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MEDFOKU, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933.
No. 28
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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-
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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