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PAGE FIVE "Crime Doctor" Opens at Rialto 'Carolina' at Roxy At Studio Today HURLEY DEMANDS PROOF OF G. O. P. 'CONSPIRACY' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, JIEDFORD, OREGON, STOTDAY, JUNE 24, 1934 Patrick J, Hurley (right), secretary of war In the Hoover administration, demanded In Washington that a senate committee require A. V, Dalrymple, former prohibition director and now a special assistant to the attorney general, to prove his story of a "consp!racy"to keep republicans In the prohibition service "or convict him of criminal libel." Left to right at the hearing: Senator McKellar of Tennessee, Dalrym ple, Senator Bulow of South Dakota and Hurley. (Associated Press Photo WASHINGTON, Juno 23. (AP) Members of the house committee ln Testlgatlng war department pur chases said today they expected Pat rick J. Hurley and other former de partment officials to testify before the Inquiry Is over. Committeemen eald there was noth ing to Indicate any blame attached to Hurley, former secretary of war, but that hie knowledge of the gen eral situation while he was secretary would be valuable. Several former assistant secretaries The army chief of staff. General Douglas MacArthur, was before the house military affairs subcommittee today. Committeemen sought his reaction to charges that the law directing Third Major Offensive Har vests 2000 Dead Just Like Old Times In Great War, And Same Tactics. might be called. The present assist- competitive bidding In airplane pur- and secretary of war, Harry H. Wood. ring, already has testified. chases had been I lated. consistently vlo- T E WASHINGTON, June 28. (AP) Attorney General Cummlngs today offered a reward of 10,000 for the capture of John Dllllnger. the des perado, and $5,000 for his fellow gangster, Lester M. GUlia, allaa George "Baby Face" Nelson. He also announced $5,000 would be paid for Information leading to Dil Unger'a arrest and $2,600 for similar Information about Gillie. Posting of the rewards followed a conference of Justice department of ficials at which plans were made for beginning a comprehensive campaign against crimes of violence that fell under federal statutes. In this they will be aided by a number of laws passed at the last session of congress. FIX LDMBERRATE 10 CURB EVASION WASHINGTON, June 28. (fl1) To eliminate possible evasions . of the NRA minimum prices on bids for lumber to be shipped to the Panama canal zone, the lumber code author, ty today set a freight rate of $8 i thousand feet from the west coast division to the canal. To this rate, which will become ef fective June 28, the authority ruled, will be added other delivery costs as provided in previous orders on mini mum prices for Douglas fir and west coast hemlock. DEBT TALKS BID E 'ESCAPES AFTER WILD AUTO RIDE (Continued from page one) where to find them In the store. While Ward was in the store, Mrs. DIUard made her escape. A farmer told the police that Ward was hiding In a barn. Officers search ed several buildings but found no trace of Ward. One of the officers looked up the highway and saw Ward trying to break Into another car. Just as Ward had opened the car, by breaking one of the door handles, and as he was searching through Mrs. Abell's purse, the officer order ed him to halt. Ward started to put up his hands, then he suddenly reached for his gun. The policeman hit Ward over the head with a flash light, then forced him to surrender and forced him Into the car and brought him on Into Eugene. Officers tracing the DIUard ma chine, said tracks showed that the car had been driven wildly, careen ing from one side to the other. They wore at a loss to account for Ward's sudden actions, but pointed out that he had been arrested frequently on various liquor charges in the past here. MINNESOTA CI MINNEAPOLIS. June 23. (AP) Charging that men employed on fed eral public work projects "have been forced to contribute to the farm labor association." republican lead ers today requested Secretary L. Ickes, public works administrator, to Investigate the handling of federal funds in Minnesota. Ward P. Senn, chairman of the Hennepin county (Minneapolis) Re publican committee, demanded that Governor, Floyd B. Olson, farmer la bor, submit to the taxpayers of Min nesota " a detailed statement" cov ering the expenditure of approxi mately $24,000,000 In federal funds which, G. O. P. leaders claim, passed through the governor's hands. BUENOS AIRES, June 23. yp) Bo livian dispatches from the Chaco war front tonight claimed 2,000 Paraguay ans had been killed or wounded In an unsuccessful attack on Port Balll van, backbone of the Bolivian de fenses. Wholesale slaughter of men under a withering artillery barrage on I front only half a mile long was re ported In the advices from La Paz, which asserted Bolivian casualties totaled only 61 dead and 170 wound ed. The Paraguayan command did not put out a definite estimate of cas ualties and was silent beyond claim ing that withering machine gun fire had caused irreparable losses to Bo livian forces. Advices indicated the Paraguayan army had been unsuccessful, however. in its third malor offensive since March against the Bolivian strong hold. Bolivian sources said a complete Paraguayan division, led by Colonel Brlzuella had smashed through a Bo livian defensive line only to run Into artillery trap. Canon of large and amau caUDre as well as mortars were used by the Bo livian defenders to blast the Para guayan attackers, stalled In their at tempt to encircle the fort behind Condado in the Polcomayo sector. Military tactics were brought Into olav by the Paraguayan comma na reminiscent of World war days In Europe. PIONEER SPREE CAMAS, Wash., June 23. (P) Some 12,000 Oregon and Washington resi dents today were present at the third and climatic days of Camas' wild spree. Feature of the day was a mile long parade with prairie schooners, stage coaches and other remnants of the old west In prominent positions. A rodeo, whisker contest and a dance were Included In the day's pro gram. The celebatlon will close Sun BERLIN, June 23. (AP) Dis tinctly encouraged by the British in vitation to talk over the problem of i foreign debts, German government officials, led by Chancellor Hitler himself, devoted their attention to day to a series of conferences on the problem. The chancellor was understood to be taking an active part In the de liberations, and it was evident that eventually Germany will accept the British proposal, after a policy has been decided upon and negotiations named. The British Invitation, coming In the midst of threats to collect inter est on the Dawes and Young loans by impounding a distinct victory for Dr. HJnlmar Schacht, president of the Relchsbank. CARLTON, Ore., June 23. (AP) Mrs, Dotsey Hurner, 38, was found In a few Inches of water SO feet be low a bridge between here and La Fayette late today, with her back broken, apparently In a Jump from the bridge In the dark. A six-pound sledge hammer and a macklnaw with the sleeves pinned behind the back were found near her. She was taken to a McMlnnvllle hospital. j Mrs. Hurner had been despondent I because of a separation from her husband, officers said. Jury Disagrees Again PORTLAND, Ore., June 23. (P) The second trial of Mrs. Hazel Mall ton, 37, charged with the first de gree murder for shooting her es tranged husband, ended today when vthe Jury disagreed and was discharged. MEDFORD EAGLES WIN MIXED DRILL MARSHPIBLD, Ore., June 23. f AP) On competitive drills of the Eagles convention the Portland team took first honors, with Salem sec ond. Medford's mixed drill team took first place. and the Pendleton women's team wss declared a winner, with Cottage Grove second. The Cottage Grove aerie took first in class A ritualistic work with a drill team, and Klamath Falls took first place In Clasa B. SEES BLOODSHED WEIRTON, W. Va., June 33. ) Accusing the welrton Steel company of maintaining a "reign of terror" among its employes to prevent their Joining a union, William J. Long, outspoken "young guard" leader of the steel workers organization tonight predicted a new and sanguinary strike as imminent "unless the government acta." ' "The Homestead steel strike In 1883. when about ten were killed and scores were hurt will look like a playground affair to what will happen here if the government doesn't atop this," Long asserted. "The Fleet's In" NORFOLK, Va., June 23. VP) Af. ter en sbsence of more then two years the scouting force came back to Virginia waters today and received a welcome from state and city ornciais, Oil Field Tragedy KILGOrtE, Texas, June 33. (API- Two men were dead and ten Injured as a result of flames which swept the Southport Petroleum company refinery here today, after explosions Damage was estimated by the owners at more than $100,000. SHIPS ARE TIED UP IN HARBOR IN DOCK STRIKE t . r li ' KtfV tx'if t Jfl?P ftgjL",' fTi J More than 60 cargo vessels wars laid up In San Francisco bay due to the longshoremen's strlks which has affected all ports between Canada ind Mexico on the Pacific coast. A section of the 8an Francisco waterfront Is shown with Ships it plr and anchored In ths stream to lavs wharfage charges. (Asioel ted Press Photo) SACRAMENTO, Cal., June 23.- (AP) A warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Virginia McKenzle charging at tempt to murder waa telegraphed to day by District Attorney neu mc Alllster to Portland, Ore. McAllis ter accused Mrs. McKenale with an attempt to poison Mrs. Georgia Mo. Kenzle, her two children ana Mrs. G. A. Mosher, her mother, with chew Inn num. Mrs. Virginia McKenzle la the wire of R. B. McKenzle, a former Sacra mento contractor, and Mra. Georgia McKenzle la the divorced wife of Mc. Kenzle. Three weeka ago four aampleatlcka of gum were found on the porch of Mra. Georgia McKenzle'a home nere, Examination, authorities saia, vealed sufficient poison In the gum to have killed a dozen persons. K 8 t. J$ i-' 1 tut Scorning the beaten paths of de tective stories, and unfolding In a novel and daring manner, "The Crime Doctor," with Otto Kruger, Karen Morley and Nils Asther feat ured, plays today and Monday at the Rialto theatre. Kruger is shown as a noted crim inologist whose wife's love for an other man turns him away from the side of the law, and plots a diaboli cal scheme for a murder, with the lover pointed to as the guilty person through a fine web of circumstantial evidence. As each damning fact Is piled on the next one, .tightening the net of evidence against the Inno cent man, the suspense mounts, to culminate in a powerful climax. WASHINGTON, June 33. (AP) A dictatorship over the nation's entire industrial man power and Industries In war time and the elimination of all profit from war through stringent federal control were advocatr today by Bernard M. Baruch, International financier and chairman of the war Industries board during the World war. In an address before the army In dustrial college, Baruch pictured the World war and its destructive eco nomic aftermath as a horrible object lesson. He advocated complete nat ional control of all industry in the event of another war. Baruch said virtual conscription of the nation's resources as well as Its citizenship was vitally essential to win a war and to prevent a repetition of the "prostrating economic and soc ial aftermath of the war." "Today we are suffering from the economic, social and moral aftermath of the war," Baruch said. "We try to pay for It and get rid of It, but, after 16 years, we are Just seeing our way out. It is our purpose and our duty to see that It does not hap pen again. "Society demands the elimination of profiteering and above all the profit Incentives of war," he contin ued, arguing that all Industry during wnrtlmo should be sharply limited to a bore margin above actual man ufacturing costs. f ETL PASO, Ter., June 23. (AP) Mra. Sibyl Fldanque, 39, of San Jose, Calif., who told El Paso officers when located yesterday at a hotel here that she was kidnaped from her San Jose home June 10, waa released from the county Jail here at 10 p. m. tonight, She left with her son, Jack, 10, who arrived today. He said they would drive around El Paso for the remainder of the evening and It was understood they would board a train for Los Angeles shortly before mid night. Jack Fldanque, 19, the woman's son, who arrived here this afternoon, asked 8heriff Pox to permit him to return his mother to their home to night, but definite permission was refused. She was found htre yester day at a hotel, where she had regis tered last Wednesday night. To Btmch Vacancy OLYMPIA, June 23. (AP) Tim othy A. Paul, Walla Walla attorney and a member of the state advisory commission on liquor control, was chosen by Governor Clarence D. Mar tin today to ill the vacancy created on the Walla Walla county superior court bench by the death of Judge John O. Shnrpsteln earlier in the week. With a star-studded cast, headed by such stellar performers as Janet Gaynor, Lionel Barrvmore, Henrietta Crosman and Robert Young, opens at the Roxy theater today. Laid against a Southern back ground of far-reaching tobacco plan tations, the story centers about a decadent southern family striving to regain Its former glory. The son of the. family falls in love with a poor daughter of the north who has come to raise tobacco on a portion of the land. Although his mother and uncle object to the girl, the young man Is impressed by her talk, which stirs him to ways and means of rebuild ing the plantation. How the young girl breaks down the icy dignity of ths aristocratic family and brings prosperity and happiness to the old southern plantation Is heralded being one of the most vivid dramatic plcturl nation ever to he screened. 9 NEGROES KILLED I f j rlyl Ramon Novarro and Jeanette Mao Donald, two of the scroen's foremost romantic singing stars, are united at the Studio theatre today in one of the really memorable photoplays of the year. It Is "The Cat and tha Piddle," which, as you probably surmise, has nothing whatever to do with cata and very little with fiddles. It is high romance flavored with heart drama and spiced with some of tha most glorious musto of recent years. "The Cat and the Piddle" embodies such glorious harmony that, when Ramon and Jeanette sing It, it will linger in memory for many a day. of March field, army air base near here, will leave tomorrow for Wright field, Dayton, Ohio, preparatory to taking over eommand of the army'a announced flight from Washington, to Nome, Alaska. He will board a commercial air liner at Los Angeles field. OATAWBA, N. C June 23. An Investigation was begun today Into the collision of two trucks nesr here last night which killed nine negroes and Injured 28 others, some of whom are not expected to recover. The negroes, all In one truck, were enrouto to Mooresville, near here, to attend a celebration. The crash oc curred on a sharp curve. The other truck driven by Ed Allred of Mount Airy, was carrying a consignment of rayon. Neither Allred nor O. H. Setzer, of Newton, drlvor of the truck which was transporting the negroes, was Injur ed. The two drivers, both white men, were held under bonds of $3,500 each pending investigation. Ilrafls Nome Flight RIVERSIDE, Cal., June 23.- (AP) Lieut. Col. H. H. Arnold, commander Attention I.O.O.F. Charles P. Poole, grand master, will make his official visit to our lodge Tuesday evening, June 20. ne will he accompanied by Brig. Oen. John Oliver, department commander P. M. All members and visiting members requested to be present. Refresh ments. A. M. CLARK, Noble Grand. "The Madrona Dairy's pure, raw milk Is a tempting treat for ev eryone In the family. Children and adulta alike enjoy thta milk be cause It has the Full Flavor of natural milk. It's good for them, too extremely low in bacteria count high In bntterfat content and full of healthful vitamins." snya Billy Break O'Day MADRONA DAIRY J . PMONE 201 J BY EXILED BYRD LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, June 23. (AP) Read Admiral Rich ard E. Byrd has described by wire less a narrow escape from carbon monoxide poisoning on June 17 . In his solitary base, 123 miles south of here. Carbon monoxide from his kero sene stove and lights and from the engines which he uses In connection with scientific work ere major haa arda of the admiral's "farthest south" position. t His report of the spresd of rums on June 17 explained why he broke off a wireless conversation shortly that day. "I felt rocky." he reported, "and decided It would not be wise to con tinue operating the amall engine mounted on a ahelf In one of the tunnels leading from the shack." The door of the tunnel had boen left open and the poisonous fumes were penetrating the shsck. ' Salvationists Meet BOISE, Idaho, June 23. (AP) With three high offlclala of ths Sal vation Army present, 100 young men and women membera of the organi sation from La Grands and Baker, Ore., and Boise. Twin Falls, Pocatello and Idaho Falla, gathered here to night for a division conference which wilt close tomorrow. 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