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MEDFORD, OREGON. "WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1933.
Twenty-eigbtb Year
No. 137.
Comment
on the
D.iy's News
RESTRICT RELIEF
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Heads NRA Drive
By FRANK JENKINS
IT APPEARS that for each dollar 01
relief money contributed by the
federal government thla winter TWO
DOLLARS must be contributed by the
state.
That la to aay, the state must put
up two-thlrda of the relief money.
THUS an emergency arises among
ua, for the state of Oregon hasn't
the money and doesn't know where to
get It, for Ita present revenues are not
even aufflcient to meet lta current
expenses, let alone meeting two-thirds
of the cost of unemployment rellet
this winter.
By way of meeting this emergency,
there Is talk of calling a special ses
sion of the legislature to resubmit
the sales tax the aalea tax being
looked upon as the only tax capable
of raising the amount of money
needed.
THAT plan. In this wrlter'a Judg
ment, would be UTTERLY FUTILE.
' At an election held only laat month,
the aalea tax waa overwhelmingly de
feated. There la nothing to Indicate
that it would not be defeated again,
If resubmitted. On the contrary, there
la every reason to believe that
WOULD be defeated, because all 01
the element of the population that
were opposed to It In the campaign
last spring are still opposed to it.
Defeat of the sales tax, as a re
lief measure, at the election that
would have to be called, would simply
mean that we would go Into the win
ter with no relief program at all.
ASSUMING, for the aake of argu
ment, that no reliance can be
placed upon the aalea tax, how about
other taxes?
The prospect Isn't alluring. The
property tax la already aa high as
people can stand, and delinquencies
are mounting. The Income tax offers
little promise, because of present
lack of Incomes.
Even a tax on liquor, which la
form of sales tax, wouldn't meet the
emergency, because liquor, except
beer, Isn't yet legal, and the money
for relief la needed NOW, not next
year.
II THAT la to be done about It?
W The emergency la a real one.
for while It la hoped that relief needs
will not be aa great thla winter as
laat It seems certain that they will
be large. And the federal govern
ment has announced that It will pro
vide only one-third of the money, In
stead of all of It.
How la the atate's two-thirds share
to be found? s.
Jackson County Committee
Told Funds Lacking for
' Next Few Months Aid
Given in Finding Work
HERE la this writer's Idea of It:
BORROW THE MONEY.
Issue bonds. Instead of levying a
tax. If there la any way In which the
amount of bonds needed can be Issued
without calling an election, do It that
way.
If not, call an election. Bonds
would probably be voted, whereas a
tax would probably be defeated.
COULD the bonda'be sold. If voted?
Possibly not, on the open mar
ket. But the federal government,
through eome of Ita varloua agencies,
ought to be willing to accept bonds
aa the atate'a share of the rellet
money.
At least, an effort should be made
to ffnd out.
THE stt of Oregon, at the present
moment, la broke. But It's pros
pects are good.
If existing Improvement In busi
ness continues. It la probable that In
a few yeare this state will have all
the money It will know what to do
with. If business returns to normal.
much of the existing tax delinquency
will be paid up, for as people get
money with which to pay their taxes
they will not let their property go.
In addition, we have exceedingly
high Income end excise taxes, which
can not be amended or repealed for
at least two yeare more, and aa we
begin to get Incomes again these taxes
will produce a lot of money.
Meanwhile, we are reducing the cost
of government steadily, which will
mean that the money we collect In
taxea will go farther.
ALL THIS, of course, la predicated
on an "If" IP business con
tinues to Improve. But If business
doesn't continue to Improve, If the
The Jackson county relief commit
tee waa advised yesterday by C. W.
Reynolds, field representative of the
Oregon etate relief committee, of the
shortage of federal funds for rellel
nurnosea for Oregon, during the next
few months. The shortage Is due,
according to Mr. Reynolds, to the
lack or resources made available by
the state for the purpose of match
ing federal funds.
"The federal government." explain
ed Mr. Reynolda, "provides funds to
the atatea for the relief of destitution
equal to one-third of the amount ex
pended by a atate out of public
moneys, during the preceding quar
ter. That la, for October, November,
and December, the state of Oregon
will receive approximately $300,000
from the government. Since the cost
of relief la more than that amount
In one month, It follows that It will
be necessary for the state to raise
nearly one million dollars to help
carry the rellet load until January I,
1934.
"Close to five million dollars will
be needed to provide relief to Oregon
citizens during the year 1934; and of
thla amount the federal government
will provide one and a half million
dollars, while the state must raise
three and a half million."
Need Close Restriction
In order to .make the funds In
sight for the next two or three
months go aa far as possible, Mr.
Reynolds suggested that the commit
tee might adopt aa lta motto: "It'a
going to be hard to get on relief thla
winter." Thla attitude, he explained,
waa not that of being so hardbolled
that actual Buffering reaulted, but
only to lnaure that the really worthy
cases received relief.
In view of the situation, the relief
committee passed the following reso
lution: "So drastlo haa been the re
duction in federal funda available to
the counties for relief purposes, that
It haa become necessary to curtail all
relief. For the next few months, re
lief will be extended' only to those
people who are physically unable to
work, or to women with- children,
who cannot find work."
Aid for Finding Work
The Jackson county relief com
mittee haa atated that the en
tire ataff Is at the dlspoaal of those
people now receiving relief who will
come under thla ruling: in order to
help them find work. The staff re
ports that within the last twenty
daya 294 local resident people have
been placed on Joba, and are earning
a livelihood. The committee further
urged all employers of labor to call
at relief headquarters, or to phone
624, whenever men were needed for
Jobs, and their needa would be
promptly taken care of. The relief
office haa listed the kind of work
that can be done by every man whom
the Investigators contacted last win
ter.
Canning Aids Needy
To date, approximately 9000 cans
of beans, No. 2Vj cana, have been
canned at the seventeen canning
kitchens In the county, under the
supervision of Mrs. Mabel Mack,
home demonstration agent, and Mra,
R. E. Green, secretary of the com
mittee. Anyone who has received notice
that they are eligible to participate
In the food conservation and canning
program, and who have tomatoea to
can. la tirged to make an appoint
ment with their local kitchen man
ager, aa tomato canning will start on
September 6th.
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START CHECK-UP
HERE TOMORROW
All Employers Will Be Called
Upon in Effort to Place
Region Solidly Behind
BASEBALL
National.
R. H. E
Chicago 2 11 I
Brooklyn I 10 0
Root and Hartnett; Thurston and
Lopea.
Second game:
Chicago .
Brooklyn ...... .. 7
Bush, Henahaw and Hartnett;
mach, Ryan and Lopea. .
H. E.
7
IS 0
Hel
R H
St. Louis .......... 4 8
New York . 10
TVs, an a rtM rk'Bamll O-Vi iirr r'haar
President Roosevelt s nan and Mancuso.
Here la a recent picture of Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery
administrator, (Associated Press
Photo)
BUY NOW! IS PLEA
TO
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BOSTON, Aug. 30. (AP) In a
short crisp speech, replete with pic
turesque characterizations, General
Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery
administrator, appealed today to a
crowded audience to get back of the
blue eagle campaign.
"Hnv under the blue eagle." aald
Johnaon. "but buy now, buy freely to
the limit of your prudent need."
Thus tersely did Johnson sum up
the plea which la being heard
throughout the country thia week.
Johnson spoke before a mass meet
ing of NRA workera, presided over by
Elliott Wadsworth, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, and a former
assistant secretary of the treasury. He
arrived by airplane from Washing
ton, was met by an escort of nine
planea outside the city and crossed
from the east Boston airport to the
business district by automobile at a
fast clip.
Johnson characterized the pros
perity of 1928 In vlgoroua terms. "God
save us from any more prosperity ot
that pipe dream nature," he cried.
Much of It had depended on our
export trade, selling goods to 'busted
foreign custcmers',' he said, wno
could not or would not pay the In
terest on the debts they already owed
Fifty volunteers, under Colonel O.
O. Alenderfer and Major J. C.
Thompson, assisted by six captains,
will commence early tomorrow morn
ing a drive In the Blue Eagle cam
paign to place Medford and the sur
rounding communttiea of Jackson
county one hundred per cent behind
the president's national recovery act.
These volunteera will call on every
employer of others In Medford and If
they are membera of the NRA. proper
records will be made for reporta to
i-tha national headquarters. Those
who have not signed the agreement
with the president will be urged to
do so.
Give All Opportunity
"Thla work will continue until
every employer ot labor, other than
agricultural Interesta, have had the
opportunity to enlist their support
In this national campaign, the auc
cesa of which must be. never In
doubt." General B. E. Harder aald today.
Local N. R. A. headquartera today
announced plana for an Intensive
campaign to enlist every citizen of
Medford and Jackson county behind
the national recovery program by
signing the consumer's pledge to sup
port only those merchants who have
signed the Blue Eagle code.
Citizens signing the consumer's
pledge cards will be given consumer's
Blue Eagle window stickera, and are
expected to display them In the win
dowa of their homea. A checkup will
be made later by N. R. A. offlclala to
determine how many realdenta have
R. H. E.
Cincinnati 2 6 0
Boston 3 11 1
Batteries. Johnson and Lombard!;
Betta and Spohrer,
T
ioy Killer Suspect
ASF
AT
President Asks NRA Head
for Report On Failure of
Auto Maker to Sign Agree
ment Waits Coal Code
Pittsburg .................. 6
Philadelphia - 1
Batteries: Blrkofer bud
H. E
13 2
4 2
tlrace;
Ragland, Elliott, Llska and Davla.
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WASHINGTON JOINS
24 OTHER STATES
PROM REPEAL
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 30. (IP) The mys
terious outbreak of "-sleeping sick
ness" In tills city and It suburban
districts was a month old today.
On July 30 the first death from
encephalitis, aa the disease Is known
to science, was reported, and since
then the epidemic has resulted In 4fi
fatalities, 320 cases, and the full force
of the governments scientific bat
talions pitted against the devastat
ing malady.
The nation's highest ranking health
official, Surgeon-General Hugh 8.
Cumming. spent a fw hours here
yesterday making a personal observa
tion of the epidemic.
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FOR POLICY HOLDERS
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Pour)
Home Loan Chief
Will Speak Here
H. E. Walter, assistant manager or
the fvleral Home Owners' Lean cor
poration with headquarters In Port
end, wiil be in Medford Friday noon
and speak at the court house audito
rium then. The meeting will be open
to the public and all Interested per
son are asked to attend.
SALEM, Aug. 30. (AP) Policies
totaling about M .000,000 In the Mis
souri State Life Insurance company,
recently taken over by the Insurance
commissioner of that state, are held
by Oreson people. It was announced
here today by A. H. Averill, Oregon
commissioner.
Averill, who Just returned from a
fast trip to St. Louis, said the affairs
of the company probably will be
worked out without any material loss
to policy holders. State Insurance
commissioners considered the affairs
of this company at the meeting last
week.
SEATTLE, Aug. 80. (AP) Repeal
lets were safely past the 24th mile
stone In their drive toward elimina
tion of the prohibition amendment
from the federal constitution today,
with Washington joining the wet
parade by a smashing majority In
Tuesday's election.
Only one legislative district, the
9th, In rural eastern Washington,
was in the dry column on the basis
of available returns. The district will
have only two of the 99 delegates
who will meet October 8 at atate
capital In Olympla to ratify formally
the decision reached by the voters at
the polls yesterday.
The popular vote from 1943 of the
state's 26B2 precincts rolled up a
total of 316,064 wet ballots to 132.359
cast for dry candidates. The state
wide total, however, had no bearing
on the outcome, as delegates were
chosen by legislative districts, a pro
vision which wet leaders bitterly at
tacked during the campaign.
EDWARD C. KELLY
NAMED TO LEGAL
POST IN CAPITAL
Col. E. B. Kelly this afternoon
reeelTed official notice of his ap
pointment aa attorney for the
Home Loan Board, succeeding Ills
son, Attorney E, C. Kelly.
Attorney Edward C. Kelly of thla
city, leavea tonight for Washington,
D. C, where he has received a federal
appointment In the legal department
of the public
worka bureau,
which haa charge
of the distribution
o ( f3.30O.0O0.O0O
appropriated un
der the public
worka employment
act. Mra. Kelly
and children will
remain here.
The Slsklyous
road project, the
Medford aewage
propoaala and
other Oregon pub
llo projects com
ing under the pro
visions of the act,
it is likely Attorney Kelly will be as
signed to the Oregon projects, and
the legal work connected therewith.
The appointment la temporary.
Attorney Kelly waa recently ap
pointed for the federal home loan act
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B. C. Kelly
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RELIEF PROGRAMS
TO COST BILLS
Walter J. Jones, former mayor of
Rogue River, serving a four-year
sentence in state prison for convic
tion of ballot theft, haa filed objec
tions to the cost bills In his trial,
submitted by the district attorney'a
office. The Jonea trial cost approxi
mately anoo.
Jonea' objections are based upon
claims that the cost bill waa not
filed within the five daya required
by law; that no order of the court
waa obtained extending the time,
and that the Items of the cost bill
were not verified. Attorneys Olen R
Jacks of Oregon City and T. J. En
right of this city appear as counsel
for Jones.
Law Breeds Crime Says
Bar Association Leader
OR AND RAPIDS. Mich.. Aug. 30
(jpf Declaring that "candor compels
the admission that America la t
crime breeding and crime protecting
nation," Clarence E. Martin, presi
dent of the American Bar associa
tion, today offered his associates in
that organization suggestions for im
proving conditions.
In the same speech, with which he
topened the annual three-day conven
tion of the association, he saw in the
growing number of laws which over
lap or usurp state functions 'a def
inite, positive plan to destroy the
republic and substitute therefor i
social democracy."
"So rapidly are t'le r'.x'Mn of state'
waning that legal writers axe begin-
PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 80. 7P)
With no definite program or Iron
clad scheme before It, a committee
of 32 will meet here Friday to dis
cover, if it csn, some means of pro
vldlng money for the relief of hun
dreds of unemployed persons In Ore
gon this rail and winter.
The members of the committee.
appointed by Oovernor Meier last
week, are expected, the governor sail,
to approach the question with open
minds. "On what this committee
recommends will depend the calling
of a special session of the leglsla
ture." Oovernor Me?r said.
"It will begin its deliberations with
no set plan, no Iron bound scheme.
I will ofer no st plsn. It will be
handed the problems now confron
Ing the state and will be given
picture of the emergency."
COURTHOUSE, San Jose. Cal., Aug.
30 (fp) A cry of "My pod! Why did
I marry her?" was made by David A.
Lamson, as he sat In the patio of
his Stanford university home shortly
after his wife had been found dead
Deputy Sheriff John Moore testified
at the 31-year-old University Press
executive's murder trial today.
Lamson was sitting in a swing with
his sister. Dr. Margaret Lamson, i
kneeling before htm. Moore testified.
Both were weeping. Suddenly, ne
said, Lamson raised his hands to cry
out.
Dr. Lamson put her erms around
him, he testified, and ssld:
"David, don't say thatl"
The statements were put Into the
record at the close of the first ses
sion of the eighth day of the trial
and followed the declaration of an
other surprise state witness. Frank
T. Taylor, Los Altos writer, that Lam
son had three weeks before his wife's
death last Memorial day, told him
Allene Thorpe Lamson "could not be
happy until there was a complex
separation."
Testimony of both witnesses wis
made as the state sought to build
Its contention thst the pretty T. W.
C. A. secretary was slain because of
msrltal strife in their flower garden
bungalow.
By Francis M. Slrphmwin
HYDE PARK. N. Y.. Aug. 30. (AP)
president Roosevelt has asked Gen
eral Hugh S. Johnson. Industrial ad
ministrator, for a report on the fall
tire of Henry Ford to enroll under
the new working agreement for the
automobile industry.
Mr. Roosevelt wants the latest
news on this before he departs to
morrow for a vacation cruise back to
Washington and there Is Indication
he ia considering action, although the
president Is saying nothing about
that and making no threats.
Ford Still silent
In talking with General Johnson
It was stated no word had been re
ceived at Washington so fsr from the
Michigan auto maker. Inquiries here
about the use of the drastic licensing
power to Impose the N. R. A. working
code on Ford brought the answer
that no detailed consideration has
been given so far to this piece of
authority.
Mr. Roosevelt has relied entirely so
far on the voluntary cooperation of
the people and he haa formerly de
clared this to have succeeded. The
agreement fixing working hours and
wages for the automobile Industry
waa signed by the president late last
week and it has the support of every
other branch of this Industry except
Ford, who Is remaining silent.
To Name Committees
Getting resdy for a few days at sea
on hla return to the capital, the
president expects to announce the
membera of the oil planning and
conservation committee to work with
Secretary Ickes, the oil administra
tor, in governing this industry under
Its working code. Fourteen other
members are to be chosen.
It was ststed today at the summer
White House that there was no sig
nificance in the fact the modification
of the gold embargo followed by Just 1
a day the visit of Montagu Norman,
governor of the Bank of England, and
George L. Harrison, governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Also, It waa said there was no con
nection.. Mr, Roosevelt hopes the order per
mitting sales abroad of new mined
gold will provide employment for
miners. Higher prices are available
in foreign markets.
The president Intends to see the
new deal for industry definitely
established for a Labor Day united
front and he expects to receive be
fore sailing tomorrow the coal code
which he will sign.
BIO BAY, Mich., Aug. 30. (AP)
Henry Ford, on vacation at the Huron
Mountain club, near here, today de
clined to discuss statements made In
Washington by Gen. Hugh 8. John
son, recovery administrator, that
"maybe the American people will
crack down on Ford" if he does not
obtain the blue eagle.
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VILLAGE BANKERS
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Too Bad for Code Signers
.Unless Loans Forthcom
ing to Tide Over Roose
velt Has Power Intervene
Phillip Edwards, 19, San Diego,
Cal., high school graduate waa held
aa a suspect In the brutal murder
af aeven.year.old Oalbert Apoahlap
in San Dleao, Cal.
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. F. & H. CO.
By fiKORf.E DI RNO.
lopinfliled by .Mrl'hire newspaper
Syndicate.
WASHINGTON, Aug. M. Old John
Scrooge, the village banker, la going
to get a lot of urgent calls for loana
In the next few weeka.
If he advances them a lot of Blue
Eagles can try out their wlnga. If he
doesnl It may be Just too bsd for a
number of patriotic code-signers.
Scrooge is going to be asked to ad
vance money for payrolls on 80-day
terms.
The signing of a code meana higher
pay and ahorter hours. Combined,
thla may run production costs up aa
high aa SO per cent In many casea.
The manufacturer muat aend hla
product out at a higher price. In the
normal run of business It takes about
90 daya to settle all around.
Will the bankers finance NRA rec
tories over this period? Quite a tew
business men, having algned the dot
ted line here, are leaving for home
to find out.
The John Cupp Furniture company,
well known Medford firm, haa pur
chased the furniture stock of one of
this city's pioneer concerns, the Med
ford Furniture and Hardware com
pany, according to announcement to
day. Upon completion of the Impor
tant deal thla week, Mr. Cupp'a ataff
Immediately atarted preparing the
large furniture stock of tho M. F. and
H. store for a dlspoaal aale which
will begin In the near future. Thla
entire stock will be sold before the
Cupp Furniture etore, now located
at 316 Eaat Main atreet, la moved to
the M. F. and H. building at siath
and Bartlett etrceta.
The entire second floor and a por
tion of the main floor of the M. F.
and H. building will be occupied by
the John Cupp Furniture etore wnue
the Medford Furniture and Hardware
company, under the aame manage
ment will retain a portion of the
main floor and apeclalira In hard
ware and household ware. Workmen
are already remodeling the building
to house these two concerns. The
furniture department la closed pend
ing the opening of the disposal aale.
John Cupp, proprietor of the Cupp
Furniture atore, haa been active In
Medford business circles for the past
10 yeara and the moving of thla atore
to the M. F. and H. building and the
purchase of the present stock of the
Medford Furniture and Hardware
company marks an expansion in thla
Medford firm. The furniture atock
which will be sold la the regular
merchandise handled by the Medford
Furniture and Hardware company
and reflects the high quality former
ly maintained by that old establish
ed firm. Original price taga will be
retained and reductlone made from
There may be a gamble Involved
and bankers notoriously don't like
gamblers unless they control tho
wheel.
The question which may be rising
In Scrooge's glass eye la whether or
not the ultimate conaumers are going
to buy In aufflcient quantltlea at
higher prices to make his loan aafe.
If he gets an Idea they won't
whether Justified or not he'll prob
ably call for more freezing aalt.
Should NRA devolve Into a bank
ing .lasue with the bankers holding
out like Babe Ruth In early spring,
the administration will push Its new
remedy hard.
It will loan Blue Engleltea govern
ment money in direct competition
with the banka at lowor ratea of In
terest. And once that Jackpot opens
the game la for table atakea.
President Roosevelt haa the power.
Mussolini exercised similar authority
S BEAT OUT
r.lng to see that they will be re
duced to administrative districts."
aald Mr. Martin. Incompetent and
dishonest state and local adminis
tration of the law, he declared, was
one of the contributing factors to
thla situation.
On the subject of crime, the bar
association president deplored the
"burdensome task" Imposed on the
prosecutor by the presumption of the
innocence of the accused, and de
clared that "if safeguarding law
abiding citizen were given the same
attention that has been bestowed
upon safeguard! ng the lawless ele
ment from conviction there
mould be s different aspect in the
rea.m of criminal procedure."
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 80 (AP)
While gentle rains beat over the life
less woods and sprinkled on the hot
ashes left by the most disastrous for
est fires In Oregon within man's
memory, timber cruisers entered tne
blackened area today to count the
tremendous loss from the flames
Thoussnds of acres of forest lands
were devsststed by the thundering,
blunt In a fires which whipped over
northwestern Oregon for two weeks
Lynn F. Cronemiller, stste forecter.
said today the loss might amount to
as much as 43.000.000. Others saia
30.000.000 might cover the damage
Stinson Funeral At
Perl Home Friday
Funeral services for Ralph Roscoe
Stinson, who died Monday, will be
1 held Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock
I from the Perl funeral home. It was
, announced this sfternoon. Interment
I will be In the Phoenix cemetery. A
complete obituary will be announced
later.
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MEETING FRIDAY
Realty Board Meet
C. of C. Thursday
Announcement was made today
that meeting of the Medford Realty
board will be held tomorrow after
noon at the Chamber of Commerce
building. The gathering has been
called for 4 o'clock.
Kingfish Offered $1000
For Daily Appearance as
Freak in Coney Sideshow
BROOKLYN, N. T., Aug. 30. (AP) The Brooklyn Eagle aaya today It
haa learned from an authoritative aource that the man who smacked Huey
lfnn at a Long Island party Saturday night Is Chief of Police Steve Webber
of Port Washington, a former boxertand army drill serge. nt.
asked about
DR. VINALSPEAK
Dr. William O. Vlnal, naturalist,
member of the Western Reserve uni
versity faculty at Cleveland, Ohio,
spoke at the regular Rotary club
meeting Tuesday noon. Dr. Vlnal,
who la with the Crater Lake national
park at the present time aa park
naturalist, spoke of the park aervlce
In various localltiea, dealing mainly
with the necessity of educating the
general public to appreciate and pre
serve the beauties of the out-of-
doors.
In his speech, Dr. Vlnal told the
Rotarlana that It takea 75 yeara to
grow a tree, but only 7S minutes to
burn one. He also spoke of the CCG
work.
Harold Relchsteln. vice president
of the club presided In the absence
of O. J. Semon.
Dr. Dwlght H. Flndley, a recent ad
dition to Medford'a medical circle.
waa a guest, and Bruce Flndley of
Seattle, a visiting Rotarlan.
Chief Webber, when
the matter, smiled and denied he had
atruek Long.
Chief Webber, a man ot more than
200 pounds, who standa six feet one
The first fsll meeting of the Ama
teur Radio club of aouthern Oregon I
will be held In the city hall Septem
ber t, at 7:80 p. m. A very inter
eating program la In atore for the
large attendance expected.
Lee Bishop, manager of KM ED, will
give some Interesting details of com
mercial broadcasting, while Oeorge
Johnson of the alrwaya station KtX
will give an Instructive technical
talk. Harold DeVoe and Vic Milnea
have arranged a demonstration of
ultra-ahortwave communication which
ahould prove Interesting.
There are four active amateur
transmitting statoina In Medford at
present and the cjub hopes to double
that number by winter, cryavai eon.
trol of all stations la another aim
of the amateur club.
Between ten nd 14 bll Ion feet ot All amateure in souvnern t.:M"
yellow fir tlmbrr wti destroyed as the and all interested In amateur radio
flames ravaged the glan$ trees. 1 are coraisuf invivea.
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fi I HI, 'tie .afcamasaeaaaasaaeaaasal
musv LONG iTLiainiu
in his stocking feet, ha n K.'l ;rpu
tstion ua a skilled boxrr i.nrt tr .l-icr
of amateur boxers.
The Band Point club, la the out
skirts of Port Wsshlngton, where the
senator was knocked down by a man
whose Identity the Louisiana King-
fish did not learn, la within the po
lice district, under command of Chief
Webber.
Since the fight, concerning which
the utmost secrecy was mslntalned by
membera of the club and gueata at
the charity function, to whlrh Sena
tor Long waa Invited, there haa been
continual speculation as to the Iden
tity of the msn who lsld the aouthern
nator low.
Chief Webber waa said to have
shown little surprise when he waa told
the spotlight of curiosity had swung
upon him, but he Insisted that hla
denial be used If a story waa carried.
He grinned aa he made thla atlpula-tlon.
In Milwaukee, where Senator Long
had gone before news ot the fracaa
leaked out, Long Issued a statement
In which he aald that he had been
"ganaed" in the club washroom by
about four men, one of whom wielded
a knife "or something sharp."
The versiin gradually leaking out
from club membera and guests, how
ever, waa that long had offended a
man In the washroom and that that
man, without any aid, had knocked
the senator down. One club member
said he saw Long ruah from the wash
room with both hande-over his face
and with blood streaming down hla
shirt front. Friends placed him In
jonUnued on fag V"l
WlLb
ROGER.S
"at nvC
'Says:
SANTA MONICA, Cal., Aug.
29. I believe that Mr. Moley,
chief of the "brain trusters,"
getting out is about tho start
ing of the end of college pro
fexsors in government. A pro
fessor gets all of his out of a
book but the politician, as bad .
as he is, does have an under
standing of human nature and
the mob. So we just as well
become reconciled to the fact
that the old politician is with
us "even unto death."
Theories are great. They
sound great, but the minute
you are asked to prove one in
actual life the thing blows up.
So, professors, back to the
classroom; idealists, back to
the drawing room: Commun
ists, back to the soap box (and
use some of it.) But old Con
gressman "Hokum" and old
Senator "Hooey" are still the
Mussolinig of our country.
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