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Medford Mail Tmbune The Weather WINNER Pulitzer Award ( yl Forecast: Medford unsettled tonlrht ' I and Thursday. Not much change In temperature. Hlfthett jesterday I nwtMt this morning TOR 1934 Twenty-ninth I'tar MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, If ? No. 112. FEDERAL BUREAU Paul Von Hindenburg Breathing Last 1 President 1 By PAUL MALLOV. WASHINGTON. D. C, Aug. 1. The figures show tht Joseph P. Kennedy told the truth when he said business was better than business confidence Official and unofficial tabulations indicate that we are In a summer re cession which Is now about 9 per cent more than seasonal. That Is hardly amazing In view of the drouth, trlkes. heat and inner business sklt tlshness. You would naturally ex pect the recession to be at least three '' times that much, in the face of all these troubles. The seasonally adusted monthly business chart proves that production .was off about 4 points In July, em it? nlovment 3. wages 2, and sales 1. The only things higher In July were the price Index and the ther. mometer. The price level was higher than It has been for two years. The drouth did It. Government business seers, wit! these figures in front of them, take a less excited view of conditions man for instance, the marketeeTe In New Tors. They look on the drouth as a more serious hazard to business than strikes. Labor troubles oan be set ui but the drouth cannot. Boih are national problems, but are lo oallzed. There Is another more widespread national Droblem. less obvious, but. possibly even more Important in their view. That Is the suojecc oi a.c Mr. Kennedy spoke the (at times) Irrational uncertainty among sonv business men. When Mr. Kennedy spoke as chair man of the securities commission, his voice was drowned out by the assis slnatlon of Dollfuss, whl:h occurred the seme day. His cooling promise of restrained and sensible business rela tions was lost in the face of the hot blssts from Europe It was lost only temoorsrlly. From the way Mr. Roosevelt's eco nomic counselors are now murmuring among themselves, you can see very plainly that they are going to meet Mr. Roosevelt at the pier with ad7l that Washington turn the electric fan on the business man's brow. There will be more speeches ,ltk- that of Mr. Kennedy and more than speeches. Neither the drouth, strikes nor heat had much to do with the decrease ol industrial production In July. It was due mainly to Increased prices of steel snd lumber, and the fact that textile mills are on a 35 per cent curtail ment progrsm. The drouth and strikes hurt department store sales and csr loadings. A General Motors executive walke-1 Into the NRA headquartera the other day. He was formerly connected with the NRA and Just dropped In for a ehat. Under his arm was a fat book about the sire of the old-fashioned . family Bible. 4 NRA'ers probsbly had never seen a ' "Bible, and Inquired about It. They were amazed when Informed that It was the price policy of General Mo tors, reduced to writing. The price policy of the NRA has never been reduced to writing. Neither has the labor policy, except In the most general terms. That started a round of discussion about the advisability of reducing all rin nollcies to detailed writing, so all the bickering and uncertainty of the different code systems could oe avoided. There would be one rule for all. tt could be done, but It would take more print paper than there Is avail able In the world. Inside the NRA organisation, the morale is not what It used to be Genersl Johnson has been carrying the rales and regulations of that out fit around In hla head since the start T.iey have never been put on paper either. The result la that since Johnson hss been as-ey there has been con elderable lnter-cfflce confusion, con flicts of authority, disputes as tc 1 p-ocedure. Some executivea have be come dl.gtisted. There has been a big rush lsteiy among vacationing government offic ials to get bak on the Jo before the bnw comes back from Hawaii. Messrs. Morgenthau. Roper snd Tugwell ar rived the same day. acting as If they had never been away. The Influx aroused suspicions thtt Mr. Roosevelt hsd ordered some, of them back to work, but such sua niclnua are undoubtedly groundless The truth Is the President Invited his ssaoclates to take a month off If tr? could arrange It. Pew could. rna-n .n the dunceons of Wall st et they are still referring to the new atoc exchange commission as "the securities extermination com-mis-ion." . . . Certain people are try ing to promote national Interest In the Donovan case by getting the d.a charg'd NRA labor leader to make a rpeech-making tour. (Copyright, 1934. by Paul Mallon ) .ei. 1.1 ia Harry A. Potter, ar reted las'. n:rht by cite officers, for , t?.;i Grim in a pjb.lc p'.ace, ma ":i:fn:cd to ii days In Jail tods by Ciiy court. Grading of Five Miles Cloud Cap-Kerr Notch at $248, 250 Is Largest Item in Allotment for Park Work PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 1. (AP) A program for construction of roads and trails In the Crater Lake, Mount Rainier and Glacier National parks. with money made available for 1935, was announced here today by W. H. Lynch, district engineer of the fed eral bureau of public roads. A total of $906,609 has been allot ted to district No. 1, Lynch said. Of this $353,515 will go to Crater Lake park In Oregon; A429.969 to Mount Rainier park In Washington, and $124,125 to Glacier park In Montana. Details of the Crater Lake project, as announced by Lynch follows: Oiling 4.S miles park boundary Kerr Notch, $34,825: oiling 13.T miles lodge-north entrance, $64,545; grad ing 5 miles Cloud Cap-Kerr Notch, $246,250: surveys. $14,895. In Crater Lake park the grading of the Cloud Cap-Kerr Notch section will complete the rim road. STREET SPEEDING BE El State police and the sheriff's office yesterday launched a roundup of speeders and transient autolsts with foreign license plates. For speeders on residential streets the maximum fine. $100. and revocation of driver' license for a year will be sought. Complaints filed with the authori ties Indicate that West Jackson street. North Central avenue and West Fourth street are favorite speed ways, the fast traveling reaching Its peak between midnight and 1:30 a. m. Many autos travel with mufflers open, awakening sleepers. West Jackson street has many ehll- (Contlnucd on Page Fire.) 217 CARS BARTS Fl A total of 21T cars of Bartlett pears have been shipped from this valley up to last night, according to the Southern Pacific freight office. Of these. 313 have been to cannerlea In the Willamette valley and Cali fornia. Bulk of the cannery tonnage Is aont to the Willamette valley, ton nage running, according to officials. 30 cars north to five south. Wood burn, Salem, Hlllsboro and Portland are the upstate destinations; Ban Jose, Alvlsta, Oakland, Sunnyvale and San Francisco the southern recelv lng points. Two switch engines are now In service In the local railroad yarda and a third engine will be added the end of the week. A dally ehlpmeut of 35 cars Is now being made from the local yards. Only four cars of Bartletts have been shipped to esstern markets, ost of the Bartlett stock Is going Into cold storage. According to Ray mond R. Reter, manager of the Pin nacle Packing company, the eastern movement of Bsrtletts and export ahlpments will not start for 30 daye. Harvesting of Howells Is now un der way. Picking and packing of Boscs, Cornice and D'AnJous la sched uled to be In full swing by the middle of the month. Some D'AnJous will be picked by the middle of next week. Peckers and growers report that the Bartletts are meeing the can nery grade speclflcstlons. and that the crop Is of good site and quality. INK.F. KLAMATH PALLS, Aug. 1. (API Harold Ickes, secretary of the Interior, was a brief visitor here last night. Ickes drove here from Crater Lake National park, stopping several houra at Klamath Indian agency for a con ference with Wade Crawford, the In dian superintendent of the agency. He arrived here In the early even ing and had dinner with B I. Hay den, superintendent of the Klamath reclamation project. A trip Into the Tule lake country had been planned but Ickea arrived too late from the agency, and the Jaunt was cancelled Ickes took the night train for Port, land. TL OF STRIKEKTED Troops Seize Headquarters and Nip Union's Move to Stop All Trucks in De fiance of Military Law MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Aug. 1. (AP) Men In khaki with guns on wheels seized headquarters of atrlk lng truck drivers today, arrested the ringleaders and amashed, before it got started, an organized movement to stop all truck transportation In defiance of martial law. With the national guard In lull control and occupants of the build ing dispersed. Adjutant General E. A. Walsh mapped a plan of action de signed to break up any other unau thorized meetings of strikers. "The roundup of these officials," said General Wadsh, "was started be cause they defied orders of military rule by holding a meeting at the parade grounds last night without a permit effective Immediately. Any pickets cruising the city In automo bllea will be arreated." Leaders In Stockade Among thoae marched off to the fair grounds for Incarceration In the stockade there were Vincent Dunne and Mose Bork, two of the strike lead era. All were ejected from the head quartera except a doctor, two nurses and a few strikers still ailing from wounds suffered In the outbreak of July 20 in which 68 persons were hurt, most of them shot by police guns. The four field machine guns drawn up before the entrance rolled back to the armory, the troopa sheathed their tommy guns and gaa guns, and all except the few men left as aentl- (Contlnued on Pegs Pour) $12,2lSClOL Fl SALEM, Aug. 1. (AP) The annual apportionment of earnings from the common school fund will be msde to the counties today by the atate land board, It was announced this morn ing. r The turnover this year will amount to $1.31 per census child In the state. Last yesr It aversged $1.11. Interest received from the Irredu cible fund this yesr amounted to $313,933, an Increase over last yesr's $298,333, although the achool census this year was lese, or $359,449, com pared to $260,660 last year. Some of the counties and the amounts each will receive In the dls tributlon are Multnomah, $96,089: Benton. $5762: Douglas, $8478; Jsck son, $13,201: Josephine. $4828: Klsm ath, $10,103: Lane. $18,391: Marlon, 30.03I; Polk, $6287; TJmatllla, $8212; Union. $5998 and Baker, $6293. 31 Thlrtr-one fire durlrut the month of July, with a total loss estlmstel st $331.60, waa the report thla morn lng of Roy Elliott, fire chief. Out of this total, which averages one fire per day during the past month, two were awnlnga which caught fire, one was a residence, and the rest were chiefly grass fires, with an occasional automobile call. 8ALIM. Aug. I. (API The month of July set a new merk for revenue to the state from liquor sales, It waa announced by the Salem office of the commission upon receipt of the state, ment from the atate treasurer, uly salea alone touted $261,141 ai compared to a revenue of $164,000 the previous month. Other receipt ported at the atate treasurers office were $30,833 $6 from the privilege tai and new licenses for aales of beer and wlnea totaled $2654. WESTPORT, H. T, Aug. 1. (API U. 8. Senator Robert T. Wagner and Representative Annlng 8. Prall of gtaten laland were Injured today 1 when the motor car In which they were riding waa driven off the road I to avoid a collision with a truck. JULY RUM SALES SET HIGH 11 Life Ebbs IS! President Paul Von Hindenburg of Germany, whose death ts believed to be a matter of hours. FECHNER TO BE FETED BY C. OF C. One of the moat Important forum meetings of the local chamber of commerce for a long time will be held at the Medford Hotel Thursday, August 9, at 7:00 p. m It waa an nounced today by B. E. Harder, presi dent. Speakers for the meeting will be Arno B. Cammerer, director of na tional parks; Robert Fechner. direc tor of the civilian conservation corps, and Col. C. O. Thompson, superin tendent of Yoaemlte National park, and former superintendent of Crater Lake National park. Other guests at the meeting will Include C. J. Buck, regional forester from, Portland; Major Clare H. Arm strong, commanding officer of the CCC headquarters with officers un der his command; D. H. Ganfleld, acting superintendent Crater Lake National park and his staff, and a group of gentlemen accompanying (Continued on Page Two) E CARRIER SERVICE Frederic W. Payne, mall carrier on rural route 4, retired from service for the Medford postofftce yesteday, after serving 20 years. He had reach ed the age of 65. In speaking of Mr. Payne's retire ment and long service, Frank De Sour-a, postmaster, said: "In the re ttrement of Mr. Payne, the postofflce lows an efficient and faithful em ploye. During all of the years of hla work he has been loyal to the best standards of the service, and has treated his employment as a trust. He retires with the best wishes of all his fellow employes." Mr. Payne was the one and only carrier on route 4 since Its organiza tion. Previous to his service here, he waa clerk and assistant postmaster at Ooldfleld, Nev., where he entered the service In 1008, and worked until 1010. After leaving for a trip to Alanka he re-entered the service here In 1014. PORTLAND, Aug. .UT Oeorge R. Wilbur of Hood River was elected chairman of the Democratic state central committee at the annual or- ganlratlon meeting here today of members of the Democratic party in Oregon. Flavel W. Temple of Portland wa elected secretary, and S. J. Orlfflth of Portland waa re-named treasurer. Wilbur and Arthur K. McMahan of Albany were the two contenders for the chairmanship. Wilbur received 21 votes and McMahan 14. 'FRISCO STEVEDORES STAGE NEW STRIKE SAN rRAMCISCO. Aug. 1 (API A group of 00 longshoremen, who had returned to work after the end of ! hlr nI strike, walked out on their I J her today, claiming a steamship company hsd refused to discharge 13 nonunlon men. The men claimed that when they i reported for duty they jound negroes iworung on pier . 2 $175,000 to Wolf Creek and $42,000 to Wilson River Route Is Announced by Highway Commission PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 1. Al location of money announced today by the atate highway commission In cluded the following: Pacific Highway Bridge over Mo lallA river near Canby, 953.000; two bridges on the Albany-Tangent auc tion, 16,000; 0.4 mile grading on Bar. ren creek-Torrent creek section, 135. 000; 0.6 mile pavement widening on .Stevens street in Roeeburg, 130.000; 0 31 mile pavement widening In Oold HU1. 10.000; and 1.15 miles resur facing of VanBuren street-High street In Eugene, $16,000. Little Butte Creek Highway .1.0 mile grading, McCalllster, unit No. 2, 110,000. . SALEM, Aug. 1. (AP) Allocation of $176,000 to the Wolf Creek high way and $43,000 on the Wilson river highway, the two proposed routes from Portland to the coast, waa an nounced today by the state highway commission. The commission was preparing allocation of the $3,100,000 obtained by Oregon under the Hay-den-Cartwrlght bill. The ahort cut routes were the first allocations announced and the com mission released an extensive state ment explaining the reasons why the designation of these amounts only were made to the two projects. Wolf Creek Important The oommlaslon deemed the Wolf Creek highway mora Important to the people of Portland and to the entire state of Oregon, than the Wil son river road, and therefore allocat ed the $176,000 to complete the grad ing and surfacing between the Ne- canlcum road and Elsie, 11.4 miles, which will afford a connection be tween the Nehalem highway and the Oregon coast highway, via Jewel, Vernonla and Forest Orove. This wilt be the first section of the highway to be opened to the public. When fin ally completed the rout between Portland and the north coast beaches will be shortened by 40 to 60 miles. The money for the Wilson river road will be for grading 1.1 miles be tween Dead man's creek and Smith creek. The commission also allocated $36,000 on the Neahkahnle mountain in Tillamook county. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 1. (API- Portland's waterfront calmed down today after the rather rough sort of peace" which characterized yeater- daya reopening of the port after 84 daya of strike psralysls. One "prlvste fight" wss reported nrsr a hiring hall this morning but no arrest waa made. Loading opera tions were being eipsnded as more cargo reached the docka and the movement to and from the terminals grsduslly took better form. There were numerous "beat-upa" late yesterdsy and during the night, climaxed by a shooting. The shooting resmtea in Ricnsrd rarrar, 7, a sea. man picket, being sent to a hospital with bullet wounda In his legs. Dca mond O'Hara, 38, a non-union aea man, was arreated In connection with the ahootlng. He ssld Fsrrar had knocked him down and waa kicking him when he fired. NOT GUILTY PLEA NORMAN, Okie., Aug. 1. (AP) NeeJ Myers, runaway college boy, pleaded not guilty at arraignment to day on a etiarge of murdering Martan Mills, 30-year-old campus beauty at the University of Oklshoma. Myera ssld he did not know his sweetheart had died until he read It In a Corpus Crlstl, Tes., newspaper "She waa feeling fine right up to the time ahe collapsed," he said. "I got scared then because I thought she waa dying. Then, aa t got more scared, t didn't know what I wss doing. It came on her so quick that I couldn't even think. "All that came to me waa the awful scandal that would coma to the Mlllsea and my family. ! loved Marian and we had planned to get married "I had tried to get her to marry me btfsti, but she wouldn't do It." City Constabulary of H00 Ready for Attempt to Usurp Police Power City Tense As Clash Feared NEW ORLEANS. La., Aug. 1. (AP) Further answering the challenge of Senator Huey P. Long's mllltla mobil ization south of the city. Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley today called 600 additional police to duty from the civil service lists, swelling the local constabulary force to 1400 men. Full arms, Including riot guns. were Issued to the augmented force at headquarters. All officers now on leave were recalled to duty and la hour police shifts were decreed for the first time here in 19 years. City Tense The city waa tense, fearing the first hostile move by either side might precipitate an actual clash be tween the atate soldiers and the city police. (Continued on Page Five) BASEBALL National. R. H. E. 11 18 1 1 S 1 New York Boston Salreaon, Hubbell and Mancusa, Dannlng: Cantwell, Barrett, Mangum, Brown and Hogan. Second game: H New York 10 Boston h .. . S Schumacher and Mancuso; house, Smith and Spohrer. H. X It 11 ( frank R. H. I. Phllsdelohla 10 3 Brooklyn H 1 Collins and J. Wilson; Benge, Zaeh ary and Lope. R. H. S. St. Louis ' Chlcaio 0 8 0 P. Dea and Dayls; Weaver, Bush and Hartnett. R. R. E Pittsburgh 8 13 ! Cincinnati 7 13 I Swift, Chagnon, Smith and Grace Derringer, Johnson and Lombsrdt. American. First game: Chicago .... R. 10 St. Louis 6 18 0 Lyons end Shea; Hadley, Newsorn, Andrews, McAfee and Hemeley. R. H. E. Boston 7 0 New York 4 10 3 Rhodes snd R. Ferrell; Brosca, V-n Atte, and Dickey. R. Washington H Philadelphia 1 Wearer, Russell and Bolton H. E. 14 0 14 4 Plohr. Lsftger. Wllshere and Berry, Hsyea COAST DEFENSES BAN PEDRO, C!., Aug. 1. (AP) The army consider the Pacific coast such a strategically vital area that Secretary of War Oeorge Dern will make an exhaustive study of the de fenses in the entire ninth corps area. comprising the Pacific states, within the next few months, he said on ar rival here today. From here, Secretary Dern went to a Los Angeles hotel for lunch be fore boarding an army plane at Unit ed airport for Portland, there to meet President Roosevelt for an Inspection tour of government projects In the northwest. BRINGING WATER THE DALLES, Ore.. Aug. I (AP) Attacked by a chained shepherd dog, to which he waa carrying water. Darrel Sparling, 8, aon of Mrs. Bertha Bparllng. Is In a local hospital suf. fering from serious Injuries. The child waa bitten on the face and shoulders. He waa expected to re cover If not Infection developa. Tha Sparlings, who live about a mile west of the city, hsd been butch ering livestock, and It wsa believed the dog hsd become msd from the smell of blood. The dog. for which 8100 had been refused, was shot. First Lady Visitor f LJ . "L-J Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who Is spending the day at Crater Lake Na tional Park en route to meet her Hus band In Portland on his return from Hawaii. AT CRATER EN ROUTE ' Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived at Crater Lake National park lodge last night at 0:30 o'clock, accom panied by her traveling companion, Lorena A. Hlckok. They retired soon after arrival and were up early this morning for a boat tour of Crater lake, accompanied by Acting Superin tendent D. H. Canfleld. She will de part thla afternoon. No definite announcement waa made, but park attaches Intimated that Mrs. Roosevelt would leave by the east entrance road, and proceed to Portland over The Dalles-Columbia river highway. Mrs. Roosevelt did not stop In this city. EUREKA, Calif., Aug. 1. (AP) While Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt en Joyed her vacation tour In southern Otegon today, residents of Eureka still commented on the two narrow escapes from collision the first lady experienced aa ahe entered thla city in her blue roadster yesterday and on the gracious way in which ahe took the Incidents. Twice an automobile driven by Mrs. Frank Brcnnan. wife of the col lector of customs of this port nearly rammed Mrs. Roosevelfa roadster and each time the quick action of Lorena A. Hlckok, Mrs. Roosevelt's compan ion who was at the wheel, averted ft crash. Mrs. Roosevelt and MUs Hlckok drew up at a service station a short distance away and when Mra. Bren- nan stopped alongside, the first lady greeted her with a smile and shook hands with her small child. Mrs. Roosevelt continued north ward as soon as her car waa refueled, on her way to Portland. Ore., where ahe will meet the president on hla return from Hawaii. After reaching OranU Pass, Ore., last night, Mrs. Roosevelt turned southward toward Medford. ABOARD CRUISER NEW ORLEANS WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT EN ROUTE TO PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 1. (AP) President Roosevelt ap proached the Oregon const today well ahead of schedule. Capable of reaching Portland Thursday, the cruisers Houston and New Orleana may alow up, for the president's plana for landing Friday morning atlll stood. UQUOTTAXTS WASHINOTON. All. l-(AP) The question whether a atate liquor com mission, such aa the Oregon control commission, csn legstly be considered a corporation, aubject to the federal Income tar, continues to be debated among officials here as they attempt to determine whether the Oregon Liquor Control commission should be assessed for Its earnings. A ruling of the general counsel In the Oregon case has held thst a atate liquor board Is not engsged In hsndl lng an essential government function and therefore could be taxed under the corporation Income tag provision t:pnrt Wheat PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 1. (AP) The Emergency Export corporation today offered 80 cents a bushel for oft white wheat for foreign ship ment. MOOT QUESTION HITLER HURRIES 10 BEDSIDE FOR FINAL 86-Year Old Former Field Marshal Expected to Pass Away Momentarily Tense Quiet Prevails RKRI.IN, Aug. 1. (AP) An announcement at 8:28 p. m. to night said President Ton Hlnden burs', death agony had set In and death was expected In less than an hour. NEUDBCK, Germany, Aug. 1 (AP) The phyalclana In attendance on the 111 relchspresldent, Paul von Hinden burg. took new courage tonight from the remarkable virility exhibited by their patient and even ceased giving out bulletins. Announcements by his physlctsns that President von Hindenburg, de spite his 88 years, had held hla own throughout the day were regarded by the Oerman public aa demonstrating anew tha remarkable vitality of the former field marahal. Persistent rumors that von Hin denburg already waa dead with tha announcement withheld until the nazls deem tha time more opportune were promptly denied by respon sible government officials In Berlin. Chancellor Hitler came here by air plane from Berlin today to confer with the alck president. Previous to his visit, at 13 :30 p. m., the physicians announced: "Condition aa compared to thla morning is unchanged. Pull con sciousness remains. Toward noon the patient took light nourishment." - It was ahortly afterward that Hitler and an entourage arrived by automo bile from the airport at Marlenburg. A tense quiet prevailed at Neudeck. Storm troopers and secret police did not permit crowds to gather. Tha curious were allowed to pass the estate but were not permitted to loiter, even momentarily. Photogra phers were refused permission to take pictures. BLAZE AT BIEBER BIBB BR, Cel., Aug. 1. ) A for est fire on Big Valley mountain had nurned over 8.000 acres and destroyed more then 30,000.000 feet of timber, and wss still raging out of control last night aa 000 men from OCO can. pa In Shasta and Lsssen national forests worked feverishly to check Its advance. A hundred men for nearby lumber camps were also fighting the D1BZS. Five hundred more men were hur ried to the fire front last night. Tns fire broke out Mondsy night. GIANT FLYING BOAT AFTER NEW RECORDS BRIDGEPORT. Conn., Aug. 1. IIP) boat, 8-43, largest Airway flying boats 8-42, largest In the United States, and already holder of vir tually all the world records for alti tude attained by commercial alroraft with payload. took the air from the Housatonlo river at Tmtford at 0:2. a. m., eastern standard time. In an attempt to smaah eight world rec ords for speed with payload. WILL ROGER? P.igys: WAIMEA, Hawaii, July 31. Well, they not rid of all the bif Democrats now and th islands can settle down to iteady Rossip. They can't hard ly figure Mr. Hoosevelt's visit out. They can't tell if ha come to seo them or come to get some fixh or come to impress some body. I am not miming anybody, mind you, that ho still would stand for no monkey businesi in the I'acifie. Anyhow, what ever lie come for it was a big success : that is, if it wasn't for fish. The fish didn't bite, but everybody else did. 7: HaKsMM basis t
