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Medford 's Easter Fashion Parade Begins Tom : now, March. 14 The Weather Forecast; Fair tonight and Wednesday-; moderate temperatures. Temperautre Highest yesterday , .n.. 76 Lowest thli morning 3ft AIL TRIP'UNE M EDFORD Twenty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934. No. 30L An rn nn LIT Ml iV M Watch tha TBIBCNE's CLASSIFIED AOS . . VT Loti of good bargain, 7 that ma a genuine fyipf RBPE . i By Paul Mallon Copyright. 1D34. by Paul Mai Ion. Art WASHINGTON, March 13. The su perb skill of Attorney General Cum mlngs In handling the Mellon, f Lamont-Walker- Sidlo Income tax Inner political world. The Lamont case first developed last June 9. when the Morgan partner publicly testified he sold stock to his wife and bought It back later. The Mellon case has been hanging fire for more than six months. The Jimmy Walker facts date, back to the pre Roo&evelt era when his financial op erations were disclosed by the Sea bury investigation. Nobody knows when the Sldlo mat ter originated. Finding It at all waa a good Job. Mr. Sidlo la a well known and respected citizen, but he hardly rates politically or financially with Messrs. Mellon. Lamont and Jimmy Walker. Selectivity The one understandable explana tion of how Mr. Sldlo got Into such choice company is that he la allied with a chain of liberal newspapers which have been howling for the scalps of Yes, Messrs. Mellon, Lamont and Walker. The cases all started at different times, months ago, but they all came off the department of Justice mimeo graph machine in the same handout: Just these four: Mr. Mellon, the arch -republican. Mr. Lamont, the Wall Streeter. Mr. Walker, the democrats (a splen did choice.) 4 Mr. Sidlo, the liberal. The only thing which kept It from being perfectly balanced was the fail ure to Include a socialist and a com munist. They probably had to be left out because none of them has enough money to pay Income taxes. Birdie The timing waa even more exqui site. Aside from the fact that the old cases phenomenally came to fruition simultaneously, the announcement waa made Just four days before the next Income tax payments were due. And, wonder of wonders. It came on the Sunday which most of the in come taxpayers had set aside to work out their returns. (The Sunday pa pers have more circulation than the week-dallies.) The psychology of that -move will be apparent when the returns are counted after Thursday. With Messrs. Mellon, Lamont, Walker and Sldlo facing prosecution for not being lib em' with their government, the other fe mi. lion taxpayers certainly. could noi afford to take any chances. Appreciation Only skeptics will suspect that this peculiar political balance and this psychological timing In Mr. Cum mlngs brilliant swing were Inten tional. Politics and psychology have noth ing to do with Justice. At least they should not. It is Just a coincidence, possibly strange and unusual, but, nevertheless, a coincidence. The antt-adminlstration gang can be expected to interpret It as a put up Job. They may point out that Mr. Cummin gs has been fully as brilliant In politics as in law. They may resurrect the fact that the attorney general was chairman of the Demo cratic national committee for five years and an official of every national I convention lor the last three decades, i If they do. his friends can point ovit that he was state's attorney for Fairfield county, Connecticut, for ten f years. Nevertheless, all true political ar tists know real art when they see It. Lindbergh The Lindbergh reconciliation waa not quite in the class with the Cum mlngs masterpiece. Col. Lindbergh was called to Wash ington by War Secretary Dern. On his arrival the air ace managed to escape pursuing news photographers, as Is his custom. But next day, Dern invited the photographers in to take pictures of himself with Lindbergh, smiling and laughing with each other as if they were old pals. The time was correct. The pictures appeared In moat newspapers next momlng sloncside Mr. Roosevelt's new air mill Instructions to Dern. Men Quite a social occasion was made of the reconciliation also. The Lindbergh family had lunch with the Dern fam ily. Afterward Dern Issued a public statement that he considered Lind bergh as "our foremost authority on aviation question.' Dern alro let it be known that hs and Lindbergh had not merely talked to each other, but that they had talked "man to man.'' y Bruce I-ewin, 72year-old Austra lian, claims to have walked more thsn 01.000 tnUee In the last 11 year, lwiag out 0Q 4Ui tftoefc BE IS Logging Railroad Being Put in Repair Camps to Open in Two Weeks Half Time Basis of Operation Improvement for labor conditions and general business In Jackson county Is foreshadowed by the an nouncement today of James H. Owen, general manager of the Owen-Oregon Lumber Sales company, that plans have been completed for the opera tion of their sawmill and plant here, upon a half-time basis, which will mean the employment of more than 300 men In the various departments. A force of 85 men were started this week, repairing the Medford logging railroad roadbed and equipment, and making the preliminary arrangements for logging operations In the Butte Falls district. The logging camps are expected to start operations In about two weeks. The sawmill will start as soon as sufficient logs are Improved In the mill pond for operation. This will add about 100 men to the payroll. The plant is now employing 120 men in the planing mill, shipping and other plant departments. Manager Owen aaya that the plant will operate only to one-half capacity for the present. Future operations de pend largely upon the lumber de mand. and being able to jnove their proportion of the lumber cut, at the established minimum NRA code prices. All mills are prohibited at selling at less than the code price, "Some mills, particularly the larger operators," said Manager Owen, "more favorably located, and having direct sales representatives throughout the country, will naturally get more busi ness than the smaller operators.' Manager Owen stated that only old employees, and local men of estab lished residence here would be given employment. E LOS ANGELES, March IS. (AP) Two of three racing drivers charged with kidnaping a newspaper reporter and photographer were placed under $2500 bond each by the district attor ney's office today, having previously been at liberty without bail.. They wero Babe Stapp, one of the country's foremost race track pilots, and Al Rclnke, well known In Pacific coast racing circles, both of whom will be arraigned today. A third man has not been apprehended. The charges grew out of the beat ing and kidnaping of John Ben mis Los Angeles Examiner photographer, and the kidnaping of James Lee, a reporter for the same newspaper, dur ing their assignment on March to the funeral of Ernie Triplett, noted driver. PALM ESTATE VALUED $133,256 LEFT WIDOW Estate of Charles W. Palm, late Medford capitalist, has been ap praised for the purpose of payment of the Inheritance tax, at 9131.256. ac cording to ft-hedulea filed In the county clerk's office. Amount of the Inheritance tax fa computed at $3,437.82. Mrs. Calllc Palm is the sole heir. PAIRPLAY. Colo., March IS. (AP) Coach Elmer Schwslm, 36, of the Grand Junction basketball team died here today from lnjurlea Incurred In an automobile accident near here March 4. Steelhead Belongs to Trout Family Is Ruling PORTLAND. March 13. (AP) The old controversy whether a steelhead is a salmon or a trout broke out here Monday at a meeting of the state game commission, and Matt Ryckman, superintendent of hatcheries, appar ently won a decision over Chairman M. P. Corrigan. A briefly considered proposal to close tide-water streams to winter fishing for trout of any length went down to defeat on the basis of the trout -salmon determination. -The steelhead I not a trout," Cor rlgsn Insisted, but Ryckman coun tered with the statement that the tUolhead Is a sea-run rainbow trout. land that the eggs from an rdult Ex-Kaiser's Income Cut AS FIRST LADY STARTED AIR TRIP t" - . . ! I ifpy ; tES &: I J &?-4 - Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt la ahown above at the air baae In Miami, Fia., as ahe boarded 9 plana for her ocean flight to Puerto Rico where aha waa to investigate reports of poverty. It was the first ocean air . trip made by a President's wife. She Is waving to a party of friends who saw her off. (Associated Press Photql TOUHY COHORT CHICAGO, March 13. (AP) Charles "Ice Wagon" Connors, one of the Touhy gangsters long hunted for the kidnaping of John Factor, was found hot to death In a remote section of the southwest side today. The body, shot twice through the chest, the head battered In with bul lets and another wound through the arm, lay unidentified several hours whtle officers tried to compare the features with those of the known gangster. Identification finally was made by finger prints. TAKE $20000 MASON CITY, la., March 13. (AP) The First National bank waa held up this afternoon by machine gun robbers who carried away several bank employes as hostages. R. h. James. In the street at the time of the holdup, waa struck In the leg by a bullet. ' As t'le robbers pulled away from the bank-they forced the hostagea to stand Tip around the outside of the car to protect them from ahota that might come from vigilantes who mounted the roofs of surrounding buildings while the robbery was In progress. T.he robbers used tear gas In the bank. The seven gunmen, escaping with loot which bank officers estimated at mora than 20.000, released their hostages four miles out of town. The fly-fishing reason for "no limit length" trout will open April o. 10 davs earlier than usual, and will close November 15. Trout of any length may be taken to the extent of the legal bag limit except In cer tain stream specified last yesr, when the no-llmlt length law was created. In which catches under six inches are prohibited. The commission deldd to close all tributaries of the MrKenrle below the Junction of the Blue river, with the exception of Mohawk creek. All tributaries of the south fork of the McKenrie were closed. Short creek was nrderrrt closed, and the Diamond ' lake big limit of trout was rrduced 36 ib WsVib So ft U Umib COLUMBIA FRUIT PROSPECT BEST HOOD RIVER, Ore, March 13. (AP) Prof. R. H. Robinson. Oregon State college specialist, here for a four-day observation of the pre -blos som spray program, today advised mid -Columbia orchardlsts that pros pects' for alt classes of fruit are the best in years. Cheered by anticipation of in creased demand as the result of heavy damage caused by severe freezes In the east, growers here are starting a rigid spray program and the applica tion of fertilizer, measures that had largely been abandoned in 'the past three years because of poor business conditions. The thinning of the harvest help demand is expected to solve the un employment problem- In this region by mid-summer If an Influx of tran sient workers can be halted. E TO SEEK PORTLAND. March 13. (AP) A formal snnouncement wilt be made tomorrow by State Senator Joe E. Dunne of Portland that he will he a candidate for the republican nomi nation for governor, It waa said here today. An outline of the platform on which he will seek the nomination will be made at the same time. Dunne represents Clackamas, Co lumbia and Multnomah counties In the state senate, of which he has been a member since 1927. He has been prominently identified with rosd and highway legislation and with milk control bills. For several months Senator Dunne has been traveling over the entire state, diligently scouting his pros pects. He has reached the conclu sion that the present time is pro pit 1 to us to mske the race. ; PREMATURE EXPLOSION FATAL FOR WORKMEN VICTORIA, B. C, March 13 fAP) British Columbia police said today that several persons were killed or Injured in a premature explosion o! undetermined nsturs at Camp No. 6 of the Albernl Pacific: Lumber com psny. SALEM, March 13. (AP) Gover nor Julius L. Meier today Issued a conditional pardon to Thomas F. Van derzanden, who was committed to the state pnltntlary October 27, toys, from Washington county to s:ivc a J4ft feCa fcK lass 4C3 BMtfflfth ACTION DEFENDED BY DEMOLEADER President Takes . Full Re sponsibility for Cancella tion of Air Contracts Says Senator Robinson .Mill i Kuutfs Named WASHINGTON. March 12. (AP) An army airmail system modified to nine routes in the interests of safety was traced across the map of the country today. The new schedule, to be flown after the war department "releas ed" army filers from a stay-on-the-ground order, Is as follows: Boston to New York; New York to San Francisco via Chicago and Salt Lake City; New York to Jack sonville; Washington to Atlanta; Chicago to Dallas via Kansas City and St. Louis; Salt Lake City to Seattle: Salt Lake City to San Diego via Los Angeles; Cheyenne to Denver; and Chicago to St. Paul. Other routes may be added later. WASHINGTON, March 13. (AP) Replying to a Republican charge that President Roosevelt was attempting to "shift responsibility" for a "trag ic blunder" in caivelllng the airmail contracts. Senator Robinson, the leader, told the senate today the chief executive had been Justified In his action and assumes full respon sibility for It. President Itoosevclt wss charged with responsibility for the death of 10 army fliers and virtual destruc tion of the airplane Industry by Sen' ator Robinson (R., ind.) In his reply, the Democratic Rob Inson said that charge waa not Jus tified. WASHINGTON? March 13. (Aft Addition of two new airmail routes to those operated before the general contract cancellation la contemplat ed by the postoffloe department. Army flying of the airmail, sus pended by President huusevelt after the death of 10 service filers In crashes, has not yet been resumed. N Harllco Brancn, second assistant postmaster general, told the house poa toff ice committee today that lines from Chicago to Spokane and from Billings to El Pasowere planned un der the $12,000,000 appropriation asked for the fiscal year starting July 1. Practically all the old routes would be maintained, he said. "I am quite sure," he said, "that at least 95 per cent of Vie routes In operation on February 10 would be Included In the air map we make up." Branch's outline of plans under private operation followed an ap pointment by Secretary Dem of a committee, Including Charles A. Lind bergh, to study the army's carrying the mall, and to suggest Improve ments. TWO DIE FROM QUAKE EFFECTS SALT LAKE CITY. March 13. (AP) The second death attributed Indirect ly to the earthquake which shook Utah and southern Idaho yesterday occurred today when Charles Bltchell, 63, died in a local hospital of injuries suffered In a waterworks trench cave- I In. Bltchell was burled when the slx ' foot trench under construction In the j southern part of this city gave way I shortly after the heaviest of the sev ; eral tremors which shook this city. I Waterworks department officials said the trench banks were weakened by : the quake. j Mrs. Ida .Venabla Atkinson. 21, of Ogden. Utah, died of fright yesterday while her home waa quivering from ; the earth movements. WILL SHOW PROFIT HEW YORK. March 13. (AP) A Chicago dispatch to Dow. Jones Zo. aays It la understood Montgom ery Ward St Co. will probably show net income of between 12,000,000 and ITOOO.OOO for the year ended j January 31. This would be the com- Iyanj m Hint t,c tiiivsiiac miiui tfuv XJa StiU louiM MiMU ., Off; May Return Home L RELATIONS BREAK aaasa.assBB Ashland's Attitude in Con tests Engendered Long Series Squabbles Sams Valley to Play Lithians Inability to reach agreement with Ashland high school on officials for any inter-school contest from, type writing to football, was the basic reason why Medford high school yes terday afternoon severed athletic re lations with their traditional rlvala. O. G. Smith, principal of the Med ford high school and Coach Darwin K. Burgher s&ld this morning. The situation has prevailed over the last four years, they said. The two local school offlclsls ssld that "whenever the question of a ref eree or official arose, there waa a pe riod of contention over trivialities that left a bad feeling. There has never been any trouble picking an of ficial for Klamath Falls or Grants Pass contests of any nature. It was always a bone of contention with the Ashland school." Weary of Jangling. Principal Smith admitted, "the Medford srhool wearied of this con tinual Jangling and it Is the chief reason why we decided to sever ath letic relations until auch time as It will be possible to settle school ques tions amicably and in a businesslike manner. e The suspension of eight Medford high athletes for painting their school letters on an Ashland barn adjoining the Ashland school, was characterized as "Just a aide Issue." Finances, In which the Medford school was a loser, was one of the main contributing factors, and the school authorities cited two Instances In support of their contentions. FAnense Held Needless, It cost $73 for referees for last FM day night's game, and local school heads held this was an unnecessary expense. Ashland refused to accept any southern Oregon referee. Med ford, to play the game, had to sub mit, though L. L. Deat of Grants Pass, one of the best lnterscholastic ref erees In the stater could have been procured at less than a third of the expense. (Continued on Page Seven) . Low-Necked Dress Starts Bat tie In Argentina Church SAN LUIS. Argentina. March 13. (API Civil and religious au thorities sought today to smooth out a conflict which began over a low-necked dress and ended In a gun fight Sunday. The Rev. Fr, Juan Guerrera told Sen lor) ta El Ida Da-cunda to leave mass when he deemed her appirel was Immodest. Outside, in the village plana, the Indignant aenlorlta summoned her father, who organised a mass meet ing then and there to telegraph a protest to the provincial gover nor. The priest emerged from the church accompanied by members of his conjures in. Firing broke out. Nazi Propaganda Drive Seen by Petit Parisien PARIS. Msrch IS (AP) Tha nawa. paper Patit Partslen today rltrst! t chargra that Oarman naala wera con Hurting a hug, awret propaganda I campaign abroad, and publlahad what It described as a eopj of a pamphlet of confidential Instructions sent to nan propsgsnda agenta. Tha tt, aa printed by the Petit Parliien, instructed the agent to withdraw advertising from newspapers which used anti-German news sgency dispatches and declared that It had proved to ba "Impossible" to establish relations of any sort with tha Asso ciated Presa. The Associated Press." tha tst. as published, declsres. "shows towsrd tha new evolution of oerminy snd tht nstlonal .soclsllst government's demands In tha matter of foreign policy t lack of understanding which must be considered ss deliberste hos- : tlllty. "It Is recognlted that tha niana- GSM fit m MM MkUttI It Drink of Liquor Beats Derrick In Removing Dobbin ANSONIA, Conn., March 13. (AP) A pint of whisky worked where a motor wrecking car der rick failed in moving a horse that dropped at a street Intersection. A crowd gathered and offered all kinds of advice. Then a vete ran truckman suggested the liquor. A pint of the fluid was poured down the horse's throat and the animal revived at once, rose and plodded away. AT FAULT OF DRIVER A coroner's Jury this afternoon re turned findings thst no one was to blame for the death of Roscoe How ard. Josephine county farmer, killed In a railroad crossing accident near Rogue River Sunday evening. The coroner's Jury wss composed of Walter Combs, Joseph Schultr and Thomas Wilson of Rogue River, and L. O. Boomer, James Dally and Wil liam Gilbert of this city. The Jury deliberated but a few minutes. , Twelve witnesses were examined at the Inquest, including one eye-witness, Arthur M. Snow of Grants Pass. The evidence showed that the auto. struck by the Shasta Limited, had apparently stalled on the track. Howard, 62, is survived by four chit dren. and operated a dairy ranch near Grants Pass. Questioning of the witnesses was conducted by District Attorney George A. Codding. This afternoon an Inquest Is being held into the death of Charles Hollo- way, local painter, found dead by neighbors. In his gsrage here, appar ently from suicide. DETROIT, March 3. (AP) The Ford Motor Co. today announced that the 5 a day minimum wage has been restored for all of its employees. It was the second general upward revision of wages within less than a year. Lust summer, at the time the question of whether Ford would ac cept the NRA automobile code, Henry Ford announced that a minimum of 60 cents an hour was being estab lished. It has been eatlmsted that the Ford company Is employing around 100, 000 men. The company's announcement said the Increase, which became effective today, would benefit approximately 47,000 of Its employes In Ford plants throughout the country. PRICE FOR SALMON FISHERMEN AGREED ASTORIA. Ore.. March 13. (AP) A price of 11 cents a pound for Chin ook and blueback salmon from the start of the season, May 1 to August B. and eight cents a pound from Au gust 8 to the season's close on Au gust 28, will be demanded by fish ermen of the Columbia river. occupied by persons with whom It Is Impossible to establish relations or sny sort." (Assoclsted Presa editors not: The Petit Psrlslen ssld It guaranteed the authenticity of the teat. No further proof of Ita genuineness, however, haa bean disclosed. The relations of the Assoclsted Press with tha Oermsn government are exactly tha aame as they are with any other government. Tha business of the Associated Presa la Impartially to gather and to dlS' semlnata tha news, untlnged by blss or expressions of opinion. It does not engage In any propaganda for any government, organlrAtlorr, or Indl virtual.) Continuing, tha text aa printed ssysr "All Oerman agents abroad, there fore, are forbidden to maka any con tact with tha managera of 'tha A. P.' Furthermore, tha greatest prudenea la lecommendad In relations with th. eflftU aaWyM04 2MI aWQggJBQ&aNVasaV Family Council Held at Doom to Discuss Difficulties Incomes From German Sources Are Shut Off DOORN, Holland, March 13-(AP) Former Kaiser Wilhelm may re turn to Germany as the result of a Hoh enrol lern family council held la his castle here today. The former emperor of Germany, his wife. Princess Hermlne, the kaiser's two sons, the Princes Eltal Frederick and Augustus Wilhelm, and several generals Including Von Steulp nagel Joined in the conference. It la understood that the council considered the financial difficulties facing the royal family as a result of the Hitler government's ban en the export of moneys from Germany unless this cash is exchanged for goods. The Hohenzollerns hitherto hav derived their Incomes from various sources in Germany. It was reported thst the Hitler government Is unwilling to make an exception In the case of the former kaiser on Its ban on money exports. Circles close to the Doom house hold stated that the possibility erf the kaiser's return to his native land was not precluded under the cir cumstances, (Earlier In the day, in Berlin, Bar on von Sell, chief Hoh enzol lern agent, stated that no reunion of the Hohen Tollern family was planned In Doom, dismissing reports of such a confer ence as pure fabrications.) FIRST LADY BUSY IN PUfO RICO SAM GORMAN, Puerto Rloo. Maroh 13. (A?) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt set a breathless pace for her compan ions again today In a tour of the Purto Rico needlework district. An S a. m. start from San German, where she spent the night; a picnic lunch by a roadside; a considerable pause at Ponce; a 0 o'clock reception at San Juan these were mere high- spots on the day's full program. The first lady of the United States, heralded by Spanish criers, headed what had tht appearance of a trium phal procession through Areclbo and other points yesterday. KANSAS CITY, March 13 (AP) R. A. Long. 83, head of tha Lonff-Bau Lumber company, underwent an op eration today for removal of an In testlnal obstruction. Will ROGERS SANTA MONICA. March 12. Kvprvlmdv cheers tha uresi- dent's nirmail move. It was a big tiling to lo. His next popu lar move would be to sny to his Icgul depurtment: "Wo said thero was fraud ; there wag fraud; well, get busy and try somebody and, if guilty, con. vict 'cm. That's all today, gen- Jcmcn." Most criticism of the army ia going to bo very unjust. He it tmtirhr. to fiirht in the air. When he fails at that, then criticize him. He didn t hire out as a postman. In fact, in modern warfare thev don't correspond with each other. Our Birmail pilots are the best in the world. That's why we have two de partments in Washington, ona for war and one for mail, both very ctficient, but not at each other's jobs. Yours, wUjU I'. S. i Kddio Hickcnbackcr did mighty well for us in the last war and he had never delivered a letter in his life. tote. Kerf 2mm, LlMa
