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1 Medford Merchants Hold Pre-Jubilee Sales Saturday and Monday The Weather Forecast: ralr tonight and baturduy. Moderate temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday .. 6.S Lowest this morning." 36 Medford Mail Tw bun WINNER Pulitzer Award Twenty-ninth Year M UUU By PAUL MALLON, WASHINGTON, D. C, May 18. The best harpooriers In the congress are quietly getting their weapons out now for Treasury Secretary Morgenthau. They seem to be as eager for his hide as they were for Professor Tug well's a month ago. although they are going about their Job more quietly this time. The aus picious part of It Is that they are aU-nnclnff on him frim the CloalC- rooms in no .few- pau, Maon tlnct directions at the same time. That may be only a coincidence, but It Is a significant one. At loast no cabinet officer recently lias had as many coincidental troubles shot at him at once as now whiz about the head of Mr. Roosevelt's number' one man. The moat vociferous gang against Morgenthau la the silver gang, al though It Is not the most Important. They have made little effort to con ceal their feelings about the way the secretary handled the sliver bill. How ever, when they get what they are going to get on silver, they may quiet down. Not ao with the Democratic sena tor howling about patronage A 9 BjSlLid i leader in that crowd la Senator Mc- Kellar. Hl associates are Charging the secretary with appointing Repub licans. Just at the present time that charge la as serious In the, congres sional Inner circles as if Morgenthau had atjnolntcd lepera. Floor Leader Robinson tried to straighten the matter out a few days ago by having Morgenthau in for a private pow-wow with Democratic senators. The meeting could hardly be called a success. Morgenthau explained to the sen ators how he made appointments to the liquor unit. He had to have a lot of men In a hurry and believed the law required him to make the appointments under civil service. So he called for the civil service rolls of the old prohibition unit and took the men with the highest grades. There was no time to hold new examina tions. One of the foremost Demo cratic leaders stalked out of that con ference and said: "If the law requires Mr. Morgen thau to make appointments that way, wo will amend the law." The senators were ' generally mum ahout what happened in the confer ence. When Morgenthau found they had said nothing, he declined to talk also. That Is why so little got out about it. These two movements might not be mrinua exceot that simultaneously a congressional lobbying campaign against Morgenthau w uno.erws.en by a disgruntled treasury onicmi. Thin official found out that Mor genthau wanted to get rid of him a few weeks ago. ho naa a gooa h....j frlnnri. in hoth hOUSCS Of COngrCSS, and to those he hastened. Ho told therg that Moretcnthau had put secret service ogenw on inn t.i" f lll-H Rtllff. It made merry cloakroom talk and a nn the animals more. At the matter has not devel nnrrt bevond that stare, but It may be aired soon. To round out the' game, Senator Couzens la getting ready to open up agsln.it the treasury on the ground N that It hits been paying too much in interest rates. r. That Is what Is behind the resolu tion Coiwns Introduced not loivj ago, calling on the treasury for a rec ord of all rates on government secur ities. . , , Probably no one ever will be able to settle that argument. .The treasury can point out that rates gradually have been reduced since the new ad ministration took hold. It will say that it consult government bond market experts and fixes up the In terest rate on It own best Judgment as to what the market will bear, nut. of course, the real reason Mr. Morgenthau ha been able to reduce Interest rate is because Mr. Roose velt oromlsed a balanced budget In 10.18. and the additional fact that Mv Roosevelt is avoiding greenbacks. All of which seems to be Just about enough trouble for one man to han dle. No one will be happier than Mr. Morsenthau when and If eongrew adjourns for the summer. Stro administration Inner circles are biu-kmg Counsel Henley of the . , federal trade remission for the new I nrpubllcen appointment as commia- - sioiier under the stock marxet om. h as once law partner to Mr. Cool- idaea attorney-general. Sargent, and Is regarded as the right man for the rorpo'.V.r fporls work (Coatlmna on Fago flvx STEVEDORE SOVIET ROLES IN SEATTLE, Police Clear Docks After Strikers Force Entry to Ships Part of Portland Men Go Back to Work MARSHFIELD. May 18. (AP) About 400 men were laid off last night when the Coos Bay Lumber company waa forced to close until striking longshoremen go back to work and permit resumption of chip ping. The McKenna. mill, employing 50 men, will close tonight. PORTLAND, May 18. (AP) The flour mill of Kerr, Gilford Co., closed Thursday, throwing SO men out of work, and about 60 were laid off when the Albers Brothers Milling company went on half-time opera tion, all because the waterfront strike here has made It impossible to ob tain wheat supplies. SEATTLE, May 18. (AP) Striking seamen and firemen broke Into the Todd dry docks here today and in duced skeleton crews aboard the frclghtera Florence, Edward and Jacob Luckenbach to Join the long shoremen's strike. Police arrived and circulated through the crowd, ordering the strikers to leave. Alter some argu ment, everyone walked out. . Mayor John F. Doro Invited Mayor Joseph Carson of Portland and mayors of all agricultural cities in Washington- to confer Sere Sunday as the strike continued to stagnate trade In the inland areas. - "The olty government of Seattle has been replaced by a soviet of long shoremen," he said, "which Is keep ing people off private property the docks and is dictating what shall be done about trade." .... Masters, mates and pilots who ope rate on craft outside Seattle harbor met to act on a resolution similar to the one already approved by the mas ters, mates and pllota who operate on ships in the bay, by which they refuse to handle craft affected oy the strike. PORTLAND, Ore., May 18. (AP) With one faction of waterfront em ployes back on their Job today, after employers had agreed to terms, union labor leaders expressed hope today that negotiations to end other strikes would be successful. River boatmen, who went out on strike last Sunday returned to their craft today. Shortly before midnight officials of the union announced the strike was off. Employers had agreed to recognize the union, they said. About 240 men were affected by re peal of the strike order. RELICS INDUCE Mr, and Mrs. Harry Q. Hayes of Hastings, Mich., who have been visit-j lug here for tho past two days, were so Interested In tho display of relics In the Oregon Diamond Jubilee head quarters, that they plan to' return here for the week of the Jubilee, and will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Heath. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Heath, having stopped here en rout to Aberdeen. Wash., from San Francisco, where they spent the winter. They will leave here In the morning for Aber deen. While here, Mr. and Mrs. Hayes vis ited Crater Lake, Klamath Falls, and points of Interest around Medford. with Mr. and Mrs, Heath. Drought Area Families Will Be Transplanted WASHINOTON, May 18. (AP) ' Heavy purchases of catt,l In drought j areas of the north central west and possible transplanting of 3,000 to 4,000 South Dakota families are in cluded in the program for relief of the dry sections of North and South Dakota, Wiscorsln and Minnesota. The federal surplus relief corpora tion, Harry L. Hopkins, emergency relief administrator, said, will start buying cattle Immediately from farm era on relief rolls or those In dis tress. Within the next three weeks he expects to take the entire surplus In the area. The corporation will do the buying for the agricultural ad justment administration. Hundred of farms which hve not(trlbutd to persons on relief, rolls. In South Dakota where Dillinger's Double Seen in IN LIGHT VOLUME T Brisk March On Polls Ex pected Later in Day As Voters Write Finish to Long Primary Campaign Extremely light voting character ised primary election balloting " this morning In all the precincts of Jack son county, with country districts showing more life than the cities. At 9 o'clock, In the West (Medford precinct one of the largest In the city, only three voters had wended their way to the polls. In the North Main precinct 16 voters cast ballots In the first hour and a half of vot ing. In the Newtown precinct 33 voters had called. A heavier vote was being cast In the Ashland precinct and brisk vot ing was reported from several coun try precincts. Th afternoon and evening Is ex pected to see an outpouring of votera j In thla city and casting on oi me lethargy. The polls opened at 8 o'clock and will close at 8 o'clock tonight. The sheriff and clerk's office were busy most of last night, advising election officials to pasto stickers over the name of Charles Hall, Re publican candidate for governor, who withdrew yesterday from ytho.. race. The work was completed shortly be fore the opening of the polls. PORTLAND. Ore., May 18. (AP) While statisticians predicted a 40 to 50 per cent vote, the Oregon clector- (Continued on Page Seven) 4 UNABLE TO AGREE PIERRE. S. D.( May 18. (AP) The federal court trial of Mrs. Fern Sankey and Mrs. Alvina Kohlerton, widow and sister-in-law of tho late kidnaper, Verne Sankey on charges of conspiracy in the Charles Boettcher, II, $60,000 kidnaping, has ended in a Jury dead lock. After being out nearly 28 hours, the Jury reported a "hopeless" disagree ment and was discharged by Judge Lee Wyman last night. District Attorney Olaf Eldem, who has asked conviction of the women as a blow at the use of "gangland molls" to cover criminal moves, said there would be a retrial, but Defense Attorney Ben Laska of Denver de clared the result Is "as good as a victory." HOPE OE SHOWERS CHICAdO, May 18. (AP) A ray of hope for at least partial rcUef came to the farmers of some parts of the arid areas of the sun-baked drought stricken central west today. "There are some prospects of at least local showers within the next 48 hours in the northern parts of the northrrn central states," was the of flclal weather forecast. Meanwhile crops, long denied sub stantlal rains, continurd to dry up and prices for grains soared yesterday on the Chicago board of trade. yielded a good living for their own era In years, Hopkins said, from 3.000 to 4,000 families might be moved to to buy them on reasonable terms. P' u. ... The state owns approximately 4.000 1" through Golden Oate park were fRrms (described to the police today bx an The Immcdlat ovltle purchasing unidentified witness as the rand program will be Intensified in four returned an Indictment charging states. Hopkins said, but will not I Millard Hickman, marine engineer, necessarily be confined to them. with the murder of Miss Louise Jepp Other potential drought areas or sec- jftn, of Ogden, Utah, tlons where there has been no rain Discovery of the wltne. a nelgh in recent months will be included ! bor living near the lonely anot where eventually. 1 the Utah girl met a violent death Cattle purchases will be (.Tiany times greater than those already made by the surplus relief corpora tion. Hopkins said, Other beef will Iv canned nd tfls- MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934. FMl Pacifists Plan Anti-War Dance Oregon Campus EUGENE, May 18 (AP) Planned to arouse "militant antt-mllltar-ism," an anti-war dance will be held on the University of Oregon campus tonight, sponsored by tho eleven antl-mllltary organizations of the campus. This Is the first dance of Its sort to be held here. Literature embodying pacificism, banners denouncing war and mili tary Ideas and the reading of satirical antl-wrr poetry by a choir of robed verse-speaking readera will feature the event. All who attend the dance will be asked to sign the following pledge: "I will not cross the boun dary of another country to kill or destroy, nor will I support my government in ao doing." G. PASS MAYOR, El L. G RANTS PASS, May 18. (API- Confident that Mayor Walter W. Stockwell would be returned here to face a charge of seduction, District Attorney Sherman S. Smith was awaiting word from state police here today. 8ookwell. waa served with a war" rant of arrest yesterday afternoon signed by Smith and Howard A. Fal un. In Justice court he was released on his own recognizance to appear at a hearing at 8 p. m Stockwell did not appear at the appointed hour. After checking at his home and with residents who re ported seeing him In his car. Smith informed state police. Smith said Stockwell seemed pre pared to fight the charge. Stockwell came to Grants Pass in 1931 and was elected mayor in 1033. He Is married and has one child, a girl about five years of age. Stock- well Is about 38. For a time he was manager of a trucking concern and lately has been connected with a brewing company. Mrs. Stockwell and their daughter were reported with the mayor when he was last seen. Stockwell came here from Eugene. 4 E F Orion W. MoDonald and E. A. Crlppa of this city qualified Thurs day afternoon as bondsmen for May Murray, In tho sum of $1000, and she was released from the county Jail, where she was helu on a charge of criminal libel growing out of the al leged circulation of malicious and slanderous pamphlets. ' McDonald and Crtpps quaUtlcd as sureties. Both own property and have money In the bank. No bonds have yet been procured for E. L. Fitch, arrested last Satur day on the same charge. Additional arrests In the slsnder pamphlet case are scheduled for next ween. Evidence has been collected by the authorities relative to the authorshlD of the statements, their dollvery to this county, and prlntln? A preliminary hearing will be held early next week, It Is planned. In the May Murray case. Fitch waived pre liminary hearing and the charge will be presented to the grand Jury, which convenes May 37. L SAN FRANCISCO. May 18 , API early last Sunday, was hailed by the police as the first step In recreating th crime. Hickman announced through his attorney that lie would resist clforts tto rush hie trie! iJg'GER STRIKE U. S. AID IF CHINA TO BEPROTECTED Spokesman Says Country Not Pledged to Preserve China's Integrity or Join in Action Against Japan GENEVA, May 18. (AP) Maxim Litvlnoff, Russian commissar for foreign affairs, arrived hero unex pectedly today to consult with League of Nations leaders on the question of disarmament and possibly the Soviet union's entry into the league. The arrival of the Russian diplomat created a, sensation in league circles deeply discouraged over tho apparent Impasse In moves toward an accord on arms. It was reported that Russia Is alarmed over the recurrent rumors that the world disarmament confer ence will be allowed to collapse. Well-Informed circles said the Rus sian envoy would seek an Interna tional pact of non-aggression as pro posed by President Roosevelt and also, In an attempt to keep the dis armament conference alive, would urge concentration on the elabora tion of a pact of mutual assistance and security to fortify the organiza tion of peace. By llAltOl.D P..DRAMAK ... (Associated Press Foreign Staff) LONDON, May 18. (AP) Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, de rlnreri tndav that Oreat Britain Is not pledg(,(1 to ..pre!CTVe.. the integrity of China and will not participate In direct sanctions against Japan, or any other power In other parts of the world unless tho United States gives Its full co-operation. Reaffirming Oreat Britain's deter mination to "rospoct" China's politi cal Integrity, Sir Jlhn asserted: "Oreat Britain has never signed any treaty to preserve the territorial In tegrity of China." Referring to the demands of some of the opposition that Great Britain embark on a policy of economic sanc tions in an effort to forestall any wnr the foreign secretary declared: War Klsk Seen. 'Economic sanction cannot be ap- Dlled without the risk of war. And we cannot undertake any system of' sanctions or effective action or this type unless the United States co operated." Simon extensively praised me United States' aid to the League of Nations, "which I hereby gratciuuy and publicly recognize," he said. The house of commons, he aeciarea. must understand, however, the Urn nations under which the unitco States Is likely to act." He Intimated that Great Britain was willing to participate In an Inter national policy of sanctions (that Is, reprisals against treaty violations) in spoclflc cases should the United States as well aa other nations In terested agreo to It formally Nevorthelca " said Sir John, "It must be rocognlMd that a policy of sanctions cannot be aet up like a bot tle of medicine for dosage where, and when, It la needed. All Mint Agree. "Tills Is a matter necessitating the full review of each Individual case and, before action by any power of this nature la taken, all Interested must formally agree." Simon reaffirmed Oreat Britain's (Continued on Pago Four.) BnaMF.rtTON, Wash.. May 18. fP Charles E. Kllpstrlck, 30. member of a CCC camp at Ostrich Bay, between hre and Erland'a Point, where six persons were found murdered March 20. in the Frank Plleder home, was held In the city Jail on an open charge today for Investigation. Sheriff Rush Blankenshlp and John Martin, a member of the police force, who took him In custody yesterday, said Luko 8. May, Seattle detective chief, who took recovered finger prints from articles In the Piled it home, told them Kllpstrlck's prints tsllled so closely with some of thoso found that he had to take them to his laboratory to measure them. Two witnesses, one of them a Breni erton business man, declared they had heard Kllpatrlck mutter, "When I hit 'em with a hammer, they stay hit." A himxer was one of several , weapons used la tb slsylnis. Michigan Bank Robbery WOMEN JAILED IN June Ward, alias Joan Burke (left), and Ann Williams, alias Loretta Woody, were arrested (n Los Angeles aa asserted associates of a kid nap gang which held William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, cap tive for five days before police effected hit rescue. (Associated Press PHotol About twenty dispensers andwhole salers of beer were In rutendnnce last night at tho meeting with the city council to discuss the proposal of a beer tax ordinance and widely vary ing opinions were expressed. Mayor E. M. Wilson acted as chair man of the meeting, which was at tended by all councllmen but C. C. Darby. Much discussion centered arounB. whether the city should have stamp tax or a high license the latter being favored by tho whole salers. However, several dispensers said such action would force them out of business. ' A nronosed amendment will bo voted on by the council at a special meeting Tuesday night. It Is hoped tho ordlnanco may bo placed In ef feet before tho Oregon Diamond Jubilee, so that tho beer parlors may be regulated It has been estimated that botwocn 0000 and S7000 must bo ralsod by a beer tax of some form In order to fi nance the additional coat of pollco protection necessitated by the open ing of so many beer parlors, accord ing to Mayor Wilson. Plans are to Increase the pollco force by two or three men, and an other patrol car. It waa brought out at the meeting that, as the state had taken no active part in supervising or controlling tho local parlors, It had become necessary for tho city to take sorno action; Mayor Wilson said that he was op posed to the issuing of any more beer licenses In the city, and that he con sidered It outside of tho city's duties K regulate the stores llconscd by tho state. NOW FACE NOOSE WALLA WALLA, Wash., May IB. (API Five state penitentiary In mates were convicted of first degree murder hero today by a superior court Jury for tho slaying of Herbert L. Brlggs, a guard, In the Lincoln birth day riots. The Jury did not ask the death penalty. Eight convicts were killed In the break. Widespread Strike Slows Industry Recovery Speed fly the As.oclntrd Press. Truck drivers In St. Paul Joined the ranks of strikers today, bringing motor truck transport In tho Twin Cities almost to a standstill. School teachers In Old Forgo, Pa., tug workers In Buffalo, N. Y., and at four Ohio ports on Lake Erie. ar,l 12.000 Pacific coast longshoremen also were on strike. The steamship Flomar. loaded with steel for the now bridge across Ban Francisco bay, was held at Its pier In Philadelphia by a, strike of the crew. Picketing the pier, the seamen Jeered longshoremen for not Joining the west coast dock workers. A Chicago teamsters' strike, marked KIDNAPING CASE BARTLETT PEARS TOPIC AT MEET Porter Taylor, chief of tho Crop Production bureau of the Agricul tural Adjustment act discussed tho proposed marketing program for Bartlctt pears for the northwest dis trict, with growers and packers of the valley this afternoon at a moot ing held at the Hotel Medford. The main point was the provision calling for tho licensing of Bartlott pear canners In the northwest and California, and bringing them with growers and packers, under the pro visions of the AAA marketing agree ment. Chief Taylor Is holding confer ences with packers and growers of all northwest districts. A federal hearing Is scheduled to be hold at Portland May 38 when evidence will be heard from canners, packers and growers. Tho program will then be submitted to the secre tary of agriculture for approval or disapproval. The local meeting was scheduled to start at 1:30 o'clock, but delay was cxpeclcnccd In starting. Ho decision will be reached at the meeting thin afternon. Committees, however, will be named. The execu tive committee for the program con sists of 16 members. Eight of the members four grow ers and four packers will be named from California. The samo number will be selected from the northwest districts. Jackson and Josephine counties are listed In district No. 1 of tho north west area. Hood River, Ynklmn. and Wcnatcheo districts are tho others, Close to 60 local growers and pnek ers were In attendance at the moot ing this afternoon. Sunshine Luring Douglas Voters nOSEDimO. Ore., May 18. P) Between 35 and 30 per cent of the registered voters of Douilaa county had cast ballots In today'a primary election by noon, J idglng from re ports from scattering precincts. Good weathor la expected to aid In bring ing out a much larger vote than had been anticipated. Rural precincts re ported a higher percentage of voK's than those In tho city. by threats and violence, ended when employes of the Wilcox Coal company voted to loin a new union atiinatea with the American Federation of Labor. Nearly 6000 striking truck drivers picketed roads at Minneapolis. Pacific coast shippers looked to l mediation board to end tho long' shoremen's strike. The board was strengthened by the presenco of Ed ward P. McOrady, assistant aecretary of labor, who commented, "no strike Is so bad It can't bo settled." From soveral Pacific ports camo ac counts of violence. Federal mediation ended a strike of 1.1O0 clsy workers in Tuscarawas j No. 49. BANDITS ESCAPE AUDACIOUS RAID Witnesses Say Man With Machine Gun 'Looked Like' Wooden Gun John Six Make Auto Getaway FLINT, Mich.. May 18. (AP) Ma chine gun bandits who may have been lod by John Dllllnger carried out a carefully planned raid on the Olenwood Avenue branch of the Cit izens Commercial and Savings bank; today and escaped with a consign ment of between $26,000 and 930,000 In currency that had Just been de livered in an armored car. Witnesses Bald there were five men and a. woman In the robber gang and that one of three men who entered the bank "looked like Dil linger." He carried a machine gun. As the robbers fled, Harry Btam man, manager of the bank, stepped on the alarm button. Police respond ed, but the bandits had disappeared In two automobiles which headed toward Grand Rapids. State police and sheriff's officer sped along highway M-21, which the robbers were believed to have fol lowed, but apparently tho fugitives doubled back on their trail. CHICAGO, May 18. (PI The spec ter of elusive John Dllllnger crossed"., the path of tho army of man hunters looking for him today. Reports that federal agents had dls covered at a desorted mine the hlds- . out Dllllnger used after he and ht pals had shot their way to freedom from a Llttlo Bohemia, Wis., resort, spurred the hunters. The Milwaukee Sentinel said the supposed hideout waa In the aban doned zinc mill of the Blck Dick mine, 10 miles southeast of Ptatte vllle. in the southwestern corner of Wisconsin. The newspaper said 40 federal agents have been combing th area since April 33 snd 34 when Dll llnger Is believed to have hidden In the mine. Tho Dubuque (Iowa) Herald-Telegraph, with similar report of th find ing of tho hideout, said confirmation had come from Molvln E. Purvis, chief of tho Chicago offlco of the federal buroau of Investigation, but at Pur vis' headquarters It was said Infor mation of the confirmation waa lack ing. The Telegraph-Herald also reported that the agents had found the farm houso where Edward O. Bremor, kid naped St. Paul banker, had been held prisoner. Tho house Is situated not far from tho abandoned mine. Pre vious reports had linked the Dllllnger mob with the 1300,000 "snatch" of Bremer, The locale of the mine hideout was described as a deserted section of hilly country, settled early In Wis consin's history and seldom visited. 1 Federal Education Chief Resigns Job WASHINOTON, May 18. P) Dr. George P. Zook resigned today United States commissioner of edu cation, cffoctlvo July 1. John Ward Studebaker, superin tendent of schools of Des Moines, Iowa, will succeed him. studebaker will assume his new duties September 1. WILL- ROGER? SAN FRANCISCO, May IT. 'Looking over tlio beautiful Sun Francisco bay hero from hotel window you can almost if.c . Snn Qiientm prison and three gentlemen kidnapers ehcekiiiK in for life for a crime, committed not u week ago. That leaves tho state with a uretty good record out of two kidnaping!, two down and three out. That must be heiirtbroukinj to these "shyster'' lawyers to not get a ehnnec to defend this class of clients, but I suppose these fellows will he up before the pnrolrt board nt its first meeting. . lHl(tstlTSlslt WITH $25,000 IN
