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Medford Mail Tribune Paid-Up Circulation People who pay for tbelr newspapers are the best prospects for the adver tisers. A. B. C. circulation Is paid up circulation. This newspaper Is A B O. Twenty-eighth Year MEDFOKD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1933 No. 30. The Weathe Forecast: Fair tonight and Thurs day; warmer Thursday. Temperature. Highest yesterday , A3 Lowest this morning 4. 1 i- .. - i Comment ' on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE stock market, after the Bun day closing, swings up sharply on Monday, reaching a new high level for 1933. The gralna rise still farther. The dairy market show strength. There are renewed sales of wool on the big Boston market. TirHAT doea It all meant W It means this: With Inflation t last definitely under way. people realise that money la going to be worth less, and so they demand more of It for what they have to ell. That Is the way Inflation works. REPUBLICANS 'in the senate pre pare to oppose In debate the plana for Inflation. Senator Beed of Pennsylvania, ays he will not filibuster against the administration plan, but will try to point out' to the country that Inflation on the scale proposed Is -merelv a vehicle for a nation to go on a Jamboree and come back with headache." H jf AYBE so. Inflation HAS usual- 1YI ly worked that way In the past. There's no denying that. But the world, right now, is ex ceedingly low In Its mind. It has been In the dumps so long that the mesent prospect of the Jamboree looks alluring. So It says to Itself: "Well. NOTH- INO could be worse than what we've got now." IP prices rise too high as a result of Inflation, they will COME DOWN later. Sound business men know that. But most of them are saying: "I'll ride along on the way up. and SELL' OUT at the top." win thev? Well, at least they THINK NOW that they will. CANADA goes" off the gold stand ard, following closely In the footsteps of the United States. Prance la now the only Important nation remaining on a gold basis. Will Prance be ABLE TO STAT? THE French say they will. They plsn' to raise their tariff walls to correspond with the fall In for eign currencies, so that foreigners will obtain no advantages In rrench market. The Prench hope to make the gold-backed franc the unit of money value throughout the world. It will bo interesting to see whether they are able to get away with It. npms writer ran Into an optimist 1 the other day a representative . f t.h bli mortgage loan companies. He said: "I've Just sold two houses and got on the track of a man who wants to buy a hotel up In the Willam ette vnlley. Things are looking up. After all the gloom we've bee hearing for the past few months, mil. encouraging talk certainly tinkles pleasantly In the ears. IAVE you stopped to think of t: I I cash prices, of real estate are abnormally low. With the value of money GOINO DOWN. people going to want to exchange their monev for something that will stay put. Nothing "stays put" better then real estate bought at fair prices. Out of this Inflation process. It Is not Improbable that we ahall see a ris ing real estate market. DRIVINO down the Pacific high way the other day. this writer lost a bolt out of the front bump' hi. The bumper was tied on with wire, as an emergency re ntrv wire, to be exact. Hay wire, you know. Is as useful to the .r.r.. man as hairpin Is to the aversee woman. As a result, the bumper hung at a crazy angle, and at least hslf the motorlits met honked their horns and pointed and pedestrians along the road waved their arms and shouted: "Hey; your bumper's com ing off!" The desire to be helpful and friendly hasn't been all choked out by the depression, has It? GETTING back to real DON'T LOSE FAITH In estate. It. I ssle value may be pretty low right now, but It WILL COME BACK. Land Is the basis of all value, snd if ANYTHING retain value It MUST be the land. POLICE BREAK UP DEMONSTRATIONS BY SYMPATHIZERS Mounted Cops Ride Into Mob Outside Hall Of Justice While Hearing Of Old Bombing Charge Opens. HALL OP JUSTICE, San Francisco. April 26. (AP) A group of several hundred Tom Mooney sympathizers was dispersed by . mounted police shortly after It had gathered In front of the Hall of Justice today to watch the opening of the famous prison er's newly granted trial on a long dormant murder charge growing out of the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing In 1916. Mounted police drove their horsea over the low concrete walls separat tng the street from Portsmouth Square opposite the Hall of Justice to thread among the gathering after Mooney sympathizer started speak. The mounted officers scattered the crowd, which moved . to a narrow street on the square opposite the hall. Mooney banners brought by some of the sympathisers were tak en down by officers. No arrests were made. HALL OF JUSTICE, San Francisco, April 26. (AP) The trial of Tom Mooney was continued to May 33 today by Superior Judge Louis H Ward on the grounds that demon strations outside the court room such as occurred today would pre vent a fair trial on the old mur der charge against him. The ruling was made while the shouts of Mooney sympathizers echo ed In the court room. Judge Ward, who recently granted the trial at the instance of the defense, told attor neys Mooney. adherents had "prac tically shouted In my ear, we want Mooney,' . as the Jurist came to the Hall of Jnstlce." At the same time Judge Ward pro claimed his determination to have Mooney in court "at some time" to give him a hearing on the basis of facts In the case and to permit him to testify If desired, but the court asserted it would not "be a party" to giving the defendant a "legal loonhole" upon which to seek his freedom on constitutional or techni cal grounds as a result of the hear ing. The court's ruling came after Wil liam Murphy, assistant district at torney, had stated In reply to i question by the Jurist, that the state would produce no evidence against (Continued on Page Five) NITIAL CHECK-UP Investigation or anticipated appli cants under the Oregon old age pen sion law. passed by the last legisla ture. Is now underway by county and relief agencies. The law becomes ef fectlve June 10 next, but as none of the Oregon counties made provisions In 'heir budget Tor It. the pension law will not be Invoked until next January. T;.e law enables the county to sep arate tha worthy poor from the un wonhy poor, and prevents abuse of charity. It will eventually abolish the poorhouse. snd means that the relief funds will go to the aged and the county's needy who hsve come upon days of stress. The law correct mar.v of the evils practiced by auts Indigent and drifting tren-lente. n-.e investigation will provide a thorough check on those who have been the beneficiary of false repre sentations as to financial condition, and dependents. It has developer; from the Investigation to date that some amazing "gyps" -ere practiced on the bounty of Jackson county lei: winter. Under the pension law, an applicant must be 70 years of age, a resident of Oregon for 15 years, and a resident of the county In which the applica tion is filed for three years. No more than 30 a month can be given any one applicant. The granting of tin application for an old age pension rests with the oounty court. If the applicant possesses real property over the value of WOO0. It must be turned over to the county, and the Income used In paying the pension. No ap plicant who has a criminal record or has been a professional beggar Is ellrble to the pension. Tt.e pension law also thwarts that ad tragedy or old sse the separa tion of man and wife one to the poorhouse. the other elsewhere, as ofta happens. Many of the old age pension appli csnte sntldpated are now on fie wldnw'a pension or . the county indi gent list. The pension benefits will reduce both lists, as tbe applicant cannot draw from both. CHICAGO I STORM OFFICE OF TITLE, TRUST FIRM Police Wield Clubs On Mili tant Educators Demon stration Staged To Gain Payment Back Taxes.' CHICAGO, April 26 (AP) Chant lng a battle cry of "pay your taxes," 2500 Chicago teachers today stormed the offices of the Chicago Title and Trust company In the loop. Several hundred swarmed up the stairways to the second floor executive offices and fists flew as police ejected, them. Several women fainted and were car ried to the street. Clubs were wielded, but no one was severely injured. The doors of the trust company were barricaded, so the teachers milled about in the street before continuing their march. The teachers explained their dem onstration was prompted by the fact that considerable property controlled by the trust company was delinquent in taxes. . School officials have declared that prompt payment of taxes would yield enough cash to pay teachers a sub stantial part of the back salaries due them. The militant portion of Chicago's 14,000 teachers marched to the large banks Monday, demanding the Insti tutions buy more tax warrants. The bankers told them that the warrants were unsuitable security beyond the point already reached because of so many delinquent tnxes. EYE OPERATION NEW YORK, April 26. (AP) Helen Vasco, two-year old girl whoso eye trouble has become the concern of half the nation, was reported In a "satisfactory" condition today after an operation that removed her left eye. 1 Only time will tell, however, whether the operation, which had been opposed bitterly by the girl's mother, was performed in time to save the child from death. The eye and a malignant tumor behind It were removed In IB min utes late yesterday by Dr. John H. Dunnlngton, assistant to Dr. John M. Wheeler, who In 1031 removed a cataract from the eye of the king of Slam. Mooney 9s Case iW ipy -.----i . SPfC " "Jn ( '-' MOONEY SAID CLOCK CLEARED HIM OF BOMB INS CHARGE (By The Associated Press) Tom Mooney case ta reopened In San rranclsco after 17 years In prla on, part of them marked by the shadow of the noose. This time, another trial la to bring to lite a dormant charge, one virtual ly a duplicate or that which .resulted from the bombing of a Preparedness Day parade In Ssn Francisco on July 11. IBIS and for which he wss con demned first to desth and then to life Imprisonment. Ten lives were snuffed out that day when a sultcsse loaded with drr.amite and scraps of Iron explod ed among the spectators gathered at Stewart and Market street to wit Roosevelt Launches Plan for International Cooperation BASEBALL R. H. 0 1 a s St. Louis Cleveland Broun and Fcrrell; Hlldebrand and PytloK.. Washington at Boston, postponed, rain. New York at Philadelphia, poned; cold. post- National R. H. E. Boston .. i 1 1 4 1 Brooklyn 5 11 1 Seibold, Frankhouse and Hogan; Carroll and Sukeforth. R. H. E. 1 1 I 3 8 1 Parmalee and Philadelphia New York ... Elliott and V. Davis: Mancuso. R. H. E 2 10 : Cincinnati 3t. Louis 15 1 S. Johnson and Hemsley; Derrlng' er and J. Wilson. Chicago at Pittsburgh postponed; cold. E LONDON, April 26. (P) Orea Britain and Soviet Russia were at grip today in a severe trade war slated to continue at least as Ions as two British subjects are held prts oners in Moscow. ' Iti cost to the two countries in good? alone probably t. would total nearly $100,000,000 in a year, that being the approximate value of the trade now at a standstill because, of embargoes. Great Britain's 80 per cent ban on Russian Imports went into effect last night and simultaneously Russia r taliated with a complete embargo on Brttjsh Imports and uther drastic re strictions on British shipping and commerce. PORTLAND, April 26. (AP) Word of the death of Fred Schloth, one of the best known buyers of fruits and vegetables on the coast, was received here today. Schloth died yesterday at Santa Maria. Calif. He was active buyer of frulta and vegetables In Oregon and loaded carlots for many years. ness the parade. Mooney and an al leged co-consplrator, Warren K. Bil lings, were convicted of first degree murder for cstistng one or those deaths. Now Mooney is to face the same charge but with another victim named. Acquittal on- this second Indict ment, he hopes, would give him the right to demand vindication on the first chsrge. The "Mooney case," one of the most celebrated In American crim inal annals, goes bsck to the coun try' effort to prepare Itseir against the danger of possible embroilment In the great war In Europe. Tne situation was seized upon by radicals, who charged capitalist were QSWTT . . AMD MRSMCONEYpSJI jf ....... S TOM MOONEY U . ' ,M P'CTUR.E to"'' Jr.,. ' TODAY A' showing parade Zyaf- . SJZi''' ' 1 1 vE FOREST WORK FULL SWING SOON Southern Oregon, with other re gion of the state and nation. Is this week turning her eyes toward the forests. And as she turns them she confronts many questions, according to report of the Rogue River national forest staff, which today revealed to answers as they have been forwarded from national headquarters. The time when southern Oregon's camps will open is still unsnown Hugo B. Rankin, supervisor of the Rogue River forest. Is now in Port land conferring with 0. J. Buck, dis trict forester, who recently returned from Washington, D. C, and E. O Sollnsky, superintendent of the Cra ter lake national park, will leave to night or tomorrow to Join the same conference. Under the present plan, as revealed here there will be five camps opened In the Rogue River forests and two in 'he Crater Lake national park giving this section a total of seven camps to be operated for a period of six months, with 315 men In each camp Such a program will bring employ ment of at least 1605 men for the six months period. Discussing the park situation to day. Superintendent Sollnsky ex pressed doubt that the weather would permit operation of the two camps In the park for a period of six months. There Is plenty of work to be done to employ the number of men for that period of time, but j1x months 'is a long stretch In the Cra ter lake .weather, he stated. The set-up for the reforestation armies, according to material released todiy by Karl J an ouch, assistant supervisor of the - Rogue River for ests, was worked out by Capt, James P. Wharton of the army recruiting service. Washlntgon. to Include 315 men In each forest company. In this number there will be three over seers, an army officer, two sergeants, four section foremen, 24 squad fora men, one clerk, one steward, two first class cooks and three second-class cooks. All but three of the army men will be selected from the workers. One of the leading purposes of the refoiestation project is to give 350,000 men work for a six months period. All men will be required to remain (Continued on Page Plve) Again in trying to plung; the country ln'o the conflict. When "preparedness days' were planned as demonstrations of patriot- ,,m , tne en,f c1Um th a, became especially vocal. Threat ot trouble were climaxed by the 8an Francisco explosion. Mooney. his wire and Billings had achieved reputation aa "direct ac tion" agitator on the coast. They fled when the round-up of suspect started srter the psrade bombing, but were found at a resort In' the mountains. Billings wss ar- l rested along with Israel Weinberg, a ' Jitney bua driver ar.d Edward P. Nolan, a radical agitator. 1 Mooney olfered aa alibi based upon To Direct Mint ' i! Sit vSJ I WASHINGTON, April 36. (AP) President Roosevelt today nominated Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former gov ernor of Wyoming, to be director of the mint. The president also sent to the senate the nomination of Lau rence A. Stelnhardt of New York, to be minister to Sweden, and named Charles Wyzanskt. Jr., of Massachu setts, to be solicitor of the labor de partment. Economics Expert Will Speak Hem John R. Mez, formerly of Univer sity of Oregon will deliver an address over KMED, Medford station from 6;30 to 7 p. m. Friday on "Inflation, War Debts and Tariff." Dr. Mez, who Is en route to the world economic conference In London, comes through Invitation of a group of valley fruit growers and packers. i . LINDBERGHS REACH : MISSOURI ON TOUR SPRINGFIELD, Mo April 28. (AP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh landed here today after an hour and nine minute flight from Kansas City on their transcon tinental Inspection trip.1 Court a snapshot of the paradt. It showed, the defense contended, Mooney and his wife on the roof of the building In which they lived several blocks from the scene of the explosion, in the background waa a street clock which registered the time a within only a few minutes of the tragedy. The defense contended that they could not have reached the roor within the brief apace of time elans lng between the hour at which the prosecution said they were seen at Stewart and Market and that shown y tne clock. Mooney's aged mother. Mrs Mar1 Mooney. wat active In plana for hi defense. T WASHINGTON. April 36. (AP) Prom happenings at Parts, Geneva and Washington, It appeared this afternoon that President Roosevelt has successfully launched an Inter national program envisaging a mora torium on war debt payments for duration of world economic confer ence at London, American participa tion In a consultative pact to re- enforce the Kellogg-Brland treaty. widespread tariff reductions and oth er means of cooperation among na tions In the Interest of all peoples. Significance was attached to word from the French capital that Premier Daladler would ask parliament to ap prove payment of the 19,000,000 now In default on debt payments, should the president offer a moratorium to carry over the conference. Only last night It was revealed that Mr. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Mac Donald of Great Britain and for mer Premier Herrlot of France had agreed on June 13 aa a time for starting the Important world meeting at London. The next debt Install ments fall due three days after that; and certainly the question must fig ure In the vital discussions for reha bilitation of world trade. Backing up Indications given yes terday by Secretary Hull here, Nor man H. Davis American ambassador at large Informed the arms confer ence In Geneva that the United States has both for Ita policy and practice a will to confer with foreign countries where peace is concerned. v It .was -noted.- that this nleaaed Franc, In view of talks under way between the president and M. Herrlot here; another augury of progress. , These developments topped off a joint statement made here by the president and Mr. MacDonald, In which the two leaders lined up for a seven point world economic recov ery plan embracing tariff reduc tions and higher silver prices. GOLD RECOVERED T NRW YORK, April 28. (ffn Recov ery of a fortune In gold from H. M. fl. Hampshire, the Brltlah warship which carried Earl Kitchener to hie death In the North sea during the World war. waa disclosed today. The salvaged gold amounted to 15 000, the first of the yellow metal to be taken from the Hampshire's strong boxes. Its recovery brought to the world the first authentic in formation that Kitchener carried a large treasure on his Ill-fated mis sion to Russia to help bolster the Ruse Ian armies in the cauea of the Allies - Discovery of the goid was disclosea In authoritative advices from Europe, a laconic message that might have been taken from a ship's log. The only other detail It carried wns that there was rejoicing among the crew of the salvage ship. Brt behind the meanage lies a story that reads like a chapter of one of the sea tales of Joseph Conrad, for the report Is that the search resulted, not from the lure of sunken treasure, but from the determination of a man to clear the name of a relative he ald waa accused of having given information to the Germans and thus aided In sending Kitchener to hla death. T-e names of the participants In that effort at vindication have not been disclosed. As the story goes, it begin four years ago. when this man determined to try to locate the Hamp shire to settle for himself the quea tlon In his own mind of how the Hampshire was sunk. He proceeded, even though the records showed that the warship struck a mine. Beginning methodically, he first sought every sailor connected with the mine layers in th district off the West Orkney Islands during the war AfW long and fruitless effort he was about to give up. when flnatly ho located a man who had worked on (Cqnflpued on Page Five) ' 4 Dunning Nabbed On Old Charge let Dunning, 31, secretly Indicted by the last grand Jury on a charge o; contributing to the delinquency of a minor girl, we arrested late yeater- day by state police snd the sheriff's office. Re returned to the city after an absence of six weeks, and was apprehended a short time after hla arrtrel. Dunning I held In th oounty Jail m llu of 11000 bond. NEW YORK STORES SAY EASTER TRAOE BEST in YEARS Change In Trend May Save Some Stock Speculator Works Out System Based On Weather Works Well (Oop-irlghted by MoOlurs Newspaper Syndicate.) NEW YORK, April 36. Utility in terests have It figured out that their best defense against the Muacla Shoals threat Is to endorse It In prin ciple and elaborate on the merit of handling the distribution themselves. iou win see these tactics amplified from now on to keen the novernm.nt out of power retailing. Tne merger of power facilities be tween Consolidated Gas and Nlsgara Huason Power was a neat device to eliminate all need of future flnanc ing oy either company for a long time. P. L. Carlisle of both com panies Is not as close to his Mor- gan sponsorship as he was. New York's better department stores were more than surprised by their Easter business. Dollar busi ness not merely physical volume waa actually better In many cases than It has been for the same period In the past three years snd In the face of bad. weather. If this unsus pected purchasing power holds some spectacular changes may be averted. A Wall Street speculator has work ed out the simplest stock market sysUm yet. If the weather la fine, he calls his broker as the market opens and places buying orders. If the weather la bad, he sells. He haj been trying It for a duple of month snd' so far It works better than the "scientific" systems. Weighty eonfereuce are going on these days at the Morgan . offices. The partner who aro accustomed to call it a day early In the afternoon are staying now until almost dinner time. Their limousines line the curb' (Oontlnued on Page Pour) 4 ' BEER PEDDLER PAYS $10 FINE The first arrest Involving the new s.a beer waa made In thla city today. wnea. uniei or police Clatous Mc Credl apprehended Roy Watson, transporting beer from Stockton, Cel.. and distributing It here without license. Watson waa fined 110 In cltv court by A. D, Curry, when he entered a pita of guilty to the charge, HI first plea was not guilty. A .short while liter he returned and changed the plea and paid tha fine. He Informed officers that ha was making one dollar case on distribu tion of tbe beer and that It waa hard to find sufficient quantity of th new beverage to make any money. He had sold 13 cases In Medford this morning before he was arrested. James McNeill Whistler's portrait of his mother, exhibited In numerous Aemrlcsn cities, Is Insured for 900, 000. WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Apr. 25. I don't know whether this going off the gold is official or not. The Prench have ve toed it. They claim we have no right to go off the gold and leave them high and dry on it. It seems like if you are on the gold every nation in the world is out to get you. They all say: "What's the idea of that big bum having goldt Say, we will figure out a way to bump him off." But this is time when you got to be ready for anything. I have got some old Cherokee Indian beads (or wampum). Suppose we go off the silver. Suppose we go off the paper. Well, look where I will be a setting with my WRmpuro. Tours, ' ' "
