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Heavy Voting Begins in Merchants-Tribune Popularity Contest The Weather Forecast: Medford, occasional raJn tonight and Saturday. Moderate temperature. Highest yesterday 44 Lowest this morning .... 3S Paid-Up Circulation People who pay fox thelx newspapers ere tba beat proapacta (or the adver Users, a. B. a circulation la paid op circulation. Thla newspaper to a. a a EDFORD EIBUNE Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FKIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1933. No. 263. M Mail FBPjtSWT ill Comment i on trie Day's News By FRANK JENKINS MEPOTIBM" la a fine, mouth- IN filling word that haa been ap pearing with great frequency In the publlo prlnta of late. It you will look It up In the dictionary,' you will find that It meana: "Favoritism ahown to nephews; beatowal of pat ronage by reason of relationship, rather than of merit." : In the language of the atreet. It meana talcing advantage of a public Job to provide for your relatlvea on tha public payroll. - It la said that at one time, before criticism became too pointed, 37 sen ators and 133 representatives In con irress were engaged In thla practice, and no estimate haa ever been made of the number of atate legislators who practice nepotism by putting their relatives on the publlo payroll aa clerks and atenographers. WHAT Is wrong with It? Wel, suppose you answer that question for yourself. You can do it as well as anybody else. But It Isn't generally regarded aa sDortsmanllke to get a good public Job for yourself and then atart to get good public Joba for a lot of your relatives. And In this country we Ilka to think of our publlo officials as good sports. NEPOTISM Is a practice that grows un-readily In flush times, when everybody la so busy making money for himself that he pays little atten tion to what la happening to the public funds. As a matter of fact, that Is When MOST of the abuses In government grow up. In tough times, sucft aa we have been experiencing for the past three years, we pay a lot more attention to publlo expenditures, and become exceedingly crtlcal of those which we regard aa unjustified. Tor that reason, hard times always tend toward almpllf lcatlon of govern ment, with, more resulta for the mon ey expender. Even hard times, you see, have their uses. WHAT happens In publlo business happens also in PRIVATE bual- neas. In good times, we get careless. We let extravagances creep In, and these extravagances run up our costs. with costs going up, PRICES have to go up. After a while, prlcea get so hlgih that people can no longer pay them, and then buslnesa suffers for lack of a market. In bad times, we are forced to eliminate extravagances and reduce costs In every way we can eo that wt can put out our products, what I ever they happen to be, at a price tjoat people can afford to pay. So again. In private business, as well as In public, bard times serve a purpose. They are hard to take, of course. But so is castor oil, HERE la an Interesting little note in tha days news: The Oregon Council for the Pro tection of Roadside Beauty holds its first quarterly meeting for 1933 In Salem and discusses possible legisla tion for highway beautlficatlon In Oregon. In the midst of all the depression talk that Is going the rounds, that sounds rather odd, doesn't It? BUT It Is a good sign. It Indicates that a FEW people, at leaat, are thinking of things as they will be after the depression evaporates and we get back to normal living. There will come a time again In Oregon, thank fortune, when we shall be genuinely Interested in wholesome things such as adding to the beauty of our surroundings. And It will be mighty pleasant when It DOES come, wont it? ANOTHER straw in the wind: Moguls of toe Pacific Coast league, meeting In San Francisco, vote to return to 25 cents as the price of a ticket to the besaball bleachers. It's been a long time since snybody got into a major base ball game for two bits. There's an old proverb to the ef fect that what goes up must come dovn. Amusement prices, which went high up In the big years fol lowing the war, are coming down. SALEM. Jan. 27. AP) The Ore gon Jersey Cattle club will open Its ar.uual meeting here tomorrow morning. WIRE TAPPING AND BOOZE BUYING FOR E Ten Per Cent Slash in Prohi Expense Approved by House Stool Pigeon Ex pense Hit in Amendment WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (AP) A 10 per cent cut In .prohibition en forcement funds for the next fiscal year waa approved today by the house, to bring the total allowance down to 98,440,000. The vote waa 129 to 118. An amendment to the pending four department appropriation bill to prevent wire-tapping In obtaining evidence of liquor law violations was approved too by a vote of 122 to J07. An amendment by Tarver (D., Ga.) to prevent the expenditure of federal prohibition enforcement funds for the purchase of Intoxicating liquors. aa pay to informers or pay for evi dence, waa adopted 132 to 78. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (AP) Jn a test vote, the senate today agreed to drop the drastic democratic propo sal ' for slashing $500,000,000 from federal expenditures to balance the budget. WASHINGTON, Jan. 37. (AP) Approving an Increase of $18,039,000 in veterans expenditures next year and anticipating that something drastic will be done about the farm board by next December, the house appropriation committee today ported the billion dollar Independent offices supply bill to the house for action. It would .allow $1,002,890,000 to run cne many independent ouicea in me 1934 fiscal year. Thla total was said (Continued on 1- Page Nine) FARMER AID BILL WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. () Op position to the domestic allotment farm relief bill as It applies to cot ton waa expressed to the senate ag riculture committee today by .Erneat Hood of Salem, Mass., president of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers. Hood asserted !t Is unlikely cotton production would be decreased by the new plan and -contended It might be Increased Instead. He told, the sena tors the bill would raise the cost of cotton goods, leaving the mill by 18 to 70 per cent and "greatly reduce consumption of cotton products In this country." He described the bill as an "enor mous manufacteurer3 sales tax' on a necessity of life. He said the bill would work hardships ,on hundreds of thousands of employes of the cot ton mills. Chairman MoNary (B-. Ore.) placed In the record a telegram from Thom as R. Cam, president of the Farmers' National Grain Dealers' association, opposing the bill as a "huge costly experiment." It said: "Agriculture is in dire distress. It can not survive further experiments. "The allotment plan bill now be fore your committee is a huge costly experiment, a price fixing, tax In creasing measure doubtful In ac complishment, requiring huge admin istrative machinery. "Farmers are opposed to It, both because It is Ineffective and be cause It places Wash! pt ton official dom In direct control of every farm in the country. The fanners lose control of their own affairs under such a plan. "A country revolution Is brewing, not against government but against falft farm leadership trying to nang upon, us an allotment plan or other unsound leglilatove experiments. 4 Wind drifted snow and a snowsllde delayed traffic on the Stskiyous last night. A heavy snowstorm raged over the summit area. At nine o'clock this morning traffic was moving both wava over the Pacific highway. For a time state police checked autos at Klamath Junction, until the way was open. The snow plows worked most of the night keeping the road open. Travel conditions In Slekiyou county were aggravated by a high wind vhich caused the enow to drift over the highway. l Pomona, Growers Meet SENATORS QUAFF OF Report of Upper House of Congress Shows Heavy Spending On Everything From Pills x to Barbering WASHINGTON, Jan. 37. (AP) A senate pledged In campaign utterances to economy in federal costs today had for its study If members desired a private report of the senate secre tary on Its expenditures showing money paid- out for everything from aspirin tablets to hair tonic. The total Involved covering appro priations and expenditures for all the fiscal year 1933 and parts of other periods was 44,116,458. Actual expenditures were totaled as of June 30, 1933, at $128,327 less than that. . $200,000 In Small Sums. "Miscellaneous Items" as tabu lated In the report by Edwin P. Thay er, the secretary involving small sums in the fiscal year 1930 and 1931 and about $200,000 In 1032, aggregated 8240.846. Some Items contained In this, In approximate amounts, covered such expenditures as about 98000 for the barber shop and 99000 for mineral waters, the price of the latter rang ing from 97 to 9),l,1ft a case with hundreds of -cases bought. Free bar bering has been available to the legislators for years. Distribution of the report, some what In the nature of a confidential matter. Is limited to two copies per senator, for 'them to do with as they will. (Continued i Page Three) WAR DEBTSAND TARIFFS TALKED WASHINGTON, Jan. 37. (AP) Along a wide front upon which war debts and tarlffa stood out as salient points, the International economic problem was attacked today by both the prealdent and workers of the president elect. President Hoover called in Senators Moses (R., N. H.) and Walcott (R Conn.), for conferences on what should be done to stop the flow of goods into the United States from countries whose money has been cheapened. The president has been described aa feeling that unless these countries stabilize their currencies, the United Ststea may have to raise Its tarlffa. At the atate department, Professor Bexford O. Tugwell, an advisor of President-elect Roosevelt, discussed economic and debt questions with de partment experts. Jackson Co. Irrigation Law Amendments Given Fast Legislature Ride By Mary Orelner Kelly. SALEM, Jan. 36. (8pl) "Just a little bill to keep the wolf from the door, cooed Representative B. 7. rflchols of Roseburg. as be rose to in troduce House Bill No. 8 thla morn ing. The portly Douglas county legis lator adopted the tone of a family doctor In the act of forcing a pill (not bill) down the throats of a skep tical group of youngsters. This proposed piece of legislation would open up the bounty on cou gars and wolves at (20 and 930 a head respectively. According to Representa tive Nichols, this would furnish a means of Uvllhood to ambitious mem bers of the unemployed. At the same time, It would rid the hills of these wild animals which prey upon deer and livestock In certain areas. Here Is heartening news for Jack son , county's unemployed. Tomor row's action In the house may not spoil It all. But anyway the upper chamber passed Senate Bill No. 69 this morning, allowing the Jackson county court to use 950,000 of the sinking fund for the Pacific Highway redemp tion bonds for this purpose. The bill will be brought Into the house either late today or tomorrow mora- ins It is thotizht. According to a few representative interviewed to OF STATE BUREAUS IS L Banking, Corporation, Insur ance Departments Would Be Merged by Bill One Commissioner in Charge SALEM, Jan. 37. (IP) Lieutenant Governor Victor A. Meyers of Wash ington today was extended the cour tesy of the Oregon senate when he arrived to visit the legislature this noon. He will be accorded house courtesy this afternoon. The presiding officer of the Wash ington state senate, following his In troduction to President Fred E. Kid dle, and the latter's speech of wel come, was handed the gavel, and tak ing the president's seat, .announced : "The senate will come to order." then handed the gavel to Kiddle. He SALEM, Jan. 37. (AP) A major consolidation bill, providing for a merger of the state banking, corpo ration and Insurance departments Into a department to be known as the state department of finance, was ready for introduction today by Sena tors Woodward and Dunne. It will go In aa an administration bill Ccer each of the dlvlslona would na in official to be known as a di rector to be appointed by commta sloner heading the department with approval of the governor. The com missioner would be appointive by the governor. ' The merger would become effective July li this year. The bill provides a S5000 salary for the commissioner end he- would be required to execute bonds In the sum of 50.000. Sala ries xt the dlrectora and other em ployee would be fixed by the director with approval of the governor. Each director would give bonds. SALEM. Jan. 27. (AP) Plans for (Continued on Page Pour) RELIEF WORKERS REPORT EFFORTS; NEED IRE COIN Showing the accomplishment of a tremendous amount of relief work on the part of all and a general shortage of funds, re porta were given today noon at the regular luncheon of the Allied Welfare association at the Hotel Medford by representatives of each organization Included In the as sociation. A plea for the support of other (Continued on Page Nlne day, it's passage in the house Is not Improbable. . Jackson county may have its nflnor dlssentlons, but when It comes to amending Irrigation laws, the boys from home click faster than most of them. - Arriving in the capital Mon day, Porter J. Neff and O. O. Am splger went lnton Immediate con ference huddle with the state en gineer and others preliminary to the introduction of legislation which will permit reorganization of the Medford irrigation district. By this morning, Attorney Neff had authored the three necessary bills, which were Introduced by Representa tive Kelly, a member of the house Irrigation and drainage committee. With a little pressure, the bills passed first and second reading and are now In the hands of the com mittee awaiting final passage. Ain't that aomethln'? The life of a legislative clerk Isn't what It used to be. Instead of hav ing the work of one committee to handle, he or she now is required to Juggle bills and correspondence for several. Thla was effected by the passage of resolutions In the house 4 Continued on Page EifHtj, BLONDE SCREEN STAR LOSES JEWELS IS i 1 sw . Betty Compson holding her empty jewel case which, according to police, she aald waa rifled of $41,000 In gems by a bandit who held her and E. D. Lashln (right), a guest at her home, up. She refused to Ign a complaint In Lot Angeles. (Associated Press Photos) GAUDY PENCIL LURES TOT TO DEATH IN BASEMENT NEW YORK. Jan. 37. (AP) A gaudy pencil, w.hoao red, blue and gold stripes coaxed 0-year-old Helen Sterler to horror and death In a Brooklyn cellar, forced a confession today from a young negro that he attacked and strangled her. Lloyd Price, 22 years old and good looking, sat grinning and smoking cigarettes in a police station before dawn today. Detectives had been questioning him for seven hours. I'Naw, boss," he said for the hun dredth time; 'I wouldn't , do a thing lilce that." But look at this pencil,' a detect ive, said softly. 'It waa found in the cellar. Your mother's outside and ahe says it belonged to your dead father. She oays It disappeared from her bureau drawer two days ago." "Is my mother out there?" the ne gro said, with & laugh. 'Well, Cap'n. I want to clear my conscience. Get someone In here who can write and ; I'll tell you about it." j The confession said that Wednes-1 day afternoon he left hla home and went out on the streets looking "for AUBURN-HAIRED WOMAN TORCH MURDER VICTIM SPRINO VALLEY, N. Y.. Jan. 37. haired woman whose body was found thorltles today. They sought to learn whether any woman answering the description was missing and they also hunted a man whose truck was mired near the scene a half hour before the body was dis covered. Wisps of smoke curling upward in the snow-covered peach and apple country attracted Alonzo Osborn as he walked along a road. Behind a boulder he found the burning body, sprawled on Its face. Although the flames had charred It badly, an examination disclosed the woman was about 5 feet, 1 Inch tall, PAY GARNISHED A garnishment of the salary of County Judge Earl H. Fehl for the month of January to data was filed wlto the county clerk thla morning. A return waa made by the county clerk and sheriff. Tha garnishment waa filed by Lord & Moulton of Portland and Allison Moulton of this city on a 13.000 Judgment awarded to Roy M. Parr against Earl H. Fehl In a libel action founded on charged hurled In the oft-mentioned Everett Dahack case. A few days after assuming the of fice of county Judge, Fehl made an assignment of his salary for January to Cornelia E. Stailey. The county Judge's salary is alOO.04 a month. The action Is based on the provi sion of the Oregon law and su preme court decision prohibiting as signment of salaries by elected offi ciate. T?ie case will probably b taken to the higher courts. s Nya Has Blizzard. NYSSA, Ore, Jan. J7.MP) The most severe blizzard that has struck thla section of Oregon In seversl yeara has been raging for 34 hours. A snowdrift six feet deep nesr the C- C. Hunt ranch south of here, block ed toe Owyhee road. Here Saturday a child." It told how he approached Helen as she played on a sidewalk, showed her 35 cent and the pencil and "made her eyea brighten"; of the attack and the child's death. One hundred policemen, spurred .by a frightened and furious populace in the dingy tenement district, ran sacked the neighborhood for hours. Price was one of a number of sus pects picked up. Police suspicions grew when they learned he had srv ed two reformatory terms for attacks. Helen waa the fifth school girl to be attacked In the same neighbor hood in less than two years. Three were killed, another seriously Injured and the fifth beat off her assailant. Detectives questioned Price about ttieae cases.. "Naw, boM," he said, 'I . didn't have nothln to do with them (AP) The pyre murder of an auburn- aflame near Spook Rock baffled au- about 35 years old, and weighing about lis pounds. A purse nearby held 910.60. The body was found In the shadow of Spook Rock, a huge stone with an Indian legend. Footprints of a man were traced In the new-fallen snow, and there was a print of a five-gallon can, which may have held the gasoline with which the body waa set afire. The woman wore a black velvet coat and three pairs of stockings, one of wool and two of silk. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 37. (AP) Five thousand street lights, most of Portland's homes, nearly all the thea tera and restauranta and most of the downtown buildings were In complete darkness Isst night for perloda rang ing from 10 to 80 mlnutea after two 60,000-volt transformers a a Port land General Electrlo substation burned out. Street cara cams to a audden halt and were Idle all Vie way from 10 mlnutea to an hour. SALEM, Ore., Jan, 37. (API- Wind, rain and darkness descended on Salem last night. For three min utes the darkness wss pierced only oy sutomobiie lights, ss power trou ble in Portland extended to the cap ital city. The Willamette river raised 3.8 feet muit an Inch and half of rain fell yesterday and last night. Rain continued to fall here thla morning. LAKE COUNTY SEEKS CUT IN PHONE RATE - EUGENE. Jan. 37. fly-A hearing on a request for lower eltephone rates for Lane county rural lines and towns was sought In a resolution di rected to Cherles M. Thomas, com mlMloner of publlo utilities In Ore gon. by tht Lena County Rural Tela phoue association (od FRUIT MEN WILL ELECT OFFICERS Two Important Meetings Slated Fruit Growers Meet in Court House; Po mona Grange at K. P. Hall Annual meeting of the Frultgrow- era' league will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the county court house auditorium. Election of offlcera for the new year will be one of the. leading features of the program and the annual report will be given by the president, E. W. Carl ton. Edwin Smith of Wenatchee, Wash. representsttve of the United States department of agriculture, will give an illustrated lecture on the tem perature and quality of pears aa affected by transcontinental ship, ment by rail and by boat. W. W. Aldrlch, assistant, hortlcul ture depsrtment, Horticultural Oropa and Diseases, will speak on vie re cent results from pear Irrigation studlea, which may help reduce pro duction coats. Arch Work, assistant Irrigation en gineer In the division of Irrigation, wilt discuss some resulta found In Irrigation Investigation made here in olay and adobe soils. . . Reports Slated " ' ' J. O. Thompson, chairman of the Rogue ' Valley Agricultural Finance committee, and Colonel Gordon Voor hies, member of the advisory board or Che Portland bureau of tha glonal agricultural finance corpora tion, win give a complete report and summary of the efforts under way to secure loans for pear crop pro ducers. All fruit growers and other Inter- eated persons In the valley are urged to attend the meeting. . Pomona Orange to Meet There will be a meeting of the Po mona Orange at 10 a. m. Saturday In Vie Knights of Pythlaa ball In Medford. Offlcera will be Installed and com mittees will be announced for tha coming year. Resolutions which are to be placed before the Orange are to be given to the secretary. These resolutions are to be numbered and will be taken up and discussed ac cording to their numbers. Dinner at Moon A large attendance la desired and tha subordinate masters are urged to have a large representation from their Orangea present. A covered dish dinner will be serv ed at noon and all are expected to bring covered dishes tor the dinner. The entertaining Orange furnishes coffee, sugar and cream. - E KILLEDJN CRASH CORONA, Cal.. Jan. 37, fl) M. Boggs, airline Inspector of the de partment of commerce, died early to day as a result of Injuries suffered Isst night when a government-owned plane, in which He waa piloting two society women as passengers, struck a high tension wire near here. The two women, both of whom gave their address ss Los Angeles, were Identified aa Mrs. Msry Cogan and Miss Stacla Curry. Mrs. Cogan a arm waa broken and Miss Curry's hip wss Injured. . The trio were en route to the O. R. Fuller ranch near here. Fuller la (Continued on Page Nine) t 7flH ANNIVERSARY DOORN, Holland. Jan. 37. Wy Wllhelm Kohenzollern, former Kaiser Wllhelm II of Oermany, celebrated hla 74th birthday today. The observance Included a service In tha chapel of Doom House, his exile since his flight from Oermany November 10. 1018. It waa oonducted by Dr. Schneller, his pastor, Thla wti followed by the family luncheon. 4 Oalsworthy Unchanged. LONDON, Jan. nAJoim Oals worthy, British nevoiist. waa atlU In a critical condition rrom an attack of uremia. It wits reported at his residence thla morning that bis con dition was UJKtMOgtd. UNCLE SAM MAY FIND BONO SALE f nimriii L. Biggest Bankers Growing Shy On Government Credit Sales Tax Drive May Be Renewed for Tax Policy By PAUL MALLOX (Copyrighted by MoOlure Newspaper Syndicate.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 37. The big gest bankers an getting a little shy about government credit. They have read the budget newa out of Wash. Ington recently with some trepida tion. They are the. ones who pushed Treasury Secretary Mills Into his campaign for a sales tax and a per fectly balanced book. He thinks now He may have some trouble floating the ling term experi mental bond Issue around February 1. It would probably be for 3J0, 000.000. If It has to be suspended or does not go well, agitation for the salea tax will be redoubled. Tou cannot tell yet how that tax ation policy will work out. The Roosevelt boys have not abandoned their nrlvato thought - , . budget nollcv Ir ariTiiht pk. what la behind their declaion to put ... unr on unxii me new con gress. Mr. Roosevelt's rRt.iAn , v. im press are entirely different from those Whereas, Mr. Hoover haa had about, two press conferences In the last alx month. Mr. Roosevelt has one every .' day. The usual hour is 4 p. m. He knows by their first namea all the newspapermen assigned to cover him. . He does not tell them "very muoh. but he Is genial about It. He klda . them along, evading direct answers to their aueatlAns. Tr i dally aparrlng match thoroughly. Talking "of the record" la on of his hnhhlM. Th.f l . ssys la not to be attributed to him siu. can oc usea oy me newsmen on their own authority, If they oar to. Usually It is too pro-Roosevelt tor their purposes. (Continued on Psge Fire) BEND, Ore., Jan, 37. (AP) High wlnda which whipped fleecy anow Into great drifts Isst night blocked several atate highways In Interior Oregon and temporarily marooned several groups of motorists. Esrly today the Fremond and Lakevlew KlamaVi highways still remained Damcaaeu oy anow. A Call WSS MMlrf In T4nrf - rotary snow plow to be used in the tuemuib country, xne Daiiea-call-forma and Central Oregon highways remained onrni tn travel hit snow in the southern Cascades block ed the Eukene-Klamath line of ths ooutoern racuio weat ox odeu sum mit. WILL ROGER? BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Jan. 26. On account of it being the only kind of money that 80 per cent, of our people ever handle, they want to see silver again a real value, but congress wants to keep it as it is; just to pound up and use as a wedding present. ' Sea where the EoosevelU, , even down to the fifth cousins, are straying back into the fold. Nothing will bring back dis tant kinfolks like the news spreading that you got a job. The very popular wifo of very popular retiring cabinet member has written a song, "My Homeland." Yours, Allll HtfaUHt 0rniltaie. la
