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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1933. PA'GE SEVEN LEGAL SQUABBLES RAGE AS ELECTION DAY DRAWS NEAR Inclusion of Names Power Commission Candidates One Issue to Be Decided Before Vote On' July 21 By CLAYTON vf BERNHARO. (Associated Press Staff Writer) BALEM, July 11. (AP) With but few days remaining before the spec lal election' In Oregon, legal contro versies are still being waged over two lauea proposed for Inclusion on the ballot, campaigns on some other pro posals Just getting well under way. while Incomplete registration figures Indicate a decline over the general election of 10 per cent. The supreme court today will hear arguments on Inclusion of the names of power commission candidates for vote on July 21. The opinion of the court might also affect the referen dum on the state power commission act. which under a temporary Injunc tion will not appear on the ballots. State Grange Presses. The state court previously refused to take Jurisdiction In the mandamus proceedings brought by the state grange to compel the. secretary of state to place on the ballot the names of Morton Tompkins, A. Slaughter, and Peter Zimmerman as candidates for the three commissioners under the Grange power act. A fourth can didate, John H. Lewis, has likewise filed as candidate and will be affected by the ruling. The Grange then took the proceed ings Into the Marlon county circuit court and obtained a temporary In junction compelling the action. The state immediately appealed to the su preme court where Attorney-General I. H. Van Winkle will argue against placing the names on the ballot. Filed Too Soon, Claim. . Van Winkle will hold that the grange power act if, not referended would not have become a law until June 9, while candidates for the new power commission authorized under that act had to file before May 31, which was done. He will hold they filed for office before that office was crested. The grange power act In the mean time la in suspense and the referen dum on the bill will not appear on the July 21 ballot, unless the supreme court In Its Opinion on the candi dates Issue makes a ruling on the other. Referendum petitions on the power set Itself were filed with the secretary of state which automatically sus pended operation of the law. A tem porary Injunction was secured against a vote on the act on the charges that referendum signers were obtained fraudulently. Remains Unsettled. . Supporters of the referendum were given 00 days by the Marion county circuit court to ills Its bill of par ticulars. This would be after the election, thus throwing the Issue off the ballot. Yet the referendum issue remains unsettled and the measure still not a law until final decrees are obtained. In the meantime the secretary of state has not received registration figures from four counties In order to compile complete Hats. However, It was stated by the election clerk, David O'Hara, that the decrease would be about 10 per cent under the gen eral election. The total general elec tion registration was 486.146. The only slight increases noted in registrations were In Crook, Gilliam, Hood River, Klamath, Malheur and Bherman counties. The decreases In the other counties ranged from 1 to 16 per cent. The four counties atlll unreported are Baker, Curry, Grsnt and Wasco. . . Wets File Candidates. In several counties where dry can didates for election to the state re peal convention were not filed, a rul ing went out from the secretary of state's office that names could be written In. Wet candidates were listed completely for all the counties. Campaigns on the repeal of the federal and state prohibition amend ments were launched In earnest over the state this week while the cam paign for and against the aalea tax, both major Issues In the election, progressed with more Impetus. Ad vance dope gives the repeallsts and NOW -TRAVEL ANY DAY-ANYWHERE ON S-P San Francisco S&40 ONE WAY $16.80 ROUND TRIP similar farit to ntirlj til S.F, tlttionu What other form .of travel offers comfort comparable to the train for It a mile! Theae new Tourist Fares are good in Coaches or Chair Cars aim in Pullman Tourist Sleeping Can. (The "Shasta" now carries a Tourist Pullman from Aahland to Oakland upper berth 1 1.80, lower 12.25.) And in our dining can you enjoy the delicious "Mull Select" complete luncheoos and dinners for 80 w $1.25. breakfasts for 50 to 90. Southern Pacific J. C. Carle, Agent. Tel. 34 MOLLISONS SET 15 ML :M: Jf o4s ' j i- Britain's noted flying couple, Capt and Mri. J. A. Mollison, who cracked up at Croydon, England, at the start of their projected round trip ocean flight, will try again, taking off this time at Carmarthen. Wales. They plan to fly nonstop to New York, overhaul their plane, and then strike eastward for Bagtv dad. They hope to make the first Britain to New York flight, the first two way crossing of the Atlantic and break the nonstop long distance flight record. The couple, their plane and route are shown above (Associated Press Photo . . opponents of the sales tax the edge in the. vote July 31. Other issues to be voted upon, but which no apparent strenuous cam paigns have been launched concern ing them, Include the referendum on the 4-cent oleomargarine tax; Issu ance of general obligation 5 per cent bonds totaling $103,770 for a state power fund;, constitutional amend ment requiring two-thirds vote for municipal corporations to issue bonds other than refunding bonds; author izing law for prosecuting public of fenses by Information of district at torney Instead of grand Jury Indict ment; authorizing county manager form of government and repeal after 1938 of state bonus loans and Imme diate repeal of payment of cash bonuses. KMED Broadcast Schedule Wednesday. ' 8:00 Breakfast News, Mall Tribune. 8:05 Musical Clock. 8:18 A Peerless Parade. 8:30 Shopping Guide. 9:00 Friendship Circle. 9:30 Morning Melody. 10:00 U. S. Weather Forecast. 10:00 Fashion Parade. 10:16 Musical Notes. 10:30 Morning Comments. 10:45 Quartettes Parade. 11:00 The Grants Paaa Hour. 11:15 Martial Music. 11:30 Song and Comedy. 13:00 Color Magic. 13:15 Radio Rendezvous. 12:30 News Flashes by Mall Tribune. 12:30 Pipe Organ Concert. 12:45 Popularltls. 1:00 Varieties. 2:00 Dance Matinee. 8:00 Songs for Everyday. 3:30 KMED Program. Review. 3:35 Music of Old. 4:00 Cocktail of Music' 4 :30 Masterworks. 5:00 Popular Parade. 5:45 News Digest by Mall Tribune. 6:00 Medford Theater Guide. 6:16 Sports and Fishing Flashes by Al Plche. 8:20 Interlude. 8:30 Geo. Roberts, speaker for re peal 18th amendment. 6:36 Vignettes. 6:46 Andy Slough. 7:00 Amateur Night. 7:30 to 8:00 Eventide. JACKSONVILLE H. E. C. . MEETING WEDNESDAY The Jacksonville Home Economics club will meet at the home of Mrs. Leodra Neldermeyer Wednesday after, noon at a o'clock. 4 Now In Progress Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann's July Clearance Sal. FOR ABOUT Los Angeles 162-0' WAY $32.40 ROUND TRIP FOR ROUND TRIP WOODEN BOX FOR PACKERS, CANNERS REGAINING FAVOR Wesley Plunkett of San Francisco, organizer of the Woodworkers Trade Promotion lesgue. was a visitor in Medford Monday, and stated that as a result of a campaign conducted In Oregon and California, during the past three months, many manufac turers, packers and canners are now shipping products In wooden boxes Instead of substitutes. "There has been an upturn in the lumber business recently." Mr. Plunn ett said, "and the demand has been for building grades. There can be no real prosperity for the soft pine lumber Industry unless the use of wooden boxes and orates la Increased, owing to the fact that from 70 to 80 per cent of the cut la low grade lumber and unfit for any other use." "The decrease of the use of wooden containers eeriously' affected all lines of business In the lumbering regions of the Pacific coast. Railroads have felt a serious lose In freight earnings due to greatly reduced shipments of lumber when the commodity repre sents 28 per cent of the total freight hauled on the Southern Pacific rail road. Mr. Plunkett stated thst "Inroads made on the use of wooden contain ers is due to the use of cheaply manufactured substitutes, a large per centage of wa-lch are made from waste paper and not directly from wood, as was popularly supposed." "Waste paper, gathered by scav engers In large cities, la made Into fibre boxes by entirely automatic machines, with few workers employ ed. Owing to the saving in payroll at the lost cost of material used in the manufacturing, It Is possible to sell the products at slightly lower cost than wooden boxes." It was pointed out by Mr. Plunkett thst the manufacturers of wooden boxes make .labor operations neces sary from the time the tree is felled until the finished product la loaded. He stated thst 63 per cent of the PICKED "It's a piece of real Precision Engineering" . . says this Watchmaker TyOPLB like Mr. Stevens under- JL stsnd why Plymouth carries "details" so far. Four rings per piston instead of three. Four crank shaft bearings Full pressure lubri cation not bit-or-misa splasb. Those tbingi are good engmter htg. Of mmt they're details when you compare them in importance , with Floating Power engine mountings hydraulic brakes safety. ateel bodies. But details count and we'd like um you to see how much. "Look at all three". . . and see for yourself why Plymouth ii growing so fast. Standard 4-door ttd is iaIO;3oortedae 4M;nim bl. mt coup. $.8)t bmioi coup. 144). OeLuie 2nloor .edta 129i 4-donr ..dan $579t conmbl coup. I'?); rumble Mat coup. $149: buiin.i. coupe 1499. Price, aubiect to chaos, without notice, tea PlTHWTi at tka terse Man feet (en taskr t ftvara NEW PLYMOUTH SIX OCEAN FLIGHT selling price goes to payroll!. He also said that "by utilizing the natural resources in timber, through manufacturing Into lumber and pro ducts, values multiply many fold. When left standing, the trees are subject to destruction by fire and In sect infestations, and loss through deterioration and waste. Mr. Plunkett stated that it is the object of the organization to promote a greater use of the wooden contain er, and to interest the timber reg ions to support the movement upon wmcn the communities depend. COAST ROUTE PLANES Another nesr-perfect performance record was chalked up by United Air Lines planes flytntj the Psclflc caost route, between Seattle, Medford and San Diego In June, according to fig ures released today by Phil Sharp, field manager. These figures show that the mall-passenger-cargo carriers completed 89.93 per cent of the 179.080 miles scheduled for them In the month. actually flying 178357 miles. In ad dition to a large volume of passen gers and express, 31,600 pounds of mall were carried on the daylight and overnight schedules. PENDLETON ENJOYS BANKING FACILITY PENDLETON, Ore., July 11. (AP) The largest banking connection ever enjoyed by Pendleton and Uma tilla county became available here Monday when the United States Na tional Bank of Portland opened the doors of Its branch Institution. Pen dleton had been without regular banking factllltlea since last Octob er. , Superintendents Meet SALEM. July ll-(AP) County school superintendents of the 80 Oregon counties were In session here today with Charles A. Howard, atate superintendent of publlo Instruction. The session Is the annual meeting of the County School Superinten dents' association, 4 Dripping radiators repaired. Brill Metal Works. mMOUTH BECAUSE ITS A sT "Mri. Simmi It n prnod of SBi for mt, I'm er ves I A CERTIFIED INTERVIEW WITH MR. GEORGE R. sjsl'Cr lie ananee- X i4 "Oere me try HrdriuHc Brakes Jib-y,0w -Hn. " 1 o II eeve, nae aanhioi elae. Nfc ' ! &'m- """"'T -' SKi.i J, iae.ll n'-HaniiammmmmtmJ I OF PETIOLONDE Dramatic Episode Bared in Hearing for Property Set tlement Proxy Father Learns to Love Offspring LOS ANGELES, July 11. (UP) A 1500,000 court battls which unfolded a strange martial triangle brought about by the "scientific birth" of three daughters to petite, bdonde Mrs. Mate Hommel was before a ref eree fcr final arbitration today. A prosaic hearing into a property settlement between the mother and her divorced second husband. Dr. Wesley K. Hommel, became a dra matic legal episode when Mrs. Horn mel testified the children were born to har by "a marvelous scientific practice" with the father a man she had naver seen. Learned to Love Children. Courtroom spectators. Including the three little girla themselves, were startled further as Mrs. Hommel dis closed the domestic rift growing out of tho "proxy" father's attachment for the children. Mrs. Hommel's testimony, by which she sought a division of property from the wealthy Hollywood physi cian, dwelt on her life with her first husband, Jamea Shelley of Detroit; the "scientific father," Raphael Cor coran, and finally Dr. Hommel. for whose love she gave up both. The school girls, Jane, 18, Helen, 14, and Oall, 13, were waiting In court when Mrs. Hommel pointed to them and. in a calm voice, said they were "children of science." "I am their mother, but I never was wife In fsct o their father," she continued. "We had no children but both my first husband, Mr. Shel ley, a traveling salesman, and I wanted, them." Science Tried. A conference with their family physician, the decision of the couple to try "the marvelous scientific prac tice." and the selection of Corcoran by her husband, the doctor, her mother and her mother-in-law were described by Mrs. Hommel. "Mr. Shelley gave his full consent," she said, "n fact, he told me It was adorable that I should be willing to do ibis for the sake of having chtl dren., "Then we made a great mlstske. "Wo sllowed Corcoran to visit our home and see the children. The first time X ever saw him was several months after tfie first baby was born. He was a big, strapping, at tractive man. He came to our home often, and he grew to love not only the children, who were, after all, his own, but me as well. Fell In Love "I fell In love with him It was decided it would be best for all that X should divorce Mr. Shelley and marry Corcoran. "Then Dr. Hommel cams along. He loved me, too, and at last I married him Instead." The artificial Impregnation which Mrs. Hommel disclosed as the "scien tific practice" Is not an uncommon medical treatment, a number of Los Angeles physicians Informed the United Press today. It Is often re sorted to In case of childless mar riages, It wss said. The marriage of Dr. and Mrs. Hom mel was unsuccessful, and resulted In a dlvoroe. In her present suit she chsrged Dr. Hommel accumulated $400,000 during their married life and also took possession of $100,000 of her property. By stipulation of attorneys, the case was taken out of superior court and p'aced before a referee to make an accounting of the properties In volved. Judge Bertln Weyl will make his decision from the referee's report. Call the Southern Oregon Credit Bureau. They can tell you who pay a la debts promptly. ------ STEVENS, 1006 r Plrmootn tt of rtr imirttit frMi- to oeslect s Ids ptsce of muhiarr." VTITH PATENTED FLOATING POWER Held In Boy's Death r. t'V Kv t f 4$ 1 J Richard Ragona, 16 (below), was hold In connection with tho death of William Rellly, Jr., who was found boaton and atabbad to doath In a park near Philadelphia. Police aald Ragone confessed and later de nied that he had killed the boy. (As oclated Press Photo FOR BUSINESSMEN (Continued trora page One) Involved. They are of vslue to com petltors. Thousands of others are In the same stew. They are over-running Washington: hiring lawyers; button holing politicians: buying tips. Their excitement has doubled since recent rumors that we are headed for an other collapse. Their agitation was not calmed any by Industrial Director Johnson's statement that we would have a col lapse greater than we have ever known, unless business cooperates with his movement. Following aw some thumb-nail guidances on the backstage situation. The collapse tslk is over-heated. Johnson Is annoyed because oar tain major Industries are holding out on him. Nobody here believes we will do any Important tallsplnnlng in the immediate future. That means the next two months. Nobody can see beyond that. The only chance of serious devel opments lies in the possibility of a real fight between business and the government over the Industrial cou- trol program. Ws will hardly come to that. MobC of the wrist-slap ping now going on comes under the head of strategy. The trend of prices should con tinue moderately upward. The ad ministration privately holds they have recently gone up too fast. Therefore there may be some dips and leveling off during the next few days. The general curve will be up. Mr, Rooss veit is wedded to that theory above all others. This conclusion does not Include stock market prices. They axe based now on the expectations of a further Inflation. The bulls and the besrs discount everything ahead of time. The next trend of their market " SPRING STREET, ELGIN, ILL l'..,14iiefK-T "Now 1 mt, li run like a witch I ' Thit'i lSMlM.,coiBiaa from s wsuhnuksr. INDUSTRY CONTROL MAKES CONFUSION mm probably will not develop until the; see bow far domestlo Inflation may or may not go. Moat shrewd Insiders believe Mr. Roosevelt will revalue the gold con tent of the dollar within SO to 0 days. Tne la pure speculation, but good speculation. Nobody knows for sure, not even Mr. Roosevelt. He 1 playing around with the Idea of a commodity Index dollar but !s expected to discard It. The difficulty with thst step Is to pick the par ticular commodity price you want (1890) (1933-35) or (19JS). It would be even more difficult to hold the level after you selected It. The gold content of the dollar would have to be revalued every month or so. Nearly the same effects can be reached by revaluation without re spect to any particular commodity level. That Is what he probably will de otde on. The most hoity-toity financial cir cles have heard rumors recently thst the president might put a sort pedal on his whole scheme. The Idea was that business la recovering Itself and will get along better If left alone. These rumors have been confiden tially denied by every administration authority. The denlala are undoubt edly authentic The administration economists reason this way: If you Inflate business without re strlctlons you merely fstten the gold. en-egg-laylng goass so much he will burst. You merely blow up the same bubble which blew up In 1939. In flatlon would then be concentrated In business prorits. National pur. chasing power would not be lncreaa. ed. Therefore we must have better wages and fair-trade agreementa to keep our goose from getting too fat; our bubble from getting too. big. It sounds sensible, and It probably Is. jeading ifs Jield lecausc ifs the STYLE LEADER Begfotration figure reveal- that rery nearly one out of every three people who buy motor cars today in Old. mobile's price field, settles his choice on OldemobHe. The rest of the business is divided among fen different . ears! The main reason for this Sales Leadership is Sty la Leadership for the new Oldsmobiles are the smartest ears In America, regardless of cost Come in today. Youll get thrill out of Oldsmobile performance, tool 0LDSM0B ILE TBS SIX $74$ and up, THE EIGHT $845 and up . . . o. K Lansing $para iira and bumpr$ mxtra ,,,G.M.A.C. terms J. J. Osenbrugge 132 Bo. Riverside. T&UT TUB ODIIUL MOTOBJ SUTLODtO AT ele visitor hotel. ,P P t marvelous Al am end T.vlne theK 5Ve laded appetite. On the u m v an rne riorent ne rioom environment of quiewyy I SjSJtk. XW 5". to be teand eaXr J!fel12$i. 5XVL'n mln lobby- travelers ret urnlyr iFrSsiV CVC"" 440 gu"i. see vaavv m. ..-x the diner iV jJ dace's roultlrOXS Oakland end BeNs. the hills on the epPsVsO. wsy. The -lew 'roro0j teumjlcedJ Prom an Individual bualness man's standpoint, Is would seem that a conservative old-fashioned feet-on- the-ground policy Is safest now. It Is no time to run In either direc tion. The two New York outfits referred to at the beginning of tola article received good advice. It would be foolish to pour money Into under selling echejnes. What we appear to be needed (or is a period of etand ardlzatlon. Prices, production and wages sre to be leveled more or leas or man. date. So are profits. Now you may enjoy Comfort Without Ex travagance In Oakland's most centrally located down town Hotel. Binges Starting at $1.25 Doublet! Starting at $1.75 FREE GARAGE Management Harry B. Strang When vUltlng the Bay Region make the San Pablo your home. Medford, Ore. THK CENTURY O, PROCatSS EXPOSITION A. i C fTrueet r In (ha lanhere of Service that oreeent dav apltallty. Ai. a fnalnr hotel nf ithough II It rated as 'vice and value-rivinar. there are vuraiieinelv rrates start at 13 single aad v
