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Third Contest Week Ends Saturday Standings Appear Sunday Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: ' Cloudy with rising tem perature. Snow late tonight or Saturday. Highest yesterday 87 Lowest this morning 17 Paid-Up Circulation People who pay Cox tbeu newspapers are the Dest prospect tor the advar Users, a. B O. circulation la paid up circulation. This newspaper la a. a O. Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFOliD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1933. No. 275. Ml JV mil u. LLEJ3) i i -M- Comment the on Day ys News .By FRANK JENKINS. f R. GAYFORD and O. E. NlchO letts, Englishmen, fly from Cran well, In England, to Cape Town. In South Africa, a distance of 6411 miles, In two days, thus establishing a new world non-atop flight record. Interesting, Isnt It?' And do you know why It Is interesting? It Is be cause we didnt really believe an air plane could keep going that long, and are surprised when we learn It can. THERE waa a time when the auto mobile wasn't dependable. When we started out somewhere In one ol j them, we were always a little aur prlsed when we got back without a breakdown of some sort. That went on for years, but gradu ally the automobile got so we could depend on It. Now, when we start out, we JUST KNOW we are going to get back, and If we DON'T we are surprised - After a while the airplane will get to be that way. INCIDENTALLY, the record that was broken by Gayford and Nlcholetts waa an American record.. Englishmen and Americans have long been In active competition In deeds of daring, first one winning and then the other. Friendly competition la a fine thing, and Americans arent worried by this latest victory. They know they'll score again at some time. PRESIDENT - ELECT ROOSEVELT Invites the governors of the states to meet with him at the White House for a conference on March 6. That will be Just two days after Roosevelt's Inauguration as President. ' ' . Evidently he considers meeting with f the governors Important. , THE PURPOSE 'of the conference, we read, is to "map a program m which the governmental units will march In step in a drive to regain prosperity' : That can be done, but it CAN'T be done merely by passing a law or mak ing a gesture. If our governmental units, not merely our states but ALL of our governing bodies, will reduce expenses, getting taxes down to where people can pay them, thus reducing the overload on business so that money enough will be left with whtch to pay wages, a long step will bs made toward regaining prosperity. PERHAPS you have no taxable property, and your wages are be low the exemption point, so that you do not pay an income tax. In that f event,, you may say to yourself : "What do X care how high taxes are? Soak the fellow who pays for all that can be got out of him, so far as I am concerned. "What difference does It make to ME?" IF YOU SAY THAT, you haven't thought as far forward as you should. Remember, wages can only be paid with the money that business and Industry receive. If TAXES take too much of this money, there won't be enough left with which to pay good wages. So, you see, you ARE Interested, r HE EAST, so farTnae been enjoy. 1 lng a mild winter, as mild winters go beck there. But In the current news of the day we get this para, graph: ' "Winter rode the full crest of Its power today, with blizzards, sub-zero temperatures, transportation tie-ups, suffering and even death In a wide section of the nation." They may escape winter temporarily back there, but sooner or later they set It. And when It comes. It la WINTER. T f ERE in the mild valleys of South JTX era Oregon we know little of real winter. We get a touch of snow now ' and then, and occasionally the tem perature drops to a point that, to us, seems cold. ' But of real winter, such as that de scribed In the foregoing paragraph. we know nothing at all. Our lives are cast In pleasant llnea. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sharon Hawk of F--'- ?3;nt. a diwtrhter wihtn: spven pounds, at their home th morning. ALL DIRECTIONS FROM EXPLOSION Debris in . Streets Hinders Rescue Work Hospitals in German Area Rush Medical Aid for Injured COLOGNE, Germany, Feb. 10. (AP) The Koelnlscbe Zeltung estimated that between 100 and 300 persons were killed and more than 1000 Injured tonight In the double pas tank explosion at Keunblrchen. NEUNKIRCJIEN, Germany, Feb. 10. (AP) A hundred persons were re ported dead and injured In two gas tank explosions that shook this town tonight, spreading death and destruc tion. throughout the entire area. Hardly a window In the town of 2000 . people remained Intact. The force of the explosion shot bodies across streets, against walls and into the air. First aid was beln rushed from towns, as .far .as 25- miles away. In which the explosion was heard. Res cue workers -encountered obstacles In dcbrLs-filled streets. All available hos pitals supplied medicines, physicians and nurses, and trucks were used to get them into the area of the explo sion. A gas tank 270 feet high and 160 i t In diameter, ' belonging 'to the Neunklrchen blast furnace works or? of the most modern In the Saar region exploded and part of It caught fire. The tank cover was (Continued on Page Four) 18 KILLED ABOARD E BATAVIA. Java, Feb. 10. (AP) Eighteen men were killed and 25 In jured aboard the rebellious Dutch cruiser De Zeven Provlnclen when a naval fighting plane dropped a bomb on the ship's deck today, forcing the mutinous native crew to surrender. The dead comprise three Europeans and 15 Javanese natives. One Dutch officer and one young Dutchman were slightly wounded. The dramatic end to the muti neers career came at dawn off the southwest Sumatra coast when, a concentration of Dutch naval and air forces bore down on the fleeing quarry and ordered her to surrender within 10 minutes. The rebels, defiant to the last, flashed a reply: "Don't hinder us." They failed to show a white cloth on the deck awning, as directed. In to ken of unconditional surrender. The attackers reaction was deci sive. As soon as the brief period grace expired, a warning bomb was dropped alongside the De Zeven. As there was no further sign from the mutineers, down went a 1O0- pound bomb from one of a half dozen planes In an attacking sir fleet. It exploded with a roar on the deck of the rebel craft, bringing death to 18 members of the crew and wounding 18 others. That was enough for the mutl neers, who had been running wild (Continued on Page Seven) Smart -Cracking Solons Worry Eastern Oregon Representative on Bill (By Mary Greinrr Kelly) SALEM, Feb. 10. (Spl.) -T.be bull Just couldnt be taken by the horns In the house this morning. There was too much of It, and the legis lators, small boys that they are, were having too much fun passing It round. Poor Repreeenatlve Snider, author of house bill 3S1, had an awful time trying to bring his 69 smart-cracking colleagues down to business. He wondered why those esstern Oregon constituents had ever made him in troduce any more bill than wss nec essary In the legislature. But he had started the chore and It was up to him to finish It. His bill provided for an act mak ing It unlawful for any person to take up, hold or detain, cattle, calves or bulls. In enclosures for a given space of time without the oonsnt of the owner; and providing penal ties for so doing. I Representative Harvey Wells want ' eO to know if Rnrntt . 8n(dr I would yield to a question. Mr. Bni I der graciously obliged Snow and Warmer Weather Coming Soon PARTIAL BREAK L ZONE Four Victims Are Counted in Current Cold Spell Baker Oregon Boasts Twelve Degrees Below Zero At seven o'clock this morning, ther mometers at the United States wea ther bureau, located at the Medford municipal airport, registered 17 de grees above sero, the coldest tempera ture reported In the present cold snap. according to W. J. Hutchison, meteor ologist. Forecast Issued for Medford ana vi cinity this morning was cloudy, with rising temperature; snow late tomgnt or Saturday. Yesterday's maximum wss given by the bureau as 87 degrees. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10. (AP) Far western victims of the current cold spell still numbered four today as United States weather bureau of ficials here predicted a partial mod eration In the freezing weather to night and tomorrow. Sub-zero ' tem peratures continued today In Pacific slope states and their eastern neigh bors. , Fair weather was forecast for cen tral and southern California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah, with continued stormy conditions in s the Pacltlo northwest. The outlook Is for In creased cloudiness and snow late to night In Washington, Oregon and Idaho, and for rain over the extreme north portion of California. Somewhat higher temperatures were predicted for Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada. Frosts and freez ing temperatures are acheduled for California tonight. The lowest mercury readings re ported to the weather, bureau here last night were at Wlnnemucca, Nev., and Modena. Utah, each with 36 de grees below zero. ' Baker, Ore., re ported. 13 degrees below; Yakima, Wash., 10 below; Pocatello, Idaho, a mlnua 18; Independence. Cel., 10 above; and Flagstaff, Ariz., 10 below. (By the Associated Press) -Mother Nature today waa tempeirng the Arctic-like thrust at the nation (Continued on Page Four) T PROPOSAL LOSES WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. (AP) The senate appropriations committee today overrode Its subcommittee and rejected a proposal for a 10 per cent cut In the $a,440,000 prohibition en forcement fund voted by the house The full committee also restored the prohibition against use of en forcement funds for wiretapping, which the cubcommlttee had recom mended be eliminated from the bill as passed by the house. Senator Bingham (R., .Conn.), an antl-prohlbltlonlat, said "the wets licked overwhelmingly In their ef forts to reduce prohibition funds. "It says here,' Intoned Mr. Wells scanning the proposed bill, "without the consent of vie owner. I want to know why not get the consent of the bull." Guffaws followed. Speaker Snell swept aside a volley of wise cracks and restored order. Mr. Loner gan arose. "Will the gentleman yield to a question?' AH looked serenly businesslike, so the gentleman yielded. "The act provides that It be un lawful for fc bull to be detained, by other than the owner, for the pur pose of Improving his stock. Now what If the bull were Just simply de tained for no reason at all Just out of sociability, for Instance?" More guffaws. More wisecracks, Poor Mr. Snider. Another voice.- "Will the gentle man yield to a question?" Repre sentative Snider, still good natured but firm: "The gentleman will not, Then Representative Miller of C:'.s Pas aroe to Vie defense of (Continued, on Page no LINDBERGH AND LOS ANGELES EXTORTION PLOTS CLEARED UP THREE ARRESTED E ROANOKE, Va., Feb. 10 (AP) Assistant District Attorney T. X. Par sons announced today that he ordered the Issuance of federal warrants for the principals In the attempt to ex tort $50,000 from Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh under threats against the safety of his second son. Mr. Parsons made the announce ment as he was Informed that the department of Justice had entered In the Investigation of the case whtch yesterday led to the arrest of Joe Bryant, and Norman Harvey, young Roanoke men. A woman whom one of the men claimed as his wife also was held. The arrests were made yesterday when Bryant called at a bank to cash a 17.000 check which had been lelt by a police officer In a hollow stump. As he left the bank with a dummy package which, he thought contained big bills," Bryant waa met oy nw yey outside the bulldlngi . ... ,. Both ran when police approacnea and Harvey attempted to got Into an automobile In which his wife and a child sat. After, lodging the men In Jail and the woman in the detention house, police told of the extortion attempt (Continued on Page. Seven) A hearing was underway today be fore Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman, in the attachment proceed ings of Eugene Wight, former adver tising solicitor of the Dally News, wherein approximately 1200 pounds of newsprint was taken by Constable George J. Prescott. In the execution of the writ. Return of the newsprint Is sought. , The claim was advanced that the newsprint belonged to the employes of the News, and not the News Pub lishing company. In support of this contention, an agreement, signed by employes December 5. last, was sub mitted to the court. The agreement set forth that the paper was to be operated on a cooperative basis, and share In the profits. It was argued that the agreement was not binding on the grounds it was not signed by L. A. Banks, and that his name still appeared at the masthead as "editor and publisher." A bill of sale signed by Mrs, Electa Fehl was also Introduced as evidence. J. A. LaDleu, who said he was busi ness manager, was called as the first witness. LaDleu told of the (Continued on Page Four) UTILITY CONTROL PL 8ALEM. Ore.. Feb. 10. (AP) The state senate of Oregon was putting in Its second day as a committee of the whole to consider one measure the seven-point utility control pro. gram and. while progress waa made during the forenoon, it appeared the entire day would be required before the measure containing 38 sections would be amended. The committee recessed until 1 o'clock. The house In the meantime sched uled the oleomargarine tax bill to start the afternoon session, and the bill providing for a 4-cent per-pound tax on the butter substitute and li censes for manufacturers and deal ers, was expected to bring out some debate. BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 10 (AP) Fire early today ewept the Interior of St. Kulalla's Roman Catholic church at City Point, South Boston, with ls estimated by the pastor, the Rev. Patrick J. Waters, at close to 140,000. Margaret Meiling Leads Popularity Vote Count Miss Margaret Melllng with 303,800 votes leads today's popularity vote tabulation. The next tabulation of popularity votes in the Merchants-Tribune contest will be made Saturday afternoon and published In Sunday's Mall Tribune. With Saturday completing the 1 third week of the remarkable con test, voting Is rapidly Increasing and the competition Is growing keener. Just three more weeks remain and, with a wonderful voyage to Hawaii as the first prize and a glorious boat trip from Seattle to Victoria, B. C, thence to. San Francisco and return as the second award, those who are actively participating In the contest will put In lots of effort to top the list when Saturday night, February 11th rolls around. Next week, the fourth week of the contest, promises to be ac Interesting one with a special announcement In Sunday's Mall Tribune for girls who are working for the two delightful vacation voyages. This morning's tabulation is as follows: Name. Ellow Mae Wilson Ruth Koozer ......... Votes. 01,100 1,000 1,000 1,000 Harriet Campbell , Addye Allen Dorothy Orth -. Margaret. Chllders, 1.000 14,000 Arvllla Burns , 7,600 Margaret Melllng .... 203,800 1,000 , 1,300 1,000 1,000 1,000 6,100 1,000 1,000 1.000 1,000 1,000 Janet Wray Smith Vivian Meter ..... Ethel Chord Sybil Jean Young , Peggy Miller Jean Fabrlck Kathleen Ness Dorothy Slead Dean Holt Betty Bardwell . Ruth Ashcraft Dorothy Bade H 1.000 78,300 1,100 1.000 145,200 127,100 1.000 137.000 1,000 Laura Drury . Montana Ranney . Vvonne Devaney Leah Inch ...... Oma GeBauer Margaret Purcell Rosamond Wall Lucy Clement Melva Parrett Justine Miller 1,000 1,000 Jean Dungee . 1,100 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1.000 1,000 Dorothy Peterson , Wllma Morgan Mildred Walker Gertrude Haskins i Oertrude Henderson . Margaret Morrison Viola Dietrich (Continued on Page Pour) NEW BEElTBlLL SALEM, Feb. 10 (AP) The house of representatives ' today received ' a "beer" bill from, the .committee on alcoholic control, as substitute for the Bookman beer bill which was offered earlier In the session. The substitute measure follows the original very closely, but has several new features. Instead of a one-man commission, operation of the law would be di rected by the state tax commissioner with the brewers' license lowered to 3S0 and the wholesalers' license In creased from 200 to 20 with a sub sequent tightening up on restaurants or hotels that are licensed to sell beer by making It an offense to aell any Intoxicating liquors on the premises. Brewers or wholesalers csnnot have a financial Interest In equipment or mske a guarantee to a retailer, OTTOTAGS SALEM. Feb. 10. (AP) Assurance waa given this afternoop ,the auto mobile licenses for the remainder of the license year for I2JW1 would prob ably be In effect some time Saturday, or by Monday, at the latest, when It waa announced that President Fred Kiddle and other senate leaders bad consented to advance house bill No. 408 to final pssssge by .suspending the rules and placing it on third reading when the committee report recom mending Hi passage la read. New Secretary T7T" r i V?VA - f.1 S 1 V t 1 A. If. BAN WELL, who was named secretary of the Medford Chamber of Commerce yesterday at a meeting of the board of directors. ORGANIZED EFFORT MORTGAGE RELIEF PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 10. (AP) Elimination of harsh treatment of mortgage debtors by creditors, end unfair practice of borrowers toward the londers, was proposed through a plan considered here Thursday by representatives of farmers and busi ness men who discussed an organized co-operative effort to bring relief to farm mortgage debtors of Oregon Who are In distress through Inability to meet obligations. Harry M. Hawkins, representing the Mortgage Bankers' association, de clared his organisation Is pledged to co-operate In Vie voluntary move ment. O. M. Plummer of Portland presided at the meeting, which was the result of a conference at Salem a month ago between leaders of farm organizations and mortgage bankers, The proposal under consideration would create county committees rep resenting arm and business interests to arbitrate differences In cases sub mltted for adjustment. County committees will call group meetings at Portland, Medford, Ba ker, Corvallls and Arlington. Committeemen who will be respon sible for establishing the plan In their respective counties Include: Jackson: J. A. Perry, Ross Kline, Henry Conger, R. a. Fowler, Med ford; John A. Anderson, Central Point, I.P.T0LLEFS0NF1LES Notice of bankruptcy petition filed by T. P. Tollefson of Central Point appeared In this morning's Oregontan. 'The- notice reads: Theodore Peter Tollefson. Central Point; voluntary petition filed February 9, 1933. Schedule shows 18,005.50 lia bilities and $11,460.03 assets. Mr. Toll of on was president of the Central Point State bank which was recently closed lot liquidation, a i St TV .. AX: KIDNAPING WIFE OF LOS ANGELES. Fob. 10. (AP) A detective's soft-voiced but persis tent lecturing of a suspect about "treating an old lady so roughly" provoked a confession early today, police aald, which cleared up the mysterious kidnaping of 65,-year-old Mrs. Mary B. Skeele. The confessions were made, police said, by Miss Luella Pearl Hammer, 38, and W. P. Howard, 39, her "hired man." Identified aa & paroled e un convict. Detective Chief Joe Taylor aald he, In a long grilling of Howard, waa criticising treatment of Mrs. Skeele, wife of Dean Walter P. Skeele of the University of Southern California college of music. Suddenly Howard said: "We didn't treat her rough at all," Taylor re. ported. . - Howard, -he' said, then told & com plete atory conforming to facta al (Continued on Page Seven) ' POSTAL BANDITS LEAVE NO TRACE E SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 10s (AP) Postal Inspectors and police authorities combined forces today In an Intensive search for three men who held up a guard and mall truck driver at the main post office here last night and escaped with a poucft containing cash and bonds estimated to tojal approximately a325,0OO in The men escaped without leaving trace an to their Identity. They caught W. E. Williams, the clerk guard, and Claus Swanson, the truck driver, completely by surprise. They took a gun and the pouch from Wil liams, fired a wild shot In making a nervous getaway and roared off Into tho city traffic In their waiting automobile without revealing even the license number to the postal workers. Pedestrians and motorists passing the postofflce at the time of the holdup were unaware anything un usual was happening. Police and pos tal Inspectors were depending upon finding clues through discovery of the bandit automobile. 4 T The grand Jury, William T. Grieve of Prospect, foreman, adjourned at noon today, until tomorrow morning, when it Is expected they will make a report. The grand jury has been in session since last Monday. The grand Jury Thursday filed a presentment with the court, comprising two ques tions concerning the Oregon law on criminal libel and extortion. The present Jury will be operative until February 27, when a new grand Jury Is scheduled to be drawn. The grand Jury the past week has been hearing a number of witnesses. L. A. Banks. orchard 1st, and his former attorney, M. O. Wllklna of Ashland, were re ported (as among the win esses called before the inquisitorial body. MDIOTOTTERYBILL PASSED BT SENATE1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. (AP) A house bill to prevent the use of radio for advertising lotteries and revising procedure of the radio commission wss passed today by the sonata. The bill, long under conatderation. was approved by the senate without a record vote and with little debate, I and now goes back to the house for consideration of amendment. CONGRESS VOTES BY USEJJF CASH Outright Bribery . Too Crude for Moderns Barry's Charge Made Sensational to Sell Magazine Story (Copyright by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Nobody buys or sells congressional votes. Things are never done so crudely. Some congressmen have been influ enced by gifts of stock from corpo rations, but cash is never, used In these modern days of finesse. Sergeant-at-Arms Barry of the sen ate was only doing a little magazine romancing when he wrote "there are only a few crooked congressmen In Washington who would sell their votes and they are well known." Barry handles a real estate busi ness on the side. Business has been bad recently. He took to magazine writing and found his stories had to be sensational to sell. ' That appears to be about all there was behind his charge. An aotual story of vote Influenc ing that occurred within the last few years will give you an Idea about how ' those things are really done. Names cannot be used because a dis trict attorney let the poor congress man go without trial after he was' Indicted. The confession came from his own lips. He was a skilled laborer In a smalt eastern town. The political boss of the town saw him pass a hotel on day and called htm In. The boss said; . "My boy, I am golnp to send you to congress," and he did. The congressman had no experience In politics or anything else, except glass blowing. ' Eventually he became chairman of committee which had jurisdiction over certain real estate matters. ' The head of a large real estate pro motion firm came to him and asked for the use of his name as a director (Continued on Page Eight) T! A. W. Walker of Central Point. who has been working with the coun ty sheriff's office since Gordon Schermerhorn became sheriff of Jackson county, called at the Mall Tribune today to announce that he la probation officer for Jackson county and that he la not receiving nia salary through the aheilff'a ap propriation, , He entered the office as a deputy. he stated, but It was later found that funda were Insufficient for the hiring of more than one deputy sheriff. The latter position la hsld by Phil liowd. At a meeting of the county court yesterday, Mr, Walker stated, It waa decided to give hint tne position of probation officer, hla aalary to come from a different fund. He win continue hla association with the sheriff's office and will special ize In the transaction of probate mat ters coming before the county court, he said. WILL ROGERS 'tnv( BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Feb. 9. Glad to see the old U. S. senate come clear like it did.. We all felt that in a good fair trial with all the evidence brought out on both sides that she would clear her fair name and sho nuff she did it. She just got right, up aud said I am not guilty, and said it so convincingly that she made her own members (which was the jury) believe it. Sir. Barry takes tip journal ism exclusively now and the next sergeant-at-arms engaged j will bo a blind man. Then there will be no writing abouC whnt he sees. . Yours,
