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Newspaper Page TextFORD MAIL TRIF'JN The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Wtd nu lla), slightly cooler Wednesday. Temperature. H Illicit yesterday - 10 l.onett this morning The Home News la Important to you wail away oo your vacation Keep posted by having th Mall mount mailed to your ad- draaa Telephone b now. Twenty-eighth Year MEDFOlil), OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1933 No. 124. Ml Med IDL JIjIjv Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. AMONG the Interesting people tending the American Legion con ventlon in Klamath rails last week waa Albert Richard Wetjen, who 1 budding rapidly Into one of the coun try's better known short story writ era. Hla stories appear regularly In Col liers, the Saturday Evening Post, and other well known magazines. DICK Is a former employee of this writer, who waa then editing, a newspaper Eugene. Dick was a country correspondent for this news paper, at the village of Harrlsburg. If the candid truth must be told, the stories he sent In didn't display much evidence that he was a budding genius. Still, they were fully as good aa the editing that waa done on them. Both editor and correspondent were fresh out of school, and what they didn't know about good, workmanlike writing In those days would have filled a fair-sized book. DICK specializes on stories of the sea. He got his liking for the aea on his way to this country. He la a Welshman by nativity, but came up from Walea to London. From London, he took ship for this country and arrived In the course of consid erable time In Ban Francisco. In Ban Francisco, be got In touch with Colonel Hofer, of Salem, waa then publishing a little literary magazine called The Lariat. It waa on this little magazine that Dick got his first start. HE LIVES In Portland, and when he Invites his friends to come and see him aa he does with great cor diality he cautlona thera.to call flrat on the phone and tell who they are. He Is getting to be a rather well known writer, and the country la lull of hopeful poeta who have a mania for getting their poema read by well known wrltera. It might be add ed, incidentally, that they have an equal mania for having them read by editors. So Dick has adopted the protective device of having the phone answered by his secretary. If it Is a friend at the other end of the wire, he Is at home. But If It la a poet, he ISN'T. Nobody but an editor will ever know how amart a scheme that la. THE flwt story Dick sold waa taken by a magazine called Action Stories. This magazine la now de funct. Whether Dick's story had any thing to do with Its untimely pass ing, this writer does not presume to aay, not having read the atory. The magazine waa of what Is now known ss the "pulp paper" type, and leaned toward yams calculated to raise the hair of the reader atralght up on his head. Dick got $25 for the story, and he confesses quite freely that It looked to him like all the money In the world. IN THESE more halcyon days, he gets something like 2.000 for a good story. Asked which gave him the greater thrill, that first story he sold for 25 or the ones he sella now for $3,000. he answered: "Go on I You know eomethlng about wrltera and writing, and you ask a fool question like that'." MJTOW many stories." this writer ii asked him the other day. "did you write before you SOLD one?" "Oh. at least a hundred," Dick an swered. "I didn't keep a careful count, of course, but It couldn't have been lee than a hundred. "1 didn't know there were so msny editors In the country until I began getting rejection slips from them." THIS question Is aeked constantly by all kinds of people: "Just how do you go about learning to write?" Dick's experience tells the whole atory. The way to learn to write la to WRITE and write and write and writ until fl-sliy you produce some thing that la good enough that some ed:tor will take a chsnce and pay money for It. There may be other ways, but this is the only one that offers any real prospects of success. ... XfOU can resd booka on swimming unm your eyea get, aim. out me only way to learn to swim la to get into the water. And you can study writing until you get old and tooth less, but tlie only way to learn to write Is to writ. 1 MASTER MIND OFf BALLOT STEALING UNABLE GET Former Jackson County Judge Surprises By Will ingness to Start Serving of Four-Year Sentence. SALEM, Aug. 15. (AP) Earl H. Fehl, former Jackson county Judge, today became the fifth prisoner to start serving time in the state peni tentiary for ballot theft in Jackson county. He was sentenced to serve four years. Deputy Sheriff Dale Mat toon of Klamath county accompanied Fehl from Klamath Falls where the trial was held. Earl H. Fehl completed this morn ing a seven months and 15 days jour ney from the county Judge's office of Jackson county, to a cell in state prison. Fehl left the Klamath county Jail, where he has been confined since his conviction of ballot theft Monday night at ten o"clock by train, and arrived at Salem this morning. His departure was unheralded, and Fehl waived the ten days allowed for filing a motion for a new trial, which would have expired Friday. The move was a surprise. Joins Friend Banks Fehl Joins his bosom confidante and aide In local turmoil, I. A. Banks, agitator and murderer, who yesterday started serving a life sen tence for the slaying of Constable George J. Prescott; also Walter J. Jones, political ally, of Rogue River; J. Arthur LaDleu. Banks' newspaper olde, both, like Fehl serving four year sentences for ballot Theft, and Tom L. Brecheen of Ashland, serving 18 months on a plea of guilty to vote stealing. Jones, LaDleu. and Bre cheen, the testimony In the ballot trials showed, were. the. "bralntrust and action men" of the Banks -Fehl plottlngs. The state contended Fehl was the "master mind." Kin of Fehl, according to advices received by the district attorney's of fice, bade farewell last Sunday. Fehl, unable to secure $7500 bonds that met with the legal requirements, told friends he would not appeal his con viction, and last Friday announced that he was ready to go to Salem and start serving his time. Rf.tdel Hero 26 Years Fehl has been a resident of this city and county for 26 years, end ran for mayor many times. In 1930 being defeated by Mayor E. M. Wilson by 14 votes. For the past 15 years or more thru his weekly newspaper, he ...apt up ft constant barrage or vindication and character assassination against coun ty officials and leading citizens. A Judgment against him for $15,000 was returned In the Roy Parr crtm Innl libel stilt, by a Jackson county Jury. Previously he had been acquit ted In a criminal libel suit filed by Frank DUlard. then city engineer. Previous to these criminal libel ac tions Fehl kept the city In almost constant costly litigation over his efforts against street assessment col lection, and city water rights. Following the return and execution of the Parr libel suit verdict, Fehl Joined forces with L. A. Banks, Just budding forth , as an agitator, and both entered .county politics, finding support In the discontent of the times. Won In Split Field Fehl defeated C. B. Lamkln of Ash land In tlie republican primary, by 200 votes. He won in the general election over a field of four. It was the bitterest, and stormiest campaign In the history of Jackson county. The victory of Fehl created vague suspicions, but the general dis position was "to give him a chance, as hoMtng such a high office will sober him up." Before he had been In office a week, he had filed farce contempt proceedings against two former mem bers of tlie county court. He assum ed office January 3 last, and from the start turmoil reigned. The court house was clogged dally with throngs, encouraged to make the courthouse a rendezvous by Fehl and Banks. Before Fehl was sworn In, Ralph O. Jennings filed recount proceedings against Sheriff-Elect Schermerhorn. (Continued on Page Five) ORCHARD AGITATORS ARE REPULSED BY RANCHMEN 1? AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15. (AP) Handle action by farmers and one official request for National Ouard protection marked farm labor trou bles which today were reported threatening Pacific coast fruit and vegetable harvests. The pick handles were swung, along with clubs and pieces of gas pipe, as 150 ranchers and their em ployes drove away 40 asserted labor aeiuton from orchards near Yakima, Wash. A. J. Elliott, supervisor of Tulare county, Calif.. Uaued the request for the National Guard after nearly all of 700 workers on the Tagua peach raoch bad joined a stxika tor aborts? baseball National. R. R. E. Chicago 1 10 0 Boston 3 5 3 Bush and Hartnett; Cantwell and Spohrer. R. H. B. St. Louis 5 11 1 Philadelphia 1 3 Hallahan and Wilson; Hansen, Pearce and Davis. ' American. R. H. E. Philadelphia - 8 14 4 Cleveland 7 9 0 Grove and Cochrane; Perrelt and Spencer. R. H. E Washington .................. 5 9 0 Chicago ; 19 1 Crowder and Sewell; Jonea, Hevlrig and Berry. COST BILL FOR TRIAL IS READY The district attorney's office has completed, and will file today, the cost bill In the trial of Gordon L. Schermerhorn, former sheriff, con victed of ballot theft and sentenced to serve three years In state prison. Schermerhorn Is at liberty on $7500 bonds, pending an appeal to the state supreme court. The cost of the Schermerhorn trial Is computed at $1,923.03. Similar action will be taken In the cases of Walter J. Jones, convicted mayor of Rogue River, and J. Arthur LaDleu. former Banks newspaper manager, now In state prison for ballot theft. ' Cost of the Schermerhorn trial was about one-fourth of the coat of the Banks murder trial and slightly leas than tme-trard the cosV'of 'Che Fehl trial. Banks was tried In Lane county and Fehl In Klamath county, on changes of venue. The Banks trial cost was $7,700,60, and the Fehl trial $5,094.50. The action Is taken under the sec tion, Oregon 37-3050, which provides: "The costs and disbursements in a criminal action or proced lng are paid to the person ren dering the service by the proper county; but In case of a Judg ment of conviction, such costs and disbursements must be taxed against the defendant." They are docketed as Judgments and enforceable as Hens, and will re imburse Jackson county considerably for Its outlay of cash In restoring normalcy, after months of agitated turmoil. Saturday, August 5, the day fol lowing his conviction. Fehl filed with the county clerk transfer of three pieces of property to his wife. Under the law the move la null and void. EUGENE, Aug. 15. AP) Releas ed by the blazing August suns, a tre mendous avalanche of rock and snow and lot swept down from the nortfi west turrets of the south Sister at about 10 Friday morning In a thun dering overture to one of the most stupendous spectacles ever witnessed in the Cascade range. It tore across the face of slumber ing Lost creek glacier ripped out a huge segnemt of glacial dam, re leased a flood of water pent up un der the glacier for centuries, and carried thousands of tons of red lava ash and debris Into the McKenzle river by way of Separation creek and Horse creek. SALEM. Aug. 15 (AP) Gasoline tax refund warrants must be regis tered and endorsed "not paid for want of funds," before the state treasurer Is authorized to pay them. Attorney General I. R. Van Winkle held in an opinion late yesterday which was requested by Treasurer Rufus Hoi man. houra and higher wages. Officials at Sacramento satd no Immediate action would be taken on the request. At Orovllle. Calif.. Sheriff C. W. Toland said he would also ask for National Guard aid tf troubles near Chleo in which five alleged agitators were arrested were repeated. Officii! of the California Packing Corporation, whose two peach ranches near Merced, employing 2000 workers at the height of the season, were affected, said the crop will go unharvested If the workers persist In their demands. Strike leaders declared they we seeking an increase In pay from 17'i cent to 30 cents an tour and a 40 Hour work week. VALLEY SIZZLES IN HOTTEST DAY OF SEVEN YEARS 108 Registered Monday As Highest Since 1926 August Record of Past 13 Years Is Also Surpassed Oregon Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Wednesday, but local fogs on the coast; slightly cool er in interior of west portion Wed nesday; gentle to moderate change able wlnda offshore. Fire weather forecast for Oregon: Some scattered fog on the coast: otherwise talr, with continued low humidity east portion and slightly higher humidity in interior oi west portion, tonight and Wednesday; gentle to moderate; variable winds. It has been hotter In Medford but not for seven years, according to W. J. Hutchison, meterorologlst at the federal weather bureau. Yesterday afternoon the little red dot skipped up to 108, the official high since June, 1926, when 109 was listed on the records. For the month of August, yester day's scorching temperature surpass ed that month's record established 13 years ago when the 1920 report con tained a figure of 108. Many local people went to swim ming pools and the river last even ing, seeking relief from the day's heat. SAN FRANpISCO, Aug. 15. Violent electrical storms brought a variation at some places today in the extreme heat which has caused a two-day death toll of seven In Pa cific coast states. The first storm struck Brawley, In the Imperial valley of southern Call fornla, last night with such force that ranch buildings were wrecked and trees uprooted. In 10 minutes, nine-tenths of an Inch of rain fell. Temperatures, which had ranged above 100 degrees, dropped sharply. At least 11 fires were started by lightning in the Sierra national for est and civilian conservation corps workers were rushed to the flrellnes - Another fire, whipped by a attff wind, Jumped out of control near Forest Q rove , Ore ., a nd h aa s we p t over 300 acres. Lightning and thunder, with "slightly lower tepcratures," was the U. S. weather bureau's forecast for the interior mountain regions of California and for Nevada and Idaho. Continued high temperatures were promised for southern California. Oregon and Washington. The seventh death attributed by authorities to the heat was that of Mrs. Harriett M. Lewis, 87, Oakland. who succumbed on a passenger bus near Vallejo, Cal., ' late yesterday. Heat prostration was reported as the cause of the death of a negro In Sacramento and of Wallace Kelly at a mining camp in southern Califor nia. The other deaths occurred Sun day. Red Bluff, in the northern Sacra mento valley of California, was the hottest spot yesterday at the mer cury rose to 114 degrees. In Oregon, wheat harvesting was handicapped near The Dalles with the temperature at 104 degrees, the highest of the year. U.S. TO E. HAVANA, Aug. 15 AP) Ambas sador Sumner Welles has Informed the diplomatic corps that the Wash ington government In disposed to recognize the new Cuban administra tion headed by Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. TheAmerlcan attitude was con veyed to diplomats yesterday at a meeting In the Spanish embassy. Luciano Lopes Ferrer, the Spanish ambassador. Is the dean of the corps. Havana streets bustled with activ ity today as all Industries were re sumed, the general strike, which brought about the downfall of Gen eral Gerardo Machado'a regime hat ing been brought to an end. Two additional violent deaths were reported. August In Ledon. a Machado supporter, was found shot to death near the ousted president's estate. Manuel Rosa. en. a Machado v lei late, committed suicide. Peach Can Yields Nice Gold Watch SIERRA MADRE, Cal., Aug. 15. Ai I Mrs. Fred Lalone bought a can of peaches for 30 cents, opened it, dump ed out Its contents and found tr.at I the canning 'ompanjr thoughtfully 1 had included in the pa'.fc cne pr- fectly good go'.d watca. Rid of Its ayrup, it zaa perfectly, NEW CUBA REGIME KITZIYnlLER W!Ll SPEED INCLUSION! UNDER NRA FLAG Full Pressure of Administra tion Placed Behind Efforl To Sign Up Coal, Steel. Oil and Automobiles. WASHINGTON, Aug. IS. (AP) The full pressure of the Roosevelt administration today was being thrown behind an effort to bring four of the nation's key Industries coal, steel, oil and automobiles under NRA codes. Hugh S. Johnson, the administra tor, and Secretary Frances Perkins went Into a conference with the presidents of five large steel compan ies determined to speed up an agree ment that will bring that Industry under the scope of the recovery ad ministration's wage raising, hour shortening program at an early date. Simultaneously, Robert W. Lea. the deputy administrator charged with handling the automobile Industry" code, conferred with spokesmen for this group. Reports were that the attitude of Henry Ford toward the agreement already submitted was among the problems considered. 1 Although the national automotive chamber of commerce presented the code several weeks ago and a hearing has been set for Friday, Ford has given no direct Indication that he Is ready to move with the other major companies. With Labor Day set as a tentative ; date for bringing the bulk of the nation's employes under some form of wage and hour regulation. It was generally accepted In administration circles that the chief executive was standing firmly behind moves to force prompt action by the larger groups. Modified presidential re-employment agreements were approved to day for five additional Industries. Pacific coast dried fruits, manufac turing Jewelry, Insulation board, hair and Jute felt and porcelain enamel ing, pending public hearings and final approval of codes submitted by them. The dried fruit agreement provided for 40 hours of work a week for all employes except factory or mechan ical workers, artisans, outside sales men, buyers and watchmen. Factory or mechanical workers, artisans, or packing house workers are given a work-week of not more than 44 hours a week averaged over a six-months perlold. The maximum hour provisions are not applicable to managerial or su pervising employes. Factory or mechanical workers, artisans or packing house workers re ceive 35 cents an hour; 30 cents for those doing light work. A differen tial is permitted for apprentices over a 60-day period. S SUED FOR LIBEL BURNS. Ore., Aug. 15. fp) A charge of criminal libel was filed late yesterday, police aald, ajralnst 8yd D. Pierce, publisher of the Burn Free Press a weekly paper. Robert Duncan filed the complaint. Officers said the complaint was filed after an article had appeared In the paper mentioning Duncan and others in connection with the set tling of the affairs of the First Na tional bank, now in the hands of a receiver. Duncan and the others named were officers and stockholders, T PORTLAND, Or Aug. IS (API Johnny Ki'rmlner, auiatant football coach at th Unlv.ralty of Oregon aalrj today ha will return to tha unl- vernlty thla aeaaon to aaalat In direct. Ing th Webfoot football actlvltlea. Report from New York had Indr cated he would return to profeanlonai football In the National league, but Kitzmlller aald he plana to continue In the coaching field. 10 GET POT OF BEAKS BEND, Ore., Aug. 1. IIP) Clay Taylor, atate policeman, vouche, for the statement that there are aome mighty smart beara In the hill coun try of the wild aouthern Cascades. He peraonally knowa, he revealed today, of one bear which extin?u!sh;1 a rampflre and tnen at a pot o! beans which had been .ooic!:-r over the blen. The hoi In which the fir was burning waa carefully filled. BEAR QUENCHES FIRE Receives Promotion News I j. 'w f A. P. JOHNSEV, for the paht two Standard oil Co. here, who will leave headquarters at Fresno, Cnl, ESSI TAX PLANNED TO WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. (fi) - Secretary Wallace said today a nom inal processing tax may be levied on hogs on or after October 1, to pro vide runds for financing the emerg-. ency reduction program now being worked out by hla aides. Under no consideration, he said, will a, processing tax on swine be levied before the beginning of the hog maketlng year, which he added Is generally rccognlaed as being Octo ber I. A tax of about one-half cent per pound of live hog would provide suf ficient funds for the emergency pro gram, he said, reckoning the maxi mum gross cost of the program" at about $50,000,000. However, he add ed, this" may not be the rate of the Initial levy. He said It had been left for later determination. Several details remained to be worked out before the program pre sented by organized corn and hog farmers can be put into effect, Wal lace aald. This program contemplates the payment of a bonus of about 14 to farmers for marketing a million sows soon to furrow and 4.000,000 pigs un der 100 pounds, by October 1. The program aa It now atnnds, In volvea having the government ter Into contracts with packers to proc ess the purs, he said. Negotiations with the treasury for financing the program remain to be completed. Wife Identifies Body Of Suicide ASTORIA, Ore, Aug. 15 (AP) Mrs. A. C. Harlow of Bclllngham, Wash., last night Identified the body of a man who had killed himself in a hotel room here, as that of her husband, prominent Belllngham un dertaker. He had registered at the hotel as Hart K. Karson, and had made arrangement with a funeral director hero for a "simple funeral for a friend." felling the undertaker he would see him In three or four days, DIVORCED WIFE HELD AS EX-MATES TORCH SLAYER j ROCKPORD, III.. Aug. 1J. (AP,) A penny box of matches, a porcelain wah basin, and a quart of Raaollne supposedly used to burn Earl Hanson to desth brought hla divorced wife.' May, 3. to a Jail cell today, although she declared her Innocence of any crime. ( AuthorlHe.-; said aomenne apparent-: ly had thrown the gasoline from the ha:.ln cn Hnnson aa he sit In hlai automobile, ignited the fuel with a( s.nitfe mntrh from the box, and then 1 fled aa the flamra leaped over the ' vl. tl::i'j body. HapFOt.'j body r r,d I I, nv-c burst in- flame a fe v motnerr.tj after he had returned, hla daughter, 1 ) t i vs v . '4 years district sales manager for the soon for a similar position with JOHNSEN SLATED S. 0. MANAGERSHIP A. P. Johnsen, district sales man ager of the Southern Oregon-Northern California territory of the Stan dard Oil Company of California for more than two yoara, with headquar ters In Medford. will be leaving Vila city next week to accept the position of district ealea manager of the Fresno. Cal., area, It waa announced here today. Notice of the promotion was received in a wire from the south. K. W. Kendrlck. assistant district sales manager In the Onkland office, It waa understood, will succeed Mr. John.cn. News of the promotion of Mr. Johnion to the California headquar ters wna received In Medford with much regret, aa he and his family have played a prominent part In all clvio and aoclal actlvltlea of tha city sinoe their arrival more than two yjara ago. Mr. Johnsen being par ticular active In chamber of com merce work. He la a member of the Chamber of Commerce board of directors, chair man of the forum committee, a mem ber of the publicity and entertaln-men-, committers of the chamber and named general chairman of the .eventy-flfth anniversary cele bration to be held here next Bum mer, tjmmemorating the state of Oregon'st eventy.f!ft,i birthday. In the Preano district office, It waa undirstood here today, Mr. Johnsen (Continued on Page Three) 2000 FILE REQUEST FOR HOME LOW AID PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 15. (AP) arjout 2000 persona filed Into the of fice of the Oregon Home Ownera1 Corporation here Monday to apply inr icoerai aid under the home loan act. The office waa formally opened yesterday and 3, P. Llpacomb, state manager, and hla staff of 30 aiwla I tents received the petitions aa rap- Idly aa possible. June, to her mother's home alx mllea north of here. Mrs. Hanson agreed with authori ties that her husband probably had been' alaln, she believed someone holding a grudge against her waa tha killer. "Oh. what a terrlhle way to dial" she aald upon viewing the body In a morfia-y. "How could anyone do M I'd ten times rather It waa' me." Mrs. Hinaon aald ah purchased th matches last Thursday, that ah b.-u;.it the gasoline Sunday three Itou.-s before her huaband'a death for ,i:a In' alerting an automobile, and (Continued, pa Pag Hv.J VILLAGE STORES SEE HARDSHIP IN Merchant Who Simply Can not Accept Plan May Flaunt Flag With "Red Ink Wound Strike" On Eatjla Copyrighted by McClura Newspaper oynaicate. By (lenrge Durno WASHINGTON. Ai, lni..i. banda ara playing for NRA In tha cltlea and Uncle Sam'a big push la on report of worrlea continue to trickle in irom me amaller communities. Travelera returning from tha out lying nreclnctj. muiM ... lleve the Blue Eagle la atrlklng Juat a wee bit of terror Into the heart, of town and village merchant. Inabil ity to meet code hnttm . i. small communltlea and fear of a boy. coii, ii mey don't are reported to be the things keeping our country cou sins awake at night. The high command of NRA la keenly alive to thla situation but for once they admit they're stumped. About the only advice they have to offer Main Street la to put a shoulder to the wheel anyway and give an almighty push. Ons of the RMWwra l-.t-l.. tlon'a highest officials aays: "Yea. I hnnw ih. nmkiu. - . ..... g,.uulcll( w vnw country atorekeeper la tough. But . ... .nui iiKn. io win and tne little fellow will juat have to ban faith that buying power will be In creased ao generally by our .drive It will filter clear Into hla community and Increase hla profits too. i.very time a man laya an em ployee off he'a killing a cuatomer. Keep those you have and hire more If possible and you'll wind up with more customers." Thua-far th South and Mlddl West have been moat often heard from against conforming with th general code, . From a amall Ohio town come th atory of Its four haberdashers. Cm la run by two brother, on by father and son .nri t.i.iw i partners. No outside help la used- In these three store hut all three .t eagles from their poatmaater. . (Continued on Pag Seven) E WASHINGTON, Aug. IS. (AP) A A drastlcally-revlaed code for th lumber and timber-producing lndua tries waa submitted today to Hugh 8. Johnson, the Induatrlal admlnle trator, by aldea who have been work ing on It, Pending official action by Johnson official would not give detail of changea In the new code prepared by in nka aa compared with tha trad practlc plan aubmltted July 10 by th Industries. NRA officials disclosed Informally, however, that new labor provision were Included with shorter hour and higher pay rate than th 40 to 48 hour and 32 !4 to 49 cent rates advocated by th Induatrlea. 1600 Visit Lake During Sunday Reglstratiopa t Cratr Lax for Sunday ahow that 1600 persona vis ited th national park Sunday, ac cording to figures compiled then. Thla number place th season' to tal cioe to 63,000, with travel to the lake Increasing almost dally. Will- ROGERS 'says: BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Aug. 14, Balbo finished a great trip and Mussolini and all Italy kissed bim fervently on both clieeka. Now we know why he was growing that beard. If you aee a strange man hid ing in the bushes around your place it'a more than apt to be au ex-presiilent of Cuba. I see by the papem that dur ing this kidnaping epidemic a well known machine gun com pany hag patriotically agreed not (j) sell 'em to gatigstera till they hr.ve used up the onea they have.