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irEDFOHD' MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAYMAY 16, 1933.
PLAN FOR WHEAT
GROWERS RELIEF
Weather Big Factor in Forth
coming Crop Several
, Courses Open to Secre
tary Wallace. Under Bil
By ROY F. IIENDR1CKSON
Aftftoclftted Pres Starr Writer.
WASHINGTON, May 16. (API
More than 2,000,000 farmers grow
wheat in the United States. Farm
conomifltB say they &ow too much
of It more than a billion bushels in
1915 about 800,000,000 bushels In
normal year.
This year -32.3 per cent of the win
ter wheat area was abandoned, due
to bad weather conditions. As a re
sult output may not exceed normal
domestic consumption about euu.-
000,000 bushels. But a surplus from
former years of 330,000.000 bushels la
expected to be on hand July 1.
Several Remedies,
Secretary Wallace who believes
prices for wheat are too low and that
production should be reduced, can
approach this problem In several ways
under the newly enacted farm adjust
ment act.
He can lease lands to take them
out of production. He can levy pro
ceasing taxes, to be collected from
millers, who would add the charge
to the price of flour and feed, in order
to defray leasing costs or expenses
Involved In any other methods to
Increase the return to the grower.
- Wallace can seek better prices by
trade agreements with millers and
dealers, under which he could en.
force agreements to pay minimum
prices for wheat and to charge mini
mum prices for flour.
He can use proceeds from pro
cessing taxes to pay the farmer an
additional sum for each bushel he
market without roqfilrlng any cut
In production.
Curb on Yield Objective.
But because Wallace Is convinced
that a reduction of output and higher
prices must go hand in hand if the
price Is to be permanently improved.
his approach Is expected to center
about the use of the voluntary do
mefttlo allotment plan.
This plan has been worked out in
detail by two men, Professor M. L.
Wilson of Montana State college and
W. R. Ronald. Mitchell, South Da
kota, newspaper editor, ;
In 1U detailed form the plan has
many ramifications. In essence. It
la aimed at rewarding the grower who
reduces his output of wheat from
former years by paying him a "bene
fit" on that portion of his crop need
ed for domestic consumption. The
rest of his crop would be sold at the
world price, as would all the wheat
of farmers who do not participate.
The benefit would be paid from the
proceeds of processing taxes, which
would be levied on all wheat used
for flour and other products required
for domestic consumption.
Wallace does not Intend to 'dic
tate" the use of this or any other
method. He Intends that the plan
employed for wheat shall be worked
out by representatives of processors,
growers, handlers and others and to
be a plan on which a majority of In
terests will agree.
F
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Continued trom Pag. One)
distant from San Francisco and did
not consider tha quaka of sufficient
Importance to consult his seismo
graph before the visual hour.
Old-time resident In Oakland and
San Francisco, however, termed the
quake "the worst In years."
The shocks, each of several seconds'
duration, came In quirk succession.
The second, by far the stronger,
wakened alrepera to the sound of
the rumble of the earth, rattling win
dows, and creaking furniture.
In some sections of San Francisco
people rsn from their houses. Hun
dreds of students poured out of dor
mitories on the Stanford university
campus.
Sacramento, 13S miles northeast of
here, Stockton, 16 miles to the east,
and peninsula towns to the south
reported feeling the temblor. H was
not felt In southern California,
Fehl Evasive on Stand
While Testifying About
Leak From Grand Jury
EUGENE, May 16. The following
Is official stenographic report of the
cross-examination of Earl H. Fehl, on
the grand Jury leak revelations of the
Banks trial:
Q. Now you have been very friend
ly with Mr. Banks haven't you?
A. In a business way, yes.
Q. And you are communicating to
him all the information you can ob
tain?
A. I did not.
Q. You are taking him Information
that leaks from the grand Jury?
A. No I am not.
Q. Do you know that Mr. Banks
testified upon the stand that you
did?
(Defense objection.)
A. No, I didn't know it.
Q. Then as a matter of fact you
never gave Mr. Banks any informa
tion that you got from the foreman
of the grand Jury?
A. That wasn't the question.
Q. I am asking you a new question.
A. I don t know how he testified.
Q. Well did you ever give to Mr.
Banks any information that you did
receive from the foreman of the
grand jury,
A. X gave Mr. Banks some Informa
tion that I had received from the
foreman of the grand Jury, but not
any leaks from the grand jury.
Q. The foreman of the grand Jury
then, told you what was transpiring
in the grand Jury room?
A. He did on a couple of occasions,
yes.
Q. And who was that foreman?
A. Mr. William Grieve.
Q. Yes, and you communicated
that information to Mr. Banks?
A. Oh, I communicated It to a lot
of people, and Mr. Banks too.
Q. Thftts all right, you answer my
question.
A. Yes sir.
Q. You are the county Judge of
Jackson county?
A. X am, yes.
Q. And you were county Judge and
gave to an individual the Informa
tion as to what was transpiring In
the grand Jury room.
A. It was no secret.
Q. Answer my question.
A. Yes. I told him.
Q. And you thought that was a
proper thing for you to do?
A. I dkurt see anything wrong
with it.
Q. You know that the transactions
in a grand Jury room are supposed
under the law to be secret don't you?
A. Their deliberations is, yea.
Q. Yes, and here was the foreman
of the grand Jury that was talking to
you as county Judge.
A. Talking to me as county Judge,
yes.
Q. And telling you the transactions
that took place in the grand Jury
room and you then communicated
that to Llewellyn A. Banks?
A. Yes sir.
Q. How frequently did you do
that?
A. Oh I think on a couple of occa
sions, It wasn't any secret. It was
common knowledge around the court
house.
Q. And you told him at the same
time that they were investigating Mr.
Banks?
A. Oh I don't believe I made Just
that remark.
Q. Well, didn't you convey to him
the thought?
A. No.
Q. That they were Inquiring Into
matters relating to Mr. Banks?
A I believe what I told Mr. Banks
Is substantially as follows: that the
prosecuting attorney's office was
making every effort to bring in in
dictments against him for articles
appearing In his newspaper and I be
lieve that I told him that there were
some eighteen or twenty such efforts
being made.
Q. And the foreman of the grand
Jury told you that they were hearing
evidence upon that charge?
A. No, I don't think ho told me
they were hearing evidence on that
charge.
Q. What did he tell you?
A. He told) me about these Indict
ments being in there. in fact I was
in the grand Jury room and knew
they were in there too.
Q. Then you read the form of the
indictments that the district attor
ney.
A. No I didn't read the forms.
Q. What indictment did you read
in the grand Jury room?
A. I did not read any.
Q. You Just said you did.
A. No I didn't.
Q. What did you see In the grand
ury room with reference to the In
dictments?
A. The only thing I seen In the
grand Jury room was a stack of pa
pers folded up about that high, (In
dicating) on the table which the sec
retary ssid was Indictments that had
been presented thqre as against Mr.
Banks.
Q. For what?
A. Various charges they were try
ing to prefer against him. I didn't
read them or see them other than
that.
Q. What right had you In the
grand Jury room?
A. They would call me In.
Q. As a witness?
A. Called me In as county Judge
to ask me some questions.
Q. And then you, being called into
the grand Jury room of your county
to ask questions, communicated that
fact to the individual who was being
Investigated?
A. I did not, not at that time.
Q. Did you draw a line of demar
cation between what the foreman
told you and what you saw?
A. Absolutely.
Q. And you only reported to Mr.
Banks the mere information that the
foreman of the grand Jury gave you?
A. It wasn't secret, he told me
right in an open room.
Q. Now where was Mr. Orteve stop
ping when he was In Medford pre
siding as foreman of that grand
jury?
A. Oh about three blocks, I guess,
out on West Main street further than
Mr. Banks', I don't know the num
ber of the house.
Q. Wasn't he living at the Medford
Hotel?
A. I don't think so, I didn't see
him there.
Q. Is it not a fact that practically
every night while that grand jury
was in session that you were In con
ference with Mr. Grieve, the foreman
of the grand Jury, In the Medford
Hotel?
A. I was not.
Q. la It not a fact that you were
In conference pretty near every day
when that grand Jury was in session,
at some place, with Mr. Orleve, the
foreman of that grand Jury?
A. It is not.
Q. Well, how frequently did you
have conferences with him?
A. Oh, I don't can't tell you the
exact number, probably four or five
different times. s
Q. Yes?
A. He came in my office In the
county court room I think two or
three times, and I was at his homo
out on West Main street where he
lived, I think twice. .
Q. What did you go out to his
home for?
A. He asked me to come out and
cat lunch with him one evening, and
tne ocner mgnt I went out on other
business pertaining to some timber
land, after the grand Jury hod ad
journed.
Q. The main purpose, the main
subject of your conversation with
Mr. Grieve during the period of the
time that he was the foreman of the
grand Jury was with reference to the
transactions that took place in the
grand Jury room, was It not?
A. Not particularly, no.
Q. Well, It was, to a greater or lees
extent?
A, Yes, because there was many
matters pertaining to county busi
ness that the grand jury was investi
gating and of course they called me
into the grand Jury room many
times regarding those matters.
EYE WITNESSES
, FACTS OF CRIME
(Continued trom Page One)
C. Carey Very III
At Highway Home
One of the first to make his home
In the Rogue River valley, O. Carey, a
pioneer who crossed the plains In
52. Is very 111 at his home on the
South Pacific highway. Mr. Carey la
past 83 years of age. and has been
in poor health for the last yesr. He
has the sincere wishes of many
friends for an early recovery.
LYLE THURMAN WINS
PEERLESS TURKEY
Herb Meuael announced today that
Lyle Thurman of Medford won the
turkey given away Saturday night
to the persou guessing nearest to the
weight of the dressed steer on dis
play In the Peerless Msrket Saturday.
Mr. Thurman's sueae was 787 nnnnrf.
and the steer weighed 78854 pounds.
CENTRAL PT. GRANGE
MEETING THURSDAY
The Central Point Orange will
meet Thurnriav nlirht f thu
Instead of Friday, as was previously
announced. The Phoenix Orange
tram will initiate new members at
the meeting.
on the porch of the Banks home, as
they passed by on the sidewalk. A
few steps further, she said she saw
Prescott, with his shoulder against
the door, and heard Prescott awear,
and say: "i'll get you, you
a few aeconoe before the witness said
she heard a voice from inside, but
could not distinguish It. she said
she saw Prescott crumple and fall,
and a pistol fall to. the floor. The
other man. she testified grabbed the
pistol and ran down the steps.
Mrs. Murray testified on cross ex
amination, that she and her daugh
ter went to Columbia street, after
wards, gave no alarm, and when they
returned a crowd had gathered. They
returned to their home, and made
but casual mention to their kin of
the shooting.
Mrs. Murray became very confused.
In some of the main details of her
testimony. She said she told the
story to Attorney Enrlgtit several
days after Banks was Indicted.
Rehearsed Testimony
Under close questioning Mrs. Mur
ray divulged that she had rehearsed
her testimony five times once in
Medford, and four times in this city,
since her arrival the last times last
Sunday night.
Effle Lewis, the daughter, corrob
orated her mother's testimony, but
further said, the voice Inside said:
"Get away from there." Mrs. Lewis
was very positive in her testimony,
but contradicted herself under cross
examination. She told her story first
to Attorney Enrlght, a considerable
period of time after the shooting,
she said.
B. A. Boyce, a farmer of the Tolo
district testified that the day before
the murder, he met Constable Pres
cott, near Nandle's cafe in Medford.
He had known the slain officer for
many years, he said.
The witness said he saw Prescott
looking at a new auto, parked on
Main street, and Jokingly said:
"If you want that car, George, I'll
buy It for youl"
t Prescott, the witness aald, replied:
"I'll have to buy a truck for all
the warrants I've got for 'Congress'
men and Banks."
Said Banks Crazy
"Banks is crazy," the witness said
Prescott volunteered later. "I told
him," Boyce said, "If Banks Is crazy,
you better go easy, or he Is liable
to get you."
'Don't worry! I Intend to get him
first," Boyce swore Constable Prescott
then replied. They then went their
ways.
Under cross examination, Boyce
said he did not "believe Banks waa
crazy," and then the remark,, "every
body seems to be picking on him"
was ordered stricken from the rec
ords. Attorney Moody mode much under
cross-examination of his warning to
Prescott that Banks was "liable to
got you."
Walter J. Jones, mayor of Rogue
River, testified tnat while be was a
prisoner In the city Jail, on his first
arrest for ballot theft, he heard a
purported conversation between Con
stable Prescott and Officer Joe Cave.
Mayor Jones said while he was listen
ing. at an iron wicket In the Jail door
he heard Joe Cave say:
Jones Claims Threat Heard
"Banks knows too much, and must '
be gotten out of the way," and Pres- i
cott replied, "if they had given me j
the warrant instead of Schermerhorn,
I would have gotten blm, as he I
would have resisted. Then Officer i
Cave replied the witness said; "1 f he !
don't quit howling about me on that !
Dahack case, I will get him myself." j
Jones said he then knocked at the 1
wicket for a blanket, and when op- I
cned recognized them. j
Jones said that later he was trans
ferred to the woman's ward of the
city jail, and the next morning when
Prescott awakened him, he said, "if
you heard anything you better keep
your mouth shut."
Jones admitted that on the night
the ballots were stolen, be was an
"outside guard," as "the word had
come there was going to be a distur
bance." Under cross-examination, he
testified that he was sick In Portland
when the officers were seeking him
for ballot-theft warrants, and that
when he was arrested by Constable
Prescott. and the state police, he was
"treated uncivil." He also testified
that Constable Prescott was "cranky
at times."
Mae Powell on Stand
Mae Powell, of Talent, who said
she was in the English Red Cross
during the World wax. Testified that
ihe went Into Nandle's cafe for lunch
about three o'clock March 19, the
day before the murder, and heard
Constable Prescott say to a man she
did not know, In a booth next to
hers, "The only way to get rid of
Banks is to take him to the morgue."
She said the "stranger" was "dark
and tall."
The witness was subjected to a
long cross-examination by the state,'
and admitted she Joined the "Good
Government congress." one testified
she had telephoned Banks, and gone
to his home, and told him of the
purported threat the evening before
"This thing happened."
Jouett P. Bray of Medford, who
described himself as a minister and
chiropractor, a well known resident,
testified that he engaged Constable
Prescott in conversation shortly after
the ballot theft arrests started and
remarked :
Bray Banks Witness
"Ita strange banks Is not mixed
up is this," Constable Prescott had
replied, "he will be in due time, and,
further, "I guess I'll have to arrest
him, and If I do I'll bring him out",
at the same time uttering a lle oath.
Bray said, under cross-examination
he had known Prescott for many
years, and waa "a personal friend, a
fine man, and mild-mannered, as a
rule. George was always cool and
calm and never flustered," Bray con
cluded. Abner Cox, 33, a fruit worker, who
said he had lived In Medford "about
three years," and "hung around the
News," and "loafed around the court
house" last winter, testified that on
the morning of the murder, about
ten o'clock, he started up West Main
street, from the court house and
when opposite the Banks home, he
saw Prescott and "another man" on
the front porch. He then declared
he heard a shot, and saw a pistol
drop from Prescott's nana, as he fell,
and "the other pick It up" and walk
down the steps.
Cox Bashful Witness
Cox under cross-examination ad
mitted that he told the story first to
Attorney Enrlght, ten dsys before the
trial started. He became confused
and spoke in a low voice throughout
his testimony. Once Attorney Loner
gan told him, "You look husky
enough to talk loud enough for the
Jurors to hear," and then the court
said: "Speak up, nothing will; bite
you."
Cox admitted further that he bad
been engaged In county relief work
last winter, and had been at the
Banks home four or five times.
John Wheeler, a Spring street gar
dener was the first witness of the
day, as the defense opened. He said
he had "worked for Banks six sum
mers." Three or four days after the sale
of the News, Wheeler testified, he
saw Constable Prescott talking with
"a tall man. In a light suit and a
light hat, at the Medford National
bank corner." Wheeler said he lis
tened to the conversation, and the
stranger said:
" 'I guess we have got Banks
silenced now," and Prescott replied:
"'The only way to silence Banks is
to shoot him'." He said he reported
this to Bonks. The News was sold
March 15, the murder occurred the
next day.
Wheeler testified that on the day
of the murder, he had gone to the
courthouse to see about procuring a
seed and crop loan, and then went
to the Banks home, to see about get
ting some work. He said as he got
opposite the Banks home on the
south side of Main street, he saw
Prescott and a man he did not know
walk up on the Banks porch.
Wheeler said he watched them, saw
the door open a trifle, saw some let
ters drop on the porch, heard a shot.
saw Prescott fall, "and pttol drop
from his right hand.
On cross-examination the witness
was vague as to the time and names,
but clung to his main story.
The final defense witness of the
dsy wss E. L. Jones, a war vetersn
who testified as an expert upon guns
and bullets.
SARAH C. REEDER
PASSES, AGED 94
Sarah C. Reeaer. a resident of Med
ford and southern Oregon of 14 years,
passed away at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. Idllle Rogers, on Ma
ple drive, Monday evening, at the
age of 94. suffering only three weeks
Illness.
Sarah C. West was born at Payette
vllle, Ark., July ID, 1838, and In Au
gust, 1864, wss united In marriage
to Noah W. Reeder, who preceded her
In death 38 years ago. To this union
were born 13 children, seven of whom
survive: Belle Elkln. Colemsn, Texas;
Viola Roberts, Grapevine. Texas; Jes
sie Klmmel, Ranger, Texas; Llllle
Rogers, Medford; F. A. Reeder, Clin
ton, Okie.; E. R. Reeder, Brlsco, Texas,
and Rev. O. R. Reeder, Halfway, Ore.
She also lesves two sisters, Mrs. Ruth
Jones. Coleman, Texas, and Mr,. Mar
garet West. Orsvette, Ark., besides 39
grandchildren and several great
grandchildren and a host of friends.
She was a devoted Christian, snd
was a member of the Nazarene church
of Medford.
Funeral services will be held from
the Conger funeral parlors, Wednes
day at 3:30 p. m. Burial will be In
the Phoenix cemetery.
FEHL HAS HECTIC
REVEALS HIDEOUT
(Continued from Page One.)
Fehl queatloned -the authority or
v.. irnit cnurt to Issue the DroceH.
and at another point said. Circuit
Judge Duncan "penormea as a or.
cult Judge."
On Banks' testimony of last Friday
that Fehl had transmitted him grand
Jury Information given him by Wll
nam E. Grieve, foreman, Fehl was
evasive, but was reluctantly pinned
to the main points.
Attorney Lonergan objected, with
the denial that Bank, had made the
charge.
The court replied: "He most cer
tainly did. Mr. Lonergan, and I re
call It distinctly. Check the records.
I will be glad to be corrected. It I
am wrong."
Under the quizzing of Attorney
Moody. Fehl gave a brief sketch of
his life. He testified he waa bern in
Ohio, and spent hla early life on a
in !fntnn rountv. Ohio. Ha
said he came west In 1899. from Iowa,
and had worked at iscoma, waan..
... iha varttin Mnttresa Co- and thii
Carmen Manufacturing Co.. for seven
or eight years. Me was empioyea as
Before coming to Medford 36 years
ago, ne saia ne naa iivcu iw wiun
time In Kalama, and Seattle, Wash.
75 CENTS A POUND
SALEM. May 18. (AP) The hop
market did a high handstand at 75
oente a pound when sale of 370 bales
at that figure waa confirmed yester
day. Slightly more than 3000 bales
of hops are left In Oregon growers'
hands.
Figurw tabulated by the Ray com
pany show that April of 1933 set a
:.reoord for spring business In the
western hop world. This year 14.443
bales were sold In April aa compared
to 38P0 last year.
Flys Upside Down
Hour For Record
ROME, May 18. (API Flying tip-side-down
for an hour and five mln
utea. Lieutenant Gugllelmo Oocola
broke a world'a record at Centocelle
airport yesterday. A military doctor,
who examined him afterward, aald
hla condition waa normal. The pre
vious record was 41 minutes. alM
held by an Italian, Captain Raffaele
CclacJccm.
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