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Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Saturday. No chance In temperature. Temperature Hit heat yesterday 91 Lowest this morning 62 Your Vacation will be more enjoyable If you bate the Mall Trlbuue futlow jroa. No additional cost. Pbone 7A end place jour order before leaving. Twenty-eighth Year MEDFOKD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1933. No. 103. Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS G SOROS M. CORNWALL, editor I the Timberman, probably as well informed on conditions In the lumber Industry u any men on the Pacific Coast, ni in the Klamath country yesterday. The lumber outlook, he says, la dis tinctly better. It la better because the farmer's condition la Improving. The farmer la the lumberman'a big customer. NORMAL lumber consumption In this country ought to be some where around 30 billion feet prob ably a little In exwss of that. Last year It was only 13 billion. The year before. It Was only IB bil lion. So, you see, lumber consumption m the past two years has amounted to only about one year's normal con sumption. A lot of this shrinkage has been due to the fact that the farmer has been practically out of the market. rrrux farmer has been out of the 1 market because he hasnt Bad any money .to buy with. So he has bad to postpone his lumber require ments. With prices of farm products DOM INO BACK, the farmer ought to be back in the market before long fi-fHEflE are 30.000 lumber yards 1 in this country." Mr. Cornwall says, "and If each of these ysrds buys only two cars of lumber It will aaa about a billion feet to orders. An add ed billion feet means quite a little stimulation." HIB. CORNWALL knew Jim Hill " quite well. "Hill once said to me," he ssys: " 'It's the women who live' along Its lines that make or break a railroad. What they, use takes a high freight rate, but what the men use tskes a low freight rate. Railroads can't make money on all low grade tonnage. They have to have a fair share of high rate stuff to go along with It If they are to show a profit. So I started out early to make It possible for the farmers along our lines to make enough money to buy their wives some of the things they wanted.' " THESE women I they certainly have a tremendous Influence on busi ness, don't they? ANOTHER friend of George Corn wall was Captain Robert Dollar, founder of the great Dollar steam ship business. Csptaln Dollar was a great believer In China. He said to George once: "I like the Chinaman because he Is peace loving; because Chinese chil dren obey their parents; becsuse he is willing to work: and because he pays his debts." CAPTAIN DOLLAR used to say:-"If V we could add only ten cents to the buying power of each Chinaman. It would mean FIFTY MILLION dol lira a dav In new trade for this country. "Why, there wouldn't be ships enough to csrry the new goods that would be needed If we could only add such a trifling amount to the Chinaman's buying power." "1H1NA and Russia are alike. In that mey nsve vast populations in the past have been ignorant and backward. Russia Is changing tre mendously, snd some people profess to fear this change. They think Rus sia will become a dangerous compet itor. Let's not worry too much about that. The change tnat la taking place in Russia Is raising Russia's BUY ING POWER, and Captain Dollar has told us what an Increase In buying power of backward peoples mesns. It mesns MORE business for ui not less. ALABAMA and Arkansas, both Southern states, both with the fear of the drunken negro, go for re tsl of the 18th amendment by ma jorities about the asme aa In other atates that hare voted so far. That pretty well tells the tsle. Re peal of the prohibition amendment may now be t.krn as a foreeone con-! elusion. Grain Mart Closed PORTLANT. Ore., July 31. (API The Portland grain market, was closed todsv on account of the legsl holi day c'etlon day. Th market will be reopened for business Saturday. WORK FOR ALL BY LABOR DAY IS AIM NATION-WIDE PLAN Employers Requested Join-in Mass Attack On Depres sion Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours Set WASHINGTON, July 21. (AP) Hugh P. Johnson, recovery ad ministrator, net swiftly in motion today the nation-wide campaign to swing every employer Into the wage raising movement. He telegraphed to chamber of commerce president In all cities nf over 10.000, asking 4 hem to creiite local committees which will run the community end of the re-employment drive. While Johnson acted. President RoiKevett kept clone watch on the movement, alert tnt public reac tion to the program he approved only nt night. By WILLIAM I.. BE ALE Associated Pre Staff Writer WASHINGTON. July 31 (fft Every citizen today was summoned to covenant with President Roosevelt to re-employ the Jobless millions by la bor day. To more than 5.000,000 employers was addressed a request from the President to Join his nations! re covery administration. In a mass at tack on the depression bj voluntary agreements to lift wages and shorten hours. Appeal for Co-operation To the public went an open appeal for cooperation "by supporting and patronizing employers and workers who are members of the N. H. A." signers of the presidential agreements for boosting national purchasing pow er. Powerfully driving this war-like plan for unifying the country in cre ating re -employment was a carefully njapped "campaign of education" that brusque Hugh a. Johnson sal (3 will "saturate the country with' the dope on thla thing. President Roosevelt himself will take to the people the plan he and Johnson agreed upon finally late last night. Certain of Success s "I'm Just as certain It will work as I am sitting here." said Johnson, back (Continued on Page Three) CUT BY SIDESTEP AS LEADERS F (Coprrleht. IMS, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON. July 21. President Roosevelt hss a neat way of aldestep- Dlnis troublea. He began working It out in tne first days of his administration. He has developed It now to the point of a new decentralized governmental system. Sometimes the system falls to wora. He Is always prepared for that even tuality. Usually he catches a slight cold or some other minor lndlsposl tlsn. It confines him to his room for a day or two. It gets him away from callers and agitated advisers, He hss time to think things out cas' ually. Meanwhile he lets the sdvlsers fight out the burning Issues smong them selves. When they have finished he emcrgca fit and fresh for the final decision. That appears to be at least one angle of what happened the past few dsys. The advisers were worrying him and themselves sbout how fsr to go In coercing Industry under the new recovery setup. There were more plsns than there were advisers. Everyone was hot under the collar. Tempera were lost. Rumors were started thst so-and-ao would resign. Mr. Roosevelt decided to hsve some (Continued on Page Eleven) P HANGOUT LOCATED CHICAGO. July 31. (AP) The kidnapers' rendezvous where John Factor was held captive for aMKOOO ransom has been found by depart ment of Justice scents. Operatives of the bureau of Intelli gence said they had found the hide out In the Skokle Valley marsh near the right of way of the North Shore Intenirban line. They began a search for a grocer they had learned had delivered provisions to the kldnapera, suspected to be the Touhy gang. With Touhy and three members of Ma RAug In jail, federal snd rtty df liclala prod o he near a solution of to Factor abduction. Stocks Drop in Selling Scram POST HALTS AT FAIRBANKS E IN GLOBE GIRDLE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 31. (AP) Wiley Post. Oklahoma flier, circling the world by air, landed here at 10:42 a. m, today (3:43 p. m.. E-3. T.) It was raining and there waa poor visibility. Guided by Joe crosson, pioneer Alaska flier. Post left Plat, 875 miles away at 7:38 a. m. (13:38 p. m. E.S.T.) The flight took three houra and 14 minutes.. Post was to refuel here for his 1450-mile flight to Edmonton. Then he has 3300 more miles to go to com plete the first solo airplane flight around the world. Crosson had brought a new propel ler to Flat to replace the broken one when he nosed over In a wind at p. m. yesterday after being In the atr 23 hours and 33 minutes on his flight from Khabaovsk, Siberia. The aviator still has a chance to set a new globe -circling record, beat ting the one set by he and Harold Gatty in 1931. He left New York Saturday morning. He was exhausted and nervous when he reached Flat yesterday but waa "feeling fine" when he left there today. Crosson led the way to Fairbanks aa the Oklahoman said he was con fused over the route after getting out of his course. Since he entered Alaska be has been fighting clouds, mist and rain the greater part of the time. Yesterday he said he had been lost seven hours "following some river.' 1 was raining and visibility was poor when Post arrived. The weath er along the- route from Flat had been none x favorable. He waa expected to stop at Fair banks for some time In order to fill his fuel tanks and to make addition al repairs to his plane. Because of the smallness of the Flat field he waa able to take on only a small amount of gasoline there. a- WALTERS ELECTED FIRST C01VSIVIANDER LOCAL D. A. V. POST At the initial meeting here last night of the Disabled American Vet erana of the World Vrar, N. R. Wal- tera waa elected commander to head the Medford post. About 35 veter ans were In attendance, and 39 have signed the original charter. Mayor E. M. Wilson gave a welcom ing address at the gathering, at which James L. Palmer, state commander from Portland: Lyle Dai ley, state ad JutanS, and Walter C. Scott, adju tant from Portland chapter No. 1, particluated In the Installation. Other officers named were: Tom Lille, senior vice commander; Lloyd Crosslin, Junior vice commander; Ar thur Bailee, treasurer and adjutant; R. Freeman, chaplain; Rankin Estes, sergeejit at arms, and William Drum mond and Wm. McMlnn, executive committee. Those named on the charter are Ira D. Can field, Thomas K. Fllnn, Rankin Estes, N. R. Walters. Arthur E. Bailee, Walter Jenny, Jos. Shalles, H. T. Ounter, J. N. Card in, Tom Lille, L. C. Chandler, Robert C. Van Valzah, Ernest W. Winkle, M. L. Wade, W. O. Avertll, C. R. Reynolda, Hugh Storey, W. N. Foley. Charles E. Rose, all of Medford; W. O. Drum- mond. Floyd Croetin, Oeorge Blyberg, Walter W. Win fee, and Wm. E. Mc Mlnn of Ashland: Monroe North and Louis A. Balade, Central Point; E. H Taylor, Ruch; Frank P. Garner, of Beagle. The next meeting has been ached - uled for Saturday. August 5. , central point puns to divert tourists A move la on In Central Point to promote a short cut to Crater lake through thst town. It waa learned here todsy through the columns of the American. Central Points news paper. Community folders boosting the Centra) Point short cut to Crater lake and other resorts are off the press and will be distributed at an early date. Plan are also underway there to erect a sign, announcing the cut-off to all tour lit. No comment on the more wm msds by the Medford -hambr of commercs when Inter viewed today. BASEBALL American. Chicago , Boston , Batteries: Gaston, Wyatt and Berry, Rhodes and Ferrell. Detroit : 1 0 Washington - 7 11 0 Batteries: Frasier, Fischer, Hogsett and Hayworth, Desautels; Whltehtll and Sewell. R. 2 ..10 H. E. 5 3 13 3 Cleveland .. New York Batteries: Hudlln, Connally and Pytlak: VanAtta, Moore and Dickey. (13 innings St. Louis 8 13 0 Phllsdelphla -.. 3 18 3 Hadley and Shea, Ruel; Msnaltey and Madjeskl. National, R. H. E. Brooklyn 17 1 Cincinnati ;.. 3 7 0 Batteries: Benge, Shaute and Lo pes; Derringer and Lombard!. B. . 6 .. S New York .... - Pittsburg . Batteries: Schumacher. Bell, Clark and Mancuso, Richards; 8wetonic, Hoyt and Grace. TENNESSEE DRYS IN WET VICTORY NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 31. (AP) Chaining that "the grossest pos sible fraud" was perpetrated In Mem phis and Nashville In yesterday's ref erendum on the 18th amendment, John F. Baggett. chairman of the prohibition campaign, said In a state ment today that the vote la being very carefully studied with a view to contesting the election." Bagqett said: "All hlgh-thlnklng people, regardless ol whether they were for or against repeal, know we deserve and have won," and added: 'We have the city machines of Naahviile and Memphis to thank for the very narrow margin which the wets are claiming." Pointing to the fact that a num ber of precincts are, unreported, he said it was possible the re peal lata margin will be overcome when com plete reports are In. Returns from 3.007 out of 3.333 precincts gave: For repeal, 133650; against repeal, 114,401. This was a repeal majority of 9,349. T PORTLAND, Ore., July 31 . (AP) A code which proposes the closing of Portland grocery stores on Bun day and holidays and regulates hours of operation from 7:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m.. V'aa adopted at a meeting here last night of the Grocers' and Mer chants' association. Thla organiza tion membership does not Include chain stores or similar non-delivery units. The minimum wage for women Waa set at slS a week or 2.50 a day. The maximum working week will be 48 hours, and a minimum of 8 hours a day was established. For men the week maximum waa set at 48 hours and the day at 10, with a minimum of 118 a week or 13 a day. I NEW YORK. July 31 P To the cheers of an enthusiastic throng des cribed bf police as the greatest since the welcome to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh six years s;jo, New York C:ty today gave it official reception to General Italo Balbo snd hts 96 gallant Italian fliers. Police estimated that at least 60, 000 Jammed Broadway snd City Hall park crying "Viva Balbol" and "Viva Italia." Ticker tape, confetti and torn leav es from the telephone books fell like rain and at tlmea It seemed the vis ion of the drlreTs of the dorens tt automobile in which the fliers rode might be impeded. AIMEE'S HUSBAND itfrgfetajM i. -.. -: - -"mvffrs... .. David L. Hutton, Jr., rotund, baritone huaband of the Angelus Tem ple evangelist, Almee Semple McPherson-Hutton, la shown signing papers for the filing of a suit of dl 'orce In Los Angeles charging men tsl cruelty. He plans a career on '.he stags. The evangelist snd singer were married In 1931. Left to right: Fairfax Cosby, Hutton's personal counsel; Hutton and Attorney Jerome J. Mayo. (Associated Press Photo) LONG BEACH, Cal., July 31. (AP) Too many celebrities In Jila vicin ity proved embarrassing yesterday for Bailey, concierge at the Breakers ho tel. When David Hutton, Angelus tem ple baritone, drove up to the hotel and Inquired if his manager had reg istered for him. Bailey didn't recog nise t'.ie husband of Almee Semple McPherson.., Bailey made Inquiry at 30 OAYS FORjpiON EUGENE. July 31. (AP) An order from Judge O. P. Sklpworth waa filed tn clteuit court here today granting Llewellyn A. Banks, convicted slayer of George J. Prescott, Medford con stable, 30 days additional time to ten der and file a bill of exceptions. Judge Sklpworth J - In Klamath rails conducting the Jackson county ballot theft cases, but sent the order to Eugene. Banks la still held In the Lane county Jail awaiting sentence follow ing his conviction of second degree murder here In mid-May. Time for filing a bill of exceptions would have expired tomorrow, 60 daya after conviction. . Formal passing of the mandatory life sentence upon the former local agitator would then of coma. The additional time grants an other stay from sentence, after which would come admission to the state prison. . Banks was found guilty of second degree murder on May 33 and has been held In the Lane county since, with he exception of several weeks In a Eugene hospital, from a minor operation. Banks waa charged with the wanton slaying of Constable George J. Prescott, on March 16. when the officer was endeavoring to serve a warrant In connection with ballot theft, at Banks' home. Mrs. Bunks Is In Eugene, and la reported as a dally visitor to her In carcerated husband. Banks Is re ported aa In excellent health, and gaining weight on Jail fare and con finement. By employing every recourse of the law, and legal technicality. Banks has succeeded In staving off entrance to the penitentiary. A motion for a new trial la also pending. Allegations In this plea were that Assistant Attorney Oeneral Moody, In his closing address called him "a coward hiding behind a wo man's skirta"; that a woman bailiff was unfavorable to him, and that the presa was prejudiced against him, and his crime. BERLIN, July 31. fAPt The Ber lin bureau of the Jewisha Telegraphic agency hss bn cIomv, by order of government authorities. , A Jewish telegraph agency dispatch from Berlin said that the secret po lice conflscsted all furniture and equipment in the bureau. The dis patch sdied thst the foreijrn service suspension of ths Oerman service. ble- FOR FUEL LOAD SEEKS DIVORCE the office and advised Hutton that his manager had not arrived at the hotel. "That's strange," aald the singer. Then he demanded: "Do you know who I am?" Bailey replied with his most ex pansive golden smile: "Sure I does, sir. You'a Tom Mix." Mix has been making personal ap pearancea at . a local theater this .week. r . REGISTER WISH ON DRY REPEAL PORTLAND, Ore.. July 31. (P) The Oregon electorate which in 1915 decided thla state should have no more of the liquor traffic, stepped forward today to affirm or renounce its faith In prohibition. Wet leaders expected a' two to one vote for repeal. Dry organizations said they believed they had "a fighting chance." - The polls opened at 8 a m. for a popular vote on the 18th amendment and the remaining "constitutional' prohibition statutes of the state. Last November by a vote of 306.619 to 138.7T5 the enforcing acts of state prohibition were repealed. This, :n fact, nullified the "constitutional" prohibitions which remained. The election of 116 delegates to a constitutional convention on repeal of the 18th amendment was only an incident of the balloting. The state required of each candidate a pledge that he would vote at the conven tion, wet or dry, aa his county voted. The delegates will have no discretion at the convention, which probably will be held within 30 daya. Light balloting was predicted by state election officials. Out of a total registration of 444.009, possibly not more than 380,000 would visit the polls, they said. The vacation season. the fact that It waa a apeclal election, and an apparent general apathy waa responsible. Although both sides made use of considerable advertising and oratory the votera did not become greatly exercised. FAMILY WITH AN AX EUGENE. Ore., July 31. (UP) Overpowered while threatening two women and three men with an ax, W R. Rear Irk was arrested here late to day and lodged In county Jail. State police, answering a murder rs port, apprehended the man as ha wielded an ax over Mrs. Edward Bush netl, her son-in-law, daughter and hired man. Her husband was slightly Injured when he csme upon Rearlck in hie home and scuffled wltb htmi The in truder waa suspected of burglary. Cobbler Kills Police Officer PI.EMINOTON. M. J., July 31. AP) Andre Kuboachln, 46-yar-old Lam. brtvllle ho.m.ltr. who had been charged with attack Inn a nine-year old Rlrl, faced an even more aerloui rherne lodev a. the remilt of hie eley mg the police recorder before whom hs as arraigned. Rally at Finish DREGONIANS CAST SLENDER VOTE IN Llttlo Interest waa manifested to day In the apeclal election In thla city, with alow voting during t.he morning hours. At noon 36 ballots had been cast at the North Central precinct In the city hall, 44 at the North Main precinct In the Hotel Holland, and A3 at the Newtown pre cinct In the court house auditorium. Other Medford precinct.-; were voting In the same ratio. A slightly higher percentage waa being maintained In the rural dis trict precincts. It Is expected that the afternoon and uvenlng houra will bring out a larger vote. PORTLAND, Ore.. July 31. (AP) In Increasing numbers as the after noon progressed, votera of Oregon expressed their convictions by ballot at talay's special prohibition elec tion. The morning hours saw little more than 6 per cent of the total registration accounted for at the polls. The voting places opened at 8 a. m. and were to remain open until 8 p. m. (P. 8. T.) In only a few precinct were counting boards to begin operation before the closing hour. Repeal of the 18th amendment and of the remaining state prohibition laws received little more attention t.han did the proposal to levy a 3 per cent sales tax, Prom Marshfleld, on the coast. came, the report that of the first 50 voters at two precincts, 34 said they had voted for prohibition repeal, and 16 aatd they voted the dry ticket. out of a total registration of 444,- 009, stats officials estimated possi bly not more than 370,000 would visit the polling places. Before lunch time In Portland, where 495 of the state's 1,787 precincts are lo cated, an average of slightly less than 16 per centof the registration ,had 16 per cent of the registration had In the last prohibition vote In Oregon, held In November, 1333, 345, 304 ?otera marked ballots. Of these 300,019 voted to repeal the enforc ing statutes of the stats prohlbtlon code, and 138,778 voted against It. Prohibition advocates seemed to be agreed In discussing the current elec tion that they had no mors than a fighting chance." The wets claimed the state by a two-to-one margin. T BURLINOTON. la., July 31, (AP) Elliott Roosevelt, son of the presi dent, and Miss Ruth Cooglns of Fort Worth, Texas, will be married hers tomorrow under present arrange menta the Associated Press learned from sn unimpeachable source to day. Young Roosevelt will arrive here by plane today, accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall. Mrs. Dall will be Miss Cooglns' only at tendant. Only immediate members of the two families will be present at the wed lng In the home of Oeorge C. Bwller, brother of Mrs. J. B. Cooglns, mother of the bride to be. - F. R. HOPES CONFAB L RECONVENE WA8HINOTON, July 31. (AP) President Roosevelt expects the Lon don conference to reconvene In the fall and waa said today to be hope ful of some accomplishment, Tho president 'wmr said to be 'par tlculaily anxious that before the par ley ends next week 1f rhak some kind of progress toward world wheat control and the Improvemetn of sil ver. If only a little can be dons for these things now he thinks that much should be dons and mors at tempted later. No Ransom Paid Says O'Connell ALBANY. N. Y., July 31 (AP) Breaking his silence for the first ime, Ed O'Connell, uncle of John J. O'Connell, Jr., today satd a ransom had not been paid for the kidnaped boy. The elder O'Connell, Demo cratic power tipstats, alncs the youth waa kidnaped two weeks ago has re- fused to dlscun the rase with either authorities or the press. SET FOR SALES IN PAST THREE YEARS Enormous Offerings Break Market Wide Open Ticker Far Behind Trans actions Rally Cuts Loss WASHINGTON, July XI. (AP) President Roosevelt contem plates no action regarding tne stork exchange where price have dropped considerably tn the last few days. It was made clear that the ad inlnUtratlon Is focusing Its full, attention on the recovery drlta and In official quarters the opin ion was expressed that If specu lators and Investors are silly enough to bid up stocks far above their value they are very apt to lose their money. NEW YORK. July 31. (AP) After their worst break lnc the wild daya of 1029. stocka rallied today, sub stantially reducing extreme losses of S to more than 917 for scores of leadln; Issues. Salea spproxlmtaed 9.790,000 shares, the largest volume sines October, 1939. . . The ticker tape, overwhelmed by the task of recording transaction in a market which at mid-afternoon was demoralised, closed at 3:43 o'clock, a new record for latenesa for Via present high-speed quotation dlstrloutlng system. Tha market was at Us worst around 3:30 o'clock, when enormous offerings found virtually no buyers, out tnen hardened and ftntehed well above the lows. . United Btates Steel common closed at S93.S0, off 5, against. Itk low of around 149.80. Union Pacific's close was tlll.TS, down 8 38, compared with an ex treme low of S3; American Tele phone, after dropping to U, fin ished at 1130, off ,3.75. Cotton recovered from its lows. (Continued on Page Four) PORTLAND, Ore., July 31 (AP) An Oregon grandstand today echoed to the roar "they're off 1" aa legalised horse racing came to this stats for the first time since 1008. The 38-day meeting, under the pro motion of William P. Kyne opened at the Green am track near Portland with eight races on the program and the highest class of thoroughbreds ever stabled In thla section listed for action over the new five-eights mils oval. ILL OGERS Says'- BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., July 20, I guess Dempsey's got a cheerful little earful, I guess Balbo (the only young man that ever looked well in whiskers) is flying somewhere. I gueBg the photographers to the London conference are breaking up all the plates they exposed there. I guess Alabama and Arkan sas voted to show their natives that there was bourbon as well as corn; that all whiskey was not. white. I guess our great little Okla homa flier is ahead of his rec ord. I guess California (as usual, to be Wie biggest) passed the highest sales tax rate of ths whole 48. I say I guess all these things, for they are not in any of tha papers. Nothing can get in a paper when Sister Aimee is in, so we are all practically isolat ed from (he world for the next couple of weeks, Cu- 9ltll kttHtwMlrqlute, ba SMV XsSk
