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"All-Oregon Products Days" Boost "Buy Oregon" Movement The Weather Medford Mail Tribute 1 O PAGES I O TODAY Forecast: Fair tonight and Satur day, but becoming somewhat cloudy Saturday. Highest yesterday , 83 Lowest this morning ............. . 47 TWO 8KCTH1NS .Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1931. Sm BE jUBMLEE JlElT fife By PAUL MALLON. (Copyright, 1034, by Faul Mallon) WASHINGTON, D. C, April 20. The White House had Its fingers crossed when it announced that It would take no part In the Democratic congressional pri maries. What It meant was openly. Louis Howo ali ready has been designated private ly to handle the primaries for the Administra tis... u. ,,-ni hi. unable to take his paul mjUm scheduled vacation lor that reason. Also, Mr. Farley's right-hand man, Emil Hurja, has departed at last Irom the PWA (much to the relief of Interior Secretary Ickes), and is now Installed In the Democratic national committee, although no aunounce anent of the switch has yet been made. Hurja specialized in the congres sional end of the 1032 election for Mr. Farley. He knows every vote in every congressional district since the civil war. The president himself is not as shy on the subject as the announce ments indicate. What happened at the White House during the recent visit of Texas boosters shows that. Among the callers were Senator Tom Connally and his primary op ponent, Representative Joe Bailey, Ono of the leading issues between them Is their respective loyalty to the new deal. Bailey has strongly ques tioned Connally's record In that re spect. in front of a whole crowd from Texas, President Roosevelt reached out and shook Connally's hand warmly. The president eveli threw an arm over Connally's shoulder. When It came Balleyl; turn to shake hands, the witnesses observed that the same enthusiasm was lack ing. , T.he Texans raised their eyebrows and looked at each other. Soon the story will be all over Texas, and yet no one ever will be able to accuse the White House of mixing In the Texas primary. There Is more than that behind the Connally atory. The trutrt seems to be that Mr. Connally boosted his atock 100 per cent t the White House when he voted to sustain the president's veto on veterans' allow ances. The president feels very kind ly toward those who stuck by ,hlm. Mr. Connally Is a veterans' man, and always haa been one. He Is a Spanish-American war veteran him self. His conversion was an out standing event. The way he was treated was full notice to all Democratic congressmen that the Wlilto House has a record of the veterans' veto vote, and, w.hlle the president Is offlcally taking no part in the primaries, he can, and will, find ways to help his friends. The Connally Incident was so no ticeable that Joe Bailey Is supposed to have gone to the president and said he would withdraw If the admin istration was supporting Connally. He announced later he was not with drawing, so he must have been as sured that the White House Is not supporting anyone. However, Mr. Roosevelt has been In politics too long not to have real ized the Implications w.hlch would be drawn from his demeanor. Apropos of the alternating pres sure now being exerted on the presi dent bv conservatives and liberals, a high official of the Whit House tella this old table: A man was walking along a road with his son and a donkey w.hen he heard spectators comment on how foolish he was to feed a donkey and then not ride it. So he got on to ride. Farther on, he heard talk about how selflah he was to ride and let his son walk. So he let the son get on. A few miles further, people report ed him to the Society for Prevention of cruelty to Animals, and both he and his son were required to dis mount and lead the donkey again. The sequel to that one Is the one Kin Hubbard always told about the newspaper publisher who soon went lo the booby hatch when he tried to run a newspaper to please everyone. BOYBlBlLlTO TURN OUT SATURDAY A large number of boys reported last erening at Van Scoyoc field for .the American Uylon Junior baseball .Vam. and they are requested to re port again tomorrow afternoon at 2, p. m frr practice All boys inter- j eftrd In taking part are requested to j be at the field. . BID ACCEPTED BY Cabinet Member Will Come to Medford by Plane, Is Word June -8 Visit Is Sought by Local C. of C. Henry A. Wallace, United States secretary of agriculture, will be Med ford's guest at Oregon's Diamond Ju bilee celebration next month, the Chamber of Commerce was Informed today by Governor Julius 1. Meier, who extended to the national oflcial the invitation sent out by the Jubilee committee to Presiuent Franklin D. Roosevelt and his secretary of agri culture. Secretary Wallace will be asked to make his visit here on Agriculture day, which is scheduled for Friday, June 8. In the acceptance of the governor's Invitation, It was announc ed here today, the national leader of agriculture stated that he would make the trip from Washington, D. C, by plane and could arrange his Itinerary to please the Oregonlans. He accept ed the invitation for June 3, but the Chamber of Commerce officials felt confident today that he would change the date to June 8, In order to be heie for the agricultural program, which Is expected to draw . farmers?- to Med ford from all sections of the coast. With Secretary Wallace's attend ance assured, the crowd already an ticipated Is expected to grow to gi gantic proportions. The national farm program, having attracted the attention of all classes of people In the nation and' In Oregon and other agricultural saes parlcu- larly, the secretary of agriculture's visit here this year will add more than' the usual" distinction provided by a national leader, to the Jubilee program. FIVE NAVY PLANES SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 30. (AP) With the last plane safely In the air at 9:35 a. m., five navy amphib ian planes took off from here today on a two-day flight to Seattle, where they will Join surface vessels in the navy's 1934 Aleutian Island survey expedition. A sixth plane Is sched uled to fly to Seattle the latter part of next week. The fliers were expected to arrive at Bakersfleld, Calif., about noon. After lunch they ire scheduled to continue on to Sacramento, where the night will be spent. Tomorrow's schedule calls for a stop at Medford, Ore., before Eugene Is reached for a night stopover. The fliers are due at Seattle Sunday morning. Lieutenant Commander G. T. Owen Is In command of the flight. POLICEHOLTfRiO IN THEFTOF WOOL Clarence W. Edmonds of 930 Beatty street, Medford, 33, laborer, and Jerry L. Johnson, 35, also a laborer, are being held In the county Jail on charges of grand larceny, for alleg edly stealing 138 pounds of wool from J. D. Williams of Route 1, Ash land, whose ranch is about three miles up the Greensprlngs. The two men. arrested by state po lice, who are held in the county Jail under 500 bond each, were expected to be taken Into court today to en ter pleas. A third man Is being held for questioning by the state police in connection with the case. The wool, which police say was sold by the men in Orants Pass, was re turned to Medford today. .Edmonds .and Johnson were taken Into court Thursday afternoon and given until today to decide If they "would waive preliminary hearing. GARDEN OFFERS GEI j! CALLS A small response to the announce ment that seeds for subsistence gar dens are available at the Jackson County Relief committee headquarters wa reported today by the committee. with a statement urging needy peo ple to take advantage of tals opportu nity to feed themselves. The seeds are sttll available and applications win be received at the headquarters In the city hall. Seeds will be Issued to all eligible people, who are alto being furnished loU by the city. In many case upon which to grow gardens. HENRY A: WALLACE, secretary of agriculture, who today notified Gov ernor Meier he would visit Medford during the Oregon Diamond Jubilee slated here June 3 to 9. IN ALL-OREGON PRODUCTS DAYS Today marks the opening of official celebatlon of "All Oregon' Products Days," with Medford Joining all other cities of the state In acampatgn to advance the Bale of Oregon products. "Buy Oregon" is the slogan expected to create more Oregon payroll dollars, Oregon products will be featured In all store windows throughout tne coming week and posters, drawing still more attention to the advantages of "Buying Oregon," will be displayed. The week is officially dedicated to the things that Oregon makes and the things that Oregon grows to the end that added purchasing power will be re-Invested In Oregon farms, forest and Industrial production. The Oregon Manufacturers' asso ciation is giving Medford much aid In making possible an outstanding manufacturers' exhibit at the Dia mond Jubilee celebration, and John Moffatt, chairman of the retail mer chants' committee of the chamber of commerce, has asked that the city reciprocate by aiding the association In this endeavor to promote a greater use of Oregon-made goods. E PORTLAND, April 20. f AP)-i-Bld6 on two national forest highway pro jects In Oregon, the low proposals on which aggregated more than $287,000, were opened by the federal bureau of public roads today. F. C. Dlllard of Medford and A. T. Do) an of Tillamook submitted the low bid of 167,684 for the grading and sub-grade reinforcement of 4.41 miles of the McMlnnvllle-Tillamook highway in Tillamook county between Dolp and Hobo. The La Dee Logging company of Portland bid S160.118, and C. C. Malcolm of Portland bid 1162, 030. On the Diamond lake highway pro ject In Jackson and Douglas counties. A. Milne of Portland was low with a bid of H29.781 for 12.44 milea of sur facing and bituminous treatment. The Newport Construction company of Portland bid 1131.642, and E. C. Hall of Eugene bid 1135.289. JOINTS PROBLEM PORTLAND, Ore., April 20 CAP) T.he suggestion that the state of Ore gon operate beer parlors in Portland and that the licenses of private dis pensers be revoked, was advanced by Mayor Joseph K. Carson In a straight armed statement here in which he declared: "We are not going to spend the money of taxpayers to keep po licemen watching these places." Portland has about 1500 beer places. Against several hundred of these residents have lodged com plaints charging rowdyism and notsl neM. or disorderly conduct "It is up to the beer business to clean bouse," Mayor Carson declared. With Kaiser Before War Revealed for First Time Indiscreet Talk With American Writer Cause of Headaches, Speculation For Quarter of Century (Editor's Note: The Kaiser gave an Indiscreet Interview to an Amer Icnn newspaper man in 1908. The German foreign office, according to the story, blue-penciled much of the dynamite. The cxpurgntcd version wok nun oti need for publication in the December, 1908, Century Magazine. Be fore It appeared, however, the foreign office requested suppression, nnci sent a cruiser to New York to pick up the pages ami consign them to Davy Jones locker. When the crates containing the sheets fulled to sink, they were fished out and the copies fed to the flnmcs. lite "lost Inter view" Is now published for the first time.) By HOMER McCOY BOSTON, April 20. P) What the Kaiser said to William Bayard Hale, Journalist, that night back in 1908 an international mystery for a quar ter of a century was revealed today. The famous "lost interview," which caused so many headaches and so much speculation ,1s presented In the May Issue of the Atlantic Monthly Magazine by William Harlan Hale, son of the man to whom Emperor William II of Germany spoke so freely, and. as his country thought, so indis creetly. This Is the gist of the views ex pressed by the Kaiser: Crisis Inevitable. The inevitable world crisis was a clash between Japan and occidental nations: East and West must meet, and the West must conquer. Great Britain was guilty of a sort of political miscegenation In allying 'licrself with Japan. War was necessary. War was Chris tian. The Bible was full of fighting, The greatest soldiers were Christiana, Theodore Roosevelt, then Prosldant oT the United States, was his hero the dominating, militaristic leader he hoped he himself was. The -course of history was largely determined, not by the clashing of social forces and economic trends, but by the deeds of great men and per sonalities. ' Thus the Kaiser spoke. It was one evening in July, 1908, that he con sented to the Interview by Hale, close friend of Theodore Roosevelt. The meeting was on the Imperial yacht, Hohenzollern, at anchor In the Fjord of Bergen. Amazingly Indiscreet. In the Atlantic Monthly. Ha:e writes that the emperor voiced "the most amazingly indiscreet statements ever uttered by the head of a great nation." The world situation was precarious at that time. The tirst-ratc powers were in a fine state of balance like a mixture of chemicals, ready to ex plode with the addition of some cata lytic substance a rash speech for ex ample. . . The Russo-Japanese war was three years past. Germany had come to a cross-roads and was a little off the path. She was carrying on a naval race with Great Britain, a military race with France. The Algeclras conference, at which England, Russia and Italy had op posed the fatherland in agreeing to recognize the priority of French In terests in Morocco, had left her some what of an Ishmael among nations. So, the German foreign office evi dently believed that the Kaiser had spoken too freely. Dynamite Ileniovcd. The Hale interview was to appear in the Cenutry Magazine, December. 1908. The German foreign office g7e It a thorough editorial scouring, re moving most of the dynamite. Then, it was decided that the in terview should be suppressed. It was, (Continued on Page Three) DOOR SATURDAY Cool and Inviting as the name In dicates the "Oasis" will open Its doors to the public tomorrow noon at 101 South Central avenue, offering an Ideal setting for beer drinking and lunching. J. L. Campbell and his son, J. D. Campbell, are the proprietors. The Oasis has nine booths on the north side and a full length bar on the soitth side. Instead of the usual mirror back of the bar, there are in teresting scenic paintings. Ore en and orange with silver make a pleasing color scheme for the fix tures, walls and floor covering. Gay striped awnings at the entrance of the Oasis and on the Eighth street windows serve to shelter the entire room from the sun. Oregon Weather Fair tonight and Saturday, but overcast on coast and becoming gen erally cloudy in west portion Satur day; not much change in tempera ture; gentle changeable winds off shore, becoming southerly. JAPS' STATEMENT DAZES DIPLOMATS By GLENN HAIlIt (Copyright, 1934, by Associated Press) TOKYO, April 20. Tho world, as represented by foreign diplomats In Tokyo seemed dazed today by Japan's "restatement of policy" toward China and what the diplomats regarded as her audacity In Issuing It. - The representatives of other powers, still wondering at the exact meaning of the declaration, labeled It variously a "white-hands-off-China" statement and an "Asiatic Monroe Doctrine." .Japanese officialdom appeared be wildered by the -world's hostile recep tion of Tokyo's declaration which, in part, holds Japan Is solely responsible for maintaining the peace of East Asia. There Is almost unanimous con currence among the diplomats on two points: First, that Tokyo's statements con stitute the most startling and most ambitious declarations of policy the Orient has witnessed since Japan's 21 demands to China In 1915; and Second, that how far Japanese doc trines menace world peace will de pend entirely on how Tokyo Inter prets and applies them. JURY EYES SITE OF AUTO CRASH A Justice court Jury this afternoon visited the scene of the accident on the North Pacific highway last Sat urday, as a result of which Ray Ahart, Is standing trial for reckless driving. It Is alleged that Ahart fail ed to signal, . while making a left hand turn into the driveway at his home and crashed Into an auto In which a number of Grants Pass peo ple were riding. The Jury la composed of Leon B. Has It Ins, C. M. Culy, Chos. B. Gay, Louis Bloom and H. T. Hubbard. The hearing la expected to last all day. GASOLINE SALES FAR SALEM, Ore., April 20. MP) Gas oline aales In the state of Oregon for the first three months of 1934 were 1,401,101 gallons under sales for the,, corresponding period last year. Total i tlrst quarter 1934 sales were 34,3(18,-1 794. bringing lax receipts to the state of 1, 718,440. January was the only month to show an Increase over last year. A decrease In sales of more than 1, 000.000 gallons was noted In March below the same month last year. : To date, 80 applications for loans have been filed with the Production Credit corporation for Coos, Curry. Douglas, Josephine and Jackson coun ties. Most of these applications are now under consideration at the main office In Spokane. Wash., and will be acted upon at an early date. The average amount sought Is 11000, according to Secretary Luther K. Deuel and run from 1300 to $2000. SAN FRANCISCO. April 30 (API The Bank of Albany, at Albany, Ore., has been made a member of '. the Federal Reserve Bank of San ' Francisco, the latter Institution an Inounced today. FATE OF MAY BE BY TIME E! State Calls Witnesses Re garding Time When Shots Heard Klamath Lawyer's Office Speed Testimony KLAMATH FALLS, April 20. (AP) Time exact time became a vital incident today as the state sped through the presentation of its cose charging Horaco M. Manning, veteran attorney, with the murder of young Ralph Horon, a member of the lower house. Witnesses who believed they heard the first or second volley of shots coming from the Manning office in the business district reported their times from tho stand this morning. Seen After Shots, Claim Two other state witnesses, men who had known the defendant for several years, testified they had seen him on the street near the entrance of his office shortly after 6:00 o'clock on February 12. The state expects to show through evidence and witnesses that the de fendant left his office where Horan was killed some tlmo after the first two of four shots wero fired. Mary Mlstecky, ownor of a ranch near Malln, snld this morning she heard two shots at about 6:00 o'clock. She was shopping at a market near tho Underwood building, where Man ning has his office, with her hired man, Al Bishop. Bishop- followed MUs Mlstecky -to tho stand and corroborated her test imony. Tho. woman, speaking brok enly, had difficulty in making the defense counsel .understand her re marks. She was subjected to consid erable cross' examination when she said the shots wore- fired at 8:30. Tho district attorney, Theodore GUIcri wators, refreshed hor mind and she changed her testimony. Shot Time Testified William Klttrigo and Mrs. Sarah Oalloway, residents of an apartment h on so adjacent tho Manning office. said they heard two shots from that direction at approximately 6:00. ' Sam Woodward, a pioneer resident of Klamath county, who satcT'he knew tho defendant for 30 years, testified that about five or six minutes after 6:00 he saw Manning standing in the entrance of the. Underwood building. Ho passed his friend and recognized him. Neither spoke. On crass examination he admitted It was getting dark but refused to say there was any possibility of mis taken Identity. Charles VanDorcn, clerk in the Underwood building drug store, too. said he saw Manning In the en trance. He said the tlmo was between five and ten minutes after 6:00. Man ning was standing without hat or overcoat and staring Into the street. Ilornn's Pnrlner Hecnllrcl Claude McColloch, Horan 's law partner, was recalled to the stand by tho state. Ho sold ho had given : Horan the moonshlno found in the ! parked car the night of the slay ing. The bottlo was In the back of the coupe and McColloch said It Was on Saturday before Koran's death that he had last seen It there. " The defonso cross examined Mc Colloch in an effort to determine whether Horan was left handed. A gun was found clutched In his dead left hand. The legislator's partner, however, declared that he had never known him to uso that hand In a manner to Indicate he might be am bidextrous. Htnle Hurries Evidence The stato was rushing through Its witnesses today and there was strong possibility It might complete Its case Saturday. Dr. O. E. Helnrlch, crim inologist, was still to be called. Dr. Frank Mennle, pathologist from Port land, also was to appear for the state. Medical testimony was the out standing event of yesterday. Dr, Gcorgo Edler, coroner, and Dr. Charles Rugh, autopsy physician, of fered remarks which the state will use to establish that Horan was seated wliffl killed. Thin, the stato hopes, will disprove the self defonso theory of a scramble : for revolvers and ft duel. Stato testimony yesterday also re vealed that Howard Perrln, Man ning's brother-in-law, was In the ante room of the office Just before the shooting. klamatTTman crushed to death under truck KLAMATH PALLS, April 20. (API Kr.sle Hull. 30. waa killed here last nlfiht when he attempted to Jump from a moving hay truck after bales of hay had shifted. Ho fell directly under the truck and two wheels of the machlnet and two trailer wheels panned over him. Barn to Mr. and Mrs. Jamanu of North Medford, a daughter, Thursday, April 19, 111 BULLETIN AIR MAIL BIOS On the report that a child In the Etierhart family, mining on the Washani ranch In the foothills sec tion south of Medford, had been burned to death in rirM h stroyed the home, Coroner Frank rcrl and suite police were called to that section this artcrnnon. No details of the fire could be ob tained, as all near neighbors nna rushed to the scene of the conflagra tion, it was, however, ascemiiiicu that the house on the farm had been destroyed and that the Kberharts, liv ing there, had several children. BASEBALL National R. H. E. Philadelphia 0 6 1 Brooklyn . 5 10 0 Hollcy, Klclnhans and J. Wilson; Leonard and Lopez. Chicago at St. Louis, postponed; cold. R. H. E. Boston ...... .,.... 3 io 1. New York 7 9 1 Batteries: Cantwell, Magnum and Hogan; Schumacher, Salveson, Bell and Richards. American R. H. E. Detroit . 4 8 1 Cleveland - 0 A O Fischer and Cochrane; Brown and Pytlak. New York at Boston, postponed; rain. R. H. E. Washington 6 13 1 Philadelphia 9 16 0 Batteries: Weaver, Thomas, Rus sell, Crowdcr and Berg, Klumpp; Marcum, Dietrich, Kllno and Hayes. 4 C. OF C: SUPPLANTS Organization of the Jackson Coun ty Chamber of Commerce, to succeed the Medford Chamber of Commerce, was announced today, following the meeting of the board of directors of the latter body, at which definite action was taken to make Chamber of Commerce work county-wide In scope. B. E. Harder was elected president of the county organization; H. A, Thlerolf, vice-president; Ward Beeney, treasurer, and A. H, Banwell, manager. County directors on the board will be the following men from various sections of the county: J. B. Kirk John T. Hoimer, D. H. Perry, Thomis Quast, B. P. VanDyke, Chester Wendt and Harry W. Ward. The seven county directors will act with the 14 Medford men, previously announced. In composing the com plete Chamber of Commerce board. The city of Ashland was not men tioned In representation today, duo to tho lack of any expression from that section regarding the plan. If Ashland desires representation, how ever, It will be arranged, the chamber oflclals stated, as soon as Informa tion to that erfect is received from the Llthla city. The motion picture theater Indus try code, under which the local the ters have been operating, was the subject of ft general discussion at a meeting held here this week o? south ern Oregon theater owners. Block booking, double featuring, giveaways and the various other phases of ex hibition were entered into. It was decided that. In view of the general Increase In cost of theater operation, caused by higher salaries, shorter hours, added employes, high er film rentals and an Increased cost In all supplies and accessories, Med ford theaters would adjust admission prices to a core comparative level. Consequently, starting Sunday, April 33, new prices for theater admissions will be as follows: Rial to theater. 35 cents matinees and evenings; Roxy snd Studio theaters, 30 cents for matinees and evenings. The Crate rinn prices will remain at their pres ent level. USE OF CONVICTS FOR JOB OF MULE BANNED LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 30. (P, Governor J. M. Putrell today ordered the state penal board to stop the us1 of convicts in place of mules to pull cotton planters on the Rucker state prison farm. , Born, to Mr, and Mrs. W. J. Thomas of Butte Palls, a daughter weighing five pounds, five ounces, at the Com munlty hospital today. Some Companies Ask Only 19 Cents Airplane Mile Is Discovery On Opening Envelopes by Farley WASHINGTON, April 30. (API Spectators whistled in surprise when Postmaster General Fariv r.nrH open the envelopes and read the bids iur carrying airman on the 31 routes the government Intends to place In private hands for at least the next three months. Some of the comnaniM hiH in as 19 cents on airplane mile in of fering to flv the mnlU. Thn rango stipulated in the specifications who iron, ii to 4a cents per airplane mllo. . - The small roam whem th kh. were opened was Jammed with post office and Justice department offic ials and aviation men. WASHINGTON. Anrll 2nuo The White House Indicated today that President Roosevelt docs not wish any silver lee tAlnt Inn at thi. session. WASHINGTON. Anrll an IAt President Roosevelt wanta a perman ent agency established by law to pre side ovor labor disputes and went to wow todny with Senator Wagner (D N. Y.), to bring tho latter's labor board bill form for enactment at thla session. WASHINGTON, April 30. (AP) Presldont Roosovclt today. ..repeated. Ills proposal for it six months' con-" tlnuatlon or the existing bn re cent roductlon In railroad, wage. Howovor, he demanded of the rail road managers that they Immediate ly correct tho anvatem nf fnrlnuo,. demotions ' and wages. WASHINGTON. Anrll In t The rovlBed stock market control bill waa approved by tha senate banking committee todnv. 11 f n ,.-..- Ing a two year Investigation of Wall oircci practices and weeks of con flict ovor provisions of tha measure. T .P. ASHLAffD, April 20. (Spl.) Th time of two-engine freight trains over the Slsklyous has returned, ac cording to local officials, who stated that business from the division from Roseburg to Ashland has doubled during the last year, which has re quired larger trains to transport the shipments over the mountains. Firemen who were lot out when the engineers were demoted during the depression, as employes were re duced, are being recalled with several ndded at Dunsmulr and Klamath Palls, according to reports. This report coincides with the statements of the Southern Pacific that Its carload lngs are showing a re markable Increase recently. WILL- ROGERS r5ays: SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 19. Tho fnmous "Wirt dinner" proved one thing. That, in that Ihcso highbrows can't remember what happen ed at their dinners any more than us dumb ones .can remem ber what happens at ours. What difference does it make what was said at a dinner any how t If it's n real dinner and. everybody is good, there won't bo anything sensible said any how. You know thero is two places where what a person says should not be held against 'cm in a court of law. One is at a. dinner and tho other on tho witness stand of n Washington investigation. Hotli affairs are purely social anil should be covered only by the society ed itor. Yours, Villi MsHioiM 7alaat,