendleton yesterday Joined Hills boro In requesting the 1933 session of the Grange, while It was rumored Eugene likewise would enter Its bid for the meeting. Elimination of waste In sending out federal bulletins and documents was urged In a resolution, and a resolution favoring the change of the federal banking system to pre vent undue concentration of credit for speculation was passed. Lower assessment on dairy cattle In pro portion to other property waa one of the resolutions on dairy condi tions. Officers elected last night Include Ray Gill, master; M. C. Glover, over seer; Marie Flint McCall, lecturer; Bertha Beck, secretary; and George Palmlter, Walter Pierce and I A. Slaughter to the executive commit tee. ROCKEFELLER'S SISTER ALSO FAVORS REPEAL CHICAGO. June 16 (AP) Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormlck, like her brother, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has taken a stand for repeal of pro hibition. She declared last night she .be lieved the 18th amendment should be repealed and liquor manufactured, distributed and sold under govern ment control. OFFER OIL SHARES ON DEBTS OF RICHFIELD TULSA, Okla., June 16 (AP) Harry P. Sinclair announced today an offer of 18,000.000 In the form of six per cent non-voting 1100 par value preferred stock of the con solldatM OH Co., had been prepared to present to varioua committees rep resenting bondholders and creditors of the Richfield Oil Co. The offr covers all Richfield properties as unit. FRANCE GETS FROM CONVENTION STAND CHICAGO STADIUM, June 16. . (AP) Former Senator Joseph X. ! France of Maryland sought vainly at the Republican convention today to nominate Calvin Coolldge for president, police escorting him forcibly from the speaker's platform after he had engaged In a struggle there with officials. France himself had been nomi nated for the presidency a moment before by L. B. Sandblast of Port land, Ore. The former senator won the presi dential preference primary In Ore gon, being the only candidate on the ballot and the state delegation of 13 waa bound for him. As this nomination concluded the delegation from France'a home state rose in it chairs waving pictures of President Hoover. Amidst some confusion that en sued France strode from his box In the seat near the rear of the speaker's platform, saying he wanted to nominate Coolldge and Insisting on my right to address this con vention." You are not a delegate." Chair man Snell told him. "You have no right to speak here." "I have a right to talk. I am ft delegate. Here are my credentlsls. X am a delegate from Oregon, (irook at them." ssld France. Hoover Declared Ideal Party Standard Bearer In Nominating Address CHICAGO, June 18 (AP) Herbert Hoover' waa pictured aa tha "ideal atandard bearer of the Republican party" today by Joaeph L. Scott of California In nominating hla old friend for the presidency. Scott told the delegatea to tha Re publican national convention that the president waa a "paat matter at that greatest of all branches of en gineering that I like to think of aa 'human engineering.' " Mr. Hoover waa described aa a "man who has given and la giving bla time, energy, Ma whole being, to service In behalf of hla fellowman." Scott urged hla hearers to reflect upon the trials, tribulations and the spirit of the pioneers In thla coun try." "Wa have an Illustrious example of such a aplrlt tha spirit of one who, through tha long gruelmg four yeara hae stood at the helm aa tha cap tain of our ahlp of atate, and has steered tha vessel saleiy through log and hurricane, and passed tha ter ror! of Uw lea aUoit," Scot, aald. First Snag in Senate Committee J a j Mi&mMtiMimmmmmmm ri liiaaM -miii'-m- 1 1 1 1111 " BACHfiACH CHICAGO STADIUM, June (AP) Vice-President Curtis was no tified almost Immediately of his renomlnatlon tn a telegram from Chair man Snell of the convention. The vice-president sent the following telegram to Snell: "I have received your telegram informing me that the Republican national convention again has nominated me for vice-president on the Republican ticket with President Hoover. T wish to thank you for your .message, and -ask Ihaty jou express to the -convention my deep apprecia tion for this signal honor. I "I congratulate the convention On renominating the president. "I feel very sure that the record of the present administration Is such as to Insure the election of the entire Republican ticket In November." BUMS RUSH Snell was Joined by Nathan W. M. MacChesney, assistant sergeant-at-arms, who started shoving France back from the speaker's platform. Everett Sanders, sergeant-at-arrns. and an assistant grabbed France and started moving him from the plat form. "You will have to carry me off," shouted France. 'I have my rights. You knojv what I am going to do and you are trying to stifle me." Policemen escorted him downstairs aa he continued shouting protests. As MacChesney stood beside the disheveled, perspiring France, the latter leveled his finger at the Chl cagoan and shouted: "You'll be sorry for this." France'a answer to a direct ques tion as to why he waa ejected was: 'They did not want me to nomi nate Calvin Coolldge." "X wore the badge of William B. Jackson, national committeeman from Maryland." he said. "That gave me every right to he on that platform.' MacChesney told France he could go anywhere In the convention hail except on the platform. ELLINGTON, Mo June 16. (AP) Four membera of the John Hall family were drowned today when their horses, led to water, pulled their wagon Into a pond and Its body bed floated away with them. "At times upon tha ahlp'a bridge he haa stood alone with hla thoughts alone with his conscience. He haa never lost faitl. He haa never re linquished hla soul for tha applause of the moment. He atanda today se rene and confident In the knowledge that he haa kept the faith. "Thla man of whom I speak la tha Ideal atandard bearer of the Repub lican party," he aald. "In thla epoch, ha believes In Ita prlnclplea nor naa he been niggardly In apprecltlon of those patriotic citizens who In tha halls of congress or elsewhere have divested themeelvee of partisan Intol ranca and have atood ahoulder to shoulder with him in helping to aolva the problems of taxation, of budget balancing, of unemployment, and of relief." . Scott aald that In these daya of "aUrk communism and lll-atarred militarism, wa Jiad better renew our course by the fixed atara of the eter nal principle that fundamentally .(Continued, on, fun TfcreeA STANDARD J MURDERS VISITOR F PORTLAND, Ore., June 16. (AP) Shelby C. Brown was charged to day with murder of Harry E. Finn, 38, who waa shot to death last night In Brown's apartment. Police aald Brown readily admitted killing Finn. Mrs. Brown and her brother, J. H. Harper, who witnessed the shooting were held as material witnesses, Harper told police he went to hla sister's place to visit last night and arrived Just as Brown came home. They entered the apartment together and found Finn In the apartment. Finn accused Brown of too great attention to his sweetheart. A brief fight followed, Harper told police, and Brown left the apartment, but returned presently and accused Finn of Improper attentions to Mra. Brown.. Brown left again and when he returned later he drew a re volver from hla pocket as he entered "We've done enough talking," he said. "X might as well get this over with Then he fired five times point blank at Finn. Finn was dead when police arrived. Tha murdered man Is survived by his mother and a sister. INATE URGES ROSEBURG RoeEBimo, Ore., June 16. (AP) Republican leadera at the party convention In Chicago were urged by telegraph today to place the name of Representative Willis C. Hawley of Oregon In nomination for the vice-presidency. The telegrams, forwarded by the Roaeburg chamber of commerce, aald Hawley enjoys the confidence of the Industrial east and that hla work In behalf of agriculture would bring him aupport from the farming In terests of the country and that ha also would be acceptable to the western atatea. Mrs. Barto Named Advertising Chief WIMBIi, June 16. (Spl.) Mra. Vivian Norman Barto drove to Rose burg and was a dinner guest at the home of C. H. Bailey, editor of the Oregon Grange Bulletin. Mrs. Barto haa been appointed ad vertising manager for the state of Oregon with the exception of port Wod, lor the fiang bulletin. PERMIT STATES RULE OVER Hoover's Wishes Prevail in Bitter Battle Waged by Wets for Repeal Effect On Party Is Pondered By Francis M. Stephenson (Associated Press Staff Writer) CHICAOO, June 16. (AP) Repub lican embarked on the 1932 cam paign today anxiously pondering the effect of the unparalleled wet and , dry set-to over adoption of the party's j new prohibition revision stand. A militant drive for repeal stirred , the national convention to Ita most spectacular platform bcttle of years: last night and showed more than a third of the delegates for thla posi tion. There were 472 votes for such : a stand and 6S1 against. Reaction Is Problem President Hoover's personal lieu tenants who beat off hla attack from the convention floor were not exult ing over victory but were attempting to guage the reaction of the prohibi tion forces who passively helped them down the repeallsts. They were trying to fathom the antl -prohibition 1st re action also. Mrs. Mabel Walker Wlllebrandt, of California, a front line worker Mr the Hoover dry campaign of 1928, sat silent on the first ro,w during last night's struggle. Idaho, home state of Senator Borah, the champion of the Hoover cause four yeara ago, defiantly announced (Continued on Paga Twelve) FLAG FOR LIQUOR By Utile I. Smith CHICAGO, June 16. (AP) Ore gen Is on record with ten of its 13 re publican national convention dele gates opposed to repeal of the 18th amendment, but the manner of pla cing the atate on the roll call aheet developed a wild moment of strife tn which the Oregon banner for the sec ond time was the token of inter-dele- gat Ion warfare. Stirred by a dramatic oration against continued attempts to en force the nations liquor laws, L. B, Sandblast, re peal 1st delegate, plowed through the row of chairs which sep arated him from the state banner with the avowed Intention of placing the Oregon placard In ft growing pa rade. The banner stood beside Chair men Russell Hawkins. As Sandblast grabbed It, Stanley Myers, resolutions committeeman, leaped over two In tervening chairs and their occupants, snatched the other end and the two tussled violently on the pole. Other delegates from the state, and neigh boring groups intervened and the two Oregon men stood glaring at each other while Jack Day, United States marshal from Oregon, acted as paci fier. Myora received several scratches when the rough pole was dragged through hla hands. The three delegates voting for the minority repeal report was Hawkins, Sandblast and W. L, Thompson. BASEBALL RESULTS National R. H. St. Ioula . 9 7 Philadelphia 0 8 Haines and Wilson; Benge, Berly, Hansen, and v. oavia, Mccuray. R. H. Chicago M 3 8 New York 1 7 Grimes and Hartnatt; Huhbell, Gibson and Hngan. R. H. K. Cincinnati Brooklyn 8 14 6 10 Benton. Kolp and Lombardl; Mun- go, Helmach and Lopei, American R. H. T.. Washington i 8 Detroit .. 8 8 0 Brown and Spencer; Whltehlll, Bridges, and Jlayworth, Seweli, R. 6 .. I H. 10 8 New York Chicago .. Ruffing and Dickey: Gaston, I. Caraway and Berry. Dag ADVERSE REPORT Finance Group H to 2 Against Passage $2,400, 000,000 Outlay Quick Consideration Is Blocked WASHINGTON, June 16. (AP) A request of Chairman 8 moot of the finance committee that the senate take up Immediately the casjb. bonus bill was blocked today by Senator Thomas D- Okla.). an advocate of the measure. WASHINGTON. June 16. (API The 3.400.000,000 cash bonus bill waa voted adversely today by the aenate finance committee. First senators to emerge from the meeting said the vote waa 14 to 2 agalnat the bonus. Tha but will be reported Immedi ately to the senate and an attempt maae to gee a vote there aa aoon aa possible. Leadera were confident of a auffl- clent vote to kill the bill, and they were reassured by the alia of the on- position committee vote. Chairman Smoot, Republican, ot Utah, aaid tha aenate would be noti fied immediately of the commlttea'a action but that tha formal report probably would not be aubmltted until lata today or tomorrow. Those voting an adverse report on the bill were: . . Republlcana Wataon. Reed. Short- ridge; Couzens, ' Keyea, Thomaa of Idaho, Metcalf and Smoot. Democrata King. George, Walab ot Massachusetts, Connelly, Core, Harri son, LaFollette (R, Wla.) and Jonea (R.. Wash.) voted agalnat reporting tha bill unfavorably. A motion bv AMn.tai. nnHn.ll. n Texael to OaV the veteran. t.h. nrmml ent value of their certificate, grrlng mem mo option ox caahlng and sur- (Continued on fag Two) WILL ROGER? CHICAGO, June 15 Well it's like I told you yesterday, poor old Clmrley Curtis is to be tominyhawkod in the back.' Three months ago they asked him to sit tight with 'era an-; other term, but just like they took the country . from the Indians, they won't let this old "Injun" even have a scat. Charley Dawes will be your vice president. Now Charley Dawes' own kin folks don't think any more of him than I do. I am, and always have been, crazy about Dawes. He is able, fearless and don't give a d for any of 'em and incidentally ho has had noth ing to do with this ambushing of poor "Lo." It's just an old Bcpublican custom. They needed some votos and Dawes can got "em more than anybody else, so he will be drafted for the job. So Dawes starts his career all over again: "goes to the vice presi dency," then from there to the ambassadorship of Great Britain. Then again in the fall of 1937 ho will be brought back homo to head the "Re construction Finance corpora tion" to assist the same banks he assisted this year. So it's Hoover and Dawes. On tho prohibition it will be "straddle," resubmitting to the voters. That's direct straddle, for'it's saying, "we can't make up our minds what to do, so you see if you can make up yours.''