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Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast : Occasional rains tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. Hlthett yesterday , , . Lowest this mornlni ,. 3 Paid-Up Circulation Peopl who pay tor their newspapers is the rest prospects tor the adver tisers. A- B. O. circulation la paid up circulation. This newspaper la a- B. O. Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFOKD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932. Xo. 234. SENATE II us I 11 reswwp IP life iL Jag fu . - Comment the on Day's News , By FRANK JENKINS I rT A vote ol 230 to 165. the Souse IS of representatives passes the bill for S3 per cent beer. Last year, a bill providing lor beer waa DEFEAT ED by a vote of 228 to 169. People change their minds, don't they? THE beer bill passed by the house carries a tax oi 5 a barrel, which la expected to bring a lot of money Into the federal treasury. Will It? Nobody, of course, can answer that question at Vie present moment. But there are grave doubte. The beer. If It la legal, will contain only 3.2 per cent alcohol, which la pretty tame compared to the home brew people have been drinking drinking people, v that Is. Do you reckon the beer drinkers who have been drinking high-powered home brew will pay real money for 3.2 per cent beer? THERE la a temporary shortage of turkeys on the California mar kets due to the recent cold weather, which had a tendency to keep pro ducers from killing birds in normal numbers. The shortage, of course, will be quickly made up, for there are plenty of turkeys In the country. But It results Immediately In rush orders from California for Oregon turkeys. THE polnt.lt this: The cold weather prevents tur keys from reaching California mar kets In normal numbers, and so buy ing IMMEDIATELY picks up. Supply, you see, falls temporarily below de ls mand. When that happens, there Is al ways a rush to buy. If supply to meet the demand la not forthcom ing, PRICES ItlSE. ' SUPPLY and demand rule the price. From time to time, we try to kid ourselves that this Isn't the case, but we are only kidding ourselves. AT A mass meeting at Tillamook, the highway commission la crit icised sharply for Its newly announc ed policy of retrenchment which Is expected to result, temporarily, at least In abandonment of construc tion of the Wilson River road. Tillamook WANTS the Wilson River road. WE WANT what we want when we want it. But It we get every thing we want In the way of publlo service, taxes are going to remain high. a nt it will have to be remem A bered that if we are going to reduce automobile license fees we'll have to DO WITHOUT something. That Is the way of the world. mi nEORGES HARET pronounc- L) ed Zhorzhe Haray eminent French redlologlst, dies at the age of 68 aa a result of X-ray burns aus talned In the course of hla work. Previously, aa a result of X-ray burns, the fingers of his right hand and then hla entire right arm had been amputated. But these mutlla tlona didn't cause ,hlm to cease his work. Ones admiration goes out un grudgingly to men of courage like that. It la their breed that keeps the world going forward. FRIEND said yesterday to thla writer: "I was up Tennessee Gulch the other day, and In the course of less than three miles I ran across five men panning the gravel for gold. I asked one of them: "How are you making out?' and he answered: 'Oh, getting by and getting enough to eat. but that'a about all. Some daya I make 60 cents, and on a few lucky day's I've panned out as much aa 63. Then, on a lot of other daya I make nothing, at all. But I'm not com plaining.' " Tennessee Gulch Is a tributary of Cow Creek, which runs Into the South Umpqua. It was quite a fam ous mining district In the big gold days of Southern Oregon. iif ETTINO by and getting enough Vi to eat.' Not very much In the way of achievement, according to the standards of a few years ssto, la It? But, according to the standards of todny. It Is a LOT. For thee men who are taking a few ceni in sold j per day gut of the stream beds of Southern Oregon are working out their own salvation, taking care of THEMSELVES, according to the good old American standards of self-reliance that made Vila country what It la. BILL MUST TAKE COMMITTEE PATH Bingham's Move For Im mediate Consideration De feated 48 To 23 Ballot Not Considered As Test. WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. (AP) Senate action on beer was postponed until after the New Yer.r today when It rejected a move to get Immediate consideration tor the house 3.3 per cent beer measure. I Members of both parties Joined In voting down, 48 to 23, a motion by Senator Bingham, Connecticut Re publican and long time beer advo cate, to take up the question with out committe consideration. Not a Test The vote was not considered by senate leaders as a test on the Issue, but to be merely a decision that the house bill must go through the usual routine study. ' Chairman Norrls has called a meet ing of the Judiciary committee for Monday to begin this procedure, but with a quorum at that time unlikely. action probably will go over until after the Christmas recess beginning today. Norr!s has predicted passage of the bill but whether President Hoover would sign It Is a subject of speculation. Democrats Agreed Shortly before the senate met. Democratic members agreed at a con ference to oppose the Bingham mo tion, and send the question to com mittee. Twenty - one Republicans Joined with 26 Democrats and Senator Ship- stead, lone Farmer-Laborlte, In forc ing this procedure. Eleven Repub licans and 12 Democrats voted for the Bingham motion. The vote was followed by assur ance from Senator Robinson of Ar kansas, minority leader, that the Democrat were not delaying action. He said he was warranted In prom ising speedy committee consideration, Despite the announced plan of Bingham for a "snap vote" on the Issue, the senate galleries were only partially filled. TWO LIVES LOST CHICAGO, Dec. 23 (AP) Two men were burned to death and several others Injured today as a six story grain elevator was destroyed by fire. The blaze ruined the elevator and probably a million bushels of wheat and other grains at a loss estimated at $1,000,000. A dust explosion In the cupola atop the structure apparently touched off the granary and It became a flaming torch. In less than an hour the blaze had swept from top to bottom, men acing near structures. One man was carried, fatally burned, from the ele vator and another's body was thrown to a dock on the nearby Chicago river by an explosion. 10 RETURN CONTROL NEW YORK, DM. 23. IP) Plans for restoring control and manage ment o fthe Portland Oeneral Elec tric company, to Pacific coast inter ests were speeded today when It revealed that the Chase National bank of New York had aureed to 'd- vanoa a loan of (7,500,000 for that purpose. The loan will be used to pay off a like amount of the company's 4 per cent gold notes, which mature on January 1, and control. It was said, will be transferred b a group of capitalists, headed by E. A. Pierce ec Co.. Interests, to northwestern utility operators. CHILD CHOKED TO DEATH BY RELIGIOUS 'HEALERS' LINDEN, Tex., Dec. 23. (A9! Despite a purported confession, officers today continued an Investigation of the death of a five-year-old girl, allegedly at the hands or two Itinerant pre sobers who sought to "drive out the devil' they believed respon- slble for her partial paralysis. Murder charges were Md axaint the two Paul Oaks and v,iS brother. Coy Oaks and precautions taken to prevtnt possible mob veneeance. Sheriff Nat Curtrticht said the two aciiMxl mn, described by him as M the Apostolic Pith. admitted thy had choked the cht'.d to drath In en attempt to cure her. Officers aaid the preachers came to Cass county several months aro from another section of Texas, had bn holdlnir meetlnes in rural com m unit if and had pre aohd on the subject of faith healing. The child daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Clay France Launches T Elimination Of $3000 Ex pense Item For Sale Of County-owned Land Urged Dead Indian Rd Argued. Elimination from the 1032 budget estimates of a 93000 Item for expense In the sale of county-owned land, and the changing of the wording of the "Estimated Dellquency for 1933," to read "Outstanding Warrants," was the principal changes urged at the annual public hearing held this morning in the auditorium of tl.j courthouse. Close to 100 taxpayers representing all sections of the county were pres ent. The total estimated budget, county, state and schools Is $332,871.22. Two thirds of this amount la for schools, sub-divided as follows: High schools and county schools, $143,650.60; Elementary schools, (60,000. The balance Is for county govern ment and Its branches. The school apportionments are classified as "untouchables," and mandatory as fixed by laws. The meeting lasted until 12:60. It was delayed 40 minutes at the start by County Judge O. B. Lamkln being tardy. The meeting adjourned upon motion of W. T. Grieve of Prospect, which carried, though C. C. Hoover of the West Side wanted to voles i motion thanking the Budget conv mlttee for Its work and George Iver- son of Medford wanted the reductions for the year read. Urged By Grand Jury The elimination of the $3000 land sale Item, was In accordance with recent recommendation of the grand Jury. A motion for the merging of the watermaster's and the county sur veyor's office was voted down, after Mike Hanley of Lake Creek, declared, "I have as much. If not more to do. with Irrigation and the watermaster's office than any man In the county, and they should be left as they are. I know the watermaster is on the Jump and earns his money." Appropriation of $15,000 for the gravelling of the Dead Indian road was protested by L. M. Sweet of Sam's Valley and Mike Hanley of Lake Creek and upheld by Budget Com mitteeman Henry O. Enders of Ash land, and others from the south end of the county, and George Iverson of this city who said the Chamber of Commerce committee had Investigate ed the matter, and "that It was Just a question of protecting money al ready invested and that It would aid farmers and sawmill operators of the district. Sams Valley Favored L. M. Sweet of Sams Valley favored cutting the Item t-j $12,000 and Chair man Ben E. Harder entered the duu cussion with the declaration "that the Sams Valley district has received more road money per population than any section of the state." Chairman Harder at the start of the meeting, explained to the meeting that any vote they might take waa not mandatory, but any suggestions would be considered by the county court. I. M. Sweet of Sams Valley urged that the salary of the rural school supervisor of $840 be made the same as the salary of the chief deputy In sheriffs office at $1220 per year. Sweet also favored the clipping of the chief deputy In the treasurer's office to $60 per month from $100. Sweet argued that "a good looking girl could be secured to do the work for that sum." Women Back Agent A delegation of rural district wo men opposed the proposal to abolish the office of Home Demonstration agent. It waa finally agreed after some argument that "Item be left as It Is." The proposal to cut the first .rtfirse's pay In the health department to $1200 did not reach the argument- ton, allegedly waa killed last Tues day at the Clayton home. Prom George Wilon, a neighbor of the Claytons, officers said they re ceived information as to how the child died. Wilson said he found two mn kneHlng over the prostrate form of the child. They ordered him to leave, deWarirm he was a "devil." He said the child father waa in the room. Dr. O. St. Taylor, Cass county health officer, said the child had been chok ed to ds'.h. A preliminary hearing for the brothers waa set for December 26, Post Office Open All Day Saturday F or Yule Mailing Due to Christmas falling on Sunday this year, the postofflce will clean up all package deliv eries Saturday night and will keep the stamp, general delivery, spec ial delivery and registry windows open until 8 o'clock in the even ing for the convenience of pat rons. There will be no delivery of mail Sunday and Monday, unless It bears a special delivery stamp. Although the volume of mail handled this Christmas season has been below normal, postofflce f flclals report a surprisingly large number of outgoing packages. JOB RACKETEERING TIRES WAITER, HE By Raymond Crowley NEW YORK, Dec. 23. (AP) Ben ny Glast, a waiter out of a job, believes that In real life as well In Greek tragedies the violent action should take place offstage. Five hundred members of Waiters Union, Local No. 1, gathered last night at Beethoven ball on the East Side to nominate officers. As the meeting swung into action, Glaat tip toed up an aisle, and mounted the stage. "Could I see you outside a mom ent?" he whispered to business agents Jack Lasher and Morris Turkel. They said yes. He ushered them Into an ante room, closed the door softly, and drew & pistol. "I didn't want to talk to you,' police quoted him as saying, "I want ed to give It to you." Then, so police were told, he fired two shots that dropped the business agents. One was wounded In the groin and the other In the thigh. Plercely now, Glast stalked back onto the stage, the smoking gun In his hand. "I gave It to 'em," he announced, before the 600. "I took them out side so you fellows wouldn't get Into trouble.. I'll make the sacrifice for you men." There were a few scattered cries from the audience. "Scram 1" someone shouted. "Run for it before the cops get here." At the back of the hall a police man appeared. "Drop that gun," he commanded "or I will kill you." "Come on," said Glast, laying down the gun. "I won't run away.' At a police station, he said: "I haven't had a Job for two years. My wife Is starving, my daughter Sylvia has to live with her grandmother In Chicago. I pleaded with Lasher and Turkel six weeks ago to get something for me. They said they couldn't help it, they couldn't do it." The next day, he asserted, a man who identified himself as a "go-be tween" visited him and said he could get him a Job If he gave him sev eral hundred dollars. Glast said that Infuriated him. Police were told two factions In the union have been at odds. De tectU'es said some members declared that to get Jobs they had to pay persons who hold no office In the union. Others said these statements were made by a faction ticking of fice. Glast, the police were told, came here four years ago from Chicago where he had been business agent of a local. ative stage. Sweet sought cuts on many Hems of salary and said that the request were made upon "the unanimous vote of the Sams Valley Grange." It was also aiULtested that the Mono mnnrnmrlnllnn h a-nfc tn S1(Vtil Th ' question of an emergency fund aboli tion was also dlscuased. but dropped when It was explained that It "took care of unforeseen happenings, such as floods." The principal speakers at the ses sion were: William T. Grieve of Pros pect, W. N. (Fsrmer Bill) Carl of the Apple ate, L. M. Sweet of Sams Val ley, Emmett Nealon of Sams Valley, Henry Schultz of Sama Valley, George Iverson of Medford and George An diews of Bllvtew. Many of the lead ing farmers of the valley were pres ent at the start, but left at dinner time. The suggestions made at the meet ing will be considered by the county court. The budget must be turned over to the assessor's office by Decem ber 31. Elmer Ellsworth Passes in Eugene EUOF.NE. Ore., Dec. 23 (API Elmr E. Ellsworth, for many years prominent In the lumber Industry of the state, died at the Pacific Chris tian hospital here early this morning. He was 69 years old. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Eva El In worth, cm a son, Harris Ells worth, editor of the Rose burg Mews Review. Direct Debt Negotiation DRAMATIC CALL Paul Boncour Requests Edge To Take Matter Up With Washington For Solution As Soon As Possible. PARIS. France. Dec. 23. (AP) Paul-Boncour suddenly and dramati cally virtually launched debt nego tiations with America today by per sonally calling upon U. S. Ambassa dor Edge at the embassy. He asked that Mr. Edge take the matter up with Washington so that France may help In reaching a solu tion of the debts question. Mr. Edge had let It be known to M. Paul-Boncour he would be pleased If the premier could receive him so Edge might convey his respects to the new premier and foreign minis ter. The foreign office sent no reply to this request during the day. Calls on Ambassador Suddenly M. Paul-Boncour, accom panied by Pierre de Froqulrles, di rector of protocol, arrived at the em bassy chancellory and asked to see Mr. Edge. Information from American sources Indicates that M. Paul-Boncour ex pressed a desire to receive any as sistance possible from the embassy and the Washington government which would enable him to take up the debt question with the chamber of deputies and enable the govern ment and the chamber to reach solution of the question as soon as possible. Plain Talk Used It Is stated there was no mincing of words throughout the conference, which was characterized by the finest spirit 6r goodwill on both sides, and that the conversations did much to clear the atmosphere. Apparently, M. Paul-Boncour re frained from making any prediction as to when the chamber might alter Its attitude concerning postponement of the December payment. However, It was understood, he did Intimate to Mr. Edge his fervent hope that Mr. Edge would take the matter up with the Washington gov ernment so negotiations might be continued uninterrupted. M. Paul-Boncour's call was the first of a scries of calls he made to the chiefs of diplomatic missions. It was the first concrete step of the new government in fulfillment of Its policy announced yesterday In the chamber of deputies to continue negotiations with the United Btates. Gets Chamber Harking Without a battle or even a skir mish, M. Paul Boncour obtained a substantial majority yesterday in the chamber of deputies authorizing him to pursue debt negotiations within limits already set by Its votes, and As far as waa ascertainable, how ever, few. If any, deputies knew of the Hoover-Roosevelt correspondence made public yesterday, before they voted. (President Hoover abandon- (Continued on Page Eight) Portland, ore., Dec. as (AP) Pine production In the west dropped to a new low for the week ending December 174 the Western Pine as sociation reported today. New busi ness was slightly higher than for the previous week, but about 53 per cent under the three-year average for December. Orders Increased slightly and were about 14 per cent of sawmill capacity. Shipments about balanced orders. New business totaled 10,007,000 feet for the week. 3 per cent better than t.he previous week. Of 116 mills reporting to the association, only 30 were operating. Shipments were 19,736.000 feet, and production 13,265.000 feet. Ptoduc tlon was 9 5 per cent of capacity as compared with 12.9 per cent for the previous week, and 19 per cent for the year to dat. LITTLE CHANGE IN WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. (JT) Members -,t the office force of Repre jntat' ,t Robert R. Butler, critically HI with pneumonia, Mid today there had been apparent change in hit con dition during the night. The Oregon representative rallied lightly yesterday after physicians had pronounced his clndltion grave and the change for the better revived bpoe for hla recovery. GIRL SCOUTS HONOR MRS. HOOVER iSii f f ! (JL l,t.ffiJjilM.MMMm.-,M-J,;.wua,. mi; - Girl scouts entertained Mrs. Hoover with Christmas carols at a pre-Christmas party, and Suzanne Boone, daughter of tha White House physician, is shown presenting the first lady with a gift (Aa 'aciated Press Photo. DEPOSITORS GET $8,624,985 FROIVI FEDERAL SOURCE WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. ()The comptroller of the currency today announced that $8,624,98o In cash will be distributed Immediately to depositors of 09 suspended national banks throughout the country. The amount, largest in any month for some time, was obtained partly by the comptroller borrowing from the Reconstruction Finance corporation, so as to get as much money as pos sible in the Christmas stockings of depositors. The loans were obtained on the good assets of some of the closed banks and will be repaid as the af fairs of the these suspended institu tions are liquidated. All the pay ments will be made by tomorrow night. All the money, In checks, said F. O. Await, acting comptroller, will be available at the offices of receivers of the banks and if depositors do not get It, It will be only because they fall to call. He did not, however name the In stitutions for which the dividends are being made, neither did he dis close the amount borrowed from t'ae reconstruction corporation. So far this year the comptroller's office has distributed r total of ap proximately $106,000,000 In dlvtdenos to depositors of atispendrd banks, 3, 000.000 going out in November, i Hoover9 s Christmas On Island Is Plan 6EA ISLAND. Oa., Dee. 33. (AP) A telegram rerelved here today from Howard Coffin In New York said President Hoover will spend Christ mas night as Coffin's guest on "spe loe Island. Coffin Is expected at his home here tonight. BODY OF MURDERED GIRL FOUND STUFFED INTO BAG . MOLINE. Ill , Dec. 23. (AP) year old department store clerk, and Investigators today as they sifted the In the hope of solving the mystery. waa found yesterday beneath a river The investigators knew she had. telephoned hr dressmaker from the store where she was employed shout a bright Christmas dress last Wed nesday night, that she also talked to an unidentified man with whom she made an appointment, but whether she ever kept It or not re mained unknown but they did know that she nevrr kept an appointment with the dressmaker, whose Christ mas dress will be 'Mix Oendler's shroud. The police said they were convinced that ransom was not the motive for the brutal slaying, although a note demanding 12,000 was found by ber UNKNOWN SANTA' OUTFITS FAMILY AT LOCAL STORE Tt happens seldom, except In falry land or In the stories that story' tellers tell but It happened In Med ford yesterday and no one waa dream lng. The family whisked from rags Into nice warm clothing, was sure of that this morning, when each member was found still In possession of the gifts of yesterday. From 'their destitute home In thla city, mother, father and five children were taken downtown by a "fairy god fat her" and into a shop, where clothing for each and every one was purchased. Shoes, underclothes, shirts, over alls and stockings were bought to replace the ill-fitting, ragged ones worn, and to warm toes, snuggled stockinglesa Into rough shoes. From the oldest down to the youngest child, Just two. nil wer in desperate need of what they got. School equip ment was also bought for those at tending school, and honest-to-good ness Santa Claus having told the mat-chant to "give them everything they nwd; I'll come back and pay the bill." As he went out the door, the father turned to the merchant to ask in bewildered tone. "Who is that man? He was told, and the merchant, tell ing the story today, quoted him as adding, "There Is a name and h ma I shall never forget." Returning to the shop to pay the bill, the man, whose name the mer chant also refused to reveal today, explained that he ha 1 planned to take his family south for the hoi I days, but upon second thought elded It would be mora fnn to make someone else happy for Christmas. Wallowa Mm. Ei7ia WHks prepar ing to move cafe to Gillespie build' lng. Who klllM Miss Pose Gendler. 22- why, were questions that puKslert few known facts about hr death Hr body, stuffed In a burlap sack, bridge. Her skull was crushed. parents, almost at the same time the body was discovered. One theory waa that the girl was slsln when she repulsed advances of her kidnapers. Henry Beck, called by two youth who found stains on the bridge, found the body bound, gagged with a dirty cloth and stuffed Into the bag. Tha Rkull fracture was cauied by the fall of the body from the bridge to the Ice on the river, the police believed. Bork and the boys were summoned to appear at a coroner's Inquest to day. AT orgnette Circle In Frenzy Over Diplomatic Reception Secretary Mills Thinks Too Fast For His Enemies nj rui, mai.i.ov. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. The lorg nette circle of highest Washington society Is In a frenzy at Mrs. Hoover. It seems the First Lady Invited too many ladles from out in the country to attend the diplomatic reception thla year. About 1,800 invitations were' sent out. They went mslnly to those who were kind to Mrs. Hoov er during her recent campaign trav els. Aa a result, few Invitations were sent to Washington socialites. The blow was heavy to them. They ways hold parties at their homes after the reception. Thla year they had to sit on their hands until the reception waa over and the diplo matic guests arrived from the Whlta House. Retaliation la now being discussed. Certain senators at planning; to break soma mora or leas sensational vldence ahortly concerning Wall Streetera who cheated on their In come tax returns. That Is the motive behind reopen ing of the stock market Investigation by the senate banking committee. Inveatlgatora have tound that soma additional pool and stick syndicate (Continued on Pago Seven) 0 E 2 SALEM, Deo. 28. (AP) All offi cers elected November 8, with tha exception of the state legislature, will assume office January 2 thla yeBr, Attortiey-Oeneral I. H. Van Winkle held In an opinion here late yesterday. The question was raised by Wasoo county because of the fact that January 2, the first Monday, will be observed aa a holiday. The law provldea that such officers elected on the previous November, with the exception of governor and legislators, assume office the first Monday In January. Senate Relents On Appointments WA8HINCITON, Deo. 33. (API- Democrats In the senate relented to day In their campaign against ap polnteca of President Hoover and per mitted confirmation of officers In the army, navy and marine corpa for varloua promotions. HARRIET JAY, WRITER PASSES IN ENGLAND ILFORD, ESSEX, Eng., Deo. 23. (AP) Harriet Jay, 69, novelist and dramatfst, died today. She wrote "A Marriage of Conven ience" and other novels. Among her plays was "When Knights Were Bold." WILL ROGERS LOS ANGELES, Deo. 221 don't know why Mr. Hoover s all exi-itod over the debt yet. Thnt's all over now. He did a mighty good job. We was owed about one hundred and twenty- five million and he collected over a hundred. Anybody who can get four-fifths nowadays is doing a mighty good job of col lection, and besides, France is going to pay, so it looks like the debt thing is all settled till next December when it will be Mr. Roosevelt's Christmas present to try and get on our tree. Time to worry over a debt is before you get it, not after you got four-fifths of it. So argu ing over the debt now is just like arguing over the lust elec tion. Tours, C mi. pt1i In. U