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Medford Mail Tribune Your Vacation will he more enjoyable If you hare the Mall tribune follow you. No additional cost. Phone 7a and place our order before leaving. Twenty-eighth Year MEDFOlii), OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1933. No. 82 Ul Entire Jury in John Glenn Ballot Theft Trial Dismissed by Court The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight aud lues day. Normal temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday ' Lowest this morrtlnc b mm i Comment the on Day's News nv FRANK JENKINS HERB la an Interesting not from the market page: "A near famine exlata In the pota to market. Holdings of potatoes In Oregon. Washington and Idaho we unusually limited, with a call for auppllea perhaps on the latest date ever known In this territory for the old crop. ."Production haa decreased greatly, and Instead of showing normal sea sonable Increase over demand It la actually not kesplng pace with de mand." THE exceedingly hot weather In tho East, of which we have been reading, la said to ha contributed to chla situation by reducing Eaatern production. At any rate. Chicago and Minneapolis are buying old crop potatoea In the Pacific northwest, something that never happened be fore at thla time of the year. PLEASE note that INFLATION haa nothing to do with thla condi tion that haa arisen In the potato market. It la a straight case of sup ply and demand. . Supply appears to be down, and If aupply la down we may expect that there will be more buyers than sellers In the market. It there are more buyers than sel lers, the price will rise. IN ONE of Oregon's leading hay dla trlcts, hay futures are selling at from 6.50 to 7.00 per ton at the baler.-Thls compares with $3 to $3.50 at this time last year. Here, again. It Is supply and de mand, and not Inflation, that la In fluencing the price. The Pacific coast Is practically bare of hay. Two yeara ago, there were hay stacks in every direction hay carried over from the preceding season. NOTE particularly these Instances where reduced supply, and not inflation, are pushing prices upward. They are significant. Stimulation of price by Inflation la ARTIFICIAL. Price Increases that result from reduced supply are na tural. Price increases that result from natural causes are sounder than price Increases that result from artificial causes. THE upa and downs in the stock market are different. They ap pear to be Influenced chiefly by In flation prospects. On the days when, the dollar sella down, the stock mar ket goes up. On the days when the dollar sella up, Indicating decreased Inflation, the stock market goes down. So don't pay too much attention to the stock market aa an Index of real prosperity. THE farming outlook la distinctly better. It NEEDS to be. A farmer said to this writer the other day: "I grew wheat last year . . . worked early and late to produce a crop; sowed it. harvested It and threshed It. And after I got all through, paid for my seed, my labor, my threshing bill and my rack bill, I came out Just 13 BEHIND. Not so good, la it? But it Is going to be BETTER thla year. And It Isn't ALL due to Inflation. Part of It la the result of an Im proved condition of supply and de mand. E VISITORS. LETTERS PARIS. June. 26. Mra. Almee Simple MePheraon-Hutton. an Amer ican evangelist, may not receive visit ors or communications for at least three weeks because of a serious Ill ness necessitating an operation ten days tso to remove an intestinal ob struction. Her physician, Dt. Charles Bove iMiied these order because, he said, the seriousness of her condition makes absolute quiet essential, al though she Is slon-Iy improving and la expected to get well steadily. She la on $ liquid diet. IS CONFESSED BY STAGEJRAVELER Nattily Dressed Frank We gener Gathered in On Po liceman's 'Hunch When Bus Stops Enroute South SALEM, June 26. (&) The grand Jury this afternoon indicted Prank Wegener,- 30, with robbery of the Aurasvllle bank Saturday of 685. Arraignment will be made later thi afternoon when the alleged robber is due to arrive from Med ford where he was captured. Sheriff A. C. Burk and Captain McClaln of the state po lice took Wegener in custody at Rose burg. The capture of Wegener a day and a half after the robbery was described here today. Yesterday noon an abandoned car In Painter's woods on a aide road north of Salem was reported to state police. License plates proved to be those stolen from a car in a double garage. Forrest Casey, who uses the other half the garage, was arrested by of ficers later in the day when he re turned home More than $40 of the loot was found In the house, officers related. Casey, former soldier buddy of Weg ener, said Wegener had staid with him Saturday night. Complete description and Indication that Wegener might head southward on a bus were also gained from Casey, who was subsequently released. Weg ener was arrested on a disorderly con duct charge here in April. Arrested at the stage terminal here when he appeared too nervous to drink a cup of coffee, Frank Wegener, 30, confessed early this morning to state and city police that he had held up and robbed the Aumsvllle state bank Saturday, and obtained approxi mately 685. Detective Sergeant James O'Brien said he arrested Wegener "on a hunch." Wegener had about $30 with him when arrested, and told the officers where the remainder waa hidden, near Salem. Stat Police Captain Lee M. Bown and State Police Detective Ser geant James O'Brien left at 5:30 this morning with the prisoner, for the north, to recover the stolen money. Burned Rob h err Clothes In his signed confession to the of ficers. Wegener told of stealing an automobile, which he abandoned at the Lane county line. Following the robbery, he was reported as saying. Wegener went to a house and burned all the clothes that he was wearing at the time of the Aumsvllle hold-up. When apprehended by the police. Wegener had on black and white (Continued on Page Four.) BASEBALL American Washington 4 8 1 Cleveland 3 0 0 Crowder, Russell and Sewell; Hll dfbrand. Hudlln and Myatt. Philadelphia 8 14 0 Chicago 3 10 1 Preitas. Peterson and Madjeskl: Wyatt, Hevlnij, Gregory and Orube. National PHILADELPHIA, June 26. (API After playing one half of the first inning and then waiting 35 minutes the game between the Cubs and Phillies today was called off because of rain. St. Louts at Boston. Cincinnati at Brooklyn, New York at Detroit, post poned, rain. Pittsburgh at New Tork, postponed rain. Eradication methods developed by the California state department of ag (culture have almost eliminated the white fly as a citrus Insect pest. VATICAN BOMBING PLOT ENGINEERED BY SPANIARD By ANDRLE HERDING, Associated Press Staff Correspondent. VATICAN CITY. June 28. (AP) The bomb which exploded yesterday in the portico of St. Peter's was manufactured in Spain and brought here by Demetrto Solamon. who car ried a Spanish passport, the police declared today after they had arrest ed Solamon, charging him with planting the explosive. The authorities asserted the explo sion was the result of the present strainM relations between the vat-tr-an anri Spain following the pope'i encyclical of June 8 and the latae ententiM excommunication of my PROGRAM AT WORLD MEET Action to Cut Burden of Debt on Individual, Raise Prices and Increase Raw Ma terial Demand Is Asked LONDON. June 36. (AP) World wide action to reduce the burden of debts upon individuals, raise prices and Increase the demand for raw ma terials was urged today by Senator James Couzens of Michigan, American delegate, in a vigorous address before the world economic conference. Speaking before the sub -commission on immediate measures for financial reconstruction, the Republican sena tor said he did not believe "that prices can be raised by monetary means alone." He asserted that at the same time the purchasing power must be in creased by such measures as public works and that the burden of debt "must be lightened." He cited meas ures already taken by the United States in these directions. 3enator Couzens' address stirred the economic conference. . He emphasized the necessity of or ganizing creditors throughout the world and of establishing some form of permanent body to act in an ad visory capacity between organized creditors and organized debtors. The Republican senator did not mention war debts but referred to In debtedness in general. He warned that thla "is In no sense to oe con strued aa an Invitation to debtors able to pay tto scale down their obliga tions." "Certainly it Is not .an Invitation to default," he said. He urged world wide action U raise prices and to Increase the demand for raw materials In his address, made before the sub-commission on imme diate measures for financial recon struction. The senator asserted he did not believe "that prices can be raised by monetary means alone." At the same time, he asserted, the purchasing power must be Increased by such measures as public works. Senator, Couzens declared an In creased demand for raw materials, as contemplated by the American pro gram offers. In his opinion, "far more hope for world recovery than can pos sibljr be expected merely from a re duction in tariff duties on a number of manufactured articles which are highly competitive between nations. GASOLINE PRICES TAKE NEW JUMP Effective today, the prices of gaso line advanced one cent, making the retail price in Med ford 23 Vi cents a gallon, according to announcement from district officers here. The Rich field company wsa the only one whose price remains at 24 cents. Word from San Francisco states that the increase Is "coincident with an increase in the price companies will pay for crude oil." Standard Oil will increase the price paid for crude oil from two to fifteen cents per bar rel. Company's announcing an increase of a cent today, were Standard. Tex act. Shell and Otlmore. Union Ethyl is now 28 V, it was announced this afternoon. ROSEBURO, Ore.. June 28. (AP) A two dsy search In the upper Honey Creek region, about 40 miles east of Roseburg for the son of Mr. and Mn. Down N. Ramsdlll of Los Angeles, ended this .morning when the young man found his way out of the woods, according to a message received here this afternoon over the forest service telephone system. members of the 8panlsh government. The bomb caused panic In a crowd of holy year pilgrim. Four person were injured but there was tittle property damage. SoUmon was born at Alexandria. Eeypt, later became a Greek citizen and finally a Spaniard. He left Spain the police said, on Thursday night and came directly to Rome, arriving yesterday morning. He went straight to Bt Peter's where he deposited the bomb, the authorities asserted, in a heavy cardboard packs Re. Whether Solamon made any state ment was n"t divulged. According to the it versa treaty ht will be tried ; in Iti.y. Coast Railroad Building Permission Is Requested TO MEET ION ESOAY HEAR VITAL EACTS The county-wide meeting of pear growers, scheduled some time ago by David Rosenberg of the Northwest Pear council to bring valuable infor mation to all persons interested in better pear prices, will be held Wed nesday night at the court house au ditorium at 7:45 o'clock, Mr. Rosen berg announced today, urging attend ance of all southern Oregon grow ers. The meeting has been arranged oy the Pear council under auspices of the Fruitgrowers' League and prom ises to bring valuable information to all followers of the pear Industry. Delegates to the meeting in Port land of the trustees to the Northwest Pear bureau have announced - that they will transport the Portland meet ing to this city for the benefit of lo cal growers, bringing them the same late reports regarding pears and pear prices. Ways and means of handling pears, packing and shipping of the fruit were well covered at the Port land meeting. Talks given there by Dmty Moore and Professor Henry Hartman were described by the Med ford directors, upon their return, as the most informative lectures heard in many years relative to pear pro duction and better pear prices. New findings reported at the Port land session will be told here, and every grower In the valley is urged to be present. GOSS ARRESTED IN IS SALEM, June 26. (Jp) Member of the unemployed council were dispers ed here today snd O. H. Goes, their Itinerant leader, arrested on a charge of vagrancy. A crowd of 1,600 to 2.000 curious spectators watched the 'campers pack bedding in their automobiles and pre pare to leave. Except for a few of the pickets shouting "take me too." no demon stration accompanied the eviction of the group from the courthouse lawn where it has camped a week. District Attorney W. M. Trindle an nounced Goss would be arraigned in Justice court later this afternoon. Ooss denounced the county court and declared that the "workers" were In no position to "restrict eviction by armed forces." Orowlng bolder as tolerance of of ficials was stretched from day to day. leaders of the unemployed Saturday afternoon and yesterday decried the "prostitute press," flayed public of ficials and .demanded the recall of County Judge J. C. Siegmund. The unemployed pitched tents on the lawn Saturday night for protection from the rain. Demands of the group in addition to the one that Judge Siegmund oe recalled, included free shelter, food clothing, medical and dental atten tion, hospitalization, and that Max Farrar, now In Jail here charged with assault upon S. E. Purvlne. charity worker, be allowed to receive visitors. Oom was prominent In unemployed circle In Med ford last winter, his principal efforts being directed to ward organization of a group to de mand greater relief measures. E PILOTS LOCATED MEXICO, D. F.. June 28. VPr Field men for the British Eagle Oil company in the state of Tabasco re ported late today they had found the wreckage of tha plane Cuatro Vlen- toa and the bodies of Captain Mari ano Barberan and Lieutenant Joaquin Collar, missing since Tuesday when they attempted to fly here from Hav ana. ' The field men, working out of Aku Dulce. said the wreckage of the plane and the two bodies were located about 100 miles west of Carmen, Csmpeche at. The bodies vera being taken to Puerto. RECOVERY LEADERS OUTLINE PLANS U te W ? Three leaden of the Roosevelt Industrial control administration arc hown as they outlined to newspaper men their plana to stimulate busi ness recovery. Left to right: Dudley Cates, assistant administrator for Industry; Edward F. McGrady, assistant administrator for labor, and Qen. Hugh Johnson, chief administrator. (Associated Press Photo) M. E. PASTORATE PORTLAND. June 28. (AP) Forty-two per cent of the churches In the Oregon Methodist Episcopal conference had new pastors today as a result of the assignments made Sun day night by Bishop . Titus Lowe, northwest general superintendent of the denomination, at the concluding session here of the 81st annual state conference. There were 168 changes in the conference, and 71 were as signed new pastors. Twenty-nine of the changes were on the Salem dis trict; 22 on the Portland district and 20 on the Cascade district, which In cludes southern and Eastern Oregon. The big surprise was the naming of Dr. Milton A. Marcy. for the last 4',i years superintendent, of the Sa lem district as pastor of Sunnyside Methodist church, Portland, and the transfer of Dr. Louis Magtn of Sunny side church to the su peri n tendency of the Salem district. The Rev. M. T. Wire of Klamath Falls was sent to Albany to succeed Dr. R. H. Leech, retired, who wtll do aupply preaching at Pratum. The Rev. Alexander O. Bennett of Medford waa appointed to Forest Grove to succeed the Rev. J. R. Jeffery, transferred to Oregon City to fill the vacancy made by the retirement of the Rev. J. E. Strevey. The Rev. P. M, Hammond of Toledo was appointed to Woodburn to succeed the Rev. Glenn 8. Hartong sent to Woodstock church. Portland. to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of the Rev. John B. Coan to Klamath Falls. The Rev. Joseph Knotts of The Dalles was sent to Medford churrh, and Dr. T. H. Temple of Fremont church, Portland, to The Dalles. The Rev. D. Lester Fields was ap pointed to Roseburg to fill a vacancy caused by the sudden death of the Rev. Frank James. The Marshfleld pulpit was given the Rev. O. V. Fallls of Woodlawn church, Portland, and formerly of Ashland. The superintendent of the Port land and Cascade district were re named. They are Dr. J. C. Harrison and Dr. Thomas D. Yarne, re spectively. BY LAKE BAY FOG LAKE BAY, Rogue Island, Me.. June 28. (AP President Roosevelt today was fogbound In isolated nor thern Maine aboard the schooner yscht Amberja k II In the same spot where 20 year, ago he was forced to remain four days and night because, of similar weather conditions. The president, however, was hope ful that mtst rolling In from the sea would lift In time far him to move a little farther to tha eastward by (nightfall, .-A v T T Copyrighted by McClure Newspaper Syndicate By BURTON KLINE For the next six months the coun try will consist of a single thought distributed among 123.000,000 people. The thought will be the President's recovery bill, and the recovery al ready on the way. But our heads have room for one or two other ldess that had better seep In. One thing that sickness teach es la how to stay, well, yet already certain oft-quoted financial authori ties hint that getting back on our feet means ttlng them back In the trough. They want to gorge again "Industry," says one of them, "must be saved from its rescuers." Tf Industry is coming back Its res cuera have brought it back, and they alone can keep it there. Americans who know that are tco numerous not to leave in a slim majority the few with the old philosophy. President Roosevelt's recovery or rescue) bill contains two things more important thsp recovery itaelf. Tlwy are the whole new business philosophy he has set up, and the way th coun try has fallen for It. Not all of us yet are alive to the sweep of the change, The united States hss become a single business concern, We have been a population of citizens; we have be come a population of partners. And nothing has so dramatized this as the remarkable reform of New York and Its "making up" with Washington (Continued on Page Eight) Bank Cashier Is Killed By Bandit lacrobrb, ind., June 28. (AP) Willlam E. Tennel. cashier nf the La Crosse State bank, was killed today by one of five bandit who attempted to rob the bank. Tennel was slain when the bandit became angered be cause the safe in the bank was locked with a time lock. The cashier was shot through the chest and died Im mediately. QUAKE JARS WIDE AREA IN CALIFORNIA, NEVADA SAN FRANCISCO, Jane 28. (AP) Mother earth was back to normal stolidity hereabout today after gently quivering over a wide area of Cali fornia and Nevada. The tremors, which at some places Joggled crockery off shelves and rat tled windows, occurred shortly after noon yesterday. Sacramento, Lake Tahoe and Reno and Fallon, Nev., re ported alight damage. In Ban Fran cisco, the quake was so light It passed j unnoticed by many persons. Two quakes In southern California, ' which appeared to miss the mid-day ' Jiggles, were reported from Santa Bar ibara st 10:30 p. m. No damage waa reported. .F.C. WASHINGTON, June 26. (AP) The California and Oregon .Coast Railroad Co. this afternoon filed an ap plication with the interstate commerce commission and the Reconstruction Corpora tion for a loan of $5,718,565 to finance construction of its proposed line from Waters Creek, Ore., to Crescent City, Calif. The loan would run 10 years. WASHINGTON, June 26. (AP) The California and Oregon Coast Rail road company today asked interstate commerce commission permission to extend Its railroad 72 miles from It present terminus at Waters Creek, Oregon, to the Pacific coast at Cres cent City, California. The company wants to finance the extension through a loan from tha reconstruction corporation the amount of which was not given. . The application said the territory through which the proposed exten sion would run would serve "the rich est undeveloped hundred mile In tha United Btfitea." ORANTS PASS. June 26. (AP) Today's application to extend the Grants Pass to Crescent City, Calif., railroad project from Its present ter minus at Waters Creek to the sea was filed Jointly by the Twohy brothers Interests of Portland, contractors and holders of the original railway bonds, and O. H. Demaray, receiver for the city's Interest under the authority of the local circuit court. Permta alon of the court was secured to have the receiver Join In the Twohy appli cation. The original backers of the railroad who figured in the start of It con struction, Mr. Demaray declared here this morning, are the present appli cants for the railroad's completion with R. F. O. funds. First construc tion waa In 1QM Just before the out break of the world war and It was the war which halted the construction work after only 15 mile had been built. Three engineers of the R. F. C, Mr. Demaray aald, residents of Pennsyl vania, were sent here by the federal government two weeks sgo from the Spokane headquarters, and they made (Continued on Page Four.) FAIRBANKS JUNIOR'S NBW YORK. June it P Suf fering from an attack of pneumonia, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. former hus band of Joan Crawford, waa aald to b In a aerloua condition today at Doctor hospital to which ha waa ad mitted over the week-end. When young Fairbsnka arrived from Europe on Friday ha waa suffering from a bad cold which later became more aerloua. He waa taken to the hospital from the home of hla mother, Mra. Jack Whiting, wife of the mualc al comedy actor. The seismograph at tha University of Csltfomla at Berkeley recorded the shocks starting at 13:40 p. m., and continuing until 1:50 p. m. Professor Perry tiyerly described them as of "moderately large Intensity" and prob ably "quite severe" at the epicenter, which he estimated waa from 110 to 160 miles east of Berkeley. At the University of Nevada at Reno, officials described the movement as a aeries of light shocks lasting about 45 seconds. They estimated tha epi center as within five miles of Reno. alight damage waa caused to a the ater at Fallon. 40 miles east of Reno. At Tahoe City, about tha same dla tsme weat, on the shore of Lake Ta hoe, soma walla war cracked. G. REVELATION OF JURYMAN'S BIAS CAUSES ACTION New Panel Drawn for Case Barkdull in Lively Ex change With Defense At torney Over Alleged Insult The Jury drawn and awora In tha trial of John Qlenn of Ashland, for- ' mer county Jailer, waa discharged thla afternoon, by Circuit Judge -Sklpworth. A new panel waa drawn upon the ordera of the court. The court declined to dlsmfas J. F. Duggan, a Juror, against whom affl davlta were filed, without discharging the entire Jury, and with approval of the atata this waa done. ' Karkdull Quizzed J. B. (Mose) Barkdull. of thla city, one of those signing affldavtta was examined by counsel for both aides, and the court. Barkdull engaged tn ' a lively exchange with Attorney Von Schmala for the defense. Barkdull declared that Von Schmala had "ln aulted him." and when Barkdull'a voice rose, the court threatened him with a contempt charge. After cau tioning. Barkdull verified his affida vit by hla testimony. Barkdull took exception to Von Schmali' query. "Were you sober at the time of the conversation with DugganJ" "Reasonably ao." replied the wit ness, and commented further "both you and Enrlght drink." Mrs. Fay Tresham, a neighbor of Duggan'a In Bams Valley also gave testimony In aupport of her affida vit. Dllggnn In Denial Duggan remained In the Jury box. while his mates were excused, and entered a general denial of tha affl davlta. He admitted a conversation with Barkdull. In the Gates parking lot. but aald that It waa not aa con tained In the Barkdull affidavit. Duggsn teatlfled that Mra. Trea ham "waa a good neighbor, and treated my mother fine, and I do not understand how this has gotten Into her head." The court ruled that "In the pres ent atate of the record. I will not discharge Duggan. unlesa I dlschsrga the entire panel." Attorney Moody for Mie state agreed to this. Attorney Moody fur ther contended that the atate had aubmttted sufficient evidence to aup port Its claim of Duggan'a disqualifi cations as a Juror. Following the decision a new Jury psnel wsa ordered drawn, and tha examination of a new Jury will atari tomorrow morning. The court held that If Duggan waa not prejudiced before, ha waa nowj and that no Impartial trial could bo had. New Panel Drawn. The panel of 40 namea. drawn thla afternoon, with Instructions to re port tomorrow morning, la aa follows: Rosa Tllley, Siskiyou, lsborer. W. E. Hammel, Esgle Point, farmer. Ed F. Dlmmlck, Rogue River, farmer. Robert Newman, Medford, painter. Charles E. Blaess, Trail, merchant. R. T. Morrison, Medford, chauffeur. Jess McKlnney, Oold Hill, laborer. John Matney, Ruch, farmer. M. E. Olson, Medford, electrician. H. T. Dlaney, Medford. laborer. Doris Oerber, Central Point, house wife. Clyde R. Richmond, Central Point, farmer. Sylvia L. Kellogg, Medford, house wife. Agnes Ssnderson, Oold Hill, house wife. William Lewis, Eagle Point, farmer. W. T. Mlllr lnnl.. Ruth Klncalde. Eagle Point, farmer. Hudson Cox. Trar, farmer. Charles Ltndssy, Ashland, farmer. (Continued on Page Tare) SCALE IS SOUGHT PORTLAND, June 2o (AP) A minimum scale of 43 Vi cents an hour for common labor In tha lumber In dustry of the Pacific northwest will be recommended for Inclusion In tha national Industrial recovery act. Tha average wage now paid la 36 cents an hour. Tha directorate of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, composed of la employers and 13 employes, agreed on this scale at a meeting here Saturday. The 434o scale will become effective aa soon as approved by tha national administration. Meanwhile a temporary Increasa to 33e an hour for common labor will go Into effect throughout Oregon, Washington and Idaho July 1, to ba continued until tha 43!fl wsga la ap proved.