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The Weather Forecait: Fair tonight ind Thurt day. Not much change In tempera ture. Highest yesterday ,, f M7 l.onext this morning ....... 48 Twenty-ninth Ytar By PAUL MAIXON. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 11 It is too hot to think about money, but apparently some people are thinking about It. certain unreported sub r o a & shennanl gans have been going on In for eign exchange. For one thins, the British have been secretly try ing to bid the dollar up. For another, eeveral of the largest European finan cial ayndlcates have been quietly p" MaUoD transferring their accounts to Amer ica. These two moves are behind the recent strength of the dollar. They have been noted by those in charge of the government exchange stabiliz ation bureau, but by few others. The British are probably buying dollars for exchange advantage. They have also been shipping ua gold. A million dollars' worth came In last week, most of It directly from Eng Hnd. and the rest from India and Jamaica. These transactlona probably represent an Influx of gold, as a com modity, to take advantage of our high price, rather than natural Interna tional exchange. But there Is only one explanation for the return of the syndicates to these shores. They are looking for nroflts. The Idea seems to be fairly general Inside that they are coming In ex pecting widespread Inflation talk, which will drive up the value of equities, and that they will flee again to some stable European currency before Inflation comes. However, no one can divine the motives of a speculator. It Is significant that nearly every one worth being called a financier in this country believes (or says he be lieves) that the government will come to monetary Inflation. In fact, Inflation Is the first of the July crop of rumors. It started before President Roosevelt was mile offshore. Such rumors have a way of reaching out all over the country without ever getting into print. This is especially true at a time when mat gvemment fficials time when most government officials are absent and no one of sufficient authority remains here to issue de nlals. About this one particular rumor certain things are clear. Tho first is thst those in charge of our money policy do not intend to have any monetary inflation. No further dollar devaluation Is planned. The silver ' policy Is not being used In that way at all. inc only way lur uwutuw mun- tlon to come Is for government spend ing to proceed so far that the trea ury cannot get spending money by borrowing It and. therefore, must start manufacturing It. No one whose Judgment Is worth repeating. Inside or outside the gov ernment, believes that the treasury will need to manufacture money any time soon within a year, at least. There are those who raise their eyebrows at growing expenditures and predict that the end of the rope will be reached next summer. There are others who believe that the gov. ernment has so much control over banks and money that it could double the existing public debt without in superable difficulties. That Is all a mattr of opinion. The Inner administration circle however, has a plan which It believes will avoid both possibilities. As soon M the congressional elections are over in November, you are almost certain to sec a rigid curtailment in expenditures. A moderate curtailment already has been effected. At the next session of congress, also, you re nt.iv to find a revision In taxes The new dealers appear to be con fldent that they can cut expenses, and rslse taxes to a point where they) m;i balance a budget, eventually, at a figure around six billions. That would pull them out of the existing altui t'.on. The secret of that theory ts not hard to find. It Is business. Government revenues cannot be raised unless business impro'es. You cannot tax blood out of a turnip. Neither can relief spendtug be cut down radically unless business Im proves sufficiently to lejsen the de mand for relief. Therefore, all our c'.isnces, aa re cards inflation and spending, seem to lie with business prospects for the next year o- two. You can make your on s'Kss about that. The reason Mr. IcXes Is letting the Justice department prosecute the oil code cases Is mo-. Important than at first surmised. The Justice depart ment ordered U. Tie trouble started when the oil code lawyers wanted, some time sro. to put soiuf.tniuc into t:ie code t.nt o)rm r E v Yjt (.Continued, on Pss Esur.j M onr .. POLICEMEN FIRE El Four Taken to Hospitals Precipitation of City-Wide Walkout Is Feared As Result of Day's Bloodshed PORTLAND. July 11. (AP) Blood was spilled here today as police fired shotguns Into a crowd of pickets on Portland's strike-torn waterfront. Four men, all striking longshore men, were downed by buokshot from the police guns. The four were mem bers of a large group of pickets who blockaded a railroad track and pre vented train crews from moving a freight train onto a municipal ter minal. Hospitals said none of the four will die. About a dozen shots were lired. Labor groups and the city council Immediately started an Investigation of the shooting. Fear General Strike. It was feared by many observers the blood-shed would precipitate ft general city-wide strike by more than 90 of the city's 105' labor unions. This general strike has been threatened for several days. A bloody shirt worn by one of the wounded men was waved before coun cil members at today's meeting of the council as Matt Mehan, member of the executive committee of the local International Longshoremen's Chief Lawson. Ouaros were placed about the house. Police captains In charge of the groups of regular and special police at municipal terminal No. 4 where the association, shouted "this blood Is on your hands." The wounded men, all struck by buck shot were: Elmus W. Beaty, shot in right Jaw and neck; Peter Ste phenson of St. Helens, shot In abdo men, both arms and chest; Bert Yates, buckshot In side of head; w. Hunt ington, shot in right arm. Police Chief Silent. Chief of Police B. K. Lawson re fused to discuss the shooting or the morning's developments. "It Is too desperate a situation to talk about," he declared. Police said they had heard threats by strikers to bomb the residence of (Continued on Page Two) Adolph Woodrldge, manager of the Eagle Point Chees factory, is a pati ent at. the Sacred Heart hospital, where he is receiving treatment for trichinosis. His condition was report ed today by the attending physician as satisfactory. According to Dr. E. R. Durno, there have been several cases of the dis ease in this section. Trichinosis Is contracted from eating pork In which are small worms, known as trichnia. The doctor warned against persons en ting pork that is not well done, as It Is from the -.aat which Is not suf ficiently cooked that the disease Is contracted. MEET T H. E. Wlrth, local Insurance man. who Is a candidate for governor on the Liberal Independent platform, said today that he Is confident there will be enough supporters of the new part? tomorrow evening at the meet ing scheduled for 8:30 o'clock at the Hotol Medford to nominate himself a the party's candidate. An organization meeting was held last Thursday, with only 54 persons In attendance. The law requires 100 to formulate a political party. Col Roosevelt Cries Oat at Famed Kin s Bureaucracy OKICAOO, July 11. (UP) Colonel Theodore Roosevelt last night urjed a gathering of young Republicans to "save their country" from his famous cousin. President Roosevelt. in a fiery speech. Colonel Roose velt tore Into the Democratic ad ministration, decrying the "regimen tation" of - the NRA and the AAA. which he described as "colossal bu reaucracies." Colonel Roosevelt, . addressing a gathering of young Republicans from many states, who came here at the Invitation of Henry P. Fletcher, cimir. man of the national Republican com mittee, sail: EDFORD i n Mrs. Fehl and IN JOINT SURVEY President On Deck Early to Witness Passage Cruiser Through Waterway Crowds Line Gatun Locks By Francis M. Stephenson Associated Press Foreign Staff. CRISTOBAL. C. Z, July 11. (AP) President Roosevelt's cruiser, the TJ. S. S. Houston, dropped anchor In the harbor her at 8.30 a. m. today and received aboard Secretary of War George H. Dern, preparatory to a trip of Inspection through the Panama canal. The war secretary, who Is In charge of the Canal Zone, described the canal as not only a vital factor In national defense but also aa "the greatest of non-military activities." On Deck Early The .president came on deck early to witness the trip through the gi gantic canal connecting two oceans. Shortly after 10 o'clock the Hous ton started through the canal. The Gatun locki were crowded with spectators awaiting the arrival of the president. Infantrymen and Canal Zone police were guarding all approaches. Mr. Roosevelt Is the first president to make the canal transit while In office. The giant undertaking had not been completed when Theodore Roosevelt nearly 30 yeara ago broke the precedent agalnat presidents leaving the United States by coming to the scene. and personally encour aging the workers. President Arias of Panama will entertain Mr. Roosevelt at dinner to night. Off to Hawaii Thursday The Houston will begin the long Pacific run to Hawaii some time to morrow. The cruiser New Orleans will replace the destroyer Gilmer, carrying newspapermen, and the destroyer Williamson, with secret service men, as a convoy. In an address at Cartagena, Mr. Roosevelt assured Colombians this la an era in which "each and everyone of us lives and lets live." There la a new era of relatione In the Americas, he said, expressing the hope that the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay would be speedily settled. "We the citizens of all the Amerl can republics, are at the threshold of a new era," the president said. "It la a new era because of the new aplrlt of understanding which la best expressed In the phrase, 'let us, each and everyone of us, live and let live'." TO ELECT Tomorrow evening at 8:30 o'clock, In the Jackson hotel, a meeting of nil restaurant operators and beer dis pensers -r Jackson county will be held, according to announcement to day by H. T. Sheriff of Portland, field representative for the state restau rant board. Mr. Sheriff said the meeting had been called for the purpose of elect ing a county board of five members to administer the new marketing agreement, which became effective May 31, under the general supervision of Max Gehlhar, director of agricul ture for the state of Oregon. Grove A. Iteventlsch of Portland, managing director of the Oregon Res taurant board, will be present to supervise the election, as required by the code. Mr. Sheriff said that all restaurant operators and beer dispensers are urged to be present, as this is not an association meeting. "These are grave times. Never have they been graver. The traditional rights of the Amerlcsn people are be lng violated, cast aside and disre garded. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right by trial, the very spirit of the bill of rights have been disregarded. For the first time In my life I have seen fear among the American people, fear of express ing their opinion. "Take the NRA for example. In the poetotflces of the country are signs Inviting everyone to report to Washington violations, if ever m attempt to act on foot a coicsssl y tm of spies has been made, that is it." M MEDFORD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, 'JULY 11, Tesla Producing "Death Beam" to End Further War NEW YORK, July 11. (UP) Nikola Tesla, electrical wlurd and inventor with some 700 patents to his credit, observed his 78th birthday annlverary today by an nouncing a "death beam" which will end war. Tenia's Invention, which he says will take several more years to perfect, will "wipe out armies in a flash and destroy fleets of both ships and airplanes." he said. VICTIM OF CRASH OF E An Inquest Into the death of Mrs. E. A. Lampman, 73, of the Beagle dis trict, who was fatally Injured yester day afternoon In an automobile acci dent at the Junction of the Agate road with trie Crater Lake highway. will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, ' It was announced today by Coroner Frank Perl, who. with District Attorney George A. Codding and State Police Officer Harry MInto, made an Investigation this morning. Mrs... Lampman died at the Com munity hospital at 4:45 yesterday afternoon without regaining con sciousness. Her husband, aged 70, who suffered head injuries, was also taken to the Community hospital by the Perl ambulance and attendants today reported his condition as sat isfactory. The elderly lady suffered internal Injuries at well as a double fracture of the right arm. ' Funeral services are to be conduct ed Friday, afternoon aV'2 o'clock' In the Antiocn scnooi nouse, The collision of the logging truck, driven by Myron McEwen of 403 North Fir street, Medford, occurred on the BUburban road shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Reports stated that Lampman drove onto the high way directly In front of the approach ing truck and saw the large vehicle too late to avoid being struck by It. The Lampman car was completely demolished. Rusha Knickerbocker was born near Allegan. Mtch., In June, 1864, and in 1881 she was marled to Eugene A. Lampman, and to this union was born one daughter, Mrs. Beulah James, who resides near Mapleton, Ore. Mrs. Lampman Is survived by her husband, her daughter and four grandchildren. TUGWELL PARTY PORTLAND, July 11. (AP) Dr. Rexford O. Tugwell, under-secretary of agriculture, was off for Csllfornla by automobile today before the city had awakened. He and his party slipped Into Portland last night, went Immediately Into the seclusion Of hotel rooms, and denied themselves to all except those with whom they had "official business." Tugwell Is on an annual trip of In spection of federal projects. He ex pects to complete his Itinerary In California early next week and will leave by plane for Washington, D. C. It was ssld by Knowles Ryerson, chief of the bureau of plant Industry, one of the Washington party. . BASEBALL National R. H. K. St. Louis - - a 3 Philadelphia 5 0 Carleton, Haines and V. Davis; P. Collins and Wilson. First game: R. H. Chicago a Rmitin .... 1 Bush and Hartnett: Rhem, Bstts and Spohrer. Second game: R. H. E. Ch;rgo J 1 Boston - 1 1 Malone and Hartnett; Brandt and Si hrer. R. H. E. Cincinnati .-.. J 4 Brooklyn S ll l SI Johnson, and Lombardl, U'Fsr rell; Ben Re and Sukeforth. R. H. . Pittsburgh a 0 New York .. - 8 7 0 Hoyt. Swift and Padden. Grace; Schumacher and Mnncuso. WASHINGTON, July 11. (API Acting postmasters announced today by Postmaster Oeneral Farley Includ ed Ann O'Rourke. Condon. Oregon. Mrs. Lucy Psge, 77, of Madison Mile. Ky and her sister, Mrs. L. Me Brlde. 74. of Temperance Hall. Tenn . recently a-ere united after a separa tion of !' rears. ail Tribune Friends Long Step Toward Simplifi cation of NRA Will Touch Only Wages, Hours, Child Labor Prices Not Fixed WASHINGTON, July II. (AP) One big code for 450 small Industries Is expected to emerge from NRA'a hop per momentarily. This code, carrying the recovery unit another long atrlde on the road to simplification, will touch only such basic standards aa wages, hours and prohibition of child labor. It will not contain price fixing. General Hugh S. Johnson, who dis closed yesterday that he wants to turn his NRA Job over to a commis sion and atep back Into private life aa soon as the president feels he can apare him, hoped to promulgate the new code before leaving today on a combination vacation-speaking tour westward. No Gag for Johnson His office aent out word that Pres ident Roosevelt had wirelessed John son telling him to apeak as often as he wished and wherever he desired. This was considered an answer to published reports that President Roosevelt had curtailed the speaking tour In which Johnson Is expected to expound the NRA. The toor orlgl nally was reported to number 16 ad dresses. Yesterday a reporter had questioned him about this and Johnson ropllcd: "I asked the president but I haven't heard from him yet." Johnson, who has been working at a terrltlo pace, disclosed that "the" prosldent told me to get out and rest for a month." At Portland July is Leaving by plane today, he planned to speak tomorrow at Waterloo, la,; at Portland, Ore., July 15, then go to the University of California to re ceive an honorary Phi Beta Kappa key about July 19. After an address at Los Angeles July 30. he expects to take a two weeks' vacation In the Sierra or Rocky mountains, then speak at Chicago on his return trip to the capital. Whatever road RA may take In the future, Johnson made It plain that the government will keep its veto power over code organizations If he has his way. Vigorously, he dlsclamed yeaterday any Idea of turning the Job of run ning Industry over to a council of code authorities. "I'm not in favor of that," ha said. E OAKLAND, Cel.. July 11. (API Two elderly women were found slsln In their bed here today, apparently beaten to death by a burglar who then ransacked the room and cscsped. The victims, who hsd been slugged over the hesds, were Miss Adella Mer rill, 73. owner of a women's board ing house at 1034 Linden street, snd Miss Millie Foots, 64. Their bodies were discovered by Mrs. Dsnlel Harris, an occupant of the boarding house, when she went to prepare breakfast. Mrs. Harris nottcod a rear door had been opened and a acreen torn from a window. The bodies were found on the sec ond floor of the building In a room occupied by the two victims. 1 BY HAILRA1N STORM JACKSONVILLE, III., July 11. (AP) Hall, rain and a tornado left Jacksonville strewn today with the litter of wrecked homes and garages, uprooted trees and a snsrl of broken communication lines. Sweeping down on the city and neighboring farms lsst night, the storm caused property damage unof ficially estimated at nso.OOO and in jured a score of residents, three seri ously. Hill battered down the crops long suffering from drought, broken at last by the heavy downpour of the night. GRANTS PASS P. 0. SITE BIDS ARE REQUESTED ORANTS PASS, July tl. (API Bids were called for the site of a new federal building here today by tho public works branch of the treasury department. Building and site are estimated at 1150.000. Site bids will be opened heie Jul 11, 1934. Indicted for Pamphlet Three's a Flatly refused permission to wed In two atatei because she Is a Siamese twin, red-haired Violet Hilton and her would-be bridegroom, Maurice L, Lambert of Keyier, W. Va., threaten to take the matter to court, Violet la shown above embracing Lambert at the marriage license bureau In New York where they were first refuted 1 license on moral grounds. It was the same In New Jersey. Daisy Hilton, Vio let's (later, It shown standing by which Is about all she can do con sidering the and Violet have been Joined together since their birth In England. (Associated Press Photo) E EF Gordon L. Schermerhorn, former sheriff of Jackson county, sentenced to three years In state prison for his role In the ballot thefts, will report to the warden of the penitentiary Saturday, unless Judge George F. Sklpworth or Eugene grants his piei for a two days' sdditlonal on the 14 daya extension of time. Schermer horn hss Informed county officials that hla present time extension Is sought to complete a deal achedulcd to be closed next Sundsy. Sherlrf Welter J. Olmscheld has granted Schermerhorn's request that he be allowed to go .alone to prison. "If It is satisfactory to his bonds men." He will be given his own com. mltmcnt papers and will travel by train. If the two days' extension of time Is grsnted, the trip will then be made next Monday. The pr':nn of ficials, upon arrival, will advise Sher iff Olmscheld by wire. Schermerhorn Is at liberty on 7.600 bonds, with Tom L. Taylor snd Jens Jensen aa aurletles. Schermerhorn goes to the peniten tiary with the prospect that he will be granted a conditional pardon tt the expiration of alx months. The attorney-general's office concurred In this, "with the distinct understand, lng he does not apply for a parole In the Interim." The court, at the time, said that a recommendation that Schermerhorn be granted a conditional pardon in Ix months would be attached to the commitment papers. A two-weeks atay of execution waa granted to per mit the defendant to close up per sonsl sffsirs. It expires next Setup dsy. Swindler Admits Paying For Protection of Cops By MORRIS WATSON NEW YORK. July 11. (AP) No ble John Moore, admitted swindler, told a federsl Jury today that he snd others regularly paid William J. Orahsm 15 per cent of their bunco swag for police protection snd "no questlcn" banking service in Reno. Nevada. Moore told of four Instances In which he hsnded money to Orahsm to be kept until victims were herded out of town and then divided, Gra ham keeping the It per cent. He did not name Oraham's asso ciate, James C. McKay, except to say: "It was the general understand ing that IA per cent was to go to (McKay sad Onuam.- Crowd? IN LOVE BUT SHI HOLLYWOOD, July 11. (UP) Lupe Vclez, Mexican film actrcM, and Johnny Welssmuller, one -time Olym pic swimming star, have separated, and Lupe filed suit for divorce today charging cruelty. This time It waa not "clashing tern petf inenta" but. a series of quarrels that brought about the estrangement, the Mexican "fire-cracker" revealed. "Our temperaments are exactly alike," Lupe aald. "Our life thus has been a continual series of quarrels. We've been very unhappy lately. "Sure. Johnny and I love each other. I thought a separation for a while might give us a chance to get off each other's nerves. I went off on a personal appearance tour, but Johnny followed me by plane. We simply could not jnake a go of H." Welssmuller has moved to the Hollywood Athletic club. He could not be reached for a statement, how ever. Tho "Tarjian" of the screen eloped to Las Vegas, Nov., on Oct, 8, 1033. LEGION JUNIORS AND LIONS PLAY THURSDAY The American Legion Junior base ball team will play the Ollmore Lions Thursday afternoon at 15:30 o'clock, at the fairgrounds, It waa announced today, Aa several of the Lions have formerly been members of the Amer ican Legion Juniors, it la expected they will give the younger boys a lesson tomorrow evening. McKsy snd Oraham are charged with misuse of the malls In a scheme to defraud. On trial with them la John Egleston. accused as one of many "feelers." Moore waa a defendant In the trial, but pleaded guilty after a Jury waa choaen last Thursday. The Riverside Bank of Reno, of which George Wlrijflcld. Nevada Cop per King, Is president, wtia nsmed by moore as a "right lug." He esplsinea thst the ordinary banker would be susplelous of any large transaction and would notify police. A "right Jug." he ssld, was a bank la which so questions vera aaked. , - WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 No. 91. T FORMERJUDGE Retained in Jail Pendina Bonds Alleged Libel in Election Pamphlet Said Cause Grand Jury Action An Indictment, charging Electa A. Fehl. Wife of th lmnrljiniirl l?ri xi Fehl. May Murray, and B. L. Fitch wun criminal libel for distribution of a pamphlet entitled, "Black Crimi nal Plot Exposed." was returned late yesterday by the grand Jury, Floyd Rosa, Central Point, foreman. Mrs. Fehl wan arrciitnH nn hnrr warrant this morning by Deputy oiiBiiii rnn otansoury, as she stood converting with a friend on Fourth street. She expressed surprise, but nua no iurtner comment to make. She was detained in the county Jail, pendlmc the securiti? at 1000. The Indictment against her was secret. May Murray, arrested May 10. on the same charge, has been at liberty on 11000. Pitch has been in ino county jail, in lieu of bonds. Appear this Arternoon. The trio are SChWltllri in Ann. before Justice of the Peace William k. uoieman this afternoon -for ar rangement for bonds. The grand lurv snent .n u.tM considering the evidence n th cum While no official statement was forth.. coming, it Is understood the action was taken to thwart any attempt to revive a reign of malicious mischief ana raise propaganda in this county. The Indictments are based upon the paragraph In the- pamphlet reading : "Jackson county expended 68,000 In the ballot theft trials, which money was largely used for bribery of wit nesses and Juries and the handling of the courts." Plot Charged. The document also charged the state police and district attorney "plotted to railroad" Karl H. Pehl to the penitentiary, where he Is now serving a four-year sentence for bal lot inert conspiracy. Serious accusations were also made against Ciller of Police Clatoua Mc Credle. Attornev T. J. Enrleht nt this city and Jesse Thomas of Ashland, the latter a former financial backer of Pehl, who took legal steps recently for the return of a losn. The Inritrt.mant: ll.ta mlln.,.., before the grand Jury. Mrs. Pehl, who (Continued on Psge Three) THREEKiLLEiTlN F BOSTON, July 1 1 . ( A P) Tl . re members of a family were found shot to death today In their home In the Hyde Park district, and a fourth, a baby, waa critically wounded, the victims, police said, of a double slay ing and suicide. John J. Oldncy, 65, a letter carrier, police said, shot his daughter, Mar garet Borgeson, 19; her husband, Er nest, 20, and their 8-months-old child. Estelle, and then turned tho gun on himself. The child Is not expected to live. Police said the tragedy was a result of domestic troubles. WILL ROGER? hays: SANTA MONICA, Cnl July 10. Kvcry ilny wo get now surprises from Europe. Sunday some follow from Gormsny named lies.-), who said he was speaking for Hitler, told France tlierc wasn't any use of them fighting and that they would like to make up. It all sounded so friendly that you started peeping under the bottom to see what was hid. Mr. Boosovelt visited our Virgin Islands. He seems to have got away pretty good. Two or three years ago I flew into those islands just a couple of weeks after Mr. Hoover had been there, and those Virgins were sure sore, but Mr. T!oosc velt promised 'cm a' distillery. a CUU HtiOalai frUlMU. Iu i