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Newspaper Page TextTribune Office Open Until 9 Tonight for Bargain Subscribers The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight ind Tun day. Not much chance In tempera ture. Highest yesterday 11 Lowest this morning St AIL TMBinS EDFORD Last Opportunity- tonight to enter your subscription at low Bargain Bate , , , See Advertisement on Page Two. Twenty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1933. No. 153. Ml UJU M M 6) : 1 Comment on the Diy's Ne ws By FRANK JENKINS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, we read, believes that a nation-wide pro gram of credit expansion U a necea aary move toward business recovery. ' That la to aay, he bellevea that be fore business" can expand anywhere near aa much aa we want It to busi ness men will have to be able to bor xow the money with which to finance the expansion. There won't be much disagreement as to that. ' HERE are two questions: J. Why Is credit tight? 2. When will credit loosen up? HERE are answers to these ques tions; agree with them or not. aa you choose: Credit la tight because those who have money to lend are afraid that those who want to borrow won't be able to PAT BACK. Credit will loosen up when those who have money to lend become rea sonably convinced that those who want to borrow WILL BE ABLE to pay bark. GOVERNMENT can do a lot of things, but It CAN'T Induce len ders to lend until they are reasonably convinced that borrowers will be able to pay back. We might as well face that fact. 44 SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON has been Invited to bolt the Republi can party and run for re-clectlon aa a Democrat. " That raises this question: If Senator Johnson should change hli label from Republican to Demo crat MERELY IN ORDER TO BE ELECTED, Just how much would It Increase the confidence of the voters In him? 44 OSCAR LAWLER. one of Califor nia's outstanding lawyers, tells Will Rogers that NRA la' merely a code of fair ethics for the guidance of people doing business with each ether. He adds that It la rather a reflec tion upon us that we have to be FORCED by government control and patriotic persuasion to do what Is right. ' TRUE enough. ' But what la the LAW? Isnt It merely a code of fair ethics for the guidance of people In getting along with each other? The law has to have FORCE back of It. Otherwise, it won't work. Humanity Isn't yet what It OUGHT to be. 4 IF EVERT person In the world would guide himself rigidly by the GOLDEN RULE, there would be no need for law, or courts, or police or for NBA. 44 PRODUCTION of gold from all sources In Canada during 1932 amounted to 3,051.676 ounces, valued at 163.083,740. This compares with 2.693.892 ounces worth 5S.687.688 In 1931. Canada Is responding vigorously to the world demand for more gold with which to carry on the world's busi ness. 44 IT IS Interesting to note that of Canada's total production of 8.051,676 ounces of gold in 1932, 2.287,394 ounces came from the old settled province as age goes In Can ada of Ontario. Gold la where one finds it not necessarily from the wild and waste places. 4 4 SPEAKING of gold. Oregon pro AtrmA 10BS1 mini. In 10.12. which compares with 15.350 ounces in 1931. Oregon, too, is doing her ahare in meeting the world's need for more gold. Her rate of Increase In 1932, aa compared with 1931, was about the same as Canada's. - IT IS especially interesting to note that In 1932 our own Jackson county, right here in southern Ore gon, was the heaviest producer of gold in the state, with a total of 1137 ounces 36 per cent of the state's entire production. WILL BE SOUGH! FINANCE PROJECT Would Make Cheap Power Available for Other Cities in District From Huge Plant On McKenzie River EUGENE, .Sept. 18. (P) The Eu gene water board operating this city's municipally owned power plants, is the sponsor for a project to build ft huge new plant and dam on the upper McKenzie river. The Mountain States Power company now operate In this district, comprising 32 cities, and sponsors of the publicly owned proj ect have discussed the plan of taking over that utility. Flan Big Plant. The plan takes the form of an ap plication to the federal public works administration to have it build a $12,000,000 plant at the Eugene board's so-called Rennie dam site, below Blue river. The plant would be built by a federal corporation to be known as the Rennie authority. The Eugene board would then lease the plant from the government and sell power wholesale throughout he territory to Albany, Corvallls. Cot tage Grove, Roseburg and all towns within reach. It la proposed to build necessary transmission lines If Moun tain States will not sell at a reason able price. Could Sell Power Cheap The clalrii is made that the Eugene board could wholesale ita power as cheaply aa iyA cents a KWH and that this would enable localities to retail at a price comparable to the present average 2.06 per KWH in Eugene now. The present average retail prtce of Mountain States in this ter ritory Is given aa 3.38. The proposed Kennie plant would have an, ultimate capacity of 81,000 horsepower to be built In three units. Would lilve Jobs. Claim is made that an average of 1500 could be kept employed for three years on the project and that work could start now. The board has had surveys underway at the site for some time and elaborate engineering data and diagrams are appended. The Eugene Realty board has ben active In promoting the idea. The claim Is made that many of the com munities affected have petitioned Eu gene to get Into the field. Engineer and general manager of the Eugene system Is J. W. McArthur, a close adviser of Governor Meier on power matters. California Oregon Power company officials here stated they were un aware of the above plans, ar.d had no ttatement -to make upon It. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., .Sept. 18. iF In a courtroom filled with arm ed guards, the first panel of 12 Jur ors was called today to be examined for service in the kidnap trial jf Harvey Bailey and II others accused of participation in the abduction of Charlea P. Urschel, Oklahoma City oil millionaire. The chief defendants. Bailey. Al bert Bates, R. a. Shannon, his wife and his son. Armon, were kept under heavy guard in an Iron barred "bull pen" on the floor below the federal tower courtroom until the Jurors fill ed the box and the methodical pro pounding of routine questions began. WASHINGTON, .Sept. 18. (&) President Roosevelt signed the long sought code for the bituminous coal industry late today. JEAN HARLOW WEDS NO. 3 IN AIRPLANE ELOPEMENT HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 18. (AP) Jean Harlow, original "platinum blonde' of the screen, eloped by air plane to Yuma, Ariz., early today and married her third husband. Harold G. Rosson, 38-year-old movie p h o t o g r apher. brother of .lark Rosson. director. They snatched a bite of breakfast and flew back here, arriving at United Airport, Bur bunk, at 6:59 a. m. The rrrcmony . ; jEn MAt.L0v r.8 performed by At ZieemsU, Yumt "ounyu i CLOUDBURSTS BRING FLOOD, TRAGEDY TO COLORADO I sm tx win . 5 rGk,' VXZT fi0r!li4fW i taV5 Si vrT",&tCii'-i. . 1 . "-4T5. SfcU Above is a mountain road scene typical of the devastation spread by a 20-foot wall of water which swept down 18-mile long Bear Creek canyon, near Denver, after sudden cloudbursts. Three bodies 'vera recovered from the debris and at least two othera were believed to have been drowned. (Asso rted Press Photo) DEWEY CHILDREN'S The 30 school children of Dewey District, No. 29, who were barred from Medford schools today because of overdue tuition payments, which the .district failed to meet, will be going to school again tomorrow, It waa revealed late this afternoon, when tax money was turned Into the county treasury. Dolph Phipps of the Dewey school board was conferring with Superin tendent E. H. Hedrlck of the Medford schools when the Mall Tribune went to press, and It was understood that the tax money would be turned over to Medford aa a tuition payment. In that case a new contract will be en tered into by the two districts and school bells will ring again for the grade children of the Dewey commu nity. Last Saturday the district was 9100 short of Its goal and It was under stood this afternoon that -the money had been raised. The school bus, the driver of -which waa under a two year contract to continue operation, arrived from Dewey this morning, but without any grade children. A few pupils appeared as Individuals and were registered by teachers, who were not aware of the. situation. Their continuance In the system to morrow, however, waa dependent payment of the shortage turned In this afternoon. ROAD PLEA LATER SALEM. Sept. 18. rTT) The Oregon state highway commission's answer io the demand of Portland for an addi tional $1,000,000 federal funds allotted to the state for allocation in Mult nomah county, will be issued from here either late today or tomorrow. Chairman Leslie M. Scott, chairman of the commission, Announced tod a v. Scott waa here in conference with highway dpeartment engineers," and said he would prepare an informative statement to accompany the decision to the com m 1m ion. Carl Washburne, Eugene member of the commission, expected back from a vacation trip, will likewise be consulted. While the commission did not an nounce Its stand, those closely 'n touch with highway matters predict ed a negative reply. Justice" of the peace, who has mar ried many Hollywood film couples. "We hsd been friends for nearly two years," said Miss Harlow as ahe stepped from the plane at Burbank. "and several months ago our friend ship became love." Modlshly attired In fur-trimmed black velvet, she seemed fresh as a daisy, despite the hurried trip in the dead of the night. Rom on hsd nothing to My at the airport and his bride had to persuade him to pose with her for photographs. "We decided laat night," said Miss Harlow, "that we win ted to get mar ried right away. Because I am work ing on a picture, we decided on rw.it airplane elopement to Yuma I ami bat if" EN1 The circuit court term, scheduled to open today, has been delayed until next Monday, September 25, due to i Circuit Judge H. D. Norton being de tained longer than anticipated with cases in Josephine county. The Jury list for the coming term will be drawn from the 20 names re maining on the old panel, exhausted during the ballot theft trials. If fur ther veniremen are required they will be drawn by the sheriff from the tax rolls of the county In the manner prescribed by law. Most of the origi nal Jury list wan exhausted by reason of disqualifications, which Included death, physical defects, removal from the county or other legal reasons. Civil actions are listed as first to be called. There are 35 cases of this nature. Many are minor actions. I which can be heard without calling a jury. Some art? equity cases and will be heard without a Jury. It Is the plan of the court to call criminal matters whn opportunity offers. Criminal caws on the docket In clude Mrs. Henrietta B. Martin, presi dent of ihf, self-styled "Good Govern ment Congress," Indicted for "riotous conduct," and her father, C. H. Brown, Indicted for "slandering a bank." Other cases on the criminal calen dar Include Fred Wolf, Blrdseve creek rancher, Indicted for manslaughter, Mervyn (Sonny) Gleason, Central Point Indicted for assault and bat tery; Clarence Day and Thomas King. Indicted for larceny of livestock; Thomas Price and W. L. Ray, Indicted for violation of tha mining engineer code, and Joe Cave, city policeman, indicted for Involuntary manslaughter. GIRL SCOUT COMMITTEE MEETING ON TUESDAY Girl Scout community committee will meet at 10:30 a. m., Tuesday, at the Girl Scout headquarters. 500 East Mam street, it was announced today. Last Chance for Bargain Rates Nine o'clock tonight ii the zero hour for the Mail Tribune 'i bargain day subscription rate $5 for the year by carrier and $3.60 by mail. For those who are unable to get to the office before the closing hour, there is still an opportunity to save on their year's subscription. Clip out, fill in the coupon attached and mail to the Mail Tribune with check or money order All letters postmarked before midnight tonight will be accepted at the bargain day rate. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Care Circulation Department Medford, Oregon Please accept my check or payment of my subscription year. I am an old subscriber. WWV T?; .... '' T T. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 18. (API Two persons, one a young woman, were fatally Injured yesterday when the automobile In which they wero passengers was wrecked on the Mount Hood loop highway about 15 miles east of here alter being sldeswlped, police said, by a racK. The dead: ' Al Cain, 48, Portland restaurant proprietor.' Miss Alleen Oazeley, 35, of Portland. The car waa being driven by Mrs. Oazeley'a flsnce, Walter E. Taylor, of Portland, who escaped with minor in juries. Cain waa dead before an am bulance arrived from Portland. Mrs. Oazeley died an hour after she was taken to a Portland hospital. Mrs. Oazeley is survived by a small son, her parents and two brothera, all of Portland, and a sister, Mrs. Ed win E. Bush, of Los Angeles. Cain la aurvlved by his widow, a son and a' daughter, all of Portland. PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. 18. (ZD Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Grenfell of McMlnnvllle. Ore., psrents of Ed ward Grenfeli, chief of the Portland fire department, were critically In jured yesterday when an automobile driven by Chief Orenfell akldded in loose gravel on the Pacific highway U miles south of here and over turned. , . FATHER OF MEDFORD . MAN DIES IN 'FRISCO SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 18. (P) Robert Lee Crooks, retired Ban Fran cisco real estate and Insurance man, diedhere Sunday. A son, Matthew Robert, resides In Medford, Ore. M. R. Crooks resides at 1634 East Main street. SALBM, Sept. 18. (pi John Car son. Salem attorney, waa today ap pointed by Governor Julius L. Meier to serve on the state parole board in place of Charles P. Pray, superintend ent of state police, who resigned. . money ordor of $ in to the Mail Tribune for one Yes No . (Name) (Address) 14 DEATHS TOLL HITS EAST COAST Runaway Gale Continues On From Lower Seaboard to Smite at Maine North Carolina Is Worst Hit NEW BERN, N. C Sept. 18. (AP) The casualty list from the tropical hurricane which awept the North Carolina coast Friday and Saturday went to 14 today aa additional re ports came in and the property dam age waa ateadlty mounting toward 3.000.000. A terse message received from a patrol boat at Morehead City said four members of one family drown ed when the schooner Dale of Sea Level waa wrecked: James Hamilton, owner of the vessel, and his three sons Nelson, Charlie and Ralph. Up until laat night, 10 persons had been reported dead from the storm. Six persons were missing. A patrol boat which visited Ocra coke radioed the coast gusrd station there waa "badly damaged," but "six houses need Red Cross aid," and that only one house at Portsmouth Island was down. A boat waa sent to Hatteraa and other points north to work through to Msnteo today to check for damage and posalblo other fatalities. NEW BERN, N. 0., Sept. 18. (AP) A story of a girl drowning as the tide slowly flooded her storm-wrecked home while her father struggled to free her earns to light todny as relief was carried forward In the aoctlon atrlcken by Saturday's hurricane. T. W. Haywood, of Oroatln, brought the report to New Bern. Haywood sam ne aia not learn tne girl's name, but was told she and her family lived In the Bachelor section of Craven county. The story as he hesrd It waa that as the home was wrecked by wind a timber fell across the glrl's'arm, pin ning her In the wreckage. Her father and nelghbora worked frantically to free her, but could not move the timbers and meanwhrle the tide, was creeping higher. At last tha waves began to swish through the wreckage, each one advancing a Httle further with Its promise of quick desth If the girl were not released. Still they struggled helplessly. The timbers could not be moved. Pare- wella were said and the water engulf ed the wrecked home and the traoned girl sa the reat of her family fled to ssiecy. 4- MANAGER FIGHT CHICAGO, Sept. 18. .(P) Sally Hand, the fan dancer, walked Into a police station today, displayed a bruise under her right eye and de manded the arrest of Sam Balkln, . manager of the night club In which she has been, appearing. She asld he hsd "clouted" her In an argument over her aalary. 'Police aooompanled her to the club. where they ssld Bslkln readily sd mltted his psrt In a battle with her and showed teeth marks on hia arm. and said Sally put them there. Both signed complaints charging the other with disorderly conduct and each posted 123 cash bond pending appearance In court later today. JURORS STAGED TUMBLES TO TEST LAMSON THEORY SAN TOANCISO, Sept. 18, IT)' The Examiner, In a copyrighted ar ticle today said members of the Sen Joae Jury which convicted David A. Lamson of murder, tried falling against furniture to test the defense accident theory. The article, under tha signature of Oeorge H. Kegerlch, a member of tne Jury, said one member "held out" at first for the possibility that Lamson's wife may have fallen, aa tha defense contended, In the bathroom of the Stanford campus home. "To try this out," the article said "we constructed a 'bathroom' In the Jury room with chairs and deska. That waa why we asked for the maps and charta of the Lamson home snd the big picture of Mrs. Lsmson's body in the tub. We wanted to build our 'bathroom' aa close aa wa could to the one In the Lamson home. "Then all of ua tried to fall out of that tub In some way so that we could hit our heads on a washbowl hard enouah to flsah our brains out. I I tu OM oi a jiuel actors, tad J am Chosen Queen p I iiMUMtamt-j , i ! af 'rttrPMaaaMSwiri8 Carmen Velex, 18, will reign at queen of Mexico' 123rd anniversary celebration In Lot Angolea, (Asso ciated Presa Photo FRUIT HARVESTING CUTS ATTENDANCE AS School opened thli mornlnR throughout the Medford system with a total enrollment of 3311. The llg ure. slightly under last year's total for the first day, waa accredited by school officials to the absence of number of students, who are aiding the fruit harveet. They have been encouraged, Superintendent E. H. Hedrick stated, to atay with their Jobs for a few weeks In order to lea sen the burden for parents. The total enrollment In each school at noon was; 483 In the senior high school; 65B In Junior high school 201 in the Jackson school; 344 In the Lincoln school; 310 In the Roose velt school, and 326 In the Washing ton. The lighter enrollment waa noticed, particularly In the Junior and senior high schools. "In the belief that all Ktudenta. who are really Interested in school would be able to make up the loss of the first two weeks," Su perintendent Hedrlck stated today, "we have encouraged all with Jobs to keep them or at least that period of time. In thin ' way they will be able to lighten tho financial burden for their parents and after a little extra work will be able to carry on with their elaases.' Punllj who haven't Jobs are ex pected to be In school this week. How long the Medford students will nttend school this year 1a still a matter for -the taxpayers to decide. Mr. Hedrlck stated, when Interviewed by a number of parents this morning. Contracts have been signed for a pe riod of four and a half months. The plan Is tn mske new contract at the expiration of that period, provided there Is sufficient tsx money on hand to lust If v such action. Mr. Hed rlck further stated that he waa of the belief that there would he. A slight nlckup In tsx payment wss realised durmg the summer months and In dications are that the taxpayera will not permit business here to suffer the decrease, which would accompany a closing of schools. The short contracts. Mr. Hedrlck explained were signed to prevent committing the Medford district be yond the tax paying time. Flexible contrscta are illegal under the Ore gon law. which says that a definite period of time must be named, in cluding the time for opening arid closing of school. It was therefore necessary that contracts be signed for a specific period and one which would not exceed In expenditure the amount of money forthcoming, black and blue all over from falling in various ridiculous positions." Other excerpts from the article: "E. O. Helnrlch, the defense crim inologist, didn't convince ua of any thing." "The msttcr of premeditation was never discussed." "We didn't talk much about this Sara Kalley, with whom the prosecu tion said Lamson was carrying on an affair." "There was only one point on which we srgued and argued, talked and discussed over and over again. That waa: Did David Lamson kill h; wife. or wss her death an accident." "In trying to convince ourselves that we were wrong, we had con vinced the holdout that we were rtght." The article said members of the Jury "practiced hitting" with the length of pipe tha prosecution de clared with the death weapon, ana concluded by "plain commoniienae" that the fstal wounds could hS7C COUNTY'S PURSE WILL BE CLOSED TO Judge Day Opens Campaign to Inform Squatters Slip shod Relief Methods Not Forthcoming This Winter Problems of relief and finance con. fronting Jackson county at tha ores. ent time were tackled today by county Judge Earl B. Day, with tha inauguration of a program of educa tion, on the relief angle, and the con sideration of a plan, whereby tha budget deficit will be reduced la tha neighborhood of 25,000. The COUntV lllrtca h. ...... . . ra - u.wu mra naming of committees throughout the county, whose duty will be to call upon ins neaos or all transient fami lies, and Inform them that .lAr-v.nn county haa no funds tor relief and ma irom now on It Is a case of hus tle for yourself, and those who don'l work, won't eat." The county Judga holds that now Is the time to seek employment snd provide for winter. vnre ror northjr Only. The county ludse anva t.hf tha meager funds available will be de voted exclusively to tha or. .. worthy poor, of established local resl- ucnvo, mo anown stability. voro naa come to the county Judge that In many or tha hill nH districts, transients are again taking uh it-oiuence in old cablna, under the Impression that the same haphaa. ard relief will be furnished as laat winter, The Influx has been noted since the opening of school, resulting In increased attendance, and In soma Instances disciplinary probloma- for the teachers. Reports circulate,, in .h- districts that a county commissary would be opened, la emphatically de nied by the countv court "Kunnrt the realm of possibility, or good busl- in, county commissary last winter entailed the expenditure of $14,000, unauthortted In the budget and la now one of the contributing (Continued on Page Pour.) E MEETS PATIENT ST. PAUL, Sept. IB. (AP) A Civil War nurse, Mra. Alice Carey Risley, met George A. Gay, Nashua. N. H today for the first time since Sheri dan's ride. She was a young nurse, then. She is 8Q now. He waa a soldier of tha Yankee army. He la 84 now. They were with the Union forces with Oen- eral "Spoon" Butler down south back In '01. They renewed acquaintance! at the annual convention of the Grand Army of the Republic WILL- ROGERS BEVKRLT HILLS, Cal., Sept. 16. Cuba, you better hurry and get a dictator, a president, a keeper or something, for one more week is all you got to stay on the front page. When the Giants have won two games, Washington two and Notre Dame baokfield starts percolating, Cuba just as well be Tasmania as far as the papers are concerned. And that's what makes us ft great, nation, we take tho little things serious and the big ones as a joke. Many, many people out. of work, some even in ac tual want. Yet carrying on in confidence and hope. When the little fellow, that is actually in want, can have faith in his government, by golly the big ones should cer tainly carry on, for they have never missed a meal so far.