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o Widespread Interest in Merchants-Tribune Popularity Contest Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: Bain or Bnow Sundaj; no change In temperature. Temperature Paid-Up Circulation People who pa; for their newspapers irs the best prospects Cot the sdvsr Users. a. B. O. circulation la paid up circulation. This newspaper L 4. a a Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday morning . Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFOKU, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1933. No. 261. rem an JU MEST Comment on the i Day's News BY FRANK JENKINS. GBEAT BRITAIN gracefully AC CEPTS the Invitation ol President-elect Roosevelt to discuss war debt revision, and announces that In March she will send to this country a mission to request reduction, U not complete cancellation, ol her debt to this nation. And Great Britain, remember, 1 by long odds the fairest and most honorable of our European debtors. LETS get a good, square look at this debt business. Suppose you were In bad hole, with every chance that you were going to lose your' shirt, and in this ex tremity you went to a well-to-do ,-y.y.r And threw yourself on his mercy, explaining that If he didn't come to your assistance you gone. Suppose, then, that be came GRA CIOUSLY to your aid. lending you all the money you needed, on your own terms. that after vou Rot out of the hole and OVER YOUR FRIGHT, you said to yourself: "I owe this old bird a lot of money. It la an honorable debt, and the loan aaved me from ruin, but 1 don't pro pose to pay It U I n nelP OI ,,, I CAN flay it. for I have the money, or can get It. but If I can bluff him and shame him out of It IH be just that much ahead. IP YOU took that attitude toward I . hAnnt debts, you would be a pretty contemptible tort, wouldn't you? not fit to associate with honest and decent people. Well, that's the attitude that Eu rope takes In a precisely similar situa tion. SPEAKING of money, Vance Butler, of Salisbury, Maryland, a service station operator, buys a piece of ground, formerly a cemetery, for $200. and sets a couple of negroes to work clearing It up. Digging in the dirt, their spades ring on brick and mortar and, In vestigating further, they uncover an old vault, long since forgotten even by the oldest Inhabitant. Exploring this old vault, Mr. Butler comes upon an old rusty Iron pot which contains ,30,000 In gold and silver coin and paper currency. Some of the coins bear dates running back 100 years. And did he celebrate, do you reckon I TJCK Just plain, bull luck I Noth-- Ing else could account for the finding of this treasure. And what Is luck? Well.Jf you can answer that question, you're a good one. Smsrt minds, for thousands 01 years, have been trying to answer It. But, to date, nobody has been able to analyze luck and take It apart to ... what makes It tick. Luck Is stlU Ji great a mystery as It was back at the beginning o: things. . . A NOTHER thought! J This business of luck, whatever It is, haa probably ruined more peo i. than any other one thing. Luck 11 associated in people's minds with monev something for nothing And in the effort to get something for nothing by gambling, by treas ure hunting, or by Just sitting m me n and waiting for something nice to happen an amazing number of people, down through the world nis tory, have come to utter wreck. For every dollar gained by LUCK, .mce the world began, a BILLION dollars have been gained by hard work. w itbk ara the four leading causes Jri of death in Oregon In the past year, as given by Dr. Frederick D. Strieker, state health officer, ranking in Importance In the order given: Heart aliments, diabetes, cancer ana tuberculosis. (Continued on Page Pour) LOS ANGELES, Jan. as. In a rou2h. tou eh eame wnicn saw 01 fouls committed and three men eject M niUlu tTrttlrevraltv rf AOUth c uu K"-'""' am fallfrtmlo'. haaVftttiftlt OUtntCt increased its tead In the southern di vision of the Pacific coast conferem tonight by defeating California 31 to VALLEY GROWERS ENCOURAGED AT YEARLYJEE1G Col; Voorhies, of Advisory Board, Says Question of Crop As Security Only Stumbling Block to Cash Colonel Gordon Voorhies, member of the advisory board of the regional agricultural credit corporation, told fruitgrowers gathered at the meeting of the Rogue River Valley Fruit growers' league at the court Douse yesterday that he believed the fruit crop of the valley would be financed this year through the agricultural credit corporation. E. W. Carlton, president of the league, presided. "The only thing that Is holding us up now," Colonel Voorhies said, "is whether or not the board of di rectors will make the loans with the crop alone as security. We know that we can get the money now If we can give ample security, but the board must decide on whether or not the crop la ample security. '!.., Will Know Soon. "R. E. Towle, manager of the re gional agricultural credit corporation, is in Washington now." Colonel Voor hies said, "and will know by Febru ary 1 whether or not the crop will be accepted as ample security. Frank ly." he said, "I believe we will get the money, but we will have to fight for It." ' ' No figures were divulged by either Voorhies or J. C. Thompson, who also talked on finances, as to Just what basis money would be loaned on, but It was Indicated that crop production over an average of the past -lew years will be considered. Only the estab lished orchard lata will be loaned money, they eaid, and "fly by night,' "shoestring" growers will not be Included In those receiving loans. It's Done in California, The California branch of the cor poration Is maktng loans to fruit growers, with the crop atone as se curtty. Colonel Voorhies said, but the board of directors of that corpora tion la made up almost entirety of frultmen. The Oregon board has only one frultma?., and that Is Colonel Voorhies. The rest are bankers and stockmen. Senator Frederick Bteiwer made the appointments. Colonel Voor hies said, and the stockmen, at first. were militant against the fruit Inter ests, but were beginning to warm up now. A 38-page brief has been made up by valley fruit Interests, and has been presented to the regional board to show the Importance of the fruit in dustry to the Rogue River valley, and the average return to the growers during the past few years. Cost per box for producing the fruit Is also Included In the brief. Strict Grading Favored. Raymond Reter spoke briefly, and urged that the meeting go on record as favoring a more strict grading, and declared that tests made of a train of pears by the Pacific Fruit Express, (Continued on Page Four) 4 STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., Jan, 28. (yp) Led by Keith Topping, who slipped under the basket for five field goals, Stanford's basketball team made a second half comeback here tonight to defeat University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles, 41 to 38, In a Pacific coast conference contest. Jackson Co. Delegation Tender Governor Bid to Diamond Jubilee Fiesta By Mary Grelner Kelly SALEM, Jan. 37 (Spl.) The Med ford delegation had their picture talc en with Governor Meier today. The effective Httle scene showed Repre sentative Day handing the chief state executive an Invitation to the Oregon Diamond Jubilee celebration to be held In Medford June 8, while Repre sentative Kelly acted as a witness to the transaction. Although the picture doesn't show it, Oovernor Meier said he hoped he would be "fortunate enough to attend." "The most distinguished looking bunch of legislators that money cin buy." That was the way Lieutenant Oovernor Vic Meyers of Washington, described the Oregon salons as he waved the house gavel (a la baton) In the role ol honor guest this after noon, o The black eyed, ehleky-looking -chestra leader, was escorted from the senate chamber to the house by a body guard oP four representative and senators. Wsvlng his rtht hand to the applause, he fairly tap-danced un the aterjs nt the rostrum, jowlnff 1 iUi daace baa4 fhftiuii to. the, com Pomona THREE YEAR JOLT AUTO PART THEFTS Patience of Court Exhausted After Two Former Sen tences and Paroles Chas. Davis Gets Leniency Clifford Leslie 'Sargent, with two prison sentences with paroles against him, who plead guilty to stealing tires and auto wheels from rural barnyards, was sentenced to serve three years In state prison, Saturday morning by Circuit Judge H. D. Nor ton. The court held tnat "aargenr. has passed up the opportunities of fered him, and decided upon grand larceny on commercial basis." The district attorney's records showed that Sargent was sent to the state prison at Salem from Coos county, had been naroled, and was then sentenced to the Washington state reformatory for grand larceny, and return to tne oa- lem prison. He hss been a resident of this section for about two years, ana had been for a short period, a wood chopper, In the Applegate. Pavlns Clets Leniency Charles Davis, lndloted with Sar gent, was granted a suspended sen tence, largely upon plea of hla moth er and friends and the faot that ne had no previous criminal record. The court admonished Davis to "quit "monkeying with moonshine and run ning around the country." The evidence showed that Sargent and Davla had rode around the val ley and "spotted" their loot, and re turned at night to get It. They were arrested at Marshfleld. while alleged ly attempting to sell the solen prop erty to a "fence." (Continued on Page Four) LINDBERGH ANGLE TO PORTLAND CASE PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 28. (AP) While several fishermen searched the Columbia river today for a body they believed might prove to be that of Lee Schleslnger, Portland merchant and sportsman who disappeared De cember 28, Chief of Portland Police Leon V. Jenkins revealed that he baa sent photostatic copies of the ransom note received by Mrs. Lee Schleslnger to Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, superintendent of New Jersey state police. Chief Jenkins disclosed tonight that the New Jersey police head had writ ten him requesting the photostatic copies so that he could compare the handwriting with that of notes re ceived In the Lindbergh kidnaping case. HOOD RIVER, Ore., Jan. 28. (fff Seven persons were lnjuted, none ser iously, when their bobsled got out of control and crushed Into a parked car here- last night. plimentary greetings showered upon htm by Speaker Snell and former Speaker Lonergan. Accepting the garet from Speaker Snell, he flourished It In the air as he announced himself in favor of cer tain customs peculiar to the Oregon legislature. "The most outstanding of these Is the seating of beautiful secretaries right next, to the legislators in both houses. I see, I shall have some con structive suggestions to make to the Washington legislature when I re turn." Olvlng a sketch of his life, the or chestra leader declared he was the second youngest of IS children. When his audience laughed, not knowing whether to take him seriously' or not. he checked them with: "My mother didn't think It waa o funny. More laughs. "Anyway. I always tell that story, to the amazement of the men and the amusement of the women." Feeling called upon to furnish en tertainment, the Washington execut Ire beckoned to the platform, Cap- Grange OF GIRLSJTEREST Second Count of Ballots for Popular Girls Made Sat urdayHawaii Trip and Coastal Cruise Await Although scores of contestants, in the Medford Merchants-Mail Tribune popularity contest have not turned in their votes today, the contest tabu lation shows that a number of Rogue River valley girls are making gigantic strides toward the goal of a delightful Hawaiian voyage and the second prize, a trip to Seattle and a sea cruise to San Francisco and return from that city. The returns, to noon today, were as follows: Name, Ruth Koozer . Harriet Campbell Addye Allen Dorothy Orth .............. Votes. 1,000 1,000 1,000 1.000 1.800 a.ioo 4,800 Myna Bush Margaret Chlldera Arvllla Burns Margaret Mel ling Janet Wray Smith...,-... Vivian Meter Ethel Chord 4 Sybil Jean Young . Peggy Miller . 36.300 1,000 1,000 1.000 1,000 1,000 Jean. Fabrlck 18,100 1.000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1.000 1,000 1,000 1,000 19,400 1,100 1,000 44.000 37,300 3.700 1,300 1,000 1,000 1.000 1,000 1.000 1.000 . 1,300 1,000 1,000 1.000 1.000 1.000 33,700 1,000 Kathleen Ness . Maureen Green Ruby Ranney .... Dorothy Slead . Dean Holt Betty Bardwell Ruth Ashcraft ' Arlene Hay, Central Point.. Dorothy Eads ...... Laura Drury Montana Ranney ...... Yvonne Devoney Leah Inch Oma GeBauer . Ruth Meusel .. Louise Elrod Lucille Barrett ... Billy Ranney Josephine Power Evlyne McKee Winifred Jones Edna Newbry, Talent . Jean Chamberlain ..... Marjorle Wheeler . Jean Swlgart - Oracle Wakefield, Jacksonville Prances Wakefield, J'ksonvllle Virginia Pick. Jacksonville Oleta Rogera .. Marie Rlgdon, Aahland...,. (Continued on Page Five) JUDGE TO HEAR Circuit Judge H. D. Norton, who has been holding court here the past week, trying criminal matters which have been accumulating since last May, will hold court In Grants Pass, the first three days of the coming week. Circuit Judge George P. Sklpwortb of Eugene, Is expected to be here the first of the week, to hear further mo tion and arguments in the election contest of Former Sheriff Ralph O. Jennings against Sheriff Gordon L. Schermerhorn. Barring further legal moves, which are not anticipated. Judge Sklpwortb Is expected to pro ceed at an early date In the recount ing of the official ballots as far as the office of sheriff Is concerned. During the absence of Judge Nor- tou, it la also expected that Judge L. O. Levelling of Albany will be here to hear further motions, demurrers, and arguments in the receivership ap plication of the News Publishing Co. L. B. Tuttle, president, against The Medford News publishing Co., i. A Banks, president, and for collection of si 1,000 allegedly due on promis sory notes for the purchase of the paper. The case has been in the courts since early last September. v OHTOA.OO. Jan. 28. (TP) A crowd of 600 marching toward the Tribune building to stage a demonstration be fore the Japanese consulate there was blocked at the Michigan boule vard brldee today by police and ser era! wer hurt in a brief battle of bludgeons. Banners bearing the legend "peace for China, down with Japan" were dliplaved by the marchers. Policeman Bernard Deshon was in jured by a blow on the . head, and , two demonstrator were similarly hurt. for Mortgage Moratorium 'LAME DUCK' AUTHOR LAUDED Sen. George W. Norrla (right) of Nebraska, author of the "lama duck" amendment to the constitution, la shown aa he waa congratulated by Sen. John Blaine of Wisconsin after ratification of the measure by the thirty-sixth state, Missouri. (Associated Press Photo APPROVAL VOTED The county court yesterday, all members concurring,-Adopted a'reso- lutlon addressed to the state high way commission, approving without qualifications, the first unit propos ed Pacific highway Improvement be tween Ashland and Talent for which bids have been received totalling more than $77,000 for grading and con struction of two bridges across Bear Creek. Awarding of the contracts, ac cording to R. H. Baldock, chief en gineer of the commission, have been held up pending approval of the fed eral bureau of public roads and pur chase of right-of-way. The resolution also urges that the remainder of the survey recently madehetwoen a point 1.8 miles north of Ashland and Talent, be abandon ed, and In event further Improve ments are made the route be so sur veyed as to Include . Talent on the main highway. The petition says In part: "That we oppose the use of the present new survey of the second unit of this Ashland-Talent highway In that it would unquestionably ruin the business interest of Talent and that It would leave this Important municipality without direct connect ion with the Pacific highway The resolution further urges that the state highway commission start work at once on the construction of the "first unit," of one and slx tenthA miles as a means to provide employment In this area. The first unit, so-called extends from the city limits of Ashland to a point Just north of the city limits of Talent. Bids for this work have been opened but not let. Future action depends on the approval of the federal Bureau of Public Roads, which is-practlcal ly assured. . The state highway commission has called a public hearing at Ashland for Wednesday, February 8, when both sides of the question will be discuss ed. The survey for the highway changes as at present drawn, would be with out the city limits of Talent, cause heavy damage to the business Inter ests of Talent and leave that muni cipality off the main section of the Pacific highway. THElM E OF DEPRE CLEVELAND, j&n. 28. Three j!altto Protestant, Cat hollo and Jew . have set up a "sun glass" hers to focus the burning rays of religion in the practical solution of such depres sion problems as social disorders and labor disputes. The Inter-faith commission is de scribed by Rabbi Barnett R. Brlckner, one of the sponsors, as the first movement In America In which tho three religions have Joined to give a concrete answer to the question "what does religion propose to do about the present social crisis?' 4 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28. (JP) The weather outlook for the far west ern states for Jan. 30 to Fb. 4: , Unsettled weather Is Indicated to continue with occasional rains over the Pacific slope and snow over and east of the Cascades and Sierra Ne vada mountelna; temperature will not tdeput syiAVCrtaUx front Um poxoL FULL OPERATION DETROIT, Jan. 28. (AP) Henry Ford,' In. a statement tonight; an noun cod that his automobile plants throughout the country "one way or another will be going again full tilt In a very short time." He said that the labor trouble In local body plants that forced a shut down of his factories throughout the country "is not a strike It's an at tack on the Ford industries." The statement, the first Mr. Ford has made since he was quoted abroad saying over trans-Atlantic tele phone that "certain competitors" were responsible for the body plant strike, was brief He declined to comment on the telephone Interview with a London newspaper, but said: "You Just can't stop progress. This is not a strike It's an attack on the Ford Industries. So was the Balden patent suit years ago, but all efforts of that kind to throttle any industry Is like a man throwing ahea into the wind; eventually he gets himself all covered over with ashes. One way or another our plants will be going again, full tilt. In a very short time.' Other Ford officials said today that If the body workers at the Brlggs Manufacturing company's plants re turn to work, or the plants get Into operation with other help by Tues day, the Ford factories will reopen as soon thereafter as a flow of auto mobile bodies Is established. 4 E LONG BEACH, Cal., Jan. 28. P) The brief romance of Marlon Talley, of Kansas City, former Metropolitan Opera, singer, has ended In the an nulment of her marriage to Michael Rauchelsen, 48 year old Oerman con cert pianist of international reputa tion. The annulment was granted last night In superior court here on the singers charge that her husband had violated a pre-nuptlal ktrreement by refusing to allow Miss Talley's moth er and sister to live with them. Cost of Headache Pills Big Item in House Bill By Ciarenoe M. Wright Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 38.-(P)-Hou members may not be able to get shaves and haircut free as do sena tors, but they did spend M.238,006 on a payroll last year and that doesn't Include the more than M.000,000 they got themselves. These figures were Included In the ainual report of South Trimble, clerk of the house. It showed that the house, like the senate, had some expenses last year that might sur prise the man who knows nothing about congress. For example, there was 110.80 for 3.400 headache tablets, $13.08 for a carton of flaxy sedative. There was. too. 870.13 for water coolers toe water. M Imposed, to pe TO SAVE FARMS Sales Tax Opposed in Long Debate State Master Is Opposed to Measure Pro posed by J. C. Barnes A resolution favoring a three-year moratorium on mortgage foreclosures waa paased by the Jackson county Pomona Orange in session In Medford yesterday. A total of 32 resolutions were Introduced, but many of them were not heard, due to lack of time. The grange also opposed the Barnes sales tax, as It was presented to the legislature. Grangemaster Ross Kline gave two speakers a chance to talk for each aide, and the debate lasted well Into the afternoon. Henry Con ger and O. C. Hoover talked In favor I. B. Kline Pomona Master. of the Barnes sales tax, and State OranRe Master Ray QUI and Commis sioner Emmett Nealon talked against It, QUI explained the tax fully, and (Continued on Page Plve) PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. SB, (IP) Six persons were saved from possible ser ious Injury or death when police and firemen rescued them from a burning hotel here today. Warned by police radio that the hotel occupying the two upper floors of a three-story frame building was on fire, Patrolman Fred west and Pred Mahnke ran up the stairs to the hotel and rapped vigorously on the doors of the rooms. Several door were broken open when the patrol men received no response. Aroused from their slumber, the five of the tenants, two girls and three men, escaped to the atreet with out aid. Sam Wler of Phoenix, Ore., suffering from a leg Injury and un able to walk rapidly, was carried to safety by the police. PORTLAND, Ore!, Jan. SB. (AP) Percy J. Chapman, assistant manager of the Salem branch of the Portland Gas and Coke company, died In a hospital here today following a short Illness. . piped Into each member's office and 81,388.47 for 448.400 pounds of loa to keep the watei coolers oool The paper cups they drank the water cost 8349. The towel bill was 83.187, 98 and the soap purchases amounted to 8834.64. Co everybody could keep tabs on wht waa going on "back home," Trimble reported 8849.93 had been spent for newspapers, which are kept In the speaker's lobby papers from all over the country, nearly 100 of them. There were 78 balr brushes that cost 14.01 and about a third of the 438 house members have shiny patea. For the more fortunate member. maybe, 144 combs costing 818 were purchased. The members needed some clothes brushes, too, so $33.43 was spent lor Uketa. rN"SSa mm f nan war f i' '"Tl JAPANESE PLAN IS SECRET WORD Movement to Follow Seizure of Jehol, Is Report to War Office President Hoover Is Upset by Reports Copyrighted by MoCltire Newspaper Syndicate By PAUL MALLOtf WASHINGTON, jsn. S8. our high- est official circle baa vmfM,i.i word that the Japs have big things in mind. Their War office plan Is supposed to provide for an invasion of China proper as soon aa the seizure of Je hol Is completed. That means plenty of trouble. Both President Hoover and State Secretary Stlmson are upset about It. They laid their Information ooiore uov. Roosevelt when he was here. It was kept quiet because the tip was not exactly in printable of ficial form. The Invasion of Ohm. ly call for action by the wortrf nnm. era. Our officials have been mum on campaign, confidentially they were willing to let the Jake take that province without further pre test. But the moment they move . low the Great Wall toward Pelplne and Tientsin we shall have something What that something will be has not been fully determined. The Indi cations are that we will notify Ore at Britain and Prance of the altuatlon and seek a consultation. There la revy 4ittl'iiMuTi6o that we can or will do anything Important. Stlmson would like to declare a boycott. Mr. Hoover, the senate and mr. Kooseveit would not care to go that far. What we really bom . that at.- British Will be stlrrert Infe, Their holdings in China would then be endangered. They might offer lead ership. They have been ducking It J1UW, If Britain cared t inatllut . . cott we might be persuaded to to "D unnncea are, nowever, that all anyone will do about It la talk. That Joint statement Issued by he White House ifter the Hoover-Roosevelt conference was misleading. The background there waa that the ad ministration waa trying again to prod Mr. Roosevelt Into action with It on war debts. Mr. Roosevelt would not act. The statement waa nhraaed ta sound aa If something had been ac- oompiisnea. am a mater of faot noth ing was. Mr. Roosevelt declined to alter his policy. He consented to let Stlmson go ahead with preliminary discussions. He reserved to himself full leeway for action after March 4. That atory about the British offer log us a lump sum settlement waa planted by a Cabinet officer. It waa supposed to help push Mr. Roosevelt Into doing something. Those who should know what la going on say the British made no auch offer. We would like to have them make an offer like that and maybe now that they have read about It In the papers, something will be (Continued on Page Five) WILL ROGEHS 'eisys: SANTA MONICA, Cal., Jan. 27. The Glass banking bill passed the senate. During the long argument ovor it so much was printed about what Huey said that the newspapers never did print what the bill said. We just trust to the good bank ing judgment of Carter Glass to have something worth while. Glass is an absolute authority on money and it's astonishing that the Republicans were never able to win him over. France wants to get In on the debt settlement on account of them paying nothing. As it is under the new settlement we are to start paying them. Tonrs, ' iauitl Ma.Siu.aJ lirlNeJs, laj,
