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MEDFORD, OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1932.
No. 183.
The Weather
Tonight and Tuesday (air with
(round fop tonlghti not much
chance In temperature.
Highest yesterday M
Lowest this morning 17
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Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS.
THERE la much talk of the candl
datee, from national down to lo
cal, who wlU be voted on at the elec
tion In November. People axe Inter
ested In candidates, because candl
datea are PEOPLE.
They are leas Interested In measures.
BCT don't forget that on the same
ballot on which you will vote for
these oandldatea there will be thirteen
measures. These measures will either
become lawa of the atate of Oregon,
or will fall to become laws, depend
ing on whether or not they receive
a majority of the votes caat.
Many of them are exceedingly Im
portant, affecting In a vital way the
future policies of the atate.
YOU may not care for the opinion
of thla writer regarding the Ini
tiative, the referendum and the re
cti: but whether you care for It or
not here It Is:
The Initiative, the referendum and
the recall have been a disappoint
ment, falling algnally to live up to
the high hopes that were held for
them when they were first proposed
In the aggregate, they have done
more harm than good in the past,
and not a great deal In the way of
betterment of government can be
hoped from them In the future.
f AWS enacted by the leglalature
are too often dictated by self
interest, and It was hoped that direct
legislation, which means legislation
adopted by the direct vote of the
people, would be different In this re
spect. Thla hope has not been realized.
Direct legislation has been dictated
fully as often by self-interest as has
legislation enacted by the legislatures.
ANOTHER point:'
Direct legislation has to be
taken or left, as Is. There can be no
amendment of It on the Job to cure
defects.
It must either be swallowed whole
or not swallowed at all.
nHIS, please remember. Is merely
1 the opinion of one Individual, and
Is not offered with any desire to In
fluence your opinion.
This writer's advice, always, Is to let
NOBODY make your opinions for you.
Make them for yourself, on the basts
of study of the facts as you can get
at them.
You may think the Initiative, the
referendum and the recall the greatest
Institutions Oregon, has. It that 1
your carefully considered opinion,
stick to It.
fjUT, whether or not you approve dl
J-) rect legislation, these measures
are on the ballot, and those that re
ceive a majority vote will become laws,
So the thing for us to do Is to study
them to the best of our ability and
Tote on them according to our con
Tlctlons, arrived at after such study.
We shouldn't Just pass them up
without voting This writer's advice
Is to vote one way or the other
either yes or no.
TP YOU simply haven't time to moke
1 a careful study of these measures,
there la of course one thing you can
do. You can vote NO on all of those
as to which you are In doubt.
That Is better than not voting at
all, and in thla particular case it
won't do any Irreparable harm If
many people vote that way. There
are good measures on the ballot,
measures that really should carry, but
If all the thirteen arc dfoat.?d no
harm will come to the state of Ore
gon that can't be repaired.
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frf LATER Issues of this newspaper,
1 this writer will analyze briefly
these measures and offer advice as
to voting on them. This advice, it
should be repeated, will represent
merely the opinion of this one Indi
vidual, and win not be offered with
any color of authority or with any
desire to influence anybody's opinion.
If you care for it, read it. If not.
throw It away.
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DIRECTORS MEET
PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 34.-t-(AP)
Ten directors of the federal ie
loan bank of Portland, district . i.
II, met here today to adopt by-laws
and to consider reports foT the or
ganization of the institution, with ul
timate plans to elect an executive
v,ce-president and manager of the
6.000.000 bank. Election of the presi
de nt also was cheduled for today'
meeting. Ben H. Hazen of Portland,
on of the directors, said that since
L. H. Hoffman of Portland already
has been named temporary preslden,
his Appointment 1 "ft forgone coa-
MAKE WEEK-END
TRIP TOCHICAGO
Definite Plans Depends On
Finishing Draft of New
York Speech in Time
Detroit Address Scores
WASHINGTON, Oct. 34. (AP)
President Hoover will deliver a flve
mlnute address at nine o'clock E. S. T.
tonight before the opening of the
American Publlo Health association
meeting here.
Surgeon General Hugh 8. Cummlng
will preside over the seaston which
1500 delegates are expected to at
tend. The association Is composed of state,
county and municipal health officers,
medical officers of Insurance compa
nies and welfare groups that work
with publlo health officers.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. (AP)
President Hoover Is engaged with
plana for closing his campaign for
re-election with a vigorous two-week
drive which today Included a. speech
In New York city and another swing 1
Inland through mldwestern territory. ,
Just returned from his third west
ern trip and Detroit address, Mr.
Hoover already had settled tentatively
on going a fourth time into the In
terior for appearances in Indianapolis
and Chicago. White House discus
sion suggested this trip for the com
ing week-end, beginning Thursday
night and ending Sunday.
For the present, this plan hinges
on completion of the address the
president will make In New York City
a week from today. If Mr. Hoover
does not finish his New York speech
In time, the tentative arrangements
will permit postponement of the
fourth mid-western tour until later.
Upon reaching the White House
yesterday after an uneventful return
trip from Detroit, the president con
ferred with Henry M. Robinson, Los
Angeles banker and chairman of the
central committee of the banking
and industrial committees In the 12
federal reserve districts.
Robinson is a White House guest,
as was also for a brief time yesterday
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teacheTfordiven
BY WIFE FOR HOAX
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24. (AP)
Like the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, the hoax of Elliott B. Thomas,
small city school superintendent, has
reached lta ending In exposure, and
confession.
With a wife who volunteered for
giveness Thomas retired Into seclus
ion today, filled with repentance over
Elliott B. Thomas, superintend
ent of achoola at Redondo Beach,
Cal., disappeared mysteriously
when he went to his office for
some papers. (Associated Press
Photo)
his attempt last week to end bis
own personality and create another
under the name of K. T. Sherwood so
that he might complete In marriage
romance with another woman, Sylvia
Wilson of .Seattle.
But the twelve-year career, first as
school principal at Burbank, Calif.,
and later as superintendent of schools
at Redondo Bach, Calif., which he
and his wife, Olive Thomas, had built
was at least at a temporary end.
"The resignation of Thomas from
his position at Rlondo Beach will
be forthcoming in a day or no,'' Oeo.
Penney, his attorney said. As for the
police who hunted him for nearly a
week since his disappearance last
Monday the case was cload with the
statement no charges would be pre
ferred.
Bewhlskered, clothes unpressed from
constant traveling and eyes red -rim
med from lack of sleep, the 38-year-
old school head voluntarily appeared
at the sheriff's office here Saturday
night after a trip by automobile and
airplane from Seattle.
Mrs. Thomas met htm at the sher
iff's office upon hi return. "It's all
rl7 it. eld boy,:' she xai1, patting Mni.
j "We'll carry on aain." They iiave a
94.jCjaro!d da lightest.
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HENRY FORD SPEAKS FOR HOOVER
, : i wit
t 1
Henry Ford Is shown as he spoke from Detroit, urging the reelection
of President Hoover as "the best man for the Job." Mrs. Ford Is stand
ing beside him. (Associated Press Photo)
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UPON PAYMENTS
OFDEBTINTEREST
Quick to Approve Mussolini's
'Clean Slate' Proposal
Paris Admits Need, But
Fears o Set Precedent
PARIS, Oct. 34. (AP) Italy's aew
appeal for a clean slate on war debts
has served to concentrate the at
tention of Prance on tomorrow's ses
sion of the chamber of deputies,
where the entire debt question. Is ex
pected to be aired.
Interpellations on the debt question
the December -oavment of 20.000,-
OOrVirr-lntBTWon the riebf to the
United States are expected to be
deposited In the chamber.
Opinion, as expressed In authori
tative quarters appears to be divided
Into three categories here:
1 That Prance should make no
payment of the December interest
because It would serve as a dangerous
precedent and create the belief that
the entire debt will be paid.
3 That the payment due in De
cember should be made with the res
ervation that this payment be taken
Into account when the debt Is fi
nally adjusted.
8--The negotiations regarding debts.
between the United States and France
should be hurried immediately after
the American elections on November
8 with the hope that the problem
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L. ROBINS
ALIVE, TO RETURN
ST. PETERSBURG, Pla., Oct. 34.
(AP) Mrs. Raymond Robins, wife of
the missing dry leader, says she has
changed her earlier belief that Colonel
Robins was "put on the spot by Flor
ida rum runners."
At her Brooksvllle home, Mrs. Rob-
Ins said she now believes her husband,
missing since September 8, when he
left his New York club for a confer
ence with President Hoover in Wash
ington, Is still alive and will be found.
She added, however, she had no
definite information about rumors
which were current here that Colonel
Robins was safe and would return
home after the election next month.
She gave no reason for her belief he
Is alive.
HYDE SEES VOTE
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 24. (AP)
Coming to Senator Reed Smoot's
home state today to deliver a cam
paign address here this evening, Sec
retary of Agrlcultiue Hyde character
ized the Smoot-Hawley tariff as "an
act of God that came In time to save
us."
He added that "if there la any re
vision of the tariff. It should be up
ward in some cases, because of the
fact that the decline in foreign cur
rencies has had its effect in reducing
tarflfs."
Secretary Hyde predicted Republi
can victory In November, declaring
that a vast number of voters who
have not previously made up their ,
minds are swinging to President ,
Hoover, and that much of the "pro- '
tost vote" im returning to the Re
publican camp.
fltolen Car Charge j
David Russell Mann 35, of Spokane
Wash., Is being held In Jail here by
the state police, charged with steal-
lng an automobile belcnglns; to a 1
resident of Kennewick, Wash. If
Mann valvrs extradition, he will be
returned to Benton c? Wsshiwi
k tat ttfel, agkxv &i4 -4.
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DESERTS F. D. TO
No Time to Change Leaders
Says Malone Al Smith
Talks Tonight Roosevelt
- Painted Tool of Tammany
NEW YORK, Oct. 34. (AP) Dud
ley Field Malone, who was a delegate
to the Democratic national conven
tion which nominated Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presi
dency, has announced that he will
vote for President Hoover,
x In making . public a letter to Presi
dent Hoover declaring his support,
Malone, who campaigned actively for
President Wilson and former Gover
nor Alfred E. Smith, said he was
ready and willing to take the stump
for the republican ticket If requested
to do so.
"It seems to me, his letter said,
"the high duty of citizenship to
stand by the president who has seen
us through the past three dreadful
years. There Is too much at stake in
every home, store and shop to change
leaders now."
His letter explained he does not be
long to Tammany Hall, and that he
always has been an independent,
although his father, now 60, has vot
ed the democratic ticket 66 years.
NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 34. (AP)
Alfred E. Smith, who had the sup
port of New Jersey democracy at the
recent democratic national conven
tion, will speak to thousands in a
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LATEST1STAKEN
FOR DEER VICTIM
LA GRANDE, Ore. Oct. U. (AP)
Jamos Ellta, about 35, dIM ben last
night shortly after ha waa brought
to a local hoapltal from the moun
tains near Starkey where he waa
wounaed ahortly before noon Sunday
In a hunting accident. Hla left arm
waa nearly torn from hla body by a
aoft-noaed rifle bullet and loaa of
blood and the time required to get
him to medical attention resulted In
death.
Two oampanlona. a Mr. Oalnea of
union and L. o. Johnson were ex
pected to arrive here to.lay. After
taking Ellis to the highway and ob
tnlnlng transportation for him to La
Orande, the two men were attemnt-
Ing to get their car which went over
an embankment Saturday Into
wonting order. They were expected
to arrive here thla morning.
Fragmentary reports received here
were that the bullet was from John
eon'a gun. It was reported the men
were close together when a deer was
sighted snd the bullet struck Ellis.
Johnson Is reported to have aald he
did not Intend to shoot snd was at a
loss to understand how the accident
happened.
Ellis Is believed to have been a real
dent of TJklah, Ore. .
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GRIEVE NAMED AS'
QUIZ
Gun Tragedies to Be Aired
by Body Picked Today at
Opening of October Term
Many Routine Cases
The October grand jury was drawn
this morning and went Into session
immediately to start work on one of
the heaviest calendars in the history
of the county. The new Jury is com
posed of six men and one woman with
W. T. Grieve of Pro poet as foreman.
Members are: W. T. Grieve of Pros
pect; George L. Knight, peal estate
man, Medford; H. O. Butterfield. la
borer, Ashland; James M. Hughes,
painter, Ashland; Curt Jeschke, me
chanic, Medford; P. H. McCurley, me
chanic, Medford and Mrs. Edith Pat-
ton, housewife, Medford.
Among the major cases to come be
fore the grand Jury are investigations
Into the slaying of Glen Fnbrlck,
prominent local business man by
Ellsworth Konkle, on a hunting trip
more than a week ago, and of Joe
St. Germain of Central Point by his
hunting partner, Reinhard Rolf, last
Thursday.
Investigation into the Rolf case was
expected to start today, but Konkle's
appearance before the grand Jury
will await completion of surveys now
being made by the county surveyor's
office, of the scene of the shooting,
out from Butte Palls In the very dense
forest section near Lodge Pole, DLa
trict Attorney George Codding stated.
Rolf, who signed a statement ad
mitting that he killed St. Germain,
mistook the latter for a bear, while
they were on a hunting trip out from
Butte Palls, about 30 miles back into
what is known as the nnsurveyed re
gion, In the vicinity of the Dahack
cabin. Funeral for St. Germain, who
Is survived by his wife and three
children, was held today.
Another hunter, whose name has
not been revealed, will also be called
before the gTand Jury in connection
with the near shooting of Deputy
Sheriff Paul Jennlncs. who escaped a
bullet bv a narrow margin while
hunting last week In the Wagner
Butte section. District Attorney Cod
ding stated.
, Among other oases to be lnvesti
tiated is that of Wltfvn Glayzer,
charged with knifing his wife in Aah-
land following a domestic- quarrei
August 37. Earl Hanscom will be
brought before the grand Jury on a
non-support charge aaa b. r. nams.
charged with defrauding an inn
keeper. A forgery case Involving Al
vln Miles. Ray McOully and Ira Bailey
will be investigated and the recent
robbery of the J. O. Penney store In
Ashland, regarding which Virgil Bur
nett, Buck Wilson and Emily (Bobby)
Mansfield are held.
Numerous other cases of routine
character are also scheduled.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. (AP)
Wilson McCarthy, a director of the
reconstruction corporation, today
conferred with George S. Mllnor,
head of the Farmers National Grain
Corporation, on the proposed sale on
credit of 16,000.000 bushels of wheat
to China. It was said the negotia
tions have not been completed.
China has sought to buy the wheat,
offering Its governmental note and a
surtax Import duty as security.
The directorate of the reconstruc
tion corporation feels that the note
should be endorsed by a domestic
signature but this has not been
forthcoming.
Negotiations are hanging upon the
possibility of the Farmers National
or the Northwest Cooperative signing
the note for the several million dol
lars Involved.
McCarthy said the corporation was
very anxious to make the loan and
encourage exporting of agricultural
products wherever possible but It was
necessary by statute to obtain ade
quate security.
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Huey Long Clown'
SIOUX FAIjLS, S. D. Oct. 24.
f AP) Senator Huey P. Long of Loui
siana, on a campaign tour for the na
tlonal democratic ticket, said In ar
address today that the present ad
ministrrttlon had maintained Itself in
offloe by rebating taxes to large cor
porations In return for campaign
contributions.
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Beer Ilevenue Told
WHITS SULPHUR SPRrNOS, W.
Vs., Oct. 34. (AP) Legal beer and a
federal tax thereon could bring the
government as much as 754,000,000
additional revenue, the Investment
Bankers association convention was
informed by its federal taxation
committee today.
Straw Ballot
for President.
. for Conntf Judge.
, for District attorney.
. for Sheriff.
ilf nature, and mall to Klraw Ballot
CHINA WHEAT BUY
DETAILS AIRED
Campaign Broadcasts
(Time la Eastern Standard)
Tonight: (Monday)
WEAP-KBC 8:30 -Jlepubllcan.
B. F. Hutton and Joeeph L. Scott.
10;00 Alfred S. Smith from
Nawart, N. J.
(7 o'clock, Med ford Tim)
Dlxla CBS Chain 10:15 Oor.
Roosevelt at Atlanta.
Tuesday:
WJZ-NBO p. m. Repub
lican farm program.
CLEARED OF PART
IN UiY GRIME
Arthur Barry. Who Stole
Millions In Jewels, Lost All
in Wall Street Escaped
During Auburn Prison Riot
NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 24. (AP)
Arthur Barry, cultivated convict who
says he built a fortune stealing rich
people's Jewels and lost all but a
"competency" in the stock market
crash, has practically been cleared of
suspicion in the Lindbergh kidnaping
case.
.'Everything big and worthwhile In
the last ten years has been pinned on
me." he an id as he sat manacled and
chained to a 240-pound policeman
yesterday. "It's about time they got
around to that but I didn't do It."
Police here are convinced he la tell
ing the truth, but they are waiting
for state police to question and clear
him before shipping him to New
York.
The alight man with the broad
"A" who was pounced on Saturday
night In his Sussex county hideout,
made a flaming escape from Auburn
prison In 1020 at the height of a
bloody riot in which two men were
killed.
He was doing 25 years at the time
for a 9250,000 theft of Jewels from
Mrs. Jesse Llvermore, wife of the Wall
Street operator. That was one of a
string of robberies, mostly commit
ted in Long Island society mansions,
which the thief nonchalantly total-
tea at "something between 6,000,
000 and 10,000,000."
Barry would study the layout of
the big houses carefully, wait until a
moonless night, then slip In and
make .off with the Jewels.
The Llvermore Job, the now gray
haired thief told police, was to have
been his last crime.
."I had almost 800 grand In gilt
edge securities and I was planning
to hit it for the Congo Free State
for an extended vacation."
But a tip-off led to hla arrest and
he went to Auburn where he and
four others shot their way out in
1929. Going to Albany and Syracuse,
he eventually came to New Jersey.
Another tip-off led to his arrest at
the home of otto Reutter, middle
aged contractor who had taken the
apparently mild "window wiper sales
man" in as a $2 a week roomer.
FINDING OF NUDE
SAN BBRNARDrNO, Cal., Oct. 34.
(AP) flan Bernardino county In
vestigators aald today they were com
pletely mystified aa to th Identity
of the attractive auburn-haired wo
man about 2S yeara old, found alaln
and nuda In the desert wastes forty
mnes norm or here Saturday.
A well-to-do Rosamond oouple who
thought It might ba their daughter
loaay convinced officers and them
selves that It waa not. The Investi
gators said they were without further
clues to Identity.
simultaneously another possible
Identification waa Injected Into the
case when Jsmes IM wards of ixm An
galea, Informed the sheriffs office
there that the description of the
slain woman matched that of hla
30-year-old wife, Mildred, from which
he has not heard since she left home
three weeks ago to visit her brother,
Roy Oraham In Ronald, Wash.
Death had been caused apparently
by a blow on the head. The brxly was
found by a prospector, Frederick W.
Schwann. Driving from a mine to hla
home at San Pedro. Calif., he follow
ed a ahortctit off the main trail and
cam upon the remains. An old tire.
resting against the body, provided In
veatlgatora with their only definite
ctue.
Officers found no signs of a strug
gle but there were fresh tire tracks
nearby. They presumed that the alay
er had driven to the spot from a near
by highway and lifted the body from
his automobile with the tire. They
had been unable to find fingerprints
on the casing. The body was nude
and no clothing was found.
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! rtonria raid
NEW YORK, Oct. 34. (API The
National Credit Corp., 1ilch waa
former one year ago aa a privately
sponsored banking effort to keep
( credit channels open for bank loans
j until the reconstruction finance corp.
'could be placed In operation, today
leaned for redemeptlon another 10
per cent of the notes which It sold
to give it working capital.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Clark and chil
dren of Medford called at the Leon-
Ml Up eVORkj 3ya498 MJtt.
JObLbS SEAMEN
IF DOLEJEID
Want $1 Per Day and Leave
Demands With President
Expect Answer 'Soon'
British Also Marching
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. (AP)
Bight representatives of the "marine
workers industrial union" today de
posited at the White House a list of
relief demands, leaving with a verbal
statement that "unless something is
done we will organize and come back
in thousands."
Theodore Joslln. one orf President
Hoover's secretaries, received the dele
gation in his office adjoining that of
Mr. Hoover.
Asked by George Mink, chairman of
the union, what would be done with
their demands, Joslln said he would
give them to the chief executive and
they could expect a reply from him
"soon."
The delegation asked payment of
one dollar a day for all seamen un
employed a month or more, admit
tance of unemployed seaman to mar
ine hospitals, passage of the workers
unemployment Insurance bill as out
lined by the communist purty, recog
nition of soviet Russia, and the use
of laid up government vessels, such
as the George Washington, as lodg
ing places for unemployed seamen.
Mink estimated there are 80.000
unemployed seamen, 20,000 in New
York alone.
LONDON, Oct. 24. (ATP) Repre
sentatives of several thousand unem
ployed men and women who axe
marching on London from various
sections submitted twelve demands
to the London city council for extens
ion of aid to the Jobless today.
They want the city to provide
hundred pounds of coal a week to
each unemployed family. They want
a pint of grade A milk each day for
each child of unemployed parents,
they want free boots and shoes on
demand for all unemployed and their
dependents, and a 26 per cent reduc
tion in the rent of all houses. They !
also demanded that accommodations
be provided for their comrades march
ing toward the city.
The aldermen saw five members of
the deputation. A score or so of oth
ers gathered In the rain In a nearby
subway station. Police reinforcements,
stationed all about the county hall,
cleared the station and the entire
neighborhood of all loiterers later.
A county council representative
said , there was not the slightest
chance the demands would be grant
ed. A member of the deputation said,
on leaving "we didn't get a thingl"
AGEDlllAIN
BLOOMFTELD, Ky Oct. 34. (AP)
Lacking tangible clues, Nelson
county authorities under Sheriff T.
B. Peake today sought evidence which
might aid them In their Investigation
of tha killing of three persona whose
charred bodies were found yostorday
In the ruins of a farmhouse near here.
That robbery waa the underlying
cause of the tragedy that took the
Uvea of an unidentified man and Mr.
and. Mrs. Lud Ingram, recluse farm
couple, waa the bollof generally ex
pressed by authorities.
Neighbors of the Ingrams, both of
whom were about 70 years of age,
found the bodies after the four-room
frame home occupied by the couple
had been badly damaged by fire.
Authorities said the Ingrams were
reported to have drawn their savings
of approximately 98000 from a bank
only recently. It was this report that
caused them to advance the robbery
theory.
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ROSEBURO, Ore., Oct. 34. (API
Two young bird hunters are In the
Roaeburg hospital today suffering
from gunshot wounds.
James Carter of Riddle received a
full charge of blrdphot Sunday In the
calf of hla light leg when the gun
held by his brother, Don Carter, waa
accidentally discharged as they were
loading their guns preparatory to
starting 1n quest of pheasants. Al
though the leg waa badly mangled be
low the knee, amputation will not
be necessary, physicians state.
Oeorge Rice of Myrtle Creek suf
fered minor wounds In both legs Sat
urday when he stepped Into line of
fire aa a companion shot at a pneas-
ant. He waa at a distance of about
00 yards, so his Injury la not serious
Domestle Woes
BOISB. Idaho. Oo. 24. (API
Mrs. Verna Mcrarland, Lawlll today
lay critically wounded In a local
hospital and her husband was dead
aa a result of what the' coroner Inter
preted as an attempted murder and
suicide.
Trent W4lat Wesker
CORVALLIS. Oct. 14. (AP) Lack
of an export outlet, coupled with
alow demand from California, caused
the slightly weaker tone In Pacific
const wheat markets the past week,
said today's wheat review Issued by
the fedoral market bureau and the
DEF1N1TESTAND
SOVIETREQUESTED
G. 0. P. Issues Challenge to
State Position On Dole
and Tariff Cut Jim
Farley Denies Talks Hurt
WASHINGTON, Oct, 24. (AP)
After a conference with Prealdeni
Hoover today, at which he said the
matter was discussed, Representative
Fish of New York Issued a statement
challenging Franklin D. Roosevelt to
'state without evasion and further
delay" his stand on the recognition
of Soviet Russia.
It quoted Roosevelt as having re
plied to inquiries that he could not
"comply with your request to give
you a definite statement towards
my attitude on the recognition of
Russia," since "as governor of New
York I have had to give my attention
for the last three years to state mat
ters." "In view of the fact that Governor
Roosevelt has been finally smoked
out on the payment of the bonus."
he went on; "at least to the extent
of straddling and deceiving the vet
erans, are not the American people
entitled to know where he stands on
the recognition of Soviet Russia, the
sales tax, the dole, flat money, pork
barrel legislation, and tariff on sugar,
oil, and lumber before they go to the
polls on November B to elect a chief
executive the highest office In the
gift of the people?"
After saying he was making a for
mal "challenge" to Roosevelt to state
his stand upon such matters, Fish
added:
"Most radicals in the country are
In favor of the recognition of Soviet
Russia, and in view of the charges
made against Governor Roosevelt as
being a radical, or being aligned with
the radicals, the publlo has a right
to know before election day his atti
tude on this Issue, which Involves
free American labor, our economic)
life and principles of government."
NKV7 YORK, Oct. 34 (AP) James
A. Tarley, chairman of the democra
tic national committee, returned to
day from & week-end trip to Indiana,
convinced, he said, that sentiment
Franklin D, Roosevelt "la as strong
throughout the country for Governor
aa ever."
"Prom my visit to Indiana I found
the sentiment Just as strong In favor
of Governor Roosevelt aa It has been
from the beginning," Farley aald.
"President Hoover's speeches have not
In any way retarded the movement
toward Governor Roosevelt. They
tell me In Indiana they expect Roose
velt to carry the atate by 500.000."
Farley aald Governor Roosevelt will
visit the national campaign head
quarters hore Wednesday for the first
time since they were opened.
E
ROCKY ML STATES
DENVER, Oct. 34, (API A wet.
clinging five-inch snow today blank
eted Donver, breaking down trees and
shrubbery and seriously Impeding
traffic. The fall continued today, with
so sign of abatement.
Reports Indicated the storm was
spreading northward. New Mexico was
warm and Sunny.
Mixed rain and snow were falling
through most of Wyoming.
A snowstorm in the Big Horn
mountains of Wyoming today threat
ened to terminate the search, for
three hunters believed to have per
ished In the blizzard that swept the
range last week.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 34. (AP)
Department of Justice officials today
continued preparations to answer on
November 10 the Chicago board of
trade's appeal from the eo-day sus
pension imposed by the grain futures
commission.
WILL-
ROGERS
SANTOS, Oct. 23. Say, this
Brazil is beautiful along this
coast. Thought the plane was
going to reach Rio Janeiro to
night, but Old Jfan Headwind
hit ui right in the faoe all day.
If you read this in the morn
ing, take another nwig at your
coffee. Hero is where it's all
raised and this is the biggest
coffee port in the world.
This town is just sweeping
up the streets from, s revolu
tion two weeks old, but down
here the President stayed in.
The Democrats couldn't dis
lodge him, so that might he the
first consolation the Republi
cans at home have had. Yours,
wh,