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Grid Fans! Give the Boys a Hand by Taming Oat Saturday for Medford- Weed Game Medford Mail Tribt ne The Weather rorecast: rslr tonight snd Sstordst. Cooler tonight. Temperature. Highest yesterday ! I .on est thU morning - 88 Watch the TRIBUNE'S CLASSIHKO AOS . . . Lots of good bargains that mean genuine saving. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1933. Twenty-eighth Year No. 163. TAX Tares M i mm Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS GOVERNOR ARTHUR BELIFMAH, ot New Mexico, sged . drop" dead In his hotel room at Albuquer que Immediately after delivering n address to the state bankers' associa tion. Heart (allure, the papers tell us brought on. probably, by the slight excitement accompanying the de IKery of his speech. ON THE same day. Dr. Henry Suz talo. president of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement ot teaching and iormer president ot the University of Washington, dies sud denly In Seattle. Heart disease again. m weart disease, as ol course you I-! know, la the LEADING cause ot death In this country. Why? Probably because ol the kind ot Ule we Americans lead speed, high tension, nervous strain. t We pay for EVERYTHING In the Jons run, and heart dlsesse Is the price we pay for the kind ot life we lead. wnhath. within the past couple ot U days, has been choosing heavily from among tha well known. Rlns Lardner, famous humorist, passes at his home In New York In tha 48th year of his lite still young man. HEART DISEASE, complicated In this instance by other ailments, Is given by the doctors as the cause ot' death. ONE of the. complicating ailments was tuberculosis, against which he had fought for 10 years. In all these ten years, with death hovering always over him, ready to swoop and strike at any moment, he went ahead cheerfully with his Job as a humorist, making mllllona laugh. It takes real courage to look death steadily In the eys and then crack Joke. This writer, for one, ADMIRES courage like that. H SO FAR, In the news of one day, we have been dealing with death at retail. At Tamptco, oil town on the east eoast of Mexico, death la dealt out at wholesale by a eudden hurricane sweeping In from the Carrlbean. As these words are written, estlmstes clicking In otf the wires Indicate a total of some five thousand killed or severely Injured. Imagine the entire population of Ashlsnd wiped out and you csn get some idea of the Tamplco dUaster. AT THIS season of the year, the tropical part of the east coast of North America Is never free from the fear of hurricanes. Yet people continue to live there. The town of Tamplco, destroyed in a few moments without warning, will be REBUILT. It takes more than the fear ot death to keep people from living where they want to live. M ISA MATTER ot fact, the tear of f death has NEVER deterred any one really worth while from doing what he wanted to do and considered worth doing. That Is at least ONI rather ad mirable trait In human nature, along with tralta that are not so admirable, Most of the progress this world haa seen haa come about because some body had the courage to go ahead In tha face of tear. FOR N. I yTVf YORK, Sept. M iP Joseph V. MoKee announced hla candidacy today for mayor of New York city. His announcement, handed out by Chat-lea Keenan, hie associate, set at rest one of the moet v:orou:y pltyed euewimt camf that haa struck New nrk political circle. MoKee will tun aa an Independent Democrat aealnst Major Fiorello I fuard:i. independent Republican run ning under the fusion banner, anr, Maror John P. O'Brien, the candi date o! Tamaiaaj; hail. TO GET PLAN FOR Meier Committee Decides Liquor Traffic Should Bear Brunt of Furnishing Aid to State's Unemployed PORTLAND. Sept. 39. (AP) An $8,000,000 relief program In which the state of Oregon will raise $5,000,000. and the government will provide the rest, haa been agreed upon aa neces sary to meet the unemployment situa tion in Oregon for the next 16 months. At an all-day session here Thurs day the governor's "committee of 32" completed its findings. The governor Is expected to deliver the report to the legislature In special session, probably about October 23. Rum to Yield $2,500,000. A tax on alcoholic liquors will con stitute the largest single Item In the program to provide the necessary $5, 000.000. It was estimated that after repeal of the 18th amendment, state sal and control of hard liquor, and the beer and wine taxea will yield 92.550,000 of the necessary money. An Increase In the state's "take" of parl-mutuel betting on horse and dog racing from 2 '4 to 10 per cent, estimated to raise 9500.000, waa agreed upon. To RaUe Auto Fees. The committee decided to recom mend another change in the license fees for automobiles, placed on i flat $5 a year basts by the last leglS' lature. The new proposal is for i graduated automobile license fee which takes Into consideration age and value of the machine. This is (Continued on Page Five.) T E PORTLAND, Sept. 29. (AP, Mayor Joseph K. Carson declared to day that Portland doesn't Intend to gef Into any fight with the upstate counties over the allocation of federal highway funds, but it Is entitled to an honest difference of opinion as to the Judgment of the highway com- mlbslon in making that allocation. Carson issued the statement In commenting on a telegram sent to Washington. D. C, by the Oregon Association of County Judges and Commissioners, protesting against any delay In the allocation of federal funds and resisting the effort made by Carson In the capltol to have the allocation set aside. SALEM, Sept. 29 (AP) In an oral opinion late yesterday the state supreme court refused to grant a temporary injunction to restrain en forcement of contract and private carrier regulations of the bus and truck law, pending their appeal to the supreme court. The restraining Injunction denied by the supreme court was requested by the Oregon rruck Owners and Farmers association. Circuit Judge Le welling had de clrred th contract and private car rier regulations of the law Invalid In the case of Anderson vs. Thomas. PORTLAND, Sept. 29. (yp) Th flag at the city hall here flew at half mast today in tribute to the memory of Lewis Havermale, 65. veteran city rail reporter for the Oregon Journal, Havermale died at a hospital here .aat night. He had been 111 several months. Havermale Joined the Journal staff soon alter the World war. FATHER REGRETS SLAYING YOUNG SON TO END MISERY BEAVER. Pa.. Sept. 20 . Plead ing guilty to slaying hla 13-year-old invalid son to save him from suffer ing. Robert J. Slmmington says he row recret what he regarded at first as an "act of mercy." There might have been "some other way out," he told the court yester day. Previously' Simmuigton, an unem ployed bookkeeper, said he felt the bov. Burton, fared a hopeless future because ol Ulaeai. poverty and bome- Robbers' Hostage Hilaria Schmidt, 22 -year -old bookkeeper of the Farmers' State bank of Hays, Kas., was held as hostage several hours by four robbers as they fled with $3,000 taken from the bank. (Associated Press Photo) HAVE RECORDS OF E CR1 Sidney Joseph. 52, arrested by the state police here earlier In the week is James Hamilton Joseph, and his brother-in-law, John W. O'Malley, who gave his name at the time of arrest aa George Doyle, were return cd to Wasco county early till morn ing by city and county officers from The Dalles. Mrs. Ruby Joseph, also under arrest on burglary warrants, will probably be taken north Monday by the Wasco county matron. Records received by the state ponce today gave long prison records for. both Joseph and O'Malley. Twelve aliases were listed for Joseph, and his record shows that he has served In the Nevada state prison. .Wyoming state prison. San Quentln penitenti ary Jn California, " Iowa reformatory and Iowa state prison. where he es caped in 1916 and waa returned In 1917. His extensive career of crime, which started in 1905, also shows that he was in the insane asylum at Los Angeles before being lodged In the .South Illinois atate prison, and was paroled, but records show he violated the parole. He escaped from the Texas prison where he was held fir burglary. In 1928. His companion, O'Malley, had told officers he waa an escape from the state penitentiary in Texas, which is verified by the record at the state police office, obtained through re ports on the man's fingerprints. The papers show he escaped from the Clemen's state farm July 13 of this 5 ear. Four aliases were given for O'Mal ley, who waa first sentenced at Dallas, Tex., for a postoffloe robbery. He spent four years in Fort Leavenworth federal penitentiary. O'Malley served a term in Chalen, Wash., county Jail in 1920, and Is now wanted In Los Angeles on charges of robbing a ssfe. The trio, arrested , Tuesday on Thompson creek, are being returned to the northern city where they al legedly committed burglaries. r HOLLYWOOD, Cal.. Sept. 29. (AP) Mrs. Margaret Talmadge, mother of the three Talmadge sisters of the screen Norma. Constance and Nata lie died at a hospital today of pneu monia. &'ie was well known aa i counsellor and comforter of many personages of tbe movie colony. Charlie Chaplin liked to test her re action to hla "gaga", Frances Marlon sought her comment on scenarios and Richard Barthelmess and many other movie start went to her for advice. :eaneM. The child's mother la dead. Simlngton testified that six weeks ago on the pretext of curing his son's cold, he placed a salve of anaes- :hetlc over the boy's nose, auffocst- :ng him. The father then tried to commit suicide by inhaling gas, he said, but the attempt falling, he walked Into the county jail and aked to be a -rested. I Jii't killed rnv boy," officer quoted him aa saying DENY FORD PLANS TO CLOSE PLANTS Informal Revelation Refutes Reports Strikers Trying to Tie Up Carnegie Steel Plant at Clairton, Pa. HYTVE PARK. N. Y., Sept. 29. (jpl president Roosevelt late to day announced an agreement had been worked out by the N. R. A. officials, bringing the mines own ed by steel companies In trou bled western Pennsylvania under the terms of the bituminous code of working hours and wages. DETROIT, Sept. 29. P) A printed report that the Ford Motor company vould close all its planta If pressed by labor troubles was authoritatively aatd today to be without foundation. While the company stuck to its es tablished policy of not issuing de nials of unsubstantiated reports. It waa revealed Informally that no authorized spokesman of the firm was responsible for the published re port. HYDE PARK, N. Y.. Sept. 29. Vl Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania f'.ew here today to confer with Presi dent Roosevelt on moves to end the labor trouble In western Pennsyl vania bituminous fields, where 7,500 men are on strike. Asked If he was going to request federal intervention, the governor re plied that "I am going to talk over everything." (By the Associated Press.) Strike scenes dotted the country from coast to coast today, wtlh these highlight: Pittsburgh 3,000. to 8.000 sLnglne, shouting mlnera converged on the Blf Clairton plant of Carnegie Steel They sought to swing 6.000 Clairton workers into the "holiday" movement of 65.000 ateel and mine workers .n three states. Detroit Henry Ford had labor troubles on his hands. Workers In his Chester. Pa., assembly plant, hav- n;r, gone on strike, motored to Edge- water, N. J., yesterday and started a strike in the Ford plant there. They threatened to proceed to Dearborn to picket. Labor troubles also beset the Richmond, Cal.. plant. Flint, Mich. The national labor board sought a settlement of strike cf several thousand auto tool and die makers in Flint, Detroit and Pontlac. PhiladelphiaBread became increas ingly hard to get as a strike of bak ery drivers entered lta fourth day. Paterson, N. J. A strike continued to tie up the silk industry. Washington The national labor fcoard was moving to settle many strikes. Including the one Involving the Ford Motor company. New York Thirty-one hundred knitting workers were expected to re turn to work Monday as the result of a tentative agreement with their employers. 4 Another cruel and baseless rumor wns circulated over the city and county yesterday, causing needless anxiety. It was reported that Ralph G. Jennings, former cherlff and well known resident of the county, had endeavored to commit suicide at a C. C. C. camp in the Crater Lake area, and waa In the Sacred Heart hospital.' Investigation showed Jen nings In good health and much sur prised at such a crazy rumor. The rumor was apparently the product of a malignant mind, and started In sheer cussedness by poison tongue. The rumor comes under the Oregon slander laws. It hes been partially traced to it our:e A month ago a similar vicious ru mor was circulated, to the effect that K.ck Klme of Orlffen creek, pioneer resident and well known, had ban klled in an auto accident. At fie me of his purported demise Klme waa at home eating dinner. The Klme borne wa besieged with shone calls for two houra as a result of the rumor. Ahwilte Artor's Hon. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29. (API John Huston, playwright son nf Wal ter Huston, film actor, was absolved from blame today by a coroner s Jury for the accident in which his auto mobile struck and killed Tosca Rou llen. wife of Raoul Roullen, Brabillan movie star, in Hollywood Wednesday night. WASHINGTON. Sept. 29. (AP) The war department today approved plana of the Oregon state highway commission for constructing a bridge acmes Coos Bay at North Bend. This li one of five bridge proposed by the highway commission for the Oregon Coast highway. Mail Tribune Ad Sold Fifty Pullets For Mr. Cummings "I sold all my pullets. 50 of which I had advertised. I could have told 600 If I had had them to spare. The Tribune la aurely a go-getter." So read a letter re ceived today by the Medford Mail Tribune from Mrs. William Cum mings, who resides five miles out on the Midway road from Central Point. Mrs. Cummings had printed In the classified ad department of the Mail Tribune a small Inser tion concerning the sale of her pullets. As a result of the first venture, Mrs. Cummlnga has plac ed another ad In the columns. E OKLAHOMA CITY. Sept. 29. (AP) The case of 10 defendants charged with kidnaping Charles F. Ursnhel went to the Jury at 4:09 p. m. today. MEMPHIS. Tenn.. Sept. 29. (AP A strange spectacle, George ("Ma chine Gun") Kelly chafed In his prison cell here today as federal agents moved guardedly with their plans to change hla address to simi lar uarters at Oklahoma City. When captured by officers Tuesday morning he was smoothly iViaven and his dark hair was freshly dyed yel low. After four days In Jail, he had a heavy dark beard, eyebrows that are partly bdond and partly brnuette and hair that la dappued blond and brown. HALTllPPING BULKAPPLES K BLOWN A, B. C Sept. 29. (AP) W. E. Hasklns, president cf the Brit ish Columbia Fruit Growers' associa tion, said today an Injunction had been granted against shipment of bulk carloads of Mcintosh apples from this district, and hundreds of grow ers who had formed a human bar rier against the railroad tracks all night, cheered and went home. Hasklns said railroad companies had given assurance that no such shipment would move. The fruit growers' committee had been advised. Demanding better fruit prices about 500 men, women and children had blockaded the tracka, peaceably pre venting movement of freight care. 4 BEND, Ore., Sept. 39. fp The Org eon Bar association opened Its 1933 convention here today with prac tically every county of the state rep resented. By tonight. It wa expected legistratlon would exceed 200. Visit ing attorney and Jurists were wel comed by Jay H. Upton, member of the a tat senate, and Dr. J. F. Hosch, mayor of Bend. Reports of Arthur K. MoMahan of Albany, association president, and John Guy Wilson, secretary, occu pied the opening session. Richard W. Montague of Portland, John H. Carson of Salem and Roy Raley of Pendleton were placed on the reaolu tlons committee. GOLF WIDOW WOULD DIVORCE HUSBAND VISALLV Cal.. Sept. 39. (AP) Charging that William F. Herman, president of the Tulare Packing Co., refused to play golf with her as his partner, Mrs. Bertha V. nerman sued for a divorce today. They married 84 years ago. BIG WAR DECLARED COMING FAR EAST GENEVA, Sept. 29. (AP) All Signs in the Far East point to a major conflict In the next few years, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese minis ter to France, aald in an address to day before the League of Nations as sembly. In which he flayed the Japanese Invasion of Manchuria. SALEM, Ore., Sept. 28. J(AP) The assistance of the auditing divi sion of the secretary of state's of fice In correcting accounting defi ciencies at any of th Institutions of higher education was sought yes terday by Chancellor W. J. Kerr In a conference with Secretary of State Hal K. Hoas. PORTLAND, Sept. ,29 JTt Pay ment of 1248.375, alleged to be the j mount of bonds and coupons in de fault, was demanded In a suit filed I in federal court here today, naming I ms defendant the Port of Astoria, :U I man afters and the board of commU i t loners. THREE KILLED AS Wild Confusion Follows At tempt to Disperse Demon strators ' Obelisk De stroyed by Angry Troops R4YA.NA. Sept. 29. (AP) Joe Gibson, 46, an American News reel photograher, was shot and wounded during the street fight ing here this afternoon. HAVANA, Sept. 29. ( AP) At least three- persona were killed and eleven wounded when soldiers opened fire today on communist marching In a demonstration staged In honor of Julio Antonio Mella, slain atudent communist leader, who was killed in Mexico. Scenes of wildest confusion ensued after the soldiers attempted to dis perse the demonstrators. Leaping Into the streets from their posts on guard along the communist line of march, they seized the pa radera" fallen bannere. Jumping on them and cursing the communists. Then, turning toward an obelisk reared In Fraternity park as a memo rial and as a burial place for Mel las ashes, the soldiers stopped the men at work on the monument and de stroyed It. Guards were thrown about the obe lisk, which had not been completed. Photographers were not permitted to make pictures of the ruined memo rial. An occasional pistol shot waa heard amid the desultory firing of soldiers' riflei, Indicating some believed that nlpera were returning the fire. One soldier wss wounded by sluga from, the weapon of a sniper perched top -communist headquarters in Reina atreet, A terrific thunder storm struck the city Jn mid-afternoon as the firing began .to slacken. . As gun rattled a red automobile draped with communist flags moved about Reina and nearby streets. Its occupant apparently giving orders to the communist. At the height of the confusion, Am bassador Sumner Welles of the United States, who wa criticized on banners born by the marchers, arrived at the embassy, about a mile from the most Intense action, and received re ports on the situation. f . T BURN REICHSTAG LEIPZIG, Germany, Sept. 2fl. (AP) Marlnus Van der Lubbe made an unequivocal admission of guilt in the burning of the German relchstag building at today's session of the case in which he and four other men are on trial. Judge Wilhelm Fuenger announced Van der Lubbe would give hi own version of the burning. Thereupon the defendant, atandlng with droop ing shoulders and downcast eyes, re plied hesitantly and reluctantly as Buonger on a baala of an earlier eon few ton, drew a confirmation ' from Van der Lubbe. "Do you admit setting fire yourself to the relchstag?" the Judge demand ed. A'most in audibly Van der Lubbe replied "yes." Postpone Festival. Th e Jackson Cou n ty Har vast Home Festival, scheduled for Oc tober 6, 6 and 7, has been indefi nitely postponed, it was announced by John Moffatt, chairman of the retail merchants' commute of th Chamber of Commerce, thl morn ing. Lack of sufficient entries by the producers was given as the reason. 670 CONDEMNED FELONS OFF FOR DRY GUILLOTINE 8T. MARTIN DE TtK, Frsnce. Sept. 20. ( AP) The convict ship La Mar tlnlere sailed today with 670 caged crlmlna's in Its holds, . voyaging In chain towtrd the "dry guillotine" of French Kulana 4000 miles away. . An anonymou crowd for th mtst part, condemned In msny Instances to bsnlshment for life, the human freight waa the first shipment In twit years to depart for the three lilands Including the famous Devil's inland off tha eastern cotst of South America that form the distant prison colonies of Prance. Among th unwilling paasengera never to return unlea they escape and 100 convict have escaped within Framing NRA Code si C H Llndssy Rogers, professor of pub Ho law st Columbia university and temporarily a deputy administrator of the NRA, Is In charge of framing an NRA coda for the many branches of the n,owspsper and printing ln dustrlea. (Associated Presa Photo) T Henrietta B. Martin, president of the .self-styled "Good Government Congress,' Indicted for "riotous con duct," is scheduled to go on trlil in circuit court next Monday. The district attorney's office reports that Mrs. Martin' attorney, T. J. En rl(?ht, has Intimated a willingness to o'fer to try the case before the court, and without a Jury. Acceptance (iiscretionary with the court. Judge H. D. Norton announced to day that, owing to many attorney having cases before the federal court, which open next Tuesday here, the criminal docket would be called soon er than Intended, to avoid any con fllct. Counsel in the pending civil suits, In many instances, are not ready for trial, was a further reason Mrs. Martin Is specifically charged with attempting to lash Leonard W. Hall, editor of the Jacksonville Mlnr, lb front of the Dally News office on the evening of February 25, last. E, L. Fitch and L. O. VanWegan, two reputed "congressmen," are listed (Continued on Page Four) 4- ALLEN BEQUEST VALUED $337,271 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29. (AP) The estate of Mas Margaret Keith, eccentric recluse who killed herself In Beverly Hills last April, la valued at $337,'i71, In an appraisal on file today In probate court. At her death, the estate was estl mated at upwards of 13,000,000. She had willed the estate to a nephew, Albert C. Allen, Jr., of Central Point, Ore. Contest of th will was filed by other relutlve and la still ponding, In the appraisal, the largest single Item In the estate was gven aa 114,' 200 stock in the f-liver King mine of Utah. Her Beverly Hills mansion was valued at $92,500 and her house the Palos Verdes bills at $38,000. FIRST PRUNE DRIER GOES UP IN SMOKE ROSEBURG,' Ore., Sept. 29 (AP) The first prune drier fire of the sea son occurred last night when the R. E. Strong drier, located two miles east of Myrtle Creek, waa totally de stroyed with its contents of about 200 bushels of prune. - the last yearwas Ouy Davln, 26-year-old "ne'er-do-well" convicted of slaying an American, Richard Wall, for the 1300 that Wall, a chance ac quaintance, poAseRecd. Davln, like many of hla sorry shipmates, was sentenced to hard labor and exile for life. Pale and llft'ejs from stays of a year or more In various French pris ons, some of them 111 or fainting from despair, the bands of malefac tors, handcuffed and their feet In chains, shuffled aboard th ship be tween hedge of soldiers with bay onets fixed. The public was barred from the dock. FUNDS ALLOTED T $20,000,000 Set Aside lor Construction of Naviga tion and Power Project Will Aid Employment PORTMNP, Ore., Stpt 9. CAP) MsJ. C. r. millsm,, dlMrlct P. I. 1 entlnivr h.rr. said today h hum to hare the engineering offices for the Bonneville dam opened In Port lend next week and thai, a engineers and draftmen win be put to work on the MI.OOO.OOO project a. sonn as authorization Is received rrom Wuhlnrton. D. c. WASHINGTON. SeDt. !10fAj The publlo works administration to. day allotted $20,000,000 for th con struction of a dam and six power units at Bonneville, Ore., on the Col- umois. river, to Boost employment In the srea and make the Columbia navigable beyond The Dalles, Ore. rne total coat of the development which will combine power, naviga tion and flood control, win be 3i . 000.000. It will benefit a larcn the Pacific northwest, especlslly Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and will result In generation of cheap power for the area with additional power unite to be added later aa the market for power expands. it wss estimated work on the dam will be given 17.000 men, with be tween 300 and 800 to be employed within 48 days. Senator Charles ti. McNsry ot Ore gon, who consulted with President Roosevelt this week about the project declared today "I am very happy at the action of the- publio works ad miiilstrstlon fixing the atatus of the Bounavllle dam snd authorising Its construction.': "Our energy now can he directed to an early commercement of the actual work of construction," he con tinued. "It la a chain in the utilization of the Columbia river and will be the major factor In Industrialisation of the Psslflo northwest. Its feasibility Is based upon reporta of army engi neers snd the adoption of the project Is due to the foresight snd vision of President Roosevelt." SCHEDULED OCT. 31ST The proposed budget for the city of Medford for the coming year, which culls for an expenditure of 188.044.18. wilt be advertised for a public hearing October 81, Mayor 8. M. Wilson stated today. The amount Is slightly In excess of the total adopted In last year's budget. WILL- ROGERS p3oys: BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Sept. 28. While some of these radio commissions are telling how many killowatts and how many detours stntions can have, why don't they limit them to how many rumors they can broad cast without any single iota of facts. I am getting tired of being used as the object of some catastrophe and I suppose lots of others have the same thing happen to 'cm all over the country. Let 'cm lose some lnwsuiis and then they will start investigating before they Btart broadcasting. Well, I see where the New York Stock Exchange bluffed Tammany out of the tax. They are going to put it on the street car and subway travelers. . (Note: Reports were broadcast thru Csllfomla Wednesday of the Injury or desth of Will Rogers In an acci dent. Reference 'n the second para graph of hla dispatch ts to those re ports, not published In Medford.) . gl MtXiuM tondltit. laa, .
