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ail Tribune EDFORD WINNEE Pulitzer Award FOR 1931 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934. No. 55. fin The Weather Forecast: Cloudy tonljhl and Sat urday. Continued mild. Temperature: Highest yesterday Lowest this morning 51 M M WTBBEffl rail U jv Agpri TOLEDO RIOTERS Bjml DISPERSED WITH ABBft LEAD AND BOMBS j . ril,r w By PAtlli MALLON. (Copyright, 1934, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, D. 0., May 25. There Is a lot of national backstairs whispering about how much the rrlt- I n g Roosevelt a are making out of their literary efforts. 8uch talk un doubtedly has been Inspired by a congressman, who charged that White House roy alties would bring more than a mll- I I o n dollars a .. . - Annther nan gr seaman publicly .aid a Paul Mallon.. half million. Neither knew what he was talking about. If you check around among the u.k nonnla nn the lnsldO Of the publishing and magazine trade you can get a good idea or me racis. i White House and the publishers con alder their writing contracts .as per sonal and confidential and they prob ably are right about that. But men An tha inutile af the writing game know what Is going on In their trade and their expert judgment cannot You may accept the following facts as unofficial, but authoritative President Roosevelt's first book "Looking Forward," hea aold approxi mately 30.000 copies at a.50 retail The gross Income from It, therefore was around $75,000. TTHititirmnhlv the president re celved a better royalty, than given ordinary, writers, it wouin .i wiwn in nnd. 20 ner cent, probably the latter. On that basis the royalties from nis nrsi " amount to about aio.uou. n.,.. hnnlr "On OUr WaV.' has, to date, reached Just about the . Knnif Tt will not saw OI ni" sell any substantial amount beyond Its present sale. It also retails at .3.50, so the royalty irom m - approximately the same as the first DUUIh. If you figure the total Income to data from the two nooks at oeiweeu nnn MO OOO VOIl Will be JUSt about correct. Mr. Roosevelt has done no other writing. BnMBa.it.'i YiPKt contract Is ...-.nnBH n hn with a woman's maga zlne for a monthly article. There Is fairly good Information avanaoie tnoi 1,1. rnntmct calls for .1000 per article. The total proceeds so far cannot be more than ouuu to eouuu frh. fir.t. inriv ha written for seve ral feature newa syndicates, receiving .500 an article ior some nruuico i niii.Tt These are the ones which appear In Sunday newapapera over the country, it is not pm,siv.c to estimate the proceeds of these closely, but they netted less than $8000 In the lost year. Occasional other magazine articles have brought about $2000. An estimate of $20,000 for- Mrs, Roosevelt's total output, to date, would be considered fair. T-t.1. fvint the literary pro duction of the president and Mrs. Roosevelt was around $50,000 for the first year. These are unusually good returns for writing, as writing goes. They are certainly aufficlent to keep the nif Rwnv from the door, little more than Just enough to entertain all the wolves who have to Be entertained dj the executive. Thw offer lust about a respectable private Income to meet the demands of White House occupancy, i-or in t.nr mnftt presidents have drawn much larger sums than these from their private incomes wnen tney coma afford to. The presidency certainly cost Mr. Hoover that much beyond his salary. There is a congressional appropria tion for entertainment and travel ing, but only Mr. Coolldge and a few others have been able to stretch that to cover the requirement of jhe of fir. Also, President Roosevelt will be the first president to pay Income tares on his salary. These will amount to around siq.oOO. All business arrangements for Mr. Roosevelt's writings are handled by the president's confidential adviser, Louis Howe. Re also handles Mrs. Dall's output. Howe knows the busi ness thoroughly and gives nothing away: unquestionably he aids in the preparation of the articles and puts his final O. K. on them before they go out, but he does very little ghost writing for his literary charges. Other members of the family re ceive much less than the parents. Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall is supposed to have received 175 to $100 for most of her magazine articles. Son James got I20OO for a penes of news stories he sent from the yacht Amberjack during the president's cruise last sum mer. Son Elliott Is under a regular contract as aviation editor for a group of newspapers at a figure around H0iW yrsr. (Continued on Pag eixj Crowd of 2000 Gathers in Riot Area Worker Strip ped by Strikers Threats Voiced by Sullen Mob WASHINGTON, May 25. (AP) President Roosevelt Is closely watch ing the Toledo strike and Is keeping federal mediators on the Job to offer their aid toward a settlement. This was made known today at the president's semi-weekly press confer ence. The Internal labor situation celved attention at today's regular cabinet -meeting TOLEDO, O., May 25. (AP) Na tional guard troops opened fire with pistols late today as they pursued a mob of rioters, between houses and down alleys, In Elm street, near Michigan street A crowd of 3,000 was congregated In the- vicinity when the shooting was begun. The guardsmen also were using gas bombs. The mob was hurl ing stones, bricks, - bottles and other mt Belles. Two truckloads of soldiers were dispatched to disperse a crowd of 500 which had stripped Stephen Kardox, 29, an auto-llte worker, and chased him from the riot zone. Police rescued Kardox after he had run to the downtown district from the riot area with the mob chasing him. "We're going back to get help and we'll come back here and atrip you," the rioters shouted at the guardsmen as they sullenly departed. TOLEDO, D., May 25. (AP) Seven gas bombs were fired at a crowd of 400 persons gathered at Champlaln and Elm streets late today as Ohio national guardsmen sought to break up another recalcitrant throng of strikers and strike sympathizers. The crowd was pushed back by the successive clouds of gas. A few members of the group had pelted the guardsmen with stones and bricks. Guardsmen and local authorities tightened their hurriedly established defensive arrangements as General Manager J. Arthur Mlnch of the strike-ridden Electric Auto-Lite conv pany Informed them that dynamite had been smuggled Into the city to aid In the long siege of the plant. Mlnch said his Information came from a detective agency hired by the company. The agency not only re ported the presence of dynamite, but said that "practically every man go ing through the Central Labor Union headquarters last night was armed TOLEDO, O., May 26. (AP) A crowd of 1500 strikers and sympa thizers, bringing more bricks and a' (Continued on Page Eleven) Z L PASSES IN SENATE WASHINGTON. May 25. P) The senate public lands committee today approved the Taylor grazing bill to vest control In the interior depart- ment of the 173,000,000 acres of pub lic domain in 11 western states. Amendments to require state rati flcatlon to make the bill effective and to transfer the forest service from the agriculture to the Interior depart ment for the purpose of unifying grazing control were withdrawn by Senator Ashurst (D., Ariz.) He said he waa prepared, however, to offer the proposals on the floor of the senate. FOUR DEATHS IN INDUSTRY WEEK SALEM. Ore., May 39. (AP) Ac cidents In Oregon Industries for the two weeks ending May 24, resulted In four deaths, the report of the In dustrial accident commission today revealed. A total of 1,083 accidents were reported. The fatalities were R. Udevlch, Sea aide, logger; Oeorge L. Kyser, Clats kante. logger; Emery Rogers, Monroe, logger, and W. D. Baker, Beulah, a carpenter. The report was held up last week due to election 4..blvltles. SALT LAKE CITY. May 25. (P) Agricultural extension agents of 11 western states In conference here to day considered a farm rehabilitation program for presentation at a met ing of FERA officials of the same states here tomorrow. PORTLAND, May 25. (Pi San Francisco will be host m 1935 to the western Interstate conference of the National Council of Jewish Women. It wss decided at the last day of tat year's convention here. Portland Thirsty Must Leave Cars To Procure Beer PORTLAND, May 28. (Up) Thirsty autolst la Portland must get out of their ears In order to have beer served to them, it wu decided in a ruling by the cliy council today. Patrons also will be forbidden the pleasure of mixing highballs in places where beer la served, ac cording to another ordinance, which also prohibits persons from taking liquor into such an establishment. RACE DRIVER AND MECHANIC KILLED IN PRACTICE RUN INDIANAPOLIS, May 25. (P) Pete Krels of Knoxvllle, Tenn., driver, and Bob Hahn of Chlco, Cal., riding mechanic, were killed Instantly here today while practicing for the 500' mile automobile race to be run next Wednesday. The car, traveling at terrific speed, went out of control just after It came out of the first turn. It ran over the outside training wall and struck a tree many feet below. The car was out in two by the impact. The car waa owned by Harry Harts of Los Angeles, and waa one of the fastest entered In the race. Krels waa tuning It up preparatory to at tempting to qualify this afternoon. Krels was a construction engineer by profession and annually took his months' vacation at this time of the year In order to participate in the speedway classic. He had raced in earlier years throughout America and abroad. Krels and Hahn were the 24th and 25th persons killed at the speedway since It was built 25 years ago, ac cording to unofficial records. Five drivers and mechanics were killed in practice and In the race last year. Competition - had- been keen for the 8 -cylinder front-drive mount in which krels and Hahn rode to their death today. It wee recognized as one of the best cars in the contest. Krels was chosen because of his skill WASHINGTON, May 25. (AP) A departure In recovery economics de signed for once to lower consumer prices was proposed to the house today when Its ways and means com mlttee reported a bill to reduce to bacco taxes 40 per cent; The tobacco companies have agreed to pass all of the reduction on to the consumer, so that a 15-cent pack of cigarettes will sell Instead for 10. To the accompaniment of a great advertising campaign, an effort will be made, If the bill passes, to In crease consumption to a point where the federal treasury may not, after all, lose very much by the tax re duction. T IF LOS ANGELAS, May 25. (AP) John Ollbert, great lover of the screen, was divorced today, the fourth time. Virginia Bruce, formerly of the follies, got the decree. He Is 38 and she 23. They had been married a year and eight montha. Custody of the bsby, nine months old Sussn Ann Ollbert, wss awarded the wlft. Before this brief roirsnce. Ollbert had been divorced successively from Olivia Burwell, a. Mississippi girl, and Leatrlce Joy and Ina Claire, both prominent on the screen. 4 BEFORE BOLIVIANS LA PAZ, Bolivia, May 35. (API Three entire divisions of Paraguayan troops were reported In disorderly re treat through the Jungles of the Oran Chaco with Bolivian troops In pursuit. The enemy divisions t,ed, ssld army dispatches from Canada Strongest, after a surprise Bollrlsn counter attack In which 5.000 Paraguayans were slain and twice that number wounded. The Eighth Paraguayan division was described as completely sur rounded ss a result of the flight of the Seventh division, which had sought to make contact with It. The reports from the front were hailed with rejotclng In La Par. The president aald It was an occasion for "national jubilee," E SAY MILLS, COLBY Republican and Democrat Voice Sharp Attacks On Roosevelt Program 'Headed for Despotism' NEW YORK, May 25. p) The ad- ministration s recovery moves are, in the opinion of Ogden L. Mills, Re publican, and Bain bridge Colby, Democrat, endangering the personal liberty, the sentiments, the traditions of the American people. Mills, secretary of the treasury in the Hoover cabinet, and Colby, secre tary of state under Woodrow Wilson, expressed their views before the Eco nomic club of New York last night. Mills launched a sharp attack on practically all phases of the govern ment's program. Colby, who had been selected to present a contrasting view, affirmed his faith in President Roosevelt, but looked with some trep idation upon what he called the bureaucratic tendencies of the admin istration. The United States, said Mills, Is headed back "to the economic des potism of the middle ages." It is as old as the Roman empire, he said, referring to regimentation at the expense of individual freedom, and had failed In every attempt. Mills said recovery could best be achieved by abandoning attempts to force regimentation upon the citi zens, stimulation of world markets, eschewing currency tempering, restor ation of the capital market, modifi cation of tariff policies, and by not "trying to squander our way out of the depression." Colby declared that "a great part of the administration's interest has been In radical Institutional over- turn and the new modeling of the state." ; He praised the President who, he said, "has avoided personal commit ment on any matter of theory or ap parent constitutional departure." F SALEM, May 25. (AP) Belief that the amount of federal highway grant money to be appropriated by congress for the coming fiscal year, reduced from 4450,000.000 to $150,000,000 through adoption by the senate of the Hayden amendment to the Cartwrtght bill, may again be increased by the conference committee was expressed by Representative Charles H. Martin in a telegram to the state highway department. Senator Charles L. McNary also ad vised the department that he waa "strongly supporting the movement for the largest possible Immediate ap propriation." INDEPENDENT ENTERS GOVERNORSHIP RACE PORTLAND, May 25. fAP) De claring he will run on "the Willis E. Mahoney platform to the letter," A. M. Silverman, restaurant operator here, has announced himself an In dependent candidate for governor In the November 8 general election. Silverman was nominated at a meeting of the "National Veterans' association" last night. He waa an unsuccessful candidate for Multno mah county commissioner. He said he is a Democrat. JAPANESE AGREE TO EARLY NAVY TALKS TOKYO, May 25. (AP) The Jap ansae government was understood to day to have accepted a British Invi tation to carry on diplomatic talks with the United Statea and Oreat Britain separately preliminary to the 1935 naval conference. Trade Movements Show Renewed Signs of Life Nfcw YORK, May 35 (P Trade movements show renewed a! una of life after a period of hesitation, the weekly review of Dun Sc Bradstreet. Inc., reported todsy. Wholesale and retail activity has expanded attain, the review noted, with demand stronger in nearly all lines. Although confusion has fostered a disposition to mark time for a while, the review declared "everything la in readiness for a vigorous lunge for ward, as genuine and lasting recovery la being brought nearer than at any time in the past year." "There haa been no major reces sion since the new order of things started in Mareb, 1033," It continued, ARMY COUP SETS UP DICTATORSHIP IN BULGARIA Striking swiftly, the Bulgarian army abolished constitutional government and took control of the nation under a military dictatorship established by royal decrees. King Boris (right), 40-year-old mon arch of Bulgaria, acqulesed promptly In the new atate of affaire and signed the docreea that dlsaolved parliament and put the new government with Klmon Gueroguleff as premier, In power. At the left Is the royal palace In 8ofla, where the king signed the decreet. (Associated Press Photos) Ti PEAR MARKETING Jackson county chamber of com merce, sponsoring the showing this evening of the fruit auction market plcturea by Henry D. Greene, special representative of the American Fruit and Produce Auction association ot New York city, has Invited all. grow ers and other Interested persons to be at the court house auditorium at 7:30 p. m. "Every grower should be Interested In the motion pictures and lecture featuring the arrival. Inspection and sale of fruit In the auction markets," 8. M. Tuttle, president of the Rogue River Valley Traffic association, saia today. The films were shown at the va rious service clubs and the traffic as sociation this week. ' Mr. Greene pointed out that "fruit from growers In many parts of the United States has been sold through the eastern auctions for many years, but comparatively few growers have had an opportunity to visit the mar kets, The leading eastern cities, with their large populations and diversi fied industries, are featured in the film, which shows In detail the ar rival of the fruit, Inspection by buy ers, the sales at auction and distribu tion to the trade and the consumers In the markets. Dr. C. I. Drummond this noon gave an interesting report to the Jackson County Welfare association at ts regular meeting at the Hotel Med ford, showing the accomplishments of the health department through lt work In county schools. He told the group that approxi mately 735 tuberculin tests had been given in the rural schools. The re suits in the schools where nurses had been reporting during the past three to five years showed from three to four per cent active cases, while acho',ls in which they had been work lng for two years showed between 10 and 17 per cent active cases. One school, according to the doctor, show, ed 49 per cent aotlve cases of tuber culosis. The meeting today, which waa at tended by 30 members, waa the last to be held until September. "and a backward step now seems be yond the realm of probability, in view of the acknowledged intention of the administration to offer aubstantlal succor, should the lag in business ex tend beyond a temporary period. "Oeneral industrial operations, al though maintained at a level 40 per cent higher than a year ago. have been prevented from advancing by seasonal recessions In msny divisions and the inauguration of enforced pro ductlon curtailment In a number of factories. "Employment during the summer Is expected to hold at the current level, whicii i. the htohest since loao.loitholic priesthood tomorrow in St. despite the gathering of forebodlm clouds of labor unrest." BASEBALL American, R. H. B. New York B 6 0 Chicago 7 8 3 Batteries: Uhle, MacPaydon, Van Atta and Dickey; Earnshaw and Mad Jeskl. R. H. E. Boston 8 7 1 Cleveland . 18 24 1 Batteries: Rhodes, Pennock, H. Johnson and Ferrell; Pearson snd Pyt- lak. R. H. E. Philadelphia 0 13 3 Detroit , 7 12 5 Cain, Kline and Hayes, Berry; Sor. rell, Fraeler, Auker, Hogsett and Cochrane. All National league gamea were postponed today on account of rain. OF STATE RELIEF SALEM, May 28. (p) Governor Julius L. Meier today appointed K. B. VanDuzer of Portland to the atate unemployment relief committee to succeed Raymond B. Wilcox as chair man. Wilcox resigned In January, after holding the position slnoe the origin of the committee two years ago. Bates Sncdecor of Portland was ap pointed to take the place of Alex Barry, who resigned to accept a posi tion with the state liquor commis sion. The new third member of the relief committee Is J. M. Chambers of Salem, who succeeds Paul V. Marls of Oregon State college. Marls was recently appointed aa federal super visor of rural rehabilitation in the western states. 4 BY RENO DECREE RENO, Ner., May 25. (UP) The widely publicized Jelke divorce cue waa concluded today In aecret cham bera when Mrs. Engenla "Nlnl" Wood ward Jelke, Newport, R. I., social leader, obtained a decree against P. Frazler Jelke, now living in London England. Judge Benjamin Curler granted the decree when Jelke did not conteat her charge of cruelty. Jelke sued his wife for divorce In Rhode Island and Mrs. Jelke filed a croas-oomplelnt. Judge Charles A. Walsh of Newport ruled that both had been cruel after each charged the other with Indiscretions, and dli- ml.fted the action. The Jelkea were married at Ale andrla, Va December Is. I930. Thiy have no children. SIBLEY MODERATOR FOR PRESBYTERIANS MONTREAL. N. C, May 2S. (API- Judge Samuel H. Blbley of Marietta Oa., waa elected moderator of the Presbyterian church In the United States tod,.y. succeeding Dr. Ernest Thompson s? Charleston, W. Va. PORTI.ANL., May 38. AP) Arch M?op Edward D. Hownrd will ordain t're young benedlctln. monks to the Benedicts Abbey church, Mount Angel, NAME VAN DUZER TO CHAIRMANSHIP CSS FINISH FIGHT BY CAPITAL, UNIONS COMING IS FEAR WASHINGTON, May 25. (AP) Threat of a finish fight this sum mer between Industry 'and labor un ions with the battle lines oxtending across the nation stirred the capital today, .; ' ,'( News of deaths In Toledo where troops fired on strikers .In savage rioting came on the . heels of a threat of a general strike In steel unless employers recognize the Amal gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, told newsmen things looked "very omi nous Indeed." Some government of ficials reluctantly agreed, Hugh S. Johnson has warned of the danger of a possible epidemic of strikes; so has Miss Prances Per kins, secretary of labor. Prom Senator Wagner (D., N. T.) came an assertion that passage of his labor disputes bill, now in con gress, was urgent. This would strengthen the hand of the national labor board and strike at company dominated unions. BY SHANGHAI, China, May 25. (AP) The Rev. Howard Smith, kidnaped American missionary, appeared doom ed today to long captivity In the hands of the notorious bandit leader. General Ho Lung. f, The ronegade chieftain's negotia tor for the 35,000 ransom demanded arrived from Chungking today and was told by officials of the American consulate and of the Christian Mis sionary Alliance that no ransom would be paid. C.0FC. KLAMATH FALLS, May 38. (8pl) Tha Chsmber of Commerce will assist In raising funds with which to send the Klamath Union high school band to Medford during the Diamond Jubilee celebration early In June, and will also provide badges and windshield stickers for all those attending the Jubilee from the Klam ath country. The purpose of the badgts snd stickers will be to Identify thoso attending from here. DEER PAtlK, Wash.. May IS (IP) Mrs. Leonard C. Oemmlll, 28, was electrocuted while using her vacuum cleaner here today. A smsll son found her on the rioor end told neighbors his mother h,id fainted. They found her dead, with the unlnaulated wires of the radio set grasped In one hsnd. Dr. H. H. Slater aald It waa not clear whether Mrs. Oemmlll received the fatal ahock from the radio or the cleaner, she apparently had started to move the wires to continue her cleaning. BANDITS GREETED WITH BULLET HAIL IN RAID ON BANK Chicago Outlaw Killed, Com panion Wounded When Guard Loosens Machine Gun Blast Six in Foray CHICAGO, May 35. (AP) A blast of machine gun fire from a ready bank guard killed one robber and felled another with probable mortal wounds today, cutting short a raid on the South Holland Trust and Sav ings bank. A third robber was believed to have been wounded as vigilantes poured a leaden hail after the fugitives. Six men participated In the bold foray. The little bank Is situated In a cross-roads village Just south of tha Chicago city limits and close to the Indiana state line. None Like Dtlllnger Officers suspected the robbers might have been the same band that killed two East Chicago, Xnd., police men last night In a shooting to which ' there were no witnesses. They said, however, none of the four men bora any resemblance to members of tha Dllllnger gang, familiar with this re gion. ' Leaving a guard In their sedan, which bore a Michigan license, the quartet marched Into the bank at the moment the time lock released , the vault. Joseph De Young, a watchman fthose son had been killed last Feb ruary in another abortive holdup, waa alert for his revenge. Observing the robbers from his bullet-proof cage In a balcony, he turned hta machine gun loose. The burst of fire killed one of the lnvad- -(Continued on Page Sevan) STRIKERSFREE ' ALASKA VESSELS OLTMPIA, May 35. (AP) The re lease of all Alaska vessels tied up by the longshoremen's strike ha been authorised by Joseph P. Ryan, presi dent of the International Longshore men's association, Governor Clarence D. Martin was advised today in telegram from Dave Beck, secretary of the Seattle teamsters' union. - . Ryan sent a telegram from San Francisco to Dewey Bennett, secretary of the Seattle longshoremen's union, this forenoon authorizing the release of all Alaska vessels, Beck, who alto Is In San Francisco, said In his mes sage to the governor. 4 WILL SET WAGES FOR IT SALEM, May 25. (AP) Tha min imum wage fdr women workers In the Green fruit packing and dehy drating industries for Oregon and Washington will be determined at Joint meeting of the state welfare commission of Oregon and th in dustrial welfare committee of Wash ington next week In Portland or Olympla, It waa announced today by Charles H. Oram, secretary of the Oregon commission. The exact data haa not been set. WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, . May 21. Not long ago ex Ambnssndor to Germany Jim mio Gerard said there wag 50 men running the country. Now they say they have lot 49 of em go. So naturally we have thoso 49 ex-country runners nil on our hands and dissatis fied. You can't let people go, no matter for what good reason, and have them go away brag ging on you. I don't suppose there is any business with as many unemployed as the '.'ad visin " business. . What Rets these big fellows' ttoat is, 'Roosevelt listens to 'em nil but they can't tell whether ho is paying any attention or not. , Yours, Ac? r
