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The Weather rorecast: Tonight and rriday, fair with rising temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday , Lowest this morning , Medford Mail Tribune UDt OIll 5 ONLV MEMBE& Keen buyer! of newspaper ipse Invariably Inilit upon A. B. C. circu lation. Keen publishers appreciate this fact and bo per cent, belong to A. B. C. The Mall Tribune la Med ford's only member. LIEDFO.RU, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1932. No. 141. Comment the on Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. SINCE the state highway depart ment was created some IS years rnn 1 a avnJinrlftH Tll-ntl - ogu, wc(uu - f I . mately no,000,000 on Its highway system. That ts a lot of money. I ERE Is an Interesting thought: Suppose someone had suggest ed, even aa recently sa SO years ago, that this state spend 110 million dol lars on a system of public highways. What would have happened to blm? The chances are he would have been mobbed. At least that might have happened to him If people had been able to believe that he was really serious, which probably would have been an impossibility. Thirty years ago, people Just simply weren't able to think in uch large terms. BUT we built the highways, and we are making something of a start toward paying for them. And If someone should arise and offer us a choice between going on and FINISH INO the Job of paying for them or getting out trim under the load of tilghway debt and GOING BACK to the roads we had 30 years ago, we should elect unhesitatingly to keep the highways we have built and pay the bill. We COULDN'T o back. We wouldn't know how to get along In these modem days with the highways e had 30 years ago. r seems to us now that we are fac ing eome pretty big tasks In the Immediate future. We have to find our way out of the fog of depression. We must get Industry back onto Its feet, and find Jobs for all the people who are without Jobs now. We must get some money back into people's pockets, so that there will be buying power again and market at fair prices for what people have to sell. Somotlmes, when we look these tasks In the face, we shudder a little and wonder If we can get away with them. . . BUT remember thte: We tackled the Job of building a eno.000,000 system of state highways. and In spite of depression and defla tion we are going to get away with It The tasks we are facing in the Immediate future are no bigger to us KOW than the Job of building a com plete system of state highways wsa a decade and a half ago. AND here Is something else to re member: We didn't tackle the Job of build ing a $110,000,000 system of state highways ALL AT ONCE, nrst we voted six million dollars, and when we began to see the benefits of that expenditure and began to realire our ability to get away with big Jobs we stepped In a little deeper and tackled something bigger. As fast sa we accomplished one thing, and bo learned what we could do, we went on to something else. We did the Job a little at a time, facing each responsibility as we came up to It. AND so It will' be with the tasks we are facing In the Immediate future. We will tackle them one at a time, and the accomplishment of each one will give us new courage and new capacity to go on. Each step we take will make It easier to take another step. By Just doing each day the Job that is on that day to be done, and not worrying about me miu, o shall get along. BUT let's get back to road expendi tures.. .. Of this total sum of $110,000,000. tome $137,000,000 has been expended for actual construction ana mainten ance of highways. Interest payment hare amounted to about 18 million dollars, and approximately $14,500,000 has gone toward retirement of bond Issues. That 1 to say, we hare already spent for Interest about one-eighth as much as we have spent for actual oed construction, and we have - lot of Interest to pay yet. We a rent through with bonds, you see, when we VOTE them. BY way of direct Income, we have received $45,399,816 from auto mobile license fee and $37,000,000 from gasoline taxes. The total of the two makes up a big sum. It s too late, of course, to cry over milk long since spilled, but If we had spent all that money directly a It came In, thus paying at w went, In stead of borrowing and then paying back, we might have been better off. It might be well to remember that lesson In the future. L UNIVERSITY POST Message Enroute East Con firms Report Resignation Leaves - Way Clear For Naming Chancellor. PORTLAND. Ore.. .Sept. 3. AP The Oregonlan in a copyright story says Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall has re signed aa president of the University of Oregon. Rumors that Dr. Hall had resigned, the Oregonlan says, were confirmed in a telegram from the university president sent in reply to a message seeking confirmation of the reports. "You are correct," Dr, Hall's mes sage read, "Letter of resignation aa president of University of Oregon was mailed to state board of higher edu cation today." The message was sent from Mis soula, Mont. Dr. Hall was said to be en route to Chicago. Dr. Hall announced several months ago that he would resign In order to leave the way open for the state board to appoint a chancellor to head Ore- gons new unified, system of educa tion. The Oregonlan saya it Is under stood Dr. Hall'a resignation will be come effective on midnight of De cember 31, 1932. He has been presi dent of the University of Oregon since 1926. Dr. Hall's future plana are not known, the story continues, but It is presumed he will return to the east regardless of whether he accepts an other administrative post or returns to private life. ASTORIA, Ore., Sept. 3. (AP) Sparkling with thrilling races and breath-taking spills and fine exhibi tions of seamanship, the twenty-first Astoria regatta came to a close upon the Columbia river here today. Weather conditions, good throughout the t.hree days of the regatta, were perfect the last day. "Mutt and Jeff," piloted by Charles Cooks ley, of Portland, won the class B outboard hydroplane races. "Half Pint," driven by William Harrison, Seattle, won top honors In the class C race; and "Scram," driven by Law rence Rtchart, of Spokane, won first place In the unlimited outboard nyd roplane race. Harold Grey, -of Medford, driving "Irish Luck," upset In the third heat of the unlimited hydroplane race to day and lost his engine In the river. 1 LAST OF SEASON There will be a general observance of Labor day Monday In this city, with county and public offices, banks and barbershops closed, and a general suspension of business. Many local residents left Saturday for recrea tional points, to enjoy the last double holiday of the vacation season. Med ford schools will open Tuesday. There will be no issue ofthe Mall Tribune Monday, in accordance with long es labalished custom. Most of the orchards and packing plants will continue operations Mon day. All the rural schols will open Monday, as Labor day Is not a school holiday. 4 Gar Wood Wins Speedboat Race DETROIT, Sept. 3. (AP) 'The Jinx that for more than a decade has dogged every foreign quest for the Harmsworth trophy settled on the v.Mte hull of Miss England III today and snatched away what seem ed to be an almost certain victory in the first heat of that speedboat clas sic. The veteran. Oar Wood, who had trailed as much as a mile and a half most of the way, came from behind and coasted to an easy vic tory. Doolittle Chalks Air Speed Record CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 3. (AP) A new lanl plane speed king was crowned today at the national air race ae Major James H. Doolittle blistered over a three kilometer course at an average of 296.287 miles an hour. Arrest Howe For Liquor Possession Carl Howe, 80, was plsced In the county Jail last night, following nls arrest at a local rooming house, charged with the possession of 17'J pint of whisky. The arrest was made by city, etate and federal officers. Salem Drum Corps Prepares For Test PORTLAND, Ore.. Sept. 3 (API The Salem drum corps, of the Amer ican Legion, runner-up at two na tional convention for first place, will arrive In Portlsnd tonight to go thru maneuvers on M-iltnomah f'..:d. pre paring for the national conteet to be Held bar Wednesday, Sept. 14. Leaves Oregon "rr tJ$t - Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, who Sat urday confirmed reports of his resig nation as president of Oregon univer sity. REED'S LIFE TERM T Affirmation of the life term Inv posed upon Albert W. Heed, of Den ver, Colo., for participation In the murder of Victor Knott, Ashland po liceman, last November, will be sought Tuesday In the state supreme court by District Attorney George A. Cod ding. Eeed Is confined In the. etate prison at Salem, and the limit for the filing of an appeal to the state supreme court expired September 2. It is a legal formality. It is expected that Newbury and Newbury, attorneya for Reed and named by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton to defend, will take some counter legal action, if such exists. Last Thursday, Attorney Qua New bury filed a motion In the circuit court asking for 200 of county funds for the expense of preparing a trana orlpt of the testimony In the Reed esse. .The motion was denied by Judge Norton. Kin and friends uf Reed In Colorado, depression hit are unable to provide funds. This leaves the steel-nerved Colorodan at the end of his legal rope. All future hope of freedom, accord ing to a number of local lawyers lies within the clemency of the governor. The Oregon law prohibits the ex pending of county funds, for the ap peal of criminal cases, the statutes holding that a county Is not obliga ted, beyond providing adequate de fense counsel for the accused. The appeal had been perfected, would have been based upon discov ery of new evidence. Affidavits were made by two Ashland people after the conviction of Reed, averring that he was In a hamburger stand, several blocks from the scene of the murder, at the exact tlme'of Its occurrence. Paul McQuade and Lee Jackson, in dicted with Reed, for the murder, are still at large. Reed in his own behalf, testified that McQuade and Jackson committed the crime, while he was seeking a registration atatton, and that they fled In hie auto, which was found the next morning wrecked ns'T Foots Creek, on the Pacific highway. Reed was committed to the state penitentiary last March, and since his imprisonment there, has been highly kopefu) that an appeal would win him a new trial and liberty. TEN COUPLFTGET LICENSES TO ID Fire marriage licenses were Issued by Vie county clerk's office Satur day, and the previous day five others were made out to southern Oregon and northern California couples. Issued yesterday wer licenses to Jay Dill, 34, police officer of Chlco, Calif., and Velma Lucille Mark man of Chlco; Andrew W, McFarland. 23. clerk of Medford. and Lola Viola Worthlngton, 32, telephone operator. License to wed was also recorded for James O. Hopkins. SI, electrician, of Whltmore. Calif., and Frances An ita Davis, 28, of Redding. Hugh W. Brlnkerhoff, 3!, credit man of Mo desto, Calif., and Janet Burdick. 26. stenographer of Redding, also receiv ed a marriage license. The clerk also Issued a licensed for Earl Fred erick: Warden. 33, X-ray technician of Siskiyou. Calif., and Marlon Agnes Lockte, 10, also of Siskiyou. Friday, Virgil Paul Kenney and Beulah May Donovan of Central Point were Issued a licenses, as were Edward Belrtwtr and Aneta Clark of Richfield, Calif.; Edward Malde and Margaret D. Drew of San Francisco; George W. Ellis of Oakland, and Ella NWioIs of Kennett; Edgar Wm. Con nor and Ruth Elizabeth Baker of Ashland; and Norval Oreenleaf of Centrnlla, and Dorothy Faye Pankey of Medford. Salem Youth Slays Father BALEM, Sept. 3. Ami Weakened by the lose of blood he gave in a vain attempt to sate the life of his ; father, w.nom he confe.wd to shoot Jni at the family home. here. Melvln , Sorrell, 21, sits in a cell In the ctty Jail today lacing a homicide charge. Y F, ALLEGEDLAXITY Summary Hearing Is Slated At Gold Beach For Sheriff And District Attorney By Governor Julius Meier. MARSH FIELD. Ore.. Sept. 3. (AP) Governor Julius L. Meier has order ed a summary hearing for an invest igation of the Curry county sheriff's and district attorney's officea for al leged lax law enforcement in that county, Circuit Judges James T. Brand revealed today. Judge Brand said the hearing will be held at Gold Beach September 12. Judge Brand said that when the order was filed several days ago Governor Meter declared that "repre sentations had been made to him tftat the criminal laws of the state of Ore gon are not being executed and en forced faithfully In Curry county and the circumstances Justify an appointment of a sheriff and district attorney pro tern therein." The "representation" which the governor said motivated his action in demanding the hearing arose from a letter received by him in which It was alleged J. C. Lelth, manager of the Gold Beach Water, Light & Power company, and E. R. Costelloe, employe, were beaten and assaulted the night of October 31, 1931. Ho action was taken by the grand Jury sitting in April of this year, follow ing an Investigation, and the mes sage asking the governor's interven tion was forwarded by Leith immed iately after that session. Following the grand Jury session state police officer James O'Brien was authorized to investigate the proceedings and It was upon hta re port that apparently the full details of the "riot" had not been presented to the grand Jury that the governor ordered the summary hearing. L ELOPING HALTED Bonny Mansfeld, 19, Ashland youth freed from the county Jail Thursday on a parole from a six months sen tence for violation of the liquor laws, was arrested at Yreka, Calif., Satur day momlng on a charge of contrib uting to the delinquency of a minor girl. The complaint was sworn to by the mother of tfie girl a resident of Phoenix. Mansfield Is a brother of Emails (Bobby) Mansfield. 33, held In the county Jail for allegedly re ceiving goods stolen from the J. C. Penney store In Ashland, last July. Mansfield, shortly after his release from the county Jail, called on the girl at Phoenix. The couple went to Ashland in the late afternoon, telling the mother they would be back after dinner. W.tien the couple failed to appear on schedule, the mother, who had become suspicious, notified the state police and the Ash land city police, and an Investigation was atarted. It was learned that Mansfield and the girl had boarded a southbound Southern Pacific train Friday eve ning. They were found at Yreka, Calif., early Saturday morning, and are held for the state police. The girl left a note for her mother telling of fter' elopement plans. Mans field was sentenced to the county Jail for a six months term Hat Jum, and Thursday was released on par ole. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 8. (AP) The Jury deliberating the caw of Frank J. Egan. deposed public de fender, and Albert Tinnln. his co defendant, charged with the mur der of Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes, was locked up at 11:20 p. m. without having reached a verdict. The Jury wll resume Its deliberations at 10 a. m. tomorrow. Coast Building Activity In Sharp August Upturn Br WALTER WARRF.V I AMorfated Press MaTf Writer BAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 3. AP) Optimists In the business world got a big burst of sunshine today from the building statist Ice of the Pacific coast. The ten largest cities in the three coast atatea produced a gain of 14 per cent In building operations In August as compared with July. And that was only part of the sunshine trie lncresse came In the ff.ee of an expected drop of about 10 per cent, such aa was the average move In the last three years. The aggregate value of building started tn August was found by the Associated Preaa survey to be 2,733. 000 in round figures for the 10 cities. This compared with 2.443.000 in July, and with 7.867.000 in August of last year. August wat about 65 per eent under last year. In spite of the rain over July. So the upturn will have to run ecraiderably farther to catch up to what the coast has been used to tn building dvelopraeni BASEBALL RESULTS Hollywood Oakland .15 IS ( A. Walsh, Page and Bassler, Mayer; Pchbua and Penebsky. R. H. K. Seattle .1S 17 2 Los Angeles S 14 A Page and Cox; Stlteel, Curtis, Win sell, Haltzberger, and Cronln, Han nah. R. H. E. Portland 6 7 3 Mlsslona 4 5 1 McDonald, Jacobs and Pslmlsano; W. Osborne and Mclsaacs. R. R. E. San Francisco 7 13 6 Sacramento 6 IS 1 Douglas. Slraonl and Walgren; Nushlda, Gllltck and Wirts. (11 Inn ings). HOPE FOR BETTER E5 NEW YORK, Sept. 3 (AP) Wall Street's belief that business would take a definite turn for the better after Labor day Inspired another bustling advance in stock prices to day. With cotton and wheat higher, shares showed extreme gains of $1 to ts and the standard statistics average of 90 issues was pushed to a new high for the year. Several pivotal stocks, Including United States Steel, General Motors and American Telephone, shoved ahead to new tope for the summer recovery. News of the day Included further reports of expanding steel mill oper ations In the near future. There was also a rise of jV.331 cars In loadings of revenue frelgli. for the week ended August 27. a gattr which the market viewed as satisfactory. There was considerable late profit- taking aa tradera lightened long commitments In preparation for the week-end, but many final prices were not far from the best and the closing tone was strong. Trading was at a fast pace throughout the two hours and at one time the ticker was six minutes behind the market. Transactions approximated 2,600,000 shares.- . Today's closing prices' for 10 sel ected stocks follow: American Can 80 American T. & T, , ........ -I IP Anaconda 14 Curtis Wright 3 General Motors ....-..., 18 Int. T. & T. 13 Montgomery Ward .. 14 j Paramount Pub. ... 7 Radio . 1014 Southern Pac 28 S. O, of cal 30 8. O. of N. J. .. 36H Trans Am 7 United Aircraft 29 U. S. Steel M! Corp't Trust Shs 2.15 FOR RELIEF USE At the relief canning kitchen 418 quarts of pears and tomatoes were canned by volunteer workers under the direction of Mrs. O. B. Morrow, it was reported yesterday. The kitchen will be open again on Wednesday for work, and the group in charge has asked that as many peaches and tomatoes as pos sible be turned over to the group for relief work. Thoso who assisted with the can ning were Mrs. R. C. Van Valeah, Mrs. John Lewis, Mrs. J. C. Tucker, Mrs. F. M. Corltes, Mrs. A. Or In Schenck, Mrs. Elsie Clevenburg. Mra. F. F. Burke, Mra. H. h. Olllette. Mrs. May nard Bush. Mrs. Sleight, Miss Orms- by, Mrs. H. T. Hubbard, Mra. Flora ChlWers, Mrs. Lovell. Mrs. F. G. Thay er, Mrs. S. Ralph Din pel. Mrs. Albert E. peasley, Mrs. West. Mrs. Cart Flcht ner, Mrs. Belva Aiken and Mrs. John Fluhrer. The upturn in building was regard ed in some quarters as the most slg - nlflcant development occurring in this territory to back up the bright forecasts of the stock market's rise in the last two months.. A noteworthy feature of the reports of the 10 largest cities Is that 8 of the 10 showed July-August increases. The six were San Francisco, Seattle, Sacramento, Ban Diego, Spokane and Tacoma. These cities, along with Los Angeles, Portland, Oakland and loig Beach, had an aggregate building in the first eight months of this year of 39.423.000 roughly. That figure was only about nolf the total for the first two-thirds of 1831, which was 70.823.000. Tho 1010 period amassed a total of 131,553.000 for these same cities, or about three times the build ing values of this year. It was pointed out that In compar ing building values with previous yean an appreciable allowance nhoud be made for declining costs, both In Moatenal and in wage. E': SUSPF F' Hopewell Fish Merchant Held " Under Guard By Mysterious Trio For 76 Days Conducting Quiz. JOHNSTOWN. Ja., Sept. 3. (AP) Sheriff Ira McCloskey of Clearfield county announced today a man de scribing himself as Garret Schenck. Hopewell, N. J., fish merchant, la being questioned In connection with the Lindbergh baby kidnaping case. McCloskey said he and other of ficers found Schenck this afternoon in an abandoned farm house four miles from Somerset. The sheriff declared two of thres men who kept guard over Schenck also were being qulnsed. McCloskey stated Schenck was taken from his fish wagon in Hope well 78 days ago by a private In vestigator of Johnstown, on the lat- ter's own Initiative, and brought to a mountain cabin near Dubois. Three men, McCloskey aald, held Schenck captive under pistol point there and on August 25 transferred him to the Somerset "hideout." McCloskey said he traced Schenck with the aid of a Johnstown man and went to the Dubois cabin this afternoon, only to learn that Schenck had been taken to the Somerset farm house. McCloskey and other officers then went to the Somerset farm house and found Schenck, guarded by one man. This man was taken Into custody and later another guard was apprehended. The whereabouts of the third guard Is unknown. Schenck and Vie two guards were brought here and McCloskey and other police officers started question lng Schenck. Authorities planned to take him to Clearfield, where agents of the bureau of Investigation, department of Jus tice, will take up the questioning. L FOR FALL TERM - School bells will ring for pupils of the Valley school Tuesday and ex- tenslva plana are being completed for the opening of tha new term, for which alarRe enrollment la reported. Miss E. Marie Foss will continue sa principal of. the school and with the Instruction of art In all grades. Miss Naomi Hohinan will again be Instructor of French and nature study and Miss Jane Dixon, graduate of the University, of Washington, hsa ac cepted the position of Instructor of the pre-prlmary pupils and of music and dramatics In all the grades. Miss Dixon, who la the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Volney Dixon of this city, feturns to Medford highly rec ommended. She spent the summer in Seattle, where she devoted her time to special training In kindergarten work under Flora McOanaughy of the Fisher Kindergarten and studied mu slo In the Fisher Musical academy In Seattle. Much special work Is given the chil dren at Valley school, which la con ducive to the development of natural poise and abilities. French Is taught children In all classes, even through the pre-prlmary work, where many four year olda are becoming polished linguists. The weekly assembly periods, pro vided to encourage the children In Individual expression, have proved very beneficial and will be continued during the coming year. Each child receive much Individual Instruction and I given opportunities to advance along favored lines of education. The location of the school la also very much In It favor, being far re moved from the business section, with a playground of four acres, where outdoor training la conducted Men day. Picking and packing of the Bosc and Anjou crop of the Rogue River valley will be In full awing the com ing week, and for the next fortnight the peak of the pear aeason will i prevail In pMtrg plants and orch ards. According to the Southe.n Pacific freight department, 630 cars of pears have been dispatched to date. In eluding foreign and domestlo lota. Bartlett and Jlcrrell crops have been cleaned up. Advices received toy local shippers report tat less than 200 cars of California Bartletu are available, and It la expected they will be disposed of within the next week or ten days. ReporU of a fair crop of Bartletu In New York state and Michigan have been received. The cleansing of the market of California Bartletu la expected to Improve prices for the local product. Tomato growers of the valley are now taking their product to the Ashland cannery, but tha supply ts unsteady, because of the lack of warm weather to keep the tomatoes ripening. A v.?ek of v. irm weather would be a boon to the tomato BUD ANNUS IN VOLUME SOON Succeeds Jimmie Associated Press Photo Joseph V. McKee, president of tha hoard of aldermen, who succeeded to the mayor's chair upon resignation of walker. TEACHERS FAVOR A policy of making no further charity dolea from their own relief fund to able bodied persons, "be they men. women or children," unless work la provided for the recipients to perform In return for the assist ance rendered them, was adopted yesterday afternoon by teachers in the Medford school system at the general organization meeting held In preparation for the opening of school, Tuesday. The relief program waa brought up along with other matters, and ! Instructors decided that it Is an edu cational aa well as economic prob lem and should be given educational treatment. Hhould Have Program The teachera also went on record as recommending that no contribut ions by any otiher relief dispensing organisation be made that cannot show a worked out and accepted program whereby provision is made for requiring that all able bodied peersons who receive assistance from it, shall perform some worthy work, or service In return for that assist ance. The observation of the teachera has been that needy persona of worthy type do not desire charity but rather a chance to work and earn what they receive, it was point ed out at the meeting. Much of the keenest suffering as a result of unemployment in this city Is on the part of those who are too proud and too self-dependent to ac cept charity. "They do not apply to charitable organizations for doles, but they and their children suffer In silence. , Such people are too precious an element In our American citizenry to be overlooked and neg lected In their times of need," It was stated. The only way to reach or to aid these people la to offer them an op portunity to work or to serve for what Viey get. They will have It no other way. They despise the dole and will not accept It. It waa also stressed. Hhoutd Abandon Dole "For the sake of preserving that which Is best and finest In our American manhood and womanhood. not only for the present but for thu generation now coining up, we atand committed to the principle that the dole and the unwise use of charity In solving our relief problems must be abandoned. Jn lta place must be worked out a plan whereby money or goods expended for relief may be earned by every able bodied recipient w.ho beneflU therefrom. "To the furtherance of this end, we pledge our support to all future relief work In which we are to have a part" The staff of teachers agreed In a written statement to the press, "The teachers of the Medford pub lic schools recognise the serious problem of unemployment relief work In this city, and although their Incomes have been greatly reduced this year they Intend to assist again in bearing the burden aa they have done In the past," the statement continues. "Last year, the teachera of Med ford not only contributed liberally to the Community Chest, but In addi tion raised and administered a relief fund for needy children who were not reached by the regularly organ ized charity Institutions of the city because they and their parents are possessed of too much personal pride and Independence to apply for It. Charity MMplaced "Through several years of having a part in both watching and admin Isterlng charitable relief, the teachers have become Increasingly conscious of the fact that a moat serious prob lem la fixing lUelf upon the people as a result of It. The unemployable element or the population Is becom ing so mixed with the worthy un employed that they are receiving i dignity to which they are not en titled and many times charitable as sistance which they do not deserve. "There Is, without doubt, a grow ing claaa of people In the country who are fast learning to relish the dole and who prefer to lean upon others rather than support them selves through their own planning, woiklnT. and saving. Chlldern are Continued on Page Sights REDUCTION IN TAX SAYSKEVELT Democratic Nominee Em phasizes Need For Atten tion Local Government Source Present Distress. BRIDGEPORT, Oonn., Sept. 8 (AP) Reduction tn taxes, particularly those affecting the farmer, the email home owner and the railroads, wsa emphasized by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt tonight In a presidential campaign addreas before Connecticut democrats. Declaring there la need everywhere for a "concentrated attention upon local government," the democratic nominee for president asserted thera should be a nationwide effort to ef fect substantial relief. "The tax payer, particularly the farmer, la blanketed by too many lay rs of local taxing authorities," ha said. "The relieving of this Is our first responsibility In restoring his econom ic well-being. "In a fundamental way, this prob lem la the source of much of our present distress. The mortgagee on our farms and the foreclosures there on burden our banks, which strains the entire credit structure of the country. "Moreover, the railroads are like wise burdened by this local tax ex pense and It requires only a mo ment's reflection to see that when we burden the railroads In this way and force them to the brink of receiver ship, we are endangering the savings of the people in their savings banks and their Insurance company. "The economlo life of the country Is a seamless web. It must be ad Justed so that strains are equally dis tributed and constant vigilance must be exercised to avoid a break In any one place." KELTS DECLARES In an answer to the divorce suit filed by his wife Sophie Kelts, Jobn Kelts made answer Saturday In a document filed with the county clerk, and alleges, "The plaintiff. Sonhla Kelts, took advantage of the fact that jujj, was leap year, and proposed to the defendant." This occurred early this year when Kelta waa on a visit to OOakland, Calif. The Kelts wen divorced In 1038. Kelta avers that after several ln. portunltles for re-marrlage were made,, "he yielded to them." He now allege that the re-marriage waa for the pur pose of "fabricating grounds for dl voir. " nf MmliM ah. A. . - property. Kelta declares that when he sued for divorce In 1030, his wife did not contest the action. Knits further cites, that his wife. Is of a nagging and fault-finding dis position, and alleges she once called him a "nincompoop and a sneak." The domestlo storms started soon af ter the re-marrlage, Kelta alleges. Kelts seta forth that he owns prop erty of the "probable value of 13000 In Ashland," and that It his sole source of Income. ' NO PAPER LABOR DAT. . In order to permit employes of The Mall Tribune to enjoy the holiday, there will be no Issue of The Mall Tribune, Monday, Leber day. WILL- ROGERS rsays: BISHOP, Cal., Sept. 2. Everybody has been denying that they saw this fellow Nor man, the head of the Bank of England, Hoover says if he saw him it was under an as sumed name. Mellon gays b never heard of him. So the whole thing is just rumor. Srr. Norman wasn't in America at all. The orange squeezers out in California went for the Demo cratic ticket here the other day like they did in the old days when they was Republicans. The rest of the country cer tainly got even with California. They had an oclipse, and if yon ever saw a thing leave anyone flat, it left us. The chamber of commerce has already taken it up. New England got the whole thing, it's their first show since the Plymouth Rock "fiaseo." YiiMJIJ?l