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Medford Mail Tribun The Weather Forecast: Fair Sunday. Slightly low er temperature, Temperature Hit heat yesterday To City Subscribers Id case your carrier falls to leave a paper, phone 7ft Defora p m. oXfiee closing time. A paper will be eeni out by Special Delivery. Lowest yesterday .51 Twenty-eighth Year .MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1033. No. 131. e Comment . on the Day's News Bv FRANK JENKINS THE national recovery cod for the lumber Industry will mean an lncreaae of about $15,000,000. or million dollara a month. In payroll of the Western pine territory. This increase in payrolls will be due to putting approximately 6,000 men to work, In addition to those already employed. These additional men will be required because of the ihorter hours. The result of these additions will be an Increase of about 33 per cent In the production cost of lumber, or about 5 per thousand feet. THESE flgurei, which are Intense ly interesting, are vouched for by David T. Mason, general manager of the Western1 Pine association, who has Just returned to the Coast from Washington, where he helped In drawing the lumber code. IN ITS application to the Western pine lumber Industry, you have a perfect example of the way the NRA works If It works, as we all earnestly hope It will. Shorter houra. more men. More men, larger payrolls. More payrolls. Increased cost of production. NBA will work If the public will pay the increased cost of produc tion. If the public won't pay the Increased cost of production, NRA won't work. That Is about all there la to It. BUT the public has much to gain and little to lose by paying the Increased cost of production. Higher production costs mean higher prices. But tlmee are nearly altfaya GOOD when prlcea are high, and nearly alwaya BAD when prices are too low. ' It la better for the publlo to pay higher prices and have good times than to pay lower prlcea and have bad tlmea. Isn't that true? THE lumber code specifies an hourly wage of 424 centa here in the Pacific Northwest, and 23 cents in the South. So, you aee, our Pacific Coast lumbermen will have to absorb a GREATER Increase in cost than the lumbermen of the South. LUMBERMEN of the pine and fir reglona of the Pacific Coast went Into the framing of the code defin itely committed to the principle of high wages. The lumbermen of the South fought for LOW wages. It was this fight between the high wage lumber Industry of the West and the low wage lumber In dustry of the South that held up for so long the adoption of the code. THE lumbermen of the West arc entitled to the thanka of their communities for going through with their high wag? fight and WIN NINO It. Aa a result of the winning of this fight, the lumber communities of the Pacific Northwest will experience much greater degree of prosperity In the coming yeara than they would have experienced If the Western lum bermen1 had lost their fight and the South had won. -- rpHE West U a high wage country. 1 The South la a low wage coun try. As a result of this difference, the West Is uniformly more prosperous than the South. It may be true that few BTO PEOPLE make more money In the South, but It ! cer tainly true that the great majority of LITTLE PEOPLE enjoy a higher standard of living In the West. That la one reason why so many people In the South would like to move West. PRICE cutting within the lumber industry Itself will be barred by the code. But price competition be tween the lumber and the lumber eubetltutea will NOT be barred by the code. It can t be. If a!l we had to do was to Jack up the price of lumber to allow for the increased coe,t of production, everything would be lovely and the goose would hang high. But that Unt all. After the price of lumber la ralaed to allow for the Increased coat of production. It will still be nfea-rary to !um- (Continued on Fag 8U RAIN ONLY HOPE AS 4000 BATTLE Tillamook Spared by Wind, But Other Towns Men acedWorst Forest Fire in Oregon History Rages PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 2. UP) Nearly 4,000 men today battled the worst fire menace In Oregon within the memory of men. Their fight was unsuccessful. Over thousands of acres of the best timber In the state the ravaging red llames swept, causing loss which must now be reckoned In terms of seven fig ures. Fire wardens admitted man was powerless against the disastrous for est blazes only the elements-raln or heavy dew or dense fog would act as a damper on the raging male strom of flame. The northwestern tip of Oregon i the fire zone. In Clatsop, Tillamook and Washington counties the flames were destroying everything lying in their path. A dozen farms and several summer camps in the Nehalem valley and eastern Clatsop countlea were re ported destroyed in a fresh outbreak of fire today. Previously the most critical conditions had existed be tween Forest Orove and Tillamook where millions of feet of virgin tim ber have been consumed. Thankfully, residents of the city of Tillamook felt a cooling southwest wind late today after the llames from the Wilson river fire, whipped Into fury by the eastern gale, had advanc ed to within alx miles of the com munity. There was no manner of de termining, however, whether the fa vorable wind would continue, the fire was apparently blazing with undi minished fury, despite the change in the wind, but Ita advance waa leas certain and the counter-breeze kept the blasting heat and the heavy, acrid smoke from blanketing the town of Tillamook. -a The Traak river fire, which had Ita eastern base In the same general fire pit from which the Wilson flames originated, waa being pushed slowly southward by the northwest wind and waa aweeplng along toward Hebo. . Farther north the new Clatsop fire waa heading violently toward the sea, apparently In the direction of the town of Wheeler. The community of Jewell, which for a time was believed In the path of the flame-storm, ap parently waa aafe for the time being, although the town of Elsie was re ported surrounded on three aides by (Continued on Page Six) E LIFE AFTER FUSS PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 26 ( AP) Ed Morrill, 49, basement excavator, enraged by an argument with hla wife at their .small farm home on t.he outskirts of Portland lata thts afternoon, shot and killed Delia Stltt. 48. wounded hla wife, probably fat ally, and then took Ills' own like with a charge of dynamite. Officers called to the scene of the tragedy, said they believed MottHI first fired five shots at the two wo men, aa they were walking down a road near the fftrm, killing Miss Stltt Instantly, and then went to a nearby rock quarry, obtained dynamite upon which he reclined, and then aet off trhe charge, blowing himself to bits. When the officers arrived. Mrs. Mor rill waa lying In the middle of the road, badly wounded, and Miss Stltt'a body waa nearby. Rushing the wounded woman to the county hos pital, the officers said physicians held little hope for her recovery. The Morrllls, officers were told, were known to have a divorce suit pending In the courts, an argument over fie case resulted In the tragedy. Mis Stltt hsd been making her home with the Morrllls. TO BRING RESCUE sAH JUAN. Puerto Rico. Aug. 26 jn JBurrlvor of the lost Florida arhooner Augusts O- Hilton disclosed on their arrival today thit the Teasel hsd been burned purposely August IS in the hope of attracting rescuers after it developed bad leaks. Forty six passengers and members of the crew were adrift for seven houra in mid-Atlantic before being plcke up by the Dutch steamer Her cules which brought them here Thee included seven women and 12 children. LAMSON ANP irjuiinfli a During i court recess David A. Lamson, campus murder case de fendant, chats with hla aister who hldea her face from the cameraman. The trial it In progress at San Joae, SAN JOSE. Cnllf., Aug. 26. (AP) David A. Lamson rested In his Jail cell here today while hla trial on charges of slaying hla pretty wife, Allene Thorpe Lamson. was adjourned until Monday, but there was much for the 31-year-old sales manager ol the Stanford University Press to con alder In hta fight for hla life. Through two dramatically exciting sessions the defendant heard two au topsy surgeons declare the akull of hla young and popular wife could have been crushed last Memorial Day IN LAST ELECTION BELITTLES N.R.A. CLEVELAND. Aug. 26. The NRA and American Federation of La bi: officials were criticized by speak ers at the opening of a two-day trade union conference here today. "The NRA la not only lowering the standards of living," declared James W. Ford, presiding officer, "but la aiming to destroy militant unions and to prevent a struggle of the workers to defend their interest." Ford was the communist candidate for vice president of the United States at the last election. "Most of today's strikes." he said, "are being arbitrated against the worker by A. F. of L. officialdom." The meeting waa called by the pro visional committee trade union con ference for united action, with head quarters In New York, under the lead ership of Louis Welnstock, leader of an Insurgent group of the last A. F. of L. convention. Aa outlined by Welnstock, the first task of the conference la to "expose the NRA. and then to organise to demand Immediate wage increases, shorten working hours, and a guar antee of a minimum number of weeks labor a year." Sponsors of the meeting said ap proximately 600 delegates were reg istered from Ohio. New York, Penn sylvania. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Alabama, Illinois. Arizona and New Mexico and Included delegates from the textile trades, steel workers and miners. ST. LOUIS. Aug. 26 . As the desth toll climbed to 35. a study -f "sleeping sickness" victims In St. Cou la today ahowed that patients ranged from a 3 -month -old baby to an 84-year-old man. Additional reports of victims of encephalitis, as the disease Is known technically, were received from Mis souri and Texas points. Federal, state and city health offi cial gave the same report of "noth ing new" as a result of their pains taking but futile study of the cause of the disease and the means of Its transmission. HEARING SLATED WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (AP) A hearing on the proposed processing tax on meat product, depended upon to pay the cost of the government's emergency campaign to reduce the supply of pigs end farrowing sows, today waa set for September 5. This will be the first public hear ing on a processing tax, the levies in effect on wheat and cotton were the difference, theoretically, between tne market price and parity price for the com modi ties. HOG PROCESS TAX SISTER CONFER Cal. (Associated press r-noioi by a 10-Inch length of pipe "If suf ficient force waa present." He heard the surgeons. Dr. Milton Saler and Dr. Bloke Wilbur testify the four wounds In Mrs. Lamson's head were caused by a "blunt Instru ment of considerable force." Then Dr. Wilbur declared that If the pipe waa the lethal weapon more than four blows were atruck. The atate asserts that Lamson struck 'down his wife with the gal vanized pipe aa the result of marital unhapplness. GLAD EGGS CAST SEATLLE. Aug. 36. iff) Dave Hut- ton, portly third husband of Almee Sempte Mcpherson, waa "telling hla side of the story" at a vaudeville per formance tonight when the eggs started to fly again. The 250-pound baritone neatly ducked the first shot, possibly from similar practice gained on a Califor nia stage. The second wasn't much better aimed either, authough It did find Its mark on Don Smith, orchestra leader, he took It squarely on the chest. Then H. W. Plckrem. 26. decided his aim was so bad that he'd better leave the theater, police said later He waa Intercepted by employee on hla way out. At the city jail, he posted a 125 bond on a disorderly conduct charge. Meanwhile, Hutton returned to his act, commenting: "Thank goodness there are no os trich farms in this part of the coun try." DENVER, Aug. 28. (API Police In Colorado and nearby states were seeking the trail of two bandits who held up a bank automobile on a busy downsown street, fled with 36. 000 loot- to a spot a few blocks away, transferred to another car In which a man and a woman were waiting, and escaped today. The bandits -held up Richard Bow- den, Dalton Brown and Vern Walker, employes of the United States Na tional bank covered them with re volvers, grabbed a money sack and sprayed the trio with tear gas. Sev eral passeraby also were Incapaci tated temporarily by the gas, police said. Witnesses to the holdup, which took place about 9:30 a. m., when the streets were thronged, said the ban dlts drove away in a small dark-col ored sedan, bearing a Nebraska li cense. L PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 28. W) A new kind of kidnaper and racketeer ts at work in Portland. Kidnaping of humans has no part in this crtmln al's work, he chooses to spirit awiy dogs and then demand a ransom for their return. Two such cases were reported to the Oregon humane society today. Mrs. Chsrlea p. Hoge, supervisor of the society explained, stesl the dogs, learn the owners name from the license number on the collar and then tele- phone owners that they have found the dog. In some eaten. Mrs. Hoe said, hip ft as 425 has ben demand ed for return of th canine. TO Avoid Reception Committee On Quay Danish Popu lace Give. Wild Greeting Silent On Survey, Plans COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Aug. 36. t'Pt Colonel nd Mrs. Charlea A. Lindbergh today completed their aerial survey trip over 'the north At lantic ocean, arriving here after a non-stop flight from the Shetland Islands. The pair were greeted with" wild scenes of enthusiasm. Representatives of the air ministry and the American legation welcomed the visitors aa they landed. The Lind berghs were conducted through the streets of Copenhagen, riding In the roremost of an automobile convoy. The lord mayor tendered an official greeting at the town hall and the population accorded them a' warm and enthusiastic welcome. It was reported that during their stay in Denmark the Lindberghs will be guests of the king and queen at one of the rulers' summer residences. The crown prince met the Lindberghs recently in Iceland. Colonel Lindbergh circled his aea- plane several times over the harbor and finally brought it down at the naval seaplane station. Thousands of people were gathered on Langellnje quay and Northern Customs quay. A Danish naval lieutenant com mander did all possible to persuade Lindbergh and hla wife to ride In a launch to the customs quay where Mra. Ruth Bryan Owen, the United States minister, and other members or a reception committee waited. Colonel Lindbergh, however, re fused and had to be taken in a motor car direct to the city hall. Mra, Owen and -the 'reoeption- committee also went there. The streets through which the Lindberghs passed were thronged with cheering people. At the city hall the lord mayor, the president of the city council and other notables Join ed In welcoming the Americana. Only a few persons aside torn the recep tion committee were permitted In the hall. Colonel Lindbergh wna Interviewed later at the United States legation headquarter aand related some of his flight experiences, but declined to disclose any of the results achieved by his aerial survey of the projected northern air route. "We do not even know ourselves what we will be doing next," he aald when asked hla future plana. . SEATTLE, Aug. 26. (ff) Funeral se.-vtcea will be held at 2 a. m., to morrow morning for the last remains of Standard Time, a young fellow whose brief career In Washington atate proved an affliction to himself and his acquaintances In the minds of most folks. Towns of the agricultural reglona were the most reluctant to tdopt day light time, because farmers complain ed It bothered their schedules. They took no pleasure in the talk about getting up early, for many of them arose at 8 a, m., anyway, and had chores to do in the evening re gardless of the clock. The agricul tural cities were the first to abandon the earlier hours, Spokane being the last center of a farming region to de cide agalnet It. IN POUOHKEEPSIE, N. T.. Aug. 26 1A President Roosevelt received in NRA bsdge today at hla welcome home celebration, but he told the crowd he waa afraid he was not quite hon est tn wearing It. "The president of the Dutchess county society gave me a very beau tiful NRA emblem aa X came in," he said, "but I am afraid that I am not quite honest In wearing It because the good people who work with me in the White House I csn't permit to work tinder the code of the NRA. "We do have a long working day. Sometimes we start right early in the morning and some tlmea we are mill at it late at night. This ta the one exception that Z have got to ap prove." Weather Forecast. Oregon: Fog on the roast,' other wise fair Sunday and Monday; slightly lower temperature and higher humid ity Interior of west portion and gen tle to moderate changeable wind off- shore. REPEAL LEADS IN TEXAS Bl 84,684 Cities Pile Up Heavy Ma jority, But Rural Districts Clip Margin Home Town of Shepard Goes Wet DALLAS. Tex.. Aug. 36. (AP) 11:30 p. m. tabulation 333 out of 254 Texas counties, Including 33 Com plete; For repeal 332.718. Against 138.034. For legalisation of beer: 224.448; against 128,323. DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 36. (AP) Re peal votes In Toxaa maintained a lead of 61.490 over a gradually strength ening dry resistance as the 9:30 p. m. tabulation tonight by the Texaa elec tion bureau from 174 out of the state's 354 countlea Including alx complete, ahowed: For repeal: 139.614.. Against 78,315. For legalisation of beer 133,372. Against 71,000. TEX ARK AN A, Texaa, Aug. 36 (AP) The home olty of Senator Morris Sheppard, ardent prohibitionist and co-author of the 18th amendment, voted for repeal In today's election by a margin of 303 votes. The Ark ansas side of this bl-state -city al ready has authorised the sale of beer The senator, weary from the strain of an Intensive campaign over the state In defense of the dry laws, watched the election returns closely. Touring the state with a- sound truck and speaking usually In two places dally. Senator Sheppard plead ed with Texans to retain the prohibi tory liquor law. DALLAS. Tex., Aug. 36. p) Early returns from metropolitan centers showed commanding leads In favor of repeal of the eighteenth amend ment and legalization of 83 beer In the Texaa referendum today on pro hibition. Unofficial tabulations of the vote In scattered precincts of Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Dallas and El Paso gave the wet forces ratios of from 3 to 1 to 12 to 1. Reports from rural communities came in slowly. Texas was the 33rd atate to vote on ratification of the 21st amend ment to the federal constitution,, re pealing national prohibition. The vot ers of 22 states have approved repeal. At Uvalde, his home, vice President John N. Oarner, long an opponent of Prohibition, cast his vote for the wet cause. The dry fight waa led by Senator Morris Sheppard, one of the authora of the eighteenth amendment. He campaigned In the atate for weeks. Former Governor James B. Fergu son, husband of Oovernor Miriam A. Ferguson, champion ;d repeal and Postmaster General James A. Farley made a plea to Texans to pile up a b1B vote for ratification. The balloting on repeal and legali zation of beer appeared to be run ning In about the aame ratio. If the beer amendment to the state constitution carries, the beverage will go on sale Sept, 15. PRAHA, Czechoslovakia,, Aug. 36. P) ( Jewish Telegraphic Agency) The executive of the World Zionist organization hsd nothing to do with the negotiations which led to an agreement with the Oerman govern ment for the export to Palestine, In the form of German goods, of three million marks (currently S9&4.0001 of of capital of Jewish emigrants, Berl Locker of New York, member of the executive, told the eighteenth World Zionist congress tonight. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. AP) State governors were asked today by Robert Feehner, director of the con servation corps, 1o forward by Sep tember 16. their recommendations of programs for winter forest t Ion work The letters were sent as a result of President Roosevelt's declsioii to con. tlnue the forest conservation pro gram during the coming winter The governors were aked to submit new work projects If they desired more camps established. LONOVIEW, Wash.. Aug. 88. ff) The U. A. Frigate Constitution, the oldest ship still riding the seas, will bring her memorable two-year cruise officially to a close tomorrow night at this, the youngest city In the United States. FOM EAGLES All Employers to Be Inter viewed On Adherence to NRA PolicyConsumer's Census to Follow Drive WASHINGTON. Aug. 26. (AP) "Marching orders" to the 1,500. 000 volunteer workers who next week will go from door to door in every community to win 100 per cent enrollment under the blue eagle, will be given tomorrow night by the NRA director, Hugh S. Johnson. He will make a short address to the country beginning at 9:45 p. m. eastern standard time, after which there will be a special NRA pro gram put on by atage and other entertainers, among whom will be Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, Madam Schumann-Helnk and Walter Dam rosch, director of the combined army, navy and marine bands. Madam Schumann-Helnk's Dart of the program will be a special appeal to women, considered the backbone of the blue eagle plan In their role of purchasing agents for American families. Intensive drive to determine the actual observance In Jackson county of the National Recovery Act pro gram and the President's Re-employment Wae agreement will be start ed In Medford thla 'week, It waa an nounced yesterday by O. O. Alenderfer following return from a Portland conference with the Oregon director of the Recovery Act program. Fol lowing a thorough check of Medford the drive will be extended Into all sections of the county, .exclusive of the Ashland territory. - .' With military organisation, headed for Vie drive by J. C. Thompson, major, an army of 40 men win cover the territory. Under Mr. Thompson, the following captains will serve: A. C. Hubbard, O. M. Kldd, Leonard Carpenter, E. O. Jerome and Harry Hansen. Each captain will direct eight men. who will compose the complete or ganization for thla particular drive. Every employer in thla city and the surrounding trade are will be Interviewed by the members of the drive canvassing army. The chief aim of the interview will be to de- (Contlnued on Page Seven) SPIRITUAL CURE ION'S HOPE OHICAGO, Aug. 26. (fl1) Leaders of a hundred of more faiths, philoso phies and convictions, which attract ed followers in all quarters of the world, today began a search for a spiritual cure for the world's physi cal woes. Priest, Swaml, Rabbi, Professor. Teacher and preacher will in fthe next 22 days exchange the views of Asia Africa, Europe and the western world on entirely temporal affairs leisure and liquor, men and machines, war. poverty and unemployment. The attention given these matters It la explained by leaders of the world fellowship of faith, which la sponsor ing the meeting, distinguishes thts congress from the convention of re llglous faith held aa part of the last world's fair. The Maharajah Oekwar of Baroda, 71 year old ruler of two million In dians and aald to be the fourth rich- eat man in the world, opens the par liament tomorrow night with a paper on religion In a changing world. BASEBALL PORTLAND. Or . Aug. 28. ( AP Sad Sam Olbaon bested tola ei-t in mates tonight aa ha pitched the Bea- vera to a 9 to 5 victory oyer San Francisco. Ha waa aided In winning by the Beavera at hat, aa they pound ed out IT aefetlea off Zlnn and BtuW, and by tha Seala In the Held aa the San Franclacana made costly five bob blea with runners on the baeea. R. R. B. San Pranclaco 5 9 5 Portland 17 a Batteries: Zlnn. Btuts and Bot- tarlnl; Olbaon and Palmlsano. R. H. Loa Angela ..-.... 1 t Seattle' . 1 7 Thomas and McMullen; Plllette and Cox. ' R. H. . 6 U ... . 5 Oakland ., Hollywood Walsh, Pteber, Oabler and BfKman; Buchanan end Bassler. WAR DAYS SPIRIT OF PEOPLE SPURS E President Declares Better Times at Hand In Home Town Speech Descries Profits Without Benefits POUGHKEEPSIE, N. T.t Aug. 36. (AP) president Roosevelt today de clared the national recovery drive for more Jobs and more pay to be succeeding with a unanimity of the people, "unequalled since the war daya," brlnBlnff the eountnr "hack tn better times." In the bright sun on the Vassar college campus the president told the people of his home county who gath ered to welcome htm home that "the downhill drift has definitely turned and become an upward surge." Bpeaxing publicly on the recovery drive for the first time since hla intensive days at the White House In Inaugurating the new deal for America. Mr. Roosevelt put emnha- Ms into his words declaring the new policy to be one extending to the na tion the principle of "local commu nitythat no Individual, no family. has a right to do things which hurt the neighbors." The president wiped beads of pen- plratton from his forehead and looked his old neighbors of this Republican county in the face aa he also called lor a complete reorganization of local government, "Some day the people of the state of New York will do something about it. ne aaid, "but I tell you quite frankly that nothing will be done unlesa you make your representatives In town boards and county boards and the atate legislature do It or sub stitute other representatives for them." Startled for a moment, the huge crowd in front of the home of the president of Vassar suddenly broke Into applause, "And I am not talking Democratic politics," Mr. Roosevelt added a an Interpolation of hla prepared speech. "I am talking good old Dutchess county American principles." . Detailing hla purposes in the' re covery campaign, the president eald: "Of course, It la true that your gov ernment hopes that the building up of wages that are atarvatlon wages, and the shortening of houra of work In every part of the United States will result In a greater distribution of wagea and an lncreaae In the num ber of persona employed. "It la true chat we seek definitely to Increase the purchasing power of the American people. It is true that we are definitely succeeding in this purpose and that the downhill drift of America has definitely turned and become an upward surge fcr America." Thla expression for confidence also brought applause and cheers from th crowd stretching far out under the treea of the Vassar lawn. In con cluding, once again the president de parted from hla prepared address to say "there la a unanimity among the people that I haven't seen since April, 1917, and we are going to bring thla country back to better times." Mr. Roosevelt declared that for the first time In history the nation- "aa a whole and regardless of party baa approved drastlo changes In the methoda and forms of the functloni (Continued on Page Six) WILL- ROGERS 9 Says: BEVERLT HILLS, Calif.. Aug. 23. As usual, Al Smith mnde the bent speech made on the NRA j the mobt sensible and clear reasoning in support of it. I hope in all this read justment that some real im portant place could be found where w could utilize that fellow's good common sense, and, talking about what peo ple said, this McCormick of Chicago, who has just return ed from Germany, editor of the great Chicago Tribune, (no I don't write for it) says very astonishingly but no doubt truthfully, "along with the youth of Germany, in this war spirit is the women. When bigger wars are made, women will make 'em, as always." Tours, ?ka Villi MXtuat tra,liei. be. 1
