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The Weather j Forecast: Cloudy tonight and Frl-I day. Not much chance In temper ature. Highest yeiterday 53 Lowest thus mornliir, 88 edford Mail Tribune Wetcb the THlHUNfs m H A CLASSIHfcl) ADS . V;! I Lots of food oargalui taat msan genulnv 4?irja?(? j UTUlfl. vmmmarn Twentv-eiehth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933. No. 227. a -am rn Ml UUM WJU HUE IE ZS Zs U U VC V- L-J U U U Rv PAUL MAI.LON (Copyright, 1933. by Paul Mallon) WASKINOTON, Dec. 14. One thing congressmen are getting ready to beat their deska about la the NBA. Home town business men and In dustrialists have been priming their aenaiora and representatives with complaints. Legislation to revise the basic law will be ottered and may ' pass. Any Important changes wiU ba vetoed by Mr. Roosevelt and can not pass over a veto. Nevertheless It appeara that the president will have to toss a bone to the congressional growlers. It may ba General Johnson. Guesses. There has been a renewal of Inside talk lately about getting some one of Judicial temperament In Johnson's place. Certain of the presidents frlenda would like to-see Johnson In charge of public works. Hla Inspiration and promoting abilities are needed there. That change also would give Mr. Tckes a chance to be "secretary of In terior. The beet guess now la that the NBA will plug along on a middle-of-the-road policy for the present. The trend will be toward conservatism rather than more radical measures. The old Idea of turning It Into a scheme for socialization of Industry ! cannot be put Into effect until busl- 1 ness goes bad. i Business is refusing to get bad now. Hull. Those who are on top in the state j viv heard there will be a mild and quiet reorganization there . . . u..ti i-afitrn.. when state oecrei-iy Hull Is beginning to assert himself. He dropped a couple of the old clique r boys out of the window before he left. More will go when he returns. Likewise certain officials have been i.nHnr.tnnri thev must have moro 'respect for the boss. ' Some are expected to get out oeiore mcj thrown. The department probably will never ... . a-ir orwi himlnesa basts. D. pun uu l ".ij Salaries are so low that the Jobs are unattractive to men uu. v . ...ij.iAnt. tj sustain them. intumcB on.......- Under this basic condition you can hardly get rid of tne gay th ex-men of Wall street who come into the department to retire. Indeed, some in this class prove to ba able puouc omciaia. Bitterness. ' m. . nnwi industry has been moaning and groaning around the highest placea here about what the government is aoing iu The proposed code contains aome provisions which are said to be un necessarily bitter. Mr. Roosevelt la supposed to have been Induced to soften It somewhat before proclalm- i mg It. More alarming to the power boys la the fact that the government pro poses to lend money to a small Colo rado municipality to buy existing equipment owned by a private power company. They say It la Illegal be cause no employment will be fur nished. The worst of It Is they cannot get any administration officials to shed a tear for their plight. reek-Tugwell. - Too much vinegar In the mayon naise code problem was the Imme diate cause of the Peck-Tugwell hair pulling contest. That was the drop of gall which made their cupa overflow. It seems that the salad dressing code actually became lost In the AAA. The mayonnaise people asked about It and Peek's crowd could not even find a copy In the flies for days, al though they were supposed to have been working on It for weeks. The complaints reached high quar ters. It was unanimously decided that this incident, coupled with more i Important ones which had gone be- fore. Just about proved that the AAA was no place to handle codes. Russia. The big miMian trade boom l turning out to be less simple than the ardent advocates of recognition contended. International trade la built on the exchange of goods. We can sell Rus sia plenty, but there u little we can buy from her. That lrsvee a serious problem of how she will pay us. The inner disposition Is turning more and more against the Idea of lending her any substantial amount of money for domestic purchases, ex cept In caws where we want to get rid of surpluses. The truth Is we have a surplus ot nesrly everything Russia can export lumber, wheat, oil. About all there x la left la caviar, vodka and man ganese. Notes. Administration ferrets are digging up data, on a new Klan-llke outfit, supposed to be organizing pro-Hitler and antl-Jewlsh sentiment In cer tain localities. This new outfit works en a membership fee basis. Members wear shlrta of a new color and or ganlnrra sell them the shlrta. It (i&ntinued on Psje Eiht) Bodies Strewn Along Rail road As Freight Crashes Into Loaded Bus Seven Killed Outright, 30 Hurt -CRESCF.NT CITY, Fla., Dec. 14. (AP) Nine live were lost and approximately 30 Injured today when a freight train crashed Into a crowded school bus at a grade crossing In a heavy morning fog. Seven children, three of them, from a single family, were killed outright, and two others died later from Injuries. Several of the most seriously hurt were not expected to survive. CRESCENT CITY, Fla., Dee. 14. (VP) At least six elementary school children were killed and 18 othera Injured, some probably fatally, when a freight train crashed Into a school bus six nilles north of here today. There was wildest confusion, with cries of parenta mingled with acreania of the Injured children In frantic efforts to find their little ones or aid in rescue work. The driver of the bus. D. R. Nlles, waa among the seriously injured. All available ambulances from Pa latka, Deland and Crescent City rush ed to the scene, loaded quickly with dead or Injured and hurried away to hospitals, complicating a quick check of the casualtlea. The dead: William Smith, 13; Evelyn Smith, 9. and Merle Smith, 16. children of Mrs. Bennle Smith, a widow. Wlllard Owen. Hazel MoOrady, 13, and Eddie Mc Orady, 10, children of Drew McOrady. Nellie McOrady, of the same family, waa reported seriously injured. Elsie Bertha Gorton, 15. There was said to be a possibility others ot the Injured would die. Louis Leach, one of the first to reach the scene, described It as "the most horrible Imaginable." The bus had a capacity of 40 to 60 and all the occupant were either killed outright or Injured as the tra'.n crashed broadside Into It, splintering it and hurling the children along the right of way. Engineer R. A. Howell and Con ductor w. J. Morrison reported the train approached the crossing wltn the whistle wide open and bell rins ing In an effort to attract the atten tion of the bus driver. PASADENA, Dee. 14 (AP) De- tectlvea delved today Into the pri vate life of Dr. Leonard Slever, slain Pasadena dentist, In search ot the key to his death. Dr. Slever, art patron and aociaiite. waa the friend of many women, police said they learned, and the opinion waa expressed by them that the den tist hsd been shot from ambush by a woman whose Jealousy flamed into a passion for revenge. This theory found some support to day after surgeons reported that one of two death bullets had been fired by some one evidently smaller than the slain man and had ranged up ward after striking the dentist's head. Dr. Slever'a body was found early yesterday morning near the Scottish rite cathedral by a milkman. KLAMATH FALLS. Dec. 14 P) The Klamath country was covered with a light blanket of snow this morning. Ice waa rormlng on Upper Klamath lake and the outlook was for continued snow flurries and lw temperatures. The sesrch for the bodies of Ernest N Use helm a nd Wal ter Wood . d u k hunters lost in Agency lake when their boat overturned in a squall Tuesday night, was resumed today All available men and boats were taken to the lake in an attempt to recover the bodies before the waters were frozen over. 4 HONOLULU. DfC 14 (AP) A sup. plement entitled "Cream of War Be tween the United States and Japan," which was Inserted In a Japanese magaelne caused the seizure within the past week of 6000 copies of the publication imported from Japan. H a announced today by Walter Doric, collector of customs. Held In Son's Death Donald K. Smith of Littleton Colo., waa Jailed in connection with the death of his Infant (on. Sherifi E. E. Monrlngo aald Smith confess sd kicking the child to death. (A oclated Press Pbo EARLY BUILDING The local members of the Pacific Highway association have been In formed that a survey of the high way over the Slsklyaus from the summit to the Callforna line has been ordered. When this Is done the entire survey from the present highway near Vie state Normal at Ashland to the California line will be completed and ready for construc tion when contracts are let. Construction la now under way on the first unit, from Nell to Wall creeks, by Von der Hellen Ac Pier- son. Present plans of the highway commission, If adopted by the gov ernment, provide $800,000 more to grade the line to the summit and this survey being ordered to the California ltne gives hopes of an other allowance to complete the grading In the early part of the new year. MEET SATURDAY A district meeting of the Oregon Butter and Ice Cream Makers' asso ciation will be held Saturday at one o'clock at the Hotel Med ford. All buttermakera, managers and helpers In creameries are Invited to attend. Close to 100 samples of butter sent to the monthly butter scoring will be Judged by Judges from Salem, Port land and CorvalUs. A cresm scoring contest for buttermakera and cream ery helpers will also be held, and prises awarded. There will be talks by J. D. Mlckle, F. P. Moser. H. C. Raven, L. L. Leach. R. O. Fowler and others. Arrangement have also been made for a dinner to be held at the Hotel Medford, at six o'clock. E SET FOR APPLES WASHINGTON. Deo. 14. (AP) A tolerance of .010 gTaln of lead per pound of apples In spray residue on fruit harvested in 1034 was announc ed today by the department of agri culture. A tolerance of .01 previously set for flourlne and arsenic mill remain in force for the 1934 crop, It was said. The announcement said action un der the national food and drug act will be taken against all shipments containing residue in excess of these limits. DEEER SENTENCE Wllllsm Chester voole, a l-year-old Touth of Buita Fulls, enlisted In the bcc. who admitted five auto tlief's. three houaebrealclruwi. four burglaries and a number of petty thefts In this city and county the past yean peared before Circuit Judce H. D. Norton this morning for sentence. Poole ad mitted the thefts, The court deferred sentence until next Monday mornlny. Poole asked that he be paroled to his father. Poole asked tha court for "one more chance, and I'll go airalght. I didn't realize what I wss doing." Richard B Warner, a transient, pleaded guilty to attempted check rora-ery. and :gi sentenced to ta3 jcii. ia state );in, TRANSIENT CENTER WILL OPEN HERE; AT State Director Starts Work On Visit Here House at Fourth and Front Streets j Is Selected As Location Definite preparations for the open-1 lng of a transient relief station In Medford were underway here today,! following the visit of C. W. Reynolds. , state director of transient relief, and, appointment by -him of Q. R. Dur-1 ham of thla city as supervisor of the 1 Medford transient center, as It will be officially known. i The center will be located la tte! former Will H. Wilson residence on the comer of Fourth and Front streets, which waa rented from Or!n McDonald, Instead of In the old church building on Bartlett, as orig inally planned. Work Started. j Work was started this morning to get the building in condition. It has: sufficient space to insure adequate ! sanitary facilities at all times. The center will be under direct control of the atate transient bureau In Port- j land and will be operated on & caw work basis. Mr. Durham atated today that sev eral days' time would be needed to complete the necessary alterations snd installations, but that he expected to have the center In operation noc later than next Wednesday. The building la being rented by the county for the project at a cost of $20 a month, Mayor E. M. Wilson stated today, explaining that the city of Medford Is really having nothing definite to do with the establishment of the center, other than acting as sponsor. He conferred yeserday with Mr. Reynolds and Lawrence Penning ton and Carl Stuart of the Llona club regarding the equipment for merly In the Lions kitcnen, wmsn will be available for the transient center. Decision by Director. The placing of the center here in preference to Ashland, Mayor Wilson further explained today, was a di clslon made by Mr. Reynolds and one over which the clt yof Medford had no Influence. Mr. Reynolds, after making a survey of the territory, the mayor stated, was of the opinion that Medford was the logical location for (Continued on Page Five) T SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14. (UP) The sentence of Duncsn Rensldo, handsome former movie star, to serve two years in McNeil Island federal penitentiary waa upheld by the United States court of appeals here today. Renaldo's conviction by the United States district court of Loa Angeles on two charges of falsifying his passport application wss upheld. A third con vtctlon, on which Renaldo waa fined $2000, was remanded to the district court for a new trial. Renaldo In applying for and ob talntng a passport, said he was an American citizen, born at Camden, N. J. He starred In "Trader Horn" and other pictures. DELAYED BY WEATHER SUNNYVALE. Cal,, Dec. 14. (JT) Because of unfavorable weather con ditions the scheduled training flight of the navy dirigible Macon to Wash ington and Oregon has been Indef initely postponed, naval officers he.e announced today. It was the fourth time the flight had been delayed because of the weather. Under the last previous postponement the big dirigible was o have started yesterday. It was an nounced no plans for the flight would be made pending the arrival of clear ing weather, Tanker and Crew Sinks, Black Sea BUCHAREST, Rumania. Dec. 14 The Spanish tanker Zarofa sank In a violent Black Sea storm todv, 18 miles from Istanbul. Her ere was feared lost. The storm raced serous the sea and over the whole of Rumania. The country was blanketed by a heavy snowfell. AGRICULTURAL GROUP TO MEET TOMORROW cultural committee of the Chamber of Commerce there tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. All members are urged to attend as important biul .nu will be trauAactcd. Samaritans Find Supposed 'Drunk' Dying From Stab BELLING HAM, Wash., Dec. 14. UP) Sid Robertson and James Hughes, both 32, saw a man ap parently drunk reeling along a downtown street last night. Each took an arm and assisted him on his way. Finally one of them noticed the man had a stab wound In the back. Before the man, Herbert E. Myers, 31, truck driver, could be taken to a hospital, he died with out naming his assailant. A trail of blood extending over many streets gave police a clue to the scene of the stabbing. The two youths were held as material witness. SEATTLE DENTIST SEATTLE. Dec. 14 (AP) A report ed extortion plot, with threats of 'jath, against a Seattle dentist, wid ened police kidnaping Investigations here today. Officials refused to reveal the den tist's name, but said he had received telephoned demands and threats, be lieved, to have come from members of a Detroit racketeering gang. Police said they did not connect the new case with the two men arrested yes terday as suspects In what was be lieved to have been the plsnned kid naping of John Von Herberg, 16-year-old son of J. O. Von Herberg, Pacific northwest theater magnate. $54,376 DURING YEAR SALEM, Ore., Dec. 14. (UP) Ore gon's share of receipt from the fed eral government for timber sales and rentals In federal forests during 1033 waa $54,A7A.16, a government remit tance revealed today. Last year the state received $122,007 from this source. The state receives 23 percent of receipts, which la later apportioned to the counties In which the forests are located. BE FORWARDED FRIDAY With the whoat production con tracts to be sent away tomorrow, the county agent's office announced that today Is the last day they will be Issued. County Agent Robert G. Fowler said today that there were still three or four contracts still out, and re quested that they be, sent In imme diately. MS BURN 10 DEATH El NTSSA. Ore.. Dec. 14. (yp) Twj children burned to death Wednesday In a fire which destroyed the home or their parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Jones of Adrian. The two 'Phyllis. S years old, and her eight-months-old brother were asleep. The mother had gone to a neighbor's for a few minute. Flames suddenly swept through the house. Another child was playing outside and was unhurt. NEW LICENSE PLATES MAY BE SEEN FRIDAY PORTLAND, Dec! 14. (AP) Ore gon motorists on Friday may legally display the 1034 license plates of aluminum gray with black raUed numerals. The plates axe not aluminum as some hsd supposed, but are made of the same sheet metal covered with aluminum paint. The size and gen eral shape is unchanged. Huge Sugar Store Goes Up In Smoke MT. CLBMENS. Mich., Dec. 14. yi1) More than 10.000,000 pounds of sugar stored in a warehouse of the Mt Clemens Sugar company was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin this morning. The Northeastern Sugar Co. of Bay City, which operates the plant, announced the Iom would approxi mate 1 5 00, 000, on the stock of sugar sione. GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE WORK HIT BY STORM SAN.m ANCIBCO, Dee, 14. (UP) One thousand feet of tha temporary trestle that extends out to the pier on the Ran Pranetxoo aide of the Ool den Oata brldja iras swept away by hlnh-runnlnir aeaa last night. Damage waa estimated at 1100 ,000 by engineers, who asld that a three months delay In construction would Lot occasional. RAINEY DECLARES IN URG1SILVER Bill for Free Coinage Will Pass House Like Flash Says Speaker 20 to 1 Ratio Is Believed Proper WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. (fl") Speaker Ralney, at a press confer ence today, declared himself for free coinage of silver and said If president Roosevelt proposed such a step at the coming session it would "go through the house like It waa greased." "T think the house would favor free coinage of silver, but the admin istration would have to take the In itiative." said the house leader. Ralney said he did not know how the President felt on the silver ques tion. He added, however, that he felt whatever the administration money policy was It would be upheld by con gress. Raincy said the white metal had lieen used as money "from the time Abraham bought a cave for 400 shek els of silver." and from that time un til a few years ago "silver has been a recognized standard of exchange In the world." "There has been a b I -metallic cur rency since the time the Greeks used a metal called electron, a combina tion of gold andvSilver." he continued. "The gold standard as we knew It will never return to the world." Ralney proposed remonetlzatlon of silver at a ratio of about 20 to 1 with gold. "It would be a method of avoiding Inflation," he said. "Half the world .(Continued on Page Seven) STOLEN PAPERS WWle Gene D. Evans was attend ing to business matters at Burelson's Ready-to-Wear Shop on South Cen tral early last evening, 40 silk dresses and a yellow Gladstone bag were stolen from his automobile, which was parked In front of the Jackson hotel, according to a report placed on file with the city police. The articles were taken some time be tween 0 and 9 o'clock. Mr. Evans said today that In the valise is a package of papers In an envelope, for the return of whloh he will give a reward of ioo, no ques ttona asked. He stated that the pa pers would be of no value to anyone else, and that he Is anxious to re cover them. Mr. Evans will be at the Jackson hotel until Friday morning, and af ter that he may be reached at 365 Ninth street, San Francisco. PORTLAND CAFE PORTLAND. Dec. 14. (IT) In one of the first actions of the kind on the Pacific coast, the National Re covery Administration has withdrawn the NRA blue eagle from the White Rose restaurant in Portland. , C. Laird McKenna, legal adviser to Frank Messenger, district compliance director for Oregon and Idaho, said the managers of the cafe were paylrg "substantially less" than the mini mum wage scale of 97 cents an hour established by the NRA. Messenger declared "this will have a very good effect on the restaurant industry here. It will show sny code violator that the NRA still mesn business." HOLLYWOOD, Deo. M. (irP Movie temperament reached a new high today when George Raft, swar thy young actor, and Barney Olaaler, associate producer, engaged In anoth er of Hollywood's famous one punch rights. Witnesses said Raft waa goaded to action by Olarler's refussl to delete a line from a picture. Raft swung hard and Glar.ler picked himself off the stage floor nursing a bloody noae. A group of extraa sep arated them and at taat reporta the two combatanta were making up. CUNARD, WHITE STAR MERGER ANNOUNCED IjONDOM, Dee. 14. (UP) Merger of the Cunard and White Btar llnea North Atlantic fleet, to be effective at "an early date" waa announced In the house of commons by Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex Lbcquer. lul mgbt, - Charged In Lynching John F. 2ook, former policeman, with two othera, waa charged with first degree murder In St. Joaeph, Mo., In connection with tha recent lynching of a negro there. (Associ ated Preas Photo) , L IN FIRST CONCLAVE PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 14. (AP) The three newly appointed members of Oregons liquor control commis sion were closeted here today for several hours with Governor Julius L. Meier and Dr. William Knox and George Neuner In a preliminary dis cussion of problems confronting t,he state's adventure In exclusive dis tribution of alcoholic drinks. The members of the commission are George McMorran ot Eugene, chairman; James D, Burns of Con don, and Ale Q. Barry of Portland. McMorran is a retired merchant; Burns, a merchant and county Judge of Gilliam county, and Barry Is an attorney and former state comman der of the American Legion. The meeting was an executive ses sion and reporters and other persons were barred. Policies touching the preliminary setting up of the "rnachlnery which is to be administered by the com a Ion also were d Iscussed . The ap pointment of an administrator, to be the executive officer of the com mission, waa discussed. E PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 14. (AP) United States bureau of public roads today received bids for the grading and surfacing and bituminous sur facing of 30 3-10 miles of the Dia mond Lake and Cascade Lake high way In Klamath and Douglas coun ties. Wren fe Greenough and E. C. Oer- ber of Portland were tow bidders, wit $160,073. A. MUlne Portlsnd, was second low bidder with I1B0,- 748, and Fred E. Redmon, Yakima, third, with $101,089. District Engineer W. H. Lynch rec ommended that the low bidder be awarded the contract. LINDBERGHS FLY TO PUERTO RICO 8AN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Dec. 14 (IP) Col. and Mra. Charles A. Lind bergh arrived here In their big red hydro-monoplane after flying 753 miles from Port-of-apsln, Trlndsd, at 1:35 thla afternoon. The Lindberghs had covered the distance In five houra. 40 minutes. They took off from Port-of-Spaln at 7:5S a. m., E 8. T. Now only 1.180 miles lie between them and Miami, the northern ter minus of the Pan-American Airways route they followed today from Trini dad. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 14 (AP) James A. Reed, who served Missouri In the United Ststes senate for 1 years, and his bride, the former Mrs. Nell Q. Donnelly, were on honey moon today aa aecretlve about their plana aa they were herore their mar rlsce last night. The wedding of the sliver haired veteran of politics and Mrs. Donnelly, a wealthy garment manufacturer, waa a surprlM to the 30 guests who had aemhled at the brides apartment fur a duck u4 venison dinner. FRUIT GROWERS Speakers Declare Federal Agencies Will Bring New Prosperity Hood River Man Slated for President Speakers at the closing sessions of the 48th annual meeting of the Ore gon State Horticultural society held forth substantial hopes, backed by federal finances and agencies, for the farmers and fruitgrowers of the northwest, t,he state and this valley. Final sessions were held this aft ernoon, closing with the annual elec tion of officers. John Mohr of Hood River, as president, and Hood River as the 1034 meeting place were fore cast. Credit Plan Told H. h. Potter of the agricultural economics department of O. 8. O. gave a detailed explanation of the credit production plan under the AAA, and detailed Its worklnga as now outlined. He said the loans would cover all types of fruit with Spokane aa .headquarters. Potter said he anttclpted "banks would reach out for farm business after the first of the year, accept ing tha preferred stock" of the as sociations formed In each district. "One of the problems," Potter said, "was to form an organization that was small enough to be close to the farmers and growers and at the same time large enough to at tract capital." To Tide Over Depression Potter said: "The Idea of the gov ernment waa to tide over Vie farmer and fruit grower until the return of prosperity, which we all feel Is not too far distant." Tha speaker also explained the Immense amount of labor and effort to formulate the preliminary arrangements. Dnvld Rosenberg, president of tha Oregon - Washington ePar Bureau said: "Utilisation of cuif pears was the back door to success." Rosen berg said 100,000 gallons of Indus trial alcohol, 800,000 pounds of sugar and 200,000 gallons of syrup could be made annually from Medford dis trict culls. Pectin a Jelly base used In bakeries and special by-products could be manufactured, he said. The die tic value of pears to dla- (Continued on Page Five) BIRTH 29TH CHILD NSW LONDON, Wis.. Dee. 14. (UP) Phillip Williams, 63, and his wife, who Is 40, are celebrating this week the birth of their 30th child, a girl, Williams Is a farmer. All 30 of the children are living. There have been three pairs of twins and one set of triplets. One pair of twins and the set of triplets were born within the same year. Barking Terrier Saves Residence PORTLAND, Dec. 14. (T) Pi barking of a fox terrier, alarmed ver danger to her litter of our puppies, saved the home of Walter L. Kef fur from being destroyed by tire IsM night. A canary was suffocated of smoke. An eleotrlo Iron which some one had forgotten to turn off, caused the fire. The barking ot the dog attracted attention fo a pedestrian, who turned In the alarm. WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Deo. 13. The best writer on the Pacific oonst, Harry Carr, mak ing g world tour and seeing all oC the governments in action, snys England is over the hump first and going great. Now that's tho country that was held up to us as a horrible example because they were giving aid to unemployed. We adopted it two years later than we should. England lowered the price of their money just about to what ours is and it must have helped them. Pretty smart "hombres," thoso Englishmen, KM
