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The Weather rorecut; Unsettled, with momri tonight or Saturday, Mild temperature. medford Mail Tribune To Advertisers Too take no chance whan yon boy A. B. C. Circulation. Tha MaU in buna la Medford' Only A. B. C Newspaper. HlCheat yesterday Lowest thla morning . 83 Twenty-Seventh Year MED FORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1932; No. 98. BEL 6) Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ftpiVE nations In South America In political turmoil." So reeda a headline In tha newa ot tha day. Business In South America got bad. and stayed bad. Just as It got bad and stayed bad all over the world. So In South "America, they started upsetting governments. The point Involved la this: Upset ting governments down there didn't make business any better. N Russia, they have finally finished seeding their spring grain oropa and have counted up the number of acres seeded. The total la a million acres under last year. That la Interesting, because In Russia they NEED the extra grain. IIHY la the Russian acreage down, when Russia needs larger acre age In order to feed her people axle quately? Thla probably has something to do with It: In Russia they have taken away INDIVIDUAL INCENTIVE from farmers and have 'made ' of ' grain growing pretty largely a government business. The farmers, knowing that' they have nothing to gain by growing more grain, DON'T. - . A BOUT all the progress that has ever been made In this world has been made because of, some body's belief that by getting In and working harder and scheming more effectively he could Improve his own condition. Take away that incentive and pro. gress slows down, IN a O. Gillette dies at an ad K1 vanced age, and his death ii chronicled In all the newspapers and la read with Interest by millions of people. He was an Important man. Why waa he an Important man? Because he contributed something to progress, thus making thla world better and plsasanter place to live. He invented the aafety razor. XTOW here la a curloua fact: . The aafety razor started men to shaving at home, Instead of going down town to the barber shop to get shaved: and yet, although men were . shaving themselves Instead of getting haved at the barber shop, the bar bers didn't seem to suffer. .The barbers of today are better off, as a rule, than the barbers of 30 or 40 years ago, before safety razors were even thought of. HAT la the way with progress, when It Is REAL progress. It doesn't seem to hurt people. When the power loom was Invented K looked aa If It would spell the doom of the hand weavers, and In England the weavers rioted and da atroyed the new machines. But the use ot tke power loom grew, and today there are many, many times aa many weavers as be fore the power loom was Invented, and their wagea are many times higher than the wagea of the hand weavers In the old days. THE linotype machine put an end to hand setting of type In the news columns of the newspapers, and at the moment It seemed that some thing calamitous had happened to the printers. But there are more printers today than before the llntoype machine was Invented, and they have better houra and higher wages. Don't be afraid of progress. It won't hurt you. yrrNCENT O. Haacall, of Omaha, third vice-president of the Lions International, attending the Oregon state convention of Lions clubs at Klamath Palls, tells an Interesting tale. Before stsrtlng for Oregon by Auto mobile, he went to the office of the American Automobile association In Omaha and asked If he could travel down the Oregon coastline from Astoria to southern Oregon. He was told that he could NOT that he would have to go to Astoria to see the ocean and then come back to Portland. If he wished to see the Oregon coast at other points, he was told, he would hare to go over from the Pacific highway and back again by the same route. "Vr his way westward from Omaha. he repeated his Inquiry several times, and each time he was Inform- J Continued p4 Pag? tlowed up materially, it auted. AGREEMENT UPON PUBLICITY CLAUSE Senate Conferees Accept House Provisions Making Public Loans Placed Hoover Held Favorable WASHINGTON, July 15. (AV) Democratic and Republican leaders today at a conference In. Speaker Garner's office sought an agreement for adjournment of congress tomorrow at three P. m. WASHINGTON, July 15. (AP) ine nouae -late today approved the conference report on the huge new reuer bill, leaving only similar action by the senate before the measure could be signed by President Hoover. Senate approval was expected to come almost at once. Passage of the $2,122,000,000 bill climaxed weeks of conflict between the two branches and between Soeak- er Garner and President Hoover. The bill, substitute for the measure ve. toed by the chief executive, provides eauu.uuu.uoo for loans to states need. Ing relief funds: $1,500,000,000 ex. panslon cf the reconstruction finance corporation capital and $322,000,000 ic-r puouc construction. The finance corporation's funds are to be used In employment producing tionsu-ucuon on seir-sustalnlng pro Jects. The bill aa agreed to carried a pro. vision for publicity on all loans by the corporation.' a clause strongly op- pua oy ine presiaent. . WASHINGTON, July 15. (AP) wnetr.er tne mammoth relief bill will be sent to the White House containing the provision for pub licity to reconstruction corporation ions remained a Question todav. while President Hoover served notice the responsibility would be on con gress. If that Beetles is made law. Representative Rainey. the Demo cratic leader, aald the house would Insist on the disputed clause and we accept the responsibility." -onierenr.es to adjust the differ ences between senate and house on tne legislation had yet to agree. see No veto. After conferring with Mr. Hoover, Democratic senatorial conferees In sisted he would not' Veto the bill even If publicity for the loans Is kept In It. Some of the conferees of the senate apparently were Im pressed by the president's obiectiom to that provision, and Indicated they (Ccntinued on Page Three) PARIS, July 16. (API Any asser tion that Great Britain, under the new Franco-British accord, cannot act on her debts to the United States without first consulting Prance la palpably absurd. It was said today In official circles. Considerable embarrassment has been caused by the Importance given by the press to an apparently mis taken version of what the premier reported to the chamber of deputies regarding the accord. That version was Issued bv the Havas News Agency In a communique which was considered semi-official. it represented M. Herrlot as havlni sum inai nencerorth Great Britain could make no new debts arranee- menta with America without the authority of Prance. t Pilot Found Alive MXICO CITY, July 13. (API Clar ence McElroy of Medaryvllle, Ind., pilot, was found sllve today by rescu ers who fought their wsy through uaxaca state jungles near the point where he crashed In a plane June 27. Roy Gordon, an American resident of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, McElroy's passenger, la dead. Farmers Buying Power Increase NEW YORK, July 15 (AP) Prom ise of Improved purchasing power tn the a agricultural districts on the rise In livestock prices, and gener ally favorable harvest Indications, af ford a more favorable baals for trade forecasts, although the bus mens ot the week In retail and wholesale markets and In Industry was on a restricted acale. the weekly mercan tile reviews aa'd today. Bradstreet's said that Industrial centers, commerce and trade, are feeling acutely the seasonal lull, al though the past week's retail trans actions held up fairly well. Bummer and vacation merchandise In the lower price brackets moved In fair volume, but In some sections of the country department store sales have BASEBALL RESULTS R. Boston 0 Pittsburgh Batteries: Pruett Kremer and Grace. 1 and Hargrave; Brooklyn , 3 8 Chicago 8 13 3 Moon, Mungo, Phelps and Ptclnich, Sukefartb; Warneke and Hartnett, Z, Taylor. ' American Chicago ...... 4 9 Boston , ., 2 7 (11 Innings.) Prazler, Paber, Lyons and Grube: Boerner, Durham and Connolly. Cleveland New York . Perrell, Ruuell and 8ewell; Qomez and Jorgens. St. Louis 16 16 Washington Blaeholder. Gray, Hadley and Fer- rell; Crowder, Coffman, Weaver, Thomas and Spencer. R. ..11 H. 11 Detroit Philadelphia , 10 la Batteries: Uhle, Hogsett, Marrow. (joldsteln, Whltehlll and Ruel; Hay worth. Walberg, Krauaa and Cochrane, JUDGE ML PIPES PASSES, AGED 82 PORTLAND, Ore., July 15. yp) Judge Martin Luther Pipes, Oregon's oldest member of the bar and one of the most dynamlo personalities In the state, died here today. He was 82 years old, and had been In falling neaitn several months. Editor, Jurist and practicing attor ney. Pipes was regarded as the out standing authority on the constltu tlon of the United States, and held the post ofdean of the Oregon Bar association not only through length or service but through general re gard. His widow and five children sur vive him. They axe John and George, both attorneys: Wade, an architect; Nellie, secretary or the Oregon Historical aoclety, and Mrs. Harry Beckett, all of Portland Judge Pipes waa born In Louisi ana In 1850, His fathei waa a Meth odist minister and an ardent aup- porter of the. confederacy. One of hla son's lifelong regret was that he waa too young to serve In the army under General Robert E. Lee. Throughout his life Pipes was an ardent supporter of states rights. He was educated In the Louisiana seminary at Baton Rouge and at Uni versity of Louisiana. In 1874 ne married Miss Mary C. Sklpworth, and a year later the couple moved to Ore gon. In 1878 he moved to Independ ence, where he taught achool, edited a semi-weekly newspaper, was city re corder and later Justice of the peace. (Continued on Page Twelve) -4- FARM AID BILL' WASHINGTON, July 13. (AP) The house today returned the Nor beck farm relief bill to the senato at its request. After passing the relief plan with out a record vote, the senate voted late yesterday, 30 to 16, to ask Its return for purposes of reconsidering the vote by which H waa passed. Speaker Garner laid the request before the house. Representative Summers (R.. Wash.) objeted to Its unanimous approval, but It was ear ned on a voice vote. BAKERS FIELD, Cal., July 18. (AP) The death of Jack A. Bennett, In ternationally known oil explorer, was confirmed here today by the widow. Dr. Jean Worthing ton Bennett. She aald be hsd been struck by lightning at some point In Arizona, the locality aa yet unknown to her. Cheers Trade According to Dunn's, trade If more restricted than la generally the case at the opening of the mid summer, and wholesale market in practically all lines are extremely quiet. This review, however, regards the prospect of prolonged summer alacknesa leas disconcerting because of the Improved agricultural out look. Corn promises a large yield and the July crop report indicates moat satisfactory conditions aa to other farm products, It la asserted. Curtailment In the cotton acreage la held to have had a beneficial ef fect on the extensive cotton in dustries. IMustrUl operations are reported at a still lower level, chielly In ateel and textile division, REDUCE OWN PAY IN ECONOMY DRIVE Chief Rules Self $15,000 Cut Cabinet Officers Drop to $12,750 Year . Subordinates Also Shaved WASHINGTON, July 15. (p) President Hoover today ruled himself a $15,000 a year reduction In salary, and simultaneously reduced the sal aries of his cabinet officers by 15 per cent. The order, cutting cabinet mem bera from $15,000 a year to $12,750 a year, was Issued while the Fresl dent sat with them at his regular semi-weekly cabinet meeting. Mr. Hoover himself. It was aald took a 20 per cent cut as the maxi mum allowed under the law. Or dlnarlly he receives $75,000 a year. The following atatement waa Issu ed at the White House: "The President has received the unanimous request from members of the-cabinet, that they should be sub ject to the maximum reduction of salaries possible under the economy bill. The President has, therefore, Issued the neccrsary order by which they will be reduced 15 per cent In stead of the alternative which would amount to 8 1-3 per cent under the rurlough provisions." . , It was understood authoritatively that undersecretaries In the various departments would receive a 10 per cenv cut under the same orders, and assistant secretaries a 9 per cent re duction. EGANlLTFLAY .s. AT That H. Chandler Egan (our own Chan) will compete In the national amateur golf tournament thla year. which he won over a quarter of a century ago, was the important an nouncement made at a dinner given in his honor at the Hotel Medford last night by about 75 members of tre Medford Golf club. August P, Johnson sreslded ss toaat master, and did the honors In true High Octane fashion, incident ally giving a record of Chan's golf life, with a fidelity and detail that would have made Johnson's Boa well turn over in hla grave with envy. c. j. semon, president of the gof club, abandoned his prepared speech at the laat moment, and rushed pell mell into a flight of oratory which held the aasmbled multitude spell bound for at least three minutes. O. J. concluded that Medford had not properly appreciated Chan, that people In Chicago and New York knew more about him than the Med fordltes do, and he declared that thla would now all be changed. Attorney O. M. Roberta followed with a highly atlrring tribute to Chan's sportsmanship, maintaining that, great golfer that he la, he la a greater as a sportsman and a gen tleman. The secret of Egan'a phe nomenal record In golf was touched upon by Don Clark, who maintained It rested on the fact th:.t Chan cared more for shooting the best golf that was In him at any given time, than for the cups and nonors he might win. Leonard Carpenter, as a classmate cf the honored guest at Harvard, gave a brief insight Into his Inter collegiate golfing activltlea and with true Harvard indifference advised hla hearera not to take Chan too seriously, for, he added, Chan never did. One of the best speeches of the evening was given by BUI Bo'.ger, president of the Chamber of Com merce, who declared that while Cali fornia might claim Crater lake, and put out Oregon fruit under Its own labels, to Oregon H. C, Egan would always be "Our Chan." It waa a short speech, but In good taste and very much to the point. After the various verbal bouquets had been distributed, Chan himself waa called upon and demonstrated that he waa not only the best golfer (end hammer thrower) present, but by all odds the most graceful and accomplished after-dinner epeaker. All in all It waa a great occasion, and a highly deserved, if somewhat belated, tribute to the man who ha put Medford on the map more ex tensively and effectively than any other resident of the valley, Burns Juniors Win First Game LA GRAITOE. Ore., July IS (AP) An eighth-Inning rally by the Burn American Legion Junior league team, gave them a 10 to 0 victory over Baker here thla morning in the first game of the district champion ship tournament. Spec Keene, of Salem, head of the Junior league baseball in Oregon, waa in the elands. BONUS MARCHERS APPLY FOR i ply here -r!TW B Kbsv v ' f " 1 I B. E. f v i pLV HERE AasocutcdPfSiPhott Some or tne Donus marcher! who went to Washlnoton to demand cash payment of their compenaa. tlon certificate are ahown applying for railroad ticket! to their homes. Hundred applied for Ire transportation. GARNER PRODS OFFICERS TO OUST BONUS SEEKERS WASHINGTON. July 15. (AP) Bonus - seeking veterans continued their trudging back and forth in front of the capltol this afternoon, while police puzzled over what to do about it. For the first time of late, doors cf the capltol were closed to all ex cept persons with credentials. In re cent days numbers of veterans had been congregating In the corridors and galleries. Differences between the District of Columbia police and authorities charged with policing of the capltol grounda were apparent. The eer-geanta-at-arma of senate and house conferred with Sneaker Garner on the altuation ., , Meanwhile, a left-wing group of the veterans marched down Penn sylvania avenue, but were stopped at the capltol grounds to await a deci sion from Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Gl ass- ford , superintendent of Washington police, as to whether It could enter the grounda. The men rested under the trees In the botanical gardens. After the conference Speaker Gar ner told newspaper men hla position was that, regardless . of .how . many HURLEY SCOFFS AT ROOSEVELT'S DEAL IDEA COLUMBUS, O., July 15. (AP) The national administration's attack on the presidential candidacy of Franklin D, Roosevelt waa turned loose for the first time In the middle-west, last night, by Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley. The apeech, declaring the Demo cratic party and its candidate have no program" for breaking the de pression, was delivered at the plat form convention of Ohio Republi cans. Both Hurley and U. 8. Senator Simeon D. Fess praised President Hoover. The secretary termed the president the champion of American principles, while Feaa described him "the only man living equipped to handle the problems of the day." Turning to Roosevelt's apeech ac cepting the Democratic nomination, Hu-ley aald he waa intrigued by the nomtnee'a pledge to a "new deal" for the American people. "Just what la thla new deal?" he asked. "The governor does not enlighten us.! Hurley made no mention of pro hibition, but reviewed the adminis tration's accomplish menta, which he said Included a fight for mainte nance of American standards of liv ing, proper tariffs, opposition to wage reductions, and the bolstering of confidence of the financial world and the stopping of bank failures by the formation of a private bank ing pool of half a billion doll am. The secretary criticized the Demo cratic vice-prealdentlal nominee. John N. Oarner, and other members of the house of representatives majority, alleging they had attempted to put the government Into business against private enterprise." . VATICAN CITY, July IB (AP) The congregation of the holy office today placed on the Index eipurga to nus 'The History of Europe In V 10th Century," by Benedetto Croce, the noted anti-fascist philosopher. Catholic henceforth are forbidden to read the work by the man who so vigorously opposed ratification of the LateraA treaty. men were necessary or where they came from, the bonus marchers on the capltol ground should be re quired to obey the law. He outlined this position to the capltol police authorities, but he de clined to give to newsman his views whether the ateady marching of the veterans back and forth in front of the capltol for the last two daya waa a violation .of the law. 'The law ought to be enforced," he said. "No exception should be made sim ply because they are veterans. It la enforced upon all others. If there are not sufficient men here to en force It, there should be more. It doesn't make any difference where they come from or how many men are brought here." The steady shuffle of tvhe march ers, which had resounded In the cap ltol grounda for over 48 hours, stop ped completely at midday when food arrived outside the grounda for the veterans. The marchers made a rush for the dilapidated automobile in which the food arrived and there waa no delay to take up the marcn. FUNDS ALLOTTED IN OREGON AREA WASHINGTON, July 15. (API Allotments for expenditure of $42. 310,302 on Improvement of rivers and harbors were made thla after noon by Secretary Hurley, A balance of 17,584,608 remains to be allotted for the fiscal year, when bids for contemplated work shall have been received and the amounts required definitely deter mined. The Initial allotments approved by the secretary are to provide funda necesssry to meet Immediate require ment. For Columbia river at mouth, Ore gon and Washington, $700,000. Por Columbia and lower Willam ette below Vanvouver, Wash., and Portland, Ore., $525,000. Examinations, aurveys and contin gency, Portland district, $20,000. Snake river surveys, $7000. Coos Bay, Ore., $02,000. Yaqulna bay and Harbor, Ore., $A4.OO0. Tillamook bay and Harbor, Ore., $110,000. Willamette river above Portland and Yamhill river, Ore., $56,000. Portland. Chas. A. Miller opened tailor shop at 155 East 89th street near Belmont, Mills, Hurely and Hyde Hoover's Three Musketeers WA8H1NOTOH, July 18. (AP) Secretaries Mill, Hurley and Hyde were characterized In ths senate to day by Senator Robinson, the demo crats loader, a the "three muake teera of the Hoover administration." He charged them with neglecting their official dutle to make partisan political apeechea. Replying to recent apeechea by these cabinet offlcera, Robinson said they were making every possible ef fort to discredit the democratic plat form and the democratic candidates. "They scoff at the proposal of the great nominee of the democratic party for president that ths American people be given a new deal," he said. "Tiese thrt-e muAketeera Insist on playing the game with milked cards. J?lalnj)f there 1 widespread domaiul, TICKETS HOME RELIEF LI JOB HORIZON The federal relief bills now before congress, approved and pending, will brighten the labor and financial ho rizons and aid agriculture, horticul ture, the atock Industry, road con struction, and Irrigation projects in Jackson county. The money will be available within a short period. Among the project to be assisted under the measures, will be Irriga tion districts, In making needed Im- provemente to their systems and ad justing bond" difficulties. It la prob- aoie mat both the Talent and Med- rora irrigation district will seek funds for this purpose. Olln Arn splger, manager, la now attending an irrigation meeting at Prinevine, Ore., where plans for federal aid for all Irrigation districts of the state will be discussed. Through the efforts of Sonator Frederick atelwer, Oregon will re ceive $3,000,000 of federal hlghwav funds, A portion of this sum will be apportioned for the widening of the Pacific highway over the Slakl yous, and non-skidding the highway surface from Canyonvllle south. Forest service funds are also ex pected to be available for various projects, Including the Tiller-Trail road. Crater Lake national paik. Dia mond lake and the Dead Indian and Butte Creek market roads. Detail of the distribution of the money will be worked out later. Establishment of agricultural credit corporations, with cspltal atock of l.uuu.uoo, ior loans to farms, ar chards and stockmen, are also msde possible under the provisions of the relief bill. T IS PROUD FATHER NEW YOttK. July 15. (API A son hsa been born to Richard T. Ely, noted economist, and Mrs. Ely, who as Mnrgaret Harm waa one of Profes sor Ely' student at Northwestern university, Evanston, 111. Professor Ely is 79 years old and hi wife la in her early thirties. The child, William Brewster Ely, waa born July 1, It became known to day. The Elys live at Radburn, N. J. Borah Asks Probe Waterway Treaty WA8HINOTON, July 15. (AP) A full investigation of the St. Lawrence waterway treaty between the United State and Canada waa proposed to day In a resolution Introduced by Chairman Borah of tha senate for eign relation committee. for a ohang tn the political policies of our government, "They go forth by day and night to partisan meetings ot state republican conventions and deliver bitter parti san addresses, causing them to be Inserted In th congressional record and attempting, while neglecting their officii duties, to Influence the Judgment of th electors. "I would think with a deficit of $2 900.000.000 and a new tax bill to be administered, that Secretary Mills would have enough to do to etay at hla post of public duty and discharge hi official responsibilities without abandoning and neglecting hla duties to participate In a partisan political campaign. - ic.njjn.w4 aa m em , PIPES QUESTIONS RAILROAD LOAN PLAN EASIBILITY Takes Slap at Proposal to Ask Court Appropriate $1000 Taxpayers' Money for Trips to Washington To the Editor: In your Issue of Wednesday, X read of a dream mm. citizen In the commtinltv wi.inn of Uncle Bam building us a railroad .A . V. . . 1 ' " gave it Dut a netting thought: with not the iiiirht.t piclon that It would be taken aerl otaly enough by our populace or our Medford Chamber of mmnmi aa to present a prayer to our county court for funds for exploitation of this wild dream, until I was Informed at noon yesterday that our Chamber oi commerce director, were In ea (Continued on Page Nine) COURUEFlES FOR GORE TRIP Appropriation of W00O for the pur. pose of dispatching w. H. Core to the national capital to seek $6,500. 000 federal funda for the construc tion of a railroad to the coast, was denied this momlng by the county court. Lack of funds in th county ex chequer, due to the tres of th times, and no legal authority sanc tioning th appropriation, were rea sons for denying the request. Members of the rnimtv -. County Judge O. B. Lamkln and iw.uuiiaBiuncra ionn A. Barneburg and Victor Burseil Bti .,4 themselves In favor of the proposed project, aa Individuals, if nter-i h. private funds. A delegation headed by Mayor B. M. Wilson, W. 8. Bolger, president of the Chamber of Commerce, C. T. Baker, A. O. Hubbard and other, presented a petition asking that the money be donate!, and Gore dele gated aa an envov ta wuhtnn. D. O. ' The county court explained that no monev was .v.n.hi. n- there was, the Oregon law speclflcal. ij proniDiica 11, tne county court belne- held to strict uM,int.t,i- for th unauthorized expendlturea of coumy tunas, and making them per sonally responsible. Due to drastic cut In th current tax budget, county finance are at a low ebb. and further mrra.rt by a decrease In the share of the uw license fees, and decrease -n tax money. The action of the county court we not unexpected. It was felt that the expending of $8,00.0C0 in outhem Oregon for a railroad would be wel come and a consummation devoutly to be hoped for. but that condition were against It success. It waa reported, after th county court' action, that an effort would be made to secure the $1000 by pri vate subscriptions, and thl la ex pected to be the next step of those in charge of the movement. fAlll i. fjtf ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., July 14. Here is a funny situation. The women anti-prohibitionists snidi "We will support the party that comes out for direct repeal." And they would if it had been the Republican party, but as luck would have it it was those "mangy" Democrats instead. Now most of these women are wealthy Republicans and they are having a time now trying to got out of It. The ladies want prohibition repeal ed all right, but not bad enough to repeal the Republican party with it. They want it wet but not wet enough to bo Democratic. In other words, politics is thicker than beer. $1000 REQUEST
