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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1934.
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By PAIL MALLOS
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 33. Nation
may step on each other's toes and
settle the matter with dlmplomattc
bows, but when one nation steps on
another's pocketbook they wheel out
the guns.
Even the political eruption In Aus
tria had hidden International luses
rooted In commerce and trade.
On the' surface the fighting ap
peared to be entirely political. Fas
cists, nazls and socialists and Catho
lics died for wat their orators be
lieve to be great causes.
The blood of those patriots can also
be measured In the marts of trade In
good old coin of the realm of ad
joining nations.
Seaports 1
Control of the central European
markets and outlets to the sea were
two of the main underlying fuses.
Hitler wanta them. So docs Musso-
Both Austria and Czecho-Slovakla
are using the Italian port of Trieste.
That Is the old Austrian port taken
by Italy after the world war.
If Hitler gets .his hands on Aus
tria, that nation and Czecho-Slova-kla
will use the German ports '
Bremen and Hamburg.
Likewise there Is a matter of Ital
ian trade throughout central Europe.
Mussolini has been trying to expand
It He can dominate the sltutalon
only as long as he can keep the nazls
out of Austria.
It is no wonder that he sent two
Italian divisions recently to the Aus
trian border. '
Winner
The Half-Pint Chancellor Dolltuss
lost his fight with the socialists, even
though his guns came off triumph
ant. One more victory like that and
he Is through.
The nazls were strengthened polit
ically While their two hated ad
versaries atrugglcd In the streets,
they sat and ponci tnclr UM
Whatever Dolltuss and the socialists
did to each other left that much
less for the Nazis to do when they
take on the winner.
Our shrewd official observers be
lieve the trouble has only started,
confidentially they think the nazls
are going to get control of Austria,
sooner or later, and nothing can
stop them.
Geese
The nazls believe that also.. That
Is wjy they arc playing such a cagey
game.
Hitler knows he would bring down
on himself the condemnation of Eng
land, France and Italy If he should
unleash the 15,000 Austrian nazls
Just across the border In Germany
and permit them to go Into Vienna
after Dolltuss. He will not attack.
He bellevea all he has to do la wait,
and Austria will come to him.
As one of the Hitler expressionists
puts It:
"If we bide our time, tho Austrian
goose will come flying Into our
mouths, well cooked and seasoned."
So you may see Dolltuss soon of
fer Vie first wing of the goose to
Hitler by permitting the nazls to
have representation In his govern
ment. If Hitler gets his teeth on ope
wing. It will not be long before he
get to the drumstick.
1,01 1 on
Mr. Roosevelt heard those rumors
about certain southern congressmen;
weakening toward the Bankhead cot-
ton compulsion bill
That is why he suddenly made up
his mind to demand action on the
legislation, nus ""'""" ' last Tuesday as the result of being
the whole outlook "'Kerning the , 7 basketball,
bill. Until then ngressmen had
halt a notion to let I d e on the vlne . . mon
They saw the ,dn, nl.nratlon b,o wing
hot and cold on I.'ie measure. Now .,., ,
thev will have to put It through, 'he boy. who w as student In .ne
"The ! hrCV'aome' g. ! ported. He la survived by hi. par
of complaint since he spoke, but hi. -nts nd a .mall .later.
;Tlrl "'" wm prob' EIGHT DROWNED WHEN
There are many Indication, that! BIG RESERVOIR BURSTS
u. m.irt rwoiilftttnn bin will las PALMAS. Canary Islands. Feb.
be softened measurably and enacted 22. (AP) E1g.ht persona drowned and east approach of the Burnslde bridge
by congress before adjournment. 1 great property damage resulted today have been awarded Oeorge H. Buck
Chairman Fletcher of the senate j when a huge reservoir burst. I ler company or Portland. It waa an
committee la beginning to say the Many Inhabitants, terror etrlrken. nminced today by the General
bill la not considered sacred! that ' sought refuce from the watera by Grocery company. The building will
many protesta have been received and climbing trees. I be completed early In August.
that there Is no reason wny me om
should not be altered.
In the end, you probably will get
a fairly good bill which will elimi
nate the worst speculative forces and
result In a market protected for the
public along the lines of the London
exchange.
Hours
The administration has been quiet
ly looking Into t'ie possibilities of
startlr.5 a drive for a 32-hour week
under the NRA code...
Those who are
investigating the
matter believe the government should
k for 32 hours. wlt.'i a view to
compromising at 36. That would be
one sy to aree'.rrMe the private ab-
orpti n of workers heing dropped
from the CW.V
The matter is yet to be decided.
Note
Hitler sent a ropy of his latest
sta aneech to every newsman
in Wa-'huicmii. clirert trom fie urn
e-nn:rnt printing offy R-rlin
Ccauiuea tUom Pe l
IS
SOON AFTER PAL
TAKENJBY POLICE
Man Held for Attempt to
Take Publisher in Chicago
Hotel, Uses Verne San
key's System to Beat Law
CHICAGO, Fob. 22 ' (p) Twelve
hours after h confessed Aft abortive
plot to kidnap Emanuel Philip Ad'.er
of Davenport, la., Fred Mayo of Birm
ingham, Ala., alias Charles Phillips,
hanged himself In a Marquette police'
station cell. j
He died soon after police found
him suspended by his necktie from
the oell bars. They called to take
him before Jack Lacey, alias Wyma.i,
his alleged confederate, arrested to
day. He was rushed to the county hos
pital m hopes of resuscitating him.
but tt was futile, tfe had taken on
himself the capital punishment he
had feared the state of Illinois would
inflict for kidnaping. He emulated
the method used by Verne Sankey,
notorious kldnnper, m Sioux Falls re
cently. .The man he had named last night
as his accomplice in the plot to truss
the Davenport newspaper publisher
and carry him out of the Morrison
hotel In a huge trunk, had been cap
tured only a few moments before
Mayo was found lifeless.
AS
OP
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Feb. 22.
(AP) Horace M. Manning, a coun
sel for the defense for 30 years, to
day waa the defendants in a first
degree murder Indictment. The Klam
ath county grand jury returned a
true bill against the veteran, trial
attorney late yesterday afternoon.
Manning Is charged with the mur
der of his former law partner, Ralph
Horan, a young member of the house
of representatives. Horan was shot
to death in Manning's private offices
on Main street Just ten days ago.
Fourteen witnesses were called into
the grand Jury chambers. Many of
these were believed to be Investigat
ing officers and others were persons
who claimed to have heard four shots
coming from the lawyer's office.
The Jury deliberated nine hours
before It reached a decision.
Judge William M. Duncan, follow
ing a conference wit,1! state attor
neys, set the arraignment for next
Monday morning.
Defense attorneys, reluctant to
make any statements, have only said
they will advance a self defense the
ory. The state hopes to establish
that Manning fired the two shots
from his own gun as well as the
two from the revolver found in Ho
ran's left hand.
If either Vie defense or prosecu
tion has discovered a motive for the
slaying. It has been kept quiet.
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ROSEBURO. Feb. 2J. P) Injured
Farewell of Washington
Crowded Off First Page
lly the Amk laird Prr i tions of the first president, away from
Georce Washington was born 202 ; communism or fascism.
' -vllM1. ,, nlH
rr ,v" ' "
today. He was a general, a atates-
man inJ f!rst president of the United
j;,.;,, Tody is a legal holiday in
fier, pta'e. territory ar.d povemn. one, ana n was iwo asya iair. i.ywu.y.
President Roosevelt intended to Another deiver Into record. In 8e
visit Mount Vernon. Vs.. the Wash-1 tt. found that it was a Kentucky
'nirion home and tomb The senate gentlemen who caused the selection
and house remained In session, but
e5)inRl on their -hedul-
S-retary of War Drn srldrrMfd
t ;,,!?.. b of i.Vr:?t;f- s-vie;., in t
rpp:tiil and said that f?.-viv-:t hao
tiie ccijau; ba.k to inc traai-
Sleds on Wheels
May Be Required
For Dog Racers
ASHTON, Idaho, Feb. 22. (AP
The unusual prospect of racing
their sled teams over snowless
stretches faced 30 or so of the na
tion's best known mushers as they
waited the start here today of the
18th annual American dog derby.
Little snow has fallen this win
ter, one of the mildest In the
memory of old timers, and unless
snow falls generously today the
Bleds will be mounted on wheels
for the race.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. (IP)
Representative Fish (R.. S. Y.).
told the house today that requir
ing the army to fly the airmail
without special training was'
"legalized murder." Fish went on
to say that prlvnte airmail con
trurts hart been cancelled "In a
hlgh-hamlcd, arbitrary, dictatorial
manner."
CLEVELAND, O.. Feb. 22. (Pj Fog,
snow and a low celling played havoc
with the army airmail acnedule In the
mid-west early today, bringing death
to one flier and sending two others
into emergency lanolngs.
Lieut. D. O. Lowry. out of Chicago
for Cleveland, nosed into a woods
near Deshler, O., 80 miles south of
Toledo, and was killed.
An unidentified mall pilot was re
ported forced down In the vicinity of
Goshen. Ind., without serious mis
hap, and the mail was forwarded by
train.
Lieut. C. P. Hollstein, out of Cleve
land for Washington, was forced down
near Unlontown. Pa., in a heavy fog
Hla Diane waa damaged. He suffered
minor injuries. The mall was saved
DENISON, Tex., Feb. 22. UP)
Lieutenant r. F. Patrick, 80, Barks
dale field pilot of Shreveport, La., was
killed when his pursuit plane crashed
Into a plowed field one mile irom
Denison today.
Patrick's motor "cut out" while he
flew at an altitude of about 200 feet.
The plane dipped and nosed Into a
field on the outskirts of the city
Several men and boys working in
a field rushed to the plane and ex
tricated the flier's body from the
wreckage. Ho died shortly after be
inc removed from the plane.
The filer circled Denison, his home
town, three times in an apparent a.
tempt to land safely. The plane did
not burn.
101 ON ICE FLOE
EACE NEW PERIL
MOSCOW. Feb. 3J.(AP) Crumb
ling Ice and a raging gale carried
today a grav threat of death to 101
shipwreck victim marooned on a
drifting Ice floe In Bering 'atralt.
The stranded party Including
eight women and two small children
comprised Professor Otto Schmldfa
i Wrangcl Island scientific expedition.
They took refuge on the Ice wnen
their stamer. the Chelluskln. sank
fhe returning from the Island Feb-
ruary 13.
First real
fears for their safety
were aroused when the government
rescue commission at Moscow
nounced that storms had blocked all
effort to reach them.
PLAN GROCERY PLANT
FOR PORTLAND TRACT
PORTLAND. Feb. 23. (AP) Con
tracts for construction a 2S0.000 3
story grocery warehouse and food
products factory on a lH-acre mater-
front tract immediately south of the
Somebody in pnuaanpma oug up
an old newspaper and louna inai
wn.n Washington announced
! fsrewell as president, patent medicine
j advertisement crowded It off page
of Washington as the name of the
! state. They were going to name the
territory Columbia. The Kentucky
. irmlenmn id he wanted to Me a
-nvrreign mm named after the father
.oj jm countrj.
DAY-LONG RUES,
Albert I Laid to Rest in
Church Crypt Near Lae-
ken Castle Religious, ,
Military Services Impress
By AMIPKT W. WILSON
Associated Pre Foreign Staff
(Copyright, lf34, by tho Associated
Press)
BRUSSELC, Feb. 22. (AP) King
Albert I was buried today In the
crypt of a little gray church near
the royal castle at Laeken.
He waa laid to rest beside the bod
ies of his predecessors, Leopold 1 and
II. after one of the most Impressive
funerals given a national leader in
modern times.
Eight hours of military processions
and religious rites in two churches
were ended at 3 p. m., with the burial
after a brief, private benediction be
fore the royal family.
Tens of thousands of persons took
part In the processions and hundreds
of thousands witnessed the pageant
ry, under overcast skies.
Rain fell slightly for about nan
an hour while services were held In
the Thirteenth Century cathedral of
St. Oudule. The rain stopped again
when the mourners resumed their
march toward Laeken.
One of the most spectacular scenes
of the day was a demonstration by
detachments of the allies and the
Belgian army In front of Laeken
church.
Visiting royalty, princes and diplo
mats witnessed the maneuvers from
a dais. American Legion posts from
Brussels and Paris Joined In the dem
onstration with the other paraders.
The Grand Duchess of Luxem
bourg, a cousin of King Albert, was
the only woman of royalty to witness
this review.
Queen Elizabeth and her daughtor-ln-law,
tho Princess Astrid, who to
morrow will be queen of the Bel
gians, attended the services In St.
Oudule cathedral.
All were so .heavily veiled in black
that It was impossible to distinguish
their features at a distance of 20
feet. '
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IN LOIR HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. (AP)
Dissatisfied with the milk policy of
the fBrm administration, a group of
house members set out today to draft
Its own Ideas of how stability should
be brought about In the dairy In
dustry.
The group, numbering about 100,
after hearing charges last night that
the farm administration was con
trolled by "communists." "theorists,"
and "dreamers." adopted a resolution
condemning the milk program. They
voted:
1. To oppose the milk policy of
fixing producer price, without regard
to local conditions and without re
spect to the cost of production or the
parity price.
2. To seek a change in policy vu
: lnmTe Mcn producer
parity price
for fluid milk; the new policy to dis
courage over-production through
; qw pr(cc fQf Burp,ug mVn. thus pre
venting such surplus milk irom op
pressing the price of butter, cheese
and other dairy products.
(3) To produce a reasonable mini
mum price for the retail sale of milk
In all areas where the producer-distributor
handles a large part of milk
production.
(4) To set up a committee to pre
sent this program to officials of the
farm administration, "and if necea
; t0 the president:" and to set
up a second committee to nrait
amendments to the agricultural ad
justment act.
In an open forum preceding adop
Mcn of the resolution Representative
Eagle (D.. Tex.) charged that "com
munist' held the upper hand In the
farm administration.
TELEPHONE DECLARES
QUARTERLY DIVIDEND
KBW YORK. Feb. 22 '41 Direc
tors of the A.vrfrlcen Telephone and
Telegraph company today declared the
regular quarterly dividend of 12 25
share, payable April 1 f stockhold
ers of record March 15.
payment of the regular dividend
for the first quarter of the year car
ries the company. Into 1014 with an
unbroken record of payments.
PORTLAND, Ore. Feb. 22 (APl
This being a l"?al holiday In the
United States, all grain exchanges
at home were cloned but there was
little activity suggested abroad.
Winnipeg. Buenos Aires and Liver
pool as well as continental exchange
were open, but early tr.w1!ng laliea
i to miKsresi the slift'iUat qhatige In
itcnuaicnt.
Succeeds King
y
Crown Prince Leopold (above)
of Belgium will be crowned King
Leopold 111 when he succeeds to
the throne left vacant by his fath
er's accidental death. (Associated
Press Photo)
EX-POSTAL HEAD
ASSERTS HOOVER
APPROVED DEEDS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. (AP)
Walter F. Brown, former postmaster
general, told senate Investigators he
had always acted within the law
"and with the approval of the presi
dent,' in his airmail contract deal
ings.
Brown made the statement during
questioning by Senator Austin ( R.
Vt.), who seized the reins of t,he
senate committee Inquiry to compare
the 1930 Washington airmail oper-
tors' conference with one purportedly
called during tne present administra
tion by William M. Howes, first as
sistant postmaster general.
Austin read from Howe's testimony
before a house appropriations sub
committee that the pos toff ice de
partment had called a meeting of
mail contract holders to tell them
It would be necessary to work out a
plan for trimming payments under
an appropratlons cut.
Brown previously had testified t'.at .him to all regions of the country.
Andrew W. Mellon, while secretary ! state PWA representatives from Ore
of the treasury, as well as W. L. and ' gon, Washington, Idaho and Mon
ti. K. Mellon, had written him in ,
19.10 In the interest of a contract for
Pittsburgh Aviation Industries, Inc.,
in which tho Pittsburgh family was
Interested.
The committee also delved Into ;
the details of Brown's- stock and ;
grain market dealings while he was ;
postal oMef, using cherk stubs of the'
late Joseph Bngicy, Brown's stock i
market partner, to Miow profits
made by
crash.
Brown before the market
JOSEPH ADMIRERS
PORTLAND. Feb. 22 t', From
the ranks of the scattered force of
the Oeorge W. Joseph' following, t
new political unit Is being formed.
"True Progressives," they call them
selves, and recruited from all corners
of the state, they were called tog.! t her
here today In confidential conference
with the expectation that they could1
agreed on a "really progressive" can- NEW YORK. Feb. 32. (AP) Bubur- 'storm king. He blew down telephone
didate for the governshlp of Or- 'ta New yorkers, who had found the piled now eight and ten feet
Bon . ! high on railroad trscks and roads and
millr mnA th mftrnln niner on their' .
It was expected as many as ioo
delegates to the conference wou'd
meet today. Once each week for se -
eral months meeting have been he:d
here by delegations selected at com-
munity gathering in tT.ls vicinity.
There appeared to be more than a
auspKJon. it was said by those 'n
knowWicrable c!r-a today, that ;he
attention of the "true progressive"
may become centered on Rufus C
Holman. atne treasurer.
flrernn Weal her
Partly rioudv we.t and occasional
nn r mm in et norlion tonight
anrt FMdv: mo-lerate tempr-ature.
treMIe to mAlera'e southeast wind
offhra.
10 MEAT PACKERS
COMBINED TO RULE
IS
Secy. Wallace Files Com
plaint Against Big Cor
porations Unfair Acts
Claimed On Many Counts
WASHINGTON. Feb, 22. ( AP)
Secretary Wallace filed a complaint
against 10 meat packing companies
today, charging they acted In combi
nation to control retail meat prices.
The companies named were:
Armour and company, Swift and
company. Wilson and company, Mor
ris and company, the St. Louis Inde-!
pendent Packing company, Abraham
Brothers Packing company, Cudahy
Packing company, Jacob Dold Pack
ing company, John Morrell and com-
pany and the Memphis Packing cor- j
poratlon. j
The charge was filed by the secre-,
tary under authority of the packers
and stockyards act prohibiting unfair
trade practices, which also gives the
secretary power to institute proceed
ings and compel packers to submit
evidence.
Tho hearing was called to begin j
April 9, at the federal building in 1
Jackson, Miss.
The companies have been allowed
until March 24 to file answers.
The complaint charged that each
of tho ten packers furnished to the
others advance Information on prices
of meat and meat food products. It
also charged they apportioned sales,
and sought to keep out competition.
Tills practice, the complaint stated,
was to enable inese companies k
give unreasonable preference to cer
tain purchasers of meat and meat
products, to give preferences to cer
tain localities, to discriminate un
justly between certain persons, and to
manipulate prices.
Beth Thomas, solicitor for the de
partment of .agriculture, said the ac
tion concerned the activities of the
packers named In southern states,
chiefly In the region south of Mem
phis, Tenn. He added that complaints
of similar practices had been received
from pointa as far north as Pennsyl
vania but that evidence from the
north did not warrant action against
the packers' activities there.
STATE AIDES TOLD
PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 33. (API
Declaring emphatically that "we want
action." Colonel Henry M. Walte,
deputy administrator for PWA. atat-
ed here today
that "unlesa nubile
already approved by
worka projects
the PWA are started Immediately, a Including Baail f ine uwi i o.ng
great many of them are going to 'hart, held as a Touhy gangster and
be rescinded" charged himself with the kidnaping.
Colonel Wslte arrived today from
I Washington, D. C, on a trip taking
tana were here for conferences with
him.
"The purpose of the PWA Is to get
people back to work." he said, "and
there are approximately 7000 appll-
cations on hand. In Washington that
have not been approved. Unless we
can get going on those for whlah
funds have been allotted, we had
better transfer the funds to districts
that csn a'iow some action."
He said that, while the Pacific
rrr.1 "rvhr"ote':e"niv.r:i
the less has been sufficient speed.
NKW YORK, Feb. 33. f AP) Chas.
W. Storm, 40. financial wizard and
editor, died In a tsxlrab yesterday
while on his way to the city from
Yonkera, N. Y. He was believed to
have been the victim of a heart attack.
Blizzard Brings Hardsh ip
To
Coddled
" " r '
j aoorswps ior so long xnvj cunw
ito accept such convenience as an
, .'art oI ood," today were atill digging
j their way out of the "worst bit ward
;Bne 1BB8" with a dard look on
tnr faces.
The flrat shock came Tuesday mor -
nlng when they pushed doors open to
find neither papers nor milk In the
nnw drifts outaide. Bv the time a
wild. windy day had ended they were
atill "taking If but beginning to
like It.
All the conveniences of metropoll
tn life, accepted
matter of
ouw thre manv years, were taken
lawey by the prolonged blast ol the
Blanket of Allah
Awes Dwellers In
Southern Bengazi
BENOAZI. Ctrenaica. Africa. Feb.
22 (AP) Hordes of awe-struck
natives formed caravans from the
lowlands today to see "the blanket
of Allsh,"' which covered the hin
terland of the plateau of South
Bengazi for the first time In the
recollection of the oldest inhabi
tant. It was a snowfall, one-and-one-half
feet deep on the level and
deeply banked on broken, land.
Many of the natives prostrated
themselves in the fleecy drifts, in
subjection to Allah's will.
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REBEL OF
NICARAGUA. SLAIN
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 22. fp)
General Augusto C. Sand! no, 40, fam
ous rebel, was killed with his brother,
Socrates Sandlno, and two friends,
by national guardsmen at midnight,
on the outskirts of Managua, a gov
ernment communique Indicated.
The government statement read:
"The government officially states
that the action of the Guardla Ni-
clonal In killing Sandlno was con
trary to the Instructions of Presi
dent fiacasta to guarantee the lives
of Sandlno and his followers while
they were In Managua.
"The president severely reproves
these acts of some individual guards
men and has ordered an Immediate
Investigation and Is requesting con
gress to give him the necessary fa
cilities to maintain public order.'?
All outgoing messages were cen
sored. Reported slain with Sandlno were
his former generals, Uman2or nd
Estrada.
By the terms of the peace pact
signed by President Sacaaa and Gen
eral Aandino. February, 1933, the ln
ter laid down his arm with the ex
ception of keeping 100 former fol
lowers who were to retain their arms
for one year. With these 100 men he
was engaged in cooperative farming
on the Rio Coco.
Sandlno came to Managua from his
Rio Coco colony last week to termin
ate arrangements 'or the final dis
arming of hla follower.
He was reported to have declared
privately and to have intimated to
the press that the national guard was
unconstitutional and this act appar
ently irritaed members of the Guardla
Naclonal.
TOUHY DEFENSE ISIS
CHICAGO, Feb. 33. (API The de
fense In the trial of Ronor Touhy
and two others for the kidnaping of
I John ractor reawa us cano vuia -
! ternoon after hearing five witnesses,
under cross examination, tmnai.arv
admitted that he was one or tne men
wno anempfcca w tunci;. n "vuu
150,000 In ransom money from Fac
tor. GIANT SHARK STRIKES
TERROR ALONG BEACH
COQUIMBO. Chile, Feb. 23. (API
A giant shark struck terror to
beaches today and was believed to
have devoured a soldier who fell Into
the sea accidentally and disappeared.
Stories were spread that the l
I gentle fish had attacked several boats.
sheep shearers to
ASK 11 CENTS HEAD
PENDLETON, Feb 2X Pi Sheep
shearers and operators or shearing
plants, at a meetln? here last night,
decided to ask II cent a head and
board for sheering in Oregon this
year. They said woolgrowers In
Washington have areed to this scale
City Livers
; nippei wun icy gicc av tun u
fingers,
One little Irishman, as much of
and by New York as At Smith, wrap
ped himself In newspapers, burlap
bags and his wife's fur coat, sallied
fnrth Into hla vard and chonned donn
! a tree for fuel when electricity went
! of f end shut down his "crl bolner."
! He waa Indignant at such a stat
1 of affairs and an attempted explana-
j lion that the one thing man hasn't
been able to lick old Mother Nature
was responsinie ror me iamirv ini
on deaf ears.
Moat auhuroanltes, suddenlv trans-
former into irowirrsmen, iooa it, m
good humor, however.
DEBATE ON SALES
TAX IS HEARD BY
Honors Evenly Divided As
Brockway and Gill Give
Enlightening Discussions
of Proposed Legislation
By IRVA FF.WF.IX.
Jackson county was well repre
sented at the debate in the Madford
armory last evening between State
Grange Master Ray Gill of Portland
and State Representative A. E. Brock
way of Medford, Master OiU received
much applause during his presenta
tion, while Representative Brockway
was applauded on almost every point
presented In his rebuttal.
The debate question, that the sales
tax should be sustained, was pre
sented affirmatively by Representa
tive Brockway, who was Introduced
as "a dirt farmer, and master of the
Jacksonville Grange. ' In his opening
remarks, Brockway said that the ac
cusation had been made by the press
and otherwise, that the legislature
had failed In its trust, and was a
disgrace to the state. He attempted
to show why the legislature passed
the measure.
Exception! Cited.
The sales tax. as psssed by the legis
lature at Its special session, la a 1V4
per cent gross tax on retail receipts
of tangibles and utility service. As
an example, of exceptions, Mr. Brock
way said that should a farmer sell
a horse, or his household furniture,
he would not be assessed under the
sales tax.
Five exemptions made under the
sales tax were named by him as fol
lows: In matters that would be In
conflict with the constitutions of the
United States or the state of Oregon;
on materials used in government
works on contracts signed prior to
the date of the tax; motor vehicle
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T
TO MEET FRIDAY
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 32, (AP) "
State and Portland groups of "Uni
versity of Oregon Mothers" will meet
here Friday night to honor Dr. 0. V.
Boyer, new acting president of the
university.
W. Lair Thompson, preside J of the
"Oregon Dads," will extend g.ee tings
and Dr. Boyer will speak.
Dr. Victor P. Morris, professor of
economics at the university, will dis
cuss "A University In a Changing
World."
Mrs. Arthur M. Dibble, state presi
dent of the Oregon Mothers, will
preside.
BRISBANE ADVOCATES
AN ARMED ISOLATION
ATHENS, Oa., Ieb. 23. P) Arthur
Brisbane, columnist, today advocated
prcparednesa for war and an isolation
policy for the United states, speaking
at a session of the Georgia Press In
stitute.
WILL
ROGER?
NEW YORK, Kcb. 21 After
ri.ving niriiitflit, got in here Bt
3 a. m. riulit in the wildest of
what even California would
call iimiMiiil weather. Plane
itnck in the snow after it land
ed. An army flier came brcer
hip in, in an open cockpit, who
had made the name run from
Cleveland, these being the only
two planes to land in Newark
all day.
So give a big hand to Lieu
tenant Waekwitz of the U. S.
army. Not forgetting (just be
cause lie is used to doing such
tilings after years of service)
Mr. Maurice Mars, pilot of the
t'nited passenger plane I was
on.
It was so eidd yesterday that
or an hour in the morning
they didn't roll the dice on the
New York exchange. When
those erap shooters' hands
can't roll 'em it's cold.
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