0.0. Mclnfy re's Famous Column in Tribune Starting Monday Medford Mail tribtne The Weather Paid-Up Circulation People who pay for their newspapers are the best prospects for the adver tisers. A. B. O. circulation la paid up circulation. This newspaper Is Forecast: Fair Sunday with rlita temperature. Highest yesterday - ... S3 LowHt yesterday 42 Precip. to S p. m. ye-iterday .05 Twenty-eighth Year MEDFOUL), OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1933 No. 33. tPBEIBERlT mm MI8W8 BMEl . . r . Comment on the Day's News BT FBANK JENKINS THREE planes carrying ten avia tion enthusiasts left The Dalles t 10 o'clock Tuesday morning and 4S minutes later landed at Bend. Alter (pending aeveral hours at Bend, they took off, and 48 mlnutea later landed at Klamath Falls. Actual flying time, you wilt note, vaa three minutes over an hour and ' a half. Ninety years ago. General Tremont made practically the aame trip with horses, and It took him long weeks of hard travel. There has been quite a change in transportation since Fremont's day. 1 THE purpose ot the trip was to promote a lighted airway east of the Cascades, extending from The Dalles through Bend and Klamath Tails, and Intersecting the transcon tinental airway east from California, possibly at Reno. Such a project would also provide an alternate route northward along the coast. M IT COSTS money to provide lighted airways. The cost, .as estimate by Wallace Nelson, secretary of The Dalles-Wasco county chamber of commerce, who accompanied the delegation to Klam ath Falls, runs about $1S00 a mile. THE explanation of the high cost, of course, lies In the establish ment of airports, the lighting of them for night flying and the pro vision ot radio and telegraph faclll ties for the guidance ot pilot. . This cost, It should be understood, would be borne by the federal de partment of commerce, and not by the etate of Oregon or the com munities along the route. BY AN odd coincidence, members of the state highway commission were In Klamath Falls when the planes bearing the delegation from the north arrived. As they came roaring In, Commis sioner Aldrlch glanced up at them and remarked: "Well, there goes our highways." What he meant, of course, waa that 'no sooner do we get a fine sys tem of roads built than along comes the alrolane with Its possibilities ot revolutionizing transportation and making highways obsolete. rjUT it has always been that way D The canal boat and the river steamer were Just getting nicely un der" way when the railroad arrived en the scene and crowded them out of the picture. Then, Just as wa get a system ot railroads built thai serve the country fairly adequately, the automobile arises, and we start building high ways. By the time we get a system of highways fairly well under way, the airplane looms on the horizon. fi TILL. It has always been that d way, and It always WILL BE at least as long as progress continues Progress doesn't 'consist In standing still. It consists In discarding the old and taking on the new. rou mav laugh, of course, at the I suggestion that the airplane may displace the automobile. "Why, you say, "that's the craziest kind of an Idea. The darned things aren't sate, and never will be." It does sound that way, to be sure. Still, the railroad train, drawn by a locomotive, was regsrded as a crazy Idea at first, and people laughed to scorn the Idea that It would amount to anything. And. If you are around middle age or maybe a little past that point, you can remember the amusement with which the first automobiles were greeted. . Nobody believed, when they first appeared, that they would ever be more than a plaything BUT the locomotive worked, and the automobile worked, and each In Its turn revolutionized transpor tat Ion. So don't be TOO. cocksure that the airplane won't work and In ITS turn revolutionize transportation. KANSAS CITY, Kan.. April 39 (API A man and a child were In jured by hall stones during one of the most severe hall storms In years here late today. TO PROVIDE JOBS, :conomic Moves Progress Farm Control And In flation Acts Effective Soon Mortgage Aid Near. WASHINGTON, April 29. (fl) President Roosevelt forged today i rne-year bllllon-or-more-dollars pub Ic works program to aid employment topping off his broad domestic and international program. A tentative draft of the measure whlon would put administration of the Job-giving plan in a coordinator or national board was taken to the White House by a special committee of the cabinet. Methods of flnsnclng the employ ment project were undecided tonight with both a bond issue and new taxa- ton under oonslderatlon. The com mittee considered a proposal for tax on payrolls but It was Indicated this was not favored- Mr Roosevelt Insisted the public works be devoted to self-liquidating projects end to proposals which pro vide the most Jobs. No decision was reached on the ex act extent of the year's program but the White House advisors believed between one billion and two billion dollars would be required. A ihrce year billion dollar road construction program was advanced r-y the cabinet committee. A halt bil lon clollara for the roads In the next year :a almost definitely a part of the Roosevelt program. Rivers and harbor Improvements. national construction, public build ings and other Internal developments are to be Included. Secretaries Dern. Ickes. Wallace and Perk'ns and Dlrectot Douglas of the budget went over the public works program with the President In a two- Iiour conference late today. The legislation, wnlch would put full authority for r.amlng the pro jects and administration In the hands of the President and a special com mittee, will be sent to congress with in ten days. Spokesmen for thee powerful na- t'ons Great Britain. France and Can ada were traveling homeward to night from the White House carrying complete underatanclngs with the united states on measures for a new world economic ordei and disarma ment Statesmen of the other world powers are on the high seas to com -)'.ete the round of Roosevelt talks which are to have their fulfillment the London and Geneva confer ences. There Is also under consideration proposal extending sweeping au thority to the President to exercise such other authority as la needed lo improve working conditions. The cabi net committee has considered propos als for suspensions of anti-trust and federal trade commlLslon restrictions. Next week also Mr. Roosevelt will send to congress his proposal for a reorganization of the national rail road system through a federal coor dinator. House democratic leaders sent word (Continued on Psge Four) Banks Says Jail Life "Important Experience, " In Brief Eugene Talk In the brief, guarded Interviews to Eugene newspapers, the day follow ing their Incarceration In Lane coun ty, to await trial fcr first degree mur der. L. A. Banks, slaver of Constable George J. Prescott, described his six Teeks In the Jackson county Jail as ?he "most valuable and Important ex perience in my Ilfe-.lme," expressed gratitude to Lane county offlclala for courtesies shown him. snd his wife, hut wss wary of comment on the killing, which he termed, "the acci dent" The Interviews give a hint, -thitt The former orchardlst and editor. wi:i endeavor to renew his showmanship. fa'nt!y paints himself as a martyr, and mentions his daughter here with kin and a granddaughter In Califor nia. Banks declares he has spent his Jail days reading the Bible, and the phil osophers, and closed bis remarks with the words: . "If the truth does not win. I will not win." Mrs Bunks declined with the stete rrent. "Just tell the truth, and it will bj 11 right." o Both the. defendants were cheerful jr.d confident, and declared liie "awaited the trial w.th eagerness." The Interview, written by Helen iVadleljrh. a Bnnks employee, shortly -Utei he assumed control of the Neva, E SCHOOLS, CREDIT A plea for early payment of toxes to save Jackson county from a des perate financial situation has been Issued here by school authorities and all county officials, with exception of County Judge Earl H. Fehl. The credit of Jackson county must be preserved, It was declared by of ficials yesterday, who added that tne situation is rapidly becoming a crit ical one to be feared by all citizens favoring the continuance of adequate school systems, the maintenance of county roada and operation of county government. Unless taxea are paid It will be Impossible to preserve the credit of the county and keep It from a sol vent financial basis. The schools of the county are al ready faced with highly detrimental cuts In salaries and terms of school. Ashland has handed her teachers con tracts, calling for only four months of school next year. Medford la faced with a tour and a half months term unless taxes are paid before May 10. Election of teachers has been postponed until that time In the belief that more tax money win come In. Central Point and Talent will both adopt eight months terms Other districts are, like Medford, awaiting developments before hlr(ng teachers, but all are expecting to make great retrenchments. Many people, officials have been made to understand, have the money to pay their taxes, but have been led to believe that something Is to be gained through failure of pay ment, when quite the opposite Is true. If taxes are not paid, services which Jackson county residents have become to demand, will be discon tinued and the county's credit great ly Impaired. T HIT BY STATE CE. EUGENE. April 29. (AP) Resolu tions condemning liquor, tobacco, movies and dancing were adopted at sessions of the forty-third annual state Christian Endeavor convention here late yeaterday as 1700 delegates from all over the atate took up the business of the convention. "Realizing that more than 80 per cent of the motion pictures are un fit for those who would be pure In heart, action, and faithful to the service of the Lord." the resolution urged all delegates to consider care fully what pictures they would see. Dsncing wss condemned as an- "un wholesome amusement." and the other resolutions urged retention of the nstlonal dry law and deplored the use of narcotics as wilful waste. A parade at 3:39 o'clock ,,thla aft ernoon, Bible dramatizations, orator ical contests and election of offi cers tonight feature the convention program today. was as follows. "I was once told by a friend that a man Is not a full man until he spen: a month in Jail. X only smiled and did i-ot oelleve it, but now, after spend ing x weeks In Jail, t consider It the most valuable, and most Important experience) of my lifetime," Llewellyn A. Banks declared cheerfully yester ciay, from the Lane county Jail cell. "1 have read in the past six weeks the lives of all the philosophers fron tte beginning of history, Plato, Aris totle Cicero and all the others. "Some of the stores at Medford Vid of my reading my Bible I did too. always do but not all hump ed up and prayerful as it made me sound. "I have rested a great deal and airs Banks has had a world of rest, almost like being in hospital." A calm confidence was displayed by the 62-year old defendent, "If the truth does not win, I will not wln,N he ild .-imply.- An elaboration of his plea of net guilty was refused smilingly. "The facts properly belong before the court, and 'here they will be placed." Banks, when held in the Josephine county Jail at Orent Pass, was in terviewed by a press association. In which he declared, re "shot in de fense of my home." This was the day foil wing th murde- The Biurene in . 'r4rvlw was bis first aloes tbea, 'Socked' Neighbor , , , , , . St A disturbance in hit Washington neighbor's apartment caused Rep. F. H. Shoemaker (above), Minna sota, to lay Theodora Cohen low with a "punch In the eye." He will ba tried In police court on an as sault charge. (Aasoclated Press "hotol ESTABLISH FIRST E E PORTLAND, Ore., April 39. (P) Regional Forester p J. Buck stated today1 that 'the nat.onal forests of Oregon and Washington are ready for -he civilian conservation corps, with rr.sjor details arranged and an ex tensive program prepared. The an nouncement was Issued after Buck concluded a four-day conference with 20 forest supervisors of Oregon and Washington. The first civilian camp In Oregon will be established In the Siskiyou national forest somewhere on the Rogm- river In southern Oregon PORTLAND, Ore.. April 29. (AP) At the rate of about 20 an hour. Oregon recruits In the civilian con servation corpa were going through the employment offlco of the civic emergency committee here today, on the first stsge of the Journey tnat will take them to the first Jobs they have had In months, as conservatora In Uncle Sam's forests. About 900 Oregon men will com prise the first forest contingent. More than one housand others be tween the ages of 18 and 2S yeara will bo taken later, and there were reporta today that ultimately an ad ditional quota of about 3,500 men to be classed as woodsmen will be sent to the forests. These would be selected, on the basis of forest ex perience and without regard to age CUBAN REVOLT IS HAVANA, April 29. (p) Seven reb els, two soldiers and the chief of polled of the town ot San Luis were killed as army forces quickly sup pressed a revolutionary outbreak in Orients province today, said a gov ernment announcement tonight A force of approximately 40 men. the announcement aid, attacked the rural guard post ear San Luis early today killed two soldiers and seized r-orses, arms and ammunition. They were then driven from the town by army forces dispatched from nearty Palma Sarlano under com mand of Lieutenant Rodriguez Two ebels were killed. CHICAGO. April 39. A dras tic cleanup order aimed to purge Chi cago of Its gangster element before opening of the world's fair and to break the hoodlum grip on organised ?bor. was issued ton'ght by Chief of Detectives William sechoemaker. A dozen scjuads were dispatched from headauartera with orders to "arrest every gangster in Chicago.1 Among the first to fall In the net was "Spike OTonnelI, southside ?ang overlord and his bodyguard. Sanfor, (Olmp) Rosenbaum. Oer.e O'Connor, business agent for the Chicago Awning and TentmakenV t nlon was among early arrivals at v&e lockup. HAPPY DAYS FOR AS Plffi SOARS Demand Strong And Market Highest In Years No Limit To Sales As Brewers Seek Visible Supply. PORTLAND, Ore., April 39. OP) The hop market Jumped to the 40- cent level today with heavy buying reported In all Pacific ooaat hop gowtng sections. Demand was the strongest and prices the highest the ;rade has experienced in several yeara. The price represente-1 a gain of 7yjC pound over yesterday. Dealers had unlimited orders as to quantity, volume of business being controlled only by the amount of hops growers could sell. Trudlng opened 'or the day with tne sale of about 700 bales of Oregon hops at 35 cents and 300 bales at Yakima, Wash. Large trading at that P'ice was also reported from Califor nia tecttons. Later In the day the buying became more aggressive and bids were raised to 40 cents a pound, a price which prevailed for the remainder of fcho day. This brought out a number of ffalem-owned lots amounting to about 5C0 bales. The buying orders. It was reported, are coming chiefly fom eastern hop dealers and brewers. The heavy buy- ng was attributed largely to the fact that breweries now .--Derating had no opportunity to provide for their hop requirements by previous contract ing. as was done "In the old days" and to the scarcity of supplies A -new high was reached in the contract market also when William Hoefev algned to sell 30,000 pounds of 1933 hops to an English firm next fall at 35 cents a po'ir.d. Several other contracts for that price were report a 4- y T VANCOUVER. Wash., April 39. P The oody of an unidentified man was round floating Jn the Columbia river abou. 10 miles down river from here todsy. The coroner's office Investiga ted the possibility that the body .night be that of Lee Schlesslnger. Portland merchant and aportsmxn whoso automobile was found In the Columbia river at the foot of a dock here several weeks ago. Later, how ever, the coroner's office announced definitely that the Dody was not that of Sshlessinger. E Washington, April 39. (p A :ou of ai84.153.233 chalked up on Its books, the farm board today formal if ended its wheat operations and re tired from the grain markets In which It has been dealing since May, 1930 Henry Morgenthau, Jr., chairman of the board, announced In a formal statement that at the close of the grain exchanges today all wheat L'U' tures held by the grain stabilization corporation the farm board's agency --had been sold. E WASHINGTON, April 39. (fP) The end of the first great series of 'nternational conversations at the white House tonight found the Unit d Sates and Its fellow nations well 'aunched for he flrt time toward solution of the vital post-war prob lema of debts, heavy armaments and economic nationalism Whatever the eventful verdict of history may be, the talks with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, of Ores Brltan; former premier Edouard Her riot of France, and Prime Mtnlste: Richard B. Bennett of Canada, mark H a direct and frank application by President Roosevelt of his policy In world affairs. f Weather Forwwt Owgon: Cloudy Sunday with rain over the west portion by Sunday n!ghv Monday rain; moderate tern perature; moderate rnangeable winds becoming southerly and Increasing offshore. Grants Pass Takes 200 Pounds Onions For Traffic Fine GRANTS PASS, Ore., April 39 fP) Even the court admitted the tine asseased against V. O. Bishops of Brooks, Ore., today was a bit "strong." Bishops brought his loaded truck to Grants Pass and was arrested for falling to stop at a stop sign. He could not pay th4 fine and costs, so he offered to give the court the contents of bis truck. The offer as accepted. It consisted of 300 pounds ot onions. T LB MARS. Ia.. April 29. (T) Ten northwest Iowa farmers tonight were jnder military arrest-, facing prosecU' t'on, possibly on charges of criminal syndicalism, for alleged participation in farm riots which brought the na tlona. guard and maitlal law to Ply mouth and Crawford counties. Troops, with fixed bayonets and machine guns, today supervised cale of goods at the J. F. Shields farm near Denison. It was the sV tempt to complete the sale yesterday which precipitated the battle between farmers and officers, resulting m dec aratlon of martial law over Craw ford county. The men In custody, five here and five at Denlson, were arrested by :nllltiamen and atate agents and awaited the assemcllng of special Judges and prosecutors appointed by state authorities to expedite their hearings ad trials. National guards authorities at both Le Mars and Denison , continued searor. for ringleaders of the Denl son fight and the assault on Judge Bradley In which the Judge was ear ned from his courtroom to a cross roads, beaten and covered with grease and dirt and rendered unconscloua Ly being Jerked off his feet with noose around his neck. , . . That violence brought the. first call for tate troops early yesterday. LINDY TO RELATE TRAGJYDETAIL WASHINGTON, April 39. (AP) The Washington Sunday Star aald tonight It had received official ln d (cations that Col. Charles A. Llnd bergh would testify personalty here in the ransom conspiracy trial of Gaston B. Means and Norman T, Whltaker describing details of the tragic kidnaping of his first aon. O. 0. Mclntyre s Famous Column Is Daily Feature Starting Next Monday One of the most widely read newspaper fcaturea In the world, "New York Day By Day," written by O. O. Mclntyre, will appear daily In The Mall Tribune starting Monday, May 1. The following sketch of the famous magazine: Like the O. Henry character who searched all night for th typical man -about-town only to find him self thus described In the morning newspapers, O. O. Mclntyre, who so frequently halls the "small-town boy who made god in the big city," Is the perfect nxample of his own eleven-word success story. From a!!lpclis, Ohio, he came over a rambling route to New York a score of yeara ago to dissect a big city and sell It piecemeal to the provinces. Today Odd Mclntyre is still sell ing New York In small towns and cities all over the country, receiving In return what Is believed to be the highest salary of any columnist (ex cepting Brisbane) In the world. That salary is more than $3,000 a week. Por sixteen years "New York Day By Day" hss been a dally newspaper fea ture. Sixteen years ago only the Bridgeport (Conn.') post used It. To day 330 newspapers with an aggre gate circulation of 30,000.000 offer Mclntyre'a column of New York chatter to their readers. Before he cams to New York, Mc lntyre worked for a time as reporter on the Dayton (O.) Herald. The publisher of the Herald, to keep in touch with the operation of his news paper, had his desk In the front office on the ground floor of the plant placed in such a position that he could obtain full view of each person who entered or left the build ing. Reporter Mclntyre. inordinate ly shy, used to dash past the pub lisher's desk In the hope that he could escape the notice of his boss, but lit was not fast enough. EFFORT TO OPEN If anticipated legal moves by the defense can be cleared away In time, the state expects to start the ballot theft trials, at the tevm of the clrcu'.t court, scheduled to begin Monday, May 77. when the petit Jury will be called for service. It Is also expected that the grand Jury of which Thomas J. Bell, Jr Is foreman, will be c-uled at the same t'me. The grand Jury, after returning .ndlctments for first degree murder against L. A. Banks and wife, and 33 indictments In the ballot-stealing outrage, adjourned subject to call, af ter a four-day session The state has been concentrating on bringing L. A. Banks and Mrs, Banks to trial, and with the proceed ings over, will move for an early henr !ng on the ballot theft cases. Some of the evidence in the Banks murder trial this week, will have a direct bearing on the ballot-theft cases. The former case Is expected to last all the coming week. Practically all the defendants In the bsl lot-ate al lng, save those who- have entered pleas of guttty, or have not been arraigned, have filed affidavits of prejudice. Individually and collec- tlvel? against Circuit Judge W. M. Duncan. Granting of the prejudice Is matter of form, and the state su preme court will assign another Judg. The high court assigned Judge Skip- worth to the Banks case, ' and until further notice." Under Oregon law. the defendants have, a right to file a second affidavit jf prejudlci The new Judge will be the first matter settled when the ballot thefts are taken up. ' All of the defendants, who Include County Jxidge Earl H. Fehl, Suspend- fd Sheriff Gordon L. Schennerhorn, Walter Jones, mayor of Rogue River, John Olenn, former county Jailer. and J. Arthur La Dleu, have slgnl fled a desire for a speedy trial Eight of the accused men have entered pleas of guilty, and the state hints more co come Defendants who have entered p!ea of not guilty are at liberty on bonds, with the exception of Thomas L. Brechecn, Ashland political work- Joe Csve, member of the local police squad, will act as chief of police during the absence of Clatoua McCredle, It was announced last night. Chief McCredle la among or flcers called to Eugene' for the trial of L. A. Banks and wife, which opens tomorrow. , columnist, appeared In Cosmopolitan O. O. Mplntyre "Who's that fast-stepping boy who dashes In ind out all the time aa If he's heading for a three-alarm fire? the publisher asked one day. Continued on rag oux . STAGE ALL SET AT EUGENE FOR TRIALBANKS Insanity And Threats By Slain Officer Hinted As Defense Interview Vital Cog In State's Case. Public Interest of Jackson county will shift this week to the pioneer Lane county courthouse at Eugene, where L. A. Banks, agitator and former editor and publisher, and his wife. Edith Robertlne Banks, go on trial for first degree murder for the . slaying of Constabte George J. Pres cott, March 16th last, while Banks waa resisting service of a warrant for ballot-stealing, and In fulfillment of oft-spoken and published threats against constituted authority. The exreme penalty upon convic tion of the crime chargod, under Ore gon law, is death upon the gallows. The Jury may recommend life Im prisonment. Verdicts in -lesser de grees may be outlined by the court In Its final Instructions. ' Mrs. Bsnks Is listed as an acces sory. Th Oregon law holds an ac cessory equally guilty. . wlille no definite announcement has come from the defense counsel, It Is thought it will embody every element helpful to the cause of the L defendants, with . self-defense and insanity as the keynotes. It is high ly probable the two defendants will elect to be tried together. Banka tt la predicted, will plead temporary Insanity on the grounds of emtlonal strain, brought about by financial worries and personal troubles and Interpose 'the further plea of self-defense, on the allega tion that the slain officer had made threats against him. The state will endeavor to refuts the charge if made, that the slain officer made threats against Banks, by testimony of a half dozen wit nesses who within 30 minutes be fore the slaying, talked with ; Con stable Prescott. They will testify. that the murdered , officer spoks kindly of his murderer, . and decried their warnings that he would "maka good his threats." ' Among the strongest link's of evi dence to be Introduced by the state, will be the words of Banks before and after the murder. These include his Interview with the United Press. In the Grants Pass Jail; his letters to the sta,te police and city police, warning that his arrest "would re sult In bloodshed, and probably my own death." and articles In which he threatened violence in opposition to constituted authority. Banks, in the Grants Pass Jail In terview, said: "I shot Constable) George Prescott in defense of my home. 'Poor George. I am sorry for him.1 but under the circumstances X could not have acted differently and I would do the aame thing again U anyone attempted to force his way into my home, as I have repeatedly warned them by letters and state ments." The interview In full will be In troduced to show premeditation and malice. It will also be shown that (Continued on Page Eight) WILL; ROGER? e$sys: BEVERLY IHLLS, Cnlif., April 23. Governments are having the game trouble now that individuals have been hav ing for three years. This is try ing to find out the actual value of what they have. You don't know the value of your land. Your stocks, your house or anything. Now England and America and France have met to find out what the dollar is worth and pound sterling is worth Everything is jumping up and down now like an interna tional banker at a senatorial in vestigation. Nations are like a lot of women with their babies. Each thinks theirs is the best. Yours, . i; t if n