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The Weather ' aVorscatt: Cloudy with showers to. nliht and Wednesday Moderate temperature. Highest yesterday J Lowest this morning M Twenty-eighth Tear 5000 Dead, Injured as Hurricane Wipes Out Port of Tampico Comment on the Day's Nezvs By FRANK JENKINS SECRETARY of the Interior Ickes. public works administrator, de fends himself at Chicago agalnat the charge that the public worts pro gram Is all wound around with red tape and so Is falling to function at the time It Is needed. "We are more liberal than any lender on large sale alnce the be ginning of the world ever thought of being:' he tells his critics, "but we are not dropping taxpayers- money into the hat of a Wind man. You ought to know that." TO THIS writer! It seems that the public works program Is going to be too much delayed to do much good. But let's give even the devil hla due. Spending three and a third billion dollars Is a tremendous Job a Job so vast that It staggers the imagin ation. If you and I were doing It. with the responsibility for a good, honest Job resting squarely on our shoulders and with the certstn knowledge that If we DIDN'T do a good Job we'd have our hides taken off and hung on the fence, we'd take a lot of time. too. Now wouldn't we? PRESIDENT Roosevelt, we read. Is determined to push his program for expansion of credit. Expansion of credit, as of course you know, Is a fine, high-sounding term meaning, when reduced to sim ple, plain word auch as ordinary people use, making It esSW to bor row money. s Reading thla, those of us who need to borrow money, or THINK we do, throw up our hate and cheer lustily. We're all for such a program. OUT again let's look the situation V in the face ana give " his due even if the devil, in this case, happens to be a banker, and therefore without friends In the present emergency. t real, low-down reason why the bankers are tight about lending money la that they have a healthy fear that with nobody much making any REAL profit, they won't get their money back. That's why they hesitate. et LET'S be fair about this thing. Suppose you or I had a hundred dollars that we didn't need Just at the moment, and therefore consid ered lending It. Before we made the loan, we'd want to be pretty sure we were going to get our money BACK. Thafe the way the bankera feel about It. And you can't really blame them, in view of the fact that they are lending OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY and face the aharpest kind of penaltlea If they don't do a good Job of It. M HERE, by the way. Is a thought: A lot of the financial troublea that are plaguing us NOW are due to the fact that in the bl years back before 1929 credit waa TOO LIBERAL that la to say, money was too easy to borrow. Most of us borrowed too much of It, and ao let ourselves in for plenty of grief. M IF PRIVATE credit la to be expand ed, those who have money to lend will have to be convinced that there is a mighty good chance for them to GET IT BACK. Ontll lendere begin to feel that way about It, there won t be much ex pansion of private credit. We might as well make up our minds to that. THIS writer, who is only one hum ble Individual and whose opin ion isn't worth much, bellevea that if the government. Inatead of launch ing a three billion dollar public works program, which necessarily in volves a vast amount of detail and delay, hid loaned the three bill'ons to private indtviduala, to be used In rehabilitating their businesses and getting them going again, the results in the vay of Immediate Increase of purchasing power would have been much greater. What do you think about It? Medford Mail Tribiw Ml 1J I Southwest's Bad Man Long Sought On Suspicion Of Participation In Urschel .Kidnaping Quits Tamely. OKLAHOMA CITY. Sept. 26. (API The tip that led to the arrest In Memphis of George and Kathryn Kelly came from a 12 year old girl. Geraldlne Arnold, daughter of a man the Kellys had used a a contact here, who had been taken about the country with the fugitives as their little daughter, District Attorney Her bert K. Hyde disclosed I Ills aft ernoon. MEMPHIS. Tenn., Sept. 36 (AP) George E. "Machine Gun" Kelly, no torious desperado, surrendered with out a struggle here today as a blue eyed detective sergeant pointed a sawed -off shotgun at his heart. The southwest's "bad man" was asleep in & bungalow when depart ment of Justice agents quietly per fected plena for his capture to face trial In connection with the $200,000 kidnaping of Charles P.. Urschel, Oklahoma City oil man. The house in which he and his wife, Kathryn, and two others. J. R. Tichnor, 30. and S. E. Travla, 26, were staying, waa surrounded by offlcera. Drop That Gun Officer Bill Raney entered a front door. As Kelly opened a bedroom door, revolver In hand, Raney told him quietly: "Drop that gun, Kelly." Kelly'a pistol dropped to the floor. His hands pointed to the calling. At' -the police station, Kathryn Kelly immediately agreed to waive extradition and return to Oklahoma City to face trial. Kelly waa not ao communicative aa his wife, and not nearly so agreeable to returning to Oklahoma City. Kelly readily admitted his Identity, smoked numerous cigarettes, but told Police Chief Will D. Lee, "I'm not talking about anything." Wife Threatened "I waa going back to Oklahoma City tomorrow and give myself up," his aubum haired wife ssld. "Kelly told me he would kill me if I did, but I was going anyway." She said she wanted to save her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Shannon, row on trial In connection with the kidnaping. Kelly, police said, was traced here by a telegram sent In code to Tich nor. The message's contents were not revealed, but It presumably was a tip to Tichnor concerning movement of Offlcera. Tichnor. police said, la not wanted In connection with any of the Crimea Charged to Kelly, Including partlc paton in the slaying of Policeman Miles Cunningham, who attempted to capture five men who" robbed a federal reserve bank automobile in Chicago recently and fled behind an exhaust pipe smoke screen. Police Chief will D. Lee said there waa 10.000 reward for Kelly in con nection with the Urschel kidnaping and a 5000 reward in connection with the bank Job. Who la entitled to the rewarda has not been deter mined. WASHINGTON. Sept. 2S. (IP) Anoolntment nt nmiai r i collector of Internal revenue at New uneans was announced by President Roosevelt today, despite opposition by Senator Long (D., La.) DESPERADO'S WIFE GLAD ESCAPE BALEFUL POWER MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Sept. 86. Kathryn Kelly, arrested here tody with her husband. George E. "Machine Gun" Kelly, immediately agreed to return to Oklahoma City to face charges In connection with the kid naping of Charles Urschel, million aire oil man. At the same time, she said arte had planned to leave her husband and surrender, in order to defend her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Shannon, who are now on trial In Oklahoma City. "I was going back to Oklahoma City tomorrow and give myself up." the smartly dreaded, auburn haired woman told newspapermen. "Kelly told me he would kill me if I dtd. but I was going anyway. "I don't care about myself. I'm thinking about my parents, the Shan nons ' Kelly and his wife are the two fugitives who are under indictment in connection with the Urschel kid naping. Kathryn described her brother, A iro: Shannon, also on trlsl in the i k'tlnaping. a a "sweet boy -Ji.it 10" "I've got nothing to say about that guy." she toid Poiioa Quel Will D. MR Drops His Gun (eorge F. "Machine Gun" Kelly, bandit, who submitted tainelv to arrest today when surprised with his wife and two others In a Memphis. Tenn., bungalow. (Associated Press Photo.) ROOSEVELT SEEKS WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. (AP) President Roosevelt turned homeward today to develop in the quiet of hla Hyde Park residence new Invlgoratlon for the government's manifold recov ery efforts. Ways to - expand credit and . lift farm prices topped the chores sched uled for even mora Intensive study by Mr. Roosevelt aftef three crowded weeks spent canvassing every phase of the federal push toward economic betterment. These tasks have received the president's earnest attention from the hour of hts return to the White House after Labor day from a brief yachting holiday. New orders seele ng to boost farm Incomes and aid NRA Industries have been Issued -apidly, and demands for currency inflation apparently rejected for the present. The newest development In an In tensive credit-expansion program was a promise given the president by steel executives to submit competi tive btds on a 700,000 tonnage order lor steel rails. Mr. Roosevelt planned to advance the 125,000.000 or more needed by the carrlera to buy the rails provided the prices are low enough. The steel purchase was the subject I of one White House conference yes terday, a cheaper dollar waa the sub ject of another In a plea for 1028 money and price levels presented bV a farm group headed by Edward A. O'Neal, president of the farm bureau federation. With Hugh 8. Johnson, the Indus trial administrator, at Walter Reed nospltal receiving treatment for an infection, other officials busied themselves wth the retail code and a number of hearings. Tierhy 8urr?eli Eddy SALEM. Sept. 26. (AP) Appoint ment of A. J. Derby, Hood River at torney, to the state h yd ro-electrlc commission to succeed B. L. Eddy of Roseburg waa announced today by Governor Julius L. Meier. Eddy was recently appointed by the governor cs a circuit Judge. Lee. urtien a.ked about Kelly. "I don't want to have anything more tr, do with him. He got me into thla terrible mess.' She wore a smart black suit, with a shoulder cape trimmed with a fringe of black fur. "Day before yesterday was my third wedding anniversary." she said, "and what a swell anniversary!" She said she had informed "a Mr. Keenan of the department of Jus tice" that "I am going to testify for my parents." "I came here to see Kelly and tell him I was going to do this. I was doing back to Oklahoma City from here." She fumbled the red metal buttons cn her suit. "No. I don't wnt my picture taken." she said. She said she had rever been flmrr-pnnted and photo graphed by police. "Well, you are lucky," Chief Lee said. "1 don't know that I'm lucky," she returned. "I haven't broken any laws." "That guy you have been 'palling' around w.tn has been wrecking jien ty," tii cblctf towered. i ' ; ( ; fAl , ...... fr, . - MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Senate Interim Group Will Meet Saturday To Con sider Naming Of Nelson And Hare On State Board. By the Associated Tress Instead of leaving the matter to the forthcoming special session of the legislature, members of the sen ate Interim committee on appoint ments will meet here Saturday to consider the appointment by Gover nor Meier of Roecoe O. Nelson of Portland, and W. G. Hare of Hills boro to the Oregon state board of higher education. It ha4 been suggested In some quarters that Inasmuch as the legis lature Is expected to be called Into session about the middle of October, and since the next regular meeting of the board of higher education will not be held until Oct. 16. that the matter of approval or rejection of the appointees be left to the senate. The Interim committee Is authorized to act only when the legislature la not In session. The Associated Press was advised today that Senator William Strayer of Baker, chairman of the committee, would have preferred to leave the matter to the senate, but that since the meeting has been called by Sec retary of State H.OSS, he will attend. Senator Clyde Williamson of Linn county said "I plan to attend the meeting. I favor leaving this matter to the interim committee." Senator George W. Dunn of Jack son county said: 'I have written to Secretary Hoss that it will be agree able with me to meet next Saturday." Senator Joel O. Booth, representing ijinn ana ine counties said I am perfectly willing to attend the Inter im committee meeting Sept. 13, the time selected by Secretary Hoss." Senator Robert W. Duncan of Grant, Harney and Malhuer counties could not be reached today for an expression. Damage suit of Lorain Cousins of Seattle, a 16-year old girl, against the Union Oil company of Califor nia, for $10,000 alleged damages, be gan today In circuit court before Judge H. D. Norton, with selection of a Jury. The action, filed by the father of the plaintiff as her guardian, Is the result of an auto accident on the Pacific highway four miles south of Ashland, June 13. 1031, betwyn a car driven by M. J. McClaren. a busi ness representative of the Union Oil company, and one In which the plaintiff waa riding, with her father and mother, and a Mrs. Schwab of Woodburn. Ore. Permanent Injuries to the nervous system, disfigurement and physical and mental pain are alleged. The plaintiff Is represented by At torney Arthur I. Moulton of Port land, and Allison Moulton of this city, and the oil company by Attor ney George M. Roberts, and William McAllister of this city. CHESTER. Pa., Sept. 26. (AP) Several thousand workmen at the Ford Motor company plant here walked out today. Workers said they were dissatisfied with the wage rate. Officials of the company refused to talk. DETROIT, Sept. 26. (AP) Offic ials of the general offices of the Ford Motor company here today, aald they had "heard nothing about" a reported walkout of several thous and employes at the Chester, Penn., Ford plant. y They said they had no comment, pending an Investigation. Cars Coast Over Spilled Gasoline MONMOUTH. Sept. 26. (API Cars were Instructed to coast over one-fourth mile, of pavement south of here last night where 3150 gallons of gasoline from a wrecked trailer tank flowed over the west side high ray. Traffic was halted for a time and then state police officers permit ted motorists to ctom the gasoline stream with motors cut to preclude aa explosion. WW BE Code For Church Would Call Halt For Competition NEW YORK, Sept. 28. (AP) Dr. John Hsynes Holmes tears a leaf from the book of NRA and of fers a code for churches. To revltaltre formal religion he urges, among other things, "abol ition of cut-throat competition" by eliminating denomlnatlonallsm. He opposes government Interfer ence with churches and sdvlses church people to accept the data of science, be loyal to democracy, to oppose war and fight poverty "Of course the churchea may be dead beyond recovery," the noted minister said yesterday, "If so, we shall find out. Meanwhile let us try this proernm " JONES TO APPEAL Notice of an undertaking on an ap peal to the supreme court, was served today upon the district attorney's office in the case of Walter J. Jones, former mayor of Rogue River, now serving four' years In state prison for conviction of ballot theft. Listed as bondsmen, in the sum of $7500, required on the appeal, are R. E. Daugherty, retired; H. W. Sparks, farmer; E. W. Wilson, farm er; H. W. Jones, farmer; and J. B. Thomas, Ashland; Attorneys Glen R. Jacks of Oregon City and T. J. En rlght of this city appear as counsel for Jones. Formal filing of an appeal will be made, counsel, said today. Time for final notice of appeal doea not ex pire until next month. Similar action Is Bald will be taken In the cases of J. Arthur La Dleu and E. H, Fe,hl, also aorvlng four year sentences for ballot' theft conviction. Filing of the appeal will not affect the status of the applicants as prla on Inmates. 4 . WASHINGTON. Sept. 36. (AP) President Roosevelt's concern over the disastrous hurricane at TAmplco was expressed In the following tele gram sent today to President Rodri guez of Mexico: "I am shocked and deeply distress ed to learn of the .hurricane which has struck Tampico and caused such tragic loss of human life and wide destruction of property. "On behalf of the people of the United States and In my own name I wish to extend to your excellency and to the people of Mexico an ex pression of profound sympathy." DEATH SENTENCE SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 26 (AP) David A. Lamaon, Stanford Uni versity publishing house executive, convicted of wife murder, was sen tenced today to hang at 8aiu,Quen tln prison December 15. FEAREY'S BONDSMEN MUST PAY DEFAULT A circuit court Jury of which 0. M. Kldd, MMford, was foreman, law yesterday returned a verdict of 497.08, and attorney feea of IHIS, In favor of E. P. Hawklna agalnat the Insurance Indemnity company of North America and Howard D. Fearey. Hawklna set forth In his action, that h paid Pearey, then acting as realty jroker for the county, 1497 .M for land owned by the county, for which h received no deed, no return of cash, though recjueated. The present whereabouts of Fearey are unknown the complaint stated. HOCKENHULL BECOMES NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR SANTA PTT. !. M., Sept. 2B. (AP) A W. Hocaenhull. lieutenant gover nor, talcing the relna of atate today following the unexpected death of Oovernor Arthur Sellgman. became New Mexico's ninth governor alnce tatehood and the 122nd since the Spanish conquest. MOSCOW. Sept. 2. (AP) Ger many protested to the eovlet govern ment today against the expulsion of German newspaper correspondents !rom Russia, contending the action violate flitting titatle. 26, 1933. COUNTY OFFICIALS Judge Day and District At torney Codding Leave To Confer With State Offic ialsBudget Main Worry. In order to obtain opinions from the attorney-general's office, on lesal phases of the Jackson county finan cial situation, and to confer with state officials In an effort to work otit a solution of the problem, Coun ty Judge Evrl B. Day and District Attorney George A. C odd Ins left thla afternoon for Salem. The two offici als expect to be In the capital two or three days. The conferences will be helpful in the preparation of the 1034 budget, scheduled for next month. Deficits Faced - Many of the county offices and de paitmenta face deficits In the re maining months of the year and the ri gilts of officials under Oregon law, to continue, and their personal re sponsibility In overdrawn budgets, will be discussed. Some relief, Coun ty Judge Day said, would be sought from the special session of the legis lature, If there la no other way. County Judge Day also wants legal and executive assurances to uphold him in steering county governmental affairs Into less troubled waters, and keeping them afloat, while so doing. Most of the county offices have sums remaining In their budgets but the circuit court, the clerk's office, and the sheriff's office are in the "red.' due to the 'heavy expense Im posed upon these departments in re storing order, after the Banks-Fehl Inspired lawlessness. It required close to $26,000 to try the two agitators and their lieutenants. The 1033 budget committee allowed $8600 for circuit court operation and but for the turmoil, the circuit court would have kept within this amount. Commissary lilt Treasury County finances were further de pleted by the unauthorized expendi ture of $M,000 for the establishment of & county commissary by Fehl. No provisions were made for auch a pro tect In the budget. The extravagance left the current relief fund at a low ebb, and resulted In imposing of re cent drastic provisions. Testimony in the ballot theft trials showed "Banks guarda" fed from the com missary lavishly. Another expense not Included In the laat budget waa $2600 for an audit that revealed the clerk's office short a nickel, and the sheriff's of fice shy 60c. The budget allowance for the audit was $260. Some of the deflcita were caused by the rigid economy of the last budget board, but they are all minor, and trivial compared with the ex travagances practiced last wlnterj The new budget committee Is scheduled to convene next month, and the framing of the budget will require the services of sound, con servative, and public spirited citizens with the beat Interests of the coun ty's future first In their mnii It Is pointed out. County Judge Day plans the estab lishment of a systematic busfhess op eration of the county for 1834. and wants budget committee members of the same mind, and appreciative of the problems to be Ironed out. 11 DESPERATE CONVICTS ESCAPE INDIANA PRISON MICHIOAH OTTT, Ind., Sept. it. IIP) Eleven dangerous convict bat tled their way with pistol out of the Indiana etata penitentiary, shot one man, kidnaped two othera a hostages, and escaped toward Chi cago, 65 miles away. Chief Clerk H. C. Crosby gave the following tentative list of the as caned prisoners: Joseph Jenkins, life, murder; Ed ward Shouse, M year, auto bandit ry: Russell Clark, 20 years, b&nk rob bery; Martin O'Leary, life, bank rob bery: Valter Dietrich, life, bank rob bery: Joseph Moa, life, bank robbery: John Burns, life, murder; Harry Pler- pont. 10 to 21 years, robbery; Ray Dadgley, life, bank robbery; John Hamilton, 25 years, auto banditry, and James Clark, life, auto banditry. The outbreak, apparently plotted for weeks, started In the ahlrt factory. By a ruse, the deaperadoea called Assistant Warden Albert Evans to the shop. When he arrived, they bran diahed weapon and forced him and D. H. Steven, uperlntendent of the ahop, to accompany them. Each of the convict picked up a bundle of shirt and started for the main gate "We're taking theae ahlrt outside." they told cuard who questioned Unem. I? Millions Melt as3 Colonel George M. Studebnker, scion of the wagon-automobile fam ily, tlVA a petition In bankruptcy In Indiana, confessing debts of 500,000 and admitting assets of $.1000. He lives In a (14 -room house hulH when his fortune was estimated at 53.500.000. -(Anaoclated Press Photo.) Y YETTO OP Committee In charge of securing signatures on the consumer's cards" in the NRA drive, reported at the executive committee meeting con' ducted Monday afternoon stating that there are still a large number of lo cal residents yet to sign the cards. When the campaign members made solicitations they found no one at home, at a large number of the houses, they ssld. The committee said today that an announcement will be made within the near future where people who have not yet signed the cards, may call and do so. "Within the next week or ten days, we expected to have Medford on the list with one hundred per cent sig natures," those in charge stated. Cards may be signed at the present time at the Chamber of Commerce. The executive committee today ask ed the assistance of Superintendent B. H. Hedrlck, and the principals of the city schools. Consumers cards will he placed In each school, and the children asked to report at school If their parents have signed a card. If they have not, the child will be given a card to take home, and when It la returned, signed, the cnlld will be given a blue eagle sticker to place In the window at home. Through thla system each home la expected to be reached, and will assist In aasurance that every Med ford home will display the NRA bird The committee reported that the outlying dlstrlcta have found It eas ier to contact the residents, and Eagle Point has 400 cards signed, with eagles now In that many win dows In the town and surround I n g vicinity. The small district of Beagle reported the rttlzenry had signed, tone hundred per cent. Just before reaching the main gate, two guards, Ouy Burlow and Fred Wellnlte, were alow In obeying an order to open up the gates. Well nltr. was alueged with the butt of a pistol. Burklow then opened the main gate. Outside the wall, they enter ed the prison clerk'a office and or dered a. half dozen clerk Into a vault. Then they pushed the clerk out of the vult and began searching for money. One clerk, Flnley P. Caraon, be came confused over a multitude of orders ahouted at him by the fugl- tlvea. As he stood undeclalvely a convict shot him twice. Neither wound 1 serious. Outside the office they met Sheriff Charlea Hill of Corydon. Ind., who had Just brought prisoners. They took hi weapon, then forced him to enter hi automobile and sped away, accompanied by five ur six fugitive. Ths others ran along the highway and met an automobile carrying two women and a man. They forced the women out of the car and made the man remain behind the wheel. H4 was let out of the csr at Gary, the convict conUnulDi toward Chicago, ! I X " V-J Witch thi TBIHTOE'SI CLASSIULI) ADS . . . lrtiV Lota of good bargains j that mill genuine ffS savings. j No. 160. Parts Of Oil Port Under 14 Feet Of Water Thous ands Are Homeless Re lief Rushed by Government By Clark O. Lee MEXICO, D. P., Sept. 26 (API Military authorities reported to the war ministry today that the Port of Tampico waa virtually destroyed in yesterday's hurricane and that numerous persons, neck-deep in the overflown Panuco and Tamest rlvere, had been rescued. The msnajrer of the Tamnl air drome said In a mnuiiM that si bodies had been recovered by noon. estimates nave put the number of dead or Injured as high as 5.000. General Anselmo VnlenKuta.. rhif of military operations for the state 01 lamauupas, said in a dispatch kj tno war ministry mat the disaster was of great magnitude. Some 300 persons were reported to have been rescued from flooded sec tions of the city today. The minister of Interior was un able to carry out a plan to proceed to -ismpico ny air because he learn ed It was Impossible to land there. MEXICO, D. F., Sept. 36. (API Mexico's resources were mobilised to dsy to aid the storm-stricken and flooded city of Tampico, where eatl matea placed the number of dead or injured a high a 8.000 and thousands were left homeless. Enor mous property damage waa reported. Relief Force Sent Two relief trains, carrying battal ion of Infantrymen to aid In re construction work and food and med ical supplies, were en route to the oil port. But parts of the city were under 14 feet of water and railroad track In the area were flooded or waahed away, ao it waa problematical when they could arrive. A squsdron of military airplanes was ordered to leave at dawn. Meanwhile, Tampico was virtually Isolated from the out side world, along with lta scenes of deeth and destruction. Communication Cot Although more than two daya have passed alnce the hurricane struck with all lta fury, the city was with out communication facilities except by mean of wireless from ships In the harbor. Official reported the damage there and In other parts of the nation waa "cataatrophlc." . Oeneral Eduardo Vaacenseloa, see (Continued on Page Three) WILL .ROGERS SANTA MONICA, Cat., Sept 25. "Iowa Farmers' Holiday association will strike if the president don't guarantee pas sace of the Frazier mortgage refinancing bill." How in the world can Mr.. Roosevelt frunrHntee what con gress will dot There is not even a fortune teller would dare predict. They will meet and from then on we just got to put our trust in the Lord. I am not trying to advise the "holiday farmers," for I don't know what a holiday farmer is, but it's a tough time for any one KrouP to etart making de mands, for I think you will find this fellow thinks he owes allegiance to the eater as well as the raiser. The farmer de serves a profit, but the guy that's not eating deserves a meal more. The stockholder deserves his dividend but the unemployed deserves his job more. I can think of nothing mors unpopular than a strike, a strike of anything. eiill KsNtw'st toMittt. tee. FLOODED RIVERS 1 ADD TO DAMAGE IN MEXICO TOWN
