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) Monday Last Opportunity to Subscribe at Bargain Day Rates! Monday Last Day or annual Mall Tribune Bargain l)ak. Don't Tempecature I 1 1 1 in . II II n II II irV II II I II II II II II irV II llk. n I Ik I iri . mtsa tilth opportunlty Hlfneit jeMeraay Lonett yesterday ta SAVE MONEY by ubscrlblnj NOW! Twenty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1933. No. 152. nn Hi in mm be : Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. HERE Is a. headline: "United Statea Influence In Cuba Assailed. San Martin Govern ment Saya Island Must Set Up Own Rule." LOUISIANA sugar cane growers and Western sugar beet growers will second that motion heartily, adding the advice that we put a high tarltt 'on Cuban sugar, so that our OWN PRODUCERS In our OWN COUNTRY may get all the sugar benefits to be had. US. Influence In Cuba hae been of Immense assistance to Cu bans, and of LITTLE benefit to our own people. U.6. Influence In the Philippines haa been of Immense value to the general run of Filipinos and of little benefit to us. Isn't tt about time for ua to quit playing Santa Claus to other peoples and start minding our own busi ness? RESPONSIBLE bond buyers are Ix bidding 93 for bonds of the Home Owners Loan corporation. That Is to say, they are offering to pay 92 cents on the dollar for these bonds, which are not a direct obli gation of the U. S. government, which merely guarantees the Interest for a period of about 15 years. That la an Important Item of news. w HY Is it important? This is the reason: If the new home owners loan bill, which Is intended to provide relief r for home owners threatened with the loss of their home's, is to work, hold era of the mortgages must be In duced to accept these bonds IN EX CHANGE for the mortgages. With the bonds saleable at 92 cents on the dollar, it will be much easier to get these exchanges made than if the bonds could be disposed of at only about 80 cents on the dollar, which was originally antici pated. A FLUSTERED citizen made this remark the other day: "I'm not worrying much about the NRA or the AGA or the RFC or the CCC, or any other of the rest of these government three-letter combinations we're hearing and reading so much about. It's the good, old-fashioned NSF that's bothering me." GOVERNOR Meter's special relief committee, casting about for ways of raising the money with which to meet relief needs this win ter, considers the placing of a state tax of a dollar a barrel on beer and 40 cents a gallon on wine, with sale of permits to places that sell beer and wine. In this way, it hones, some two and a half million might be raised. rEER and wine are now legal. L Nothing la said as yet about hard liquor, which ISNT yet legal. But when It IS legal, the eyes of the tax collectors will be turned upon It D OQ and horse racing are now legal in Oregon, together with betting on the same. The present tax Is two and a hall per cent of receipts. Increasing this to TEN per cent is considered. TAXINO the VICES Is I people for their i ancient device, highly thought of by the tsx col lectors almost since the time when tsxes we: first Invented. Why? Here Is the reason: Because peo ple will py for their vices with less complaint tMn they pay for their necessities. AN ancient principle of taxation, yoi know. Is to get the most feathers from the goose with the least amount of squawklr.g. Mrlke at M Grande LA GRANDE. Ore.. Sept- 16 F.mp'.oyee of the Grande Ronde Meat company went on strike here today In the first serious labor dispute wit ne.d here in year. Employees claim that their employ er, F. A. Epllng. prom led e them at the time of a 30 per cent reduction In wazes lait fall, that if he continue in busings ?he full wage would be rt'n.-rri m the pr:n.x and that no suii acuon too piact. VON DER HELLEN L Highway , Board Indicates i Decision Monday Against Portland Piea For Larger Share Protestors Warn. PORTLAND, .Sept. 16. (VP) Al though indicating there would be no reallocation of federal funds for row work, the Oregon state highway com mission today withheld it verdict until early next week on the demand of Portland and Multnomah county for additional project money for re lief work. Carl Washburne, Eugene member of tie commission, was ab sent at the meeting and a conference will be held on the Issue when he re turn from a vacation trip. Twenty-eigHt upstate counties and a half dozen highway associations. represented by more than a hundred men, appeared before the commis sion in protest to Portland and Mult nomah county g demand for more money. The Portland delegation de manded 60 per cent of the money set aside for work within cities and the fund for feeder roads. This demand, would result in re-al-loc&tlon of more than 1.000.000 fed eral money to be taken from other propects, it was stated by Leslie M. Scott, chairman of the commission. The Portland demand stipulated $1, 800.000 of the $6,100,000 federal mon ey he said, which originally was bas ed upon area and post road miles. rather than population. Portland now has been allocated more than $600, 000 on this basis, he said. The decision of the commission, un derstood In view of previous state ments by Chairman Scott and the attitude today while hearing argu ments on the matter for about two hours, would be against the Portland group, resulting In no change In the allocation of more than 150 projec'.s already listed by the commission and sent to the bureau of public works for approval. Few Jobs Ordered While upstate county Judges and commissioners were organizing the campaign against the Portland dele gatton and in support of the com mission's allocation, the board offi cials opened bids on ten projects and awarded Jobs on nine to the amount of $554,537. Equal or more amounts will be awarded every three" weeks from now until January. It was inti mated. The nexi meeting, at which about three-quarters million dollars worth of work will be let, was set for October 4. The largest contract awarded was for grading of 1 51 mile of the Neil Creek-Barron Creek section of the Pa cific highway In Jackson county. It went to Von der Hellen Ac Pierson of Medford with a low bid of $177,313. Two other large contracts went to Myers & Goulter. Seattle, $86,062 for grading 425 miles on the Middle Fork-Forest boundary section of the Pendleton -John Day highway, and to Morrison -Knudsen of Boise. Idaho, for eight miles grading on the White Rock-Lakevtew section of Fremont highway. These Jobs are in Grant and Lake counties respectively. Lively .tilts between Multnomah county and upstate delegations re sulted when Chairman Scott opened discussion on the matter of alloca tion of funds. Both sides were pre pared for battle, but the contest was (Continued on Page Six) E TO STEAL BREWER DENVER. Colo.. Sept. 16 (AP) With one man already In Jail here. Denver police aald they expected hourly the arrest of three others in volved in an alleged plot to kidnaj Adolph Coors Jr., wealthy Denver and Golden, Colo., brewer and club man. Chief of Police Albert T. Clark paid Robert Lane, former Denver dry scent, is a prisoner in the county Jsll In connection with the abduc tion scheme, of which the Intended vtrilm had been aware for a month. Clark said one of the three ethers being sought la Clyde Culberfson. former Investigator In the federal prohibition bureau here. Denver offlrera uncovered the plot. Clark said, while they were trailing members of an auto theft ring opr- ating here and In Kansr.. Competition Now Thmttled LOS ANOELES. Sept. 16 (AP) The official title of -Grand Ltar-ln-Chlef" of the International Sour douch association, Alaska gold rush miners, was bestowed on S. 8. Skiff Mit-.-hcit of West wood, near here, af ter a 'prevarication luncheon." DEWEY DISTRICT STILL SHY $100 ON SCHOOL TAX Medford Board Declines To Permit Attendance Until Full Amount Paid On Over-Due Tuition Fees. School days are here again. But not for grade pupils in Dewey district. No. 30, according to the last report on tax delinquencies, coming from the county school superintendent's of fice last night. One orchard concern Friday paid $633.99 for Its 1930-1931 school taxes. Thirty children are con ceerned. The fall term will open in Medford tomorrow, where the children of Dew ey district have pursued their studies for a number of years, but until $100, stiU due in over-due tuition charges, la paid, the pupils will not be accepted by the Medford system With payment of one years delin quency in school tax, which amounts to U216, and Interest, the Medford district will accept the Dewey pupplls, it was announced several weeks ago. Up to last night all that sum. with the exception of 9100 had been rais ed through the Intensive campaign waged by the Dewey school board. But until the $100 is paid Medford will not accept the school-goers. The tuition has not been paid the Medford district for more than one year and a half. Payment of one year's tuition, however, will reinstate the Dewey pupils. No compromise, other than that, however, will be made, Superintendent E. H. Hedrittk stated for the Medford system yesterday, adding that the grade pupila will not1 be accepted until the warrant, is paid and a new contract signed. - While some educators stated that It was possible 'that the district would raise the necessary $100 Monday, the! school board of Dewey district. ex- pressed doubt, stating that many of i those, who have not paid their taxes, have no children and fall to realize the seriousness of the situation. Oth-1 era are out of the county and cannot be contacted in time to remedy mat ters. The bus, running from the Dewey tq the Medford district, will either appear in Medford empty Monday morning, or return with the ssme oc cupsnts it brings In, for the children will not be granted entrance at Med fords school doors. The bus driver la under contract to run the bus for another two years, so will be com pelled to make the trip. ALFREETWEEKS is CALLEDBY DEATH Alfred Weeks, member of a well known pioneer family, died late last night following a two weeks' illness at his home on North Central ave nue. A resident of southern Oregon for many years, Mr. Weeks was promin ent In business and lodge circles. He was half owner of the Del Rio orch ards, a member of the Flks lodge, and had gone far In Masonry. He was a brother of the late Fred Weeks and had numerous other relatives In the valley. Funeral arrangements will be in charge of the Conger psrlora and a complete obituary will be published Monday. 4 GOLD BEACH. Ore.. Sept. 18. OP) The next time Phil Adams hooks a trout he's going to pull in his line immediately. Returning here from a fishing trip. Admtold of hooking a small trout and then letting It play on his hook while taking a kink out of his line. Suddenly a terrific Jerk on the line told Adams he had a new bite. Bracing himself, the fisherman at tempted to play his new catch but the leader broke and out of the water leaped a full-grown otter. As Adams stood astonished, the ot ter swam to shore and disappeared in the brush , Adams said. 4 WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. (API Report that a mob was threatening an American ice fartory and Spanish shoe plant at Manrsnlllo. on the southeastern coast of Cuba, were re- I celved today at the state department. SALEM, Sept. 16. yp) A hearing of the rates, practices and operation of McCracken'a Fast Freight line be tween Portland and Tillamook will be hld here Sept. 26, public utilities commiaaiouer announced today. GUILTY IS VERDICT WITHOUT IN Defendant, Charged With Wife Murder, Unmoved At Fate As Sisters Weep Sentence On Tuesday. COURT HOUSE, SAN JOSE, Sept. 16. (p) David A Lamaon was con victed of wife murder and condemned to the gallows by the swift decision of a jury here tonight. Without the twitch of a muscle, the young Stanford university pub lishing house executive received the verdict. There was dead silence for a few seconds and then a scream from a woman which startled the court as spectators rose In their seats. But Lamson, pale and quiet, stared at a spot on the Judge's bench. Only when the verdict was formal ly read after being entered in the record did the convicted man move. Then he gripped his leg with his hand. Deputy District Attorney Allan P. Lindssy, who only a few hours be fore had delivered the final argument. caustically denouncing Lamson as a man craftily plotting to do away with his wife and bring Mrs. Sara Kelley, Sacramento divorcee to his office on the Stanford campus, ex pressed satisfaction with the verdict "We think the verdict represents justice." said Lindsay, "and we are satisfied." Judge Syer set next Tuesday for pronouncement of sentence as the brief court session adjourned. Lamson walked steadily from, the court room, flanked by his attorneys. Dr. Lamson and Mrs. Tholts, who had attended every court session of the four weeks trial, covered their faces with magazines to hide the tears that streamed down heir faces as they left the court room behind the defendant who was escorted by six deputy sheriffs. A court room scarcely full of spec tators was on hand when the verdict came. Word that tine Jury had reached Its decision preceded the report in court by about 40 minutes, Judge Syer having been away from the building at the time, The Jury received the case at 11:31 a m. today, an early court session having been held in order to get the trial into its final phase before the beginning of the legal week-end which started at noon. Retiring at 11:25 a. m the seven men and five women deliberated about a half hour, recessed an hour and a half for lunch and then con tinued their work until Just before the dinner hour, when they recessed for the evening meat. There was then no indication a verdict was near, the only sign of progress having been when they sent out at mid-afternoon for the exhibits in the case. There was a two-hour recess for dinner. Thirty minutes arter return ing from that meal, the Jury sent word It had reached the verdict. In about five minutes It had Judged the case which had been on trial here since August 21. The only move from the defense was a request that the Jury be polled. One by one the men and women In the box answered confirming the report read by the clerk. Family Rile nt LAMAR. Mo., Sept. 16. (AP) Membera of the F. M. Thorps fam lly here tonight had little t-o say when Informed that David Lamson, widower of their daughter. Mrs. Al lene Thorpe Lamson, had been con vlcted and sentenced to death for the murder of the former Lamar girl, Mr. R. Thorpe la a prominent aouth west Missouri business man. "Oh. I Just couldn't make any statement now." cried Mrs. Thorpe tonight when Informed of the ver dict. "You know how we feel about it but I Just couldn't say anything more now." 4 L PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 16 Wf The second session of the hearing on the disposal of the Pacific northwest's wheat surplus got underway here to night after two postponement had been ordered by members of the ag ricultural adjustment administra tion board, who are conducting the hearing. Delay was catised by a conference between representative of miller, ex porter, grower and hipper and the delegation here from Washington, D C, which was being hew in an at tmpt to provide lor expediting ef the Hearing. NORTHWEST CROP Doomed to Hi: ' " fr ; - I av " m .gsw'.i,".i."ft'inwj it Cfiif David A. Lamson, Stanford University figure, convicted of the mur der of his wife Allene. The Jury decided upon the death penalty. TO HAPPY T BOISE, Idaho. Sept. 16. P Sen ator William E. Borah declared him self today "thoroughly in sympathy" with a proposal of Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma for Inflation of the currency. His statement on the inflation question came only a few minutes af ter he had given his attention to the Cuban situation In an interview, dur ing which he aaid he could not "Im agine a condition under which I would consent to Intervention" by the United States in the Island na tion's affairs. Arriving from north Idaho where he spent several days on his way from Washington, the senator declared he felt very well and was much improv ed since his recent operation. He plana to take no part In the present prohibition campaign In Ida ho, declaring "it la already too late, a the reeal election la Tuesday." He plana to spend much of the next two months visiting about the state, com menting "that's the best way to re cuperate," Without discussing developments with Cuba, the senator seld he "agreed with the administration pol icy, aa I understand it," against in tervention. "In fact," he said. "I would aban don that part of the Piatt amend ment permitting Intervention." and went on to add that the amendment was devised "when this country waa disposed to Interfere largely In other nation' business." His comment on the current situa tion came In reply to a telegram from Senator Thomas, an advocate of in flation. Borah did not make public the text of Thomas' telegrsm. ex plaining however, that It advocated Inflation. Replying to It, he aald: "I am thoroughly In sympathy with the views covered by your telegram. I am unable to devise any other meth od by which to Increase commodity price and to assist the farmers and produrers. The Heather (Sunday and Monday) Oregon: Generally cloudy Sunday and Monday: probably rain In west portion: moderate temperature; mod erate southerly winds offshore. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Care Circulation Department Medford, Oregon Please accept my check or payment of my subscription year. I am -an old subscriber. the Noose PUBLIC JOB COIN DELAYS LAID TO STATES, POLITICS WASHINGTON. Sept. 16. (yp) In biting language and closely clipped, sentences. Secretary Ickes asserted to-; day neither red tape nor bureaucracy waa Involved In the distribution of public works money. Unvarnished language marked his statement to newspapermen in a press conference In reply to what he called "political sharp shooting," and "snip ing" reports that his public works administration was responsible for the slowness with which some of the Job-giving money, already allotted, was being put to work. "The major delays now are caused by political sniping and by the in ability of local agenclea to put to work the money we have already al lotted. "I had a letter from a governor raising hell about red taps and de lay. And that In that same letter he stated that all contracts had to go back to review for a local committee under a state law. "The bureaucracy charged i not found here but la spread out through other agencies over which I have no control. "There Is a lot of polltloal whlti banging and sharp-shooting. There are a lot of persona trying to make a record for assiduity. They want to be In a position, in case the program falls, to say 'I told you so.' It is ab surd. There Is no red tape connected with this office. "A for charges that there la slow ness at the White House, I csn say the president is pushing just as hard a he can. I go over to the president with a list of project and he ap proves them In 15 minutes. Some times he approves them before they are officially presented. BASEBALL Night Raaeball PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 16. (AP) Night game, 10 Innings. R. H. Oakland 8 11 2 Portland - 7 9 3 McEvoy and Veltman; Koupal and Palmlsano. money order of $ in to the Mail Tribune for one Yes No . (Name) (Ad'-css) BULLETIN State police were summoned from this city and Ashland at midnight to Barron on this side of the Sis kiyou to Investigate a reported auto wreck. No details could be learned. Another auto amashup was reported on the other aide of the mountain, earlier in the evening. Names of participants were not reported here. HATE FOR AMERICA AS REGIE EBBS Island Business Closed As Protest Against Acts Of Workers Ask Abdication Of President San Martin. HAVANA, Sept. 16. (A) While thousand marched In Havana's street late today shouting against tine United State government and It ambassador. Sumner Welle, the sec retary of war and interior In the Orau San Martin cabinet accused American business Interest here of seeking the new government' overthrow. The secretary, Antonio Quitera. charged American and foreign busi ness interest "are reducing .wages, turning workmen loose and provok ing them to atrlkes," In a state ment urging the "working masses' 'o back the new administration, "Workmen induced by American enterprise . are unwisely lending themselves to the overthrow of the government," Gulteraa' statement said. Representatives of Cuba' moat Im portant business interest met in an other quarter of the city and agreed in a late session to close their door for 34 hours Tuesday as a protest against "acta of violence by the work ing classes." They called upon the president to give way to "a government of con centration of all the revolutionary sectors," and declared themselves op posed to Intervention. They condemned, however, the "propaganda of enmity toward the government of the United States which now goes beyond that and is Interpreted s an attack on the Amer ican people." Meantime shouts of "down with Yankee Imperialism," were resounding at Havana's Malecon aa 8.000 Cubana paraded In trlbuto to Mexlco'a recog nition of the Orau San Martin re gime. Meanwhile many Americana In Cu ba took added precaution tonight in face of continued unsettled conditions aa the government of President Grau San Martin finished it first full week, harassed by labor conditions and demand for It abdication. . Speculation waa rife aa to the new regime's stability or the lack of it. E BOSTON, Sept. 16. (AP) Railroad roadbed and highway were washed out, communttle and home were Inundated, a flood-threatened dam waa dynamited and telephone serv ice injured today as an easterly storm swept central New England, deluging large' areas with five Inches of rainfall. Rain was still falling a the weather bureau sent out warning of a new storm, north of Boston to Eastport. Maine. The Atlantic coaat storm which ha ravaged regions to the southward waa expected to make Itself felt along the New England coast during Sundsy. NORFOLK, V., Sept. 18. (APJ Bwlrllng north along the Atlantic shore, a hurricane lashed e aboard with the fury of death and devasta tion tonight. Four Uvea were lost two men drowned on the Carolina coast, one man died seeking to escape the flood that swept Into mine working near Wllkestrarre, Pa, and another drown ed In a swollen creek In Pennsyl vania. Five men were trapped In a coal pit at Wllkesbarre by the ushing water. After circling around Norfolk, striking hardest to the north and aouth, the hurricane swerved out to sea. The weather bureau In Wash ington ordered warning along New ) England coast. SPECIAL REPORT T Chancellor Kerr Declines To State Whyfore Of New Audit Social Science Dean Gets New Office. EUGENE, Ore., Sept. 16. (fF) Chancellor W. J. Kerr said tonight that he expected the business offloa at the state college to complete it answer to the second or Kubln report on the special audit of the building superintendent by Monday evening. This statement," aald Dr. Kerr, "will be sent at once to the secretary of state. Mr. Hoss and it will be for him to decide what to do with it." Dr. Kerr said he had been In Cor vallla today to attend the Horner fu neral but had found only a few min ute to look in at the business of fice to inquire about progress on the audit investigation. The. chancellor declined to state, who la in charge of the new investi gation at Cor vail is but it 1 presumed to be Executive Secretary Jensen who directed much of the work on the March reply to the original audit completed in February. In the latest document by Chief Auditor Otto Rubin charge of Irreg ularities are amplified and Kubln de nies any coercion or Improper tactic In getting affidavit attached to the original audit. Extensive shifts in the office of university professor were under way Saturday. Dr. James H. Gilbert, dean of social sciences on all campuses i to be moved out of the quarter In Johnson hall adjoining the presi dent's office which he ha had for many year. He 1 assigned to remod eled quarters In Friendly hall with other professor in social science. In Johnson hall the chancellor la gathering about him the members of hi Immediate official family. C. D. Byrne, chief publicity man and act ing secretary of the state board 1 re ported due to get Dean Gilbert 'a old quarters. 2 VOTTTUESDAY (By the Associated Prrss) Two more states New Mexico and Idaho vot Tuesday on ratification or repeal of the 16th amendment, bringing to 31 the total of state to act. Repeal lata in both state predicted the parade for repeal would not bo Interrupted. Dry, however, insisted the two state would vote to retain prohibition. Postmaster General James A. Far ley, the democratic national chair man, telegraphed the governor of New Mexico and Idaho urging that every possible effort be exerted to elect wet delegates. Will ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Cat, Sept. 15. Say, they are having a time out hero in California in the courts over something I bet a lot of you didn't know any thing about. They drill an oil well down straight for quite a little ways, then they got a "gadget" that turns it off to one side and they head it out towards where they know some oil is. Mr. Roosevelt owns what's in the ocean but these old boys are diving down, turn ing to the left and robbing the poor Democrats. It's a great thing for these states that have no oil. All you do is drill a few "cockeyed'' wells near the line and go over and yet it from "Ma" Fergu son or "Alfalfa Bill" Murray. By the way, where do yon get one of those tools t V atNvl trnalmt, to. Si
