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"All-Oregon Products Days" Boost "Buy Oregon " Movement The Weather Forecast: Lietttrd, probably with showers tonight and Tuesday. Not much change In temperature. Highest yesterday .... B4 I,o wps t this morning ... 4 ail Tribune IVatch the TltlllUNt. CLA3SIHLI) 11)8 . Lou of good bargain that mean ceiuinr savings. EDFORD Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1931. No. 27. M M ESGAKS KB SUNS TBI By PAUL MALLON. WASHINGTON, D. O, April 33. What makes the latest Japanese nose-thumbing antic so serious la not what has happened so far, but what Is coming. The Rooaevelt administration will Inform the Jap anese In one way or another, that It does not Intend to let them tell us what kind of com mercial relations we will maintain I j with China. It will also per Fau! Ma lion mit Toklo to understand that we have no authority to stop our civilian aviators from training the Chinese In peace time, that we do not Intend to ask Japan what kind of loans we shall make to China and that we consider Japan's new gate-keeping tactics in China as a flagrant viola' tlon of the nine-power pact. That is what Is known In undlplo matte language universally as l mouthful. How that will be told to the Jap anese remains for them to decide. It may be pleasant or It may be rough They passed out their preliminary statement In Toklo In a semi-official way. That Js the old diplomatic trick to find out how the world chancel lories feel before an official statement Is sent out. Our officials have been biting their fingernails keeping quiet officially. But they are not exactly making a secret of their -reaction. Their views undoubtedly already have been trans mitted to Toklo through the unof ficial grapevine. Bo the Japanese know what to ex pect when and if they start sending out official notices of their new policy. It Is a very silly business, viewed from the Inside. Our official cannot understand why Japan ever took such a step at this time. The Japanese well know our unan nounced attitude was to mind our own business and leave Japan and the Orient alone. On the QT we more or less expected that Japan would extend her influence over China by economic aggression and perhaps even some mild military steps. We were prepared to let her do it quietly in order to avoid trouble. We were willing to go to any honorable diplomatic extreme In order to avoid a showdown in the far east. What la behind this whole thing, of course. Is the campaign Japan started generations ago for the con quest of the far east. First It was Corea, then Manchukuo and now an China. Eventually she will doml nate all, but in her enthusiasm for a hasty realization of her objective she sometimes oversteps herself. When Foreign Minister HiroU's honeyed peace note came across the Pacific a month ago our officials thought it meant a lull of a few rears in the Japanese campaign, They thought that Japan's fear of war with Russia had calmed her down temporarily. There are good reasons for believing our sigh of relief then was Justified But the very moment that Europe became Involved in a new warm dis armament squabble and our fleet left the Pacific the Japanese statesmen seized the opportunity to renew their conquest project. They do not want wsr. They want to gobble up tne far eadt by diplomatic guile and com mercial agjrrewlon. and this Is part of the game. chairman fit en. call of the house banking committee conceived an Idea for stopping the McLeod bill petition. He decided to present the bill to the house before the petitioners could force him to. Hastily, his committee met and authorized the presentation n,it ftr th nrfHntji.tlon was made . ntrmmin discovered Steapal! had presented the wrong McLeod bill. McLeod had several.) This ha.ty error was no sooner straightened out thRn It was dfs mreA that Stnffail' committee hsd met in the afternoon. That Is against the ruiea. so inr preemuon w illegal. nn Mr RtMpatl withdrew the bill and had a morning meeting of hla committee to ao me tning ngnt. th Mint la that All thla WOUtred nearly a veek and delayed the vote on the McLeod bill that lone. Tpc pressure for the MrLeod hill comes from out In the country. It Is a strong ss the veterans pressure recently exerted on congress. Every prnson who lost money in banks ap pears to be writing in, demanding Dawee of the measure wnicn woum iirprt the government to pay back hi money. It ha no rhsn-r r. f :-! rnsct (Continued on Pag rout.) DURING PAW AT I Four Wounded Three Young Women Compan ions of Gang Captured Posse On Heels of Gang WASHINGTON, April 23. President Roosevelt gave the word today for speeding up the gov ernment's anti-crime bills In congress as John DHIinger, the desperado, was accused of killing a federal agent. MERCER, Wla., April 23. (AP) John "Wooden Gun" Dillinger, will o' the wisp terrorist, again eluded an army of federal agents and deputy sheriffs early today in a north woods hideout, where he and atx men and five women companions had hidden i In an armed camp since last Friday. His latest escape cost the lives of i two men and the serious wounding of four others. Dillinger and six members of his machine gun gang were at bay In the woods of the Lac du Flambeau re sort region. They were fleeing over roads soft from melting snow, and a force of 50 was close behind. One department of Justice agent was among the dead and another was wounded. Cornered In Tavern. Cornered late last night In Little Bohemia, a Spider Lake dance hall and tavern nine miles southeast of Mercer, Dillinger had had the nar rowest escape of the weeks of pursuit In which the government men have trailed them about the country. ' Three young women wore left be hind, and aurrendered when the be aelglng forces filled the resort, a sprawling building housing living quarters, a bar and a cabaret, with tear gas. The first victim, a bystander, was Eugene Boisoneau, killed outright by the federal agents' fire as he and two companions drove away from the re sort. The shots warned Dillinger and his band, who had taken forcible posses sion of the resort Friday, mounting a machine gun on the roof and post ing lookouts. Flee by Rear Door. They fled out a rear door and sepa rated In the thick Wisconsin woods. Three turned up a few minutes later at Mitchell's resort, comman- (Contlnued on Page Eight) LAKE OF WOODS A number of Medford people spent the week-end or Sunday at Lake o' the Woods, which, with the warm weather, Is rapidly becoming a popu lar resort. According to C. O. Smith, the roads Into the lake are In excel lent condition, and the trip can easily be made In two hours. Among the visitors at the lake were Mr. end Mrs. Don Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Norrls. John Boyle and family. Mr. and Mrs. Don Newbury, Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Kendrlck and children. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hauk, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. West, Lieutenant and Mrs. Wal ter H. Bsch and Mr. and Mrs. David Tale. Pishing at the lake is slso good. Mr. Smith reported. He brought home four fine black base L John Seward, 19. Talent laborer, ar. rested Saturday evening by state po lice on charges of driving while In toxicated, wsa scheduled to appear In Justice of the Peace W. R. Coleman's court this afternoon. Seward was to be represented by T. J. Enrlght. According to the police report. Seward waa arrested on North River side avenue In an automobile bearln awltched license plates. Seward, they claim, die not have an operators license. Ann Queckenbuah. charged with falling to procure n operator's li cense. Is scheduled to appear In Jus tice court Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock- Kdllnr Dies PENDLETON. Ore., April 33 (AP) Colonel P. B. Boyd. 87, editor of the Athena Press, a weekly newspaper, for the past 45 years, died there Sun day from a heart attack. He was born In Iowa and waa a graduate of Orlnnell college. U. S. Dairy Production Control Plan Abandoned Katharine Home KAT1IAIUNK HEPUUKN, actress, shown on her recent return from Eurone.r She expects to plunge ' once Info motion picture wo E STATE OFFICERS SALEM, April 33. P) The 50th annual convention of the Oregon Christian Endeavor closed here last night with an address by Dr. Daniel A. Poling of New York, his second talk of the day. The final day's m tontnreri further hV the election of officers and adoption of resolutions. As result of the election Veldon Dlment of Newberg will succeed Helen McClay of Oregon City as state presi dent of the union. The Dalle was chosen aa the place for next year's convention. Regional vice-presidents elected In cluded Effle Rltchey, Milton; Thelma Parrlsh, Klamath Falls; Kenneth Wl mcr, Roseburg; Rost Bates, Colton, and Helen McClay, Oregon City. Judge Jacob Kanzler of Portland was chosen as world union vice-president; Viola Ogden. Portland, secretary; William Msurer. Portland, treasurer, and Father Strom, Tlgsrd, financial sec retary. Two resolutions, one striking at the liquor traffic and the second de nnnnrinff nurvevors of debasing lit erature and pictures, were adopted at the arternoon session. Regarding the liquor problem. Dr. Poling atated In hie closing address, "We have discovered that though we have repealed the 18th amendment, we have not solved the liquor prob lem. I do not believe we shall ever find a political solution of the liquor problem short of prohibition." ESCAPE PRISON MICHIOAN CITY, Ind., April 23. (AP) Four prisoners, three of them serving life terms, escaped from the Michigan City prison during the week-end, prison officials revesled to day. Leland Phillips. 36. serving a term fo: murder and Noah Seals, serving a three-year sentence for second de gree burglary, escaped some time Sat urday from the prison farm west of Mlrhlgan City. Both are white men. Two negroes. Wlllard Butler, 37. and Charles Irwin, 38, both serving life terms for murder, escaped Sun day. Butler had been employed cook at the home of Warden Louis Kunket on the prlvm grounds and Irwin was a Janitor in the prison bar ber shop. FOUR CONVICTS MANPBNR DEFENSE STARTS AS STATE SUDDENLY RESTS Widow of Horan Says Slain Legislator Was Right Handed Roberts Tangles Criminologists' Testimony KLAMATH FALLS, April 23. (AP) Horace Manning's defense started this afternoon to unravel th testi mony of state witnesses. Dr. J. O. Patterson of Klamatfh Falls was the first witness for the defendant. He said the amount of hemorrhage in Ralph Horan's arm convinced him this wound was the first. The state has attempted to prove the first shot went through the heart and brought Instant death. KLAMATH FALLS, April 33. (AP) Mrs. Ralph W. Horan, pale and at tractive widow of the slain legislator, brought a touch of excitement to the Horace Manning murder trial today when she was unexpectedly called to testify for the prosecution. Theodore Olllenwatcrs, Klamath county district attorney, rested the state case this morning and the way waa cleared for the defense story when the court resumed thla after noon. . Sudden termination of the state case caught George Roberts, Man ning's leading counsel, by surprise, He waa granted time to prepare for the calling of the first defense wit ness. Says Horan Right Handed Mrs. Horan, the mother of two In fant children, testified briefly In a hushed voice. It waa difficult to hear her words even in the quieted, court room. Her father stood beside her aa she Identified pieces of her husband's (Continued on Page Four) GRANTS PASS TOLD OF JUBILEE PLANS Today was Medford's day at the parents Pass chamber of commerce luncheon and Oregon's Diamond Jubilee celebration ahared honors with the anticipated railroad to the coast In the program presented, each coming in for a good boost. The two main speakers were C. E. dates and E. C. "Jerry" Jerome. The first talked on the railroad subject and the second on the Diamond Jub ilee. In the delegation from Medford were: D. H. Ferry, new director In the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, J. Verne Shangle, A. S. Rosenbaum, E. E. Marsh, Ernest Ro' tel and A. H. Banwell. SEATTLE GASOLINE E SEATTLE, April 33. (P) An "! ,0 the period of low gasoline prices In Seattle waa forecast today aa one company posted a retsll price of IS'.4 cents a gallon for Its first grade prod uct, an Increase of 3!i cents. Third structure gas was raised to 17 cent up 2 cents, and the "super" product was Increased 3(4 cents to 20 'i. Other companies reported no change had been ordered from their head quarters, but said a raise might be posted before the end of the day. William Tlnna. 31, of Klamath Palla, was brought to the Sacred Heart hoipltal here Sunday morning Buffering from a fractured spine as a result of a horse falling with nlm about five miles this side of Ashland while herding cattle. Tlnns, who la employed by C. V. Looseley, of Med ford, also received an Injured left leg The horse rolled over several times down an embankment, according to the report of trie accident, and the rider Is aald to have had a narrow escape from death. Diamond Jubilee Invitation List To Be Published "Have you invited a friend to the Jubilee, yet?" This waa the message given out by E. C. Jerry Jerome, thla morning. Arrangements have been made for the Mall Tribune to publish an honor list every day of those who have Invited friends to be Medford guests during the time of the Jubilee. Those expecting out-of-town friends or relations are asked to hand In name to the jubilee headquarters or the cham ber of commerce so that the honor roll can be published daily. FRUIT CONTROL JEOPARDIZED BY E PORTLAND. April 23. (ff) Failure of the government to order vigorous prosecution and adequate punish ment of known violators of the North west fruit marketing agreement and license la Jeopardizing continuance of the fruit control program in Oregon. Washington. Idaho and Montana. it waa declared here today by members of the northwest control committee which met in Portland Friday and Saturday. A format statement was prepared yesterday. The protest over reputed neglect of the federal administration In the matter of -enittrclng the provisions was directed to the agricultural ad justment administration. "The government must act quickly and effectively," the protest said, "to Impress upon Irresponsible elements within the Industry the realization that thla program haa the unquali fied support of the national admin istration and that the government) haa and intends to exercise the authority to enforce the northwest agreement." Paul A. Scherer of Medford, presi dent of the control committee, de clared "the northwest fruit program is too vital a part of the national agricultural recovery prc-am, and the plight of the northwest is too crltlsal, to be permitted to collapse." An increase of grower representa tion upon the control committee .waa advocated by the commltt$g. Pro posed control programs fof ortes, peaches and apricots were considered and referred to the management. A proposed Pacific coast canning Bart lett pear control program also was discussed, and the Bartlett pear com modity committee waa Instructed to represent the control committee at a meeting of northwest growers, shippers and canners at Seattle next Wednes day, Harry J. Eustace of San Francisco was Installed as the control commit tee's manager, succeeding William H. Horaley of Seattle, resigned. 1 FOR 146 MINERS SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia, April 23. (AP) Rescue workers abandoned all hope today of finding any survivors In the depths of the blast-wrecked Kskanjo coal mines. Officials included In a death esti mate of 144 the 86 men atlll unac counted for. Sixty bodies had been recovered. Fifteen miners escaped or were rescued. It had been hoped some of the en tombed men might be found In dis tant galleries, but when the bodies re covered last night were found to be charred and mutilated, rescue squads conceded the other miners trapped likewise died almost Instantly. The blast occurred Saturday. TFi CANTON, China, April 33. (AP) An army of 30.000 communist was reported today to have delivered a crmhlng defeat to Nanking nation allst forces In a battle at Chlcheng on the Klangal-Puklen border. Dlapatchea said the communists surrounded and disarmed five regl ments of 7000 men. ntlrenshln Cost Cut WAflHlNOTON, April 33. fP) President Roosevelt today signed the Dlrksteln bill reducing certain fees in naturalisation proceedings by 60 per cent. A. C. HUBBARD TO HANDLE FUNDS OF DIAMONDJUBILEE New Financial Set-Up Ex pected to Insure Imme diate Success Underwrit ing Drive Plan Check With an entirely new "set-up" In the financial department, the final drive to underwrite the Diamond Jubilee, In Medford June 3-9, will get underway Wednesday morning, and la expected to be completed that night. Undor the new set-up A. C. Hub bnrd will be chairman of the finance committee and no expenditures will be possible without the OK of thla committee. Nor can any financial obligations be incurred without the approval of the committee. Serving under Mr. Hubbard, on this committee will be O. O. Alen derfer, T. E. Daniels. E. C. "Jerry" Jerome and W. 8. Bolger. Local banks have already agreed to furntsh the funds, all that remains to be done Is to have the sum of 120,000 underwritten by the people of Medford aa a whole. As the Jubilee will even be Insured fro mraln, and aa It la estimated at least 50,000 people will visit Medford during thla celebration, this la a very small guarantee for a probable $150,- 000 .return. It la believed the drive will go over the top, with a bang, and that the total will probably bo exceeded before the week ends, PORTLAND, Ore., April 33. (AP) Charles Sullivan, five-months-old In fant, was fatally Injured late Sunday when his mother, Mrs, Lincoln Sulli van, waa atruck down with the child In her arma aa ahe attempted to board a Portland Btrcct car. L. R. Keep, Portland, driver of the car which struck Mrs. Sullivan, told police rain on hla windshield and another car so Impaired his vlalon that he waa unable to see Mrs. Sulli van. NEWBERG, Ore., April 33. (API- Carl Flaher, 31, of Dayton, Ore., was almost Instantly killed and Porter Magncss, of Dayton, was slightly In jured whon a roadster In which they were riding crashed Into two tele phone poles on the St. Paul-Ncwberg highway south of here Sunday, PENDLETON, April 33. (AP) Ed Stajisberry, 80, wsa fatally Injured yesterday when his automobile skid ded from the Pendleton-Cold Springs highway seven miles north of Pendle ton and plunged Into a ditch. A woman riding with Stanabcrry waa only slightly hurt. E KLAMATH PALLS, April 33. (AP) Two men were drowned while driv ing logs on Sprague river this morn ing, according to telephone messages from the Crater Lake Lumber com pany. Art Hagerty and a man named Cur aon were the victims. They were working a long drive for the lumber company when they went Into the river, The bodies had not been recovered and grappling equipment was taken from here. funeral services for little Doloros Jane F.verhard. inrant daugnter or Mr. and Mra. Henry Everhard. who was burned to death In the tra c fire of last Friday on the Waeham ranch In the Phoenix district, were held yesterday afternoon at the Perl funeral home. The services were conducted hy nv u; n n.irri nt the Pir.t Chris tian church and interment waa made in the I. O. O. r. eemetery sere. To Speak Here GEORGE L. BAKU It, former minor of Portland, who will be main speaker at the nnininl meeting of the Medford Chamber of Commerce May 3. - ARE BROUGHT DY W. J. Hutchison, meteorologist at the United States weather bureau at the airport, said today that the rain' fall here was the result of the storm area moving In slowly from the Pa cific, in a perfectly natural manner. He discredited stories prevalent In Medford that the stroma were brought about by a change In the Japanese current, which had been altered by earthquake conditions in the south. Weather bureau reports show that .34 of an Inch of rainfall waa record ed during the past 24 hours, making the total precipitation here for the month .33 of an Inch, a deficiency of .81. The seasonal deficiency la now 8.83 Inches. Mr. Hutchison said that there was probably more rainfall yesterday in the Jacksonville dltstrlct than In the Medford district, as Is usual. PORTLAND. April 33. MP) General rains over western Oregon ended the longest April dry spell In many years and brought benefits of untold value of thouaanda of farmers and residents of the wide area. There was little If any precipitation east of the Cascades, where rains aro sorely needed, but the weather bureau here today promised that cooler weather will prevail in the eastern section tonight and tomorrow. In Portland the rain last night and today ended the longest dry period since 1871. BURGLARS ENTER HI SCHOOL VAULT Some time after 4 p. m. Sunday, the senior high school wsa broken Into, and about 14 in stamps and cash were tsken from the vault, according to a report filed with the city police thla morning. Entrance was gained by breaking a window In one of the class rooms, and It was thought keys were used to get Into some of the rooms. The locks were broken from the vault, and the small enclosure completely ran sacked, officers aatd. Columbia Rises During Hot Days HOOD RIVER, Ore., April 33 (AP) The recent hot weather in the Inter ior haa caused a lS-lnch rise in the Columbia river here In the past 34 hours. It Is believed Hie lowered tempera, ture will stop the freshet now at the 17-foot stage, lesuiting in a record early freshet condition without the usual threat to lowland crops. Two Fined For Excess Drinking A. n. Klanafleld, M, and Arthur Oufflnet, 41, of Kansas, were each fined I0- In city court this morning on charges of being drunk In a public place. The two broke the windows at Humphrey's grocery and Vroman'a Plumbing shop on East Main street, for which they were also reqidred to pay, A ir nh rnlrh ir Hh Ray Friable and Jack Burns, fishing Rogue river Sun day, were sticeatful In landing 17 trout, they reported today. OPPOSITION FROM MAJORITY BRINGS CHANGE IN PLANS Marketing Agreements, Li censes, Guarantee Prices to Farmers Will be Re tained by Administration WASHINGTON. Ami! 39AT The farm administration drirfH a day against undertaking ductlon control plan at present. ine administration indicated its move reaulted from oDnosition t control by a majority of the nation'! aairymen. Agriculture experts re cently conducted hearings In princi pal dairy centers. Marketing agreements and limnx.. guaranteeing farmera prices, will be retained. "The administration feels It should not undertake dairy production con trol until such a time as the dairy Induatry Is substantially agreed upon production adjustment," the an nouncement said. Milk marketing agreements and, licenses In various cities to Increase returns to dairy producers will be re tained, however, and the administra tion will undcrtako relief purchases of dairy nroducta and min-ho ni slaughter of diseased cattle. Officials oeuevea n likely the lull 115,000,000 provided In the Jonea-Connally act The act nrovirifvt t.Vinf an nnn nnn 1 used ' for purchasing dniry product w mum iieeos, oD,uuo,rjo lor buy ing cattle affected with hnvin fH- culosla and Bang's disease, and 3,000.000 for moving healthy dairy cows from surplus to deficit areas, DOG DEAD 10 DAYS LIGHT IS HELDJP EYES BERKELEY, Calif., April 33. (AP) A dog killed ten daya ago and then brought "half way back, to life." blinked at a light in a laboratory here tuaay, ana experimenters were Jubi lantly hopeful their quest to con quer death was a step nearer. This announcement was made by Dr. Robert Cornish, research worker at the University of California, whose efforts to bring the dead to life have aroused wide sclentlflo interest and heated criticisms from antl-vlvlaec-tlonlsts. The dog was asphyxiated and pro nounced dead In the laboratory ten days ago, and then injections of ad renalin and heparin were used. For ten days the animal has bresthed, and been fed by Injectlona, but re mained unconscious. Today, Dr. Cor nish suddenly flashed a light before Its eyes. It blinked and stirred slowly, "This would seem to Indicate It la not Impossible for the brain cells to be restored," Dr. Cornish said. "If the retina of the eye can repair Itself, other fc-aln centers may be restored In time." WILL- ROGERS SANTA MONICA, Cal., Apr. 21. Sec wlicrc rII the brain trusters are saying the whole Wirt affair was a joke on him. In other words, they framed up to make a job out of him. Now arc we right sure that they nin't milking a joke out of the taxpayers, too. , Japan last week announced they had taken over the super vision of China, in person, and that American, Hritish, French or German, would kindly tako notice. But sec by today's pa pers they claim they were a little too ambitious and that other nations can go into China, but will have to have all passports visad (or is that vizad) by Tokyo. , 9ltM HHlll aa4laie, h
