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"HEDTOKb MAIti TMBTTSlfi, MEDFORD, OREGON, TVEfrKTESDAY, MAY 31, 1933.
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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Perry.
Congress hu abrogated the pay
ment of all debU with gold. Now
If the measure la broadened to In
clude silver, or anything else. It will
be a much nicer world.
There nave been no escapes from
the state prison at Salem In four
months. At this rate, it will soon be
harder to get out, than to get In
"Henry Cistern la well again, your
correspondent has been informed.
(Lena Items.) It Is quite evident
that your correspondent has been
pumping somebody
The baseball fever haa gripped the
valley, and there is a baseball team
for every 22 phone poles. Baseball
la a Wealthy civic Interest, Involving
no organised lying or oratory, and
witlh no danger of anybody getting
killed, but an occasional umpire,
Ferdinand Pecora, the Inquisitor of
J. Plerpont Morgan, and others who
have more money than they know
what to do with legally, la described
In press dispatches as possessing
"Jutting Jaw, strong teeth, and
bronze forehead." He originally
hailed from Sicily, and la one of the
few Sicilians bobbing up In the news
In the past five years, not connected
with the Al Capons gang of Chicago.
An eastern Oregon high school re
cently 'debated the question of which
waa the most vital to Man wheat or
trousers. Wheat waa given the de
cision, In spite of the fact that i
man with a barn full of wheat, and
no pants. Is more or leaa handicapped
In everyday life, - and completely
ruined aa a gentleman.
A number of the Older Girls have
started worrying about the past,
though the future will keep them
busy, one would guess.
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DIG, UNREASONAL BRUTE
(Love Agony Col.)
Dear Cynthia Grey: I am 34
years of age, and married. I am
considered good looking, and all
who meet me are orexy about me.
Last night I took an auto ride
with a man friend, and did not
get back until after midnight.
My husband had a tantrum, and
ordered me to go back to my
home folks. What shall I dot
, Pretty Poll.
Some of the gosslpa axe still ex
periencing difficulty In telling a fib
that somebody won't believe. The
Bull Weevil Is loose again.
M. Gandhi, the India hell raiser,
baa Just finished going 31 days with
out eating. The fast was supposed
to weaken the British empire. Just
how the weakening was to be accom
plished, is not explained. If M.
Gandhi wanta to make headway, he
should stand on a bank corner look
ing mad, whenever weather condi
tions permit, with time out for food.
A man wae busy yesterday shaking
hands, like he was going to run for
something next spring.
The ukelele Is coming back, ac
cording to the Music Teachers associ
ation. The ukelele haa put many
promising youth on the bum.
FANCY WRITIN", WE BAT
Ojal, Calif., OJalan)
Responding to the ubiquitous urge
to foregather with one's kindred
spirit and to be near one's self
expatriated fellow-countrymen, he
directed his solitary way to the Olty
of the Angels, where he aimed to
"bask beneath cerulean skies" and to
oscillate between the surf and the
snows.
Romance tingled In the heart of
this wind-tanned son of the far
north, and a -wooing he did go.
Ultimately, he thrust his heroic form
at the feet of a fair and naive divin
ity who smilingly cheered his admir
ing endeavors. Quoth het "I will
give my life, my all, to be by your
side till death us do part.'
But to this self -Immolating, sacri
ficial offer of our gallant suitor, we
opine, our trusting, fair celestial
made no response. Nothing daunted,
however, he bedizened himself in
new finery and weaponed himself
with frolicking phrase, wherewith
further to besiege the ttmld and be
leaguered heart.
To these grandiloquent effusions
hearkened now the soft-eyed daugh
ter of the Southland. Yielding to
these avowals of his membership In a
fortunate - caste, aha wreathed her
brow with orange blossoms and, her
alded by cupld and the brain child
of Herr Mendelssohn, she plighted
her troth to the said fanciful and
far-flung ex-warrior of Bis Majesty,
King George
No Longer a
TPHB other day w remarked
moon was about over for
The Congressional Eecord
tainly bears out this prediction.
In the senate three of President Roosevelt's favorites, all
occupying important positions
time, were givn a terrific panning.
C"IRST came Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, held up to
scorn as the "dear friend of J. P. Morgan" who got in on
the ground floor with a $20,000'
Next, Norman H. Davis, Roosevelt's ambassador-at-large in
Europe, who was a similar beneficiary, and who, the senate was
informed, without proper authority or official standing, had
hooked up the United States with the hated League of Nations.
Thirdly, Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, an inti
mate friend of both President
made a very unfortunate speech
New Tork city when she referred to the "barefoot south" and
declared "a revolution will take place if you put shoes on the
people of the South."
ALL three members of Roosevelt's official family were most
hiftfi1v arsjuIaiI 1ni0elv tiv BAnnfnra nf ni-.aMnnt'a
own party.
Senator Wheeler of Montana led the attack on Woodin,
claiming that the administration
fiscal agents of this country as
Senator Robinson (Rep.) of
but his attack was based upon
nent Democrat and until recently ardent Roosevelt supporter,
William Randolph Hearst.
Miss Perkins was held up to
practically every democratic
Carter Glass, and even Copeland
for good measure.
Senator Russell of Georgia expressed himself as follows:
I hope the secretary of labor will see fit to visit the South.
I assure her that a crowd will not gather on the streets to
view her leather-clad feet aa anything out of the ordinary
or aa any rare phenomena. She will not find. In any of the
rural sections, the eltlzens all shamelessly wiggling their bare
, toes In the soil; and she will further find that In the cities
our people do not expose the soles of their bare feet to the hot
pavements.
Whereupon Senator Bailey of North Carolina declared even
the mules in the South wear shoes, and Senator Glass taking
another tack, defended the shoeless South, declaring that "when
I grew up as a boy we did not care a tinker's damn about a boy
who wore shoes. We regarded him as a sissy and would not
associate with him."
Following which this colloquy took place:
Mr. Long. Mr: President, la thla lady who haa Informed us
about the ehoeless South the person who Is to be given Jurlsdlc- l
tlon under the so-called "Industrial legislation"?
Mr. Bailey. I would not be able to say what Is going to
hsppen along that line.
Mr. Long. It looks to me as If the lady had better be sent
to school. Somebody should teaoh her about something except
manicuring sets, or something. Somebody ought to show her
how to get In out of the rain before we turn her loose on the
whole country.
Fortunately President Roosevelt has, what his predecessor
lacked, a sense of humor, and he
incident as it should be treated,
But the attacks on Woodin
attacks involve polioies whioh
and whioh he will defend.
But here undoubtedly Roosevelt's political shrewdness will
come into play. Woodin has
Mellon will be glad to take another one.. In due time he will.
As for Davis, he was inherited
tlon. We have an idea he has been retained, to act more or less
as a stalking horse, and when he has drawn the enemies' fire,
he can be transferred, without
ministration or loss in its prestige.
But one phase of the situation President Roosevelt can't
deny.N The orange blossoms have
moon ia over.
Looking Forward With F. R.
AS A matter of fact the sooner
ing normal prosperity, the sooner
For his freodom from trouble,
he has enjoyed both in and out of congress, has been due sololy
to the depression. The sense of a common peril, has united all
factions behind him, allowed him unhindered to secure the
revolutionary legislation he, desired, given him the greatest
powers ever accorded a chief executive in the history of this
or any other country.
Onoe remove that sense of peril, return the American people
to a feeling of seourity and well
that has beset every occupant of the White House in this gen
eration will undoubtedly begin.
Then and not until then,
be shown. From the standpoint of political history, that period
will be far more interesting, and important, than the present
period.
Then and not now, will it be
'new deal" is merely a vote-oatohing phrase, or a fundamental
principle, marking the creation of a new political party.
POR, AS we set it, there is to be no middle ground for Frank-
lin D., no half-way station where he can alight. Whether
he succeeds or fails, it is going to be sensational success or com
plete and dismal failure.
Only time can tell. But this
Roosevelt can't hold his own party, on the course he must take,
and obviously he can't become leader of the opposing -party.
He must, to win, form a new
an amalgamation of both major
Republicans. He must fight the
the Tory wing of Big Business, he must fight the die hard isola
tionists, and the high tariff beneficiaries and when anv indi-
idual fights a crowd like that
Pll. hcm'l tcSslimrr llim ll1lr
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o him and him alone. The hand
Koosevelt on the spot.
Bridegroom
upon the fact that the hoaey-
President Roosevelt.
for May 25th, just received, cer
in the government at the present
stock purchase.
and Mrs. Roosevelt, who it seems
before the Welfare Council of
had made the House of Morgan
well as Oreat Britain.
Indiana led the attack oft Davis,
articles written by that promi
ridicule and condemnation by
senator in the south, including
of New York, put in his oar,
will no doubt treat this Perkins
with a smile.
and Davis, are different these
the president takes seriously,
never liked his job, and unlike
from the Hoover administra
any embarrassment to the ad
started to fade. The honey
President Roosevelt succeeds
his troubles will begin.
the amazing popular support
being, and the stress and strain,
will the president's real mettle
determine whether Roosevelt's
much is certain. President
party of his own, supported bv
parties both Democrats and
monev power, he must fight
he has some fight on his hands.
and 1.An:n 1. . .inH T' ,tn
" ' l iiiMiiuu no n it's. 11 a hit
of history Jyis placed Franklin
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PATIENTS DO NOT DIE OF APPENDICITIS
IN ENGLAND.
A motion "That in every case of
acute appendicitis immediate opera
tion la indicated" was recently de
bated by the Roy
al Society cf
Medicine and lat
er by Fellowship
of Medicine and
Postgraduate As
sociation, and
both representa
tive English med
ical bodies appear
to have disa
greed, after the
traditional man
ner of the pro
fession.
The weight of
opinion appears to be evenly divided
upon the question of immediate op
eratlon'in all cases. In soce case it
if good Judgment on the part of the
surgeon to wait a bit, these represent
tatlve English doctors think. These
cases, where some of the best doctors
deem It wise to wait, constitute per
haps 3 or 3 percent of all the acute
cases of appendicitis so don't bank
on cheating the surgeon out of his
opportunity If you come down with
an all-wool yard-wide bellyache to
morrow.
All the English surgeons and physi
cians seem to be in accord about the
wisdom of immediate operation in
every case of acute appendicitis in a
young child. With older persons it
may be a fair gamble to wait a few
hours or even a few days; with a
child It la not fair to take such a
chance, for the changes that happen
In such illness in the very young are
too sudden and the effect too disas
trous. I know something of the pain
parent suffers when a child la In
this plight; I know, too, that good,
prompt American surgery assauges
that pain as nothing else can.
Lord Moynlhan, famous English
surgeon, pulled off one of his aphor
isms wisecracks, as we call 'em here.
Patients never dies of appendicitis,
he said; they die of Its treatment.
Now wait a moment. It Is vitally
Important for you to get the drift of
this Dr. Robert T. Morris of English
medicine. He isn't throwing any bricks
at the bungling works. Not he. Moynl
han is one of them. .What he means
is that aperients are fatal, in acute
appendicitis.
Aperients? Oh, you know the Eng
lish have their affections. Aperients
are laxative or cathartic agents med
icines, mineral waters, foods.
So that's what Mr. Moynlhan hlo-
Comment
on the
Day's News
By PRANK JENKINS
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT decides
that the United States should go
off the gold standard by law. So
far, we have been off the gold stand
ard only by proclamation.
Immediately following his deci
sion, a resolution repealing the gold
standard act Is Introduced in both
houses of congress.
The resolution, presumably, will be
adopted without delay.
THE stock market, upon hearing of
the President's decision, rallies
sharply. Stocks leap to new high
levels for the year, the market clos
ing In a rush of buying, approxl
mately four and a third million
shares changing hands.
HV does the stock market rise In
response to this news?
The answer Is that going formally
off the gold standard by law rather
than merely by proclamation, is
cepted as the definite and tangible
beginning of a policy of Inflation.
Hitherto, you know, Inflation has
been largely psychological something
that MAY be done, but hasnt actu
ally been done yet.
Going off the gold standard by
law is a definite Inflationary step.
INFLATION, as has been so often
stated in this column, la deprecia
tion of the value of money. If money
Is depreciated In value, more of It
will be required to purchase a given
amount of commodities. That Is an
other way of saying prices will rise,
for we measure prices in terms of
money.
If prices are going to rise, people
want to BUT NOW so as to get In
ahead of the rise.
That Is why the stock market
climbs.
PERHAPS you may ask: "Just how
do we go off the gold standard
by law?"
The answer to that question Is
simple. We announce that hereafter
ALL obligations, Including obliga
tions of the government of the Unit
ed States, are payable In legal ten
der money, and NOT gold. That Is
to say, there is no longer any way in
which you can demand gold and
OET IT.
Gold, you see, becomes merely a
medium for giving value to money.
It ts no longer to be an actual money
medium In ttaelf.
WK READ of definite inflationary
steps that take the place of the
m i i.
,w hlv. been having, m rcponw
to th steps, wt hear, the stock
scuse me, his lordship means. Indeed
he went right on to say that he bad
never seen a gangrenous perforated
appendix, (which, I assure you, chil
dren, ia far worse than, It sounds)
where an aperient was not the cause
(of the perforation or rupture and
the dire consequences of thla even
tuality.) No danger would ensue from
expectant treatment (that means
watchful waiting) if aperients were
withheld and If nothing whatever
particularly water was given by
mouth. A single drop of water, aver
red Lord Moynlhan, causes Intestine
activity of the alimentary tract In
the appendix region.
And that'a a pretty good thing to
remember: Where there is even'a sus
picion of acute appendicitis let noth
ing be given by mouth. External heat,
preferably moist heat as from a large
poultice or flannels wrung out of hot
water, applied externally for relief,
patient kept as quiet as possible, no
physick, no food, no water, at least
till the doctor comes.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Nature Is Kind.
I am 33 years old. Eight months ago
I had mumps, and there was a com
plicating eplldymitls, the doctor call
ed at . . . What effect this will have
. . . (J. L. E.)
Answer No effect. As long as the
opposite gland remains intact there
is no appreciable Impairment of any
kind, now or later.
Equalizing Circulation.
I find that your advice 6f a dally
walk of about two hours, or several
miles. Is excellent. For ; me it has
proved a remedy for restless nerves.
It has equalized the circulation and
Induced restful sleep, a priceless boon.
(C. W. D.)
Answer For those who can't afford '
to walk, a dally bicycle ride Is the
next best thing.
Dang.
Your article "Crick in the Back" in
terested me greatly (three pages of
history of a case) . . . your opinion of
the case . . . (R. H. A.)
Answer I am sorry now I wrote tho
article. It brought a great number of
letters from gullible folk who are
ever ready to believe that when
physician unwittingly describes some
of. their present symptoms, he can
also divine by long distance second-
sight what alls them and what they
should do about It. In other words
they think the doctor must be a
quack. ,
(Copyright 1933, John'F. Dllle Co.)
market rises, thus indicating confi
dence on the part of the buying pub
lic that prices are going to rise.
But, out here on the Pacific Coast,
we find that after hearing all this
and leading all this, we are Jingling
no more money In our pockets.
So this perfectly natural question
occurs to us: "When Is all thla bet
ter business we are hearing about
going to get to us?"
HERE, is the answer:
Business will get better, here
in our own community, Just as soon
as we begin to get more money into
circulation, and NOT BEFORE.
AND when will that happen?
Well, not right away. Two
things, broadly speaking, bring mon
ey into this country sales of lumber
at fair prices and sales of agricul
tural produces at fair prices.
These things bring money INTO
THE COMMUNITY. We send money
out of the community for those
things we use but do not ourselves
produce.
For some time past, due to low
prices of agricultural produces and
low prices of lumber and resulting
inactivity in the lumber Industry,
we have been sending more money
out than we have been getting back.
Before business can get definitely
better with us, we must have time
to re-establish the normal balance
between what goes out and what
comes In.
WHEN will that time come?
It can't come very much be
fore fall. It is In the fall, you know,
that agricultural products are sold.
And before lumber markets can Im
prove materially the condition of
those Wtho buy lumber must Improve,
so that they will have the money
with which to buy.
UT at least It can be said, with
Increasing confidence, that
things are getting better, whereas for
more than three years In the past
they have been getting steadily
worse.
That helps ft lot.
Editorial Comment
We called attention the other day
to what seemed to be very evident
instances of perjury In the Bancs
trial. Apparently the same Idea oc
curred to the district attorney for
the dlspatchea announce that the
matter is to be brought before the
Lane county grand Jury. That's good.
Perjury has Hfcome the fashion in
law suite rathr than the exception
and seldom is anything done about
it. (CorvallU Gazette Times).
For the fir
time In Its history,
f Missouri has a fsnc-
the Unlverrtt (
ing team
The Kan r . ,:y Blues started the
QXi season V h four left banders on
tii lr huriln .tail.
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK, May 31. Many mannl
klns hsve graduated from Manhattan
dreu-maklng shops to real social dls-
. tlnctton abroad
the past few
years. Most no
table perhaps la
the former Jose
phine Armstrong.
She waa selected
by Jean Patou
several years ago
to g r a c e his
barn-like salon In
the rue Floren.
tin.
Her marriage
to Ersklne Qwynn
blond playboy of
the American col-
ony, waa followed
O. O. Mclntyre by divorce, but
the red-haired "Poxy," as she Is
knnvn around Place Vendome. did
not step out of the social picture
She Is a constant guest at homes,
denied to climbers, In London, Far,
the Riviera and St. Moritz. '
Her firm friendships Include the
Prince of Wales and Mountbattens.
Edwlna Prue, also a mannlkln with
Miss Armstrong at the former May
belle Manning's la now the. wife of
Leo d'Elanger, member of the cele'
brated banking family In London, and
attends court functions. BIJ1 Martin
Is a countess.
Dolores, best known perhaps as the
statuesque show girl of the Midnight
Frolic, began as a mannlkln In New
York. Now grey-haired, but still re.
talnlng the beauty that filled first
row tables, she Is the wife of Ricnara
Wilkinson, noted artist bracketed high
In Parisian swank.
Swift changes, incidentally, have
come to the lineup of Paris conu
tourlers the past few months. Top
ping the heap Is the Chicago-born
Malnborcher, breathed in extreme
Gallicism as "Mlne-boshayl" He was
once Main R. Borcher, in plastic days
chorus boy, concert accompanist
and scribbler on a New York fashion
magazine.
The happy truth le designers for
the movie studios are making Holly
wood the style capital of the world.
There's no longer that weasel phrase
with a significant shrug: "It looks
Hollywood I" In a recent symposium
In Harper's Bazaar, the talented Car
mel Snow. I think It was, frankly
warned: "Today a mere child knows
that If you want Garbo results, you
better look Garbo."
The designer who transformed the
gawky and dowdy Garbo into the
swaying and sinuous sylph she is to
day is Adrian, yanked out of the
Connecticut brush to spark lustre as
a Hollywood exquisite. His creations
are curiously perlodless and startllngly
simple and American. He holds down
the western fashion front while Peggy
Hoyt adds a chic to the eastern decor.
And Paris wrings artistic hands.
Cinema Circes who lead the pack
in Influencing styles, ' aside from
Garbo, are Dietrich, Bennett, Davles,
Crawford, Francis, Tashman and
Shearer. I understand the most ex
travagant gown buyers for personal
wear are Joan Crawford and LUyan
Tashman. They buy 60 or so at a
crack. Or did.
Nobody so flogged the masculine
imagination sartorial ly as Jack Buch
anon six years ago. He gave such pan
ache to the double breasted dinner
coat that the shawl collared single
breasted Jackets of the day looked
overnight like a hoot-nanny on the
hlckey. And his single large stud
dress shirt made the three stud dickey
as passe as a gold ear spoon.
The other afternoon with a real
estate agent, I visited an aristocratic
old mansion soon to fall under the
pick. Next to the Wendell home on
the avenue, it is the most depressing
pile In town. It was built In the days
of the hackney coach with great sta
bles and wide-walled court yard. Our
feet echoed noisily on the banlstered
stairs. Nothing inspires hushed cau
tlon like a deserted house. . One feels
the Intruder. If there were spirits
about perhaps a queer doubt to ex
press In this day I wondered if they
were not arching tut-tutting brows
at the newly erected sign out front:
"On this site will be erected the
largest dance hall, combination beer
garden and automat in the world."
Another excursion recently was a
lightning whisk through the chauf
feurs' paradise, Holland Tunnel. It
le the one place drivers can "step on
it" without being on the business
end of a thumb-Jerk and "Pull In
at the curb I" Ray Long once likened
the Jaunt to a greased pig going
through Child's.
Sitting In the front seat of an open
car in the tunnel I unbuttoned my
mouth for an observation. In the
rush of breeze it was a faint "Galuph
unk galooml" On top of that I went
through a cloud of gnats, laughing.
(Copyright, 1933. McNaught Syndi
cate, Inc.)
Surrenders
ii nil ' il mini
Henry L. Cassidy gave himself
up to the sheriff at Anacortes
Wash., after allegedly killing wife,
brother, and a family friend at an
automobile camp near there. Offl.
cert said Jealousy caused the shoot
too. (Associated Press PJutoJ
HOSTAGES FREED,
EL
(Continued from Page One)
LANSING, Kas., May 31. (AP)
Eleven convicts, including three kill
ers, were at large today but the six
.hostages they took In their Memorial
day escape from the Kansas state
penitentiary here were safe.
Warden Kirk Prather, who leaves
office today, and two guards were
released last night In the hill coun
try of northeastern O&.ahoma by six
of the fleeing prisoners, and returned
here at 7:15 a. m. Three women,
whose car was commandeered by the
other five, reported- they were safe
at Pleasanton, Kas, about 100 miles
south of Lansing near the Kansas-
Missouri border.
Watchman Killed
Otto L. Durkee, 42, night watch
man at Chetopa, Kas., waa shot and
killed early today by an unidentified
assailant. Chetopa is about 16 miles
across 'the Kansas border from Welch,
Okla where a group of the convicts
liberated Prather and the guards. Of
ficers were Investigating the possi
bility that Durkee was killed In an
encounter with one of the two groups
of fugitive convicts.
The watchman's body was found
In an alley. He had been shot
through the heart with a 25-20 cali
ber rifle, investigators said. .
Durkee's revolver was empty, hav
ing been fired six times. Discharged
cartridges on the street nearby indi
cated a gun fight, but no witnesses
to the shooting had been discovered.
Telephone of Safety
A telephone call from Miss Louise
Wood. 17, to her father. M. J. Wood,
who had waited anxiously for word
from her, his wife and a girl chum
since he was thrust from his car
about noon Tuesday, was the first
news from the three women. Mrs.
M. J. Wood is an invalid. The girl
chum waa Miss Clovis Wears, 17,
whose home Is In Hlgglns, Tex., but
who attend high school in Kansas
City.
Miss Wood said vie men did not
harm them and drove on after re
leasing them last night near the
farm home of George New, near
Pleasanton. They were in custody
of the convicts about ten hours.
Warden Prather credited his safety.
and that of his companions, L. A.
Laws and John Sherman, to a bottle
of whiskey the convicts drang after
crossing the state line into Okla
homa after a zig-zag Journey through
eastern Kansas. The drink mellowed
them, said the warden, but he feared
for his life even up to the time the
three hostages were ejected from the
car near Welch, Okla.
Rob Station Operator
At Miami, Okla., a filling station
operator said the leader of four men
who robbed htm today of a few
dollars and gasoline resembled Wil
bur Underhtll, leader of the fugitives.
After a day of hard driving, dur
ing which they commandeered sev
eral motor cars, the six with their
hostages crossed the southern border
of the state ltno Oklahoma, the old
stamping ground of Wilbur Under
bill, 30-year-old gunman and mur
derer. Underhlll Is the supposed
leader of the fleeing convicts who
yesterday selected a thrilling part of
Memorial day baseball game to
make the break.
One of the six. Harvey Bailey,
known as the "golf course' bandit,
was suffering frqm a broken right
leg, the result of a shot from the
prison wall while the escape was In
progress. Officers believed the next
objective of the convicts would be
medical attention for their comrade.
Mellowed by Drink
The warden gave a detailed ac
count of the wild ride and credited
his release to a botle of whiskey
the men bad obtained. The drinks
put the prisoners in a Jovial mood
and led some of them to confide
the methods they used in smuggling
weapons Into the twine plant. They
also disclaimed any connection with
the other five prisoners in the plot.
Warden Prather said Underhlll, serv
ing a sentence for the murder of a
Wichita policeman, frequently had
threatened him with harm during the
zig-zag flight through eastern Kan
sas. 1
The uniformed guards several times
caused pursuing officers to withhold
their fire in fear of wounding the
hostages to turn upon their captives
for revenge. At one point in the
flight, south of Ottawa, the guards,
at the command of the prisoners,
waved back three Douglas county
deputies who were searching for the
convicts.
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Communications
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To the Editor:
, The Full Gospel church of 11 New
town wish to take this opportunity
to express their thanks and appre
ciation for your kindness In giving us
such good publicity In our recent ser
ies of meetings during the campaign
of Dr. Charles and Brother Under
wood, the two converted athtests and
infidel lecturers. We certainly ftppre
elate all you did for ui.
The Full Gospel Church of
Medford.
B yMrs. Wm, Cherry, Secretary.
Perjury Against a Dead Man
To the Editor:
Ood bless you for your own recent
editorials regarding perjured testl
mbony In the L. A. Banks murder
trial, and for publishing many good
editorials from other Oregon news
papers on this attempted obstruction
of Justice, and also the quotations
from Oregon statutes showing the
punishment for this crime and for
lawyers who incite witnesses to com
mit perjury.
Of course my opinions would be
ridiculed by Banks and his lawyers.
because I am merely a church mem
berone of that class repeatedly re
viled by Banks when he attacked at
various times (as usual, for no cau
whatever) the "long-haired Metho
dists." the "sanctimonious" Baptist,
the Christian Scientists, the "drv"
Civic League of church members, and
also the ministers of the gospel them-
Flight 'o Time
(Medford and Jackson County
Hlitorr from the File, ol The
alaU Tribune of 20 and 10 Year, m
Ago.)
TEN FEARS AGO TODAY
May 31, 1923.
(It was Thursday)
O. of C. to put signs on Crater
Lake road.
Two auto camps In city open for
1923 business.
First cutting of alfalfa starts next
week. Crop will be no good, farmers
report.
Gov. Al Smith of JJew York signs
the dry repeal bill.
First hall of the year falls, and la
followed by a gentle shower. .
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
May 31, 1013.
(It was Saturday)
CENTRAL POINT'S GRIEVANCE.
For some time the towns of the
Rogue River valley have dwelt to
gether in harmony, barring the per
petual bubbling of envy in Grants
Pass against Jackson county as ft
whole and Medford as a specialty.
Even Ashland has subsided and 1ft
keeping the peace.
Now, however, comes the Central
Point Herald waving a torch of dis
cord with a grievance, or rather three
of them. The Central Point base
ball team lost a game to Medford,
therefore the umpire is blamed. A
newspaper reporter mistook the Cen
tral Point float in the Odd Fellowe
parade for one from McMlnnvllle be
cause It bore the legend "McMlnn
vllle" in -big letters, though the error
was corrected, therefore there wns ft
conspiracy to defraud the neighbor
ing city out of its honors. The third
grievance is that the papers said that
Central Point combined with Medford
musicians to moke "the best band
ever hailing from Southern Oregon"
Instead of specifying that 17 out of -21
players hailed from Central Point!
Therefore the Central Point paper
exclaims In tragic tones that Med
ford 's spirit of fairness is about as
"small as the shadow of a fly's eye
lash on a dark night In a fog I"
Only the fly can see its own eye
lash and the Central Point Herald
should not allow it to Interfere with
the clarity of its vision.
selves, indlvadually and also collect
ively as the Ministerial association.
Yet mind you, these are the sort of
good citizens whom Banks lawyers
brazenly described at the trial to the
world at large as lawless, gangster
"persecutors" of the "martyr" Banks.
Remember the misrepresentations and
distortions of truth these lawyers
quoted concerning our county and its
citizens. Also consider the blasphemy
of those defense lawyers in compar
ing this murderer Banks to our Lord!
It is evidently too much to expect
of such persons as these to have any
respect for God's commandment:
"Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor." perhaps, how
ever, they will now pause to consider
the Oregon law governing perjury or
those who Incite witnesses even to
attempt to give perjured testimony, j
Perjury (or inciting another to com-
mit perjury) is bad under any con
ditions, worse before a court of Jus
tice, and still more serious in penalty
in a murder trial. But how much,
worse than ever, to employ perjury to
slander the name and character and
actions of a dead man. who could not
reply or defend himself! Especially
such an honorable, respected, mild
mannered man as our own law-enforcement
office, George Prescott.
Stop a moment, my friends, and
consider the lies that were manufac
tured against Mr. Prescott. with the
Idea that he was gone where he could
not refute them. The vile oaths they
put in his silent mouth, the false
threats they invented for this gentle
officer, the cruel reputation thoy
painted for him who died that peace
and law and order might return to
Banks-stricken Jackson county. Thank
aoa. tnere were enough worthy law
abWlng citizens to come forward and
tell the truth which utterlv lmoe ach
ed the rehearsed testlmonv of the.
coached" defense witnesses.
As a matter of fact, the defense
overdid their manufacturing too
much "msu nrj-iH 11tti-ln" ru :
eye-witnesses happening to be on the
came spot at the same Instant, woo
could see and hear every alleged de-
esu oi Mr. Frescott's imaalnarv nls-
tol handling and conversation with
Mrs. Banks, but who couldn't see
each other! Thus again "Error des
troyed itself," and Truth conquered.
What a commentary on Justice and
its administration in Oregon. If, af
ter perjury was exposed and failed
to achieve Its ends in this case, any
lawyers should have enough "Influ
ence" to prevent the perjury froin
coming to a hearing and trial in Lane
county.
"ONE OF MANY,"
(Name on Fu
Medford, May 30.
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