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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933.
No. 162.
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Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
GEOROE ("Machine Gun") KELLY,
much In the Seadllnes of late,
could write hi name on a roadside
algn with machine gun bullet, and
mowed down hla vlctlma with relent
leaa savagery.
But when' an officer of the law
geta the drop on him with a sawod
ott shotgun, he SURRENDERS
meekly.
YOU may be young, and by some
unfortunate chance you may
have acquired an Inclination to ad
mire these gangsters, who have been
featured so much In the press and
on the screen.
Here Is some good advice: DONT.
They're not romantic. They're not
admirable. They're Just plain killers,
and when they get on the hot end
of a hot proposition they're apt to
turn yellow like Kelly.
A 15-YEAR-OLD girl over In New
port catches cats, ties strings
around their necks and watches them
stave to death.
Did you shudder when you read
that item? Vou MUST have. De
liberate cruelty la always a shocking
thing, and deliberate cruelty on the
part' of a 15-year-old Is peculiarly
so.
M
IM JULY there were 20.S78 families
on the relief rolls In Oregon. In
August, the number shrank to 16,
(31 a decrease of 3 947.
That la cheering news. As the
number of families on relief goes
down. It must follow that the num
ber of persons employed GOES UP.
It la Increasing employment tfiat
will bring return of prosperity.
IN JULY, maintenance of these fam
ilies on relief cost the state of
Oregon 347,617. In August, the cost
was J88,051. . . , , .
July 'and August, remember, are
aummer months, and In the summer
season the burden of providing re
lief Is not aa heavy aa In the winter.
But taking even these summer fig
urea and multiplying them by 12
makes It apparent that providing re
lief for the needy Is going to run
Into a very, vrey large sum of money.
Depressions are costly affairs.
ELBERT H. BAKER, chairman of
the board of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, one of America's best known
publishers, dies at an advanced age,
after a life of great usefulness.
When a great publisher dies, his
community suffers a serious loss.
HERE waa one of Mr. Baker's fa
vorite expressions:
"I like to see a newspaper striving
to Improve the community In which
It Is located.'"
controversial questions, printing news
nlty In which it Is located Is the
newspaper's big Job. If It does that
Job well, It Is entitled to the com
munity's respect and confidence.
If It DOESN'T. It Is a failure.
WHEN Mr. Baker took charge of
the Plain Dealer away back In
1898, It news reports, like those of
most newspapers of that Ime, were
biased and partisan, favoring Ita
mends and misrepresenting It ene
mies. He chsnged all that, substituting
fair snd Impartlsl account of all
men who wrote with pens dipped In
thst his resdera could rely on.
For exaggerated circulation claims
he substituted accurate figures, prov.
ed by audit.
KILLEDSHERIFF
CHESTERTON, Ind.. Sept. 28 (AP)
There waa a growing apprehension
today thst Sheriff Charles Neel of
Corydon, Ind., may have been put to
death by four of the ten convicts who
luiged'and shot their wsy out ot
the Indiana state prison last Tues
day. Csptsm Mathew Leach, In com
mand of the Indiana state police
frankly said he was worried over the
f'e of the missing sheriff, who was
kidnaped by the escaping felons. nd
H't his men would concentrate their
"Jen on an attempt to find the
hertff. rather than the capture of
,he mlMlr.g convict.
"Well get them sooner or later
sr.vwsy- he predicted.
Msnwhlle 200 national gusrdJmen
crnrd to Jnin the police in
'fceir search lor the convict.
NEAR RIOT WHILE teiSU 'BAD MAN' KELLY Where Gale Wrought Death, Destruction BIG EMPLOYMENT
COMMITTEE TOLD
IF
Question of Where Money to'
Come From Now Bothers
Group of 32 Jobless
Present Demands for Cash
PORTLAND. Sept. 28. (AP) Eight
mi:1 Hon dollars for relief work during
the next 16 month was the goal set
here by the governor's committee of
32 following consideration of major
ity and minority sub-committee re
ports, with the majority asking $17,
70.1.400. By a vore of la to 8. with
8 (absentees, the minority report was
adopted for recommendation to the
executive.
Consideration of means f raising
t-hl fund will be given during the ,
afternoon session, the entire morning
be'ng taken up with matters dealing
with unemployed conditions in the
state and arguments for and against
the two sub-conwoittee reports. The
session was expected to last until
late in the day.
Near Riot Staged
While speakers representing the
unemployed, of which more than six
hundred were gBthered in front of
th hotel where 'he committee was
In session, were presenting their de
mands to the group, a near-riot was
staged In the streets when city police
attempted to disperse the crowd and
un.nare the traffic Jam.
Chief of Police B. K. Lawson took
charge of the force armed with riot
clMbs, but It was not unttl the com
mittee reappeared from the hotel and
urged an orderly dlspersement was
the situation quieted. Numerous ar
rest were made tmd one woman waa
injured.
Demands Presented
J. E. Look was In charge of the
speakers presenting demands of the
four relief organ tea Hons in the coun
ty and in conclusion declared the
unemployed group-, requested the re.
peal of the state relief committee act
and place county courts as relief
agencies for disbursement of funds.
They demanded jellef be based on
the rate of $30 per month for single
persons, 940 for couples and $9 for
each .child; that payments be made
in cash; that relief work be on the
basis of 50 cents an hour for not less
thun six hours a day and four days
a week, and that a capital levy on
wealth be assessed to pay for relief.
At the conclusion of these de
mands an unemployed family of six
children, declared to be typical of
unemployed families, was offered as
an "exhibit." Speakers before the
committee representing the unem
ployed Included BJorn Johannson,
Kenneth Fitzgerald, Paul Moore and
Dirk DeJong, the latter a communist
candidate for mayor of Portland In
th last general election.
TWO OF TALENT
REGIONARRESTED
John D. Abel, 22, arrested last
nlFjht by state police In the farm
country out from Phoenix, on a
charge of obtaining money under
falfe pretenses, was housed in the
county Jail toda, and charges were
also expected to oe filed against him
in Klamath county, state police re
ported. John Franklin Seward, 19, of Tal
ent, is also .held in the county Jail
as an accessory in connection with
the same alleged offense.
The charge against Abel Is the out
growth of "bad" check written to a
Med ford person, Those name was not
revealed today. Seward waa taken
Into custody several days ago when
tho search for Abel was being made
by officers. He I held for allegedly
1 aiding Abel In eluding the officers.
Lindbergh s Impressed by
Soviets Air Experiments
MOSCOW. Sept. 28. UP) Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife
ire so impressed by the experimental
aviation work that Is being carried
on in Soviet Russia that they hope
to return to this country In a couple
of years to see for themselves how
the experiments have worked out.
The colonel told of this desire at
a banquet given In honor of hlmsflf
snd his wife last night. Two United
States senators W. O. McAdoo of
California and R. R- Reynolds of
North Carolina were present, and
four-piece orchestra periodically play
td "Columbia, the Oem of the
Ocean .
"This country Is peculiarly fitted
for aviation development because It
it a land of great distances." Lind
bergh said, "and I am impressed wttn
your accomplishments."
"Your technical achievements can
not be doubted after seeing your new
construction and experimental labora
tories. In fact, we are both anxious
to return in two years to see the
results of tour preterit erpvimrn.
translated Into aetiis!lt;0
; Mrs. i-indbersa p.l audi
Charivaring Chief AnyiTP'linUAniMP K T- "' "T" ""' "'V vew-y.-- - , n 1 III nrniOTrnm
With sirens screeching and whis
tles blowing, members of tha city
fire department last night drove
the large fire truck from the hall
and dropped in at the City Meat
Market for their chief. Roy Elliott,
who was busily skinning the large
mule-tall deer he shot while on
his honeymoon trip to eastern
Oregon.
. From there the charivari con
tinued to the Craterlan theater,
where Mrs. Elliott was enjoying
the show. After much persuasion
she left the picture and Joined the
chief on the truck, for a thrilling
ride about the city streets, stopp
ing at the Rex cafe for refresh
ments. The continuous fire alarm, about
10 o'clock, routed a large number
of people from their homes, who
drove up and down the streets,
while others crowded along the
curbs in an attempt to locate the
fire.
FORD AND STEEL
(By the Associated Press.)
To the strike picture was added to
day a segment of the steel lnditry
aa 10,000 steel workers in the Pitts
burgh area Joined nearly 70.000 coal
miners in a labor walkout.
The steel troubles had their Incep
tion at the welrton Steel company's
plant in Welrton. W. V.. over a union
ciispute, and union heads claimed the
movement was spreading into eastern
Ohio.
The strike of Ford Motor company
employes, starting with a walkout of
3 000 at the Chester, Pa.,. plant, spread
to Edgewater, N. J-, today when 500
employes there quit work in a '"sym
pathy" demonstration
New violence was added to the
Pennsylvania coal field "holiday"
when pickets stopped an automobile
tearing two employes of the Sham
rock Coke company. State police In
tervened and arrested two strikers.
Phlladlphla bakerie were delivering
bread under police guard, aa they
sought 'court action to Insure deliv
eries of bread without Interference
from striking trucknien there.
Silk workers at HaBelton. Pa., plan
ned another effort at closing down
the largest mill there In protest
against the cotton code. The pater
son. N. J., silk dispute appeared head
ed toward settlement.
In New York city. Drover Whalen,
city N. R. A. head, reported that me
diation efforts of the city mediation
organization had sent 165. BOO strikers
back to work In the settlement of 18
metropolitan district strikes, while
16,074 additional workers ire involv
ed in present mediation.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 38. WP)
James W. Collier of Mississippi, mem
ber of the tariff commission and for
mer Democratic chairman of the
house way and means committee,
died today.
Death was due to .heart trouble,
his office asslstsrrt ssld. This wss
his birthday. He was born near
Vlcksburg el years ago.
Collier served 12 terms In the houe
and declined to run again last No
vember after a controversy over
whether csndldates should run at
large or by district.
ence by saying: "I am honored to sit
at the same table with Soviet women
aviators who are participating In the
development of this science on equal
ity with men."
Four of Soviet Russia's leading
women pilots were present and Joined
In the enthusiastic applause.
Responding to a toast, senator Mc
Adoo stressed that he was here in a
purely private capacity. It is his
first visit to Russia in 35 yeara.
"I am amazed at the phenomenal
achievements I have witnessed." he
said.
Senator Reynolds said: "I bring
greetings from one of the greatest
unions m the world to one of the
greatest union In the world."
B Anveldt, vlce-charlman of the
civic aviation department of the So
viet government, who acted as host,
said the entire Russian population
had followed Lindbergh's career with
Interest and that his valor and tech
nical skill were highly esteemed.
The Lindberghs continued their
siehtae-nn today, planning to leave
Moscow tomorrow. They refued to
, reveal then destination in ad vane.
HUtVII 10 IaIUIiHNIiu , - .vy. Vv1 bAIN KlUIuIlKLU
Federal Agents Say Cap
tured Desperado Denies
Chicago and Kansas City
Jobs Bates Implicated
MEMPHIS, Ten, Sept. 38. (AP)
Prodded by federal authorities, Geo.
("Machine Gun") KeKlly has talked.
W. A. Rorer. department of 'Justice
apent, announced last night the "bad
man" from the southwet had con
fessed a part In the kidnaping of
Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma City
oil man. but that be had stoutly de
nied other crlmee.
"You've got me right on the
Urschel kidnaping, but not the Chi
cago robbery and the Kansas City
union station Job." Rorer uoted Kelly
aa saying
Amplifying Rorer's brief announce
ment, a confidential source olose to
the federal authorities said Kelly In
his oral confession had named Albert
Bates, now on trial at Oklahoma City,
as the gunman's actual accomplice
In the Urschel kidnaping.
Biites Aided Kelly
"Kelly made no formal confession
but he told the department of Justice
agents," tfio informant said, "that he
and Bates were the ones who did the
actual kidnaping and that they took
Urschel to Paradise, Texns. and re
turned to Oklahoma City to collect
the ransom.
"Kelly Indicated the degree of guilt
of the others connected with the
case and gave some Idea of the dis
port ton of the ransom money."
The Chicago robbery referred to
(Continued on Pan Three)
Although state police have not yet
received confirmation of Oeorge
Doyle's story, that he is an escaped
convict from the Texaa penitentiary
where he was serving a 15-year terra
for burglary, he is being held In the
county Jail with his sister. Ruby
Joseph and her husband. James Ham
ilton Joseph, on burglary warrants
issued out of Wasco county.
Sheriff Harold Sexton. Chief of Po
lice Frank Heater and Dr. A. S. Esson,
all of The Dalles, arrived in Medford
last night, Sexton and Heater to
check on evidence and return the
prisoners, and Dr. Esson to see If he
could obtain his watch and other
valuables stolen from his office there.
Police quoted Doyle as saying that
ht name was O Malley, and that he
escaped from the state penitentiary
at Huntsville, Texas, In July, where
he had served about four years of a
1 5-yesr sentence. Doyle told that
there were about 16 burglary counts
against him at the time he waa sen
tenced. Police ssld Doyle told them
he might as well admit who he was,
for as soon as his fingerprint were
sent out, they would find out his
Identity.
For robbing a post office, 'row
which he got about 300. Doyle aald"
he was sent to the federal prison at
Fort Leavenworth, where he served
a four-year term.
For the past two months the
Josephs and Doyle have been residing
on a ranch in the Thompson creek
section, the mortgage of which they
purchased from Lowell Zundell for
0900, officers said. Mrs. Joseph has'
four children, three of whom are at
tending school In the Thompson creek
district.
Police said that the Josephs were
operating a large Bulck sedan. A
check was being continued this after
noon on the operations of the trio, as
a large number of articles, thought
4o be stolen goods, were found In the
house where they resided.
Doyle was taken to the county Jail
today from the Jail In the city hall,
where he has been held since being
arrested Tuesday. He escaped from
the state police office Tuesday morn
ing, but was located that evening.
riding on the rear end ot a truck
near Jacksonville. ,
Mrs. Joseph had a nervous break
down at the county Jail today, where
she Is being held, the Jailer reported.
RIVALS JOSEPH'S COM
NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (AP) The
Civilian Conservation Corps will be
a splash of color against the snowy
background of Uncle Sam's forests
tils winter.
The C. C. C. winter raiment, ar
riving at Oovernor a Island yesterday,
almost knocked army officers' eyes
out. There are red, green, blue and
gray lumber Jackets, leather wind
breakers. wooUn bJo-,iss. Everything
is roiored, vn heavy undies and
sock.
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T AM PICO. Mexico, Sept. 38. (P)
The raln-swollen Panuco and Tameal
rivers rose steadily above flood levels
today, and brought further destruc
tion to this port, still prostrate from
Sunday's hurricane.
Heavy rains fell west of here, and
the national observatory warned that
tropical storms might continue until
October 10.
Scattered reports from nearby
towns told of additional deaths, In
juries and property damage.
Military and federal authorities put
forth herculean efforts to meet their
needs for food, water and medicine.
It was believed the . water supply
could not be restored for five or six
days.
With its food supply rapidly dimin
ishing. Tampico awaited with grow
ing anxiety the arrival from Mon
terey of a train with food and medi
cine and soldiers to help In recon
struction work.
The train was delsyed by floods.
If it cannot reach this city plans
were afoot to Import supplies by air
until the arrival of a steamship from
Vera Cruz.
PEAK OF PEAR
SHIPMENTS ON
Peak of the pear shipping season in
the Rogue River valley was reachei
last night when 54 carloads of peais
were dispatched over the Southern
Pacific railroad. This was the largest
single dsy pear shipment of the year.
Car shipments up to Wednesday
right total 1.0S4 cars from this val
ley. Last year, at the end of Sep
tember the total was 1,365 cars. Some
of this shortage is due to the la4
start for picking and packing. In
1032 the harvesting began August 9;
this year on August '21.
Heavy shipment will be the ordc
for the balance of this week. Mwt
of the orchard will complete the'r
heavy picking of Cornice. Boson anl
D'Anjaus by the middle of next week
Ti
FthlJMN IP
Word has been received by local au
thorities that Llewellyn A. Banks,
former agitator serving a lite sentence
In state prison at Salem for second
degree murder, after the usual 30
days' observation of criminals, has
been usslgned to the prison laundry.
Banks, during the first month of
hla Imprisonment, was detailed to
various tasks while becoming accus
tomed to prison regulations, and
while prison authorltlea determine
the occupations their temperamenta
best fit them for.
The prison laundry etnploya about
2S convicts snd la under constant
guard. Hugh DeAutremont. Siskiyou
tunnel bandit, also serving life, now
on his seventh yesr of confinement,
was a prison laundry worker until
he was removed for his part In an
attempted prlaon break over a year
ago. DeAutremont la now confined
In the disciplinary barracks. All the
prison washing la done In the laun
dry. E. H. Fehl I member of a cell
wing cleaning crew. Wesley McKlt
rlck, "Captain of the Banka Guards,"
sentenced to a year for a guilty plea
to ballot theft la cook's helper. Tom
tj. Brecheen of Ashland, who plead
gutlty and waa given 18 months, ha
a door-tending Job, and J. Arthur
LaDleu, former business aide of
Banks, and cellmate of hi former
employer. Is doing clerical work.
Triangular Love Fails
To Survive Experiment
DETROIT, Sept. 28. (UP) Trian
gular love will not fit within four
malls. Mrs. Beulah Case. 28, who told
her husband to "bring the sweetheart
home," learned today.
Mrs. Case, her husband, Lewis, and
the sweetheart, Sylvia Martin, experi
mented with their love test .all agree
ing to share the same table snd bed.
Sylvia too, has a husband, Richard
Martin, who thought hla wife was
visiting with a cousin.
"Both Lewis and I thought he
aouid net tired of the girl In t
month," Mrs. Cast said. ' He made
Above It an air view of the fiscal,
wharf and business sections of
Tampleo, Mexico, which was struck
by a hurricane, leaving death and
destruction In Its wake. Tha death
list waa estimated aa high aa 5000
persona. Tha seacoaat city, at tha
mouth of tha Panuco river, (shown
In foreground) waa also flooded.
At tha left la a map Indicating tha
stricken area. (Associated Presa
Photos)
FOR LIONS SHARE
OF RELIEF RISES
PORTLAND, Sept, 2B.i7p)"A "cars-
ful hearing" on the distribution of
federal highway funds of Oregon
teen promised Mayor Joseph K. Car
son of Portland by offldsls in Wash
lngton, D. C. according to dispatches
received from the capital by Portland
newspapers.
Carson carried to the bureau of
public roads in Washington, D. C.
the argument that Portland and
Multnomah county require a greater
allotment than the G 00.000 ahare at
ready set aside from the $4,100,000
fund granted Oregon.
A dispatch to the Oregonlan said
Mayor Carson, after a conference with
T H. Mac Don aid of the bureau of
public roads, "hinted rather broadly
that the Oregon state highway com
missions report would not be ap
proved. In fact, he Intimated that
It would be sent back for reconsidera
tion."
The Journal dispatch quoted Car
fon as having aald: 'I do not ques
tion the good fslth of the commis
sion, but I believe its members have
misconceived the purpose of the law,
which is primarily for relief and in-
tended to be expended In largest
measure where the need of relief Is
the greatest. I am contending for
nothing more than the law contem
plates we shoutd have.'1
Portland and the county have ask
ed the highway commission for 80
ler cent of the state's allocation, on
the grounds a preponderant propor
tion of the state's unemployed live
here.
Siskiyou Mining
Company Formed
SACRAMENTO. Cel., Sept. 27 (AP)
Washington and Oregon men were
named as directors of the China
Point Development company a general
mining corporation capltallwd at
50,000 to operate from field head
quarters In Yreka. Blsxlyou county.
The directors are L. H. Markham of
Edmonds, Wash., and B. H. Balrer,
Asal Strain and T. L. CMe of Seattle.
love to her In front of me and kissed
l-r. I kept quiet. When Lewis kiss
ed me, she became insanely Jealous."
During the day Beulah and Sylvia
did the housework and catty remarks
were made.
The love test, however, cams to an
end when Lewis' brother Joseph came
to the house and argued with htm
about the affair. Lewis stabbed Jos
eph and ran. Joseph is In a hospital
snd the police are looking for Lewis.
Sylvia's husband la willing to take
rer back but tha police are unwilllni
to let hr go.
UNDER NRA FLAG
815,000 Returned to Work
in August Difficulty
With Henry Ford Provides
Worry for Administration
WASHINGTON. Sept. 28 (AP,
Big employment gains today wera
attributed to the Roosevelt recovery
program by William Green, American
Federation of Labor chieftain, but
employer-labor difficulties this time
Involving Henry Ford continued to
worry NRA officials.
Green sntd the federation's estimate
that 815,000 persons returned to work
in August represented "greater pro
gress In employment than In any
month since depression." He counted
the remaining unemployed at 11.001,
000 and said "relief needs this win
ter will be greater than ever before."
Coincident with Green's comments
on the recovery program were fresh
Intimations that a change In mone
tary policies to aid farm prices may
be forthcoming soon. Dr. James H.
Rogers of Yale returned from a talk
with President Roosevelt to confer
with ranking federal financial offi
cers.
Though official comment wss lack
ing, the Rogers conferences served to
revive talk of a commodity dollar with
leas than the present dollar's buying
power.
While representatives of the alu
minum and banking businesses gath
ered for public hearings today on
their NRA codes, recovery officials
were concerned at the sudden closing
of the Ford plant at Chester, Pa.,
after a strike of workers. Henry Ford
has never signed the automobile code.
"The NRA la powerfcsa if an em
ployer chooses to shut down his
plant," Senator Wagner, chairman
of the national labor board, com
mented when a mediator sent to con.
dilate the atrike reported the plant
closed. .
"The recovery act does not require
anyone to operate if he does not so
choose," Wsgner added.
LIQUOR CONTROL
HEARING SLATED
PORTLAND, Sept. 3a. (AP) A
hesrlng on method of regulating
liquor distribution in Oregon efter
repeal of the Iflth amendment will ba
held here Saturday, October 7, and
the public may be Invited to attend.
Thla was announced here Wednes
day by Dr. William 8. Knox, chair
man of the liquor control committee
appointed by Oovernor Meier to mak
recommendatlona to the legislature.
The committee deferred It decision
after a three-hour meeting here yes
terday, and decided on the October 1
aeaslon.
Although hotel men have asked
that after repeal they be allowed to
sell any kind of liquor with meal
and by the glass at any time of the
day In their dining rooms. Dr. Knox
ssld none of the committee members
favor sale by hotel of hard liquor
without meals.
WILL-
ROGERS
Soys:
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Sept.
27. Roscoe Turner crossed the
country in 10 hours. That's
bringing towns too close to
gether. Railroads are finally waking
up. They are building a new
train that wan't modeled in
the nineties.
But we have to take the bad
news with the fcrood. Ring Lard
ner died. Vou can always get
better planes, better trains, but
we can't get another Ring
Lardner. What a privilege to
hare known him since those
good old days when he wrote
sketches for Mr. Ziegfeld's Fol
Hps. In years to come when li
braries put just books in one
wing and literature in tho oth
er you are mighty liable to find
Lardncr's writings right in
with the literature.
&1MI MaHtuiat traflwia, a
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