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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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'
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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, ' ' "