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MEDFOKD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1933.
No. S.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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, 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."
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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-
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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
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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
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