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Secy. Wallace Speaks 2 p. m. Today at Fairgrounds Attend! The Weather Forecast: Cloudy Sunday; unsettled t times; moderate temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday ,jB5 Lowest yesterday ... ......... 48 Medford Mail Tribune WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1034 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1934 No. 62. rnrn V7 nn 99 nn m mm WW T By PAUL MALLON. WASHINGTON. D. C. June 1. II all the whispers about President Roosevelt's Inner circle were consoll- rtatea inro one big wind it would at least blow the roof off the White House. Moia windy misinformation has been circu lated on that subject than on any other since the new deal started. The president is pictured by raui Mallon blrrwhards as a rather vaclllstins person under the domination ol (a) a crowd ol college professor theorists, or (b) a gang of Inexperienced Intellectual radicals, or :) tho feminists of his private or official household. The most popular current yarn Is that the man who Is really running the country la Professor Tugwell. An other concocted by prominent democrat Is that Mrs. Roosevelt Is the No. 1 adviser of tho new deal. If the roof ever goes off the White House you will find a somowhat dif ferent Inner situation. The Tugwell Illusion has grown up around the fact that he Is the most t.iwti nt the new dealers. He writes for- magazines and makes speeches giving Interpretations far beyond the scope of the agricultural section -in which he Is Involved. Peo ple who read and hear naturally are tn th fnnrliiftlnn that he sits at the right hand of the presidential. -hair. . , . - -'W.-v J Tho truth is that Professor 'rug well rarely goes around to the White House. Ho has a theory, apparently, for every Issue, but tho only Tugwell theories which reach the executive mansion are those concerning the farm problem. Even these are not us ually conveyed to Mr. Roosevelt by Tugwell. but by Agriculture Secretary Wallace, who really is in the first circle of White House advisers. Tug well works with Wallace, and Wallace works with tho White House, but al- wfwt. nt.ireiv in connection with farm policies. Tugwell Is not at all a No. 1 brain truster In the same sense that Pro fessor Raymond Moley was. Moley ran in and out of the wnlto House nn n rinzrn subjects every day. His influence was widespread. Tuirweirs Influenco outside the AAA bK not even been strone enough to get his pure food and drug bill through congress. In the matter of feminine Influ ence, the White House appears to he Just about an average American household. Mrs. Roosevelt Is deeply Interested In social problems and teaching. She Is Interested also In the women's organization end of pol itics, but not In politics generally. There have been obvious occasions when the first lady Initiated new deal moves. The two outstanding ones are the West Virginia homesteadlng pro ject and cleaning up the alleys of the District of Columbia. Those are the types of problems in which her Influ ence la Important. Regarding several other matters, she has been unable to convince Mr. Roosevelt that she was right. Whatever influence la wielded by the college professors is similarly re stricted. Mr. Roosevelt's advisers cannot be listed accurately as No, 1, 3 and 3 in relation to their importance. They do not work that way. They arc worked In relation to subjects which the? handle. Imagine a large wagon wheel and you will get the idea. Mr. Roosevelt Is the hub. Equally powerful spokes run out to the rim. Each spoke is subject. They could be identified as follows: Social reforms Miss Perkins, Sen ator Wagner, General Johnson. Legislation Senator Byrnes, Rep resentative Rayburn and, occasional ly, the nominal leaders. Farm Wallace. Tugwell. Relief Harry Hopkins. NRA General Johnson, Richberg. Politics Louis Howe, General Far ley. Securities James Land is. Each of these people is a stronr In fluence in his own field, but few have any influence outside their par ticular field. They consult the presi dent and sometimes put over their ideas. Sometimes they fail. There never has been an occasion when they all got toeether at once in the presidential presence. Only a few of these really are clew friends of the president. If you start ed picking his inner circle of friends, you would have a different list of names. You would start off with the Whit House clique. Tt Is the Louis (Continued on Page euj IL FIGURE CAUF01A LIFE Known As Political Wonder, With Genius For Friend ships Business Affairs Tangled Merriam In Governor's Chair. SAN JOSE, Calif.. June 2. () James Rolph, Jr., twenty-eighth gov ernor of California died at 1:30 o'clock. this afternoon, surrounded by his re signed but grieving family and a doz en close friends in the ranch home of Walter Linforth near here. The end came to the picturesque political character about three hours after he had lapsed Into a comatose condition brought on by the en croachment of disease that had dis abled htm two months ago and struck him critically during mid-day. He A'fts 64 years old. Into the official place made vacant JAMES; R.OLPH, JR. by the death stepped Lieutenant Gov ernor Prank F. Merriam of Long Beach, a former Iowa state legislator who came to California 24 years apo Merriam, himself a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, will retain the title under which he was elected and will serve as the act ing chief executive. Rolph's death, officially attributed to heart attack and lung congestion complicated by kidney trouble, curred Just when political lines were being laid for the state primary elec tion in August, and although he was not a candidate to succeed himself, hla administration remained a factor in the situation. He was a Republican, "Sunny Jim" Rolph. as he was fa mlliarly known, even far beyond his own California, was a political phe pomenon. It was said he knew more persons by name and sight than any other man In the state, and that he was called "Jim" by moro Individuals than anyone elso alive, not even ex ceptlng his Democratic counterpart, "Jimmy" Walker, former mayor of New York. They used to refer to themselves as "the James Boys." Rolph also was an outstanding play er in the game of financial fortune, but success did not attend him there aa it did in political life. He made and lost a fortune and hla business affairs were left complicated by debts and suits, He was heavily insured, reputedly for $700,000. it having been widely said that his creditors kept up some of the premiums on his life policies for their own protection Alr-mindcd and addicted to travel ing often about his big state, Rolph became known as "the flying gove nor." The strength of his political machine was built upon his wide ac quaintance with Callfomians and hla readiness to crown beauty queens, open rodeos and sports events, mee Incoming dignitaries and visiting fire men and officiate at any official func tion, His proclsmations were frequent embracing everything from the na tlonal holidays to "canned food wecK and "California pharmacy week," the latter having been Issued May 36 as one of the last of his official acts Rolph had a chest full of decora Hons for having taken in hand, dur Ing his long service as mayor of San Francisco as well as governor of the state, visiting dignitaries. Membership in the orders of France. Japan and many other countries were his. He drewed immaculately, never p peared in public without a flower his buttonhole. One of his peculiar.' ties wss his addiction to high IcatV boots, which he always wore excep on rare occasions. Beneath the blck evening dress of the stripes of form dav dress the boots did not show as tentatlously. but sometimes he would I roll up a trouser leg to accommodate ' a feature-hunting press photograph i er. In Marysvllle last February, while Irunlnn e nmnnlDn nrfimlw thllt he (.Continued on Page Three) Li DISTORTS TRUTH .ouisianan Dodges Issues, And Charges Standard Oil Backs Paraguay Con quest Latin Diplomat Irked. WASHINGTON, June 2. (AP) With the Chaco war aa the subject, Senator Hivey Long today crossed words with Enrique Flnot, the Bo livian minister to the United States, in an international debate over what was behind the war In the Chaco. Flnot made public a letter ad dressed to Long In which Flnot abandoned all usual diplomatic pro cedure to tell the senator that his remarks this week In the senate on the Chaco conflict wore "offensive, distortion of the truth, hostile and Inaccurate." Long had said In a speech on Latin American affairs that Paraguay was the Innocent victim of Bolivian con quest In the Chaco conflict, now in Its third year In South America. "Yes," Long remarked after the let ter was made publlc.l "I got his let ter, but rm not paying any atten tion to little two-by-fours like him. He's Just a hireling in this mat ter. The Standard Oil Is promoting that war, and I want to deal with the principals. If one of the Stand ard Oil filling station operators wrote me a letter, I wouldn't pay any at tention to It for the same reason. I want to deal with the head man." Tho retort brought from Flnot the statement that lie was- not afraid of Huey Long or any man, when the in terests of his eountry wcro at stake. I want him to answer me," Flnot said; "I want the world, to know the facts In our war with Paraguay. We welcome a fight In order to let the true facts about this Paraguayan at tempt at conquest become known." STATER ALUMNI CORVALLIS, June 2. (AP) David A. Wright of Salem was elected pres ident of the Orogon State College Alumni association In the annual meeting here on the first day of the 65th annual commencement week end. Attorney Kenneth Dcnman of this city was named district director for the southern Oregon district. MAP RELIEF FOR (By the Associated Press) Nature's hot scythe cut a wider i swath over the great central plains yesterday as crops entered a two : weeks crisis leading to partial resus-; citation or ruin. j From nearly every section of the midwest came reports emphasizing j the increasing gravity of the situ-' atlon, and stories of drastic measures adopted to cope with the drought.' Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief administrator, announced In Wash ington after a telephone call to Pres ident Roosevelt at Groton, Mass., that plans had been drawn to launch im mediately a program of conserving water and food in the drought coun try and to provide cash for stricken farm families. IS HELD SUICIDE BERKELEY, Calif.. June 2 (AP) E. O. Helnrirh, noted criminologist, said here tonight he will report to California State Treasurer Charles J. Johnson that his daughter Virginia, committed suicide. Helnrlch, who was engaged by Johnson to investigate the girl's death, presumably by flames from her kerosene-saturated clothing tn a Sac ramento garage, said he will make a complete report to the father. "In advance of such a report." he added. "I do not feci at liberty to discuss the case in detail." The criminologist's conclusion i attreed with the theory of Sacramento Ipolic. Latest French Spy Suspect American-' But Not His Name TOULON. Prance, June a. (AP) Investigators oj the latest spy suspect got as far today as to de cide that his name Is Onulrl Nik 0laji7.uk: and that he was born In Chicago June 13, 1690. This information they obtained from a German passport Issued last December, but, while it was something of a triumph for the police to straighten out the spell ing of the name, other phases of the Inquiry lagged. Nlkolajlzuk continued to Insist that he was a "globe trotter" who Innocently wandered Into the naval arsenal whero he was ar rested yesterday. T DEADJRCRIPPLE Pursuers Puzzled By Silence, Hear Report Former Out law Terror Disguised In Arkansas Hills. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., June 2. (AP) The mysterious disappear ance of Oklahoma's wralth-like des perado, Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, has led his erstwhile pursuers to believe he may be dead or crippled. Once the terror of the southwest with his blazing machine gun, Floyd, bank robber and killer, apparently has not been connected actlvoly with a robbery, in Oklahoma alnce -h companion, George Bird well, was Wt to death by a negro banker while attempting to rob a bank at Boley, Okla., two years ago. John E. Johnson, assistant super intendent of the state bureau of criminal Investigation, learned re cently at Salllsaw, Floyd's home, that his parents fear the outlaw is dead. He has not visited the family for more than a year. Previously he paus ed occasionally with relatives. C. N. Reber, ballistics expert of the state bureau, says he has learn ed from apparently authentic sources that Floyd was crippled by a bullet from Reber'a sub-machine gun in a fight with officers following the Stonewallow, Okla., bank robbery two years ago. According to Reber'a In formation, the bank robber is living quietly in the hills of Arkansas, hav ing grown a beard and dyed his hair red. From other sources, however, have come reports the outlaw is in Cali fornia, In Pennsylvania and In Mex ico. Some offlcera are Inclined to be lieve he has become fearful of cap ture and has fled across the border into Mexico. TOKYO, June 3. (AP) Japan's world-wide trade offensive once again has run into a snag this time meet ing .with the stubborn resistance of The Netherlands. Sunday Jubilee Program 8:00 a.m. Drawing for first round tennis tournament at Junior High School Building. 9 :00 a. m. Tennis tournament. Bcml-flnals. both singles and doubles. June 6. Finals, June 7. Beautiful trophies awarded winners. 0:00 a. m. Golf tournament. Rogue Valley Golf club Tho beautiful Rogue Valley golf course will be open to tho public during Jubilee wee. Under direction of Larry Schade, chslrinan of the tour nament committee, there will be a thrce-dsy handicap tour ney. Matches will begin each day at 0:00 a. m., and 3:00 p. m. Dally prlr.es are offered with a grand Jubilee prize for tho winner of the three-day play. 0:00 a.m. Fly-easting tournsment. Bear crock bridge. Wet fly accurscy: dry fly accuracy, distance fly' and distance with 4-ounce plug. A speclsl event for amateur or casters never In com petition before. Any type pole or line my be used, as long as It can be wielded with one hand. 10 a. m. Trap-shooting tournsment at Medford Oun club grounds. Fifty dollar dlsmond trophy to winner: $100 In cash purses and prizes. The fifth annual Medford Mall Tribune tournsment will be held In conjunction with the Dlsmond Jubilee tourney. 11 a. m. Special religious services In nil churches on the subject of "Pio neer Mothers." stressing Importance of pioneer motherhood in Oregon history. 1:00 p.m. Address by Secretsry of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace t county fairgrounds. 1:00 p.m. Union services t fairgrounds. Main address, "Our Uncrowned Queens," by Rev. D. J. Ferguson of Astoria. Choir of ISO voices. Monday Jubilee Program 3:00 a.m. Oolf Tournsment. Rogue Vslley Oolf Club. 1:00 p.m. Oolf Tournsment. Rogue Vslley Oolf club. 1:00 p. m Wedding Oown Review at Baldwin Piano Shoppe. 3:00 p.m. Coronation of Queen Mother at Fslr Orounds. Msnufscturers' Exhibit, Mining Exhibit, Carnival. Side Shows and Concessions open. J:00p m Old Time Dance. F Registration Starts Today Business Session Monday Mayor Wilson To Give Welcoming Address. Opening today, and continuing through Wednesday, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U. S. department of Oregon will conduct their four teenth annual state encampment in Medford. Special guest at the sessions will be Commander in Chief James E. Van Zandt, who arrived here by plane from Washington Saturday. Special trains are to arrive from Portland, and will be sidetracked for use of the delegates while in Med ford. Many delegates are expected from up-state pointa to the conven tion, being held In conjunction with the Diamond Jubilee, The convention opens this morning with the registration of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at he Jackson hotel and the auxiliary members at the Hol land hotel. Memorial services for departed com- rades will bo held in the srmory at nine o'clock this morning. The serv. ice will be open to all veterans; their families and friends, and the ritual Istic work is to be put on by the state officers. Monday's session opens with a busl ness meeting, followed by the en campment being called to order, and an address of welcome by Mayor J5. M. Wilson. A drum corps exhibition, and degree team competition ae scheduled for the afternoon. RELIEF BILLION- WASHINGTON, June 2. (JP) Democratic leaders plan to force through the house Monday the last of tho big money bills carrying cash outlay of 91, 178,260,000 and presiden tial authority to utllhw additional billions for relief expenditures if nec essary. The measure was reported by the appropriations committee today, con trary In some respects to the form re quested by President Roosevelt, who wanter no specific cash allocations made in order that he might have authority to divert certain funds for relief purposes. Among other things the committee specified that 9100.000,000 be spent for highway construction. Arms Plan Attacked LONDON, June 2. ( AP) An at tack on the government's dlssrma ment position, as outlined in Geneva by Sir John Simon, foreign secretsry. was planned today by ultra-conservative elements Ip the house of commons. CABINET MEMBER ntfrte,WiafeAAss&aAjs3ir.fr- - - , Henry A. Wallace (center), secretary of agriculture, receiving the degree of doctor of science from Homer Leroy Shanti, president of the University of Arizona, at exercises In Tucson. The award was made for the secretary's achievements In the field of agriculture. Left to right: Gov. B. B. Moeur, Secretary Wallace and President Shsnti. (Associated Press Photo) L L Pensions For Workers When 45' Also Included Latest Freak Oregon Measure Now Seeking Signatures. iTTPnf inn i t AP (")wnrahiD by the state of all public utilities furnishing electricity, gas, water and transportation, through condemna tion, was proposed nn initiative petition tiled Wltn UIO BCcrovury ut ... abv a ho iint. Kiln wm re quested for Immediate circulation by the sponsors, mranKiin w. fierce n Dr. Hugo M. Miller of Portland. tTnrinr the nronosal the rates on all such services after acquirement by the state woum no urn. icq. m-nnerMe would be mirchasod from funds raised by sale of bonds. The petition further provides tnau li I.Hnr hnnlr In Ml ft state WOUld be superceded by a state bank, and that all state employes woiun (w nlaced under civil service and retired at the age of 45 years. The act would be adminisiorea oy Un.s. rtt m v Arnfinrm II till n ad mlnlstrator to be elected every six years, to complete mo pennon the Novemner eiccuon za.uoi n'K" turcs would be necessary by July 5. NO STREET LIGHT TILL BILL PAID MIDDLESBORO. Ky., June a. (AP) The city of Mlddlcsboro was with out lights for Its streets and public buildings tonight. The Kentucky utilities company discontinued the service sftcr failure of the city to pay the full amount due for about 35,000 worth of serv ices un to February 17, 1034. A recent ruling by tho court of appeals wss that the company had the right to take a step on or after June 1. City officials had not determined tonight on a course of action. Pri vate homes and enterprises were not affected. Failure of the city to pay the bill resulted from a disagreement over the amounV due. SMITH BOY GIVEN FRACTIONAL NAME HOMERVILLE, Qa., June 1 (API Willie s, Bmlth Is a nsmo and not a typographies! error. I It belongs to the principal of the j Mldwsy Consolidate grammar school ' In Clinch county. ! Bmlth explains the fractional ap puliation this way: "My father said he wsnted to name me after his fsther, Willie T. smltn, Knowing thst this was a very com mon name, he decided that It was 1 necesnsry to give me a middle name that no other Smith In the world ' had. "He said that after a few days med itation he found a solution to the I problem. In all the men he had ever j met he has never found a man to have fraction In his name, so he I decided to name me Willie Smith." GETS DEGREE TEXTILE STRIKE THREAT AT END Walkout Order Rescinded Knives Flash In Stevedore Dispute At San Francisco Plan Red Ousting. WA8H1NOTON, June 3. (AP) The government tonight succeeded in holding off another strike In a ma jor Industry, the textile business. It obtained, after days of peace making efforts, an agreement be tween the management and the workers to auspend all overt acts until after a detailed study by the NRA of the Interlocked questions of production and wages and hours. A few minutes after Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America, and Geo. A. Sloan, chairman of cotton textile code of authority, with associates, had signed the agreement, the workers' re presents Uvea telegraphed all locals to rescind the strike order which would have taken an estimated 300,- 000 out on Monday, Tho agreement, however, (stipulated that the compact In no way preju diced the right ot labor to strike. &AN FRANCISCO, June 2. (AP) Two striking longshoremen were per haps fatally stabbed as knives flash ed on the San Francisco waterfront todsy while 30,000 Pacific coast mar itime workers pressed their siege against shipping. Into the breasts of Bruce Phelffer, 24, and John La vol, 36, ship's messboy who had refused to Join tho strike, thrust his kllfe. Joo Vance, 30, the mess boy from the liner Santa Lucia, was captured by police after ft four-' block chase and held pending the outcome of the injuries to the two longshoremen. Another knife was twisted from the hand of Benaclno Lopes by Pa trolman Bert Mudd, who said the man was about to plunge the weapon into the back of a striking longshore man. Lee J. Holman, ousted president, of the port's local of the International Longshoremen's association, declared a movement was under way to re place "radicals and reds" with con servative union leaders. T F Oretron: Oenerally cloudy Sunday and Monday; unsettled at 'Imes; mod erate temperature: moderate north west winds offshore. BAN FRANCISCO. June 2.-(AP) The forecast for the far western states li for fair In California and Nevada but considerable cloudiness and occa sionally unsettled weather elsewhere; normal temperature will prevail ex cept slightly below In the Pacific northwest the first of the week. Night Gams SEATTLE. June a. (API Score: R. H. I. Sacrsmento ............................ f 13 0 Seattle - 11 1 Koupal. Salvo nd Wlrts; Bsdonlts, T, Hlletts and Bottarlnt. BASEBALL FARM AID CHIEF DUE HERE TODAY FOR W, TALK Cabinet Member First Noted Jubilee Guest Special Church Services This Morning And Evening Stress Pioneer Theme. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, a national figure, and cabi net member, high In the councils of the Roosevelt administration, and prominent In the "New Deal" pro gram, will deliver an address this af ternoon at two o'clock t the fstr- grounds. Secretary Wallace Is sched uled to arrive about -ten o'clock this morning. Following his address he will depart for Sarcamento, Cal'f., where he is scheduled to confer with chief foresters of the Pacific coast area Monday. Secretary Wallace delivored an ad dress to students of the University of Utah at Logan Saturday, and waa scheduled to fly to Sacramento Sac- urday afternoon, and board a train for this city. The cabinet member Is listed lor short visits this morning upon his ar rival to the Southern Oregon Experi ment station at Talent, and the Fed eral orchard near this city. At noon, he will be a guest at an invitational luncheon at the Hotel Medford. Dr. William A. Schoenfeld, dean of agriculture of the Oregon State col lege and head of experiment stations in Oregon, will Introduce the secre tary at the fairgrounds. Seating ar rangements have been completed for several thousand people. Loud speak ing equipment. wllLalso- be. In "At; There will be no admission charge to the fairgrounds and the public 1a In vited, and urged to be present and hear the secretary. Regarded as one of the best orators tn the west, Rev. D. J. Ferguson, of Astoria, will deliver the sermon of the special union services at the fair grounds this evening at 8 o'clock. Honor Pioneer Women Rev. Ferguson, who is also deliver ing the baccalaureate services at the University of Oregon thla month, wl'l devote his aermon to the topic, "Un crowned Queens of Oregon," honoring the pioneer women, living and dead, whose early efforts were so Important In Oregon history. The complete program la as follows I Elks Band America. Hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers Invocation Rev. N. D. Wood, ps tor Methodist Church, South. Hymn "Alt Hall the Power of Jesui Name." Scripture Lesson Cept. x Durham, Salvation Army. Choir and Elks Band "Oloria" Iff Mozart. Prayer Rev. Merle L. Edwards, pas tor First Presbyterian Church, Ash land. Notices. Choir and Elks' Band "The Hea vens Are Telling," by Haydn, Introduction of speaker by Rev. Sid ney Hall, pastor First Methodist church, Ashland. Sermon Rev. D. J. Ferguson, D.D., pastor First Presbyterian church, As toria, Oregon. (Continued on Page Three) vWlLb "iW Rogers lays: BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Jiinn 1. Our governor, "Jimmy" Kolpli, is very ill. Writers who rose in such glee to denounco him for doing nothing but speaking from his heart and not from political tact, they liroko his heart. Now let them, before com menting further, speak of some of the fine humnn qualities he possessed. Kcw men ever in public life will leave moro real friends. Our country's struc ture is built on "let tho law take its course," but there has been moro the matter with our laws, our courts and our jus tice than there has with Jimmy Rolph. Editorial writers were against you, Jimmy, (for they have to write for their public) but, gosh, it must do your old heart good to know how many moth ers were for you.. 9tMI M.tttukl IrMlwu, tl