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Medford Mail Tribvne Watt ths TB1HUNK' CLASSIFIED AUS . Lots of food Dargaliu that a jcnulot tarings. Twentv-eialith Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1933. No. 229. JV The Weather j Forecast: Vnsettled Sunday; Bo' chanfe in temperature. Temperature Hljhest yesterday 41 Lowest yesterday .. . 31 rax v 1 i Njfcs I NEW TERMS SENT BMpd' FROM PARIS WHEN iilbL WINE QUOTA HELD fcnynnu i .. , 1 By PALL MAIXON Copyright, 1933. By Paul Mallon Barter WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. The new dealers are getting a reputation in the capitals of the world as a crowd of Yankee traders. They are proud of It and brag about It In private. No one will believe It but even gen teel state Secretary Hull ha Deen transformed Into a sort of Interna tional Trader Horn. Without the aid of whiskers, he has been quietly swapping diplomatic beads for ivory with the Latin-Americans at Montevideo. Here at home his state department aides have been bartering backstage with Europe on liquor Imports in a way which has changed the entire International complexion of things. Hull It Is too early to say now how Hull will ultimately come out. But the boss bargainer in the White House was quite elated about the first new deal. The Latin-Americans were planning to roast us at the Pan-American con ference. The situation largely favored them because Hull's hands were tied by existing administration tariff poli cies. His only hope was to make the roasting as painless as possible. He started in by becoming friendly with Argentina. She had been the leader of the Antl-U. S. group at pre vious Pan-American conferences. Her foreign minister. Dr. Lamas, had his heart set on an Argentine anti-war pact. After a few conferences With Lamas, our state secretary began to see a lot of good things In that pact. He and Dr. Lamas became pals. Results Our first embarrassing moment at the conference came when Mexico proposed a 6 to 10 year moratorium on all Latin-American governmental debts. Fortunately, Dr. Lamas cams for ward to object. He Induced the con ference to refer the matter to the Inter-American high commission where It wilt rest in peace, probably forever. : -V Next the Latins wanted to seat a league of nations observer. The pro posal was shunted into a sub-oom-mtttee and Hull suggested that it be considered at the next conference, four years hence. The league may not be alive then. With the support of Argentina, that was done. Then along came the announce ment from Hull that the U. 8. would take the leadership in signing the Argentine anti-war pact. It Is as harmless as the Kellogg anti-war pac and worth Just about as little, from a practical standpoint. Lamas got what he wanted. So did Hull at a minimum cost. Liquor Hull's assistant bargainers In the department trading post here care fully found out which nations were going to make Dec. IB payment on their war debts, before our import liquor quotas were announced. Several other deals are still in the making. Foreign diplomats were Just guess ing and running around from depart ment to department for days before the quotas were Issued.. Then the liquor control board made it quite clear that the existing quotas are ONLY for a three months period and will be revised. That keeps the bargaining point till In our hands. Irish The stlffest direct competition for liquor market is between England and Ireland. Irish Minister MaoWhlte Is trying strenuously to muscle In. For weeks h worked to figure out a scheme to beat the British. He hit on the Idea of Increasing Irish purchases of grain here in return for a good Irish liquor quota. He has pushed the state de partment with memoes on that sub ject. He even had Agriculture Secre tary Wallace out to dinner. MaeWhtte is speaking a language the administration understands. The result Is you will get more Irish whiskey now than you did be fore prohibition. Ba.Ms This may seem to be a some whit sordid business to Idealists who think international relations hinge on greit principles. However, no observer fan forget that every time we went to an international conference with wins and a halo during the past fifteen rears we usually got our wings singed and lost our halo, That also applies to our handling of exchange and tar iff policies. The practical basis of our new method is clearly rooted in our un fortunate International experiences of the past. Plumbrr? The second big leak In the g 1d price future has been discovered with out the aid of the secret service. In fact the leak himself Is bragging about it. A smart Washington broker figured out that tnasmuci. as the figure is given out at the same time each da. ' he could arrange to have his London brokerage connection on the tele phone at that moment By that device K.e scooped the regular cable services reeularly in London He not the figure here from a public Wall street tlckr. I Now he is sending letters around client, advertising Hie fact that Continued oa Page Six) America Aloof On Trade Grants When Debtor Na tion Plans Boost On Fruit Imports. PAIII3, Dec. 16. (AP) TJnrevealed French concessions to facilitate American fruit importations have been sent to Washington. WASHINGTON. Dec. 16. (AP) The United States held aloof tonight from any formal agreement with France on liquor quotas unt it had learned the ewent of concessions reported to have been rrfltde by the French government in Its American agricultural product tariff rates. In cluding lard, apples and pears. Prevloua word that the French minister of agriculture intended to announce substantial Increases In tariffs on American apples, pears and lard were viewed as definitely threatening consummation of the compact for an Increased wine-farm product trade between the two na tions. The offer to take more apples and pears was reliably reported to pro vide for an Import license duty of 135 francs a quintal of apples and 17S francs a quintal of pears or. about 3 to 5 cents a pound At current exchange rates. (This would affect D'AnJous shipments from this valley) Ed. note. The French concessions will be subjected to the scrutiny of the American committee of two which drew up the original four "months liquor import quota figures. While diplomatic negotiations normally are conducted through the state department, the liquor import ques tion has been left to representatives of the agricultural adjustment ad ministration and the newly formed federal alcohol control administra tion. Acting Secretary of State Phillips, even before word the Freneh con cessions was received, said no final settlement would be made until the tariff question was cleared away. The state department earlier had cabled the embassy at Paris for de tails on the proposed Increased tar iff on the American farm products. The situation was further con fused by the fact that federal al cohol control administration yester day announced that an accord had been reached which would result in a '.'substantial Increase" above the four months Import quota for French wines. In light of developments today, this accord apparently had not reached the signature stage when the French tariff complications arose to endanger the agreement. The French embassy here did not evidence concern over the outcome. Spokesmen Indicated a belief that American products still would find a good market in France despite any possible Increase in Import levy. AT MIAMI, PLAN E MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 16. ;p) Swoop ing down gracefully from southern skies, a trim but work-worn seaplane landed gently on the waters of the International airport here today, bringing home the sky-Jaunting Charles A. Lindberghs. While thousanda lined the docks and cheered the famous pilot and hts wife completed a 900-mile flight from San Pedro, Dominican republic, to ft foot on North American soli for the first time since they left New York last July on an aerial Odyssey of three foreign continent. During these five months, the cele brated couple compiled valuable data for air route mapping on a journey that took them across the North At lantic to Europe, south to Africa, over the South Atlantic to Brazil and thru the West Indies to Florida. Col. Lindbergh and his wile will remain here tomorrow and hop off. probably early Monday morning for New York. Their plane was pulled ashore late today for an over-hauling. Ad Tire, That's All WASHINGTON. Dec. 1 6. ( AP ) Hugh 8. Johnson, recovery adminis trator, tonight refused the demand of a group attending a consumers conference here for consumer repre sentation on code authorities, but told them he would accept ill the advice they had to offer. VALLEY STREAM. N. Y.. Dec. 16. (AP) The mothers of two duck hunters missing s'noe Sunday In the marshes of Amityville, Long Island, telegraphed President Roosevelt to day asking his help in the search. TontRht tlx roast guard stations unit ed in an Intensive search for the aicn on orders from Waaningtoo, GIRL ON STAND IN 0 At Twelve-year-old June Hanson (left) took the stand In circuit court at Rockfbrd, III., and described the burning of her father's body. June't mother, Mrs. May Hanson (right) is on trial for the "torch slaying" ol her husband. (Associated Press Photo ROCKFORD. 111., Dec. 16. (AP) Mrs. May Hanson, 34, was sen tenced to 14 years' Imprisonment tonight after a Jury convicted her of murdering her husband with blazing gasoline. Mrs. Hanson smiled as she heard the verdict and attempted to com fort her 12-year old daughter June, chief ; witness In the trial, who wept on her shoulder. Mrs. Hanson's mother, Mrs. Alice Mulder, screamed and collapsed. The verdict climaxed a trial of nearly two weeks In which Mrs. Hanson was pictured as hating her former husband for several years, and of plotting his death. STATE EFFECTIVE IN MONTH, HOPE PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 16. (AP) The Oregon state' liquor commission hopes the new state control system may be operating within 30 days. After three days of constant con sideration and deliberation, the three-man commission adjourned to day, to meet some time next week for further study of the control plan under whinh every drop of legal liq uor in Oregon will be administered by the official group. Today, Arch J. Tourtellotte, Port land accountant, hurried" north to the province of British Columbia for a speedy but Intensive study of the control system there. In Portland it was agreed existing methods of city and county control will continue In operation until the Knox law Is definitely operative. . The Portland city council has de cided to co-operate fully with the state In liquor control. Although there was talk of a test case some days ago, such an action now is not planned. Chairman McMorran of the com mission said It may be two or three weeks before appointment of a liq uor administrator will be made. The administrator, on a salary basis, will direct the entire state control setup under the direction of the non-salaried commissioners. McMorran explained that the com muaion is interested primarily in seeing that prices are no higher than consistent with good business, so that the bootlegger will not find his activities profitable. Federal Tax WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. (AP) A liquor tax of between $2.10 and $2.40 a gallon was predicted today by Chairman Doughton of the house ways and means committee. After a call upon President Roose velt, the committee chairman said (Continued on Page Five) 1 OE AAA. RESIGNS WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. (AP) The resignation of Dr. Clyde L. King as chter of the dairy section of the agricultural adjustment administra tion and appointment of J. H. Ma son of Des Moines, Iowa, as acting chief were announced today by Chester C. Davis, farm administra tor. King's resignation was accepted Friday by George N. Peck, former administrator, shortly before he re signed to head President Roosevelt's committee on export markets for agricultural products. . . ro,itlng Victim BELLINOHAM. Wash.. Dec. 16 0P Gordon Collcy. 13, first coasting ac cident victim of the winter seaiK'r., was hovering between Ufe and deitn at a local hospital tonight, suffering from several fractured ribs, two of which punctured a lung, a broken arm and numerous cuts and bruivs The sled on which Gordon was cos.- ing Friday niglt was struck by an i automobile driven, by C A. Kcajle. MOTHER'S TRIAL 1; L NO SIGN PUBLIC TO QUIT BOSTON. Dec. 16. (AP) -The nec essity of retaining the American standard of living throughout the present depression as a guard to future civilisation was stressed to day by Newton D. Baker, former sec retary of war. Baker spoke before the first gen eral meeting of the Boston Emer gency Campaign of 1934 In which 1200 persons participated The American atandard of living was defined by Baker as that which gives the American ctttsen a large enough Income for living a little more. The government, he said, would take care of food and shelter, but the private agencies would have to supply the necessities which have built up the standards of civilization known as American. "Our task this year," he said, "is to make people realize that an as sumption of the purely material giv ing of the federal government does not lessen one whit the necessity for private giving. The government has said that no one shall starve, that no one shall freeze, that no one shall go unhoused. It was neces' sary for the government to take this stand. But It does not relieve the great need for the sort of un dertaking you are Just about to launch in Boston. To fill the ma terial needs of people who have been flung Into chaos by this de pression Is not enough." MERCHANTVILLE, N. J., Dec. 16 (AP) Awakened by an Intruder creeping Into her bedroom, Mrs. H. Ennia Jones, wife of a former Phila delphia banker, today foiled what po lice described as an attempt to kid nap her 11-months-old son, asleep In his crib In the same room. Crawling on hands and knees, the man, described as young and dark complexloned. had almost reached Mrs. Jones' bed directly beside the crib, when she was awakened. "Don't make a sound," he warned. Defying him, Mrs. Jones snapped on a flashlight she kept under her pil low. Holding the glare In his face, she screamed for her husband In an adjoining room. The intruder fled. Mr. Jones rushed from .his room, a pistol In his hand, but caught only a fleeting glimpse of the intruder as he ran through the renr door of the palatial home. fill Id Killed CHEYRVNK U'm rve 1 ft IIP,. Thrown from her frightened horse.-j Jane Lewis. aed 10. was fatally In jured at Port P-ancls E. Warren late totday. Lire Tor Neelrt LKESBURO, Va.. Dec. 16 P A sentence of life Imprisonment wis imposed today cm tieonie Crawforl. nrcro. tnr murrirlnu VI; Ajnr- h. ing Illey. prominent Middleburg. Va . aporUwomsa. PARENT THWARTS BABE'S KIDNAPER Finds $120,000 On Street; Hunts Up Owner to Return ROCHESTER, Minn., Dec. 16. (API Joseph F. Melghen. vice president of a bank at Preston, Minn., today experienced the thrill of finding $120,000 in cash and certificates of deposit on a sidewalk here. Melghen traced the owner, whose Identity was kept secret, and returned the fortune. The envelope containing the money had been dropped near a filling station shortly before Melghen drove in for gasoline. CHAMBERS, VANCE FINAL REWARD Tragedy Closes One Career, Operation The Other Both Wove Romantic Tales, Stirring Drama. NEW YORK, Dec. 16. (AP) Death closed the books today for Louis Joseph Vance and Robert W. Cham bers. Vance he wove words Into ro mance along strange trails of stran ger places was burned to death at his apartment here. Chambers ha chipped his worda from the rainbow and changed re sale Incidents of history into glam orous drama died at Doctors' hos' pltal following an operation. Vance was M; Chambers was 68. Bums to Death An employe of Vance's apartment house found his body, burned badly, In a smouldering chair. Police sug gested he fell asleep and his cigar ette set the upholstery afire.. He wore only hla trousers. Authorities began an Investigation, One theory was that he suffered a heart attack and collapsed as he attempted to rise from the chair. Chambers underwent an operation for an intestinal ailment three dayt ago and never rallied. The two authors had much In common, Including a fascinating ca dence In their works. Both began their careers as artists. Vance was an artist for a New York nswspaper aftor .he completed his studies at Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn. Chambers studied art In Parts and was an Illustrator for magazines. Chambers was born In Brooklyn, where Vance went to school. Vance waa born In Washlngotn, where his father was a newapaper man, Prolific, Popular Vance turned to writing In 1800 and wrote short stories for maga zines, using many pseudonyms. Once he had seven stories appearing si .multancously under as many differ ent names. In 1906, he brought out "The Brass Bowl," and his fame waa assured. Later came "The Lone Wolf" and such glamorous things as "Terrence O'Rourke, Gentleman Adventurer,1 and "The Road to En-Dor," as well as such creeping mysteries as "The Destroying Angel." Prolific and tireless, he wrote rap idly and frequently. Many of hla books were beat sellers. Chambers, temperamental and re tiring, wrote hts first novel, "In the Quarter," In 1B03. He wrote anything verse, socio logical novels, children's stories and plays. But his historical romances made him famous. His style was virile nnd he wrote about things that fascinated him wars and adventures on the gristly middle passage of the slave trade, pi rates and gold and love. Chambers married Miss Elsa Vaugh Moller in 1808 and they had a man slon In Broadalbln, N. Y. They also maintained a home .here. His widow and son, Robert Edward Stewart Chambers, survive him. Vance Is survived by his aon, Wil son Vance, who edits a newspaper in Vienna. 4 BY TOT'S COUGH SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 16. yp) Believed by police to have been driven insane by the whooping cough of her Blx-ytar-old daughter, Mrs. Ruth An derson. 32, stabbed the child to deafh here today and then cut her own throat. The bodies were discovered by the woman's husband, 32, a stevedore, ffttnr of the chIld' wnen ha turn-d home from work Th daughter lay in bed and the mother was sprawle! on the floor nearby, the knife beside her. Anderson told police the child. Jun . had been 111 with whooping cough for tome time and that the mother had lost much sleep because of It. He de clsred . hnnever. thnt his a-if apparently in good spirits when he left lor work. FERVID EPISTLE IS CLUE IN1RDER 'Daddy Dear' Note To Mys teriously Slain Pasadena Dentist Trip To Resort Together. PASADENA, Calif., De. l&C. (P) Police here today were arranging to question an unnamed married woman author of a "daddy dear" letter to Dr. Leonard fliever, while a coroner's Jury In Los Angeles returned a verdict that the local dentist and musician came to his death here Tuesday from the hands of an "unknown" person with homicidal Intent. Police said the married woman they will question occupied a room ad joining the dentist at a southern California mountain resort in May. last year, and the dentist paid the bill. Two hotel receipts and the let ter were found in Dr. Slever'a trunk. I A portion of the letter disclosed by the police read: "Daddy dear, I'm coming back to you as soon as possible." It waa said by police that this wo man had an appointment with D'. Slever the latter part of this week. The woman's husband also will be questioned, the police said. The letter read in part: "My daddy dear: You cams to me last night In my dreams so sweet, with your two precious ltpe. so warm, so passionate and loving, like no othr woman knows. Oh, daddy, I love you. I even heard the words of love, my lover uses with our live, daddy. Dad dy what have you done to me? Could any man ever possess me like von have? Nol Nol Imposslblel For lo?e we are created and yet for love 1 have suffered agonies, baby only love la the sum of my destiny. The fate of ra soul la in love'a hand. Are they yovra? The bonds of love Is my master. Oan I go to. you, do these worda con vey the meaning and depth of my jove to you, daddy? "This I want to tell you, the words from my very soul that you are the one and only one I'll ever love. I want you. I want to be yours, all yours, with my undivided love, but what fate holds, who knows, if I have to give up the greatest and most power ful of all my love for you, I will not ba the cause of something terrible caused only by me for my happiness." PASADENA, Oil.. Deo. H. P) VeA on a falM trail by a woman who acreamed a conreaalon to the killing of Dr. Leonard Slever, 44, dentist, and later retracted her etatement, police turned again to a atudy of the U.'e of the dentlat In hope of uncovering some clue to explain till death. 3 KILLED, 3 HURT WILLAMETTE AREA ALBANY, Ore., Dec. 16. (N) Two persons were killed and three were Injured In an automobile collision on the flantlam highway three miles eas' of here tonJght. Ray Burger, about 49, of Brownsville, driver of one of the two machines, and his companion, Lester Green, about 35. also of Brownsville, were xmea. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Wilcox and th:ir son Asa, all of AumsvlUe, were in jured. Wilcox, S3, suffered a fractured Jaw and other serious Injuries. M.-s. Wilcox, SI, was less seriously hurt. The son, 28, who wasdrlvlng their car. received head lacerations. They were brought to a hospital here. Witnesses said that Burger's car ap peared to swerve out of control, near ly left the highway, then cut sudden ly across the road and into the patn of the Wilcox car. BUOFINE, Ore., Dec. 16. Mrs Electa Miller, 69. of Eugene was kill ed tonight when she was struck at a street intersection here by an auto mobile police said was driven hy Mrs. O. W. Lang, also of this city. The of ficers said Mrs. Lang told them ho did not see Mrs. Miller crossing the street until her car struck her. E IN HOTEL LOS A NO ELBA, Dec. 16. fP) T'ie bodies of a 30 year old woman and a 17 year old girl, who registered Into a hotel here last Thursday aa Mr. J H. Schumacker and daughter, Mi as Mary fichumacker of Chk-ago, were found tonight In the hotel room. IJe tectlvca said the elder woman appar ently had shot the girl and then end ed, her own Ufe with poison. Dentist Slain 1 r ' J ft W W T Dr. Leonard Slever, 30, promi nent Pasadena, Cal., dentist., wai fatally shot by unidentified assail ants aa he locked hla automobile Hit pockets were emptied. (Associ ated Press Photo- IN BUSINESS FOR Auburn To Spend Million For 1934 Needs Chain Stores, Packers, Parcel Post Trend Rises. NEW YORK, Dm. 16. (AP) Sta tlstlcs appearing during the past Week Indicated a moderately Inv proved business tendency according to Moody's index figures for rreignt car loadings, electric power produc tion, and steel Ingot output. AUBURN, Ind., Dec. 18. ( AP) The Auburn Automobile company plans to spend more than 11,000,000 In new tools and dies In preparation for the 1034 production schedules, W. H, Besl, president of the com pany, announced today. CHICAGO, Deo. Id. (AP) With sales amounting to a little more than 600,000,000, swift it company, meat packers, reported today net Income of 10,1 40.683 for the fiscal year ending October 28, 1033. This com pares to a .5,337,708 deficit In 1933. The company reported having used net Income partly to set up a 14, 387,000 reserve against possible fut ure lmues due to declining Inven tory prlcea. CHICAGO, Dec. 18. (AP) There was 30. per cent Increase In the amount of parcel post handled through the Chicago postal depart ment this December, Postmaster Ernest J. Kruetgen said. NEW YORK, Dec. 18. (AP) The domestic sugar bureau reporta beet sugar deliveries In the United Statea last month totaled 1,808,038 against 1,707,373 last year. NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (AP) Sales of reporting chain stores systems In this federal reserve district for Nov ember were six per cent higher than a year ago. f KLAMATH FALIA Ore., Deo. 18. (AP) They don't stage an Im promptu hanging for It any more, but It's still a serious offense to rustle livestock. lister Hiion, con victed of the theft of livestock, waa told by the court today that "every legitimate cattleman In the county la nervous while you are at large," then sentenced him to 10 years In prison. He was convicted In one minute. Hlxon la known In Jackson county. ASSASSIN VICTIM SAN JOSE DEL CARO, Lower Cal ifornia, Dec. 16. (API Benjamin Dlac Qrajeda, fedrral governmental commissioner In Lower California, was ftMOMtnatcd In Tod on Santos to day, according to dispatches received here. The alleged killer was arresled a few hours after the crime la L Fat, RETIRES IN JUNE T Higher Education Armistice Agreed Upon Salem Paper Says' And List Terms. SALEM, Ore., Dec. 16. (AP) In a signed article, the Statecman says "an armistice haa been called In the field of .higher education In Oregon if one can fully accredit reports seeping out to the news front In ths last fortnight." The cessation of hostilities Is not a calm before a new battle, the article says. Rather, the various factions In ths flareup of six weeks past are reported to be In substantial agreement on these points: First Dr. W. J. Kerr will termi nate hla service as chancellor of higher education on or about June 30, 1034. Second No extensive Investigation will be made by the state board of higher education Into affairs at Eu gene, Third A casual checkup of Dean Wayne B. Morse mny be made mean while and his wrists slapped. His removal from the Eugene faculty is not contemplated. Fourth Quietly the board will at ones start the quest for an out-of-state chancellor, hts services to be gin the school year of 1034-1036. Fifth There will be public com mendation by the board In due time of the work of Dr. Kerr. In no sense will his retirement be held an ous ter. Sixth Governor Julius L. Meier will be In no hurry to appoint a successor to Roscoe Nelson, resigned board member, SeventhDuring the armistice pe riod disgruntled Eugene townsmen and faculty members will keep silent and work for a succuiful school year, 1033-1034. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 16. (AP) A statement that he -has "not re signed" waa the only answer Dr. W. j, Kerr, chancellor of higher edu cation In Oregon, would make to a report published In a Salem news paper that he wuld retire at the end of the school year. Beached at Eugene by telephone, the chancellor declined to discuss the report. Wlllard Marks of Albany, acting president of the state board of high er education, declared, however, that the board haa not yet taken any action and that there Is no authorl taltlve basis for the report. The Weather Oregon: Unsettled Sunday and Monday; occasional rains in west and local snows northeast portion; no change in temperature; fresh to strong wind offshore. CHICAOO, Dec. 16. (AP) George Hansen, 34, tonight told police he was abducted and released near Ur bane. III., by four men, one of them Allen R, Hammel, 37, missing guard for the Brinks Express company, who haa been accused of embezzling 639,000 from one of the company's armored trucks. WILL- ROGER? PriOENtX, Arix., Deo. 15. Itascoe Turner and I just breezed in here in two hour, 100 miles, to do a little stage acting at a benefit. Roscoe ' jokes better be good, tor with the Democrats doing all that can be done and the Republi cans keeping still, why it don't leave me much to work on, so my little riddles are not so hot. France handed us their year ly laugh. We told 'cm it was debt-paying time and they just said "yeah!" They have even borrowed our English language. Say, with Jesse Jonos offer ing 34 nn ounce for new gold, every man, woman, or child thnt could get a burro and a pick have gono to the hills. This country has gone "nuggct miuded," and if they do what they ought to do and make sil ver a money instead of just a thing to shoot craps with, why the whole West will boom and we will have the king coming over with a pick and shovel. fa
