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ord Stores During fytek May 15-20 I AILT Paid-Up Circulation People who pa; for their newspapers are the beat proepects tor the adver tisers. A. B. O. circulation Is paid up circulation. Thli newspaper U A. B. O. The Weather Forecast: Unsettled with rain Sun day. Not much change in temper ature. Highest yesterday 57 Lowest yesterday . 82 60 . .Twenty-eighth Year MEDFOKU, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1933 No. 39. fffilAfl t--' Cotton to Be King in Medf M EDFORD RIB JNE rnrTo) nn LlVlZAiLQ) MW 1 ! a 1 1 I :i j j i Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE administration's new railroad blil. Just introduced In congress, proposes about as complete elimina tion ot competition as could bo Im agined. The country's railroads are to be run practically as one system, to be bossed by a federal "co-ordl-nator." whose Job it will be to elimi nate competitive costa. The purpose, of course, la to bring down expenses to the point where a ( profit can be earned. BACK East, they are keenly Inter ested In seeing the railroads cam a profit, for unless a profit can be earned the value of railroad stocks ' and bonds will go on declining. , The big financial centers of the East are interested primarily In in vestment values. OUT here In the West, we are In terested first ot all in lower freight rates. We are a long way from the big consuming markets, and the freight rate has to come out of the price we get. The higher the rate the lower our price. JIHIIoE they are about it, they Yf might reduce some of the $100, 000 salaries railroad presidents have received in the past. To anjrdinary citizen, away out here in the sticks. It doesn't appear that the railroads are prosperous enough to Justify such aalarlcs. Especially when they go Into the making of the rates, and so come out of OUR pockets. OLD CLINT HAIOHT, over at Can yon City, put his tongue, in his f cheek and got off this one the other day: . "There are too many people in this cock-eyed country. The crop must be cut down. No more kids until 1863 should be the slogan." Then he added: "If we could quit raising children, we could balance the achool tax budget." BERNARD MAINWARING, of the Baker Democrat-Herald, inclined at first to take Cllne seriously, geta cared: "If we raise no more children," he writes In his paper, "a million teach ers would be thrown onto tho labor market, and the scarcity of new ba bies would not reduce the army of Job seekers for at least 15 years. "Meanwhile, with fewer mouths to eat food, over-production would' be worse than ever." BUT about that time the saving second thought occurred to Ber nard and he added: "Besides, has Mr. Halglit thought of any way to put .his plan into operation?" How about it. Clint? Have you7 BILL TUOMAN, up at Eugene, leans back In his chair, fllla his pipe and starts figuring out something. Let's have some more of this "plan ned economy," he says stimulate the crop of babies whenever It looks like there would be a surplus of food stuff, with too few mouths to eat It, and cut down the crop whenever a shortage Impends. This Is the sge of fancy schemes t for planning everything, you know, and Bill alms to hold up his end. BUT shuckl Clmt ws Just run ning a whlizer stirring up the animals, they used to call It. He knew he'd get a rise from somewhere. . and he got It. A wise old owl like Clint knows thst without a crop of bablea coming along every year the world would go to pot In a little while. If there were no bablea, the world would soon be full of old men, and old men lack the courage to do things that, to solid, sensible, conservative people, look utterly crary. Their Inclination 1s to sit tlg.ht and let well enough alone. If there had been no young people to defy convention and do crazy things, we'd still be living In caves and eating raw meat. SO AWAT with 'thia Idea of a mo ratorium on babies! If Clint had really meant It, he ought to be taken out and drowned in the John Day river. But, of course, he didn't. He was Just putting up something for the boys to shoot st. BROTHERS ADMI1 HOLDING HEIRESS IN RANSOM PLOT Dramatic Denouement in Abduction of 10-Year-0ld Margaret WIcMath Ken neth and Cyril Buck Held By ANDREW J. KELLEY Associated Press Start Writer HARWICH PORT, Mass., May 15. (AP) Two Cape Cod brothers an unemployed chauffeur and a garago mechanic wero seized for the kid naping of 10-year-old Margaret Mc Math and the ransom money 60, 000 in currency was recovered to day In a startling denouement of the abduction. Upon the chauffeur, Kenneth Buck. 30. police laid t.'ie origin and execu tion of the plot by which the 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil McMath was lured from her schoolroom here Tuesday and held for $60,000 ransom, Cyril Go-Between His brother, Cyril, 38. they charged with acting as the go-between and the emissary through whom the child was returned to her parents early yesterday. The ransom money, $60,000 in bills, furnished by wealthy grandparents in Detroit, and paid over to Kenneth aboard a yacht in the harbor here early yesterday, was recovered tonight from Kenneth's home, $10,000 of It from his wife and $50,000 more hid den in a bedroom closet. Little "Peggy" was back with her parents, fully recovered and with no ill effects from her experience. Family Exonorated State police officials who, with dramatic suddenness brought the case to a solution in ft -series olpectacu' lar moves during the night and day, exonerated all members of the family of any knowledge of the crime. They expressed the belief that only the (Continued on Page Seven) L T Preparations were completed yes terday for a Cotton Event to be con ducted in Medford In connection with National Cotton Week, May 15-20 and all the ready-to-wear stores and dry oods stores in the city are cooperat ing to make the event a success, ac cording to John Moffatt, chairman of the affair. It is the purpose of the Medford stores to emphasize cottn clothes and cotton goods during the campaign and many novel publicity and mer chandise Ideas will be injected Into the program. An a preliminary to cotton event week, a poster campaign has been in augurated In the art departments of the high school and the Junior high school under the direction of Miss Louise Hollcnback and Mrs. Arthur Schoenl. The poster contest ends on Wednesday and the exhibits will be assembled at the chamber of com merce on Thursday when they will be Judged by a, committee of merchants and- three prizes awarded. Another feature of the campaign is a dress making contest being conducted at the high school. In thia contest the girls are making cotton dresses which will be on display at the chamber of commerce next Thursday and during the week of May 15-20 will bo ex hibited in the ready-to-wear store windows. Prizes will be awarded for the best dresses and the Judges will be a representative each from the fol lowing stores: Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann. Adrienne's, Burelon.s ready-to-wear, Cinderella shop. Jacqu Lennox, and the Band Box. The Judging will take place at the chamber of commerce at 10:00 a. m Thursday morning and the public is Invited. The dress mak ing work at the high school is being conducted under the guidance of Miss MAurlne Carroll and Indications are that many splendid dresses will be made at a minimum of cost. Department stores and dry goods stores of the city are each donating sufficient material for one girl at the high school to make a dress which will be exhibited in the store win dows as another feature of the Cotton Event Week. The firms donating the material are Mann's. M. M. Depart ment store. Montgomery Ward, J. C. Penney Co., Whillock's, and Hutchi sons. The girls making these dresses will be given same at the end of Cotton Event Week. During the week of May 1520 t!l the stores will feature cotton clothes and cotton goods and arrangements have hn made for the windows to 4 Continued on Paga Seven Testimony Connects Wife of Banks With Dramatic Family Reunion ;V - f- VI AsHuclnlcd Press tnlephoto or alMhictctl Peggy McMath, 10, with her faMier and mother,- Mr. and Mrs. Nell MvMath, lit the dramatic reun ion when father and child were landed by a coast guard cutter at Woods Hole, Mass. The Harwich port family was reported to have paid $(i0,000 rnnsom -for the girl's return. Banks Attorneys Unable Shake States Witnesses In Testimony on Slaying Accused Woman Slated 'We Did IC When Asked Who Killed Prescott Is Damaging Word of Williams By ARTHUR PERRY EUGENE, May 6 In vain, Frank J. Lonergan, brilliant Portland attorney, speaker of the last house of the state legislature, and in his time, a star football player at Notre Dnme, endeavored to break down tho damning testimony of T. E. (Tommy) Williams, manager of the Union Oil company at Medford, against Mrs. Edith Robertine Banks. Jointly charged and tried, with her husband. L. A. Banks, former publisher-orchard 1st, with first-degree murder for the slaying of Constable George J. Prescott, on the morning of March 16 last. Lonergan is ace of Friday, he had grilled, , at times sav azelv. the state's witnesses. Summoning to his aid. all his skill and legal art, Attorney Lonergan tried to make the oil company em ployee, alter his testimony. The wit ness, calmly emphatic, failed to vary in a single Important detail. Over and over. Attorney Lonergan fired questions. Hailed Near Home Williams testified that on the morning of the murder, he drpve an oil truck by the Banks home. He saw three po,lcemen standing nearby on a corner. Sensing the unusual, he drove around the block and stopped directly in front of the Banks home and took a position on the tool-box. He watched the three officers. Chief of Police Clatous McCredie. Lieut. Alex Dunn and Sergeant James O'Brien. As he watched an arm was extend ed and withdrawn from the front door of the Banks home. The door closed. An instant later it reopened and Mrs. Banks appeared, Williams testified. She called to him: -Come, and get this please!" Williams aatd, he ignored this call. The door closed, and acaln Mrs. Banks re-appeared, and again said (Continued on Page Six) CoaU Results R. Seattle Portland - 12 Sewell, Ulrieh and Cox; and Palmlsano. H. E. 11 3 30 0 Olbson LOS ANGELES. May Score: San Francisco ...... (AP) R. H. E. ... 6 10 1 ...6 11 1 Hollywood Stlne and Bottarlna; Wetzel, Camp bell and Franks. Bassler. Unsettled with rain Sunday and Monday, snow over mountains; mod Tate t'n'pe-itMrc; strong south wind, at time of gale force, olt&no;e the Banks' battery of lawyers. All day STATE TESTIMONY WILL END PRESENT OUTL By AKTIIt'R PKRRV EUGENE. May 9 The state of Ore gon will probably conclude by Mon day noon Its main testimony In the trial of L. A. Banks, former Medford publisher-orchardut, and his wife, Edith rtoberttne Banks, charged with first degree murder for the slaying of Constable Oeorge J. Prescott. The defense Is expected to take at least two days, with Defendant Banks himself as the chief witness in his own behalf. Attorney Phipps for the defense, announced before the trial started that both the defendant would take the stand. The prediction is now that the case will be In the hands of the Jury by Friday after noon, possibly Thursday. Sixteen witnesses, besides the two principals have been called by the defense, Including Mrs. Henrietta B. Martin, president of the so-called "Good Government Congress" and a number of others Identified in a minor capacity, with the turmoil that racked Jackson county before the tracedy climax. From tne trend of the cross-examination of the state witnesses by At torney Frank J. Lonergan, the de fense will employ a general defense of not guilty, which permits them to use all the defenses mental stress, Continued pa Page Seren TO AND HOLLY STREET Work Starts Monday on Reinforced Concrete Building to House Ex panding Business Feeling confident that the depres sion la over, and that now Is the time to expand business concerns In view of better times to come, the Colonial Bakery, Inc., with W. H. Fluhrer as manager will erect a new building at the southwest corner of Sixth and Holly streets, with work to start tomorrow, according to an an nouncement made by Fluhrer yes terday. The building will be 70 feet by 110 feet, Fluhrer said, constructed of rein forced concrete throughout, and will be one and one half stories high with a basement. The new bakery plant will bo furnished with first class modern equipment to make bread, cakes and a complete line of bakery products. Erection of the new building will not Interfere with the Poet Office Super Service station, now managed by Rod Waters, Fluhrer said, and the Green Lantern cafe will also con tinue as a first class restaurant. The building will extend from Sixth street to the alley back, of tho university club, which was recently paved. JPluhrera-bought- the - property -upon which the building will bo erected about three years ago. The Colonial Bakery will retain Its retail store In Its present location on East Main and will also conduct a retail store at the new plant, which will be open for operation by July 16, according to Fluhrer, and to Prank Clark, architect. Distribution of Colonial Bakery products will be made over Southern Oregon and Northern California, with a branch plant In Yreka to cover territory around Dunsmulr, Weed, Hilt, Shasta City and other North ern California towns. The Medford branch will cover the territory as far north as Grants Pass. Decision of the Colonial Bakery to build at thia time was made with the conviction that construction costs are as low now as they will ever be, that economic conditions are going to Improve from now on, and that a larger baking plant will be needed to care for Increased business. John Fluhrer Is president of the Colonial Bakery company, and W. H. (Heinle) Fluhrer, manager. Work on the building will start Monday. TEAM CHAMPIONS OE ENTIRE STATE The debate championship of the state of Oregon was won on the "Fer ry system last nltfht, when the Med ford team met the eastern Oregon champions from Pendleton and de feated them with a two to one de cision at Corvaltls. Misses Elisabeth and Prances Fer ry, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Ferry and seniors of Medford high school, represented the western Oregon division. The victory brings to Medford permanent possession of the Burt Brown Barker trophy and second leg on the Oregon eup. A large crowd filled the Corvallts studio for the debate, which was broadcast from KOAC. Judges were Prof. Earl Wells,. Paul Knoll, and Prof. H. Crump acker. The subject for debate was "Re solved: that fifty per cent of state and local revenues should be derived from sources other than tangible property." Ralph Bailey, Medford debate coach, Mrs. Bailey and Mr. and Mr Ferry accompanied the team to Oor vallia and will be returning with the victorious twins today, . Bright Spots . Br UNITED PRESS T. Jacobson A Sons, underwear manufacturers. Increase wages of em ployes 10 per cent. O. C. Murphy Co. report April sales of 11.828,758, Increase of 9.4 per cent over April last year. Dome Mine Ltd. reports April out put of 9403.268, against 9354,264 in April. 1033. Regains Theaters 0 1 s E George Hunt, former owner and manager of the Craterlan and Rial to theaters, will take charge of the the aters again today, according to an nouncement made .last night. The lease of the Fox theater chain was cancelled last week by. an order of the federal bankruptcy court., and the theaters turned back to the for mer operator. Leases on the two bhcaters were given the Fox company In September of 1020, and have been operated by the Fox company since that time. Hunt has been purchasing pictures for a group of theaters covering northern California, Oregon and parts of Washington, and will operate the local theaters under provisions of the group. "We will continue to operate the theaters muoh as they have been op erated," Hunt said, "and will show only the best pictures available. No drastic changes win be made, at least for the present." Hunt will make his home here, ho said, and will have active charge of the Craterlan. Elno Hommlla will continue as manager of the Rial to. Hem mil a has been manager of the Rial to for more than a year, and has made many friends. The Craterlan theater was built for Hunt, who operated it until 1939. and made It one of the most popular playhouses in southern Oregon. A few Immediate changes will be made. Hunt said, to the policies he found profitable to the theater and pleas ing to the people of Medford when he formerly operated tho theater. "I am glad to get back to Medford to make my home here and to con duct my business," Hunt said. POPPY POSTER Winners in the local poppy poster contest were announced yesterday by Mrs. Io Williams, chairman. The three posters, which will be sent on to Portland to enter atate competi tion were made by Lloyd Colbaugh. fifth grade. Washington sohool; Anne Deane, Junior high achool and Rich ard Sleight, Senior high school. In the elementary school division second honors went to Reed Cox, Rose ve It, and third to Jimmy Berrlan, Roosevelt. Sixth grade winners were: Elinor Shu ltd, Lincoln, first; Kath leen Edwards, Washington, second; Helen ffmfdley, Lincoln, third. First honors at Junior and senior high schools went to Anne Dean and Richard Sleight and Gladys Sturlln was given honorable mention. IN Walter Tanner of Medford received sever chest and rib Injuries when the car he was driving smashed Into the rear of a 'truck on the Pacific highway south of Medford about 6:30 o'clock last night. The truck was being towed by an other car, as It was out of gas. Tan ner'a car knocked Vie truck Into the ditch, turning It over, but did not In lure the driver of the truck. Tanner's car vu badjgr damaged, ti cor go Hunt STATE TAX PUTS Y OFF GASH One Third Will Be Able to Continue Without Issuing Warrants for Expenses Is Outlook in Checkup. PORTLAND, Ore.. May 8. (AP) Collection by the state government of nearly (3.000.000 In state property tax from the 36 counties of Oregon thia year will force at least two- thirds of these counties to resort to a warrant basis of operation for the rest of 1033. This action may be even more widespread than present condi tions Indicate. This statement was disclosed today In a Etate-wlde survey by the Asso ciated Press. Definite information was requested of the several counties concerning their ability to pay the first half of this tax, w.hlch is due June 1, and the probable condition of the county treasuries after auch payment Is made. , Perhaps less than one-third will be able to continue operations on a cash basis, If present calculations by the county officials are borno out. The others, several of them now using warrants in lieu of cash, must resort to registering warrants. An astonishing delinquency In tax payments by property owners throughout the state Is broadly re sponsible for the condition. Tax do Iinqtiene? may tm'tis high as 60 per cent this year, as a general average for the state. In addition to the 93.000,000 which the counties must pour Into tho state treasury,, they must set aside In their own treasuries more than 92,000,000 for tho elementary school fund. The grand total In exact figures Is $&, 051,426 for Uhe year. Jackson countv is mimboreri amnntr those on warrant basis. f : TUESDAY, BELIEF WASHINGTON, May 9. T)--Al- ministration lsdrs tonight forecast that the farm relief bill with 1U Inflation and mortffnge financing ad ditions Intact will be In President Roosevelt's hands for approval late Tuesday. They predicted that th aenst will abandon Its support of ths amend ment to guarantee production costs to the farmers. John A. Simpson, presi dent of the Farmers' union, who championed this plan, conceded to day that It Is destined to "certain de feat" because of strong administra tion opposition. T E NPTW YORK, N. J., Mny 8. (T An the culmination of a "strike'' in the Camp Dlx mess hall, 46 ' Newark youths who were In the civilian con servation corps were back at their homes today. Summarily discharged yesterday by Brig. Oen. H. L. Lai bach, command ing officer of the camp, the men were sent home aboard a special train. UNpon arrival here, they complained or maltreatment at the hands of army officers at the camp and poor food and declared they could not work because they were "being starved."' One compsny commander said of ficials were "convinced" the agita tion came from outside sources. BE TAKEN MONDAY Two members of the state traffic bureau will remain In Medford to morrow to complete the giving of drivers examinations to those who were unable to complete the testa yesterday. Ward McReynoIds and his crew of four examiners were swamp ed Friday and yesterday, with many testa uncompleted last night. More than 300 car drivers of Med ford and vicinity were given testa during the two days. McReynoIds had to telephone to Salem for two extra assistants, and still the crowd could not be Handled. Slaying is BY STATE OFFICER Trooper Warren on Stand Saturday Recess Taken At Noon to Monday Morn ingHouse Searched. EUOENE, Ore., May . (API Fur ther testimony designed to connect Mrs. Edith K. Banks with the slay ing March 16 of George Prescott, Med ford constable, was lntmrinrri hv ffc state, today Just before the' first week of the trial of the woman and her .husband, Llewellyn A. Banks, for urni, octree muroer waa concluded. j no testimony was that of Clyde Warren nf the nrnta nnii- n,vA ed Mrs. Banks as observing to him: i-tescoti, was trying to break into our home. We had to shoot 1' Thfl StatA trnnrwr urn- nit. .1- witness stand after Tommy Williams, true anver. a stale witness, had testified that Mm. Rnnlr. in. "ur. did It 1" when he asked who killed rrescou. The constable was shot when ha attempted to sorve a warrant on Banks, former editor and orchardtst, at his home. Most of tho testimony this week was introduced by the state to establish that Banks fired the fatal shot. Warren's testimony, like that of Tommy Williams, oil truck driver, given Friday, was- admitted as evl-' dence only against Mi's. Banks. The Jury was instructed to disregard it as far as It concerned Banks, accused oi tne actual snooting of the officer. Warren's tMHmnnv .m ........ cross examlnstlon took up the entire morning session and he was still be ing suojectea to tne bitter fire of questions- front Defense . Attorney Frank Lonergan when oourt adjourn- ed until Monday morning. Judge Sklpworth decided against a Saturday afternoon session. "I questioned Mrs. Banks in her house following the shooting of Pres cott," said Warren. "I asked her what happened. She said Prescott had tried to break Into their home and Banks ahot him. "Mrs. Banks said she bad gone to the door In anawer to a knock and called to her husband that Oeorge . Prescott waa there. Banks instructed her to give Prescott two letters ly ing on the table. They were ad dressed to Captain Le Bown of the state police and Chief McCredie of (Continued on Page Seven) fill I i tr?: w i ft-ft. 7 1" ' Rogers WASHINGTON, Hay 6. Foreign delegations are com ing in here to join Mr. Roose velt's hreHd line. Italy's and Oklahoma. 'b got in the same day. A man named Jung was , sent hy Dictator Mussolini, to see what "Lady Bountiful" held in store for Italy, and a man named Rogers sent by Dic tator Alfalfa Bill Murray to. pick up any loose crumbs tbat miht fall locHlly. ' ' Congress disgraced them- selves something terrible Thurs day. There was for three solid hours they didn't pass a single bill, not. even an appropriation bill. Then they realized how slow they were going and woke up and practically passed a little dinky thing only appro- ' priating $100,000,000 for the , insurance companies. Hardly worth monkeying with. Went to hear the president " lecture the United States Cham ber of Commerce. He wai to broadcast it, but that was rail ed off. One of those affairs fr men only! Yours, f&M- i Qllli MiKsiiaUlusiiMst U i feSW;'.. M,',5Li-:.?-c . -tvSV- t