Medford Mail Trib National Advertisers Many national advertisers are mam ben of A. B. o. They help make audited circulations possible by their membership, and profit by using A. B. 0. newspapers. Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1932 No. 1G9. Confesses Killing Son RICA HOOVER OPENS CAMPAIGN IN MIDDLEWEST The Weather Forecast: lnlght and Ssturdai partly clouAj and unsettled; mod erate temperature. Highest yesterday - - 81 Lowest this morning 41 JNE will hti mmSA Mmm I- . 1 : : : : 5 ii innnii nn i imm Comment on the Day s News By FRANK JENKINS PRESIDENT HOOVER, Journeying to Iowa, where he was expected to be received with brickbats and boos, la given a real ovation by those who believe In him who are found to be at least as "numerous as those 'who DON'T believe In him. Iowa Asa certainly been talking anti-Hoover, but you can't always tell In thla country, by the way peo ple talk, how they are going to vote. PRESIDENT HOOVER, In his Dee Moines speech, telle us how near we came to the brink of the precipice last winter, when gold was flowing away from us to foreign countries, and Into safe deposit boxes and old tin cans in this country. T-n. mjifnttstro of thit treasure cants "to him, he says, and ealdi "Unless something happens, we can stay on the gold standard only TWO WEEKS longer." If thla country had gone off the gold atandard, we would have known wnat a real panic Is like. BUT it didn't! 'something hap pened, what happened waa that people got back a measure of their confidence. One thing that restored their cnfldence waa that after for eign countries had taken all the gold that waa coming to them It was learned that we still had gold enough to carry on our business. That gave ua confidence in our own money again, and when people have confidence In their own money they are at least In a much better position than when they HAVEN'T. IF WE had k,nown late last winter that we were within two weeks of going off the gold standard, it would have scared ua silly. But now we can look back to that narrow escope and even laugh about It. Dangera that are past don't bother us much. It Is thoiie that are yet to be faced that. give us pause. . A FRIEND Just' back from 8an Francisco says: Down in the city, they're all wait ing for the election to make up their mlnda whether the depression Is over or not. The Hoover people all think that If Hoover la elected business will bo aU right, and the Roosevelt people are Just aa sure that If Roosevelt Is the winner every thing will be lovely and the goose will hang high. "And as near aa I could see the Hoover and the Roosevelt men are about evenly divided. It's still a toas-up whlcft will carry California. "But a month ago, they tell me, ..... DTTDf " It looxea nae xwoocv.. owv. WELL, If the" Roosevelt people are sure that ' Roosevelt's election will mean better business, and If It turns out that there are more Roose velt people thsn Hoover people" may be Roosevelfa election. If It occurs. WONT hurt business. Thla writer, who Is more of a busi ness man than a politician, Is more Interested In what happens to busi ness than In anything else. STILL, this writer csn't escape the conclusion that If Hoover la elect ed business will go forward with much greater confidence than If Roosevelt la elected. People know Hoover, and they don't know Roose velt. That, of course, Is a personal opin ion. You may think quite other wise. SPEAKINO of 'gambling, aa wsa done In thla column a dsy or so ago, there lives In Southern Oregon a RETIRED gambler who la quite well-to-do. He made his money out of gambling. "in m dav." he says, "I was pretty well known, and people came from far and near to take me If they could. I took them as they came, and If I saw the first night that I waa too much for them I crowded the play and stayed with It. Bui If I saw that they were too much for me, I soon msde sn excuse to quit. "In other words, I played a sure thing or I wouldn't play that Is, I wouldn't plsy enough to hurt. (Continued on Page Ten) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 7. (AP) With the president of the church absent for the first time in Its history, the 102nd seml-snnual conference of the Utter Day Saints was opened In the Mormon tabernacle today by Anthony w. Ivtns, first coun i&t la tbt tint preaidsocz. DECLARED IDEAL OF Women of Nation Urged to Compare Party Programs Past Three Years Would Ruin Economic Basis WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (AP) President Hoover today Invited wo men of the nation. In a radio ad dress from the White House, to com pare the Republican and Democratic programs for the past three years, asserting that If measures Introduc ed by Democrats during the last session of congress had been enact ed "a burden of $3,600,000,000" would have been placed upon the country. The broadcast was arranged by the women's division of the Republican national committee as part of what waa called a "Hoover day" celebra tion. Would Ruin Tariff Referring to what he called the Democratic "program," Mr. -Hoover said: They would have created enor mous issues of flat money. They would have destroyed the effective ness of the tariff commission. They would have led us to place the fate of American workers and American farmers In the hands of foreigners through plafclng our tariff subject to foreign determination.1 "They would have broken down every safeguard that we have estab lished to prevent pork barrel legisla tion. Had we not been able to stop these measures they would have de stroyed recovery; they would have thrown us from the foundations of 150 years of careful upbuilding.' Tribute Paid. The president was Introduced by Mrs. Alvln T. Hert, of the Republican national committee. Speaking directly to the president, as well as to the radio audience, she said many of t,ha women listening had followed the leadership of the president "through the dark years of the war." and through the period of economic strain. She paid him trib ute. T NORTON'S RECALL In his campaign speech In Ash land last night, M. O. Wilkina, can didate for district attorney on the Independent ticket, sprung quite a sensation by declaring himself to be against the recall of Judge H. D. Norton. Attorney Wllklns, In refer ring to the recall which has been made a paramount campaign Issue by his chief newspaper supporter, the Medford News, and by E. H. Fehl, candidate for county Judge, spoke as follows: "I want to say publicly that I still have confidence In Judge Nor ton. I have filed a number of affi davits of prejudice against him In the discharge of my duties to my clients, but If politics and close rela tionship between Judge Norton and other attorneys are removed from the eases In w.hlch I have appeared I still have the greatest confidence in Judge Norton's ability. I believe he Is sincere and I believe he In tends to administer Justice from the bench as he sees It. I am not in favor and never have been In favor of using a recall against Judas Nor ton In the last two years of his serv ice." Robber Foiled PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 7. (AP) Armed with a rock -filled cloth sack, a bandit leaped to the running board of an automobile driven by John Oancler today and demanded money. Instead of complying, Oancler grab bed a handy wrench from the seat beside him and struck the would-bs holdup man on the head. Religious Issue Raised' By G. 0. P. Avers Farley PROVIDENCE, R. I.. Oct. 7. (AP) James A. Parley, chairman of the national Democratic committee and Oovernor Roosevelt's campalen man ager, charged In an address today before the Rhode Island Democratic convention that Republican leaders "have been conducting a campaign for the revival of the religious is sue." "They are trying to persuade men and women who votd for Oovernor Smith to vote aeainst Oovernor Roosevelt on the hypothesis that Roosevelt's nomination was In some way a reflection upon our candidate of four yean ago." Parley toll, the convention he had Jiist come from the New York state convention where "perhaps the two arratrt Demcrsu In the orcanlfa tlon. Roosevelt and Smith, hd com 1 blued to niffia the state ticket, bead w CP William Keehner (above), south-, eastern Wisconsin farmer, was sentenced to prison for life after ha confessed that he stoned to death his eight-year-old son, be cause, he tald, the boy was Incur, ably feeble-minded. (Associated Press Photo) SAN PRANCISCO, Cal.t Oct. 7. (AP) The Republican protective tariff policy waa termed "the cor nerstone of the American, economic system" by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills here last night as he urged Pacific coast voters to cast their ballots for the re-election of President Hoover. The cabinet member, who spoke before a capacity crowd at Dream land auditorium, which the manage ment said seated 7000, praised what he claimed was the administration's achievements against the depression. Could Lose More "Don't let anybody tell you that things couldn't be worse," he de clared. "We have lost much, but we still have much more to lose." He credited the administration, during the last 12 months, with sav ing the nation's credit and preserv ing "the Integrity of our monetary system." Secretary Mills, introduced by Mayor Angelo J. Rossi of San Fran francisco a a member of a pioneer California family, devoted the major part of his address to the tariff question. Tariff An Aid He declared the Republican pro tective tariff policy was responsible for the building up "of the greatest free market In the world. In which 90 per cent of the products of a country, richer than anything dream ed of by any nation in the world, are produced and consumed." Under the protective tariff sys tem, he added, had been established wage scales and standards of living "much higher than In any other country," and that thla In turn had created "an enormous purchasing power, which enables us to maintain a relatively high degree of prosperity even without a foreign commerce, desirable and necessary as the latter Is." Democratic Tariff Plan Hit Secretary Mills attacked the Dem ocratic tariff proposals as threaten ing to use American products as "pawns" In "bargaining ' for foreign trade. He cited California citrus crops, petroleum, motion picture pro ductions, Oregon's apples and the entire coast's lumber as products which he said were protected from foreign competition by the Republi can tariff. He listed numerous oth er products In the same category. As corollary to the protective tar iff, the secretary declared the Re publican party offered a restrictive immigration policy. The cabinet officer will give an address before a Republican wom en's organization here this afternoon and will speak at another public gathering tonight. ed by Lieutenant Govern od Herbert Lahman. Republicans counting upon disun ion In the Democratic party, he said, had been bitterly disappointed by the results of the New Tork convention. "Four years ago," Parley said, "Rhode Wand, like its neighboring state of Massachusetts, swung Into the Democartie column behind that great statesman, that peerless Demo crat, Alfred B. smith. Your vote on that occasion registered your protest aeainst religious intolerance and pro hibition bigotry. Why then should there be any question of where this state will stand when the ballots are counted next month? "The answer Is that the Republi can leaders this time are endeavor ing to capitalize exactly the name Is sues that they failed with here In 1938.- . L BY HOUSE CLERK Banks and Trust Companies Received $85,057,604 of $111,596,631 Total Au thorized During August WASHINGTON. Oct. 7. (AP) The reconstruction finance corporation authorised 1,110 loans during August aggregating $111,586,831. The report of the corporation waa made public today by South Trimble, clerk of the house of representatives, over the protest of Atlee Porcmene, chairman of the reconstruction board. The August report also showed in creases In previous xoans aggregating $ 1 0 .68 1 ,0 1 0, mak 1 ng the total d Is -burse men for the month $123,377, 641. Report Authorized Trimble's announcement of his de cision to make the report public con tained an opinion by his counsel. South Trimble, Jr which said that "after careful examination of the legislative history of the emergency relief and construction act of 1933, and of the protest and brief of the reconstruction finance corporation, I am of the opinion that the act gives you no discretion to withhold the monthly reports of the reconstruc tion finance corporation from pub lic Inspection." Banks and trust companies receiv ed $65,087,604.43 of the total author isation for August. Aid to Defunct Ranks Thla sum Included $7,772,900 to aid In the reorganisation or liquida tion of closed banks. The remslnder of the -loans, all of which ara based upon securities put up by the beneficiaries, .were dis tributed as follows: To building and loan associ a talons, $13,294,188; to Insurance companies, $37,708,700; to mortgage loan com panies, $3,010,720; to a federal land bank. $3,000,000; to Joint stock land bank, $55,000; to agricultural credit corporations, $594,021; to livestock credit corporations, $2,667,823; to raU roads, $12,798,583. Including $5,606, 449 to. railroad receivers. IN MINE STRIKE CANTON, 111., Oct. 7. (AP) Na tional guardsmen, here to prevent violence In connection with a miners' strike, were rushed today to1 guard two grade sohools sheltering 1089 pupils,, following rumors of threats to bomb them. A sentry on duty where state troops were quartered found a light ed bomb -under a window ledge. The bomb waa 10 Inches long, wrappd. In black tape, and six Inches of the fuse remained when the sentry stepped on It. State's Attorney O. Ray Senlft and, military authorities started an In vestigation. LUMBER BUSINESS SEATTLE, Oct. 7. (AP) Ship ment from 317 mills for the week ending October 1, were 354 per cent over production, the West Coast Lumbermen's association reported to day. Unfilled orders decreased 7, 028.000 feet from the previous week The export business was 4.307,000 feet more than the previous week, and the local trade showed an Increase of 2.311.000 feet. New domestic cargo orders showed a drop of 9.676. 000 feet. Operations at 33.6 per cent of cs parity, compared to 23.1 per cent the previous week, and 31.4 per cent for the same week last year, were report ed by 33 mills. Inventories of 144 mills are 25 8 per cent less than at this time last year. PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 7. (API Leon C. Slmms, secretary treasurer of the Central Municipal Market associa tion here, waa today fined 1350 after ha pleaded guilty to an Indictment accusing him of advocating bribery In connection with the selection of a site for a publlo market to be built In Portland. The Indictment charged Slmmiwlth having advocated payment of a sum of money to Mayor Oeoree L. Baker for his favorsblt Tot on the sit Buns wis promctiny. Associated Press telephoto of Herbert Hoover In hla native state hie principles and administration policies. Photo ehows the republican the parade held In their honor In Dee Moines. F EMBERS OF FIRE PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 7. (AP) A strong wind, approaching gale veloc ity, arose In the Shadybrook area near HUlsboro today, driving to new life embers of forest fires which last night were believed to be within control. Should the wind continue thruout the day It .was feared three residences and the Arcade school house In the path of the flames, would be con sumed. This was the only fire of conse quence remaining after a week which brought the most disastrous timber fires the Pacific northwest has ex perienced, rendering several hundred families homeless and causing pro perty damage estimated, at nearly 93.000,000. C. C. Scott, head of the Oregon forest fire patrol, declared today that "about all we can do Is to fight the fires and pray harder for rain." 3 FLOWERS ...... ...... ...... Sogstm Blossoms from an "Angel's Trum pet," a rare shrub in Medford, are on display today at the chamber of com merce building. They were brought In by Mrs. Mary Payne of 333 North Ivy The flowers, which were pure white in color, when blooming In midsum mer, are now tinged wiJi lavender. They are shaped like the morning glory blossoms, but much larger and longer, which accounts for the name given the shrub. The bush lies down In winter. BY CHEST BOARD The board of the Medford Com munity Ohest met last night, but failed to decide upon the procedure to be adopted during the coming drive, which will be held in the very near future. Numerous plans for division of the budget and designa tion of charities by the contributors were discussed, but no course adopt ed, due to the fact that all mem bers were not in attendance. The' board will meet again Monday noon to complete the campaign pro gram. GARNER INDIFFERENT 10 LABOR IS CLAIM NEW YORK, Oct. 7 MP) O. W. Laughlln, executive of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, ssld today at Republican eastern campaign headquarters that Speaker John w. Oarner, Democratic vice-president tal candidate, did not dierv the labor vote, "because of his Indifferent atti tude towards labor." "Oarner's record. taugh1ln said, U distinctly and clearly not that of a friend of the working man." Aimee Suffering From Carbuncles LOS ANOELES. Vt. 7 (AP) Almee Rem pis Mpheron-Hutton, evangelist, was confined at the Holly wood hospital today with a blood In fection in the arm after an operation for carbuncles. Miss Harriet Jordan, dean of Angelus temple Bible school, said that although the doctor warned the evangelist to keep her arm per fectly still following the operation, she Incited on leading tho sir.iring with arm movements, thus aggravat ing tb infection. E IN LARGEESTATE (Copyright, 1932, by Associated Press) NEW YORK, Oflt. '1. (AP) A Will executed by Smith Reynolds leas than a year before he was fatally shot at Winston -Snl em. N. C, Is to be filed for probate here soon, leaving his entire share of the Reynolds tobacco millions, except for a few specific be quests, - to hla brother and his two sisters. From a source close to the Reynolds family It waa established today that the will was drawn during the sum mer of 1931, while young Reynolds was occupying a Long Jsland cottage near the summer resldenoe of Llbby Holman, Broadway torch singer, now under Indictment for his murder. He waa not yet married to Miss Holman at that time, however, and she la not mentioned In the will. It was learned there Is a request of $fi0,000 to Smith Reynolds' friend, Al bert Walker, who is also at liberty under bsll awaiting trial for murder of Reynolds. There are also said to be requests of 950,000 each to Reynolds' first wife, Anne Cannon Reynolds, and their daughter. Reynolds and his first wife were divorced shortly after the will was drawn and It was reported at that time that he had made a financial settlement of approximately il.000,- 000, CRATER ROAD JOB LOW 81031,563 PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 7. (AP) Bids on highway work In three west ern states, amounting to more than 170.000 were opened by the federal bureau of public roads today. The work Is In Oregon, Washington and Montana. For surfacing i miles on the east entrance road of the Crater Lake Na tional park highway, the bid of A. Milne of Portland- at 3 1,563, was low. H. O. Johnson, Portland, bid 33,735, and A. C. Greenwood, Port land, bid 934,110. The work will extend surfacing over the section graded last year and begins two miles inside the park and extends to the rim of the lake near Kerr Notch. Beats Drunk Charge PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 7. (AP) P. T. Alnge, Portland showcase manu facturer, waa acquitted on a driving while drunk charge in district court here today. The complaint was pre ferred by an employe of an auto tow ing company. Coolidge May Succeed Insurance NEW YORK, Oct. 7. (AP) The name of Calvin Coolidge was being mentioned today as 'a possible suc cessor co the late Darwin P. KlngMey as chairman of the board of directors of the huge New York Life Insurance company. Klngftley died last night of a heart j ailment In his 76th year. He headed a directorate which included former President Coolidge, Klngsley's proud est title was "Insurance man," but during his long, varied career he was a publicist, collector of rare books, patron of the arts and defender of big business. During his administration, a biog raphy Issued by his company pointed out, the New York Life more than Hmihlail In ttm ttitmHftp nt rvtllr (holders growing from shout 1.000.000 to about 2 5oo and the assets I from tllrhtlv l-s than WOO.OOO.OOO to I nearly 2,000,000,000 - of Iowa where ha enunciated nominee and Mrs. Hoover in REGISTRATION FOR WOULD-BE VOTERS Registration books at the coun ty clerk's office In the new coun ty courthouse on South Oak dale and Main streets, will remain open tomorrow night until 8 o'clock, to enable all residents of the city ta register. The office will also be open during the noon hour tomorrow. ' Registration for the general elec tion November 8 continued heavy to day in the county clerks' office with an Increase In the number or Re publican and women voters. It la estimated that the total registration for all parties will pass the 18,000 mark the highest registration In the history of the county. The registra tion books close tomorrow a month before the election. Within the past 10 days In Jack son county there has been a decided tendency towards drawing of party lines, and voters have started to ask candidates for office on the Repub lican ticket how they "stand on Hoo ver." This has been manifest since the Des Mlones, Iowa, speech of the president and the radio speech of Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills last night. Both talks had the effect of stiffening the Republican Ism of local voters. Msny Repub licans feel that If the head of their ticket la not good enough for a can didate, the candidate Is not entitled to their suffrage In the middle of the ticket. The county Democrats Intend to make a vigorous campaign to carry Jackson county for Roosevelt, and Col. B. E. Kelly and Porter J. Neff plan on stumping the county. Both are veteran orators. The Democrats wilt open their county campaign at Ashland next Tuesday, and the po litical session will be followed by a dance. The Republican county cam paign will also take to the stump, and the air, next week. - A number of ' candidates have re ported that the country voters are also asking "How do you stand on Hoover?" An effective vote getter In spring primary was to "cuss the pres ident." This attitude Is now chang ing, office seekers report. 25 Lightning Fires In National Forest A total of as small fires, the re suit of lightning, were reported at the offices of the Rogue River na tional forest today, according to Ja nle Smith, clerk in the office. Two fires were reported today In the Dead Indian section, she stated. Firm Chief Like Coolidge, he waa a Vermonter. From hla father's farm at Alburg, Vt., he went to Baits Academy and the University of Vermont, where he earned part of hla expenses ringing the college bell. After a year as a school teacher In Denver, he went to Grand Junction, Colo., center of the fruit belt on the western slope of the Rockies, where he bought an Interest In the "Grand Junction News," got himself a six shooter for protection, and Jumped into a political crusade. Later he waa elected state auditor and Insur ance commissioner on the Republi can ticket. When his term was up. he accepted a lob with New York Life at It Bos ton offices, and his progress carried him into the presidency of the con- i earn in ivusj E FOR N. Y. Choice at Special Convention Marks Setting of Jimmy Walker's Political Sun Al Smith OK's Selection NEW YORK, Oct. 7 It was learned late today that for mer Governor Alfred B. Smith will campaign actlrely for the Democrntlo ticket and will make speeches In at least four states. New York, Rhode Island. Con necticut and Massachusetts. 8. 8. EUROPA. Oct. 7 (AP) Sources close to former Mayor James J. Walker, who Is returning to New York from Europe aboard the Europa, said today they believed he would be more Interested In a campaign for the United States senate at soma future time than In running again for mayor of New-York. The matter was not discussed, how ever, at a smoking room conference) aboard ship after midnight this morn ing, at which Walker announced to his friends that he had declined to be a candidate for mayor at the No vember election. By BALE HARRISON NEW YORK. Oct. 7. (AP) From the wigwam of Tammany emerged today another of Its Irish sons. Sur rogate John P. O'Brien, to be Demo cratic candidate for mayor of New York. His nomination at Madison Square Garden last night by acclamation of delegates called In special convention definitely marked the political (Continued on Psge Ten) J KMED local station starts Its an nual football broadcasts tomorrow afternoon with the Qregon-Waahlng ton game from Portland, on the air at 1:30. Oregon, with Its heavy represen tation from Medford In Calllson. Morgan, Hughes and Bowerman, holds the grid spotlight during the remain der of the season, and most all of the Oregon gamea will be broadcast by direct leased wire service, over the local station. Tetf, Baker will an nounce .tomorrow's game. The broadcast will be picked up by a receiving set at the Mall Trib une for the benefit of fans. Spotlight Hunters Shoot Steers, CoW ALBANY, Ore.. Oct. 7. (AP) Lonnle Pogle and Hubert Queener were fined MOO each In Justice court here Taursday because they hunted with spotllghta and mistook two steers and a cow for deer. The, three farm animate belonged to a crawfordsvllle rancher. The two men were unable to pay their flnea and were placed In Jail. WILL- ROGERS EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 6. I read Mr. Ho.over's speech,' every word of it. Now he may be dry, but somebody sure filipprd him s couple of nips and told him "Go on out there and tell those birds something, deliver 'em a speech so they won't think it's Hoover," and I want to tell you he took right after 'em. Course another thing was In his favor. A man can put a little more into a speech when it means his job. Some men will stand for a lot of things but you start taking their woman or their job away from 'em and you're going to get something besides platitudes. I'll tell you Al and Franklin didn't make up a day too soon. They mada up, going to bury the hatchet, decided to bury it in Hoover. J M.KiMlirHla.vaJ