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The Weather Forecast: Cloudy tonight and Wed nesday. Slightly warmer tonight. Temperature: Highest yesterday - 47 Lowest this morning 31 M edford Mail Tribune I Watch lh TRIBUNE'S I I I CLASSIFIED ADS . . 1WSrOr I ' lxti of good bargain. Jt ! that una genuine r2& t Tweritv-eiclith Year MEUFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1934. No. 217. P-0 LfL iV JV EMMS re (By Paul Mallon) (Copyright, 1934. by Paul Mallon) Billions WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Thl amount Of money Mr. Roosevelt la going to borrow In the next six months la ten tlmea greater than the number of minutes elapsing since the birth of Christ. It la nearly' twice aa much as there la In the United States. Only by such comparisons Is It pos sible to estimate how much ten bil lion dollars la. Since the birth of Christ. 1933 years have elapsed, 705, S45 days, 16,932.080 hours and 1,015, 984.800 minutes (not counting extra days for leap year). - . The amount of money in clrcula 1 tion Is $5,700,000,000. (Federal Re serve Bank). Loopholes The president's task Is not Impos sible, although It certainly la gigan tic. He can get more than two billions In profit for the treasury by cutting the gold reserve behind the dollar fifty per cent. (Monetary gold stocks amount to around 94.300.000,000). Of tho ten billion total, four bil lions are refunding operations on money already borrowed. He will have little trouble renewing that amount, although he will undoubted ly be compelled to offer a higher In terest rate. So if he devalues all he really needs to get la four billions fresh new money. He can cut down that necessity by falling to apend all that he now contemplates. Cost The interest rate he has been pay ing for short term paper alnce Octo ber 11 tells a little inside story. On that date he was able to bor row 60 or 90 day money at 12-100s of 1 per cent, an unusually low d figure. Since then the occasional (virtual ly weekly) rate has run tho scale (in one hundredths of one per cent) as follows: 13, 22, 24, 40, 43, 43, 60, 74, 73. 62. You will notice the last figures show him paying five times aa much for short term paper as he did Octo ber 11. Meaning There are two sides to that story. One class of financial experts will tell you that the proximity of a nation to bankruptcy can be meas ured by what it pays for short term paper. The other aide says the condition of the money market has more to do with the rate than the credit stand ing of the borrower. They seem to be more nearly right. Either side will agree that even the topmost figures cited above are very low rates. Over nearly any long term period they will average much high er. You will nottoe also that the rate dropped for the last three weeks, but the last figure came before the budget message was given out. v The rates are so low because the banks are filled to the brim with cash and there Is no place for the bankers to put It, except In short term governn.ents. Now that the budget la out the ra te is sum to climb. The extent of its climb will be very interesting to watch. ' Resignation . You can score another run for the senate stock market investigators on the resignation of Earle Baillle from the treasury department. The Investigators seci-ctly dug up Ballllea complete record in connec . tion with the organization of Invest ment trusts which have failed aa well ss with Peruvian bonds. They plan ned to make a holy show of it in the senate when Treasury Secretary Morgenthau'a nomination came up for discussion. Baillle announced his resignation before the sharpshooters had a V chance to get at him. Banging General Johnson was banging his fist away at a table during a code hearing one day, when he was amaz ed to see two men Jump up in the back of the room and start storm ing and banging as much or more. The general did not know who they were, but he was so taken back by the display that he shouted to one of them: "Well if you know so much about it. suppose we put you en the advis ory board." Someone shouted: "Put Schllnk (the second riotous talker) on too." The grneral agreed. Weeks passed and the general fail ed to make good, but within the last few days he named the first banger, Leon Henderson of the Russell Sage Foundation as assistant administrator for consumers. The second one was Fred Schllnk of the consumers' re search organization. Johnson does not hold the con sumers crowd in much esteem. He Is constantly taking pot shots at them. He thinks they do nothing except object. He was aiming at tliem when he Ivmed executive order No. 53 which stated: "The advisory boards are not here sin-ply to make a record No group here, whether industrial, con sumers' or labor, ctn be pcrm.tted to dominate ." (Conuryed on Page FoutJl STAVISKY KILLED TO SAVE H1GHUP! L Police Attacked Over Square Mile Area Around Cham ber of Deputies News paper Foments Outbreak PARIS, Jan. 9. (AP) Royalists, swinging canes as weapons, attacked police repeatedly today for over a square mile area around the cham ber of deputies in a demonstration against the government because of the alleged suicide of Serge Stavisky, pawnshop bond operator. The Royalist newspaper Action Francalse had called for a popular demonstration, asserting StaviBky had not died by his own hand but had been shot down by police in order to keep him from testifying as to what he knew of speculations which cost the public 940,000,000. Lamp posts were broken from their foundations and strewn across the streets, blocking traffic; iron grills were torn from the trees which they protected. The police, massed in the Place Bourbon held their ground, taking Including women, whom they loaded into busses and carried to police sta tions after which they were released. Earlier In the day all streets lead ing to the chamber were blocked off by massed patrol wagons. The socialist newspaper Populaire and the communist Humanlte were other newspapers attacking the pol- I ice version. Mack LUlard was reappointed pro moter for Medford ring events at the annual meeting of the boxing com m Is Ion last night and the sport czars went on record to the effect that hereafter promoters will not be urged or required to give a "cut" on gate receipts to any person or organiza tion. It was stated that past experience had shown but little profit for pro moters, and sometimes a loss. It was felt that the promoter who takes the good with the bad should have an opportunity to recoup on feature cards without having to split with someone else. E. C. (Jerry) Jerome was named chairman for the ensuing year. Other members of the commission are Larry Schade, P. C. Blgham, Dr. A. F. W. Kresse, examining physician and J. F. Fllegel, secretary. WIFE SAYS HUSBAND ACTED LIKE CAVEMAN CHICAGO, Jan. 9. (UP) Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas sued for a divorce from Eugene Thomas today for the i following reasons: Her husband, she said, squandered $100,000 of his own, misappropriated $150,000 of hers, drank four pints of I liquor a day, sluuged her with a i blackjack and twisted her arm until I it broke In three places. J Mrs. Thomas did not appear In i court because, her attorney said, she was afraid Thomas would be present. P0RT0RF0RD MAN KILLED BY BULL PORT ORFORD, Ore.. Jan. 0. (UP) Charles Forty was dead today after being gored to death by a bull just as he was about to enter a rowboat and row to safety. s His body was found on the river shore two hours later by a neighbor. LIQUOR IMPORTS BY MAIL ARE FORBIDDEN WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. (AP) Im ports of liquor by mall were banned today by an order of W. W. Howes, assistant postmaster general. Shipments received were ordered returned to points of origin abroad. Cigarette Prices Are Advanced By Leading Maker NEW YORK, Jan. ft. (AP) The wholesale price of popular brands of eigaretts waa adranccd 80 cents a thousand to $6 0 a thousand by leading manufacturers today. It was understood in the trade that the Jump was due to Increas ed com incident to the NRA code and various processing taxes. The action of retailers in view of the rue in wholesale prices mas not announced, but It a expect ed In the trade that -store prices would be lilted In line with the nT .-?ie1nle Prehistoric Man's Skeleton Dug Up In Benton County KEN NE WICK, Wash., Jan. 9 (AP) Burled in 85 feet of gravel and rock, perhaps for centuries, what may be the skeleton of prehistoric man was blasted out by a Benton county gravel crusher crew last week. The skeleton was unharmed by the blast, and was taken to Pros ser. Over six feet all and with huge snow-white bones Intact, It bore vertebrae the sire of a man's (1st. Front teeth as large aa most men's molars were In the skull, which had been crushed in on one side, giving rise to the belief the man may have died when the root af a cave gave way. LOCAL RESIDENT, KILLED IN AUTO PORTLAND, Jan. 9. (UP) Sleep -Ign at the wheel resulted in three traffic deaths in the northwest over the week-end. Al C. Panzer, 45. Spokane magazine publisher and one-time business man ager for the Medford Dally News, slumbered as he drove along the winding Wallace highway near Lake Couer d'Alene In Idaho. The car crashed into a ditch, killing him In?" stantly. A companion, Mrs. Delbert Hale.1 Coeur d'Alene. was uninjured. They had been drinking beer, it was satf.j Ludlow W. Esses, 21, sailor on the airplane carrier Saratoga, and pretty Miss Gladys Gunn, 16, Montesano, his companion, both were killed when Esses fell asleep while approaching the New London bridge near Aber-1 deen. The car crashed through the railing. Esses, son of L. J. Esses log ging contractor, was returning from a dance. Al Panzer, who was manager of the Medford Dally News for a few months, under the editorship of Llewellyn A. Banks, about four years ago, came here from Klamath Falls, where he waa an automobile salesman. Panzer spent some time as manager for Banks during his campaign for clectjon to the United States senate. E IN INCREASE ON . TRUCKS , AUTOS SALEM, Jan. 9. W The atat of Oregon led all other state in ratio of Increase in trucks registered during 1933, a national survey received by the secretary of state today showed, and was second In private automobile increases, and second for the com bined total of vehicles listed. In gas oline sold, Oregon rated eleventh, the survey revealed. The survey, covering 40 states, showed that in these divisions of the United States a total of 23,000.000 automobiles and trucks had been registered and consumed more than fifteen and a quarter billion gallons of gasoline. The national decrease in registration under last year was from IV to 2 per cent and the decrease In gasoline consumption was about 2 per cent. The past year waa the fourth con secutive year In which vehicle regis tration had decreased, while gasoline consumption has decreased the past two years only. In private vehicle registrations the past year, Oregon was second, with a ratio of Increase of 39.09 on Its total of 238.488 cars. New Mexico wan first with 63.29. Georgia was third with 53.29. The national figure showed a decrease of 196, while Colorado showed the greatest decrease of 14 07 per cent. In other vehicles Oregon led with an Increase of 6631 per cent. New Mexico was second with 42.13. and South Dakota lowest with a decrease of 17.90. The national decrease waa 122. The combined totals revealed New Mexico 60 91 Increase. Oregon second with 32 30 on its 277.169 li censed vehicles, and Oeorgla third with 15 21. Colorado was lowest with a 14 05 decerase. The national de crease was 190. CCC YOUTHS LEAVE Nine CCC men. who came to Ore ion several months ago from Illinois, have obtained positions in their home towns, and left by trsln last even ing for that atat. They Included LeRoy larle. Ray mond Psge. R6ert J. Flanaean and Maurice L":vdv of Chieo. and Bovd W A!n. Virgil Huddieaton. Leo Rrry. Fred Jemeil and Harold Ward ,of Decatur. PAY REDUCTION IS 1 Restoration of One-Third of Cut Expected July 1 if Congress Willing Living Costs Are Considered WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. (AP) President Roosevelt today by execu tive order continued the 15 per cent reduction of pay of federal employees for another six months. In his budget message, the presi dent asked that the authority to cut be changed from 15 t- 10 per cent, thus congress willing assuring res toration of one-third of the pay cut beginning July 1, the start of the fiscal year. The president acted today upon the findings of the department of labor on the local cost of living, as pro vided by law. Living Cost Lower Two sets of findings were given. The first, based on the cost of liv ing for families of wage earners and lower salaries workers In 32 cities, showed the average cost of living for this group In the last half of .1923 was 21.1 below the average of the base period of December, 1927, to June. 1928. The second set of findings, based on a special at ud y of the cost of living of government employee in Washington, showed, a decline in the cost of living during the past three months of 14.6 per cent. Continue Scale "In view of the above," said a White House atatement, "and be cause the law provides for index fig ures covering all parts of the coun try, It Is necessary to continue the present scale until June 30, 1934." The first cut In pay for the gov ernment workers will have been In effect one year on July 1. All government officers and em ployes have had a 15 per cent-cut in pay during this period. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. (AP) Lewis Douglas, director of the bud get, made clear today he Intends to remain in his present office despite rVmors that budgetary differences with President Roosevelt and a re cent curtailment of his authorities might cause him to resign. The budget director told newsmen he plana 'to "remain on the Job as long as I can render service." The president yesterday trimmed powers only recently handed to Doug las for checking on emergency ex penditures. CHICAGO, Jan. 9. (AP) Regular shipments of milk Into Chicago by airplane were started today as the fourth day of the city's milk block ade brought an acut shortage to the metropolis. BURLINGTON, Wis.. Jsn. 9. (AP) Striking farmers held up a Soo line milk train south of here today and dumped seven carloads of milk Into a ditch. Several hundred men were in the crowd of pickets which stopped the train by piling ties and other ob structions on rails at a Junction of the Soo line and Milwaukee railroad. LOS ANOELES, Jan. 9. (AP) Hope for an amicable settlement of differences between dairy employes and milk plants were dimmed today as tension grew over the shooting of an asserted organizer of a Santa Ana dairy. The victim, Lawrence Palmer. 31, was ahot In the hands and legs aa he left a ranch. FUNDS ALLOTTED PORTLAND, Jan. 9 (AP) Allot ment of 910.000 of civil works money for improvement of the Klamath Falla airport was announced today by Lieut. Bssll B. Smith, department of commerce, aeronautics division air port engineer. Paul D. Sullivan, assistant engineer, said the allotment will provide em ployment Tor 83 men for 30 days In grading runways and surfacing the field with crushed rock. . Supplementing the CWA allotment. $1500 worth of material has been do nated by residents of Klamath Falla, Sullivan said. The airport and property Is valued at $40,000. Flu In Japan TOKYO. Jan. 9. (AP) Two cabi net members and the commander-in-chief of the Japanese navy's combin ed fleet today Joined War Minister fladeo Arakl among thou suffering from influenra in an epidemic whim i newspapers estimate Is causing ninety deaUu dalljr. TO FEED CHICAGO GUARDIAN CANNOT Vallee's Wife In Action SINGER HINTS HE TELL A FEW F LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9. An ar ray of startling charges embracing In fidelity, vicious temper, vile language, character assassination plots and nig gardly financial settlements were heaped upon Rudy Vallee today by his actress-wife, the former Fay Webb, in a suit for separate maintenance. The brewing marital storm between the popular young entertainer and the daughter of the police chief of Santa Monica, Cal., about which warning signals have been flying lately, broke in the form of a 31- page complaint, which was sealed by court order for a time after being filed in the superior court here yes terday. At Vallee's own insistence, the seals were broken and the charges became public. After he had read them, the curly-headed alnger, actor and or chestra leader, a recent arrival In Hollywood to make a motion picture. dropped a hint that an antl-cllmax to this initial sensation was in tne offing. "I will be very glad to classify snd answer certain paragraphs technical ly." he said. "I hope I never have to do this. I have no particular desire to blast the girl. But certainly I will have to defend myself and bring (Continued on Page Eight) DRAWS LEADERS Eighty-three lender, of Jackson and Josephine countv last evening at tended the opening of the four-day dramatic Institute being conducted In the court house auditorium by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stuart Knapp, member. of the National Playground and Recreational association of New York. under the supervision of Mrs. Mabel C. Mack. Jackson county home dem onstration agent. Two sessions dally, from 8:30 to 7 and from 8 to 10 will be held each day. At the close of the Institute, an other county-wide dramatics play contest will be held, Mrs. Mack stated. to be finished before February 28. Last year Jackson county won the state contest. E SALEM, Ore., Jan. (AP) A guardian of an Insane person may not change beneficiaries In a life in surance policy of the Insane peraon in favor of himself as against children of the insured, the Oregon supreme court held In an opinion handed down today reversing the Marlon county circuit court. The case waa originally brought by the Catlforna Western S'e.tea Life In surance company against Effa L. Marsters, guardian of her aon, Ed ward Raymond Marsters, deceased, and the children helra of the deceased The children appealed to the supreme court resulting In reversal of the de cree of Judge Y. O. Lewelllng, which awarded the $2000 Insurance to the mother, as guardian. ON NEXT STEPS SEATTLE, Jan. 9 (AP) Prince Alexis Mdlvanl reached Seattle by automobile and went to a leading hotel rhortly before noon today. He declined to reveal his plans and it was announced ha was wearied by the drive from Chehalls, halfway be tween Seattle and Portland. Soon after the arrival of the prince at the Olympic hotel, Paul H. McClelland, general passenger agent in Seattle of the N. Y. K. line, was summoned to the hotel. McClelland yesterday received an inquiry from the American Express ccmpany In Portland In behalf of an unnamed client in regard to passage on the liner Hlkaw Mam, which sails from Heattle for Yokohama at 4 p. m., to morrow. fc rprt Wheat. PORTLAND, OTe., Jan. 9. ( AP) The emergency export corporation egain today remained out of the msr- jket for soft white wheat for forrlgn 'shipment. The lajt pri. quoted Frl Way, was 75 cents a bushel, Hurls Bitter for Separate akwsu xOi fl Mrs. Rtidr Vallee, whose separation his faults as including, among orner language and stinginess. (Associated CWA Job Slavery Says Worker In Suit For $110,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9. (UP) George T, Baker, unemployed, ap plied for rollef. He was given a Civil Works administration Job, handling a pick and shovel. Today Baker filed suit against the CWA committee here, asking H0. 000 from each member, a total of ai 10.000. He charged that he was forced Into involuntary servi tude in violation of his constitu tional rights. He asked, in addition to the 1110,00, that: The court assure him that he will not be enslaved involuntarily In the future. Two hundred members of the Civil ian Conservation corps at Carberry camp were entertained last night with moving pictures presented by John Cribble and Ernest Rostel, rep resenting the .Forest Service and Crater Lake national park. "What Price Fire." an educational film allowing a western forest before and after a fire started by a careless smoker, was followed by Interesting pictures of Crater Lake In a winter setting. Scenes from tho ski races at Fort Klamath were also included. Another feature of the program waa Lee Port's sketch of the esrly his tory of Jacksonville and the days when miners In that locality could afford to trade a pound of gold for a pound of aalt. Mr. Port Is located at the Star ranger station. COSHOW TO PAY PORTLAND, Jan. 9 (AP) A Judg. ment in favor of the Empire Holding corporation against Oliver P. Coshow, former Justice of the Oregon supreme court, was ordered In circuit court here Monday after the court had dis missed the defense of Coshow In ac tion brought by Empire Holding and Its receiver to collect on a 20.000 promissory note executed in Novem ber, 1030, in payment for corporation stock. It was expected that after further testimony today the amount of the Judgment would be established. The corporation admitted Coshow paid 92000 tn Interest. Coshow has Instated, however, that several other sums should be credited to him, In eluding 13000 commission for the pur. chase of his stock, and IB 100 for sal ary. Crah Is f atal. OREGON CITY. Ore,. Jan. 9 (AP) Leo Shaver, 35. Mnalta warehouse operator, waa killed near Clalrmont todiiv when hla automobile collided with a truck driven by Qua Johnson of Clalrmont Shavers neck 1 broken and bis cheat crushed. Charges Maintenance suit agn(nt the singer (Inset) lists things, inntiriuy, nnd temper, vue Press photo.) LOS ANGELES. Jan. 9. (AP) While Inquisitorial forces were mar shalled today. Major Jutes E. Hanlqua, oounty CWA director, replying to charges of gross mismanagement and waste of funds, said recent reorgani zation have put the work here on an efficient basis. The director admitted the charges, made by John B. Elliott, local Demo cratic leader, had "a background in fact," but said that "at the present time we are functioning 100 per cent." Major Hanlque assumed charge of the CWA organization here somewhat more than a week ago. Elliott, reiterating assertions that men were sent to work without toots, fleets of trucks rented and allowed to stand Idle and Jobs passed out on the basts of political preference, said hundreds came to hla office with In the past 24 hours with further In formation. WIFE AND SELF ROSELLE PARK, N. J Jan. 9. ( AP) Edward F. Smith, 81. retired business man of Altadena, Cal., today shot and killed his wife, Nellie, and fatally wounded himself. The shooting occurred In the Smith's bedroom In the home of Mr. snd Mrs. Herbert Wells, about 7:20 a. m. Mrs. Wells, who was sleeping on the third floor, hurried downstairs, after hearing shots and found her sister lying on the bed. a bullet hole above her right ear. Smith was lying on the floor, He had shot himself through the head. Removed to St. Eltrabeth's hospital, he died at 10 o'clock. EX-POSTAL HEAD NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (AP) Former Postmaster Oeneral Walter Drown to day declared that no official corres pondence from his files had been de stroyed prior to his leaving office last March. WASHINGTON. Jan. 9. (AP) -Senate Investigators received teat! mony today that the postmaster general In the Hoover administration, Walter 8. Brown of Ohio, had awarded some airmail contracts with out competitive bidding, although he lacked authority, and that portions of hla correspondence had been de stroyed Just before he left office. (mhiilnnr Pinna Falls CHILDRESS. Tex., Jan. 9. (AP) The "ambulance" plane of a Man gum, Okla., physician, fell in flames 14 miles northwest of here today, killing ths pilot, Paul Powell, 20. and a Texas farm couple, Mr. ana Mrs Bruce Smith. HERE E Chairman of State Board Sets Friday or Saturday All Interested Urged to Attend at Court House Word was received this morning by the Chamber of Commerce from O. Harlan, chairman of the Ore gon Milk Control board, that a hear ing on the milk situation will be held here either next Friday or Sat urday. Definite date will be set by the commission In a day or so and the meeting will be held In the audito rium of the court house. The board desires that all parties Interested la the producing and distributing of milk In the Rogue River valley at tend. To Show Figures. At the meeting It la expected that figures will be made available on the cost of producing and distribut ing milk and cream. The commis sion Is very emphatic that auch ma terial must be In written form In order that It can be used for future Investigation and consideration. Farmers who keep accounts ahould make up a statement showing every Item of cost. Producer-distributors should do the same. Regular dia- trlbutora and creameries should have their figures segregated to show their costs In handling milk. Retail stores are also asked to be present with their records of the cost of handling milk and cream. No Lawyers Needed. The commission has asked the chsmber of commerce to announce that It doca not expoct those at tending to go to the expense of hiring lawyers to represent them, unlesa they so desire, as It la not Its Inten tion to put anyone to additional ex pense In all probability, the board at the meeting will announce the limits st the milk shed. Civic groups such aa women's clubs, parent teachers' associations, and ser vice clubs and any organised body of persons are asked to attend, but those who speak must represent a certain group. This also must be In writing. All Under Law. An excerpt from Mr. Harlan's letter states, "your people probably know they are under the law now, whether they have a license or not, and If any one Is cutting prices, etc., we shall first hear the complaint and settle the trouble. Any person hav ing Information on any auch altua tlon should be ready to give us that material immediately upon arrival so we can call In the Interested parties and clear up the difficulty before starting the general meeting." Definite announcement of the tlm of the meeting will be glvn Imme diately further word Is received from the commission. - i. Noted Dead DAVENPORT, la., Jan. 9. (&) Miss Alice French, author, who wrote many novels under the pen name of Octave Thanet, died at her horns today after a long illness. She would have been B4 in March. WILL ROGERS Pigys: BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.. Jan. 8. Poor old France and Japan arc about in the same fix. Franco don't know wheth er it would bo better to jump on Germany and lick 'em while they can, or "will I nit here and wait till they arc ready to pounce on met" Japan is on the same spot. They feci they can lick Russia now, or will she wait until Russia is able to come and pounce on them! This thing of living in an ambitions nation is not what it's cracked up to be. We are certainly glad Mr. Roosevelt announced we had about all tho country we wanted. In fact, he supucsts that if we could got a decent offer he woubj let some of it go. ' Yours, 2r
