AIL TRIBUNE
WINNER
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EDFORD
FOR 1934
Twenty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUKSDAY, JULY 10, 1934.
No. 93.
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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:
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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