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Medford Mail Tribune The Weather lonMi. lair tonight and Satur- ; day. Warmer Saturday. j Temperature: I Htxhet Testerdar 3 I WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 l lowMt this morning 0 i .Twenty-ninth Ytar MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1931. No. 12a rv n I3 i i jJl Buster Medley, 1 0, Drowns in Bear Creek Pool North Medford (gp9 SEME em -M PWA WILL DONATE Map1 $30,000 TOWARD ggHjg BIG IMPROVEMENT By PALL MALL OX. WASHINGTON. D. C., Aug. 17. The government baa been very cagey bout giving out drouth figure. The new deal era prefer to talk In general terms. They act dumb itj anyone asks how much food prlcea' are going up, or the extent to which farm purcnuiug jjuw- er will be affect ed. They have good reasons for such caution. They learned from the Taut Malloa preceding administration that proph eelei are dangerous. Also, they know all Initial estimates must necessarily be Inexact. But. If you look in their Inner coat pockets, you will find a few unofficial expert guesses, which show a ray of food hope in all the gloom of wide spread misery end desolation. These are at least the best possible esti mates of prospecte at this time. The food expert privately guess that the general level of prices will Increase less than 0 per cent. . They think corn will go to $1 a bushel by Kovember, and wheat possibly to $1.15, unless the government steps in. Meats also will increase much beyond the general level. Vegetables, how ever, should increase but little. r The 9 per cent expectation la not alarming when you consider that the general level of food prices increased but 6 per cent from Its extreme low of last year. In 1924, food prices rose . ft -per cent--without hardships, al though the people had more money then than now. These experts, in thctr own homes, are preparing to eat more beans or spinach and fewer eteaka and pork chops. They believe anyone who wants ateaka or chops will be able to get them, but fancy prices will have to be paid. They contend that the family budget will not have to be enlarged extensively for the careful buyer who want to keep hi table within his means. They may be a little optimistic about this, because such wholesome generalities do not always work out In detail. Tou will always find chla elers who will try to use the drouth excuse to Increase the price of mac aroni and olives. There 1 every indication that total farm purchasing power may be 10 per rent greater on a national acale than it was last year (some inside govern ment figures run the increase up as high as 15 per cent). Such a paradox la explained by the " cotton situation. Drouth hurt the cot ton crop materially In only three states Texas, Arkansas and Okla homa. Every other cotton -growing state will benefit by getting the ad vantage of increased prlcea for It crops and its purchasing power will be materially greater than last year. The government will put considerable uma of money into the three affected tales to bring their purchasing power up, thus maintaining the general na tional average much higher than the doldrums of 1933. Something of the same situation ex ist in corn and other drouth-area crops. It means that farmers who have any crops at all should get real money for them, while the afflicted section are being aided by government funds. Government officials are getting their stories slightly mixed up again on the stiver announcement. One official, so high that he takes orders from no one, explained to newsmen the other day that the silver nationalization move could not have ,been timed to offset the effect of President Roosevelt's Green By speech. He sgreed that one came within three minutes of the other, but Insisted that the nationalization order was planned weeks before to go Into effect automatically as soon as the price of silver reached 49'; cents. The price reached 49 cents Just three minutes before Mr. Roosevelt began to chide business men at oreen Bay. The explanation ordinarily would hsve been accepted by everyone, but , csblnet officer almost elmultane ouslv told a story which did not Jibe. He was trying to show that It was Impossible for the silver nationaliza tion announcement to have leaked to wall street. He ssid the reason that the market advanced two days previ ous to the snnouneement wss because t:ie government Itself was boosting the price up. In other words, the gov ernment ltelf forced the silver price up to 49 cents three minutes before the President spoke. It is understood the quarterback of .. . - 4.s1 tatmm I ayn'fls ts t ? l hffKf they w.u all teil utrps nerr.ir w j tht MHlCfO:;. I'tt Bonds Will Be Needed to Re pay Loan of Balance of $100,000 Required for Job Means Employment By II. C. HUNTER Associated Press Oregon Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. (AP) The public works administration to day allotted C24.540.270 for 216 non federal project, of which eight were in Oregon and will be completed at a cost of 424,50O. The 400.000.000 allotted by PWA by President Roosevelt from the defi ciency appropriation provided by the last congress virtually was depleted by today's allocation which brought the total of non-federal project to 4.026. The Oregon projects approved at today meet ng -ere : Grant Pass, $45,000 for sewage plant. MKDfORD, 5100,000 FOR SEWAGE SYSTEM. Drain, $51,500 for school. Lakevlew, $50,000 for achool. Redmond, $46,000 for water sys tem. Newberg. $50,000 for school. Cove, $22,000 for school. Sweet Home, $50,000 for school. Simultaneously. PWA announced Hs expenditures were providing jobs for nearly 700,000 persons engaged directly on the sites and probably twice that number engaged In Indus- (Continued on Page Eight) , vt BODY FOUND IN SWUNG POOL DAYTON, O., Aug. 17. (AP) Montgomere county authorities dis closed today that Mrs. William H. Nell, socially prominent matron, wan found dead In the swimming pool of fashionable Northmoor Country club shortly before midnight last night. Coroner Maurice Cooper announced a postmortem would be held today. The woman's husband, an Insurance compsny executive, told authorities his wife was In the habit of wearing a diamond ring valued at giaoo to $2000. The ring was not on her finger when the body was found by Night Watchman Louis Shyrlgh at the club. No marks of violence were found on the body, except bruises on the vie tlm's legs, which Dr. Cooper said had been Inflicted several days ago. He wilt try to find out whether there Is any water In the lungs. Coroner Cooper declined to discuss a theory of foul play. He said the clothing of the woman had been found In a neatly piled heap at the edge of the pool and an empty glass was found nearby. COMMUNIST PERJURY CHARGED ON BALLOT SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17. (AP) Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney, niece of a former Justice of the United States supreme court, and seven others wereJndlcted by the county grand Jury today on charges of per jury in connection with the placing of the communist party on the ballot In San Francisco. SHOOTING OF FATHER IS CONFESSED BY GIRL SAN JOSE, Cal.t Am;. 17. P Accused of the slaying of her rancher father, which she suddenly admitted from the witness stand at a cor oner's Inquest, Mrs, Bernlce Beeu chsmp Pick re U waa held In Jail here today under a murder charge. 'I shot him because I was afraid of him." the 19-year-old daughter de clared as she brought the inquest to a dramatic climax yesterday. The father, Robert Beauchamp. 65. waa found shot to death at his Gil roy ranch Tuesday and. until the daughter'a surprise declaration, offic ers expressed the belief thai he com mitted auiclde. Mrs. Plckrell. who is separated from her husband. Vern Pickrell of Healds- ' ln h" ln(ueBt Ut' ,., tht Mht an(1 n,r tVr.tr and , aa nrl .n ftrt.-r.r- KIDNAPERS RANSOM PAID IS Canadian Officers Spur Ef forts to Capture Criminals Who 'Snatched' John La Batt Victim Secluded TORONTO, Out., Aug. 1. (Ar) A young man giving the name of Edward Chard was charged late today at police headquarters with attempted theft and extortion In connection with several telephone call, put through to Hugh laBatt In his suite Wednesday night and Thursday morning. TORONTO. Aug. 17. (AP) Despite Information from an authoritative source that no ransom wsa paid to effect the return by kidnapers of John S. LaBatt. London brewer. In formation waa made public in Hamil ton today that "less than 50,000 ransom wss paid for the release of John LaBatt." This statement, made a few hours after the wealthy London, Ont. brewer, had been released from i gang which held htm captive oo hours, followed one declsratlon that "not a cent of ransom was paid" and another that the complete 160,000 demanded had been put up. Drive to Hound In Gang LaBatt was Interrogated at the home of his brother, Hugh, In Lon don by a police official and Canadian police drove forward In, an attempt to round up the criminal At the same time Attorney General A. W. Roebuck Issued a statement In which he aald he regretted a lack of co-orjeratlon In the LaBatt case. A relative of the family discounted rumors that Hugh LaBatt could have oald the ransom. Hugh waa reportea to have obtained the money from a branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia. "As a matter of fact," said the relative, "the bank was closed when he waa supposed to have got the monev. "I doubt If that branch of the bank would carry $150,000 and. If It did. It would be In large denomina tion bills which kidnapers would never accept." Kent Blindfolded Attorney General Roebuck made the (Continued on Page Eight) SCHOOL OPENING SLATED SEPT. .17 September 17 was announced today by the superintendent's office as the definite opening dste for the 1934-39 school year. No alterations In teach ing staffs of the city schools will be announced until the return of Super intendent E. H. Hedrlck, who has been confined until a later date by his physician's advice at Belmont Springs, Csllf. C. O. Smith Is acting superin tendent during Mr. Hedrlck's absence Reports from his attending physic Ian reveal that Mr. Hedrlck's condl Hon Is steadily Improving, and that there Is no cause for alarm in tne postponement of his return, which was previously announced aa the mid dle of August. Mrs. Hedrlck has been at the heslth resort with her husband since Tuesdsy of this week. North Carolina schools which serve free lunches to pupils, report a no ticeable Increase In attendance. at the ranch house. "We had plenty to drink." ahe aald. She testified that Wagner "passed out1 and waa put to bed. Then she aged wood chopper left, ahe added, "and father came at me. I told him to kep off. He aald 'Honey, I got to have some affection. Come sit on my knee." Mrs. Plckrell declared that when Beauchamp "kept coming" at her, she shot out the lamp. "I got another lamp and he started for me again." she added. "That time I shot bim through the heart and he fell back in his chair. 'My Ood. Billy, I only meant right by you,' were his last words." She explained her father bed alwaya called her "Billy." The young woman's mother. Mrs. Ma Beauchamp. who was separated but not divorced from the rancher. t4 rDt t t lagueev. FREE WEALTHY CANADIAN BREWERY HEAD BASEBALLJ American. NEW YORK, Aug. 17. P Lyn- wood (Schoolboy) Row. Detroit! mound scs. shut out the Yankee with three hlti In the second game of today's doublehesder. to give the Tigers a a to 0 victory In the odd frame of the "crucial" five-game serlea. The victory again gave Detroit a 0j- gsme lead. The triumph came after the Ysnks had taken the opener, 6 to 0, behind Lefty Vernon Gomez' R. H. s. Detroit . . 0 8 1 New York 5 0 Sorrell, Hamlin and Hayworth; Go mea. and Dickey, Second game H. E Detroit New York S 0 3 1 Rowe and Cochrane: Deshong. Mur. phy and Dickey. First gsme R. H. E, Cleveland 3 10 0 14 0 Washington 4 Hlldebrand and Berg. Pytlak: Whlte H. E. hill and Bolton. First gsme R. St. Louis 0 Boston 3 3 10 3 Ferrell Newsom and Hamsley; W. and R. Ferrell. National First game: R. H. E. 13 1 13 2 Chicago 8 Philadelphia (Ten Innings). Earnshaw and Madjeskl; Dietrich and Berry, Hays. First game: R. H. E. New York 7 11 0 Pittsburgh - S S 0 Parmelee, Smith and Mancuso: Lu cas, French, Chagnon, Blrkofer and Grace. EOF L PLOT LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Aug. 17. (AP) Alleging a political conspiracy In which the name of Gov Frank F. Merrlam was mentioned, an affidavit waa on file in federal court today asserting an Improper withdrawal of about 17,000,000 from the assets of the Western Loan St Building Co. of Utah had been discovered. Rose Sullivan of Rock Springs. Wyo.. swore to the document which waa filed In support of a motion which Federal Judge William P. James will hear August 27 for appointment of a receiver for the company pend ing trial of a ault for liquidation of the organization. The affidavit charged that after the company, which operated in Cal ifornia, Utah .Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming and Idaho, was declared Insolvent in 1033, Friend W. Richardson, for state building and loan commissioner, and others enter ed into a plan to delay liquidation of the company. The delay, it was asserted, would be undertaken for the purpose of presenting a plan of reorganization, and Mrs. Sullivan's affidavit asked the court to declare Invalid a reorgani zation scheme later approved by the superior court. The affidavit also asserted that Richardson, who recently became banking commissioner of California. gained the post after an understand ing with Merrlam that he would or ganize support for the governor a candidacy In the forthcoming guber natorial race. It was asserted fur ther that the building and loan com pany controls about 400 apartment houses In this state and that the managers were instructed to lend thetr aid to Merrlam a campaign. Former officers and directors of the company were alleged to have withdrawn 7,000,000 for "their own use and benefit since the time of the company'a incorporation. It waa contended that no effort had been made to recover these funds. GENERAL CRAIG FOR CCC CONFERENCE Mslor General Malln Craig, TJ. S army, commanding the Ninth corps area. Is scheduled to arrive in aiea ford at S o'clock this evening, and will confer here with Major Clare H Armstrong, In commsnd of the Med ford CCC district. It wss not learned at CCC headquarters this afternoon how long General Craig plana to be ,ln thla district, or if he Intends to visit any of th. camps. Aa commander of the Ninth corps ares. Oeneral Craig has under his supervision nearly one-third of the lece cuooa la tht United 8tete. SNOWS TO DRIFT Cut in Appropriations Will Force Abandonment of Snow Plow Use This Win terSnow Carnival Lost CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK, Ore., Aug. 17. (Spl.) The snow cov ered roads of Crater lake will not be open this winter to trave), park of flclals announced today. During the past two or three years anow plowa roared throughout the stormy months, maintaining cleared highways from the south and west entrances to the rim area, facilitating early openings of the park to visitors. Due to a cut In appropriations for road maintenance, no funds are avail able for the operation of the plowa or wages of the operators. A sura of 7600 is necessary for snow clearing operations, but with only 94600 on the budget, tt Is impossible to even begin such operations without endan gering the maintenance of roads dur ing the summer when travel la the greatest. Opening Problematical. It la probable no snow removal will begin until spring, possibly around April or May, when last year travel was already heavy. The date of the 1035 park opening Is dependent upon the severeness of the next win ter. If It corresponds to the season of 1833-34, the snow removal prob lem will be comparatively simple, but If it Is In the same class s 1033-33, when over 70 feet fell, the problem will be extremely difficult In opening the park to early travel. Last spring, due to a mild winter and consistent plow operations, over I 3000 people attended the second an- j nual winter sports carnival in the : park during the middle of March. Previous to this the roads had been open since January, for the first time In the history of the park. The year before roads were opened In April and May. providing motorists with the op portunity of driving between deep canyons of anow, but in view of the present situation, motorists can not look forward to thia next year. Ail-Year Park Aim. Efforts have been underway for some time to make Crater lake an all- year park, and some progress has been made, but a new start will be neces sary to regain the lost ground in mak ing the park accessible the entire year. It la likely not more than two men will be stationed In the park area this winter aa caretakers E In Jackson county, within a radius of seven or eight mllea of Medford the largest planting of Chinese ohcasants received here In several years from th game farms at F.u gent waa distributed yesterday after noon under the direction of the Jack. sonjCounty Game Protective associa tion. Those In chsrga endeavored to put the blrda on property where shooting la not permitted, ln order to give them aa much protection aa possible However, a Urge number epresd to unprotected property. Soma of the birds, when released flew a dlstsnce of nearly a half mile, T. E. Danlela said todsy. They sre about two and a half months old. Of tha several hundred aent here, he stated, there were only two dead birds. L L BE WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. (AP) Officiate of the postofflce department said tcday present sir mall contracts, which were let orlglnslly for a period of three months, would be extended sn additional nine . months under authority of the air mall act approv ed June 13 this year. Nineteen contracts Involving 31 route will be affected by tha exten sion. 6.113 iet Jons ST. LOUIS. Mo. 1UP) Th. Mis souri State Employment serevloe of fice here has found Jobs for per sona so far Ihn year, BYRD PREPARED TO DIE BEFORE HELP ARRIVED 6 LL A tail. Vv 1 m 1 ..." Dr. Thomas C. Poulter left), of Mt. Plsatant, la., senior scientist . en the Antarctlo expedition, found Admiral Richard E. Byrd (right) thin and weak after leading a traotor party acrois 123 miles of difficult Ice to Boiling where the admiral had been Isolated for nearly flvi months making weather observations. Two previous attempts to reach' Byrd had failed.. (Associated Praia Photos) - LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, Aug. 17. p) Rear-Admiral Rlcbard S Byrd prepared himself for a lonely death, yet sent no appeal for aid. the outside world learned today two months later, , A message from the advance weath er base where Byrd spent nearly five months ln isolation told how he re signed himself to death end left a note for relief party which he fear ed would "arrive too late." Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, head of the tractor expedition of three w hi oft fought its way to Byrd's side, report ed by radio that the commander be came so ill ln June from fumes from his stove he thought the end was near. "My observations here and remarks that Admiral Byrd has made," said Dr. Poulter, "convinced me that he has gone through things, particular ly during the first three weeks of June and the past two weeks, that must have been beyond human abil ity to withstand. "He was convinced he had reached the limit of his endurance. He was WHEN OIL FLARES CRATER LAKB NATIONAL PARK. Ore., Aug. 17. (fipeclal.) Leo flcott, Jacksonville, Ore., member of the An nie Spring CCO camp, sustained se ver, burns when a gaiollne drum U ntted yesterday on the Union Peak motorway near the south boundary of the park. Scott wsa attempting to fill a can from the 50 -gal Ion drum when the gasollno shot out so fsr as to reach spsrks ln a dying campflre. Roaring flames Immediately resulted, envel oping the Jacksonville man. Through presence of mind, h. rolled In the dust, extinguishing the hlsre. How ever, hla hands and both arms were badly burned. The flaming gasoline started a small forest fire which wsa placed under control before It had covered 1,000 squsre feet. t 1 PORTLAND, Or.., Aug. 17. (AP) Punersl services will be held here tomorrow for Jsmea 11. Cooke, Co. for the past 87 yeara employed by the Pacific Bridge and the Swlgert Hart companlea. lie died here Tester dsv. Cooke Is survived by a son. Jsmes L. Cooke, of Salem; a daughter, Mrs Lucille Robertson, of Portland: a sis ter, Mrs. .Knrnh Howlett, of M'dford: and bjr two brothers. true to the polar code and played the gam gallantly, "Aa I think back I see things ln his messages that were put there to keep us from realizing his condition, fearing that the trip ln an attempt to reach him would risk the Uvea of others. "Although he was up to meet us on our arrival, he should not have been. I see him showing marked Improvement. It will be some time before he fully recovers his strength. "A note was hung over his table, dated June IS, referring to letters he had written to various people and where the lettera could be found. Even thinking the tractor would ar rive too late, he hed written us a note, which he Tied left on tho table, but which he put out of sight when we entered the shack. "I marvel at how complete a set of scientific data he has obtained and how painstaking he has been with it." BETTER WEATHER NEW YORK, Aug. 17. (P) The turn to more favorable weather, par ticularly the easing of drouth condi tions In the midwest, has brightened business prospects and sentiments, says the Dun & Bradstreet weekly trade review. "With no ei tension of the bound arles of the drouth areas reported for more than two weeks," asserted the review, ' and with the heat ware definitely broken, preliminary est I mates place farm Income at 20 to 33 per cent higher than It waa a yeir ago." "The final launching of the billion- dollar home renovation drive la ex pected to bring an early upturn ln employment. "The volume of retail sales, aald the review, "was larger than a week earll er with gains ranging from 3 per cent In some parts of the east to 20 to 30 per cent respectively for the south west and Pacific coast. FIREMENKILLED when TRUCK SKIDS, UPSETS LOWELL, Msss,, Aug. 17. (API- two firemen were killed and six ln lured when th. Colllnsvllle lire truck overturned, after skidding on wet car tracks and crashing into a telegraph pole today. The apparatua waa answering an alarm that subsequently proved to have been falsely sounded by a short circuit In the signal aystem. A laboratory to assist children with defective speech Is to be estab lished at the University of Wichita. PLAYMATE SEES RAFT IER Long Effort to Revive Proves Futile Victim Realized Depth Too Great After Plunging Into Waters William Grover Medley, Jr., 10- year-old son of Graver W. Medley of 15 West Tenth street, employed by the California Oregon Power Co.. waa drowned ln Bear creek about 10:30 this morning while swimming In a pool behind, the Medford Concrete Construction Co. plant near the Owen-Oregon railway tracka north ot town. The small boy. known to hie playmatea as "Buster," had gone swimming with a companion. Warren uagnen, 11. son of Carl J. Bagllen of 710 Weat Tenth street, and had dived from a raft Into five feet of water. Hla body was In the water 10 or IS minutes before C. E. Wymore and K. Thomas, dredge employee, called by young Bagllen, carried the body to the ahore and started unavailing ar tificial respiration. Efforts of Fire Chief Roy Elliott, who waa summoned immediately, were of no avail, aa the boy's lungs had been filled. Dr. R. W. Sleeter. who arrived soon after, and Coroner Frank Perl continued the attempt at (Continued on Page Eight) oil mahurt as car plunges off Six accidents, ln which on parwa waa slightly Injured, hav. been re ported to city and state police yester day and today, Frederick Lewis Kllng of Portland, a Union OH Co. employe, was taken to th. Hilt hospital this morning after hla car had missed ft corner on the Pacific highway near th. summit of the Siskiyou mountain,, and rolled over a 30 foot bank. Word received thla aflornoon revealed hla Injuries were cot serious. According to state police, Kllng had reached for th. chok. when he went off th. bank. He was taken to th. hospital by M. J. Bailey, ot Hilt, a passing motorist. An sccident this morning on River- sld. between Main street and eighth, waa reported to city police by John uonner, route four, who stated hi. cor was struck by one which pulled out from the curb, driven by W, T. Sharron cf the Dav'j Tranafea and Storago Co. yesterday Hfternoon at the Inter section of Ninth and South Central, William Fredenburg, 331 Edwards atreet, collided with a car driven by H. N. Butler, with little damage re sulting. B. Croat, route 1, reported last night to city police that hla car wee nit by an auto, whose driver's name la not known, yesterday morning near mi. iaoie kock store. When A. L. Davlea. route . nulled out from the curb on East Main yes terday evening, city police records show, he struck a car driven by Rob- er. is. uwion of Mentone, Calif., whs waa passing. An accident Wednesday night six miles west of Copper on the Carberry road waa reported last night to city police by Mure! Olllan. of the local CCO headquarters detachment, who ststed the truck he wsa drtTln struck a colt which Jumped Into the roao. TOKYO, Aug. 16. I thought during my long lifetime I had been uwukened just at daylight by every known thing, but right under tho Imperial hotel window exactly at daylight five gepnrate baseball games stnrt. Tha, goes on all day. llnrvard arrives tomorrow to play the Japanese colleges, but about all they will win will b in English pronunciation. 1 (Pijl7l!7'4iv.lyliil!i.l. OTDUS GRADE t
