Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: Snow turning to rata to Blfbt or Friday. Hlslnf tempera tan. Highest yesterday m 44 Lowest thU morning. Is Paid-Up Circulation Psople who pay tor tbelt nswspspers tr. the beit prospects (or til. idvir. Ussrs. A- B 0. circulation U paid up circulation. This newspaper la a. B. 0. Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFOUD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1932. - No. 227. am rrp L JV IK POT: Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. THESE words are written In Port land, where the weather, aa else where throughout Oregon, la the lead lr.g topic of converaatlon. . The Journal, In Jta latest edition. announces that last night the mini mum temperature was 31 above, Maybe so. But It was an exceedingly cold 31 above. .' For some reason or other, the ther mometer down here eeema to run above the average (or the rest ot the atate. In this writer Judgment, tfeaaa Portland thermometer are tinged with optimism. Twenty-one above, with a cold eaat wind whipping down trom Mount Hood, seems about aa cold as aero ought to be. "H. WELL; 11 the Portland ther- mometera are tinged with opti mism, give them a little credit. In stead ot complaining about It. Opti mism of any aort has been a rare commodity In this town for the past year. Portland has been about the gloom iest spot on the Pacific Coast In re cent months. Everybody here seemed to be convinced that the end of all good things has come, and that busi ness never again will be good. Coming up out ot aouthera Oregon, which la a constitutionally hopeful country. Inhabited by a breed ot opti mists who refuse to believe that the end of the world la here and that everybody might as well quit trying, has been like running out of the sun shine Into a black tog. t IS TEN: ' 1 This attitude ot hopeleeness in Portland la beginning to change a little. If one searches diligently, he can find a few people who believe, or at least profess to believe, that next year will be better In a business way than last. That Is genuinely encouraging. THE WINDOWS' are full of Christ' mas merchandise, and the stores are full of Christmas shoppers. But there la complaint, and plenty of It, that Christmas business this year "alnt what she used to be." People are doing a lot of looking and rela tively Ilttls buying. True enough. Money doesn't grow on trees this year, and what of It people have they are apendlng with a certain degree ot conservatism. But It la worth nothing that even In thla fourth winter of the depression peo nl are still snendinit money tor OUTS. As long as people are willing to give up money that la hard to get to buy gifts In order to give pleasure to others, all Isn't lost and the world Is still a pretty decent place to live. HERE In Portland, everybody seems to know sbout the Klamath po tato. Oddly enough, the good-natured controversy that has been waged be tween this writer and Bob Sawyer, of Bend, appeals to have tickled people's fancy. But Portland, generally speaking, seta Yakima, potatoes. The Klamath potato flnda its principal market In California, as do so msny of the pro ducts of Southern Ore go m 1-RANK IRVINE, editor of the Jour- 17 nal, has a grievance against the Rogue River valley or thinks he has. He Just can't get pears when he's down there, he says. He tries It, he Insists, morning, noon and night, but In the pear cap! tal of the Pacific Coast, he proclaims, they Just don't serve pesrs at the pub lic eating places. He'a going to do something about It someday, he says, but hssnt figured out yet Just whst. FLANK, by the way, eats pears raw (or breakfast, with sugar and cream. To be eaten thus, be say a pear must be just right aa to ripe ness neither too hard nor too soft. Peel such a pear, he tells you, slice It thin, add augar to taste and then pour on cream and yon have a real delicacy. La Grande Enjoys 11 II Warmer W earner LA GRANDE. Ore. Dee. 15. f AP) The weather waa a few degrees warmer In La Grande this morning with the reading at 7 o'clock at 4 above. This represented a fire-degree gain over a one-below reading 24 hours before. Wedneidsy's maximum was IS above. Clear weather cou-tlnucd. 101 BULL FIRST TO OPEN WALLET Fl Italy, Czechoslovakia, Fin land Latvia and Lithuania Follow Suit of Britain in Paying War Obligation PARIS, France, Dec. 15. (AP) Premier Herrlot refused a com mission to torm a new cabinet this afternoon and President Le Brun immediately called In Ca milla Cbautemps, minister of the Interior, aa his next choice. PARIS, France, Dec. 15 (AP) Camllle Chautemps, minister of the Interior In Premier Har rlot'a cabinet, told President Le Brun this evening that he would try to form a new government. He Is a radical, like M. Herrlot. WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. fAPl The United States today collected war debt payments from six nations while five, unable to pay or deter mined not to. went Into default. Great Britain was first to have Its transfer announced. Secretary Mllla official word that the Bank of Eng land had earmarked $95,660,000 of gold for American credit and had Instructed the Federal Reserve bank of New York to remit to the treas ury. Through the same New York agency the treasury expected to get Italy's 1,245.437, Czecho-Slovakla's 1,500,000; Finland's I8H,235. Latvia's 148,853 and Lithuania's $93,388. Five in Default Not officially In default until toe treasury books ' are closed for the day, nevertheless France, Belgium, Poland, Esthonla and Hungary let their opportunity to pay go by and the treasury waa prepared to record the $28,313,511 due from these. Another nation, Greece, on Novenv ber 10, tailed to meet a 8444,920 pay ment and today It was Indicated that she would also pass up a payment due January 1. There was no Indication what the (Continued on Page Seven) FEHL'S PRINTSHOP TO El Sale of the printing plant of the Pacific Record -Herald, under a Judg ment and order of sale Issued out of circuit court, was made yesterday by Sheriff Ralph G. Jennings. The Judg ment was Issued by Circuit Judge E c. iaBtourette of Clackamas county. in the suit of Nledermeyer, Inc., against the Pacific Record-Herald and Earl H. Pehl. A decree in favor of Nledermeyer, Inc.. was Issued a month ago by Judge Latourette. The only bidder was L. Ntedermeyer, who bid $1500. The Judgment was for 14,004.64. A deficiency Judgment for the uncovered balance will be Issued. The sale yesterday was on a personal property Judgment. Notice of the sale was duly posted. attorneys for Nledermeyer, Inc., said, for "ten days In three public places required and every process of law duly observed." Sheriff Jennings, who conducted the sale, said this morning that the legal action "came up In the regular order of business, had no secrecy,'' and "Mr. Fehl knew the day and date, and was advised by tele- (Continued on Page Ten) Pilot Perishes In Snowstorm Crash AMAPILLO, Tex., Dec. 13. fF) J E. Bowen, co-pilot of a Traneconl-mntel-Western Air Transport plane, which crashed in a snowstorm last night, died today. Ralph Montee, pilot, still was unconscious. Fugitive From Retaken After Two Years NEWARK, N. J.. Dec. IS. VP) Robert Elliott Burns "I am a fugi tive from a chain gang" Is no longer a fugitive, but a prisoner In a police cell. Bums, who attained nation-wide prominence by his book and the mo tion picture based on his experiences, wss arrested quietly last night. A member of the Oeorgla prison com mission said at Atlanta that the southern state would make an effort (to Burnt t0 thM ,tIt4, lt once. Counsel for Burns, however, prom ised a fight to prevent extradition, and word was awaited from Governor A. Harry Moort to learn what action he would take. He previously was quoted ss telling the fugitive r.e : would s:d him when snd If It were I ittue4i). Shaw World Tour Sans Autographs Is Parting Word LONDON. Dee. 15 -(AP) Ber nard 8haw'a farewell Jest to Lon don as be left today with Mrs. Shaw, en route to the eouth of France to Join a round-the-world liner, waa "give Ireland to the United States and liquidate all the war debts." The Shawa will visit the Holy Land, India, Slam, China and America. "I Intend traveling around the world without giving a single au tograph," Shaw told a girl who held out an autograph book to htm at Victoria station. ON VETS BY FRANK HINES WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. (AP) Savings of approximately one billion dollars In veterans" Hospital con struction over a period of 33 years In an additional slash of nearly 13,- 000,000 annually from existing appro priations were recommended to a joint congressional committee today by Prank T. Hlnes, administrator of veterans' affairs. - The committee named to study economies In the operation of all veterarni benefits heard Hlnes testify that the billion dollar saving could be accomplished by 1965 If extensions of existing hospital facilities were made instead of continuing the pres ent policy of building new Institu tions. Many vacant beds would be on the government's hands If the latter pol icy were continued until the peat load of hospitalization arrived, he said. E With the district conference of the American Legion and Auxiliary In session here this afternoon, a large number expect to attend the Joint banquet of the Legionnaires and Aux iliary members at the Hotel Medford this evening at6:30 o'clock. On the schedule for 7:30 is a 40 et 8 wreck at the Armory, and at 9 o'clock dancing will be enjoyed by the members In the Masonic hall. HOLDERS CALLED An Important meeting of bond holders of the Medford Irrigation dts. trlct was announced today by Olen Arnsplger, manager of the district, to be held at the county court house Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. A new plan of settlement with new rates of assessment will be discussed and a large attendance Is urged the plan promises to mean much to the Rogue River valley, Mr. Arnsplger stated, announcing the meeting. F. Corning Kenly, representing the bond owners' committee, and David Rosenberg and Porter J. Neff, repre sentlng the Irrigation district, re turned this morning from a meeting at Oakland, Cal., where a tentative agreement for settlement with the bond holders was reached. Amy Resumes Hop .Toward England LONDON. Dec. 15. (AP) Amy Johnson, flying home from Cape Town, Informed her husband, J. A. Molllson, by cable today that she had resumed her flight from Benl Ouhlf, Morocco, where she encountered bad weather. The time of the takeoff was not given. Chain Gang Burns had made no apparent effoit to hide, and although he was known to have been In New Jersey over two years, there had been no request for his arrest. Judge Vlvlsn L. Stanley, a member of the Oeorgela prison oommlsslon, ssld lsst night he bsd furnished Newark polios with finger prints of Bums about two weeks igo. He said a requisition would be for warded to New Jersey Immediately. Burns came here from Pittsburgh September T. 1930, only a few days sftor he escaped from the Troup county. Georgia, prison camp, and hss lived in this vicinity since. He worked on a Newark newspaper un til It stopped publication. Then be found a variety of other Jobs, among them that of a dyna miter at a copper refinery m Chrome. (.Continued, pa Pea 6uj JUDGE LAMKIN IS HIS TITLE LEGAL Incumbent Says Earl Fehl Elected for Full Term, Not to Fill Unexpired Time As Judge of County County Judge C. B. Lamkln said this afternoon that be had been ad vised by attorneys, that his term of offtoe. under the appointment by Governor Julius L. Meier, does not ex pire until January 1, and that County Judge-elect Earl H. Fehl cannot qual ify until that date. "I was appointed by the governor to serve the unexpired term of former County Judge Alex Sparrow," said the county Judge. "Mr. Fehl was elected to serve the full six year term, which commences January 1. Therefore I hold office until Mr. Fehl'a term starts. He was not elected to serve the unexpired term, but for the tull term," which begins January I." Judge Lamkln said his appointment from Governor Meier waa made to end January 1 next. The official said the Salem opinion made public yesterday, was for times when vacanclea were "tilled until a successor Is elected." Under these conditions Judge-elect Fehl would have started eervlng ten days alter election, or November 18 last. BEER WITH KICK FINDS FAVOR IK COMMUTE VOTE WASHINGTON, Dee. 15. (AP) - The house ways and means commit tee today ordered reported a bill to legalize the manufacture and sale of 3.2 per cent beer and another bill to legalize the manufacture and sale of wine of an unlimited alcoholic content. Chairman Collier refused to give out the vote, but said "It was over whelming." Representative Ralney of Illinois, Democratic leader, announced: "We will take the beer bill up In the house next Tuesday." The beer tax was fixed at (5 a bar rel of 31 gallons. An amendment was adopted pro viding that all dispensers of beer would be licensed and the license fee would be 91000. Collier said the wine bill would be brought up In the house after dis position of the beer measure. NEW YORK. Dec. 15. (AP) The beer bill decided upon by the house wsys and means committee today as the proper strength if the beverage is legalized under the Collier bill, Is almost, but not quite, as strong as the beverage pre-prohibition beer. SPOKANE, Dec. 18. (AP) The northwest's four Rhodes scholars were selected out or a group of 13 young men representing six a tat here to day. J. R. Knapp, Jr., of Portland, Ore., attending Stanford university; Rex B. Pontius of Lewlston. Idaho, attend ing University of Idaho; Don E. Stuur. man of Lynden, Wash., attending Uni versity of Oregon and Eugene Sun- derlln of Missoula, Mont., attending University of Montana, were those selected. ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 18. (AP) Estimated revenues of the state fish commission will be reduced 132,000 for the coming year, M. H. Hoy, mas ter fish warden, estimated today fol lowing adoption of fcductlcr In poundage fees and license charges agreed on at a meeting of fish com mlsaloners, packers and representa tives of fishermen. Poundage fees on Chinook from Au gust 10 to September 30 will be cut from one-half cent to one-third cent, and the sllverslde fee from May 1 to September 30 will be lowered from one-half cent to one-fourth cent, with regular rates prevailing on both fish at other times. It was recommended that the troll ing license be reduced from 15 to a 50 and trap and pound net licences from $35 to 125. The new raf s IU be recoroir.nicled fT pfi-ption by the legislature &txt moaUi REVENUE ON FISH RE0UCTO000 TAKES MEDFORD MAN FOR 'Bill' Clarkson, Former Air port Superintendent Con ducting Search South for Investment Promoter NOG ALES, Arte., Dec 15. (AP) Search Is being msde In Arizona and California for Charles O. Stuart, well known mining man of Nogales, who la wanted here on a charge of obtain ing 94000 under false pretenses from William S. Clarkson of Medford, Ore gon. County Attorney E. B. Thurman said the mining operator fraudulently represented a mining Investment In Mexico to Clarkson and fled when be secured the money. State police who have written Ari zona authorities concerning the case, said today that Stuart was through Oregon a few weeks ago, and talked to local men. He also Interested several people north of here In the mine, according to reports. Several aviators who reside In Medford are alleged to have paid money into the organiza tion. Clarkson spent several days In nor thern Mexico at the mine, known as the "Beatrice," and returned to Med ford where he resigned his position as superintendent of the Medford municipal airport. He flew south last week to take charge of the mine. State officers said they understood that the firm which sold the mine waa reputable, but that Stuart, a member of the firm, had absconded with the funds. They were given the impression, the police said, that a larger sum than 94000 was Involved. Reports, which could not be con firmed this afternoon, stated that Al Oilhaueen and Ralph Vlrden. air mall pilots who reside In Medford, were Interested in the company. The two were out of town this afternoon.". . Information turned over to the state police concerning Stuart, stated that he waa a prominent man In Nogales, where he had made his home for a number of years. He has a wife and family, they stated. The exact location of the mine could not be learned here, but It Is said to be In old Mexico, about 160 miles from Nogales. SIGMA CHI STUDY CORVALLIS, Ore., Deo. IS. (JPi PI re early today In the atudy den of me oigma Chi fraternity house at Oregon tSate college waa confined to a slngas room, with damage of about 5O0. Firemen said that had the blaze not been diacovered when It was, that the entire frame structure, located close to the Commerce build ing, would probably have been de stroyed. A spsrk from the fireplace, falling on an overstuffed chair, la believed started the blaze. GERMANY CITES T BERLIN, Dec. 15. (VP) Berlin newspapers reached an almost unani mous agreement today that France, in falling to pay the United States, had broken the sanctity of treaties. One newspaper said Germany might now default its own debts, and an other said Germany was no longer morally bound to comply with the Versailles treaty. The nationalist newspaper Boersen Zeltung, referring to th French debt crisis, said "nobody would hinder Germany from drawing the logical conclusion from the bloodsuckers' at titude and make a similar declara tion, but with really empty pockets, Former Bates Home Burns, Foots Creek The old Bates home, used aa work men's headquarters at the Black Channel mine on Pools creek, was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin yesterday afternoon, according to report here thla morning. The fire waa diacovered by Mrs. Million, who la conducting a boarding house for the laborers, after ths men had gone to work. Mrs. Million was unsble to ssve any of the household goods. Five Grants Pass Residents Indicted PORTLAND. Dec. U. (AP) Twenty-two general Indictments, one secret Indictment and one not true bill were returned by the federal grand Jury here today. Among the peneral cases, 17 were for liquor vio lations. These Included Nick Borlch, ?tva Barl'h, John F. McRcynolda, v.rii vwr'y and James B. Williams. U of yiaoia pm. FARMERS ASK wi w ?;:rw"";iu"e 1 ; 1 If , mI) '4 V; l h :' W U 7- A delegation representing the National Farmer' Relief confer ence called on President Hoover with a petition for aid. They are shown as they left the executive offices. Left to right, front row: W. I. Wirkkala, New Hampshire; r, w. smun, r ennayivania; n. a. Cartwright, Minnesota. Rear row: C. Oliver, Florida, and Oscar Braun, New Jersey. (Associated Press Photo.) W.C.T.U. T SALEM. Ore- Dec. 15, (AP) The Salem Women'a Christian Temper ance Union added its protest yester day to that expressed Tuesday by a group of Topeka, Km., women, to the reputed assertion of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt that "the average girl of today faces the problem of learn ing very young of how much she can drink of such things as whiskey and gin and sticking to the proper quan tity." The local women addressed a let ter to Mrs. Roosevelt declaring that "we do not feel that Vila astonish ing statement represents the opin ion of American womanhood, and we wish to register a protest against yotir statement Just referred to." The letter continued: "We very earnestly feel that the welfare of the young girls and women of our land will be advanced, first, through total abstinence from use of all alco holic beverages; second, a firm stand for higher Ideals In the Individual life; third, no compromise on Issues which vitally affect the moral of youth. 'We commend to your sincere con sideration personal support of the Just before mentioned principles and hereby express to you our keen re gret that you have publicly made the statements attributed to you. "The liquor traffic has ever been a force most demoralizing to our womanhood. As first lady of our land we ask you to stand with us In a - united front against this enemy whose trail Is marked by the de struction of body, mind And soul, and the degradation of nation, state and community." IS LOCAL FORECAST Possibility of snow before Chrlstm was promised by the United States weather bureau here today with i forecast of "unsettled, snow, turn ing Into rain tonight or tomorrow." The minimum for today was 13, the same as yesterday and the mercury had risen to 40 degrees above zero et 3 o'clock this afternoon. Steiwer Cites Jackson 's Debt Collecting Method WABHINOTOM, Dec. 16WAP) Andrew Jackson's procedure In col lecting debt from France waa re called today by Senator Steiwer, Ore gon Republlcsn, ss an example the United Stales might well follow to day. The big westerner told of how "Old Hickory'' stuck to his guns and col lected a debt from France for dam age to American vcasela In the Na poleonic wars, even going so fnr ss to thresten wsr, Steiwer made it clear he waa not proposing the United Btatea should go to wsr to collect Its present debt, but he commended the "dignity and firm Insistence" shown by Jackson as sn sttitude that might be shown now. "European powers duw an treating HOOVER'S AID 4 r" i i..T 'ti - R, . SWI. FRIENDS TO SEEK IEIER CLEMENCY FOR TOLLEFSON Friouds of L. Alvln Tollefson of Central Point, under sentence of two years In etate prison for his admitted State Bank of Central Point bandit hoax laat May, today took the Initial steps to file a petition of clemency with Governor Julius L. Meier. An appeal to the United States supreme court, on the constitutional points involved in the case will also be made, It Is understood. The state supreme court, In a ruling handed down Tuesday, upheld the prison sentence Imposed upon Tollef son by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton. The case was argued before the state supreme court November 39. Date for the proposed clemency hearing Is Indefinite, and rents with Governor Meier, who Is now burdened with affairs of state, tax matters, and the coming special session of the legislature. Tollefson entered a plea of guilty to perpretratlng a bank robbery hoax to cover up defalcations, while act ing as cashier. The next day he made confession to Sheriff Ralph Jen nlngs and all the money waa re covered. At the time of sentence pleas for leniency were made by Med ford and Central Point renidents. Judge Norton, however, Imposed sen tence for embezzlement, the penalty provided. Tollefson has been at liberty on bonds furnished by Elmer Hull of Central Point, and his father. GUARD HIE HOUSE FROM BONUS WASJIINOTON, Dec. 18. (IT) A guard of 2S additional metropolitan pottoemen today waa atatloned at the White House, with a still larger force held In reserve, after reports were re ceived that a group of bonus march' era Intended to visit the executive msnslon. Police had reports that more than 100 members of the "rank and III veterans would visit Arlington ceme tery early this morning and then re turn toward the White House. very lightly obligations which at one time In history were treated a moat binding," he said. The senator recalled to newspaper men how Jackson negotiated a treaty with France for payment of 9,000,- 000. then turned wrathful as the French failed to pay. "The feeling between this country and France became aerlous and the people began to talk about war," he said, refreshing his memory with the aid of history books. "Jackson said he wss ready for the hssrd ot war. He aald the honor of the nation waa at stake, lt went so tar that Jackson prepared a dec laration of war. That, however, was never employed. He Insisted they keep their con tract, and stood ula ground until they paid," SALES TAX NOT LIKELY IN LAME Passage Is Expected Early in Roosevelt Regime Hoover's Vet Cut Ideas Are Unlikely to Prevail fly PAUL MALLON (Copyright by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) WASHINGTON, Dec 15. You can measure how long it will be before th sales tax is enacted, by figuring how long lt takes for a change of mind to flower In a congressman's skull. The leaders say three months. That la what they are planning on. They belleva the sales tax will be passed In the special session of congress after March 4. It may come sooner. If a majority should develop In favor of lt. The situation inside Is that the Democratic leaders lavor the tax. They see no other way of balancing the budget. Neither does anyone else In Washington who deals with realities Instead of rhetoric. At tho same time the leaders know the tax unpopular. They burned their fingers on that issue In the last ses sion of the congress. They are going to wait now until the demands for lt come up from the ranks. Former opponents of the tax must become convinced tbat lt offers the only way of raising enough revenue to run the government. - The prospects are two to one that they will reach that conclusion be fore the next fiscal year begins on July 1. Meanwhile the Democrats plan to do their utmost In economies, hop- -Ing against hope tbat the tax may be avoided. The Roosevelt plan for funding the building program In long term bonds Is one thing ahM will be proposed. Beer will be offered for 300,000,000 revenue. Other Items are In the backs of their heads. All put together they will not be sufficient to meet the federal need In the cofldentlal opinion of those who are working on the figures. Mr. Hoover and his secretary of (Continued on Page But) T WELL EQUIPPED PORTLAND, Ore.. Dec. 18 (AP) Three men accused of Issuing coun terfeit currency were held In Jail here today following a raid In which police said they seized a complete set of equipment used In the manu facture of the paper money. Those held were Milton Jacobs, 44, an engraver; Rudolph Schulta, 30, a salesman, and Emll Isaackson, 30, a carpenter. The three were held with out ball for lnvcstlgtalon by secret servlse operatives. Arresting officers said equipment seized Included dies, photographs, a printing press and metal plates for making & and 910 notes. Will RQGEHS BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Dec. 14. An you read this an air express line is being inaugurat ed from coast to coast, notliins but express. We used to think it was too expensive to semi anything by air but a postcard, but it's not that way now. Air mail has fallen off since the coats were raised threo cents. Here companies have spent and are losing millions giving the people the greatest sir network for mails in the world. Write a letter today. The receiver reads it tomorrow, no matter where he is. If a letter is not worth three cents more to get there three days ahead, it don't look like It is important enough to write. I would just hand it to some hitch-hiker and let him deliver it in the spring. We used to think mails were terribly important, but if they iin't worth throe cents, the gur just as well wait till he sots t tho other fellow and tell it to him. Tours, ft . A 7