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The Weather Forecast: Cloudy with showers to night and Tuesday, Moderate tem perature. Highest yesterday 7t Lowent tit In morning 51 Medford Mail Trbune Watch the TIUHUINU'b m BA ! CLASSIFIED a US . . 2r I Lor of uod bargain I that mean genuine f&v&it STlngl. iiaiMi Twenty-ninth Yoar , . MEDFORU, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1934. l "N0T 30. MIPS BOfiBl JETIIiTiaiTli As 1 PUT BUSINESS ON I Blames Poor Guessing INSULL NEARING MEDFORD AIR MAII j says Not Guilty i SOUTHERN OREGON BMkld EFFICIENT BASIS fSp?35 " ' I WO ORDEAL GOES OUT TONIGHT T MEDICAL SOCIETY fOffcgl, MEIER'S WARNING .jT . DISCUSSES CASE ON UNITED PLANES i MEETING TUESDAY By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, D. C, May 7. The stiver choir In congress still main tains a public appearance of harmony but a phonetic ear can detect many aour notes. The Inside reason la that the boya are spending so IBM w'taMwqgwwa mUCn lima r mm 3 watchtne each I other these days they do not mind i their music. At heart these I sllverltea are all I soloist. 'Each thinks he I knows as much or more than the leader, and each wants to sing 1 hla own song. Paul Mallon The result is bad stiver music, but it Is sweet to President Roose velt's ears. The sour undertones were first no ticeable backstage several montha ago when Senator Key Plttman. was supposed to be the silver leader. Pittman ranked high at the White House. In fact, too high to please the sllverltea. They kept the matter to themselves, but organized a move ment designed to take the silver ba ton away from Plttman. Senators Thomas and Wheeler then became the silver leaders unofficial ly, and they still are To keep peace in the choir, however, they went thru the motions of choosing Senator King as the official leader. He was supposed to be a peacemaker. The peace he brought was only temporary. Within the last few days all the boys have been eying each other with suspicions again that there are some backsliders In their midst who may be slipping Into the White House by the side door ' The boya are all democrats, so they may not fall out openly. Yet the un derlying situation Is Important be cause it Illustrates the fact that no two people think exactly alike onthe silver question, or even on inflation. The recent threat of a silver fili buster waa largely Huey Long's idea. Continuous and purposeless talking comes easy for Huey, but most of the others thought that method of fight ing Mr. Roosevelt would be going a little too far. They could not see that It would accomplish anything, out side of giving Long an opportunity to speak indefinitely. The filibuster threat was really a confession of weakness. If the boya had the votes they would not be talking that way. The wiser heads among them have realized for some time that they can not get any more than Mr. Roosevelt intends to give them. The Wiilte House apparently took delight in tipping off privately the Identity of those on the lists of silver speculators. . The list contained so many dummy names that thoe.e who inspected them at the senate could not identi fy most of the silver buyers. An un derground channel from the execu tive mansion brought suggestions as to where certain names could be found and Identified properly. One slip occurred. In exuberance the tip was passed along that Frank Vanderlip Jr. was on the list. But hla name could not be found that day. The tip came a day too soon. Kls name was on the list sub-t mittcd to the senate the following day. The purpose behind the new Glass bill provision allowing the federal re serve board to build a building for ltwlf is to get It out of the treasury department. Senator Glass has long been Irked by the fact that the treasury depart ment dominated the federal reserve. If 'T.n En J II:. 1 ' Some members of the board feel that way about It also and will be glad to gri Oil W biieiIlOCITTD. This is the only new government building which will not come out of the PWA grab bag. Glass has pro vided that the board levy upon mem ber banks for the money to build. Professor Tugwell's pals have an Idea, that Mr. Roosevelt put him on tha spot by nomtnallng him as assis tant afiirulture secretary. Mr. Roosevelt Intended It as a com pliment, but did not plan It to meet the current situation. Months ago the Job of assistant secretary was cre ated In the agriculture department appropriation bill especially for Tug well. Tugwell's campaign to clear him self of radicalism charges by making speeches and writing magazine arti cles will not stop the field day plan ned by republicans when his nomi nation comes up Tor senate debate. Alter that the n?y! will approve the nomination. What burna the conservative Sen ator Glass Is that all these Inflation ary and sliver schemes are tacked to his bills, so they really bear his name. Virtually all such schemes In the Is t ytvr I-.? ve tjeen written Into (Continued on Page Four) Governor Implies Resigna tions Will Be Asked if De mands Not Complied With Action Follows Meet PORTLAND, May 7. (AP) Oov ernor Meier's statement giving the Oregon liquor commission 30 days In which to reform their policies, waa expected to be laid before the liquor commission at Its meeting here this afternoon. The meeting had been scheduled as routine, but there was a possibility fireworks would flare In the contro versy which has broken out between members of the commission and Meier. SALEM, May 7. (AP) Thirty daya" time to place the affairs of the state liquor situation on an "economical. efficient and business-like basis," was the warning issued by Governor Julius L. Meier today to the members of the control commission. Declaring "I am now forced to admit that the liquor control commis sion has failed to fully and effectively carry out the objectives of the legis lative enactment," the governor de manded they set affairs aright. He did not state what his action would be at the end of 30 days If, In his opinion, the demand was not com plied with, but implications were their resignations would be requested. Asked what he would do In case the result of the 30 days' trial was unsatisfactory, the governor said: The statement is self -explanatory, I have nothing further to say.' Action Follows Meet, The statement was Issued today following the meeting In Portland last week at which the commissioners In sisted their move for salary Increases to -nine employes be compiled1 with despite contrary action of the board of control. They also charged the governor at that time with "sniping and interfering" with operations of the liquor control commission. (Continued from Pag Eight) COURT TO RULE WASHINGTON. May 7 (AP) The supreme court agreed today to rule on the action of District of Columbia courts requiring Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana to stand trial on a $500,000 suit brought against him by General Samuel T. Ansell. Long, In a senate speech In Febru ary. 1033, assailed Ansell, who acted as counsel for a senate committee Investigating the election to the sen ate of John H. Overton. Contending that he had been libel led by the Long speech, which was circulated In the Congressional Rec ord, Ansell brought suit In the Dis trict of Columbia supreme court. Summons waa served on Long, who claimed Immunity as a member of congress and challenged the validity of the action. SAN FRANCISCO, May 7. (UP) The Wu Ping Wooey (Chinese peace society) had hopes today of a speedy settlement In the dispute which has threatened to throw the Hip Sing Tong and the Lul Pong family at each other'a throat In a 1034 re vival of the old .bloody tong wars. The powerful On Leong Tong stood firmly behind the frightened Lul Pongs, who have asked police pro tection in Oakland, San Jose. Sacra mento and San Francisco. The On Leongs served notice on their rival tong, the Hip Sings, that they would join the Lul Pong cause If .trouble breaks out. The notice caused the Hip Sings to reconsider and resume negotiations for a settlement. Wm. F. Isaacs, chairman of tne retail merchants committee of tne Chamber of Commerce, hat called a meeting of all beer dispensers of the city, to be held at the courthouse auditorium Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The meeting has been arranged for the purpose of effecting an organ!- ration of this group, as others have been formed in the city in the past A code will be presented for cont.d' tratlon of the- dispenser. PEACE FOR TONGS NEAR BAY REGION SAMUEL INSULLi nearlng Chicago where he Is being returned to face charges. In a statement today said his greatest error was In underesti mating the effects of the panic on American securities. (Associated Press) Photo.) 80 MINERS SEALED UP WITH RAGING FLAMES MUELLHEIM, Baden, Germany, May. 7. () With 80 mllers certainly dead, the Buggingen potash mine waa sealed by authorities late-toda-y in an effort to stop the fierce fire which trapped the workers. - The fire started one-half mile un derground when a wooden supporting pillar gave way and short-circuited the electric system. Relief squads rushed to the scene and pumped .oxygen Into the shaft. ELEVEN FIND WEEK-END By the Associated 'Press. Week-end airplane wrecks left a death list -f eleven.-. ' A midnight flight at Houston, Tex., carried a woman and three men to their deaths. The bodies of Bob Olyn, 31, pilot; Miss Gladya Wood, 30; Fred Burnett, 23, and Leroy Grandy, 32, were found at dawn Sunday In the wreckage of a private plane a mile from the airport, from which they had taken off at 1. p. m. Saturday. Two women Miss Elva Carr and Mrs. Lottie Wright found the wreck age after a frantic all-night aearch. A woman and two men died in flames at Fulton. N. Y., airport when their plane fell 300 feet and caught fire. The victims were Leon w. Vincent Billing,. U, ion of Everett Billing, of Marlal, Ore., wu brought to the Sacred Heert hospital today to undergo n operation for removal of a bullet, which lodged In hla right arm yesterday, when he fired a .33 calibre pistol, while hunting near hla home at the mouth of Rogue river. No bonee were broken by the bullet, which X-rays revealed resting In the flesh of hla fore arm. The boy, after playing along the river, etarted to fire at a fowl across the water. Hla hand! were allppery. and the pistol careened. -The bullet grand his right leg and continued upward, entering his arm. SALEM. May 7. (AP) Increased materials and labor cost combined with a deeper foundation for the span at Newport, will necessitate more funds from the federal govern ment for construction of five Oregon coast bridges, Leslie M. Scott, chair man of the state highway commis sion, said here today. Scott waa here enroute to Oranta Pbm on the start of his tour of the state, combining highway work Ith hla Inspection u grand master erf the Masonic lodja. BOY WITH PISTOL WOUNDS HIMSELF Robert wagner, the governor of Ba den, wentfto the mine. Only one miner escaped from the 3600-foot level, where -the others were trapped. He happened to be near the elevator and waa nearly asphyxi ated by the fumes which poured through the workings and blocked rescue efforts. s . Six rescue squad members were overcome. They were sent to the Buggingen hospital suffering from the effects of the fumes. DEATH IN AIR CRASHES Holly of Fulton, owner and pilot of the plane; Miss Irene Clark. 30, of Oswego, N. Y and John Parsons, 21, of Falrhaven, N. Y, Lowell Markwlth, 39, Newark filer, and George J. Kuntz, 34, a student pilot, were killed near New Market, N. J., when their ahlp nose-dived into a marshy field after losing a wing in mid-air. Mrs. Arthur Johnson, an 18-year-old bride, was drowned In San Fran cisco bay when the plane piloted by Harold Chrlstman, 31, dropped Into the water. Her husband and Christ man were rescued by a launoh. W. A. George wss Injured fatally st Soda Springs. Idaho. In a take-off crash. T T ROSEBURO, Ore., May 7. (API Delegates began arriving here this afternoon for the biennial conven tion of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs, which opens tonight and continues until Thursday noon. Preparations have been made to en tertain approximately 200 represen tatives from the various clubs affili ated In the organization. Considerable Interest la shown In the convention due to the fact that this Is election year. Delegates are being registered this afternoon and the convention will open tonight with a program at the Flrat Presbyterian church, where the visitors will be welcomed to the city. IN CROSSING STREET PORTLAND, May 7. (APJ Mrs. Mary B. Rolfe, 73, was fatally Injured here Sunday when ahefell In front of an automobllo driven by George Lee. 18. Wltneas aald the woman, walking across the street, apparently became confused and suddenly start ed to run. She slipped and fell. Lee awerved his car to avoid striking her, but the woman's head struck the machine's fender. It was the "and automobile fatality since Dec, 1, start of the police fiscal jretA Accused Utility Magnate Says Greatest Error Was in Underestimating Effect of Panic On Stocks PRINCETON JUNCTION, N. J., May 7. (AP) Samuel Inaull waa placed aboard a Chicago-bound train at 10:03 a. m. (daylight time) today. The train left the station almost Im mediately. -Insull waa transferred from the steamer Exllona to the cutter Hudson In charge of department of Justice men, at 6:47 a. m. He waa placed In an automobile and brought to Princeton Junction, for the final leg of the long Journey to Chicago. On board the Hudson, Insull Issued his first statement, discussing the charges against him In Chicago. Made Bad Guess "I have erred, but my greatest error was In underestimating the ef fects of the financial panic on Amer ican securities, and particularly on the companlea I was trying to build", his statement said. "I worked with all my energy to save those companies. I made mis takes but they were honest mis takes, They were errors in Judgment, but not dishonest manipulations." His opening remark in the state ment was: "I am here in America to make the (Continued on Page Seven) SALES TAX VOTE PORTLAND, May 7. (P) Congress man Martin, candidate for the Demn. cratlc nomination for governor, Isj personally opposed to mo priiiuipin of a retail sales tax as a means of raising state revenue. He has, how ever, bound himself to observe and enforce the mandate of the people, who will vote on a saa tax at the primary election this month. The statement from General Martin was Issued through his Portland head quarters today. It said, quoting him, "I am per sonally opposed to the sales tax, but I pledge my administration, if I am nominated and elected governor, to abide by the decision of the Oregon voters, on May 18." E SLUGGED IN CITY SPOKANE, May ',. (AP) John B. Parr of near Melford waa knocked out by thugs here last night, who dragged him Into an alley and took hla wallet which, ha said, was empty except for army discharge papers and his driver's license. He was not badly hurt. ,. Parr, 39. la a resident of Phoenix, and according to state police, was ar rested here September 24, last year, on chargea of being drunk on a pub lic highway. Reporta on the case say that Parr was arrested on the Pacific highway, lying In the middle of the road, waving hla arms, and attempt ing to atop traffic. 1 BASEBALL National New York H 1 Cincinnati 2 10 0 Hubbell and Rlohards; Prey and Lombard!. Philadelphia 0S2 Chicago 7 12 0 Holley, Davis and Wllon; Lee and Hartnett. (10 Innings) Brooklyn 12 8 Pittsburgh 7 IS 1 Benge, Perkins, Leonard and Lopcr.; French, chagnon and Grace, Padden. Anierlran St. Loul .... 17 2 New York : 14 14 0 Blaeholder, Knott, Wells, and Hemsley; Allen and Dickey. Cleveland 2 Philadelphia - 7 12 0 Harder, Bean and Pytlak; Cain and Berry. (11 Innings) ft. H. E. Detroit 2 Boston e 10 3 Butteries: Sorrell, Rows and Hay worth, Cochrane; Wetland, Welch and Ferrell. Chicago ... , 7 12 2 Washington 17 IS 0 Hevlng. Wyatt, Lyons, Tiet)e and Paaeki Weaver and Berg. Kiumpp. MARTIN TO HEED PEOPLE'S WISH IN First Service Since February Comes With Return of Contracts to Private Con cerns Mail Time Given Med ford's first airmail since Feb ruary 10, will be taken south at 13:10 tonight on the United Air Lines ship, under the resumption of airmail con tracts to private companies, postal officials said today. The United States army air corps has been handling the mail routes since, that time, elimin ating Medford from the schedule. On the southbound plane, which leaves here at 13:10 a. m., sacks will be made up by the Medford postofflce for Oakland, San Franciaco, Fresno, Los Angeles, airmail field at Loa An geles and San Diego. ' Northbound ship, leaving the local port at 5:30 a. m., carries pouches for Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Pasco. The mall will be taken by plane from here In each direction only once each day. Mall for the northbound plane must be In the local postofflce by 4:45 a. rn., and for the southbound plane by 11:30 p. m., according to C. M. Houston, assistant poatmaater. Announcement of the resumption of the air service through Medford waa received here Saturday night by L. G. DeVaney, airport superintend ent, who was notified by the airmail division offices of San Francisco. PORTLAND, May 7. P) Termina tion of the army's airmail service here (Continued on Page Eight) , Os West Suspected As Horse Thief In Walla Walla Visit WALLA WALLA, May 7. (P) A pair of bowed legs and a penchant for making cryptic replies to a sherlff'a questions today gave Os wald West, former Governor of Oregon, a few momenta of sus pense and an ensuing hearty laugh here. Stopping here for luncheon while en route from Portland to Spokane with Mra. West, the former Oregon chief executive went to the city hall on a brief business mission. Sheriffs officers, on the lookout tor an alleged horsethlef, had es tablished West as a stranger who unmistakably had spent much time In the saddle. Two officers followed him t. the city hall and when he replied to the question of one that his busi ness was "trying to make a living with the least possible amount o! work," he waa Invited outside and into the sheriff's car, driven by the other deputy. When he saw that the officers were looking for suspect, West es tablished his identity and was "set free." HOT LAKE AFIRE LA GRANDE. Ore., May 7. (API Half of Hot Lake Sanatorium, ten mllea east of La Grande, waa de stroyed by fire today and at noon firemen still were battling to eav the brick atructure that housed the hospital proper with fair prospects of succesa It the water aupply holds out. Estimates of loss ranged up wards to 175,000 ot which a part Is covered by Insurance. Eleven patients and two babies, the amallest number In the hospital In two montha, were rescued uninjured, and were brought to a hospital here. The fire started on the root of the bath house and flamed for several minutes before discovered. The sanatorium la owned by Dr. John B. Oregory and others, the management changing hands only a few montha ago. WIN, SAYS 'CON' OKLAHOMA CITY, May 7. (API Uncle Sam will catch John Dllilnger, In the opinion of Harvey Ballcy, life term kidnaper of Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma City oil millionaire. Returning today from a conference at Leavenworth prison with Bailey and Goorge (Machine Gun) Kelly, also serving a lite sentence for the 200.000 abduction, Attorney James H. Mathers quotea Bailey thus concern ing the fugitive killer's chances for liberty: "The government will get him. He may trick 'em for a while, but he can't win." Evelyn Frechette, reputed sweet. heart of John Dllllngcr, Is shown as she was escorted to federal court In St. Paul, where she pleaded not gull ty to charges of Humoring the Indi ana desncrntlo. (Associated Tress Photo.) ON KIDNAP TRAIL BRINGS NO RESULT NOG ALBS, Aria., May 7. (AP) An Invasion of northern Sonora by United States peace officers and In vest Ign tors In hopek of finding six-year-old June Robles or her abduc tors somewhere in the wild country below the International line, waa abandoned at 2 p. m. today as with out result. "We found nothing the lead fail ed to pan out," said an official state ment as squada of officers straggled back acroaa the International border to the United States after perhaps the greatest armed advance by Unit ed States officers into Mexican terri tory in recent times. Police and government officials of Sonora cooperated in facilitating the movements of the searchers, and at tached men of their own to act aa guides for the squads of aherlff's deputies, police and special investi gators which beat their way thru the wild country, searching suspected shacks and settlements. The Mexico Invasion brought a series of rumors which grew wilder by the hour as voluble residents of Nogalea, Sonora, conjectured what was going on to the south of them. E WASHINGTON, May 7. fP) The supreme court today upheld an In junction restraining Governor Wil liam Langer and other state officials from enforcing the North Dakota grain embargo act pending final do clslon as to Its validity. The embargo law, enacted In 1033. waa aimed to prevent shipments out ot the state .when the market price had become confiscatory. Acting under the atatute, Langer Issued a proclamation In October prohibiting shipments. SILVER CONFERENCE i DELAYED TO TUESDAY WASHINGTON, May 7. (API President Roosevelt and Secretary Morgenthau discussed tho silver iltua tlon for two hours todsy, but no an nouncement waa made as to whether they had reached any decision on legislative requests of the senate ill er bloc. The sennte group hnd expected to go to the White Hoiiao today to get the president's answer, but tho meet ing wai postponed until tomoriow. MEXICAN INVASION SEPARATION ROCK Forty-Third Annual Session Will Bring Physicians From Wide Section Dr. C. T. Sweeney Will Preside The forty-third annual session of the Southern Oregon Medical society will open here tomorrow morning with delegates present from Douglas, Josephine, Jackson, Coos. Klamath and Lake counties. The business meetings will be held at the St. Mark's Guild hall on Fifth and Onk- dale street. Registration of visitors will be held at 9 o'clock at the hall, at which time duea will also be paid. Tha meeting will be called to order by Dr. C. T. Sweeney of thla city, the president. Rev. Wm. J. Howell of the First Presbyterian church will offer the opening prayer and an address of welcome will be given by Wm. S. Bolger. past president of the cham ber of commerce. Also Included In the morning program will be: Read ing of the minutes of the preceding meeting, communications, member ship applications, election of offloera and choice of place of next meeting, (Continued on Page Five) HOLLYWOOD, May 7. (VP) But a few hours old, the marriage of Carey Wilson and OarmelitaGeighty waa tinged today with circumstances far removed from the now-gainod happi ness of a bride and groom. Several hours after the screen writer and actress were married on Sunday, in one of the film colony's biggest weddings of the year, the matron of honor, Jean Harlow, startled screen- dom with an announcement of her separation from Harold Rosson, mo tion picture photographic expert. Ras son had attended the wedding with her. Added to this unexpected twist In the romance of Wilson and Miss Ger aghty was a scheduled court hearing today In which the writer's first wlf. Nancy H. Wilson, from whom he waa divorced In 1029, sought an Increase to $1,000 from $250 for support of their two children. The wedding of the writer and Miss Geraghty was solemnized In the gar dens of the home of Leila Hyams, film actress, and Phil Berg, producer, with more than 100 of the colony's socially prominent personage in at tendance. Besldea Miss Harlow, the attendants were Cedrto Gibbons, film director and husband or Dolores Del Rio, aa best man: Sheila Geraghty, sister of the bride, as maid of honor, and a brother, Maurice, gave the bride In marriage. The ushers were Berg, Oeorge Fltzmaurlce and Irving Thai- be ty. The Rev. Jnmes Hamilton Lash per formed the ceremony and at a recep tion later more than 600 persons gathered. Crowds of film fans so blocked the streets around the resi dence that a special police detail waa needed to direct traffic. HALIFAX. N. B May 7.AP) Rescue efforts were rushed today for two ahlps aground at widely separated points along the Nova Scotia coast. Up near Cape Breton Island s nortn- ernmoat tip, tugs atrained at the 1569- ton Norwegian freighter RutenfjelL trying to draw her from a rocky ledge. On the province's south hort, at Point Felix, the little coastal motor vessel, Walter, Junior, lay aground. She piled up on a reef while proceed ing down the coast from Yarmouth. M00NEY SEEKS WRIT FOR PRISON RELEASE SAN FRANCISCO. May 7. (API- Tom Mooncy, convicted of the 1018 preparedness day bombing nere, to day filed a petition In federal district nnurt ..eking his freedom on a writ of habeas corpus from San Quentln prison, where he is serving a me sen tence. ASTORIA. Ore., May 7. (AP) Two power lite boats from the iOaat guard atatlon here left ahortly after noon tn ive aid tn the tuff SuteTlor, out of Yaq.ll- My several days ago, wllh a scow in tow. rnc nature oi trouble was not known her. HARLOW'S SECOND ROMANCE STRIKES