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Medford Mail Tribttne The Weather iorecaht: Fair tonight and 'lnur day; temperature shore normal. Temperature: lllj;het yesterday - - -- IK l.oaeu thli morning .. 4h Your Vacation a ill ht more enjoyable If jou hare the Mall Tribune follow yon. No additional cost. Phone 15 and place jour order before leaving. MEDFOKU, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21," 1933." Twenty-eighth Year No. 78. L BASEBALL CITY INUNDATED AS WATER SWEEPS THROUGH BREAK sms oca be i r Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE nation of the world we gath ered at London to discuss the atablliMtlon of money. That la to ay, they are trying to find a way to get back to the old ound basla of trading the money of one country for the money of an other country at a fair rate of ex change that will be the same when deal la completed aa when It wa begun. THAT ought 7obe" done. It MUST be done ,lf bualneaa among the nation la to be carried on witn ar.y degree of confidence at all. It aeema auch a simple and ol-vloua thing to do that plain business men wonder why the representatives of the natlone don't get Vjgether at lunch aome day, paaa t'.ie necessary resolution and then r,o back home and get to work. rAT la the-way plain business men would 60 It. But this world V eoenomlc conference In London Isn't being run by plain business men. It la being run by diplomats, and dip lomats dor.'t do thlnge that way. Their, method la to get together with t'jelr fingera crossed, each de termined to get everything In sight for his own county and to cheat erery other country out of Its eye teeth, If possible by A'NY form of po lite akulduggery. THIS world economic conference of which we are reading In the pa ' pers Is being run by diplomats, and It Is running true to ancient diplo matic form with thla exception: The representatives of ALL the other nations are more or less ftrmly united in the determination to cheat the UNITED .STATES out, of Its eye teeth, come what may. . That is what they are there for. i , ' yHIS writer is one very small Indi 1 vldual. and Jils opinion doesn't count for much; but here it is, offer ed for what It is worth: If the United States is wise, it will go Into thla conference and OCT WHAT IT WANTS or take Its toys and go home. We're getting exceedingly tired -of going Into conferences with European nations and coming home without our clothes. It's about time to stop. ARE we going to stop? Well, here Is a hint: It la an nounced; from Washington that out of the three and a third billions of pub' lie works money 33 naral vessels and 300 navy airplanes will be built at a total cost of $347,382,000. That sounds like business, doesn't It? It amounta, in effect to saying to Europe: "All right, If you don't want to play with us, we're going to be prepared hereafter to PLAT BY . OUK5ELVES." That is talking the only language that Europe understands. Fthe past, In our attitude toward Europe, we hare been the Lady Bountiful. We helped her fight her wars, and UNDERWROTE THE COST. We kept our hands entirely out of the bsg when the spoils were being grabbed for. Then we loaned her the money with which to rehabilitate herself so she could get bak Into competition with us. WE, who have the money with which to build the biggest ar maments on earth, have promoted dis armament conference, and have abid ed by their decisions, scrapping the vessels we agreed to scrap and cut ting our army to the bone. Nobody else has. WE have played' the Lady Bountiful for Europe, and all we have got out of It Is a reputation as he prize Easy Mark. Europe has sized us up and figured out that the thing to do with ua la to take us for our shirt. AGMN offering the opinion of one humble Individual, It's, getting about time to call a halt. If all we can hope to get out of playing with Europe la being cheated out of our ere teeth, let'e QUIT playing with Europe and piay by ourselves. Cupid Suffers Salem Setback - SALFM. June 21. AP Dan Cupid tock a beating here yesterday, c even divorce were granted by Ji.dc L. O. Lie welling a mark un-r- "'I-d bre of lite. A number of ,- . , r.,. , - -rf f't-yf-d to return to ti'-ir rr -Idr n n-"T. pretimnhly to facilitate seeming employment. ! IL Bailiff Not Sworn and Prose cutor Addressed Bitter Remarks' to Defendant, Among Claims in Motion EUGENE, June 31. (JF) Irregular ities in court proceedings, errors of the court in admitting cor tain evi dence, misconduct of the state's chief attorney and Insufficient evi dence to warrant the verdict, are al leged in a motion for a new trial of Llewellyn A. Banks, convicted of the second degree murder of Constable Prescott of Medford. filed In circuit court today by Charles A. Hardy and Prank J. Lonergan as attorneys for Banks. Among irregularities of court pro ceedings, the defense attorneys claim that Mrs. Thomas Bailey, who acted aa one of the jury bailiffs in the case, continued to appear with and have bailiff supervision over the Jury after the Jury had retired, notwithstand ing that she had not been aworn as a bailiff to have charge of the Jury during Its deliberations. It Is further charged In an affidavit sworn to Dy Banks and attached to the motion. that Mrs. Bailey, while acting as balllfr In the presence of the women Jurors made statements derogatory to the defendant. Misconduct of thr state la alleged by the defense attorneys In that Ralph E. Moody, chief prosecutor, while addressing the Jury in open ar gument, turned to the defendant Banks and addressed unprofessional bitter and personal remarks to the defendant, which were excepted to by the defendant's counsel and excep tions denied by the court. Errors in law an claimed in the admission as evidence of a .32 calibre revolver, said to have been found in the homo, of Banks; shells for the re volver; a holster and belt alleged not to be connected with the defendant and ound many hours after his ar rest; ; loose shells for an automatic plol found at the home of the de fendant hours after his arrest. Further alleged errors in law were enumerated in the motion. FOREST SAVING IS TOPIC With representatives of the Ash land and Grants Psas Chambers of Commerce present the roads and highways committee of the chamber of commerce. C. E. Gates chairman, met at the chamber headquarters this morning at 10:00 o'clock to discuss the question of preserving the forests lining the highways of this section. "The local chamber has, during the past few months, been very active in its endeavor to prevent the denud ing of foreata lining our highways and it expects to carry on this cam paign, in order that our scenic and recreational resources shall be pre served,' stated Mr. Gate In opening the meeting. A report of the chamber's recent work along these lines was submit ted by Manager A. H. Ban well. Immediately following the meeting those present proceeded to Prospect where they were met by W. T. Grieve, a representative of the timber com pany. There an inspection was made of the territory involved. Those attending the meeting were B. Voorhles, representing the Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce; Tom Simpson and Tom Cunning, presi dent and secretary, respectively, of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce and 'the following representing the Medford Chamber of Commerce: C. B. Gates, C. L. Hopkins. J. W. Wake field. W. W. Allen, W. H. Oore, a. B. Smith, Hamilton Pa t ton. P. W. Wahl. Victor Bursell, P. O. enson, Clyde Eakln, snd E. C. SollnMcy, supertnten dent of the Crater Lake National park. T IN GLENN TRIAL Ten additional Jurors were drawn this morning, in open court, for the trial of John Glenn, former county Jailer, charged with ballot theft. The court said the additional names were receaaary, because many of the 35 called Tuesday are alk or have moved awsy. The llt is: William A. Crane, nalefman. Cen tral Point: Lester carr. farmer. Phoe nix; Robert Lytle. farmer. Talent: I. D. Cmfield, Phoenix, orchard Ut; A-ehie Klnralde. farmer, Barron: William D. Bebe. farmer, Aohland; Prvrt v.'atktns. fa-ror. Jacksonville Ci N. K-:ner. fa-mer. A'hWnd; H. O. Kr-hy. farmer. Talent, and Roy Ash pole, merchant, Eii Point, National. First game: R. H. E .. 6 13 0 - 13 1 Pittsburg Boston Batteries: Smith, Cbagnon. Kre- mer. Harris, French and Grace: Cant well, Zachary and Hogan. Spohrer. Second game: B. H. E. Pittsburg 3 8 0 Boston :. 5 13 1 Bstterles: Swetonlc. Chagnon and Grace: Frankhouse, Starr, Mangum and Spohrer. R. H. E. Chicago 1 3- 1 New York 8 7 0 Batteries: Malone and Hartnett; FltBsimmons and Mancuso. R. H. E Cincinnati 8 13 II Philadelphia 10 13 0 Batteries: Stout. Quran and Hems- ley; A. Moore, Hansen, Johnson, Llska, Elliott and Davis. R. H. E. 8t. Louis Brooklyn ...... 7 18 3 8 11 0 Batteries: Carleton. Vance and J. Wilson: Beck, Shaute and Lope a. Outen. American. R. FI. E. 0 18 0 0 9 1 Washington . Chicago . Batteries: Whltehlll and Sewell: Gregory, Klmsey and Grube. First game: Boston Detroit R. H. E. 10 14 1 .. 0 13 3 Batteries: Rhodes. Welch, Kline, Wetland and Ferrell: Herring, Hog sett, Bridges and DeSautels, Hay worth. R. R. E. .16 4 Philadelphia Cleveland . 11 13 '1 Batteries: Earnahaw, Walberg and Cochrane; Ferrell and Spencer. LEGION SPLIT BY ON VET BENEFITS Copyrighted by McClure Newspaper ' Syndicate. By PAUL MALLON. WASHINGTON, June 21. There la an Inside fight starting In the Am erican Legion which will rock Its foundation. Dissatisfied groups are being or ganized quietly In posts all over the country. They are determined to toss out Vie more reasonable group which has generally been In control of legion affairs sjnee its inception. If they can elect a flre-eatlng na tional commander at Chicago in Sep tember you will see a different kind of a legion than you have ever seen before. Those who have been polling sent iment confidentially say the Issue will be very, very close. The existing regime handled Itself very well during the hot veterans cuts rows recently. It kept Its hands clean. The national organization did no direct lobbying on the inside or out, Its passivity implied support for the administration. Individual posts out through the country bombarded con gress. The result were probably better from a legion atandpolnt than If the national outfit had entered the fray. Long-visioned men will see that the outcome of the present veterans dispute la only a stop-gap. Budget requirements forced action. If we get any kind of a substantial busi ness recovery It will be a different story when congress meets In Janu ary. Unquestionably you may ex pect to see permanent legislative re forms for veterans before the con gressional elections next year. For that reason the boys backstage believe this current fight was given (Continued on Page Two) FOR LEGALIZED BEER BOISE, Idaho. June 31, (AP) The Idaho state senate today passed tho final one of two bills legalizing and regulating 3.3 per cent beer In Idaho and Gov. Rosa announced he would sign the measures as aopn aa they were delivered to him. The senate vote was 36 to 6. two ab sent. Both bills, already passed by the house, went through the senate unamended. 'SALEM UNEMPLOYED I CONTINUING DEMANDS I SALEM. June 31. (AP) Orderly, but Insistent. 30 of the M unem ployed who were here yesterday con tinu'd their drive today for "cash j relief' after camping on the court .house lawn last night. I The county court yesterday of ' 'rred to confer with O. H. Ooes or any ' iir leaders, but refused to t ! ttn ci -ntt tees, om was recently active ia southern Oregon. E BY JONES IN BALLOT TRIAL Mayor of Rogue River and Family On Stand Claim No One Came to Home in ' Night With Stolen Votes Walter J. Jones, charged with bal lot theft, took the witness stand In i his own behalf 'and entered a general denial of Ml allegations made against him by state witnesses, picturing blm as ona of the leaders and plotters of the crime. After the morning recess the court ordered the courtroom corridor clear ed of all spectators, and the wit nesses for both sides to remain In their respective witness rooms. Thla la going to be an orderly trial. If it Is possible to have one and I think It Is," the court com mented. Crowd Increasing The past two days there has been & constantly Increasing gathering In the courthouse. The order was the result of a wordy exchange this morning be' tween a number of defense witnesses and R. H. Burton, when the latter passed through the defense witness room. Jones, In his direct examination. denied that he had met the Sexton boys on the basement floor: that he was around the courthouse the night cf the vote stealing, with a hammer and monkey-wrench In his sleeve; that he told "Chuck" Davis, "Tom Brecheen and I figured on getting In the vault and stealing the ballots. If they had not been stolen," or that he had given the signals for "con gress" cheering, and R. C. Cummlngs to start his Ford to drown the sound of the breaking vault window. - Denies Lowd Conversation Jonea denied that he had ever had a conversation In the sheriff's office with Deputy Sheriff Phil Lowd, when he allegedly admitted that he saw Lowd's car at his home the night of the ballot robbery. The defendant denied all the state claims, except that he was present around the courthouse on the night of the ballot taking, and that John Brock, a state witness, had tapped on the window and told him, "Leonard Hall has arrived." Jonea corroborated defense wit nesses, that he had eaten supper at the home of County Judge Pehl, and then went to the courthouse, arriv ing about eight o'clock. After the meeting started, he .was asked by Henrietta B. Martin, president of the "congress" to be so good aa to go outside and keep order, It was claimed. Jonea identified a road work pay roll, made out by himself, purporting to show that he was working on the Saturday following the ballot theft, and was not in thla city that day, as -unucK - oavia testified he waa. Don't Use Tobacco I Jonea declared, that he had no spe- 1 clal Interest In the sheriff's race, and I volunteered the Information, "I vot ed for Jennings, as he waa the only men I knew." He said he met Scher- merhorn after the election, and bet Mark Whipple of Rogue River, that "Schermerhorn would not be count ed out." He said Whipple paid the bet, and he gave the cigar to R. C. Cummin pa. "as I never use tobacco In any form." (Continued on Page Five) SPANISH FLIERS BELIEVED LOST MEXICO CITY, Jun 31. MP) A widespread search was in progress to day for Captain Mariano Barberan and Lieut. Joaquin Collar, Spanish trans-Atlantic flten, long overdue on their flight from Cuba, In the belief storms had forced them down in aome sparsely settled region. No definite report hid been re ceived of the Spaniards since they were sighted over Villa Hermosa. capi tal of Tabasco Stste, yesterday after noon, about 10 hours after their plane. "The Four Winds. left Havana for the Mexican capital. Oen. Pablo Jtodrlquez was reported to have left for Huamantla, State of Tlaxcala, to take charge of a search ing party on Malinche mountain. after residents of San Marcos v if) age said they had seen a plane they could not Identify descend on the slopes. NEW YORK. June 31. ( AP) Whether Jlmmie Mattern la dead or alive depends on where he met mta fortune on his attempted round the world flight, his representative. Jack Clark, said today. No word has been heard from slat tern since a week ago today when he took off from Khabarovsk, Siberia, for Nome. Alaska. "I attll give Jlmmie a 50-M chance of being sale," Clara aald. Kelso. Waah., was flooded when foot wall of water through the city. Upper: shopping by boat aa the river overflowed upon the town and (lower) an aerial view, of the community under water. (Asaoclated Press Photos) (lower) an aerial view, of the community under water. (Associated F Mprlfnrrl Wrinaina IVpf City CounciL Informed In Plea for Profit Law Claiming that the Mcdfor police department la without authority to prohibit the handling of Illicit liquor and that certain places In this city are selling liquor of "all strengths" and that public nuisances exist aa a result; a delegation from the Every Man'a Bible class and the Jackson County Civic League, headed by R. L. Ray, appeared before the city council last night to ask action to prevent the existence of such violations of the prohibition law, Mr. Ray presented the petition, ask ing for an ordinance granting the. po lice department authortty and power to enter and search such places and make arrests. At this time the police department, he maintained, has no such authority and Is therefore un able to take action In the matter. A "wide open" town will result, Mr. Ray stated unless action is taken by the city. Enforcement of the Eighteenth amendment, he explained Is "now up to the municipality." There Is no state authority to interfere with the consumption of Illicit liquor." The city la without legal protection to halt the aale of any liquor, he de clared, asking the cooperation of the council in a campaign to halt the sale of liquors of strength exceeding the legalised 3 3. Chief of Police Clatous MoCredie waa called upon to explain the situa tion and verified the slaima of the delegation, stating that the city for merly obtained search warrants thru the justice of the peace, which under the new law are not obtainable, CIVIL WAR VETS REQUIRE AUTOS SALEM. June 30. (AP) Plaudit for the living, bouqueta for the dead these were deferentially bestowed today in memory of the deeds of Civil war veterans gathered here for the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. The marching days of General Grant's former fighting men is pass ing. Automobiles transported the veterans In the parade thla morning, mhlle the sons and daughters march ed, timing their stps to the martial music of fife and drum. Heads were bared in respect by the crowda on the sidewalks aa the veterans passed. MRS. WILLEBRANDT ACQUITTED OF LIBEL NEW YORK. June 21. AP) Mri. Mabl Walk.r Wlllebrandt, former aolatant United Btatea attorney gen. eral, waa acquitted by a federal court Jury tod.y of a charae of libeling Otis O. Natloiu. Antl-Baloon League official and former prohibition ad minlitrator In St. Loula. 8ALEM, June 21. (AP) Lat. re turns yesterday added to the anti school bus majority In Marlon county. Tn 70 of the B9 di'trt !h vote mi 1734 for ti asportation and 2361 agalaak iSl VH rail a 150-foot section of the Coweeman Federal officials, also. Chief Mc- Credie stated have been instructed ro spend no more money l:i this channel Answering the request of the dele gation for an ordinance granting the police the power to enter and search such places, he stated that an ordin ance would not be sufficient. Such power would have to be .obtained through an amendment to the city charter.' which can only be made thru a vote of the people. The action desired by the dry delegation would therefore necessitate an election. Mayor E. M. Wilson promised the delegation that the matter would be referred to the Public ?lafety commit tee and that whatever action, pos sible, would be taken to curb the al leged violation of the liquor laws. Petition, asking for a change in the ordinance providing for beer li censes to shorten the periods for pay ment, was presented. The council voted to make no changes in the or dinance, recently adopted. Request from the club women of the city, asking relief from paymenta on the club room during July and Au gust, when same will not be . used waa referred to the finance commit tee. Ordinance giving the city some au thority to prevent radio interference waa passed by the council and City Superintendent Fred Scheffel an nounced that the application for R. F. C. funds for installation of a new sewage system here would be ready for the council's consideration Frl day. WITH COL. HOUSE OLOUCESTER, Maaa., June 21. Wl On the rowing wave, of thla sea- town'a harVr, President Roosevelt Interrupted hla vacation cruise today to dlacuaa both International and do mestic afralrs before proceeding on up the coast. Col. Edwsrd M House. Intlmet sd vlaer of President Wilson on foreign problems, boarded the Amberjack II just after Mr. Roosevelt had arisen from a lat aleep. making up for yea terday'a long haul from Nantucket, which ended here Just before mid night. Lewis M. Douglsa. director of the budget, scrambled aboard a little lat er to talk over veterans- compensa tion allowance. HOMESTEAD SEEKER ' DIES IN LAND OFFICE ROBKBURO, Ore.. June 21-(AP) T. C. Peterson: 1747 Brosdway, Sa lem, died from heart failure at the U. S. land office In Roseburg shortly before noon todsy during the pro gress of a content brought against a homestead entry made by Baiter Moore of Myrtle Creek, covering a 40 srre trsrt upon which Peterson claim ed to hold a mineral iillnf. river dike broke, sending, a two- TRIO OF STATES E BY REPEAL VOTE (By the Associated Press) Long-dry Iowa, with Conectlcut and New Hampshire, today brought to 14 the states which In unbroken succes sion have voted to knock the eight eenth amendment out of the consti tution. The Hawkey state's swing away from the position she had maintained for nearly two decadea left drya fix ing their hope for a halt in the pa rade on Alabsma and Arkansas, both voting July 18. tn the doubtful column when the balloting began, Iowa brought In In substantial majority for the repeal amendment, even though It waa not aa big as that In Connecticut and New Hampshire. But with 611.000 votes In, and only 130 precincts miss ing, her count was 368,601 for repeal and 342.013 against. That meant ahe had instructed all of her 09 delegates to the state convention July 10 to vote for repeal. From the start there had been no question about what New Hampshire and Connecticut would do. The for mer, with a light ballot and only one small town missing, voted 78.069 to .10.337 for repeal. In like faahlon, Connecticut gave a (I to I majority to the twenty-first amendment, which repeals the eight eenth. Her final, unofficial total was 236.01 B for repeal and 3S.340 against. With these three out of the way. Alabama and Arkansas provided the next major battleground. The proa and the anils are concentrating on them, even though California and West Virginia do vote earlter, on June 27. Drya figure that If they can hold two states this year, the question will be put over until 1034, when their chances will be better. Wets would like to win both Alabama and Ar kansas, but agree that it will be close. After these wilt come Tennessee, July 20; Oregon, July 31; Texas, Au gust 26: Waah Inn ton, August 39; Ver mont. .September B; Maine, Septem ber 11; Maryland and Minnesota. Sep tember 13; Idaho and New Mexico, September 19; Arizona, October 3; North Carolina. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, November 7. Ne braska and South Dakota will vote November 6, 1934. LONGEST DAY OF YEAR PORTLAND, June 21. (P The first day of summer and the longest day of the year davned here today with continued fair weather and high temperatures In sight. The Willamette river continued to fall at Portlsnd, dropping 0$ of a foot In the past 24 hours. The r.esther office said the tlver will drop about a foot In the next three days, and mora rapidly thereafter. Frenchman in Impassioned Speech Pledges Aid To ward Success of Meet, But Demands Stabilization By He WITT MACKENZIE. LONDON. June 31. (AP) What was taken by many delegates to be an Indication of weakening In tha gold bloc drive for adjournment of the world economic conference pend ing stabilization of the American dot lar, came dramatically In an impas sioned speech by Finance Minister Georgea Bonnet of Prance Just before this morning's session was adjourned. The forceful French minister took the floor in the Bub -committee on temporary monetary affairs and. while again demanding stabilisation, pledged "France's full aid toward the success of the conference." Demand Decisions, M. Bonnet's speech. In which he painted his picture of the dangers of inflation and currency depreciation with a broad brush, waa one of his most eloquent efforts In the confer ence. He put his whole driving force In to the address and held the closest attention of the other members of the committee. We demand concrete decisions and not signatures at the bottom of papers which the wind will immediately carry away," he declared. "To ar- ( Continued on Page Two) G. OUT STATE CARS SALEM, June 3. (AP) Orante Pass led the state In registering non resident motor vehicles the first five months of the year with 3405, latest compiled figures at the secretary of state's, office revealed. Ashland gain ed on the Cave city during May. Total state registration waa heavier In May than last year with 7371 com pared to 6461. However the five-' month total was only 18.880 aa com pared to 31,355 for the same period last year. Registrations by various cities dur-' Ing May were Ashland ,1363, Oranta Paaa 1223, Portland 422, Medford 403, Salem 331. Klamath Falls 370, Eu gene 310, Huntington 303, Roseburg 160, La Orande 180, Baker 138 and Pendleton 109. Figures for the five-month period ahowed Grants Pass 3405, Ashland 3970. Portland 2346. Salem 1838, Med ford 1383, Eugene 700, Klamath Falls 686, Roseburg 510, La Orande 390, Huntington 848, Pendleton 310 and Baker 354. SALEM, June 31. (AP) Charles Redding of Portland waa re-elected president of the Willamette univer sity alumni association at Its annual spring meeting here. WILL- ROGERS P.Sgys. BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., June 20. There ain't but one way of those foreign princes (or so called titled birds) to prove it to Americans, and that is for one of 'em to marry a poor girl. Then we will know he is a prince, for in all our Btory book reading the prince always married the poor girl. Mr. Roosevelt went out on what he hoped would be a quiet private cruise. All that follow ed him was a battleship, three coast guard cutters, three ship loads of newspaper men and two of cameramen. Talk about a gossipy old woman wanting to see and hear everything. American newspapers make an amateur out of her Whanging on the back fence and peeping in the keyhole. If I was him I would make a parachute jump some time and see 'f T could (?et a few seconds of privacy. Tours, I 5lMt XNtmat trasieate. lea, Y
