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L TR73XJN The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Saturday. Not much change In temperature. Temperature Hlfhest yesterday 17 Lowest this morning 88 Paid-Up Circulation People who pay for their newspapers are the best prospects (or the adver tisers. A. B. C circulation la paid up circulation. This newspaper Is A. B. C. MEDFOUD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 14. 1933. Twenty-eighth Year Xo. 20. mi Medford Mai E mmm so - i CTS- . Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS COMMODITY values. Including wheat, rubber and cotton, climb, prices on the New York stock ex change rise sharply, buying orders pouring in from all over the coun try. And the American dollar BELLS OFF. H WHAT does It all mean? The answer la s plain " th" 5 note on your lace. People are be tomlng convinced that we are In for an era of inflation, and are discour aging it In advance. ... FIRST, aomeone may ask, Just what la Inflation? Take In your hand a half hozen little rubber balloons, such as tfie .hiwren may with. They won't look Vke much, In their deflated state. Now put them to your mouui. w after another, and INFLATE them. They will atlll be the same bal loons, after they are Inflated, but they will LOOK like a lot more. to OUT on the porch, when the and bring In milkman comes, .,. nunrt bottle of milk. Bay to yourself. "It doesn't look Tery big." ..So pour half of It Into another quart bottle, and then fill BOTH of them to the top with water. You will still have the aame amount of milk, but It will LOOK like a lot more. INFLATION, reduced to It simplest terms, is motviwa e- LIKE MORE. In the case of the balloon, you made them look like more by put ting air lntd them. In the case of milk, you made It look like more by putting water Into It. In the case of money, govern ments make It look like more- by Issuing more of It against the SAME AMOUNT of .gold. U A HA I" you say: "so this business of Inflation were hearing so much about la Just a matter of kid ding ouraclvea. like the cow that put en green spectacles and made her ,elf think excelsior was good alfalfa yt" Well fundamentally that la true. By thinning out our money, we make ourselves think we have more of It. although in reality we haven't. It just "looks like more. But Inflation, which In the begin ning really amounts to nothing more than kidding ourselves, has some very interesting result as It goes along. So let us proceed now to examine tome of these result. YOU have noted In the papers that because people believe inflation la coming PRICES ARE RISING. Why la that? Here la the answer: Because In flated money, la worth leas, people tay to themselves: "I must iiave more of thta less valuable money In ex change for the THINGS I have to sell." so people who have THINGS to ell ak more for them. BUT merely asking a higher price doesn't get it. Before you can get higher prices for what you have to sell you must find aomeooay win ing to pay higher prices. Why does inflation make people willing to pay more? It works like this: If you feel that your money la going to be worth less, vou want to get rid of It, get ting In exchange for It something you want and can use. When everybody wants to get rid of money before the value of It goes down there are more buyers than sellers, and when there are more buy ers than sellers PRICES RISE. With prkes rising, people hasten to buy atlll more before they rise farther. AND ftere Is still ANOTHER result of Inflation: When It come to paying debts, a dollar la a dollar, whether it contalna 100 cent worth of gold or whether It has been t'llnned down until Its gold content Is considerably lea than 100 cent. So. you see. If BEFORE INFLA TION you borrowed a dollar contain ing 100 cent worth of gold you can pay back the debt with a dollar con taining LESS than 100 cent worth of gold. That make It easier for debtors to pur their debts. (Continued oa Fig FINAL 1RD FROM Banks VALLEYHARVEST Telegram From Steiwer to Meier Says Production, Picking, Packing Advance On Estimated Yield 0. K. PORTLAND, April 14. (AP) Pear growers of Oregon, particularly those in the Rogue River valley, had reason to be pleaaed today at the prospects of receiving loana of up to 80 cents a box on estimated production. Governor Meier last night received a telegram from Senator Steiwer an nouncing that the 80-cent limit had been approved. The telegram said "Ford Hovcy of the reconstruction finance corporation has filed a wire to the Portland office, regional agri cultural credit corporation, that the Portland committee (chairman. Edgar B. Sensenlch, vice-president or me United Statea National bank) will have full authority to grant produc tion, picking, packing loans to Ore gon pear producers with or without additional collateral as may be re quired. All peBr loa PPllctlon exceeding (15,000 must, as heretofore, be referred to Washington. D. C." Paul C. Bates, chairman of the agri cultural committee of the Portland chamber of commerce, conferred here today with several pear growera from Medford. He said the favorable ac tion In Washington. D. C was due largely to the efforts of Dr. William Schoefeld, director of the state ex- perlment station of Oregon State college. Bates satd the loan increase "will insure the production in 1B33 of 4000 carloads of winter pears In the Rogue River valley that could not otherwise be grown." - W. Ervle Williams, neao oi vm local branch of the regional agricul tural corporation, had not at noon today, received Hovey's telegram of amended instructions mentioned by Senator Steiwer. Previous Instructlona had set a limit of 55 cents a box on production loans. Col. Gordon Voorhela and Paul Scheror, who are In Portland in con nection with effort to secure tne federal relief mentioned above, are expected to return to Medford to morrow with full details of the loan requirements. Suit for 16275 was filed in circuit court thla afternoon by John F. Wat son of this city against the Pacific Mutual Insurance Company of Cali fornia. Tfte suit is for money allegedly due on an Insurance policy payable at the rat of 15 and 100 per month. Wataon sued the Insurance com pany for 15900 two years ago and an award la now pending on an appeal to the aupreme court. The ault to day la for the paymenta accruing since the appeal. Watson sets forth in his action that in February, 1828, he contracted Infleunza and Is now suffering from the after effect. It Is admitted that that the Insurance company paid the montiy allowances up to August. 1029. and then ceased. Under the terms of the policy, Wat son was to receive 250 per month. Attorney Don R. Newbury appear as counsel for Watson in both ac tions. A decision from the atat su preme court I expected at an early date. BIG TURNOUT FOR A large turnout Is anticipated to- mftf-rnw at. th Rmni V11V Golf fnr h. iTn.ld. Down" tour- nament, throughout which the par- tlclpant will play the course back ward starting out at the 18th green and ending on the first. Beer prlrea will be awarded the win ners and the recent drouth in Med ford I expected to Inspire an even greater lineup for golf. 4 BASEBALL American Chicago at 9t. luls, postponed, rain. Cleveland at Detroit postponed, rain. National St. Louis at Chtcaz?. New York at i B.sfn, Pittsburgh at Cincinnati poat- pane!, rain. STATE TIES THREE SECONDARY OF Sams Valley Highway of 17 Miles Provolt Route 25 Miles Little Butte Creek Road, 35 Miles, Listed GRANTS PASS, Ore., April 14. (AP) More than 170 miles of second ary highways In . Jackson, Josephine and Douglas countiea are to be trans ferred from county to state control Monday morning, according to Jamea Bromley, resident maintenance engi neer (or southern Oregon with head quarters here.' Three secondary highways In Jack son, two In Josephine and one In Douglaa counties are Involved In the change. Bromley said, which is being made in advance of the data author ized by the Oregon legislature and whioh will save Josephine county alone $12,000 annually In mainte nance expense without additional highway employes. The highways are: Jackson county: Smi Valley high way, IT miles; Medford-Provolt high way, 25 mllea; Little Butte Creek highway, 35 miles; total, 77 mllea. Josephine county: VanNoy Rlver- banka loop highway, 20 miles: Oranta Paso-Williams highway, 24 mllea; to tal 44 miles. Douglaa county: Tlller-Trall high way; 49 mllea In Douglaa county and 12 mllea in Jackson county; total 12 mile. A car of road oil haa been ordered for an immediate patching program on these highways. . V .' L TO BE OBSERVED The 1933 observance of "Be Kind to Animals' Anniversary" has been announced for April 17 to 33. The la,tter date will be known aa humane Sunday t,hrougho.t the nation. The churches will recogntr Humane Sun day and the school will celebrate the week with humane lessons and dis play of posters. Newspapers and radio .will also co operate here In the observance, Mrs. Sidney Richardson of the Jackson County Humane society announced today. Posters will be made In the schools under the direction of Miss Louise Hollenback, art supervisor, and will be displayed at the Chamber of Com merce. -f TURN FOR BETTER John B. Hoffmann, local merchant, who was rushed to the Sacred Hesrt hospital late Wednesday night after he had Inhaled and drunk a bottle of chloroform, was reported ' In a much Improved condition this after noon by the attending physician. He waa conscious and his chances for recovery much brighter. Inquiries regarding Mr. Hoffmann's condition were recevled by police from Washington today. The man waa found near death in the rear of the Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann shoo late Wednesday, following tne filing of divorce proceedings by hi wife. A former wife 1 understood to be residing In Washington. DEATHlliFOR HOOD RIVER, Ore- Aprfl 14 (AP) J Death on the gallowa for William J. Moore, 37, was demanded by toe state today. The tall, good-looking young man who Is charged with first degree mur der for the slaying of Harold F. O'Connor who had befriended him, sat unmoved aa attorneys for the state denounced him as a ruthless, unmerciful, ungrateful killer, who preyed upon the young New York tourist, who had unsuspectingly given him a ride over the western high ways. Italian Buy Gaa Masks MILAM. Italy (AP- Factories here have filled an order for 2,000.000 gas masks to be sold to the public at a safety measure. The government re cently authorized aate of the mask and free distribution to perrons whose duty would online them to re main In military zones in time of Trial Expense $6,000-$ SPYIOBOTAGE Damaging Evidence Intro duced at Trial of Six Brit: ish -Engineers in Russia Accused Man Denies MOSCOW, April 14. (AP) Hus sian testimony to support charges otl bribery and sabotage was presented; today at the trial of six British engi neers accused of these high crimes against the soviet state. One witness told of taking a bribe of $1500 from L. C. Thornton, one of the defendants Another said he had been paid 500 by William H. Mac Donald, another of the accused, to deliver plans for a power plant in the Urals. A third Russian witness said Charles Nordwell had paid blm $2500 and given him a fur coat to damage, a turbine at the Ivanovo power plant. This last charge was mBde by A. T. Lobanov, chief of the electrical de partment of the Ivanovo power sta tion. Lobanov also is a defendant in this trial. Tells of $3501, Brlhe Nordwell's name was brought Into the proceedings for the first time when this witness told of the $2500 bribe. Lobanov said he had enter tained a ntt -soviet Ideas and that he had complained to Nordwell about the low living standards In this country. "If you want to Improve your con dition." he said Nordwell told him, "you must act now. You must cause Important damage so that Russia wljl have to spend more gold. Above all you must be sure that this power plant is paralyzed In "esse of war. Lobanov recounted the conversa tion in detail, but Nordwell himself denied every word of It. Speaking Russian fluently but with a pro. nounced accent, the blond English man stood shoulder to shoulder with his accuser -In front of the Judge. I never gave him any money, I never said a word to him about dam age or about war," Nordwell said. "now let me tell you about that fur coat." Accuser Looked Eve He looked Lobanov In the eye as he explained that he had helped an other employee of Metro-Vickers to sell Lobanov an overcoat which the owner no longer needed. Shouting above the prosecutor who sought to interrupt the story, Nordwell told how Lobanov had paid him 500 rubles which he turned over to the owner of .the coat. The other charge of bribery made today was by Alexey Dolgov,- who said Thornton had paid him $1500 which he considered to be a bribe for con cealing a defect in machinery in stalled by Thornton's company. Thornton then waa called upon to stand In the prisoners' box. He ad mitted giving the money to Dolgov but declared It was given as a loan. He said Dolgov requested It In order to buy an apartment for himself and promised to return the money. Says Money Was Loan Allan Monkhouse, chief of the Metropolltan-Vlckers staff in Russia (Continued on Page Six) T T HASTINGS, N. V., April 14.-i-AP) The barricade was raised today at the humble home of Uttle Helen Vasco, whose parents had threatened to pour boiling water on anyone who sought to bring medical attention to the child. John Vasco, the father, announced he was reconciled to having a tumor removed from Helen's left eye even though the operation cost the Bight of that eye. If the appellate division of the supreme court upholds an order of the children's court direct ing the operation. "The law knows best," he said, after removing the barricade from hla front door. "If law says take child'a eye I say all right." He disclosed, however, that altho he was resigned to the operation hla wife was obdurate. He said he atayed home from work today to try to con vince her. ANNUAL C-C BANQUET IS SWITCHED TO HOTEL It was decided by the board of di- rectors of the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon to .hold the annual meeting scheduled for next Tuesday, April 18. at the Hotel Medford. as It l believed that more room will be svailaMe to take care of the anticl ptaed crowd CHICAGOANS RUSH There waa a literal acramble to pay taxes before the deadline In Chicago after the city's banks had been t-eopened. Here John McLaugh lin Of the county tax collector's office Is shown holding the crowd In check behind ropes. (Associated Press Photo) POLICE SEEKING City police were today searching for two person who ha been pass ing worthless checks in Medford, one having Issued a series of one-dollar checks, buying seed and paint at local shops. Two checks, which officers say were written by the aame persons, wore dated April 7 and 11, the latter being pawed at the Morton Mills yes terday. The check, made out 10 "Geo. Fraiser", for 13, was signed "Samel Bateman", and was endorsed "Oeo. Frasiw". The check was drawn on the First National bank of thla city, and was presented In payment for a seed purchase. Another check Issucl to 'Roy N. Keelman" to the amount of $17.40, for labor, waa Saturday presented at the Pay 'n Taklt store, but when the youth was questioned about the check he laid It down and left the store. It was signed "O. 8. Butler." Three one-dollar checks have been turned over, to Chief of Police Clat oua McCredle, who stated that sev eral others have been reported. One, dated April 11, waa passed ft, the Morton Mllla yesterday, signed "I. V. Blaine." Another, dated April 8, made out to cash, and presented at the Mutual Mill and Seed store wa signed "O. T. Bowers." The third wss signed "T. O. Williams" and was Issued to Wurt Gifts. It carried the date of April 8. E NEXT OBJECTIVE WASHINGTON, April 14. P) A double-bladed attack on deflation will be made soon by President Roose velt, with moves to preserve wage scales and provide new Jobs. The prealdent listened sympathet ically last night to propossls of Amerlcsn labor for a huge public works construction program, involv ing a bod tasue or four to aix billion, and including a minimum wae clause in the prospective shorter work week legislation. Besides considering these proposi tion, Mr. Roosevelt la .looking .hope fully to his recommendations now be fore congress to east the debt burden on agriculture and small home own era aa forward ateps in the reconstruc tion program, now aimed more defi nitely at checking deflation. The hotel win serve the complete meal and tickets will fcc 60 ce previously announced. Reservations should be made with the chsmber Immediately. Klamath Falls, Ashland and Grants Pass have made a num- ber of re.Tvtiona today for their respective cities. TO PAY TAXES! TO BE DEBT Circuit Judge Skipworth yesterday Issued an order directing that the expenses of J. F. Wortman, named as receiver for the fiuncrest Orcharda.i Inc., L. A. Banks, president, In the I suits of O. 3. Waddell, as assignee for the Medford National bank, on two mortgages for 94500 each, be paid first, from the proceeds of the aale. Receiver Wortman 'b bill for labor and other expenses totals $1067. Juogment in the Waddell case has been entered in circuit court, and the sale has been set for tomorrow morn ing at ten o'clock at the courthouse. The Judgment Is against that portion of the Suncreat Orchard, Inc., known aa tn pepper & Taylor tract on one cause, and on the other against real dentlal property on West Main street, where the murder of Constable Pres cott occurred. The home was origin ally built by John M. Root, and was purchased by Banks when he first came here. The sale will be from the front steps of the courthouse, slmost di rectly beneath the windows of the cell Banks now occupies. It was on theaj same steps that Banks appeared aa orator to "demonstrations," and from which. In hia last public remarks he p.oclaimed a "revolution." T:ie action scheduled for tomor row la independent of the suit filed recently by the First National bank, acting as agents for bondholders of the fiuncrest Orchards. Inc., against Banks and creditors of the orchard company, seeking 115.000. in this action. H. S. Deuel was nameo. temporary receiver. A hearing to make the receivership permanent la set for a week from tomorrow. Sat urday April 22. Central Point Home Extension unit will meet Monday, April 17, for an all-day session, with the first lesson In a series of eggs, milk, cheese and their uses. Mrs. Mabel C. Mack, county demonstration agent, will be In charge of the demonstrations. Care of egga and egg cooking will be included In the demonstration, with Mra. C. E. Smith and Mrs. Ed ward Jones assisting Mra. Mack, Diahca prepared in the morning wilt be served at the noon luncheon and all Interested women In that com munlty are requested to attend. LADY GOLFERS TIED E Ladies' day this week at the Rogue Valley Oolf club was a successful one with 25 attending the luncheon and 18 golfer particlpatituj In the tour nament, Mrs. Karl Janouch and Mm. J, C. Boyle tied for honors on the j Hrat nine nd Mrs Aletha Vawter. Mrs. P. B. Smith and Mrs. Homer Marx oa the lat nine. 1-0,000 DAILY COST FOR II Judge, Jurors, Witnesses and Mileage Will Pile Up Ex penseJoint Or Separate Trial Not Yet Decided It is estimated that the expense of trying Llewellyn a. Banks, and hi wife. Edith B. Banks, charged wttn murder in Lane county will cost ap proximately $1000 per day. Jackson county pays all cost, which includes Judge's salary. Juror fees, witness fees, mileage between this county and Eugene, transportation of defendants, subsistence for them, and incidents'. expenses such as stenographers and bailiffs. The trial Is expected to . last not longer than six days, which would bring the estimated cost to $6000 for Joint triala and to approximately $10,000 If separate trials were asked by the defendants. Local Jul. Safer Banks and his wife, will probably be taken to Eugene the Saturday be fore Monday, May 1. The county Jail here la regarded as more modern and safe than the Lane county baatlle. The question of mileage for wlt-neese-i remains to be settled. In coun ties over a population of 50,000. the atste law names-10c per mile.-Lsnc county is In thla classification. In counties below B0.00O population, which Includes Jackson county, the mileage fee Is 15c. Whether the Lane county, or the Jackson county rate will obtain, remains to be determined. Many To Testify , Wtlnesaes will probably be ordered to report Monday, May 1, starting date of the trial, si the Lane county courthouse. The number of witnesses to be called Is still problematical. The stats may call around 30. and the de fense probably as insny. The two defendants, Indicted Joint ly, hove the right under Oregon law, to decide whether they shall be tried separately or together. The decision rests with them. If separate trials were asked, the cost would be propor tionately more, but'the mileage coats would be eliminated, as the witnesses would be kept In Huge lie, and the second trial started as soon as the first was concluded. Many county officials figure that the Lane county trial costs would be less than the case would Incur here, as less time would be expended In se curing, questioning, and mileage for Jurors. Ruling of Circuit Judge George P. Skipworth transferring the trial to Lane county of Llewellyn A. Bank, agitator, former editor and orchard- lst, and his wife, Edith R. Bank, charged with first degree murder for the slaying of Constable George J. Prescott on the morning of March 10 while Bank was resisting service of warrant for ballot atesllng, was Viewed today by Jackson county citi zen generally a a wise and Just de cision, alike for defense and atatc and future public welfare. The court ordered the trial held In Eugene, starting Monday, May 1, after Dougls county had been considered and Josephine and Curry countiea proposed. Jude Skipworth, aftr tel ephone communication with Douglas county authorities, learned that no Jury term would be .held there before May 2a and, following a ahort con ference with attorneya for both sides, ordered the . case heard In Lane county. Defendant Satisfied According to Jail attendant. Banks, following the granting of the change of venue, expreased satisfaction. Banks and hla wife will probably not (Continued oa Page Nine) TO DISRUPT WETS PORTLAND. April 14. (API A threat that unless hslf of Multno mah county'a 34 delegates to the state constitutional convention on prohibition are member of the Democratic party, the Democrats will place a full ticket In the field, waa today before the four wet organisa tion which met here yesterday to select a ticket of . 34 oaadJdates Each of the four antl-prohlbltlon organisations were represented by two persons at the Thursday meeting, tne purpose of which wss to unite on s single ticket so the field would not be split. At s meeting yesterday of the Wil lamette society, a Democratic party group. It wsa declared that unless half of those so selected by the wets he Democrat, the party would repu diate the antl-prohlbltlon choice and place their own ticket before the i voter. OPTIMISM GROWS AS PRICES MOVE ER LEVEL Grain Traders Hear Whisper of 70 Cent Wheat Hopes "isc Higher Than for Past Year in Capital (Copyrighted by MrClure Newspaper Syndicate) By PAIL MAI.LON WASHINGTON, Aplrl 14. There has been a noticeably better feeling among those at the top during the past week. The rise in commodity prices was largely responsible. They hoped it might turn out to be the break of Kick they have been looking for The whisper in grain circles was that wheat might go to 70 cents. Other matters contributed to the Improved, psychology. The rcforeaa tion program waa beginning to work. Prospects for opening many closed banks brightened perceptibly. Beer played a part. None of those things was sufficient to cause general business cheering, but together they appeared formi dable. Washington's hopes are higher now than they have been in the past year. r Tlie senstora handler, t.hm tmrm uitt aa If It were poison. cnatrman Smith of the aarleuitnn. committee orrtlnBrllv u-oum v.... championed It on the floor. Inetead ne merely explained It. T,1o expla- yuuHeaiy cola. The chamDtonlne- Inh rn broad shoulders of Democratic Ploor Leader Robinson. He read a for. fill argument for the bill. It obvl. oilsly waa prepared by Professor Tux well ct al. That l th. mt plonlng of the bill done In either house. ' ' ; If the bill work the oredlt will (Continued on Page Seven) SAN FRANCISCO. April 14 (AP) An ambulance crew aummoned to San Pranclco' yacht harbor by spec ial officer Henry G. Allen found him very upset. Allen, whose special duty Is to guard the yachts, declared a mermaid waa aplashing around In the water and wouldn't go away. Tlie ambulance crew, made ol sterner atuff, coaxed the aplasher to shore, gathered up her garments for her and took her to an emergency hospital where she Waa treated tor alcoholism. She waa booked as Lola Warren. 34. Tomorrow afternoon from 3:30 to) 4:00 o'clock, the children of the pri mary department of the First MVB. Sunday school will be entertained with a party at the home of Mrs. Arthur Short, 622 West Second street. Mrs. Short will be aaslsted by Ml sue Madge Kunimwi. Mildred Walker, Elizabeth Gllllnga and Betty Paake. POGER.V SANTA MONICA, Col., Apr. 13. I'oor Cliicngo. The teach ers are trying to got their sal aries. The beer bootleggers claim they hnve been diacrimii iiatcd against, that America overnight has w iped out tin in dustry, and right in the midst of all their troubles they are hit hv a world's fair. Hut I believe they will cuiue out uf it. In yours to come, Chicago will be tlio biggest city in the world. Soon as Gapona gets out and gets buck you will sec a big difference. Bernard Shuw lectured on "America." That's about like me lecturing on atmospheric vonditiona over the south pole, lie left by police eseort for his boat. Yours, Villi MtKtuist JrMltst. las, TO HIGH
