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Newspaper Page TextTribune s Paid Circulation Greater Tlian Combined Paid Circulation of All Other Jac f on Counttj Papers I The Weather j Forecast: L use U led with occasion! rain tonight and Tuesday, No change In temperature. Highest jeiterday 47 Lowest this morning ...... 42 Medford . Mail Tribute Watch the TRIBUNE'S I MB A I ! tLAssitn ii aus . . y-jr Lots of jood bargain C that meao cenuiut savings. wMwiww Twentv-eiuhth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 193 1. No. 238. fflMJl mws I JUDGE LEWELL1NG 1 ?3td 10 MAKE RULING IN KLAMATH SUIT By PAUL MA1.1.0V (Copyright. 1934, by Paul Mallon) WA8HINGTON. D. C Jan. 33. (AP) The tip 1 going around among the wis legal boys not to be so sure about the supreme court going lor the new deal. That tip la not baaed on Informa tion, but upon the shrewd observation of the experts on the outer fringe of the court. No one even tries to get any Inside Information from the court Itself unless he wants to go to Jail for contempt. The rail boys aay. however, they ex pect the court will perhaps approve another new deal Idea In a decision to come soon on the New York milk case They would not be surprised if It came by the narrow margin of 6 to 4, as the decision In the Minnesota mortgage case came. But even with that expectation, they cautton anyone against betting that the court will go all the way with the administration. They have good reasons for their deductions. These court experts noted that Chief Justice Hughes had a signifi cant catch in the Minnesota decision um mnrtonn owner would suffer no real loss, but only de sy under the state moratorium, rent would still go on. . That was clearly a hint from the It. benevolent attl- couri. -- tude toward new deal measures might not hold good If any loss io c.i... was involved. Insiders could see that the benedic tion has no blanket application. 'It cannot apply to a gold hoarder de prived of his money or to any man whose wealth or property Is being de valued by edict. nn the New Tlie necisiun w v... ---- York milk case is not expected to touch these points either. It Involves mainly the right of the state to fix milk prices. The court has always been against . i. j..ini v. war. price-fixing, except -Then It ruled that government regu lation of rents was legal because it was a public necessity In a time or There Is a possibility that the court will see the existing economic emer- rency as a similar time m permit the state to fix milk prices. The court also may uphold the NRA, if that hot legal question ever gets up to it- A line of reasoning was followed In the Appalachian coal case whlcn would have direct application to the NRA. In the coal case last year the court held that selling agreement . - ... ... antlt.nitit law were legal, aespiw ..... -----prohibition against them. Again tnc court considered the emergency. The coal companies were going on the rocks because they did not have a selling agreement to meet competi tion. They needed such an agreement to stave off an emergency of deprea slon and the court gave it to them for that period. ' The worst that can be said of the NRA is that it is blinking at the anti trust laws in a similar way for a similar emergency purpose. But If It Is to be made permanent and the court should be required to rule on it after the depression emer gency is passed, that would be a legal horse of a different color. All those around the court, inside and out, have an affectionate regard for Chief Justice Hughes. They be lieve he possesses one of the greatest legal minds of this generstlon, per haps the greatest. The new law he has written so far In the Appalachian and Minnesota cases la only a start. There will be scores of decisions to come, all con nected with the emergency and re form. The new deal has yet to hop that hurdle. As head of the third branch of gov ernment Hughes may be equally In fluential with the president and con gress in fixing the future course of affairs. The farm brain trusters are secretly conducting an investigation to find out who has been scuttling the farm relief ahlp. The main Idea la to discover why prlcea have been falling on commodi ties to which the processing tax has been applied. Those on the inside aay the results will point to the processor and that he will be nailed as the goat. It la quite obvious that thla phase fif the farm program has been Inef fective, if not a complete flop. At first the processors apparently passed the tax on to the consumers In the snticlpated way. But that forced prices up so high thst the consumers put flshooks In their pockMe. Apparently then the processors be gan to psy the farmers les for raw gAoda so the prire might be held down. The processing theory will probably i not be dii'arded. The phase of It which calls for sending out the pro ceeds of the tax to the farmers has been an entire ir:rrv. It has ere- (Continued on Pag Four. Supreme Court Expected to Render Opinion Soon After Circuit Court Judge Acts Home Rule Main Issue ALBANY, Ore., Jan. 22. P) Judge L. O. Lewelllng of the Linn-Marlon circultcourt, announced today he will read from the bench at Salem Wed nesday morning at 10 o'clock, his ruling on the constitutionality of the Knox atate liquor control law. Judge Lewelllng took the case un der advisement several ,days ago at the conclusion of arguments In the action brought by the city of Klam ath Falls and interveners to have the state liquor control law declared un constitutional on the grounds it vio lated the "home rule" amendment to the atate constitution by reason of taking from cities the rlfiht to regulate liquor sales and distribution in any manner they see fit. The Klamath Falsi suit was resist ed by the stat liquor control board attorneya. The case was argued In the Marlon county courthouse aat Sa lem, At the start of the suit, Judge Lewelllng denied a temporary Injunc tion against operation of the law. the restralner having been requested by Klamath Falla. It was announced as the case went to the court that no matter what the outcome, Judge Lewelling's decision would be appealed to the Oregon su preme court for a definite ruling on the constitutionality of the Knox plan of liquor control, and for final de termination of the status of the so called "home rule amendment." It is expected the supreme court will lose no time in handing down a. ruling on the question. T ST. PAUL. Minn., Jan. 22. (AP) Despair crushed waning hopes today for early release of Edward O. Bremer, kidnaped for (200,000 ransom, as the Bremer family determined to refuse to barter a fortune for his safe return unless they first receive assurance he is still alive. A message from the kidnapers and signed by the 37-year-old commercial state bank president and owner, which would give such reassurance, was vainly awaited over the week-end, but was not forthcoming as the 113th hour passed without word from the abductors. Blood, a shaky scrawl, a death threat and a mysterious note declar ing Bremer had been "bumped off" intensified alarm for the mm who last was seen between 8:20 a. m. and 8:30 a. m., Jan. '17 when lie left his eight-year old daughter, Betty, at the exclusive Summit school for girls. A suspicion that Bremer might be dead, close friends of the family said. led to their determination to turn over no money for his freedom until they received a message signed by him. FOMENT RIOTING PARIS. Jan. 22. (AP) Hundreds of demonstrators were arrested today when royalists charged against police massed to protect the chamber of deputies. They were taken Into custody by thousands of mounted guards, and police massed today at strategic points about the chamber of deputies and the city hall to repel threatened rioting In protest of pay cuts given civil employe. TIGERS TRIM CHILOQUIN 17 TO 10 ON SATURDAY The Medford high school Tiger bas ketball team returned Sunday from an Invasion of the Klamath country, where they were defeated, 33 to 13. by Klamath Falls Fridsy nipht and won from chilnquin, 17 to 10, on Sat urday night. NEW YORK, Jan" 2. ( AP) Net operating income of the Southern Pacific railroad for December totaled $1,072,771 compared with 107.3M in December, 1932, sn increase of 965. M7. For the yesr 1 PSr the total v.ni 9.057.074 SRSin't $Sflf7,057 in 1932. an Increase of H,4W,917, LI' IE Hungry Scotchmen March on London In Demonstration GLASGOW, Jan. 22. (AP) Pour hundred unemployed Scots men, headed by Jock McGovern, the member of parliament who heckled King George when the sovereign opened the first session of the year, started for London on a "hunger march." The national unemployed work era movement which is a branch of the British communist party, organized the march and claimed It would be Joined by contingents from all England. These, said the organization, would converge on Hyde Park Feb. 26 for a demon stration of 20,000 persons. ,32, IS SUICIDE IN S. F. "To the Police: "I have died by my own act: despondent because of ill health as the phrase is. I mske a request you notify Mr. Cowles at ths above address. But do not notify my mother. The shock may be too eudden shock for her. "I ask as a favor that you do thla for me. Excuse the trouble to which these formalities put you." The above not, neatly written in his own hand, was found beside the body of Roger Cowlea, age 32, In his car, parked on the Presidio golf course in San Francisco, last Satur day morning, by a CWA worker. A rubber tube from the exhaust, on. the seat nearby, atlll emitting its fatal carbon monoxide fumes, plainly show ed the cause of death. Thla startling news will come as a surprising and trsglc" shock to the many friends of Roger Cowles and his family in Medford and the Rogue River valley. The Cowles family came here from New Tork city over 30 yeara ago, purchased a ranch norrh of Medford. adjoining the Don Clark property, and made their home there for about 15 years. The father, Fred H. Cowles, took a great Interest in civic matters, particularly fire pre vention, and many of the present safeguards on Medford buildings were the result of his untiring efforts. Roger spent his youth here, and when the family moved to Santa Bar bara, Cal., about the time of the World war. was educated in prepara tory schools In that atate. Before he finished his education he auffered a serious Illness from the effects of which he never fully recovered, but while an active business life was Im- (Continued on Pagi; Eight) WYNEKOOP-TRIAL CALLED MISTRIAL ACCOUNT HEALTH CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING, ChU cago, Jan. 32. (AP) Mistrial in the case of Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop was declared thla afternoon by Judge Joseph B. David. The Judge ruled that continuing the trial would "constitute a very real danger to the defendant's life." Physicians had Informed the court that Dr. Wynekoop -was suffering from heart disease, high blood pres sure, hardening of the arteries and other ailments.' He ruled after Defense Attorney W. W. Smith made an Impassioned plea for a postponement, and Assist ant State's Attorney Charles 8. Dau gherty hed argued Just aa vehemently on the opposite. WIFE OF VALLEE CALLS SUIT OPE NEW YORK. Jan. 22 ( AP) Mrs. Fay Webb Vallee, in a surprise move today, discontinued her suit In su preme court to aet aside a separation agreement made with ber husband. Rudy Vallee, orchestra leader, and to ! restrain him from suing for divorce anywhere except In New York atat. j Benjamin Hartstein. counsel for Mrs. Vallee, announced discontinu ance of the suit when he and Samuel Oottllefc, counsel for Vallee, appeared rWore Justice John B. McOeehan to srgi: a motion by Vallee to restrain Mrs. Vallee from pro-erding with a suit for separau maintenance in California. LOWER DOLLAR TOLDCiGRESS Roosevelt's Plan Advocated by Prof. Rogers Home Owner, Farmers, Debtors Held Chief Beneficiaries WASHINGTON, Jan. 32. (AP) Senator Wheeler (D., Mont.) served notice in the senate today that he would offer an amendment to the administration monetary bill for the purpose of remonetlzlng silver. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. (AP) Professor James H. Rogers, a presi dential monetary advisor, told the senate banking committee today the administration bill to devalue the dollar would permit an "Inflation" of credit of from $7,000,000,000 to $17, 500,000,000 which would boost busi ness but could be restricted when de sired. He gave this testimony after Pro fessor George P. Warren of Cornell, another leading money adviser, had praised the monetary legislation and Senator Wheeler D., Mont.) had noti fied the senate he would offer a silver remonetizatlon amendment. Earlier he conferred with President Roosevelt or the silver problem. Warren told the committee home owners, farmers and debtora would realise "the greatest benefit" from the monetary program. Eugene Black, governor of the fed eral reserve board, said the heads of the 13 reserve banks had given "as surance of full co-operation" In the government's huge financing program. "I am convinced," Wheeler said, "that cutting, the .gold content -of the dollar will not raise prices appre ciably in thla country unless It la ac companied by an Increase In the amount of currency." WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. (AP) President Roosevelt conferred today with General Hugh S. Johnson. In dustrial administrator, .on the Issue of protecting small enterprise under the NRA, and Johnson said afterward he hoped additional legislation would be unnecessary. "I'd Hke to see this law given a real test," said Johnson at the White House, "and while some amendments may be necessary I would prefer to meet the problem of helping small business without legislation. "Some of these codes have been in operation for only three months. Let's give It a real test." ER WASHINGTON. Jan. 33 (AP) An executive order Is being prepared, it was learned today, which would turn over Jurisdiction of public lands to the federal government without con gress tonal action In states which ask the action. Senator Carey (R., Wyo.) said re ports the order was being drawn had erached him and he was advised the order will concern Itself only with states which ask that they be in cluded. Concern was expressed by several members of western congres sional delegations over the report the order Is being drafted. LIBRARY RANSACKED; FEW STAMPS TAKEN City police were notified Sunosy morning that the Jackson county library was broken Into Saturday night, but only a few stamps were re ported taken. The library was ran sacked, entrance being gained through the back door. Byrd and Men Reclaim Snow Bound Quarters ADMIRAL BYRD'S FLAGSHIP, j located the roof of the weather sta BAY OF WHALES, Antarctica (,. tlon and then dropped through a hoi. , i to be followed by the admiral and Mackay nadlo)-(AP-Jan. 20. -, (he ol,wrl worltlmj tKMm the (Delayed) The thrill of prowling burled winter city, again over the scenes of his first e- I The lank I highly hazardous, owing nerlencea In the deep Antarctic was to the dingers arcominylng Ihe Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's to- I transporting by tractor of supplies d,Ti from the flagship to Little America Just as he left It. he and his men , two and one-hslf miles distant, found the weather station burled In i Two tractors caught flro and were snow and Ice a pot of frozen coffee damaged before the flames could be on a table old calendars on the walla, extinguished. The second of the five artlclea of clothing flung helter- i tractora had Jut rx-en dropped over skeltr. (onto the Ice. Its engine having been Admiral Byrd even found a fruit j started In the hold, when a serious Jar half full of kerosene which had! accident was narrowly averted, been his reading lamp. Lighted. It re- Peta Demas. rhlf of the tractor vesled the empty bunks against the division, warned that the lor was walls all Jiwt aa when the camp was starting to crumble brncath Its treads abandoned February 19. IfMO. It was Meteorolcjut llsinc, who dug Into the administration building, LEADERS SHAPING NEW FINANCIAL POLICY t ' : $ 'J f -flu dm 1 14 s$k z.Rs- 75 ! vrvVjN President Franklin D. Roosevelt took another step toward his "commodity dollar" plana when h asked congress to "vest in the United States govern menl title to all supplies of American-owned mone tary gold." He also requeated It to give him broader authority for revaluing the dollar. Above are shown some of the men who are helping the President shape the new financial policy. Senator Dim"" U. Fletcher (lower right) Is head of the senate banking committee. Rep. Henry B. Steagall (lower left) la chairman of the house banking committee. Henry A. Morgenthau, Jr. (upper left), Is aecretary of tna treasury, and Prof. George F. Warren (upper right) It credited with advlalna Mr. Roosevelt on the com modity dollar. (Associated Preaa PhotM CLOSE EVIDENCE LOS ANGELES Jan. 22. (AP) After six weeks of evidence slid spir ited argument among counsel on the admissibility of testimony, contes tants to tho will of Miss Margaret Keith, eccentric recluse who commit ted suicide last year, closed their case. As soon as the evidence was com pleted attorneys for a Los Angcloa bank, trustee of the estate, moved for a non-suit on the ground Mlsa Keith was sane when she made her will, leaving all her property, valued at more than l .000.000 to her nephew, Albert C. Allen, Oregon farmer living near Medford. Superior Judge Robert W. Kinney granted the motion, but aa'lt was not Jointly moved by Allen's attorney the case continues solely on the grounds of Miss Keith's sanity, and that con sideration will be the only ono before the Jury. In granting- the non-suit motion the court held, In effect, that Miss Keith's weird design for living did not Interfere with her legal rights to bequeath her fortune In Ita entirety to her nephew and to Ignore her brother and sister, Mrs. Etta Keith Eskrldgo' and David Keith, and her niece, Mrs. Mary Allen Towle, who are contesting the will. Where 12 feet of snow covered the Crater Lake highway this time last year t'.vo-way traffic was posslblo to day.' according to James Bromley, chief engineer of the atate highway department In this district, with headquarters In Grants Pass. The rond has been cleared for five and a half mllea, cast of Union Creek to W's forest service camp for two-way traffic. The clearing was completed Saturday noon. drove It to safety just as the whole , pieT collapsed and plunged Into the water, fflEl JAP MILITARIST'S E! (By the Associated Press.) World capitals speculated today on what effect the resignation of Gen eral Sndo Arakl. extreme militarist, as Japanese minister of war, might have on strained relations between that country and Soviet Russia. Ocneral Arakl was succeeded by General Scnjuro Hayashl. Some Jap anese political writers expressed be lief that the antl-mllitarlat move ment gained strength by the change. Meanwhile, a warning to Japan not to "plot against our frontiers" came from a high Soviet official. L. M. Kaganovltch, head of the Moa cow communist party and member of the Soviet central executive commit tee, in an address to party leader, said "We must be prepared for an attack at any moment," and that ,la pnn "must remember tho Soviet Un ion la not C7.arist Russia of 1004." Writing in the Agence Enonomlquc et Financier, he aald "Tension la un questionable" between "the United States and Japan on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other hand." $11.2SAlG The city of Medford, during the I past year, accomplished a saving of 91 1 ,283.44 on the budget, City Re corder M. h. Alford announced today Of this amount, $7,422 was saved In expenditures and $3,860.44 realised in receipts coming to the city, which were not anticipated when the hud get was made. Including licenses from beer and rental of more space In tho city hall. The amount will be returned to the general fund. It is at the present time, of course, Mr. Alford pointed out. Just a matter of figures (for there la no money). If tax collec tions Mre niHde, however, th dollars and cents will be returned to the general fund. The previous year Med ford also realized a saving on the budget. INSULL MUST LEAVE GREECE BY JAN. 31ST ATHENS, Jan. 22. (AP Premier Pansyntl Tsaldarls ssld todsy Samuel Insult, Sr., former Chicago utilities operator, must leave Greece, no mat ter what the council or state may decide on his appeal for permission to remain here. The general secretary of the council of state aald It had postponed Indefi nitely the calling of a secret session to consider Insult's plea. Conse quently. It was aild In an authori tative quarter. Insult would be ex pelled from Oreeoe January 31 If the council does not make a decision be fore that date. MI Eli E; SAYS BANKS, FEHL SHOW PEN EFFECT There's one thing about Oregon's big house If you do your time there and attend to your own business, you , will get out in good time that's the1 opinion advanced today by Weslry McKltrlck of Jackson county, who knows. He returned last week on parole from the penitentiary, where ho served a little better than six months for confessed participation in the Jackson county ballot theft of; last spring. He left behind him In the state prison: L. A. Banks, convicted of second degree murder; Earl H. Fell!, Walter J. Jones and J. Arthur LeDleu, all convicted m connection with the ballot stealing, which carried adverse publicity for southern Oregon to all corners of the globe. "Banks Is fnlllng fast, mentally and physically," McKltrlck stated this morning. "So la Pehl; but Jones hasn't wilted a bit. He's atlll go in trong. Art Is getting along fine, doing the clerical work In the cap tain's shack, taking It all like a man." Banks is atlll working In tho laun dry, and the labor doesn't exactly agree with him, acordlng to McKlt rlck. He Isn't trying to run the penitentiary, however, and so he does what he is told. ' He does a lot of talking, though. The aamc applies to pen i, who appears quite disheartened. ' McKltrlck did not see him often, he explained this morning, but there ae ways of finding out things. The grapevine route works even In state prison. visitors are allowed three days a week, McKltrlck aald, but ho never saw Henrietta B. Martin, "Good Gov ernment Congress" leader, about the place during the six months he was a resident. And he never received nes of her visits ti other Jackson unty representatives at the Big House. Mrs. Ariel B. Pomcroy, on the contraiy, called at the penitentiary several times. Rumor stated that Mrs. Banks and Mrs. rehl m-ere living In Salem, but McKltrlck explained he had no verl flcatlon for the report. While he was there he had many Jobs, the last one being that of cook In the guards' quarters and at toe annex. Ho Is now located on the old John Cameron place at Sams Valley, and was In this morning to see about selling aome hos, which the govern' me nt want to btiy. He appeared In "fine fettle," and announced that he wished to thank the many people who recommended his conditional perole. GUN CLUB BANQUET AND IS An Interesting meeting of the Med ford Oun club la scheduled for this evening at the Hotel Medford aa a dinner session. Dinner will be served at 7 o'clock, then motion picture new to the members of the club, will be presented. Officers for 1034 will be elected and a good attendance la urged. TWO LITTLE SONS FIT 'Vision From God' Dictated Act, Says Seattle Fisher man Wife Will Also Face Crime Responsibility SEATTLE, Jan. 23. (IP) A 37-vetr- old fisherman, Oskar Hestness. a self- styled "messenger of God," todiy faced first degree murder charges for the bizarre strangling of his two lit tle boys. With a confession before them in which he had given as his motive a "vision from God." ordering him to "choke the devil out of them," auth or It lea also studied his sanity. Chief or Detective Luke 3. May announced the confession last night. In words containing many religi ous references, the strong-handed fisherman, who had made a number of Alaskan trips, described the kill ings. The vlcltims were his only children, John, aged 10, and Henry, aged four. "Oevll Was In Him." "X killed John first. Last Tuesday he came from the PentacosUl tem ple, and I aaked him who sent him. He wouldn't answer. Then I asked him 'Who la In you? "He aald 'The devil Is In me. Then God appeared to me and he told ma to choke the devil out of him." The bodies of the two were found In their small four-room home yes terday afternoon, after their parents had been placed tinder arrest the previous night. A minister, the Rev. O. L. Haavik of the Ballard First Lutheran church, had found them la his garage, in possession of his car. Hestness demanded that the Rav, Mr. Haavik turn over the ksys to his automobile. Second LIU ha. "The Lord has told me to take the car. I am the second EUsha. X par the way for the second coming of Christ," he said. Hts wife, Marts, added: (Continued on Page Three) SLIDES OF EARTH MENACE SEATTLE SEATTLE, Jan. 32. (AP) Declar ing earth slide conditions In Seattle are rapidly approaching the "worst in history." Herman W. Ross, streets and sewers superintendent, today called out every available mainte nance man, and between 400 and S00 civil works administration laborers to keep thoroughfares clear. Ross reported many hillsides, satu rated with rain water, were crunch ing bulkheads or slopping over the top of them, uprooting trees, side walks, street paving and curbs, and endangering many homes. Skid Is Fatal. VANCOUVER. Wash., Jan. 22. (AP) Carl W. Mayhew, 34, of Vancouver, was fatally Injured on tho Inter state bridge approach 8unday when the automobile In which he was riding skidded and crashed Into guard fence. ROGERS RKVKRLY HILLS, Oil., Jan. 20. lMcnty o headlines today, but not much news. "Congress votes on the CO cent dollar Sat urday." Wonder if they will have one in there is an exhibit. "Government undecided about what they can do with Japanese taking pictures of fortification." Make 'cm agree to Hcnd us some of tho pictures if they turn out 0. K. "Cubft hails new president." Hails him with what! "Tho man that found the 72G-carat diamond iu Africa re ceived $;I30,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat." Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric! enough to want to own a silk hat.