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Medforq . Mail Tribune lIEDFORDr OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1934. Watch tbe TRIBUNE') CLASSIFIED AUg , . Lots of good bargain lht mean genuine savings. W Twenty-niuth Year No. a I The Weather Forecast; Cloudy Sunday; normal ! temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday ,,- 90 i Lowest yesterday H..,.,HWMW...,W 88 ; mm mm fniunwei EWES IT. m J II Attn- I SHOOTS WAY. OUT PORTLAND CENTER BMnd AND ESCAPES IN OF SCRAMBLE FOR AUTO WITH PALS GOVERNOR'S POST V gata-i. win in HI am I By PAUL MALLOH (Copyright, 1934, by Paul Mallon) Rumblings J WASHINGTON, March 31. Fresl f dent Roosevelt Is not exactly pleas ed at the type of leadership he has been getting Irom his leaders In con gress. He probably will not be able to do anything about It but he would like to. It was not exactly the veterans' vote but an accumulation of unhappy Incidents which brought about the mutual misunderstanding. Prom the start the president has been unable to find the type of men In congress to undertake new deal leadership. tt 4nhprltprf the nresent congres- elonal leadership setup. It la an out .t nt niri.time nnlttlcal traditions . -which are far apart from the ideals .of the new deal. elected In both houses on seniority. Floor Leader Robinson In the senate has tried to revise his traditional conservative self Into a new deal exponent. 80 has house floor leader Byrns. But they have nf it ttrfn nhle to make the grade because their hearts are not In It. They have been loyal and ardent, but Insufficient. If Mr. Roosevelt had his way to day he would make Representative5 Eayburn his leader In tho house and Senator Byrnes his senate leader. They come nearer to typifying his Ideals than the leaders which the vagaries of politics have thrust upon him. Dlwlpllne Nothing could have changed the veterans' vote. The best leadership 1n the world could not have pre vented the house from revolting, but the right kind of leadership could have prevented the rout. wh.n ' viris-nrpsidpnt Garner was ' floor leader of the house, party loy ? .Hit? was a badge of honor. Darner .? had a way of making Insurgents re gret their Insurgency. Discipline was enforced with a blackjack. Now the punishment is publlcntlon In the speaker's black list, which since the recent revolts Is about as exclusive as the telephone book. Promotions Possibilities of a change In house leadership are being discussed In the house cloakroom. A rather strong movement is under way in favor of Rayburn. It will not succeed. Tradi tionary rules ere so Influential that thev cannot be overturned so easily. The expectation In the senate cloakroom is that Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, will soon be promoted to the supreme court. Intellltent'la The brain trust tells this story so It probably Isn't so. They say Dr. Wirt was Invited to a social party here last summer and was astounded to find no radicals present, at least no radicals who fitted the long beard, J wide-eyed specifications. The good doctor was so Insistent on seeing a radical In the raw that his host arranged for a newspaper man to Impersonate one. This fellow had a lurid Imagination. He filled the doctor s ear full of revolutions, vHBtn. Rtaltnit and rebellion. The Joke, according to the story, was on the host, because Dr. Wirt believed it. Secrecy There is a new ruling In the NRA requiring all employes to refrain from talking to newspaper men. All official talk must come from General Johnson. The last one who tried that was Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, whose ruling lasted three days. ilope Republican authorities believe now that they may gain more than eighty Democratic house seats In the next election. They are - Imbued with the idea that the tide has turned. After the house vote on the veterans' veto their enthusiasm runs even to the length of expecting a complete over throw of the house. niffirultv Relief Administrator Hopkins car ried to President Roosevelt hl plea for control over the federal employ ment service, now under the labor department. The president called In Labor Secretary Perkins, who protest ed strenuously. The federal employment service will continue under the labor depart ment. Notes Senator Byrnes' argument that ad ditional taxes would be needed to meet the extra expense of the vct rsns' bill did not receive general favor. The rubber budget can be stretched. They raised the price of beans In the house restaurant the other day and the management spent the aft ernoon answering congressional com plaints. , Scraker Ralney has been asked to I j the committee for the nation, till has not done so as yet. Telegraphic protests against the Wagner labor board bill and the unemployment Insurance bill are hreaklng all records. Industry does (Continued fiom Page Bix Woman Companion Wound ed In Flight In Waiting Auto Fingerprints Pro vide Clue Chicago Roads Guarded. ST. PAUL, Minn.. March 31. (AP) John ( "Thet Killer") DUUnger, with a sub-machine gun In his hands and a big green sedan awaiting him, shot his way out of a police trap to day and once more foiled the law. Finger print left behind as he fled with a woman, believed wound ed, and a man, presumably one of the members of his old gong, John Hamilton, definitely established, au thorities said, that one of the trio was the widely hunted desperado who broke out of the Jail at Crown Point, Ind., last month. DUlinger's fingerprints, authorities said, were found both on the auto mobile abandoned by the trio and In the apartment. Among the cloth ing and ot&er effects taken to head quarters for examination, was a bullet-proof vest and a photograph of DUUnger garbed In the uniform of a sailor taken when he apparently was about 20 years old. Hamilton was identified through a description given police by Mrs. Dan iel Coffey, wife of the proprietor of an apartment house, on the third floor of which tfie trio staged a wild gun fight with officers before escap ing. Behind then the fugitives left also a few spots of blood, evidence lead ing to the opinion that a bullet fired by City Detective Henry Cummlngs had struck tbo woman, and a minia ture arsenal, Including two sub-machine guns and road maps of Minne sota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Surprised by Detective Henry Cum mlngs and R. C. Coulter, federal operative, Vie pair fought a duel with the officers and escaped In a large sedan. None of them wore hats or coats. . Although one of the men was be lieved wounded blood spots were found on the snow in the alley neither of t.he officers was hit by the machine gun fire as bullets per forated doors and ripped plaster from the walls on the third floor of the buildings. Numbers on the abandoned ma chine gun had been filed off. A third such gun was carried away by DUUnger as he chased Coulter, the federal investigator, to cover, when the desperado boldly dashed from the door, covering his flight down the three flights of stairs with a screen of bullets. The description given police by Mrs. Coffey fitted that of Hamilton, and it was surmised DUUnger was the other man. Charles Coffey, 14. son of the building proprietor, said two women and a man rushed out of the apart ment two hours before it was raided. The women were in pajamas and slippers, and without stockings. They drove off in an automobile. CHICAGO, March 31. (AP) After John DUUnger, fugitive gunman, and two companions, one a woman, shot their way out of a St. Paul police trap, Chicago police tonight speeded all available men to Vie outskirts of the city to guard Incoming roads In efforts to capture the Indiana des perado. Police Sargeant Frank Reynolds, member of the city's special 'DUUn ger squad." said he doubted if the wood carver of Crown Point would venture a trip Into Chicago. "He knows the big town is 'hot' for him," Reynolds said, "and I doubt if he would attempt to come In In an automobile. But we're tak ing no chances." PORTLAND CHIEF E DATA FOR STATE PORTLAND. Ore.. Mar 31. (AP) A nation-wide survey showing that per capita Oregon stand fourth in crimes committed, sixth in robberies and first In thefts, was declared "all hooey" today by Portland Police Com missioner U V. Jenkins. "Other cities are falsifying their records," Jenkins said. "If the truth were known Portland has less crime than any other city of comparable size in the United States. "The reports are all hooey. Portland has reported every petty crime and those cases not even provided as hold ups or robberies while other cities have forgotten them In their reports." REYKJAVIK, Iceland, March 31. (AP) The famous volcano Skiedar arjoekull Cirka began erupting last night according to a message receiv ed today from the village of Nups stad In SkaptalellssyMa, 155 m 1 le es t of here, Only One Aspirant From The Back Country Hall For Shorter Hours, And Beck man Favors Great Divide To Get Votes. No Hooey Candidate PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. Sl.-(AP)-Davld P. Graham, a former cow puncher and sheepherder who now is Malheur county Judge, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination as cong reasman of the second Oregon dis trict. For SO years he has lived In eastern Oregon where he followed banking, sheep herding, cow punching, clerking, farm and ranch work and management of properties and Institutions. "I am running because I would like the Job it pays much more than the one I have and I be lieve that I could actually fill it with credit to all concerned, the district, the state, the nation and myself," Judge Graham said. "I could promise many things, but it would be very foolish. I simply say I will work hard for my district all the time, If nominated and elected." PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 31. (AP) The Willamette valley has supplied seven of the eight candidates an nounced thus far for Oregon's quad rlennlal gubernatorial campaign. All save one of those are In . or near Portland. The lone voice in the "wilderness" is that of Willis E. Mahoney, Klam ath Falls' self-styled "fighting 'mayor" whtf is seeking the Democratic- nom ination, Charles Hall, .Oswego resident and Portland business man, today ampli fied his earlier platform by espous ing old age pensions, shorter hours for labor, and gave assurance he would maintain regular office hours If elected. He opposed certain prac tices in the workmen's compensation law. p "If necessary I shall designate evening hours when I will be In the. office and available." he said. The other avowed Republican can d idatea are State Treasurer Ruf us Hoi man, S tate Representative Frank Lonergan and State Senator Joe Dunn, all of Portland, and State Sen ator Sam Brown of Oervais, near Sa lem. Cong ressm and Charles H. Martin and S. H. Williams of Portland are Democratic candidates In a three-way race with Mahoney. PORTLAND, Ore., Mar 31. (AP) State Representative John J. Back man, a Democrat, today added his name to the many seeking to fill the congressional seat General Charles H. Martin la forsaking to run for the governorship. I Backman, active In placing prohi bition repeal to. a vote of the people of Oregon, turns his attention toward other governmental and social prob- IUm Imm kl. .l.W "There must be a more equal dis tribution of wealth and opportunity," his statement said. . MoMINNVILLE, Ore., Mar. 31.-(AP) Earl A. Knott, Yamhill county dis trict attorney, today announced his candidacy for the Democratts nomin ation as congressman from the first Oregon district. Judge Duncan To Run SALEM, March 31 (AP) William M. Duncan of Klamath Falls today filed for re-election to the circuit bench In, Klamath county, the 13th Judicial district. He is the fourth to file his candidacy for that position with the secretary of state. LAUDS CONGRESS EL PASO, I1U March 31. fAPi Edward A. Hayes, American Lesion l national commander, In an address here tonight, declared that "Insofar as the service connected disabled veteran li encerned the constitution of the United States has been re turned to the hands of the people j where It belong." ! The Legion commander discussed the recent action of congress In pass ing over President Roosevelt'st veto the independent offices appropria tion bill carrying increased benefits for veterans. Amendments made to the bill, he aisd, cover three points of the Legion's four-point program on rehabilitation. Japan Launches L'-Boat KOBE, Japan, March 31. (AP) The Japanese navy's 1900-ton sub marine, 1-0. was launched today with brilliant ceremonies at the Kawasaki dockyard. CRACK TRAIN lillip- The locomotive was hurled on Its side and coaches were thrown but no lives were lost when the Portland Rose train of the Union Wyoming plateau. Authorities investigated the wreck on the theory from its moorings. (Associated Press Photo) COAST AREAS TO THE RISEN LORD Thousands To Aheuu . rise Services On the Slopes Of Hills And In The Parks Of Cities!, ;' . (By the Associated Press) Thousands of worshippers will at tend sunrise services Easter morning on the slopes of hills and at parks and churches in Pacific coast cities. Beneath a .huge 103-foot lighted cross atop Mt. Davidson In San Fran cisco, nearly 30,000 persons are ex pected to see the heralding of Easter morn. President Roosevelt recently touched a golden key which lighted the new cross. Mt. Rubldoux, the scene of the first Easter service In southern Cali fornia 28 years ago, annually draws nearly 25,000 persons, while a like number will attend worship at the Hollywood bowl. Plans are being made to erect n, 100-foot cross on the top of Mt. Whitney, highest peak In the United States, and a apeclal sermon wlU be preached at the moutaln's bare this Easter. Upwards of 30.000 persons will attend, services on Mt. Tabor and In Portland's city parks, while in Wash ington a chorus of 500 voices from 30 church choirs will greet the dawn at Wash ell 1. The eighth annual sun rise service will be hold in the Uni versity of Washington stadium. The latest aumlse service In the west will be .held at Yoscmtte na tional park In California, with the congregation In the valley near the base of manalve Half Dome. The sun will come over the dome at 0;31 a. m.,-signaling the start of the serv ices. SALES TAX AIDS WEST VIRGINIA CHARLESTON, W. Va.. March 31. (AP) Two cents out of every dol lar spent In West Virginia tomorrow nd every day thereafter for fifteen months will go to the state as a consumers sales tax. The pennies will be collected by merchants on every sale made at re tall after midnight tonight. They will be combined In vast sums to provide $8,500,000 for the schools CHICAGO FAIR TO N CHICAOO. March 31. (AP) When the gates awing open May 36 to admit the advance nuard of the expected million of visitors to Chi cago's 1934 world's fair, extensively revamped from lat year's exposition, they will lead to around and build ings conducted At a coat exceeding I44.0OO.0O0. officials of A Century of Progress ,s(d today. At th close of the fulr lMt year. I3B.000.000 had been expended In 'creatine new land and the construc tion of bulldlni!,. Another ts.ooo.000 la now betuR apent for new structure nd I he Improvement of existing ones. DERAILEDBUT NO LIVES LOST T0TALS$197,656 Labor Chief Beneficiary City Streets, Irrigation, And Roads Get Largest ."Jams In Final ; Report. With completion las'- night of all CWA work In the state of Oregon, ! the Jackson county committee re leased a statement, summarizing the benefits brought to Jackson county under the administration, which showed a total, project expenditure of $197,658.42 from November 24, 1033, to March 31, 1934. This amount was divided as fol lows : to CWA labor $142,841.54, to ' CWA material $22,310.65, In local con j trlbuMons. $32,495.33. The 16 major divisions or projects : Info which the labor and money j were divided included: county roads. Irrigation systems, school buildings and grounds, library grounds and j buildings, city water aystems. Ash- land cemetery, city streets and parks. armorys, airports, experiment stations. Roxy Ann park, flood control, trout hatchery and fishery, tools and sun dry equipment, administration and service projects. Under each heading, in submitting a report the CWA committee showed how much was apent In labor, how offered In contributions from the pol offered in conributlons from the pol itical subdivision. In which the work was carried on. The greatest amount. $33,187.88, I was spent In city street and park i work. The next highest projects were: Irrigation aystems, with $32. 202.88; county roads. $22,903.70; air ports, $22,898.10; and flood control, With $22,433.12. Other totals read: school buildings and grounds. $15.31 1 .80: library, grounds and buildings, $880.24: city water systems, $7,582.56; Ashland cemetery. $348 30: armorys, $1,714.89; experiment stations. $1.003,RQ; Roxy Ann park. $10,548.70: trout hatchery and fishery, $9,713.52; tools and aun- (Continued on Page Six) EASTER GREETING MIAMI, Pla., March 31. (AP Easter greetings came from Presi dent Roosevelt tonight on his vaca tion cruise In southern waters. The president, in reporting a "fine day' and "good fishing," transmit ted to the country his remembrance of Easter Sunday In a message to headquarters here of Marvin H. Mc Intyre, a secretary. Vincent Antor, owner of the yacht Nourmahal, on which Mr. Roosevelt la cruising, sent the following to night: "Had a fine day. Good fishing and expect to remain here over to- I morrow. Happy Easter to you all from all of us." The president was located off Oreat Abaco Inland, where today he receiv ed the first official business on his trip from naval aviators who flew from here. Mining Unlcr SALENf. Msrch 31. (AP) W. Ft. Illicit. Olendale, today filed with the atnt engineer for permit to appro priate 20 second feet of water from natllcfnafce river, for mining pur pose In Douglas county. criss-cross along the right-of-way. Pacific lines was derailed on a that a rail might have br.en torn SAYS HIS DEFEAT OF WALL ST. Illinois G. 0. P. Also After House Leader In Primary As Lesson Both To Him And The President. WASHINGTON, March 31. (AP) Speaker Henry T. Ralney said today he had Information that Wall street interests were pouring money into his Illinois district to detent him for re election as "a lesson to President Roosevelt and his recovery program," The veteran legislator of fifteen terms in the house read from a report sent to him by friends that A. O. Davis of Springfield, Mo., had been sent Into the twentieth district sev eral weeks ago to look over the pros pects of bringing about his defeat for the nomination In the April 10 pri maries or In the November elections. Ralney said the report disclosed that Davis had called a meeting of Republicans In Jacksonville, III., at which he stated he was being fin anced by New York Interests who wanted to strike at the Democratic party and President Roosevelt's recov ery program by concentrating upon the defeat of the apcakcr as a member of the house. "According to my Information," said the white haired veteran, who was defeated for re-election In the 1920 Harding landslide, "they are pouring money into the . district In an effort to defeat mo to give a lesson to the president and his recovery program. I understand they have set up headquarters at Springfield (111.) IN DEAMUNGE DEW ITT, Towa. March 31. (AP) Blinding rnln and a perilously low celling sent Lieut, Thomas A. Woods, army mall filer, hurtling to death on a farm near here, authorities said today. Ho was the twelfth army flier to die since the fighting airmen received the order to carry the malls. Lieutenant Woods, flying an at tack plane loaded with 600 pounds of mall from Chicago, crashed last night in the field of William Momm- aen, farmer. So terrific was the lm pact that the filer, whoso horns sts tion was San Antonio, Texas, waa crushed between his motor and the 23 pouches of malt he carried. TURKISH ARREST ! ISTANBUL, Aplrl 1. (Sunday) In defiance of a Turkish order for his j arrest, Samuel Insull remained : aboard his little Oreek tramp steam- er as midnight passed and It bc ; came Easter Sunday. I A threat of International compli cations developed as the former util ities operator belligerently refused a request that he leave the Malotla. Unofficial Information last night from the Turkish capital Indicated a dossier of Information relative to In sull may reach the attorney general at Istanbul today. The Istanbul penal court Is awaiting American dvu mrnta to determine whether Turkey can expel him to the United States. Sad End Comes To Bylander, Dean Of Petition Circulators PORTLAND. March 31. (AP) Oeorge Bylander, 77, widely known petition circulator, died at the county hospital here Friday, his death terminating a period of broken health and desperate cir cumstances. Only last week his application for an old age pension, for which statute he had circulated petitions without remuneration, waa dented. friends say his pride kept him from applying to charity. He was taken to the county hospital over his protest. More than two-thlrde of the pe titions in the state, Intlatlve or referendum, were circulated by By lander, it has been estimated. He came to portland about 30 years ago. Two sons and a divorced wife live here. STILL OPERATOR 0. L. Wilcox, Wanted For Illicit Liquor Deal Admits Guilt Before Death Flight Brings Tragedy. EUGENE, Ore., March 31. (AP) O. L. ("Blackie") Wilcox died at a local hospital late tonight as a re sult of gunshot wounds Inflicted when he resisted an officer who waa arresting him on charges of oper ating a still, sheriff officials an nounced tonight. ' y ' The shooting occurred late this evonlng in the vicinity of Fourth and Lincoln streets when Wilcox al legedly started to run after Special Deputy Sheriff Ernest Kloppey had demanded he prove whether or not he was Wilcox. Wilcox had been wanted by offi cials since March 5 when officers raided two big stills that were al leged to be operated by him at 1300 Chambers street.' He had not been seen since till Saturday night. A warrant for his arrest has been out since the raid, officers said. Officer Kleppey said he recognized Wilcox and a. companion known as "Red" Hartley drive up to a house this evening. The officer waited out on the sidewalk for the men to re-; appear and that when they came out and started to drive off, he stopped them, told them he was an officer, and asked the man if his name waa Wilcox. The officer said the man believed to be Wilcox said his name i was Byron and that when he waa! asked to prove .his Identity he ap peared unable to do so. The officer then requested Wilcox to drive to the sheriff's office and the two men challenged the officer's authority. After Kleppey had showed them his special commission, they started to break and he drew his gun and or dered them to atop. Wilcox started to run and the officer fired, fatally wounding the victim. Just before he died at the hos pital, officers said Wilcox made a complete confession, admitting his still operations, and said: "I got what was coming to me." NDIA HILLS NOT NEW HAVEN, Conn., Msrch 31. (AP) Evidence to support a theory that the mountainous region of northern India snd central Asia ws uplifted a million years ago, mora recently than hsd bean believed, was reported today by the Vsle North In dia expedition. Prol. Hellmut de Terra, leader of the expedition, which returned re cently, found that the Himalayan region la geologically the most dyna mic In the world, some sections still ruing six feet a century. E STEEL IN EEEECT (By the A,oolted Prew) With approximately 400.000 em ployes directly benefiting, the steel Industry's newest contribution to na tional recovery, a 10 per cent wage Increase amounting to roughly M, 000.000 a month, took effect today. Incresaed prices and an anticipa tory rush of buying to "beat the ad vance" are forecast to follow shortly. One concern, the Illinois Steel Co., a aubMdlary of the United fltatea Steel corporation, gave notice of a price iadvanoe yesterday, jlRlAN OUSTER AS BANKS ESTATE TRUSTEE DENIED Judge Fee Holds No Founda tion For Phipps Enright Petition Agitator's Assets Widely Scattered Evi dence Shows. J. P. Wortman of Phoenix, trus tee, and Robert P. Magulre of Port land, referee, In the bankruptcy pro ceedings against L. A. Banks, former local agitator, now serving life la state prison for murder conviction, will continue in that capacity. Fed eral Judge jamea Alger Fee, In an oral opinion Friday, following a day of testimony In a special federal court session here, ruled that tbe two officials had "done everything possible," and that there was no foundation or evidence to warrant their removal as sought In a petition filed by Attorney W. E. Phipps and Attorney T. J. Enright, charging faU- ure to properly function, and neglect In the handling' of the estate affairs. The court further held that the proceedings were "a legal mistake" and that they were brought through petitioning creditors "not understand ing the law on mortgages and bank ruptcy." Three creditors withdrew their names from the petition la court. The law holds that mortgages is sued four months before bankruptcy proceedings are Instituted have the legal right of way in recovery. The court stated that Attorney Phlppa was acting in "a dual capac ity" in advising Claude Ward, brother-in-law of Banks, not to release personal property In his possession while representing creditors seeking Us possession. The court commented that George Schumacher, while acting as tempo rary receiver, "instead of preserving property, did1' not know its where- flDoutst" ocnumnoner admitted ns removed furniture from the Banks home, turned It over to Mrs. Banks and Ward for packing, without order of the court, and that he had sold 4700 lug boxes on the same basis. He admitted he had cash from this sale and and had refused to turn It over upon order of the referee. Schu macher continued the refusal on the witness stand, but ohanged his mind during the noon recess and advised the court he would. It was brought out In the testi mony that the most valuable of the Banks personal property was in pos session of Ward and Banks' brother, W. A. Banks, of California, and that the remainder was scattered over this county on bills of sale Issued when Banks became financially Involved, and while detained In the county jail. Trustee Wortman testified that holders of property on bills of salt were reluctant to release It, and the chief hindrance came from Ward, "who felt that he had a moral right to it." The trustee testified that he had made a diligent effort to find the hidden assets and had advanced money from his own pocket in plac ing some of the orchard property la condition for crops. Besides the claims of creditors, the United States government has a $8, 000 claim for non-payment of federal Income tax and the county for taxes. (Continued on Page Nine) WILL- ROGERS PASADENA, ChI., March 30. They say the airnmil will be flying commercially soon. They sny confrresg votes on green backs for bonus money soon. They say Dillinger is headed west' "but I bet you not to Tucson" (Arizona). They say the president is going to ap point a warden for Wall Street but all these don't mean a thing in the papers today. But when Babbit Maranville breaks a leg right at the open ing of the season that consti tutes America's greatest crisis. The office seeker and the hu morists naturally look to Wash ington for news, but the youth of America look to "Babbit" and "Babe," and if anybody reading this has to ask who "Rabbit" is then you should bo made to show your citizenship papers. . iiiiMtKiwairMiMt.tM. '