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Medford Mail Tribune WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1034 .Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1934. No. 69. Ml llViU JEALOUSY CAUSE Disorder Punctuates Quiz of Tugwell by Senators The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Tues I day. Continued warm. Temperature: I Highest yesterday .. ST j lowest this morning .. 57 M By PAUL MALLON. (Copyright, 1034, by Paul Mallon) 7 WASHINGTON. D. C, June 11. The big point behind all the steel strike menacing that has been going on is wnetner mo union can afford to atrlke. Employers as sert the union Is not strong enough. Their figures show only 10 per cent of the 400,000 steel workers are In the A. P. of L. union. Such fig urea are too low. Just as far out nrittt t.hA IACHUCU Paul Mallon truth la the union contention that the Industry is 80 per cent organised. , A certain non-partisan official source has made a careiui cuca. u- that the real figure eomewhere between 30 and 40 per cent. Roughly, a third or tne wor- h.r. .tcrnpri tin with Amalgamated (A. P. of L.) Another third can be classed as company union men. i last third Is unorganized. v. vnn wmiin think these Impartial figures prove that the Amalgamated cannot conduct a first class strike. There Is, however, an other phase. Th. union Ir sunnosed to be strong est In the big mills, such aa the plant of Carnegie bteei along iiw mouvu--,v,Ai.i vur nnri iieveral of the largest In West Virginia, Gary, East Chicago and Indiana naroor. fi. Affnnt. nf . strike, therefore would certainly be concentrated In these areas. It might embarrass steel production more than tne numoer oi uiuuu ers would Indicate. An -am mnrn Imnortflnt Union d6 lect has been noticeable in the back . stage maneuvering. tt-im. i-ahai-a nnvn an enthusiasm . which Is not matched either by their brilliance or experience, uist ii.... mm mnr. mnnev and net' ional unity. These are Inadequacies from whlcn an union muremiuwi rnnm nr less. Employe can and do hire the beat executive, legal and puoucny Tor Instance, one of the large steel .n-nnfotinn rerentiv emnloved a vice- president at a salary aupposed to be 75,000 a year for the main purpose of organizing the company unions. Their publicity directors iiitui a clock. Th. nnlnn hnvft hart SO much trOU ble with their early leadership that their nominal leader (Mine ius"i nttt inH vont back to Pitta- burgh during the thick of the fight. The quartet which took over the fight is advised by a young newsman, whose ealary la far from aro.uuu a year. rht t a hlffhlv lmDOrtant technl T i niA when vou consider that the average citizen (who knows nothing cf the menta ox tne sieei abriito tone, ,.rf.nt.nii whv nnvono would strike with 0,000,000 people out of work already. The November census bill was a little too rough politically, even tor nnv of the democrata. It was such a poorly disguised ef- fort to dole out aa-a-oay joua census takers that 44 Democrats voted against the bill and 81 were absent, mirnruLAlr. iTha Democratic lesders persuaded 281 to atay and vote 4nr It V What let the political polecat out cf the bag la the fact tnat tne census 4.V.r. ATA not tO t the Jobs Until after they vote In the congressional elections, whan von ffet 44 Democrata to op pose, and 81 to remain away from a ' patronage bill if that kind, you know It must be a rather brazen piece of monkey business. rhArA will be no third party move ment. All the talk about It since Henry Fletchers election aa head of the R. N. C. Is only wistrui nopingi MnAt of the Republican progressives iiia RAnntnrn Borah and Nve. are wise enough to keep boring from within the Republican party. They will un questionably conduct an Inner cam paign to Install llberala aa county end state chairmen, ineir aim wm t. .a cant.iirA the Renubllean organl- ratlon and take control of the next Republican national convention away from the Hlllca and Hoover clan. That sort of a campaign has some chance of success. A third party movement naa none. Fletcher's lob will be twofold (a) to get some money and (bl to keep peace In the Republican family. He can got a better start than most peo ple on the money end by going Into ins own pocket. A tor the second. lis enure rarerr has been devoted to riirlomacv. Many faltc claims are being made nbut his proerei'Slvtsm. based on ni: affiliation with Teddy Roosevelt a Those who were on the Inside In those r days sv Fletcher was affiliated wlin Tr5eveU beuc tliev were friends cf Rcv.f'.i Rider days :".d net berause (Continued on Page Four) Susanville Family Wiped Out Suspect Found Hid ing in Lumber Pile De nies Knowledge of Crime SUSANVILLE, Calif., Jun 11. (API Five persons were stabbed to death here during the night by a maddened knife wlelder and Sheriff James Leavltt said today the maaa alaylngs might have been prompted over Insane Jealousy of a young woman. The victims were Mr, and Mra. Joe Fazio, their 22-year old daughter Sadie, a aon, John, 26, and Mra, Anna Amlstanl, 42. Sheriff Leavltt announced that Peter Dalosl, 48. a mill worker, had been taken Into custody aa a suspect, but Dalosl emphatically dented he knew anything about the alaylngs. Used Crude Knife As Sheriff Leavltt reconstructed the killings, the slayer, armed with a crudely made knife, entered the Fazio home In the Italian district last night. He apparently greeted the famuy, Leavltt aald, and then called Fazio into the bathroom. Pazlo, 48 years old, was stabbed In the side, the killer apparently muffling his at tempted cries for help. Then, Sheriff Leavltt stated, tne killer quickly dismembered the body and came out of the bathroom. Encountering Mrs. Fazio, 45, he slashed her to death with his weapon and when the couple'a aon came to his mother's aid he was attacked and killed. Screams Give Alarm The daughter, three blocks away (Continued on Page Five) PLANS APPROVED WASHINGTON, June 11. (AP) President Roosevelt today approved plana for the special committee on conservation of wild life to provide bird sanctuaries In Oregon, Arkansas and North Carolina. Senator Walcott (R-Conn) and Representative Kelberg (D-Texas) pointed out that bird flights converg ed Into three routes north and south across the country and they proposed that the three statea would be the most appropriate resting grounds for the winged fowls. Hope was expressed that sanctuar ies could be provided before the opening of the approaching hunting season. The amount of money In volved and the exact spots have not been determined. QUELL DISORDERS IN RURAL FRANCE PARIS. June 11. (AP) A violent outburst of anti-government, "anti fascist" disorders swept French pro. vlnces over the week-end. One nun dred persona were Injured Cavalry troops, swinging carbine butts at Grenoble and . camnrai, charged Into manlfestatora and pro duced scores of cracked heads among communists and socialists, The government used troops and gendarmea freely to restore quiet and warned It would not tolerate defiance SAN FRANCISCO, June 11. (AP) The Examiner today said life In surance officials In San Francisco claimed to have definite Information that Lee Schleslnner, member of widely known Pacific Coast depart' ment store family, waa not killed when hla automobile plunged Into the Columbia river 17 months ago. The paper said one Insurance of flclal Interested In the case reported reliable Information had been ob talned that Schleslnger Is alive and well, but refused to disclose the place of his supposed residence. SUPREME COURT HAS ALL CASES DOCKETED SALEM. Jun II. (AP. For the first time In more than 25 year, all aupreme court ca no at luu have been placed on the docket to be dispowd of be Tore July 13, on ablinff the court to rocev for tin summer with a clean slate. Arth ;i S B?non, clerk at court, announced today. CAVES CITY FIRE WIPES OUT MAIN Mushroom. Growth of Red wood Highway Town Re ceives Setback $30,000 Loss Little Insurance GRANTS PASS, June 11. (AP) With Its main business block swept by the most dlaaatroue fire In Its two yeara1 existence. Caves City waa re building today on the ashes of a $30,000 fire. Th community, situated near the Junction of the Redwood and Oregon Caves highway, SO mllea from nere. has grown rapidly since lt beginning little over two years ago. Ita claim of being the most rapidly growing community In the county la undis puted. Destroyed In the blaze wnicn etart ed about midnight Saturday were: Schumacher grocery store, Illinois Valley Meat company store, Martin Hardware atore, Caves City hotel, State Liquor Agency, offlcea of Dr. B. E. Brooke and Dr. R. Coleman, the living quarters of Mr. and Mra. C. L. Schumacher and three children, Dr. and Mra. Brooka, Dr. and Mra. Cole man, and Mr. and Mra. Elwood hus- sey and two children. The fire atarted In two separate niBHi no fAAt anart on the outside of an addition to the Schumacher store. Possibility of a short circuit in eleotrlo wires waa discounted. At least one valuable Item was sal vaged from the fire, a (300 diamond. There waa little Insurance. The Schumachers barely had time tn fiAA fmm the bulldlna-. escaping through the smoke-tilled rooms In their nlghtclothlng. If the warning had been given ten minutes later, It was aald, they might have been trap ped. Efforts to reach nearby Kerby by telephone to summon aid from Granta Pass were unavailing, as Mrs. Hussey stayed with the telephone In strument for an hour until flames drove her from the building. The hotel telephone was the only one In Caves City, and this commu nity was without telephone service today. Br the Associated Press A week end of negotiations left conditions on the far flung atrlke front of American labor virtually un changed today. Representatives of steel industry employes were adamant in their re sistance to Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson's mediation plan for averting the nation wide Bteei in dustry atrlke scheduled for June 18 if steel companies refuse to recognize the Amalgamated Association of iron Steel and Tin Workers. The line of cleavage between con servative leaders and the militant rank and file Insurgents of the amal gamated waa softened as Michael F. Tlghe, president of the association, Joined forces with the Insurgents who laat week waged verbal war with Johnson. Tlghe's opposition la based partly on the Impracticability of "finding men who would have utterly no Interest In the steel Industry" to serve on the board of mediation. VIENNA. June 11. (AP) A series of rail bombings in Austria contin ued laat night, with approximately 30 acts of terrorism against federal railways In the past three days re ported throughout the country. The latest bombings resulted In only slight interruptions to regular train schedules and minor property damage. DOCK STRIKE CLOSES SALEM PAPER PLANT SALEM, June 11 (AP, Announce ment waa made at the plant of the Oregon Pulp It Paper company here today that the plant had closed down Indefinitely due to" tieup caused by the longshoremen's strike In Port land, and also to conserve material In event an emergency run Is needed. I Six hundred employes were made Idle. STRIKE CONDITION UNCHANGED OVER WEEK-END HOLIDAY Brown Bachelor Spider Unafraid Of Black Widow WALLA WALLA, Wash., June 11 (AP) It's tough on the black widow when the brown bachelor geta his clutches on her epeaklng of spiders. In recent weeks dozens of poi sonous spiders have been caught In this vicinity. Many have been put In display In glass Jara. A large brown spider, termed the "brown bachelor," waa also caugbt and placed In a Jar with alx or eight of the widows. Someone tipped the Jar upside down. The widows clung to their webs, but the "brown bachelor" was tumbled about. Resenting It, he sank his fanga Into the back of one of the widows, killing It. Then he returned .to his own web, to sulk. IS POLITICAL DOPE PORTLAND, June 11. (AP) The Journal said today that "Peter Zim merman, . aenator from Yamhill county, Is to be the Independent can didate of the 'true progressives' for governor, whether he likes It or not, according to the pronouncement from two meetings held In Portland." The meetings were held here Sat urday and Sunday, "Zimmerman- Is holding back," the paper aald, "but will put aside hla re luctance and yield to a draft In the event he should be put In nomina tion, according to Information given out by the apokesman for the meet ings." The spokesman waa not Identi fied. At out 30 of the leadera of the "true proeresstve" group attended the meet Inga here. Among them, It waa said, waa Zimmerman, Charlea M. Thomas, state utilities commissioner; Senator W. E. Burke of Yamhill, Senator James Hazlett of Hood Rlvef, and Dr. Andrew C. Smith of Portland. Charlea G. Adams' was elected tem porary chairman, and J. W. Boyd was named temporary secretary. The leaders of the Independent movement will concentrate In Roso burg this week to attend the annual convention of the Oregon State Orange. It Is said they hope to mobilize sufficient strength to pro mote a state convention at Salem within the next two weeks. The Journal article aald the leaders In the move "lean toward Thomas aa their firat choice, hut he desires to be shown they can deliver 'a large block of votes to start with' before h. will agree to give serious thought to the problem." WILLAMETTE FAILS TO NAME I0ENT SALEM, June 11. (AP) An nil- day meeting of the Willamette unl veralty board of trustees Saturday failed to bring forth the name of the successor to President Carl Gregg Doney, resigned, although board membera stated that choice of a man for the position had virtually been agreed upon. A special meeting of the board will be called later In the month to pass on recommendations of this Individ ual. 2000 DEAD SEEN IN WAKE SAN SALVADOR HURRICANE SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, June 11, (AP) (Via Pan-American Air ways wireless) Relief workers today estimated 2000 persons were dead In the vicinity of San Salvador alone following laat weeks disastrous hur ricane and rainstorm. The Salvadorean air corps yesterday sent up airplanes to suivey the na tion. They returned to report death and destruction everywhere. L. C. Calloway, Pan-American Alr waya airport manager, went along aa an observer and made an unof ficial report of hla findings. He aald the government planes dropped messages to all communities, where life waa still observed, asking them to report in to the capital Im mediately as to the extent of casual ties and loss In each village. He eaw evidences that whole towns had been destroyed by landslides started down volcanoes as the result of the rains. In the Lempa river he eaw the fun. nel of a river boat sticking out of the water and bodies floating around It. Plane Missing in Catskills Since Saturday, Located North Livingston Manor, N. Y., by Private Flier LIVINGSTON MANOR, N. June 11 (AP) W. H. (Ted) Hallock, the aviator who dis covered from the air the wrecked Newark-Chicago air liner In the forests near here today, made his way to the scene on foot, and re ported the bodies of the seven occupants, with one exception, were burned beyond recognition. JUNTO, Argentina. June 11. (AP) Three persona were killed today when a Pan-American Grace Airways plane crashed In Mar Chlquita, a small lake 200 miles west of Buenos Aires. NEWARK, June 11. (AP) The of fice of the American Airlines received word at noon today that the missing airliner, lost In ths Catskills had been found 12 miles north of Livingston Manor, N. Y. The report aald the ahlp had been destroyed by fire. The report also aald that the four passengers, pilot, co-pllot and stew ardess were Inside the plane and had been killed. Earl P. Ward, general superinten dent of the company controlling the liner, announced receipt of the re port, saying It had come from a man named Helleck. Ward placed the spot where the plane was reported found aa 18 miles north of Livingston Manor.. Ground crews were dispatched to tha scene. The plane, when It left Newark, en route to Buffalo, carried: Clyde Holbrook, 38, of Chicago, pilot; John Barron, Jr., 33 of Chicago, co-pllot and Mlaa Margaret Huckeby, 28, of Chicago, atewardeas, comprising the crew, and the following passen gers: Harry H. Plnaley of New York; W. B. Bader of Buffalo, N. Y.: W. A. Cass of Buffalo and H. O. Copplns, Buffalo. A large fleet of planes had been en gaged In the search yesterday and today. Halleck, It was said here, alghted the missing plane, while cruising In a private ahlp. He reported the dis covery to Ward because he had talked to Ward only last Monday about a Job as pilot with ths airline. LOCKED IN HEN COOP SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Oaltf., June 11. (AP) Convicted on a charge of cruelty to her seven-year old daughter Mary, by starving her and placing her In a chicken coop, Mrs. Josle Ebarguarry, 31, today wia sentenced to Jail for ISO daya by Justice of the Pence John Landell. The sentence waa Imposed after an Insanity complaint filed against the mother, who has seven other chil dren, waa dismissed In superior court. CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND BELGIUM TO DEFAULT WASHINGTON. June 11, (API Belgium and Czechoslovakia have of ficially Informed the United Statea they Intend to default on the,ir war debt Installments due June IS. The coast from La Llbertad to La Union was worse hit and the villages there virtually destroyed. The president of the republic has Issued a decree that prices on food stuffs must remain the same as be fore the disaster. He abolished all Import duties on wheat, rice and other cereals for the next three months, In order that the people of El Balvador may be fed at as low a cost aa possible. Electric power waa restored over the week-end In San Salvador. The canltol city Is receiving drink Ing water again although It Is only issued two hours dally. The work of burying the dead la being carried on aa fast aa the army can get rescue workers Into the stricken settlements. Thus far, only the locality around the capital can be reported upon with any exactness, but the Isolated vil lagers are handling their own work of covering up the ravagea of the 25' lnchea-ln-24-hours rainfall of laat .Wednesday. G.O.P. LEADERS PICK NEW CHAIRMAN mmn;, jamumJm'J J-1: Leaders of tha republican party, of which some of the most promt nent are Included In this group, met In Chicago to select a new national committee chairman. Left to right, seated: J. Henry Roraback, Con necticut; Charles D. Hitles, New York; George F. Getz. treasurer, Chl eago. 8tandlng: George deB. Kolm, New Jersey, secretary, and Ralph E. Williams. Portland, Ore. (Asaoclated Press Photo PORTLAND IS HOST TO CANADIAN VETS PORTLAND, Ore., June 11. (AP) Portland's 300,000 residents, some B0O0 Canadians, Including members of th Canadian Legion and their families, and other thousands who have Jammed hlghwaya and trains Into the city for the past two days, today were ready to begin four days of pageantry, celebration and paradea the 20th annual Portland rose fes tival. A series of motor caravans and spe cial trains one of which waa delayed , (Continued on Page Five.) F PORTLAND, June 11. (AP) Frank M. Troeh of the Portland Oun club, one of the nation's beat trap shooters, retained hla Oregon singles title Sunday by breaking 100 targets. Five Salem gunners won the tele graphic ahoot title after a shoot-off with the Corvallla team. The Capital City Oun club won by the margin of a single target. The Salem and Corvallla teams tied on the first 100 blue-rocks, but Salem picked up one point on the playoff. Eugene finished third In the regular ahoot, one target behind the Salem and Corvallla guns, and one bird ahead of Medford, which was fourth. Heppner-Pllot Rock was fifth, Klamath alxth. Bend aeventh and Aurora, eighth, FOR SILVER MEASURE WASHINGTON, June II. (AP) In tha first teat vote on the silver bill, the senate today rejected an amendment by Senator Thomas (D Okla), which ha contended would make silver a "primary money." The Thomas amendment provided that In measuring silver for the pro posed ratio of 25-79 with gold In monetary atocka It should be valued at cost Instead of the present 11.20 an ounce. This would have required the purchase of more silver. During debate Senator Adams (D- Coto) told the senate that Prealdent Roosevelt had promised to carry the bill out "enthusiastically." BASEL, Switzerland, June 11 (AP) Leon Praser of New York, president of the Bank of International Settle ments, was empowered today to pro' tect the Interests of the bank and of certain other holders of Young and Dawes loan bonds In the event Ger many suspends payments. f WE18ER, Idaho, June 11 (API- Private Robert Derbyshire of the Weiser machine gun troops, Idaho National Guard, who waa Injured Saturday while preparing to leave for the guard encampment at Boise, dien at a hospital jiera Sunday of a frac tured skujl. THREE SUSPECTS SLATED HEARING TODAY Informations charging Pearl Webb, Bernlce Kennedy and Jonathan W. Richardson, transient visitors to the Jubilee with larceny from the person, were filed this morning by tha dis trict attorney's office. They are held In the county Jail, , The complaints allege that the trio stole (40 from Jeaee Johnston of Jacksonville, while he waa visiting a beer parlor on the North Pacific high way near the city limits Saturday night. The district attornoy said the rellevoment of Johnston of his coin, (Continued on Page Flva) CHICAGO, June 11. (AP) The great American drought, stimulating trading in grain futures at the na tion's markets, has been a contribut ing factor In a crop price rise of bet ter than 27 per cent In little moro than a month. Despite heavier buying and selling of future contracts In anticipation of the agricultural status at the end of the 1034 growing aeaaon, there has been no general revival of public par ticipation in the market, tradora as sert. AMI FANS SEE PARIS, June 11. (UP) A throng of 200.000 aviation enthusiasts was horror-stricken Sunday when the yeuthful captain of the Portuguese team crashed while stunting low over tha field at Vlncennes and waa killed. Capt. Jose D'Abreu crashed at ter rific speed aa he came out of a series of low barrel rolle and prepared to level off to a landing. FALLS WITHIN CITY ALTUS, Okla., June 11. (UP) A home-made airplane crashed on the courthouse lawn here late Sunday, killing two of Its passengers and critically Injuring the third. Tne dead: Ernest Simpson, 2, pilot a.id builder of the plane. Milton Oreeory, 25. filling elation employe. ST. JOHNS, Nfd June 11. (UP) Capt. Martin Ford and four seamen wre believed lost today when their schooner, the Ethel Collett, waa sunk In a collision wlin the refrigerator steamer silver t l:v. 10 mllea from St. John's, off Toiiwy, ROOSEVELT AIMS IN AAA DEFENDED BY BRAIN TRUSTER Big Crowd On Hand for Questioning of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Wheeler Hits Probers By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, June 11. (AP) Rexford O. Tugwell determinedly de fended administration efforts to have congresa strengthen the agricultural adjustment act at a seriate hearing today, giving rise to dissension in ths committee and disorder In the room. Now assistant secretary of agricul ture, he waa being examined in con nection with the president having nominated him to be Under-Secretary at an Increase In salary from 97500 to (10,000 a year. Senatora Smith and Byrd, South Carolina and Virginia Democrata who have objected to the promotion, led the questioning. On hand waa the biggest crowd at any aenate hearing of the year, largely composed of women. Byrd Attacks Motives, Citing the controversial bill to amend the farm act, Byrd aald Tug well had mlaled the committee by saying they were merely "clarifying." One of the amendments, he de clared, would let tho department say how many chlckena could be raised. He aaked If that wore not an "enor- moua Increase" In preaent AAA powers. -mgweu aald he looked up the word "clarifying" and It meant to "maka clear and free from obacurlty." "That la what the amendments an Intended to. do,",, he asserted. Remarks by Byrd led Senator Wheeler (D., Mont.) to maintain that the Investigation was being run as "a political racket." He character. Iced tha Virginian's criticism of ths AAA amendment bill as a "atump speech" and called for an orderly hearing. Cheer for Byrd. "Hurrah for Byrd" had greeted Byrd as hs concluded. Tugwell," yelled another apectator and Wheeler demanded auch demon strators be thrown out. Order waa restored by 'Chairman' Smith. (Continued on Page Fire) 1 Wants Wife Who Can Assist Him In Making Living To the "lonesome women" of Medford, who might be Interested in supporting a husband, Georgs O. Strand or 106 West. Shaw atreet, Carlsbad, N. M., has appealed to The 'Mall Tribune to assist him In "decking a lite mate that can aid me make a fair living which I can not make here In this city wth two trades," Strand saya that he Is willing to marry on a short notice to party he chooses, and atates "Here's hoping your city holds my future life mate." WILL ROGER? 'says: HOLLYWOOD, Cal June 9. This is the age of "new deals" and miracles. The secretary of the treasury informed all tha treasury department people to keep out of politics. Ther wouldn't he any such luck as to have that spread to all de partments. A fow good' health notes in today's press, the five girl babies iu'0 gaining weight and Max Bacr was reported out of danger. If that Wheeler-Howard In dian bill don't pass there is no justice. I think we got a rer.l Indian agent in this man Col lier. Tho Indian has just lost 100 years in his civilization, and Collier is trying to get him back. However, I still think tho old rich Indian's wife de served her shiire, but I don't think that was Collier's depart ment. . "i I lHiMm.tlralHi,la v
