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Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: Tonljht and Tutt4tv, tomewhat cloudy. Not much cnanje In temperature, Highest yesterday Lowest this mornln ! National Advertisers Many national advertisers are mam btrt o( A. B. c. They help mile audited circulations possible by their membership, and profit by using A. B. C. newspapers. Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFOltD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1932. No. 171. raw si age Mi mult SiflVS Comment on the . Day's News l By FRANK JENKINS. TB OOINO TO RAINI These encouraging words were spoken to tbla writer day before yes terday by Rufus Wood, who sella ad rertlelng for the News-Review, of Roeeburg, where these words are writ ten. "I feel It In my bones," he added, "and besides It's beginning to haze over." IT DIDN'T rain or at least It hasn't yet. Mr. Wood's bones misled him, ' and aa for the base It was from slash ing fires. ' Bo that dispose of Rufus as prophet. IT'S GOING TO RAIN within three ( 1 days I" This hopeful prophecy was voiced yesterday morning by Julian Perkins, Just after proffering to thla writer one of his famous home-made cigar ettes. He makes 'em with one of these little hlckeys they sell In the tobacco tores. A package of tobacco coats him 16i cents, and he makea 'em. up at night after he goea home. It takes him about an hour and a half to make 100, he says. He's the biggest real estate owner to Roseburg, and ne'e prouder than punch of this little economy. It isqt much of an economy at that, for what he savea In tobacco he losea by giving cigarettes to hla friends, to prove how good they are. HXJ OVT do youknow it'a going to ll rain?" this writer demanded of Julian. "Well," he answered, "I heard the geese going over last night, headed south: and about three days after the first geese go over It always rains." IT HASN'T rained jet at least as these worda are written, although It may rain before they are printed. 80 as weather prophets. Rufus Wood's bones, the haze that he thought he saw and Julian Perkins' geese are not so hot. But then, you know, all signs fall In dry weather. The prognostlcators Invented that wlee crack long ago In order to provide themselvea with an alibi. ITS DRY over h'ere-very, very dry Indeed for Western Oregon. For once, everybody west of the mountains la crying for rain. The stockmen want It to start the winter pasture. The merchants wsnt it to start winter buying. The housewives want It to stop the dust that pours through the open doors and windows for It Is aa hot here In October as It ought to be In August. The tlmbermen, It ought to be added, want a rain to atop the forest fires, which sre running wild In ft number of places In the Willamette valley. The air 1a heavy with amoke. ttTjrE WENT out' to the farm the W othr day to burn some slash ings." Henry Booth, president of the Douglas National Bank, says, "but the Miming was pretty much of a fizzle because on that day the humidity was high. "The day before the humidity was abnormally low, and lt'a probably a good thing we didn't start our slash ing fires that day or we'd have burned up the whole country." Up to a few years ago we won- dered why flrea ran wild one day and Just smoldered the next. Then along came the forest service and told us H was the humidity that made the difference. On days when the humidity la low the dry timber burns like a handful of powder, but on days of low humidity, fire spreads hsrdly at all. We keep learning things. HERS In Douglas county. Incident ally, It seems probable that the prune men. who have a crop, will at ' least break even thla year, for the price Is a little better than last year. Borne of the better operators will make a little money, It la said the better operate, being those who have kept their cost low. TURRET prices 'are expected to open somewhere around 30 cents per pound. This Is lower by quite little than last year, but even at that rt seems probable that turkeys will be the most profitable crop In Douglas county this year. The price is down L.E. FOURTH SUICIDE 19 Farm Near Rogue River Is Scene of Latest Chapter in Self-Destruction Series Despondency Is Cause Lindsay E. Neathamer. 55, a life long resident of the Evans Valley dis trict near Rogue River, in the north end of the county, died last night in a Orants Pass hospital from a self inflicted bullet wound In the head, fired late Sunday afternoon. In deep despondency due to ill-health and worry over domestic trouble. It waa the fourth suicide In thla county In the last nineteen days. Neathamer, according to the Inves tigation of the state police, has been suffering from a weak heart for some time, and inclined to morose periods. Last Thursday his wife filed suit for divorce, alleging cruelty as grounds. This, according to the authorities, heightened his despondency and he haa been under the care of a brother for several days. Friends and neigh bors had endeavored to cheer him up, and Saturday It was felt that he was In a cheerful frame of mind. Appeared Cheerful Sunday afternoon he went to the home of hla brother and appeared cheerful. After a few mlnutea of conversation, he left $15 to be dellv- (Contlnued on Page Five) -4 T I BILL AT An anlysls of the proposed High way Protection law. better known as the Freight Truck and Bus bill, was given today at- the meeting of the Klwanla club at the Hotel Medford by Oswald West, who showed through a presentation of figures on road costs snd tax collections that only four per cent of the annual total of expenditures is borne by motor ve hlbles operated for compensation. "In the last eight years," Mr. West stated, "the state, counties and cities have spent 1240,000,000 In the con struction snd upkeep of roads and streets, being an average annual ex penditure of (30,000.000. Of this 240,000,000, the taxpayers contribute 52 per cent, the federal government 12 per cent and motor vehicles 88 per cent. The total annual contri bution by all motor vehlclea operated for compensation through the pay ment of gas tax. license fees and mile age fees did not exceed, aocordlnn to Chapman. .1,200.000 or four per cent of the total annual expenditures. Proof that these figures of Chap man's are more than fair was Intro duced by Mr. West In a circular Is sued by the Allied Truck Oowners. which stated that all for-hlre ve hicles paid the state last year: Li cense fees, t315.097.47; mileage fees, 201. 854.82; gas taxes. S541.0D0. This about three and a half per cent of the total annual expenditure for state and county roads and city streets, and averages 9245.50 per ve hicle, Mr. West stated. Guests at the luncheon today In cluded a number of4 federal officers: Judge James Aljrer Fee, United States District Tttorney Geo. Neuner, chas. Eraklne, Jack Day, William Graham and Hal Kenyon. Moulton To Talk On Race For Judge Arthur I. Moulton of Lord and Moulton, attorneys, of Portland, will deliver an address over KMED Tues day evening, October 11, at 7:30. on local political Issues, bearing par ticularly upon the county Judegshlp He will have something of Interest to say In regard to the local situa tion and voters are urged to tune In at 7:30 p. m. NOTE IN BOTTLE ASKING HELP PUZZLES OFFICERS PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 10. (AP) Whether a note purporting to be a call for help from a 15-year-old girl marooned on a small Island In the Hawaiian group and found In a corked bottle washed up near Siletz bay Is a genuine message of distress or was merely written as a lark by soma one who cast the bottle from some near by beach waa an object of conjecture here today. The note was brought to Portland yesterday by A. A. Donaldson, Okla homa City lumber dealer. Donald son said he found th bntMe, of pint sixe and round, on a Rand pit out mo Silet bay last wee. The small neck Flood and Quake Strike TY CHEST PLAN ABANDONED FOR COMING YEAR Changed Conditions Makes System Impractical, View of Directors Kelief Left Up to County and City The board of directors of the Med ford Community Chest, at a meeting held today noon at the Jackson Hotel decided that It will be Impractical to conduct a combined drive for mem berships in the various organizations composing the chest this year, and that the unemployment and relief problems of the community must be considered and ajlived by the county court and the city council, In the belief that thesti problems present obligations to all the citizens and taxpayers In the community, and do not belong only to those who are con tributors to the Community Chest. , The board ot the chest arrived at the above coniuMon after weeks of careful deliberation on the problem of raising funds for charity, unem ployment relief, character building, etc., icrs the statement made this afternoon by E. E. Thqrndyke, presi dent of the Community Chest, and Hamilton Patton, chairman of the chest's budget committee, "Due to the unfavorable publicity received In advance cf the chest's proposed campaign, the directors feel that It la Impractical to conduct a Joint campaign, and we have recom mended that the unemployment and lellef problem be returned to the coumy couit and the city council, where, they rightful.? belong," was the statement Issued following the meeting. Recommendations made by the di rectors for the handling of these problems this winter include the co ordination of all efforts which may be put forth by the county court and the city council, working with the county relief committee, headed by Judge C. B. Lamkln. It Is also pro posed that the socalled dole system be eliminated inaofar,as possible, and that labor be created by the county end city, in order to give unemployed people a chance to earn a living, without being made dependent upon charity for their livelihood. Otmer RAnnoberg, 17, native of Norway, and Edward Balk, 18, of Minneapolis', Minn., were brought back to Medford from Dunsmulr, Calif., Sunday, charged with stealing the P- Corning Kenly roadster from Wert Main street Saturday afternoon. The two youth are being held in the city Jail until Information concern ing them cm be obtained from Minneapolis, officer Mid. The boys were picked up by fltftte Traf.Mc Officer Mai one of Dunsmulr Saturday evening. Each boy had a suitcase full of new clothes. Mrs. Kenly had driven the car to town Saturday afternoon, falling to lemove the key. LEGION INSTALLING - OFFICIALS TONIGHT Joint installation of newly elected officers of the American Legion and Its auxiliary will be held thla even ing at the K. P. hall at 8 o'clock, with Carl Y. Tengwald. past com mander , acting as master of cere monies. Paul McDonald of Ashland, state vice -commander, will act aa in stalling officer. stopper that he found it necessary to break the bottle to get th. not.. On the paper waa a message, writ- , ten In pencil and mad. partly unda- 1 clpherable from watr. It read: "S O 8. July 22, 1932. I am ma rooned on a small Island somewhere nenr the Hawaiian group. Food enough for t eka. Send help.) 15-yr-old girl, nia Oravea.'1 On the other aid. of th. paper, appar- I ently torn from a small calendar, waa written 'Help.' Seafaring men pointed- out that the not. could b. of little valu. in making a check, even If genuine, be-' caus. of th. fact that there are nu merous islands In th,. roup and soj HOOVER WITH BOYHOOD TEACHER ' . " Q) jTiWffiJfrY..fti.""tNtM,ril.B"lll Memories of hit boyhood days In Iowa wore recalled to President Hoover when he wae host on hia special Dea Moinea-bound train to Mra. Molly Carran, 77, (left), who taught him In third grade In West Branch, la. (Associated Press Photo) KEENE CREEK WILD MAN HUNTED BY POSSEMEN State police today were searrhlng the wilds at the head of Keene creek In southeastern -lark son county, In the vicinity of Tahle Mountain, for a wild man who Sunday morning rume to the Inokout station on Table Mountain, and threateningly accosted Mrs. George Bmissom, nlfe of the forert sen Ire lookout station keeper. The station la located In .tfhe wil derness south of the Dead Indian country. In response to a knock at the door, Mra. Boussom. who waa voting as lookout while her husband was on patrol, waa greeted by a heavily bearded, roughly dresred man, who said: "I have come to get you." Mrs. Boussom slammed and barred the door In hla face, whereupon the unwelcome visitor shouted: "Never mind, I'll get you the next time." State police were called to the scene, and spent Sunday afternoon sesrehtng the district. They found tracks leading to and from the lonely (By the Associated Press) Montana and Wyoming stockmen and farmers today looked out on fields of white a life blood snow storm for field and farm In the two statea which had experienced a 30 day drought. Bnow fell again In Colorado. Wis consin and Minnesota had their first snow this autumn, accompanied by near-freezing temperatures. Lincoln, Neb., had Its first snow of the season, a light one that melted as fast as it fell. Transportation and communication facilities generally were undamaged In the snow area but a spot of bad flying weather between Cheyenne and Laramie in Wyoming caused air offi cials to take passengers by bus be tween the two points OF FIR PORTLAND, Oct. 10. (AP) With humidity high over most of western Oregon and rain In sight for tonight and Tuesday, more relief for forest fire fighters waa In prospect today than at any time since the serious outbreak last week. Edward L. Wells, weather man, said the likelihood of rain Is more pro nounced than at any time since the dry spell started. "A storm area of considerable intensity,' he said, "Is centered on the north Pacific and Is moving thla way." Mail Tribune I Intend to vote for I Intend to tot. for I Intend to vole for I Intend to vote for Plro-e nil onl, nlfh or nlthout Contest Eriltor, Mall Irihune. At aftafc lookout station, but no signs of the man. Two men were assigned today to cont'ntie the hunt, assisted by a hastily formed poaae. Mrs. Boussom told the state police that the man was middle-aged and "kept chattering like a monkey." Captain Bown of the state police said It waa the flrat report received of the man, who is thought to oe dersnged and wandering aimlessly through the brush, Mrs. Boussom haa relatives living In this city. With her husband she haa been at the lookout station all summer. She Is an expert shot. SAMUEL INSULL HELD IN GREECE ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 10. (AP) Samuel Insull, under indictment In Chicago on charges arl g from the collapse of his vast utility intere.it., was detained by police today on ft technicality, pending extradition pro ceedings. Police found him at his hotel and' Informed him it would be necessary to accompany them to headquarters because hla papers were not In order. It was first reported that hla deten tion had been requested by the Amer ican legation but police said they act ed entirely on their own initiative. It was explained police cannot hold any person more than forty-eight hours in connection with defective papers. FIRST ROUND RESULTS P.-T.A. Results of the first round of the P. A. T. tournament played at the Rogue River Valley Oolf course were announced this morning and are as follows: H. B. Kellom defested Homer Marx, 8 and 7. Oiin Schenck defeated O. B. Pierce, one up. Frank Huseong defeated A. B. Orr, 8 and 1. 6 prague Rlegel defeated Chas. Strang, 7 and S. O. S. Newhall defeated Ted Fish, one up. Straw Ballot . for r refill ent. , for County Juice. . for District Attorney. . for "herlff. slrnature, and malt in tnw Ballot Blows in 1 ' 1 ' "' 1 i HOOVER DATES UP Pear Markets 1 THOUSANDS ACRES CLEVELAND TALK Plan for Trip to Pacific Still Under Consideration Many Sections Ask for Speaking Engagements WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. (JP) Prepared to continue an active part In the campaign for hla re-election. President Hoover today arranged o speak next Saturday night In the Cleveland auditorium, where Calvin Coolldge waa nominated In 1024. He probably will return directly to the capital, aa he did last week after his Dea Moines speech. Post master-General Brown said the President was still conslderatng the possibilities of a transcontinental campaign trip that would carry him to the Pacific coast. Many Sections Plead. "Requests for speeches by the Pres ident are coming in from ill sections of the country," he said. "They want him In New England and they want him. In the far west. He Is still considering a western trip, but honestly I do not believe he has reached any final decision." The postmaster-general said he be lieved Mr. Hoover would apeak in Cleveland on unemployment and pos sibly upon low farm prices. "Certainly he will talk about un employment there," Brown said. "We are feeding thousands bf people In Ohio who can't feed themselves. It Is one of the most pitiful sights I nave ever seen." Ohio More Favorable. Both Brown and Carml Thompson, chairman of the Cuyahoga county Re publican organization, who extended the Invitation for' the Cleveland ad dress, said they believed the political situation in Ohio was lending to be come more favorable to the president. Brown attributed It In part to a "better understanding of the issues or the campaign" brought about by the President's Des Moines speech "There is certainly a movement to ward the President In Ohio," Thomp son added. "You can actually feel ,t. It has some way to go, but it is going." WHEN CAGE PALLS LEIOH. LANCASHIRE. Eng.. Oct. 10. (AP) Nlnetean mine workers were drowned at the Plank Colliery near here today when an elevator oage carrying a number of workers fell to the bottom of the mine shaft. The coal fell Into a lump hole at the bottom which was full of water. The crash occurred aa the early morning ahlft waa about to relieve the night workers. The elevator had Just started down the ahaft wlien something went wrong with the ma chinery and the cage dropped. - T P MADRAS, Ore., Oct. 10. (AP) Miss Myrtle O. Wilson, 30. of Agency, lows, and Mrs. Hulda Hamilton. 48, of Portland, were killed near Warm spring. Ore., last night, when their automobile swerved off a grade and I dropped 200 feet Into th. Deschutes river canyon. Both women wer. em ployed on the Warm Spring Indian reservation. Th. bodies were taken to Redmond. No one today had reported witness. Ing the accident, but motorists some dlstanc. from th. seen, aald they heard th. crash aa th. automobile struck th. bottom of th. canyon. PRIEST HER ABDUCTER IS SCHOOL TEACHERS CLAIM STREATOR, 111., Oct. 10 (AP) Colett. Haley, rural achool tacher, missing alnc September 8, was back bom. today with a story. Sheriff I. J. Walter aald, accused a Catholic priest, long a friend of the family, ot kidnaping her. Welter aald Mia. Halay told htm th. priest, th. Rev. William Courtney, 42, ot Alexia, til. Invaded her Eagl. township achool near her. shortly after a noon races on September 0. pointed a revolver at her. and forced Imperial NEW YORK, Oct. 10. USD A) () Pear auction market: Prices steady on Oregon stock, about steady on California stock: 41 cars arrived; 11 Oregon, 7 Mew York, a California. 3 W Washington cars unloaded; 81 car on track. Oregon Bartletts, 49,060 boxes extra fancy $3.00-3.40, average $3.22; fancy $1.40-2.60. average $1.93. Oregon Boscs, S20 boxes extra fancy $1.85-2 35, average $2.13; fancy $1.60 3.00, average $1.89. CHICAGO, Oct. lO-(USDA) Pear prices: 3 Oregon. 4 Washing ton, 1 Colorado, 1 New York, 9 Mich igan cars arrived; 31 cars on track; 4 cars sold. Oregon Bartletts, 1,540 boxes extra fancy $1.80-3.05, average $3.25; 1336 boxes fancy $1.50-2.10. average $1.03. ALLEGED SLAYER GOES ON TRIAL IJoyd L. Low. sheriff of Klamath county, was the first witness called by the government In the trial of Ra cine Welser, Klamath Indian youth charged with the alaylng of his father last aummer. Bherlff Low, from a drawing of the vicinity of the slsylng, described the movements of th. defendant, before hla arrest. He waa on the atand at the noon recess. Trial of Racine Welser, Klamath In. dlaa youth, charged with second de grea murder for the alleged alaylng of hla father last summer aa the traglo climax of a drinking spree, started this morning In federal court here. Judge Alger Fee presiding. The trial la expected to last two rf.y lection of a Jury and opening state ments were made at the morning ses sion. Young Welser la expected to plead self-defense and Interpose the further plea that ha acted In defense of his mother. : The government bases 11. prosecU' tlon upon the allegation that young Welser with another Indian and two Indian maidens, th. evening before the killing, autoed to Klamath Palls. to attend a carnival. They are alleged to have Imbibed freely of strong llnuor. and started home 1st, by auto. Welser'a comnanlona were left at their homea, and after tlr. trouble, th. defendant reached hla father's house, shortly before 8:00 o'clock In th. morning. Th. father, Sylvester Welser, wsa re garded aa "a good Indian," and held a land allotment. He had been di vorced from his wife, but they were together. Toung Welser, th. government al legea, kicked In a door when h. found the house locked, and hla father ab sent. He procured a gun, and went out Into a field and fired it tnre. or four times to call hla parent. He then went to th. road, crawled through the fence and waited. When hla father appeared horseback, the on la alleged to have tired, and killed his father, without warning. Toung Welser, according to federal officials, told two account, of the slaying, one being that his father at tacked him with a club. Clou, to a score of witnesses will be called to testify, Including a num ber of reservation Indiana. Coolidge Attends Kingsley Funeral NEW YORK, Oct. 10. (AP) Former President Calvin Coolidge arrived U' day from Springfield, Maaa., to at tend the funeral of Darwin P. Klnga- ley, chairman of th. board of th. New York Life Insurance company of which Mr. Cool Id n la a director. Coolidge waa asked as h. left his train what h. thought of Republican prospects in the national campaign. 'They're good, or course," ft. aald, Because Wednesday, Columbus Day, la a legal holiday, all banks of south .rn Oregon will be closed, according to announcement today. Courtney, ah. said, and four of hla friends, kept her prisoner at Chicago, Orand Rapids, Mich, and St. Louis until last Wednesday when ah. caned and hltch-hUted to Chicago, Th. girl called her mother from Chicago Saturday night, stating ah. was unharmed. Th. mother returned th. girl to bar horn, her yesterday, A few hours after Mlas Haley's dis appearance, a warrant charging kld naplng against Courtney was obtained by her brother, James F. Haley. Ap parently no tree csT th. clergyman Valley UNDER WATER AS S Trains Are Held Up Motor ists Stranded On High waysHeavy Damage to Crops Ditches Ruined BRAWLEY, Calif.. Oct. 10. (AP) Thousands of acres In the rich, below sea level Imperial Valley were under more than a foot of water today as the result of torrential rains during the past 24 hours that brought th. precipitation for the week-end storm to approximately 3.5 Inches. Although county agricultural of ficials could give no estimate of th. damage to the crop, It waa indicated the loss would be heavy aa a late let tuce crop Is in th. fields. Southern Paclfio tralna were being held up at Nlland, due to a washed out rosdbed southeast ot there. Hun. . dreda of motorists were stranded on highways, which. In places, wer. cov ered to a depth of three feet by water. In addition to th. damag. dona crops, Irrigation dltchea also suffered from the downpour, being washed out In sections and filled at other place, with mud and debris. At th. height of th. storm yester day afternoon, a severe earth tremor Btartled residents her. and of th.. neighboring town of El Centra and caused them to run to the atreets. The crack Southern Paclfio train Golden Stat. Limited was derailed near Nlland when It hit a aoft spot In the roadbed. .An unidentified hobo . waa Injured,. ; , ROOSEVELT PLANS SWING THRU DIXIE ON 8-DAY JAUNT HYDE PARK, N. Y., Oct. 10. (AP) Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, 'put ting th. final touchea on plana for a campaign awing through Dixie, plan ned to confer today at Albany with James A. Farley, democratic national chairman. The eight-day tour will also cany th. governor into th. middle west, Pennsylvania, western New York and th. border states. It will add 3000 mllea to the more than 13,000 h. has '.ovcred since his nomination and will bring th. number of states he had crossed to 30. One other, Rhode Island, probably will be visited before election. Th. governor has been represented u esger to visit all 48 states, but pres sure of state duties has prevented this. Tentative plans call .'or hla depar ture Oct. 18 from New York City. Yesterday at his horn. here. Mr. Roosevelt met for th. first tun. on of his most active convention workers Senator Huey P. Long, of Louisiana. The Louisiana senator aald b. did not Invite Mr. Roosevelt to New Or leans. "We'd be glad to sea him down there but h.'s not needed." aald Long. "W. are mora Interested In seeing him go wher. h. is needed more." E City Polio. Officer Jo Cave Is ex pected to return to Medford this eve ning from Sacramento with Earl Jackson, 18, who is being brought back here In connection with th. robbery September 30 of the L. W. House gun shop at 328 North River side. Bud Traganza, 17, arrested with Jackson in connection with the rob bery, did not walv. extradition, as b. la a parol, violator from Sacramento, and will b. placed back In prison there, according to word received to day by Chief ot Pollc Clatous Mc Credle. Three ot th. four guns stolen front House's shop have been recovered, ofricera aald. Two were pawned, and on. Waa traded for clothing. A J2 automttlc revolver Is atlll missing. Von Gronau Down South Of Moulmein RANGOON, India, Oct. 10. (AJ) Th. steamer Karagola, In th. bay of Bengal, reported today ah. waa In touch with th round th. world air plane of th. Carman flyer. Cap. Wolfgang von Oronau. which was forced down In th. bay 100 mile south of Moulmein, and was eUcmpt- Uu to nmmraurf him, - ' ""' lix, & ftrsad.