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Medford Mail T The Weather .Forecast: Fair but with foe tonight and Saturday. No change In tem perature. Highest yesterday 50 Lowest thli morning..... 33 j natch Ib TKlliUSK's I Loth o( ood bargain, r I ' that mean genuine ffj2& I taring,. . j EF3UNE Twenty-eighth Year J1EDF0RD, OREGON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934. No. 2S6. jBflftffi Bill 1 - M 1 If 1 ""I I N&vs I AlESIA VICTIM BJmnd MAY HAVE SLAIN -wBBkjk UMPQUA FARMER llawv iimn ' ii Hat. HK-ggajj By PAUL MALL ON Copyright, 1934, By Taul Mallon Change WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. To all outward appearances the New Deal still looks the same, but on the In side It la significantly different from what It was three, six or nine months ago. The Inner character has changed. The old group does not .hang around the White House. The Inner circle has been tightened until It seems almost non-existent. Its Influ ence on policies is only now begin ning to be apparent, but it will be more and more obvious before long. Professors The professorial influence la wan ing, for one thing. The brain trust has been virtually dissolved. It la now a collection of one-man bands, each playing a different tune on his own individual piccolo. Professor Tugwell la still In office, but less and less In evidence around the White House. Mr. Roosevelt's main farm consultant appears to be Agriculture Secretary Wallace, w.ho works with but not for Tugwell. Prof. Warren Is prowling around on a stiver price policy, but his new position seems to be that of a confi dential friend to President Roosevelt and Secretary Morgenthau, rather than that of money policy director. - Prof. Moley la busy running a mag azine. He slips down to Washington quietly about once a week, entering the White House through the resi dential door. His name does not get into the newspapers. He is still a leading adviser, but In an indirect sort of way. There arc dozens of college profes sors still running around town, but they are doing odd Jobs. Wires Treasury Secretary Morgenthau is not only the No. 1 adviser but ap pears to be also Nos. 2 and 3. No one else alts on Mr. Roosevelt's knee any more. The right-hand man, Louis Howe, Is taking a rest at his home. He has done no advising recently and prob ably will not for some time. He was a philosopher with a sense of humor who did much to smooth off Vie rough edges around the White House. The way things are working out now backstage, Mr. Roosevelt Is ft rather lonely Judge and Jury for his cosmopolitan crew of workers. They come trooping in to him every few minutes of the day trying to get him to do this or that about the particu lar subject on which they are work ing. They pull wires to get certain other workers to pull wires for them. The wires frequently become entan gled. LI hern Is The situation Is illustrated by the condition of the liberals. As they approach the first anni versary of the New Deal, March 4, they note that they have virtually driven the conseratives off the White House dawn. Gone ts Treasury Sec retary Woodln. Going and nearly gone is George Peek. The only con servative who has been able to evade the liberal lawnmower Is Jesse Jones. While In possession of the field, the liberals are unable to reap the fruits of their victory. They have split mildly into many factions which are not harmonious. That is natural. To be a liberal a man must be an objector. When there are no con servatives to object to, the liberals must object to each other. At any rate, all o them appear to be on the outside looking into the White House, rather than on the Inside looking out. Procures Their main field of activity so far has been the AAA. but they have not been very active lately. Some say It la becaxise congress li In ses sion and the AAA boys want to avoid any new policies until Mr. Roosevelt can get congress off his and their necka. General Johnson has been In and out of the good graces of the White House several times. At present he Is In very, very good. Mr. Roosevelt trusts .him implicitly. As one of his friends said recently: "If Johnson is NOT sincere, he Is the best actor who ever Inhabited the earth." He and Mr. Roosevelt apparently have not decided what they are go inc to do with the NRA. That la why the two blK meetings are to be .held here shortly. They wisely set the "field day for crticlsm" before the assembly of business men, so they will find out how far they dare to go. Johnson has given business men good representation In the NRA and keeps a halter on the few liberals there. It la strictly a Johnson out fit, being neither liberal nor con servative. Apnea ninres All these New Dealers have been working much too hard the past year. From the White House down they are setting Just a little touchy, and Im patient about small thin us. Mr. Roowvelt looks well. At least his smitinc. pleasant mask has not cracked. Yet those who see him in termittently at 60 and M-day periods have noticed that hla tremendous labors of the past year have aeed him. Lock at a photograph of him at the inauguration and compare It with hts latest; ynu will see the dif ference. (Continued pa Page fwo) Hammer Murder of Williams, n . i ; iri ii j : ' oeiieveu aoiveu dv Aumis sion of Neighbor That Mind Blank at Times ROSEBURG, Ore., Feb. 23. (AP) A weird theory of homicidal mania which may contain the solution to the apparently motiveless hammer murder, February 7, of David M. Wil liams, elderly Rice Valley farmer. Is under investigation here today, while Rollin Johnson, 36, neighbor and con fidant of the slain man, is held In custody. Upon his own suggestion, officers report, Johnson Is being held for observation of his mental condition, after questioning has developed an apparent case of lapses of conscious mental .control, during which, ac cording to Johnson 'a own statements, as reported by District Attorney Guy Cordon, he may have committed two homicides. - Fat her-In -Law Slain Similarity of the murder of John son's father-in-law, F. J. Zimmerman, at San Jacinto, Cal June 30, 1931, with that of the slaying of Williams, led the Investigators, the district at torney reports, into a close examina tion of Johnson's personal history In this examination, he states, 'It has been revealed that Johnson is reported to have suffered at Inter vals from periods of amnesia, during which he is reputed to .have shown destructive tendencies. Johnson, according to the district attorney, disclaims all knowledge of the murder of Williams or Zimmer man, yet today signed a statement that he Is of the opinion that he killed both of them in spells of am nesia, as following each slaying he .has been subjected to an unreason able. Intense fear and a highly ner vous condition. Because he fears an other break In mental control, he has requested the officers, it la stat ed, to keep him In custody and under observation until his mental condition Is determined. Tried to Assault OTflcer Taken yesterday evening by state police and county officers who have been investigating the murder of Williams to the scene of the Rice Valley slaying, a spot regarding which Johnson claimed he had a mortal fear, he suddenly made a violent assault upon A) Lumsdon, a state police Investigator, but was quickly subdued. Williams waa killed February 7. hla skull having apparently been crushed with a hammer or other such Instru ment In a surprise attack. Hla body was found the following morning by a searching party. "Because the murder of Williams was without apparent adequate mot ive, officers began an investigation on the theory that the slaying was the work of a maniac." District At torney Cordon said this morning in a dictated statement. "In this con nection residents of the community were subjected to an Inquiry Involv ing intimate personal history. This inquiry revealed that Johnson has a strain of Insanity In has family, a grandmother having died in a Neb rsska hospital, where a brother la now confined, and that he had been subject to periods of amnesia. Cae Studied "Information that his father-in-law had been killed under circum stances very similar to those of the Wtlllams murder, caused us to se cure a transcript of the Investigation of that tragedy. Johnson having been severely questioned but having been released. (Continued on Page Eleven) STATE RESUMES WYNKOOP TRIAL CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING, CHICAOO. Feb. 23 . The atate today resumed the trial of Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop with an attempt to prove a conflict in the storlea told by the 63-year-old defendant on the night that the body of her daughter-in-law. Rheta Gardner Wynekoop, w discovered on an operating table in the Wynkoop mansion. Mrs. Wynekoop, whose illness brouuht a mistrial Isst month, de clared that the Washington birthday recess had refreshed her to an ex tent, but that she still "felt weak as s cat.' LOAN BILL SIGNED WASHINGTON. Feb 23 - --Presl- dent Rooeveit today s.zned the Ml - 000 000 crip product. ju ;o,ui bill, with j tn declaration that it should be tnr iasl Qt hu k.a. Five Army Airmen Death Toll CWA WORKERS AIR 1 u Bwwwnd l01? S till saw o I twu Mif i f-i jr epm! -4r":' i lSML-. 'ifsst j Using banners to proclaim their views, CWA workers In New York demonstrated at Union Square on the eve of the government's an nouncement to curtail certain fiWA. activities. ( Anscclated Prssa Photo) S VAST TOTAL INTO BOOM DAYS MART WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. fl) Sta tistics showing that a group of large corporations poured more than $20.-1 000.000,000 Into the speculative boom market of 1929 were made public to day by the senate stock market In vestigating committee. The committee gave out the re sults of a survey showing that the selected group of corporations had almost a billion dollars In the mar ket at one time near the peak of the boom in the fall of that frenzied speculative year. The twenty billion figure was a cumulative total of all moneys ad vanced, with the amounts In at any time varying greatly. The largest total during the period was 17,672,520.00O for the Standard Oil company of New Jersey. Thla apparently had a rapid turn over of loans, however, because 1 blpgest single day's advance was 97, 824.000, less than some of the others. On the other side of the Capitol, the constitutionality of the Fletchcr Rayburn bill for regulating stock ex changes was challenged by Thomas B. Gay, counsel for the New York Stock Exchange. Gay contended that however neces sary the control of the so-called 'abuses and conduct" of stock ex changes, congress was without con stitutional power to do It because transactions were of an lntra-statei and not interstate character and hence ahould be controlled by the states. 8 FEET OF SNOW ON M'KENZIE HIGHWAY BEND. Ore . Feb. 23. WV-A mow field 10 miles wide and eight feet deep in places, and crusted with ice three inches thick, still blankets the McKenrle divide, and the opening of the MKenMe highway to traffic would be no easy task. K. D. Lytle. division highway engineer, said here today. Hla report was made following careful survey of anow conditions in the pass country by George Sothman. maintenance engineer, and Kenneth Lathlm. S. QUE! RENO. Nev., rVb. 23. API Mrs. Thalia Portesrue Maaaie obtained a divorce from Llut. ihos. H. Massle at a brlf private trial before District Judge Benjamin F. Curler here to day. Her complaint chsrped "extreme cruelty, enttrely mental In charac ter." and alkcHl that "ssid crudity destroyed the purpose of the mar rtsce and injured and Impaired" her gcueral health. THEIR DEMANDS LOSE BRAVADO AS CHICAGO, Feb. 23 fT) Gone was the bravado of the so-cslled "Ter rible Touhys" as tley heard s verdict of guilty and penalty of 99 yeara. Roger Touhy. known as the leader of the gang which once defied Al Ca pone, choked and clamped his hand kerchief to his mouth. Albert Kator and Gtia Schaefer paled, but accepted their fate In calmer manner. The curly-haired Touhy was assist ed to hla feet, and the procession started back to their cella. At the county jail, reporters closed In on the trio, but they refused to say anything. Touhy threw himself down on h!s cot and groaned. Kator and Schaefer anarled feebly at reportera. Later, the three seemed to accept their fate as the welcome alternative to death. "They might as well have made It 100 as 99 years," said Kator, in better humor. In less than an hour, they" were reported sleeping soundly. The Jury had decided on the guilt of the trio In less than four hours, it was reported, the remainder of the time occupied in agreeing on a pen alty. Six Jurors wished to send them to the electric chair. The 99-year sentence was a compromise. Factor, who with his wife. Rella, and son' Jerome, also a kidnaping victim, was present In the courtroom, expressed his gratification at the ver dict. "This result la what a kidnaping victim may expect when he cooperates fully with the authorities," he aa:d. "If every person kidnaped Joined fu'.ly with the police as I have done In bringing the criminals to Juatl-re, there would be no kidnaping menace today." WASHINGTON. Feb 23 VpPreAl cnt Roocevelta approval of legisla tion for regulation of public grazing land was transmitted to the house public lands committee today by Sec retary Ickes. Testifyine for the bill by Repre sentative Taylor f D . Colo.), to let up s gracing administration under the Interior department with fees to be collected for grazing permits, the interior secretary read a letter from the President saying he favored a "principle or this hill" and suthor'. ing hfm for Secretary Wallace to say so to the committee. BALTIMORE. Feb. 23. ( AP The Rv. Peter Alnslle. Internationally known for hit work In the interest of church unity and world friendship through the churches. d;d early to day In s tionplt r1 here following two operation since January 7, He was C6 years old. GRAZING BILL HAS ROOSEVELT'S OKEH LEOPOLD TAKES FATHER'S PLACE Former Crown Prince Ac claimed by Great Array of Foreign Representatives Ceremony in Chamber By AI.HI'.HT W. WILSON Associated Press Foreign Staff BRUSSELS, Feb. 23. (AP) A new king of the Belgians, Leopold III, was enthroned today when the for mer crown prince took the oath to defend the constitution before both houses of parliament. He officially became king, succeed ing his father, the late Albert I, at the conclusion of the reciting of the oath at 11 o'clock this morning. The 32-year-old monarch spoke the brief oath In French and repeated It In Flemish before the legislators and assembled dignitaries. Acclaimed In Parade A splendid array of foreign repre sentatives and diplomats In the lav ishly decorated chamber of deputies cheered the new ruler with the same enthusiasm as did thousands of peo ple who watched htm on his ride to parliament from the royal castle at suburban Laeken. j Thousands of Belgians enthualstl cally shouting "Vive le Rol" and, I waving flags and handkerchiefs, hail ed Leopold III on his triumphant ride. Some sections along the brilliant route showed less enthusiasm than others, but there was no organized counter manifestations. Scattered antl - royalist elements among the crowds which pressed In is solid, cheering,' pushing throng along the streets, were drowned out in the roar of acclaim. City Is tiny For the most part,. Brussels was In a merry mood. Leopold, himself, was serious and even grim as he saluted his subjects. Dressed for the first time in the full regalia of a lieutenant general, and wearing white gloves, he rode a brown horse, as did the entire gal lant company. (Continued on Page Five) AFTER LONG TALK WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. (UP) Rep. Joseph L. Hooper (R., Mich.) dropped dead of a heart attack late yesterday in his office in the houao office building. He had Just return ed from the floor of the house, where he made a long speech on the airmail contract situation. Hooper was S7. His home was in Battle Creek. Mich. Friends said he was In perfect health when he left the floor of the house and returned to his office. He dismissed his clerlca' staff soon there after. Later, house attache visited Hoop er's office to collect mall, and found the Mlchlgsn congressman dead on the floor. The position of his body Indicated that he had attempted to reach an office couch after the heart seizure. WIFE OF VALLEE LOSES SKIRMISH NBW YORK, Feb 23-Wyp, Rudy Vallee, orchestra leader, today was granted a temporsry Injunction, re straining his wife. Fay Webb Vallee, from auing him in California or any. where else than New York for di vorce and maintenance. Supreme Court Justice Barnard L. Shlentag, who granted the injunction. said In hts decision that Mrs. Vallee s California action was an obvious at tempt to harass hor husband. In the California action filed tn Los Angeles, "Mrs. Vallee sought 7,- 4S0 a month maintenance, as well n sliowanoea for counsel fees and court cost In a suit previously filed h.' she asked that a separation agre ment, under which Vallee paid her 100 a week, be set aside and that the orchestra leader be reatrai ned from attempting to dlvorre her in any state except New York. TULE LAKE DISTRICT SEEKS $45,000 LOAN BAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Feb. 22 ( AP B. F. Hayden and Mayor F. B. MacMurphy of Tula Lake, near Klam atfi Falls. Ore., today appeared be fore the regional advisory board of the public works administration In behalf of a M.V0OO loan to the Tule I Lake Irrigation project. OF E Stormy Petrel of Yamhill Politics Will Seek Nomi nation On Anti-Sales Tax and Anti-Meier Platform PORTLAND, Feb. 23. (P) Upon the squared ahoulders of Senator W. E. Burke of Yamhill county has bevn draped the mantle of "Progressive Republicanism" in Oregon. Burke, stormy petrel of Yamhill and present antagonist of Governor Meier, whom he once supported whole-heartedly, was last night nom inated by the so-called "Progressive Republican" party as its guberna torial candidate for the May 18 pri mary election. Through Burke the newly-organlzed group will make a bid for the sup port or the now scattered forces that four years ago rallied with whole hearted enthusiasm to the standard of the late Senator George W. Joseph. Opposes Sales Tav. On a platform of public hydro electric power development, and op position to the state salea tax, the progressives will seek to put Burke In the governor's chair. Senator Sam Brown, Gervala farm er and announced candidate for the Republics nnomlnatlon, was second choice of the Republican Progres sives. Third place went to Rufna Holman, state treasurer, whose ent rance into the race ror the governor ship remains doubtful. Both Brown and Holman attended .last nlght'a meeting. aenator Burke declared after fie meeting that he was "happy" to an nounce hla candidacy, although, he said, he had not harbored gubernatorial- Intentiona until the endorse ment was lent. For Kconomy. "Too much money Is being squan dered In public places," he declared "All this comes out of the pockets of the people. I would stand fir economy In all lines. If elected I shall try to carry out the principles for which I stood dur ing my four sessions at the legisla ture. I will always be opposed to a salea tax of any kind and will do my best to have all the people of the state of Oregon enjoy the full benefit or the power developed at Bonneville." The Burke-Progresalve Republican campaign will be molded In a def inite antl -ad ministration cast, should Governor Meier seek re-election. From last nights developments It waa as sured the new party will not find Itself lacking In Meier critics. Holmsn, who had previously staled that in urging formation of the pro gresslve. he was "not looking in the mirror." may decide to run for con gress from the third district, If cur rent reports may be given credence, General Charles H. Martin is leaving his waahlngton congressional post to seek the Democratic nomination an governor, and it la aald in some cir cles Holman la looking fondly toward this opening. 26 AGE PENSIONS GET COURT'S OKEH The county court, acting as an oil age pension commission, has mailed certlllcatea to 26 applicants, and filed with the county clerk notice of ap proval. They are the first of the old age pensions to be awarded, and a majority or the applicants are over 80 years of age. Included in the first lot of pension applications considered were a num ber of rejections, pr'nclpally because the applicant had not resided In the state lfi years, or not being 70 yera of age, and because they had Incomrs or kin willing to provide for their needs. LAD SHOOTS FATHER WENATCHEE. Wash,, Feb. 23 (UPl Lawrence Heller, 18, who shot hla father In the back with a .22 caliber rifle when he feared his mother would be harmed, will not be prosecuted, authorities said here today. The lad aald hts father waa drunk when he returned home late yester day and threatened to harm Mrs. Heller. The lad aald he ahot his father when he followed his mother Into a barn, where she was busy with I chores. ' The eider Heller was not seriously Injured. in Mail d Amazon Bandits Hold Up Autoist And Land In Jail RBNO, Nev., Feb. 23. (UP) A trio of husky young girls from Sherman, Tcx were arrested, he.e today on a charge of holding up Troy Bruton of San Jose, Oal., on the highway near Altamont Pass last night, beating him and steal ing his automobile The girls, dressed in men's cloth ing, said they were waitresses on a hltch-hlklng tour. They gave their names as Jane Furlong. 21; Cathellne Underwood, and Cather ine Hudson. 20. Bruton said the "Amazon" ban dits halted him with a pistol, struck him with a crank, robbed him and drove away laughing up roarlouily. His automobile wss recovered here. T FARLEY UP WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (API- Walter F. Brown, former postmaster general, Indicated to senate air mall investigators today that Postmaster General Farley had made a "personal remark" about Chairman Black. Brown refused to repeat It. The remark. Brown snld, was made when he visited Farley's office to re turn two packnges or orflclal corres pondence which he snld he had found among his personal effects. Brown quoted Farley as saying: "I haven't any sympathy with political investigations." "Then,'' continued Brown, 'he made a remark of a personal nature that I don't feel at liberty to repeat." "Repeat It," Black urged. "He asked me not to," was the re ply. "The committee asks that it be re peated," Senator McCarran Insisted. Brown still held he would not do so without Farley's consent. Farley was sent for but found to be out of town. CLANG OF SHOVEL SAD REMINDER OF They haven't "been working on the railroad all the live long day," but 34 Medford high school girls and boys are going to feel much as if they had when time to "hit the hay" arrlvea tonight. Their audden descenslon from the white collar class Into the pick and shovel gang this morning has put that kind of an ache In their bones and the holi day they took yesterday is going to j be needed tomorrow for recuperation of physical resources, For the Inspiration which led them I to celebrate George Washington's . birthday, In spite of the fact that j the Oregon legislature decltled they shouldn't, wasn't Interpreted aa "pa triotism" today by school officials. That Is why the shovel, once a novel Instrument to many of the young Intelligentzia, will be a famil iar tool tonight and the Intricacies of the pick unknown no more. Win dow washing, once the fine art of feminine hands, returned to that standard, too, today ns the members of the fairer sex, who Joined the walkout yesterdny, took up the scrub brush. The 34 students, boys predominat ing two to one, were sentenced to eight hours of msnual labor within the school building and on the school grounds this morning. The preparation of the grounds for planting of lswn and installation of sidewalks, started by CWA work-! era, offered pi,niid owning for the crew. Trenches were being dug, dirt transferred as well as removed, and hands which failed to take up j the shovel and the hoe, were guld-1 Ing wheelbarrows about the Job this1 afternoon. Hands, which were eager this morn ing, when the work bore the sppear ances of a lark, were being taped for blisters at noon but the work went on, ' For, Principal C. O. Smith ex plained, "they cut knowingly." Just preceding their disappearance from the school halls, he had at public assembly explained that Washing ton's birthday was no longer a holi day. He had also made it plain to students that "the legislature, not local school officials, had brought about the change." Considering that there are 650 stu dents In high school, the number who observed "Honest George's" birthday was small, which fact, how ever, failed to Influence the weight of ths penalty inflicted. ervice ARE CRACKED UP IN COSTLY PLAN 'Legalized Murder' Charge by Solon Starts House Move to Put Pouches Eack in Private Planes (lly the Associated Press) The army counted five dead, three Injured, and nearly a dozen cracked planes today as the toll of Its ex cursion Into the nation's air mall lanes. All the dead were either flying the mail or had been assigned to that task when they plummeted out of the sky. The latest in the series of mishaps caino In the midst of a blizzard near Fremont, Ohio, Just before dawn to day. Pilot Norman Burnett became )oht and balled out, suffering a frac tured leg. Reluctant to speak until Investiga tions had been completed, army men tentatively laid some of the mishaps to equipment failures. l.egiillr.cri Murder After Represent ntlve Hamilton Fish of New York had called the govern ment's assignment of service men to air mall duty a form of "legalised murder," a program brewed in Waah lngton house circles today to put the air mall pouches back Into private hands. The administration was silent, be yond Postmaster General Farley's statement of last night that cancel lation of commercial air mall con tracts was a move that would elim inate "abuw- which grew out of un fair and stilling competition." Mflinps Listed Here Is a terse summary of serious mishaps that have occurred since the army got Its assignment: Weber Canyon, Utah Lleuts. Jean D. Orcnier, Fort Crockett, Texas, and Edwin D. White, March Field, Calif., crashed In a blinding snow storm February 16. en route to air mall duty. Both were killed. Jerome, Idaho Lieut, James Y. Eastman, March Field, Calif., crashed In flames during a practice flight February 16 preparatory to carrying the mall. He waa killed. Dcshlcr, Ohio Lieut. Durward O. Lowry, Selfrldge Field. Mich., tried to ball out whilo carrying the mall from Chicago to Cleveland, February 22. His chute caught and he was pulled to his death, , Dcnlson, Texas Lieut. Fred I. Pat rick, assigned to air mall duty at Barksdale Field, Shreveport, La., nos ed Into a field when his motor cut out, and was killed, February 22. Criafield, Md. Lieut.. Harold Deltr, suffered serious head Injuries aa his plane dropped In a field February 22 near Marlon Station, Md. He was car rying the mall from Newark, N. J to Richmond, Va. WILL ROGER? f$ays: WASHINGTON', Feb. 22. Flew in horc to see what the boys who live 'by the aid of the ballot box were (Joins. Busy ns. usual, passing appropriation bills liltn hot biscuits at a coun try farm house. Saw tbo senate voto full pay back to (.'overnment employes, so the oh! government is not so touch to work for at that. Many another fe'low would like to be able to get what he used to. Went into the airmail invost- I inHtion. Mr. Black had been asking Mr. Drown questions ince early Monday morning. That's about the longest any man has ever had to think up answers, but t bey was both doing it so friendly and nice you would think they room to qelher. Snowed here, but you can't see the (,'iound for the lobby ists. Nisht-timo is when you find out the news, so 1 will know more by tomorrow. Vours,
