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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
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DYNAMITE PERILS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,