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The Weather Forecast: lair tonight and Tuesday; no chance In temperature. Temperature 'Highest yesterday 61 liOwest this mornfnr; .. ... 2H M M AIL TRIBUN Watch the TKIIItNE's I bl O A "1 CLASSIFIED ADS . . Cjr!V Lots of good bargain. that mean genuine savings. I mmmmm J EDFORD Twenty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1934 No. 276. FEME H1 SfflEEPf MSf II i I x By PAI L MALLON j (Copyright, 1934, by Paul Mallon.) Resentment, i WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. The pri-1 vate relations between the New Deal ers and congressmen are daily grow In? less and less cordial on the inside. The congressmen have nothing ' atralnst Mr. Roosevelt, but they are quite unhappy about the way they are being treated by his aides gen erally. This feeling may not be entirely Justified. Possibly the congressmen are hypersensitive about the Increas ing lnconspicuousness of their place In the Washington picture. Never theless, the situation has grown so bad that a southern Democrat said In the house rules committee hear ing the other day: "The only two courteous people in the administration are Roosevelt and Farley. Mishap. A personal misunderstanding be tween Miss Perkins-and the house Is a good example of what Is happen ing. The labor secretary wanted four million dollars for her federal em ployment agencies. She convinced the budget director that she ought to have it. The house appropriations sub-committee was hesitant about giving It to her. She went to see the committee at a secret hearing. House men consider such hearings strictly confidential. If there Is any talking to be done about the ses sions, they want to do it themselves. Miss Perkins was apparently un aware of that, for she came out of the meeting and gave the newsmen a complete account of what trans pired inside. It was all favorable to her side of the question and not to theirs. Whatever chance Miss Perkins had of getting her four millions prob ably was lost when the congressmen read an account of their secret ses sion In the newspapers. They slashed her hobby allotment money exactly in half, offering her two millions. That was quite an unusual step. Ordinarily, congressmen accept budget estimates without serious question, especially when they are accom panied by fervent administration ap peals to a congress controlled over whelmingly by the administration. Some of Miss Perkins" friends tried to get her four million fund restored when the matter was debated later on the floor of the house. The vote was overwhelmingly against her. Monument. In the pre-Roosevelt era It was considered bad for cabinet members to permit such misunderstandings to arise. In those days, the congress man, like the customer, was always right in any of the government de partments. It was not a question of courtesy, but of self-preservation. House members ba-sed their decision on the ground that four millions wee not needed at this time. They had a riRht to that view. But perhaps they also recalled that the house labor commltee once Invited Miss Perkins to appear as a witness and she re plied by telling them to come to see her. Or they may have read the story about Senator Pat Harrison be ing kept waitlnn In an anteroom at the labor department so long that even his unusual patience was ex hausted and he stormed out. saying he would not be back. The congressmen, however, are ap parently unaware of the Inside ad ministration talk thet Miss Perkins Is probably the only New Dealer out side the White House who may rate n monument here 20 years from now. Plague. This week, also, illness has run rampant among the New Dealers In vited to appear before other house committees. General Johnson caught some dis ease or other when Congressman Con ner? wanted him to testify about the 30-hour week. Connery suspected Ir reverently It was lockjaw. .l?isc Janes caught a cold when Congressman Prall wanted him to talk about RFC loans. It may hav been Prall who susses ted inconsider ately the cold was confined to Jones' feet From the standpoint of Jones and : Johnson, end Secretary Perkins ftlso.i It must be said they are doing ft superhuman amount of work. It Is not inconceivable that they believe they cannot take time out of their day and n'.cht labors to go mnnlna up to congress every time anyone wants to ajk them a few questions ! However, that will not make the situation any better. klmlercarten. The :-r-eat national problem of news lk from consre.islonal com mittees vaa met with unprecedented foree recently by Representative flam Hill. He noted that while his sub-commerce was writing the current tax h:ll. accounts of the secret aeiairns arvvared in the newspapers every rtav. Mrmbers were sworn to secrecy. bnf fitl'l ne-vs ot out somehow. So he adnptod the strong method of t:;e school room. Each committee member was iven a number and a d-art of the bill then being written Tiie number cf each consressm.m co-:e.ronrted with the number o Ir copy or ii-f bill (Continued on Page Four. Cannon Used In Efforts to Quell Revolt VIENNA, Feb. 12. (JP) A report from ERgrnberg tonight said 37 perMinh Were killed here when soldiers fired two army howitzers Into Scoria 1st headquarter. VIKNNA, Feb. 12. (AP) Approximately 80 men were killed In bloody hostilities between socialists and the government today as reports from various points showed: Ten dead In Vienna; Twenty-six dead In Graz; Thirty-two to forty-two dead In Llnz. A desperate battle broke out at 9 P. !., In Margarlteu and Schoen brunn streets near the south railway station. LINZ. Austria, Feb. 12. (AP) Artillery pieces opened fire this after noon on fighting soclallsta barricaded in a stronghold on the edge of the Danube. Even bb the cannon roared out, 16 men lay dead and 50 more seriously wounded. VIENNA, Feb. 12.- (AP) The pol itical power house of Austria blew up today with a socialist general strike and government reprisals which cost upwards of 50 lives as bloody fighting raged in Vienna. Llnz. Graz and finally spread to the munitions centers of Steyr, Bruckandermur and Eggenberg. At least 10 were killed in street fighting In Vienna. From 31 to 42 according to var ious unofficial estimates lost their lives In battles at Linz in which hand grenades, machine guns, and even artillery howitMrs were used. Every military arm of the govern ment, augmented by the police and the Fascism Heimwehr. was thrown into the conflict in an effort to re store order. Vienna Besieged Vienna tonight looked like a cap ital besieged by an Invading army. Her broad strasses were barricaded by barbed wire entanglements. Military trucks, ambulances, and buses -mounted with machine-guns patrolled' thoroughfares open to traf fic. At every Intersection where danger threatened, machine gun crews, their ugly weapons mounted fo action, stayed on duty with orders to keep the peace at all cost. Martial law, denying every citizen the right under penalty of death to possess a gun, ruled In Vienna and Llnz. Even the famous old churches of Vienna with their ancient steeples were surmounted with the machine guns of government ' forces. Despite their precautions, street rioting had claimed 10 lives before nightfall. Pusk of Terror It was a dusk of terror. All shop windows were covered with steel shutters and Iron bars All cafes were closed by 8 o'clock. Whole sections of the city were without electric lights. Candles were seen burning In houses. The only thing lacking from a pic ture of war time was the roar of airplane motors overhead. Instead, the government forces and battling detachments of socialist military, employed every other means of transportation. Troops were moved by bus and truck. Early In the evening an arm ored troop train departed from the east railway station of the capital for an unrevealed destination. Water Supply neld Although other public services were disrupted, the water supply was left untouched for the present at least. The street car service was paralyz ed. The shadowy hulks of the dark ened cars lay In haphazard fashion in the streets wherever the strike overtook them. Only a few of the disabled transports were dragged nway to the car barns by auto trucks. A large number of persons were reported wounded and It was said that 60 of these at least might die from their Injuries. . BUTCHER? WILL MEET AT CHAMBER TONIGHT All the butchers of the city are scheduled to meet this evening at the Chamber of Commerce at 8:00 o'clock, it was announced, this aft ernoon. Important matters of Inter est to all will be presented and a lame attendance Is urged. PAO I LINCOLN 3 col hed Lincoln s Career Started With Election to House SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 12. (AP) Abraham Lincoln's career as a suc cessful politician and lawyer started a hundred years ago with his election to the Illinois house of representa tives. The year .1834 was the turning point In his life, Lincoln students said today as his 125th birthday an niversary was observed in the hmne tom-n of the Civil war president. He went into pr-uv.r and derided to study definitely taking up tha legal profession as something STRIKE FOR DAY By Stuart Moroney (Associated Press Foreign Staff) PARIS, Feb. 12. AP) A general one-day strike slowed down the whole of France today as 1,000,000 work ers walked out in a warning of what they can do should their rights, be infringed upon. The French federation of labor, which called the strike beginning last midnight, estimated that It was 80 per cent effective. The ministry of the interior, how ever, announced that things were go ing at about half-speed, with light, water, gas, and railroad service un impaired. Violence often seemed near, but only a few minor clashes of workers and pickets were reported, Nearly 500 were arreBted for ob structing traffic and for violent (Continued on Page Eljtht) 3WP WFFK IS PFIWRMRA MM WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. (AP) The NRA's ambition, so far as its "cut-the -hours" drive Is concerned, la believed to be a 36-hour rather than a 32-hour week. General Hugh S. Johnson's repeat ed urging of the shorter work week was explained by persons close to NRA today as sort of a decoy. A de liberate overshooting of the admin istration mark Is believed designed, in part, to give the administration a margin with which to work for a compromise at the 36-hour figure. The official word on the subject probably will not be heard until March 5. The code authorities meet here on ths date in the first assem bly of industrial government, to con sider revision and Improvement of the NRA program. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. (AP) The house today rejected the senate amendment to the 1050,000,000 fed eral rellef-CWA bill providing for the appointment by the president and confirmation by the senate of state directors or administrators. The house accepted a compromise limiting compensation to CWA work ers who are Injured In the perform ance of duty. The compensation to any individ ual la limited under the compromise to a total of 93,500, and 125 a month, exclusive of medical attention costs STRATFORD. Ont.. Feb. 12. OP) Pupils at the Collegiate Institute were writing belated week-end examina tions today. When the time came for writing the testa last Saturday, It was found the ink had frozen in all the classrooms, and they were postponed better than his work as store clerk, postmaster and deputy surveyor in the village of New Silcm. Young Lincoln was Just 25 years old when he campaigned successfully as a non-partisan candidate for the legislature. Historians have tlttje Information on the specific Issues expounded by Lincoln In 1834. An autobiography by Lincoln, however, says that tt was d urine the campaign that Major John T 9;uart, aneiher candidate, started the futura Dreeldent on bis legal caicer. Ten Killed In Walla Walla Pen Outbreak Oppose Nazi and Red Front (lIQUOR STORES r 7R i AWAITING OPINION I, J &0&A LAWS LEGALITY ' " ' lTMf ,- Z'. k'Sv-- cv- Ji -"1 1 ffpfh- ar j ifira ' "I 1 I 1 life-1 M I i4S'ttM.i"S'i!?llW I til tluiurellor Illfuss (left ) and I'rlnre vim Miirhriulifrg. Aii( rlun rusflnt lender, are shown here agnlnsl the biM-kcrouml of the former Im perial p:ilnre In Vienna. They, with their follower., are the chief bul warks against Germnn domination ot Austria "the Inst' stronghold or Germanic 'kuUiir'," according to the Dollfus&iles. TINY CHANCELLOR WAGES FIGHT TO RETAIN POWER (By the Associated Press) Bloodshed and a national uprising of socialists throughout Austria today marked the climax of a year-long battle that the diminutive "vest pocket" chancellor, Engelbert Ddllfues, has waged against Marxism on the one hand and Nazlism on the other. Chained by the chancellor with conspiring with bolshevlst elements in "an unprecedented criminal plot," socialists declared a nation-wide strike and at Linz defied police in a bloody battle that took over thirty lives. Recent decrees have marked,. In the opinion of close observers, the domination of the Fascist Heimwehr In the Austrian government. A Heim wehr government a few days ago displaced the civil government in the Tyrol. Heimwehr leaders directed the campaign to outlaw Marxism. ' Where the Nazi figure In today's events was not entirely clear, but the history of their rise within the year since the Austrian-born Adolf Hitler ascended to power In Germany leaves no doubt but that they will seize the first moment to achieve at least a share in Austria's dictatorial gov ernment. The dining room at the Hotel Med ford is appropriately decorated for the big Lincoln Day banquet at fl:30 pm this erening. and a specially g.,d program of music and short talks ha been prepared. R. C. Groesbeck will make the principal talk on Lin coln. The large painting of Abraham Lin coln, donated to the club by Floyd Cook, and the picture of the log house at Rlpon. Wis., where the first meet mg was held In IflM. which led to the organization of the Republican partv in lflSfl, elvf-n to the lo-al club by Margaret Taylor-Canon Just be fore she died on February 2 will be on display at the metln?. Mm. Can on's father mas one of the 68 men who attended the meeting which led to the organisation of the "Orar.d Old Party" in 1856. All are cordially Invited, the price for the program and banquet ha been held to minimum. Tickets cin be secured at the hotel this evening pendleton'to'seek cwa airport funds PENDLETOIl. Ore.. Feb. H (AP) j City officii! her today were prep.r i In n ippllcetlon for 75 .000 of CWA money to be wd in Improving the municipal airport. I A 40-cre tr.rt on the e,t l!e of . the field wm pirr hiwl Siturd.y for j I140O. mich 'inlt!on bring lteco I ury before a application cuuld M loud. FINE PROGRAM AT LINCOLN BANQUET PROMISED HIT To the world that means the pos sibility of "onschluss, a political joining of Germany and Austria. In the face of recent events, the fascists, as represented by the Helm wchr, are as bitter enemies of the Nazis as they are of the socialists, but the Nazis, who had not one scat In parliament when the fighting lit tle chancellor dissolved It last March are now so powerful that unbiased observers In Austria estimate they would control the new parliament should elections be held Dispatches during the last few months have hinted that, should Doilfuss succumb to Heimwehr de mands and crush all political par' ties. Nazis might combine with the Heimwehr in a government of the "United Fascist Front," which the followers of Hitler earnestly believe would eventually be dominated by Nazi leaders. OF MS EYED BY LOS A. POLICE LOS ANGKJTiKS, Feb. I2.fp, The four, children of Mrs. Muriel Berton Wallace, former chorus girl, were held In the custody of Juvenile authorities today while investigation of "spiritual love weddfne" in the "temple" of a fo-called cult was pushed by police. Mrs. Wallace emphatically denied she wns about to be "spiritualty mar ried," as charged by her husband William Wallare, a f?n Franclnco en gineer, who said his wife had been lured from her home by a member or the cult. The former chorus girl, released by police after questioning, said she would seek a divorce from Wallace because he disagreed with her re ligious views. "People in the natural world can't understand us people in the super natural world who have had the bap tism of the Holy Ohost." she a!d "It would be hard for me to explain Just what we mean by a spiritual marriage." Juvenile authorities said they would continue custody of the four minor children of the woman until thy are convinced they are to be brought up In a proper atmosphere. Wallace, in his complaint to police, charged that his wife had been lured away from her home 10 days ago He siid he had obtained Informal ion u hr whereabouts from a Mrs. Thelma AKen. who told of strange rites at the cottage which she said served as a "temple ' in wi.lr,, nomen were "tatc-n from ungodly men" and given to men who "serve God." Supreme Court To Act Tues day Is Expectation First Opening Wednesday Or Thursday Prices Listed. PORTLAND, Feb. 12. (AP) Ore gon's state operated liquor stores will open Wednesday or Thursdny, provid ing the Knox law, state enabling act, is not declared unconstitutional in a supreme court decision expected Tuesday. A group of five stores In Portland will be the first to open their doors. The Salem store la expected to be ready for business the following day. and Eugene will probably be the third city to participate in the state's system. Employes will be trained for one day in a previously opened store before going to work In their home cities. Prices Listed Aaron Hoi Us, organizer of the state store system, made the announcement Sunday, adding a list of prices. Cheapest blended whiskey will sell for $1.10 a pint and 92 a quart. Bottled in bond, 16 and 17 years old, will bring sl.75 a half-pint, 3.35 a pint. Cheapest gin will bo 75 cents a pint, with the average price be twecn 1 and 91.25 a pint. Holtc announced that the. state liquor commission would seek to give consumers the lowest possible prices on all liquors,, and expects to reduce the quoted figures as soon as organiz ing expense is adjusted. He said near ly 80 brands of blended and bonded whiskies will be In stock, 17 brands of gin, Imported and domestic brandy, cognac, rum, vermouth, cordials, wines and even Japanese sake. Permits Needed Individual liquor permits which the purchaser must have to buy at the state stores or licensed agencies will be on sale at the stores for 91, Holtz said. They are not transferable. Non-resident permits, good for throe months, will be sold for fiO cents, Regarding method of purchasing, the official price list carries this an nouncement: "Purchasers will find upon enter ing all state -operated stores of the commission a large glass sample case which will contain sample bottles of all the various lines of liquor for sale In the store. "Purchasers will make their selec tions at this sample case, make a note of the code number and price displayed on each bottle and after making their selections will proceed to the order clerks' .counter, whero an order will be written for the liquor required. "Permit holders arc required to sign this purchase order, stating name, address, permit number and quantity desired, and then submit their permit for endorsement by the vendor. This signature must be Identical with sig nature on permit. SHERMAN, Tex., Feb. 12. (AP) Randolph Bryant, federal Judge for the northern district of Texas, today held the NRA petroleum code uncon stltuttonal. Judge Bryant gave the opinion In the cases of the Amazos Refining company and other plaintiffs who sought to prevent federal agents from going on their properties In the East Texas oil field to gaugo their production. Pacific Coast Business In High Gear Since Fall SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. (P, Pacific coast business pushed head to a new high since last Aug tut, the Strasburger report said today, in cov ering the week of February 3 The broke re firm's index, weight ed end corrected for seasonal influ ences, stood at 75.7 per cent of the 1930 average, compared with 74.8 In the preceding week and 74 2 a year Nto. Electric power production rose to 01.3 per cent of the average for 1030 This compared with 80 7 a week earl ier, and 84 1 a year ago. The lumber production Index ro to 514 from 50 1 in the preceding week and Z92 t year ago. 6 Automobilists Plunge 150 Feet Live To Tell Tale PORTLAND. Feb. 12. ( AP) The tory of a frenk auto accident in which six persons were plunged down a 150 foot embankment in a sedan and escaped without seri ous Injuries, was related hit? Sun day by Mrs. E. A. Harrington, of Spokane, Wnh. Mrs. Harrington said the car skidded on the frost-covered Co lumbia river highway four miles east of The Dalles, Ore., at 8 a. m. Sunday and plunged over the high bank, turning over five times and finally landing right side up after a 150-foot drop. Occupants of thecal-. Including Mr. and Mrs. Har rington, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Har rington, and Mr. and Mrs. Don Strtiuse. escaped with minor cuts and bruises. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. ( AP) Tho senate today suspended trial of William P. MncCracken until tomor row, ordering the defendant held in custody meanwhile. The recess wns taken on motion of Chairman Black of the air mall in vestigating committee, In the midst of tho reading of the committee's re port as a part of MacCracken'a trial for contempt. There was no Immediate explana tion of the sudden change "In plans, but it was believed that senate lead ers wanted to go back Into executive session to speed action on the relief CWA appropriation bill. MacCracken Is charged with tam pering with his air mall files after they had been subpoenaed by the In vestigating committee. Two deputy marshals served a Dis trict of Columbia supreme court hab eas corpus writ on Scrgcnnt-at-Arma Chesley W. Jurncy Immediately after he left the floor with MacCracken. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. (AP) The protests of Charles A. Lindbergh and others against the cancellation of air mail contracts wero referred today by the White House In regular rou tine to the pos toffies and commerce departments. President Roosevelt took no official cognizance. Obviously Irked by publication of the Lindbergh telegram before It was received by the president, Stephen Early, a sec rotary to Mr. Roosevelt, said: "Except when the senders of tele grama or other communications act primarily for publicity purposes the common practice is to allow the president, when he Is addressed by them, the courtesy of receiving end reading their communication before they are read by others than the per sona addressed, "In this Instance the giving out of a telegram which bears the name of Charles A. Lindbergh by his attorney and legal advisor. Colonel Henry Breckcnrldge, would Indicate the message obviously was sent for pub licity purposes at least It was pub lished before it was received by tho president. "The president's exocutlvo order under date of February 0 wns Issued after the postmaster general advised the president that 'all domestic air mall contracts for carrying the mails have been annulled.' The postmaster general annulled these contracts. Colonel Lindbergh's telegram la in error In that It states the president ordered the cancellation of all air mail contracts. "Colonel Lindbergh's telegram will be referred to the postmaster general and to the secretary of commerce for considerntion and action.' Northwestern lumber production drew comment on being "far In ex cess of last year. Both orders and shipments are in exceptionally good volume. Increasing foreign orders for export have been outstanding In re cent weeks under tha stimulus of favorable exchango rates." SAN FRANCI3C, Feb 12. fP) Banking reserves Increased 128,300, 000 in th twelfth reserve district last week. The rederal Reserve bank of San Francisco explained the Increase resulted "about equally from sales of gold to the mint and an Inflow of commercial funds from other districts1 I Nine Convicts, One Guard Dead Two Employes Stabbed Riot Breaks Out In Wings Simultaneously. SPOKANE. Wn, Feb. 12. (AP) The Chronicle was informed today that nine convicts and one guard were killed In an uprising at the Washington state penitentiary at Walla Walla, Wash., this afternoon. H. L. BrlpRS. a guard, the report said was killed. Two other peniten tiary employes were stabbed. One was Turnkey Williams, and the other was n guard by the name of Glestan, the report paid. A company of the National Guard at Walla Walla wns called out to assist prison authorities. Names of the convicts reported killed were not learned. The rioting was quelled without the escape of any Inmates. The rioting broke out simultan eously in tfte wings of the prison by the armed Inmates. Brigga waa knifed. The violence broke out after lunch as the convicts were grouped in the prison before returning to their cells. die in mm. STALTON, Ore.. Feb. 13. Al bert McLcrtnon of Portland, 33. comr mandcr of a CCC camp on Mary'a river, and Lee .lonea, 38, hla aa!at nnt, were killed laai nlglft when ft forest aervlce truck driven by McLen non, plunging over an embankmens. Another paasenger on the truck, al though painfully Injured, walked flv miles to a telephone for aid. Jones' elRht-yenr-old son escaped with minor Injuries. Arm Slashed Off By Boat's Screw McMINNVILLE, Ore., Peb. 13 (AP) With one arm severed at the elbow, and Buffering from three body lacera tions, Oscar Tzlzer, 33, of Sheridan, r was In a hospital today, the result of a boating accident Sunday at Taft. While swimming with friend. In til lnke, Tzl7r dove from the front of motorboat. The boat passed over him and the propellor slashed off hla arm and Inflicted other lnjurlca. SOLDIERS STANDGUARD . WHILE NEGROES TRIED HERNANDO, Miss., Peb. 13. (AP) Armed with machine guns, rifles and tear gas bombs, 3S0 National Ouard.men stood hy to preserve or tnrinv the nrRnta countv grand jury Indicted three negroea on charge of rrlmlnnlly attacking a n year old Holly 8prlngs, Miss., school glrl' Prosecution snld the negroes would be brought to trial early this after noon. UKVl'.RI,Y HILLS, Gal., Feb. 10, In I'.iiiiliiiul statistics show Hint over 50 r t crim innls coiiiniit siiiciile before be iiiK cimj-'lit, knowing what will luiipeii to 'em when tliey are cnptnml. Cnn you imngine ours doinj; that. Look at the iiiblirity they would miss. Hut arc our courts -nuil juilu'es chanKinpr, fnr didn't this Simkey commit suicide in jnil? Maybe this is liable to start a fad. Monday France wanted com munism, Tucsdny they wanted a kitiR. Wednesday an old man told 'cm to go homo and have a good drink of wine, take a nap and forget it. Just about that will satisfy any mob.
