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Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: rlr, except somewhat cloudy tonliht and Thursday. Not much chant In temperature. Highest yestcrdsy 9 Lowest thli morning As WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1934. No. 106. BOTJUri rn Arbitration of Strike Accepted by Coast Longshoremen s Ballot StUV W.WW .- - riims -SJIH STRIKE SUDDEN fBJ BLOW IN AUSTRIA (Paul Mallon, whose signature usually appear over this dis patch. Is on & brief vacation. Dur ing his absence the column will be composed of contributions from leading Washington corre spondents.) (Copyright, 1934, by Paul Mallon.) WASHINGTON. D. C. July 35. Although professors and so-called brain trusters are constantly coming Into the service of the government, the traffic la not all In one direction. Bometlmea the professors head back to where they started from. Raymond Moley, who might be called No. 1 of the trust, passed out officially shortly after the conclusion of the London economic conference because his re lations with Secretary of State Hull made his continuance In the state de partment Impossible. But Professor Moley la still so close to the President and so frequently consulted by hJm on various matters that he cannot said to have been eliminated. Professor O. M. W. Sprague of Har- drd and the Bank of England, how ever, tarried a brief moment as ad- Ti&er In the treasury department, then definitely severed his relations with the government and returned to scho lastic pursuits. There were several others besides Professor Sprague who vent out for good. A further probable defection from the coterie of professors In the gov ernment concerns the farm credit ad ministration. It la understood that W. I. Myera, who la governor of the FCA, la about to go back to Cornell university, whence he came, and re ume his teaching there. Professor Myers, when first brought to Waen- lngton, was placed in the department Of agriculture, but, when Henry Mor ginthau, Jr, who was then head of ths farm credit administration, was made secretary of the treasury. Mr livers was put In his place. Mr. Myers, it is said, finds his pres ent duties much less congenial than university work and la desirous of Teturnln eto Cornell as soon as the matter can be conveniently arranged I?o special time for his leaving ha been considered. No satisfying explanation of the; sudden departure of Recovery Adraio. Intra tor Johnson from the Pacific coast for Washington has yet been I given here. The breaking of his an-! Bounced plans for a long vacation la not reasonably accounted for by t:ia report of illness in his family because It is said that the illness is slight and amounts to no more than an I indisposition. To be sure, there havo Vjen many developments within the echeme of the NRA which have pro d uced friction and confusion and might demand his attention. Among these la the case of the Har riman milla, in Tennessee, which were deprived of the Blue Eagle nd nn had it returned to them after a con ference and decision by NRA officials fcere. The strikers at the Harriman mills, however, were not at all satis fied. "It means nothing to us,' said the strikers. But this and most of the other disturbing matters were pending before Johnson went away, silence, those trying to find the cause of change of plans are undecldei whether it was the undeslrablllty of his continued presence In California or the desirability of hla presence In Washington, or whether someone else made the decision. The Pacific coast longshoremen's strike la costing tn department o.' agriculture dearly. That unexpected burden arises in connection with the export bounties that the government pays to nortn- est wheat growers. Exporters who a ship wheat to China and other far ' eastern countries get a bounty from the government to cover the differ ence between the prloe they pcy the northwest wheat farmers and the lower price they get from foreliin buyers. A great amount of this Wheat, des tined for the Orient, la now tied up in Pacific coast railroad yards be cause of the strike. There la a de murrase charge that has to be paid to the railroad for every day that the wheat la left atandlng In the freight cars, and the government has to stand that extra charge. On the large quantity of wheat that la Involved, the government's bill Is eurnosed to be climbing at 15000 dally. The public works administration has tx"n running a housing program for a Ion? time and It la trying to make people understand that It haa no connection with the new housing im m the PWA offices which state In p. am r.ni'.lah: Thia Is not the ho.islng administration. iCopyrlght. li34. ty Paul Mallon) Rn-rlir. tare Mrs. Ed Lir.ders of; Vi.ii..bh i. r.-.ii;tir med:eal care at the Conjaiunit; oosp.taj fee.-e. Seize Government Officials Wire Communication With Country Hampered German Border Closed. VIENNA, July 25. (AP) Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was shot without warning at the federal chancellory at 12:45 p. m. today by Nazis who entered the palace In the uniforms of a Vienna regiment. He died Imme diately. YVASHNGTON. July 25. (AP) George S. Messersmlth, American minister to Austria notified the state department late today all Americans In Vienna were safe and none had been killed or In jured In the disturbances there. LONDON, July 24. (AP) The Austrian legation confirmed the death of Chancellor Dollfuss and announced that Dr. Kurt Schuschnlgg Is forming a new government. "They murdered him," raid an attache of the lega tion, who was half sobbing as he spoke. "One hundred and thirty four Nazis entered our dear chancellor's office and one shot him down, wounding htm so that he died later." "And to make It more terrible, the German minister after the assassination Intervened to save the nazl murderers from arrest, and demanded that they be giv en safe conduct from Austria to Germany," the Informant relat ed. "What a terrible thing to do." Asked If he believed the Ger man government was Involved In the assassination, the attache replied: "We don't know that, but at least the Germans must bare been In sympathy with the as sassins or the minister would not have Intervened." By WAUE WERNER Associated Press Foreign Staff VIENNA. July 25. (AP) Chancel lor Englebert Dollfuss and his entire cabinet were .captured today by Aus trian nazls. The complete list of government heads was held as prisoners In the federal chancellory on the ballahaus plats. The regular army and the helm wehr were reported today to have opened a heavy fire upon the radio station ten miles outside the city, but there was no Immediate confir mation of the actual activities there. Federal police, armed with rifles with fixed bayonets, moved Into the square in front of the federal chan cellory In an attempt to drive the helmwehr troopa away from the building. Before the fighting had long been under way, it was definitely estab lished that one person had been killed and several wounded. These reports, for obvious reasons, were In complete. The business district was paral yzed. Shop owners had pulled down the steel shutters over their show windows. A dispatch from Klagenfurt, Carin- thla, said President Mlklas had been taken prisoner by the federal army. Mlklas was there on vacation. VIENA, July 25. (AP) By tele. phone to Perlln. At 8:16 p. m. Chancellor Dollfuss, Emll Fey and several other government officials were ttlll locked up and guarded at the chancellory. (Reports that Dollfuss was dead continued to persist, however). The cabinet council held an extra ordinary session In the offices of the (Continued on Psge Seven) Roosevelt Plans Trip to Famed Kilauea Volcano HILO. Hawaii. July 25. ft Frank lin D. Roosevelt today made at 8:10 a. m. to tlrat landing of any Presi dent of the United States on Ha waiian soil. Bv FRANCIS M. STKPIIF.NSON ABOARD CRUISER HOUSTON, with President Roosevelt, off Hawaii Isl ands, July 25. (D After a day of fishing for giant awoMflah. under a tropical sun. President Roosevelt cruised aiound tha Island ot Hawaii this morning, on hla way to visit famed Kilauea volcano. Tha cruises- Houston will atop at Kilo, on th other side of the Island from the ewordf ishlng expedition oa Makalaaena bsnka. while the first I President to visit the. territory makes Young G. O. P. Leader rf 1 -Aa-l Miss Dolly Madison of Metuchen, N. J., a descendant of Dolfy Madi son, mistress of the White House In 1810, la the new vice chairman of the Young Republican national organization. (Associated Press Photo TO kept -see PORTLAND, July 25. (AP) A charge that Secretary Ickes, public works administrator, has broken faith with Orogon, was made here today by United States Senator Fred erick Stelwer. He described tha administrator'! attitude aa a "major disappoint ment." Senator Stelwer slipped into town unheralded last night and appeared at hla downtown law office today. He will maintain headquarters tbera un til he returns to Washington. D. C. "Oregon haa fered well In connec tion with the work , done . . In congress, Stelwer said. "With few ex ceptions, projects and plana are mov ing forward and prospects are good for uninterrupted progress of ' the important developments In which our state la Interested." "One major dlsappolnment," Sen ator Stelwer continued in a prepared statement, "is the attitude of the administrator of public works In con nection with the designation of ad ditional Oregon projects. "The Oregon delegation secured the promise of Secretary Ickes that If an additional appropriation were made available, Oregon would par ticipate without prejudce and that funds allotted flrom the 3.300.0OO. 000 original appropriation would not be considered In connection with the allotment of the new appropriation. Mr. Ickes has apparently abandoned this position and haa advlaed me that states which did not receive their quota under tha original ap propriation will receive prior con sideration under the new appropria tion for public worka projects. "It would appear that this Is definite breach of faith." 1 PARTY RETURNS LITTLE AMERICA, Antartlca, July 2S. P) (Via Mackey Radio.) The tractor party which attempted to force Its wsy through Antsrtlc storms to Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd's advance camp, returned safely to Little America. a hurried motor trip to tha volcano With Ita surrounding troplcsl Jun gles and Its fire pit of Halemaumau. known aa the "House of Everlasting Fire." the active volcano Is a center of Hawaiian legends. It Is here that the fire goddess, Pele, most feared of native Hawaiian deities, is supposed to dwell. President Roosevelt looked forward eagerly to his visit to Kilauea, st present quiescent, and a parade at Hilo upon his return from the moun tain top. Tha President boarded tha cru!ar Houston at sunset lsst night, after spending the day fishing with his on John and his naval aide. Capliin Wilson Brown. What success tu j met Hn vas not revtad. E ARE GIVEN POLICE BY THEGIRL IN RED Woman Who Accompanied Bandit On Theater Visit Says Knew Him As 'Jim Lawrence' Friend Flees. MAYWOOD, Ind., July 28. (AP) Hopeful of avoiding crowd! of curi ous spectators, the family of John Dllllnger decided today to hold his funeral early thia afternoon. It had been announced last night that tha services of the notorloua criminal would be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow. A steady stream of curious passed last night by the casket In which the outlaw'a body, its bullet mark! obliterated by plastic surgery, await ed burial, A few houra earlier, citizens of tha Mooresvllle vicinity, many of whom knew "Johnny" aa a boy be. fore he waa sent to prison ten year! ago. had filed past hla body in the Mooresvllle undertaking establish ment. John Dllllnger. Sr.. elderly and re spected farmer, brought his notori ous son's body back home yesterday from Chicago, where the outlaw's ca reer was ended by bullets of federal agents Sunday night. CHICAGO, July 26. (AP) Prom the "girl In red" police learned today mora about how John Dllllnger walk ed Into the trap that ended with death his career of crime. The "girl In red," one of the two (Continued on Page Ten) t ii : DEFICIT REFUSED BY STATE BOARD SALEM, July 25. (AP) The state emergency board this afternoon re fused an appropriation of 3,uou lor circuit Judge salaries and (6000 for sunrcme court Judges' salaries. The board granted an appropria tion of I0,000 to the motor vehicle transportation department, represent ing a reduction of 20,ooo :rom me amount requested. The sum of $13,000 wss grsnted lor the tuberculosis hospital, the amount specifically asked for by the heads ot that institution. The board finally granted tha ap propriation of 60,000, made neces sary by the mobilization of tha state national guard at Clackamas, aa re quested by Major-General George A. White. Out of total requcsta amounting to 154,000 the board today granted iSJ. 000. It waa reported that 145,500 re mained In tha emergency board fund The board stated that It believed It waa not the duty of the emergency board to make up the deficit In the judges' salaries, and that the matter would have to be taken before the next session of the legislature. Tha total of 144,000 requested from the board, covered a deficit In both supreme court and circuit Judge aal arles over a two-year period. WOOD AND SILOS DEFEAT "AUSSIES" WIMBLEDON, Eng., July 25. (Pr Sidney B. Wood, Jr- and Prank X Shields, playing magnificent ten.lla today won the final two alngles matchea from Australia In the Inter rone final of Davla Cup play, to ad vance to ths challenge round against Englsnd. Wood first detested Jsck Crawford, ice of the Aussles, -S, 2-7, 4-. 4-9. 6-2, In a match postponed yesterday by rain, and Shields then put over the clincher sgalnst young Vivian Mc. Oralh, 6-4. S-2. (-4. They meet England for tha historic cup in a five-match aeries atartlntj Ssturdsy snd continuing Monday sn'J Tuesdsy. LAWRENCE TO ADVISE ARCHITECTS OF HOLC PORTLAND. Ore., July 25. (AP) Ellis P. Lawrence, dean of tha Unl. veralty of Oregon school of agricul ture and allied arte, was yesterday oppolnted architect adviser for the Oregon home owners loan corpora. tlon. Architects will Inspect altera tions and repairs in order thst the securities of the reconditioning dl - vision ot tb HOLC may be preserved, Oregon Fruits To Furnish Brandy Is Willamette Plan LAFAYETTE. Ore., July 26. (UP) Groundwork already has been laid for making wine and brandy from Oregon frulta, It waa revealed today. A meeting of 10 valley peach rowers appointed a committee to confer with the Oregon liquor commission on feasibility and legality of operating a cooperative winery In a new-type farm coop erative. Object would be to turn over surplus fruit and cull peachea to the winery for manufacture of wine and later conversion Into brandies. 7 (By the Associated Press) Tha sun siege attained Ita most se vere proportions of tha aummer to day, driving the number of deaths far above tha 700 mark and the drought damage toward the billions of dollars. For the first tlma since the scourge started, however, early relief waa pre dieted for the midwest, the furnace of the nation, while tha east and Pacific coast enjoyed comparative cool. The government's efforts to bring relief to tha drought sections by buy Ing stricken herds and shipping them to slaughter or southern pacturea struck a snag. The farm administration announc ed that the Chicago stockyards strike and congestion at other livestock centers has forced temporary suspen sion of purchases. Heat deaths, piling up at times at the rata of 10 an hour, stood at 712 laat night, and mounted today to 783. In Missouri alone 205 persons perished, Illinois 160, Ohio 81, Ne braaga 65, Iowa 60, and Indiana, with 13 new deaths reported, 38. The highest official temperature recorded yesterday waa 117 at Vlnlta, Okla. Noblesvllle, Ind., sweltered at 122, and QQulncy, 111, at 111 Ita aeventh successive day above 108. Chicago auffered under the most oppressive hest ever recorded there as the mercury soared to 106 yeater day two degrees higher than tha previous all-time record, aet In 1903. In New York city, where four per sons have died from tha heat, show ers fell before dawn today and the weather bureau aald the Atlantlo aesbosrd would be favored with cool er temperatures. The far weat continued to enjoy freedom from ths blasts, and nature drew a Joker from her weather pack 60 miles from Denver, where tourists engaged In a snowball fight aa an Inch of snow fell on Mount Evans. BASEBALL (First game) Cincinnati Boston Johnson and Lombard!; Betta and Spohrer. (Second) Cincinnati Boston - . stout. Klelnhsns Smith and Hogan. 17 2 7 10 2 and OParrell; Ameriran Washington S Chicago . -. . - 4 Stewart, Burke and Bewell; shsw and Madjeskl. P.. 7 1 la 1 Earn- Philadelphia Cleveland Flohr. Cancarella, " Z S Wltshlre. Diet- rich and Berry, and Pytlak. Hayes! Hlldebrand P.. - .. 2 Boston . Detroit W. FerrslI, Welch, Rhodes and R Perrell; Auksr, Hamlin, Rows, and Cochrane. - NEW APPEAL MOVE SAH PRANCISCO. July 2S. (Pi Jude William H. Shorten of the United Statee circuit court of appeals today denied a petition of Thomas Mooney, convicted preparedness day parade bomber, for a certificate of probable cause for an appeal Mooney, serving a Ufe sentence In San Quentln prison, recently peti tioned tha V. 8. district court for a writ of habeaa corpus, claiming he was being detained unlswfully snf , that hla conviction had own brought about by perjury. OF T Ready For Instant Call By Authorities In Case Of Catastrophe Or Disorder Headquarters Opened. Announcement was made today of tha formation of a Citizens Emer gency committee of 200 members for tha purpose of community service, under tha direction of constituted authority. The Emergency Committee will be available to authorities for service "In case of storms, floods, fires, earthquakes, hunting for lost persons, riots or disorders." Headquarters have been establish ed and the committee la ready to function on short notice, In case of emergency. The committee has been organized In addition to the 250 speclsl depu ties appointed last week by Sheriff Walter J. Olmscheld, to serve without pay. All the deputies are employed In orchards, packing planta. or as fruit truck drlvera. and soma are orchard owners. The sheriff now has nearly 500 persons subject to csll In an emergency. No Trouble Seen Nona of the emergencies listed, now loom on tha horizon. Tha sheriff (Continued on Page Three) PAY FOR EFFORTS IN EARL FEHL'S BEHALF Notice of an attorney lien for $2000 has been filed by Attorneys E. E. Kelly and E. C. Kelly "upon any judgment, or reversal of judgment, that may Inure to the benefit of Karl H. Fehl and Electa A. Fehl." In the ault of Niedermeyer, Inc., against Earl H. Fehl and othera. The au- preme court recently rendered a de cision reversing the decision of Judge T. E. Duffy Insofar aa It concerned credits not allowed by the plaintiff to Fehl on obligation!. Yesterday the high court denied a rehearing on the case. The lien claim aets forth that the attorneys Instituted the suit, tried It In circuit court, prepared the briefs, in an appeal to the supreme court. I and that Attorney E. E. Kelly per-! son ally appeared before the supreme court and made an argument. All these service! required thought, time and expenses. The original suit was filed by Nie dermeyer, Inc., against Fehl and the Pacific Record-Herald for collection of money due for loans. On an ap peal the high court ruled that Fehl had not been credited for certain payments to which he was entitled. The amount Involved Is between 13, 000 and M000. COLES! AREA Burning over an old field about a mile north of Colestln, 80 men were sent to that location by the Klam ath national forest offices In Yreka. according to word received today by the Rogue River national forest of fices. At noon the firs had burned over 100 acres and, although not causing any damage, waa being placed under control with difficulty. The fire Is said to be near the Pa cific highway. Several men from here mere sent to -Colestln by the state fire warden's office here. Evacuation Necessary WASHINGTON, July 28. (P) Dr. Elwood Mead, reclamation commla aloner, aald today tha drouth area of tha western half of tha Dakotas and the eastern slope of tha Rocky Mountains "must be evacuated." Tens of thousanda of people. Dr. Mesd aald, must be moved off the stricken land. Dr. Mead returned to Washington jeatfrdsy from a tour of the wast. "I never believed wa would have anvthlng in this country Ilka tne catastrophe I witnessed out there," ha ssid. "There la nothing left, no green thing. It la go w " Aaked what could be Jors with tlto land after. If It should be sbsndontd. Dr. Mead aald 11 could be reaeeded Extortion Suspect Jeff Davis Graves, SO, waa cap tured by sheriffs and department ol Justice aoents near Phoenix, Ariz, where, they aald, ha had establish ed a rendezvous for tha collection of $5550 from a merchant. Officer! said tha arrest aolved ona and prob ably mora of a half dozen extortion cases In Phoenix Investigated dur ing a six weeka period. (Anoclated Praia Photoi APPLEGATE TRIO HELD ON CHARGE OF At 7:18 a. in. today federal and state officers visited the Little Apple gate section, arresting three people on liquor oharges and seizing one still. Federal charges are being lodg ed againat the two men and one woman. W. E. Torrento, 40, charged with operating an unregistered still, was placed under arrest and his CO-gsllon still, made from an oil drum, waa. seised. According to officers, Tor-! rento manufactured 30 gallons of whisky yesterday, which police seised ! and destroyed. I John Maeder, 88, held for sale and possession of Intoxicating liquor, was arrested about a mile and a naif from Torrento's place, where he was said to make hla own whisky from another oil drum still. Maeder, po lice reported, Is a native of Switzer land. Also near the Torrento ranch, Mrs. A. E. Scran ton, 34, was arrested this morning on charges of sale and pos session when she delivered a gallon of moonshine to the police. She was released on her own recognisance un til 10 a. m. Thursday, when she Is to be arraigned before Victor A. Tengwald. United States commis sioner, Torrento and Maeder were sched uled to appear before Tengwald some time this afternoon. OREGON ENJOYS PORTLAND, July 28. (IT) While Intense hest continued from the cen tral nlalns res-Ion eastward, cooler weather came to Oregon today. Tha weather report predicted gen erally cloudy weather for the western psrt of the atate tonight and tomor row, and slightly cooler temperatures In tha eastern porlon. Oregon weather bureau tempera tures yesterday ranged from 102 de- greca st Umatilla to ilcgreea at Marshfleld Other temperatures In cluded: Pendleton, 101; Baker, 22; Medford. 88; Wolf Creek. 88; Portland. 85; Salem, 83; Albany, 78; Roseburg 74. Drought Area Asserts Mead to the native bunch or buffalo grass and undoubtedly eventually wouli make rich range land again. Tha land never ahould have been cultivated, Dr. Mead Mid. It had in atilflclent rainfall to sustain an in tensive agriculture. The drouth this year, he ssld, waa merely an Intensi fication of a aub-normal rainfall pe rlod that already had reduced tha ter rltory to atraltened circumstances. Reiterating a stand taken previous ly, Dr. Mead said tha drouth proved beyond doubt that In an arid or semi arid country, agrloulture must depend upon stored water. When then, are no facllltlia for watr atoraga and Irrigation, he aald. no dry farming can provide a permanent base for a i civilisation. HINT FAV0RJ PEACE Mediation Board Announces Total Of 6,388 For And 1,471 Against Major Ports All Represented. SAN FRANCISCO. July 33. (AP) President Roosevelt's mediation board announced today striking Pacific coast longshoremen had voted over whelmlngly for arbitration of their differences with employers. The vote for all coast porta except ing ballots from about 600 workers still to be tabulated was announced as 6388 for arbitration and 1471 against. Ballots from the relatively small ports of Everett. Port Ludlow, Port Townaend, Port Angeles, all In Washington, and Reedsport, Ore., had not been received. There waa no chance of the balloting In these ports materially changing the results. PORTLAND, July 35. (AP) In the belief that the end of the prolonged ' waterfront strike Is near, shippers todsy went ahead with plans to handle crjgo on the Portland water front, anticipating that longshoremen In Monday's balloting had voted overwhelmingly to arbitrate their case and return to work. Rattling wlnchca and roaring grain spouts here bespoke a more com- prehenslvo reopening of tbp harbor. Seven vessels were loading or un loading cargo. Operators of more than thirty other ' hips In the harbor expressed belief all will be working before the end of the week, .after eleven weeks of enforced Idleness. CHICAOO, July 35. (AP) The work of clearing the overcrowded Chi cago union stockyards of cattle pro gressed rapidly today in the face of new strike threats. Most of the cattle remaining were government owned, and federal of ficials were making efforts to dis pose of their aupply as rapidly as possible. The "cleanup" market continued without Interference from strikers, although large groups were congre gated outside the yards. Non-union crews brought feed to the starving animals and the water supply was ample. TRIPLETS LURE T PORTLAND, July 2S. (IP) A set of triplets In a broad-beamed baby buggy demorallr-ed pedestrian trams In tha downtown district here yes terday. Tha object of tha attention of hun dreds of person were Roland, Robert snd Ruth Crook, five months oio. The parents are Mr. and Mra. Dewey Crook of 239 Oarnet atreet, Salem. All right, folks, I'm not charging. Look all you want. If you can spsra a cent, all right," said Herb Wilson, a friend, who held a whit cap In ona hand. Many pennlea showered Into tha cap. Seven other eblldren preceded the triplets to tha Crook home. Laat win ter tha Crooks expected another, but received three, so tha Salem Red Cross stepped Into ths picture. The father Is a lack-of-all-tradea, ha said, but la primarily a painter when ha csn find work. BERLIN, July 28.. (AP) Tha Aus- tro-Oerman frontier waa reported closed tonight. Will ROGER? 'says'. ABOARD A S. JLALOLO, July 24. Radio operator woks mo middle of the night, telling me they got Dillingcr. Like to be home; guess it's like Armis tice dny. Well, the moral is, he just would not take advice. The bet ter clement warned him to stay nwa.v from those movies i they would be a bad influonco on biin. Cable me at once, (your ex pense) what picture it was got him. Hope it was mine. tide, !v"- r eVU MtKiMailrtilaiMbsk.. 12 J V
