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t)3f Merchants to Feature Vacation Bargains FMay and Saturday Medford Mail Tribune WINNER Pulitzer Award FOB 1934 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934. No. 84. ITT. niAn nwrwrinn W Ulij UUIaOMJU r The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Friday; lightly warmer. Temperature: Highest yesterday . . 71 Lowest this morning 02 TEuvl 11 JUST i -( By PAUL MAI.LON (Copvrlght, 1934, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, D. C, June 28. A business man walked Into the NRA. "1 manufacture diapers." he eaid. "What code do I come under?" He was sent to the cotton tex tile division. The people In that of fice were sure that diapers did not come under their Jurisdic tion. They refer red him to the llght-aewlng divi sion. The llght-sew- lng administrator Paul 61allon looked Into the matter and held that diapers constituted wearing apparel. He shunted the manufacturer off to the apparel office. There the lawyers went Into a huddle and disagreed violently. After much argument they were unable to pin the diaper prob lem down. It was referred to the official NBA policy board for deter mination. The board now has the matter under advisement. It only goes to show the trouble you get Into when you start fooling with fundamentals. If that atory la not enough to con vince you of the Inner difficulties of NRA, consider what happened at a recent hearing by the dress code au thority. , The head of the authority was try ing to prove that cotton wash dresses belong under the dress code ' Instead of the cotton garment code. He pro duced two young women, one clad In a cotton dress made under the cot ton garment code, and another wear ing a house dress made under the dress code. He explained the differ ences between the two types. . Then he brought on a flock of young ladles and asked the audience to Judge which onea wore house dresses and which wore cotton wash dresses. As the girls walked across the platform the audience shouted Its guesses. The guesses were about half and half. The code authority turned to the audience and said: "Gentlemen, you have proved my point eloquently. None of these dresses was a wash dress. All were house dresses." He did not know It, but he also proved that the NRA la reducing It self very near to absurdities In try ing to make different specific de tailed regulations for every manu facturer of diapers, dresses or dough nuts. Don't look surprised If that prom ised wedding of a most prominent Republican widow and a former Re publican' party official takes place suddenly. The inner lorgnette circle can de tect the first faint prospective tin kle of the bells. That is because the gentleman In the case recently pur chased an estate In nearby Maryland. He la furnishing It with paintings and works of art which cannot be Intended for his own enjoyment alone. It is unlikely that the news about the wedding will come out until It Is over. President Roosevelt seems to fol low the old poker rules In most of his International dealings: "Play a strong hand weakly and a weak hand atrongly." He had a very weak hand when he msde that strong threat of trade re taliation against Germany recently. You can be sure there will be no trade retaliation. The reason la that we have a fa verable balance of trade with Ger many. Retaliation would hurt ui. Last year we sold the nazls 62.000, 000 more of goods than they sold us. Normally we sell her from 200 to 300 millions more. We could refuse to sell them goods and It might help to drive Germany In the ditch. But It would cost us upwards of sixty millions a year to do It. There are some deep-dyed slteptlcs who will contend that the extraordi narily cordial attention given the vis iting president-elect of Colombia had certain material aspect. Mr. Roosevelt din go to unusual lengths to be friendly with Colombia and Ita president-elect. State Secre tary Hull went to the station In per son to meet the visitors. There were pictures and statement carrying ex tra cordiality and friendship. Also. Mr. Roosevelt Intends to return the visit In person on his Hawaiian cruise. It is the only such visit he will make. Tou will recall that we made out first reciprocal trade treaty with Co lombia and that the treaty now la pending In the Colombian senate. Those who know their Colombian pol ttlca say that the Colombian senators are somewhat like ours chronically uncertain. They might hold up their treaty to see what kind of a trade bargain their neighbora got with us. A eroup of Junior executives In the (Continued oa Page Ten) GHASTLY DISASTER WIPES OUT PLANT IN OLYMPIA AREA Seven Survivors in Hospital Fire Follows Explosion Witness Thought That Earthquake Had Occurred OLTMPIA, Wash., June 28 (AP) Literally hurled to the sky In the explosion of a powder plant which left a scene of warlike devastation and rocked and resounded over the countryside for miles, 10 persons were dead today, victims of a ghastly dis aster. One of them was & woman. An Investigation of the causes of the fire and blasts will be under taken Immediately, Smith Troy, dep uty Thurston county prosecutor, said today. "It will" be difficult to determine the causes," Troy said. "No story can be told out of the scene of the dis aster. It was all obliterated. About all we can do is to question the sur vivors." Fire Follows The perils of a fire following the terrific blast, which occurred late yesterday afternoon on Hawks Prairie, j eight miles northeast of here, handl j capped parties searching for the . in jured. Seven survivors, three of them badly injured, were In a hospital here today. The dead: Ones Carpenter, 55, married and the father of seven children. Mrs. Hazel Eppley, 37, H. J. Denn, 67, father of the planf owner, who was out of town. . Alvin Smith, 83, married. Andrew Hayden, married. J. O. Adams, married and the fath er of one son. John Clausen, 34, unmarried. Clarence E. Ulery, married and father of seven children. Mrs. Pearl Ulery, his wife. (Continued on Page Three) FOR BARTLETTS BY Representatives of California pack ing concerns are now In the valley, in the market for the 1034 crop of Bartletts, Aides of the Del Monte Packing company, Oregon division, and the Bodle Packing company of San Francisco are now here contact ing growcra. C. C. Darby, local Del Monte representative, and County Horticulturist Lyle P. Wilcox both said they had heard of no sales. Darby said the price offered was $30 per ton for 23i size Bartletts. Horticulturist Wilcox ssid that his Information from California districts shows the price In the Uklah dlatrlct for 2i sizes waa (35 per ton and In the Sacramento district, (30 per .ton. Wilcox said he had not heard of any local pricea quoted. California Bart lett prices In the past have been largely used aa the basis for local pur chases, Orchardlsts and packera said today that other Bartlett buyers were ached, .uled to enter the local field, but had no Idea when they were coming. Wilcox today made preparations to set up his testing equipment, with the expectation thst he would start using 1". the first week of July. Picking and packing of the Bartlett Is scheduled to start between July 16 nd 20, about three weeks to a month earlier than last year. AUSTRIA IS SHAKEN BY WIDESPREAD BOMBINGS By Wade Werner Associated Press Foreign stiff. VIENNA, June 28. (AP) Wide spread bombing outrages broke out In Austria today one of which waa said possibly to have been directed at Louis Barthou. French foreign minis ter. The main line of a railroad near Bludenc was shattered by a bomb. Trains were delayed for seversl hours, but one bearing Barthou to Paris mli-erd the explosion. Widespread property damage ac companied the disorders, on the 1 twentieth anniversary of the assassl j nation of Archduke ' Perdlnand at Sarajevo. Bosnia. A police captain ( led of Injuries re amed In a polltlal clefh at Graz. (Ralls were blown up at Judenberg, Strikers BILL TO CONTROL Measure Gives Secretary of Interior Power Over 80, 000,000 Acres of Public Domain Orderly Use Aim WASHINGTON, June 28. (AP) President Roosevelt today signed the Taylor bill to give the secretary of Interior control over the public do main in an effort to conserve graz ing lands. a The measure, which creates graz ing districts within an aggregate area of 80,000,000 acres, was approved by the president after a careful study of its constitutionality. In signing the bill, Mr. Roosevelt issued the following statement: "The passage of this act marks the culmination of years of efforts to obtain from congress express author ity for federal regulation of grazing on the public domain In the inter est of national conservation and of the livestock industry. "It authorizes the secretary of the Interior to provide for the protec tion, orderly use and regulations of the public ranges, and to create graz ing districts with an aggregate area of not more than 80,000,000 acres. "It confers broad powers on the secretary of the Interior to do all things necessary , for the preserva tion of these ranges " Including, amongst other powers, the right-to specify from time to time the num ber of livestock which may graze within such districts and the season when they shall be permitted to do so. "The authority to exercise these powers Is carefully safeguarded against Impairment by state or local action" STOCK SELLERS T SEATTLE, Wash., June 28. (AP) The government's case against eight defendants accused of mall fraud In connection with the sale of stock In the Western States Oold Properties corporation at Oold Hill, Ore., was begun today with witnesses who pur chased stock slated to be called. An Indictment was returned In January against Maxwell Gates and members of his Seattle brokerage firm. The government, through J. Charles Dennis, district attorney, as serted stock was sold In the corpo ration while the property was held only by a ftlOOO option and that in vestors lost more than 141,000, none of which wss used to develop the mine. Others Indicted were Henry L. Le vlne. Robe; ; M. Brown, J. L. Hodge, Mandel Mlchaelson, Benjamin Hendl son, Sigmund Adelmsn and Benja min Ros. WIFE JUSTIFIED IN SLAYING OF HUSBAND CALDWELL. Idaho. June 38. (IP) Mrs. Julia Martinet, 38-year-old Mex ican woman, today waa free of mur der chargea in connection with the shooting, laat April 30. of her hus band. Tony Martlnee. The woman waa acquitted by a district- court Jury last night. The defendant did not deny the killing but asserted she did It aa an act of Juatlflable homicide. In Styria, and telephone cables were dynamited at various points In that province. A power plant at Meuhlau, near Innsbruck, waa disabled. The bombing outrages followed t, clash at Oraa between Austrian troops and members of the fascist helmwehr Ihome guard) In which a number of the latter were Injured. Not only did the soldiers beat the helmwehrmen. theoretically the main stay of the Dollfuss government, but they tore down pictures of Prince Ernest von Starhemberg, vice chan cellor and a powerful government figure. Deep political significance was at tached to the outbreak. During the iclarh some bjstandert shouted "Hell Hitler." Give First Sign Housing Bill Signed by F.R.; Building Costs Cut 10 Per Ct. OLD 10 BE FINANCED WASHINGTON, June 28. (AP) President Roosevelt today signed into law the housing bill Intended to aid In reviving Industry by Increasing home construction and repair. The legislation is calculated to make available several hundred mil lion for new homes and moderniza tion through government Insurance of private loans. The president prepared to set up Immediately the machinery to put the housing program into operation. He la counting upon this step to aid employment aa well as to improve living conditions. Wearing the end of the stack of bills passed In the closing days of congress, Mr. Roosevelt still reserved decision on the farm mortgage mora torium, the railway pension and the Taylor grazing measures. He had these on his desk today but waa reserving a good portion of the day for the preparation of hi talk to the nation over the air to pight. He did not expect to write and. finish this report to the people until late in ihe day. Three major moves already have been made in the broad plan to aid home owners: The interstate commerce commis sion has been given power to reduce railroad rates on shipments of build ing materials. The construction Industry has tak en steps to reduce material costs by 10 to IS per cent. Negotiations have been started with construction labor to reduce wages. It will be 30 days, officials said, for the lagging construction Indus try to show any substantial improve ment. But banks were reported to have Increased their lending activi ties In anticipation of the right to insure loans. When everything Is ready, the plan will work about like this: A man has a $10,000 home. He Is good credit, and a bank holds an 98000 mortgage agalst that home. Because of uncertain conditions, how ever, the bank Is not sure that the (Continued on Page Six) ST. GEORGE LINKS SANDWICH, Eng., June 28. (AP) Continuing his record-smashing pace, Henry Cotton, British pro, shot the Royal St. Georges course today In 66 eeven under par for a 36 hole aggregate of 132 and an 11 -stroke lead over Denny Shute, the defending champion. In the second round of the British open golf championship. Cot ton carded a 67 yesterday. Shute, with a 72 today for a two round total of 143, was tied for sec ond place with Joe Kirk wood, the Australian holder of the Canadian open, who posted a second-round sub-par 69. Shute had a 71 yesterday and Kirk wood 74. REDS CENTER EFFORTS IN CALIFORNIA. CLAIM 8AN( FRANCISCO, June 28. (IP) The Associated Farmera of California and Albert Hogsrdy, local communist official, were agreed today that Cali fornia has been selected by the com munist party aa a focal point for a world-wide revolutionary movement aimed to overthrow existing govern ment. "California has been selected as the focal point by communist leaders." said 8. Parker Prlaselle of Fresno, head of the newly formed Associated Farmers, Inc.. "because of the vulner ability of Its perishable crops." SALEM, June 28. tPt A proposed marketing agreement and code for the Oregon baking Industry was dis cussed here yesterday by about 200 members of the Industry In the state, meeting with Mai Oehlhar, state di rector of agriculture. No definite agreement was reached. The agreement waa to be submitted to Oehlhar when completed. Gangster's Wife Convicted Of Aiding Officers Murder Norma Mlllen, 10, shown with an officer outside the Tied ham, Mass., court house, where she was convlcterri early today of being an accessory In robbery and murder. Her husband, Murton Mlllen, whs lender of a trio which held up the N'eedhum Trust company and killed two policemen last February, D ED HAM, Mass., June 28. (AP) Norma Mlllen, daughter of a former minister and mate of a machine gunner, was convicted today of be ing an accessory after the fact of rob bery and murder. Her trial, which lasted six days,! ended shortly after midnight wlth conviction on three Indictments a clean sweep for the state In Its pros- ecutlon of one of the most audacious j crimes In Its history. Norma's husband, Murton Mlllen, leader of the trio, his brother, Irving, and Abraham Faber. all were con victed recently of murder. Their convictions arose from the I BASEBALL American. PHILADELPHIA, June 28. (AP) The Philadelphia Athletics, aided by Bob Johnson's 23rd home run of the season and Jlmmle Foxx's 21st, today defeated the Boston Red Sox, 7 to 1, behind the five-hit pitching of Bill Dietrich. The score: R. H. E. Boston 18 3 Philadelphia 7 11 1 Batteries: Welsh, Pennock, Mulli gan and R. Ferrell; Dietrich and Berry. e R. H E. New York .......-.......... 4 8 0 Washington - 0 8 1 Ruffing and Dickey; Weaver, McColl and Phillips. R. H. E, Chicago I 14 1 Detroit . 8 13 1 (Ten Innings), Jones, Hevlng, Earnshaw, Lyons, and Madjeskl; Marberry, Rowe, Ham lin, Auker, and Cochrane. MOE AND WARD FIGHT FOR SEMI-FINAL SPOT SPOKANE COUNTRY CLUB, Spo kane, Wash., June 28. (AP) Spo kane had all but clinched the semi final match which Don Moe, Portland, and Bud Ward, Olympia, were out In front for the places In the other battle tomorrow as the eight -competitors In the Pacific northwest amateur golf tournament reached the half-wa; point In their 36-hole con test today. JACKSON COUNTY TAX REMITTANCE $22,810 8ALEM, Ore., June 28. (AP) The state treasurer's office today received a remittance of 228I0.3. from Jack son county in payment of Its third quarter 1031 state taxes, of Accepting Peace Plan robbery of the Needham Trust com pany In which two policemen fell mortally wounded In the snow on a frosty February day. The verdict seemed to unleash a torrent of emotion, t Groans swept across the court house, Interspersed with sounds of approval. Norma,- standing erect, stared straight ahead. It seemed that she had exhausted her capacity for dis may; that the past four months of Incarceration culminated by her gru eling had drained her completely of emotion. She will come again before the bar next fall, to hear the sen tence. NEARINGJTHE END SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 28 (AP) A special nurse was In con stant attendance on Marie Dressier, 60-year-old actress, whose prolonged Illness had reached a critical stage to. day. "The outcome Is dubious," said Dr. P. R. Nusum. But he promptly quali fied his statement by saying "It la not anticipated that she will pass on Immediately," The actress, who came to an estate here for a rest a few weeks ago, Is suffering from various complications Including ailment afflicting the kid neys and heart. In the last few days her condition has taken a sharp change for the worse, attendants said At her Hollywood studio It was dis closed that Miss Dressier' health has been falling for about two years and in hir latest pictures she has been able to work but a few hours dally. DILLINGER DEAD CLAIMS MAN CAPTURED AS HOST BT .PAUL, June 28. (AP) John Dllllnger, long hunted outlaw, la dead, Albert "Pat" Rellly, held on charges of harboring the fugitive here this spring, told federal Investigators to day. Rellly told questioners that Tommy Carroll, during a conversation In Minneapolis with the former baseball club mascot before Carroll was slain at Waterloo, Iowa, June 7, had con 'led to him the desperado was dead The statement regarding Dllllngcr'e death came during the questioning IMMEDIATE SURGE OF CONSTRUCTION EXPECTED RESULT WASHINGTON, June 98. (AP) A ten per cent reduction In the price on lumber and building material waa ordered today by the National Retail Lumber Dealers association to aid the administration's housing program, The ten per cent reduction In housing material will apply to the 20,000 members of the association. Spencer D. Baldwin, the president said In a statement. Baldwin estimated the reduction will mean a aavlng of at least $60, 000,000 to home owners who repair and build new homes In the next 12 months. He said he expected a "revival of business by fall "The executives of the national re tall lumber dealers assoclatlqn." he said, "expect an Immediate and sen sational surge of building as asoon aa the machlnsry of administering the housing act gets In operation. They are already marshalling their field forces to take advantage of the revi val without a day's delay. "Dodge report! havo repeatedly de clared that there are a million and a half potential builders of homes ranging from 13000 to S7000 each, Estimates of the labor bureau have the number at close to 2,000,000. "The research department of the association expects the first revival of building to register Itself In jobs of repairing and remodeling Joba that cost all the way from $100 to $2000, the limit of the loan for re pairing under the housing act. "The amount of re-employment that la the logical promise of the re vival of building has been repeatedly estimated at a million and a halt men In the building trades once the program gets in full swing." I CREW OF TROLLEY MILWAUKEE, June 28. (API Street fighting, the first Instance of a major disorder during the daylight, broke out today at the Oakland Ave nue barns of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light company aa strike pickets pulled Motorman John Nixon from hla car and beat him and his guard, John Zak. Detachments of picket kicked in the car doors, swarmed Into the car, shattering wlndowa, and mauled Nixon. One assailant struck him over the head with a control handle and he rolled out the door to the ground. Others In the crowd mean while felled Zak and kicked him In the atomach. STRIKE BY STEEL El WASHINGTON, June 20. (API Settlement of the threatened steel strike waa announced today at the White House. The agreement entered Into with the government by representatives of the employers and employes provides for appointment of a board of three to arbitrate differences. Each side has agreed to accept Ju risdiction of the board. of Rellly, which began Immediately after his capture In a Minneapolis apartment and continued unabated today. While Rellly was making this dis closure Chicago authorities heard Dll llnger attended a bait game between the Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers In the Illinois city two daya ago. Pressed for Information about the whereabouts of the elusive outlaw. Rellly Is reported to have said: "Tommy told me that John U dead." CHIEF OBSTACLE TO SETTLEMENT .F. Joint Control of Hiring Halls Is Proposed Portland Dockmen Would Extend Group Into Washington SAN FRANCISCO, June 28. (IP) A longshoremens' committee of ten to day gave ground on the hotly contest ed queatlon of control of hiring halls, chief stumbling block to a strike peace, and offered President Roose velt's newly appointed labor board a new proposal for Joint control of the halls with employera. PORTLAND, Ore., June 2B. (Py Extension into the state of Washing ton of the organisation of a group of longshoremen "who are willing to return to jprk under proper police protection was announced here today by the Columbia River Longshore men's association. Thla group, numbering, Its sponsors say, as many as 380 active longshoremen,- was recently Incorporated In Oregon. The Washington unit, to be recognlMd aa the "Washington Long shoremen's Protective association" al ready la organized In five Washing ton ports ,the Portland leaders satd, and a oharter Is to be applied for at . once In Olympia. ' Violence at the hand of "beat-up gangs" cruising Portland streets con tinued today aa the waterfront atrlke entered Its Mat day. There was no Indication of orystalllzatlon of plana for reopening the port to commerce. Two men from The Dallea who had signed up as special waterfront po lice, were attacked and beaten In the lobby of a hotel here but were res cued' by regular police who arrested three of the reputed attackers. One of the three said the group had been dispatched to the hotel from long shoremen's strike hesdquarters. THREATENED BK STRIKE KENTON, Ohio, June 38. (AP) . A picketing onion striker was shot today as a deadlock continued In the dispute that threatened to ruin the million dollar onion crop of the rich Scioto marshland. Tunle O'Dell, 35, suffered wound in the neck as he and other plcketen sought to halt three teamsters from returning to work on the Scioto Land Co. fields. Normally valued at a million dol lars, the onion crop of the marsh lands is half lost now, the operators declare. SC0TTSB0R0 NEGROES SENTENCE IS UPHELD MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 28 (IP) The supreme court today upheld the death sentences of Clarence Nor rls and Heyward Patterson, negro de fendant In the Scottaboro case and set their dste of execution for Fri day, August 31. MILL M ROGERS .Soys: BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Juno 27 Congressmen coming drag ging in from AVashington, some or 'cm look like -they had liitclihikcd. Now their real work starts. . That is trying to get clcetcd this fall. I tell you it's no ensy life when you con sider that battle to get back there. . I just don't know what they are going to promise the voters this fall- This is a tough time to think up something new. About a man's only chance is just to Ray, " Well, boys, I don't know what I will do. I will just have to wait till I got there and see what Mr. Roosevelt wants, lie knows more about it, than mo." tote Krf UII UtW.elM fetiraaM, t