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edford Mail Tri Proved Circulation A. B. C. circulation It the advertiser's guarantee of quality and quantity rlrculatlnn. The Mall Tribune la Medford's only A. II. C. newspaper. Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1932. No. 111. B i Tew3 The Weather Med ford Fair and warmer. Temperature Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday ,. ,. M BXJNE i - -- l .. 1 Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JBNKINS. npHESE worda are written beneath & tamarack tree beside the ley Metollus river, & short distance below the point where It bolls out from under Black Butte From Its beginnings In. these mighty springs, the Metollus wanders down through a park-like yellow pine forest, between grassy banks grown heavily at the water'a edge with mon key flower and purple lupin a ;! strange river, and one of the loveliest in the West. IT Is early In the morning that is, fairly early but the forest ran ger has already been erounf, to ask have you a fire permit and did you bury your garbage last night and how long la the handle of your ahovel and don't spit In the creek and mustn't smoke In the car while trav eling, because It la naughty, naughty: TJncle Sam Spank I By next year they'll be asking did you brush your teeth the first thing when you got up this morning and did your tooth brush come away pink, and If so what are you doing about It? P thla paternalism In government keepa on growing, what will a he man with hair on the back of his neck do for a vacation a few yeara hence? It looks now aa If all he'll be al lowed to do will be to put on a pair of pretty white panties and play drop the handkerchief. TIME, two hours later. Place, a modest dude ranch, whose prize possession Is a wide, grassy meadow at 'whose edges tower six mighty white peaks the Three Slaters, Mount Washington, Three-Fingered Jack and Mount Jefferson! one of the most Imposing skylines In western America. Korrorsl They've turned thla grassy meadow Into a golf course and two fat tourists are cussing horribly be cause of having lost a ball. OVER In the corral, some 20 sad eyed ponies are being saddled and bridled and otherwise prepared for the day'a tortures. They are surrounded by eager children hoping openly to draw one with devilment enough in his make-up to Insure a little Jazz during the ride. Their cautious mammas are making the synlcal wrangler awear by gods of all his ancestors that there isn't a cayuse In the lot that would shy if a 16-Inch cannon went off beneath hi feet, including the wall-eyed pinto with rope-burns on his hocks. That wrangler has a wicked gleam In his too-Innocent eye. Thank heav en all the sinners aren't dead yet. THE place Is all a-twltter because of something that happened yesterday. A 250-pound lady had gone riding, and it seems that Just as she was rounding a bend In the trail a sheep herder rose from his comfortable seat in the chapparal. The horse stopped suddenly, but the lady, obeying the well-known laws govern ing momentum, went on. 1 Instead of letting go all holds and falling free, she clung with a death grip to the off rein and the horse, thus confused and all snarled up, went against all his natural Instincts and stepped on her. They rushed her to a hospital In Bend, where at last account she was doing nicely. All the perils, you aee, haven't de parted from the Old West yet. Q PEAKING of trails brings up an other grievance. A while back some dude In Wash ington, sitting In a cushioned swivel chatr In his mahogany-furrilshed 'of fice, had an Inspiration. This word "trail," It flashed across his mind or what he chose to regard aa his mind In a low, uncultured word, originating In the crude patois of the Ignorant and the unwashed who shave only every other dsy. It ought tq, be done away with. So he issued a ukase written, pro bably, on pink paper with a violet scent and now Instead of Whiskey Run trail and Packsaddle Mountain trail we have algn boards reading Whiskey Run "way." etc. Thev're even doing away with the 1 good old names that arose out of actual Incidents of life In a raw coun try and substituting pnry names ifiaclinutd oa. faga four, EXPEDITION CHIEF PURCHASES SITE New Difficulty Looms For Washington Officials In Announcement of Waters. Bonus Army Commander. WASHINGTON. July 30. (AP) Walter W. Waters, bonus army com mander, announced through one of his aides tonight that he has pur chased land near Washington tor establishment of a bonus expedition ary force colony. The announcement was telephoned to newspaper offices by L. E. Walde, publicity man for the B. E. P., who declined elaboration but promised a full statement would be forthcom ing shortly. , Walde said Waters Is In Washing ton but did not disclose his where abouts. , WASHINGTON, July 30. (AP) Stern warning that further Invasions of the national capital such as that by the bonus-seeking army will be promptly checked by police went for ward from city officials late today after all signs of further trouble had disappeared and United States troops retired to their posts In nearby Vir ginia and Maryland. The District of Columbia commis sioners Issued the orders to Superin tendent of Police Glnssford as news spread that freshly organized bands of veterans were headed eastward to augment the groups fleeing north ward from-this city. Copies of the orders were sent to Governors Pollard of Virginia and Richie of Maryland for their infor mation as to what steps the district government will take to prevent the Influx of such groups from these two states. "Until further orders,' read the instructions to.. the police department.. "In view of conditions now existing In the district, all organized bodies or groups of persons attempting to enter the district shall be prevented from so doing unless it be established that such bodies or groups of per sons have a lawful purpose In coming Into the district, and are not intent upon disturbing the peace or upon becoming public charges, or engaging in any other unlawful conduct." 1NST01GETS E JOHNSTOWN, Pa., July 30. (AP Sombre-faced, bronzed leaders, some of them In the khaki they wore In France and others in tattered "clvies," tonight watched tensely as a fan tastic, pell-mell reorganization of scattered bonus expeditionary forces was effected in Johnstown. Mayor Eddie McCloskey, former prize-fighter, who invited them to "occupy" Vie city, pounded his desk with a gnarled fist that served him well In the prize ring and told a protesting city: "I shall be responsible and answer able to you and to the state for any thing that happens here." The mayor rode rough shod over the city council in Its attempt to force the incoming hordes from the city. He insisted that those wfto came here be fed and billeted. The council's meeting a stormy one fol lowed a series of mass meetings In which an aroused citizenry protest ed the city's occupation by veterans forced from Washington at the point of U. 6. bayonets. Jacksonville Again As in JACKSONVILLE, July 30. (Spl) , Jacksonville, famed for Its pioneer origin and history, will turn back the pages of time on Saturday, August 20. when the town will Invite all of southern Oregon to gather within its precincts and live again the roaring, exciting times of fifty years ago w.hen mining, gambling and busy bars kept the big population of that em bustling and made the place one of the most famous rendezvous for miners on the coaut. Standing In one of the most his toric and oldest city halls In the northwest, a groap of representa tive Jacksonville -city officials. Leg ion club member and citizens Sat urday nieht formed an organization determined to not only raise 200 necessary for the purchase of a quartz mill site here but also put the town on front paces fill over the state and, from sundown till dawn for one day, center the Interest of thousands of people on the second city to rise from the wilderness now called Ore gon. i The group, band In? togthr un 1 dr le poiiQ..-i:p ctl tt ioc4 BASEBALL RESULTS R. H. E. 3 7 1 3 10 a Prudhomme and Mission ..................... Portland ...... Cole and Rlccl; Falmlsano. R. H. E. Sacramento .... 0 6 3 San Francisco 7 13 0 Deahong.. and Woodall; Davis and Wallgren. R. a H. E. 9 a 10 i Ballou Oakland Los Angeles E. Walsh and and Campbell. La Veque; R. .. 4 - 6 Hollywood ................. Seattle Thomaa and Mayer; tarlni. Hald and Bot- FOR FUTURE ARE Fruit shippers of the valley and city met yesterday noon at the Hotel Medford and heard an address on the winter pear situation by Dr. Henry Hartman, of the Oregon-Washington Pear Bureau, and discussed the 1932 1933 contract for winter pea-r adver tising, as outlined. Dr. Hartman devoted a short por tion of his remarks to the general pear situation and the future of win ter pear marketing. "When the depression ends, as it must," said Dr. Hartman, "I bellove there will be an excellent chance for the widening of the winter par mar ket, to the industrial centers. We all know that the Bosc campaign was well underway in Detroit when the de pression came. The plan was sound and Detroit likes Boscs, It will be up to the pear growers to provide them when normal conditions return." Pear Future Rosy Dr. Hartman further stated that "I view the future as rosy for pears which Is more than I can hold for some of the other fruits particularly peaches. The pear production Is In creasing at the rate of 16 per cent per year, but this gain can be taken care of, by widening the pear mar kets. At present New York City Is the only substantial and steady mar- (Continued on Page Four) ELLIOnTOlAD G.O.P. PORTLAND. Ore., July 30. (AP) Thomas C. Elliott of Milton was to day elected chairman of the Republi can State Central committee after Leslie M. Scott, former state highway commission chairman, had been elect ed and had declined the post. . Elliott succeeds Floyd J. Cook whose term of office expired at today's meeting. "Personal and private reasons, Scott explained, compelled him to decline the chairmanship after he had ben elected. Scott recently resigned as chairman of the highway commls slon. BREWER HONORED AT POWER ASSN. MEETING PORTLAND, Ore., July 30. (AP) C. M. Brewer, of the California Ore gon Power Co., Medford, was today named one of the vice presidents of the Northwest Eletric Light and Power Assn., at Its annual meeting here. to Blaze Days of '82 ion club, made plans and laid the foundation for the celebration. Ideal ly suited to the nature of Jackson ville. A rapid succession of meetings, a visit of a special committee to the Medford post of the American Leg ion and assurance of full coopera tion of that body in putting over the project has followed birth of the idea and already committees .have been appointed, a tentative program arranged and publicity launched. At the Initial meeting last week end Including the following inter ested citizens, Ray Wilson, Clint Dunnington, Joe Wetterer, Dick Chappell. John Knight, Alfred Nor- rls, Oscar Lewis, George Woods and Leonard Hall Duke Lewis was elect ed president. Dunnlngton. Norrls, Knight and Woods were appointed as a special committee to confer with the Medford Legion Monday of this week concerning the plans. Hall was appointed secretary of the meetings. Tuesday night the celebration group gathered to recelv the report Five ' Killed In Political Fights . In Provinces On Eve Of Election Which May Mean Dictatorship. By Louis P. Lochner. Associated Tress Staff Correspondent. BERLIN, July 30. (AP) With bloodshed and blistering oratory, Germany today closed the campaign for tomorrow's momentious elections which will result In an entirely new relchstag and may decide 'whether the nation will choose the paths of dictatorship or monarchy or remain In the way of republicanism. During the closing hours of the campaign five persons were killed in political brawls In the provinces. Here In Berlin 20 persons were ar rested for taking part In street fights. The army stood ready to act In case of major disorders tomorrow and the entire Berlin police force of 20,000 men was under mobilization orders to stamp out riots. The national broadcasting facili ties were turned over tonight to Karl Severing, who was ousted as' Prus sian minister of interior when the federal government established a dic tatorship over the reich's most im portant state, his speech was a fer vent appeal for democracy. It, came at the conclusion of a bitterly con tested campaign in which Adolf Hit ler, chieftain of the fascist national socialist party, has declared exactly as emphatically that democracy must end with tomorrow's voting, 1 and Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, leader of the natlonaalist party, has vrted with equal vehemence that Ger many's salvation lies in restoring the monarchy, "Tomorrow's issue Is slavery or freedom, .dictatorship or democracy, abolutism or democracy, fascism or democracy," Dr. Severing told the voters over ten radio. PINNACLE PLANT THIEF CAPTURED John Ross, a transient, arrested at Tacoma. Wash., Friday, has confessed to the theft of nine electric motors from the Pinnacle Packing company plant No. 3, Wednesday night, ac cording to advices received by the sheriff's office, and the city police yesterday. Three of the motors were found in Ross' possession. The re maining six he sold in a Southern Washington town, and they are be ing traced with early recovery in prospect. The district attorney's and sher iff's office yesterday applied for ex trad itlon pa pers and Ross wl 11 be brought back here for trial. Sheriff Jennings will leave Monday to ob tain custody. Ross told the Tacoma authorities that he had no accomplices in the theft, they say. and that he worked alone in loading the heavy machinery Into his truck. He sped north as soon as .he could, hiding In the tim ber north of Grants Pass Thursday and traveling by night to avoid de tection. The three recovered motors and the missing ones when located, will be returned here for Installation in the local plant, If In shape, in time for the opening of the fruit season. The loot was valued at close to $1000. Roas has been- traveling through the country In a truck and special izing in the theftr of electrical equipment, police say. Ross gained entrance to the Pin nacle plant by "Jimmying" the door Wednesday night and wrenched the motors loose from their stands with a crowbar. They were used In oper ating packing plant machinery. L SALEM, July 30. (AP) Charles P. Pray, superintendent of state po lice, today announced the Orgon automobile license law will be en forced beginning Monday, August 1. The moratorium for securing new plates, In operation during the past month, ends at midnight tomorrow night, Pray said, and new plates will be required. Pray said that any car without new license pistes Monday subjects the driver of such vehicle to arrest. He did not Indicate any leniency would be shown, but emphasized that the moratorium would be ended and his duty was to enforce the law. The police superintendent denied that his department woul-1 lone isticUers perm'.tilti- Oe um of old VETS VILLAGE Thla tumbledown town, called Camp Anacostla, near Waahlngton, D. C, was the last encamp ment of the bonua seeking army to be burned when troops routed veterans from the district. Tha "bonus army" surrendered the camp without a fight at toldiera aovanced with fixed bayonets In thtir efforta to restore order after a riot In the caoital. (Asaoclated Press photo) BARNUM DEFENSE Testimony in the divorce action of Helen V. Barnum against George C. Barnum, will be resumed Monday morning in circuit court before Judge H. D. Norton. Adjournment was taken over the week-end, to permit the court to hold the regular Satur day session in Orants Pass. The plaintiff iloaed their direct case Friday afternoon and the de fense will launch the Introduction of evidence when t,he hearing is re newed. The defense sets forth In its pleadings that the plaintiff was a slovenly housekeeper, ran around nights with other men," and alleged the use of liquor. They will, it is said, also Introduce evidence to con trovert the claims of the plaintiff relative to the value of Bnrnum's property and his wealth. The plnln tiff avers Barnum Is worth between $100,00 and 9160,000; the defense places the amount from $30,000 to $40,000. . . Tostlmony submitted by the plain tiff tended to show that Mrs. Bar- (Continued on Page Four) E Charity Frances McCaulley Drake, a resident of Jackson county for the past fifty years, passed away eariy last evening at her home, four miles east of Medford. She was the widow of Lonza A. Drake. She was aged 70 years, 8 months and 0 days. She crossed the plains by ox team at the age of three and settled near Grand Ronde, where she remained for two years, coming to Jackson county at that time. She was married at Yreka. Calif., April 10, 1679. Surviving Mrs. Drake are her hus band, three children, George H. Drake and Jessie L. Trask of Medford,' Bes sie L. Rathbun of Phoenix: one grand child; two sisters, Laura Abbott of Butte Falls and Irene Bechdoldt of Bonanzo, Ore., three brothers, Char les Lowe, of Klamath Falls, Oscar Lowe of Ashland and Henry Lowe or Salt Lake City, Utah. The body Is at the Conner Funeral parlors where services will be an nounced later. Klamath Granted Radio For Police PORTLAND, July 30. ( AP) A Bpeclal dispatch to the Journal today from Washington, D. C, said the city of Klamath Falls had been granted a license for a police radio station o, operate on 2442 kilocycles, with power of 25 watts. William Beach Funeral Monday Funeral services for William L. Beach who passed away near Rogue River, July 25th, at the age of 68 years will be held at the grave side in the Rogue River cemetery Monday at 10 a. m. Services will be In charge pf the Rogue River Orange of which he was a member. Conger funeral parlors are In charge. John E. Lundine Rites On Monday Funeral services for JoTin n. Lun dine. husband of.. May E. Lundine, aged 67 years, who passed away near Savage Rapids Thursday will be held from the Conger funere parlors Mon day at 2 p. m. Rev. Bennett will have char.re of services at the chapel and the Medford Lodge No. 83, A. P. and A. M. will have charge of services In the Slsk'.you Memorial park. , Volunteer Firemen To Meet Monday A meeting of volunteer firemen was called yeatciCsy by Plre Chief Roy EU.ott, upon his taturn from t'1.? Si'-'r- r nv r V'-.n In 8an r.snel,,o. j, .-.ilng w)ii be held Mjndy BEFORE BEI1 BURNED IN RIOTS Highway Safety Urged By Mayor In Coming Month The Governor of Oregon, in Joint effort with governors cf many other states, has called upon the people to devote them selves in a special effort during August to promote street and highway safety. I therefore Join them In urging citizens to use the streets, either as drivers or as pedestrians, with all possible care during, the month of Au gust so that In subsequent months the special effort will continue to result In a greater safeguarding of life and limb. Everyone should give full cooper ation to turtle and police offi cials who have to do with the regulation of motor vehicle traf fic and I earnestly cull upon every Medford citizen to partlci pate In this worthwhile program. E. M. WIT-SON, "Mayor. STORE LOOTED IT OF Thieves and vandals were active throughout Medford area Friday j night, the crimes ranging from the theft of a spare tire to store entry and burglary. The J, C. Penney Co. store at Ash land was entered early Saturday morning and $300 worth of clothing and wearing apparel stolen. Entrance was effected by knocking out the lower panel of a rear door. Five suits of clothes, 18 pairs of cordurcy pants, and large quantities of neckties, socks, shirts and hats were taken. The loot was carried away in five largn handbags. The prowlers escaped In an auto. The loss was discovered Satur day morning when the store was opened for business. The state police and the sheriff's office are working on the cast and report "hot clues" to the identity of the burglars. Mrs. A. A. Piielst reported to the city police that her purse containing $29, had been stolen from her room. The authorities are investigating. Gasoline thieves emptied the tank of a lf29 Ford parked on Beatty street. The owner of the auto Is not known. There were the usual number of petty thefts of milk, packages, left in autos. and articles left In yards. This has become one with professional street begging one of the main ag gravations of the times, according to the police. 4 Nude Man Flits Among Headstones PORTLAND. July 30. (AP) A nude man w.ho has been seen racing about In the Lone Fir cemetery here, was sought by police today. The nudist was reported seen by a wo man yesterday. She called police but refused to give her name. She aald, however, employes of the cemetery told her the same thing had occurred on several other occasions. Anti-Roosevelt Whispers Laid at Republican Door By Robert Rt. John (Associated Press Staff Writer) NEW YORK, July 30. (API A "hateful" whispering campaign about Governor Roosevelt's physical and mental health was charged tonight to Republicans by James A. Farley, democratic national chairman. He compare It tn the "whispering campaign they m. te four yeara ago against Governor All.td E. Smith, In which every undercover Insinuation possible waa employed to keep a k'reat Democrat out of the White House." In vigorous language Farley aald the lameness of the New York gov- c;itor. who II years ago suffered an ' it SOVIET PREPARES VLADIVOSTOK FOR E HARBIN. Manchuria, July 30. (APJ New accounts of large scale preparations by .the soviet govern ment to fortify Vladivostok t harbor and to prepare the people of Vladi vostok against an expected attack by Japan were being brought here by travelers from the Siberian seaport, Residents of the city, according to these reports, are being made famil lar with underground shelters pro pared against bombardment, and are receiving instructions in the use of gas masks and rifles. Troops, transported In closed cars and disembarked at night, arrive dally. It is said. Observers told of see ing ten armored trains In Vladivos tok railway yards as well as fifty tanks, sixty airplanes and numerous artillery units. Meanwhile, Russian business houses tn Harbin are closing and soviet citi zens are going back home, apparently in the belief Japan Intends to absorb Manchurja completely. PUCE GUARDS ON PORTLAND, Ore., July 30. (AP) Armed guards were thrown around several Oregon National Guard arm ories today but neither state head quarters nor the commanding offi cers In the various cities would com ment on the action. In Portland two guardsmen pat rolled the armory, and two men were on duty at The Dalles. Marshfleld reported that more than a dozen men were ordered to stand guard over the building there. It was explained here that the action was taken in connection with the "anti-war day" programmed for Monday In which communistic activ ity may possibly be expected. ERI OTTAWA, Ont., July 30 (AP) The extent to which Oreat Britain will be allowed to cut In on Amer ican sales to Canada of textiles and iron and ateel products, valued at (200.000.000 In 1031, was under con sideration by the British imperial economic conference when It ad journed until Tuesday. With the exception of India 'that politely aloof and potentially great purchaser of empire good for ,her 300,000.000 people almost every nation of the empire has md def inite trade overtures to the United Kingdom and to Canada, mora effect on his gMteral condition than If he had a Rli.ss eye or were prematurely bald." "Governor Roosevelt might be han dicapped In a foot race." he contin ued, "but In no other way do I think he need fear comparison with his adveratiry In the pending campaign." As he talked of "libels." of "poison propaganda," and of "downright falsehoods," Parley charged that the "perverted Blush fund" w.hlch financ ed the 19.18 whispering had It origin "In the Republican war cheat." Ha aald tha Democrata must now count each of tha hundreds of thous ands of federal employee aa "a propa ganda fountain In behalf ol Preal- E BLUEBEARD LADY Woman Accused Of Causing Death Of Four Husbands And Brother-ln-Law Ap prehended After Escape- TOPEKA. Kans., July 30. (AP) A woman said by police to have ad mitted she was Lydta Southard, feminine Bluebeard, was arrested here today, ending a search which began May 4. 1031, when she escaped from the Idaho penitentiary while serving a term for poisoning her fourth husband for his Insurance. The woman, whom Idaho prosecut ing officers also accused of causing the deaths of three other husbands and a brother-in-law, was apprehend ed by Vic Plants, city police detec tive. BOISE. Idaho, July 30. (AP) - Lyda Southard, a winsome brown haired little woman, accused of pois oning four of her six husbands, soon may be again within the little rock enclosure at the Idaho state peniten tiary that for ten years curbed her martial efforts. Advised of the capture today In Topeka, Kansas, of a woman believed to be her. Attorney General Fred J. Babcock began Immediate prepara tion for extradition papers to return her back If Identification Is estab lished. Over the 18-foot stone wall of th women's ward of the prison she pulled herself at 10 o'clock the night of May. 4, 1031, aided by a rope mado of blanket strips, a length ol garden hose and an iron garden trel lis. The last was supplied her, prison authorities said, by David Mlnton, a former prisoner in the Institution, now awaiting trial here on the charge that he helper her escape, only later to bo Jilted. Mlnton was arrested recently in Denver and after a fight to escape Atfr.rnrtltli-itl tuna hmnnhS Sara t the charge of helping with the es cape of a felon which carries a pris on sentence. The charge was for mally drawn up today and hew.ll bo arraigned Monday. ( CUT-PRICE TO 5C ASTORIA, Ore., July 30. (AP) Astoria's threatened milk war has be come reality. Advertisements appearing In local newspapers today announced that, ef fective Monday, milk will be delivered for 0 cents a quart, three cent le-ia than formerly. Dairymen said the new price, set at a meeting of 15 distributors, was "ruinous." GENERrtlEAD AGAIN IS CLAIM HARBIN, Manchuria, July 31. (AP) The Rengo (Japanese) News Agr-jcy today said Japanese head quarters ,here had announced con clusive proof that the famous Chi nese general, Ma Chan-Shan, had been killed northeast of Hallun. WILL- ROGERS 'soys: BEVEKLY HILLS, Cal., July 29. Sco where Mr. Hoover and almost his entire cabinet held ft meeting to decide where to move the bonus army. The Democrats are holding a meiting to decide where to move Mr. Hoover and his cab inet. Everybody wants to do some thing with somebody else. See by the paper where "liv ing" has decreased seven per cent, since December. In figur ing those statistics (and by the way, who is it that figures up all these fool thing's T). Well anyhow you mivjht live that much cheaper, but that don't figuro in the worry, if worry is worth anything we never was iiving as expensive. OSfiA Hag vex," 4 OttmJUmMMUlmmJmS y;r la urgent