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The Weather Forecast: 1'nsettled with rain to night and Thursday. Moderate temperature. illchest yesterday 41 M edford Mail Tribun: j Watch the TRIBUNE'S fcj I CLASSIFIED AOS . . Cj? I lots of food bargain. j that mean genuine j IflVlngl. mm m nm I? Hi row est tlili morning 84 1 Twenty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OEEGOX, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1934. No. 266. a s MIPS FIBESEE By PAUL MALL ON. (Copyright, 1934. by Paul Mallon) War. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. Nearly everyone here, Including congress, is sold on the Idea that there will be a Far Eastern war In the spring and that we may be drawn Into It. Officials dare not say such a thing openly, but they go around talking about It in such loud stage whispers that even a deaf mute could hear them. They have the house appropria tions sub-committee on the run ap proving funds that are needed and some that are not essential for naval upbuilding and army Improvements. 4 The big ship lobbyist, William B. Schearer, has a new hat and over coat and goes through congressional halls grinning like a Cheshire cat. The peace societies are wringing their hands and writing open letters of . protest, which no one reads. They are also trying to buttonhole con gressmen who avoid them. The whole current of affairs Is ob vious in fact. Just a little too ob vious. 1 When war talk gets as open as it is now, the war is usually avoided. Clews. If you are even a half good detec tive you ahould be able to deduce what la going on from the following significant facta: The British recently called a apec tacular conference of their fleet admi rals In Par Eastern waters. It was the first conference of that aort held In 13 years. Ordinarily such a meet ing would be attended with the ut most secrecy. This one waa widely advertised ahead of time by the Brit ish government, and staged at Singa pore with extra publicity trimmings. Just prior to the time that confer ence waa arranged, the British for eign minister, Sir John Simon, drop ped down to Rome to discuss world peace with Premier Mussolini. Be fore and after the visit Mussolini broadcast the news that war waa Im minent In the Par East. He pointed a finger at Japan and told her that her war preparations must cease. Mussolini started talking that way Just about the time ho received a visit from the Russian foreign minis ter, M. Lltvlnoff, who waa then on hla way back to Russia with U. S. recog nition In hta pocket. Colncldentally with M. Lltvinofl's departure from this country, such prominent U. S. officials aa Ambas sador to Russia Bullitt and Chief Hornbeck of the state department. Far Eastern division, dropped a few remarks about Japan. They were diplomatically ambiguous, but clearly designed to show our dissatisfaction. Deductions. The relationship between those events haa not been lost on Japan. That Is what her statesmen are talk , Ing about when they grieve In the press that the world Is "closing In" on little Nippon. Of course the Japanese statesmen would read Into the situation the Idea that the world ' Is going to conquer them. The fact seems to be that the world Is trying In new way to stop a war. It la trying to tell Japan that she will gain nothing but trouble If she tries to attack Russia In the spring. It Is saying: "Don't start a fight or we may all get In and then where will you be?" That may not be a very Idealistic way of promoting world peace, but It la the only way which aeema to have a chance of being effective now. Arms. Another hidden factor In the situa tion is Just aa Important as the war angle. That Is naval armamenta. Japan has told us that she will not continue her 3-to-5 treaty ratio with us next year. She haa not sent , any notes or called us on the tele phone, but there are more ways of talking across oceans than the normal methods of communications. Her officials have planted In our press the reply that we will not agree to increasing the 3-to-a ratio and that we want the treaty continued aa Is. Japan already has parity with us on submarines and a 7-to-10 ratio on cruisers and destroyers. You may have noticed that most of our naval upbuilding program relates to cruisers and destroyers. Prrupcrts. There seems to be fairly good grounds for suspecting that part of our proposed program Is NOT founded on war hysteria, but upon armaments strategy. Some of these ships may never be built. We have been going Into these naval conferences pared down to the limit, with nothing to trade. With this procram we hsve now, we will be In a highly strategic por tion to negotiate for effective curtail ments or armaments building at the 1915 conference. Notes. An old-time nmmn recently re turned from the Par East with the observation that Japan's war prepara t Uons were more obvious than those In Eurnp- h-fore th in'brenk In 1014. (Continued bom F B.x) Naval Race e War Prelude Asserts Peer By OI.EK BABB ' Associated Press Foreign Staff TOKYO, Jan. 31. (AP) The minister of the navy told the house of representatives today that new auxiliary vessels of the Japanese navy would outrank those of the United States at the end of 1936 and a mem ber of the house of peers declared that If navy men had their way rela tions between the two nations would be ruptured. Admiral Mlneo Osuml, head of thei naval ministry, offered statistics to show how the two navies would com pare when the present naval treaty expired. The suggestion of the possibility of a rupture was made by Kenklchl Yo shlzwa. former foreign minister, dur ing question time in the house of peers. Rupture Feared He told his audience that tf the Japanese and American navlea were to dictate the programs with which the naval conference scheduled for their respective governments enter 1935, "a rupture would be Inevitable leading, If the pessimists' view Is ac cepted, to Intensified naval competi tion even If war Is averted." "In view of these dangers," he said, "perhaps It would be better to abandon the conference altogether unless the preliminary negotiations should show the possibilities of an agreement." Kokl Hlrota foreign minister, ex pressed a general but vague concur rence with Yoshlzawa's views. Trte admlral'a statement waa pre sented In writing In response to per sistent questioning by representatives on the relative sea power of Japan and America. U. S. I'sed In Comparison The admiral did not mention Great Britain or any other power, but con fined himself to a comparison of the Japanese and United States navies at the end of 1936. when the present naval treaties may possibly expire. The figures assumed the comple tion of the present Japanese naval program for which appropriation are included In the 1934-1936 buget, now up for discussion by the diet, as well as the United States program as ap proved by the United States con gress, exclusive of the Vinson bill. Vinson Bill Wl.ll Change Aspect (The bill referred to Is that of fered by Chairman Vinson of the naval committee which was passed yesterday by the American house of representatlvea providing for a pro gram of naval replacements to cost $475,000,000 to 570.000.000. By this bill 5 destroyers, 30 submarines and one airplane carrier would be con structed over a five-year period). Osuml'a statement climaxed several days of debate in the lower house of the diet on v navai poucy 01 Japan. Previously the naval minis ter had reiterated Japan's determi nation to demand increased ratios at the next conference of naval powers, although he declined to Indicate the extent of the Japanese demands. Silent On Treaty stHnd He likewise declined to state whether Japan would denounce the Washington naval treaty prior to De cember 31,-1934, in accordance with the treaty's provisions. Instead, he told hla questioners: We have almost a year to decide that point which the government Is studying carefully." SALEM, Jan. 3L (P) Unless the board of directors of the Salem Gen eral hospital can raise 5.000 within 30 days with which to pay interest on the hospitals bonded Indebtedness, foreclosure proceedings on the Insti tution will be started, an ultimatum from rerrla Hargrove, Portland bondholders, stated. The ultlmatlum was delivered through the Ladd & Bush company of Salem, as trustee, who as such will have to start action against the hos pital U this Is demanded by the bond holdera. SEATS ON 'CHANGE E NEW TORK. Jan. 31. (AN New York Stock Exchange seat values took a btg jump today following the tub tantial increase in stock market ac- I tlvltT during the past fortnight. A membership sold at 1190.000. up $40. ! 000 from previous sales, and the hlgh- est price since last August. j Only a few wks ago a seat change led hands at 1110.000. which was well I down from the high of 1933. This I decline was attributed partly to fears j that congress might adopt some lejls ' Istion to put the exchanze under fd ! eral conrol. SALEM, Jan. 31. (API Govern jment chirks, totaling 10.762. com- prising the first federal payment to (Marion county farmers participating in the wheat control proeram, were i received yeatrrday bv T. S. Hobei't. 1 treasurer of the wheat control com- miuce. . , BRITAIN OFFERS NATIONS 10-YEAR LONDON, Jan. 31. (AP) Great Britain's newest disarmament pro posal to other nations la a 10-year plan, recognizing Germany's claim to equality in arms and adding addi tional security proposals. The chief provisions of the British plan are: 1. Security Three further articles are added to the original British draft: 2. Equality of Right A principle regarded as Important as security: 3. Actual disarmament Reduction In arms of the heavily-armed nations. The British proposal, which waa circulated in the form of a memo randum to the chief powers concerned several days ago, was made public to night. ROME, Jan. 31. (AP) Italy came out In favor of the rearmament of Germany as the only practical solu tion of the armamenta questions. In an official memorandum Issued to day. .... Tltls rearmament, under the Ital ian plan, would be baaed on status quo for other powers on the principle aspects of their armaments. The following limitations, however, would be applied: 1. Abolition of chemical warfare. 2. Prohibition of bombardment of civil populations. 3. Limitation at present levels of military expense, not bound by trea ties In force. 4. Limitation to lta present size of terrestrial equipment of these powers. "Public opinion of the world 1a convinced that the capital and prae- I "cM question Is no longer to Impede German rearmament," the memoran dum said, "but to avoid that this should be effected outside the sphere of regulation and control." DEMOCRAT WAILS E WASHINGTON. Jan. 31. (AP) "Who's in charge of this spending?" Blanton of Texaa demanded today In the house. . "I'm not criticizing our president I don't criticize any president but he haa seen fit to put a Republican In charge of the A.A.A., and had filled every district In the' United States with Republicans "If there haa been a Democrat. put In I don't know It. (AApIause from the democratic seats.) "Who la in charge of the CWA? A Democrat? Oh, not la Harry Hop R rm0Crat? Oh, not He hi filled every part of the country with Republicans. (More democratic ap plause.) "Who's In charge of the PWA. a Democrat? Oh. no I Secretary Ickea haa filled It up with Republicans from one side of the country to the other." Turning to the Democratic mem bers, Blanton asked tf Ickea had named any democrats In their dis tricts. "No's," echoed. PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 31. (AP) A reserve for antelope and saga hens to the east of Hart mountain in Lake county, embracing about 200,000 acres, -has been outlined to President Roosevelt's special committee which plans acquiring sub-marginal lands for migratory bird sanctuaries, it was said in a special dispatch to the Ore gonlan today. Irving Vlnlnn of the Oregon game commission presented the proposal in Washington. D. C. Lake county theepmen and the chamber of com merce of that county favor the pro posal. Vlnlng said. It was stated further that lower Klamath lake and Malheur take are being considered by the committee as bud refuge iltee. Gold Dollar's Value Cut by President Uncle Sam Still After Kidnapers Lindbergh's Baby WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. (AP) The government attll aeeka the murderer of the Lindbergh baby. The Justice department told the house: "During the month of Novem ber we made 300 examinations of handwriting In taking compari son with the original Lindbergh notes," MISS KEITH FOUND CHATS WITH IN EE LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31. (API Letters in which Misa Margaret Keith wrote that she liked "to talk to men because they have brains" and waa "soured on stupid, uninteresting peo ple and will not waste my time on them" were read today at trial of a stilt contesting her million dollar will, leaving her estate to Albert Allen of Medford, Ore., a nephew. The letters were written bv the eccentric recluse to Charles V. Hatter, a, private detective she had hired to Investigate certain matters. "But I think the Amazons had the right Idea." she wrote. "They made all the men stay out In the sheds with the cattle." Much previous testimony has Indi cated Miss Keith was & "man hater," but this ahe specifically denied In one of her letters to Hatter. "I have exiled myself," she wrote, "so I won't have to come In contact with morons like ... 1 think this fellow should be made to swallow some -of his ugly, spiteful remarks. , . . There are no street lights near my house so It is very, very dark up here. That is the reason the flood lights were Installed. X do not ask any of the white trash In Redondo to pay my electric bills." Miss Keith's mansion In the Palos Verdes hills near Redondo Beach waa surrounded by large flood llghta. She had another palatial home in Beverly Hills. Miss Keith never Impressed Wlllena Trowbridge, a San Francisco nurse, aa being balmy,"-the letter said in a deposition Introduced In evidence. 3 FLIERS KILLED IN ilAN L By STANLEY P. RICHARDSON (Associated Press Foreign Staff) MOSCOW, Jan. 31. P All three members of the crew of the Soviet stratosphere balloon "Osoavlakhlm1 were killed between 3:30 and 6 p. m yesterday, several hundred kilometers eoutheast of Moscow, near the village of Potlskystrog. The disaster waa announced offic ially today by the Soviet civil avia tion authorltiea, after 34 hours of rumors while a search went on for the fllera who yesterday reported they had reached an altitude of 07,585 feet. The official announcement said the crew was killed while attempting to land to great balloon. The balloon bag broke away from the gondola as It hit the ground in a hard landing. The force of the concussion killed the three occupants of the gondola and destroyed all the scientific instruments aboard. Following the crash, the bag tore loose from the gondola, and disap peared into the clouds. Commander Danenhower Here as Visitor, Hopes to Try Polar Cruise Again (Ry Bva Nralon Hamilton) The smell of the sea waa In his blood, and the call of the frozen north was ever drumming In Ala ears. So when the opportunity came to combine the thing he knew best (submarines) with Arctic exploration, Lieutenant Commander Sloan Danenhower, U. 8. N., retired, became the skipper of the Nautilus. What he wants today la "Just one more chance" to cruise under the North Pole to the Bering strait and sea. The desire for Arctic exploration t is not a new one in the Danenhower j returned, coming out through Blbe famlly. the commander explained Commander Danenhower's fsth- here yesterday following his arrival r WM one of lh 13 nd one of lwo from Portland with Mrs. Danenhower , officers to survive. The other was and riauBhter. Doris, for a visit with I Admiral Melville. the Jamea H. Owens. His father was none other than John Danenhower, navigator of the Jeannette on the famous deLong expedition gack In ( 1670. ' Father Mmltnr Thirty-three men went up into tliel north on that expedition and but 13 CRESCENT CITY TO BE SCANNED !T Army Engineers Decide to Visit Site Is Word to Rep Lea Humboldt Also to Receive Consideration WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. (AP) Representative Lea (D., Cal.) said yesterday the board of army engi neers had advised him of a decision to visit northern California In March to make a personal Investigation of proposed developments for Crescent City and Humboldt harbors. At the same time, the board of engineers entered an unfavorable no tice on the proposal to deepen Cres cent bay for deep water transporta tion. Lea said, however, that the unfavorable notice did not mean the rejection of the plan, but merely a postponement of final decision until after the inspection trip. The fact that the board also plana to Inspect Humboldt harbor, Lea said, would Indicate no decision on that project would be made until after Vie Inspection. Hearing prob ably would bo held on the proposal to deeper Crescent City's port either In California or Washington until later, he aald. James Twohy of Grants Pass, Ore., representing the California and Ore gon coast railroad, conferred with Lea today on the proposal to extend the road from Oranta Pass to Cres cent City. The proposed railroad and the proposed harbor develop ment have been linked together since It Is not the policy of the war de partment engineers to improve a har bor which has no easy means of com munication with adjacent Inland ter ritory. "If we do not succeed In obtain ing a deep sea harbor at this time," Lea said, "It la probable that we can get a start on the work." "It la not too much to say that some day there may be a trans-con-continental railroad with a terminal at Crescent City. An east-west line tapping the Inland regions and ter minating at Crescent City would be of prime importance to the develop ment of southern Oregon and Idaho, an area at present isolated from a port." BOARD TO RECEIVE PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 81 (AP) The Oregon liquor control board, be ginning tomorrow, will receive appli cations for beer and wine retail li censes at Its principal office In Sa lem, George L. Samms, administrator, haa advised the city of Portland. The city announced today It will receive no more applications for li censes and will Issue no more li censes on appltcationa now on hand. Sammls asked Vie city to transfer to the state commission the names of applicants who have already re ceived licenses, and the namea of those to whom licenses were denied. The commission will require that every person It licenses to operate obtain a recommendation from the council, for which recommendation a fee of 16 la to be paid by the ap plicant. SAN PRANClBCO,"jan. 31. OP) Children returned to school and stores reopened In Mlna, Nev., today after an earthquake yesterday that dam aged a dozen buildings and waa felt In California and Utah. Commander Danenhower 's father died when he was very young, but he left him the desire to explore, "But submarines were my husl nes," the commander explained: "then came the Nautilus and 1 was (Continued on Page rwo DILLINGER TELLS OF CRIME! PALS DESERT Indiana Bad Man Landed Behind Bars Apparently Resigned to Fate Long Crime List Is Confessed TUCUMCARI, N. M., Jan. 31. (AP) Charles Mackley, Harry Plerpont, Russell Clark and Mary Kinder, ar rested with John DllUnger, notorious Indiana outlaw, at Tucson last week, passed through here at 4 a. m. today aboard a special railway car en route to Indiana. Mackley greeted local officers and newspaper men who met the train here in the true western fashion with a .hearty "Glad to met you, pardner." But Plerpont merely growl ed "Well, I'm not," and Mary Kinder eyed offlccra with disgust, Clark was noncommittal and continued to nurse his wounds inflicted at Tucson when he attempt el to resist arrest. The four persons, accompanied by Indianapolis and Indiana state offi cers, were met here by a heavy de- j IB n oi special ran rasa oincers, who will accompany -them to Chicago. The officers said there had been no trouble with the prisoners but every precaution waa being taken. CROWN POINT, Ind., Jan. 31. (AP) John Dllllngcr, the awash buckling Indiana bad man, tamed by Arizona peace officers, was behind steel bars in the county Jail here to day, apparently resigned to his fate a fate which the state hopes will be his execution for killing a police man. Apparently deserted by his pals who are reputed to have taken an oath to "kill coppera," the desperado was brought back to Indiana last night and placed In a solitary cell. Denies Slaying Officer. There, while the state made prelimi nary plana to try him for the slay ing of Policeman Patrick OMalley during a recent 20.000 bank robbery at East Chicago, Ind., the gang leader began to talk, confessing. Prosecutor Robert O. Estill said, to robberies totalling over 250,0O0. He denied, however, he had slain Policeman O'Malley. "Dllllnger," aatd the prosecutor, "Is convinced he's going to burn ao he's talking. He admitted bank robberies at Racine. Wis.. St. Mary's, O., and Greencastle, Ind., and said that it was his boys who liberated him from the Lima, O., Jatl." It was during the Lima Jail de livery that Sheriff Jess Barber was shot to death. Talks to Scribes. All fight out of him. Dllllnger talked agreeably with newspaper men and told them he had learned In St. (Continued on Page Three) COOSlfiLL OPENING FRIDAY MARSHFIELD, Ore.. Jan. 31. (AP) At least one month's employment for more than 600 men was promised to day by the Coos Bay Lumber com pany with the announcement the mill and camp will be opened Friday, Feb. 2. The mill haa been Idle alnce Dec. 16. About 300 will be employed at the mill, and an additional 200 men will augment the present crew of 100 at camps near Powers. It was eat t ma ted unofficially that the payroll for the month will amount to about 160,000. The Coos Bay Lumber company's plans beyond March 1 have not been formulated. Henry Leaf, vice presi dent and general manager, said only former employes will be hired. DISTILLERS FACE V VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 31. JTi five men held In Jail here on a fed eral charge of operating a distillery without a license, today faced a new charge, that of grand larceny, for re puted theft of electricity with which the d la til cry was operated. Ball an the federal charge was set at 11,000 earh. and on the larceny charge, 2500.' The Northwestern Electric com pany, the complainant, charged tint the five, Robert Jackson, 19; William BArnett, 35;. Harold Anderson, 22; Joaquin Agner, 36, alpd J, M. Seymour, 25, wired around ttoe meter on the farm on which the was operated In order not to excite suspicion be cs'ise of the large use of tlectrlcltv by the 120.000 distillery. To Visit U. S. Emma Goldman, who was deport ed to Russia as an anarchist li 1919, waa granted permission U enter the United States for noi longer than" 90 days. The abovi picture of Miss Goldman wai made recently at Toronto. Ont. (Aa aoclated Press Photo) ROOSEVELT BALL 1 Million for Fund. NEW YORK, Jan. 31. (AP) Far from complete estimates from 47 atates and the District of Co lumbia today placed the total at tendance at last night's birthday parties for the president at more than a million and the receipts destined for the Warm Springs Infantile paralysla endowment at About 11,000.000. An Associated Proas survey, re vised late this afternoon, showed a total, with estimates missing from several balls, of 990.fl28. The attendance reported was 1.038.700. Officials of the national com mittee In New York would make no estimates of their own. The city of Medford went over the top again last night, dropping Into President Roosevelt's birthday pres ent, the Warm Springs endowment fund, the sum of 501.60, It was an nounced today, following the very successful birthday ball, held at the Oriental Oardena last night. The same community spirit which Medford has shown In the past when a worthy cause appeared, was again In evidence throughout plana for the dance and was emphasized In plain (Continued on Page Five.) TAKEN BY POLICE WASlffNOTON, Jan. 31. fP) Arrest in Chicago of Verne Sankcy, one of the nation's foremost crim inals, was announced today by the department of Justice. The department said Ssnkey had confessed the kidnaping of Charles Boettcher, II., at Denver, February 12, 1033, and that of Haskell Bonn at St. Paul, June 30. 1032. Sinkey denied participation In the recent kidnaping of Edward O. Bre mer at St, Paul, and also said he had nothing to do with the abduc tion of William Hamm, Jr., also at St. Paul, June 15, 1033. PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 31. API The merchants exchange announced today that the foreign export trade from Portland in January this year was 161 per rent greater than for the first month of last year. In January, 1033, foreign exports had a value of $090 000. This month the figure waa $2,065,000. WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 1. -WAN The senate today confirmed Oeotge C. Mathewa of Wisconsin as member of the federal trade commission, to succeed William K. Humphrey of Washington state, who was removed by President Roosevelt, 59.06 PER CENT OF OLD WEIGHT SET Rffi VALUE Change Announced As Mar kets Close So That Ameri cans May Profit at Open ing of Exchange Thursday WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. (API President Roosevelt today revalued the gold dollar at 59 06 per cent of its former weight. The new gold dollar will contain 15 and 5-21 grains of gold nine tenths fine. In announcing the change, the president aald that beginning tomor row the treasury would buy any and all gold at a price of 935 per flno Troy ounce. The new gold dollar became effec tive at 3:10 p. m., today when the president signed the proclamation. Mr. Roosevelt Bald tho new gold dollar was 60.06 plus per cent of the old weight of 25.8 grains of gold. . The gold buying starting tomorrow at the 35 price will be done through the New York federal reserve bank as fiscal agent for the treasury. The previous gold price was 934.45 but that was offered only for newly mined gold. The new price applies to any and all gold deliveries to a United States mint or the New York or Seattle assay offices. Tha new price la aubject to deduc tions for tho usual mint charges and one-quarter of one per cent for hand ling charges. In announcing the new price the president said It would be continued until further notice. Mr. Roosevelt took the step of de valuing the dollar at a conference with financial advisors and made the public announcement at a press con ference crowded with newspapermen. The White House explained fhs president desired the action to be known Just before the American gold market closed for the day so that if any benefit accrued by this first move under his new money powers It would be enjoyed by United States citizens. i (Continued on Page Five) SEVERE ILLNESS SALEM, Ore., Jan. 31. (AP) Hal E. Hoss, secretary of state, who haa been critically 111 at his homo here for several months, was reported by his family today to have rallied to a considerable extent last night and to be somewhat Improved, although his general condition continues very serious. Secretary Hosa called his office by telephone today, the first time he had been In communication with his staff for a week. Hosa has been conftr.ed to his home since November, and last vis ited hla office during that month. During the spring ho entered the state tuberculosis hospital at The Dallea for treatment, returning to Salem In the summer. WILL- ROGERS WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. The Hcnntc liiycd off Monday on account of Itupy Long going to sponk today, They give him ft day off to get rested up. llucy give nic a dose of my ow n medicine. I generally talk everybody to death, but he got ahead of mo and rehearsed his speech on me. Ho was trying it out on tho dog. I can remem ber it myself in case anything happens to him. Since the big money stabiliz ation bill passed Saturday everybody here is in fine cheer and great optimism. Senators all practicing dancing for tho big ball. Our president is hav ing a wonderful birthday, but many a lady's feet is going to suffer for their loyally.