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Newspaper Page TextMedford Mail Tribun The Weather Forecast: Unsettled with rain and colder tonight; Wednesday fair. Temperature. Highest yeaterday 75 Lowt this morning ........ 48 Paid-Up Circulation People who pay (or their newspapera are the best proapecta for the adver tlsera. A. B. O. circulation la paid up circulation. Thla newspaper la A. B. C. Twenty-eighth Year MEDFOKD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1933. No. 29. FAMOUS PAIR ON 1 HE WING AGAIN E BASEBALL i i 1 . . i r Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. WE READ In the papera that Presi dent Roosevelt and Premier Mac Donald of England are discussing "sta bilization of world currencies on a re vised atandard." Those are big words. What do they mean? LET US take up first the question of stabilization. There Is at preaent no atandard money that la good at the aame yaluea throughout the world. Prance la the only major country retaining the gold atandard. ' The monies of all the different countrlea vary In value from day to day. f-f ' IN ORDER to understand what that meana In the way of handicaps upon world commerce, try to Imagine that the money of every dliferent star In the union varied In value from day to day. If you sold a .carload of cattle, under such conditions, In California, you wouldn't know when you made the ssle what your California money would be worth when you got It. If you bought something In San Francisco, you wouldn't know what your 'Oregon money would be good for in the way of payment when you made payment. OBVIOUSLY, under auch circum stances. It would be exceedingly hard to do business. Tet that la ex actly the condition that exists throughout the world today. It la to find a remedy for this con dition that Premier MacDonald and President Roosevelt are discussing stabilization of world currencies. They want to find a way to provide money that will be good throughout the worm. If they can do that, business will be tremendously helped. TyjOW. let u take up the question 11 of the revised standard. The pound, before England went off the gold atandard, waa worth a certain sum In gold about $4.86 In terms of American gold dollars. It la now worth le&s. THE DOLLAR, before the United 1 States forbade exports of gold, was worth 100 cents gold throughout the world, because It could be ex changed for that much In gold. It Is now worth less the amount, to be exact, that traders will pay for It in the open market as a medium for paying their American bills. TJEFORE the war, the French franc O was worth a little less than 30 oents in terms of American gold money. It has been restabillzed on a . basis of a little less than four centa. The same thing has happened to the German mark. What Premier MacDonald and President Roosevelt are discussing la a new gold money, good at the same value throughout the world, that will be worth somewhat leas In terms of gold than the pound and the dollar before En aland and the United Btatea went off the gold standard. That la, to say. a cheaper money that will buy lesa. A cheaper money ' that will buy lesa will have a ten dency to raise world prices. -"OR GENERATIONS, the gold atano- jT ard of money value has been ac eepted generally aa the right standard It haa Been questioned In every pe in,t nf Mvra degression, aa It la being questioned now, but has gener ally withstood change, i It Is being questioned now more seriously than before, and some of the World's best bralna are looking for a substitute for It. It will be In teresting to see what comes of this study. WELFARE EXCHANGE CLOSES END OF WEEK The Welfare Exchange operated by the Relief committee In the old city hall will be open for the last times Wednesday and Saturday of this wrrk. It was announced today by Miss Mae Carlton, chairman. All In terested In obtaining clothing are urged to call Wednesday or Saturday. - NEW YORK, April 35. P Di rectors of the United States Steel corporation todsy ordered disburse ment of a dividend f SO centa on tlie preferred shares, as they did three tnonttat afa. TO DEFEAT PLAN Democratic Senator Harrison Says Mellon and Mills Made Mess 'of Directing Nation's Fiscal Policy WASHINGTON, April 25. (AP) Replying to a trto of Republican op ponents, Senator Harrison (D.Mlss.) declared In the senate today that Andrew W. Mellon waa "In a con spiracy" against the Inflation pro posal and added there waa "nothing in It against sound money." Harrison, speaking after confidence had been expressed that the adminis tration proposal would be passed to morrow, referred particularly to Sena tor Reed (R., Pa.) and said It was "unfair for a man In high standing In the country and In leadership In this body to attempt to deceive the Amercian people." Made Mess In Office. He asserted Mellon and his suc cessor aa secretary of the treasury. Ogden L. Mills, had made a "mess" of directing the nation's fiscal poli cies and It was only fair that the new administration be given a chance to improve upon them. Earlier, Senators Barbour of New Jersey and Patterson of Missouri, both Republicans, had Joined Reed In op posing the Inflation. Describing Reed aa an "adroit ana crafty lawyer," who had represented the big steel, banking and Insurance Interests, the Mlsslsalpplan said Reed had either appointed himself leader of the antl-lnflatlonlsts, or. had been appointed at a meeting In Washing ton attended by Mellon and Mills. Admits .Mills Consulted. Reed, who already had denied to newspapermen that Mellon had any thing to do with the Republican drive, but had agreed that Mills was consulted, Interrupted Harrison to ask him to point out the "good points; ln;the bill." ' ,; ' - ""' , "I'm not the question before the senate," Reed said. Harrison then proceeded to assail (Continued on Page Five) T WASHINGTON. April 35. (AP) A resolution to abolish the federal Judgeship held by Judge James A Lowell of Boston, who yesterday freed George Crawford, negro wanted In Mlddlehurg. Va.. from extradition on a charge of slaying Mr. Agnes Boeing Ulsley and her maid. Nine Buckner, was Introduced today by Representa tive Dies (D., Tex.) Representative Smith (D., Va.), said previously he would move lm peachment of Lowell, If ground could be found. Dies charged that the Judge, who declined to permit the extradition of the negro after It had been approved by Governor Joseph B. Ely because no negroes served on Juries in Vlr- glnla, had "flagrantly violated his oath of office." According to a written statement by T. J. Enrlght, good government congress attorney, the Mall Tribune story Monday aa to who was seeking the arrest of whom in Ashland Sat urday, waa In error. In fact, Mr. Enrlght aaya It was a "deliberate and malicious lie. Mrs. Henrietta. B Martin, aa explained by ,her attorney went over to Ashland with I. . Fitch, one of the Good Government congre-ts hangers-on. in an effort to obtain a warrant for the arrest or R. H. Burton, whom ntch accuses of beating him with a pistol. The Mall Tribune la glad to publish this correction. Soviet Roused by Nazi Grabbing Oil Company BERLIN, April 25. (AP) The soviet embassy lost no time today In pursuing negotiations regarding the occupation by nazi police of the na tional headquarters of the German Russian Petroleum company Monday, when the offices were searched and 20 German employe of the firm were arrested as communists. It became known that the nazi commissioner appointed by Captain Hermann Goering, nazi minister with out portfolio and premier of Prus sia intends not only to weed out com munists working for the company, but alw to manage the firm's bwl new. The fact the company's shares are controiied lo Uie soviet union cxeatca Rational. R. H. .E. Chicago 3 7 1 Cincinnati ............ - 8 9 1 Batteries: Malone, Yerkes and Hart- nett, Campbell; Prey. Kolp and Lom bard!. Boston - I s Philadelphia 7 12 0 Prankhouse, Fallenstem. Mangura and Hogan; Bolley and v. Davis. Brooklyn .a 5 a New York . 8 12 0 n.rv w Rvan. Helmach and Sukeforth, Outcn: Schumacher and Mancso. American. B. H. E. .. 1 7 0 .. 4 8 1 St. Louis Cleveland Batteries:. Hadley, Gray and Fer- rcll; Brown and Pytlak. Philadelphia 9 2 6 10 1 Boston Grove, Dietrich and Cochrane, Madjcskl; Wetland and Shea. R. H. E. New York 16 21 1 Washington ... 0 5 1 Vanatta and Dickey: Weaver, A. Thoiraa, MoAtee, L. Thomaa and L Sewell. Berg. Detroit at Chicago, postponed, snow. i OF WEST FOR TRIAL nanrsa W HTnM.1V former OWnSf Of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and his unfa ffwlvn Muter of L. A. Banks, who' goes on trial for first degree murder next Monaay in tugeuo, w... be among relatlvea of the accused ln nmtrnn for the trial. W. E. Phtppa, defense counsel announced today. Mr. Phlpps received a wire raaj 4.n TMrH -Ohio resident stat- in. f.nat. ti would arrive In Portland with hts wife on the Great Northern Friday and would atsy at tne Benson hotel until continuing to Eugene lor tne trial, w. Miceri Attornev Phlnns to In form Mr. Banks of hla plans. Attorney Phlpps stated that he would be leaving Medford Thursday for Eugene to prepare for the open ing of the trial Monday. The defense Is ready to present Its case, he stated, adding that he saw no cause for any possible delay in the trial. Joseph L. mmmersiy oi roruana, who will alK represent Banks ard wife, Edith R. Banks, Jointly indicted for the slsylng of Constable George J. Prescott, has retrned to Portlsnd after a long conference with the ac cused and attorneys here. Asked about plana of the defense. Attorney Phlpps explslned that he would have no statement to make regarding steps to be taken to uphold t nf not vulHv before opening of the trial. Such a revelation, he stated, would be unethical. Attorney Phlpps waa uncertain to day whether or not other relatives of Banks and wire would aitena u trial in Kiiff.n.. Banks haa two brothers In southern California, C. O. Banka and W. A. Banks. The latter came to Medford soon after Officer Prescott wsa killed to confer wltn nis brother. At that time he Intended to return for the trial. Another brother aiHM in Ohio, but .has not com municated with Banks' attorneys. L PARTED. SHE SAYS SPRINGFIELD. Mo., April 38. (AP) The Rev. Sharon C. Inman. who abandoned his wife and two children two weeks ago for Mlsa Ears "Pat" Holdrldge. 20-year-old blond, failed to appear before the presbytery or the Oaark today to answer charges of gross immorsllty and conduct un becoming a minister. A second cltstlon waa issued asking his appearance before the church body for trial May 12. an unprecedented situation, and members of the Russian trade dele gation are pressing Bernard W. von Buelow. under -secretary for foreign affairs, for his official attitude on the situation. Soviet circles insist that should the situation demand any reUllatory measures, Germany would be lnfi nltely harder hit than Russia by the recently invoked British boycott of Russian goods, since the soviet union Is Germany's greatest Import market, The nazl commissioner told the German-Russian employes that they must execute Ms orders or take the consequences. He also Issued a state' ment saying that the old manage ment of the firm was debarred from Issuing instructions. AGAINST EMPIRE HOUljNGUPHELD Supreme Court Confirms Judge Norton's Findings in Suit to Cancel $3000 Mortgage Given for Stock State supreme court decisions handed down today, were In favor of two Jackson county residents, and of beneficial interest to many others. In the suit of Mayor E. M. Wilson against the Empire Holding company the high court held In a ruling re ceived by Judge W. E. Crews, that Mayor Wilson was entitled to a de cree and Judgment against the hold ing company, and the return and cancellation of a $3000 mortgage on residential property, and other secur ities he gave In payment of stock, in the same amount. The supreme court sustains Wilson In all his con tentions. He was represented by Crews and Codding, attorneys. The ruling In thla case will affect close to 100 other purchasers of Em pire Holding stock In thla county, provided they file suit within the required time, attorneys say. A number of fine legal points were Involved In the suit, which waa heard by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton. . In. the second decision, the high court decides in favor of John F. Watson, of this city, and affirms the findings of Circuit Judge H. D. Nor ton, In Watson's suit against the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance com pany of California. Watson was given a decision tn the circuit court, for approximately eooo. on an accident and sick policy. Watson took out the Insurance pol icy in 1928. and In 1939 was seized with an attack of influenza. It waa alleged the insurance company re fused to pay total disability, when Watson waa. incapacitated from -the after-effects 0f the -flu.' He then sued for the full benefits. The high court held Watson was entitled to $100 and $150 per month for the disability period of. slightly more cnan two years. Watson recently through hla attor ney, Don R. Newbury, filed a second sua on the same grounds. BILL PASSED BY ;e WASHINGTON. AnrM 9S I API The Roosevelt program for building a vast development of the Tennessee vnicy around tne government's mus cle shoals nronertlm wn nnMurt tn day by the house and sent to the senate. The flnnl hallnf nr1f uoarot rfavi oi aeoate during which all amend uivjiwi were oHrrea. Chief provisions of the Hill bill: Creates the Tennessee Valiev mi' thorlty, a government corporation with three directors, to operate the Muscle Shoala Investment in th in. terest of national defense, agricultu ral ana industrial development, navi gation and flood control. Directs the COrnnrsMnn tn VinlM th Cove Creek dam on the Clinch river and dam number three at Muscle Shoals. - Authorises It to build othr rtm. on me jennessee river as a "reason able market demand" ftovainn fnr power that would amortize coats with in ou years. Directs the cornoratlnn tn Ihu operate the nitrate plant, requiring minimum output of 10.000 tons fixed nltroeen the firat tn Authorizes the cornoratlnn tn ou surplus power, giving preferenr to counties and municipalities uso empowers it to build transmla slon lines If leasing nnpha.in m condemnation Is not feasible. Authorizes a 50.000.000 hnnii tun and a tlO.000.000 appropriation. Authorizes the president to make survey, and reports to congress on economic planning In the Tennessee basin. The vote was 308 to 91. Wisconsin Second To Favor Repeal MADISON. Wis.. April 39. (AP) Wlaconalna constitutional conven tion today cast a unanimous vote to ratify repeal of the 18th amendment. Preceded by Michigan. Wisconsin waa the second atate of the union to vote for the repeal of federal prohibition. Hot l)o: JEFFERSON, April 35. UP, Noth ing waa stolen except welnera when thieves looted a meat market here Sunday The pennies In the cash drawer were no bothered. Oregon Wealher. Unsettled with rain snd colder to nigh.: Wednesday filr; fresh north veat wind, offshore, HELD IN SLAYING Jack Crim Rounded Up in Rose City Underworld Dragnet for Killers Jimmy Walker and .Woman PORTLAND. April 35. (P) Ttia net arew tighter today around the executioners in Portland's gangland killing. Police said flrat degree murder charts might be placed during the day In connection with the cold blooitd slaying of Jimmy Walker, 37, ex-owiivlct, and Mrs. Edith McClaln. 39, hta underworld associate. Their bullet -riddled bodies were found Sat urday on a lonely road near St, Helens. Detectives referred significantly to the arrest last night of Jack Crlm, half-breed Indian, ex-convict and pre liminary boxer. They said in his room was found a blood-stained suit and shirt. Saw Him Load Body. Thev said they had witnesses who would testify they saw Crlm lift Mrs. MoCialn Into the big maroon auto mobile which bas been described as the murder car. The same witnesses. police declared, saw the victims and their captors depsrt. In C rim's room, detectives said they found a sulitcase containing many of Mrs. MoClaln's personal be longings, including her marriage cer tificate, issued at Florence, Ore , November 9, 1913, when she married Ploy,! MoClaln, and photographs. Crm said his suit and shirt were stained in a fist fight. The suit was found packed in a sulbbox. Detectives announced they have witnesses who have Identified the large maroon automobile aa that of Jak Silverman, rooming house pro prietor anrt-aMoclate of Frank Ko dat, who' waa critically' wounded by Walkr Friday. Police had declared Walker was "put on the spot" be cause he shot Kodaf. . . Tire Marks Check. Tire marks left by the death car when the killers turned It around after dumping the two bodies in the ditch- were said by experts to cor respond to the tires on Silverman', automobile. Police announced that a relative of Silverman called a gar sgemnn Saturday and asked the me chanics to replace the new tires with old cnes. These reputed instructions were issued after newspapers had publi.ihed accounts of the telltale (Continued on Page Two) WASHINGTON, April 35. (fP) Unprecedented powers to regulate pro duction and wages were asked of the house labor committee today by Sec retary Perkins as Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt and Ishbel MacDonald. British prime minister's daughter looked on. Mixs Perkins, first woman cabinet memter, told the committee In gen eral terms how she proposed to ad minister the bill she presented. Sketching the bill in broad term., Miss Perkins aald statistics on pro duction in recent years show some thing must be done. She asked the committee to "consider earnestly" the plan she suggested which In cludes forbidding Interstate trans portation of commodities made by workmen employed more than eix hour a day or 30 hours a week, ex cept In extraordinary circumstances when 40 hours for. 10 weeks would bi allowed. ( ECONOMIC SITUATION (By the Associated Press.) 1. Former Premier Herrlot of Prance,, after conference wltn President TToosevelt, says enthusl aitlcally that latter laid down complete program. Including dis armament, world economic sta bilisation and war debts. 3. President Roosevelt ani Prime Minister MadDonald of Great Britain, who announced chat their conversations had "ad mirably served" the purpose of mipping the territory to be cov ered at the world economic con ference, plan fiufc. Ulk late today. a. President Roosevelt, In talk with Premier Bennett of Canada. Is expected to seek pact for con trol of world whet production. . 4 Disarmament conference re opens at Genera, buoyed by moral support afforded by aconomlc conversations at Washington. b. Open In? dste for world eco nomic conference Is expected to set by organization commutes which meets Saturday In Geneva, A. Senator Reed, Pennsylvania, leads Republican opposition to ttxmevelt controlled inflation plan, .ut quick pemg of measure i beMived assured. VOTE AID FOR WORKERS IN PROPOSED BILL JO (Witt; 5 Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, Amenca'a most famoua flying couple, took off from Newark, N. J., airport on a combined business and pleasure flight across the country. It Is their first major flight together since their (aunt to the Orient In 1931. Thla la one of the few pictures taken of the Lindberghs since their baby waa kidnaped mora than ,1 year aao. (Associated Press Photo) TO GET VACATION IN LIEU OF WAGES CHICAGO, April 25 (AP) Unwill ing to force Chicago's teachera to continue working on an unpaid basis. Orville J. Taylor, president of the board of education, said he would take steps today to close the schools within the next two or three weeks Taylor made his statement at the close of yesterday's hectic activities during which 6000 teachers took the freedom afforded by the first day of their spring vacation to heckle loop bankers and a meeting of officials at tended by Gov. Henry Horner. Taylor aald the "situation has reached the point where the schools must close" and that he would con fer today with Superintendent of Schools William J. Bogan about speeding pu such action. "It may mean a change in our curriculum," he said. "We . must protect as much as is humanly pos sible the rights of the children and above all the credits of thousands of boys and girls graduating from our high schools who are planning on going to college next fall." GET LICENSE TAGS Licenses have been Issued so far this week by the sheriff office, for eight new 1033 autos. This is the largest number since the Wall street crash, for any one week, according to Chief Office Deputy Olga Anderson. The licenses were Issued for two Fords, one Chevrolet, two Ply mouths, one Pontlac, and one Dodge. Five cf the new autos were sold In this city, one In Central Point, and one in Jacksonville.. Famed Diamond Offered To Save Washington Post WAoninuiufli tu wi - Tne worm xamea Hope aiamona nas been offered by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, estranged wife of the former publisher of the Washington Post, as security for a loan which ahe hopes to use to aave the newspaper for her I sons. ' I Along with the diamond. Mrs. Mc Lean has placed In the hands of a 1 Washington dealer a pigeon blood ruby, a collection of emeralds, sap , phtres, and a snuff box of diamonds : and emeralds that once was the prop erty of a sultan of Turkey. ! "I am trying to raise some money on the Hope diamond and some other ' Jewels j of mine to try and save my children's estate, and particularly the Washington Post, which I regard aa thetr greatest heritage," Mrs. McLean isald. 85j s- E 'SPRUCE UP' FOR Edith Robertlne Banks, Jointly charged with her husband, L. A Banks, agitator, and former editor and orchard tat, with first degree mur der, tot the slsylng of Constable Geor,ve J. Prescott, has two new hats, according to Jail attendants, for her court appearances, when the trial starts in the Lane county courthouse at Eugene next Monday, May 1. Binks himself yesterday hsd a hair cut, at the hands of Edwin Malke- mus, one of the minor aides and ora tors cf his "Good Government Con greas." at liberty after detention In the county Jail, following the bal- lot robbery Indictments. The central figure of Jackson county's most tur bulent period always a nifty dresser sent out his clothes to be pressed for the most important event of hta life. The day of departure of the Banks' for lane county has not been dl- vuljzfd by the authorities, except thi It will be "Friday, Saturday or Sun day." and that the two will travtl apart, under heavy guard of state police and the sheriffs of the two counties. In Eugene, owing to the lack of facilities, Banks will be held tn tr?e county Jail and his mate in the women's ward of the Eugene city Jail. Judge Sklpworth, before whom the trial will be heard. Is expected (Continued on Page Two) DrAdler, Noted Educator, Passes NEW YORK. April 38. (AP) Dr. Felix Adler, 82, Jewish educator and founder of the Ethical Culture soci ety, died last night. Dr. Adler found ed the Ethical Culture society AT years ago. Today there are similar orgs nidations in this country and throughout Europe. Since 1000 he had been professor of political and social ethics at Columbia, I still have and always will have absolute confidence In the Post and feel that It 1 well worth fighting for. I am still trying and will go on trying to save it for them." The Post now la In receivership. The collection of Jewels was aald to have cost millions originally. The Hope diamond, frequently re ferred to aa a stone of 111 fortune, reputedly was taken from the head of a Hindu Idol by a French traveler to become part of the crown collection of Jewels. Louis XVI brought It out to adorn hts consort, Marie Antoinette and the stone disappeared during the revolu tion, coming to light again In 1830, trimmed down to Ua present site of 144 karats. . , IS SEALED BOOK ITS Many Collect Fee of 20 Cents Per Mile for Trip. Home, But Fail to Travel, . Is Claim at Washington (Copyrlclited by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) By PAUL M.l.l.O. WASHINGTON, April 35. No one '111 ever know Which .an.,.. tMw their unearned mileage and which w conscientioua enough to - aecune 11. From What mto-ht ha the highest possible authority on mac auoject cornea mrormaUon that very few declined the monev nnn th. heavy majority accepted It. inat is as much aa anyone will learn legitimately without breaking IntO the SCCret fllf fit th aa-nmtm Senators themselves do not Know anytning aoout It because they do not tell each other what they did. ' Year before laat rth flu-ni v 1030-311 the aenat nrinntmn h : praiseworthy ouatom of printing In ii'ijuib ui lui secretary a list or ;ne mileage advances made tn esrh senator. Without antf tnnnlinMm.,, hl. made about It that custom hss been aoanaonea. The report for 1931-33 omitted the the total amount to conceal the In dividual distribution. Personal In quiry now discloses that It Is to be a permanent policy. Instruotlona to that effect have been lased to senate employee by bnose wno run tne aenate. AnDarentlv mi. vmi nf hnM ..- HcttV WM nmiirh f.- h- caused a flurry of books and mag. onto ftuciw on.ine tnvaimcs-in sen atorial expense acocunts. Implying patty graft. Some of t,he articles placed an unfair canstmtnn ' m. aome of the accounts. That may explain why the senate decided to protect Itself against the uniairnessea oy seeing to It that no- (Continued on Pag Four) THE DALLES. Ore., April 38. (AP) Two airplanes bearing a contingent of good will delegatea on an aerial Junket trip ovjer central Oregon, took off at 10 a. m. today for Bend, break ing the air trail between The Dalles and Klamath Patla. The party waa to continue to Klamath Palls, spend the night there, and return to The Pallea after a noon atop at Redmond. A third plane was to take off later today. Business men of The Dalles and nearby communities msde the trip In the Interest of promoting aa In land lighted airway east of the Cas cades, and In hope of demonstrating the utility of an air rout along the line of The Dallea-Callfornla high way. WILL ROGERS LOS. ANGELES, April 24. My old friend Arthur Brisbane accused rne good naturedly of being worried over this "infla tion." I wasn't worried, I wag jiisr, coniusea. . it p i There is quite a difference. when you don't know enough about a thing to be worried. But Arthur, even mv confu sion is all over now. , Every body that I meet has explained this whole "inflation" .thing so clearly that now I am going around explaining it myself. Tou see, medical science has discovered two ways of actu ally tracing insanity. One. is if the patient cuts out paper dolls or works at a jiggsaw puzzle, and the other is if the patient says: "I will tell you what this cconomia business really means." . Tours.