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Standings of Popularity Contestants to Be Published Friday Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Friday. Slowly rising temperature. Temperature, Highest yesterday 30 Lowest this morn lng.. m . 20 Paid-Up Circulation People who pay tot their newspapers ire (be beet prospeots cot tbe adver User, a. B. O. circulation u paid up circulation. Thla newspaper le 4. a a Twenty-Seventh Sear MEDFOKD, OREGOX, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1933. No. 274. c rnn?kW7 rw Mill? IP rvn nnfi s?nn7v nrvn n n Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ' BERT E. Haney. or Portland, 1 mentioned as a prominent poa elblllty lor aeoretary of the Interior In the Roosevelt cabinet. It would seem odd If an Oregon man were chosen a member of the President's cabinet almost as odd as it Southern Oregon man were named to some Important post In the etato government. Plans for canalizing the Willam ette river from Oregon City 'to Eugene are reported on adversely by the division engineer of the war de partment. The cost, which would be about twenty million dollars, would be out of proportion to the benefits, he gays. IP the government Is going out of the business of developing rivers because it can't afford the cost In the present state of. its llnances, Its objection to canalizing the Willam ette river are Justifiable. But If the government Is going on developing OTHER rivers, and en gaging in vast projects such as the Tennessee one announced by President-elect Roosevelt the other day. then it ought to include canaliza tion of the Willamette in its plans. Canalization of the Willamette river is a worthy project If the gov ernment la going to continue to do such things. HERE to an interesting item In the day's nows: "Yakima, Wash. Near Tleton, west of here, ranchers are resorting to horse, and bobsleds for traveling about, leaving their automobiles In the garages. Gasoline costs money, they say, while hay and feed are a drug on the market." Sound enough, at the present mo ment, when money Is scarce and hard to find and when farm pro ducts are selling for little or noth ing. When money Is scarce and hard to get, we have to economize in any way we can. BUT don't get" the Idea that auto mobiles will be left PERMAN ENTLY In the garages anf that peo ple will go back to horse and mule transportation. Things like that don't happen. The automobile Is a great modern development a necessity, under the conditions of this age. and NOT a useless extravagance. The cars that are being left in the garage now will be brought out again and used, as they should be, Just as soon as a turn comes In the business world and conditions begin to improve. SPEAKING of automobiles, the death rate from automobile Oc cidents dropped 18 per cent last year from the record of the year before in the 88 cities of this country in which records are kept. Are people driving more carefully? Possibly. In good times people in cline toward recklessness and in bad times they incline toward caution. But it Is probable that the decrease in the automobile , accident death rate Is due more to the fact tha fewer automobtlea are being operated than to any material increase in cau tion on the part of drivers. T!8 week lsoiie of those special weeks of which ws used to hear a lot more than we do now. It is International Week" and 1U pur pose Is the fostering of friendly In ternational relations through the medium of the common Interests of educated women In all countries. That Is a worthy purpose. War, which Is the greatest calamity from which this world suffers, arises cnirtiy out of the LACK of friendly international relations which Is a blg-soundlng term, weaving good will among the peoples of the var ious nations. YOU may not be Internatlonal mlnded. You mayas does this writer! to a considerable extent hold the rather hard-boiled theory that It Is a mighty good Idea for jGoatlnucci pa Page gpui) ARRESTS FOLLOW m THREAT TO TAKE Alleged Attempt To Extort $50,000 On Threat Of Kidnaping Second Child Brings Action In Virginia. ROANOKE, Va.f Feb. 9. Police here today held Joe Bryant, 19, and Norman Harvey, 28, both of this city, for United States authorities In con nection with alleged attempts to ex tort $50,000 from Col. Charles A. Lindbergh by means of kidnaping threats. Plainclothes men, eince December 1, have been playing checkers with tbe men. Today one of the men held walked Into a bank, following receipt of a note, accepted a dummy pack age and Joined his companion on the outside. Their arrest followed. Roanoke police were questioning Bryant and Harvey, along with the latter's wife. Bryant, according to police, went to the State and City bank, which is within a block of city hall, while de tectives, who have been working on the case since early December, trailed them. Bryant went to Teller W. M. Skel ton and presented a check for 17, 000, saying, "Here's the check I want to get cashed." The check, which had been secretly numbered, was taken and Bryant was given a package supposed to contain the money. . . Police said letters had been sent to Lindbergh threatening to kidnap his second son. LIBEL DEFINITION ALSO EXTORTION A presentment, -comprising' two questions one dealing with the Ore gon law upon "criminal libel." and the other with-"extortion," were pre sented to Circuit Judge H. D. Norton, shortly before noon today, by the grand Jury, William T. Grieve, Pros pect, foreman. , The court answered the two queries confining his remarks to the legal definitions, as contained In Oregon statutes. The court Informed the grand Jury that both queries were amply ' ex plained In the law. The court said that the questions were well within the statutory limits, and not in "speculative fields." The court advised the grand Jury on terms such as "Injury," "threat ened violence," "criminal libel, per se." and "malice Mrs. Hamilton Patton, secretary of the grand Jury and Its lone woman member, asked a number of ques tions of the court on the legal angles and covering the meaning of the word "extortion." It was asked If the word did not have a "double meaning." The court replied that under the law It had but one mean ing, which did not lend Itself to speculation. Foreman Grieve, at the conclusion of the session,' said the understand ing of the grand jury had been made clearer by the explanations. The grBnd Jury then returned to Debate Waxes Warm on Bill to Require Study Medical Fundamentals By Mary Grelner Kelly BALEM. Feb. 8. (8pl) Yea, verily It was a battle! A religious argu ment couldn't have drawn more fire and brimstone thsn did the debate on the Basic Science bill which oc cupied the greater part of the morn ing and afternoon sessions Monday. Representative Frank Hilton or Multnomah county started the smoke when he opened for the minority report, recommending that the pro posed bill do not pass. Sometimes accused of being a radical. Repre sentative Hilton Is, nevertheless, one of the most fascinating speakers of the house. If the so called drug less physic ians set otit to select an evangelist to champion their cause, they could not have chosen one with more fervor than Frank Hilton. What's more be has courage and talks sense. So does Dr. Dammasch (also of Multnomah county). And that's where the other side comes In Quiet of manner, studious and conscientious, ouse IX X JACKSON SOLONS SPLIT ON BALLOT Kelly For Submitting Dry Law Repeal To People's Vote While Day Listed Among Those Opposed. SALEM, Feb. 9. (AP) Repeal of the state constitutional amendment on prohibition should be submitted to the people by the legislature, tne house today decreed by voting In fa vor of the two Hall resolutions which provide this submission. If passed by the senate the matter would be placed on the ballot at either a spec ial election or the next general elec tion. . , . The vote on the resolutions fol lowed more than an hour's debate In which the general subject of pro hibition was argued. Roll call on the resolutions was demanded, re sulting In a vote of 38 to 23 In favor. How They voted Voting for the. repeal resolution: Allen, Beckman, Best, Chrlsman, Dammasch, Dickson, Duerst, Eckley. Gouley, Graham, Hall, Herman, Hill, Horan, Huntington, Johnson, Judd, Kelly, Lang, Lonergan. McCloskey, McCornack, McPhllllps, Nichols, Paulusr Price. Ryan, Semon, Snedecor, Snider, Staples, Stockdale, . Walker, Wells. Wyers and Speaker Earl Snell. Negative votes were: Abrams, - Belton, Child. Clarke, Oooter, Day, Delch, Gordon, Herron, Hilton, Keasey. Lewis. Lynch. Martin, McAlear. Miller. Oakes. Oleen, Paget, Scott, Turner, Weathcrford and Wins low. Absent Bennett. The second resolution, whleh was a companion measure and referring to a sub-section of the constitution on the same matter, passed with practically the same vote, Represen tative. Scott voting "aye" instesd of "no" as on the previous vote. Nothing New In Debate. Representative Dean Walker of Polk county ended the prohibition debate when he moved for the previous ques tion. -"No one here can say anything new on the question and we should vote on the resolution and not en gage In an emotional rebate upon prohibition." he declared. History of prohibition in Oregon was pictured by Representative John H. Hall, author of the resolutions, when the law was approved through the Initiation In 1914 and effective after January 1, 1916, at which time the prohibition majority In the state was 16 per cent, with only two "wet" counties Clatsop and Multnomah. In 1916 when the Anderson law went In to effect, the enforcement act, the "dry" element polled 114,932 votes against 109,671 for the "wets." A prohibition majority of only two per cent of the entire vost cast with six "wet" counties Clackamas. Clatsop, Lake, Multnomah, Wasco and Wash ington, he said. Its deliberations. The grand Jury gave no hint as to when It would file a return. Its present session started last Monday. According to reports, 1. A. Banks of this city, and Attorney M. O. Wilkin, have testified before the grand Jury this week. the Portland physician declared that the examination, demanded under the Basic Science bill, were not for the protection of the doctors, but for the protection of the people. "There are examining boards and examining boards.' he said. "The one proposed by this bill Is not made up of medical men, but of unblssed educators, who merely require that the applicant be reasonably well grounded In the basic sciences. "Nor does the bill create a new board. It merely utilises one already existing the board of higher educa tion." After this came those who spouted and those who fumed; those who waxed humorous, and those who dealt In personalities. There were the men patterned along medicinal or drugless biases who jumped up and sputter ed incoherently; or else sat tight, gripped their chain and grew red in the face. One reprMentatlre, with a sudden Continued pa Pag JCour) for Submission of Prohi E MEDFORD C. OF G. Man Of Long Experience Will Take Place Of C. T. Baker Who Goes To Boise Board Lauds Services. Xhe board of directors of the Med ford Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting today noon and was presented with the formal resigna tion of C. T. Baker as executive sec retary of the organization, to be ef fective February 32. Mr. Baker will leave Medford at that time to take over the duties of manager of the Chamber of Commerce. Boise, Idaho, to which position he was elected last Monday. In considering arrangements for Bakers successor the board was faced with a number of applications for the position, but after a thorough canvass of t,he situation. It was the decision of the directorate that an ex perienced commercial secretary should be selected for the position, and by unanimous vote elected A. H. Ban well of Medford, former manager of the Northern California - Southern Oregon Development association. Mr. Banwell will accept the position tem porarily. It was indicated, as the new directorate, which takes office April 1, will have the duty of selecting the secretary for the ensuing fiscal year. .... . w Baker Lauded "T,h following resolution was unan imously adopted by the board in ac cepting Mr.. Bakers resignation from the position w.hlch he has held for the past six years: "Whereas, Mr. o. T. Baker has ten dered bis resignation as executive sec retary of the Medford Chamber of Commerce-to accept a bigger oppor tunity, the board of directors of the Medford Chamber of Commerce of fers the following resolution: - "The resignation of Mr. Baker is accepted with regret. "We extend congratulations to Mr. Baker on the acceptance of a bigger opportunity and wish to assure him of the sincere best wishes of this board for success In his new field. "We compliment him upon the splendid service he has rendered this community as secretary of this or ganisation over a period of the last six years. "To the city jof Boise, Idaho, we extend congratulations In securing the able services of Mr. Baker. We consider our loss your gain. "We bespeak for this organization and the people of this community every good wish for health and hap piness of our good friend, Ted Baker. "T,he thanks of this community for many splendid accomplishments are due Mr. Baker. "To our friend and fellow associate In community betterment, we say Oood luck and God speed 1" Banwell Experienced A. H, Banwell, who will assume tVc duties of the office upon Baker's departure, has had 13 years experi ence In commercial organization work, having come to Medford from Tacoma, Wash., where he was pub licity manager of the Tacoma cham ber of commerce for several years. Prior to that time he was manager of the Tacoma Tourist Information Bureau, and still earlier manager of the Manufacturers' Association of Washington. During his time In Medford, Ban well was manager of the Northern California-Southern Oregon Develop ment association, an organisation de signed for the promotion of the Crescent City harbor project, and was successful In obtaining the first definite recommendation for harbor Imp rove mnt there by the board of army engineers. Political conditions In Washington, however, precluded the possibility of any appropriation for Improvement work at that time, and the project was temporarily abandoned. Since that time, Mr. Ban well has been engaged In the Insur ance business In Medford. Banwell's experience In commer cial organization work fits him ad mirably for the position which he will assume, according to W. 3. Bol ter, chamber president, and Che di rectorate feels Itself fortunate in se curing the services of so experienced and capable executive. Mr. Banwell served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces In the Egyptian war of 1914 and the Balkan war of 1916. Eugene Chilled EUGENE. Ore., Feb. 9 (AP) A minimum of 11 degrees above zero was registered here this morning. The ground was covered with a light blanket of snow which fell yesterday morning. . Oregon Weather Fair tonight and Friday, slowly ris ing temperatures; moderate east and northeast wind oXXabora, Professor's Sixty-five year-old Mrs. Walter F. Skeelo (left), wife of the (lean of muslo of the University or South ern California, kidnaped from her Los Anseles home and Inter liberated. Her son, Franklin B. Skeelc, (right), discussing the case with Captain W. B. Thomasson of the Los Angeles police department (Associ ated Press Photos.) COLDEST DAYS OF WINTER HOLD NORTHWEST IN GRIP With the mercury dropping to new lows in various parts of the state. Medford 's minimum of 20 degrees was registered at j7:40, o'clock this morn ing, according to the local branch of the U. s. weather bureau. - la com parison with reports; from other ooest points, this temperature was mod erate. - Until 11:30 o'clock last night, a light rain, interspersed with a llttlo snow, fell, and then up to 1 :30 o'clock snow was reported. W. J. Hutchison, meteorologist, said this after-noon. Three hundredths of an Inch of pre-1 cipltation was recorded between S p. I m- yesterday afternoon and A a. m. I today. . (By the Associated Press) Great blasts of Icy air which roared In from .western Canada during the night had engulfed Oregon and Washington today In the coldest weather of the winter season. Two deaths occurred In Oregon alone, directly attributable to the winter storm. Alfred A. Hunzlker, 63, miner and trapper, was found dead in the snow beside a trail on the north fork of Smith river In south western Oregon. Albert Spattor, aged Warm Springs Indian, froze to death near Wapinltla In central Oregon. Both bodies were found yesterday. At least two more days of sub-zero temperatures will be experienced, the federal weather bureau at Portland MOUNTAIN MEN SACRIFICE WOMAN IN STRANGE RITE INEZ, Ky., Feb. 9. (AP) Praying for deliverance, in a gutters! , un earthly chant, eight members of a mountain family are In Jail today, seven of them charged with murder following the cult "sacrifice" of an aged woman. Police said they crashed their way through barred doors into the deso late Mills homestead as plans-were made to place the body of Mrs. Lu clnda Mills, 72, on an altar. Interrupting the haunting ritual of fasting and mystic rites, which police say started Isst Friday, culminating In a mad frenzy of ardor, the officers arrested two daughters, two sons, a grandson, and two sons-in-law and a daughter-in-law of the slain woman. The prisoners, held In the Martin county Jail here, are John Mills, 36, and Fred, 34, sons of the woman; Ballard, a 25 year . old grandson; Blaine McOlnnls and Tom Boyd, sons-in-law; Mrs. Mollis McOlnnls and Ora Mills, daughters, and Mrs. John H. Mills, the daughter-in-law. Tom Boyd Is held as a material witness, the officers said, adding that the remaining seven are charged with murder. An Inquest conducted by Judge T. J. Hardin brought a verdict that Mrs. Mills died "at the hands of her son John and others." Questioned at the Jail, members of Argentine Wheat Sold To Chinese BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Feb. B. (AP) Twenty-two thousand tons of Argentine wheat have been sold to Shanghai millers and will be ship ped before the end of the month. This follows a recent wheat ship ment to Japan, causing grain men here to hope that Oriental consump Wife Kidnaped, Liberated said. A vigorous east wind raked many sections of the state and It was oxpected to continue.' At Bend the temperature dropped to 30 degrees below zero last night, the coldest the city e er experienced. The Deschutes river was frozen from bank to bank. ' " Pendleton reported a minimum of 8 below zero, the coldest of the sea son. The weather was clear and cold Thursday.' Wednesday's maximum was 34 degrees. Portland's minimum of 12 degrees was the coldest since Dec. 11, 1924. (By the Associated Press) Sub-normal weather, Inflicted by the blizzard spending Itself on the eastern coast, blanketed the country at nil points except Reno, Nev., to day. , Every other federal observer re ported temperatures below normal. 44 deaths, due directly to the cold, new . low records throughout the middle west and the worst snowstorm of the year In the east told the story of the storm as it passed out Into the Atlantic ocean. The snow which left the Rockies Monday night took a 50-degree fall out of spring-like weather which bathed the seaboard Wednesday. At lanta's six-above -zero reading was significant of the frigid' weather which enveloped the Piedmont region and destroyed crops In Florida. the family told police that hours of praying, shouting, singing and danc ing a part of the bizarre ceremony called forth "divine commands" that the life of one person present be of fered In "human sacrifice." Mrs. Mills was chosen, they said, and John grasped his mother by the neck as the others looked on. Blaine McOlnnls told authorities he wanted to prevent the "sacrtf lei' ' but that "a feeling" Impelled him o stand back. He said that his mother-in-law was strangled, a chain fastened about her throat and preparations made for a "burnt offering." A cross, or an altar, was to have been erected, he continued, and her body placed upon It and burned. It was at this point that the police summoned by frightened neighbors, arrived. Residents of the sparsely settled section told police they were alarmed by the screams that came from the cabin. Judge Hardin explained that num erous cult gatherings have been held In the Isolated hills near Inez but no indications had ever been given here tofore that the rites might lead to death and "sacrifice.' Polios say th cult members claim they perform miracles, such as con verting water Into wine, and trans form grapevine stalks Into curling snakes. tion may help dispose of the Argen tine surplus. 4 PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 9. (JF) Rumors Paul Schlssler had been of fered the 'managership of tho Boston Braves, pro football eleven, were prev alent her following his resignation as coach at Oregon State. The report was he wou'd accept tho berth If he failed to connect with another col lege. Schlssler is thought to be vis iting In Los Angel . "Repeal SIX FIREMEN DIE EN OLD HOTEL RAZED BY BLAZE OMAHA, Feb; . )--el firemen were killed, one Is missing and 17 others were Injured when a spectacu lar fire destroyed the four-story Mil lard hotel, historic downtown land mark, early today, during a 15 below zero temperature. The loss was esti mated at $250,000. The dead: " Captain Edward smith. . Captain Thomas Shandy. Pipe man John O, Brandt. Fireman Franklin Kane. Fireman Louis Morocco. Fire Inspector Clarence Urban. Fireman John Cogan was missing during the forenoon snd Chief Cogan I (no relation) expressed belief that ne, had been killed. After vn hours' work, only the; body of Captain Ed Smith had been recovered from the ruins. He had : been killed In the collapse of a rear wall whloh burled htm and at least three others. Bodies In Debris. Two more were burled under debris in the basement. Senior Captain George Cogan, brother of Fire Chief Patrick Cogan, and Fire- Inspector Clarence Urban were trapped after an explosion brought the roof down on, them as . they stood on the first floor, , carrying them to the cellar. Fireman Walter Hoye, who had en tered with them, was rescued an hour later. W. S. Rathbun of Chicago, repre sentative of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, had been Inspect ing the building with Urban and left a few second before the cave-In. Rescuers talked with Cogan but were unable to reach him or Urban. and at 7 a. m. little hope was held that they would be rescued alive. Chief Cogan led rescuers In an effort to save his brother In the 1ft below zero temperature In which the fire men were working. The three missing, almost certainly dead, were Captain Thomas Shandy, Plpeman John O. Brandt and Fire man Franklin Kane. They were on ladder In an alley, working with Smith, when the rear wall collapsed a4 presumably burled them. WOMAN BITTEN BY DOG; FEAR RABIES Mrs. Wm. LaFarge of Central Point was rushed to this city yesterday for treatment, following an attack by her dog. whleh resulted In a serious lac eration of her right hand. The head of the dog has been sent to Portland. Dr. W. O. Bishop, attending phy- slclsji, stated today, for examination for rabies. The dog was apparently hsvlng a fit when It attacked Mrs. LaParge, she stated, and had been acting queerly for some tune. The woman's condition was re ported as very satisfactory today. 1 " Billy Sunday Has Attack Of Heart DE3 MOINES, Feb. it (AP) Tm Rev. William A. (Billy) Sunday, famed evangellut, was reported recov ering today from heart attack brqugUt on ttj acuta Indigestion, FIRE OF HITLER AS Private Reports Say Cabinet Well Controlled By Nat ionalists And Junkers Silver Inflation - Rapped.' (Copyrighted by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. Herr Hit ler will eat no raw meat as chancel lor. They pulled his teeth privately before they gave him an official po sition. At least that is the creditable word reaching our officials. It Is appar- ' ently believed so by the French gov ernment. His cablnst Is supposed to be well controlled by nationalists and Junkers the old Von Papen sympa thizers. They expect to keep him from carrying out bis bombastlo pro gram. That Is w,hy his selection caused so little stir either in Paris or Wall Street. Some Influential Democrat her sent a feeler up to Wall street this week on the question of a moderate Inflation through silver. They got' the answer baok so fast the feeler doubled up on tfiera, It was: "No": In a loud voice. There la no Indication that any thing Important will be done about silver for a while yet. Something may be accomplished through Mr. Roosevelt's conferences with the war debtors. The possibilities of legisla tion before that time are virtually nu. Now that" the inflation drive ha ' come out Into the open some of tha conservative rlugleaden are weaken ing. The same Influential congressmen who ware saying to themselves 80 days back that some sort of Inflation was necessary are now mumbling perhaps It won't be necessary. That Is the result of toe strong campaign wn; wsged against inflation by a few New York banks and the few. highest administration officials..: . . The farm gang ttilnk-. somebody 1. scuttling Its allotment bill. They' can feel It Just as plain but they cannot locate It. They are getting so suspicious that ' they look askance at each other. Loy- Slt7 to fnrmnr ll.rinlM nt th. ure Is no longer taken for granted.. They would not be greatly surprised it tne senate hemmed and - hawed' and postponed action on the measure until njxt session. This hidden on- position Is unquestionably seeking, such delsy but the despair of the farm bloc as yet seems unwarranted. Tihere Is nothing to look forward to anyway except a Hoover veto. Hi bill could not possibly pass over veto. - Democratlo Leader Salney has again demonstrated his mental ver-. sattllty this time on the depreciat ed ourrency tariff Issue. (Continued on Page eight) WILL . ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Feb. ' 8. One of my broadminded . papers wired me: "Didn't use your article today because you attacked credit and loans." Well, credit, means interest and I will attack interest be cause interest attacks me and you. Not only attacks ns but has what yon might call a con stant attack. , There is not a man that's in -the hole today but can look back and wish the first guy had never loaned him anything. Any loan made was either to pay off another loan or to ex- pand. Been better if we had let the first guy foreclose on us and shrunk instead of trying to expand. old man interest just gnawing away at us. ; Tours, tft& fa?-