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EDFORD Mail Trip'jne MAIL 1 HIBLS 4 H. C. in A. B. C Auditor lu auditing circu lation! checks nens print used, spoil age, cash received and other details, giving credit only for NET PAID circulation the best advertising money can buy. Twenty-Seventh Year MEDF0R1), OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1932. No. 157. nn fM JV jja AIM The Weather Forecast: Tonight and Saturday fatr. No change In temperature. Temperatures Richest yesterday 84 I.nwevt this morn tn if 46 M ME1S Comment the on Day's News R vnXKK JP.NKINS THE most amazing political news of the year cornea today from Wisconsin, where Walter J. Kohler defeated Philip La. Toilette for the republican nomination for governor --not by a scant majority, but by lrhat appears as these words are writ ten to have been a landslide. CONSIDER the 'circumstances: La, Toilette la the present gov ernor. He Is a member of the La iVollett. dynasty that for years has held the state of Wisconsin In the hollow of Its hand. He Is a son of righting Bob. His brother, Robert M. La Follette, Is U. S. senator. His successful opponent Is a con servative manufacturer whom he de feated decisively two yeara ago for the same office. SO much for personalities. Let us consider the platforms. La Toilette campaigned on the Issue of redistribution of wealth by taxation that Is to say, taking It away from the rich and giving it to the poor; exactly the kind of appeal that might be supposed to be popular In this year of discontent. Kohler's chief platform plank was a tax rate that will attract Industry and Investment to the state of Wis consin about as conservative, solid and non-spectacular an appeal as could be made. - - TO these considerations, add the long tradition of La Toilette voting In Wisconsin. For years It has been practically equivalent to lese mejeste for ANYBODY to run against a La Toilette, and such as have done so have been decisively rebuked. But this year a La Toilette Is over whelmingly defeated for renomlna- tlon, and In order to leave no doubt of their Intentions, the republicans of Wisconsin snow under senator John J. Blaine, whom the La Toi lettes supported for U. S. senator, and nominate In his Dlace John B. Chap pie, an anti-La Toilette country edl tor. TACH of these considerations Is " Important. But look at all of them together and you will get some Idea of the magnitude of the political earthquake that has just shaken Wis. eonstn. t A BOUT the only conclusion that " con be drawn from it Is this: In this particular year of politics, the man who is In office Is out of luck. It makes little difference what he is radical, conservative, repubil. can, democrat, or like Smith Brook' hart of Iowa, Just plain Jackass, the voters are out for his scalp. The Incumbent In office this year has about as much chance as a pul let in a den of weasels. -a-- HP AXES federal, state and local In this country take about one fifth of the national Income at the present time, That Is to say, out of each five days you work ONE DAY for the govern ment and four days for yourself. Tour grandfather didn't have to do that. He worked nearly all the time for himself. TOTJ may shrug your shoulders and y say: "Not I. I pay no taxes. So I don't have to work one day out of five for the government." Don't fool yourself. Taxes are ft part of the cost of the things you buy. They HAVE to be. 11 Industry doesn't get back the cost of what It produces. It goes bankrupt. So, you see, you DO pay taxes. You can't get out of It. WHAT you mean is this: "I pay no taxea DIRECTLY." But Indirectly you pay your full share of the tax bill. So you are real ly Interested Just as much In the cost of taxation as if you were on the tax roll. If you are wise, you will take this fact Into consideration when you vote on tax measures. rvGWN at the state fair this year, they planned ft bull fight as a device to attract crowds end thus swell the gate money. Criticism arose, and In defense of the Idea state fair officials explained that It wasn't going to be much of ft bull fight anyway, and that such as It was It would be educational In Its nature; that dairy farmer In Ore goo have to deal with bull?, nd so a E FEEL 1LKLESS DAYS Shipment of Fluid Ordered Stopped to Enforce Ad vance in Price Co-Op Enters Battle in Midwest 0 OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 23. (AP) Officials of the Nebraska-Iowa Co-operative Milk Producers' as sociation, after a lengthy meet ing, announced they woo Id put a force of 1000 men "In the field" next Monday In their "strike' against two Omaha dairies which refused to accept the milk price arbitration decision of Dr. Clvde L. King of Pennsylvania. DES MOINES, la., Sept. 23. (AP) Farmers at pionts as widely scat tered as Atlanta, Ga., and North Da-w kota moved tooay to Join the selling strike under way In Iowa for more than a month. Milk producers In New York and parts of New Jersey, Vermont and Pennsylvania were reported to be considering holding their products from the metropolitan market, and at Atlanta the Georgia Milk Produc ers' federation ordered Its members In 20 counties to stop shipments to distributors In Atlanta. . Trucks Halted In Minnesota, North and South Dakota; Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa thousands of farmers aided the non-selling movement with action which ranged from peaceful talks with neighbors to violence In stop ping trucks on highway and remov ing their cargoes of farm products. The progress of the movement was extremely satisfying to Reno Mllo of Des Moines, president of the National Farmers' Holiday association, he said. In a speech before the Iowa Farmers' Union convention, which closed here yesterday, he said: "No farm movement 'has ever spread like this one. I have received letters of encouragement and prom ises of co-operation from Holland and other European .countries and from every state in the union." Move Effective He pointed to Increases in milk prices paid to producers at Omaha, Sioux City, St. Paul and other points and to gains la livestock prices and said they gave proof that the holiday movement was effective. The union gave unanimous approv al of the strike movement and urged that Its members co-operate In fur thering It. Reno yesterday also called a meet ing of holiday leaders to plan a demonstration by 20,000 farmers be fore President Hoover w.hen he ap pears here October 4 to make opening speech of his campaign. the E Petitions, placing In nomination Dr. J. M. Keene, old-time resident of Medford and the valley, for the office of mayor of Medford, had not been filed at the city recorder'a office at 3:30 this afternoon, but It was un derstood that they would be filed before closing time this evening. The petitions have been In circulation for several days, and are said to carry more than the needed number of signatures. No one had filed for the position cf representing the fourth ward on the city council wnwi the Mall Tribune went to press, but It was also un derstood that petitions were In the field and that a nominee for that ward would be In the running before evening. The name of the prospec tive candidate- was not released. Altitude Record Placed In Books LONDON. Sept. 23. -f The new world a airplane altitude record es tablished last week at Bristol by Captain Cyril Uwlns, British flier, was confirmed by the Royal Aero club today. The official figures gave the altitude reached by Capt. Uwlns as 43.976 feet. STEPFATHER TO DEATH HARRISBURO, Ark., tVpt. 23. (AP) Herman Ledbetter, 31. year-old farmer, was captured today and charged with the murder of his 2-year-old stepson, who was beaten to death near here Thursday. Scores of citlrens Joined the search for him following the issuance of ft flrat degree murder warrant on the complaint of hla wife, whom he mar ried a year ago. Louis Minton, deputy prosecutor for Poinsett county, said Ledbrtter disappeared early Thursday slier UXjug bom U nmtUftte4 bodj Admiral GATES PETITIONS FOR JUDGE RACE ON BOOKS TODAY Final Day for Filing Finds Former Medford Mayor Independent Candidate- Many Names On Ballot Petitions, bearing between 1000 and 1200 names will be filed today with the county clerk for the Independent candidacy for county judgee of C. E. (Pop) Gates, former state highway commissioner, and ex-mayor of Med ford. Today la the. final day for the filing or independent candidacies. Gates said that he would Issue a for mal statement on his candidacy late today or tomorrow. The Independent county Judgeship candidacy of Gates met with popular favor throughout the county from the outset and petitions were secured from all sections. More than 300 names alone were secured In Ashland, more than enough to Insure placing of his name on the November ballot. In Gold Hill, In an hour yesterday, 33 names were secured. Wave of Adherents. Sine the circulation of the peti tion started, the first of the week. there has been a tidal wave of senti ment, that Gates will be a harmoniz ing candidate behind whom the voters can concentrate and end the "politi cal revolution" that has torn Jackson county asunder for so long a time. In thB Eagle Point, Sams Valley, Prospect, Applegate and Central Point sections the Gates candidacy met popular approval also. Gates plans a thorough campaign. based upon his business ability and experience, -and past Tecord In civic nf fairs. The signatures on the petitions con tain the names of citizens in all walks of life In this city and county. Other candldatesr for Judge are W. E. Phipps, Democratic nominee; Earl H. Fehl, republican nominee, and A. W. Pipes, Independent; Narregan Flies. L. O. (Carl) Narregan of this city lat yesterday filed nominating peti tions as an independent candidate for Justice of the peace. Medford district. Narregan, a well known resident of this city, was mentioned as a possible primary candidate last spring. His petitions contain approximately 100 names. 'Narregan will oppose James (Honey Boy) Stewart, regular Demo cratic nominee, and William R. Cole man, Republican nominee. Nominating petitions of 8. A. Peters, Jr., and O. J. Law of Ashland as In dependent candidates for the Ash land Justiceship were filed today. There are five candidates for the Job (Continued on Page Seven) PT. SLATED OCT. 24TH SALEM, Ore.. Sept. 33. f AP) Pre llmlnary to the state .highway com mission meeting In Portland next Wednesday, the commission will meet at Aurora, October 34, to conduct a hearing on rerouting the Pacific highway-through that city on a more direct line. It was announced today by the highway department, Under a 1031 legislative act, the highway department ia compelled to hold hearings on the changing of routes within a city. The meeting In Portland Sep tern ber 38 Is the regular commission session at which contracts for about 700,000 worth of road work will be let. On October 6, the commission will hold two hearings on rerouting the West Side Pacific highway between Monroe and Junction City. The change of the line of the Pa cific highway In Central Point, about five miles north of Medford, will be the subject of ft hearing at that place October 24. BEAT BOY WIFE CLAIMS the stepson, Lee Powell. The farmer told his wife the boy fell from wagon and was crushed by the. wheels. She refused to accept her husband's story of accidenal death and notified officers. A coroner's Jury returned ft vr diet that the boy was beaten to dea.j by his stepfather. Mrs. Ledbetter told the Jury her husband had often beaten her son into unconsciousness. He whipped the child twlc. before .- pul htm in his wagon and drove 10 lh foods." ait ttfUXJecfc Quits American CROWDS GREET Large crowds greeted Gov. Franklin D. Rooaevelt of New York as the democratlo presidential noml. nee's special train rolled westward for a speaking tour that takes him to the Paclfto coast. Hera Cover nor Roosevelt Is shown In shirt sleeves on the rear of the observation car, greeting woll-wlshers at Bell fontalne. O. (Associated Press Photol LOCAL CHAMBER L The board of directors of the Med ford Chamber of Commerce approved the recommendations' of Us legisla tive committee opposing the passage of the Zorn-McPhetson bill, for merg ing of the Oregon schools of higher learning, at the luncheon meeting today at the Hotel Jackson. The ac tion was taken In response to re quest of the Ashland chamber of commerce, and la based upon desire to maintain the Southern dre- gon Normal school In the neighbor ing city, the board members stated, emphasizing the fact that their op- post Ion referred strictly to the local situation. The resolution adopted stated In part that the board Is of the belief that passage of the Zorn-McPherson bill, which would move the normal school from Ashland, replacing It with a Junior college, would be det rimental to the Institution now lo cated In Ashland, and retard higher education In this section of the state. It was also stated that the proposed Junior college would probably be discontinued for lack of support and expense of operation, which would be harmful from both the educa tional standpoint and that of Income derived by the cities of Mr.dford and Ashland through the operntlon of the Institution of higher leernlng. Under the present circumstances business and professional Institutions of Medford are deriving tangible ben efits from the oreratlon of the Southern Oregon Normal school, the resolution further stated. The report was submitted the board by the committee headed by Olen Arnsplger. The roads and highway committee of the chamber also reported today that pet Itl oris are In circulation re questing maintenance during the winter of the Crater Lake highway from Prospect to the national park boundary and that the petitions would be presented the highway commission next week. Prcgram to be presented by the southern Oregon chambers of com merce at the forum In Portland Oc- ! tober 3 was outlined at the board luncheon. Participating will be the Medford, Ashland, Klamath Falls, Grants Pass, Roseburg and Eugene chambers of commerce, which have taken over the program hour of the Portland chamber. The dinner to be served will be composed of south ern Oregon products, and musical numbers will be furnished by south ern Oregon artists, including James Stevens, local soloist. The three speakers will be R- C. O roes berk of Klamath Falls, I. E. Vlnlng of Ash land, and Frank Jenkins of Eugene, president of the Southern Oregon Publishing company. The board decided at today's luncheon to appoint a special com mittee to lnvetlgat the possibili ties of establishing an agency in Medford to handle the loans for the Federal Home Loan banks, as no agency .has so far been designated for that work here. It Is felt that considerable money could be obtain ed through tshia source and the Med ford chamber wishes to do everything possible to assure designation of a local agency. It was also decided ta oppolnt an other Chamber of Commerce com mittee to set as a reception group to meet visiting dignitaries and del egations arriving in this city. The committee will be known as the hos pitality committee. KLAMATH FALLS Operations re sumed at Shaw-Bertram sawmill souih ROOSEVELT ON WESTERN TOUR BASEBALL RESULTS PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23. P) The Athletics clinched second p'ace In the American league today by defeating Washington, 8 to 4. Haas, Simmons and Kuhel hit hom';runs. The score: R. H. E. Waflhini?ton 4 11 1 Philadelphia . 8 11 1 Wes.ver, Coffman; Brown and Spen cer; Walberg, Mahaffey, Grove and Cochrane. MEDICS AGAINST SCHOOL MERGER IN STATE MEET KLAMATH FALIA Sept. 23. P) The house of delegates at the Oregon gon Stat Medical convention here today unanimously disapproved the Zorn-McP hereon school moving bill as harmful to the best Interests of education In Oregon. Dr. E. L. Zim merman of Eugene, president of the society, proposed the action. It was decided to invite the Oregon State Federation of .Professional societies to Join the opposition to the bill The federal government's with drawal and limitation of military medicine and surgical courses at the University of Oregon medical school was both deplored and applauded at today's session. The general senti ment, however, was that the society should sipport the Oregon congres sional delegation in Its effort to re tain this Instruction. Dr. J. Earl Els of the faculty of the medical school, chairman of the committee on cancer control, report ed that cancer has become the sec ond leading death cause In Oregon. He advocated establishment of cancer clinics In various sections of the state. A flurry of discussion arose over the matter of public clinics when It was suggested that such Institutions soon take pay patients away from doctors. Action on this issue was deferred un til Saturday. The society voted to foster legisla tion limiting the use of derivatives of barbituric acid and to limit more thoroughly the traffic In hablt-form-Ing drugs. A golf tourney was in session today. 0. s. c. c. . 40-HOUR WEEK WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. f API A forty-hour week In Industry today was recommended by the board of di rectors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. President Hoover today sought the aid of the United States chamber of commerce in the move to decrease un employment and spread business ac tivity. i Japanese Flier Hops For Frisco AAMUSHIRO. Japan. Sept. 34. (AP (Saturday) A good will plane sponsored by the newspaper Hoc hi Shlmbun took, off this morning for Nome, Alaska, en rout to San Fran Cisco. Tie takeoff was at 5.33 a. m. (3.35 : p, CO. Fxidlf, eoAtexa aVuoAV4 UfittJ. Legion SLOW RECOVERY NEW YORK, Sept, 33. p) The weekly mercantile reviews today said that seasonal recovery In retail and wholesale trade had been sustained this week. Bradstreet'a Weekly reported the general opinion in its comments from 55 leading cities was "that business is slowly beginning a fundamental recovery." "That this recovery can only be slow Is generally realized; there are still complicated problems for which no satisfactory solutions have been found. But the marked trend away from abject despair and towards ft sober but confident attitude la highly encouraging." Although retail trade In general Is Indicated as spotty, said the review, fall goods have met a fairly good demand, especially In department stores. Wholesaling and right manu facturing lines are seasonally busy, although collections have not yet shown marked improvement. "The general movement toward In creased business activity," stated Dun's, "has experienced no reverse, although there was a general leveling of gains this week, with volume spreading 1n some directions. The rising confidence In fall trade, en couraged by an active consumer re sponse for higher-priced merchandise, has brought about a new faith. The hardening of prices Is awakening manufacturers, distribu tors "and consumers to a realization of the changed conditions." FRUITlRlERS L A field meeting for all fruit grow ere of the county will be held Wed nesday morning, September 38, start ing at 9 o'clock, at the Southern Ore gon Experiment station, located near Talent on the Pacific Highway, ac cording to L. P. Wilcox, county agent. The meeting will be In the form of a tour, during which the Southern Oregon Experiment station and Med ford Experiment station will be vis ited. Orchard problems now being worked on by these agencies will be explained to the growers and recent findings will be discussed by such re. search workers as Prof. F. C. Relmer, Dr. Aldrlch and Arch Work. The tour will start promptly at 0:00 o'clock and all growers should make It a point to be present at that time. HUNTRESS SHOOTS HUBBY AND SALES GIRL, SUICIDES PHIIJVDKIiPHIA, Sept. 23. (n 1 Mrs. Iren. Fttr, 37, dsughUr of retired Norrlitown, Ps , Ilnincler nd known ss ft huntreM snd msrkawom n, shot and critically wounded her htubsnd. killed her young woman companion and then committed sul cld. today. The huaband, Earl ttler. 43, a (raveling construction superintend ent, was shot twice aa he entered the bedroom of his apartment. Clad only In pajamas. Mrs. Etter Uua ta (o tilt ftcartijr homa oj b for Bonus Stand Pear Markets NEW YORK, Sept. 33. (USDA- API Pear auction market slightly stronger. Thirty-eight cara arrive; 17 Cali fornia, 3 New York, 9 Oregon, Wash ington unloaded; 41 on track. By boat, 8 New York, arrived. California Bnrtletu, .7120 Boxes; $1.65-2.85; average, 2.26. Oregon Bartletta, 41S boxes; extra fancy, (1.60-3. 15; top, $1; average, 1.77; fancy, S1.3S-1.S0; top 75ij05c; average, ai.89. Washington Bartletta, 1090: extra fancy, ,1.76-1.65; avernge, 91.81; fancy, $1.35-1.60; average, 91.48. TO DESERT PARTY IS Democratic Candidate Pre dicts Greatest Detection in History Lauds John son Criticism of Hoover By WALTER T. BROWN Associated Press Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 33. (AP) With ft prediction party lines would be broken "more than ever before In history" In the November elections. Governor Roosevelt today carried his campaign to within 35 miles of the legal residence of President Hoover, whom he hopes to succeed in the White House. The Democratic nominee's state ment that liberal Republicans were giving a "remarkable response" to his plea to forget party lines was coupled with praise for Senator Hi ram Johnson. California Independent Republican, who has often clashed with President Hoover, Lauds III Johnson Shortly before he was welcomed by great San Francisco throngs last night, the New York governor In Sacramento described Johnson aa "long a warrior In the ranks of true American progress" and endorsed his most recent criticism of the admin istration. Earlier in the week Johnson nod told the State Federation of Labor a government which "thinks only of a favored few Is unworthy of the name and unfit to govern." (Continued on Page Eight) Funeral service for Mary Agnes Bennett Stelger, 33, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. N. 8. Bennett of this city, who committed suicide yesterday at the Sunrise Service station; will be held Sunday afternoon a-t 3 o'clock at the Conger Funeral parlors. Rev. D. E. Millard will preach the sermon and Interment will be in the Medford cemetery. Mrs. Stelger la survived by her par ents and two sisters, Ethel Bennett of this city and Mrs. Arthur Carlson of Oakland, Cal. IT. Funeral services for Robert L With row, 11. whose death was an nounced yesterday, following a long Illness, will be held Saturday after- non at 3 o'clock from the Conger Funeral parlors. Interment will be In the Medford cemetery. Oregon Went her. Fair tonight and Saturday; change In temperature: gentle, changeable wlnda offshore; fair Sun day, but cloudy on the coast. parents, wher. her companion, Miss Gwendolyn Shlnn. 30. a department store aaleaglrl, was visiting. Chasing her to the rear yard, po lice aald, Mrs. Btter shot her twice, and with the last bullet In her pistol killed herself, Mlas Bhlna died four hours later. Police bad not established the mo tive. Members of Mrs. Etter's family denied reports she had been Jealous of Mlas Shlnn, but aald ahe had been brooding over the death of her moth er, live mooUu agOj jSlMS DECLARES PATRIOTIC IDEAL OF VETS SHELVED Man Who Commanded U. S. Naval Forces In European Waters During War Takes ' Organization to Task CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. 33. (AP) Nation-wide agitation against Immediate cash payment of the bonus is the aim of the American veterans, an organization recently formed here. The organization is opposed to bonus marching and communism, It says. National headquartera will be In this city. NEWPORT, R. I., flept. 33. (AP) Admiral William S. Sims, U, S. N (retired) today made public a letter to the commander of the American Legion Jn which he resigned as an honorary member of the legion In protest against the legion's stand on the soldiers' bonus. Admiral 81ms commander the American naval forces In European watera during the world war. He Is a member of the national advisory council of the National Economy league, an organization dedicated to reduction of government costs. In the letter addressed to the na tional commander of the American Legion, Indianapolis, Ind., Admiral Sims wrote: 'When the national organization of the American Legion did1 ma tha honor of making me one of Its hon orary members I was assured that Its governing body would maintain tne patriotic Ideals expressed In the preamble of Its constitution, that It would continue to 'Inculcate a sense of Individual obligation to the com munity, the atate and the nation. As it now appears hat the action on the bonus taken by the legion in Its recent national convention at ft time of national distress Is In direct repudlalon of these Idoala, I feel that can no longer retain my member ship. "It Is with great regret that I am obliged to tender my resignation for I had hoped that this great organiza tion would take advantage of lta political power to promote the benefit of the nation; that It would carry ou Its declared Intention to 'make right the master of might.' " 4- T Hersche! Claycomb of Ashland was) accidentally shot through the right hand late yesterday, when av Luger pistol he was unllmberlng from his holster was discharged In an unex plained manner. Claycomb had Just returned from a three-day hunting trip with Earl Homely. Claycomb is an Ashland councilman and Ford dealer. According to reports, the bullet left clean hole In the hand, but the flesh was badly powder-marked. ROGER.' BEVERLY IflLIiS, Cal., Sept. 22. Well, tve are off again at our old trait. We are not sup posed to meddle in foreign affairs, no we don't tell Ger many she "can't arm." We "advise licr not to." Now, there is nothing that makes a nation or an individual as mad as to have somebody aay "now this is really none of my business, hut I am just advising you." They never will get any where with this disarmament, for no nation can tell another nation what they need to de fend themselves. That's a per sonal affair. If I sleep with a gun under my pillow I don't want somebody from across the street to "advise" me that I don't need i . Yours, JjBU!gtMbfeiHalltaeK'
