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Mail Tribune Free Cooking School to Be The Weather Forecast: Cloudy tonight and Wed nesday, probably with occasional light rains. Moderate temperature. Hijhert yesterday . 60 Lowest this morning 48 Twenty-eighth Year Comment the on Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. HOW would you like to have a busi ness where all you had to do was to produce, with no worries at au about selling knowing In advance that there waa twlca as much de mand for your product as you could upply, and that buyera would right for It aa soon as you got It made? Well, that aeems to be about the pleasant position the brewerlee find themselves In at the present moment. It appears likely that they will re main In that pleasant position throughout all of thla year. mHi n KM AND for beer la far ahead 1 of the supply. In spite of the fact that this has been a cold and back ward spring all over the country and beer, as everyone knows, goes best In hot weather. With the supply far short of de mand all through this cold and back ward spring, It may be imagined without much . trouble that It will be shorter still when hot weather THB beer business right now," a 1 big Southern Oregon dealer told thU writer yeaterday, "la a racket nd dealers who keep beer enough on hand to supply their trade have to deal with racketeers. "At least, that Is the way it works here on the Coast, and I understsnd it Is the same all over the country to a greater or less extent. "It's practically Impossible to buy dependably In any considerable quan tltjrdlrect from the breweries." (jihIS Is the way the racket is JL worked: "The breweries sell the bulk or their output to some dealer. This dealer then turn around and sells to the racketeer. Then, when we go to the city to buy beer, wa find that tha racketeer la the only place we can get It. "Because of this situation, we are paying about $28 a barrel, when we ought to be buying It for around $18. That Is one big reason why beer Is coming so high to the consumer." THOSE who have 'tried to buy the ater ticketa In New York will recognize thla situation. Out here In the West, when we want to buy a .ticket to tha theater, wa go to the box office, lay down our money and carry away our ticket. Bo, when we go to New York for the first time, we walk up innocently to the box office and ask for what we want, only to be Informed politely that the house Is all sold out. If we want to go to a show, we have to go to a ticket scalper and pay him a premium over the box office price. Or at least that's the way It used to be In the palmier days. Since the depression got a good start, the ticket racketeer hasn't been doing such a nourishing business In New York. But anyway his methods have been copied by the beer scalper. THE BULK of he beer consumed here on the Pacific Coast cornea from San rrsnclsco probably about two-thirds of It. There Is one brewery In Los Angeles, one In Portland, one In Seattle, one In Tacoms, one In Pendleton and one In Walla Walla. There are six around San Francisco bay. THERE are now seven breweries In California. Before prohibition there were 110. So you see why thej demand for beer Is running fsr ahead of the aupply. New brewerlea. of course, will spring up probably a lot of them. It stands to resson that within a few years the beer business will be overdone, tor that Is what usually follows a condition of extreme excess of de mand over supply. But. for the present, the existing breweries cant begin to supply the demand that existed not ' altogether because the demand Is so enormous but becsuse the supply Is limited by the relatively small number of brew eries In operation. CMDaING this situ stlo. Ik umt hard to understand rm hops are selling at uch high prlcf raj (OccUnuod, 00 &V$fb Medford M E TO GET Strong Demand for Investi gation of Testimony Given By Followers of Banks Brings Latest Action Lane county, through Us grand Jury and the district attorney, the Mate of Oregon, and Jackson county, will take official cognizance of as serted perjured testimony, presented by the defense In the Eugene trial of L. A. Banks, former local Agitator, publisher and orchard 1st, now await ing sentence upon a conviction of second degree murder, with a manda tory life term. District Attorney George A. Cod ding, who returned today from Eu gene, where he has been at court for the past three weeks, said that the testimony would come before the Lane county grand Jury as soon as it convened, probably within the next week or ten days. There baa been a strong demand from this county. Lane county, and other sections of the state, urging that the testimony be1 investigated. Four in Question. Four defense witnesses Mae Mur ray, and her daughter, Mrs. Effie Lewis, Abner Cox and John Wheeler, Spring street gardener, testified under oath, that they were on the street in front of the Banks home at the time of the shooting, heard Con stable Prescott utter threats ahd vile oaths, and saw a pistol fall from his hand, as he collapsed mortally wounded. ' The state, refuted .their stories, by producing witnesses to show that Wheeler was at the courthouse when the shooting occurred: that Mrs. Mur ray and her daughter were four or five blocks away, and jjld not reach the Banks home until after Banks had been arrested, and was on his way to the Grants Pass Jail; and that Abner Cox was In the Pacific Record Herald building on Sixth street, at the time of the tragedy. Wneeler Taken III. Cox has been a resident of the val ley for three and one-half years, Mrs. Murray and daughter for 14 years, and Wheeler for seven years, they testified. Wheeler Is a former resi dent of Lane county, and after his testimony, was stricken with heart trouble, it was reported to the court. He was able to be out Saturday after noon, state police say. Testimony of Mrs. May Powell, Walter J. Jones. Indicted mayor of Rogue River and R. A. Boyce, Tolo district dairyman, will also come under the scrutiny of the inquisitorial body. Mrs. Powell testified that between three and three-thirty o'clock on the afternoon before the murder she heard Prescott make threats against Banks, and that he had bench war rants for his arrest. She also testi fied she told Banks of the threat that evening In his home. Time Difference Shown. The state, by witnesses and records. showed thnt the bench warrants were not issued until nearly S:30 o'clock of the day before the murder, and that the slain officer was In the courthouse, awaiting the call of the grand Jury all the afternoon. Boyce testified that he saw Pres cott, an acquaintance, near Nandl's Cafe on Main street the afternoon be fore the murder, and that Prescott had told him he nded "a truck to haul warrants." ThU was also during the period Prescott was In the court house, awaiting a grand Jury call as a witness. Conversation QueMlnnod. Jones testified that when arrested on the afternoon of February 26. for ballot theft, he was placed In the "bullpen." and overheard a conversa tion between Prescott and Officer Joe Cave. In the city Jail offlre. In which Banks was threatened. The records how that Cave was off duty, and that Prescott was not In the city jail (Continued on Page Seven) Baptists Declare Beer Helped by White House WASHINGTON. May 33. T) With a warm handclasp of their leaders, northern and southern Baptists, long split over the slavery question, got together today for the first time In 88 years. Meeting In the hutte Washington auditorium. Dr. M. E Dodd. presi dent of the southern Baptist con vention. clipl hands with Dr. C. Omr Johnson, htrftt at tb nortfe ent -nl7t:n. WASHINGTON. May 33 TV-The juviTm nttt onvauon. by a w mm J. P. Morgan Paid No Income Tax in Two Years ROOSEVELT AIDES PLAN ISREVEALEO Douglas and Woodin Steer President Back to New Taxes and Sound Money Idea Compromise Plans By PATJL MAIAOjf (Copyrighted by MoClure Newspaper Syndicate.) WASHINGTON. May 33. What drove Mr. Roosevelt out of the Infla tion field back to new axes and sound money waa the team of Doug las and woodin. They are named In the order of their importance. While Woodin has the front office Job of treasury secretary, the budget director. Douglas, has already estab lished himself aa the Warwick of thla administration. You cannot get any thing done without him. Other budgeteers were czars on the subject of lead pencil consumption and minor expense accounts. It was a trivial business. General Dawes once quit for that reason. Douglas has been given the power to play a billion dollar game. He Is playing It hard. Mr. Roosevelt has been calling Douglas into private sessions of the cabinet: He does not have a regular chair but he alts In the background and they ask him questions. He knows more about the Intricacies of government finance than any of them. In these meetings he and Woodin had the passive cooperation of State Secretary Hull for the sound money path. A majority of the cabinet un questionably favors outright Infla tion. ; The Douglas arguments were that Inflation would hurt government credit, that It. was not necessary and that a credit Inflation would do Just aa well.' He is supposed to have had Mr. Roosevelt talked out of the public works bond issue program at one time. He and Woodin opposed It on the inside. TO SEINE CARP 0UT0FSL0UGH By special permission of the state game commission, under the super vision of three district game wardens, Malcolm, Roach and Walker, the un dertaking of seining carp out of Kelley Slough will start tomorrow morning. Those who have cars, and others who wish to go, either to help or watch, can meet at Al Plena's store at 9 a. m. and go direct to the fishing grounds. They should wear old clothes, boots and bring a few sand wiches, as It will be past dinner hour before the first drift will be landed. The fish will be put on Ice, and any one that knows of families who wa nt some fresh fish can call at Plche's store or Hubbard Bros. Every one Is urged to cooperate In this move, as It will save many a game fish, which will mean better fishing to the sportsman, In future years. If this proves a success it Is planned to seln out the Inlets around and above Gold Ray Dam, where the carp are numerous, and a pest to other fish life. Camps For Women First Lady's Idea WASHINGTON. May 33. ,p) Es tablishment of camps where Jobless women may work in nurseries as un employed men now do in the forest was suggested today by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, as an aid to employ ment. ord as feeling that "much to the dis credit of his administration" Presi dent Roosevelt allowed the White House to be used to advertise the beer business." The convention adopted the reso lution last night over in opposition plea that it wm "unnecessarily dlt spectfu. to the Psesldent of the UnlM fltsVM." It ttfffy Mr. floosevelt had "u9al the influence an3 powf-r of his office for repeal of the 1 8th am-ndmest" &n Mr M Ift&s - ffc . - - i- arE e mm (K scoi, MEDFOKD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1933. M BASEBALL National. R. H. 15 New York 8 9 0 Cincinnati 4 9 3 Parmelee, Luque and Mancuso; Lucas and Lombardl. R. H. E Philadelphia 9 19 0 Chicago 5 13 0 Rhem. Tinning and Davis; Bush Grimes, Richmond and Hartnett. R. H. Brooklyn 0 4 0 Pittsburgh - 3 8 1 Carroll and Sukeforth; Sweton'.c, Ryan and Padden. American. R. H. E Detroit 7 9 0 Washington 13 2 Marberry and Hayworth; Stewart. Russell. Burke and Sewell. R. H. E Cleveland 8 7 0 New York 8 9 1 Hlldebrand. Hudltn and Myatt; Allen and Dickey. R. H. E. St. Louie . 11 3 Philadelphia 8 13 0 Coffman and Shea; Mahaffey, Mc- DonakrJ Orove, Gray and Cochrane. R. H. E. Chicago ..... 7 8 1 Boston ...... 0 8 3 Gaston and Berry; Andrews, Welch. Kline and Ferrell. OF MISS HEATH "A Song In the Kitchen," will be the theme song of the cooking school which the Mall Tribune will conduct for the housewives of Medford, next week at Hunt's Craterian theatre Miss Hester Heath, the noted home economist who will conduct the cook ins school, says, "This Isn't going to be just 'another cooking school'. no. Indeed! There will, of course, be many new and unusual Ideas for planning menus, entertaining and home management, but primarily wis want to find the way to put song snd laughter In the. kitchen. 1 With the help of the Medford housewives, we will hunt out and drive away all the old drudgery bugaboos that have haunted the kitchen for years. "What If you do have to cook three meals a day for 365 days a year and, for oh. Innumerable years! Well, what of it I If you have to do It, let's get together and plan ways to make it a gay and happy job. "And the whole secret," continues Miss Heath, "Is to put a song in the kitchen let there be laughter there and gaiety. We sing In the bathroom; dance and laugh In the living room: Joke and make merry in the dining room; then why not In the kitchen?" Miss Heath Is a great believer In what she calls "kitchen psychology." "How," she asks ."can you possibly expect light dumplings when you make them with a heart as heavy as lead? Beat a song Into your dump lings they'll probably pop right out of the pan in surprise! "Laugh when the cake falls and cover It up with a grand caramel sauce and give It a French name. "When hubby brings his old col lege pal home on wash day, without a minutes notice, tuck a piece of pars ley on the hash, powder your nose and laugh it off!" Miss Heath is a very practical per son and will cook dorens of dishes for use in "every day" menus, as well as some interesting ideas for enter taining and "company" meals. She has a lot of helpful short cuts to teil to housewives, to help speed up the time when TOUR kitchen will be a place of song and things will move alone easily and happily. Start making your plans now for this big event. The school will be conducted for four days, beginning Wednesday, May 31. from 3 to 4 o'clock each afternoon, In the Cra terian. Come as the guests of the Mall Tribune. 8ALEM. May 23 (AP) Recon struction Finance Corporation funds will be sought by Salem for a 12 000, 000 city water project, a municipal dock. Improvement and extension of the cty's sewer system and constnic ton of a sewage disposal plant. City water would be piped from the Little North Fork of the Santiam river and distributed through water pipea now in use by the Oregon WtaVilngto waif service plant. A ipreme court decision cm legality of the war bond isme. voted in r rmbr. 1P31. will pbebly be niiul- AIL TRIBUNE T 14 KILLED WHEN TORNADOES WHIRL OVER MiD -WEST Scores Injured and Heavy Property Damage Wind Strikes While Sun Is Eclipsed by Dust Storm GARDEN CITY. Kas., May 33. AP) Tornadoes which whirled thru dust darkened skies left death and property damage In widely separated parts of the midwestern wheat coun try today. Reports over crippled communica tion lines indicated 14 persons were killed, nine near Tryon, Neb., four in Liberal, Kas., and one near Garden City. Scores were Injured In the sister states and a dozen more were victims of a Banvllle, Mont., tornado yester day. Ten buildings were demolished or damaged at Bain vl He. Strike In Dust Storm The Kansas twisters struck during a sand and dust storm which had blotted out the sun, hampered all traffic and forced the use of artificial lights for the transaction of Monday trading. In addition, high winds, rain and hall pounded farms In Kansas, Ne braska and Colorado. H L. Herring, Meade, Kas,, oil man who witnessed the tornado at Liberal, said the whole business section there was badly wrecked, leading him to the belief the death toll thera may mount. The wind had been high before the storm struck, he said. Rain and Hall In Dust . "About 6:30 p. m.. he. said, "the dust in the air became so thick It was as dark as midnight. Rain and (Continued : on Page Two) MOONEY TRIAL DRAGS FOR DAY HALL OF JUSTICE. SAN FRAN CISCO, May 33 (AP) The new trial of Thomas J. Mooney on a long dormant preparedness day parade murder Indictment, was continued to day after a long session until tomor row morning when a panel of tales men waa exhausted without a Jury having been obtained. Thera were 48 talesmen In the pan el, 36 of whom were excused either by precmptory challenges or for cause. Of the 11 remaining In the Jurybcx at adjournment, seven were women. Another panel was ordered to report tomorrow, L George Hopkins, piano virtuoso of the University of Oregon, who will play a recital at the Baldwin Piano Shoppe recital hall this evening, Mrs. Hopkins, and Frederick Goodrich, president of the Oregon State Music Teachers, who played In concert t the Sacred Heart church last night, were honored today at luncheon at Nandle'a Grill.- Members of the Jack son County Music Teachers' chapter were hostesses foe the occasion, Mr. Hopkins' recital Is scheduled for 8 o'clock, and. a large attendance U anticipated. In view of the splen did program announced for the even ing. F FOR SETTING HENS The Jackson county branch of tM state game farm ha been In opera tion for the past 10 days and 4B0 pheasant eftgs have been set under' 34 hens. The local branch has been allotted 8000 eggs, which will require ISO setting hens and so far hens in this valley have been reluctant te sV Rhode Island Red hens am prefer red for torn purpose and 7A cenw each will be pM for setting hens, delivered to th pheAant farm, one half mile west of the Bver Shady auto camp on Ffccjfie highway, south of Merjrd. Game Protective asso cJCUc meeasco ajta.ytn4 to49 Held May 3 , June 1,2 BEE Puts Song in i5 t aw5 PtJiV r I ' t) ' .f '" 5 J nERTBB HEATH, noted home economist; who will conduct The Mail Tribune's rooking school next week at Hunt's Crnterlan theater, hclleves In making kitchen work a happy tV EXTRA SESSION IF SALES TAX LOSES CLAIMS LONERGAN SALEM. May 23. (AP) A special session of the Oregon legislature will be necessary to provide means for revenue for state, county, city and school district government, should the general sales tax be defeated at the election July 21. Frank J. Loner gan. prominent Portland member of the house of representatives declared here today. Lonergan did not state his views as to whether the two per cent sales tax, passed by the legislature and re ferred to vote of the people, would be approved or not, but said he could not see any way out of a special ses sion should It be defeated. Such a session would undoubtedly be held in September or October. 166 GET SEED LOANS IN JACKSON COUNTY To date, 168 applications for fed eral seed loans have been approed according to County Agent R. G. Fowler, for farmers and gardeners' of this county, checks for 16 of the approved seed loans have been re ceived and distributed The average amount of the seed loan Is $200. The period for application is. over, . as planting Is well advanced. CONNER DISAPPEARANCE IS MYSTERY TO PARENTS According to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Conner, whose son, John, dlssppeared from West Point, the last letter re ceived from him last Friday, con tained no threat of suicide. In the letter, they state, their eon did show he wee much worried over his studies, and the prospect that he mlRht have to enter service after his graduation In the engineer Instead of artillery. , They Immediately sent him an air mail letter, telling him not to worry. that whatever hla final decision might be. It would be satisfactory to them. They did not regard the tenor of the letter as sufficiently alarming to Justify wiring their eon or calling him on the long distance phone. WEST POINT, N. T., May 33. (AP) Army officials announced today that Cadet John 8. Conner, who dis appeared yesterday from the military academy, had left a note "stating he was goVig absent without leave." but they declined to discuss police In formation that tha not Indicated sui cidal Intent. The search for Conner, who was to hsv graduated with honjrs In a Xew data, waa dlacosttou4 todas. the Kitchen E T OF BETTER CONDITIONS IN EAST Bringing word of "better times," Mr. and Mrs. Evan Reamea returned to Medford by train this morning from a month's journey to New York, Washington. D. C, Chicago and New Orleans. "Things are looking much better in the east than they do on the coast, Mr. Reamea said, "and It Is obvious that everyone la behind the President, aiding him in carrying out his program." With Chief Justice Rand of the Or son state supreme court, and Mrs. Rand, whom they Joined at Los An geles, Attorney and Mrs. Resmes Journeyed to Washington, where they attended the Lawyers' Institute. Chief Justice Hughes of the United States supreme court was a speaker at the institute, as was George Wick ersham, who became Internaitonally known when at the head of the Wick ersham commission which investigat ed prohibition in the United States Orpgon Went her. ' Fair east portion and cloudy, prob ably with light rain, west portion, to night and Wednesday; moderate tern- pcrature; moderate southerly winds offshore. In announcing that a note had been left by Conner, army Informa tion headquarters at the academy said he was "probably suffering from strsln due to the final written re vlewa, which have been under way for the past three weeks." Conner's psrents at Medford, Ore. have telegraphe4 the auperlntendent of the academy thanking htm for hla efforts to locate the missing cadet. The Information about a aulclde note was obtained from atate police at nearby Monroe. They said the ap peal to them for help In tracing the missing cadet stated flatly that be had left a note "that he waa going to commit aulclde." NEW YORK, May 33 (AP) Al though search for John 8. Conner, missing West Point cadet, waa dis continued today by army authorities In the vicinity of the military acad emy, all the ground having been cov ered. It was continued by police here, Informed by Bear Mountain police that Conner had left a note In which he threatened to commit aulclde, po lice headquarter turned the case over to the bureau of missing persona, which assigned t policewoman to U not t&a aeaica ben. A growing circulation Th circulation of the Mall Tribune la eronlng rapidly. Hundreds of new readers haie oeen added Ul tha past few monnhs. Paid-up circulation la the kind that pays Ad. dividends. No. 53. OF TOLD AT Banker Claims He's Un" aware Half Billion Con cern Claimed Great Loss On Income Tax. Return WASHINGTON. May 23 (P). i. P. Morgan told a senate com mittee today that he had paid no Income tux for Hie calendar veara 10.11 and 1932. WASHINGTON, May 33.-jm-.Loni. guarded secrets of the great banking nouse of Morgan were thrust Into light through teatlmony to a senate committee by It sott-epolten master. J p. Morman, that It was practically a half billion dollar concern but ha waa unaware of 1t having olalmed great losses on an Income tax re turn. Shooting rapid questions. Ferdin and Pecora, the nerslstent. mmmltfa.. counsel. Inquired: do you know your firm msde a return (Income tax) for the two-day Period between .Tanitftrv 1 .nrf t. ary 3. 1931?" "Probably, but I don't know It," Morgan replied. "Do you know that In the Income return for the two-day period reduc tions of 1. 071 .000 were made?" "1 don't know." "That la not an Item of mall mh. sequence Is It?" I really dont know anything about it." ' "Do vou know Of ,n ln .h-f eurred to the firm for that two daya?" John W. Duv I. . An,H-.i ... wm- gan hurriedly Interrupted to say tha question waa "Irrelevant" and Sena- tor Olaas (D., Va.) proteated that Morgan had said he did not know about the Income tax question. At a later point, while the throng In the committee room of the senate offloe building sat In allent, eager, watchfulness. pcor. Htr A .v, committeemen that individual In come tax returns prepared by tha giant prlvat banking firm had been oy government agenta "with out examination." - IS WASHINGTON, May 23. (API President Roosevelt today signed ft bill nrovldlnff for auRnenston nt an nual asscAflment work on mining claims. WILL WASHINGTON", Jlay 22. That fellow Hitler kinder prides himself on his oratory. f?ny, if he could have heard Rnbhi Wise of New York at a great Jewish convention here Sunday Hitler would have been speerhless. Wise had every thing;. Also saw beautiful ceremony by Gold Star mothers at- the unknown soldier's grave. This is the most beautiful city in the world. Eoosevclt is just about thru with congress, so you can look for 'em bak home pret ty soon. This is one time that a senator can come home with out a police escort for protec tion. They will all be saying, "Well, I told Franklin if he would do this, we would be out of it." Yours, 1 UUlaASalH411' BANKING SECRETS FAMOUS FIRM HEARING o
