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Bluff and Half Truths Are Given Followers of Banks in Daily Doses Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: Unsettled, probably with rain tonight and Thursday; not much change In temperature. Highest yesterday . ... , 53 Lor est this morning... - - 31 Paid-Up Circulation People who pay tor tneil oewapepere are the beat prospeota foe the adver tiser. V B O circulation la paid up circulation. Thla newspaper la a. B. O. Twenty-Seventh Year MEDFOKU, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933. No. 28 8) ML Comment the on Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. JAPAN enters the league or nations, and remains as long as It suits her purpose to do so. But when membership In the leagus of nations begins to Interfere with Japan's Imperialistic plans, she GETS OUT. f THE league of nations was organised with the hopeful purpose ofpre ventlng wars of aggression. But when Japan undertakes a war of aggres sion against China, all the league can do Is mako reproving gestures and say: "Naughty, naughty I" The ancient rule of "might Is right" still prevails In international relations, and the world Is still a long way from settling Its disputes by peaceable negotiation. EVERY now ancTthen some fearful person Jumps to the conclusion that civilization has advanced as far as it CAN advance, and so, he tells us. there Is nothing for us to do In the future but slip back. But if we will look around us with the eye of common sense, we will see that civilization still has a long way to go before reaching that point of perfection beyond which progress Is impossible. i THE LEGISLATURE has finally learned about how nuch Is going to have to be spent. So It's next task Is to levy taxes that will raise suf ficient money to meet the bill. That Is to say, government first decides what its expenses are going to be, then says to the taxpayers: Put up "the money.""; ' WOULDN'T it be nice If business could be run that way? Poor devils of business men first figure out the very smallest sum on which their business can operate and then start out hopefully to see If they can get in revenue enough to meet their bills. But before they can get in the money with which to pay their bills, they have to make people WANT what they have to sell. They can't Just say "Come across!" POSSIBLY you noted this headline in the news: "Beer Class Lures SO." The story under the heading goes on to say that at the Slebel In stitute of Technology 30 students have enrolled in the brewing classes. Why? Well, presumably, looking over the prospects for finding Jobs, they nave said to themselves: "Here is going to be a new Industry. So let's get In on the ground floor." ANEW INDUSTRY? That remains to be seen. There are no statistics showing the exact number of home brewers In this country In the past five years. Ann nobody knows how many of these home brewers are going to quit and buy the manufactured product. It all depends on the price, prob ably. HTHKRE ' belief that return to 1 legnllred sale of liquor will have a Insrkcd effect in stimulating pros' perlty. Will It? You. of course, can answer that question aa well as anybody else, for NOBODY knows. But It seems rea sonsbly certain that prohibition la going to be repealed, so we shall see what we shall see. IT IS quite probable that return of legalized sale of liquor will have it least a TEMPORARY effect In the way of stimulating business. Here Is a whole new Industry, that in Ita former day was one of the big Industries, that will be started up again Starting It up will require new machinery, lera quantities of sup plies and many workers. Starting up ANY Industry, no mat ter what It Is. right now, ought to help at the moment. Whether It will help permanently or not, only time can tell. late Inlluensa Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hendrickson are reported 111 at their bo roewlth Influenza. $5 Cash for Girl Securing Most Votes CLUES POINT 10 AN INSIDE' JOB DEM POLICE Perpetrators Thoroughly Ac quainted With Basement of Court House Is Belief Hold Two for Questioning The district attorney, the city po lice, and the state police were busy today untangling the skein around the brazen and daring theft of ap proximately 10,000 official ballots, cut Ifut November In the general election, Monday night. The author ities reported good progress, and the securing of valuable corroborated evi dence and clues to the outrage. They would make no statement as to when any developments would be an nounced. The. authorities announced that the evidence showed it was an "Inside" Job; that the perpetrators were well acquainted with the base ment and basement floor of the court house, and that the 10.000 ballots had been destroyed in the courthouse furnace. Two Grilled Developments to date in the in vestigation, are: Two men are held for questioning. One, the authorities say, has made Incriminating and contrad i c t o r y statements. The other is reported to be a talker and bragger." Tuesday afternoon In the basement of the courthouse, hid away in a cranny near the walls, were found 18 wooden tops, cut from the ballot pouches. . In the furnace or tne couruiouse were found parts of the ballots, many of -them still readable, and charred and smoked parts of others. The hammer, believed to have been used to break the' vault- window, was; alsQ found. Loiterer Skins Out One man, described as a "steady courthouse loiterer, night and day,' and wanted for questioning is report ed to have departed and had not been located up to two o'clock this afternoon. The authorities are working on the possibility that a man hid In the vault where the ballots were stored, and opened the vault door during the night. It Is figured that the vault window was broken from the outside, a blind. It would have been a difficult and tedious task to have passed the ballots and their pouches. out the window, and then to have carried them to the courthouse fur nace. There are a number of other puz zling angles to the ballot thefts, which indicates that the theft was not considered on short notice, but was the result of considerable plan ning. It was fnr from a one man Job, the authorities sny. The authorities refuse to make (Continued on rage Three) CRIMSON 'EXTRA' CAMBRIDOE, Mass., Feb. 22. (AP) An apparent hoax . perpetrated on the editors of the Harvard Crimson, undergraduate dally, resulted today in ine appearance 01 a puiiwiwu sue of that publication that the an. nouncement that "Henry E. Clarke, D4." had been elected president to succeed A. Lawtence Lowell. Investi gation revealed the paper had been printed without knowledge of the Crimson editors and the story wholly without basis In fact. . Boston newspapermen tipped by telephone that the Crimson had ob tained a "scoop" on a special meet. lng of the board of overseers of the university, sped to the Crimson office where piles of what appeared to be genuine copies of the paper contained the news In bold headlines, supple, mented by several columns of Infor- matlon. Later attempts to confirm the story brought from officials of the univer sity the statement that to their knowledge there was no such person aa "Clarke, '04." nor had there been any meeting of the overseers, such aa described by the psper. Anaconda Copper Official Passes BUTTE, Mont.. Peb. 22. f.Pj Ben B. Thayer, vice-president of the Ana conda Copper Mine company, died at 4:30 o'clock thla morning in New York city, as a result of an embolism following a major operation, accord ing to a message received at the local offices of the Ansconda company. Second Honest Men Are Misled And Judgements Warped By Steady Diet of Lies Attack on Judge Skipworth for Receipt of Indictment Cited Concrete Case; Dahack Claims as Another One of the most Interesting phases of the makeup of L. A. Bank. leader of the Good Government Congress and publisher of the Dally News, Is his uncanny ability to a.b he makes are false, and to repeat again and again, to lUrther lool ana mislead his readers, the statements he knows are direct lies. The second and third paragraphs , In Banks' front page editorial this morning read: "Not content with having caused the false arrest of the publisher of the Medford Dally News by a Justice of the peace who had no Jurisdiction In the matter Involved; ana. Not content with sending officers of the law Into privately owned In stitutions,, the Medford Dally News. and there seizing Illegally newsprint and holding It illegally under dig nity of our justice court. Deliberate Falsehood. Any reader of the Medford Dally News may absolutely prove, to nis own satisfaction, that Banks deliber ately falsifies when he makes those statements, by merely looking Into the Oregon laws. It was declared oy attorneys yesterday. Banks Is still trying to fool his readers with half truths, by telling them that because the Justice court had no authority to "TRY" him for (Continued on Page Three) " ' FEDERAL AGENTS CONGRESS MEETS Confirmation of the report that special federal agents have been op erating In this city and county for the past six weeks was made yester day ny authorities. The special agents are reported to hsve come here slior ly after the first of the year, and to have functioned In at least two ruraj sections. County Judge E. H. Fehl. In the Monday night meeting of the 'Good Government Congress," an nounced that special agents were In the audience. The government aides were reported as concerned chiefly with inflamma tory atatementa and speeches, and keeping tab on known outside agi tators drawn here by tne duodud, from coast cities. The fact that federal agents were In the county was not generally known until last week, and la be lieved to have been the cause of "toning down" talk of "ropes and nooses," and "seizure of the county," snd the Incendiary comments that, featured some of the meetings. Speak ers at the last session denied there hsd been any talk of "ropes and nooses." except to illustrate a point. It was also stated today that mem bers of the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion had been attending the meet ings, gathering first-hand informa tion. Local authorities stated they did not know the Identity of Che apeclal federal agents, and that their oper ations were Independent of their de partments. PORTLAND, Peb. 22. UP) All members of the liberal arts faculty of Willamette university In Salem were retained at the mid-year meet ing of the board of trustees held here Tuesday. It was at thw meeting that President Carl Gregg Doney, presi dent for the past eight years, asked to be relieved of hla duties by June. 1934. Roy a. (Spec) Keene was retained as director of athletics. 4 Last of Congress Dies PORTLAND, reb. 32. (AP) Judge Melvln C. George. 84. who said he was the last survivor of the 48th congress, a resident of this section before Ore gon was admitted to statehood, died at his -home here today. Attempt solutely Ignore proof that statements BANKS TO PLEAD EARLY THURSDAY ON INDICTMENTS L. A. Banks, publisher' of the Med ford Daily News, Indicted Monday by the grand Jury on criminal syndi calism and criminal libel charges, will appear in circuit court tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock, before Cir cuit Judge Oeorgc P. Sktpworth or Eugene to enter a plea. Banks will also enter a plea to the indictment charging criminal libel, returned against him February 11. No further actton has been taken by the district attorney's office, rela tive to a hearing on the qualifications of" Banks' bondsmen. JuVge Skip- worth from the bench, Intimated that he might be "Justified In allowing Mr. -Banks to go on his own recogni zance." The bondsmen on the first criminal libel indictment are Mrs. Ariel B. Pomeroy and Howard A. Hill, orchardlsts. The bondsmen on the two last Indictments are Claude Ward, a brother-in-law of Banks and W. J. Jones, mayor of Rogue River. The bond In both Instances was fixed at $1000. Leonard Hall, editor of the Jack sonville. Miner, indicted for criminal libel for the so-called "Norcross em bezzlement case" article, was arraigned yesterday and entered a plea of not guilty. J. R. Woodford and A. W. Pipes appear as his bondsmen in the sum of 91000. J Police Spoil Plans To Meet Kidnapers DENVER. Colo., Feb. 22. (AP) An attempt of Claude K. Boettcher, multi-millionaire father of kidnaped Charles Boettcher II, to keep an ap pointment with the abductors near Derby, Colo., last night, failed, he said today, because he was followed by two automobiles he said he be lieved contained police. NORMAN DAVIS URGED CARRY ON POLICIES NEW YORK, Feb. 22. (IP) President-elect Roosevelt today invited Norman H. Davis to continue as head of the American armament delegation and give him orders to carry on the present American policy In this re spect. MONTANA CHANCELLOR ABOLISHMENT VETOED HELENA, Mont., Peb." 23, (AP) Governor John If. Erlckson today vetoed the bill which would have abolished the office of chancellor of the University of Montana and the state senate sustained his action. ADVERTISING AND COST CUTTING BRING SUCCESS MIAMI. Fla.. feb. 22. P) Harvey S. Firestone, the . rubber msgnste, saya newspaper advertising and cur tailment of production coat helped him conquer the panic of 1020 and pay off a debt of 4S.0O0.OO0. Speaking here last night before the committee of 100, Firestone said he owed thst sum to banks when he re turned from a visit to Europe In 1020 to find business in a slump. "I told my sales manager to go on a vacation." he aald, "then I placed full page newspaper advertisements In every city In the United State!. Within two months I sold 1B.OOO,000 to Assassinate Roosevelt ES WORK TO RELIEVE PEOPLE STARUT ONCE Hamilton Patton Offers Defi nite Program and Urges People to Support Gov ernor's Local Committee To the Editor: Since It la now the law of thla state j that there Is no obligation on the counties to pay back federal relief funds, but same are a general state obligation, I would like to make a suggestion. The governor will soon appoint a local committee to administer these funds. I cannot too strongly urge th tl njwnlM nf the ocuntv as a whole get behind this committee, and demand that work of a constructive nature be started at once. Th. iinemnloved leaders realize, as does every businessman and farmer. that a dole system Is economically unsound. They are Insisting on their -iaht in nrnvtrin shelter, food and clothing for their families. In this they are absolutely right. Tney are also tired of politics, and want occu pation, so that the present restiesa n. win subside and the community can again, get back to normal. There are five projects, on an 01 which many men can be employed through the leadership of thla new .committee. I recommend any and all of them. - i ... ' v 1. County road work, under the Jurisdiction of the county court. 3. City street work in Medford, A.hlnn1 and other cities, under the Jurisdiction of the city councils. 3. ALL the labor on the needed sewage disposal plant for the city of Medford, where of tne uncmpioyea (Continued on Page Three) OLD AGE PENSION PASSES IN HOUSE SALEM, Feb. 93. (AP) Heavy calendars faced the Oregon legisla ture instead of a vacation on Wash ington's birthday today and night sessions loomed as both nouses re sumed sessions this morning. For the sixth consecutive time in as many sessions of the state legis lature, the house or representatives late yesterday passed the old age pen sion bill. Each previous time, it was declared, the bill waa defeated In the senate. The vote waa 34 to 33 after two hours debate on the bill. The measure would provide a ?30 a month pension for persons over 68 years of age without other means of support. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Feb. 23. (AP) Oovernor Clarence D. Martin an nounced today he had signed the Eagles old age pension bill. The new law, sought unsuccessfully at many previous sessions of the leg .Mature, provides a monthly pension of not more than 30 a month to persons past 05 yesrs of age. 1 Oregon Weather. ' Rain west, with anow and rain over and east of the Cascade moun tains tonight and Thursday: moder ate -temperature; strong west winds offshore. tlrea and reduced my Indebtedness to W2.000.000. Next. I cut my expense and readjusted business. In less thsn four years I did not owe the banks anything. We must change our etti tude and concentrate on simple fun- dsmentala to Improve business. Let's make a sacrifice and help the other fellow." Charles F. Kettering of Dayton, O president of the General Motors Re search corporation, suggested that in dustry go back and study the funds' mentala of science and utilize the natlona unlimited possibilities aj step towsrd advancing to prosperous times. In Death Net r l:.v v',:. . '. ':v',.sU ,,. 3l L iV . US'"" kl William J. Moore, 24, (upper) was arrested by police In La Grande, Ore., In connection with the slaying of Harold Francli O'Connor (lower), Brooklyn, N. Y., five month after O'Connor's body was found along the Columbia high way, (Associated Prean Photos, CERMAK BETTER SAY PHYSICIANS MIAMI, Pla., Feb. 22. (P) Six physicians attending Mayor Anton J. Cermak announced In an official bulletin at 10:40 o'clock that he was "somewhat better and the colitis is the only cause for present concern." The bulletin: r "Mayor Cermak Is somewhat better thla morning. The colitis Is the only cause for present concern. We be lieve this will Improve within a short time. 'Pulse 113: temperature 101.2, and respiration 28." DEATH OF GIRL DEEP MYSTERY SEATTLE, Feb. 32. (AP) Murder and a broken romance were new theories studied today by police In' vestlgatlng the mysterious death of Mary Fltrgersld',4 Tacoma, Wash., so- clety leader. Reports by close frlenda thst tne drowned Junior lesgue president hsd been engaged to a San Francisco man but had broken off the betrothal, and other advlcea. aa yet unconfirm ed that she had been threatened re cently by a Tacoma man who had demanded the return of Jewelry he had given her were laid before off! cera. 1- Norton Assigned To Portland Duty SALEM. Feb. 22. iP The first action under house bill 108, already a law, was taken by Chief Justice Band of the Oregon supreme court today when he assigned two Judges to aslst In Justice work In Multnomsh' county, aa provided by the measure. Judge O. M. Corking of Lakevlew and Judge H. D. Norton of Medford were assigned to Portland. Before IN PACKAGE SENT U.S. Secret Service Men On Trail of Sender Shotgun Shell Crudely Wrapped and Arranged to Explode WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. AP) Secret service men were off again to day on the trail of a man who appar ently sought the life of President elect Roosevelt. - A shotgun shell, crudely wrapped and arranged bo It could explode If handled injudiciously, was found in a package In the Washington postof flce addressed to "Franklin D. Roose velt, Washington. D. C." ' It was postmarked Watcrtown, N. V., and postal authorities began an Immediate Investigation In New York. Whether they had any definite clues to the sender, they declined to say. Since the Miami incident in which five persons were wounded by Giu seppe Zangara In an attempt on the life of the president-elect, the secret service has put on extra precautions against all methods in which at tempts might be made on Mr. Roose velt's life. The shotgun shell was found when the package tumbled from a mail sack and burst open. LEAD AGAIN FOR Miss Margaret Melllng forged Into first place in the Morchants Trlbune popularity contest today with a total of 671,700 vote. Miss Melting hss made a splendid showing throughout the contest up to the present time She is closely followed by Miss Oleta Rogers with a total or 610,200 vote. A crisp five dollar bill will be presented, to the popularity contest nominee who turns in the largest number of votes during the next three days. Ballots cast after today's tabulation and up to 6 o'clock Satur day evening, February 25, will be used in determining the winner of tne cssh price. Only ten days remain until the Medford Merchants-Mall Tribune popularity event Is ended and one of the young ladles listed toeiow captures the free trip t Hawaii. Ana another fast worker In the contest will be awarded the second prise Jour ney to San Pranclsco, Cal., and Vlc- (Continued on Page Throe) E JEHOL PROVINCE By the Associated Frew. Driving westward towsrd the capi tal of Jehol, the Japanese army la re ported to have halted at Pelplao, 80 miles from the Msnchurian frontier at the terminus of the railroad from Chlnchow. ' Chinese realstance hss been Ineffectual and the lnvadera plan to sweep on to Jehol City with no.000 men operating along a 200-mlle front. At Pelplng an official Chinese an nouncement denied that Japan had cantured the town of Nanllng. hall way between the Manchurlan border and Pelplao. Neither account gave many details of the operations. Japanese dispatches from Chang chun. also In Manchuria, aald the Chinese commander of the Lupeh dis trict army hsd deserted and offered his 10,000 men to Manchukuo. Thla wss not confirmed from other sources. A spokesman at Tokyo, confirming reports of the advance thus far. aald it might be necessary eventually for the army to Install Itself at Pelplnf and Tientsin. Saturday Night 1Y BANKS HATES OF Dist. Attorney Once Forced Orchardist-Editor to Pay Honest Debt Has Been Peevish Ever Since This is the second of a series or articles written byxteorge Codding, District Attorney, fnr the purpose of contradicting certain falsehoods published hy I,. A. Hanks. The F. A. Bates Case. Banks has for many months been trying to Inflame the public about the case of F. A. Batra. While I con- aider his falsehoods regarding this case as silly and foollAh. nevertheless there may be those who' believe come ' of the falsehoods which the editor of the local morning paper has made.. He has stated that the district at torney BANISHED Bates from Jackson county. Thlf is faiso, and Banks knows It Is false. It Is made because of Banks' personal' dislike for me, and all law officers. Threat to Shoot. -Bates, an old man, had some in terest in property, a part of which mining property on Foots creek. He had been interested In It for several years. Finally he leased It to two men and they worked It on a percentage basis. One day these men-made complaint mac uaies naa tnreaienea xo snoot , them, a complaint was lodged in Judge H. D. Reed's court at Gold Hill on a very serious charge. A hearing held according to law, and Judge Reed let Bates go without ball pend ing final determination of the case, warning him to cause no mora trouble,--..'-, : - - A very short time later Bates again r rained a disturbance snd Judge Reed, ' fearing something serious might da- ' velop, issued a warrant of arrest, fixed ball and Bates was placed in tha ' county Jail. Bates had been there only a short time when, his wife and . daughter consulted Mr. Frank De- Souca, an attorney of Medford, In an . attempt to get him out. They told Mr. DeSouea that they could not fur nish ball for him, but that If they could get him released, they would send him up north where sonte rela- , tlvo would care for him. ' Liberty Arranged. Mr. DeSouea then consulted Bates and found that It would be agreeable to him. Then Mr. DeSouea, his' at torney, telephoned Judpe Reed and proposed that the Judge release him : so he could go north according to ' the suggestion of his wife and daugh- ' ter. Judge Reed agreed to the ar rangement because he had no desire to keeo the old man in inll. If ht out of trouble. Mrr DeSouea then, ' (Continued on Page Fin) WILL BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Feb. 21. Remember my old rich Injun" that I wag telling you about the government wanting him to get a divorce because he lived in Hollywood? Well, they pulled one better man tnat tne otner day. Tney tried to prove that lie wasn't in his right mind because one time when his car stalled and they couldn't get it going he traded it for an old pony, got on him and rode off and they call that crazy. If everybody did that they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for. Why, instead of prosecut ing the old Indian they ought to erect a monument to hira for being that fnr ahead of his time. Yours, Zlstl llcNautht Syndlwu, loa ROGERS
