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Tribunes Paid Circulation Greater Than Combined Paid Circulation of All Other Jackson County Papers The Weather Forecast: Ln.-cttled with rain to night and Friday. No chance In temperature. Highest yesterday 47 Lowest this morning........... 30 Medford Mail Trie natch the TKllUNKS Lots of good bargains that mean genuine i taring!. Twentv-eiehth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1934. No. 261. VjNE By PAUL MA1.LON ' Copyrlfht, 1034, by Paul Mallon Play WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. Mr. Roose velt played the senate opposition to his money bill as an angler plays a trout. T.h poor fishes did not have chance. The man who held the pole for him was Senator Jim Byrnes. He counseled the president to give In to nearly anything Senators Glass, McAdoo and Gore wanted when the bill was In committee. Byrnes prom- lsed that the bill would be changed back the way the president wanted It when the measure came before the full senate. Apparently he took aome private steps to see that his promise came true. The day after the newspapers announced that McAdoo was oppos ing the bill in committee, McAdoo received so many telegrams that the telegraph companies had to put on additional help to handle them. All tbese telegrams urged him to switch and support the president. Nets The strange' fact about that was that Glass and Gore did NOT under go the same telegraphic pressure that McAdoo did. Apparently the admin istration gave them up as Incorrl glbles. No one can ever prove that the administration had anything to do with the backfire on McAdoo. Maybe it was Just a spontaneous movement among California Democrata. If ao. It Is remarkable that their telegrams bore such a striking simi larity In language and thought. Background The truth about the banking and currency committee Is that It Is stacked with conservatives. Carter Glass, with his strong personality, dominates It. He has less weight with senate as a whole. That Is why Byrnes played out the line In committee and schemed to tighten up In the senate. He explained the concessions by whispering around that the president had asked for more than he ex pected to get. That was a, rather , lame excuse. T,'ie concessions were largely un important. The change which makes the bill an emergency measure will NOT Interfere . with anything the president had In mind. He expects to stabilize long before two years. Heir? Byrnes evidently will be the next Democratic floor leader of the sen ate. At least the administration In ner circle la so confident he will that the fact Is accepted as a fore gone conclusion. There Is nothing about a change under discussion now. The Inner clrclers are merely looking at the matter as a long time expectation to come about naturally within the next few yeara. Indeed, there Is some discussion about Byrnes becoming the heir ap parent to the Roosevelt throne In 1940. , That Is NOT Idle gossip. It has been discussed In the highest quar ters. Byrnes fits In very closely with Roosevelt's Idea of what a statesman should be. Professors J The money professors did not make much of an Impression on senators at the recent hearing. Professor Rogers got along hotter than Professor Warren, but both talk ed In such a vague manner that even such money students ss Mc Adoo and Glass could not understand them. It may have been the pro fessional style which confused the senators, but tfie suspicion left was that perhaps this money business Is such an Indefinite science that even the sden'lsts themselves do not know much about it. Glass wagged his head In amaze ment at Warren. He nudged a com panion and said, with that peculiar Ironical twist of his mouth: "I'm going to ask him to explain the Ein stein Vieory next." McAdoo also openly complained. Every time he asked about the price of hogs In Seattle, Warren went back to the French revolution and never got quite up to the hogs, w Rank They are now calling Gov. Adolph Miller of the federal reserve "the water boy of this administration." Miller reluctantly came upon that title when Professor Warren waa tes. tlfylng. The professor was very, very thirsty. He was continuously call ing for more and more water. He tried to .hand his glass to a news men, but the newsman was too busy to carry water to a professor. Warren then pressed Miller, who was sitting nearby, and Miller went meekly to the cooler. Shcwf The huse money hrarlncs could hardly be called a smashing hit. One day last week the coinage committee had to adjourn without a .hearing because none of the wit nesses appeared. Professors Warren and Rocera later played to capacity houses before the senate, committer, but both steered clear of the house committee. Finally the chairman of the house committee dug up governor of a federal reserve hank, but he talked to vacant chairs. Notes Professor Roeers is shy about hav ing his picture taken. He lectured photograph. ra and admonWied them to go away, aaylng: "I cannot see why vou won't let me keep my face to myself." He finally lost the ar gument aivl powd. as Is customary. An offl-ii: of the farm admlnls- Cucuauca 90 Pa 6n) FAVOR CHANGE TAX ON INCOMES House Committee Approves Revamping Rates to Bring in $36,000,000 More 1 Year Ready Wednesday By CECIL B. DICKSON WASHINGTON , Jan. 25. (fp) The house ways and means committee to day approved, several ltema In a modi-1 fled tax revision bill designed to raise I $200,000,000 additional in revenue, in cluding a change in Income tax rates to bring In $36,000,000 more a year.1 As originally presented to the com mittee, the bill was estimated to yield 9270.000,000 through tightening up of administration provisions of the in come tax law. Ready Wednesday. Chairman Dough ton (D.. N. C), an nounced the bill would be completed about next Wednesday. There are several Important Items yet to be passed upon. Action came today after Secretary Morgenthau appeared before the com mittee in executive session to present the treasury's final views of the measure. Compromising with the treasury, the committee retained the consolid ated returns for corporations and their subsidiaries, but levied a 2 per cent penalty tax for consolidated re turns over and above the existing 13H alngle corporate tax. Levy on Holdings. In addition; It approved a levy o! 35 per cent on "undistributed adjusr ed new income" of personal holding companies, estimated to bring In $35, 000,000 a year. It also adopted with some slight modifications, Us sub - committee's recommendation on capital gains and losses, estimated to yield 930.000.000 annually. The revision on personal Income tax rates, estimated to bring in 933, 000,000 additional revenue, was only one of the several actions taken. More revisions remain to be made, so It can not yet be said how the entire bill will compare with existing liw In revenue producing, The changes detailed above, how ever, representatives estimated to mean the treasury will take In 9200. 000,000 more revenue than now, as compared with the 9270,000,000 addi tional that had been estimated as the bill stood In a previous committee stage. , CHICAGO, Jan. 25. (AP) Mrs. Rella Factor, young wife of John Factor, wealthy market plunger, who waa kidnaped In July, today Identi fied a picture of Willie Sharkey, aelf slaln gunman as that of one of the kidnapers who seized her husband. "That's the man who threatened me with a big gun." she to'.d Prose cutor Wllbert Crowley Identifying a double view photograph of Sharkey. Mra. Factor testified that the kid napers. In a direct phone call to her toward the end of her husband's captivity, told her they were starving factor. Roger Touhy, leader of the gang of which Sharkey waa a member, and three henchmen are on trial here for "snatching" Factor. VIOLATIONS EYED SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 25. ( AP) The Northwest Ftult Industries con trol committee, with representatives from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, met in executive session here today to consider violations of the marketing agreement signed Oc tober 28 under the agricultural ad justment act. There are about 30 men on the committee. Although originally planned as a one-day meeting, the committee de cided to hold sessions tomorrow. Members said only routine mat ters were taken up at the morning conference. DALLAS. Ore . Jan. S3. JP !mm- FACTOR'S WIFE ON STAND AS WITNESS FRUITTARKETING L conference. lumbeOoung c0sts250 jobs 1 dinte removal of 250 men from the parroll of the Willamette Valley Lum- j ber company w.il be necary, it i I Mid here today, when the companr con forma to SUA code regulation under yeaterdsy', ruling In federal j court In Portland. Of tola number, 170 will be laid j off at the Delia plant, and m at ' the camp above Biaca Roc. About the name number of employe, will continue on the p.iyroil. preference being (tiven on the h'ia of lenlorlty 1 and aumoer of Segtaflea'.. Election Contested - ? '-ft i'-f Itwu,ii., kitv AK The election laat year of John H. Overton (above) to the United States senate from Louisiana wai formally challenged by the women's committee of Louisiana which filed a protest with Vica President Gar ner, (Associated Press Photo) TO IN SALEM OFFICE SALEM, Ore., Jan. 25. (AP) Ar rival of two packages through the mall yesterday addressed to re-employment officials .here and contain ing dynamite la the cause of no little worry by those officials. The first package was delivered by postman to Manager E. T. Barnes at the unemployment office. Upon open ing It and discovering Its contents, one dynamite stick, Barnes notified postal officials and CWA employes. Meanwhile, a second package ad dressed to R. C. Churchill. CWA com plaint clerk, was received at hla of fice. Churchill was not present so the package was turned over to Ad ministrator Olenn C. Mies, who had already received warning from Barnes. The second package waa returned to the postoffice and when opened there revealed three sticks or dynamite ana r piece of salt pork such as la being distributed by the relief office. A postal Inspector is expected here soon to begin Investigation of the case, and try to trace down the send er. Neither package was fitted to explode the dynamite, which was tak en to mean the sender's intention was to frighten relief officials Into meeting complaints. NEW YORK, Jan. 25. (AP) The bleak confines of "solitary," in sharp contrast to their accustomed luxury, today held nearly- 100 of Welfare Island's overlords and their cohorts who until yesterday ruled New York's penitentiary in vicious style. Austin H. MacCormlck, prison wise commissioner of corrections who made a "raid" out of his Initial In spection of Welfare Island, held the I penitentiary In virtual military law with a force of policemen, detectives and department heads. He announced his Intention of re maining on the Island until condi tions were cleared up, narcotics and special privilege eliminated, and the federal rule of prisoner bosses broksi. SCARSDALE, N. Y., Jan. 25. (AP) The marriage of Pauline Fdereclk. stage and screen star, and Joseph A. Marmon. who gave his address aa Washington, D, C, was disclosed to day. The couple drove here Sunday, ar riving nt noon, and the license was Issued by Town Clerk Edward Jack son. The record shows the actress gave her age as 50 years. She said she had been married three times. Marmon la a colonel of Infantry in the U. S. army. TO FEDERAL P PORTLAND. Jan. 25 AP) Dr. Richard Neubaxier, Portland phy sician was today sentenced to seven-year term at McNeil Island federal prison ior repeated violation of the Harrison narcotic act during the past 11 months. He was con victed on nine of 18 counts. The maximum sentence under the law would have been 45 years In prison. rose festivaTchief -named in portland PORTLAND. Jsn. 25 (AP) Hill man tAi'ddemann manager of the MrCormlrk Stmhtp company, and member of the Port of Portland com intMion. was today elected president of tb P-Ma'vi Pr fciiMvI of 1934. Tilt abow U1 be bei4 12 wl $ CONDUCT CLEANUP IN WORST PRISON H 1 I II II II I MB XM Af . . VYtU5 AKIY1T UrriUtK! I I PLEA FOR HIGHER BENEFITSJO VETS $15 Pension for Widows of World War and Restora tion of Presumed Service Origin Cases Are Pressed WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. (AP) j Liberalization of the economy sec tions of tthe independent offices bill to provide another estimated 940,-1 000.000 for veterans' benefits, and re- 1 mo vat of alleged Iniquities in auto-; matlc promotions for the military services, was urged today before a senate appropriations subcommittee. With administration leaders believ ed to be opposed to . veterans leg islation to expand the new benefits of $21,000,000 ordered by President1 Roosevelt, Senator Reed (R.. Pa.) and Edward A. Hayes, American Legion national commander, presented the veterans' case. Should Be Permanent TJurlng the Legion's four-point pro gram. Reed said the president had ' conceded two of the points, but he j believed the new regulations should j be made permanent law and not left to local boards of review, w.nlcb he said In some instances had adopted "scandalous" rules. The two points conceded by Mr. Roosevelt, he said, were restoration of the 100-a-month for total dis abilities of service origin and free hospitalization for veterans who can not afford to pay for such treatment, regardless of the origin of their dis abilities or disease. Favors Widows' Pension In addition, he recommended a 915 a month pension for world war wid ows and restoration of cases presum ed to have had service origin and which were wiped out by the econ omy act. He estimated the two additional points would cost the government less than 940,000,000. He said the program vas part of the world war veterans' act which he wrote ten years ago. Reed blamed "Injustices" In the past to subordinates who wrote the regulations. He said President Roose velt was not to blame for he had not time to attend to all these details. HERE FOR CONFAB What happened at the conference here last night of federal airway offi cials and local city officers regarding the Medford airport situation could not be learned today, but a number of people were wearing smiles again, Judged indicative of encouraging news. Marshal C. Hoppin and E. L. Yura vltch of the department of commerce, airways division, Basil B. Smith, air ways supervisor of the CWA In Ore gon, and Major Sandy, his assistant, attended the conference, which con tinued into the early morning hours. The group met with City Superin tendent Fred Scheffel and W. L. Campbell, field superintendent for United Air Lines. I NEW YORK Jan. 25. (AP) Net earnings of the General Motors Corp. for 1033, announced today by Alfred P. Sloan, president, amounted to $83, 214.000, equivalent, after preferred dividends, to $1.72 per share on the common stock. This compared with a net of $165,000. or 0 cents a pre ferred share, In 1932. CHILDREN FIND TWO FROZEN BY BLIZZARD WINNIPEG, Man,, Jan. 25. (AP) A bllw-ard which swept over a sec tion of eastern Saskatchewan today had claimed the lives of an aged man and ft 14-year-old boy. School children found their frown bodies, miles apart, on the 'prairie yesterday. NEGRO YOUTH LYNCHED BY KENTUCKY MOBSMEN HAZARD, KT.. Jan. 25. (AP) An Intensive investigation of the lynch ing of Rex Scott, 20-year-old negro, was launched by Perry county au thorities today. Scott was forcibly removed from the county Jail here last night by a mob of armed men and hanged to a beech tree in a graveyard in Knott county adjoining. Jailer Roy P. Combs, when inform ed the negro had been lynrhed an hour after his removal from the Jail, telegraphed the detetts to Governor Ruby Laffoon at Frankfort. Ken tucky law requires that the governor remove any Jailer surrendering a pris oner to a mob and grant him a hear ing to determine if he shall be re UUtt4t j Soup and Fish Not Needed For President's Ball The Birthday ball for the presi dent next Tuesday evening is not going to be a strictly formal affair In Medford. it was announced to day by the general committee, in response to many reports that the "gentleman" In the family was of the opinion that lie couldn't come unless he donned "tux" or "soup and fish." The committee is try ing In every way possible to make the ball a coumy-wide event to bo enjoyed by all people and there will be no restrictions, limiting attendatK-e to formal attire. It will be a semi-formal dance, which means those who wish to put- on their "gladdest rags" may and the same alternative will be open to those who don't. Tickets (or the dance have been priced at 9150 per couple, not 91.75, as has also been understood In some groups. A meeting of the ticket commit tee has been called for tonight at the chamber of commerce at 8 o'clock by C. L. Hopkins, chairman. OFFICIALS PLAN WARflEGGER PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 25. (AP) Federal, state, county and city offi cers will Join in Oregon to drive the bootlegger from the state. The forces of the law were mobil ized here today at an unscheduled meeting of the state liquor control commission, and a preliminary plan of warfare against rum runners, boot leggers and the makers and peddlers of moonshine was discussed. Responsible officials of the state police force, the sheriff's office and from city police .headquaiVers at tended the session. The commission feels that, although It will sell the best available liquor at the lowest possible price, bootleggers and moon shiners will continue to attempt to sell what they represent to be "Just as good" or even better at prices less than those established by the state. El E CHICAGO, Jan. 25. (;p For the love of a policeman, Mra. Myrtle Tan ner Blacklidge must pay 97.500, a Jury of 12 men decided. Which, incidentally la considerably less than the 9100,000 value placed o nthe love or Norman Nottingham, patrol wagon driver, by his wife, Sus an ne, In her alienation of affections suit aft a Inst the former collector of Internal revenue. Today three courses of action re mained open for Mrs. Blacklidge pay the Judgment, go to Jail, or appeal. As for paying the Judgment, she dismissed that as one of the possi bilities herself last night when in formed of the verdict. j "My, I haven't got 75 cents! I'll nave w go to jaw. AID FOR TAX REPORTS GIVEN HERE MARCH 5-8 Arthur W. Lamka. field auditor of the state tax commission. Is in Med ford today and announced that an auditor of the commission will be at the county courthouse here March 5. 6, 7 and 8. to assist local people In making out tax reports. Those having to pay Income taxes and the Intangible tax will have thla opportunity of meeting with the audi tor, concerning the filing of their reports. Pear Markets NEW YORK, Jan. 25. (AP) (UHDA) Pear auction market: Silt cars arrived; 1 car Oregon, 1 Wash ington care unloaded; 0 cars on track, Orcson D'AnJoua: 1350 boxea, ex tra fancy. 3.aoJ.OO; averane, 2 4S; fency. 3.5n 3.7: average, 2.03. Washington Winter Nella: 678 boxen t-xtra fancy, ll.50fflrl.70; aver age, 1 01. Note; day. No Chicago pear auction to Thirty or forty masked leaders of j a mob of approximately 300 men who! swarmed around the Jail forced their way Inside and threatened Jailer) Combs with death If he did not sur render the key to Scott's cell. Scott's cell was unlocked and he waa dragged out of the Jail and hus tled into an automobile, which led a motorcade which bore other members of the mob out of the city. Scott was charged with slugging Alex Johnson, a miner, on a tide street here Saturday night. Johnson died at a hospital here two hours frr t.f ntrro round lynched. U$ bftd aevtr K4iAe4 QO&K.oujAte!. PLEAS CHOKE MAIL AT Administrator Declares Graft Denial His Last Word On Subject Investigations of Charges Are Continued WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. (API I Picas for continuance of the civil works administration and immediate ! restoration of working hours to 30 a 1 week continued today to pour Into CWA headquarters. j Officials said the letters had sub , sided to some extent, although extra clerks still were required to handle : the mall. Harry L. Hopkins, the administra tor. Indicated his statement last night, denying that graft had been found generally In the lower reaches of the organ izat Ion, was his last word on the subject. He said "there seems to be a wide spread misunderstanding as to the extent graft Is present In the civil works administration." "As a matter of fact." he continued, "it la of small proportions In terms of the number of persons employed on civil works and the amount of money expended." Investigation of charges of graft and political Influence in various places Is being continued by the ad ministration and the department of justice, but officials said there were no developments. The administration hopes congress will provide more funds soon so the fate of civil works may be deter mined. Hopkins plans to return to the 30 hour schedule as soon aa money la available. Last week he ordered a reduction In cities to 24 hours a week end In rural districts to 15 hours be cause there was danger, of available funds running out before February 10. President Roosevelt plans to ask congress soon for 9850,000,000 for civil works and relief needs. SAYS RETAINER LOS ANOELB3, Jan. 25. jlp) A milk and butter salesman who rose to the position of major-domo at Mlsa Margaret Keith's menage of mys tery in Beverly Hills, testified today in the court contest of her million dollar will, that he considered her sane. The witness, Ralph Thurmsn, said Miss Keith, eccentric recluse win committed suicide last year, was pay ing him $75 weekly salary when she discharged him and all her other employes in 1929. Thurmsn said he "played post office" with his employer, whom he spoke to only once a month, and left newspapers and letters for Miss Keith In a wire basket on her back porch. From the basket he took letters and notes of instructions, many of which counsel for Albert C. Allen, Jr., of Medford, Ore., to whom Mlsa Keith left her entire fortune, introduced as evidence of her sanity. ST. PAUL, Jan. 25. (pj Two un named eyewitnesses, both women, who espied the kidnapers of Edward O. Bremer when they selred the wealthy fit. Paul banker. January 17, today supplied police with Clues that might lead to ultimate apprehension of the gang. One of the women, It was under tood, witnessed the actual abduc tion from about 20 feet from where Bremer automobile was halted. She related a story of a brief scuffle in the Bremer car as he apparently re sisted the ' kidnapers, who have de manded $200,000 ransom. His auto mobile later was found, the Interior splotched with blood. The second witness was reported to have obtained the license number of the gang's onr. SALEM, Ore, Jan. 26. (API Gov ernor Julius L. Meier, following re fusal of State Treasurer Rufus C. Holman to retype two $5000 bonds as requested by the chief executive, has signed the bonds In their origi nal state. Holman last waek criticised the governor for delaying state business because he 'didn't like the blackness of the Ink used." The bonds were previously signed by Secretary of 8'ate Hnss, who also asked they he retyped In conformity with the view of the governor. a Warrants Called. SALEM, Jan. 25. (AP) The state treasurer tomorrow will cell for un paid warrants dated December 4. The total, it was announced, would be for $4.7,620. ISS KEITH SANE Slain by Posse ,V " An escaped convict who was killed by a posse near Paola, Kaa., was Identified as Bob "Big Boy" Brady (above). He had fled with five other convict, from the Kan. sas state penitentiary at Lansing. (Associated Preaa Photol DRAFT PLEA FOR IL Committee to prepare Jackson county's application for site of the $2,250,000 federal psycho-neurotic hospital for Indian wards on the northwest and Alaska reservations was being named Vila afternoon by A. H. Banwell, manager of the Med ford Chamber of Commerce and City Superintendent Fred Scheffel were Investigating a site near Roxy Ann, which had been recommended as lo cation for such hospital. A wire waa received by the Cham ber of Commerce this afternoon from Lynn P. Sabin, assistant manager of the Portland chamber of commerce, In response to Medford's request for an endorsement from Portland. It asked that complete details regard ing a local alte be forwarded north and suggested that a perspective of same be prepared and forwarded to the Oregon delegation in congress. Mr. Sabln added that he would be glad to 'assist Medford In any way possible, as he has Eugene, St. Hel ens and others, seeking location of the federal .hospital. Mr. Banwell wired the Oregon dele gation In congress yesterday regard ing the plan for location of a psycho neurotic hospital In this state, an nouncing Jackson county's desire to be selected as alte, and asking sup port of the delegation. The wire also announced that complete data was being prepared and that further Information regarding the govern ment's plana would be appreciated, since all data to date hns been ob tained through the press. WASHINOTON, Jan. 25. (AP) Tax refunds totaling $28,780.06 were made by the treasury department to the Portland Railway Light Sc Power company during the fiscal year 1933, It was revealed here today In a report by the department on refunds' of in come and estate taxes In Oregon. Other refunds of more than $1000 Include: Portland Electric Power com pany, $23,100; Rogue River Timber Co., Klamath Falls, capital stock, $12,155; Devcraux Mortgnge Co., Port land, $0091: Charles K, Spaulding, Salem, $1048; Willamette Valley Lum ber Co., Dallas, $1752; Noyes-Holland Logging Co., Portland, $13,794; Meier & Frank Co., Portland, $2043. GIRL SCOUI LEADER ALBANY, Ore.. Jan.' 25. (AP) Mlsa Donna Gill, young school teach er, and devoted Olrl Scout lender, un wittingly broke one of her own pre cepts and narrowly escaped death Inst Sunday, but was today well on the road to recovery. Attempting to extricate a 22-callber pistol from luggage In her car, she drew the muzzle of the weapon to ward her. The trigger caught, and a bullet struck a rib Just below tho girl's heart and waa deflected out ward. Capone Was Santa For Life Termers In Federal Prison ATLANTA. Jan. 25. (AP Al Capone, former Chlrsjro gang over, lord, played Santa CI sua to 125 life tenners at the federal peni tentiary here Christmas. The Atlanta Journal said today a man Just released pictured Ca pon aa a "nice man" who on Christmas day presented boxes filled with csndy, cake and tobac co to hla fellow prisoners. Capone mends shoes In the pris on ah. TAX REFUNDS TO FIRMS ANNOUNCED IS DEFINED BY S Struggle for Control Between Stabilization and Sound Money Groups of Long Standing Says Pro'essor Editor Note: Prof. Wlllford I. King of New York university re cently waa named by Irving Fisher as one of the 10 men in the world "who understand the real meaning of money." nr Hllirird I. King Professor of Economics. New York University. (Written for the Associated Press.) NEW YORK. Jan. 25. ( AP) An Interesting phase of the present con troversy between tne opponents and th advocates of the president's mo netary policy la the struggle to cap- mre- or retain control of the two terms "stabilization" and "sound money." The latter phruso was appropriated by the McKlnely cohorts as long ago as 1898, and, ever alnce that date. It has. In the public mind, been associ ated with the maintenance of our currency on a gold case. To t,hB gold standardltes, the retention of this phrase 18 Important, for Its use casts a stigma upon all other currency sys tems by clearly Implying that they are unsound. Not Sound Money Advocates of the "commodity dollar" contend, however, that a monetary standard which has resulted in the unjust transfer of scores of billions of wealth, and which has been largely responsible for wrecking business. closing the banks of the nation, and turning millions of men out of their Jobs has no legitimate claim to the phrase "sound money." They assert that the only type of currency which can legitimately be roferred to as "sound" Is that which President Roosevelt proposes to estab lishnamely, one which, year after year, will ret in approximately the aame purchasing power In terms of commodities In general. "stable" Menus Regulated Until recently, the friends of man aged currency have had almost undis puted possession of the words "stable" "stabilize," and 'stabilization." The "stable dollar"' has been understood to mean one having Its value ao regu lated as to keep the price level con stant. Now, however, when the gold stan dard advocates demand that the president "stabilize" tho dollar, they are urging him to depart from his avowed policy of keeping the pur chasing power of the dollar constant and to substitute Instead the old pol icy of defining the dollar as a fixed weight of gold. The president's sup porters retort that, to apply the term "stable" to a dollar which halved In value between 1915 and 1020, and which has since more than doubled In value, la clearly an attempt to de ceive the public. L WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. (jp) Poac-master-aeneral Farley, now quietly engaged at Jhe president's order In reorganizing the Democratic national com mt I tee .today had before him a committee list showing about a score of members who nold either appoin tive or elective office or have been practicing law here. Quietly, the Democratic chairman has been placing figurative pencil marks down the list, either approving or disapproving all memberships. Eight vacancies now exist on the com mittee, some through resignations. Other resignations are expected. WILL- ROGER Says'- IlKVKIUiY MILLS, Cul., Jim. 21. A uood ileal of .Tnimncso news the Inst dny or so. Ouo day our eyes uro turned to Eur ope (to sec if Hie hoys hit ve any token payment); the next day it's Japan that draws our at tenlion. We arc going to hav a eroolied iieek from trying to look both wnyx at onee. That old hostile baby over in Japan that waa secretary of war, why he has resigned and their foreign minister Koki Hi rota, why lie seems to be about half peaceable, lie seems to kinder favor licking Russia first, then take care of us later. II 1 1 1 this boy that resigned, he was for a double-header tho same day. lltl MiMlwkl fiRflwU. I
