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The Weather- forecast: t'nsettled with rain to night and Tuesday. -Not much chance In temperature. Highest yesterday ?7 Lowest this morning . - Medford Mail Tribune 1 natch the TRlBUNK'b I MB A ' CLASSIFIED 41)8 . . C?a'2r Lott of toad bargain. Y p , tbat nin genuinr laflngs. mjmjmtwm Twenty-uinth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934. No. 13. WIS 0) 5) 1 njM t M i Fly raul Mnllon WASHINGTON. D. C. April 9. The reason behind Huey Long's current antics la not hard to find. Mr. Roosevelt decided some time ago that Huey was a bad man to mix up with, either as a friend or an enemy. So he and Postmaster-General Parley worked things quetly around, so Senator Pat Harrison would be their chief consultant on Louis iana patronage. Harrison is from the adjoining state of Mississippi. Nothing was said about the matter, but Huey began to catch on weeks ago, hen more and more appoint ments went against him. One very Important federal Job went to a Mis alsslpplan. Long has received noth ing. There Is a cloakroom understndlng among senate Democrats now to Ig nore Huey, no matter what he says or does. The agreement Is the result of what happened to Harrison and Bennett Clark. The other day they undertook to chastise Huey and found out what every burned child already knows. As one Democratic senator woefully explained to his colleagues in private: "The trouble about debating with Huey la that you cannot call him anything he has not already been called." Huey himself expressed something of the same Idea when he publicly told Harrison and Clark not to get mixed up with porcupines, unless they wanted some quills In their hide, other senators used other ani mals In the same metaphor. The result Is Huey is going to have immunity in congressional debate hereafter. The boys are afraid of him. The Inside on the rail strike situa tion Is that the labor unions are en gaging In tactical maneuvers. They are holding out because they have nothing to lose. Tt. to t.hr months vet before the 10 per cent wage cut agreement expires. They have all that time In which to hold out for better terms, without any serious consequences. The reason Rail Administrator Castman threw up the sponge was that he discovered thst situation and became disgusted. He had the op erators fairly well in line, but he could not budge the unions. e None of the manipulators believes there Is going to "be a strike. There cannot be. The law provides many steps yet before wo even get up clos; to one. Tho labor boys are acting as If they jealy meant It. By threats and grim acing they may be able to wheed'e out a. new agreement for, say, a 5 per cent cut. Most observers believe what is really more Important Is a better wage for the low-paid em ployes outside tho union. What will happen Is this: When Mr. Roosevelt comes back, he will Invite the labor boys' In. He will have a difficult time-with them. A swift agreement is hardly In prospect. Some concessions will have to be made by both sides. The Republican progressives arc showing Inner signs of mild discon tent with the administration. You can see It backstage In their senate group. With the exception of Senator Nor rls, they generally havo refrained from publicly Joining the New Deal. They have played a cagey game, co operating quietly, but always leaving the gate open so they could get out If they wanted to. Their mall lately has led them to believe their farm constituents are doing a lot of heavy thinking. Farm clubs have been organized In some districts to resd the Congressional Record at night. Their business con stituents are the little fellows, some of whom hsve been complaining about the NRA. They are safe for the present, but gome moderation of AAA policy may have been maae to keep them In line. ... When Senator Borah leaps to the attack, you know spring Is nlgh. Borah keeps his ear to the ground better than any other congressional tactician. His criticism of the NRA esmpsign was the first break twoy from the New Deal. It led the way for this current wave of criticism. The postman says Borah's mall is running 300 to 300 letters a day. which is more than he ever before received. Congressman Wadeworth's friends now believe he will not run for gov ernor of New York, because it I a needless chance to take, in view of his prospects for the Republican presidential nomination. TV-n-o-rsts here concede privately that Governor Lehman is not as etron? a candidate as they would like to have. Bankers are making life miserable for Jesse Jones by mall and telephone, because his Nstlonsl Bank of Com merce at Houston, Tex.. Is 80 per cent liquid. It ill! hurt h'.s campaign to n ;.:: 'S.iMy l.lr .; u condition ay m-iking commercal (Continued, $4 fs E8W4 . 1 HUDSON CO. HIT BY WALKOUT PARTSJONCERN Shutdown Ordered at 1 P. M. Because of Labor Trouble in Motor Products Co. 18,000 Workers Are Idle DETROIT, April 8. (AP) The Hudson Motor Car company an nounced a shutdown effective at 1 p. m. today, because of inability to obtain parts, particularly those man ufactured by the Motor Products company, where a strike is in pro gress. The shutdown was announced by J. Edward Schipper, public relations representative of the company, who said "the plant will remain shut unjil we get a new source of supply or the strike at Motor Products is settled." The shutdown at tha Hudson plant throws 18,000 employes out of work. Company officials emphasized there Is no labor trouble at the Hud son plant and that the shutdown was necessitated solely because suppliers could not furnish material needed to continue production. Approximately J000 workers of the Motor Products company went on strike last week, their walkout re sulting In a suspension of work by about 4600 other employes of the company. Edward P. McOrady, assistant to General Hugh S. Johnson, NRA head, who Is sitting with the federal auto mobile labor board here, said today that the Motor Products strike Is considered the key problem confront ing the labor tribunal. C. OF C. DIRECTORS ARE NOMINATED The election committee of the Chamber of Commerce, announces that the primary ballots In tbe an nual election for directors resulted in the following being nominated: W. 8. Bolger, J. C. Boyle, Albert Burch, J. C. Carle, T. E. Daniels, H. S. Deuel, W. A. Gates, B. B. Harder, Floyd Hart, B. C. Jerome, K. W. Kendrlck. Ft. R. Reter, J. Verne Shangle and Eugene Thorndike. Final balloting on these names will take place this week and seven will be elected directors to serve with the seven holdovers. The above are listed In alphabeti cal order. The new board will meet on Fri day, March 30, to elect the president, vice-president, treasurer and manager, and also to formulate the new pro gram of work for the ensuing year. L Third Jackson county school for parents is to be conducted tomorrow from 10 to 4 in the auditorium of the First Christian church, under the direction of Mrs. Mabel C. Mack, county home demonstration agent. Mrs. Effle Blrdscye of Rogue River will preside at the morning session, and Mrs. Bertha Young will have charge of the afternoon meeting. Tea will be served by the county extension committee at 4 o'clock. LOOK AT 'LIBERTIES II I WASHINGTON. April B. (VD Sec retary Morgenthau wants all holders of Liberty bonds to dust them off and see if any have aerial numbers ending with the digits 9. 0 or 1. The treasury chief explained that If any of the figures appear at the end of the serial number the bonds are fourth Liberties and can be ex changed for other government bonds at "substantial premiums." PLOT TO ASSASSINATE BUDAPEST, Hungary. April . 'Ti Reports which evsded the censorship and were officially denied said M bljh, active army officers were r reeted In Rumania today for plan ning to assassinate Mm. Lupescu, Intimate friend of King Csrol. i One of the officers srrested xt-i j said to have been one of Cirol'j Ticnaft who n mwi tir in iu.- Bishop Cannon Diverted VICTIMS' WILL ALL IS Twdlve in Butte Falls Dis trict Improving Today Exact Poison Cause Is Still Matter of Doubt Twelve persons In the Butte Falls district, suffering from a form of mushroom poisoning, were this mor ning reported by Dr. B. O. Wilson to be Improving satisfactorily, although their condition the last of the week was considered serious. Those In the Prospect section who were also 111 from eating morels were greatly im proved, according to word from the resort. Persons In the Butte Falls area who are ill Includes Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Patton, Harold Patton, Bernlce Baker, Mrs. Garrett Larson, Mrs. Wal ter Stone, Mrs. Clem Clark, George Tranta and four members of the Nlckcrson family, who reside about five miles out of Butte Falls. Dr. Wilson, who was accompanied on the calls by Dr. Dwtght Flndley, said that the patients were no longer suffering from severe vomiting at tacks, but were in a weakened condi tion as the result of the polsonfng. The Butte Falls people had not eaten toadstools, but mushrooms, Dr. Wilson declared, but said that any of three conditions of the food might have caused the illness, referred to as muscarine poisoning. He said the mushrooms could have been in a degenerated state, they might not have been prepared correctly,- or that - the - damp - weather could have caused a sort of fungus to grow on the morels. Florence Conger of McLeod who was In the Sacred Heart hospital last week, supposedly ill from mushroom poisoning, was taken to her home Sunday. CORVALLIff, Ore., April 9. fl) Soaking mushrooms In salt water as a preventive for poisoning, while effec tive In some Instances, was described as a risky procedure today by author ities at Oregon State college, In com menting on tne severe 'illness of sev eral Jackson county residents who Ate mushrooms last week. Reports from Medford indicated the poisoning might have been caused by a fungus growth, rather than by the mushroom Itself, but little Infor mation could be given here until specialists learned what type of fun gus was Involved. Dr. S. K. Zeller, plant pathologist, said the fungus in question might be one of a hundred parasatic fungi. Sometimes, he said, what appears to be fungus li In reality part of the mushroom. Only those person who are thor oughly acquainted with mushrooms should gather them. Dr. Zeller warn ed, although tt is 'comparatively easy for the Initiate to determine accur ately non-poisonous types which should be ,used to the exclusion of others less commonly recognized. Muscarine poison can be extracted from mushrooms by placing them In salt water, providing they are soaked long enough and the water is changed frequently, It was saia by Dr. F. A. Gllfillan, Oregon State colleges pro fessor of pharmacy. He said the process is slow and, unless complete, is of course dangerous. Most of the toxalbumln poisons present in another class of mush rooms are destroyed by cooking, Dr. Gllfillan said. This poison Is not soluble in water. RUSSIAN DEVOUT CLING TO EASTER MOSCOW, April .(t7P) Despite IT years of antl-rellgloui propaganda conducted by the soviet government, the devout Christians of Moscow and there are thousands of them gathered In churches here Saturday night to celebrate Easter. True, there were no ceremonial pa rades as of old to celebrate this moat Important of church holidays, but places of worship here were crowded. Hundreds, unable to enter the pack ed church buildings, stood In the streets reverently llntentng, through open doors, to the services being con ducted inside. LOS ANGELES. April . (UP A poaMble homicide mystery confronted police Isst night with the discovery of the body of Pearl Kemp. 33, win some brunette. In her downtown hotel room. At first believing the girl suicide because the gas heater In the room was turned on but not lighted, offi cers turned to a homicide theory then it was found she had received j fowl)! tnfiWa gf tb ttuii Giant Youth Dies In Electric Chair For Slaying Girl BELLEFONTB, Pa , April 0 (AP) Richard (Big Slim) Bach, six foot six Inch youth, died In the electric chair at Rockvlew penitentiary today for beating 19 year old Rose McCloskey to death In Falrmount Park, Philadelphia, after he had atoned her escort into unconsciousness. Miss McCloskey, a five and ten cent atore clerk, was slain January 8, 1933. Her escort, 30 year old Dennis Boyle, Buffered a fractured skull from a stone which was hurled at his head. FOUR KILLED IN IN SALEM AREA .SALEM, April D. (AP) Unless fur ther developments occur, no Inquest will be held into the death of three persons killed In a collision between two automobiles at the Intersection of the Sllverton and Stayton highways late Saturday night, the county coro ner's office stated this morning. The condition of two other occu pants of the Ill-fated cars, one of whom, Margaret King, was seriously injured, and the other, Donald Wlt zel, received lesser injuries, was re ported by hospital attendants early this morning as unchanged. The dead: Burl E. Shedeck, 33, Salem, driver of one machine. Irene Beugll, 33, Salem. Mrs, Donald (VJra). Wltzel, 33, Sa lem, driver of the other car. The injured, Margaret King, Salem, cuts and In Jury to back. Police said the car driven by Mrs. Wltzel t apparently struck Shedcck's car broadside, shunting both cars up a nearby bank. PORTLAND, April 9. (AP) Her bert Giesllch, Jr., 11, was fatally In jured and four other persons were huit Sunday when a car driven by the youth's father, Herbert C. Gies llch, left the highway and struck a tree two mites south of Oregon City. The boy died three hours after the accident from a broken back and a fractured skull. 15 NAVY PLANES SAN PEDRO. April 9 (AP) Bound for Panama on a 3900-mile flight to participate in fleet maneuvers, 15 navy patrol planes took off from here today. The last plane left the waters of San Diego bay at 7:09 a. m. Al though skies were overcast the cell ing was not low for the takeoff, and visibility, was good. The 78 officers and men making the flight, expect to spend tonight at La Paz, Baja, Cali fornia, 600 miles south of here. The first hop was expected to take about 10 hours. Commander H. R. Bogusch, whose plane was the last to leave, is in command of the flight. $5000 REMODELING JOB AT ICE, STORAGE PLANT A remodeling program Is underway at the Medford Ice and Storage plant on South nr In anticipation of a big aummer season. A building per mit, calling for work, estimated at 5000, waa lsued to the company bj the city today. John.on Joins F. R. WASHINGTON, April . (API Hugh 8. Johnson was en route to Florida this afternoon to Join Presi dent Roosevelt's yachting party. BLOOD FLOWS EARLY IN ILLINOIS PRIMARY VOTE CHICAGO. April 8. (AP) Illonols will have a primary election tomor row, but Joseph Tlerno, politician In Chlcagoa "bloody twentieth" ward, will take no part In It. They found his body in the street yesterday, with bullets In his bade. He waa a precinct captain In a ward where there Is bitter strife for control of the Democratic organlratlon, but he waa also seen walking with a young woman ahortly before his death. Po lice are uncertain whether politics or Jealousy actuated the slayer. T ey will keep their eye on the , t.',-ntic'.h tomorrow, ncvertheleM, for it Is a ward with a history of blood Used, Is Mi duriBf CORK be STOCK EXCHANGE Senate Committee Votes for Amendment Creating New Commission to Curb Stock Pits Upsets Plans By NATHAN ROBERTSON Associated Press Staff Writer. . WASHINGTON, April 0. (AP) The New York stock exchange scored a smashing victory in the senate banking committee today by a 10 to 8 vote to create a new commission to regulate the exchanges instead of giv ing Jurisdiction to the federal re serve board and the federal trade commission. The committee adopted an amend ment to the stock market bill offered by Senator Glass (D., Va.), upsetting plans of the bill's authors and Presi dent Roosevelt to have the exchanges regulated by the two existing govern mental agencies. As It now stands, a commission of three members appointed by the president and confirmed by the sen ate, would be set up to exercise all the powers the bill originally proposed to turn over to the reserve board and the trade commission. Friends of the original legislation planned to carry their fight .to the senate floor, and with President Roosevelt's epressed support, were hopeful of final victory, Opponents of the bill as originally drafted also scored an Important vic tory by the same margin in adopting a motion by Senator Adams (D Colo.) to eliminate the vital introductory section of the bill outlining its pur poses for constitutional reasons. KLAMATH POLICE KLAMATH FALLS, April 9. (AP) Grand Jury Indictments against three former Klamath Falls police officers were squashed In, circuit court this morning. The men were charged with using charity funds to further the governorship campaign of Willis E Mahoney, mayor. The move followed arguments of James Hayes1 attorney that tbe de fendant had been called before the Jury to testify against himself. The appeal was allowed and Theodore GUlenwaters, district attorney, Im mediately suggested the court's order in killing the indictment also be ap plied to James R. Shaw, former chief, and Carl Cook, former officer, both charged similarly with Hayes. The case will be resubmitted to the grand Jury. BRUSSELS. April 9. (AP) One person was slain and more than a score were Injured in a week -end of violent political clashes which threat ened to break out anew In and near Brussels today. A communtst was killed In rioting, whieh broke out In connection with the Inauguration of Brussels head quarters of the nationalist blue shirts. SALEM, April 9. (AP) Graduates of the United States naval academy who had majored In engineering and followed that work for the required number of years, were not eligible to be registered as engineers In the i state without examination. Attorney j General t. H. Van Winkle held In an I opinion today, tween Alderman John powers and Antony D'Andrea, aeveral persons were killed. Later D'Andrea himself was shot to desth. A few years later, sfter A1 Capone rose to power, Octavius Oranady, negro politician, waa shot dead In a reign of violence that accompanied a primary. The "Cltlsens Committee Working tor Honest Elections" and tha Public Affairs committee of the Union League club charged yesterday that at least 100.000 persons hare regis tered fraudulently for tomorrow's voting. John 8. RusMi. chief clerk of the election board, called this charts "tmoiu aema." Campaign Funds, HOOVER VISITS ?! Ivy ; v., j naaaiaaaiaaiiMKii, n i i iftn iim' tagssai Herbert Hoover and William Allen White are shown at the noted editor's home In Emporia, Kaa,, where the former chief executive apent the night In the course of his automobile trip from California Into tha midwest. (Associated Prut Photo) LATEST HUNGER HUGO, Colo., April 9. (AP) -Sheriff John Johnson said today he and deputies spent several hours, Just after noon In a futile chase of a large black sedan (Packard) believed to be occupied by John Dil linger, hunted desperado, a woman and an other man. . Sheriff Johnson said the auto was seen by two Hugo men who said they noticed machine guns In the ve hicle. , The sheriff said earlier today he had received a telegram from J. S. O'Connell, federal officer at Topeka, Kas., telling him to watch for an auto believed to have left Topeka, going west, and supposedly contain ing Dllllngcr, a woman and another man. OREGON'S INSANE SPACE SALEM, April 0. (AP) The need of more housing facilities for the In sane committed to the two state hos pitals was emphasized at the meeting of the board of control today, and It was declared the next legislature would be faced with authorizing an appropriation for additional build ings. The population at tho hospital at Salem and the one at Pendleton now approximates 3500, and the number is increasing, Dr. R. B. Lee Stelner of the Salem Institution declared. Both Institutions are being overtaxed. BUI 'SHOW GOES ON' NEW YORK, April 9. (AP) The snow of Howsrd Thursday, magician, went on at a Long Island theatre notwithstanding the death of his wife. Word of Mrs. Thurston's deijth from a heart attack reached the magician Just as the curtsln went up on his compsny's show isst night. Thurs ton and his daughter, Jane, went ahead with their performance. TWO ffiMN WEST POINT, N. Y., April 0. (UP) Two persons were killed and four others Injured, two serioucly, late Sunday when an avalanche of huge rocks buried two" automobiles on a highway near here. The dead: Mrs. Otto ScJlhelmer, East Pater son, N. J. Her son, Otto, Jr., 8. 8HANOHAAprir07uP T. O. Brltton, wealthy Shanghai resident, committed sulfide today with a pis fcol alter worrying over ill health KANSAS EDITOR 'US m CONTROL PLAN AT MEET . PORTLAND, April 0. (P) With an Initial attendance of around 400, the northwest regional two-day dairy con ference to determine the attitude of the industry toward the proposed dairy production control program pened here today. Oregon, Washing' ton and northern Idaho are In the area covered by this conference and delegates attended from all three states. Early Indications are that the plan being proposed by the AAA through four representatives sent from Wash ington for this meeting will not moot with the organized opposition en countered at somo of the 13 meetings already held, though many attending were frankly skeptical while most ap peared to be open minded on the plan and prepared to decide on the basis of the facts brought out at the conference, - 4 FLEET PLAYS WAR EN ROUTE TO EAST NAVAL BASE, SAN PEDRO, Calif., April 0. ( AP) The United States fleet got under way for the east coast at 8 o'clock this morning. Simulating war conditions vessels of tho train force and minesweepers led the sortie out of port in clear ance of theoretical mines. Actual clearance of the harbor extended over an hour and a half, the battle ships being last to weigh anchor at 0:30 a. m. FARMER'S WIFE SEES KILLED BY BULL TOLEDO, Wash., April 0. (AP) Albert Johnson, 43, well known far mer of this vicinity and a native of Kelso, died Sunday morning an hour After being fatally gored by a bull. The animal attacked Johnson wlth- out warning, pinning his body (against a stump. Mrs, Johnson, his wife, witnessed the attack from the farm house. She best off the Infur iated animal with a club until It gave up the attack and neighbors came to her assistance. Britain Watching German Arming LONDON, April 9. T Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, told the houa of commons today that the British government is giving "very serlou" consideration to Germany's contemplated Increased expenditures of her army, navy and air forces. WASHINOTON, April 9. (AP) Hugh S. Johnson, the recovery ad ministrator. In a letter to Senator Wagner (D.. If. Y.). said today In effect he was opposed to the provls- n Ik. Ufannae laHnf hrutt-fl hill I preventing employers from "intt lat in " company unions. Charge TRIAL OF PROHI FEDERAL COURT Government to Show Con siderable Part of Funds Given to Fight Al Smith Used by Cleric Is Claim WASHINGTON, April 9. (AP) John J. Wilson, assistant federal dis trict attorney, said today in criminal court that the government "will show that Bishop James Cannon, Jr., con verted and appropriated to his own use a considerable part" of a contri bution by E. C. Jameson of New York for use against Alfred E. Smith in the 1028 presidential campaign. WASHINGTON, April P. (AP) Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and Miss Ada L, Burroughs today pleaded "not guilty" In criminal court to a charge that they conspired to violate the cor rupt practices act by failure to report all the antl-Smlth presidential cam patgn contributions they received In 1028. Miss Burroughs answered first In a quiet voice. Cannon, speaking loud enough to be heard throughout tha court room, then said "not guilty." Indications that Issues that played a large part In the Hoover-Smith campaign more than five years ago would enter into the trial proceedings came when the court and counsel framed a question to test the Jurors on their religious, prohibition and political views. Twelve persons were called to tha Jury box after the arraignment. TO HEED GRANGE SALEM, AprU S. (AP) The de mand of the Macleay grange in Mar lon county that Rufus O. Holmaa, atate treasurer, resign, his office im mediately alnco he Is a candidate for the republican nomination for gover nor brought only the remark "I don't see any reason why I should resign," when the matter was brought to the candidate's attention. Holman did not Indicate he would resign if he were nominated or whether or not he would resign his office at all. GETS MORE THREATS KANSAS CITY, April 0. (AP) Renewed threats on the lire of City Manager Henry P. McElroy, political storm center, stirred Kansas City to- day on the eve of the inauguration of officials chosen at the recent tur bulent city election. Twice within less than 24. hours the McElroy home was molested first by a sniper's bullet, and sec ondly, by a mysterious telephone threat, "we never miss twice." Several weeks ago McElroy'e life was threat- ened In an extortion note. DR. EMMENS SHOWING IMPROVEMENT DAILY Very good reports were received today from LaJolla, Cat., regarding the condition of Dr, J. J. Emmens, who is a patient at the Scrlpps Memorial hospital there. He Is gradually Improving eaeh day, the report stated, and Is expect ed to return to his home here within a short period. COLUMBIA ASPARAGUS FINDS READY MARKET PORTLAND. April 0.Pj Mid-Columbia asparagus was the cause of a near riot of buyers during the Mon day session of the East Side Farm ers' wholesale market when a Wash ington grower offered supplies at least 20o pyramid below the market. There was a rush to buy at 2.25 pyramid when everyone else was get ting at least 2.50 and even Cali fornia was as high as $3 36. EX-ROSEBURG OFFICIAL NEAR DEATH BY AUTO ROSEBURCJ, Ore., April 0. (AP) W. F. Thomas, Bo, former treasurer of the city ot Roseburg, list night suffered injuries, expected to prow fatal, when he was struck by an auto driven by C. P. Krogel of DUonTllle. Investigating officers report that Thomas, who was q-.iito fecblo, stepped from behind a parsed car directly 1 (too the path of the auto. u i 1
