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The Weather Forecast: Fair Sunday. Moderately M-arm. Temperature: Highest ynterday 84 I.owent yesterday . , .. , , 38 Twenty-ninth Year Bt PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, D. C, May U. Th neatest, cleanest Inside Job of political guillotining In many a day was tno one done on the In nocent profeesor from New Eng land, Dr. Thorp. . Not a finger print was . left anywhere to tell who lopped off the head of the director of for eign and do me a 1 1 c com merce. Everyone knows Paul Mallon the trigger man was Senator Stephen, of Mississippi. Dut he It ttrlctly a trigger man-In hla long career he ha. never been inown to plan a Job of .uch pro portions as thlt one. .fclrt There wat a master mind Behind Stephens, but no one know, who, although aom. people have susplc- If the senate of the United State. ahould hold a secret w awarding a medal to the man who gotTnorV a majority probably would vote, rightly or wrongly, for none other than James A. Parley-ye., the postmaster-general. Parley It Tmode.t "that he might . ..... i,nr hut It la at least consider him capaoio did execution. It la especially complimentary be cause President Roosevelt himself, Commerce Secretary Roper and Assistant Commerce Secretary Dick inson originally tried to save Thorp. Mr. Roosevelt nominated Thorp last January. Thorp was tho kind of re publican that tne 7' been welcoming into their fold, the Norrls-1 Follctto type. He was a quiet economist who knew little of the Washington world. His nomination was referred, in tne senate to a tub-committee composed of two democrats, Stephen, and. Bachman, and one republican, Nye. Hearings were held for two days. Bather trivial objection, were made to FVofessor Thorp. At any rate, Bachman and Nye thought they were trivial. Stephens, however, decided to fight. He fought with the only avallnble weapon delay. He declin ed to call hi. committee together and no action could be taken. v The president himself finally wrote a letter to Stephen, demanding ac tion, but It did no good. Roper like wise demanded action, but he had no more Influence than tne wnne House had. After week. Stephens finally sub mitted the question in private to the lareer commerce committee of the senate, from which he derived No record exists to prove it, but in that secret commerce committee meeting Stephens and Roper used some warm words. Sephens insinu ated that Roper had first worked ' against Thorp. Roper's explanation was that he had later Investigated the matter and found no valid ob jections to Thorp. Even then no vote was taken. Later Stephens went around privately and polled the democrats on the larger committee. They were under the Impression that he was campaigning against Thorp, and some of them, as a personal favor to Stephens, said they would vote against Thorp If tho matter ever got to a vote. One refused. He was Senator Sheppard of lcxas, wno iron amazing position that he would not oppose any man Just for political reasons. Stephens got enough votes to de feat Thorp In committee without Sheppard, so he rushed down to the White House and urged that the nomination be withdrawn. It was, m..i pithn.it further strug- immwn'-'-'j. gle. Nine out of ten senators will tell vou today that if a vote could be obtained on the Thorp nomination he would be confirmed overwhelmingly- The senate cloakrooms believed Stephens was so excited because Thorp had turned him down on some patronage appointments in the for eign and domestic commerce bur eau. That it Incorrect. Stephen, re-,tE-i nn annointment In the bur eau and did not ak for tny, but he did ask for and got t joo tor a ttnrt In the census bureau, which also is under the commerce depart ment. Thorp's opponents publicly based their objections on the ground that business wss strongly agstnst a col lege professor being in Thorp's Job Investigation discloses there were oniv three outside objectors to Thorp. One came from a small buel i.ess establishment In upper New York stair, another from an incon eequen'.ial employe who had i.::n M i Seattle Situation Tense And Shots Fired In San Fran cisco Outbreak Truce Comes'At Galveston. (By the Associated Press) Violence broke out afresh yesterday In Texaa and Pacific coast ports, where strike pickets cover the wat erfront, leaving one striker dead and another wounded at Galveston. The Galveston shooting followed a truce between - longshoremen and most of the shipping companies Three guards of the Clyde Mallory steamship lines, one of the compan ies with which - an agreement was not reached, were charged with mur der and assault to murder In con nection with the; outbreak. 1 Twelve thousand men were ordered back to work In Texas and Louisiana porta, but longshoremen remained on strike for the fourth day on the Pacific coast. 1 Shots were fired at San Francisco when a mob of strikers attacked five negroes and overturned their automo bile near the Grace line pier, but no one was hit. ; SEATTLE, May 13. (AP) After striking longshoremen 'had raided 11 ships to drag non-union workers ashore, Mayor John P. Dore today declared that the 100 extra police men he had ordered to strike, duty would be inadequate and said he would ask Governor Clarence D. Mar tin for state troops. Available members of the Washing ton state patrol went onstrlke duty. Bloodshed wa. narrowly averted at tho Bell street terminal (when offi cers of the draco liner Santa Rosa, with drawn revolvers, ,', provented. about 200 striking stevedores from entering the ship to drag, out non union workers. Sweeping' aside a handful of police, the union strikers battered down pier doors with heavy timbers and rushed the jocks and ships. . PORTLAND, Ore., May la.-(AP) Shipping operations stood fetlll on the waterfront here today while Governor Julius L. Meier decided not to call out the Oregon National Guard unless the Portland police epd the sheriff's office are unable to j main tain order. i The declaration that no further work can go on alpng the waterfront until adequate police protection Is given to permit loading and discharge of vessels was made by 51 steamship lines. However It was Indicated an other attempt to employ non-union workers In place of strikers would be made Monday. Meanwhile officials representing longshoremen reiterated that refusal of employer, to arbitrate was the direct cause of the strike. The official, also said that "long shoremen have released for delivery all perishable freight which was on the dock, when the strike took ef fect. In addition, they have released some 2400 sacks of sugar for the bene fit of cannery men and farmers who are now harvesting berry crops." The only arrest reported during the day was of a towboat captain who was charged with reckless driving after his automobile hit . one of the picketing strikers. To aid Identification, special pol ice were paired with uniformed of ficers as much as possible. Only reg- ulnr police were allowed to carry tear gas. BY COAST STRIKE MARSHFIELD. Ore., May 12. Wt Lumber mills and logging camps in the Coos bay area will be forced to c1oj down unless a truce Is declared in the longahoremen'a strike to per mit movement of merchandise from the docks, it was announced today by the Independent Stevedore company, following a survey of all operations in thla district. It is estimated that 1,500 wage earners would be Immediately af fected. All attempts to load ships with strike-breakers were abandoned this morning when pickets declined to al low a crew to board the steamer Au ten at Empire. The men were called off by the employer to void possible trouble, The longshore me ns union denied any complicity with handbills calling foT a "united front.' distributed here today. . Worker Injurrd ROSEBURO, Ore., May 13. AP) John Kirk, employed with a county bridge painting crew, suite red. broken hip. shoulder and ankle to day when he fell S5 (pet from the top of a steel upsn to the deck of , the Oak street bridge to Roflcburg, EBFOKD Mail l LONGSHOREMEN OF A peaceful teene on the San Francisco waterfront at a leader ex horted longshoremen to continue their ttrlke. The walkout was gen eral along the Pacific Coast, affecting all ports from Seattle to San Diego. Peaceful picketing, leadert In San Francisco said, would be maintained although there were teveral light brushes with police In Portland and the Northern California harbor. (Associated Pres. Photo) Freshening Winds Cause Greater Menace Federal Aid Promised Grain Grow ers Rains Benefit Iowa. CHICAGO, May 13. (AP) Grain farmers of the northwest, famine haunted despite 'vague promise of "possible showers today petitioned Rid from the federal" government and received promises of .prompt atten tion. As they did so, another dust storm was incubating In the dry territory, lifted by winds that freshened hour ly and were believed by meteorolo gists to be capable of surpassing the cross country storm that by Friday settled over the Atlantic. Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio and Indiana all remained dry, and Wis consin was counting the damage done by frosts last night. Oklahoma and Iowa, not so ser iously threatened by the drought, Improved their position with rains. All weather forecasts mentioned "possible showers" except those deal ing with the vast northwestern spring wheat belt which will have unseas onable heat. f STATE AIDE HURT, TACOMA. Wash., May 12. (AP) A terrific automobile collision claim ed the life of Charles Hoover, Sr., of Hoquiam thla afternoon two and a half miles sotith of the Fort Lewis depot, and sent Charles J. Batholet, state superintendent of hydraulics, and his family to the St. Peters hos pital at Olympia with serious in juries. Hoover's 14-year-old- son, Charles, Jr., suffered back Injuries and was taken to a hospital In Ho quiam. Details of the accident were un available, but It was reported the crash was caused when a tire blew out on the Hovoer car, driven by his son. The Hoover car burned, ac cording to first reports. All the victims were taken to the Fort Lewis hoslptal for emergency treatment. Hoer lived only about an hour and a half after the acci dent. Bnrtholet suffered a fractured leg: his wife, Irene, severe bruises about the legs and chest: a daughter, Mar garet, a fractured left collar bone, and another daughter, Marjorie, cuts and bruises. Oregon: Fair Sunday and Monday: moderately warm with low humidity: rapidly increasing fire hazard wet portion fresh northeast wind off shore. SAN FRANCISCO, May 12 P The outlook for the coming week in the far western sttcs Is for normal UitmxTature and fair weather except for fog and cloudy on the immediate coast. MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY, MAY 13. 1934. COAST ON STRIKE E TO PAY WAR DEBT OR BE DEFAULTER LONDON, Eng., May 12. (AP) Great Britain was told by the United States today to pay her war debts or be declared a defaulter. As a result, two alternatives face the cabinet, which early next week will tussle once more with the per sistent debts problem: First, to make a token payment anyway as evidence of good faith and willingness to negotiate for a solution; and, second, outright de fault In the hope M forcing quicker solution. ' The matter was put squarely before theLondon -government by OordcU Hull, American secretary of state, through the British ambassador In Washington, Sir Ronald Lindsay. The Johnson bill, said Mr. Hull, makes necessary a new American policy by which oken payments In lieu of full Installments June 16 could only be regarded as evidence of default. EUROPE TOLD TO ATHENS. Ga., May 12. (AP) The wheat growing nations of the world today were put on notice by Secre tary of Agriculture Wallace that an agreement must be reached unless they wish the United States to go Into production on a big scale and battle for the world's mnrkets. Reviewing the collapse of the Lon don conference which was designed to increase export prices by ten per cent and aid the farmers of the world Wallace said that he was "exceed ingly disappointed" by the failure of the conference and that It was a serious matter for the world although It was not so serious from the view point of the America, farmer. Unless the conferees enn work out an agreement, he said, the United States may give up crop control and compete for outside markets. He gave credit to the agricultural adjustment administration for making It possible for he United State to enforce little acreage reduction and scatter Its 'wheat throughout the consuming nat j Ions. 4 Day in Washington (By the Associated Press) By 62 to 18 the senate passed the Fleteher-Rayburn stock market con trol bill. Representative Byrns, the Dcmo i cratlc leader In the house, said com i modity exchange regulation had been added to the list of imperative legis lation. The Olass bill for federal reserve loans to industries was debated In the senate. Secretary Hull said public officials and newspaper men should analyse carefully the fundamentals beneath the surface of events. Attorney General Cumrrflnga drop ped extradition proceedlnEs against Frank Grigware, round In Canada 24 years after escaping prison. NRA attorneys were advised to limit prosecutions for code violations In the future to cases adversely af fecting Interstate commerce. Invitations were sent out for two White House garden parties. SeiiHte leaders agreed to continue going to work curlier than is cus tomary In an effort to speed adjourn ment of cooercM. REACH AGREEMENT ON WHEAT TRADE PARLEY OPENS TO BUY BACK GETTLE, U Contact Made With Kid napers By Attorney, And Instructions Due By Mon day Noon Victim Alive And Well. LOS ANGELES, May 12. (AP) On the heels of an official ultimatum that 5000 law enforcement officers would begin raking southern Califor nia for the kidnapers of William F. Gettle, oil millionaire, unless he were returned by midnight tonight, an nouncement was made late today that a contact had been established and negotiations would start "next week." The two sudden developments left the' status of the case somewhat ob scure to observers In view of pre vious promise by authorities that they would withhold official action until Monday noon pending negotia tions by Ernest E. Noon, the family attorney, to purchase Gettle'a free dom with a sizeable ransom. In announcing the contact with the abductors, Noon said they had reported Gettle alive and well: that they wanted $76,000 for him and that Instructions for the payment of the ransom money would be delivered to him next week. Whether Noon's report would change the plans of District Attor ney Buron Fitts to unleash the army of peace officers was not lmmedl atcly announced. L WALLA WALLA, Wash.. May 12. (JP) Laying the grounds for an alibi' defense, attorneys for five convicts ! on trial for the murder of a prison I guard In the February riot, late today hinted they may try to prove that one; of the eight slain convicts stabbed th guard. The indication that such may be their strategy, which they hope will save their clients from the gallows. came during the cross examination of Guard W. H. Kingman, who waa put on the stand by tho state during the afternoon session. All but one of tho state's witnesses had been heard when court adjourned for the week-end. T. P. Gosc, one of the four defense attorneys, sought vainly to draw from Kingman an admission that he told cjty police officers that he shot the " who murdered" Guard H. L. Brlggs. Thla afternoon's flare wa the first time -the defense had sparked alnce the trial opened Tuesday afternoon. At the morning session the cross-ex amination of Dr. J. W. Ingram, one of the three doctors who performed an autopsy on Brlggs' body, fell flat. Kenneth Casey of the defense ask ed Ingram If a bullet could have caused the wound in Brlggs' head and another In hla neck. "A bullet has to leave a trail; it can't Jump out," Ingram replied. The defense failed In other effort to draw from Ingram and the other medical examiners, Drs, Carl J. Jo hannesson and Frank C. Robinson admissions that Brlggs' death may not have been caused by tho stab wound LENIENCY GIVEN WASHINGTON, May la.-OJyFrank Urigware, located In Canada 24 years after his escape from LeavenwortJi penitentiary where he was under life sentence for armed participation in a mall train robbery was a free man tonight. Attorney Oeneral Cuminlngs order ed the dropping of extradition pro ceedings initiated to return Origware, alias James Uwrence Fahcy, to bli cell. "We don't think it would serve any UAeful purpate to put Grigware back In Leavenworth," justice dcpanmcir- of lie la Is explained. Grigware, who won the respect of fellow cltiwns in Edmonton, Aioerta to such an extent the government wna deluged with letters in lita behalf heU up a Union Pacific mail train at Omaha, Neb., May 22, 1908, and got away with 1500. - ... The "Argus phtattants" of Stain five "dancing floors" in the deep jungle where they "dance" in the mating season. RIFUNE Family Group of Kidnaped Oil Man William F. Gettle, millionaire Beverly mils, Cnl., oil and stock broker, with Ills family In a photograph taken some time before he was' captured by two gunmen who Invaded his Arcadia estate. Left to right: Hilly, Jimmy (sou ted nn Mrs. Gettle'a lap), Uohblo nnd Betty. Billy and Betty are twins. (Associated Press photo). i T FORM -FALSE ormer Attorney For Convict Judge Depicts Him As "Guiltiest, Double-Cross-ing Citizen" Reveals Business Deals. Attorney T. J. Enright, counsel for Earl H. Fehl fn many of his legal entanglements, and accused by Tal- ton Jack Bunch, a fellow convict of tho former county official, In an af fidavit prlntcnd In an Incendiary pamphlet late yesterday Issued the following lengthy and self-explanatory statement: Med ford, Ore., May 12, 1034. To the Editor: It Is seldom that I resort to the press aa a trial forum, having always believed that the court room is the proper place to try matters which are at issue and I have always been con tent to let those opposed to me use the prpss as a trial forum. But the dodger gotten out on be half of Electa, A. Fchl. wife of our former county Judge, Earl H. Fehl, under the heading, "Black Political Plot Exposed," Is so palpably false that I feel called upon to at least, In my poor way, answer It. To begin with, I was one of the unfortunate attorneys who upon many occasions represented Earl H. Fehl In court, and I was also one of tho attorneys to whom he always plead hard luck and whom he never paid even a portion of what our ser vices were worth. In order to properly answer the things contained In the dodger It will be necessary for me to write a longer letter than I would ordinarily desire. In the first place, the affidavits of Talton Jack Bunch contained In their dodger are false and the court record In the case of State va. Earl H. Fehl, which was tried In the circuit court (Continued on Page Six) f DYNAMITE PERILS E BPOKANB, Wash.. Maj 1J (AP) A cigar box containing seven sticks of 40 per cent drnamlta was found late today In a corner on tha loading dock used Jointly by ths Spoketman- Hevlew and the Chronicle. Thero were no fusee or porcusslon cap. In the box or other indications that the explosive was Istendea as a bomb, but police said it could nove been detonotcd by a blow or heavy Jar. That quantity of dynamite, the detectlvea said, would have wrocked that part of the building had It bcon nronerlv packed and expioaca. Employe, of tho paper aald tho box tt.is placed there sometimes between 4 o'clock and 4:4(1 o'clock mis aif crnoon, when It wa oUtcovoiod. E BEAT SALES TAX SALEM, Ore., May 13. (AP) The Oregon State Grange expended (372.15 In the campaign against the salcB tax and In support of the ref erendum measure on the ballot May 18, which if carried out would re peal the sales tax law, notices filed with the secretary of state today re vealed. The Grange estimated It would expend (400 more beforo the primary election. Other expenses and estimates filed with the secretary of state, as re quired by a new legislative act, in clude that of the Independent Mer chants' association, also opposed to the sales tax, of (103.75 already spent and (10 to bo spent. Those In favor of tho sales tax in cluded the Oregon State Teachers association, (53.08, and estimated (26.74 yet to be spent; and the Ma rlon County School Relief associa tion, expended (35.65, and estimated (22.60 to be spent. 4 T RADIOS GREETING NRW YORK, May 13. fP) Atmos pheric disturbance, prevented Ad miral nichard E. Byrd from Rreotlng his mother from tho South Polo to nktht, so sho greeted him, "Hello Dick; thla Is your mother," said Mrs. Elennore Boiling Byrd. "I hope you can hear me, I am hero In New York to attend the mother.' din ner clven In honor of Mrs. Jame Roosevelt. I am an honor gucat ue cause of what you have done and what you aro doing: and I have an. solute faith In everything you aro do. ing. So I .end you my love and de voted wishes both for your personal happlnesa and your well being and for tho safety and success of your ex pedltlon. Oood night, Dick, aoo do wun vou." The (treetlna wsa conveyed to tne South Pole by tho Columbia Broad eaatlng aystem. Mrs. Byrd also sent a Brier greet ing to tho members of her ton's ex pedition. In behalf of tneir mothers STATE INCREASE PORTLAND, May 13. (IT) Tne week ending May 6 wat by far the best from a salea standpoint yet ex perienced by the Oregon Uquor Cor. trol commlaslon. Sale for the week totaled .53.724, Including 3.337 con sumer permit. Tula represented on Increase of 10 4 per cent over tho pre vious week which, itaelt, had broken prevloua rocorda. Total salea of hard liquor and per mil. alnce the atate control system wa. Instituted In February now amount to 1:162.074. To date, 37,082 consumer permits htvt been told. PAPERS LIQUOR SALES BY WINNER Pulitzer Award TOR 1934 No. 44. AS L1BELPAMPHLETS Inflammatory Dodger From Pens Of Convicts Accuses Officials And Witnesses In Ballot Cases Of High Crimes. Charged with criminal libel for tho hand to hand circulation of a pamph let, attributing alleged criminal acta to the state police and district attor ney's office, In the ballot theft ar rest, and conviction, of t year ago, E. L. Pitch, local resident and minor figure in the Banka-Pehl turmoil, wae arrested Saturday afternoon, at ht stood on a Main street" corner, and lodged In the county jail, with ball rixed at $1000. by Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman. The arrest waa made by Deputy Sheriff Ed Leach, who Mid that Pltcn had several copies of tho pamphlets on hi. person, at the time. Authorltle. said that another trresa was scheduled on the same oharge. ine pampniec entitled "Black Po litical Plot Exposed" and "Who Stolt Tho Ballots," contained Inflammatory and incendiary eomment, and charge. a -conspiracy." An affidavit by Tal ton jack Bunch, a fellow convict of Earl R. Fehl accompanies the charge.. The affidavit exonerates Fehl, and implicate, by Innuendo a number of state witnesses in the ballot trials. two of the defendant., and a number of courthouse employees, at tho time of the vote stealing. The records of Douglas county, it was shown at tho trials, thow that Bunch was In the county Jail at Rose burg at the time of tho ballot rob bery. He waa Indicted In tho county for bad chocks, and: turned over to the Douglaa county authorities. Ho It now an Inmate of the state prison, and upon the expiration of hit pres ent term win be returned to face the local oharge. The affidavit it the bail, of Fehl't application for a parole. Copies of the pamphlet have been tent to tho tt-torney-general, the state parole board, the prison wardon, and the governor. At the bottom appeart the notation 'Earl H. Fehl, elected county Judge of Jackson County -Prisoner laflga." The reading matter attached to ths affidavit, is written In typical Fehl style, and hurls highly serious accusa tions, In a lengthy tirade. The pamphlet, first made their ap pearance Friday, and were followed by complalnta from cltiaena, who de manded that legal action be taken, to prevent any possible recurrence of tht turmoil, that coat Jackson county to heavily ere peace was restored. Prompt Issuance of a warrant was made. Tht clrcutars were distributed cautiously, for tho moat part, and did not gain a wide circulation. Pitch, according to Information furnished the offlcera, waa patting out the pamphlets to peoplo on tht street., and from houae to houae. Authorltlet state that all tht cir cular atatementt are brazenly fa 1m and llbeloua. Saturday morning a conference wat held by Chief of Police Olatout McCredlo, Attorney T. J. Enright, who represented Fehl in many of hit legtl entanglements, Including hit trial at Klamath Palls, when ho was eonvlctei by a Jury In twelve mlnutee. Attorney Frank J. .Newman, coutuei for former sheriff Oordon I.. Schermerhorn, and other, implicated in tho dodger, to decide upon a future line of aetlon, WILL ROGER? SAN FKANC1SCO, May 11. See where President Roose velt figures on having a fres hand in the foreign debt settle ment thing personally. That s fine. Congress sent 'em a bill for the full amount, th senate) threatened to sue em, tho American taxpayers tried to slinmo 'cm into pnying, so lot's. turn it over to Mr. Roosevelt and give him a commission on what he can get. Either that or have the J. P. Morgan company foreclose on all of 'em. They are more afraid of him thnn they are of us. The thing has dragged along so far now that it looks like we will havo to lend some of 'cm soino more money In order to get 'em to agreo to cancel. Yours,
