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MEUFOKU, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933.
No. 10.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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
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Kenneth Dallard Murdock, Har
vard professor, ia mentioned aa the
possible successor to Dr. Abbott
Lawrence Lowell -as president of
Harvard. (Associated Press Photol
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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. ;
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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,
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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
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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.
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