Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 27, 1932, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPaid-Up Circulation People who pay for their newspapers aia tne peat prospects for tbe sdver tilers. A. B. O. olreuls'lon la paid up circulation. This newspaper la a. B. o. DFOKD MAIL IK1BUN Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFOUU, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, c No. n The Weather Forecut: Tonight and Wednesday cloudy. Colder tonight. Hlfbett yesterday ... . 4! Lowest this morning. , ,, 39 ME J IBM MiilEl Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THROUGHOUT this entire country, more than 150 people lose their Uvea in holiday accident over the Christmas week-end traffic acci dents, principally. On holidays, people get out on the roads and go placea, and when the roads are crowded with people going placea accldenta are bound to occur. THE Ices of 150 lives over one week end sounds like a lot. But re member that this la a big country, with a total population of some 120 millions. Big as the total Bounds, when we aee It In a headline, these holiday fatalities amounted to only one out of about each 800,000 of total popu lation. The chancea against us, you see, really aren't very great,-even on holi days. TRAFFIC! accidents, as you know If you have read the papers care fully, don't make up the total of the newa of the Chrlstmaa week-end. There la drunkenness plenty of It. In sadly many cases, drunkenness led to murder. Of lesser crimes, there were certain ly enough. The papere have been more or lesa full of them ever since. THE point Is this: It Is In our leisure time, such as holidays, especially two-day holt days extending over week-ends, that we do most of our hell-ralslng. We seem to let loose on such occasions, and when we let loose the worst In us comes out. Nearly everybody Is telling us that In the future, thanka to machines, we are going to have more and more leisure time; some of the more ad vanced thinkers along this line as .'sertlng that we shall work not more than 15 to 20 hours per week. That will be fine, of course; but when we get so much leisure time on our hands we are going to have to learn to use It for aomethlng better than hell-ralslng. TP It Washington, there la talk that this winter's legislature will repeal the law that forbids prize fighting. There Is prize-fighting, anyway, law or no law. It Is pointed out, so why not repeal the law and get back to first principles? will probably get no farther this year than talk of repealing the law that lorblda betting on horse races. People BE7T on horses, you know, when they feel that way, law or no law. So people up In Washington, , the story goes, are beginning to aay ' tftat If such Is the case, why keep a law FORBIDDING betting on horses on the books. BESIDES, It Is easerted, the state can get a lot of revenue out of taxing prlze-flghta and betting on horse races and a lot of other thlnga , that people JUST WILL DO but which are now forbidden by law. and the atata NEEDS THE MONEY. THIS writer, speaking merely aa one Individual, Is quite convinced that you can't make people moral by passing a law. It has been tried often enough In the world's history, but It doesn't seem to work. When the law says aternly, aa to such offenses, "Tou MCSTNT;" human nature appears to respond perversely: "Yes, but I WILL." Human nature was that way, even among the Puritans. It was that way long before the Puritans. It is that way yet. The chancea are it always will be that way. - SO THE state of Washington, and other states, might aa well wipe from their statute books their : called "blue laws." These laws nevek hsve accomplished what they were Intended to, and they never will. But when It cornea to TAXING the thlnga that are forbidden by these blue laws, such as betting on horse races, thus making the state a PART NER In them, as is being proposed up In Washington, that Is another story. Hoover and Party At St. Augustine ST. AUOfSTINT. F.a. Dec. 27. J. President Hoover and his fishing party arrived here at 1 p. m. today. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover docked at the municipal pier and plsnnecl to con tlnu? south lo Daytona Beach tonight. FIGHT IN ASHLAND HOI' IAS BAY FATAL FORW. LONG S. P. Engineer's Throat Cut By Broken Bottle in Scuf fle With Well-Known Ash land Man 3 Witnesses A charge of manslaughter will he filed today in Justice court at Ash land by the district attorney'a office against Albert E. Jordan, 51, of Ashland, a merchant, as a result of the death from a punctured Jugular vein, of Walter F. Long, 49, of Duns mulr, Calif., a Southern Pacific rail road engineer, Sunday afternoon, as the climax of a trivial quarrel. Jor dan, in the county Jail, claims self defense. He voluntarily surrendered. According to the authorltlca, the Christmas day tragedy occurred about 3:40 o'clock In the afternoon, In the kitchen of the Jordan home in Ash land. Mrs. Pearl Mackrodt, of Portland, a sister of the dead man, was held for a few hours as material witness, but was allowed her liberty, to be with her mother, in a serious con dition from shock. Witnesses Give Story There are a number of confusing angles to the case, but the story gath ered from the statements of the three eye-witnesses, is as follows: Long and his sister, Mrs. Pearl Mackrodt of Portland, were spending Christmas with their mother, Mrs. George Shelton of Ashland, who lives few doors from the Jordan home on the Boulevard In Ashland. Jor dan knew Long "only by alght," he says, but had known Mrs. Mackrodt from girlhood. In the afternoon, Long and Mrs. Mackrodt made an Informal Chrlst maa call at the Jordan home. Mrs. Mackrodt, according to the district attorney's olllce, and the state ponce, was Inebriated. After an exchange of greeting, Mrs. Mackrodt started going from room to room, the auth orities say. Quarrel Starts While this was underway, Jordan, hla wife and Long were In the kitchen.. Jordan tolH Sheriff Ralph (Continued on Page Four) TERMED ALL LIES SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27 (AP) The "confession" of Paul M. Calll cotte, Portland sailor and mountain guide, t,hat he unknowingly, placed the bomb in the 1916 Preparedness day disaster here was today branded as the tale of a "confessed liar and publicity seeker" In a 10,000-word re port made public without comment by Chief of Police William J. Qulnn. The report was prepared by Police Captain Charles Goff and Inspector Charles Maher, who Journeyed to Portland to Investigate Calllcotte's story of placing tho suitcase bomb on the corner of Stewart and Mariret streets July 22, the day of the ex plosion. ' 10 ATTEND SESSION LINCOLN. Neb., Dec. 27. P H. L. Challburg of Potter, new Demo cratic state representative, hitch hiked his way hero for the legisla ture session next week. Challburg. a widower, came 400 miles. An elderlv retired farmer and grain dealer, he took to the high ways and made it in two days and two ridea. Body WnMifft Ahore. ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 27. (P) A body found on the beach near Ocean City was identified today as that of Laurl Salo Astoria troller man, who fishln? boat foundered in a storm December 6. WIFE, DAUGHTER STABBED BY DRINK-CRAZED FATHER HILISOPO, Ore , Dec. 37. &) Drink-crazed, hla mind cracked oy shock and terrlb'e re!r,?re. Aubrey Welch. 42, lay stretched on a cell cot here today while sheriffs rfuties pictured to themselves the de tails of the msd, maniacal attack In which Welch last night butchered his wife and his eight-year-old daughter. Welch's m!nd was too muddled to day and he was too distraught o tell of the tragedy, fit angering and iceling from the effect of liquor, at shuffled Into the home of a friend last night and cried "I have done a horrible deed The man accom panied him to the Welch cottage. Mrs. We'ch. several years older than hr husband, was stretched on the bedroom floor. A knlle-bUcle h d gashed her throat. Be&de Her ou the Freed in Greece . HI- ,i SAMUEL INSULL, former American Utilities head, petition for whose ex tradition was denied today. E OF ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 27. P) The Greek courts today rejected an American petition for the ex tradition of Samuel Insull, for mer Chicago utilities official. Mr. Instill was set at liberty Immediately. ATHENS, Dec. 27. It) Samuel Insull, debonair and talkative, walk ed Into a courtroom of this ancient Greek capital today with the beat legal talent the country afforded to defend himself against an extradi tion demand from Chicago. The former multimillionaire util ities operator Is charged with era beszlement and larceny. The hearing commenced at 9:30 a m. Mr. Insull asked for a trans istor and Pandells Raptarkhls, a law yer, was appointed. Mr. Insull gave his Identity and de clared he had no profession and that he agreed that the hearing be pub lic. He named christos Ladaa and Dlonylsa Lararlmos attorneys for the defense, Also present In court was Arthur Page, his British attorney. Soon after Public Attorney Rlga nakos began h's opening speech, La- das Interrupted, protesting agalnat th tnklnir of motion pictures. The (Continued on Page Pour) 4 TALK ON REALTY The weekly program of the Rotary club today was in charge of Charles A. Win, and was a discussion of matter pertaining to real estate, par ticularly farm management and financing. Olln Arnaplger gave an Interesting and Instructive talk on plans now being worked out for re financing and Improving the outlook for Irrigation projects in this dis trict. Jack TYbln was a gue.it from the Roseburg Rotary club. Chas. Furnas, vice-president, pre sided in the absence of President Lantlfl. "Jim Ham" Denies Judgeship Plans MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 27 (AP) United States Senator James Hamilton 1w1ji of Illinois, here on vacation, emphati cally denied reports that he would re sign to accept - federal Judgeship In order that Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago might be appointed by Gov emor-elect Henry Horner to the sen ate post. floor was the body of a clld. . A narrow blade had pierced her heart. The hous was bIoodaiaJned, the furniture was upset, curtains were torn and personal effect, were scat tered. Welch offered no resistance to ar rest. Deputies today were waiting until he had sobered sufficiently to permit questioning. Neighbors knew him as a kindly husband and fathr. The family seemed happy and well -treated. BETTER TIME FOREMEN 'SF 1933 HORI Year-End Analysis of Prob lems Holds Hope Read justments Place Industry in Strategic Position By F. A. BESCH, Associated Press Staff Writer.) URBAN A, 111, Dec. 37. (P) The dean of one of America's largest col leges of agriculture saya the nations farmers are looking to 1933 "with at least faint assurance that better prices will restore part of the 1932 shrinkage of $1,715,000,000 In their incomes." Thst conviction was expressed In a year-end analysis of the American farmer's plight by H. S. Mumford, nationally recognized authority on farm problema, who la dean of the college of agriculture tt the Univer sity of Illinois. In Sfrateglc Position. Many adjustments already made by farmera to the low prices of 1932. Dean Mumford said, have put them in a position to take better advan tage of any lmporvement in prices and gross receipts that may come in 1933: Business readjustment which be gan In 1932, he believes, eventually will make possible the re-employ ment of millions of workers snd should bring about a "substantial rise" in prices of the most depressed farm ataplea. Prices at Bottom. "There is some evidence that farm prices are down to a bottom and that the general trend now will be up ward. "That Is particularly true of corn. which la at the loweat price level (Continued on Page Seven) NEW TAHANGLE STATE SETS The state tax commission has served notice upon Jackson county that its share of the state will be Approximately $87,000, and a new tax tangle is thereby presented to the county court. The apportionment for this county for elementary schools Is fixed at (60,030. The budget committee make allowance for S 0.000, so only $030 will have to be raised. In the event that a sales tax is adopted for Oregon, the $87,000 would be refunded, but until that time It Is necessary tc raise by dl- ect levy. The county court is today seeking legal opinions, whether or not It will be necessary to re-publish the bud get, with the $87,000 state tax and $030 elementary school tax added. It Is expected that It will have to be re -printed. The budget was forma.'ly adopted and made up by the budget commit tee. A public hearing was held last Friday. Under the law," the county court Is allowed to Increase the budget 10 per cent over the estimated amount. but even with the invoking of this clause, the state demand would still be $81,000 short. A final decision will be made by the county court this afternoon. The tax apportionment was m&de on all counties of the state. INTERIOR BILL WASHINGTON, Dee. 27. (AP) Christmas leisure was quickly put aside by the house today. Its members returning to work and immediately passing a major bill, but the senate held only a perfunctory five-minute session and recessed for three more days. A sufficient number of representa tives showed up to pass and send to the aena the Interior department ap propriation bill, a $43,000,000 Affair, without need of Invoking Speaker Oamer's threat to have members ar rested and brought to the chamber by the sergeant-at -arms If a quorum failed to appear. Portland Church ' Damaged By Fire PORTLAND. Dec. 27. p) Lot estimated by the fire marshal at be tween $18,000 and $18,000 was caus ed here today whsn fire swept through the seoond floor of a down town building housing the Penta cotal Assembly Mission and the firm of Lincoln it Allen, printers and bookbinders. til Janet Qaynor, petite screen so tress, and her husband, Lyell Beck, denied thsy contemplated divorce but admitted they had separated (Associated Press Photo) INDUSTRY WHEELS MOSCOW, Dee. 28 ( AP) The slogan "slow down" Is an evident objective of Russia when It sets forth next week upon Its second five-year plan. A general slowing up of feverish Industrial activities was Indicated to day by the announcement that capi tal Investments for the Russian soc ialist federated Soviet republlo, part of the Soviet union In 1033 will be 18.000,000,000 rubles (about $9,000, 000,000) as compared with 2 1 ,000. 000.000 rubles (about $10,500,000,000) for 1031. This republic, extending from the Baltic lo the North Pacific, contains 70 per cent of the population and 02 per cent of the area of the seven Soviet republics. The food scarcity In Soviet Russia has been a serious problem In the past year and the second five year plan Is expected to bring vigorous activity looking toward the tripling or doubling of the standard of liv ing. The migration of working groups in search of food disturbed In dustrial programs under Vie first five year plan. To inaugurate better living condi tions, the Russian republic's Invest ment In light industry will be doub led In 1033 as compared with the past year. Much energy Is to be concentrated on. development of local Industries, heretofo.e subordinated to heavy Industry, It was announced. The definite program for the first year of the second five year plan will be decided for the entire Soviet union after the red parliament is called Into session January 20. Its annual meeting recently was post poned ten days. The question of what Russia ,has achieved under the first five year plan Is so complicated that a fair ( termlnatlon Is practically Impossible. The viewpoint in Moscow Is that the first five year plan created the In dustrial background snd that the time has come for perfection of this baslj. There are no plana for new large scale production In the next five years, as, for instance, the great water works of Dnle-Prostroy the power plant on the Dnieper rtver whlc'i Russians claim will be the largest In the world when all units are com pleted. Some Increases In heavy Industrial production are planned for 1033 un- ; der the program announced for the ! Russian republic. The production of pig Iron Is to be Increased 4fi per cent, of rolled steel, 46 per cent, of tractors. 34 per cent and of automo biles, AO per cent. The development of heavy Industry in order to Increase production and reduce costs was expected to continue while emphasis Is placed on produc tion of consumers' goods. While remarkable achievements have been claimed In various pro grams under the concluding five year plan. It has been estimated that food production fell off to such an extent that 16.000,000 are receiving meals by what Is known as the "mass feed ing" system. This Is about one-tenth of the entire population and five times as many as received food In the same manner last yar. The meeting, of the red parliament January 10 will provide the first def inite figures on the second five year plan and therefore is the object of much Interest. The present pace of Industrial ac tivity admittedly has been a great strain on tie population by bringing about low living standards. The forthcoming session also will con sider the matter of "strengthening the collective farms," Indicating the government does not Intend to alter Its agricultural policies. Mount Anfce! $30,000 creamery addition here, nearlng completion. FEDERAL SALES TAX DISCUSSION BOBSJP AGAIN Both Branches of Congress Renew Talk of Levy at Factory to Balance Budget Expense Cuts Sought ALBANY. N. T., Dee. 27. (IP) President-elect Roosevelt's advis ers made known today that Gov. ernor Roosevelt was "horrified" at published reports to the effect lhat he had endorsed a general manufacturers' sales tax. WASHINGTON, Ilec. 27. (IP) Following statements In Albany that Governor Roosevelt was "horrified" at reports he had en dorsed the sales tax, ' Speaker Garner said late today the president-elect's attitude had killed, so far as this session Is concern ed, that method of balancing the budget. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (AP) Re newed discussion of the advisability of levying a manufacturers' sales tax sprang up In both the senate and the house today as the house ways and means committee laid plans for beginning its study of the govern mental fiscal situation. In the senate, the veteran chair man of the finance committee, Bmoot of Utah, said the sales tax Is the only means that cua be found to balance the budget. A somewhat similar statement came from Speaker Garner. He said that if It were necessary to pass such a tax measure. I d do It. Reek Expense Cuts. Meanwhile, the house appropria tions committee tackled the budget ary problem from another angle. Its chairman, Byrne of Tennessee, ap pointed a subcommittee to see what (Contlnund on Page Four) E OF REOFE PLEASED By NEWS PITTSBURGH, Deo. 27. (IP) Mrs Paul Redlern, young wile of tha avi ator who dlaappeared flvs years ago on an attempted flight to Brazil, said today that a report her husband Is safe la "the moat welcome Christmas gift I ever received." Redfern la reported to be living as the captive king of a tribe of South American Indians In the Rio Ma. delra region near the borders of the uraKilian atatea of Amazonas and Matta Orosso. FAMI WASHINGTON, Dec. 37 (AP) "The Old Soak," Secretary Stlmson's pet parrot, was taken to the Stlmson home from the Washington boo be fore Christmas to apend the holidays with the secretary of state and Mrs, Stlmson. The old Soak' la Just as noisy as he ever was and added to our Christ mas celebration." the secretary said today. "His visit of a year at the eoo has not changed him In the least." JOLTTST, HI., Dee. 37 (AP) Kath- erlne Baluk, central figure of a sen sational Chicago murder case, who was sentenced to the state peniten tiary for life in 1924, died todsy be hind the bars, of pneumonia. BALTIMORE. Dec. 37. (AP) John J. Carty, 71, vice-president and chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, died today at the Johns Hopkins hospital of heart complications following an ope ration Friday. 4 KANSAfl CITY, Kans., Deo. 37. W, H. Sprout, 85, former Kansas rep resentative In congress, died of heart disease hers today. HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS AND BRAWLS TAKE 400 LIVES (Br the AmocMM Press. This yew's three-day Christmas week-ei.d holiday was a costly one In the number of human lives sacrificed, It wss revealed today as reports of violent desths ceme from the ldth and breadth of the land. Tabulations by the Associated , Press Indlested the total cs.usltles would approach the 400 mark, with the Tlllnola mine disaster, In which 94 lives were lost, leading the list. However, fatal automobile accidents caused by far the greatest death toll, exceedlna; 300. California with 30 auto deatha had the greatest number for any single state, although the Pennsylvania total was 13. Michigan had 15 and Missouri and New Jersey 11 stab, Believed Lost Frr ,d w fi'Mn.., w. K. Harding, Minneapolis min ing engineer, and his airplane pilot wore reported loat In the region of i Hudson bay while prospecting for I oold. (Associated Press Photol I OF BLASTED MO WE AQUA, HI., Dec. 37. (AP) Rescue workers today began a search In the north win. of the Moweaqua mine, shattered by a gs explosion Saturday, for 14 men. whose bodies still were In the workings 700 feet below the surface of tho earth. Forty bodies already have been brought out. Seals placed on the entrance of the wing Saturday to bottle up the fumes were broken at midnight. The shaft was ventilated until 9 a. m,. when weary comrades of the entombed men resumed their search, finding one body In the passageway outside the wing. The search might take days, of ficials said. Rocks, dirt and timbers had to be tunneled through or pushed aside as the rescuers bored toward the missing men. Immediate relief for the bereavefi families was the pressing need of tne little coal community, A commltbee planned to visit Governor Emmerson in Springfield In hope of expediting aid. R. D. Coburn, vice-president of the Bituminous Casualty company of Rock Island, estimated that dependents of the trapped miners would receive $200,000 tmrirp the state's compensa tion laws. The state Industrial com mission will fix the amount of each case, with a maximum of $4500 for a married man, survived by children. BODY OF GIRL IS FOUND IN CELLAR NORWOOD, Mass.. Deo. 37. (AP) The body of Anealy Keras, fl, was found late today In a burlap bag burled under a wood pile In the cel lar of her home. The child had been missing since Chrlstmss day noon. The woodpile was In that section of the cellar allotted to Ahmeed Ors- msn. 60, who with Allle Orsman. 48, was taken Into custody for question ing shortly befors the body was found. Company A Holds Inspection Tonight Atisrterly Inspection and muster ot Company A and headquartera com pany of the 188th Infantry will be held tonight at the Medford Armory. Following the drill, membera of Com pany A will enjoy a feed In the base ment. Butler Improving. WASHINGTON, Deo. 37. ( AP) Of fice of Congressman Robjrt R. Butler of Oregon, 111 with pneumonls, re ported his condition as satisfactory today. Other classifications In the Asso ciated Press tabulation of holiday deaths Included brswls snd shootings, trains, drownings, fires snd mlscel- lsneous. Strangely enough, fires, which used to be a faotor In the observsnoa of Christmas when llirhted candles were used on threes, accounted for only 12 deaths this year. At least 38 persons lost their lives In brswls and shoot Inge, while trains figured in 10 tragic deaths. W.1 - .' n vA m IS IN Fl SET-UP Democratic Financier to Be Real Power in Administra tionAlready Represents Roosevelt Behind Scenes By PAUL MALLOX. (Copyright by McClure Ncwspsper Syndicate) WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 37. It was Bernard Baruch, the Democratic Warwick, who stopped the scheduled bar noon in it of France In the senate tTvn last week. He Is supposed to have been acting for Gov. Roosevelt. Behind It all was State Secre tary Stlmson. He became convinced Wednesday that the French might pay after all. He . apparently had confidential word from Paris to that effect. At that time ?&AD BABUCtt Senators Harri son twitf tiorun were primed to tear Francs limb from limb. SMmsnn han dled Borah by telephone. He urged that nothing be said In the senate which would heat up the French, Bo rah agreed he would not open the subject If the Democrats would lay' off. Stlmson then started the Inner ma chinery which ultimately resulted In Horrton cancelling the speech he was scheduled to make Friday. Ba ruch handled him. This little baclustage maneuver shows what Importance the ghost like figure of Baruch has now In Washington. You hear very little about him. You never see him. But he Is always thero. Li.mocratic Senators believe ht speaks largely for Roosevelt. At least (Continued on Fags Seven) FURTHERROADWORK WAITS LEGISLATURE PORTLAND. Ore., Deo. 37. A meeting of the state highway com mission and Oregon legislative lead- era, held here today, was expected to result In a formal announcement to night that no more highway con struction work will be undertaken t!l it- Is known what action the legislature wll Hake on the question of downward revision of automobile license fees. France Must Pay Ere Negotiations WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (p) The American government plans to In sist that France meet the December 15th debt Installment before there any new negotiations with that country. Secretary Stlmson made this clear today in an assertion to newspaper men with regard to the conversa tions between Premier Paul Boncour and Ambassador Edge. . Will ROGERS SANTA JIOXICA, Cal., Deo. 27. This "technocracy" didn't seem to make much difference with Christmas. Father's neck- tics and sox were done up in the same deceptive boxes they were before the scientists took us over. Itcplc didn't get "beer by Christmas." They just, had to .struggle along on gin and corn. Mr. Hoover went fishing in the South, but didn't catch any thing. He had waited too long, and the fish had all gone Demo cratic. France went into a huddle and practiced some of Shake speare's signals, "to pay or not to pay." That is the question, whether it's better to pay and use the yanks again or not to pay and lose 'em. Yours, ,n. s)-..i lra. in.