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Kiddies Invited Annual Mail Tribune Christma: Theater Party edford Mail Trie (jne The Weather Forecast: Occasional rain tonlfht and Thursday. Llttl change In temnerature. M natcit tht ruiiiuNEs Ujji I CLASSIFIED 4DS , . . Lota of jowl bargains p j that mm gennlne tf&& savlnga, J HlrhfU vesterdav l ! Lowest thlli morning .. - Twenty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1933 No. 232. nnnn nwvnn KIT Ml IMJ K . InMr'IF I By TAl'L MAI.I.ON. Copyright, 1033, by Paul Mellon. Smoke WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. There la a rery bad patronage situation under the surface In Washington. It can not be kept quiet much longer. There are Indications that the will be blown off by congressmen at the coming session. The explosion may center around a letter written to President Roosevelt last summer by Senator Norrla de manding the resignation of Postmaa ter General Farley. He alio wrote one to Farley making the same aug gcstlon.. Norria has never talked about those letters, but insider at the White House and Tennessee valley head quarters have learned what was be hind them. Fire They say Farley sent a not to Chairman Arthur Morgan of the TV A as soon aa Morgan waa appointed. This note directed Morgan to call at Farley's office. ' Morgan waa excited. The law under which he was working required him to keep the personnel of his outfit entirely free from the Influ ence of political recommendations. He consulted some of his friends, and finally decided to accept Farley's In vitation. The Morgan people insist that Far ley tried to take over the selection of TVA personnel. They contend he wanted to make arrangement with Morgan whereby men would be em ployed on his recommendation. Morgan balked, cited the law and withdrew In confusion. -"-.. Result Soon afterward Morgan was to have lunch with the president. On the advice of friends he brought up the Farley subject with Mr. Roosevelt and made his position known. His close friends say he waa deter mined to resign rather than accede to political appointments. Being a for mer college professor he - waa un acquainted with politics and political methods, but he knew what the law said. Mr. Roosevelt told him that he Waa quite right. Shortly after that Farley came to Morgan and also approved his stand. The matter was settled amicably. Farley's friends say h la position waa misunderstood by Morgan at their first meeting and they are inclined to mark the whole thing down as a professorial tempest. Prospects Most of the congressmen are on Farley's side. They want the TVA opened to political appointment and are talking about repealing the law. As a practical matter It la virtually Impossible to prevent the use of political Influence In federal appoint ments. Laws may prevent It use, but there are ways of getting around laws. Indeed there 1 evidence of some political appointments lately In the TVA, unbeknown, of course, to the authorities In control there. Certain aenatora have been boosting a lot of men for TVA Job but they have to watch their step. They are dissatisfied not alone with the TVA setup but with all the restrictions on patronage In other department. Between those who want Jobs and those who want to avoid political In fluences, It will be a nice fight. Puzzle A half dozen secret White House conferences preceded Mr. Roosevelt's action Monday, boosting the gold price a nickel. The Warren gold price charts were rushed over from the treasury o often and thumbed so frequently that they were nearly worn out. It was evident that the planner were reluctant to go above the 934.01 letrl they had maintained for nearly three weeks. It 1 understood they have now planned their course for three weeks ahead. There will be no leaks about that plan. Trends Certain trustworthy insiders have figured It out that the Warren scheme will require the president to go as high a 137.50 an ounce for gold, but no higher. That Is supposed to have been the decision, but you cannot be certain of It. Also there la no Indication as to how fast he will seek his ultlmat objective. Indeed there are reasons for believing Mr. Roosevelt himself does NOT know. He seems to be moving as slowly aa possible. The price Is boosted only when a definite downward trend of stock and commo dity prices occasionally becomea evi dent. At his present rste he might string t'.ie process out for months. That Is part or the atrsteey to keep the inflationist In congress quiet as long as possible. Mintlglit From the Inside the automobi:e business prosoects look very good. It Is the bell-wether of the iieavy indus tries which la'ely have been lagsln?. present plans call for It to step up (Continued Horn Fag. 8u mai acts IN DULLWIONTHS Blanket Agreement In Force for Next Four Months Permanent Codes Ready for All by Then, Is Hope WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (AP) President Roosevelt today announced a renewal of the blanket re-employment code for four months after Jan uary 1. In continuing the general code, he told a press conference that all the "fair competition" agreementa now cover 70 per cent of all employes who will eventually be covered by code. The blanket re-employment agree ment was nut uo aa a means to take ' In t.tia tyrant, mnlnrltv of emnlovers pending establishment of Individual NRA codes. "In the midst of winter and with many persons out of work," said the president In a statement, "It Is essen tial that the new year should not bring with It any let down In the re covery program In the trades and in dustries which at that time have not come under approved codes and to which, therefore, only the president's re-employment agreement applies." By the end of the four months' extension period, Mr. Roosevelt was represented as confident that perma nent codes applying to the remaining thirty per cent of employes will have been worked out, thus making un necessary the general blanket agree ment. Meanwhile, It developed today that President Roosevelt expects Frank O. Walker to supervise the recovery cam paign henceforth under the "Nation al Emergency council" led by him, with the heads of the various recov ery units in direct charge of adminis tration and enforcement. WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. (AP) President Roosevelt had democratic chieftains on notice today that the administration Is anxious for congress to pass the projected liquor tax bill during the first week of the session opening January 3. The leaders were Informed, of the administration's hopes for quick ac tion at a White House conference at tended by Representatives Dough ton (D., N. C). chairman of the house ways and means committee, and Sen ator Harrison (D., Miss.), chairman of the senate finance committee. Doughton told newspapermen he would call an executive session of his committee Friday with the view to drafting the measure. NEWSPAPER HOST TO ALL CHILDREN Here comes good news for all chll- ' dren of the Rogue River valley, just after the arrival of Santa Claus. j Wen all things are looking up, the ! Mall Tribune announces its annual Christmas theater party. It will be i held Christmas morning. December i 25, at 10 o'clock at George Hunt's ! Craterlan and RIalto theaters, i The feature at both houses will be "Rebecca of Sunny brook Farm," I with Marlon Nixon and Ralph Bel : lamy starring. There will also be j two reels of comedy cartoons. The satffs of each theater have ' volunteered to devote this time to the entertainment of the children, I making the Mall Tribune party pos j sible, and Jolly time is promised I for all. WELCH FINEO FOR Ormle Welch was fined 1100 and costs, and sentenced to 30 days in the county Jail, this morning in Jus tice court, when found guilty of driv ing while lntoxirated. His licence ; was also suspended for a year. Welch la alleged to have driven Into at. W. Gossett's auto on East Main i street, when It was parked in front ; of the Home Orocery store. Welch was driving a truck. j Preliminary hearing In the case of William J. Chlpman and Gene Hast- ; lmjs of Ashland, specifically charged with grand larceny of livestock, wai 1 underway in Justice court thus after noon. The two men are alleged to have shot a post nrar By bee bridge I last Sunday, and fled when the owner (Hove in tlg.it, Americans Arrested by L BEFORE COUNCIL Police Chief Stresses Need of Interim Regulation State Store Far in Future Dogs Bob Up Again Greater conaideratlon of the city's viewpoint in the Oregon liquor con trol program waa urged last night by Chief of Police Clatoua McCredle at the meeting of the city council, when action was taken authorizing city At torney Frank Farrell'a attendance at the proposed conference of city at torneys. The meeting ha been recommended to. work out aome program of regula tion, in cities, to control liquor traffic until the state machinery awlnga Into action under the Knox bill. In referring to the city's problem. Chief McCredle stated that some pro vision should be made, allowing the cities a definite period of time during which to regulate the problem, ao that time and money would not be spent on regulatory measures, only to have the city plana blighted in in fancy, when the state machinery get ready to turn. State Store. Far Off. The general opinion 1 that it will be 60 days before the liquor stores, provided for In the recent legislation, will be open for business. And when the first ones are, Chief McCredle stated, there will probably be no service available to Medford this side of Eugene. It will be at least all months, according to word from up state, before the state program will l in full operation In the southern Oregon section. Sale of legal liquors through gro cery store channela during the in terim haa been suggested, although no definite program has been out lined. Action la anticipated at the '(Continued on Page Three) BE NAMED AFTER SYSTEM SET UP PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 20. ( AP) The Oregon liquor control commis sion today ruled that alcoholic bev erages containing more than 14 per cent alcohol by volume may not be displayed In show windows of busi ness establishments. George N. McMorran, chairman of the control commission, announced the policy of the board in this re spect today during an executive ses sion. He said It would be Incum bent on all state police, county offi cials and city police to enforce the law, effective at noon today. George Neuner, attorney for the commission, said 'many stores now have show windows devoted to dis plays of atcoholtc liquors and bever ages that must come out at once." SALEM, Dec. 20. (AP) The ap pointment of an administrator for the state liquor control commission will not be made until after the system had been set up to such a degree It could be ascertained what qualifications are necessary for that office, Oeorge H. McMorran, chair man of the commission, said. Chairman McMorran wai in Salem last night and conferred with city of ficials and chamber of commerce members as to Salem's attitude on the state control plan. He was on his way to Portland where today the commission would meet to start work on working out the plan which will be put Into operation aa soon as poMlhle. "With one exception, I believe alt cities will co-operate with the com mission In the state-control plan. We will attempt to work out a uniform program for all communities.' Mc Morron said. The one exception, he Indicated, waa Klamath Falls. He cald the commission would welcome a suit In the supreme court on the home rule provision, but did not state what might be the result of such stilt. In the meantime. McMorran said, the commission would pt under way and any court action would not af fect the starting of the program. fcaperi f on Kills Top PARIS, 111, Dec. 20. (AP, Eugene Tea ?ue. Indiana atate policeman died In the hospital here today from a !)iillt wound received in the rapture of Edward Shouse. escaped convict from the Michigan City, lad., prison. Distressed Thief Sought In Loss of 20 Plum Puddings LA GRANDE. Ore.. Dec. 20. ) Officers here would be highly sua ptclous today were they to en counter anyone with a stomach ache. Last evening, while Mrs. Guy Ellis left her car for a moment to enter her home, someone stole 20 plum puddings from the machine, which the Episcopal church wom en had spent two days making In preparation for a Christmas aa'.e SEVERAL MONTHS Semi-official word haa been re ceived in this city the past week that there will be no appointment to the Medford postmastershlp be fore March 1, due to the absence of Postmaster General Parley In Europe and the Washington, D. C, powers t hat -be having mor elmportant mat ters at .hand. The commission of William N. Warner. Incumbent postmaster, ex pired last Monday, December 18. Warner has completed 30 years of postal service and cornea under the retirement clause of the economy act. Jackson county Democracy had hoped that the appointment would be made so the new appointee could take office January 1. Among the leading applicants for the postmastershlp for this city are Attorney Frank DeSouza, chairman of the Democratic county central committee; J. Frank Wortman of Phoenix, farmer-banker, and patron of the local postofflce, and Lewis Ul rich of this city, a native son of Jacksonville. All have been wheel horses of iocal Democracy. Official word has also been receiv ed that the commission of Mrs. Nel lie Reed of Gold Hill does not expire until May, 1935. so there will be no vacancy there until thsn. All postofflce appointments come under the civil aervice, with exami nations for qualifications. There are supposed to be no political lines In the civil service examinations. ECLIPSEO BY ION TOKYO, Dec. 20. (AP) a phe nomenon w.hich Japanese astrono mers asserted had not happened In several thousand years successive eclipses of Venus and Saturn by Vifi moon within two hours was witness ed by millions of star-gazers In Ja pan late today. While It was still daylight, watch ers with the naked eye saw a allm moon In the western sky swallow Ve nus at 4:04 p. m. After dark, as Venus reappeared from the crescent's lower rim at fl:18 p. m., Saturn was visible above waiting its turn to be eclipsed at 6:03 p. m. It reappeared at 7:01 p. m. TAKEN BY DEATH John nuhrer. well known local resident, died this morning at 6:30 o'clock, following a long illness. Funeral services will be held Friday at the Perl Funeral Home at 2 p. m. Mr. Fluhrer Is survived by his widow and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fluh rer, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bavier and Mr. and Mrs. Warren Olson, all of Medford. YOUTH CONVICTED OF MARSHFIELD MURDER MARSHPIELD, Ore,. -Dec. 20. (AP) i A 16year-old youth, Raymond Frye, i waa convicted of first denree murder here Tuesday for the slaying of H. U. ! Black man last Oct. 30. A sentence of IHfe Imprisonment was recommended j by the circuit court Jury, and this sentence Is mandatory under the law. WINTER WHEAT SOWING UNDER PREVIOUS YEAR WASHINOtON. Dec. 20. CAP) Winter wheat sown this fall waa re ported today by the department of agriculture to total 41.002 000 acres or 08 0 per cent of the acreage sown in t, the fall of 1032. KIDNAPING FEARED AS Jesse Livermore, Large Scale Stock Speculator, Is Mysteriously Missing From New York Haunts NEW YORK, Dec. 20. (AP) Jesse L. Livermore, whose large scale specu. latlon In stocks made him known aa "the boy plunger," was reported miss ing by his wife today. She told police he had left their Park Avenue apartment yesterday afternoon after returning home from business and that she had not heard from him since. She said she was worried about his absence because he always telephoned if he was unex pectedly detained. Police immediately began a check of hospitals on the chance that Liver more had met with an accident. His wife said she knew of no threats re ceived by him. When he left home yesterday, she said, he was In good health, and apparently had. no busi ness worries. Livermore, who is 66 years old, has figured prominently In the news for many years. Most recently, he waa named In a $250,000 breach of pro mise suit brought by Miss Nalda Krassnova in October of thia year. He filed a general denial of the oharges and a motion for a bill of particulars. The case Is still pending. In September last year, his first wife, Mrs. Dorothea F. Livermore, ob tained a Reno divorce, and last March he married Mrs. Harriet Metz Noble of Omaha, Neb. It was she who re ported LI verm ore 'a absence to the police. WATER PROJECT SAM FRANCISC, Dec. 20. (P) Victory at the California poll for the Central Valley water project, Involv ing a bond Issue of $170,000,000, was Indicated today with returna from all but 700 precincts out of the 8.050 In yeaterday'a referendum, allowing 424 -4S5 favorable and 400,244 unfavorable votea. foe of the plan argued that al though the issue might not be a legal obligation against the atate, it would constitute at leaat a "moral obliga tion"; would put the state Into the power business and would aerve to. ward Increasing the already trouble some agricultural aurplua. Proponent contended the plan would furnlh Job for 15.000 porsons for three yer: pay for Itself through the aale of water and hydro-electric power and apply a large area In dire need of water. ROME, Dec. 50 Pi The mothers of Italy 92 largest famine begin arriving In Rome today on a five-day vlalt at the expense of the state. Tney will be received by Premier Mussolini Sunday a the crowning event of a nation-wide celebration of mother' and Infants' day. Blgnora Paollma Belhid of Nap!,-, who hs brought 20 children Into the world, wore the prlred blue ribbon awarded by the Mothers' National Protective association for raising the largest brood in the kingdom, 1 . FLOODS POSTOFFICE The real Christmas mailing has started at last at the Medford post office, Indicating that Aanta Claua hadn't forgotten hi children but is just a little tardy this year. Three or four extra employee were put on the Job today and an addi tional truck hired to aid the service, Postmaster W. J. Warner reported. HALLE. Germany, Dec. 20 fAPl Professor Hans Valhlnxer. 81. blind Oerman authority on philosophy, died yesterday. French YESr CHRISTMAS IS NEARING . V You can't get away from It, Christmas soon will be here. New York la positive of It because the annual parade of giant balloons has made its way down Broadway, heralding the start of the holiday season. Children and grownups alike gaped as the dragons, clowns and other queer-shaped monsters passed In review in a pageant staged by a de partment store. (Associated Press Photo) HUGE SHARE PI FUNDS IS SHOWN PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 20. (AP) Federal and non-federal projects in Oregon. Washington, Idaho and Mon tana involving an expenditure of nearly $89,000,000 havo already been approved by the public works admin istration, it was said today by Mar shall N. , Dana, regional advisor or PWA for this district. The 93 projects approved represent, In terms of work, Dana said. 11,288, 034 "man-days." The summary, based on reports from the four atate public works of fices up to Dec. 16, ahowa that 65 non-federal projects Involving a cost of 19,580,595, and 38 federal projects totaling $70,334,080, have been ap proved for construction. The Oregon board haa forwarded to the administrator 40 applications, Washington 157, Idaho 44, and Mon tana 62. Oregon has had four non-federal projects approved, amounting tb 1,037.436 and representing 160,450 man-days, and ten federal projects amounting to 126,672,000, represent ing 3,225,440 man-days. STERILIZATION TO BERLIN, Dec. 20. (AP) A semi official news sgciicy Indicated today thf.t 400,000 persons, equally divid ed between the sexes, will be liable for sterilization "within a short time" under the German atcrlllzatlon law effeotlvo January 1. It was aald the sterilizations would be performed by court orders. . On thnt day 1700 "eugenic courts," of which there are 1000 in Prussts alone, besldea 27 'supreme eugenic courts," will take up tnelr functions. Nine cIsmps of congenital disease are specified, the majority of them among the mentally defective, aa calling for operations. ASTORIA, Ore, Dec. 20. (AP) Another southerly gale struck this district early today, the wind reach ing a velocity of Almost 60 miles an hour at the mouth of the Columbia river, and piling up very heavy seas. Little further storm damage was reported, however. The highway east to Portland and south along the coast wa reported open. Communication wrvlco had been partly restored. Ship (iron nils In t'og. LONDON, Dec. 20. (A) Willie a thick fog hrouded southesfttern Eng land and the FIUh channel, the S 6. Pratton, bound for Southampton frm the Inland of Jersey, grounded tod.iy on a rock led- at the u: oi WicUt, Police 'JW - - WJ4V a 8 NVESTIGATOR HE T LOS ANGELES, Deo. 20. (AP) A story of how an "Investigator" pur sued him was related m superior court today by Albert O. Allen, Jr., Oregon orchardlst, whose Inheritance of the $500,000 estate of Ml as Mar garet Keith, Paloe Verdea recluse, Is being contested by three other rela tives, Allen said that the Incident occur red last night as he waa, enroute to tne no me of friends, where he la stay ing. He aald the man, pointing out his automobile to a taxi-cab driver, Jumped in the cab and started after him. "I twisted through the streets of South Pasadena and San Marino but I couldn't shake him off." Allen said "Finally I stopped a policeman on Colorado street in Pasadena and ask ed him to arrest the man In the taxlcab. He did so and took the man to the police station, where he Iden tified himself as an Investigator. "The man refused to say what he waa Investigating, however, nor would he tell us whom he waa working for." The court asaured Allen protection If kidnaping was feared but pointed out that It was not against the law to chase an automobile through the streets and that luveslgatora or attor neys sometimes took that means to locate the residences of litigants. Later It waa said that the man was a process server. With Allen's fears calmed, rcsumn- tlon of the trial, in receaa over the Tunlay election holiday, was ordered PINDLAY, O., Dec. 20. fp) The "doll baby" has gained a quarter pound and today weighed a pound and a hair 24 whole ounces. Oraml mother Mrs. Charles Pinerd aaya fines doing Just fine." "We Just fred her the old-fashioned way whenever she cries, about every 20 or 30 minutes. She takes about teaspoonful of milk at a feeding said Mrs. Pinerd. "Sometimes we give It with a medicine dropper ami sometimes with a doll's nursing but tle." The tiny girl's mother, Mrs. Charles Carmen, expressed confidence the child .born tiaturnny, four months before she 'was expected, would live. The baby la kept in a small basket next the family's old-fashioned coai stove. 1 Shin 1IIU Hi win. PORTLAND. Dec. 20. (?) TM Hsrrlman railroad bridge across fi?e Willamette river here In the dowu town section was considerably dam aged today when the lntercoaatal freighter West Cape got out of con trol in the nver and rammed the cen ter span. The steamer was not greatly damaged. as Spies DOCUMENTS ANO SETS ARE SEIZEDJ PARIS Ten Taken In Roundup of Alleged Ring Leaders Preparing to Flee When Arrested Red Angle PARIS. Dec. SO. (API An Amarl. can aalnman and hi wif. and a naturallMd Canadian coupia nn under arrest today charged by th. French pollca with heading an allerf eaplonage aorvlca reaching Into tht "uuiairy or marina Itaelf Ten arreat In all were made and the police aald one other leader whom they did not name had escaped. The American aalesman waa de scribed by doIIm born :n East Orange. N. J. He waa rreITO without a fight and police said they believe him to be the chief of a band of 10 peraons, Including five women, all of whom are held. 1104 nig "Roll." The gendarmea said they found 19.000 franca In Bwlta- room, together with a number of military documents. They said othera of the alleged ring were nrenarlnr to flu. rh.. .. caught In the roundup. nrreawo with Swltz, who wa said to have been born October 88. 190, waa his wife, described aa the former Marjorle Tllley, born September , 1011. In New York. The man whom th mim a . euttw unknoni as a Canadian merchant, wa Benja- "IHJiw. oorn May 10, 1891, In Jassy, Rumania. Police Identified Mm . ,k. chief of the alleged espionage band -vl wwy arrescea mm aa he pre pared for flight hi bags already packed shortly after Swlta was taken Into custody. Money Sewn In Skirt. Three envelopes, containing 33,000 francs, which the gendarmea said wer. Intended for accomplices, were found In Bercowlti1 pockets while hi wife, Clara, born December 19, 1003, In Bendery, Rumania, waa aald by th. police to have had 13,000 franca aewn Into her skirt. Warrant for the three leaders who escaped were Issued by Examining Maglatrate Penon and the police Im mediately began an Intensive aearch for them. Among the alleged espionage mate rial which the police confiscated wera three wireless set, including a clan destine sending outfit, military doeu. menu, photographic plates and movie cameras and larg ums of money. Commissary Olanvettl of the French police made the haul of paraphernalia and said that he had found. In addi tion, that one uf the prisoners, Lout Martin, 43, a Frenchman and trans lator In the ministry of marine, had an account In a Frankfort, Germany, bank. Sll.prrt Faint,. Martin fainted when the pollca broke Into his borne after coming from the apartment of Madam Lldta Tchekaloff Stahl, 49, a Russian teacher, whom they also arrested. At Madame Stahl's home the polloa (Continued on Page Ten) WILL- ROGERS soys: BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Dec. 19. I see whero Jcssa Jonc ami his RFC (Redistribution Finance corporation) are not satisfied with the way the banks aro just counting their money, so to make the banks ashamed of. themselves tho KF0 is going to make loans to in dustries. The banks will about be so humiliated that they will be tho first ones to horrow all that Jesse has, Jesse, you been a banker yourself. You ought to know you can't shamo a banker, especially a big one. r SlIUUtltauUfTsJIUMtM. T
