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Mebforb Mail The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Tuesday; coler tonight. Temperature Highest yesterday 8J Lowest thli morning 41 Paid-Up Circulation People who pay for their newspapers are the beat prospecta (or the adver tlaera. A. B. C. circulation la paid up circulation. This newspaper la A. B. O. f Twenty-eighth Year MEUFOKU, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933. No. 10. c; ?EJID i 'A Comment the on Day's News BV FRANK JENKINS SUPPOSE you are a wheat farmer and that five years ago you bor row! a thousand dollars. Tou bor rowed then the approximate equiva lent of a thousand bushels of wheat. If you pay your nebt NOW, you will have to pay back about SEVEN tTOUSAND bushels of wheat. 1UVPCOE you are a cattleman, and that live ytara ago you borrowed a thousand dollars. At that time, your loan represented say half a don 1200-pound steers. H you have to pay your loan now, you will have to pay back somewhere from 20 to 35 1200-pound steers. SUPPOSE you are a worker, receiv ing common labor wages. Five yean ago a loan of a thousand dol lars would have represented some thing like 250 days' work. If you had to pay It back now, you would pay something approaching 500 days' work. rwTHESE simple Illustrations will give you an Idea of one of the big problems of read)ustment during hard times. In good tlmea, people borrow CHEAP dollara. to expand their business, or to buy -what they want, or for any other purpose for which people who have credit 'borrow money. In hard times, they have to pay back the debt. with DEAR dollara. M rTHE last hundred yeara'or so, we have made many advances In the way of uee of money and credits, do ing many thinga along these lines much more efficiently than they were done a century ago. Perhaps, in time, some smart per son will be able to work out a way to pay debts In hard tlmea with dol lara of the same value as those that were borrowed In good tlmea. Thae would aolve one of the big problems of deflation. f HERE la a little story Illustrating what happens In good times, and Illustrating also why the cost of gov ernment grows. It was told to thla writer yesterday by T. TS- Thompson, secretary of the Langell Valley Irri gation district: "A forest supervisor whom I've known for' years was telling me a whi! back that the number of re port' of various kinds required In the operation of his forest had become o numerous that he had to provide a clerk for his rangers In order to get them In on time." - A forest ranger having to have a elerk In order to get out hla reports In other words, to take care of the red tape required by government reg ulations! Imagine that, will you? THIS writer, who likes to Imagine that he la a rather busy person, used to punch a button for a stenog rapher when there was correspond ence to be answered. In these days, he finds that he can answer his own cor respondence and still get along very nicely. B.islness men make these readjust ment for themselves. Government makes them only when It Is FORCED to do so by pressure. of public-opinion, resulting 1 neconomy laws. That is why the cost of govern ment is reduced so slowly. H THE la an interesting bit of phil osophy offered by Mr. Thomp- "In the old days when money was more plentiful than now, I used to go hunlng In the northern woods T waa living back East then. W took a cook along and put on a lot of dog. "Men rich men from the big cit ies would come out to camp, and for the itrst two or three days were pret ty particular about the little niceties of city life, using napkin and a lot of forks and spoons and dishes. But In a few days they'd begin to drop back Into the ways of the woods, and one- they dropped back they never imaged the little niceties." TJ "5D TAPE, both fn prlvate busineas and In government, you see. Is one of the things that people acquire in g'od times. But when bad tlmea come along, men who are running thetr own business, and who have to find the money with which to pay their bills, stuff off the red tape Just aa naturally and esslly as really red blooded city men aluff of city ways wrien they get out into the woods and after they get used to the new (Continued on Page four) FATHER DECLARE Catspaw of Banks in Good Government Congress Or ganization Charged With Riot and Syndicalism James D. Gaddy and Earl Bryant, both of Jacksonville, who entered pleas of guilty Saturday to charges of burglary not In a dwelling In con nection with ballot theft, were re leased from the county Jail thla af ternoon. Bonds of 7500 were furn ished by each man and Mary Lerel een Bryant and C. O. Gardner, signed bonds for each. - Henrietta B. Martin, president of the so-called "Good Government Con gress" ana her ratner, u. n. urown. secretary of the organization, ireea last Saturday on bonds after a two weeks' stay In the county Jail on In dictments, thla morning filed a mo tion for a change of Judges, and affi davits of prejudice against Circuit Judge W. M. Duncan. The documents allege that the Judge I prejudiced and biased, and they cannot receive a fair and Im partial trial, and the affidavit la not made for the purpose of delay. Indicted on 2 Counts. Mrs. Martin stands Indicted on two counts, riotous and disorderly con duct In connection with her at tempted buggy whipping of Leonard Hall, editor of the Jacksonville Miner, and criminal syndicalism. Her father is Indicted on a riotous conduct, and slandering a bank charge, both being Indictable misdemeanors under Ore gon law. County Judge Earl H. Fehl, Walter J. Jones, mayor of Rogue River, John Glenn, former county Jailer and Ar thur La Dieu Friday Bnd Saturday Alto fllod affidavits of prejudice. All are Indicted for "burglary not In a dwelling." In connection with the ballot stealing on the night of Feb ruary 20. Fehl also filed a motion contending that Judge Duncan had no Jurisdiction to receive the Indict ment against him. and that the In dictment waa not returned from the proper room In the court house. To Urge New Judge Naming. Filing of an affidavit of prejudice automatically removes the presiding Judge. The state haa Indicated will urge Immediate appointment of a new Judge to expedite the trlala, and that it will seek quick action on all delaying motions and demur rers. Judge Duncan Is expected to re turn here the end of the week to hear and receive new motions in the bal lot robbery cases. It Is reported that more pleas of guilty are scheduled. Eight men Indicted in the ballot rob bery have to date entered guilty plena, and made statements concerning their rolea In the brazen and bunglcsomc crime. 4 10 BE UNPOPULAR IN THIS VICINITY L M. Sweet of Beadle, called before the county court last week, denied tn the presence of the county court, and C. T. Haines. In charge of the audit of the county books, that he had made the statement at a pub'.1; meeting recently that the "audit was nothing but a whitewash." It waa re ported to the county court by a num ber of people that the statement hsd been made. Sv.ret. active In rural political af fairs, and defeated at the spring pri mary for county commissioner, was In front of the court house, when askeo to appear before the coxint.v court. He then registered an em phatic denial. t Auditor Haines informed the court. In response to a, query, that the al leged charge was & reflection upon his reputation as a certified account ant. He repeated that he had made no report on the audit, which will not be finished unt!! a-bout June 1. It la specified in the audit con tract that no information be given exempt before the full court. County Judze Fehl a week azo. de nied strenuously that he had ss4d before meetings at Wlmer. ami at Talent, "the audit has already re vealed huge discrepancies." Auditor Haines and the county court were present at the questioning of Fehl and the official denial. For acme time past wild and sen sational rumors have been In circu- (Continued on Page Eight) WASHINGTON. April 3. (API President Roosevelt today nominated Sumner Welles, of Maryland, to be sMl.tant secretary of stat and Claude G. Bowers, of New York, to be am bawador to Spain. Relief From Farm Mortgage Load Roosevelt Aim May Succeed Lowell PA f Kenneth Dallard Murdock, Har vard professor, ia mentioned aa the possible successor to Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell -as president of Harvard. (Associated Press Photol t imoir I UNuLL .On III $7rt000IN '32 Payments of Pensions 5025 Totaled $2,619,318 for Men of Three Wars Dis ability Also Big Item PORTLAND, Ore., April 1. (AP) It cost the government more than $7,670,000 in the last fiscal year to me( payment to veterans and their dependents in Oregon, according to a Washington, D. C, dispatch to the Oregonian summarizing the matter in view of the drastic slash ordered by President Roosevelt. Of this sum 92,619.318 was paid in pensions to 5025 veterans of the Spanish -American war, the civil war, Indian wars, and widows and other dependents of theso veterans. To 3241 world war veterans in Ore gon $1,988,677 waa paid last year as compensation for disabilities. To 2470 world war veterans who claimed non -service connected disability, $470,392 was paid. Administration work in Oregon cost $804,566. the dif patch said, more than half of It going to salaried gov ernment employes. For the main tenance of the hospital and soldiers home services, $48,545 was paid. Ad justed service and dependent pay cost $17,330. 4 . MONTREAL. April 3. (AP) Art treasures valued at $500,000 were de stroyed today by fire In the home, of the late Sir William Van Home. 4 Wins Garlic Verdict Frank Clmino, farmer of Beifa bel, Cal., won a verdict of $35,500 In a Chicago court after ha charged that a cold storage concern caused 21 carload of his garlic to spoil. He's shown wearing a "wreath" of garlic (Associated Crest phoUi. GERMANY HALTS EXODUS OF Money Confiscated and Travelers Sent Home Resumption Boycott Un likely Jews Lose Jobs BERLIN. April 3 (AP) Without offering any explanation, the govern ment announced today that beginning at midnight no one will be allowed to leave German soli without special permission of the police stamped on hia passport. For several daya reports have told of an exodus of Jews in considerable number to neighboring countries. At Koenlgsberg today the authorities or dered all passports withdrawn from Jews living In East Prussia. Money Confiscated. The newspaper Taegliche Rund schau reported this afternoon that a train had been halted bypollce near Dresden to prevent "an exodus of Jews to Czechoslovakia." Consider able sums of money were confiscated, the newspaper said, but Jewish pas sengers were permitted to return to their homes In Germany. Chancellor Adolf Hitler's national socialist party apparently was satis fied today that it has dealt a stun ning. If not a knockout, blow, to what It regards as an International Jewish menace. A resumption of Saturday's nation wide boycott which paralyzed all Jew ish commercial activity was consid ered unlikely. Its announced pur pose, to force an end to the spread abroad of stories of anti-Jewish atrocities . in Germany -was believed bchicvcd. , Boycott Goes on In Spots. The nazia also had reason to be (Continued, on Page Pour) IN STATE PRISON L. A'vln Tollefson, former cashier of the closed State bank of Central Point, reported to the warden of the state prison at Salem last Friday, and was "dressed In" on that date. to serve a two years and six months sentence, for perpetration of a bank robbery hoax, on May 10 last. Word to this effect was received today by coir.ity authorities from the prison superlntendert. Tohefson went alone to the "Big Houtc " His committment papers were forwarded to the prison officials and were waiting when he arrived. It was at his own request he was allow ed to go without guard to the penl- (Contlnued on Page Eight) WHEAT ASCEND PORTLAND. Ore.. April 3 (API New high prices were made for new May and July wheat on the Portland futures market today, May advancing 1 cents a bushel to 53 cents, snd July wheat clImMng 3 rent to 54' Old May wheat gained 2'i cents for a quotation of C2'j cents. There waa a rise of a cents a bushel on all local cash wheat on the mer chants exchange. Corn, oats, hay, barley and miilrun advanced in turn. Dealers sal flour was expected to show a sharp rise later in the day or tomorrow. Sales on the wheat futures market today Included 5000 bushels new May, 4000 bushels old May and 6000 bushels of July. 30-HOUR WEEK IS WASHINGTON. April 3. ( AP) The Connery thirty hour work week bill was approved unanimously today by the house labor committee. The measure would prohibit the shipment In Interstate or foreign commerce of the products of labor employed for mora than five six-hour days a week. The bill, like the Black recently ap proved by t.he senate labor commit tee, would be. eilecttv tot two years. A RUSH FOR Thla ptcturo how soma of tha when President Roosevelt signed tha brewery. (Associated Press Photo) UNFAITHFUL WIFE BURIED ALIVE BY FILIPINO CULT MARTINEZ, Calif., April' 3. (AP) Accused of burying a young woman alive In a ceremony prescribed by their cult for unfaithful wives, eight Filipinos were held In jail here today. Authorities said others would be arrested and charged with participa tion In the horrible death of 26-year- otd Celine Novnrro, whose body was exhumed from a hidden grave on Jersey Island In the San Joaquin river yesterday. By the light of flaming torches, In vestigators reported, the young ex pectant mother was thrown Into her grave the night of last November 19 and earth shoveled over her living body. She had been accused of unfaith fulness to her sick husband when CRAZED KILLER KNIFES FOUR WOMEN AND GIRL TOLEDO, O.. April 3. (AP) An apparently crazed knlfe-wielder. who attacked four women and an 11-year-old girl, waa hunted relentlessly by police today. They expressed the belief the man, who was described by hts victims as about 30 years old, had been smoking cigarettes filled with narcotics. The girl and one woman victim reported a peculiar odor about his person. The manner In which he fled as soon aa his victims screamed added to the evidence that the man waa FILLS HIGHWAYS; With the advent of spring weather, many motorists took to the highways yesterday, and state police officers on patrol reported more cars on tne main thoroughfares than any day for several weeks. The temperature, ac cording to the federal weather bu reau, reached 83 degrees Sunday, and the sunshine drew many out. As a result of the heavy traffic, an automobile accident involving two cars, was reported at the overhead bridge near Tolo on the Pacific high way shortly before 3 o'clock. Mrs. Hayman, wife of the Presbyterian minister of Grant Pass was seriously injured, and was taken to the neigh boring city by an ambulance from Grants Pass. Names of others in volved In the crash were not avail able In Med ford. A large crowd of motorists gath ered at the scene, and congested traffic for s short time. W. E. Chartrow of 413 Arcadia, was reported to have suffered severe cuts as a result of an accident some time Saturday night, at the Bybee corner on the Jacksonville highway. The car he was driving was badly dam aged, officers stated. K. P. McFarland of Tacoma report ed colliding with an automobile reg istered to A. K. Cass, of Orants Pass. Branch Bank Planned. PORTLAND. April 3. (AP) Pur chase by the First National Bank of Portland of the Oregon State Bank on 42nd and Sandy boulevard, waa announced by the big Portland Insti tution yesterday. The Oregon State bank will be operated as a branch. with A. A LeMg, Its cashier since 1027, as manager. BEER JOBS YES, IN thousands of Milwaukee cltlzena who rushed to the breweries for Job beer bill. It waa necessary to call police to keep traffle clear at tills brought before a meeting of the Ka-laya-an-Marle-Clara earlier the? same night In Redmen's hall In Stockton. Her husband, who has since died, was ready enough to forgive her, but the woman members of the cult demand ed her death. Mrs. Novarro was bound and gag ged, police continued, and carried by automobile to Jersey Island, where two Filipino laborers were roused from bed to dig the grave. While men members of the cult held torches .women hurled Mrs. Novarro into the grave and death. And into her face they. threw a purse containing $130 she was accused of stealing from her husband's brother. ; (Continued on Pago Eight) under the influence of narcotics, po lice said. Mrs. Charles Jacobs waa the wo man stabbed. She told police the man leaped upon her as ahe walked past an alley in the downtown sec tion last night. She felt a blow in the back as he snatched at her purse, but was not aware that she had been cut until she ran Into the home of a friend. Hos pital physicians said she would re cover, although the knife had cut deeply. The 11-year-old girl was attacked In an alley a few blocks away, SLAYER OF YREKA IViEN FACES TRIAL YREKA, Cal., April 3.--P) Jeorge Hall who has admitted to officers that he participated in the kidnaping of e L. Balllnger, customs agent of Beli;nyham, Wash.,' went on trial here today charged with killing High way Patrolman Steve Kent and Les ter Qulgley, sn automobile salesman. Th men were shot March 10 on M 1 nr street, here when Kent at tempted to arrest Hall for the Bal llnger kidnaping. Balllnger was tak en from Belllngham and brought to s place near Hilt, Calif., where he wad handcuffed to a tree. Hr.ll was using Balllnger's gun, of ficers said, when the fight started, resulting in the death o fthe two men WASHINGTON, Apr. 3. (,7V--Plans to put the first recruit of the for est conservation corps at work In na tional forests by April 15 were drawn today st a conference of regional chle's of the 17. S. forest service. Mnjor R. Y. Stuart, head of the ser vice, directed the reglon.it foresters to picpare date for presentation lat er in the day showing the exact pro jects that may be started by that dat and the number of men needed to execute each. Many of the projects planned for the summer can not be started by mid -April because ot mouaUiu snows. MILWAUKEE PASSAGE OF FARMERS' RELIEF By PA IX MALl.ON. (Copyrighted by McClure Newspaper Sydnlcnte.) WASHNGTON, April 3. It may be denied for political reasons but It Is nevertheless true that two Demo crat le congressional leaders tried to talk Mr, Roosevelt out of the farm bill it few days back. ' Senate Leader Robinson and his lieutenant Pat Harrison called at the White House for that purpose. Later they were followed by Republican Leader McNary. They all warned of the dangers of price-fixing legisla tion. They urged him to espouse a farm mortgage relief bill and let It go at that. Mr. Roosevelt consulted ibis farm advisers. They were half willing but the organization farm leadera were not. They Insisted that the president go through with his original plan of trial and error. That is the reason you have the farm bill In Its present shape. You can bank on the measure be ing given a conservative adminis tration. Agriculture Secretary Wallace hi already passed that word down the line to i.he boys In the congressional trenches. The authentic whisper is that what he has in mind is use of the allotment plan on wheat and cotton; use of the acreage tensing plan on corn, f these work other stunts wilt be tried later, A The Democrats are socretely scout ing for scandal In the Interior de part. Employees have been warned to hold their tongues. Verbal orders were Issued to permit no resignations until the files can be completely checked. nterlor Secretary Ickes will not ssy what he Is up to. Insiders there noted that Investi gators were concentrating on the In dian bureau files relating to power sites. They thtnk they have some thing that will make page one news shortly. There were no shennsnlgans con nected with the graceful way those congressional revolters washed out on their fig.hts against the farm bill and reforestratlon. No prlws were offered; no throats cut. It wan simply a case of too much Roosevelt. The boys could not stand up against him. The country knew (Continued on Page Four) FARMTlLEY Hne-iW!d lntreat In Rogue River vally property and In Medford as a home alt was noted thla morning In D:all rlvl by the local chamber of commerce. In Uie mall were three requtaU for information regarding farn available, three reoueats from peraona. wishing to locate tn Medford, a letter from an attorney, seeking lo cation In Medford and another from a pl.yalctsn and aurgeon, who plans to n me to thla city. fl:lll another letter announced that a party of between 100 and 1.10 peo pH would like to Tlalt southern Ore goa this coming summer Just to look the country over. Information rela tive to their particular Interests will be forwarded In response to all the I luqultlea. PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST SHIFT ARE PROPOSALS President Soon to Propose Extension to Debt-Burdened Owners of Small Homes-Tariff Plan Next WASHINCITON, April 3. (AP) President Roosevelt recommended to congress today the onactment of leg islation authorizing refinancing of farmers Indebtedness. Beginning his fifth White House week with the dispatch of his sev 'nth message to the legislators, the H.raiaenc opened the way for Inclu sion of this latest major plan a an amendment to the farm relief bill In the senate. Applying on farm mortgages, the message proposed both readjustment of the principal of the farmera debta and a reduction of Interest rates. Ultimate Ownership Hope He also proposed "a temporary re adjustment of amortltatlon, to glva sufficient time to farmers to restore to them the hope of ultimata frea ownership of their own land." ' The president said he would soon propose an extension of this program to the debt burdened owners of small homes. H also disclosed ha would ask congress soon for legislation permit- ting the Initiation of reciprocal tar Iff amendments. "The legislation I suggest," said the president, "will not Impose a heavy burden upon the national treasury." JAIL BETTERTHAN POOR FARM LIFE SALEM. April 3. AP) The county Jail waa found to be "much preferred, as a home to the poor farm." tha Marlon county grand Jury reported Saturday night. Sanitary conditions at tho Institu tion were rapped in the report whlcn stated "there are holes in the floors and plastering. The walla are filthy and tn need of paint. The beds and bedding are unsanitary. The wife of the auperlntendent advised that bed buga and other vermin infeat tha building . . . the building la a virtual fire trap." Criticism waa also mads of the meals served tho 19 Inmates. A recent grand Jury Investigation iea to a cleanup and better condi tions at the county Jail. HGLMAN HOME: SAYS AS USUAL SALEM, April 3. (API Rufua C. Holman, state treasurer, returned to hla desk at the state cspltol today from hla ten-day trip to southern Csllfornla and northern Mexico to find, he aatd, "nothing but routine matters on my desk." Holman stat ed he had found nothing unusual or disturbing had occurred to necessi tate his personal presence here. "I haven't found what all the fusa about my going away on a short va cation trip, ordered by my physlcan. nns ocen, ,ie sain. CRONEMILLER AIDS IN FOREST JOB PROGRAM SALEM, April 3. ( AP) Repres enting dovernor Julula L. Meier, State Forester Lynn P. Cronemtller left last night for Washington. D. C to attend the conference called by the secretary of agriculture for April 6 to consider a program for carrying out provisions of the un employment relief bill passed by con gress, INDIANS FILE PROTEST AGAINST E. B. MERITT WASHINGTON. Aprlt S. m President Roosevelt today received a telejfram from representatives of ths Menominee Indian tribe of Wiscon sin and the Klamath tribe of Ore gon protesting appointment of K. B. Mentt as commissioner of Indian af fairs. JUMP THROUGH WINDOW SAVES WOMAN'S LIFE WOODBURN. April 3. MV-With one arm palhfully burned, Mrs. Oer triK'.e E. Adama Jumped through a wlnt'ow when she awoke and found her house afire here early yesterday morning. Her other arm waa severely bruited when she fall. Sen hsd been aaleerp In a chair awaiting word of funeral arrangements for her deceas ed, Husband. I 0 Err-;; :.K . 1