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Medford Merchants Plan "Harvest Days " Displays October 5, 6 and 8 Medford Mail . The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Saturday. No chance In temperature. Temperature: Hlrhest vesterda Hi OUNE WINNEE Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 Lowest this morning... 39 MEDFOUD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, YJ'M. .Twenty-ninth Ytar No. 162 FM1 Ml JV in rnrn KlllY yj uu rare F 1 By PAUL MALLON. ' (Copyright. 1H.14, By raul Mallon) WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 38. The consummate nonchalance with which the skipper eased Oeneral Johnson over board w a aa dean-cut a Job s( a dlstastelul business as has yet been done In this administra tion. The plankwalk lns act of the general was mado to look like i pleasant partinq, whereaa everyone on the Inside knows It had Paul Mallon some very sad suppressed features. The president tried to avoid :t for months. He had several good rea sons. One was a Blnccre personal le aped for and loyalty to the general, who did such a good, unselfish Job In the early stages of NBA. (The presi dent has on many occasions stuck to his friends long after many other people lost patience lth them). Even after the president made up his mind he tried to move Indirectly by offering Johnson a secondary Job In the NBA reorganization. That was done at Hyde Park three weeks ago. To a man of Johnson'a temperament the offer was the ssme thing as a delicate Invitation to resign later, but at least it was delicate. Even then the break might have been delayed beyond the November election had Johnson not made the speech a week ago In New York criti cising the textile strikers and glblns Indirectly at Justice Brnndels. Those who were close to Hyde Park said the president has rnrely been so angry as when he read that speech. Both he and Johnson knew the pub llo would believe the general was peaking for the administration, whereas the president's real views are now known to be directly oppo site to those expressed by the gen eral. It then became quite evident that the general waa too hot a potato to handle much longer. Both have been very cagey about explaining what are the "new duties" which Johnson wrote he would under take for the president "when cir cumstances permit." The hint related to a suggestion made by Mr. Roosevelt In ft private conference with Johnson to the ef fect that he would like to have John eon act as a sort of contact man be tween the business leaders and the administration. The purpose was to have Johnson create an avenue whereby business could easily pre,- f m trnnhlra to the White HOUSR. Tt Is doubtful now whether the Job m v,.amio Mentioning It mere ly served to make the parting more pleasant. The ulmlmate end or the NRA can pot be seen by anyone here now. The president Is groping toward a compromise with the Richberg-Per-kins viewpoint which will gain the confidence of Industry. He wants to practical ire" the codes. Certain features are certain. One Is that the NRA hereafter wiM have little or nothintr to do with lf bor. That phase will be cared for by separate relations boards for the lr -pest industries longshoreman, steel, autos. textile, etc. Standing over this extensive board machinery . , will be the national labor relation board Another phase considered almost eer'Aln la his ultimate transfer of the fair trad and code enforcement to the federal trade commission. The price-fixing features nf the code will be dropped, but an effort will be made to retain the theory of collective bargaining, minimum wage, miilmum hours and child labor. One thing you can be sure of. The VRA may not Uve as such, but this administration la never golne to true up the effert to spread employment by reducing hours. While big business has not accom plished much in it challenge of the new deal, one little business man hss gone a long way without getting any attention. J. M. Nichols, president of the 100 per cent liquid bank of a Chicago uburb (Englewood,, has written a letter to FDIC Chalrmsn Crowley challenging Mr. Crowley to impede the $100 a window fine on him for not posting deposit Insurance signs In the windows of his bank, tn fact, Mr. Nichols asserted the deposit in surance is a "damnable piece of po litical trickery" deslened to ruin sound banks like hla by making them carry the load for unsound banks. In the end. saya Mr. Nichols, the government will rontrol all bank by ruining them ail. Mr. Hitler's capable ambsafador Hans Luther, has been getting whet li commonly known as the run-arourd lately at the state department. He would not know the mranme of thM . Idiom, hut he knn- .lnr lie Continued on faft Iwe.ve; SHAPES WEAPON A Improvised Instrument Dis covered in Toilet Bowl of Cell Suicide or Attack Motive Is Unrevealed DENVER. Sept. 38. (AP) Agenta of the department of Justice revealed today they are questioning a Denver man on suspicion he may know some thing about the Lindbergh kidnaping. J. C' Newman, head of the Denver office, department of Justice, said hla suspicions were aroused by the post script of a letter found in the effects of Tone Vennerl, 35, arrested in a raid on his borne. Postmarked Minneapolis and sent to Vennerl in Chicago, less than a month after the kidnaping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., the postscript said: Ella says hello and wants to know If you know who had the Lindbergh baby. Boy, I was surprised when I found out." NEW YORK. Sept. 28. (API Sher iff John J. Hanley today disclosed that Bruno Richard Kauptmann had stolen a tablespoon In the Jail, broken It Into four sections, sharpened one and had hidden all four plecea In the Jail. Hanley said that the bowl part of the spoon had been sharpened to a razor edge by rubbing it against tht steel frame of the cot In his cell In the county Jail. Three parte were found In the toi let bowl in hla cell, and the fourth piece had been hidden In the drain of the wash basin In the cell. The sheriff said the plecea appeared to be too small to be used as a key. but he was inclined to believe the sharpened piece mltfht hi ve been used aa a weapon If It had been fur ther sharpened It Into a knife. Spoon Missed "This morning at 7:45, fifteen min utes before breakfast." Hanley said, "as la the usual custom, Hauptmann and the other prisoners were given a bowl and a spoon. "After breakfast. Hauptmann"! spoon waa missing. The Jailer asked him for It and Hauptmann said he (continued on page nine) SALEM. Sept. 58. IF) To shoot an animal under the belief that a buck deer was being potted, only to learn that It waa neither a buck nor a doe. was the experience recently of Mrs. Luella Fruit, employe of the Oregon State hospital. With her husband. J. W. Fruit, and Dr. and Mrs. John Evana. Mrs. Fruit went Into the Steena mountains In southeastern Oregon on a hunting trip. While the men of the party were hunting on the first day of the open season, the women sighted the animal near the camp. Mrs. Fruit subsequently brought It down with a shot from a .33-callber rifle. Brought into camp by the men. It waa learned that although It hid an excellent set of antlera, four prongs on one side end three on the other, It was organically unlike either the male or female of the species. The deer weighed close to 300 pounds and waa In excellent condi tion. Mrs. Fruit was said to be con cerned as to whether she violated the game laws or not. SOLD ON BLOCK ROSEBUHO. Ore., 6ept. 28. (API Sale of the Umpqua mills and Tim ber company holdings in and near Reedsport, western Douglaa county, to Calvin Frentress of Chicago, for the total sum of sa.000, waa conducted here today by W. H. Hedlund, deputy U. 8. marshal. The real and personal property of the milling company was sold under a Judgment secured by the Continental National Bank and Trust company of Chicago, holdera of a por. tion of the company's 750.000 bond iMue. The purchaser. Frentress, is one of the trustees and bond holdera. LOS ANGELES RETURNS TO SUMMER CLOTHING LOS ANGELES. Sept. 28 fAP Light summer clothing returned to popularity here today as the weatnr hiiremi thermometer climbed to 91 rfsi rnon. Yetrday"a maximum temper at uic was 79 degree. HAUPTMANN'S SCRIPT COMPARED WITH KIDNAPER'S Similar words In the actual handwriting (left) e the Lindbergh ransom money, and In the ransom aa they appear under the microscope. Compare th mann's auto license, "past," with the word "last" In likewise may be compared. Associated Press Phota HAUPTMANN SAYS NEVER GLIMPSED LINDBERGH'S BABY NEW YORK. Sept. 28. Bruno Richard Hauptmann asserted today, "I never saw the Lindbergh baby, dead or alive." He broke silence for the second time to plead hla own ease before the pub lie, answering a list of questions. The questions were framed by newspaper men covering the Bronx county Jail! where be la confined. His attorney, James M. Fawoetr, took "the lit of questions In to hla cell. To the question, "Do you attU claim that you are not guilty of extortion?" Hauptmann replied, "I am innocent of anything." "Do you still feel confident of ae quttUl?" "Yes, I do." he replied What are your thoughtj about your wife and child?" "I love them dearly," said Haupt mann," and I hope to return to them soon." He was asked What word ha wanted to send to hla mother In Germany. "Tell her that I am innocent." said Hauptmann, "and that I jove her." "Did Fisch Indicate by any hint that he waa mixed up In the kid naping?" "No." "Did you spend the money with the knowledge that It waa ransom mon ey?" "NO." "Did you know Dr. John F. Condon before the kidnaping .of the Llndbergn baby?" "No." Hauptmann again replied. "Did you suffer a leg injury in early 1932, and If so, what waa the cause and where did It happen?" , Another negative response. Then came the question. "Did you ever see the Lindbergh baby, dead ot alive?" "I never saw the Lindbergh baby." replied Hauptmann. "dead or alive." SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 28. 7P Refusing to reconsider its action In ousting delegates from three building trades unions, the building trades department of the American Federal tion of Labor today ignored the lm-' passioned plea of William Oreen. A. F. of L. president, to bring harmony within the department. Pointing out the executive council; of the A. F. of L had voted unani mously to accept the reafflliation of the carpenters, bricklayers and elec trical workers International unions with the building trades department. President Green warned the conven tion that their action in refusing to accept the reafflliation was lliegil under A. F. of L. laws, . Litigation arising over the Sterling mine property, hae been adjusted, according to Attorney Porter J. Neft. counsel for the mine operators. Ope rationa at the mine are expected to be resumed In two or three weeks. The mine is now incorporated ai the "Sterling Mine, Inc.," by a syndi cate of New ToTk capitalists. They hsve installed new equipment, anfl jpian, it it said, to mine the higher itveli of the pi-open. f Bruno Richard Hauptmann, charged with receiving notes (right) sent to Colonel Lindbergh, are shown e hlrd word In the top line (left), taken from Haupt. the ransom note. Other worda with the tame lettera With the arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, alien German carpent sr. In the Lindbergh baby kidnap ing case It waa revealed that B. C. Farrer (above), handwriting ex pert In tho treasury department mora than two years ago had char acterized the writer of tho ransom notes as a methodical German car penter. (Associated Press Photo BASEBALL ST. LOUIS, Sept. 28. ( AP) The Cardinals advanced Into a tie with the New York Giant for tlie Nat ional league lead today by defeating the Cincinnati Reds 4 to 0 behind the six-hit pitching of Disrzy Dean. Score: R. H. E. Cincinnati . 0 7 0 St; Louis 4 13 0 Frey, Stout and Lombardl; J. Dean and Delancey. Pear Markets NEW YORK, Sept. 38. (AP) (U. S. D. A.) Pear auction market, prices slightly stronger. Six can ar rived; A Oregon cars, 6 California, 2 Washington unloaded; 7 cars on track. Oregon Bartletts: 1002 boxes extra fsncy, I2.30a3.2A: tops 2.2523&; average 12.70; 840 boxes fsncy, 2 459 2.00; average 92.70. Oregon Boscs: 330 boxes extra fancy, $2.30 & 2.60: average, 93.43: 330 boxes fancy, S2.2Sei2.50; average 12.38. Oregon D'AnJous: 157 boxes extra fancy, $16511.00; average $1,82; 75 boxes fancy, $1.40 it 1.85; average $1.87. Wsnhlngton Bartletts: 140 boxes ex tra fancy, $2.00 2 05; average $3.02; 468 boxes fancy, $1.55185; average, $I.7P. Washington Boscs: 249 boxea extra fsncy. 135"tl 73; average $1.54; AO boxea fancy, $1.351.50; average $1.44. Washington D'AnJous: 115 boxes unr lass I fled. $1.30 1.45; average. II 37. CHICAOO. Sept. 28. f API USLM) Pesr auction market; ft Oregon cars, ft Washington. 2 Illinois. 1 Call fornla arrived; 23 can, on track. 6' cars sold. Oregon Bartletts : 85 boxes extra fancy, $3 603 15: average. $2 07; 1081 box fancy, $3 25 2 60; average, 3 54. Org-n Bo-r: 711 boxea exl-a fnncy $185 -i 2 30. a.eiaii. 13 17; .Vtl boxo acj, $l.Wa 10, average. 92.04. SHOWS INCREASE AN FRANCISCO. Sept. 2B. (AP) Studies of Oregon employment con ditions Just completed by the' Fed eral Reserve bank of Ban Francisco Indicate the state's lndxistrles In creased employment 23 per cent from July to August. The bank reported today 114 firms covered In the survey paid 28 per cent more In wagon during August than In July. "These Increases," the report aald, "were considerably larger than the usual July-August expansion They reflected in part a recovery from the comparatively low level of employ ment In July at the time of strikes, and an extraordinarily sharp lncrense In operation at canneries." August employment waa found to average eight per cent higher than a year ago, with payrolls up six per cent. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. (AP) The weekly trade survey of Dun & Brad strcct said today that there had been a slight Interruption this week to the fall upturn in retail distribution, which "Is Interpreted as significant of an abrupt brondening during the weeks that lie immediately ahead." In some of the retail branches, the review asserted, September has been the best month since March, with further expansion apparently assured during October. "The rising level of retail distribu tive totala during the last five weeks," continued tlie review, "was checked to some extent by the rainy weather and the predominance of summer temperatures In most parts of the country. "Following the feeble revival of In dustrial operations last week, there are now mors manifestations of strength, although these are to be noted chiefly In the consumption goods division. "The durable goods group ha yet to disclose the development hope fully awaited. "As a result of the ateadler move ment of merchandise In retail chan nels wholesale markets generally 1 were less active than last week." AT EUGENE DEPOT EUOENE. Sept. 28 (AP) An en thusiastic crowd of approximately 1.000 greeted ex-president Herbert Hoover when hla train pulled into the Southern Pacific depot here lsst night. Headed by Mayor El tana Large and Fred Stickles, chairman of the Re publican central committee of Lane county, the large delegation gave the only living ex-presldent a rousing ovstlon when he appeared at the rear of his car. Mr. Hoover expressed appreciation of his welcome, said the Willamette valley was a "wonderful place In which to live," and remarked upon the ability of Oregon fish to "grow after they were caught." ronlt Sentenced. ASTORIA. Ore , Sept. 28 J A sentence of five years In suite prison was paased on Charles A. McNaull of Aberdeen late yesterday after he had pieeried guilty to a charge of arson He said he hae a wife and two chil den la Aberdeen. Mastery of Depression Near if Unified Effort Continues Roosevelt Primary Relief Load Up to Communities Presidents Word to Leaders in Assembly at White House WASHINGTON. Sept. 38. (AP) Confidence that a unified attack "for a little while longer" would master "old man depression," waa expressed today by President Roosevelt In addressing the 1934 conference on the mobilisation for human needs. To the assembled leaders of the group at the White House, the presi dent emphasized that It waa up to local communities to carry the pri mary burden of relief. He called It the privilege rather than the duty of tlie Individual American to bear a share In relief. "It Is that personal appeal, that personal aervlee, which has carried Ua through these trying years," he said. Little While Longer. "A unity of effort for a little while longer will, I am confident, bring na tional success to our nationally uni fied efforts to bring old man depres sion to the point where we can finally master and destroy him. Mr. Roosevelt said there had been some Inefficiency in the emergency efforts to alleviate distress, but that he looked forward to greater effic iency. Ho told the conference, which t headed by Newton D. Baker of Ohio, that It wns Its duty to see to It: "First of all. that destitution la re lieved, and, secondly, that no Indi vidual and no family shall be en titled to public assistance If that Individual or that family la not de serving. Workmen Listen. Amplifying apparatus had been aet up in the White House to take tho president's words to a crowd on the grounds, An his talk started, work men on the new executive office building sat down to listen. Baker, replying to the president, expressed the organisation's appre ciation for the co-operation of the chief executive and Mrs. Roosevelt, who is chairman of the national wo men's committee. Years of famine have followed years of plenty. Baker said, "not be cause nature has withheld her bounty (Continued on Page Twelve) 1 . T OUE TO OPEN IN To discuss plans for the fall drive, scheduled for early November, the Community Chest board met yester day with Eugene Thorndlke, presi dent, in charge. A successful year was reported by the officers, and each organization represented gave a flnnncinl report of the past year, and presented its proposed budget for the, coming year. Larry Schade, Mr. Thorndlke and J. C. Mann were named on the ex ecutive committee to act with the chairman of the drive, whenever he may bo appointed. Present at the Thursday meeting besides Mr. Thorndlke, were Lillian Roberts. George Frey, Larry Schade, Mrs. John Wellls. Mrs. R. E. Oreen, Mrs. Dolph Phlpps, Mrs. Leonard Carpenter, Captain O R. Durham and Ruth Meusel, secretary. The Allied Welfare association held Its first fall meeting today at the Medford hotel wtth 16 members pres ent, representing various service clubs snd organizations of the city. Representatives of the club pledg ed enthusiastic support of the drive and volunteered to send workers to aid. WOMEN GOLFERS KEEP INTERNATIONAL TROPHY CHEVY CHASE, Md.. Sept. 28. fT) The American Curtis cup team todsy successfully defended the Interna tional trophy from challenging group of women golfers from Eng land. With two matchea still to be completed, the Americans hsd already accumulated 6 points, enough to Insure victory. BABY PICTURE STAR REFUSES $416,000 HOLLYWOOD, Cal.. Sept. 28 . -Wf Shirley Temple. Ur.y movie starlet, has been offered snd baa turned down, an offer of M 18,000 for her professions! servlcea for a period of two years, her father. George F. Tein pie. Ism Angeles bank manager, sld today. BY NEW YORK. Sept. 28. (AP) Her bert Hoover's book, "The Challenge to Liberty," waa published today, car rying a stern warning against national regimentation, and prescribing in stead "new inventions and new dis coveries." In hla first lengthy pronouncement on the nation's affalra since hla re tirement to Palo Alto, Calif., nearly 19 months ago, the former president writes: We 'cannot extend the mastery ot government over the dally life of a people without somewhere making It master of people's souls and thoughts. That Is going on today. It Is a. part of all regimentation." Offering what Is In effect his alter, native to preaent recovery policies, Mr. Hoover says: "We have been told that our indua trlsl plant Is built, that our last frontier has long since been reached, and that our. task la now not dis covery or necessarily the production of more goods, but the sober, less dra matic business of administering the resources and plants already In hand, "That Is s false assumption for the frontiers of science, Invention, and the inspirations of human behavior are as yet but barely penetrated by men ... No society will function without confidence In Its future op portunities . . . "And ours la an economic system which for Ita own stablltty demands new Inventions and new discoveries . . . We must have new articles and new eervicea which absorb thoae workers released from constant per fecting of the methods of making the older articles and services." T NEW YORK. B.pt. 28. (AP) Wll llsm Randolph Hearst wilt not sup port Upton Sinclair on the California gubernatorial race. "will you support Sinclair?" the publisher was asked when he re turned yesterday from a tour of Eu rope. Ha attributed the support of Sin clalr partly "to the fact that we are not a calm and conservative people like the Engllah, but are more like varous European nations, disposed to go headlong Into the support of rali catlsm as a cure-all, "Personally, I think It la a kill all," he added. Hearst aald the world has had IS yeara of radicalism In Russia, "and the people are atlll starving." READY TO IRK WASHINGTON, Kept. 28 tVP) The new national Industrial recovery board set up to administer NRA. reported to Prealdent Roosevelt today It had or ganlred with Clay Williams of North Carolina as ohslrman. The recovery board selected Leon 0 Marshall of Baltimore, executive sec retary. It requested Colonel George A Lynch to serve as administrative of ficer. He has been acting adminis trator In the absence of Hugh S Johnson, who resigned. 9 Horses Burn In Barn Near Rufus THE DALLES. Ore., Sept. 28 (AP) Nine horses burned to death and a large amount of hay waa lost when fire destroyed ft Urge bam near Ru fus last night. tlx other horses In the bsrti were led to safety, as wers never i head of cattle. ET E, IS FEAR "J Mrs. Owens, Missing Since Saturday, May Have Taken Knife, Says Hus band Threats Recalled With the discovery that a large hunting knife waa missing from his home, Oliver Owens, CCC worker re siding at 837 Palm street, today ex pressed feare that his wife, mlsaing since Saturday night, might have committed aulclde. He recalled that about a month ago she had threat ened to end her life, saying she would "go Jump In the lake." Telling him that she was going to the neighbors to see If she could sell a canary, Mrs. Owena left home about 8 o'clock Saturday afternoon and has not been seen since. The couple has five children who are under the fath er's care. Knife Mis I iiK The hunting knife, which Owom said waB gone, had a seven-Inch blade. wii monqay ne received a letter from her, posted at Centm. Pmn i aha said: "I have tried to get along mn i, an am leaving. Good luck and God bless you." In the letter niso Btated she had "left for (Continued from Page Five) TE LOS ANOBLES. Sept. 58. (AP) Hollywood baby diapers were with, drawn from Judicial attention today. Not enough mothers showed up to tell the court about them. It was the stilt of Ernest R. Wood ward, proprietor of the Baby Laun dry Service, seektnir as nnn from Philip Kesrney Jr , proprietor m a rival nrm. woodward charged that Kearney used a similar firm name and waa garnering the laundry that Hollywood mothera thought they were sending to Woodward. OnlV two mother, nut. nf - subpoenaed, appeared, and when wooawara a attorney talked to them, he found they were not valuable wit nesses for hla client. Bo the attorney aeked dismissal of his suit, the Judse so ordered, and the two moti--walked out. FISH AT HYATT Sergeant Ed Walker, atate police of ficer of the game division .returned to Medford from Hyatt lake, whero he checked on the fish situation, a para mount topic In southern Oregon this week. Sergeant Walker said the water hvt raised considerably slnoe tho last ram. and that no fish are dying at the Iske. All are In good condition, ha reported, and he expressed the ool:ef that there will be no more loss thl. year from low water. IJEMPSTKAD, N. V., Ser-t. 27. Boy, it 's prpat to get back into a country whero something happens. Talk about Jnpaii. Russia nnd Kuropc, why even society reporter could cover their news. Willi u something is ernekiiiR every minute. Iliijih Johnson's retirement? Why, that's like Hitler step ping out. Hugh has never put any men to death, but he hn certainly seared some of our biggest industrialists half tn denth. He has cussed 'ein nil collectively and individually. You told many big guys tho truth That has never been told them before. Good luck to you, Hugh. Yours, WlUi nOtiEKS. T. S.: And best to Bobby. 9 lOilTlTcFaiiihf Sj nJIsile. las. J
