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Many Girls Competing for Popularity Contest Hawaiian Trip' Mail Trftune The Weather Paid-Up Circulation People who pay fox their newspapers are tha best prospects (or the adver tiser, a. B. O. circulation Is paid up circulation. Tbla newspaper u . B. a MEDFORD Forecast Occasional rain tonight ; Wednesday cloudy; not much change In temperature. Highest yesterday -43 Lowest this morning- 33 MEDFOliD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2i, 1933. No. 2607 Twenty-Seventh Sear rvn nnn rn fui LfU n ran n Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. HERE la the opening paragraph of a dispatch Irom Salem: "Moving elugglahly. the Oregon leglalature closed lta aecond week with little aocomnllahed toward early eo lutlon of the atate'a perplexing prob lem of where to obtain revenue to continue the functions of atate reve nue." The atate, apparently, la in the aame boat with aU lta citizens. WHEN a solvent atate and the atate of Oregon IS aolvent rune out of money with which to pay Its Immediate and pressing bills, the or dlnary method la to BORROW. The atate of Oregon, like many other states, has trouble borrowing money right now because It can' show where It Is going to get money with which to pay back lta borrow ings. Prooerty taxes. Income taxea, excise taxes. Inheritance taxea all these are not yielding money according to e nectatlons. Men who lend want to know whera the money la coming from with which to PAT BACK. Before the state can borrow money again, it must make a showing of In come aufflclent -to meet Its needs, That la where the legislature comes in. rpHE SITUATION In which Oregon Still, It has lta merits. When we find that we Just simply can't GET IN any more money, we are forced to atop paying money out. There Is no other way out of if "Bo this situation In which the state finds itself will do more to bring .about economy than years and yeara or TALKING. Cheaper government Is one of the pressing needs of the day, and what ever brlnga It to ua will be highly beneficial In the long run, even It annoying In the present emergency. TOO are reading a lot these days A about the "lame duck" congress tm-vitvi vou wonder lust what a "lame duck" congress Is. This is the answer: It la a congress made up largely of members who were defeated for re-election In November, but hold office until the fourth day of the following March. The present congress Is made up of an unusually large number of such members, because the mortality rate among the "lna" waa exceedingly heavy last fall. The voters saw to that. rpHE present congress will be the 1 last "lame duck" congress we shall have, for as these words are written 85 statea have ratified the SOth amendment to the constitution and only 36 are required to make the amendment effective. The 20th amendment to the eon etltutlon provides that newly elected senators and representatives, aa well as a newly elected president, shall take the seats In January following their election In November. HEN the constitution of tne United States was adopted, the fourth of March following the elec tion In November was none too soon for newly elected members of con gress and the newly elected president to take office. Communication was so slow In those days that It actually took about that long to get the necessary for malities, such aa the counting of tne vote, out of the way and to get the new officials to Washington. Then the frame of our constitu tion were inherently suspicious of sudden changes, and thought It wise to see to it that changes of adminis tration wers msde as slowly aa pos sible. "Don't rock the boat" was their fa vorite motto. IN THESE mociern days, we want action, rather than delay; and so the prompt seating of new presidents and new members of congress is In line with present public opinion, which Is sound. But let's not Jump to the conclu sion that the "lame duck" amend ment, which will eliminate such de lays. v:ill solve nil of the problema of Con '.timed un Page Eight; pii m hum ANn I iluiu nuninu nnu k HOUSEHOLDER ARE l INJURED IN SMASH ' Ship Bound for Medford Falls Spon After Take-Off No Passengers Aboard Account Stormy Weather Pilot Harold R. -Adams of Med ford died a short time after the crash, at Eugene, of a plane he was piloting south. PORTLAND, Jan. 24. (AP) The southbound United Air IJnea mall plane and passenger ship leaving here at 10:10 a. m. today was wrecked at Eugene a short time later, with pos sibly serious injuries to pilot and co-pllot. The Injured men were: Harold Adams, pilot. Kenneth Householder, oo-pllot. The stewardess, a Miss Peterman. waa not mentioned In first advices reaching United Air line offices here, It waa Inferred that she was unin jured. - There were no passengers aboard since the low ceiling had caused cancellation of tickets on the plane's departure from Portland. The crash occurred in the take-off and the wrecked plane fell near the Eugene airport. Ordinarily no stop la made at Eugene. Adams and Householder are both very well known In Medford and have families In Seattle. Adams flies between this city and Seattle and Householder between Seattle and Oakland. No particulars of the wreck had been received at the local air port bls afternoon, Phil Sharp, man- agor of Pacific Air Transport stated. He waa wiring for full details when the Associated Press dispatch was re celved. Both Adams and Householder stay over In Medford frequently and have participated In many lodge and civic events here. BUILDING SOLD An order confirming the sale of the Pacific Record-Herald building on Sixth street was filed In the re cording department of the clerk's of fice late yesterday, as another legal chapter In the suit of Ntedermeyer, Inc., against Earl H. Fehl and wife and the Pacific Record-Herald and others. The order was signed by Circuit Judge Earl O. Latourette of Oregon City, who handed down a decision awarding Nledermeyer, Inc., Judgment. Attorney E. E. Kelly, representing Pehl, said that an appeal to the su preme court would be filed today. The sale orders shows that the building was sold to Ted Helmroth of the Griffin Creek district and J. B. Thomas and wife of Ashland, with the high bid of 95372.43. an amount covering the mortgage and the costs of the action.. Thomas and Helmroth were the high bidders at the public sale January 7. ' Os West in Impassioned Plea Before Solons for Victims of Loan Sharks (By Mary Grelner Kelly.) i SALEM, Jan. 93. (6pl.) Great big teardrops splashed on feminine cheeks as former Governor Os West 1 painted the plight of duped hua-1 bands and wives in the clutches of "loan sharks." at a public hearing on a trio of small loan bills held before the revision of laws commit tee this afternoon. J There was standing room only as former Governor West began his emo tional plea in the Interest of "tens of thousands of wage earners In the state" He told how couples were lured Into borrowing money by one well known loan company, through entic ing radio advertising, only to be brought to utter ruin anJ dlspair b7 their exorbitant rates of interest and ruthlesu demands. Before he ended, he quoted the Bible and the Merchant or Venice, reaching a dramatic cHma as he pic tured the wolfish eyes of the usury expert after he has victimized his prey. There were those to be heard on the other side of the question, but a larne number of the crowd left when trie spigot of emotion waa turned off, snd West, with the flourili of s o.d-lMhioned a: tor, r?pt his la.ge WINNIE RUTH JUDD ON STAND I. I Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, sentenced to hang February 17 for the alaylng of Mrs. Agnes Lerol In the "trunk murders" case. Is shown aa she testified In Phoenix, Ariz., at hearings for John J. Halloran, In dicted aa an accessory In the case. (Associated Preaa Photo STORY OF FATAL HUNT IS RELATED "1 TRIAL OF ROLF The trial of Heinhard A. Holf of the Central Point district, charged with Involuntary manslaughter for the accidental slaying of Joe 8t. Ger main, his hunting companion, in mis take for a bear, was started In cir cuit court thla morning. The trageay occurred in the Butte Palls district last October. Rolf was called to the stand aa the first witness of the day. He said he was 32 yeara old, had hunted since he was 18 years old. He had been a resident of this county for sbout 18 months. Rolf testified that the trag edy was sn accident. He claimed that St. Germain failed to answer pre-iu- ranged signals, and that when he fired the fatal shot he had no icea at. uer- maln waa In range. Rolf, on the stand, showed the ef' fects of worry. He waa accompanied 1& court by hts wife. A Jury to hear the case was secured late yesterday, after a special venire had been drawn by the court. One woman Luclnda B. Hubbard of thla city la a member. The othera are men. Including many hunters, as follows John 8. Catey. Medford: Fred Pet tinger. Medford: William Jordan. Ap plegate: O. V. Meyers. Medford; Iuls tJlrlch, Medford; B. M. Bush, Med ford; Jess Nell, Ashland; Clauds Say- lor. Medford: J. C. Wellls. Medford, and Raymond Reter. Medford. The case Is expected to go to the Jury 1st today. grey hat before grand exit. him and made a Tonight will come the hearing on the Jackson county homestead ex emption bill. J. C. Barnes arrived early from Medford, calling attention of the local delegation to stiU an other haircut he received In the In terest of more effective legislation No smug lawmaker would dare get too hard-boiled with Donald Weed. 20-year-old deputy sergeant-at-armn in the house especially if he knew Donald. 1ls young boy from con don. Ore., now a student at the Unl' verslty of Oreccn, has a pair of knuckles which, when contacted with almost any type of Jawbone, will pro duce bird music. A student for four summers at the Citizens Military Training camp at Vancouver. Wash .. Donald carried away the boxing championship medal for three consecutive years. That isn't all. He placed third In track, in the mile run classification In 1030 and 1031, and he Is pitcher on the University of Oregon baseball team Donald has a stack of medals that would mske a war hero hide his head. These are principally for box (Conunu.n. vu rage Eigbt), TO PLEA FOR VOTE RECOUNT Sheriff Gordon L. Schermerhorn yesterday through his attorneys filed answer to the recount petition or former Sheriff Ralph G. Jennings. Circuit Judge L. O. Skipworth of Lane county, assigned to hear the election contest, is expected here in a day or two, to hear arguments and motions, preparatory to clearing the legal decks for the actual counting of the ballots. This is not expected to take long. The answer is brief and consists- or two paragraphs. The first denies all allegations set forth in tne com plaint; the second prays that the suit bo dismissed and that the costs be assessed, to Jennings. The recount grew out of the gen eral election race for sheriff. In the official count Sheriff Schermerhorn waa given a majority of 123 votes, and was Issued a certificate of elec tion. Jennings was the "write in" candi date, and second in the race. He filed a contest, alleging that the db election boards of the county dis carded. 381 votes for him on "techni cal errors," and further alleging that he won the election by "not less than 97 votes." The petition sets forth the number of votes uncounted in each election precinct for him, and they average about four for each of the SB precincts, or a total of 233 votes. The technicalities upon which the votes wero uncounted were: For mis spelling, "R. Jennings," "Sheriff Jen nings," and failure to mark, an "X' In front of the name. "The Intent of the voter," as out lined by Oregon law promises to be one contention In the argument, also the legality of Jennings' candidacy, on. the grounds he waa a defeated primary candidate for the office. The plaintiff holds that the will of the voter, as expressed by the "write In" Is the final arbiter, and must be counted regardless of technicalities. Gets New Trial DALLAS, Jan. 24. (AP) L. H. Ream of Independence, found guilty after trial last week on a morals charge, was granted a new trial yes terday by Judge Arlie Walker, be cause evidence which should have been admitted was not at the first trial. BABY WITHOUT GULLET DIES AFTER OPERATION HARBROUCK HEIGHTS. N. J., Jan. 24. Pt Ltttla Helen Maria Taylor, the bo7 bum with a cloaed esopha gus, died early today at Haabroucfc Height hospital. The baby prerloualy had been given only "one ch.nce In a thouaand" to eunrlre. After aha waa born last Friday, nuraea noted that whenever aha waa given nourlahment, aha Buffered se ver choking spells and her faoa turn ed blue. Dr. William J. OreenfleK of Hackenaack found that the aaoph- a ?' i. or aullet. the tube through which food la carried to the stomach, BEER BILL AIRING SLATED MONDAY BEFORE T Legislators Drop Heavy Grist of Bills in House Hopper Insurance Mat ters Are Among Majority SALEM, Jan. 34 (AP) Introduc tion of 40 bills. 30 In the house, of which 10 dealt with insurance mat ters, and 10 In the senate, several having to do with further salary re ductions of state officials, featured the legislative session during the fore noon today. The sixth message by Governor Julius L, Meier urging Co lumbia river development steps was sent- to the two houses. Beer Flcarlng Monday. The first large public hearing, ne cessitating arrangements for use of the house chamber, will be held here next Monday night on the beer bill and resolutions on the repeal of the atate prohibition amendment. The announcement stated a large crowd would attend that hearing. Other publlo hearings added to the growing list Included one on the truck and bus bill for next Monday after noon following adjournment of the two houses, one tomorrow night on the timber yield tax and another Fri day on opening the Willamette river to commercial fishing. Nineteen of the house bills dealt with amendments to the state Insur ance code sponsored by the ways and means committee and Representative Harvey Wells, chairman of the in surance committee. Would Restrict Dentists. Others of the bills would make more drastic the restrictions upon dentists who advertise professional su periority or prices, use glaring or 11 lumlnated signs picturing teeth or any portion of the human head ana forbids the employment by licensed dentists of advertising or publicity agents and Increases the license fees of dentists who are not graduates of qualified schools from 2B to 60; provide that cities need not advance costs or furnish appeal bonds In suits to which they are parties; allow county agents and biological survey agents to sell certain poisons; reduce the compensation of Justices of the peace in Klamath county to not to exceed 1165 a month; reduce the sala ries of the district attorney and other officials of Klamath county. KLAMATHlACES FIVE PCT. TAX ON UTILITY INCOMES KLAMATH PALLS. Ore., Jan. 34. ,7p) The Klamath Palls city council last night, at the request of Mayor Willis E. Mahoney, passed an ordin ance imposing a five per cent tax on the gross incomes of all utilities operating in the city and not other wise taxed by a franchise tax. The ordinance carried the emerg ency clause. The companies were given until February 1 of each year to file re ports of their gross Incomes for the previous year. Penalty of 100 a day Is provided for delayed reports. PORTLAND, Jan. 34. (AP) Offi cials of tha Oregon headquarters of the Pacific Telephone A Telegraph company said today they have not been advised of the action taken by the Klamath Falls city council last night imposing a 6 per cent tax on gross earnings of privately owned utilities. Local officials of tha California Oregon power company said today they had received no official notice of tha Klamath Falls tax ordinance for utility corporations, and had bo comment to make. waa elowd at tha third rib. Piv physicians performed emergency operation yeatTday. an In netting a tube through the abdomen to permit artflclal feeding. Previ ously tha child had bee rt nourished by an injection of sugar and water. Not being ablo to take food normally, the child had an eiosea of saliva and a physician said It had been necessary to use a auction pump to keep the mouth dry. Tha Infant, who was otherwise nof' mal, was tha daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Taylor of Rldgafleld Par. BARNES SALES TAX ACES UNFRIENDLY Barnes Bill Finds Few Sup porters and Many Op posed in House Committee Airing Author Is Heard SALEM, Jan. 34 (AP) A series of conferences In Portland beginning to. day following executive sessions at the state capltol during the past 10 days were expected to bring to an end the uncertainty of Oregon's finan cial situation, legislative leaders and state officials declared here this morning. Two recommendations to relieve the present shortage of cash In the state treasury .were made late yesterday by members of the state highway commission to whom the governor turned for assistance. The continued executive sessions held behind closed doors over the state's financial condition still played an Important part In the legislative' assembly as the third week, got well under way Monday. Temporarily Embarrassed. The state board of control and members of the Joint ways and means committees conferred all day with Portland bankers and late yesterday statement from the governor re vealed that Oregon was financially heslthy.'but temporarily short of cash. The actual cash deficit by Febru ary 1, it was pointed out at the con ference, will be 3, 3 02, 000. Commlttc ps started to work early today and several were ready t-. re port out some Important bills. Pub llo hearings, likewise, were being scheduled; rapidly, with four held yes terday and almost as many scheduled for today and every day this week. -Bankers attending the nil -day con ference in the executive office said the financial situation was clearing up, but they stressed the fact that before the banks lend another 1,000, - 000 to the state they will want defi nite assurances that revenue will be available to repay, either from a prop erty tax levy or from some other source that will stand. Plans Snrgested, Suggested plans for financing listed were: Plan A Bell $3,000,000 treasury cer tificates and retire them $1,000, 000 on May 1, 1034, and $1,000,000 on May 1, 1038. Plan B Sell $1,000,000 treasury cer- (Continued on Page Eight) 4 Los Angeles Has Big Lumber Fire LOS ANOELES, Jan. 34. ( AP) After more than an hour and a half during which It raged uncontrolled, the fire which destroyed the E. J. Stanton 4c Son Hardwood Lumber manufacturing plan t waa brought under control early today. The loss was estimated by officials of the company at approximately $300,000, A G. A. ?. Convention Slated For Salem SALEM, Jan. 34. (P) The Grand Army of the Republic will hold l'J annual convention here next June. The entertainment committee be gan initial preparations last night, preparing to entertain more than 1000 persons at the convention. Feed Hungry First and Investigate Later Says Head of County Relief (By Moore Hamilton.) Unices the persons receiving aid through the county commissary abuse the service being offered them, tne plan adopted by the county court to furnish groceries to the destitute stands a good chsnos of staving off hunger and cold for the rest of the winter, and reducing the cost to the county for caring for the poor. The new commissary ayatem. devel oped by and under the direction of Hamilton Patton. Is to "feed them first and Investigate them after wards." It was apparent that many are now getlng groceries from the oounty who are not deserving and not In desperate need, but even so. the expense to the oounty haa been greatly reduoed througn the plan, pattern aald. Hundreds were amlllng Saturday, aa they came from the commissary with their arms filled with groceries, got In their eara and happily drove away. According to Patten, any regular authorised eharltable organization may reoelv supplies In caring for destitute by applying to the county. Figures given by Patton show that during the months of November and December of last year, while the needy were being cared for by emerg ency relief road work, that ttie cost Opposes 'Secession9 I ' , v i Leading tha fight In North Da kota's state senate against a pro posal that 39 states secede Is Sen. James P. Cain (above) of Dickin son, N. D who says tha secession plan "borders on treason and aedl tlnn.1 (Associated Press Photo) GIRLS GET BUSY SEEKING VOTES FOR ISLAND TRIP A large list of Rogue River valley girls ara begtnnlng their vote-getting actlvltlea In the Medford Merchanta Mall Tribune popularity oonteat, whloh opened Saturday. Two won derful vaoatlon trips delightful cruise to Hawaii and a voyage irom Seattle to San Francisco and return, are lncentlvee Jor special efforts on the part of conteatants. With only a alx weeks oonteat these two fine prices are well wortn little extra effort during tne next 40 days. Tomorrow's Mall Tribune will again carry a Hat of popular Rogue River valley glrla who have been nominated by friends. A nominating blank ap peara on page S of today's paper, and any girl who la aolected by a friend to enter the cinteat will receive an Initial block of 1000 votes. New con teatant will be permitted to enter up to Friday evening when tha Hat of participating Medford firms will also be cloaed. From time to time a tabulation of the standing of con testants will appear In the Mall Tribune. The official ballot boxes are located In the Mall Tribune of fice and the Medford Chamber of Commerce building, although some of th participating flrma will ar range for ballot boxca In their atorei. The flrat prlra Hawaiian voyage la especially appealing. Luxurtoua ac commodations will be provided and a nine-day stay at Honolulu with rooms In the beautiful Royal" Ha waiian hotel, overlooking romantic Walklkl beach. The stopover In the lalanda will provide ample time ta visit the pineapple plantations, the many unique attraotlona of Hawaii, and enjoy the aurf at Walklkl. The aecond prl trip la almost as In triguing as the Hawaiian voyage. The girl wno secures the aecond largest number of popularity votes will ce (Continued on Page Five) to the county waa about 000 each week. The needy of the valley can now be fed for about W00 each week. Patton aald. which la about one elrth what It was costing before. No work la being received by the county for the food "doled" out now. However but, Patton aald, when an individual or family has received five dollars' worth of food and aupplies, the head of the family signs a prom- mlssory note for five dollars, payable to the county, and due as soon as the individual obtalna work. Repayment of the notes will depend largely upon the character of the person receiving the aid. An average of S35 families were given aid each of the three daya Iat week. Patton aald, with an average of five persona to the family. The com missary Is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdaya. with families of aeven or over receiving aid on Tuesday families of four, five and alx or Thursdays, and leas than four or Saturdays. The groceries are given out much the aame aa at a grocery store, with an account kept of Just what each neraon receives. At tho end of the day a card Index la pre pared with the name of each person (Continued on Pag Signt TOUGH SPOT FOR HUEY LONG SOON IS CAPITAL HINT Guarded Stories Say Louisi ana Senator to Be Called Home On 'Personal Busi ness' R.F.C. Loan Angle By PAUI. MALL ON. Copyrighted by McCliire Newspaper Syndicate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 34 The Wash ington boys have picked out a nioe spot to put Huey Long on. Aa a mat ter of fact they have two spots in view and may use both. That Is what is behind tha guarded stories from here recently that tha . Louisiana senator might be called home shortly on personal business. Also the published references to his Income tax returns. Tha matters are not yet In shape for action. They have proceeded far enough to become the subject of conversations In every first-class drawing room In the capi tal. Long knows what if aolng on. That wss what ha may have had In mind when he dropped tha remark in the senate: 'I intend to carry on this fight even If X lose my seat because of It. Long's political opponents began raking over hie record long before he ever thought of filibustering agalnat the Glass banking bill. The fiK a staged has actually put these opponents In an embar rassing position. If they make any charges against 'Mm It will appear they were animated by his filibuster. That Interpretation does not fit tn with the underlying facts. Nevertheless It la poaslbls his op ponents may decide to drop the mat ter. It could be settled amicably off stage. They aay It will not be, but you can never be sure about those things. Stranger things hay happened m Washington. One angle of the case concerns failure of the Union Indemnity. New Orleans, The group Insurance com pany folded up two weeks ago after having obtained laat August a 400, 000 loan front the rt. F. O. The R. F. O. la very cagey about Its business. It will not divulge en dorsers of loana or collateral It re ceived. On thing is oertaln. The corporation flrat authorised a loan of 1.350 ,000 to Union Indemnity. For some reason the amount waa out (Continued on Page Pour) s . Salem Civil War Veteran To Rest SALEM, Jan. 24. (AP) Funeral services will be held here this after noon for Harlan Porter Oarnahaa, past commander of Sedgwick chapter of the O. A. R." Carnahan participated In Oeneral Sherman'e memorable march to the aea. He passed away Sunday at his residence, 83 yeara of age. WILL ROGER? 'tnC' OAKLAND, Cal., Jan. 23 Fastest air trip I ever made in a commercial plane, Loa An gelei to Sacramento, 411 miles, in two hours flat. That's 2C5 an honr. On the Varney line, Lockheed plane, Pilot Taft. . Flying part of the Sierras all snow-capped at that Bpeed was more of a kick than the Ancles at about 90 miles. Another big bank failure. Suppose the fire department waa run like a bank. A fire ex aminer finds a small fire. Goes back from time to time to see it getting bigger, then just as there is nothing left but the chimney, he notifies the de partment: "TVe better what we can save for those people," Tours, i UllalKsMJ.t
