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edford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Saturday. except cloudy at timet. Not much change In temperature. Highest yesterday 62 Lowest this momlnjj 34 Paid-Up Circulation Fopl who pay for tbeir newspapers are the best prospect for the adver tisers. A. B. C. circulation Is paid up circulation. This newspaper Is A. B. C. Twenty-eighth Year MEDFOKD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1933. No. S. M 11 M JEffl Comment the on Day's News Bv FRANK JENKINS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT asks con gress to provide federal supervi sion of Investment securities that Is to say, to regulste the stock mar ket nd the. transactions centering around the stock market. Thus the government lays its hands upon business at another point. BUT don't overlook this fact: Gov ernment regulation of 1 nvest m.nt securities follows ABUSES of purely private handling of Investment securities. If It had not been for tficse abuses, there would be no government regu lation. PUTTING it In another way. pri vate business INVITES govern ment regulation when It permit abuses to grow up and flourish. That I a good thing to remember. SALARIES of all government em ployees, high and low, are to be reduced a maximum of 15 per cent, beginning on Saturday of this week. The reduction la ordered by Presi dent Roosevelt, under the powers re cently granted to him by congress. It la expected to save about 100, 000,000 a year. yirE ARE fond of talking reduction W of coat of government. We are not so fond of the reduction when It actually appears, for reduc ing costs of government Involves cut ting wages and doing away with Jobs. Try, don't like to see that. But we have to remember that the only way In which costs can be re duced la to spend less money, and personal service that Is to say, wages snd salaries Is the big Item In cost of government. Minx reduction announced by 1 the Preeldent.aniount to max imum of 18 per cent. At the same time, he points out that alnoe the last half of 1938 the cost of living has dropped 31.7 per cent. So. you see. those whose wsges have been reduced are really better off than they were In 1928-assumlng, of course, that the figures showing reduction In the cost of living are accurate. We are engaged Just now In the r..ju. of scaling down from the In flation that followed the war. It Is a painful process. But alter w. get It all over with, and get started again on the new basis, we are going ii.h it that Instead of being ruined we are really Just as well off a. we were before perhaps even trifle better. .MtnaTftgMH nnrt senators, along I with other employees, are affect ed by the wage cut. They are get ting 810.000 a year now, and after the reduction will get 88500 a year. Those of us who earn less than 88500 a year which Includes most of us, as salaries of that size are ex ceedingly rare In these days-think It Is plenty. But we don't want to make the mistake of paying our congressmen snd senators so little that only rich men can afford to take the Jobs. That Isn't our Ideal at all. THE salary of the President Isn't affected by the cut, for reducing the salary of a President while he Is ' In office is forbidden by the consti tution. That is to prevent an un friendly congress from punishing a President It doesn't like by reducing his pay. President Hoover voluntarily re mitted back to the government 20 per cent of ,hl salary of 815.000 a year. President Roosevelt wlU doubt- 1 leas do likewise. 1 FEDERAL Judges, also, are exempt under the constitution from re duction of their salaries but, of course, they can voluntarily remit back to the government a part of their pay. SHtiLlTlLOnillS TREE AT CORNiNG FIELD BAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 31. 71 The Shell oil comps ..' reported here today a company plane piloted by Jamea A. Macresdv. former star avi ator of the army, developed ignition trouble In taking off at Cornlr.z. Cal . today, struck a tree and n.a!ned 4im to a Kim. company offw lla sid Mc-esdy ' h""1'- H" was riving trcm Portland, Ore., to 6n Francisco on coxpany business. 1 . GERMANY MOVES rAn 10 HALT TIE-UP T Last Minute Interference Be lieved to Indicate One Day Will be All Govt. Will Allow for Disturbance BERLIN, March 31. (AP) A na tionwide boycott against the Jews will start as scheduled at 10 o'clock to morrow momtng. will continue for one day, and then will be called off until Wednesday. It was announced tonight. The government moved at the laai minute to minimize the effects of the boycott by ordering that It be one day'a duration only, after which It would be suspended until Wednesday. Meantime, observers professed to see In this action a tacit order to abandon the boycott plans after one day.. Up to the last minute the govern ment withheld all Indications that any interference was planned, but it had been known for several days that considerable pressure had been brought to bear on the government to Intercede In an effort to prevent disturbance of the country's business life. ' particularly' In this spring sea son when ordinarily considerable mer chandise should be moved. BERLIN, March 31. ( AP) Nazi storm troopers today cleared Berlin law courta of Jewish Judges and at torneys. Among those ousted was Chief Jus. tlce Kurt Soelllng. Jewish brokers decided not to go to buslneps tomorrow. The Wolff news bureau said that In the town of Annaberg shoppers coming out of Jewish stores were held up by Nazi pickets who pasted upon their forheads stamps reading: "We traitors bought from Jews." Ending a 60-year tradition. Jewish I directors of Rudolph Karstadt fc Co. operating department stores In, Ham burg and Berlin, have resigned. Other Jews in key positions also stepped out, ostensibly leaving the company's affairs entirely in t,he hands of non Jews. No Retreat Seen Reports from the United States that Chancellor Hitler's Nazi party might be persuaded at the last min ute to refrain from launching Its drastic economic war on Jewry to morrow seemed only to add fuel to the fire today. A new proclamation defined the action as the beginning of & war on the entire Jewish race of the world. A party declaration said It will be fought "until victory is ours." The Jews, their backs to the wall as their last appeals for mercy fell on deaf ears, have visualized their financial mln and ultimate isolation from German cities and towns. Such elaborate plans were being made for the beginning at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, of the nation wide boycott on all businesses and professions conducted by Jews, and even Christian Jews, that there was no apparent loophole left for retreat. Flood or propaganda But there was no tendency In that direction as propaganda was poured through every available channel to stir up national feeling against what the Nazis called the international conspiracy of Jewry. Chancellor Hitler old battle cry that "Jews and the stock exchanges started the world war" was revived in today's proclamation Issued by the central boycott committee. "Judah Is stabbing Germany in the back with the same methods It em ployed to perpetrate the criminal world war. Again Judah is at work calumniating the German people ss Huns and barbarians," said the proc lamation. Reports from the United States that the boycott would be called orr were cited in the press. The news paper Angrlff, edited by Joseph Goeb- bels, the new minister or propaganda In the Hitler cabinet, seemed partic ularly irritated by these reports. "In some sections of the American press, Germany's counter measures are being answered by a renewed de mand for a boycott of German goods,' It said. Tomorrow's boycott was planned to punish German Jews for (Continued on Page Nine) 4 Suit was filed this afternoon in Justice court by J. A. (Arthurl Ia Dieu against L. A. Banks, for 1250. allcjtrdly due for wage while acting as business manager of the News, whet, the morning paper was under til-' control or Banks. A writ of attachment, with Electa A. feht as surety, accompanied the complaint. The writ did not specify what waa to be attached. LaDleu Is under Indictment for ballot theft, snd . at liberty on 17500 bom's furnished by Prof. C. Fns l ardi. Mr. Clara ifeSlcy Smith snd Mrs. A. Finn. RUTH JUDD SAWS AS EXECUTION FLORENCE. Ariz., March 31. (AP) Warden A. G. Walker said today Winnie Ruth Judd, sentenced to hang April 31 in the "trunk murder" case, cut through a bar of her cell at the state prison here about three weeks ago. using a saw "given her by her brother," Burton McKinnell. Warden Walker said Mrs. Judd was discovered one night he had forgot ten the exact date In the act or sawing through the bars. Asked what she was doing. Warden Walker said, she replied she "wanted to be ready If she had an opportunity to escape." The warden said a guard was on duty at the time and discovered Mrs. Judd sawing the bars. Guards are maintained over her cell day and night now, he said. He said she had "not really attempted to escape." The warden said all information he had on the matter had been turned over to County Attorney Will C. Tru man. Truman was not In Florence today, but Charles H. Reed, deputy county attorney, said that so far as he knew no warrant had been Issued for McKinnell, although an investiga tion has been made. Sheriff Walter H. Laveen of Pinal county, also was absent from the city today, but Deputy Sheriff 'W. W. Cochran said no warrant (or the ar rest of anyone in connection, with the nffnlr had been received at that of fice. E State police were searching through the Oak Grove section west of Med ford late this afternoon for a tramp, who allegedly attempted kidnaping and accosting Alice May Brill, 7-year-old daughter of S. E. Brill of Perry dale, when she waa returning from the Oak Grove school. The little girl, accompanld by sev eral schoolmates, was able to free herself from the man after he had carried her one-fourth mile down the railroad tracks. One of the class mates rushed back to the. school and informed the teacher of the at tempted attack. The teacher rushed to the scene but the man had fled. Resldens of the district, aroused by the brazen attempt of the tran sient, were Joining police in the search, report from the Oak Grove service station revealed. The child, the station proprietor stated, was "luckily unhurt." FREE FEED TEST A complete list of winners of the Nopco XX Free Feed Test campaign which was conducted for poultry raisers by the Mail Tribune were an nounced today. First and second place were won by Mrs. R. E. Carley, route a, Med ford: and Lizzie Wolga mott, Talent. Other prize winners are: A, E. Walker, Talent; B. J. Pal mer, route 3, Medford; and C. H. Schritt, route 1, Medford. 2,000 pounds of feed containing Nopco XX will be given the winners. Hundreds of poultry raisers from all over the Rogue River valley wrote letters telling of the remarkable re sults obtained by using Nopco XX in their poultry feed. Feed stores re port that the test by actual feeding has unquestionably contributed to ths betterment of poultry flocks In tht vicinity. The winners of the Nooeo XX free feed test purchased their Nopco feedrs from the following local deal ers: Monarch Seed and eFed company Medford; Mutual MH1 and Seed com pany Medford: F. E. Samson, Med ford; Morton Milling company. Med ford and the Ashland Mills In Ash land. 4- ' WASHINGTON, March 31. (AP) The navy today Instructed all navy yards and stations to continue civilian employes on the present five-day week basts until the office o fthe compt roller gnert rules on whether the .iis run b continued under the 15 per cent pay reduction. Basketball Stars Winnie S' ALL Extensive plans are being made by sponsors of the local mining school to gain access to deeded land, open ing up a larger area to be worked by the men now in training, It was announced today. In the interest of this goal, E. H. Hedrlck, superinten dent of schools, Dr. J. F. Reddy and R. L. Shurtleff of the Southern Ore gon Mining association visited the Applegate, Griffin creek and Gold Hill areas. Places have already been engaged at Gold Hill for the mining activities and It Is hoped more land In the Applegate district will be opened to the small miners. ' Prospecting Is underway near Gold Hill today to de termine the amount of pay dirt. The same program Is under way at Griffin Creek. Most of the land, containing gold In paying quantities, Is deeded prop erty. Men prospecting this land, it was pointed out by the committee todsy. do not harm It In any way and many times open up ledges and veins exposing Important quantities of gold, to be worked later by larger concerns. The Buckley property, now operated by von der Hellen was used today to lllusvrute this point. The property was first worked by small concerns, individuals who opened the way to the major activities now underway there. Anyone with property, which could be opened up to the miners Is asked to communicate with Superintendent Hedrlck or the mining association, as the demand for more workable dirt Is Increasing each day. Because of the water shortage, now developing, ground in the proximity of streams is especially desirable. About 25 students of the mining school were sent Into the mountains today to gain actual experience in prospecting. In the class were two women. The project under way here has been made possible by the federal government to aid In the solving 01 the unemployment problem. The ! county donated ISO to the cause and the Medford schools and the South ern Oregon Mining association are sponsoring the school. SIX MEET DEATH IN PATHWAY OF TORNADO MERIDIAN. Miss., March 31. (AP) Six persons were roprfd killed and more than a score injured by a tor nado which struck shortly after noon todsy at Harmony, near Quitman. Doctors and ambulances were started for h-re and Harmony with medical supplies. BARS LOOMS V , , S Ruth Judd. PLEAS OF GUILTY Jwpli Bass and Yawrence Stewart, arrested here last fall by the state police, for attempted swindling of Jackson, Josephine, Douglas and Coos county residents out of bonds,' are now ser v i ng terms in Sa n Q ue n t i n prison. They entered pleas of guilty to attempted grand theft by forgery at Stockton, Cal., early this week. The state police.' through its local office, trailed the pair from Seattle, Wash., to Red Bulls, Cal., and a con slder&ble portion of the evidence used against them was collected by the state police. Bms and Stewart were suave young men and the latter bears a facial likeness to the Prince of Wales. ; , Coa, Development and Oregon-Washington Water bonds, and agreed to purchase them, with an at tractlv money premium. After ar ranging the deal they would tele phone the bond owner that they had been called away but would send messenger with a certified check for the bonds. The certified check was spurious. A number of residents of this city, Grants Pass, Marsh field and Rose burg were approached by the pair, but none lost his bonds. ST. LOUIS, March 31, (AP) The Missouri Pacific railroad company to day filed In federal court a petition for reorganization to prevent a celvershlp, stating it owed 40, 580.330 due tomorrow and within thirty days and was without funds to pay the obligations. The petition, so far a known here, was the first filed under the new federal bankruptcy law, designed to give railroads a "breathing spell' without the requirements of receiver. ships. NEGROES LOSE MOVE TO POSTPONE TRIAL DECATUR. Am , March 31. (AP) Judge James E. Morton, presiding in Morgan circuit court today, denied a defense motion to quash the venire for the trial of Heywood Patterson. 19-year-old Chattanooga negro, -accused of participating 'with eight other negroes in an attack on two white girls near fckotteboro, Ala., two years ago. in Death Plane MAY BE SEEN IN FIRST IT DAYS 'ortland Wholesalers Say Orders Exceed Old Days by Far Western Brew Worth About $2.60 Case PORTLAND. Ore., Mar. 31. (AP) A survey of the wholesale district here indicated today that advance orders for beer received by wholesale dealers have exceeded by far any pre war orders over a similar period of time. Sales have been equally heay to country and city stores. One firm said it had orders for more than five carlouds. Trie best eastern brew Is quoted around 93 to $3.10 wholesale per rase of two dozen 12-ounce bottles. Wes tern beer Is around 2.60 per case. Although April 7 is the day beer may be sold, it appeared today every person who wantA to buy It on that date may not be altogether satisfied. A heer shortage loom. The Blitz-Wei nhard company, the only brewery operating here now, said today the supply will be limited April 7 and regular production will (Continued on Page Nine) BIGGER BOTTLE OF INAL LE WASHINGTON, March 31. (API President Roosevelt Is leaving to his secretaries of war and navy the prob lem of the sale of beer with the un derstanding that it will not be sold at the naval academy or on the war ships. The secretaries are definitely un derstood to sanction the sale of the new brew In army and navy canton ments, Their decision is assumed to have the approval of the president. WASHINGTON, March 31. (AP) President Roosevelt today signed the Copeland-Cellar medicinal liquor bill removing restrictions on the amount doctors may prescribe. The legislation puts up to the treas ury and Justice department the fix ing of regulations under which fu ture permits for liquor may be al lowed by physicians. The present restriction, one pint of whiskey in 10 days for a patient and one quart of wine In the same period, la abolished. The act waa sponsored by the American Medical aasocatlon and passed through congress without any difficulty. . The elaborate prescription system under which physicians have been forced to report each pint with the name of the patient and data on the aliment being treated, will be done away with and federal stamps will be used Instead. NEEDED FOR BARS NEW YORK. Mar. 81. OP) Edward A. Deeds, chairman of the National Casn Register company, announced today that all the company's manu facturing unite at Dayton, Ohio, would resume full time operation on Monday. The announcement said the order affects 3,800 employes who have, been working half-time. .Deeds said that, the tooling and engineering departments had been working on a series of new models, among which were registers "design ed particularly for use In connection wit hthe retailing of beer." FOR SALES TAX PLAN SALEM, March 31. (AP) A dele gation of Eugene business men, rep resenting the Eugene chamber of commerce, called upon Governor Julius L. Meier today to pledge sup port to the sales tax program. E. G. Harlan, manager of the Eugene chamber of commerce told the governor that while Lane county was third tn population, It had more granges than any other. He said fur ther that he believed about 7fl per rent of the farmer population would vote for the sales tax. 6 , 9 HURT WHEN TRI-MOTOR TO EA Canadian Toilers Champions of Dominion, in Disaster Enroute Home After Series With Tulsa Titlists NEODBSHA. Kans., Mar. 31. fl) A t"!-motored airplane plunged from the tky to a sodden Kansas meadow todai, killing six members of a party of championship Canadian basketball players and bringing critical injury to the remaining nine passengers. The Henri. A. II. link, Mlnm-npolh, ntln. IT. E pl'ot. Kggens, Minneapolis. co- Jack II. O'Brien, owner of the plane. Minneapolis, Mike Shen. hnskethall plnver. Joe llortdft, hnketbnll plnver. K. H. Ronynee. Minneapolis. business representative of learn. Other persons on the plane: The Injured. Colonel A. C. Sampson, personal representative of the mayor of Win- j nipeg believed dying. George Wilson, manager of the team believed dying. Lauder Phillips, player, cut. Al Sllverthorn. player, broken arms and legs. Bruce Dodds. player, internal In jur: and broken bones. Hugh Penwarden, player, condition critical. Iin Wooley. player, badly Injured. Andy Brown, player, Injuries un determined. The plane at. 7 a. m. left Tulsa. OkV. where the Canadian team had lost two games of an International basketball series to the Tulsa Dia mond Oilers, United States amateur champions. The series was to be continued In Winnipeg next month, It flew low over Neodesha and crashed on a tank farm of the Sin clair OH company about five miles north of here at 8:38 a. m. Observers her- said the big trl-motored all metal plane appeared to be experi encing motor trouble and that one wing was low. Silverthorne, a member of the team. said he was sitting in the rear of the passenger cabin when the pilot turned his head, and over his shoul der remarked: "I'm having trouble with the mo tor. I'm going to have to land. Everybody watch out." (Continued on Page five) FOREST JOB PLAN WILL BE DRAFTED AT CONFAB APR. 6 WASHINGTON, March 31. (;P) Governors of the 48 states were ask ed to send representative to Wash ington for a conference, April 9. to shape a program of cooperation with the Roosevelt forest -conservation -em ployment program, enacted Into law earlier in the day by. the signature of the President. The call was Issued by Secretary Wallace after conference with Major R. Y Stuart, chief U. S. forester, map ping plans for the use of part of the term of thousands of men the Presi dent contemplates placing at work on forest projects. Regional foresters of the federal service will meet today. WASHINGTON, March 3i. (P) President Roosevelt and senate agri culture committee members today sat down together around a conference table at the White House executive offices for a thorough discussion of the administration farm relief bill over which the committee la divided. PUTS DOWN REVOLT MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay. Mar. 31 (VP) President Gabriel Terra disaolved parliament by decree today and as sumed dictatorial powers. , Rumors that his government had been overthrown spread through the city, but they proved groundless. He ordered the arrest yesterday of every member of the administrative council, which share the executive power in this country, and today po lice sought to carry out that order despite a congres!onal resolution di recting the pmMent to "abandon these extra legal methods." RECOGNIZE RUSSIA FIRST-NEGOTIATE LATER - FJ. TOLO Soviet Officials Resent Idea of Trade Commission Visit Before Official Relations With U. S. Are Renewed Copyrighted by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. By PAIL MAI.I.ON WASHINGTON. March 31. Mr. Roosevelt Indirectly sounded out the Russians not long ago on sending a trade commission over there. The Idea was that the step would be a prelude to Russian recognition. The Russlnna politely held up their red noses. They sent back word that they would like to be treated as otner nations are no more, no less. To be Investigated prior to recognition would be an Insult they thought. That delayed the steps Mr. Roose velt had expected to take soon after ha came Into office. It will not change his purpose. After that development Mr. Roose velt called on a certain Russian ex pert for advice. The expert said: The thing to do Is to anoolnt an ambassador to Russia. Let him carry negotiations about the csarlst debte and the other things. Recog- (Contlnued on Page Eight) E THESPIANS TAKE CONTEST HONORS CORVALMB. Ore.. March 31 (AP) : Th dramatic group of th Phoenix Orange of Jackson county won the tR,t championship In the one-act play contest sponsored here Inst night by the Oregon conference for student home Interests. The Jackson county players won a two to one decision over the Irving Orange players of Lane county, and became poasessom of the Marls cup for 1933. A third community group from River Rond, Lane county, presented a play, but waa not In the competition. Sessions' of the three-day confer ence continued today and will be concluded tomorrow with a apeclal' meeting of home economics teachers. Representatives of all co-operating or. ganlnttlons such as the State Federa tion of Women's duos and the state Parent-Teacher association, will meet tonight to consider co-ordinating their efforts In Oregon home better ment. RAILROAD LEADERS TO TALK WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, March 31. (AP) A conference of leaders In the rail road Industry Including labor and executives was called today by Presi dent Roosevelt to meet with him at the White House tomorrow to con sider emergency rail legislation. WILL ROGERS "sls-lVC r$ays: SANTA MONICA, Cal., Mar. 30. liper is supposed to be coining. From what I can read from all the states, nobody knows who is going to sell it, whore you arc supposed to get it, what it will cost or wliHt it will tnste like. The whole thing come up so ipiirk that the boys can't hard ly arrange how the graft will be distributed. All but New York. Tammany Hall, of course, got the privilege there. I tell you what I will lay you a bet on. I bet they mess tin thing up so that it. will do away with the passing of the real prohibition amendment. The whole country is buying a blind horse. Suppose this stuff don't taste like we think it will. Yours L $1111 McNauf el 8jfs1te. lae ma
