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o The Weather forecast: Unsettled tonight and Thursday, with rain. Moderate tem perature. Highest yesterday 68 Lowest thU morning 48 Medford. W A growing circulation The circulation of the Mall Tribune Is growing rapidly. Hundreds of new readers hare been added In tbe pan few months. paid-up circulation is the l(i lid that pays Ad. dividends. Twenty-eighth - Year- MEDFOK1). OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1933. No. 54. JV IA Trifune mm IK L Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. JOSEPH W. HAHHIMAN. one of the natton'a great i bankera. charged with misuse of bank money, which means OTHER PEOPLE'S money, at tempts to commit aulclde, PAILS in the attempt and will have to go to trial. He failed. If the charge la true, In hla trust as a banker. He failed to have the courage to face the music for what he had done. And, finally, he failed even In his attempt to kill himself. Quite a record of failure all the way around. NO RECORD of failure In recent years. Incidentally, la more sad dening and disillusioning than the failure of the great New York bankers to ,llve up to their responsibilities during the reckless years of the big boom that preceded the big crash that elgnaled the beginning of the depres sion. If our big bankers In those years had been BIOOER MEN, the crash might not have been so severe. If we had had the right kind or bankera in high placea, It MIGHT NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. THE BIG CITY banker laugha at the little country banker the patronizing laugh of the big fellow, who wants everybody to know he Is big for the Uttle fellow. But 1 has been the country banker who has given the country about all the real banking It has had In recent years. IN THE big boom years in which the depreseion was In the making, the bl city bankers weren't really bankera at .all. They were Just SPECULATORS with other people's money. BARBARA HTJTTON. heir to a fifty million dollar 5 and 10 cent store estate, will marry Prince Alexis Mdl vanl, of the Republic of Georgia, it la announoed from Paris. The story makes the front page 01 practically every newspaper In the United States as It should. The front page Is the place for news in which large numbera of people are Inter ested, and large numbera of people are ALWAYS Interested In the doings of the rich ami the titled. It always has been that way, and It alwaya will be. WELL, why shouldn't Miss Button and Prince Alexis marry? A marriage la a contract, and here Is a contract that gives both parties what they wantr He wants her mil lions snd she wsnte his title. It's a fsir deal all the way around, with nobody robbed. THE PRINCE, you will note. Is a prince of the REPUBLIC of Georgia, which Is one of those little countries of the Near East where trouble Is always starting. Over here, we think that about as ridiculous a thing as could be imag ined is a republic with princes and dukea and counts all the useless frippery of the ancient, outworn and quite thoroughly discredited Institu tion of aristocracy. BUT then Europe and the smaller countries of Alia that border on Europe, are about as utterly ridicu lous as can be conceived by the hu man mind, anyway. They might have peace and happi ness and progress, with a steadily ris ing stsndard of living for all their peoples, with poverty and want slowly pushed Into the background all the benefits thst go with peace. And instead they deliberately choose WAR! If they have no more sense than that, why pity them? E Bill woody, IS. this morning went fishing for the third time m his life, and brought in a 382 -pound salmon, while the more experienced linemen were looking enviously on. Young woody came here from Spo kane, and Is making hi home with Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Filllnger. The first time he went fishing he hrougnt In a G-pound Jack salmon, and the vcond t'-me h successfully landed a lS-pounder. T:day he clir.iiKCd n.s fishing jaunu by feadiag the Lwe ON LIFE SENTENCE STILL ON RECORDS L Directed Verdict Brings Sud den End to Trial On Un used Indictment in Pre paredness Day Bombing HALL OF JUSTICE. San Francisco. May 34. (AP) Thomas J. Mooney's long sought "new deal" came to an abrupt end here today In a directed verdict of acquittal on a heretofore unused Indictment charging him with murder in the San Francisco Preparedness Day parade bombing. The end came after Mooney had abruptly taken active charge of his own defense In pleading against the motion of an unwilling prosecution for a directed verdict. Judge Ward held, however, that the proceedings would have no practical value in the absence of prosecution testimony and advised the Jury to acquit. Smiling, Mooney said he was "very happy in spite of the fact that I could not verbally deny my guilt." Judge Ward ordere Mooney re turned to prison "within two days" but officers took him from the room with the idea of returning htm im mediately to San Quentln where he is serving a life sentence as the re sult of his conviction on a like charge 17 yeara ago. Without a bit of evidence the much discussed phase of Mooney 's case, which has extended to world wide ramifications and much class strife, was submitted and settled settled at least so far as the legal aspects of the immediate accusation were concerned, but Mooney an nounced he would apply immediately for a pardon. That announcement was made before the case ended. PLANS APPEAL TO I Llewellyn A. Banks, former local agitator, orchard 1st and publisher, convicted of second degree murder for the slaying of Constable George J'.-Prescott, March 16, by a Lane coun ty Jury last Sunday will appeal to the state supreme court. This announcement was made Tues day In Salem, by Frank J. Lonergan. chief counsel for Banks. Banks Is under guard in a Eugene hospital, where he went Monday on an examination by a doctor, who de scribed his condition as "generally rundown." A dally report, ordered by the court, declared Banks was no worse. A deputy sheriff guarding Banks bed, reported he "spent a sleepless Monday night." The length of Banks' stay in the hospital de pends on his health, based on reports made by a physician named by the court. The next legal move In the caw will be the arguments on the defense motion for a new trial. They have 20 days In which to do this, and the state has several days In which to answer. Attorneys estimate that a final decision on this phase will not be made until the middle of June. In the event the new trial plea la den led . Banks will be sentenced to the life term made mandatory by Oregon law, and removed to the state prison, unless a stay of execution la eranted on a defense motion to that end. Assistant Attorney -General Moody, who prosecuted the Banks case, and Deputy District Attorney Oeorge W. Nelson returned this morning from Salem, where they conferred with state officials on the Banks trial and kindred cases soon to be brought to trial. NEW CENTRAL PT. S GRANTS PASS. May 34. fSpl ) The Green creek paving Job was opened to traffic Tuesday morning, and the crew, of men started the process of building rock fills and shoulders along the sides and the clearing away of debris, it was an nounced in the local highway office. This Job was completed on sched ule for the tourist travel this sum mer and many of the blind curves and rough surfaces between Grants Pass and Rogue River have been elim inated by this new section of high way. Th Central' Point - Medford ap proach will be open in about a week, accord trig to James G. Bromley, state maintenance engineer, who stated that the concrete is now all laid but that it will be allowed to "cure" for a while. - The Ashland highway construction work will not b finished for abo-.t a month yet. after which southern Oregon will have one of the beet Cadet Conner Found Alive at Military Academy ,, BASEBALL 1 American. R. H. E. St. Loula ...... 4 8 0 Philadelphia 7 6a (Game called end sixth; rain). n.ttrfM! Harilev. Knott and Ruel; Cain, Claset, Grove and Cochrane. R. H. E. Detroit 3 I" 1 Washington 110 Bridges and Hayworth; Weaver and Sewell. ... . National. R. H. T. New Tor 17 1 Cincinnati - 7 1 Batteries: Uhle, Bell. Starr and Mancuao; Smith and Hemaley. (10 Innings) R. H. E. Brooklyn . 1 0 Pittsburg - 6 14 0 Batterlea: Shaute. Mungo and Lo pez: Swift. Harris, Chagnon and Pad den. Finney. , R. H. E. Philadelphia a 8 0 Chicago . 8 10 0 Batteries: Holley. Pearce and Davis; Warneke and Hartnett. E AGAINST BANKS TERN Four criminal matters against L. A Banks two lndectments for criminal libel, one for criminal syndicalism and one for ballot theft and all the civil aults pending against him, were Monday ordered continued until the new-taxm-jof-tocuit court, starting Monday, by Circuit Judge H. R. Nor ton. It was a legal formality to keep the records straight. Around this litigation the defense based its "per secution" claims. Banks was found guilty by a Lane county Jury, Sunday, of murder In the second degree, and faces a man datory life sentence, under Oregon law. At the same time, and In the same order, the court directed that the criminal actions pending against Hen rietta B. Martin, president of the so called "Good Government Congress." and catspaw of the convicted agita tor, In the local turmoil, charged with "riotous and disorderly conduct," as the result of the attempted buggy whlpplng of Leonard N. Hall, Jackson ville Miner editor, be contlr. .led along with that of her father, C. H. Brown, secretary of the "congress," charged with "slandering a bank." The Indictments against L. O. Van Wegan and E. L. Pitch, charged with abetting Mrs. Martin in her lashing efforts, comes under the same order. Both petit Jury and the grand Jury for the May term were ordered con tinued until "further orders of the circuit Judge, or any circuit Judge of the state of Oregon who may be as signed to Jackson county by the state supreme court." All criminal and civil matters pend ing In the circuit court are Included in the decree. Circuit Judge Norton is holdiiut court in Josephine county this week, and will return the end of the week. BUOENE. Ore., May 34. (ff) The condition of Llewellyn A. Banks, con victed ex-publisher, was reported as "satisfactory" today by Dr. Orvtlle Waller, who was appointed by the court to care for him in the Pacific hospital here. Banks, who was described as "nerv ous and run down" as a result of his three weeks' ordeal In the courtroom, was taken to the hospital yesterday. Two guards are assigned to watch him. Banks' condition Is not regarded as serious. He is said to be suffering from a recurring lung trouble which forced him to come west years ago. MITCHELL DEALS NEW YORK. May 34 AP) Thru Gerard Swope the. government ob tained testimony today that after Charles E. Mitchell aold stock to Mrs. Mitchell "to record a loss" so that he would have to pay no Income tax In 1P29 he then made a claim on the National City company In an effort to avoid loss on the. stock. Mitchell, former chcalrman of the National City bank and National City company, is on trial for evading in come taxea in 1920 and 1930 by al legedly fske sales of stock. Swope is a director In not Nations City bank and National City company. Oregon Weather. Unsettled tonight and Thursday. ! with rains west portion and showers rant portion; moderate temperature; I fresh to strong sou tier If winds QIX 4 aba B AREDBY SWOPE Secretary Woodin, Senator McAdoo, Justice Roberts Among Favored Clients Is Revealed in Probe By NATHAX ROBERTSON (Associated Press Etaff Writer.) WASHINGTON, May 24. (P) Uses of favored J. P. Morgan cllenta aub- mltted today In the senate's Investl-, gatlon of the powerful banking firm Included many of the country's nest known citizens, among them Secretary William H. Woodin. Senator William Glbbs McAdoo and Justice Owen J. Roberts of the aupreme court. They were given an opportunity to buy atoek in the Allengheny corpor ation in February, 1029. before any of those named above were In their present offices, for 20 a share when it was said to be selling elsewhere for MS to M7. Acocrdlng to the evi dence submitted, they took advan tage of the chance and bought. Notables Named. Others on the two lists, one of per sons getting the opportunity through the Morgan firm proper and the otner through its Philadelphia affiliate, the Drexel company. Included auch names aa former Secretary of the Navy Adams, Charles A. Lindbergh. General John J. Pershing, W. W. At terbury and many of comparable prominence. Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war, also was on the list of favor ed purchasers of Allegheny stock from the Morgan, firm, , ("king jj.ooo snares. Turning from testimony by--J. P. Morgan that he' had paid income taxes in England In the last two years, although paying none In this country, Ferdinand Pecora, commit tee counsel, awept Into the latest phase of baring long-buried Morgan secrets. ' Inasmuch as Morgan said he could not remember, the counsel turned to George Whitney, a partner. He quick ly ascertained that In formation of the Allegheny corporation through contract with the VanSwearlngens of Cleveland, Morgan agreed to buy a3a,. 000.000 of bonds for 32,S7S,000 plus acrued Interest to form a syndicate for public offering. FOR SHORT STAY; Mrs. Edith R. Banks, tried with her husband, L. A. Banks, for first degree murder for the slaying of Constable George J, Prescott, and acquitted Sunday by a Lane county Jury, ar rived in Medford yesterday from E'l gene, and was guest today of Mrs. Mary Weston at her home on North Peach, according to report of friends. Mrs. Banks was not contacted, but attorneys stated that when they de parted from Eugene her Intentions were to return to the university city later this week, to be near her hus band. Her daughter, Ruth Mae, who has made her home with Mrs. Wes ton since the tracedy, will remain here, It la understood, until the close of school. She is a pupil in the Junior high school. Attorneys W. E. Phipps and T. J. Enright, representatives from this city for the defense in the murder trial, and all witnesses, had also re turned to Medford today. ON .ALL COUNTS WASHrVOTOX. Senate exon erate Louderback on ail fiv counts. GOLD BEACH, Ore., May 34. fAP) The was unanimity of opinion that the thing was an octopus, although there was only a fleeting and start ling glimpse si it as it came over the side of the boat on the line of Don Cart wright of Dayton. He was fishing from a boat on the Rogue river reef Sunday. The hooked octo pus. variouBly estimated by members of the fishing party to be from four to 35 feet in diameter, was hesUly MORGAN TESTIFIES BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE ? & i 'r rv)r A J. P. Morgan, head of the banking firm bearing hit name. It thown In thlt Associated Preat tele photo taking the oath before testifying before the aenata oommlttee In Waahlngton, D. C, Investigating the titantlo firm. Left to right: Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel; Senator Duncan H. Fletcher, chairman, and the banker. Morgan s Enjoyment of Senate Quiz Is Curtailed By Fog of Cigar Smoe By HARRY FERGIJSON (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, May 34. (UP) The only person who seemed to en Joy the senate investigation Into the affairs of J. P. Morgan Co. tody was a tall man with a gray mus tache who told the official stenog rapher his name was J. P. Morgan. Nobody else had much fun. Ferdi nand Pecora, counsel for the senate banking and currency committee, per spired and rasped angrily at Senator Carter Glass. John W. Davis, counsel for Morgan, kept his face screwed up in a knot of intense concentration. Chairman Fletoher of the committee devoted most of his time to trying to gavel the crowded room Into silence with a two-for-a-nlckel pencil, and lost his temper twice. But Morgan sat back in his chair, respectfully referred to senators as "Sir," smiled frequently and laugn ed out loud four timea. Kleig lights didn't bother him. Newspaper pho tographers traditional enemies whom he has routed innumerable times received a aenlal smile, a wave of the hand and the advice: "Oo ahead and take the pictures; I oant' escape you this time." At only two stages of the proceed ings was Morgan perturbed. The first time was when Davis beclouded the air with smoke from a 75-cent cigar. In the morning session he smoked three cigars, long ones, too, and right down to the stub. The air was plenty thick. In the afternoon session Davis was on his second cigar, puffing out a gray halo around Morgan's head. The banker shifted tn his chair Davis finished his cigar and reached in his nocket for another one. It was probably more smoking than Davis had done sine the Democratic convention in Madison Square Oar den when he was . nominated for, President after they finally succeed ed quieting that fellow who kept yelling: "Alabama casts 24 votes for Underwood." By this time the atmosphere was like a pea-soup fog. Pecora had gone Into action with a cigar he smokes two-for-a-quarters and Senator Cousens was biting at the end of another one, asking if anybody had a E! Jamaa IT Owen, manager of the Owen-Oregon Balea company, has re signed aa ohairman of the governor's relief committee here, following many weefca of excellent work, and Alfred 8. V. Carpenter has been appointed to take his place u leader of relief aotintlea. Mr. Owen stated today that with the lumber trade once more on the Increase he found nls time too filled with personal busi ness to devote adequat time to re lief work. J. O. Mann waa appointed to till the vacancy occurring on th com mittee with Mr. Owen's resignation the committee to SLU ttoe position of rmm ' 1 y, match. Morgan squirmed in his chair, and Davis must have noticed, because he decided Just to ohew his 7fi-center this time. Morgan obviously was a trifle con fused by the smoke barrage and got tangled up In the English language. 'My father." he said, "told me It was Infallible that we would have to do It " He must have meant "Inevitable." Morgan wore a pin -stripe blue suit. high, stiff collar tht came almo.-t up to his ears, and a dark tie with a pearl pin stuck In It. He arrived on time in the morning and was punctual again after the noon recess. While he testified he toyed with a pencil and a scratch pad. Once he wrote something in a hl.ih stilted handwriting, like this: M-a-n- c-h-e-s " It looked as if he in tended to writ "Manchester" and changed his mind. Maybe he was thinking about grouse shooting In the north of England one of his fav orite sports. He referred to one of his clerks as a "dark." That's English, too. What seemed to worry people more than anything else was the intense way in which Senator Couzens was apparently taking notes. He sat di rectly across the table from Morgan. Occasionally he asked clipped, curt questions and then wrote furiously on the pad. Everybody figured Couzens was getting ready to put Morgan through a blistering cross-examination. What a drama It would be! Wealth against wealth Couaens ts the richest man in the senate and ts supposed to have about M.OOO.OOO. He is a re lentless prosecutor, and the taking of all these notes must mean he was (retting ready to fire away at Mor gan. Curiosity ran so high that this cor respondent strolled over and sneaked a look over Counens' shoulder. He had printed the word "Morgan" at the top of the page snd put a net dollar sign above it. At the moment this correspondent did his syplnrj, Cousens was industriously drawing a black fence, with three-barred gate, around the "Morgan." TILLER TO TRAIL GUT-OFF URGED noSFBtmo, Ore., May 34. (TTP) Inclusion of tihe Tiller-Trail cut-off on the Paclflo highway with other state public work project waa re quested here yesterday by the Doug las county court. Formal application waa sent to Governor Julius L. Meier, the reconstruction advisory board, state highway commission and bu reau of public roads. The cut-off could be completed at a cost of ea.000.000, would shorten the distance from Roseburg to Crater Lake and Klamath Palls by M mile, contsln leaser grades, fewer curves and shorten the Rosrhurg-M'dford trip by 10 niUea, tb application TRANSIENT'S BODY FOUND ALONG S. P. iOLTOE SPREE H. R. McCoy, fi0 -year-old transient who was released from the city Jail yesterday where he had been held on a charge of being drunk in a public place, was found dead near the Southern Pacific track in the south part of Medford early this morning. The district attorney's office an nounced this afternoon that an in quest will probably be held to deter mine the cauae or death. Leonard Henderson reported to the city police that he found the body about 8:1B o. clock this' morning. Deputy Coroner Herb Brown said the man had apparently been dead since about eleven o'clock last night. Joe Dickson, another transient nrrested with McCoy Monday evening at a local hotel, said he thought Mc Coy's wife lived In Shasta City, Calif, and also stated that the dead man had acquaintances In Ashland. Mc Coy Is a native of CorvallU, Dickson told poitre Dickson left town this morning following his appearance In city court where he was sentenced to ten days in Jail or allowed to leave town. According to officers, the two men had been drinking denatured alcohol when arrested, and a bottle was in their possession at the time of their art est. T.T. TO T Thomas T. Merrlman, who has op erated the Merrlman blacksmith and welding shop in Medford for many years, died at a lorsl hospital this morning at the age of S3 yeara. from heart trouble. He had been seriously 111 for the past three weeks. He was born in Oakland. Ore., and came to Medford when about five years of age. He had resided In Med ford practically all his life, with the exception of seven years which he spent in Pocatello and Bolae, Ida., and service in the navy during the World war. Mr. Meirlman Is survived by his wife, Nellie, two sons, Myrle and PTancIs, one granddaughter, Patricia, and one sister, Mrs. Vera Plymale, all of Medford; three sisters, Mae Telfer, Blanche Miles and Molly Merrlman of San Francisco, and two brothers, Cieorge Merrlman of Orange. Cal., and fiFheron Merrlman of Red Lodge, Mont. Funeral arrangements will be an nounced later by the Perl Funeral home. WAGES INCREASED AT COOS BAY SAWMILL MAP6HFIKLD, May 34. (AP) A 30 per cent Increase tn wages for common laborers has been announced by the Coos Bay Lumber company, recently reopened after having been closed severs! months. The notices posted In the plsnt yards, said the pay for laborers will be raised, from 443 to 4t OVERJOYED WHEN Youth Strangely Missing Since Sunday Found Alive Say Military Academy Officials Late Today WEST POINT, K. T., May 34. (AP) John 8. Conner of Medford. nr.. aenlor cadet at the tl. ft mimnrv academy mlaalng alnce Sunday, waa lound alive tonight. The announcement wa mudn bv academy officiate, who In company with police had been set king the youth after finding he had left a note Indicating suicidal Intent. Conner's abnenee wnji nnturf t revllle Monday morning? An Inquiry aiscioaed ne nad not been aeen on the academy grounds alnce the pre vious evening. The academy officiate had aaked state police, regular army offlcera and railroad nollce to cn-nnerate In thA search for Conner after the reserva tion's 3soo acres had been searched. News of the finding of John 8. Con ner, senior cadet at West Point, N. 7., tonight (E. S. T.) was relayed to Miss Mary Conner, sister of the youth late this afternoon, upon receipt of the Associated Press dispatch by The Mall Tribune. Mrs. Guy W. Conner, mother of the youth called shortly after, and expressed her gratification over location of her son. The dispatch over the AP wire was the first to be received In Medford regarding the finding of young Con ner. Mr. and-Mrs.-Guy -W. Conner later received tha-following telegram from Superintendent of West Point W. D. Connor, as follows: 'Cadet found about six o'clock In excellent condition, considering that he has apparently been In woods without food since disappearance. Now in hospital taking nourishment. De tails later." HELD ON HIT AND Walter O. Nelson. 33, Portland, truck driver, employed on road con struction work, near this city, Is held on an open charge, following his ar rest last night as a hit-run driver.. 8. W, Baize, 40, watchman on the new Central Point Pacific highway road construction, was ' assertedly struck by Nelson while driving at a high speed, when Baize attempted to "flag him down" Tuesday night about nine o'clock. Baize sustained Internal Injuries, and a fractured hip and pelvic bone. He was to undergo an operation today. Nelson Is alleg ed to have failed to stop and render aid, and no charge will be filed unttl the outcome of the operation is known. Nelson was arrested shortly after the accident tn the west end of the city. His car was found ditched, and had a fender and light removed, the state police say. According to the authorities, Nel son was driving on the wrong side of the road, and nearly struck two other autos, complaints riled with the state police claim. WILL ROGER? NEW YOBK, Slay 23. The phenomenal popularity of the Roosevelt administration now meets its severest test. They are starting to decide where all this money they have been ap propriating will come from. Xow, if he can extract this money and still receive the plaudits then there caii be no doubt of his being a Messiah. For the taxpayers cheer not from the heart but from the pocketbook. Yours, fa"' I Till1liMllliMi1iA"L w 2 i
