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AIL TRIBUNE WINNER Pulitzer Award EDFORD FOR 1934 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUKSDAY, JULY 10, 1934. No. 93. W LfU The Weather Forecast: Fair tonlfht and Tuesday; do change In temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday , Lowest thla morning ..... at M M ST i. i By PAUL MALLON. (Copyright, 1934, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, D. O., July 10. Brain trust stock Is now selling on the Inside for about 3 cents a share. The short lnter- ist Is tremendous. That la because It Is now grow ing Increasingly clear that the In fluence of the college professors as not what It used to be. As a matter of fact. It has not been very Important (except In the AAA) since the earlv stages of IT. LUX Paul Mallon the new deal. But now It haa sunk so low that what la left of the brain trust in the AAA and elsewhere could certainly be Indicted by the new se curities commission for misrepre sentation In selling ltBelf to the coun. try. You would . naturally believe from reading the brain trusters' speeches and from noting their chest measurement that President Roosevelt never turned around without con sulting them. That pose cannot atand In view of the Inside stories now coming to light as to what happened to them back stage during the closing days of con gress and since. It seems that a rather quiet, but effective job was done on them by certain Influential Democratic con- gressmen. One senator, in particular, I seems to have played David privately to their Goliath. He Is the unpubll cleed new senator from Wyoming, Joseph O'Mahoney, lieutenant of General Parley. In the first instance, the agricul ture department's better thinkers wrote out their own grazing bill. They sent this measure to the house, where It was passed with no ques tions asked. But when It came to the senate committee, the unassuming Mr. O'Mahoney set to work on It. He made no speeches In public, but he made several In private where they would do the most good. Before the brain trusters knew what had hap pened he had rewritten their bill, les sening their authority over grazing ground on public lands and giving the grazer greater liberty. It was his contention that this measure would "stop bureaucratic control." This bill was passed by the senate, approved by the house and went to the White House, where the strug gle between Mr. O'Mahoney and the brain trust really started in earnest. The agriculture department crowd contended that Mr. O'Mahoney's meas ure was a political bill and urged Mr. Roosevelt to veto it, Mr. O'Mahoney called for reinforcements from his fellow Democratic senators, King and Plttman (also from grazing states). After considerable thought Mr. Roosevelt disregarded the brain trust and signed Mr. O'Mahoney's bill, There was another unnoticed occa sion when the big brain boys worked out a scheme for saving the AAA amendments. They started to line up their congressional friends In favor of tacking these amendments on the sue&r bill. They realized a majority of con gress was possibly opposed to increas ing AAA authority and the amend ments could not pass alone. By at taching them to the political sugar bill the amendments might ride through. It was good strategy and would have worked except that the same Mr. O'Mahoney again took his sling shot from his pocket. Said Mr. O'Mahoney in effect: "You cannot 1 sour the sugar bill with such amend ment as these," He won. The result Is the AAA amendments and the agricultural department graz ing bill lie today in the same con gressional ash heap with the Tug well pure food and drug bill. Thus have the mighty fallen. State Secretary Hull had something -approximating murder In his mind when Budget Director Douglas made a radio speech not long ago while Mr. Hull was trying to get foreign governments to pay up. Said Mr. Douglas In his radio speech: "If the foreign governments had paid their debts It probably would have- Intensified the chaos in international currency, paralyzed fur. ther international trade, diminished our own profitable ability to produce and possibly Increased the burden on the American taxpayer rather than diminished it." That was Just about the same con tention used by the British in their note. It may be true, or partially true, but Mr. Hull personally con Firirrrd it a very impolitic thing for Mr. Douglas to say. The white Hcusc circle heaved a reh of relief when Mr. Roccevelt got away' from the Virgin Islands v;;Th5ut an embarrassing demonstra tion by those opposed to Oovernor rraron. They hid expected trouble !: ?h'. Td 3 ! ; on t':r p.btt (leu: (Continued on Page Pour) j BEAGLE COUPLE'S AUTO AND TRUCK HIT NEAR AGATE Mrs. E. A. Lampman in Hos pital With Life Hanging by Thread Arm Broken and Is Hurt Internally Mrs. E. A. Lampman, 73, a resident of the Beagle district, lies in the Community hospital, with her life banging by a thread, as a result of an auto crash, shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon, with a logging truck, at Agate Junction on the Crater Lake highway. Her husband, 70 years old. was also Injured In the accident, but his in juries are less serious than those of his mate. He sustained head hurts and cuts about the face, according to hospital authorities. Mrs. Lampman sustained a double fracture of her right arm, and in terial injuries. Scant chance for life Is held. Immediately after the crash she was rushed to the hospital by passing motorists. She failed to re gain consciousness. Dr. Edwin R. Durno attend the aged couple. The accident occurred at the curve at the Agate junction. Details are lacking. The state police are Inves tigating. The Lampmans were coming to this city, according to reports, and the crash occurred shortly after the auto Lampman was driving came upon the highway from the Agate road. It is thought he did not see the logging truck in time to avert the crash. Emergency treatment was adminis tered to Mrs. Lampman at the hos pital in an effort to save her life, Her condition is regarded as extremely precarious. The Lampmans are well known in the Beagle district, where they have resided for some time. According to later reports received by the state police, and reports from residents of the district, Lampman drove onto the highway directly in front of the approaching lumber truck, which was traveling at a lively pace. The Lampman auto was com pletely demolished by the force of the Impact. F LOS ANGELES. July 10. (fP) Bishop James Cannon, Jr., of th Methodist Episcopal church discussed liquor and the movies here yesterday during an official business visit as recently appointed bishop of district No. S, which includes California and other western states. 'I am not such a rabid prohibit tlonlst," he said, "that I fall to see the evils Involved In the filming and display of dirty and suggestive films. These pictures reach the eyes of boys and girls whose minds are In the formative stage snd whose entire lives may be affected by the Impressions gained through Improper motion pic tures. "If, as soma statistician has stated, there are 6,000,000 Catholics In this war for purity of the fMms, you can depend on it that at least twice that many Procatants are aligned in the fight." As for liquor, he said conditions are the worst he has ever seen. He said the saloon has returned In many sections of the nation "including the Capitol city where the President by his veto could have prevented its return." Bates Leaves Hospital Ouy Bates, who suffered a fractured skull In a recent auto accident, left the Sacred Heart hospital this morning for his home In Rogue River. Twenty Pigs Bring 68 Cts. Profits for Mrs. Mosback CORTLAND, til., July 10. (AP) Mrs. A. Mosback 'a 20 pigs went to market and netted her the grand total of 68 cents a little more than 3 cents each for the 1630 pounds of pork she devoted the time and energy to raise. The pigs actually sold for 112 22. but reductions of U M had to be made. Here's why. as explained yesterday by the Chicago Producers' Commission association: The pip. clawed as culls, were sold p! a time when the market for msl! Mrii.e a df-prod becauar of by offerings of H?ht animals during the Thursday Deadline for Hundreds Pay Tribute to Part of the tremendous crowd fathered along Market street to witness the funeral cortege of two men fatally wounded In San Francisco riots are shown In the above photo, with the Ferry building, scene of some of the bloody fighting. In the background. Inset: Crowds In front of the International Longshoremen's asso ciation aa the caskets bearing the bodies of Howard S. Spcrry and Nlckolns llordolse were carried out to a wait ing truck. The riots were an aftermath or a prolonged strike of maritime workers and resulted In the calling out of the National Guard. (Associated Press Photos.) TAX F Jackson county tax collection for the flrat six months of 1934, ending June 30, amounted to 771.436.33. Tills lacks but 896.420.39 of the tax collections for the entire year of 1933. The total 1933 tax collections amounted to $867,856.61. The above figures and Information are contained In a semi-annual re port of tlje tax collection department of the sheriff's office. Indlcatlona are the 1934 tax collec tions will approximately double pay ments of any year since 192B. Payments date back, for the first six months of thla year, to 1026. with substantial remittances for 1930, 1931 and 1032 a period of dark depression when demagogues were urging tax payers not to pay their levies. Pay ments this year show a healthy re turn of confidence, more money and a more cheerful tone among tho peo ple. Many of the payments were by government checks, lwued for federal projects and relief. The 1034 tax payments for the first six months totalled (518.04O.3S. The The 1932 corresponding tax payments were 1138.403 36, for 1931. 883,388.81, and for 1930, but (24.445.48. The comparative figures show that for the first six months of 1933 tax payments amounted to (434,674.73, and for the second six months, (433.181.88. The first six months col lections of 1934, (771.436.32) Is (136.762.59 more than for the first six months of 1933. The Increased tax payments for this year, keep step with bank de posits In this city, which showed an average Increase alnce January 1 last, of approximately 25 per cent over the 1933 slx-montha period. drought, They brought only 75 cents a hundred pounds. Marketing coits deducted from the sale price Included 12.80 for use of pens, scales and runways of the stock yards, and 55 cents for corn the pigs ate. The Insurance company Rot 1140 for Insuring them against injury en route and 5 cents more to Insure them apainst fire. The truck company took 3.67 for s-ulng the pias and the commission house 1 for selling them. The meat board got 7 cents. That left 68 cents for Mrs. Mos- I bark. ' Thi" ps--fctne concern must pay a f tcveinment prerenal we Ux of 2 25 per hundred pounds en tL pigs. F OF BARTLETT IS E: Raymond R. Reter of the Pinnacle Packing company estimated this morning that 7000 tons of an ap proximate total tonnage of 13,500 cars of Rogue River valley Bartlett crop had been sold to the canneries, at a price running from $32.50 to $35 per ton. Reter said the total number of cars shipped will be "about the same as last year, and the pear crop Is clean, of good sizes, and excellent quality." He said sale prospects were good. Last year's car shipments were about 3000 cars. Cannery Bartlett prices were an nounced yesterday by Schuekel and Co., of Oakland, Calif., through their local representative. Court Hall, at $35 per ton for 2 sizes and better, $32.50 for 2'i sires or better, and $20 per ton for No. 2 grade. , It was the general opinion among packers and orchard Is ts. that this price would m the peak, though a number of growers held hopes of higher offerings, with some holding for $37.50 per ton for the top grades. The Rogue River Orchard Co. yester day sold 1000 tons of Bartletts at the above prices. Other sales were re ported pending. Douglas county Bartletts yesterday sold for $30 per ton, according to reports. Orchardlsts and packing houses are preparing for the etart of Bartlett picking next week. Prospects for the apple . crop are also reported as good. PARADE DAZZLES BAN FRANCISCO, July 10. (AP) In the splendor of plume and sash and aword. Knights Templar of the United States paraded here today in the most spectacular public event of their 39th triennial conclave. Some 6000 uniformed delegates to the grand encampment, led by Mark Norris of Orand Rapids, Mich., grand captain general, participated in the line of march. The 12.000 delenates arid visitors completed registration last night aftvr the last of many special trains from all parts of the country arrived. MERRILL MAN DROWNS IN IRRIGATION CANAL KLAMATH FALLS. July 10 (AP) A. L. Roberta, 75. of Merrill waa drowned In the government irriga tion canal today. Kobrt. an in mate of the rotinly hospital, had brn despondcDt. ciTi'tr naid, and probably took his own life. Riot Victims MARTIN OF PORTLAND, July 10. yp) Back from the wars of congress, and ready to Jump Into a new campaign In Oregon, Charles H. Martin, retired major-general and retiring congress man, reached Portland last night from Washington, D. C. He is Or gon's Democratic nominee for the governorship. He revealed that President Roose velt, now on a tropic sea cruise, will sail up the Columbia and the Wll lamette rivers in the cruiser U. S. B. Houston and will dock in Portland a 7 a. m. Thursday, August 2. He will leave at 9:30 a. m. for Bonneville dam There will be no speech-making here Martin said Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. will Join the President here and that members of the cabinet will meet the chief executive in Portland, making Portland the capital of the natlon for the moment. "In the White House now," Gen eral Martin said, "we have the first president for the west." He declared that "no congress since Oregon was admitted as a state has done as much for Oregonians as the 73rd congress." 4 DEATH BY DROWNING PHOENIX, July 10. (Spl.) Warren Poling, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Poling, narrowly escaped drowning at Lake o' the Woods on the Fourth or July, It was disclosed today. He was swimming about 100 yards from shore when he suffered a heart attack. Oene Cslhoun of Sterling. In a boat nearby saw the youngster going down and Jumped In. bringing warren to ahors where artificial respiration waa ad ministered. LADIES' GOLF TOURNEY SEI FOR WEDNESDAY The regular weekly ldle' golf tour, nament at the Rogue Hirer Vslley go'f course ulll be held tomorrow noon. It was announced today. A luncheon will be served as usual In the club house. PORTLAND, July 10 I AP) Har old Newqulst, wheat rancher In the Pendleton district, waa given a parole In federal court here yesterday after having been sentenced to six months i In jbii and fined 1100 lor poweaslon I of a liquor still. ' Portland Genera MERCHANTS WILL Chairman Isaacs Calls Com mittee Meeting of Med ford, Ashland Men for To night After Hearing Harder Forty merchants were in attendance Monday afternoon at the meeting in the city hall, at which Ben Harder, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and president of the First National bank, explained the checking account charge announc ed the first of the month by the Med ford and Ashland banks. The meeting was originally called to decide If the local merchants should absorb the loss on out-of-town checks, or. pass the charge on to the customer. M the suggestion of Win. T. Isaacs, chairman of the meeting, such action was deferred until a Medford committee could meet with a committee from the Ashland cham ber of commerce, to consider the mat ter. That meeting is scheduled for tonight. Result of Code. Mr. Harder gave a brief history of the banking situation since the mora torium of a year ago. and said the government had asked the banks to form a code, the same as other busi nesses. A number of codes were sub. mitted, he said, but the last embodied what is being done now. "Account in the bank must not be carried at a loss," Mr. Harder told the merchants. 'It is not profitable to carry losing accounts. Half or two- thirds of the 'account are carried at a loss. There Is no question about (Continue on Page Eight) PENDLETON, Ore., July 10. (P) With "no time for politics," Rex Tug well, under-seoretary of agriculture and storm center of the recent senate "brain trust" Inquiry, sped westward through Pendleton today to Inspect the Hermlston experiment station and then to go to Portland for the night. The administration aide spent last night in Walla Walla. He spent one hour today Inspecting the Pendleton experiment plot. "I haven't five minutes for poli tics," he declared when urged to chat briefly about the fortunes of politics snd the state of the nation. E E LA GRANDE, Ore.. July 10. (API La Orande people are to begin tear ing black engineer caps with green visors In connection with the staging here next week of the semi-centennial union Pacific celebration, and 1000 caps will go on sale here tomor row. The committee decided that en glneer capa would be much more ap propriate for this event, which Is to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the coming of the first railroad to La Orande, than would bs the wear ing of whiskers or some other similar adornment. The celebration will be held July 18, 30 and 31. Clerics Join in Battle To Drive Sex From Films NEW YORK, July 10. (UP) Priests, ministers and rabbis two of each Joined handa today In a pledge to force Hollywood to turn us atten tion from sex. The hin-wavlne. "c'm up n see me" damsels of the screen world re ceived a body blow at the meetlnr,, which brought to a head the dr've against Indecent movies and prom'jed similar campaigns against burl'jsqu and taxi dance halls. Tha meeting anjroved "the 'legion of decency", formed to boycott "lm moral" movies, which organized by Catholic claim two million members among Catholics, Protestant and Jews. : The conference, sponsored by Mgr. Michael J. Lavelle, vicar general of the Catholic archdiocese of New York, also u attended by Father Joseph Drunken Driving In Sharp Upturn On Reveal Heels CHICAQO. July 10. (AP) The Tribune said today that the num ber of drunken drivers involved in accidents was 300 per cent greater the first half of this year than during parallel months In 1933, and that the rise coincides exactly with the repeal of national prohi bition. Thts year 14 deaths and Injuries to 350 were credited to drunken drivers, compared with 3 deaths and 63 injuries In the 1933 period. E RECOVERY, RELIEF Bv nicnAnn u oriplet limited I'rcss Starr uorresrwnueni) WASHINGTON, July 10. (UP) Less than half the government's re covery and relief "war chest" of 13, 115.535,331 haa been spent to date, leaving te.670,875,405 for use for the same purposes during the next 13 months, the treasury department re vealed today. It was the first time since congress started malting record high, peace time approprlatlona that actual, of ficial flgurea had been made public by the treasury. The figures vary considerably from previously made congressional estimates, aa well aa estimates laid down by President Roosevelt. The thirteen billions was listed by the treasury as tho total amount au thorised for recovery purposes, In eluding more than 81,000,000.000 pushed out by the Hoover adminis tratlon through the reconstruction finance corporation. Of the total $9,444,860,818 has been spent or loaned to date, exclusive of (Continued on Page Two) K. C. POLITICAL LEADER KANSAS CITY, July 10. (API John Lazla, north side political leader, died today of bullet wounds suffered In front of his apartment hotel early today at the handa of unidentified machine gunners. Lazla said he did not know who shot him. Three blood transfusions did no more than to revive the trusted lieu tenant of T. J. Pendergaat, Democratic leader, who expressed his profound sympathy when he learned of tho shooting. PORTLAND-SALEM TRUCK RATES REVISED UPWARD BALEM, July 10. (AP) Motor freight rates on the Salem-Portland run will be advanced today under a new tariff schedule filed wll the Oregon public utilities commissioner by the Salem freight tarlfr bureau, It was learned laat night. Increased cost of truck repairs and replacement and higher wages prom ised to drivers at the termination of the longshoremen'a strike, was said to have made necessary the upward revision of rates. ALCOHOL IMPORTATION BARS LET DOWN AGAIN WASHINGTON, July 10. IAP) For the third time since repusl, the federal alcohol control administration announced today that unlimited Im portations of liquor would be per mitted for two months beginning September 1. In an ef'ort to combat bootlegging and brine; down domestic prices. A. McCaffrey, Dr. Walter M. Hewlett, Dr. 'Aederick B. Newell, the latter two representing the protestant, and Dri. Sidney E. Goldstein and William F. Rosenblum, representing Jew. Charles H. Tuttle, former United State district attorney, waa counsel for the group. Father McCaffrey believed the movie Industry "haa fallen so low" under the leadership of Will Hays, cur of the Industry, that "It ts high time he resigned." Informed that a Catholic; "black list" Included six film taken by President Roosevelt on hi cruise Father McCaffrey thought that the president had no part In their selec. tlon. The films were: Dr. Monica; Fog over Frlaco: Murder on the Blackboard: Cockeyed Cavaliers; Crime Doctor, and the Fsrty a Over, Strike UNION WORKERS OF ALL TRADES TO VOTEWISHES Policy Committee Will Guide Action if Walkout Decided Peace Moves Being Made On Many Fronts PORTLAND, July 10. (AP) Thurs day noon has been set aa the dead line for the proposed walk-out of or ganized labor In the city of Portland. Should peaceful aettlement of the protracted waterfront strike not be accomplished by that date, union leaders aald plans will be pushed for a general clty-wlde atrlke. A "policy" committee to draw plans for the general atrlke which would be called In event the move la deemed advisable by the workers, themselves, was appointed at a lengthy meeting of the central labor council last night. The general strike, drawing moat of the union workers from their Jobs would be in support of the attitude of maritime workers who have been on atrlke more than two months. The "policy" committee la com posed of representatives of the build ing trades council, the electrical workera' union, the longshoremen's association, the barbers union, wait resses' union, office workers' union and streetcar operator s' union, should this committee recommend a strike the proposal then will be re ferred to each local union for a refer endum vote. SAN FRANOISCO, July 10. (AP) Eleventh-hour efforts to bring about an armistice In the crucial waterfront strike and to forestall a general walk out of more than 100,000 union men In Portland, Oakland and San Fran cisco were made on several fronts to day. The principal move waa going on behind the scenes at the hearing launched by the federal government' labor disputes board, whloh expected Information late today from ahlpown- era that would have an Important bearing on the much sought truce. Details were withheld. In Washington Secretary of Labor Perkins expressed the belief the strike could be settled If the griev ances of the nine union which walk ed out partly In sympathy with tho striking longshoremen could be sub mitted to arbitration. Pending the anxiously awaited re port from the ship owners the labor disputes board continued to hear the pleas and complalnta of various union representatives. CARTAGENA. Colombia, July 10 W) President Roosevelt arrived In the harbor here ahortly after 10 o'clock thla morning on his history making visit to South Amerlo, the first ever msde by an American presi dent. Two Colombia destroyer met the American battleships outside the deep harbor and a plane flew overhead a guns boomed salute after salute while crowds of Colombians lined the docks of this seaport city. WILL- ROGER? fsays; SANTA MONICA, Cnl., July 9. Sco by the papers Hitler took a vacation. Most peopla doing the same thing would havo took one too. The judgo would have said: "Now you take a nice rest for about 60 days and some morning at day light the warden will call, you, and from then on you can rest again." Mr. Cordell Mull paid a mighty nice compliment to lit tle Finland today and inciden tally did all he could to maks the others feel ashamed. But Mr. Hull you are just wasting your breath. Those boys have been insulted by experts and it never fazed 'cm. . Villi rllUsllTHsl4,l