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Important Jubilee Publicity Announcement Appears on Page 5 The Weather edford Mail Trpjune M I natch the TKIUU.NL'a A j CLASSIFIED 41)8 . . AjJ-jTrfy : Lot. of food bargain that mean genuine fFSfiz Saving,. ymmmm I Forevii&t: 'I'nsettled Sunday. Occa sional light rain. Moderate tem perature. Highest yesterday 66 Lowest this morning .....,........ 30 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1934. By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON. D. C, April 38 The administration did not lift Its little linger to stop the senate plan for soaking the rich in the new tax bill. Instead, its henchmen in the house surrender ed to the senate alter only a po lite struggle in the secret confer ence committee. The aurr render came so fast re ports got around that the admin istration secretly wanted to experi ment with the senate plan for a year or so. Admin istration men rushed into print with denials of such reports, but the ac tions of the conference committee spoke louder than the, denials. If President Roosevelt signs the bill, it will mean that, we are going to ex periment with a tax theory which goes at least 65 per cent of the way toward confiscation of great wealth. The 65 fcer cent maximum tax on large estates Is the spearhead of .iie Indirect confiscation experiment. Tho upward adjustment of surtaxes on large Incomes and the strong gifts tax are somewhat In line with the same theory. Chairman Pat Harrison once Admitted almost that much on the senate floor. Just now these -new rates are large ly paper taxes because there Is so little wealth to pay them. But, if people start making money again at a. 1929 clip, the rates will become very realistic. The rich have been soaked before with rates almost as high. It did not mean anything then because there were so many loopholes. All these loopholes are supposed to be plugge-1 In the current bill. Every 'person who pays Income tax should see a tax adviser as soon as this bill becomes law. Business men, particularly, should get expert advlco to conform with the revolutionary administrative changes. ' - The bill Is ostensibly a slight re duction m taxes for every married man with an earned Income of less than (30,000 a year. But the taxpayer will have to bo well advised to get an that Is coming to him. ... The Japanese situation has been played down publicly to allay undue excitement, but President Roosevelt has personally devoted more time to It in the last few days than to any other single subject. His main difficulty was to get a copy of the new Japaneso protecto rate policy over China. The state department combed the world for It, without success. The pri vate excuse offered by the Japanese foreign office was that it was an oral statement and no copies existed.- News correspondents In Tokio whis pered to the American embassy there that the foreign office minister, who announced the policy to them, read his words from several sheets of paper Mr. Roosevelt's announcement about new naval construction was meant to be our first reply to the Japanese. He had planned for some time to ask for funds to build more s hips this sum mer, but he chose this specific time for maximum effect In Toklo. The day he made his announce ment, a certain official of the state department said: "The only thing tha ever seems to frighten the Japanese Is for us to do something to our navy." The administration labor crowd hna fallen out over the labor board bill. The trouble started when Donald Rlchberg. the great labor lawyer In the NRA, had an Idea that he could work out a bill better than Wagner s At a White House conference attend ed by Rlchberg wasner and Labor Secretary Perkins It was agreed to let Rlchberg do the Job. The results were not at all satis factory to Wagner and Miss Perkins. They privately called the Rlchberg draft a measure tor laoor peace ai anv price. Wagner and Miss Perkins put thflr heads together on a new aubstltute of their own. The bill will create a general labor board to take all the strike disputes off Mr. Roosevelt's neck. He has been Irritated considerably by the trouble some steel, automobile and rail atrlke threats. The bill elso will make Miss Per kins' labor department more Im portant factor than It now Is. She has been smarting at the whlspera of the labor leaders that her department Is nothing more than a statistical bu reau." Rlchberg has been working In ca hoots with General Johnson on the labor board bill. Not long ago John son sent out a private order to his local NRA boards advising them to settle labor troubles. Those who fa- (Continued on Page Six) Strike Parley Called FLINT. Mich.. April 28. AP Conferences between union officials und heads of the Fischer Body cor poration will be held In Detroit Mon day in an effort to adjust differ ences between the worker and em ployers that have resulted In a strike of wvrral thousand men In Clrvriand and threats of similar action In other plants. Negress' Report She Saw Pair With Child In Auto starts Chase Anew Story Doubted. - TUCSON, Arlt., April S8. P A large man, dressed In a gray suit, got out of a black sedan he had driven up to the gate of Sunnysldc school, near Tucson, yesterday, walked hurriedly into the school yard. Children, atartled, stopped their play. "There's a kidnaper I" came a cry. The youngsters rushed to get In side the building. Teachers, hurrying out, found Herman E. Hendrlx, Arizona super intendent of public instruction, standing nonplussed on the walk. TUCSON, Ariz., April 28. (Jf) Hit- ting the trail of two heavily armed men seen with a little girl near Fort Huachuca, hundreds of dead-shot possemen reinforced by Apache track ers, tonight plunged anew into the hunt for June Robles and her kid napers, forewarned that one of their quarry might be Clyde Barrow, no torious outlaw. Squad cars loaded with eager man- hunters streaked out of Tucson in a matter of minutes after the spread ing of an alarm that a machine bear ing a Texas license and reputedly hav ing been stolen at Uvadle, Texas, might be carrying the girl and the men for whom the greatest man hunt ing posse ever organized in Arizona had been looking. The report brought to a quick cli max the nerve rasping suspense of possemen forced to stand Idle with their guns while a secret intermedlaiy for the Roblea family reputedly was dickering with the abductors for the life and freedom of the little girl who was seized in Tucson Wednesday af ternoon and held for a $15,000 ran som. Eva" Coleman" a negro woman" who operates a restaurant at White City, on the dge of the - Fort Huachuca reservation, turned In the startling clue. She said the men drove up to her restaurant, obtained food and at tempted to feed the little girl with them. She said she saw a machine gun, a rifle and an automatic pistol in the car. She took the number of the machine and notified army offi cers, who in turn telephoned to Tuc son forthwith, Ora L. Shinn, deputy sheriff sent by Farrar by airplane to Fort Huachu ca, interviewed the woman, and came back to report he was not satisfied she had seen all she described. It was his personal opinion, Shlnn said, that she may have had "a pipe dream." The search, however, went on. Citizenry Impatient TUCSON, Ariz., April 28. (T) Inv patiently, the rugged citizenry of this not-long -since frontier country neia Itself in leash today as the family of six-year-old June Robles, kidnaped for ransom, secretly continued efforts through an intermediary to contact her abductors. For 36 hours a manhunt which had called into the field bronzed cattle men friends of aged Bernabe Robles, grandfather of the little girl, Ameri can Legion members, police, sheriff's deputies and United States border patrolmen, bad been halted and held in abeyance to give the family an op portunity to bargain privately for the winsome child's life. June's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fer nando Robles, the grandfather and Carlos Q. Robles, twin-brother of June's father and an assistant county attorney, clung to hope that the child still lived, but the strain grew with the hours. Authorities, tensely holding th hunt in leash. Indicated they were prepared to wait overnight again If necessary before launching the hun dreds of waiting volunteers once more Into intensive search. The family Intermediary, working Independently, strove to utilize the hours that remained of the tacit truce to arrange a contact which he hoped would result In return of the child alive. Rumors that a ransom In reality already had been paid, and that l.t tle June nevertheless, was known to be dead, were discounted by the sec ret agent, whose identity was beirm held in strict confidence in order to give him a free hand. No money was known to have changed hands and no definite con tact for any exchange had been made so far, it was indicated, although er forts had been ceaseless to arrange an exchange agreement. Auto Victim Improves WATERVILLE, April 28. (AP A C. Noble. Standard Oil company salesman of Boise, Injured near here In an automobile accident, was very much improved this morning after a bad night, attendants aald, and has a "very good chance for recovery." Forester Promoted PORTLAND. Ore., April 28 (AP) T. H. Sherrard. In charge of Vie Mt. Hood national forest, has been pro moted to regional forest inspector. It was announced today by C. J. Buck, rplonsl forenter. Sherrard will have I charge of CCC work in Oregon and Washington. Kidnaped Arizona Girl Little June Robles, 6-year-old daughter of a wealthy pioneer Arizona family, was kidnaped as she was walk ing home from school at Tucson, Ariz., Wednesday. The kidnaper, in a note to the child's father, Fernando Robles, FEDERAL RESERVE L Senate 1 Approves ' Plan" To Spur Industry And Labor President Wary About Silver Legislation. WASHINGTON, Aphll 3B. (Fl Federal reserve loans to give small businesses the financial help they cannot get from other sources were approved today by the senate banking committee. The bill approved would allow about I280.0OO.000 to be used In that man ner. Officials have said they expected such direct' loans by the federal re serve to go to businesses unable to obtain loans from the regular chan nels. Such direct loans, . however, would be In unusual cases. Most of the loans would be made through regular bank ing channels with these banks becr ing twenty per cent of the risk and the federal reserve the remainder. The loans would be for five years. Thus, In a roundabout way, the gov ernment would extend to small In dustries the game aid already given farmers, railroads, banks, and various other forms of national activity through the several emergency and permanent lending agencies that have been set up. One Idea back of the plan. Is that It will supply business with the funds necessary to stimulate additional em ploymen. Only yesterday, William Green, president of the American Federation of labor, said the tendency was turning toward the Idea of get ting more labor out of men rather than that of getting more men to labor. The day also brought more talk about allvcr. At the White House it was ssld the president would like to see thirty per cent of the natlon'a money backed by silver but he want ed this to come through International action and not through mandatory legislation. At the same time, Senator Smith. (D S. C.) told the senate he saw no reason why ,the )!"' of silver holders should have been drswn up and pub lished. He said he saw no difference between owning silver and owning any other commodity. SALEM, April 28 (Pi John D. Goss and W. A. Dclzell were In con ference here this afternoon with George Flagg and Dave O'Hara of the the secretary of state's office relative to their protest to R. R. Turner's statement concerning them which ap peared In the voters' pamphlet. All three men are democratic candidates for congress from the first district. Oose and Delrell both objected to a statement by Turner, which con nected them with the power Inter ests, and protested the fact that the had not been served with a copy of the statement prior to Its publics Uon. TURNER'S RIVALS PONDER CANARD said unless 15.000 ransom was paid June would be slain. Tucson police, aided by 1000 citizens, including cow boys armed with six-shooters and members of the American Legion, Inv mediately took up the search for the kidnaped child. DEATH AND JAIL METED CRIMINAL POLITICIAN HELD Ohio Governor Guarded From Dillinger Kidnap Plot San Quentin Escapes Slain By Desert Posse (nv. the Associated Fress) Guns of the law blazed yesterday as state, federal and local forces scored against forces which by kid naping and banditry have been ter rorizing the nation. While the elusive John Dillinger and his cohorts continued to evade their pursuers, four Indictments charging conspiracy to harbor Dillin ger were returned by a federal grand Jury at St. Paul. A deputy sheriff reported that he ounded George (Baby Face) Nel son, Dillinger killer, In an exchange of shots near Solon Springs, Wis. Dillinger himself was reported to have appeared at places as divergent as Blngliampton, N. V., and Unlver sity avenue, St. Paul, as well as many Intermediate points. Governor White of Ohio and his daughter, Mary, were under guard at Columbus following reports of a Dil linger plot to kidnap them. A nulck-shootlng desert posse dealt sudden death to two escaped San Quentin . convicts near Vlctorvllle, Cal. Two San Rafael policemen wnom the pair had kidnaped had been re leased an hour before. Police guns which barked. In a country cemetery near Gower, Mo., brought fatal wounds to Frank Wood, 41, after he had received a package of dummy extortion money which a note had directed Be delivered to the graveyard. Charged with possessing part 01 tho 200,000 Edward Bremer ransom, John J. (Boss) McLaughlin, former political power, was arrested on a suppressed warrant at Chicago. A man Identified as Isldor (Zip) Corcagno was shot to death In front of a garmel store at New York. He was a former aide to Joey Rao, at one time accused of "bossing'" Wel fare Island prison where he was con fined. Armed guards stationed at Phila delphia .hospital to provent another gangland attempt to assassinate Mra. Mary EllMbcth Fontaine, who waa found, left for dead, In a gang hide out Thursday, . Six auapecis were under arrcat at Chicago in connection with the slay- Ing of one man and critical wound ing of another In a tavern holdup. Demon Gasoline PORTLAND. Ore., April 28. (API Portland's 30th automobile accident fatality since December was recorded last night when Sam C. Buturflrld, 88, an accountant, died a short time after he was struck by a car driven by J. W. Wilson, who told police he did not aee Butfrfield until the pe dcstrlan waa In front of the auto mobile. former Klumathan Taes PORTLAND, Ore., April 28. (API Funeral services for Clarence C. Cur tin, 61, drug store operator In Port land and Klamath Palls, will be held In Pioneer Methodist church. Ma sons of Doric lodge wilt officiate at the concluding services In Portland crematorium. Currin died at his home here yesterday from a heart attack Doll Baby of The Dalles Just Fills Palm of Adult THE DALLES, Ore., April 28. (AP) Nathaniel McDanlel Moore, tiny baby born five days ago, has a good chance to live, doctors said today. The baby, which weighs only two pounds and Just fills the palm of an adult's hand, takes Its nourishment through ' an eye-dropper. CUT DEMAND BUT IE ASTORIA, Ore., April 28. (AP) The strike threat still loomed over the Columbia river salmon fishing season despite slightly reduced price demands by the Columbia River Fishermen's Protective Union. The season opens May 1 and a strike would affect about 10,000 fish ermen and cannery workers. After six hours debate today fish ermen announced they would reduce price demands for the first part of the season from 11 cents a pound to 10 cents which packers have offered. However the fishermen held out for minimum price of six cents a pound, from August 1 to August 25. Packers have offered six cents from August 1 to August 10 and four cents a pound from then until the olose of the season. Union officials declared the dele gates voted unanimously to support cannery workers whose demands have not been met by packers. Cannery workers have demanded increased wages and abolition of piece work, PWA FUND PLEA PORTLAND, Ore., April 38-(APJ Portland's application for a $3,750. 000 PWA loan and grant for water front development has been reject ed, Commissioner Riley said he wan Informed today. Commissioner Riley Instructed the city attorney to ask Washington for the complete opinion as to why the loan "cannot be recommended upon the basis of data now available." He said the city would no drop Its plans for the street and build ing Improvements along the Willam ette rlvor front. The city has until May 31 to re open Its caoe before the PWA board of review, the officials advised. Oregon: Partly cloudy and occa sional showers west portion Sunday and Monday; little change In tem perature: slightly hlg,her humidity In west portion; moderate southwest and west wind offshore. SAN FRANCISCO, April 28. (AP) The outlook Is for fair In Califor nia and the plateau region, and oc casionally unsettled In the North Pacific States and northern Idaho, with rains at beginning of week; moderate temperature, 1 ' JOB TO DEMOCRAT WASHINGTON, April 28. (AP) Efforts of Senator Dill today (D Wn.), to bring about senate con firmation of Ale M. Vlerhus, Everett, Wash., as collector of Internal rev enue for the Washington and Alaska district, failed when Senator McNary (R., Ore.), objected. Dill had received a favorable com mittee report on Vlerhus and at tempted to get confirmation through under a suspension of the rules. The appointment will come up In regu lar order next week. AGITATION ENDS KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.. April 28 (AP) Threatened recall of four j Klamath county officials apparently i failed when no petition were filed by today's 6 o'clock deadline for gel j ting the recall on the May primary ! ballot. ! The Klamath Taxpayers' league In stituted recall proceedings against County Judge Oeorge Orlule, Coun- : ty Commissioners W. P. Chase and Charles R. Williams, and District At- Itorrjev T. D, OUleDwatera, STRIKERS ARRESTED IN ST. LOUIS ft dwwli Eight men were arrested In St. Louis for stoning trucks carrying workers from plants of the Chevrolet Motor company and Fisher Body company, as 3000 left their Jobs and sought union recognition. Police are shown taking one striker Into custody. (Associated Press Photo. TARIFF TRADING BILL WILL PASS H President Anxious To Frame New Trade Pacts G. 0. P.. To Debate Issue And Balk Early Adjournment. WASHINGTON, April 28. (AP) Senate - Democratic leaders ' today counted enough votes to nass the Roosevoir tariff trading bill and pie dieted Republican efforts to hoaey comb It with amendments that would be defeated. They said they found Just four Democrats definitely committed against the bill and a few others who were still uncertain how thoy would vote. These will bo partially offset by two or three defections from the Republican side. Monday evening the Democrats will hold a party eonferenco to , mnko plans for pushing the measure through. They expect ten dayn or two weeks' debate to bo sufficient although Republicans are talking of three to four weeks discussion. This talk Democrats said was In tended to Influence a withdrawal of the bill because prolonged debato would conflict with President Roose velt's expressed desire for an early adjournment. The president, they said, was very eager to have the meaaure passed so the United States might lose no time In building up Its foreign trade by negotiating agreement for mutual tariff reductions on selected com modities. The Republicans will be-ready with a long string of amendments, one of which would exclude tariffs on all articles produced under farm or NRA codes from changes under the act. Tills the Democrats denounced It would leave the president nothing to work with, they said Senator Reed (R., Pa.), will seek approval for an amendment to as sure hearings to affected Industries before duties . are changed. He also will propose an amendment to make tho tariff agreements subject to con grcssiona approval and to require tariff commission consideration before action can be taken. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, April 28. (AP) (via Mackay Radio) Here In this polar Tillage by the Bay of Whales the 88 men of the second Byrd Antarctic expedition are making ready for the four-montha winter night. In the darkness of this morning the dogs were brought from their tunnels and sent to Retreat camp to retrlve the last supplies cached there. The avlatora atarted building a new snow hangar. A machine shop was put together. Every day the unseen sun dips lower and lower below the earth's rim. Night Is claiming Ita empire In the south polar continent but the many activities of a scientific expedition go on. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd him self Is In a little shack more than 100 miles from here, alone with his scientific Instruments. Little America la a fascinating place, paradoxically modern and prim lUve at the same time, BYRD AND PARTY AWAIT COMING OF ANTARCTIC NIGHT Co-operation With State Liquor Board To Rout Rowdy ' Beer Joints Favor Limitation Sales PORTLAND, Ore, April 38. (AP) Full co-operation was pledged to day by Oregon bsewbrs to the state liquor control commission in Its campaign to eliminate any rowdy beer parlors. ' At the same time the browers de nounced efforts of "opportunists and Irresponsible politicians to level un deserved criticism at the brewing In dustry.'" Tho action was taken by unanimous vote of the executive committee of the Oregon Brewers' association which declared for reg ulations to put unscrupulous dis pensers out of business, Tho brewers announced boor's com plete divorcement from the hard liquor traffic or bootlegging ovlls which the state liquor control com mission Is attempting to stamp out. Action by the executive commit tee followed a atato meetng of as sociation members. "We believe that limitation of tho number of beer dispensers In the state will prove beneficial from the standpoint of public welfare and the Industry," the brcwors asserted. "Wo commend tho action of the state commission In this regard. Wo be lieve, too. that any dlspensor who repeatedly violates regulations or permits disorder ahould be put out of business and kept out of busi ness." Forty-five Mdford firms have re ceived liquor licenses from the state liquor control commission this year, according to a report made last night by CI a tons McCrcdle, local chief of police. Several of the business housos have two licenses covering different classifications, Ono drug store In Med ford has a license, and one club, for which a fee of 160 was paid. Two distributors, at 250 each have received licenses, wh!le the state liquor control commission has issued ten class A licenses, which allow the selling of beer In pticknge form. Only ten dollars ta the fee for this license. There were three class B licenses Is sued, at ISO each, which license si lows the merchant to sell beer, and wine under 14 per cent. In bottles only. Two of these merchants alsa have retail dealers' licenses, which are 910 each. There are 20 retail li censes here, which permits the selling of beer by tho glass. Twenty-on, of those having the re tail license have the class A license, which count is exclusive of the ten listed above. A license was Issued the local brewery for 1500. i 4 : L. F ISTANBUL, April 28. (API Zsro Aa'is. reputed to be iRtd 160 and the oldest man In the world, wss attscked by a sudden Illness today and removed to the national chil dren's hospital. Ills condition caused uneasiness. s Jury Trial Alinll.ltrri VIENNA, April 38. (AP) The new constitution for Austria probably to be made public Monday will abolish trial by Jury, parliamentary govern ment, and the last lcnl vcatagos o( the post-war rqpubllo. MAIL TRIBUNE TO BOOST PUBLICITY COMING JUBILEE Special Monthly Subscription Rate To Spread Informa tion Of Banner Through out Boast Area. How to carry the word of Ore gon's forthcoming Diamond Jubilee , throughout the coast Is one of the major problems worrying tie public ity committee of the Jublle organt- : tatlon. Saturday a plan was de vised whereby every resident of the county can take a hand in helping . to spread publicity among those who may be Interested and who may be influenced to attend the great seven- 1 day celebration if given sufficient in- ' formation on the attractions whtcrt may be expected. During the first 27 days of April ' the Mall Tribune published 293 col- . umn Inches of publicity matter and two editorials regarding the Jubilee ' quite a alzebale amount. As time for the celebration draws nearer, more ana more stories concerning plans, details and general informa tion will be published. This Is all very well, so far aa It goes in acquainting Southern Oregon people with tho program from June 3 to 6, mut there are literally thou sands of people outside of this area who are Interested in Soutftern Ore- , gon and who may bo Induced to visit the Jubilee and look over the country provided they are given Information regarding the attractions which we have to offer. Here Is the proposal of the Jublle ' committee, worked out with the co operation of the Mail Tribune: Beginning Tuesday. May 1. the ' Mall Tribune will make a special re duced rate for ono mont.h of 30 cents one-half the regular monthly rate. Residents of Med ford and vicinity have relatives, friends, acquaintances or business connections outside this area who would be glad to road of the plana lor. tthe. Jubiloe and -who, If given the opportunity to under stand the magnitude of Vie affair, would be tempted to visit Medford and Southern Oregon at that time. It will be a time for family re- : unions, for the renewal of- old friend- ' ships by visitors from distant points. It will not be possible for Medford people to sit down and write all their relatives and friends a personal In vitation to attend .the Jubilee, but It will be possible to send' them a' daily copy of the Mail Tribune car- , rying t.hls Invitation and thoroughly acquainting them with what they may expect onco thoy are hereall that Is necessary to hold this tempt lng lure constantly before the poten tial out-of-town visitors for a monWl la for Medford people to co-operate with the Jubilee publicity committee to the extent of sending the paper ; to those they think would be Inter ested. There is no profit In the pro posal for the Mall Tribune there is no profit in subscriptions even at the regular rato but the Mall Trib une Is glad to have the opportunity to work with the publicity committee In this way. Immediately upon entering a sub' ' scrlptlon, a letter will be sent from this office Informing the addressee that the Mall Tribune Is being sent during the month of May to acquaint them with the jiiblloo through the thoughtfulnesa of whoever pays for the subscription. In this way, the addressee will be notified to bo on the lookout for the paper and will of course watch for stories In connec tion with the forthcoming celebra tion. (Continued on Page Four.) WILL ROGERS 'says: SANTA MONICA, Cal., Apr. 27. Jnpnn, you got to admire , 'cm, they arc so ambitious and they just got everything that all tho other nations, have, but , a sense of humor. Their papers took great satisfaction and glco and sercanicd it in headlines, The American fleet can't get through Panama canal in 21 hours." Thev never figured that the size of the fleet might have something to do with it. Twen ty new ships have been author iced and so when the fleet s eomcs back through there and ' it can't get through in a day and a half, that will bo n scream to Japan. Ifcpublicans arc coming out pretty strong now agains1. thv . administration. Looks like if ; the Democrats don't get Dillin- ger, they may lose this fall' election. . Villi WivO . b
