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Medford Merchants Will Hold City - Wide Dollar Sale Tomorrow The Weather Forecast: Iluln tonight and Satur day; cooler tonight. Temperature: Hignest yesterday , , , t Lowest this morning w 4 AIL TRI.f ;UNE M Watch tha TKIIIUNKS I hJB A 1 CLASSIFIED AOS . . CJr Lots of good bargain, that mean genuine tarings. mjmim EBFORB Twenty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1931. No. 292. g(Q)SEWEILT MSB MIFF- WfflEB By PAUL MALLON. (Copyright, 1034, by Paul Msllon) WASHINGTON, D. C, March 2 Mr. Roosevelt Is developing Into No. 1 trial balloonist. Such adroitness as he has shown recently In political aviation has been missing from the White House since Teddy left It. Teddy devised the method of putting up unofficial bal loons to find out which way the pub lie wind was blowing. He did It so T shrewdly no one could connect him with It. When he found out how the public felt, he then decided of ficially what to do. That Is exactly what Mr. Roosevelt d:d on the communications issue. The president sent to congress some weeks ago a report from his communications Investigating com mission. It offered three courses of proce dure in connection with radio, tele phone and telegraph systems: (a) No change; (b.. stronger government regulation, and (c) government own ership. He made no official comment, but unofficially passed around the word that he favored the second course, stronger government regulation. He let that idea blow around In the' winds of public opinion for several ; weeks. Strong opposition developed.! All the widows and orphans who own A. T. & T. stock wrote protesting let ters to their congressmen. It became evident that Mr. Roosevelt would not be able to put his communications Idea over at this session of congress. So he changed his Idea. He sent an official message to congress recom mending simple legislation consoll-.J dating existing communications con trol. It looks as if he backed down com pletely, but he did not. If he can get congress to set up the new com mission now, he will recommend next year that powers for federal regula tion be amplified along the line he desires. He will get what he can now without a fight and wait for the rest. Such tactics may not fit In with the popular Inclination to glorify White House Idols, but are essential to strategic success the way govern ment Is conducted in Washington. The trouble with that line of strategy Is that it keeps presidential followers up in the air and makes some newspaper predictions look sour. For Instance, Representative Ray burn had a strong communications control bill drawn along the line the president was originally thinking. He had to tear' it up and write a new one when the official program was submitted. r A magazine writer came to town recently to dig up material for an article on General Johnson. He asked a newsman to take him around to see Johnson. He did not want an ordi nary interview. Ho wanted to sec Johnson at his best and asked the newsman how to go about It. They cooked up a scheme whereby the msgazine writer would tell John son that the NRA washooey. that it was not working, etc., and sec how he reacted. The magazine writer was delimited with the idea. He lit into the NRA, expecting Johnson to hear him through. The general Interrupted after the , second sentence with a terrific explo slon. "Neandprthalers." "rodents" and "dead cats" burst from his Hps faster; than the magazine writer could take them down. He shook his finger In the writer's face, saying "You babies I" i time and again. It was probably the best Interview Johnson ever gave. Another yarn about Johnson Is the one concerning the NRA railroad letter. Railway executives received let ter from the NRA signed by Johnson, stating they should rome under code. It has always been the Inten tion of the administration to handle the roads separately outside the code ystm, so the executive wer alarmed. Newsmen were tipped about the let ter and went to Johnson. He sharply denied he had written it and went Nesndrrthaltne again. The explanation offered on the In side Is that some underling wrote the letter and signed Johnson's name. The administration has no Inten tion of taking the railroads under a code. Certain of Professor Tu swell's ene mies ' have ben whimpering around that he Is on his way back to private life, because Mr. Roosevelt Is sending him to Porto Rico on the farm prob lem. The tru'h seems to be that Profes sor Tugwell promoted the trip as a little winter vacation. He tok a similar summer vacation last year, f traveling through the national parks. If he Is in disfavor with the White House, then sre no indication of It. tCoauuuea PaAa ieu .s. IS Issue Expected to Rouse Congress Opposition Philippine independence Is, Also Objective President! WASHINGTON, Marcn 2. (AP) President Roosevelt asked congress today to authorize him to bargain i with foreign nations on tariff con cessions and to re-enact the Philip pine Independence bill. In two pointed messages read to the house he thrust forward Issues already certain of rousing opposition and possibly threatening prolongation of the session past the time wanted by the Democratic leadership. t Senate Reaction Walts Senate reaction had to wait, that ! branch being In recess so it could not today receive the presidential re- : quest for power "to enter into execu tive commercial agreements with for eign nations; and in pursuance there of within carefully guarded limits to modify existing duties and Import re strictions In such a way as will bene fit American agriculture and indus try." He mentioned no limit for the tariff concessions, but the adminis tration will put it at 50 per cent of the existing levels. On the Philippine bill, the presi dent asked that the Hawes-Cuttlng law which recently expired be re vived for consideration by the Fili pino people. He would have it amend ed, however, to assure Immediate re linquishment of American military bases upon the realization of inde pendence and to provide for discus sions about how the naval bases should be treated. Friendship Will Live "After the attainment of actual In dependence by the Filipinos," wrote Mr. Roosevelt, "friendship and trust will live." Preparation of these presidential messages coincided with plans to In itiate legislation against the practice before government departments of law7ers who have political poets. Argument over granting executive power to shift tariffs, in the attempt to quicken International trade, had to wait Its day In the house, still dragging along there was debate on the agriculture supply bill. Both branches pursued their study of the stock exchange control bill, Philadelphia Investment dealers pro testing the proposed ban against brokers dealing In securities In their own interests. CH'A Curtailing Continues Curtailment of the CWA enroll ments proceeded apace, some states wanting to get on the new relief plan even more quickly than had been Intended. By the end of the month, It was said, the CWA forces will be down to 1,505,000. Criticisms of NRA continued to ac cumulate as the public hearings were wound tip preparatory to the meet ing of code authorities Monday, which will be addressed by the presi dent. , The "Marine Workers Industrial Union," through H. Jones, complained that the legislation was being pre pared to strengthen the national la bor board In "an effort to break the only weapon the laboring class ever had, the strike." TAKEN BY DEATH Lillian Greaser, aged 54, passed away in a local hospital this morn ing. She was born at Oarland. Kan sas, and had been a resident of Jack eon county for the last 20 yean. She leaves her husband. Prank A Oreaser of near Medford and one son, Benjamin, also of Medford Also one sister, Mrs. Ocean Bhermaj. Funeral services will be conducted at the Conger chapel by Rev. W. R. Bslrd at 2 30 Saturday. Interment in Mountain View cemetery at Ash land. 26 OLD AGE PENSION County warrants for 29 old age pensions for the month of February have been prepared by the county clerk's office and will be malted within the week. It Is the first old see pension payment. The county court, as an old age pension commission. Is considering other application grants. A num ber of applications have been re jected for the reason the applicant! have incomes sufficient for their re or kin hs icifled a willing neu to care lot theio. PRINTING OFFICE Charges have been filed with the California civil service commllon asserting women employes of the stale printing office had to kiss their superiors In order to hold their Jobs. The charges have brought a de mand for the resignation of James F. Lynn (top), ropy editor, while Al Crossan (loner left) wns accused as on of the kissers. Mrs. Minnie Haley (lower right) was one of the women to file charges. The men declared their oscillatory exercises were "brotherly" kisses. (Associated Press Photo). E DIE FRO! POISON FUNGUS SAN LUIS OBISPO. Cal.. March 2. 7Pj The fungus feast of death t Arroyo Grande Monday had taken the lives of 15 of the 24 men who par took of the repast of rejoicing. The fifteenth death was that this morning of Roco Onlesla. 31. The victims, 22 Pillpinoa and their two white employers, became ill Tu as day after a feast, which was inspired by the sudden appearance of an enor mous amount of fungi following heavy rains of the week-end in the Arroyo Or and e valley, known to agri culturists as one of the richest in soli qualities In the world. Six of the Filipinos died Wednes day, elaht more succumbed Thurs day, and one today. The two white men, Walter and Jack Huber, may survive. Autopsies performed on the dead disclosed that all had died from the poisoning locked In toadstool, Coroner L. 6. Richardson said. Vamping Venus Of Films Gets Rapid Divorce LOS ANGELES. Cat., March 2 (AP) The blonde vamping Venus of the stiver screen, Thelma Todd, was divorced today from Pasquale De Cicco, theatrical aecnt. . Two weeks aco today she pack ed up and left their apartment. One week ago today she filed suit for divorce. Today the decree was awarded by the superior court. Miss Todd, little Massachusetts schoolmarm who won a beauty con test not so many years ago. leaped Into the film spotlicht In the "Vamping Venus," "Broad minded." and other cinema roles of which domestic trouble was a moilv ST. HELENS. Ore. March 2 (AP) Richard A. Peterson. 44. of Port land, was held here for questioning today following the death yesterday 'e moon of John Tanler. M. of Scsp -. v o -;; k aivl fatally in- OR "POSTOFFICE"? TROL 1ST DRL MONTE, Cal., March 2. (AP) A control plan which ltd sponsors .hope will protect the prices and out put of the MO.000,000 apricot and pear crops on the Pacific coast was being discussed here today by can nery executives attending their an nual prc-operatlon conference. As a result of action expected to be taken by the executives, the first control plan for the two crops may be launched this year. Should '-ho plan go through, it was pointed out, it will mean substantial profits to growers throughout the coast who for many years have been raising the crops at great losses. The problem faced by California growers was presented to the can nery executives today by Bryre Mace and L. D. Mallory, representing the agricultural adjustment administra tion. Both officials favored the control plan on the two crops as a neces sary step to aid farmers In the state. The control plan would prevent an i over-surplus in crops through a lim ited planting tonnage. It would also result In establishing a fair price that would give farmers and canncra I a reasonable profit. 1 It was alftO indicated at the meet 1 ing that cannery executives will favor i continuation of the pcarh control plan which was said to have oper ated on a successful basis last year. WWlSTOlEET COMMUNITY LEVELS 1 PORTLAND. Ore, March 2 (AP) State CWA hesfJuuftrters anuounred today that, effective at onee, wanes paid employes on alt CWA work will - ne the prevailing rat of wage paid in each community for the kind of work performed. In no ra, how ever, will be be in excew of 30 rents 1 an ."lour. 1 On all Multnomah county CWA o-k. common Isb'K has received 50 mr- an hour ih m rt iaiKr I row ' 76 Will to 91 JO n hoar. RASPUTIN LIBEL British Parliament Member Invited to Join ' Murder Party Is Testimony De fense Winds Up Its Case By Bl'KUKTTE T, JOHNS Associated Press Foreign Staff LONDON, March 2. (AP) The de fense wound up Its case In the "Ras- putln libel suit' today In a blar of new sensations Including the rcveta : tlon for the first time by a member ; of the British parliament that he had iibeen Invited to Join the party which poisoned, clubbed and shot to death Rasputin, the Russian Imperial court's "mad monk." i It remained for commander OU 'ver Locker-1 jimpson to supply thedra Imatlc climax to the day's testimony I In the s2.000.000 libel suit of Princess ! Irena Youssoupoff against producers of the film "Rasputin and the Em press." The testimony already presented gave Intimate details of the gruesome murder whlcji took place In the cellar of the St. Petersburg palace. Invited Join Murder Party. Locker-La mpson, a member of par liament for 25 years, and distin guished for his services during the war said he hadbeen asked to Join the "murder party' and had taken part In an unsuccessful scheme to save the Russian royal family from a violent end during the days of the red revolution. Sensation followed sensation after Locker-La mpson mounted the witness stand, giving hia testimony as Sir William Jowltt, defense attorney, said (Continued on Page Three) CLOTH NEEDED AT WELFARE DEPOT The Welfare Exchange Is still In need of many things to supply the demands of the county, it was an nounced today by Mrs. A. L. Arm strong, who asked that cotton or woolen cloth, or any scraps suitable for quilt blocks, wherever found In excess of the family's needs be brought to the Exchange in the city hall. Anyone who ha clothing of any sort or quilt pieces to give. Is also asked to telephone Mrs. Arm strong if unable to deliver them. Her number Is 164S-W. and she will re ceive calls around 6 o'clock each day. Whenever notified of articles avail able, she will send someone to gather them up. The Exchange is still open Wednes day and Saturday of each week and the workers are prepared to do plain sewing for anyone who wishes to bring It there. The committee la nnxtous to get work for the many deserving and capable women. CRATERS TO FETE Welcoming a caravan of Eureka resident, scheduled to arrive tomor row afternoon, a special meeting of the Craters club was called today by Big Eruption Johnny Reed for tomorrow evening at the Hotel Med ford. The Eurekans will Include a j picked team of golfers who will play I a Medford team on the Rogue Val , ley links Sunday. The Crater eruption will Include some special entertainment for the visitors, who will nlfo be told more about Oregon's Diamond Jubilee cel ebration In Medford next June. J LESS THAN JAILS. IS HINT CORVALLta. March 3 (API Edu cation la facing Its third national crisis In which It is moat Important that people reallre that It Is cheaper to keep the youth of the land in schools than In penal Institutions. Mra. Radle Orr Dunbar of Portland told more than 200 homemakera at the annual banquet of the Home In terest Conference of Oregon fltate college last night. Mrs. Dunbar, executive secretary of the Oregon Tuberculosis association, quoted figures on the number of ri-ved shoots in the country and the f nrrr.),indlng influx of youth to nfiAOUs ifld, lUuUar UUtUUoO. PARANOIA PLAIN IN MISS KEITH'S LIFEJSjLAIM Attorney for Kin Contesting Will of Rich Spinster, Says Woman Wholly Incompe tent Case Near End LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 2. (AP) Charging that Miss Margaret Keith was so completely Insane as to be wholly Incompetent, Attorney Baldwin Robertson today appealed to the Jury weighing the evidence In the contest over the will of the wo- 1 man to return a verdict Invalidating the will. Miss Keith, wealthy spinster, ended j her life in her Beverly Hills mansion last April after leaving her estate to a nephew, Albert Allen. Jr., Med ford. Ore., rancher. A sister of Miss Keith, Mra. Etta Keith Eskrldge, of Los Angeles; a brother, David Keith, of Salt Lake City, and a niece, Mrs Mary Allen Towle, of Los Angeles, filed suit to break the will. Attorney Robertson. In his srgu ment to the Jury, held that every act relating to Miss Keith's mode of living and doing business reflected paranoia. After four months' trial, lawyers' arguments started yesterday and the case was expected to be in the hands of the Jury late today. "No normal person," said contest ants' attorney, Baldwin Robertson, "would carry out all of her contacts with the outside world with letters and notes dozens of them in a sin gle day or would have built a mag nificent home In Palos Verdes, as she did, without once seeing it before It was completed." As counsel for two of the princi pal contestants, Mrs. Etta Keith Esk ridge and David Keith, sister and brother of the eccentric spinster, Rob ertson also attacked the credibility of witnesses for the other side. He said testimony of other witnesses had not aupported that of Roland Rich Wooley that Miss Keith had a acar on her chin which caused her to se clude herself from the public gnre for years before she killed in her for years before she killed herself In .her Beverly Hills mansion last April. B LEAGUE TEAMS PLAY FOR TITLE Two (tamea. achfdiiled to determine the beat of two of Jackson county'a leading basketball teams. Central Point and Sams Valley will be played tonight and tomorrow. The teams will meet at Sams Val ley tonight at 7:30 o'clock and to morrow night at Central Point. The Central Point team which has won 15 straight games. Is leading In t.he western division of the Jackson county B league and 8ama Valley In the northern division. The wln ncer In the two Ramea will challenge the winner In the A league, which will be Medford or Ashland, for a game. T AIjBANT. N. T., March 3. (AP) Lieut. John J. O'Connell pointed an accusing finger at Manney Strew) lata today and told a Jury "that man right there" was one of his kidnapers. O'Connell, 24. after relating the de tails of the kidnaping and captivity, said a man came Into the room and said "You'll need a go-between." "Can you Identify the man?" a prosecutor asked. "Yes, that man right there," was O'Connell'a reply. As the questioning continued, Strcwl suddenly cried: "You are a liar." Deputies Jumped from their seats and Daniel H. Prior tried to quiet his client. "I aave your life you , . . and you know It," fitrewl shouted. "Officers move up and keep the de fendant quiet," Judtte Earl H. Gallup ordered. IS OAKLAND, Cal., March 3. (AP) The army may resume air mail serv ice on the Pacific coast from Loa Angeles to Seattle In the near fut ure, although no definie orders have bn rrreived, the army headquarters On Trial Again ! Dr. Allca Wynekoop It shown at the appeared at the opening of her lecond trial In Chicago for tht operating tablt tlaying of her daughter-in-law. (Attoclated Preta Photo) AMNESIA SLAYER GETS LIFE TERM AT ROSEBURO, Ore., March 3. ( AP) Pleading guilty to a formal charge of second degree murder, Rollln C. Johnson, was this morning sentenced in the circuit court to life Imprison ment in the Oregon state peniten tiary, thereby closing one of the more unusual cases in the crime records of Douglas county. Accused by a district attorney's Information of the slaying, February 7, of Davia Marshall Williams, elderly Rice Val ley farmer, hia nearest neighbor and close friend, Johnson agreed before the court to the waiver of grand Jury investigation and asked for Imme diate sentence. The alleged slayer, who has been under observation for the past week by mental experts, freely conferred with officers regarding his case, It is reported. District Attorney Ouy Cordon stated that Johnson had asked that he be kept In restraint, declar ing that he was satisfied In his own mind that he had killed Williams while Buffering from a lapse of con aclous mer.tsl control, although he maintained that he had no knowledge or the actual circumstances of the slaying. He signed a written waiver of grand Jury examination before Judge James T. Brand, who Imposed a life sen tence following ihe acceptance of a plea of guilty. Johnson several days ago placed in the hands of the offlccra a state ment in his own handwriting in which, they report, he declared he Is satisfied In his own mind that he killed Wllllnma and that he was also responsible for the staying at San Jacinto. California, in 1931. of his father-in-law, P. J. Zimmerman. He based this belief, the officer stated, upon the fact that following both kllllnga he was In an Intensely ner vouscondltlon. and particularly fol lowing the Wlllinms case had a horror and fear of the spot where the tragedy occurred. WASHINGTON, March 2. (AP) The National Lumber Manufacturers' association todny reported that lum ber orders at 1.S01 mills for the week ending February 24 Increased 10,- 73 1 .000 feet over new business for the previous week. Orders for the week ending February 24 totaled 1R0, 666,000 feet and for the previous six day period 100.935,000 feet. Production for the week dropped to 176.853 ,000 feet from the previous week's total of 18O.O7ft.00O feet while shipments I nrreased to 1 69,60 1 ,000 feet from 163.2fi4.000 feet. NOTED DOCTOR DIES CINCINNATI. O.. March 2 (AP) Wandering away from a sanitarium, where he had gone to recuperate from a nervous breakdown, Dr, finger 8. Mnrrta, 67, head of the medical department of the college of medi cine of the University of Cincinnati, collapsed and died of exhaustion and exposure during the night. He was acclaimed for the theory that pernicious anemia, which had baffled medical science, waa a form of "hidden hunger," and as discov erer of "addlsin," an extmrr, of hog utomarii juices, which he affirmed nn uvunnnn mi FINDl J BODY Knew Daughter-in-Law Was Dead by Color of Face Frail Witness Breaks Down in Telling Details nr. Alice Wynekoop. CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING, OHIOAGO, March 2. p) Dr. Al:c Lindsay Wynekoop testified today in a voice choked with emotion that she had found dead on her operating table her dauglitcr-ln-Iaw, Rheta. whom she la charged with slaying. you saw her face, doctor, ' sa:d W. W. Smith, defense attorney, "and what did you note7" "I noted a peculiar color. "And what did that color indicate to you7' "Death,' Dr. Wynekoop whispered in reply. Her older son, Walker Wynekoop, who had taken his turn on the wit ness stand to defend hia 63-year-old mother from the charge of murdering the wife of his younger brother. Carle, leaned forward, listening Intensely, tears dimming hia eyes. His sister. Dr. Catherine, bowed her head. ' "Describe how you found her." The jury, fascinated, listened in tently. "I saw her her body covered with a blanket." Her voice became calm, expression less. Her sentences were punctuated with long pauses. "Her head was mostly exposed few drops of blood were on the floor she was tyinff in an apparently stiff position. There was a gun at th head. Q. Did you look at her face? A. Yes, but her back was toward me. I had to walk around her to see her -face. Q. But yeu saw her face? And then she broke down, as he described how the peculiar color of the young wife's face told her, a physician, that Rheta was dead. Q. And then what did you do, doc tor? Bhe gasped her replies. ''As soon as I could I was In a dazed condition could hardly breathe I started upstairs. X thought once I couldn't make it, but X told myself I must go on. I got up somehow. Got to the top of the stairs. Found a chair sat down. Then called Catherine Her moving lips would not form words. Her thin frame shook with repressed sobs. Q. What next? A. X Just sat. But I was so weak t could hardly alt. Z seemed hardly a part of life. Portland Liquor Laws Tightened PORTLAND. March 3. P) A City ordinance paralleling the state liquor law was on Portland's statute books today, and the city's 400 policemen were under Instructions to enforce It rigidly, under threat of dlscnarge if they fall. The ordinance was passed by the council Thursday upon recommenda tion of Mayor Carson, on the theory It will make enforcement of the state law In Portland more certain. WILL- ROGER? "soys: XKW YORK. March 1. l.niuliiiK i N'uwnrk from Wiisliinntun tndny, the pilot put us in the hack end of the plime so it would keep her tail down when the wheels hit the deep snow, (iivc you (in idea how inanv thousand men elcar- ing the streets in Now York. They have misplaced 51,000 and can't find 'cm. Hewn he'mv zero in Wash ington yesterday and snow a foot deep. Lohhyists standing frozen to death outside of con gressmen's homes. A lobbyist has nothinir to keen him warm but his brief ease. The hotels of ushington ulinnhi erect a monument to Oneral lluirh Johnson. They been eoiniiift on piltfnmancs oy the thousands since Inst July to make a code, change a code or cuss a code. Washington, D. C, (Dam Code.) Yours, if g....w.w....v.a..,.. t . U4 bC tQtUz, ,1