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M AIL TRIBUNE WINNER Pulitzer Award EDFORD FOR 1934 Twenty-ninth Star MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1934. No. 132. The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Satur day. Cooler Saturday. I Temperature: Hlfheat yesterday ' I Lowest this morn In j .. L , ..- 69 M wm m i 4 I -NAys- I WOMAN FIGURES . r Ad AGAIN IN DEATH g DILL1NGER AIDE rV By PAUL MALLON, WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 34. This secret pamphleteering against th new deal la beginning to look like a national under ground campaign. Business men in half & dozen cities say they cannot survey their morning mall without com ing across lettera S. from friends, or anonymous pam phlets, contain ing the latest jibes and Jokes about the govern ment. Paul Malloa Most of the stuff la too ba4 to print, but some of It Is at least semi-humorous, as, for Instance, the following example gleaned from a stack of such material: "The business man's prayer: "NRA me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my code to keep; If I should bust before I wake, A. r. of Ij my plant will take." ' And this I ask for heaven's sake.' Tou may recall that anonymous pamphleteers and J I be-makers have bad a rather important nana in u political movement before and after the excellent Job they dm in lomeni Inf the French revolution. This current campaign la hardly Approaching1 the revolutionary atage as yet, but It has aroma of central- tmA Mnn.nn anrt skillful execu tion. It seems to be the lighter aide of a we". -backed (financially) organization ja of efforts against the Roosevelt re torms. Gentlemen who have an ear tor keyholes avow that a certain large Industry la now creating a Washing ton organization to keep dose tab on new-deal Intentions. This happens to be a legitimate move, but It has strong nautical Doasl bill ties, because the par ticular Industry is all against Presi dent Roosevelt. More formidable opposition move menu will be started as soon as the congressional elections are over. Prep arations for them are already natcnea The wise ones agree that It would be a waste of money to try to do much against the new deal In the coming congressional elections. They figure it Is impossible to make a dent in the Roosevelt strength then. After that the maska will be off and there will certainly be some close In- fighting, If nothing more. Jouett Shouse'a new organization Is onlv an extraneous phase of these son-partisan opposition activities, la suDDOsed to be backed by the Du Fonts of Delaware, among others, This Is the same combination which worneo so suocessiu,.y iu piuh"u dlr.!nr the repeal of prohibition. t Snouse certainly will have his heart f hi his work after what the Roosevelt wing did In blocking hla election as permanent chairman at the last demo cratic convention. The new dealers have not taken such opposition very seriously. Mr, Roosevelt spoofed it at Green Bay One of his most enthusiastic followers explained this attitude, off the record, the other day. about as xouowa: "Pecble aay business Is disturbed They do not mean business. They mean the speculators in New York or bankers. The great average run of business men are not seriously dis turbed, although some of them may be comDlalnlng. as they always com plain at a reform administration. The Bankhead bova were behind the y. cotton price pegging by the AAA Thev wanted the government to lend 13 cents a pound, but all they could get was 13 centa. The Insldere aay aimllar price-peg ging ateps will be taken on other ma tor farm commodities. The Idea Is that such a system aaves x the farmer from dumping his pro- H tuct on the market. His debt come I "due around this time of year. Oot- urnmrnt losns wilt enable him to meet hla debts and yet hold hie crop off the market for better prices later. J. T. T. O'Connor got his name in the newspapers as possible governor of the federal rejerve board, but he never rot hi name In the hat. nreiMentlal spokesman aald aome days sgo be did not know who would be governor, but O Connor wouian One reason la Treasury Secretary Morgenthau. He and O'Connor do not like the aume things. A British economist has written book called "America s coming Boom, In which he says, among other things "Prea;dnt Roosevelt's rules and regu lations at the moment are stiff, but, when young horses are broken in. they rulre a tlfttit retn at the outlet. Subsequently, you can ride them on a snaffle with aafety." More Important than the reo.-gan-lration at the NRA the fuss c e?d In the aquarium downstairs when they put the republics turtle from Voton Into the mt tnH with a (Continued on. rage Bcren) Pretty St. Paul Maid Seen Often With Homer Van Meter Before Bandit Am bushed, Killed Last Night ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 24. AP) pretty St. Paul girl who had been seen with Homer Van Meter, slain DUlinger gangster, on several occa sions when the desperado made the Twin cities his headquarters last March, waa under arrest here today. An unimpeachable source said Ma rlon ("Mickey") Confortl, Van Me ter's No. 1 sweetheart of Chicago. was In St. Paul two weeks ago In the company of the slain gangster. Miss Confortl, who waa one of the three women arrested at Little Bo hernia. Wis., when DUlinger and his henchmen escaped a federal trap, is wanted by federal authorities for vio lating her parole at Madison, Wis. Lived Near Her The St. Paul girl Uvea only & tew blocks from where Van Meter was killed last night. He may have been en route to her home at the time he was shot down. Four times DUlinger henchmen have been wiped out and each time a woman haa been closely connected with the shooting. First Was Eugene Green, whose wife. Beth Oreen, saw him fatally wound ed In St. Paul by federal officers. Jean Delaney Crompton saw her criminal paramouh, Tommy Carroll, shot down In Waterloo, Iowa. DIU'enger met death at the handB (Continued on Page Six) CITY WILL SHARE PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 24. (AP) The state highway commission today eliminated two projects from its fed era! fund program to provide 4100, 000 for extension of the Wilson River road aa an aid to timber salvage op erations In the burned area of Tilla mook county. The proposed new bridge across the Molalla river on the East Side Pacific highway, 953,000, and the re construction of the Columbia River highway at Cascade Locks, $50,000 were eliminated from the 13,100,000 federal highway funds program. Because the brldgs across the Ump qua will not be completed before 1936, the (08.000 allotment for im provement In Reedsport will be wlh- drawn and the money distributed among the municipalities of Junction City, Grants Pass, Ashland and Med ford. DAHOANS WILL PRAY EI BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 24. fVPr Gov ernor C. Ben Ro&s today proclaimed next Sunday as a day of prayer for rain to suppress forest fires and re lieve drought. "There exists throughout the land condition of widespread distress," he aald In the proclamation, "occas ioned by a period of prolonged and unprecedented drought, resulting In untold suffering to mill tons of people and irreparable loss of crops and live stock. PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 24. (AP) Portland's city park employee to day were back on a ilx-day week, but the city council turned thumbs down on proposed salary Increases. Ten Commandments for Cupids Guidance Issued By Nazi Eugen ics Ch iefs Br 1TAt.TF.lt E. BROCRMAN. Aaeorlated Irene Foreign Staff. BERLIN, Aug. 34 P The nszi government )yui decided to put mtr rl on a "rational bun." Eunles officials luautd today a Ut of ten commandments for guidance of German youth when approaching the complex bualneee of marriage. It s all riant to "marr for love." but first the young couple must consider whether their marriage "helpe the na tion." "See a mite not a playmate for matrimony." says one com mandment. It la elso undesirable, warns sn other commandment, for snyone In good health not to marry. Not to do o would break .be chain of the generation." "Remember alwsye thou are Ger man." -are commandment one. No Healthy Rarhelors Number tao urijea "thou snalt not. If eugenlcar.y fit, remain unmarried. VICTIM AND ACCUSED IN DOCK RIOT Jltiiiii lpilliliI! - m0mi i m&f -v l Police of Portland, Ore., arrested thre men and charged them with first degree murder for the alaylng of Jamee Connor, 22, In a waterfront riot. Connor, working aa a longshoreman, had been mar ried only two weeks. He waa fatally ahot In a claah between opposing groups of workmen. Upper, left to right: Connor and Bob Husted, one of the accused. Lower, William Fischer and Calvin Krause, the other two men charged with Connor's death. (Associated Press Photos) $50,000 PAYROLL TAKEN BY BANDITS FROM MAIL TRUCK BUTLER, Pa., Aug. 34. (AP) Three gunmen wearing dark glasses held up an unarmed mall truck driver today and escaped with a 150,000 pay roll. Police said It was the richest haul of Its kind in the history of the Pittsburg district. The money, en route to nearby Lyndora by registered mall, waa to meet the payrolls of the Standard Car company and the American Roll ing Mills plants. The robbers overtook the truck only a short distance from the But ler postofflce and maneuvered their two automobiles In such a manner as to Force Marshall C. Lackey, the truck driver, to the curb. Two men piled out with drawn re volvers, grabbed two sacks of mall, raced back to the waiting machines and sped away. Lackey told police It all happened so rapidly he scarcely had time to more than throw hla hands up. He did not even have a pocket knife with which to defend himself. While the robbery was In progress an airplane soared overhead, leading district attorney Edgar H. Negley. of Butler county, to express the opinion it might have landed nearby and picked up the robbers. STROMBOU ERUPTION FRIGHTENS RESIDENTS STROMBOU ISLAND. Italy, Aug. 34. (;p) Frightened Inhabitants of this and other islands of the Leparl group spent last night In fields, lest new eruptions from Stromboll vol cano destroy their houses. Although the volcano has not erupt ed since Tuesday, repeated shocks yesterday and fiery discharges from the crater last night caused appre hension. He who without good reason does so. breaks the chain of ths generation." "Hold the body clean." says the third, uhleh concludes with the in junction: "Remember you yourself are a German ancestor." Number four "Thou shalt keep the spirit and soul pure." warns apalnat "alien influences" and observes "hap piness built on lies soon collapse. Tou yourself must lire up to whstever you expect of your mate." ( hoot Nordic Mate "As a Herman choose mate of: (Continued on Page 5sven) ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. 24. (AP) Transfer of state police control from the governor to a commission was recommended In a resolution Intro duced today at the state American Legion convention. Malor-General George A. White, Oreeon national guard commander and one of the Legion's organizers, aubmltted the recommendation from the law and order committee. ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. 34. (AP) The Corvallls American Legion drum corps took first honors for the best appearance In the parade at the state convention here last night. Portland Post No. 1, was second with Roeeburg third. The annual colorful drum and bugle corps competition will be held tonight with the La Grande corps attempting to defend Its state championship. Awards also will be made for the best Individual drum mers, buglers and drum majors. - In the general parade competition, Klamath Falls won with Its flashily uniformed delegation and parade section which Included a legion and auxiliary drum corps. Medford was second and Tillamook third In par ade competition. The Bonneville Legion won recog nition for the best stunt a large model of the Bonneville dam. Pear Markets NEW YORK, Aug. 34 (AP) (USDA) Pear auction market: Prlcea slightly stronger. 10 cars arrived; 31 California cars unloaded; 7 cars on track. California Bartletts: 13.169 boxes sold; $2.133.16; average 93 60. Hardys: 078 boxes sold; tl.8Arg3.30; average, $2.03. Bosc: 300 boxes sold; 11.63; 3.35. CHICAGO, Aug. 34. (AP) (USDA) Pear auction market: 9 California cars arrived: 13 cars on track: cart sold. Washington Bartletts: 1360 boxes sold. 91 55 3.23; average, 11.80 CaJUfomla Bartletts: t2303.W. Anjous: 80 boxes sold at 2 10. AUTO 11: Billy Taylor of the Star route, near Jacksonville suffered a broken arm In an auto accident this morning at :43. when a car in which he was! riding, driven by Valmtre Albert. 37 ; Smith Holly, crashed Into a telephone ( poet aftr a tire had blown out on ; the Bybee comer of the Jacksonville highway. j Willis Hodgea of Jacksonville, an other pamenger In the car. suffered cuts and bruises. Albert was taken : to Medford for treatment. f Police records show that one of ' the pasftntrera apparently made a grab for the steering whl of tne I auto when tu tire exploded. WARNING OF DUCE F Idea of War Floating in Air of Europe Says Dictator at Italian Field Maneuvers- Nation Ready. Is Boast BOLOONA, Italy. Aug. 34. (AP) The "Idea of war la floating In the air" of Europe, Premier Mussolini told 6,000 officers today as he aald It behooves Italy to become a "milt tarlstlc, even a warlike, nation." "No one In Europe wishes war," he said aa he addressed the men from the turret of a heavy assault tank at the close of Italian army maneuvers. "But the thought of It Is all around us. At the and of July an unforseen situation developed which was simi lar to that which prevailed In 1914. If we had not sent out divisions to the frontier complications might have resulted that could not have been resolved except by the voice of the cannon. Today, Not Tomorrow It Is not necessary to be ready for the war of tomorrow, but for the war of today." . While his officers cheered htm vo ciferously, Mussolini continued: "We must become a military na tion, even a militaristic nation. We might even add a warlike nation." The political, economlo and spir itual life of the nation ought to be based on its military necessities "Because certain nations rise and others decline It developa that, de spite goodwill conferences and threat lea, war will accompany the fortune of nations throughout the centu ries." Nation Is Ready The entire Italian people, he add ed, today la ready to respond as single unit In caae of need. Waving hla hand toward the eur rounding fields upon which the ma neuvers had taken place, II Duce con tinued: "I call your attention to the fact that the ground whloh haa been chosen for the maneuvers resembles that of the Italian eastern frontier the same broken terrain and even the aame lack of water." Mussolini was wearing the uniform of a corporal of the Fascist militia as he apoke. Among the foreign mil ltary officers Who heard the address was Capt. Francis Brady, American air attache. PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. 34. (AP) Two more men today were charged with first degree murder of James Conner, bringing to 36 the number facing murder charges for his death in a labor Dot here Monday. The Columbia longshoremen' group, of which Conner was a mem ber, branded as "outrageousty false' the statement by the Portland Inter national Longshoremen's association that ahota fired when members the two groups clashed came from Inside rather than outside the Col umbla hall In which Conner was slain. The reward offered for apprehen aion and conviction of the young longshoremen's slayer reached 1,000 today when three local labor attor neys offered 1500. BELIEVE LAO MEN NKWTOK, la., Aug. 14. (AP) The nation's legal forcea searched on to day for 11 -year-old Walter Robinson, who vanished from hla father's work shop here a year ago. Somewhere, hla parents believe, the lad la a captive of a gypsy band wan dering along dusty, secluded high ways to peddle trinkets In small towns. Farmer Barbecued By Bandits When Money Hidden BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 24. (AP) Roasted alive by torture bandits. Dmitri Radloyevlch, a far mer of Oulubata, was at the point of death today In a local hospital An effort to aave his father from the horrible torture Radioyevich'a aon, who waa bayoneted In cold blood by the bandits and seri ously wounded, finally revealed the secret of the hiding place of his father's money. The family hoard totaled 1140. A police investigation disclosed the bandits had strapped the aged Radloyev.ch to a long pole, then turned htm over repeatedly on a fire a though barbecuing a lamb. ROOSEVELT EYED LIBERTY LEAGUE - ive Democratic Senators Make Public Declaration of Loyalty Shouse Re iterates Not Fighting F. R. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. p President Roosevelt waa described today aa favoring the recently or gan I red American liberty league so far as It goes In Its principle! for support of the constitution. WAHSINGTON. Aig. 34. () Every one looked toward the White House today to see how President Roosevelt would react to the Amer lean liberty league. Although, the new-born league seemed to some observers to be forerunner of shattered party lines and a new alignment of "right" camp against "left" It evoked also a dem onstratlon that party ties have strength. Five democratic senators whose names had been mentioned In con- nectlon with the league made a pub lic declaration of loyalty to the Roosevelt administration. Deny New Pea! Opposed Prom the democratic national com mittee came a statement quoting the five Glass and Byrd of Virginia, Gore of Oklahoma, Tydinga of Maryland and Bailey of North Carolina as de nying any part In "the formation or a conservative bloc In congress com posed of toi urticans and democrats in opposition to the new deal." The statement said "reports published In republican newspapers'1 had named them In this connection. 'Any suggestion," Glass said, "that .Continued on Page Seven) . ! I . MLE MAN IS A wa-rrant for the arrest of a resi dent ot Jacksonville, oharged with a statutory offense, Involving a 14-yeer-old girl, wss issued this morning by the dlatrlct attorney's office, state ment by the girl, and her young brother were taken by the state polios yesterday. The alleged erlme waa com mitted aome time ago, Th accused returned recently, was seen by the complaining witness on the Jackson' Title streets, and she notified her father. i The accused man la alleged by the girl to have taken her and two other young girls for an auto ride, and parked near the Jacksonville cemetery at night. The warrant waa placed In the handa of the aherlft for service this morning. TWO ARRESTED AFTER PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 94. (AP) Allen McMlllar, 33, and Henri Div eny. 18, both of Spokane, were ar rested here today by state police for aueftlonlng Into the shooting of will Shepard, 68. at Umatilla last night. Shepard. a round house mecnamc, waa ahot when he surprised three men at his garage. The men were charged with carry ing concealed weapons. 4 .. SALEM. Ore., Aug. 34. (AP) The atatt prune control board met here today In a special session to con sider numerous problems under the recently established prune code. Uncanny Psychic Powers Of Yankee Girl Knocking Britishers for Bally Loop NIW TORK, Aug. a.-(AP)-Word came from London today that a Kansas fermar's daughter-rosy-cheeked, dimpled Oene Dennls-le figura tively knocking the Brltlshsrs for a Oene haa been in ixmaon . early spring and la known all over England aa the American gin psr chic." Shs hsa appeared at three Lon don theaters, hsa given resdlnjs" at th afternoon teas of a big London hotel, haa been Interviewed on com ing events by most of the large news psners of Englsnd, and In addition haa written a weekly article for the London Sunday Dispatch at a pay rate of 'aso an article. riaka Iirrtiy Winner. An Associated Proaa dispatch from London today attributed hr present fme to her sensational prediction thst Windsor ld would win the derby which he did. BASEBALL National Flrat game: R. H. Boston ill Cincinnati 1 1 0 Brandt and Hojan; Johnson and Manlon. Brooklyn 10 Chicago U ' Benge, Mungo and Lopes; Malone, Wearer, Lee, Root and Hartnett. American X. K. X. 3 S 0 St. Louis . Philadelphia J 0 Hadley, Andrews and orube; csin and Hayea. Detroit n 1 IS 3 Washington Auker end Cochrane; Stewart, Mc Coll and Bolton. Cleveland at New York, Chicago at Boston postponed, rain. RELIEF ROLLS GO TO LIQUOR BOM FOR NAME CHECK Indigent relief rolls of Jackson county have been forwarded to the atato liquor commission for check ing to determine If any recipients of county doles possess, permits, Dla trlct Attorney George A. codding aald today. Names of kin of relief receivers have also been forwarded for check ing as to their financial status. In many of the public relief agencies relatives make affidavit that they are unable to provide help. The list Includes fathers, mothers, nrotners. sisters, sons and daughters. The On. eon law-reautres that If Immediate kin ere able to provide aid for those distressed they must do so. Ths checking Is expected to take aeveral weeks. Similar steps navs been taken by other Oregon counties in an effort to hslt any Illegal dralna upon the ellm relief funds of the va rious counties. Another object, the authorities state, la to weed out the unworthy from the worthy poor. The Oregon liquor control act pro vides thst It shall be unlawful for any pereon upon publlo charity to possess a liquor permit and further provides for both the cancellation of the liquor permit ana the reuer. County authorities do not antici pate many Jackson county names will be found, but admit aeveral are under suspicion. They state that no worthy person will be embarrassed by the new order. IS DANGERED BY FIRE GRANTS PASS, Ore., Aung. 33. (API Fire which mensced Important building, at the Josephine oourty fair (rounds last night was brought under control with only slight dam age. Ktremen were busy for a wnne pre. ventlna SDarka from Igniting roors of several buildings. CHICAGO TEACHERS WILL GET BACK PAY WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. P) The reconstruction finance corporation to day turned over Its check for MJ, 300.000 to the Chicago board of educa tlon for the back pay of that city's school teachers. BABY RUN OVER BY FATHER'S AUTO, DIES SALEM, Ore., Aug. a. (AP) Hun over by his father a car as It wsa backing from a drlvevay, 21 -months-old Leland Virgil Olson died today as a result of a fractured skull. bsiiy loop Mlaa Dennis nsmed Windsor Lad on a London stsg whsn the horse was a rank outsider, five- weeka before th rac. Bh repeated the prediction several times, In the face of the fact that Colombo waa the odds on fa vorite. Racing clrclea admit her pre. diction influenced the improvement In Windsor Lad's odds. "The thester managers threatened to break my contract, aa then are strict rules against predicting public events." Miss Dennis told th Asso- clsted Press, "but everywhere the audiences were yelling tor th name, and If I hadn't taken th 'dare,' the (Continued on Peg Slsleen) OF A Johnson Will Remain In New SetUp Plan Drawn at Long Conference Chair manship Not Yet Settled WASHINGTON, Aug. 84.- Presldent Roosevelt ts formulat ing with aides a legislative pro gram for making permanent cer tain phases of the emergency na tional recovery act and he an nounced today he expected Hugh S. Johnson to continue as ad ministrator. WASHINGTON, Aug. 34. (AP) President Roosevelt arranged today with Hugh 8. Johnson for a quick re organisation of the NRA under' ft board with the administrator to re main In the new set-up. Plana for reorganizing the NRA within the next few weeks were made at a lengthy conference between the chief executive and Johnson at the White House. After two weeks vacation Johnson said he would call upon Mr. Roose velt in Hyde Park, N. T., and help ef fect the changes. Rlchberg Also Visitor. Closely following Johnson to ths) White House was Donald R, Rlchberg. counsel of the NRA, who has been re ported at odds with Johnson. The two men met In the president's ante-room and spoke for a few min utes together. "So far ai X am concerned,' John son said, "I have never had any dis agreement with Rlchberg." It waa emphasised that the reor ganlutlon was one originally pro posed by Johnson before the president left on hla Hawaiian cruise. Clialrmannhlp Unsettled. Asked if he would be the chairman of the proposed NRA board Johnson aald he did not know about that. It has got to be worked out so X' will have more tiros to myself, hs said. Johnson said hla call at the White House was occasioned by the fact that there was a "alight misunderstanding about timing" of the NRA reorganisa tion. T Ikl' BROOKLYN HOLDUP PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 34. (AP) The police said they have posi tively Identified Armour Lee Phillips the husband of Clara Phillips, convicted California "hammer . mur deress but said they are convinced , that neither hs nor two companions arrested today know anything of the Brooklyn armored car holdup. Captain John Ore den, head of the detective bureau, aald: Wc have no evidence that would point to these men being Involved In the armored car Job. However, these three men. believe, are mmbra of a gang for which we have been searching for several months. DEPOSIT INSURANCE SIGNS SENT BANKS WASHINGTON, Aug. 34. (AP) The federal deposit Insurance corpo ration today sent out signs to some 14.000 banks whose deposits are In- sured by the corporation. The signs read: "Deposits Insured by the federal deposit Insurance cor poration. Maximum Insurance. 9ft, 000 for each depositor.' IRKUTSK, Aug. 23. Pine trees, low mountain", beautiful valleys today. Distances are tar here and names have to be long to reach the next town: Retrovsky, I.savod and Verh ncudinxk. A mess of nationalities on this train English, German, Russian, Swiss, Checks, Amer ican Indians, Japanese and the imartest of all is a Chinese, a noted authority on Far East rn affairs. Nothing In the world's tmarter than one Chinaman mil nothing dumber than two. Ur. Roosevelt told mo to scout, lim some new brain material. ' am signing this bird up. , lOliTHif juaol ftnllell. tea, t
