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EDFORD Mail Tripun To Advertisers Yon take no chances when you bay A. B. C. Circulation. The Mall Tri bune Is Medford's Only A. B, c. Newspaper. Twenty-Sevepth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1932 No. 95. M The Weather Foecast: Tonight ami Wednes day, fair and mild. Temperature: Hl(het yesterday 7 Lowest this morning . , M EM OLD LICENSE GOOD UNTIL AUGUST 1ST EM iiyu Comment the on Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THERE Is still sorrow In the ranks ot this caravan that la celebrat ing the completion of the Yellowstone cutoff- highway, which la expected to bring guest travel In large vol ume to these wide open spaces. Governor Jim Rolph Just Blmply COULDN'T attend I YOB may recall, if you have fol lowed this column, that Gover nor Rolph, then mayor of San Fran cisco, was a member of the original caravan that pioneered thla highway. Be got side-tracked on BUI Han ley's ranch and was carried over a mudhole on Zlm Baldwin's back, so that he wouldn't spoil the nice, ahlny high boots that he always wears, and then Bill tried to Jump the mud hole and landed right In the mldddle of It with mighty splash and there waa a lot of Mgh-grade kidding all around In which Mayor Jim Joined with such hearty good will as to es tablish for himself an Iron-bound, copper-riveted reputation as a regular fellow. Down In this country they all call him Jimmy, and so you can Imagine what a disappointment It was when he found he couldn't come this time. EARXi LEE! KELLY, Oregon born, chairman of the California high way commission, tall and straight and handsomer than Clark Gable, la Gov ernor Rolph- personal representative on the caravan. He apeaka gracefully of the all around uselessneas of (.tate lines down in this country, where we are all one people, and suggesta that we wipe them out. Then he tells of the money California haa appropriated for this highway. - . :Z" He geta a big hand. H HEN, keen business man though he la, a big figure In highways and In taxation matters In California, be paints a glowing little picture of the drive up from Alturas In the late evening, with the sun dropping be hind the snowy bulk of Shasta and the rosy haze settling upon the foot hills! It's a mighty good sign when big business men,, with much responsi bility resting on their shoulders, are able to retain their appreciation of the beauties of nature. Business Isn't everything. THEN, finally, BUI Hanley, philoso pher and business leader, aage and go-getter, who poses aa a simple minded old cattleman and behind this front of trusting innocence manages his vast properties shrewdly aa to make a good living out of the cattle business even In these cruel and hard bitten tlmea. Don't let Bill put anything over on you. He's a business man as well as a philosopher. HERE'S a bit of his philosophy: "Some day the time will come when people, Instead of saying: What's wrong with everything?' will aay: 'What'a wrong with ME?' " Try that some time, when the world looks pretty sour to you. Maybe you'll learn that It Isn't the world, after all, but YOU, that la sour. You can't change the world, you know, but yon CAN change yourself. AND here's another hit: "It Isn't what we do for our selves that counts; It's what we do for those who COME AFTER US." Did you ever stop to think that this wonderful modern world la what ft la because of the efforta and the 'sacrifices of the generations that pre ceded us? IN THE background, giving a push her and a shove there, Zlm Bald win the angel at the feast, or the ipvll at the shindig, depending on your personal angle on him. ACKKAT bunch.these fellows who have !-e-n back of this highway, wrn- JuM a few years ago was only a rtrram snc! a rather wild one at tha Tr.ejra got energy, enthusi asm, Imatinat:?" and the nerve of a who: gang ef burglars. It's no wonrtrr they Jimmied the treasury ff the United States for 180.000 with which to build the last link of I'M) cu es aeries a barren and unproduc'.i'-e al'r.mgh amazingly beautiful t-sert The wondfT Is tliry stopped with so little. BY MEIER'S ACTION Governor Decides Not Call Special Session of Legis latureHal Hoss Blamed for 'Chaotic' ' Condition SALEM, July 12. (AP) The mora torium on new license plates was extended to August 1 by Governor Julius L, Meier today. In tho same statement In which the extension of the moratorium was announced the governor declared he would not call a special session of the state legisla ture. A session had been urged to reduce license fees and provide for quarterly payment of licenses. The first moratorium was to end Saturday of this week. The addi tional 15 days provides for usage of old licenses until August 1. The governor's statement Is as follows: Not To Call Session 'After giving the subject careful consideration, I have decided not to call a special session of the legisla ture for the purpose of considering motor vehicle license legislation. Re gardless of the fact that members of the legislature might be willing to serve without compensation, the ses sion would entail an unnecessary ex pense for the taxpayers. "Because of the chaotic condition which prevails with regard to motor vehicle license fees, due to Secretary of State Hoss's premature announce ment of the proposed quarterly license fee plan, and his subsequent refusal to cooperate In carrying out the plan which was agreed upon by Attorney General Van Winkle, State Treasurer Hoi man and myself, I have determined to extend the present fifteen day moratorium for an addi tional fifteen day.- so as to expire August 1, 1931. The serious condi tion of highway department finances will not permit any further extension Beyond August lstj- REFUSE TO DROP INDICTMENTS OF L SALEM, July 12. (AP) The state supreme court today refused to quash four Indictments against 8. Moltsner, president of the Guardian Building and Loan association of Portland, In an opinion handed down by Justice Kelly. The Indictments charged Moltzner with unlawfully loaning the funds of a building and loan association without security. Defendant appealed from the In dictments returned by a Multnomah county grand Jury on the grounds that Indictments were not tried within the next term of court, as by law provided. The opinion af firmed the decree of Judge W. A. Ekwall. A writ of mandamus proceedings waa denied Carl M. Johnson and C. A. Degrace by the state supreme court last night. In a similar case. The petitioners asked their trial be postponed until after an appeal from a court order refusing to quash In dictments against them had been disposed of by the higher court. The court refused to review the appeal from the lower court order. The plaintiffs In the writ action were Indicted recently by the Mult nomah county grand Jury on charges of devising a scheme to defraud through sale of stock. Both are former officers of the Prudential Savings and Loan association. No opinions pertaining to Jack son county cases were handed down. Roosevelt Is Criticism BOSTON, July 12. ( Ogden L. Mills, secretary of the treasury, last night opened the Republican presi dential campaign by criticizing in it entirety the acceptance address of the Democratic nominee. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New Vorx. Boston's historic Pan ire 11 hall last night was the setting for the criti cisms and denunciations of Secretary Mills, who centered his address around the charge that Got. Roose velt has no program to meet the eco nomic situation. The treasury secretary sought of the New York governor "specifically what the ad m In lt ration has failed to do or has done In this emergency that Is open to fair criticism." To the criticism directed at the administration's credit achievements, Mills pointed to the establishment of the reconstruction finance cor poration and provisions for additional credit for federal land banks and banks silled with agriculture. . Got. Booaevc-ts Ui utterance BASEBALL RESULTS American B. - 3 Detroit Boston 3 0 3 Sorrell and Hayworth; Kline and Connolly. R. H. E. .3 7 3 ..481 St. Louis New York - Stewart, Gray and Ferrell; Fufflng and Jorgens. R. H. E. .. 7 16 a .8 13 1 Brooklyn Pittsburg Batteries: Clark, Moore and Lopez; Melne, Harris and Grace. New York .. Cincinnati Hubbell and Hogan; Johnson, Og- den and Lombard!, H. Boston Chicago 9 : Brown, Cantwell and Sponrer; Ma- ioiie and Hartnett. FAILS TO SHOW FOR HOAX QUIZ PORTLAND, Ore., July 12. (AP) One of the three men Involved In the reputed school consolidation petition hoax, Is known to police. This report was confirmed by the district attorney here today after extensive questioning of Robert Tall man, night watchman at the office of consolidation headquarters, who confessed Sunday that the reported theft of 20,600 signatures was a hoax. It developed that the "robbery" was prearranged. , Lotus Langley, district attorney, said Tall man implicated three men In the affair and that Qpa.pf these is known to authorities. His name re mained unrevealed. Tallman said the other two men were strangers.) The prosecutor hinted that "start ling developments" would be dis closed within a few days. E. L. Getz, Corvallls business man and reputedly a leader In the move to consolidate University of Oregon and Oregon State college Into one institution on the Corvallls campus, did not appear at the district attor ney's office Monday for Interrogation, although officials said he had pro mised to do so. He was questioned Sunday about the case. Detectives said he Is not "under suspicion." LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 12. (AP) A demand for.the discharge of Roy A. Watktns, an Investigator, and a statement reaffirming confidence In David Hutton were Issued today by the board of elders of Angelus tem ple, clarifying a maze of rumors grow ing out of the St. Plerre-Hutton breach of promise suit. The statement apparently put an end to reports that the governing body of the famous temple had been aligned against the hUBband of the evangelist, Almee McPherson Hutton, since Myrtle St. Pierre, a nurse, won a $5000 verdict over him for breach of promise. While the position taken concern ing Hutton occasioned no surprise, the move to oust Wat kins was unex pected. Watklns had figured promi nently In the trial as a collector of Information for Hutton's case and at tempts had been made to name him las a witness buyer. Target for From Mills came In for criticism and Mills dis approved the Democratic nominee's plan to "enter Into a series of bar gaining tariffs according to the Eu ropean practice." , The pledges of Gov. Roosevelt and his party to drastlo economy, aboil' tton of useless offices and consolida tion of government bureaus, were met with the assertion that "expen ditures of the state of New York In creased by oneMhlrd from 1B29 1931; that Democrats of the house voted by a large majority for "Gar ner's pork-barrel measure," and that "they declined to give the president the authority to abollsu useless bu reaus. Mills took up the problem that con fronts the American farmer with the comment that other than Oov. Roose velt's suggestion "that Interest rates on farm mortgages should be reduc ed, without aay in? how it Is to be done, t find nothing In his program which does not constitute a mere endorsement In principle of what has and it sow bcl&c done." PARTY DEATH RE Widow and Chum Freed From Custody As Coro ner's Quiz Ends May Be Probed by Grand Jury WINSTON SALEM, N. C, July 12 (AP) Sobbing and plainly near an other collapse, Llbby Holman Rey nolds left Winston-Salem this after noon for her parents' home at Cin cinnati to try to recover from the shock of her husband's death and the ordeal of the subsequent investi gation. An the former New York revue favorite was helped across the plat form to the waiting train, she burled her face In a fur neckpiece to foil a battery of photographers. She waa sobbing audibly as she was assisted Into a drawing room and was heard to moan: "This is terrible. This Is awful. See all those faces." Trustees of the estate, estimated at 960,000,000 which was left to Smith and three other children, have been quoted as saying Llbby Hol man, a favorite singer of Broad way, would inherit not a penny ot the estate, except a dower right in young Reynolds' comparatively small personal estate, placed at not more than $150,000. The record of testimony Llbby gave at a Becret session of the coro ner's Jury discloses she told Assistant Solicitor J. Erie McMlchals she waf not sure she was going to have a child. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, July 12. (JP) A coroner's Jury, unwilling to call it suicide, accident or murder, has ascribed the death of young Smith Reynolds to "a party or parties unknown." The verdict, coming late last night after sensational and Intimate testi mony, had the immediate effect of freeing fiorn custody the young to bacco heir's widow the torch sing ing Llbby Holman and 19-ycar-old Albert Walker, his chum. Whether It will end official Inter est In the death . of the 20-year-old Reynolds, following a corn whiskey party at his estate early on the morn ing of July 6, Is undetermined. The grand Jury was called to meet today. It is in Its power to pursue the In vestigation. Chum fn Hiding. Walker had been held In Jail for two days as a material witness. Ho slipped quietly from sight early to day and was believed to be in seclu sion at the home of friends here. - Mrs. Reynolds who, as Llbby Hol man, was a Broadway favorite before her marriage last year to the young heir to part of the R. J. Reynolds tobacco- millions, remained at the Reynolda estate where her husband was shot. With her were her par ents. Although In a state of col lapse following her husband's death, she had been under guard there until last night's non-committal verdict freed her from custody. Numerous developments, many sen sational, marked the final day of the coroner's inquest. Case Left Open. Apparently not satisfied that a suf ficient motive for suicide had been established, the coroner's Jury like wise refused to cast out stories of Llbby and Walker, and left the case open for any further Investigation authorities might wish to make. The Jury heard the 26-year-old widow, daughter of a Cincinnati at torney, describe unhapplness which prompted young Reynolds to make suicide threats on several occasions. Some or these times, she said, she was led to believe he was crazy. At least once, she said, she expressed the belief to him. That was the last Sunday he lived. It csused him, she said, to leave her and spend the night at a hotel, from which he said he would go next morning to "have his head examined." Feared Lore Loss, She explained that he was melan- ( Continued on tage Pour) . 4 EAST NON-STOP LOS ANOELES, July 13. (API- Amelia Earnart, trans-Atlantic filer, took off from the municipal airport at 1:11:35 p.m. today on an at tempted non-stop flight to New York. Miss Earnart, who flew her sen ral days ago following her return to America after making the first solo crossing of tha Atlantlo ocean by a woman filer, carried 430 gal lons of gasoline In her fuel tanks, a capacity load. Her husband, Oeorge Putnam, New York publisher, and hla son, waved her bon Toysga aa she luted the big Lockheed-Vega monoplane from the airport, and gaining altitude slowely flew Into the haze which lay over the mountains cast of Lot Aageles, DISCUSS CONTROVERSIAL RELIEF, BILL' WITH HOOVER al i I? A, I, i tr t W &L i 4 4 Avm CHI H t trj Associated rYeas thoto Congressional leaders arriving at the White House to discus? ths $2,122,000,000 Wagner-Garner relief bill with President Hoover. Issues raised by tha relief measure brought forth a highly charged contro versy between the President and Speaker John N. Garner. Left to right are: Senators Robert Wagner, Joseph T. Robinson, Peter Norbeck, Ren. Henry T. Ralney, Speaker Garner and Ren. Bertrand Snell. SLAIN IN MAY HAVE LIVED HERE POLICE-BELIEVE The body of a murdered man found near Metollua, Ore., last week Is the subject of an Investigation by the state police of this district on the theory that the middle-aged victim of foul play may have been a transient resident of this city and the south ern Oregon district during the past' three months. State police and pri vate Investigators are now working on the mystery. Identification of the remains Is im possible, due to the ravages of buz zards and the summer sun. He was a man between 60 and 60 yenrs of age, well dressed and about ft feet, 10 Inches In height. A pocket book, a well used' black billfold and par tially used tobacco containers were found on the remains. AH laundry marks and other Identification oh the clothing had been obliterated by the slayers. It Is the state police theory that the man was riding either on a pas senger or freight train and had been robbed and thrown off, though the location of the body at a consider able distance from the railroad indi cates that It may have been carried there by his slayers. People knowing of absent or' miss ing persons answering the general description of the slain man are ask ed to report. NEW ELKS RULER BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 12. (AP) -The grand lodge of Elks in annual meeting here today elected Floyd E. Thompson of Chicago grand exalted ruler and chose Milwaukee for the 1933 session. In his annual address, Thompson warned against communism and ap pealed to the fraternity to exert Its power to restore prosperity In the United States. He succeeds John R. Coen of Sterling, Colo. J. Edgar Masters of Charlerol, Pa., was re-elected grand secretary; Lloyd Maxwell, Marsh all town, Iowa., was elevated from the office of grand treasurer to grand trustees and James W. Duffy, Providence, R. I., was nam ed grand treasurer to succeed Max well. Other grand lodge officers elected are: Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan, Wis., grand esteemed leading knight; William H. Haral, Columbia, 8. C. grand esteemed loyal knight; Clarence Friedman, Memphis, Tenn., grand es teemed lecturing knight; Harry Scho cle, Oneida, N. Y., grand tiler; and Edward O. Hadley, Casper, Wyo. grand Inner guard. AUTO TAG SALES SALEM. July 13 (AP) New II cense plates sold up to July 0 this year totaled 83,3m, as against 1M). 064 at the nam. time last year. Sec retary of State Hal E. Hoss announc ed today. Both periods were during moratoriums. Last year a month's mortorlum was Issued while this year a 16-day moratorium Is In effect. Total receipts for the licenses were ,3,250,004 this year to date, as com pared to M. 113,364 a year sgo st the1 same time. Hoss announced the high way commission on July I received 11,045.578 of the license money sa compared to 11,498.641 on July 1 a yesr ago, while counties received 532.7B8 as compared to 1749.330. Mo tor transportation fees were equally reduced to 166473 to the highway L E GRANTS PASS, Ore., July 3. (AP) A (880,000 deal Involving 6000 acres of diversified gold-bearing properties located principally on Orave creek In Josephine county, has been complet ed according to W. A. Hutton, mem ber of the state mining board. Hutton Bald the Pacific Minerals Inc., of Detroit made the purchase and that the first payment has been made. He described It as one of the largest mining deals ever made In Oregon. W. F. Hayden, engineer for the Detroit company said an exten sive survey of tho property was made over a period of several months. Tho purchase Includes water rights em bracing 47 miles of flumes and rd Itches. IV is said work on a dam to impound several thousand acre feet of water will be started soon. E LOAN BILL GETS SENATE 0. K. WASHINGTON, July 12. (AP) The senate today approved the home loan bank bill sponsored by the ad ministration for the relief of Institu tions engaged In financing homo building. The last of the administration's program for economic reconstruction, the bill was approved without a rec ord vote. It carried with It the Glass billion dollar currency stabilization bill ap proved as an amendment yesterday. LIONS CLUBS OPEN KLAMATH FALLS, July 12. (P) Delegates were beginning to arrive here today for the annual state con' vention of Lions clubs, scheduled to start tonight. Between 260 and 300 Lions and their wives were expected at the convention, which closes Fri day night. Expected to arrive tonight was I caravan of Portland and eastern Ore gon delegates. MINNEAPOLIS, July 13. iJPy One hundred Minnesota National Quarts- men today were ordered into the hunt for Leslie Delano, 20-months- old child who disappeared Friday from his home in suburban Columbia Heights. Local Men Bamboozled By "Collegiate" Youth The benevolent spirit of several Medford citizens. Including Dr. B. C. Wilson, William Clemenaon, mine host of the Jackson hotel, and new councilman, and Victor Tengwald, secretary to the county court, re ceived a rude Jolt the past week through the allckerlsm of a nice ap pearing youth, with a southern drawl, who acted like a collegian, and wore a brown buckskin coat, upon which waa written with an Indelible pencil the names of girl friends, football heroes, snd snappy poems, He wore a Sigma Chi pin. The university boy said his nams was Robert Montgomery no rela tion to the male movie star, and that he was the son of Federal Judge Robert Montgomery, temporarily shifted from a post In Dixie, to the Seattle, Wo, bench. He waa about 33 yean old, and was pleasant to meet, and studying medicine. He. showed up first st the office of Dr. B. C. VIUon last Wednetdsy with a wound In hla head. In whlcb Dr. LEGION ELECTS DELEGATES FOR STATE SESSION Medford's American Legion Post No. IS held their regular meeting last night In the armory, . for the election of cielegntaa to the state convention. Those elected were Wil son Walt, Carl Y. Tengwald, George Codding. Lee Oarlock and Walter J. Olmscheld. Alternates were Fred Scheffel, Elmer Wilson, Everett Bee- son, Roland Smith and Louie Older. Two resolutions were adopted by the post, the first aimed at the mayor and city council, concerning the appointment of a direction head to carry out. the "alms and pur poses" of an organization to benefit, the community's unemployed. The second resolution adopted had to do with the employment of local labor. It urges that employers hire only local labor, and that wages. not be lowered beneath the scale of a respectable standard of living. Many attended the meeting last night. Vlsftors Included Pete Thur- ber and Past State Commander Sid Oeorge and son from Salem. The past state commander favored the audience with an Interesting talk. The post members plan a trip to the Ashland post tonight, and all members of the local post are urged to meet at the Chamber of Com merce at 7:30. The purpose of thla trip is to extend an invitation to the Ashland post to witness and participate In the dedication of the new Medford courthouse located on West Main and Oakdale. PLACE ON BALLOTS OKLAHOMA CITY, July 11. IPy Wlll Rogers, the Oklahoma school teach who surprised the atate by leading the ritce for the Democratic nomination aa congressman-at-large. won his fight for a place on the run off ballot today when the supreme court refused to take Jurisdiction In the suit of ex-Congressman E. B. D. Howard to strike out Rogers' name. Postpone Action On Treasury Quiz WASHINGTON", July 13. (AP) The house rules committee today postponed Investigation of the treas ury and federal reserve board until the December session of congress. young man said his Ford had gone Into the ditch near Central Point and he had been hurled Into the windshield. The repairs would cost 18 snd would knock quite a hole In the cash reserve of 110, until he could hear from his ludlclsl pspa. So Dr. Wilson gave him $3 and talked for some time about the University of Georgia and the Car negie Tech gnme that ended In pop-bottle battle. Landlord Clemenaon of the Hotel Jackson liked the youth's look, and gave him shelter snd psld his Isun dry bill. The federal Judge would be down snd fix things up ss soon as the case In trial was concluded. Dr. Wilson, with true southern hospitality, Introduced the unfortu nate to Victor Tengwald, secretary of the county court, who, not to be outdone,' showed true Colorado bos pltsllty snd Introduced him to county officials, brother Elks snd sister workers In the courthouse immmi (to liai. BY British Prime Minister De clares Lausanne Treaty Not Intended As Warning to Scale Down Debts LONDON, Eng., July 12. (AP) Nobody can blame the United States for the attitude she has taken toward, war debts. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald told parliament today, but the Lausanne treaty was in no way intended as an ultimatum to America. It was the prime minister's first appearance In the bouse since his re turn from Lausanne. Just before he began to speak an official statement was Issued correcting an Impression that the negotiators at Lausanne had consulted American representatives regarding a "gentleman's agreement" Viat the Lausanne treaty would not become effective until America scal ed down the debts. That Impression arose from a speech yesterday in the house by Ne ville Chamberlain, chancellor of tho exchequer, who said the delegates from Lausanne had consulted not only each other, but also representa tives of the American government. WASHINGTON, July 13. (AP) Secretary Btimson reiterated emphat ically today that the United States had said nothing to the participant in the Lausanne reparation confer ence concerning a possible revision of war debts. The secretary of atate said that, notwithstanding any statements made In the British parliament that con versations had been made with Amei'l' can representatives abroad, no author- lzed move had been made by United States diplomats abroad to thla end. ROSEBURO, Ore., July 13 -(AP) All equipment used by the city ot Roseburg for street cleaning pur poses was destroyed sbout 1 :00 o'clock this morning In a fire that rased the two-story frame barn which has been used for many years as head quarters for the city street depart ment. A large motor-driven flusher. a pick-up truck and two dump trucks, together with all tools and repair equipment, were destroyed, caustnf loss of about S13.000, partially covered by Insurance. It la believed the fire was started by persons endeavoring to steal gasoline. The fire waa punctuated by numerous explosions, as fuel drums became overheated, throwing embers to sU parts of the city. . Garner May Visit Oregon For Talks PORTLAND. July 13. UP) The possibility that Speaker John N. Oar ner, Democratlo vice - presidential nominee, may come to Oregon for a campaign address, Is seen in a report receivea ny the journal today from Washington, D. O. WILL- ROGERS MULESIIOK, Texas, July 11. Well, sir, don't you think tilings nro looking better. They are among the Rtockraisera and farmers. I have always main tained that the Republicans this summer before election would with all their influence and money power create an amateur prosperity, enough to make folks think things were on the upgrade, and not to ,' chango horses, you know. It's not going to take much to make us think we are doing fine. No breast or white meat, just the wing and the old back will taste like a banquet to us now, I think, too, just promising the pcoplo some beer made everybody feel better, even if they know they will die of old age before they get it. - sdiijkixjiu'i
