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edford Mail Tribui Watch the TRIBUNE'S CLASSII ll.tl APS . . loti of good bargain that mean genuine eatings. Twenty-eijilith Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1934. No. 21.). 1111 MUST DEFEND SEAT IN HOUSE WEIGHING FUTURE OF NEW YORK The Weather Forecast: Cloudy Sunday with mod erate temperature. Highest yesterday , , 45 Lowest yesterday ..,.-, .,,,., S6 M Ej23 ai 1 1 i . f Tnrri mm iKir evcmi MliV UU LI ILO O LY I TT7T; , . WtJi Un UAUU By TAll, MAI.LON. (Copyright, 1934. by Paul Mallon) Melancholia. WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. The boy who know their numbers noted that Mr. Roosevelt waa excessively melan choly about this year's budget. He gave himself every possible bad break In figuring out that he would be seven billions In the red next June 30. It could not have been a slip of the pen when he estimated that the RFC would apend more than three billions In the next six months. To make that estimate he counted com mitments on which advances may never be made. Also he openly underestimated his receipts by not counting expected revenue from liquor and administra tive changes In the income tax law. Furthermore he piled 1,116.000.000 more on the deficit AFTER the treas ury had completed the budget and sent It to him for approval. The number boys believe it is more logical to expect a deficit nearer four billions than seven billions. Strategy. They qualify that prediction by saying it will work out that way un less Mr. Roosevelt has some sensa tional new plan for getting rid "t money which he Is not yet telling anyone about. They do not believe he has any auch plBn. They think they can detect a very shrewd strat egy behind the pessimism. Congress always wants to apend money. Already bllla are being intro duced proposing ten billions and even twenty billions more for public works. There were more bills intro duced tho opening day urging the restoration of veterans' cuts than there were on any other subjects. It let alone, congress would- spend all the money there Is In sight and some which Isn't. By crooning a melancholy budget tunc, Mr. Roosevelt la throwing a scare Into congress. He specifically points out thnt the government must borrow ten billions, a staggering sum. Mr. Roosevelt's record Indicates he was smart enough to have figured that all out ahead of them. Optimism. The only danger In that policy la the possibility that he may scare everyone else, Including the govern ment bondholders. He took care of that danger by a very optimistic outlook on the budget next year and a promise to balance it In 1036. He assumed the supremely happy position that he would be able to cut out nearly all the relief appro priations next year when most of his friends privately bclievo he cannot possibly retrench that much. He put next year's deficit at only two billions, on that basis. Existing prospects are strong that It win be more than that. Also you will note that the balanc ing year la the third one and a long way off. Skill. In every little way Mr. Roosevelt's budget la astounding. It is customary for administrations to minimize their estimates of ex penditures and magnify their expect ed receipts. That leads everyone to believe they are doling a business-like Job. To be so frank and peaalmistle. Mr. Roosevelt violated all tradition. In addition he very cooly avoided any commitments on his money pol icy or any other policy. He specifi cally said he would have to "borrow" the money for the deficit. Nowhere did he hint that he expected to get the three billions In profit for the treasury to be derived from dollar devaluation. Borrowing 10 billions Is a big Job. especially when six billions of It t new debt. The wise boys betleve that after he gets rid of congress he will have to devalue. So when he winds up his fiscal year in June he may find the financial condition of the treasury is less than half as bad as he thought It would be. Then he can point with pride. Debt. Similarly unusual waa the fact that the president made no effort to eon real the expected Increase In the pub lic debt. He estimated It would he 31 billions by June 30. IMS. That means It will be five billions more than the peak of our world war debt The blceest debt we ever had was 28 billions In August. 11117. Also It means Mr. Roosevelt will hsve Increased the debt more than .V) pe- cent, during the first three rears of his term When he came Into office It was JO billions. Cheer. The best rral news in the budget Is the hidden prediction It mskes on bumM recovery. . The covernment statisticians had to prophesy the extent of business prospects specifically in order to com pute expected tax revenues. They ficured industrial artivttT t an In dex of 79 for the first half of 1P34. That compare with the exttine In dex of 73 and means In a reneral way that they expect about an aver sc 6 per cent improvement in busi ness this rear. (Cununued on Pa 8u) OF STATE SHOPS BY NO OF WEEK Plan to Have Retailers Act as Temporary Agents Un decidedName Organizer and Sales Accountant PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 6. (AP) George L. Sammia, administrtor for Vie atate liquor control commission, will tentatively outline a system of stat retail bottle houses and then call the commission tr discuss the plans with him. Chairman George H. McMorran said here tonight. The commission culminated a, week of conferences here tonight by nam ing Sammia liquor administrator and announcing the following administra tive heads: Aaron Holts of Portland, organizer; Arch J. Tourtelotte of Porland, ac counting system manager, and George Neuner of Portland, formally con firmed as liquor control commission attorney. The proposal to ,have retailers act as temporary agents until state liq uor stdres could be placed in opera tion, McMorran told the Associated Press. He said the commissioners would discontinue their meetings until called together' by Sammis, probably late next week. Commission members Indicated they would be content to establish the main liquor office wherever the law prescribed. However for a matter of convenience the commission might continue to meet in Portland, more centrally located for the members. Oregon's first liquor administrator has been engaged In business here for several years as vice-president And manager of the Sunset Electric com pany. "He comes Into his activity (admin-: Istrator) highly recommended by many of the leading business Inter ests in the community," said McMor ran. He has lived 1rl Portland 14 years, is an overseas veteran and was born In Iowa. Mr. Holte Is a recent department store executive. Chairman McMorran, explained that Holtz' services "were secured by the state through the co operation of Kenneth Dawson of the States Steamship company, who Is absorbing a part of the expenses that the state might have the benefit of Mr. Holtz large business and organi zation background." Tourtellotte Is a Portland account ant with offices In the public service building. ' George Neuner was back before the: commission today, smiling despite! bandages from injuries In a recent: automobile accident. Neuner Is well-! known In Oregon political circles. He has served as a state legislator, Doug las county prosecutor and later United States district attorney for Oregon. PLEA FOR PAROLE; FOLSOM PRISON. Jan. !. (AP) The parole application of Warren K. Billings who was convicted with Thomas J. Mooney for bombing the 1916 San Francisco preparedness day parade, was denied today by the state board of prison terms and paroles. , The board Issued a prepared state ment, concluding with these words: "Because of his past criminal record and the gravity of his offense, this board believes the application for pa role should not be granted." Billings asserted he was not sur prised at the adverse action of the board. "I think that If the matter were left to the decision of the parole board without directions from 'higher ups, the board would hsve granted me a parole." Akrd whether he had In mind Governor James Rolph. Jr.. consider ing the fact the governor had denied a pardon to Mooney. Billings replied:! "Yes. I guess so. I think the gov ernor's feelings toward the Mooney caw had some bearing on my case." WASHINOTON, Jan. 8. (AP) Sena tor Stelwer (R. Ore.) said today he had been advised by the public works administration that 13.103.000 had been allocated as a loan and grant for construction of fire high way bridges along the coast of Ore gon. Stelwer said the allotments were as follows: Aiwa Bsv span. 171 1 , OOO; roc Buy snd Yaqulna Bay. a.1.. IfiVOOO; Bluslaw ami Umpqua rivers. 1.006,000. BILLINGS DENIED Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, auburn-haired storm-center of the fight for a seat in the house of representatives from Louisiana's sixth district, it shown in Washington as she denied she waa a Huey Long candi date. (Associated Press Photo) TO SPENDING BEE Public Opinion Alone Can Halt Expenditures, As So lons Dominated Liquor Bill Comes Up This Week WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. (AP) Re publicans began their promised bom bardment of the Roosevelt budget to day as the senate and house took time-off and prepared for the conr. tests to come. With both houses In recess until Monday and committees and leaders busying themselves for next week's grappling with liquor taxes, the St. Lawrenco waterway treaty and ap propriation measures, a mld-westorn senate Republican gave the cue to the opposition plans for fighting hug .additional outlays. In a statement, Senator Patter son (R., Mo.) said President Roose velt's estimate of a deficit of more than 7.000,000.000 this year made it obvious that "we aro traveling along the road to financial ruin." "Both branches of congress are so overwhelmingly under the control of the administration," he asserted, "that only an aroused public opin ion can stop the wild orgy of spend ing now going on." Democratic leaders retorted that the president's budget message was a frank statement of conditions brought about by essential emergency spending, that the budget was near ly balanced and that by 1036 both ordinary and emergency appropria tions would be on a pay-as-you-go basis. During the Informal budget debate. Chairman Harrison of the senate fi nance committee announced his group would meet Monday to expe dite the house liquor tax bill, but started a round of discussion by saying It would give "very serious consideration" to the plan for a 2.60 tax wltU a credit of 30 per cent to atates'nhat refrained from enacting gallonsge levies. The liquor tax bill probably will not reach the senate floor until mid week. Meanwhile, the senate will act on nominations, Including that of Henry Morgentl.au, Jr.. as treasury secretary, and may begin considera tion of the controverted St. Lawrence waterway treaty with Canada. ICE PACK LAKE ABOARD ADMIRAL RYRD'S FLAG SHIP ENROUTR TO LITTLE AMER ICA. Jsn. 5. or (Via Mackay Ra dio) rearing further delay in this region might Jeopardf7 the entire procrsm. Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd today had the flagship of his Antarctic expedition hesdinc out of the lake In the Ice pack where she had Iain since Monday. Further explorations In this rejlon, the admiral decided, might lnorea.e the risk of the ship in the lee puck. So. from a position of lMttide 69:25 outh. 116:40 west, the ship nos-d her way slowly and carefully on the start of the remaining 3.0O0-m:'.e Journey to the expedition's main bsse. linn Radio A'lv RERUN. Jan. 6 fAP Although official orders apparently hsve not been issued to ban radio advertising In Germany, the newspaper Vorlkta cher Bobachter said tonight the ad vert. ing council of the Oprman Eco nomic fderaMfin propped to elimi nate in the future purely private dxertliing. Mepford Deposits Show Gains Since March Moratorium Deposits In Medford banks, for December 30. showed an increase of approximately 15 per cent over last March, when the national bank moratorium was called. The increase is shown in stato ments published today, upon call of the Treasury Department. Cash increase on deposit, in round numbers is M29.000. On March 15, 1933, at the time of the bank holiday the total cash deposits totalled $2,246,000. On December 30, laat. the de posits totalled ft2.575.000. The increase waa regarded as a sign of returning optimism and confidence. MURDER LADY TO E WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. (AP) T,he marital at fairs of Lieutenant and Mrs. Thomas Massie, which figured prominently in the sensational mur der trial of tho naval officer and others In Honolulu last year, headed today for the Reno divorce courts. Mrs. Masste, alleged victim of an assault that preceded the slaying of an Hawaiian in 1032, announced she would leave, tomorrow for Reno to institute divorce proceedings against her husband, who at present la sta tioned aboard the U. S. S. Oklahoma, at San Pedro, Cal. "I would like to emphasize,' Mrs. Massie said, "that the divorce Is be ing obtained at the Insistence of Lieutenant Massie. I am personally reluctant to take such a step as I am opposed to divorce. "The divorce proceedings are In no way connected with the Honolulu trial of April, 1932. Following the granting of the divorce, Z will return to Washington, where I will make my residence, entering employment." Mrs. Massie, the daughter of the socially prominent Mrs. Granville Fortesque, has been separated from her .husband for several months and has been living here. ON CQIT0N LOAN WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. (AP) The senate agriculture committee today gave Its approval to the lending by the government of another 1100. 000,000 under an arrangement simi lar to that by which cotton and corn producers already have borrowed 150.000.000. Farm adminlstrMlon officials frank ly said the losns were s eamhle. since the government took all the risk. They pointed out, however, that a lotn prerequisite was that borrowers agree to Join in the 1034 cotton and corn reduction program. This Insures that thousands of producers will take psrt In the csmpatuns to reduce cot ton acresce this yesr hy 40 per cent and corn by 20 per cent. Day in Congress By I he Awnc.atrd Frew, Speaker aRlney left a White House confrrfnee with word that the house would keep "absolutely within'' the Roosevelt budget. Earle Bailie. New York banker, re slcned as special assistant to Secre tary Moreenthau of the treasury. The public works administration allotted 158 250.000 to projects In 41 states. Federal reserve authorities said federal reserve gold couldn't he com msndred by the treasury without an act of congress. OE ILK LOW AS STRIKEJIGHTENS 18,000 Angry Farmers Picket Highway Blame 'Chiselcrs Local, Up state Situation Unchanged CHICAGO. Jan. 6. (P) A milk em bargo, marked by violence and threat ening the city's comfort and health, tightened around Chicago tonight as 18.000 angry farmers picketed high ways and defied their neighbors' at tempts to deliver milk. Chicago and scores of towns sur rounding It within a radius of 100 miles were menaced with a milk short ace by Monday. In some of the towns, dairy companies announced they would be unable to make Sunday de liveries. Thousands of gallons of milk were dumped on. highways, and countless farmers In Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana refrained from marketing their milk, or were restrained by neighbors from doing so. Even tile big dairy companies of Chicago admitted their supplies had been cut down seriously. Only dairies supplying hospitals and other Institutions were allowed to ob tain their quotas from farmers. Steps were taken, slso, to assure adequate supplies for Infants. Leslie G. Goudie, negotiating with the dairies for the union, said he be lieved the companies had been unfair to both the farmers and the drivers. Officials of the PMA. however, placed blame for the strike on the shoulders of small, independent dairies (not members of the Chicago milk coun cil) which sold on a cut rate cash-and-carry basis and refused to abide by the milk marketing agreement reached last summer under the agri cultural adjustment act. The Medford milk situation, over which the State Milk control board assumed Jurisdiction Friday, setting prices to be followed, remained little changed yesterday. One depot, which Friday increased Its price, was report ed complying with state order, while the other was understood to be still selling milk at 25 cents a gallon. The state board demanded an increase to 30 cents. Word was received from the north, announcing the early arrival here of E. O. Harlan, chairman of the con trol board. Local officials are taking no action in the matter, which Is en tirely In the hands of the state board. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 6. (&) A temporary milk price basis, to be In force pending further investigation, was announced here today by the Ore gon State Milk control board. The prices are virtually the same as those now in effect. Prices fixed by the board, which was created by the state legislature at Its recent special seaslon, were scheduled to go Into effect Tuesday morning. TOUGH UNDERHILL TO PRISON CELL WITHJT3BULLETS McAle.ter, Okl., Jan. . W Wil bur Underhlll, MUthw.it.rn dcpr c!o. dld In tat' penlttntlary at 11:42 o'clock tonight. 8HAWNKB. Okla , Jan. . (API Wilbur Und.rhlll. wounded d. nr.rin w.. nut into an ambulance at city hoipltal her. today and atarted to atate'a prlaon at McAleater with an escort of eight heairlly armed of- I Considerable Improvement waa ra I . ... . .... porica in me coiiauiun ui wnuv. who waa shot and captured here a week ago. At first physlrlani be lieved he would dla from the 13 bul let wounds In hla body. Underhlll haa been held under federal orders In connection with the killing of four offlcera and Prank Nash, federal prisoner, at the Kansas City Union Station last June. He la under life sentence In Okla homa and Kansas for murders and had escaped from the penltentlarlea in DQin amir.. NEW YORK. Jan. fl (AP) Speed of the first soviet ambassador to the United States, Alexander A. Troyan ovnky, in arranging to present his credentials tn Washington was takn tonight In well-Informed circles as an Indication of quickly-forming de velopments In Russian American trade. The liner, Washington, bearing Ttoyanovsky and William C. Bullitt, the Amerlfsn ambassador to Moscow, was due to drop anchor at quarantine around midnight, -fr-.' if- In power for 18 years, Tammany Hall released Ita grip on the New York City Hat) to Fiorello H. LaGuardla, who It shown at left deeply engrosaed In conversation with the retiring mayor, John P. O'Brien, as he assumed hla official duties. (Associated Press Photo) NEW YORK, Jan. 6. (AP) Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardla, denied dicta torial powers over the city's govern ment by Governor Herbert H. Leh man, said today he never "ran away from a fight," but there were Indi cations of his willingness to accept a compromise. "Do not forget that February 1 Is creeping on me fast, and I must bal ance the budget." said LaGuardla, the governor's 2500-word letter denying him the requested powers spread on his desk In city hall. "If anyone can give me something Farm Chief Says Constitution Lost; , Farm Plans Fails WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. AP) Mllo Reno, president of the Na tional Farmers' Holiday associa tion, said today: "Even Secretary Wallace Is smart enough to know the administrations' farm pro gram won't work." The touale-halred leader of mid western farm strikes said .hla only mission in Washington wos "to help President Roosevelt and con gress locate the constitution of the United States, which they evi dently have misplaced some where." Reno claimed the plan for re ducing production of farm crops was unworkable, Impracticable and "pregnant with future trou bles." He described the farm ad ministration's provision for loans on stored corn as "a bribe to get farmers to sign the corn-hog con tracts before Viey even saw them." ARKANSAS PASTOR FREED OF MURDER IN CHURCH FIGHT PIOGOTT, Ark., Jan. 6iT)A circuit court Jury early tonight speed ily acquitted the Rev. Dale S, Crow ley. 34-year-old Baptist minister, in his trial for murder In the slaying of J. W. MaoMurdo, Janitor of the Jones boro Baptist tabernacle, In an out growth of a bitter fractional church fight. Crowley pleaded self defense, as serting he shot MaoMurdo after the 88-year-old Janitor had refused to leave the tabernacle and shot him. The Jury reached a verdict in three mlnutee. The trial was transferred here on a change of venue due to bit ter feeling at Jonesboro. As soon M the verdict was read Crowley and his pretty red-haired wife shook hands with each Juror. Crowley, who had been recognized by the chancery court as legal pastor of the tabernacle only two or three days before the slaying, told newspa permen he still was the pastor snd would continue his religious work there. PARAGUAY FRONT BUENOS AIRES. Jan, 6 p Para guay and Bolivia wer ready tonight to resume their age-old conflict over the OraruChaeo In the belief nn 18 day armistice would not be extended. Soldiers prepared to recommen hostilities Interrupted December 1 by a true obtained through media tion efforts of the Pan-Amerlcsn con ference snd a league of nations con dilation commission. The commission, seeing no hope for effecting another delsy. began con sidering ways of continuing pear ne gotiations after renewal of fighting in the border area. to balance the budget I will Jump at It." It was to balance the budget 25, 000.000 off balance that LaGuardla asked the unprecedented powers, In cluding the right to eliminate depart ments and to slash salary schedules. From Albtuiy came indications that the governor's attack on LaGuardia's plea for the dictatorial powers had effectively doomed the mayor's plan. Legislators expected, however, that tho mayor and Democratic leaders would evolve a compromise giving LaGuardla limited powers to readjust the city's budget. POST AS 'YAPPER' Also Called 'That-Guy' for Criticizing Relief Wages as 'Too High Hopkins to Rein Georgia- Aid WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. (VP) Harry Hopkins, civil works and relief ad ministrator, today separated Governor Talmndge of Georgia, whom ha has accused of "headline hunting" and "yapping," from all authority and as sociation with the civil works and relief administration in the southern state. ' Tho administrator dissolved the Tajmadge appointed civil works re lief board and announced he would direct the work from Washington with Miss Gay Shcpperson acting as his representative In Georgia. Relations between the governor and Hopkins became strained when Tal madge criticized civil works policies several weeks ago. Talmadge said wages were too high and that as a result people were be ing lured from farms, thereby threat ening a shortage of farm labor when the planting season arrived. Hopkins replied: "All thst guy Is after Is headlines. He never contributes a dime, yet he's always yapping. Some people Just can't stand to see others making a living wage." Shown Hopkln's statement, Tal msdge commented only that "I don't refer to him as 'that guy." LYING NOTED IN WASHINGTON, Jan. 0 (AP) Evl rtenee from the Detroit banking In quiry, being assembled today by Fer dinand Pecora'a ataff, disclosed an order from the comptroller of the currency In the fall of lim that all! national bank examiners exercise len- lenry. The order was In the form of a teleitram from J. W. Tele, then comp troller, to Alfred P. Leyburn. former chief national bank examiner at Chi cago. Leyburn's statement In connection with submitting a copy of the tele gram said: "It was the policy of Vie administration, who were hoping for better times, to exercise leniency " Ivbiirn' statement crltlcleed the one-man grand Jury that conducted an Investigation Into the closing of the bsnka last summer aa a "trav esty on American Justice." He said: "It haa no legal standing and frcm the rarelesa way In which the truth waa handled hy witnesses, they must have been aware t,iey could not be cited for perjury tinder this court." Ve Old I'nrk llnr'l WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (Pi With favorable reports on nearly a dozen new major projecta ready for It con aldcratlon. the house rivers and har bors committee will start hearinta Monday to draft an omnibus bill auch has not been enacted by congre since 130. Orchardist, After Return From East, Optimistic Medford Pears Gain Favor at Home and Abroad Harry H. Rosenberg, member of the firm of Rosenberg Bros., operators of tho Bear Creek Orchards, who re cently returned from a trip to the. east and New york city is "thoroughly convinced this district la on the inrcshold of an unnrcccdenterf nr. perlty." Rosenberg, a successful and hichlv conservative orchardist, la regarded aa a close, atudent of all angles of the fruit Industry. In a atatement la sued yesterday, saya Medford peara aro making tremendoua strides In both foreign and domestic market, that the name California" d. "old the magic it formerly did. In the fruit buying centers, and at tribute, the growing popularity of the valley peara to the quality of tho 'nilt and betterment r tu. Boscs are regaining lost popularity. .mmm. one of the few ever issued by Rosenberg, Is as follows: I doubt If many Medfnrrt or shippers realize what great atrldes ".. un.net naa made during the last year. Unless one vlslU the large eastern centers and unless one aeea their peara and apples In competi tion with frulta from other district, and talks with the trade to find out the reason for Its preference It Is dif ficult to get the right picture. Outlook Encourages. "After an extended visit In the east, and the various markets, I have returned with one very firm convic tion: That Is, the eastern market situation la most encouraging for the l(iture aa far m Medford fruit I concerned... . It lpoka fine for the future I Pack Aids Prestige. Thla valley has really made tremen. doua atrldes thla year. The moat out standing, aa I aaw It. waa the atartl lng Improvement In mout of the Med ford packs. The quality of the fruit In the package waa also very, very much better. In fact there waa hardly a poor pack from thla vallty and most of them were quite good. Do not think for one mlnut that the trade doca not recognlr this. They do. I heard it remarked about everywhere I went. The fine trade, the best shops, and hotels are now preferring Medford pears to the aver age from California, Washington, or other aections of Oregon. Of course. I do not mean that there are not soma very desirable California packs, but I do say that Medford pears are now being preferred to California's. That la SBylng a good deal. In view of ths many, many years of California' preference. Export (lain. "Thla preference Is not only true aa far aa the domeatlc trade la con cerned, but It la rapidly reaching the point where Medford peara ara equal ing and surpassing the demand for California pear In tha foreign mar ket. This export trade Is of vital Importance to u and It 1 my opinion that thla preference for Medford peara la going to build up a continued larger fob demand from European markets. It waa only a few year ago (Continued on Page Ten) CHICAGO Jan. 6. (Ap")-Dr. Alice Wynekoop, 63-year-oId physician, acheduled to go on trial next Thura day as the alayer of her daughter Inlaw, Rheta, 23, will enter a plea of not guilty. WILL ROGER? hays: UKVEHLY HILLS, Cal., Jan. 3. Mr. Roosevelt proposed in , ., . . X'r t j in i'::!i unit mo .Mv.i nnu a lot of those other government regulated business ethics would be niiulc reriiuiiieitt. Well thnt wni) n terrible blow to soma business men. They hud figured they would only be required to be honest by the government till the emergency was over. Tho papers today tell of a little country in the Pyrenees mountains that has six army officers and only six plain sol diers. Well that strikes us ns being mighty comical, yot we got 120,000,000 people and CO, 000,000 hold government jobs. Ollll UNiiallrBlti. la.