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Facts vs. Claims
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Canada are A. B. C. members. The
other 10 per cent, sell "claimed"
circulation.
Twenty-Seventh Year
MEDFOUDi OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1932.
No. 122.
The Weather
Forecast: Tonight and Saturday fair;
no change In temperature.
Temperature:
Highest yesterday , 80
Lowet this morning 50
Medford
IMJNE
Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
H
ERE la a statement mads In this
writer's presence the other day
by a prominent Southern Oregon
Democrat:
"I am still on the fence, but I
shouldn't be greatly surprised If be
fore the campaign Is over I find my
self In the Hoover camp.
"Hoover has done a great many
admirable things. In my opinion, and
I'm not very greatly Impressed by
Roosevelt. As for Corner, he simply
hasn't made any record at all, If you
leave It to me.
"Besides, as a Western man, I
haven't much use for a Tammany
candidate."
U A RE you willing to he quoted to
that effect?" this writer asked.
"No, not yet," was the answer. "But
when I get off the fence, all my
friends are going to know about It.
And I'm not going to be on the fence
much longer."
ALL this, by the way, sounds like
, Hoover propaganda. Really, It
ISNT.
This writer, believing that In the
face of difficult conditions Hoover
hss made as good a record as could
have been made and has displayed a
great deal of courage in making that
record, expects to vote for Hoover,
but has no desire to Influence the
votes of others.
If you are wise, you won't let ANY
BODY Influence- your opinions, but
will vote your convictions. If you
think Hoover Isn't, the best man,
vote against him.
IT seems odd, but it is apparently
true that a great many people think
tt Is TEDDY Roosevelt who has been
nomlnsted by the Democrats, not
knowing, or at least not remembering,
that he has been deed for many years.
Edwin H. Wilder, manager of the
Ban franclsco office of the Califor
nia Newspaper publishers' association,
, is authority for this statement:
' "Since the Democratlo convention.
Mrs. Theadore Roosevelt, widow of
the dead president, hss received more
than 60 letters addressed to him snd
offering congratulations on his nomi
nation." That Is hard to believe, but Mr.
Wilder Is a responsible citizen, not
given to making wild statements.
E adds:
"Many other people believe It Is
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of the
great Teddy, who has been nomlna
ted. Theodore, Jr. who is now gover
nor-genersl of the Philippines, has
received more thsn 600 letters con
gratulating him on his nomination.
It seems to be plain from this that
Nominee Roosevelt will receive con
siderable benefit from his name,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Demo
cratic nominee for President pf
the TJnlted States, by the way, Is
fifth cousin of the late Theodore
Roossvelt. If you are good at figuring
out relationships, you can work out
from this how far back their com
mon ancestry goes.
rxtTRINO 1931, manufacture of
U American automobiles produced
2.472.399 units, of which 2.038.183
were passenger cara and 434.178 were
commercial cars.
This is 29.8 per cent fewer esrs
than were produced in 1930, and the
output In 1930, in Its turn, fell 31.5
per cent under the output for the
big yesr of 1929. ,
Depressions, you see, sffect the au
tomobile market pretty shsrply.
HERE Is an Interesting fact:
Production of automobiles In
1931 fslled by 731.178 csrs to meet re
V placement requlrementa for the year.
That Is to say, the American people
last year WORE OUT three-quarters
of a million more care than they
bought.
That ought to mean good business
for the automobile Industry when
good times return and people begin
to buy cara again.
NOTHER Interesting fact:
" In the District of Columbia,
containing the city of Washington,
capital of the United States, there
was a GAIN of 10.8 per cent In auto
mobile registrations last year, as com
psred to a LOSS everywhere else. The
loss was greatest In Michigan, center
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NEBRASKA FLOODS
DELAYING TRAINSand one of a commission of four
I specialists who conducted an autopsy
OMAHA. Aug. 13. All west-; In the body of the young author.
Vtund trains were held here today as The two bullet holes, one mark-rai't-oad
ofidala awaited abatement ' m entrance of the bullet hat
ot flood conditions resulting from
torrentlsl rainfall throu2hout east-
rn Neb; wis but a-git,
ROOSEVELT MAY
DELAY DECISION
ON N. Y. MAYOR
Action On Ouster Charges
Against Jimmy Walker
After-Election in Novem
ber Looms As Possibility
EXCCfmVE CHAMBER. Albanv. N.
Y.. Aug. 12. (AP) Possibility that
governor Roosevelt's decision on the
ouster charges against Mayor James
J. Walker of New York City may be
aemyea until alter next November's
election developed today when Roose-
vit announced he would withhold his
action until after question of his re
moval powers went to the courts.
Shortly after the morning session
of the Walker hearing, now in Its
second day, the governor stated he
would not pass upon the mayor's
case until the supreme court had had
an opportunity to determine the le
gality of a writ of prohibition, de
manded by George Donnelly, secre
tary of the Bronx chamber of com
merce. The supreme court does not meet
until August 19.
Donnelly, rebuffed In three courts.
today obtained from Justice Harold
J. Hinman of the appellate division
of the supreme court, an order In
structing Mr. Roosevelt to explain
his Jurisdiction. The governor direct
ed Attorney General John J. Bennett,
Jr., to prepare argument on tho le
gality of the action.
Bennett, leaving Governor Roose
velt's office after a five minute con
ference said:
"The governor sent for me Imme
diately and told me to notify Justice
Htnman that he would ahow no dis
courtesy to the court and would with
hold his decision until the courts
had passed upon his authority."
The supreme court Is the trial
court of New York and corresponds
to district courts In most states.
Should either party to the litigation
dispute the action of the supreme
court and that likely would develop
no matter what decision was given.
the way would be open for appeals
to the appellate division and finally
the court of last resort the court of
appeals. Before final word came from
that court, It Is possible Roosevelt's
candidacy for the presidency will
have been passed upon by the peo
ple." HOOVER TO GALL
FOR PROSPERITY
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12 ( AP)
President Hoover announced late to
day he was ready to call a general
conference of business and Indus
trial leaders to seek united action
along a wide front toward economic
recovery. The date of the cinfer
ence will be decided on Monday.
In recently announcing a nine
point prograr. for economic relief,
the chief executive said that as
soon as this program was more ad
vanced he would call together the
"business and industrial" committees
created In each federal reserve dis
trict by outstanding men for the
purpose of "establishing united and
concerted action on a broad front
throughout the country."
Mr. Hoover said today he was
about to set the date" for such a
meeting.
He added the conference would
engage in a "general discussion.'
aimed at lcwenlng credit, speeding
the movement of agricultural com
modities into consumption, elimi
nating slum districts, and stimu
lating railway replacement and re
pair. Fear Child Kidnaped
WARSAW. Poland, Aug. 12. (AP)
Patricia McMillin, fi-year-old daugh
ter of Stewart E. McMillan of Law
rence. Kas., American consul here,
disappeared this afternoon and It was
feared she had been kidnaped.
lien Champ Dies
VANCOUVER, B. C. Aug. 12.
(AP) Hen No. 6. who made quite
a name for herself by laying 351
eeea In 1926-27, d.ed today at the
University of British Columbia. In
live years Vie laid 1250 eggs.
BULLET PIERCED SKULL
OF WRITER IN EVIDENCE
MIAMI, tfs., Aug. 13 (AP)
The bullet-pierced skull of Haden
Clarke, writer and mysteriously slain
flsnce of Mrs. J. M. Kclth-Mlller,
was brought Into the courtroom to
day at the trial of Captain W. N.
Lancaster for Clarke a murdrr.
The skull, along with slides show
ing parts of the hend were brousht
bfore the Jury and .negators by
Dr. M. H. Tallman, defense wit new
, fa-ally wounded C'.arke on .vim 11
, and the other marking '.lie exit.
1 were pointed out by Tillman.
Pear Markets
NEW YORK, Aug. 12. (U.S.D.A. P)
Pear auction: Prices slightly strong
er: 12 cars arrived: 17 California un
loaded: 8 on track; 3 New York cars
by boat.
California Bartletts, 17.280 boxes:
Best 1.70-3.05, few 2.55. ordinary 135
1.75, common and ripe 1.20-1.40, some
overripe 85e; average 1.83.
CHICAGO, Aug. 12. (&) (UJ.D.A.)
Pear prices' 11 California cars, 1
Texas arrived: 2 cars on track; 2
Michigan by truck; 15 cars sold.
California Bartletts. 8,842 boxes:
1.05-2.10, arersge 1.60.
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SUIT FOR DAMAGE
A $50,000 damage suit, alleging
conspiracy, was filed this afternoon
by Ted Dole of the bold Hill dis
trict against the Medford .News.
L. A. Banks, editor, F. A. Bates,
miner, and Mrs. ' Margaret Lund,
daughter of Bates. It la the second
suit In two days to be filed against
Banks and Bates, and the news
paper. Mrs. Lund, not being named
in the first action.
Dole alleges In his complaint that
prior to March 0 last, that Bates and
Mrs. Lund "connived, colluded and
conspired to extort money from the
said Ted Dole, the plaintiff, John
Dole, his father, and Ouy Bates, a
brother - In - law of the defendant
Bates," with threats of criminal
prosecution, and, "if they failed to
pay large sums of money, they would
to murdered, and their wives and
children murdered and their homes
dynamited."
Paper Publishes Story.
The complaint further alleges that
on or about March 6, "In pursuance
of the conspiracy,- the defendant
Bates came to the editor of the
News, and without ascertaining the
truth or falsity "of a recital made by
Bates, published an article, head
lined: "Miner Tells Tale of Woe
On Foots Creek," and that It was
"part of the conspiracy to extort
and blackmail.
The complaint further avers that
as a result of the article, and other
articles, the standing of the plaint
iff In the community has been Im
paired, and that "the lawless ele
ment has been Inflamed and Incited
against him."
Moulton, Lord and Moulton of this
city and Portland represent Dole.
It Is claimed by the attorney for
Dole that a retraction was published
exonerating Dole and associates,
after the hearing of the case In the
Gold Hill Justice court, but that the
allegations were repeated In the
"Miscarriage of Justice" and "Break
down of Law and Order" articles,
snd, that they hare as exhibits al
leged threatening letters written by
Bates.
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EYES AID FUND
SALEM, Aug. 12. (AP) Study of
highway funds provided in the relief
bill was being made here today by
members of the state highway com
mission in an informal meeting with
department officials. The presence of
the three commissioners at the capl
tol was explained by Chairman Leslie
Scott as for the purpose of transact
in? some routine business and to
study provisions of national appro
priations for road work In Oregon.
Engineer R. H. Daldock, who has
been biwy the past week completing
a detailed report on the proposed
cutoff route from Portland to the
sea, said today his report would be
ready for reltase early next week,
DRYSlTRTO
BAHLE HOOVER IDEAL
8EATTLE. Aug. 12. (AP) A ral
lying cry for the dry forces of the
country, denouncing President
Hoover's sdvocacy of a revision of
national prohibition as foreshadow
ing a "destructive change.' waa
sounded here last nlglit by Mrs. Ella
A. Boole, president of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
"The proposed plan will be op
posed by the dry forces every step
of the way," she said.
Lancaster, charged with s'.aylng
Clarke as an act of Jealous retribu
tion after the author replaced him
In the affections of Mrs. Keith'
Miller, peered Intensely at the skull.
Mrs. Keith-Miller was not In the
rrtroom when the skull was
ai vn.
After the skull was displayed
briefly it was placed In a square
rut i board box and laid on the desk
t of the court clerk, with other ex
hibits.
Dr. Tallman left the stand with
the understanding he might be re
called, and Arthur H. Hamilton of
Auburn. N. Y., ballistics and ertml-
nmogy expert, canea ny me
Of.nse lo dccrlbe the elfecta of
various funacol wound.
Reform in Prohibition
And Economic Recovery
Feature Hoover Speech
G 0. P. Nominee Goes Beyond Platform
In Acceptance Talk to Advocate
New Order in Rum Control
By FRANCIS M.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. (AP) A
tion reform and a promise to beat doun the economic "hurricane leads Re
publicans Into the 1932 campaign.
An astonished and tensely expectant
vast Constitution hill heard Mr. Hoover last night in his speech of formal
acceptance go far beyond his parly platform and demand a new order of
liquor control
I cannot consent to tha contlnua-1
tlon of this regime," said the presi
dent solemnly.
There was applause. But the Re
publican hosts who had frequently
interrupted Mr. Hoover's challenges
to Democrats on their tariff and
house records seemed stunned. It
wasn't the same applause.
Dry Champion Applauds.
However, as the man whose hair
has greyed considerably In four years
of presidential care concluded his
carefully prepared address. Senator
Fesa of Ohio, long a prohibition cham
pion, was applauding with the rest.
A moment later he gave his benedic
tion to the prohibition suggestion.
Mr. Hoover proposed as a "common
ground" for "all reasonable people"
that:
"Each state shall be given the right
to deal with the problem as It may
determine, but subject to absolute
guarantees In the constitution of the
United States to protect each state
Hoover and Roosevelt
Views Show Contrast
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. -r- (AP)
This Is what presidential candidates
of the two big partlea aay about
some of the country's problems:
Prohibition.
Hoover It Is my belief that in
order to remedy present evils a
change Is necessary by which we re
summon a proper share of Initiative
and responsibility which the very
essence of our government demands
shall rest upon the states and local
authorities. That change must avoid
.return , of the saloon. -
Roosevelt I am confident that
the United States of America wants
repeal. When that happens
we, as Democrats, must and will
...enable the states to protect
themselves against the Impotatlon
of Intoxicating liquors where such
Importations may violate their state
laws.- We must rightly and morally
prevent the return of the saloon.
Tarlfr.
Hoover I am squarely for a pro
tective tariff. I am against the pro-
II
A meeting of the Jackson county
committee In the Samuel Hill con-
tea for beaut if icatlon of the Pacific
highway win be held In the very
near future, C. L. MacDonald, chair
man of this county, which was award
ed .first prize in tne state contest,
announced fchla morning upon return
to Medford.
Expenditure of the prize money
will be determined at the meeting.
Mr. MacDonald stated. He voiced
hla appreciation of the work done
by the general committee and the
local chairmen snd workers from vari
ous communities In Jackson county,
emphsalzlng particularly the partici
pation of the Bellvlew Orange and
the Oold Hill community.
Trees, donated by the Colony club
and planted in the parking along
North Riverside, he also referred to
as great aids in the beaut If Icatlon
of southern Oregon's highway. Mrs.
L. A. Salade, Jr., headed the commit
tee of the Colony club, of which Mrs
Cor oin Edgell Is president, In this
movement.
The general committee -vas com
posed of Mr. MacDonald, chairman,
Mrs. Mabel Mack, secretary, Miss
Jane Snedicor, representing the D
A. R., Mrs. H. M. Welshaar and Mrs
A Hoe Coppln, Business and Profes
sional .Women's club, Mrr. A. E
Reamcs and Mrs. Pred N. Cummlngs,
Medford Garden club, Mrs. Roy Ward,
Pomona Orarwe, Mrs. Terrlll I. Dack,
Dixie club, Charles Wakefield, sign
committee, Horace Bromley, publicity
committee.
The local chairmen and workers
from the communities In Jackson
county were listed as follows: A. T.
Lathrop, Central Point, chairman:
John Anderson, Central Point; Tony
Ross, chairman, and Mr, and Mrs. R.
E. Blankenburg. Oold Hill; Mrs. Pred
A. Morse, chairman; Or me Ooddard.
Mayor Tame and W. Thatcher, Tal
ent; Mrs. Lillian Coalman, chairman,
and Bert Stancllff, Phoenix; H. B.
Carter, Ashland, and Mrs. Wade Wal
lace, rural Ashland.
Told In rendition
PENDLETON, Ore.. Aug. 1J. (AP)
The temperature dropped to 48 de-
grees last niRni alter a maximum
. for IMu dry cf EO decreet. A trace
pf rain fell lata jeeverdaj,
STEPHENSON.
startling presidential rait for prohibi
audience of Republican leaders in
from Interference and Invasion by
Its neighbors, and that In no part of
the United States shall there be a re
turn of the saloon system with Its
inevitable political and social corrup
tion and Its organized Interference
with other states."
Democratic Plan Hit.
He said the Democratic plan for
outright repeal meant a return of the
saloon. He pointed to the "bootlegger
and speakeasy" of the present regime.
"I refuse to accept either of these
destinies," he said. "Either la In
tolerable. These are not the ways
out."
Before and after the eagerly await
ed prohibition declaration the presi
dent, dressed In serge coat and white
trousers, told the sweltering guests
and a vast nation-wide radio audi
ence Just what he stood for, what
be had done and what he content
plated In words he desired to be "so
(Continued on Page Five)
posal of "a competitive tariff for
revenue" as advocated by our op
ponents. That would place our
farmers and our workers In competi
tion with peasant and weated labor
products.
Roosevelt I accept that admirable
tariff statement in the platform of
this convention (advocating "a com
petitive tariff for revenue, with
fact-finding tariff commission free
from executive interference.) Tarlfrs
should be high enough to maintain
living standards which we set for
ourselves."
Reconstruction.
Hoover I am today organizing the
private Industrial and financial re
sources of the country to co-operate
effectively with the vast govern
mental Instrumentalities which we
have in motion so that we
ir.ay move from defense to power
ful attack. Recovery may be
alow, but we will succeed.
Roosevelt When we get the chance
(Continued on Page Six)
TRIO MEET DEATH
WHEN STAGE AND
AUTOMOBILE I
LONOVIEW, Wash., Aug. 12. (AP)
Two persons were killed outright,
a third fatally Injured and a fourth
may die as the result of a collision
on the Pacific highway, near Castle
Rock, early today between a stage
and a passenger car.
The dead are:
R. M. (Mack) Hlgglns, age about
35, Portland.
Jane Abraham, 14, Seattle, daugh
ter of Lewis Abraham. Seattle. j
Mrs. Jean Noble, Portland.
The injured: i
Mrs. Hazel Harrington. Portland. !
broken back, and her son, Bert, sge
12. broken leg. ,
All were passengers In Hlgglns'
car,
Higglns and ,Mlss Abraham were
Instantly killed. Mrs. Noble died in
a Longview hospital shortly after
the accident.
The collision occurred about one
quarter mile south of Castle Rock
at 3 a.m. Andrew Harvlll, driver
of the northbound stage, told High
way Officer A. B. Little he was Just
getting under way after stopping at
a railroad crowing when he saw
the Higglns car approaching from
the north. He dimmed his lights
and Just then the Higglns car
swerved across the road directly in
front of the bus which crashed Into
the right aide of the sedar and aent
It hurtling into the ditch.
INDIANA TO VOTE ON
REPEAL OF DRY LAW
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 12 (AP)
The Indiana senate today passed a
bill providing for a referendum at
the fall election on two phases of
the liquor question. The vote was
33 to 14.
Under the. bill the voters would
be given an opportunity to express
their desire as to repeal of the
Wright "bone dry' law, the atate
enforcement act, and on the quea-
tlon of making any national enfr-e.
ment regulations applicable to the
Ut
Sport anship Is Victor
. 4f
c
Rivalry was forgotten after tho close victory of Llurl Lehtlnen
(right) of Finland In tho 5,000-meter Olympics run over Ralph Hill
(left) of Oregon. Lehtlnen gave HIM his Finnish team pin and Hill, who
refused to protest the Finn' victory. It shown pinning an American
emblem on Lehtlnen' lapel. (Associated Press Photo
FARMER CREDIT
IS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12
Plans for a 10,000.000 agricultural
credit corporation for the northwest
today were presented to the recon
struction corporation by a group of
northwestern business men.
The committee recommended to the
board of directors that the minimum
capitalization of agricultural credit
corporations authorized by the relief
act be Increased from $3,000,000 to
$10,000,000.
Other proposals were to broaden the
scope of the corporations to make
them a general agricultural bank to
pay particular attention to loans to
dairymen; that loans be made to
farmers to store grain on the farm;
that the corporations undertake to
extend the time for repayment of the
1030-31 feed and seed loans and the
1032 crop production loans made by
the agriculture department, and to.
extend the scope of the northwestern
corporation to overlap and include
trading areas tributary to Minneap
olis and St. Paul.
,
$1
ITURE
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 12. (AP)
A series of furniture contracts to ap
proximate $1,000,000 in orders given
over a period of six months, the ma
terial to be constructed in Oregon
by Oregon workmen, have been let
by Montgomery Ward & Co., accord
ing to an announcement today by
William Q, Bateman, manager of the
local office of the company.
The award of contracts within the
state was said to follow an enlarge
ment of the policy of the atore. Spec
ifications for this furniture call for
home-grown timber, including use of
veneers, manufactured within the
state; frames for upholstered furni
ture pieces, milled within Oregon,
and all types of Oregon hardwood.
"We are planning." said Bateman,
"to push a line of manufactured
ssshes, doors, screens and other wood
materials to be purchased In Ore
gon. Our orders will be distributed
among Oregon manufacturers."
BASEBALL
RESULTS
Amerlcsn.
R. H. B.
Philadelphia 1 ft 1
Boston 2 0 2
Batteries: Earruhaw and Coch
rane; Andrews and Connolly.
" R. H. E.
Detroit 16 2
Cleveland 8 7 0
Batteries: Sorrell, Uhle and Hay.
worth; Brown and Myatt.
PROHI LEADER CRITICIZES
HOOVER LIQUOR ATTITUDE
PORTLAND, Aug. 12. (p) Dr.
Clarence True Wilson, In a prepared
statement for the Associated Press,
declared last night that while Presi
dent Hoover "made the greatest
speech of his life" in accepting re
nomtnatlon, "he fell Into two funda
mental and Irreparable errors" In
pronouncing his views on prohibi
tion. Dr. Wilson, secretary of the board
of prohibition, temperance and pub
lic morals of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Insists "the President's state
ment will not get the wet vote away
from the Democrat, who made a
straight bid for It and got It."
Hla written statement follows in
part:
"President Hoover has spoken. He
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RACE FOR SHERIFF
AS INDEPENDENT
Lowell Zundel of this city has
started the circulation ot petitions
an Independent candidate for
sheriff at the November election.
The petitions were presented In this
city Thursday afternoon and about
20 signatures secured.
Zundel, an auto salesman, who has
been a resident of this city for 30
years, said today that he would place
the petitions In Ashland this after
noon. He said he anticipated no
difficulty In obtaining the 26S names
required and that he would endeavor
to secure a few from each section of
the county.
In the event that Zundel procures
the required number of signatures
he will oppose Everett Beeson, the
Republican nominee . and Gordon
Schermerhorn, Democratlo nominee,
In the fall vote.
Three Independent candidates have
filed petitions since August 1, the
earliest date possible. They are M.
O. Wllklna of Ashland, for district
attorney; A. W. Pipes of this city,
for county Judge, and E. H. Haynes
of Rogue River, for Justice of the
peace In the OcH Hill district.
There are reports that Independent
candidates for county clerk, county
school superintendent, assessor and
treasurer will start circulation of pe
titions soon. They must be filed not
later than 45 dyaa before election.
There la also a report that two
more Independent candidates for
county Judge are being "urged" to
make the race.
Kirch Plele and Victor and Orla
Ooble of Trail, arrested Wednesday
on a larceny of cattle charge, to
which the authorities ssy they made
detailed confessions, were arraigned
before Circuit Judge H. D. Norton
this mcrnlng and entered a pica of
guilty.
Sentence will be passed at 10 o'clock
tomorrow upon all four.
The alleged cattle rustlers are sub
ject, under Oregon law, from one to
10 years In state prison, or from
three months to one year In the
county Jail or a fine not to exceed
$1000.
Tyrus Beck, also held as a gaso-
I line cowboy entered a plea of not
guilty.
The Trail youths and Beck are al
leged to ha) stolen and slaughtered
eight head of stock on the range and
to have sold the meat to valley
butcher shops.
Chute Suvrs Lives
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. (AP) W.
K. Ebel, test pilot for the Glenn L,
Martin Aircraft company of Baltimore,
leaped to safety In a parachute to
day when a bombing plana he was
testing failed to come out of a spin
and crashed at Dahlgren, Va.
as the climax, for It is the center of
Interest in this campaign. The Preil
dent made the greatest speech of hla
life. Ha showed a grasp of the situ
ation ,that the public did not know
he had, and boldly struck out with
perfect clearness and stated his views.
"On the evils of the liquor traffic
he was clear and emphatic, but he
fell Into two fundamental and Irre
parable errors,
'First, he assumed that the pur
pose of prohibition was to get rid of
the saloon. The saloon is not the es
sential evil, but alcohol as a bever
age detrimental to the health, mind
and morale of the individual who
uses it and the community that tol
erates It. His statement that we
must preserve the gain of prohibi
tion by forever banishing the saloon
ill ao siwIarneataA anguhjt
F
Fewer at Work Than In Pre
vious Years, Is Word
After Surveys Transient
Autos Problem for Police
State police, the unemployment
relief bureau, and other civic agen
clea the past week have checked
packing plants and orchards, to de
termine the proportion of local and
Callfornlaus at work, and find that
conditions are but slightly better,
as far as local help la concerned,
than In previous years.
A check made by the atate police
has revealed a number of California
licensed cars, parked at the packing
plants, and Instructed the owners
to procure Oregon licenses, as they
are engaged In gainful occupation
in this state, end therefore subject
to Immediate license purchase re
quirements. Problem for Police.
The state police report that they
are confronted with a knotty prob
lem. In a number of cases the car
owner la a transient fruit worker,
employed half the year In California
and the balance In Oregon and
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IN GERMAN RULE
BERLIN, Aug. 12. (AP) A pos
sibility that Germany's next govern
ment may be dominated by a coali
tion of Adolf Hltner'a national so
cialists and the centrist party of
former Chancellor Heinrlch Brue
ntng emerged today as Berlin await
ed the return of Adolf Hitler for
conferences with President Paul von
Hlndenburg.
The Telegraphen Union aald Hitler
would not arrive today and tha
conferencea would not be held until
tomorrow.
The centrists, although their rep'
resentatlon In the new relchstaft
will be comparatively small, occupy
a pivotal position.
They have made an , emphatic de-
mand that the new cabinet be
formed on strictly constitutional lines
with the nazls bearing a great
share of the responsibility.
PLUICTPRlNG
G.
GRANTS PASS, Ore.. Aug. 12. (AP)
-Milton Wiley. 24, was held In tha
county Jail here today while police
investigated the fatal shooting of
John 81meman, 66, a resident of the
Jump-Off -Joe Creek section. The
shooting, which occurred Wednesday
night, Is said to have taken place ad
the camp of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Pryoor.
Police said witnesses told them tha
youth flrt'd after Slmeman made a
threatening gesture toward hla hip
pocket.
Witnesses at the coroner's Inquest
ssld Slmeman called at the camp and
asked Wiley to accompany him on a
ride. When Wiley refused to go, the
older man made threats which ended
In the shooting.
WILL-
ROGERS
fsays;
BEVERLEY HILLS, Cal.,
11. Well today is the big Bur
prise day for 31 r. Hoover. lis
is to be notified, not beatified,
just notified. They are going ta
tell bim that he, is to have the
extreme pleasure of having
nothing on his hands for tha
next four years but this coun
try, A poor man who has bad
more hard times thrust on him
than any man that ever occu
pied the high position, then to
have a bunch come who are en
deavoring to sentence you fo;
four more years. That almost
comes under the heading of S
blow.
By the way, Jimmy Walke
is to have his notification today
too.
And, oh yes, Japan Is sor
at Stimson again. Poor Japan.
Stimson has kept those little
fellows worried worse ' than
they have our swimmers.
Yours,
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