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
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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
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MEDFOKD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1933.
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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
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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
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