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Medford Mail
A growing circulation
The circulation of tht Mall Tribune
Is growing rapidly. Hundreds of new
readers hate been added to the put
few months. Paid-up circulation Is
the mud that pays Ad. dividends.
Twenty-eighth Year
MEDFOKL), OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1933.
CITY EDITION
No. 57.
tribune
BBBMTOH fil BILL
Comment
on the
"D:iyrs News
By FRANK JENKINS.
HERE is an Interesting little tale
that Is going the rounds ot the
Willamette valley:
Last year a hop grower, not regard
ing his prospect In the spring as
very promising, let his yard grow up
to weeds. But in the fall, things
looked a little bettor, so he let pick
ers come in and pick the hops on
shares.
. His share amounted to around 4000
pounds. ....
BUT the pickiiigrin this . yard Ml
grown up to weeds, had been
careless, and the hops were exceed
ingly "dirty" and- full of leaves.
' Because of the poor quality, four
cents was the best offer he could get,
so he held his hops over, not regard
ing four cent as worth bothering
with.
Last week, he sold them for SIXTY
FIVE cents a pound!
IT HASN'T beenoften, In the past
four or five years, that a farmer
has got a break. Here Is one, at
least, who did. This writer Is mighty
glad to hear of It.
WHEK to sell that Is always a big
question: especially on the farm.
The hop prices we see quoted now
are high exceedingly high. But we
mustn't forget that a lot of the
growers sold long before prices
reached the present high level, which
results from active bidding for the
6mall supply left unsold.
. A lot of others, In all probability,
will hold too long and see the price
go down not this year, probably, but
sooner or later.
y That happens a lot of times.
ABOUT as good a rule to follow aa
any Is to sell whenever the price
reaches a point that will show a fair
profit. Following that rule In year
In and year out will show better re
sults In the long run than holding
for the occasional excessively high
price.
THE Union Facificrallroad Is build
ing a new type of passenger train
that will travel at a sustained speed
of 110 miles an hour. The first of
these new trains, which Is expected
to be given a trial before long, will
contain only three cars a mall and
express car and two passenger cars.
Construction will be largely of alu
minum, and the weight of all threo
cars, Including the one that contains
the motor, will be about the same as
ONE standard Pullman sleeper.
The train will be "streamlined"
that Is. so constructed that the air
will slip 6ver and around It with the
least possible friction and back pull.
That is one of the things that will
make possible the high speed.
4t
THE railroads have been suffering
severely from competition In their
passenger departments for the past
10 years or more not competition
Anong each other, but competition
from other forma of transportation,
such as the automobile and the air
plane. The airplane provides speed. The
automobile provides the ability to
come and go at will, without wait
ing for train time.
Neither the automobile nor the air
plane Is as comfortable as a passen
ger train, but speed and convenience
have got them the bulk of the busi
ness. i The U. P., evidently, haa decided
to go after these competitors on their
own ground.
4-4
IP WE little fellows here In Southern
Oregon find that our competitor
has something to offer that Is bet
ter than ours, we lose no time In get
ting a product that la Just as good
as hla. We are smsll fry, you see,
and can move fast.
The railroads are big and clumsy,
and have to move slowly. It takes a
long time for a new Idea to filter
along from where It starts to the
point where It reaches aomebody with
authority enough to act without the
fesr of being stepped on from above,
j That t one principal reason why
''the railroads have suffered so severely
at the hands of their new competi
tors. Bifsr.cw, you know, i often a handicap.
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OF OEBTSSOUGHT
Gold Clause Vote Due in
House Tomorrow Abol
ishment Meets Opposition
On Repudiation Grounds
WASHINGTON, May 27. (Pj An
effort to authorize the reconstruction
corporation to lend the Irrigation dis
tricts for operation and maintenance
costs from its $50,000,000 fund for
loans to these levee and drainage
districts wilt be made in the senate
next week by several western sena
tors. An indication of the plan came t)
day when the senate took up the
$543,000,000 Independent offices bill,
to which proponents of the irrigation
loan plan will seek to add the au
thorization as an amendment.
The opportunity for their action
arose in an amendment offered by
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the
democratic leader, to the existing farm
relief law's sections providing 50,
000,000 from the reconstruction cor
poration for loans to irrigation, levee
and drainage districts to refinance
their debts.
Robinsoft explained the amend
ment did not alter the existing law
other than to revise It slightly to fa
cilitate administration and that the
revision was requested by the cor
poration's officials.
WASHINGTON, May 27. Pj The
administration's move to abolish the
gold clause in existing and future
contracts and to make public and
private obligations payable In legal
tender money today received speedy
congressional committee approval and
plans were completed for house ac
tion on It Monday. - - . - -
Despite the ' swift action on the
resolution introduced only yesterday,
the proposal was assailed by some In
both parties who argued that it con
stituted "rank repudiation" and nul
lification of government and private
obligations amounting to approxima
tely 100,000.000,000.
Shortly after the house banking
committee reported the message 12
to 4, the senate banking committee
voted it out 9 to 3 Then to expedite
house action Monday, the rules com
mittee approved procedure giving the
resolution right of way.
The resolution would make all con
tracts, heretofore and hereafter made,
payable in legal tender coin, regard
less of whether they contain a clause
providing for their payment in gold.
This would cover mortgages and
bonds of all kinds including liberty
bonds, all forms of securities and war
debts, most of which have carried a
clause in the past providing for their
payment n gold.
Senate Approves
WASHINGTON, May 27. The
administration bill granting power
to a federal coordinator to work out
economies In railroad operations was
passed by the senate today and sent
to the house where it will encounter
opposition because of senate amend
ments to prohibit dismissals of em
ployes In effecting retrenchments.
House leaders Intimated strongly
the bill would fall If these clauses
remained, holding economies cou.d
not be effected unless some employes
were dropped.
Moody s Closing Words
To Banks Murder Jury
Shows 'Perjury9 Claims
Falsity of Defense Witnesses9 Testimony
Clearly Shown in Summation at
Eugene by States' Attorney
The report of Assistant Attorney
General Ralph Moody's final speech
in the trial of L. A. Banks In this
newspaper was so brief, and so many
readers have expressed a desire to
have a more complete report of it.
that the following extracts, particu
larly referring to the perjured testi
mony are printed today:
"With the reference, to Prescott'
alleged threats, and the seeing of
the dropping of the pistol. Now who
has testified about seeing the drop
ping of the pistol. Mrs. Powell in
the restaurant hearing a conversa
tion about bench warrants on the e
cret indictment that had not yet been
returned, overhearing a conversation
with George Prescott when he, at
that time, was eight or ten blocks
away, waiting on the grand Jury.
Here was Cox who said that he was
up there and he saw Prescott drop
that pistol. Now Carey, the former
employe of Mr. Banks, aa.d t&at Cox
John S. Conner of Medford, Ore.,
West Point .cadet, was found on the
school reservation after being miss
ing for several days. He was suf
fering from, exposure. (Associate
Press Photo1
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10 BE F
DECORATION DAY
Stores Closed Tuesday
In keeping with a long establish
ed custom, Medford business
houses will be closed all day Tues
day, May 30, In observance of
Memorial day, It was announced
Saturday. ' '
' A-stree parade will be formed at
Medford City Park at B:30 a. m., and
will move on Main street to Bear
creek bridge, where it will be halted
and there will be:
1. invocation by the Rev. George
p. Kabele.
3. Strewing flowers on the water
in honor of the memory of comrades
who have given their lives In the
service of our country In its service
on the sea. lakes and rivers.
3. Firing salute.
4. Taps.
The parade will then return via
Main street to the city park where
the following services will take place:
A short unveiling ceremony for the
newly erected Prescott Memorial
tablet '
The audience will then be request
ed to take seats about the platform
where the program will be:
1. Call to order by Comrade Wil
liam Colvlg, past commander of the
department of Oregon, Grand Army
of the Republic.
' 3. Music by Medford high school
band.
3. Invocation by the Rev. W. H.
Eaton.
4. Reading of, orders. Including
General Logan'a first Memorial Day
general order by Comrade J. C. Woods
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
8 Llncoln'a Gettysburg Address by
Comrade William Colvig.
6. Decoration of vacant chairs by
representatives of veteran and patrio
tic organizations In bonor and In
memory of comrades who are In their
(Continued on Pago Five)
was with him when Mrs. Banks tele
phoned after Prescott was killed, and
Cox left there with Jones, and he
undoubtedly did. No fair and im
partial person can rely upon the testi
mony of Walter Jones. It was manu
factured and untrue, and no one bet
ter knows it than he and his attorney,
T. J. Enright, and they both knew It
was untrue before he took the stand.
"May Murray and Effle Lewis. Now
Mrs. Millard was at her house, out
in her yard hanging out clothes, and
she talked to May Murray there In
the yard at the time that the police
were going down after the crime had
been committed. going on out.
several blocks away. And Marjorie
HJbbert who had a room at May Mur
ray's home, and her daughter's what
did she say? She saw May Murray
and her daughter that morning, 19
minutes or so after the crime, and
(.Continued on Pge Si)
SUBTLE CAMPAIGN
TO
Golden Flood of Untold Mil
lions for Overlord of Wall
St. Revealed by Docu
mentsProbe Continues
WASHINGTON. May 27 (AP)
Profit of untold millions to the house
of Morgan through security flotations
and syndicate operations were dis
closed today In documents obtained
from the innermost files of the bank
ing house by senate investigators.;
, They showed the Morgan firm re
ported to the Investigators gross pro
fits of $18,284,908 from the sale of
securities alone during the five year
period from 1927 to 1931 inclusive
in addition to untabulated millions
on other operations.
Bare details of stock pool or syn
dicate operations In which the Mor
gan house participated hinted at
uncounted millions of additional
profits but the total could only be
guessed because of the form in which
it was reported.
Committee investigators have gone
back of the figures presented by
Morgan and found additional profits
which will be totaled and submitted
Inter to the Inquiry committee. The
Morgan reports showed them only as
shares MH held. .
A Joint account In proctor arfcl
Osmble company common stock from
July 1929 to June 1930 In which
Morgan's profits wore $1,883,959 re
vealed the staggering size of some of
the Derations. A total of 180,900
shares were bought and sold for the
account.
The period covered by the figures
Included two and a half "boom" years
and the same number of "depression
years.'.'
Testimony before the committee
haa shown that the twenty partners
in the firm paid total income taxes of
$11,000,000 in 1929; $48,000 in 1930
and none In 1931.
But the profits revealed today were
not divided into years.
One of the most Interesting docu
ments was a summary of the opera
tions of the so-called bankers pool
which went into the market In 1929
shortly after the collapse. It showed
the pool, listed under the name
"special suspense account" made a
total profit of $1,067,355 of which
Morgan's share was $170,776.
As these disclosures were made
Senator Couzens (R., Mich.), member
of the investigating committee charg
ed a "subtle campaign" was being
conducted against Ferdinand Pecora,
the counsel who has been conduct
ing the Inquiry.
Couzens said charges had been sub.
mitted to him designed to "discredit"
the aggressive committee agent and
that he was calling upon those who
made them .to submit their proof, if
any. Pecora was the center of the
clash in the committee Friday when
Senator Glass (D., Va.), demanded
to know where he was heading in his
questions
Other members of the committee
said, however, they were ready to
back Pecora to the limit and an
nounced the inquiry would go on.
Chairman Fletcher in an Interview
said the question of whether a single
firm could "dominate" American in
dustry and finance was a "matter
of public concern" and announced
the investigation would "go forward."
Another member of the committee
said "all the power of Wall Street
could not stop this Investigation now
until all Is disclosed that should
be." While the controversy raged
Pecora was In New York preparing
to resume the inquiry next Wed
nesday., JUST LIKE OURS
FREE CITY OF DANZIG, May 27.
(AP) Danzig was In a state of ex
treme tension and excitement tonight
in anticipation of tomorrow's parlia
mentary elections which will climax
the bitterest political campaign in
the free city's history.
In last minute appeals for votes
the "lid was taken off" a party lead
ers fought for supporters in the strug
gle which ranged the nationalists
against the nazis.
Rumors of slugging and blackjack
ing were common In the closing days
of the campaign. Newspapers attacked
opponents with fury and hurled io
Llenb cilUcuma.
iscreait Morgans roe
With all Its major projects complete, "A Century of Progress" exposition on Chicago's lakofront la
scene of last-minute preparations for the official opening May 27. This view from the top of the "Skyrlde"
gives a glimpse of some of the scores of buildings to be occupied by exhibitor and concessionaires. (As
sociated Press Photo
E
POLL LANDSLIDE
VOTE FOR
REPEAL
WILMINGTON. Del., May 28. (AP)
(Sunday) Unofficial returns from
213 districts out,of 226 on Saturday's
balloting In Delaware for 17 dele
gates at large to the state prohibition
repenl convention showed those favor
ing elimination of national prohibi
tion leading by a vote of 37,078 to 10.
156. RHINO, Nev.. May 27. 7T An over
whelming state convention majority
In favor or repeal of the eighteenth
amendment in Nevada appeared cer
tain tonight as returns from precinct
mass meetings rolled the wet tide
high.
Returns from 12 of 17 counties
showed them all on the repeal side.
The 12 counties will send $ of the
40 delegates to the state convention
September 5.
On the basis of the returns, the
only question appeared to be wheth
er the prohibition forces would have
even one voice in the state meeting.
The counties reporting failed to show
a single dry delegate to county con
ventions June 10 at which the state
convention delegates will be elected.
Washoe county, In which Reno 1a
located and which holds a fifth of the
state's population, went solidly for
repeal In the unofficial returns.
(By the Associated Press)
Two states Delaware In the east
and Nevada In the far west appar
ently were added yesterday to the
six states already counted for repeal
of the eighteenth amendment.
By a four to one margin "wet" dele
gates were leading "dry" candidates
In Delaware for seats at a statewide
convention on repeal set for June 24.
In Nevada a majority of "wet" dele
gates to a state convention also
seemed assured on the face of Incom
plete returns.
Michigan, Rhode Island and Wis
consin already have formally placed
their state's vote on record for repeal.
New Jersey, Wyoming and New York
have assured official action by re
peal victories at the polls.
WAGE BOOST FOR
PITTSBURG, May 27. fAP) An
nouncements of 10 per cent increases
affecting more than 10,000 miners in
the Pittsburg district were made by
three coal companies late todsy.
Approximately 8000 men, employed
by the Pittsburg Coal Co. will receive
up to $3-80 dally, on the new scale,
as compared with the $7.50 base rate
provided In the 1926 Jacksonville
agreement which the company later
abrogated.
Other firms announcing the 10 per
cent increases were the Keystone Coal
and Coke company of Greensburg,
Pa., which employs 1000 men, and
the Jamison Coal and Coke company
of Greensburg, with 1250 miners on
its payrolls.
SECILLE, Spain. May 27. (AP)
Striking farm workers in this vicinity
today were burning crops, destroying
farm marhlnery and stealing cattle,
poultry and grain (p4Ufii4.
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WORLD'S FAIR OPENS
L -
LAD, 17,
HUNTED AS KILLER
OF
RICH MOTHER
Former, Portland Woman Is
Beaten to Death in Pala
tial Home Following Talk
With Son About Habits
FLINT, Mich., May .27 (AP) A
widespread search was under way to
night for 17-year-old Balfe Macdon-
ald, whose disappearance was noted
today with the discovery that his
mother, Mrs. Grace B. Mcdonald, 54.
wealthy and socially prominent widow
had been beaten to death in her
bedroom.
Mrs. Macdonald'a body, the head
crushed in and covered with pillows.
was found by Wesley Flowers and
his wife, Doris, employed aa house
man and maid by Mrs Macdonald.
Under the same pillows were found
two heavy book-onds with which she
apparently had been beaten.
The search for young Maoaonaia
started after Detectives Charles Ranb
reported Mrs. Macdonald had called
him to the palatial home In Crescent
Drive Friday to discuss the boy's
habits,
At this conference, Raab said, the
youth threatened to kill himself be
cause he felt his mother was too
critical of his conduct.
During the police investigation of
the home today a report gained cir
culation that $1,000 which Mrs. Mac
donald was known to have had in
the house, was missing. The offic
ers would neither affirm nor deny
the report.
Word that young Macdonald and
a companion in an automobile stop
ped at a gasoline filling station at 4
a. m. today and sought direction to
Chicago, caused authorities to notify
police In that city as well as all points
en route. The search also was , ex
tended to Toplnabee, Mullet Lake,
north of here, where Mrs. Macdon
ald had a summer cottage for which
she had planned to leave today.
The operator of the gasoline sta
tion said the young man he Identi
fied ns Macdonald had a large roll
of bills when he paid for gasoline.
Mrs Macdanald's husband was the
late Bruce J. Macdonald, for 32 years
cashier of the old First National
bank here. He died about 12 years
ago, sne came here from Portland,
Ore., as a bride in 1006, and became
ono of the leaders of Flint society.
TO PAY WAR DEBT
PARIS. May 27 yp) The Ameri
can move to eliminate the gold clause
from all obligations (which would
have the result of lessening French
war debt payments to the United
States) has had no effect on Frencn
coldness toward payments of the debt,
official circles said today.
The American action created a bear
market in dollars. The bourse was
dosed, but other dealings sent the
dollar from yesterday's cluing quo
tttioa oi 21 6 liuioft to 21M.
GATES
CriJ itM PC
' -.'wtA,
JILTED CHEROKEE
KLAMATH FAVUS, Or., Msy 37.
(IP) Police officers In northern Cali
fornia and southern Oregon were
watching today for' Buck Q. Fringe,
Cherokee Indian, reported to have aD-
ducted the former Mrs. Irene FortU-
lngham, 35, wealthy ranch owner of
the Dorrla, Calu., district.
Police here advised t-he reputed
kidnaping occupied Thursday, and
that Fringe,' former deputy sheriff at
Dorrls and more recently a resident
of Los Angeles, forced the woman to
accompany htm in an automobile.'
Fringe came north when he heard
that the woman married Dr. D. Toct
orovlc. Dorrls dentist, two weeks ago.
Todorovlc was In a Dorrls hospital
today recovering from Injuries suf
fered when he wrecked his automo
bile while on his way to Yrekft to ob
tain a warrant and notify officials of
his wife's disappearance. Deputy flher
of f aravler of siaklyou county, Oal.,
expressed the bollef . Frlngo drove
south.
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L
COLUMBUS. May 27. (fP) The
militant fundamentalist faction of
the Presbyterian church In the U. S.
A. suffered a stinging defeat in the
general assembly today, when an over
whelming vote of confidence was giv
en the church board of foreign mis
sions. By a rising vote of at least five to
one. the assembly accepted the ma
jority report of its foreign missions
committee against minority report
presented by two members.
WASHINGTON, May 37. (AP) De
spite rejection by the house of the
hales tax as a means of financing the
$3,300,000,000 public works section of
the Industrial control bill, senate Re
publican leaders today planned to
press this levy when the bill comes
before the senate, probably some time
next week.
Hearings on the bill passed yester
day by Win house will be resumed by
the senate finance committee Mon
day with witnesses being heard
against efforts to Incorporate the Csp-per-Martnnd
oil regulation measure as
an amendment.
Senator Reed (R Pa.) will lead the
drive for the sales levy as a substi
tute for the raises In income and
gasoline taxes voted by the house.
The Weather
Oregon: Tog an the coast and fair
In the Interior Sunday and Monday;
rising temperature In the Interior;
genUe chtugeab-e wind qKaIioj,
CHICAGO WORLD S
P,
Science and Circus Mix in
Progress Exposition
Farley Formally Opens
Event in Brief Ceremony
CHICAGO, May 27. ( AP) The
Century of Progress exposition swung
Into Its allotted five months of exist
enco today ablnso with brilliant colora
and throbbing with life.
Solemnity and the spirit of carni
val marked the opening day. Crowds
surged through the turnstiles.
Inside the grounds, the throngs
spilt, thousands going into mammoth
Soldier Field for th. rii....
clsea; other thousands swarming into
... v,UM,,un nans ot Diue, yellow,
green and white.
Postmaster General James A. Farley
President Rooseveit.'n r,,r. '
signed a proclamation officially brlng-
v.. vAFuo,viuii to lire.
The opening ceremonies were brief
Then the sssemblage filed out of the
amphitheatre to loin thn ,.
come, not for oratory, but to watch
"lit, wunoer.
They saw:
A moving drama, world wide la
scope and based on the achievements
of man during the past century.
A stogo for this drama that was a
spectrum of architectural wonders.
Exhibition halls of various ahapea and
elies sprawled like blocks over the
"" rearing bright hued
w.u.w mm angular towers.
The visitors saw a combination of
science and circus, one ocoiipytng the
nig snow., the other
the wings.
They wslked thmuah tu. u-.
science and viewed dynamic exhibits.
I'guraciveiy stepped from
continent - to- cnnttnMnt f-
tury to century, and from one geo-
' yonoa to another from bulld
Inga of ultra mnrimif
ductlons of old Fort Dearborn and
Abraham Lincoln's log cabin.
Through the general exhibits group,
housing the nroductx .nri I
of present day Industry, they passed
a ,,nrcm or me earth recreated
from a remote Beniocirni n.nn AnM
plete with extinct vegetation and
uuiuonurs.
The visitors nasseri fmm fv,.
ratory atmosphere of the hall of
science to the alghta and amolls ot
eireoi carnival ballyhoo boulevard,
with Its roarlne roller coatr i
blend of hot dogs, popcorn and ham-
Clouds threatened In mDir. ..it.,-
cult the plan for turning on the grand
uiuuiiiiauon mrougn the magnified
power of a ray from the star Arcturus.
This star is so far away thBt the light
wuu,a reacnea tne eartn tonight baa
beon on the way since Chicago's pre
vious world fair 40 yearn ago.
(Continued on Page Five) ?
Will
NEW YORK, May 26. Just
flew in from Washington from
the Morgan investigation. I
have .always said I never met
a man I didn't like. Well, I
liked this Morgan. You would .
like him. You couldn't help
it. I am not speaking of his
"racket," I am speaking of
the man. These senators will
be banking with him before
this thing ends. When I met
him I started to hand him
what little I had right there,
Now these senators started
out to prosecute him. I want
to save him. I can see the mak
ings in him of s regular guy.
He has the money, he has the
brains and above all, he has the
personality. If he will devote
(we will say just the after
noons of) his life to publio
jervico or philanthropy of
some sort he will die happy
and loved. , .
Yours,
r5