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Medford Stores to Serve Public Friday Night; Clc,d Saturday The Weather Forecast: Fait tonight and Friday Medford Mail Watch the TBIUINli'ti CLASSlt'ltU 408 . . Lots of good bargains thai moan genuine savings. but becoming unsettled chance In temperature. Highest yesterday .. lowest this morning... Little ITwenty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1933. No. 198. 4 Hi Era Kl 1 - AWs 1 2000 CAPITULATE BMnd WHEN FORTRESS t llihi IS MADE TARGET j Q urn II III Buya.ranaMj By Paul Mallon Copyright,' 1933, by Paul Mallon. Information WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. It looks like everything la going to be all right between the administration and the etocfc market. , The highest authorities here re cently Informed President Whitney 01 the exchange that they would rather r have the marketeers lead their own reformation. That Is why their NHA code was handed back to them for the Inclusion of fair trade practices. This will surely soothe the traders who have been quaking In their boot about what the administration was going to do with them. There Is good reason lor expecting now that the regulatory legislation t the coming session of congress will be satisfactory all around. Bargains During the past Jew days bootleg whisky caissons have been rolling along capital by-waya In Increasing numbers. A bootleg boom Is on. Illicit liquor purveyors have fright ened their customers Into believing that whisky wUl cost so much after repeal that they had better buy now. They offer what is said to be a Jalrly palatable concoction known as Maryland rye. Tests have proved that it preserves the same combustible merits as dynamite. It retails at 68 per gallon or Vi per quart when pur chased in large quantltlea. They as sert It la three years old, but the aa eertlon as well a the product prob- ably would never pasa the test of prof. Tugwell'fl proposed food and drug act. Et lilts The bootleggers have warned all customers that delivery can only be guaranteed up until December 6. They say they will lose their social prestige on about that date. Instead . luna rainat.hl. Mln nf mm. xnerce, they will become despised amugglers. That would not hurt them so much but they swear that the minions of the law cannot promise them lmmu nlty any more. It sounds like a good sales talk The government officials have accept ed It on that basis. They have real feed for aome weeks that they have a problem to keep the price of legal attrnulants low enough to stamp out bootleg stuff. That Is the theory upon which gov ernment taxes and regulations arc be ing worked out. It should benefit the consumer. Yawns a Current disclosures before the sen ate banking committee are not mak ing much of an Impression on the Inside. The data Indicates little has occur red In Wall Street within the last lour years that Is worth investigating. Evils date back to the decade of the terrible twenties. Legislation to curb the worst of them has already been passed. Security affiliates are to be abolished under the Glass bill within a year and a half. The truth-insecurities bill should prevent flota tion of wildcat stocks and bonds. The coming legislation win be de voted largely to correcting details. One of tho.se Is the system under which traders escane surtaxes by In corporating themselves. The investigators will unquestion ably recommend a change in law so that only corporations doing a legiti mate commercial business can escape the high surtax rates by paying the relavely smaller corporation tax. Autopsy Another point which has not been brought out clearly In the senate In vestigation is that John iD. Rocke feller reformed the Chase-National setup when he found out two years ago the very things which the com mittee la finding out now. The former chase chairman, Albert H. Wtggln, Is as much out of the cur rent Wall Street picture aa Charles Mitchell. What the senate committee la try trig to do la to write such a tight, detailed law that the free ballooning theories of finance can never carte back. The main idea la to make the reformation complete and permanent. In that respect the Inquiry Is an autopsy on a dead era. Patronage General Farley, who has been try ing to cure the unemployment situa tion by getting Jobs for deserving democrats, has encountered more tartar at the Tennessee Valley Im provement headquarters. It seems that Senator Norrls, who wrote the law, included a provision that political considerations should NOT enter in'.o selection of personnel. Those who are running the setup are satd to have taken the law literally. That means anyone with a note .'.-om Farley Is Immediately disquali fied from getting . Job. The issue probably will not be car ried to such an extent as to work a Ancient Walls Smashed by Naval and Artillery Fire of Loyal Cuban Forces . Casualties Are Unknown WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. (AP) Threats from Cuban revolutionary factions to sack American prop erty unless the battle over con trol of the government Is set tled quickly today brought ap peals for protection to the state department from united states Interests In Havana. HAVANA, NOV. 9. (AP) A tares fortress, stronghold of rebellious Cu ban troops, surrendered definitely at 2:07 p. m. today. More than twenty white flags were flying above the battlements of the ancient fortress, whose walls had been smashed by artillery and naval gunfire when the definite capitula tion was received. 2000 In Stronghold The forces holding the stronghold were believed to number about 2,000 men at the beginning of the san guine conflict. Close observers did not know how many survivors were left nor, for that matter, did they have any idea of what the casualties in the fight ing had been on either side. Two gunboats and at least three batteries of artillery pieces had been sent Into action by government troops under the commands of Col. Pulgencio Batista, commander in chief of the army. Fighting for De Cespedcs The rebels, directed by the ABO radical secret society, announced at the beginning of the conflict that they were fighting to restore former President Dr. Carlos Manuel de Ces pedca to the palace from which he had been ousted to make way for the present regime. Red Cross field stations, operating throughout the territory around the grim old mass of masonry atop the hill which commands the city, were unable to 'communicate with each other because of the terrific lire. SLATED FOR DROP PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. o.(AP) Gasoline distributors here at noon today had received no notification to reduce t,he price of motor fuel, although a 2-cent drop was general In the south. No reductions will be made unless Instructions are received from headquarters, the Oregon dis tributors said. They believed there Is little doubt that similar cuts will be made In Oregon, although It may be a day or two before notification Is received. GET TRAIL WORK PORTLAND, -Not. t.IP R. I. Stuart & Sons. Medford contractors, submitted the low bid of S29.133 here today for 6.6 miles of sub-grade re inforcing on the Tlller-Trall hlh way In Douglas county. Proposals were opened by the bureau of public roads. The worle will be carried m midway between Tiller and Trail. A. Milne of Portland bid SM.523, and Saxton ft Looney eg Corvallis bid 34,787. BITTER BATTLE LOOMS IN GOTHAM DEMOCRACY Bt T. I). IIAGENBIXH. NEW YORK. Not. P. (AP) The Tammany Tiger surveyed today the wreckage left by Mayor-elect Fiorello H. Laguardlft's smashing fusion vlc- . tory today and sought to repair Its shattered wigwam. The prorect of a bitter fight In 1 the city's Democratic ranks was seen I In a statement by John F. Curry. Tammany chief, accusing Postmaster I General James A. Farley, state and ' national Democratic chairman, of dis rupting the party In the city, and S asserting that if Farley remained In party office, the Democrats could not look for victory Jn next year's elec tion. Meanwhile, the fiiPionits. Jubilant over eon: rot of the city government Why I Favor The Chest i , Neany two iiunarea Meafora men and women have given generously of their time as well as their money to assure the success of the Community Chest campaign. They are deserving, of commendation for their splendid sacrifice, and other citizens of this city should certainly do their part In putting the drive for Chest funds "over the top." With 85 per cent of the quota reached, we must not leave it to others to contribute the final 15 per cent. It Is a worthy cause; an obligation that must be fulfilled. I believe that the Com munity Chest offers the most prac tical means of securing and distrib uting welfare and character-building money and Is deserving of enthusi astic support. H you have not been reached by Chest workers, end In your contribu tion, or contact a member of the "mop up" committee. You will find a lot ;of personal satisfaction in giving to a worthwhile and highly Import ant cause. C. E. GATES. C. B. Gates Auto Company 20,000 PLANNED ON STATE ROAOS SALEM, Not. ft. P) The state highway department was today form ulating a program to put 20,000 un employed men to work within the next 30 days under the $400,000,000 emergency relief program announced by President Roosevelt yesterday. Application for $7,800,000 to $10, 000.000 civil works grant money for construction of primary and second ary state highways was announced in the tentative program. Special permission to employ 10.- 000 men in the improvement or stale parks, county market roads and sim ilar project unmentioned In the public works act wit! also be sought. R. H. Baldock, state highway en gineer, asked complete details and requirements of the loans in a tele gram to Administrator Harry nop kins. Baldock advised Hopkins that $7,500,000 road projects are now sur veyed and ready for letting. This could be increased to $10,000,085 within 30 davs. Bnldock stated. Most of the projects included in Governor Julius h. Meier's suggested $1,000,000 PWA road program are among those mentioned by Baldock. The civil works funds are complete grants, while the PWA funds are 30 per cent grants and 70 per cent loans. GIESY, PIONEER MEDIC, DIES OF HEART ATTACK PORTLAND. Ore., Nor. 0. (AP)- Dr. Andrew Jackson Olesy, 80, one of Oredon's pioneer physicians, died at his home here today. He retired from his long medical . career two years ago, and had been In excellent health until stricken by a heart at tack 10 days ago. strengthen their position by forming a permanent organisation. Maurice P. Davidson, party chairman, said the fusion organlratlon would con tinue on a militant basis "to enforce the principal of non-partlsanslilp." Iagu?.rdia planned a vacation to recuperate from the hard-hitting campaign In which he rolled up a 262.000 plurality. Graft must go. he said, and expenditures must be cut to the bone. He also atma to revise the city charter, abolishing the board of aldermen and making other fundamental changes. Concerning the disorders at the polls Tuesdav, Lsguardia satd elec tions during the next four years "are going to be so nice and orderly that little children will be able to skip rope outMde of any polling place in OIL POOL PROFIT IS INVESTIGATED Insiders Reaped Vast For tune Without Putting Up Cent in Cash, Is Claim Before Senate Committee WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. (AP) Ar thur Cutten, stock trader, told sen ate Investigators today the Personal company owned by member of his family, paid no income tax on a 3,000,0m pool profit in 1920, because It had met losses for the year. By NATHAN BOBERISOO.N Associated Press Staff Writer. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. (AP) Disclosure that the New York stock exchange Is Investigating a huge oil stock pool In 1929 through which Insiders received 12,000,000 profit without putting up any cash was made today to the senate banking committee. Arthur Cutten, noted trader who managed the pool, told of the opera tions of the huge account In Sinclair Consolidated Oil company stock, re plying briefly In a low voice to ques tions by Ferdinand Pecora, commit tee counsel. First Time Santa Claus. He said he did not know why 300, 009 was paid out of the pool's profits to William 8. Pltzpatrlck, an official of.Pralrle Oil, which then was a com petitor of the Sinclair companj. "Is that the first time you have been an involuntary Santa Claus?" Pecora asked. The gray haired, taciturn trader nodded his head In agreement. Profits from the pool to Harry F. (Continued on Page Eight) TO HIGHER LEVEL WASHINGTON, Not. 8. (AP) A price of ff33.15 per ounce for Recon struction corporation purchasea of newly mined domestic gold was aet today, an Increase of ten cents over yesterday's figure and another new high. Meanwhile, the skidding dollar car ried the dollar of gold at London to (32.63, an advance of 27 cents since yesterday. Today's quotation la com puted at the opening London ex ohango rate of 4.9B!4, but later the dollar slid to a record low of $5.01 ',4 to the pound, The actual London quotation in British currency, however, declined 11 pence. Today's domestlo figure was 82 cents above that of the London mar ket while yesterday's was 69. L LOinSVILLE, Ky., Not. 9. (AP) Repeal of tha eighteenth amendment by December 5 was virtually assured today. Repeal was leading by 31,272 votes In Kentucky when the Blue Qrasa state started its second day of ballot tabulation. The vote in 874 precincts out of 4.204 gave repeal 74,171 voles to 62, 899 against. Sixty precincts out of 038 In Jefferson county (Louisville) reported 8.818 for repeal and only 561 against. Most munlcin.i.lit vot ed heavily for repeal, vhile the race waa nip and tuck In the rural dis tricts. Kentucky's repeal convention Is November 27. Had the state voted dry, national repeal would have been delayed until December 8, the date set for the Maine convention. De cember 9 Is the date for conventions In Ohio, Pennsylvania and Utah, which will make the required thirty six states. Barber shops in the city will keep Saturday hours tomorrow, as the ahopi will be closed on ilaturdsy. It has been announced by the local barbers. Through this arrangement. Medford establishments will be open Mday evening. Banks In the city have aUo an nounced they will be closed all day TEAR GAS ROUTS WISCONSIN FARM PICKETS n rrjv ,-tj,if This picture shows picketing waa scattered by officers to disperse were attemntina to reach market. 85 PER CENT OF T T Community Ohest workers, who have carried on an energotlo cam paign during tihe past three days, had achieved 85 per cent of their goal at noon today, it was announced at headquarters at the Chamber of Commerce. The cheat "mop-upM committee was making a stupendous effort to bring in the other 15 per cent and achievement of the 90000 goal was anticipated before night. The co-operation of each and every firm and cltlren will be neces sary, .however, In making the drive a success and officials of the drive today emphasized the fact that much can be accomplished during the few remaining hours if all persons able to give or will do so. Persons who have not been con tacted are urged to call the chest headquarters at the Chamber of Commerce In order that all contrl Dutions may be counted in, when the drive closes tonight. There will be no solicitations made after to night, as three days, and three days only, were allotted for the drive. Medford has never failed to raise her quota In any worthy cumpalgn and the workers feel confident that Medford citizens will not destroy that reputation today. The progress of the drive will be checked on the thermometer In front of the Chamber of Commerce build ing In order that all people may know when the gonl Is realized. Funds for relief are needed more this year than they have ever been before and the Community Chest has been adopted as the best means of extending relief to the greatest num ber of needs with the least expendi ture of money. "Give but once; give for all," the slogan adopted for this year's drive, expresses well the alms of the Community Chest board. E WASHINGTON, Nov. 0. f AP) Tightening the provisions of the lum ber code to further eliminate con signment shipping, the national re covery administration hud before It today an amendment to the code rul ing thAt "neither maniiractiircr nor wholesaler of lumber shsll place any unsold stock In transit by rail or water or place stock on consignment.'' The amendment was proposed by the lumber code authority and It wss predicted It would be approved by the administration. ML GENEVA. Nov. 0 (AP) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lind bergh received an old-time reception of official toasts and cheering crowds today. The famous American flying pair, who flew here from Rotterdam yes terday, were officially received by members of the national and city governments In the historic Alabama room of the city hall. Lindbergh drank a glass of chanv 1 pspne and Ann waa handed A bou farmers retreating to their automobiles them. The pickets had attempted to (Associated Press Photo) SLATED TO HANG 8ALEM, Ore., Nov. 9. (AP) Con viction of Theodore Jordan, negro, for the murder of P, T. Sullivan, dining car steward, at Klamath Falls, was upheld by the prevailing opinion of the Oregon supreme court today. The court was divided five to two, Justice George . Rossman Joining Justice P. R, Kelly in a dissenting opinion. Jus tice Henry J. Bean wrote the prevailing- opinion. Jordan, sentenced to hang, ap pealed from the Judgment of the Klamath county circuit court. As a result of the highest court In the Htate, Jordan will be returned to Klamath county for resentence. His oxecutlon will be the first at the penitentiary here In moro than two years. If hanged, he will be the first negro to pay the supreme penalty In the .history of capital punishment In Oregon. E SIOUX CITY, Iowa. Not. 0. ( AP) Truck load of cattle, hogs and sheep were on their way to Sioux City today, signalizing the apparent end of farm strike picketing In this territory. Truck drivers who had been idle for more than a week because of the blockades, sped over the highways without fear that their cargoes might be halted and unloaded. Sheriff William Tlce took a pre cautionary measure by delegating deput ies to serve as escorts for trucks entering the city but no trouble was encountered. 4 WASHINGTON. Nov. 9. (AP) The war department today ordered Mnjor Henry R. Stlckney to report for duty December 6 as asslstsnt to the dis trict engineer at Portland, Oregon. Major Stlckney now Is on duty at headquarters, 9th corps area, San Francisco. OLYMPIA, Wash., Not. 9. (AP) Oovernor Clarence D. Martin today refused to honur the request for extradition by the state of New York of John C. Stevenson, King county (Seattle) commissioner, on an 11-year-old grand larceny charge. OLD TIME DRINKS FLOW FREELY IN MANY CITIES CHICAGO, Nov. (AP) Newspa per reports today said that hlghhalls, whiskey sours and other pre-prohlbl-tlon drinks were flowing freely and openly over Chicago bar, without In terference of the police. SEATTLE, Nov. ft. (AP) Many restaurants were reported serving hard llqour here today, not waiting for the formal repeal of prohibition. Most of It sold for 35 cents a glass. ftAN fTlANClfiCO, Nov. ft, -(AP) Wines, liquors and mixed drinks were sold In hotels, restaurants, groceries and drug stores hero today with lit tle regard for the fact that formal repeal of prohibition had not been proclaimed. Pending the legal expir ation of the 18th amendment, Cali fornia will have no enforcement laws except local regulations. A state liq uor commission will take things In near Waterford. Wis., as tear aaa dump milk from two trucks which COURT TO RATIFY T Ratifying of the Jackson county budget for 1034, as passed yesterday at the public hearing, will be made at once by the county court; as a levying board, and certified to the county assessor for extension on the tax rolls. Assessor J. B. Coleman estimates the minimum county levy for dis tricts outside of high school districts will be 16.5 mills, And Inside high school districts, 12.6 mills, Last year the levy of high school districts waa 14 mills, and lnsido 10.6, . The levy Increase Is largely due to the deficiency caused by the Banka Fehl lawlessness In Jackson county. This amounted to $05,000 or two mllls about what the levy Increase will be. Other factors were the cost of operating the county commissary last winter, decrense In the Oregon California land grant fund, and In terest from banks. In 1030 the levy Inside high school districts waa 13.6 mills, and In 1031, .09 Inside, and 13.5 mills outside. The county levy does not Include the state tax levy, yet to be fixed, special school district levies, or city levies. The levy 'la based upon a valuation of S32, 107.643.41. The total general county fund Is fixed at (234,233. Last year it was (180,820.70 an Increase of (08,403.80. Allotment by funds Is as follows: 1033 1034 Emergency Fund ..(8,000.00 (10,000.00 Gen. Road Fund ....86,400.00 05,325.00 Market Road ....21,850.00 15,130.00 County fair 1,845.20 854.80 The widow's pension allotment Is raised from (8000 Inst year, to (7500 and the enre of the poor from (43, 047 last year, to (47,607. Election expense la fixed st (8000, as next year Is a general election year with a primary. This year it was (1500. UNION PACIFIC PAYS $1.50 ON COMMON NFW YORK, Nov. 9 -(AP) Dlrec tors of the Union Pacific Rnltroad Co, today declared a dividend of (1.60 on the common stock. Similar pay menu were authorised In provlous qusrters. comes effective, Most liquor being sold here Is classed as "medicinal," with stores obtaining the prescrip tions for the customers. CLEVELAND, Nov. 8. (AP) The legislature to the contrary notwith standing, Ohio's largest city today took Tuesday's prohibition repeal bal lots very, very literally. Hard liquor was on sale openly. Patrons at restaurant taoles last night ordered highballs, wine or even beer. NEW YORK. Nov. ft. (AP) Many a hotel or restaurant In New York City now will serve you a cocktail with your dinner. Numerous speakeasy doors are wide open and anybody can wnlk In and plant a foot on the brass rail. You used to have to know Tony and sort over a pocketful of UlcnWlca'.ion University Spokesman Says Harmony Impossible With Present Chancellor Situation Is Strained PORTLAND, Not. .(.IP) Governor Mr-lrr suld toilny he hss not yet decided when he will ap point successor to Koscoe C. Nelson on the board of higher education. He irnve no Indica tion who he inlcht be consider ing for the post. PORTLAND, ore.. Nov. . (API The resignation of the president of tho board of higher eduoatlon, and the demand by a University of Ore gon spokesman that Chancellor W. J. Kerr resign, today had left hliher educational administration In this state in a condition aa unsettled and strained as at any time In the past iour necuo years. Roscoe O. Nelson, president of the board, late yesterday submitted hla resignation, which was accepted by Governor Meier who declared "I have lonowed the events of the past wee with the deepest Interest and I am Impelled to say that your courage and convictions have vindicated com pletely my choice In placing you upon the board." After Kerr's Scalp. At the same time Wayne L. Morse, dean of the university school of law, called for the resignation of Chan cellor Kerr. 'Intellectual honesty," Dean Morse i declared, "compels me to call the attention of the state to the unde niable fact that harmony In higher education Is Impossible until a chan cellor la appointed who Is Jree from, long-standing partisanship In educa tional controversies." The bitter battle surrounding the ' Nelson regime end the Kerr adminis tration flared Into fury last Saturday ; when Dean Morse made an attack on President Nelson for two addresses Nelson had made a few days before on tne Eugene and Corvallla campuses. Insulted Faculty. Morse declared In a speech before the alumni association that Nelson had belittled the work of the univer sity, had gravely Insulted It faculty. and that his period of usefulness had been ended by hla remarks. The law school dean then observed that Chan cellor Kerr had been selected by a "plot" that "stinks to heaven. Th (Continued on Page Nine) SALEM, Nov. 9, (AP) Bloodstains on a shattered window led to the arrest of Delbert Mohr, whose out finger, police said, might link .him with a series of dusk house robberies here rocently. Police are checking on the age of Mohr, who claims to be only 17. The arrest was made Tuesday night, but police withheld his name until a loot allegedly stolen from at least nine 8alem residences the past three weeks was recovered late yesterday. WILL. ROGER? BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Nov. 8. Every time some country gets to thinking it has a di'.lator, why along comes the old master diutntor of all and shows 'cm really how to dictate. They applauded too loud for Mr. Balbo on his ar rival in Italy and Mussolini couldn't help but hear it, so now Mussolini is head of the nviation himself. Next year at Chicago's sec ond Century of Progress, why Italy will send a hundred planes and Mussolini will grow a heard and ride tn the front plane. Gold went up 75 cents Mon day hut they can't get any thing to go up with it. Trou hla with us is we can't get any thing to go up without the. gov ernment buying it. Tours, Coatiaue oa $ StTSft U 1U044 VUOA tfc ai(t -0enamcu& pa- 4
