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
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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.
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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.
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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 $100,000
of her property.
By stipulation of attorneys, the
case was taken out of superior court
and p'aced before a referee to make
an accounting of the properties In
volved. Judge Bertln Weyl will make
his decision from the referee's report.
Call the Southern Oregon Credit
Bureau. They can tell you who pay
a la debts promptly.
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STEVENS, 1006
r
Plrmootn tt of rtr imirttit frMi-
to oeslect s Ids ptsce of muhiarr."
VTITH PATENTED
FLOATING POWER
Held In Boy's Death
r. t'V Kv t
f 4$
1
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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
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The two New York outfits referred
to at the beginning of tola article
received good advice. It would be
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