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Medford Merchants Plan "Harvest Days " Displays October 5, 6 and 8 Medford Mail .Tribune The Weather Forecast: Sunday fair. Not much chant In temperature. WINNER Pulitzer Award Temperature: Highest yesterday FOR 1931 Lowest yesterday Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEME . 30, 11)31. No. 163. FDR. TO ANSWER NRA. CRITICS IN EATENS L OF L E INOFE President Expected To Out . line Future Attitude To Business In Fireside Chat With Nation Spending Plans Also Listed. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. IJP) President Roosevelt drafted today a new socountlng of his administration, designed among other things to stop business and political critics of the NRA and send that rehashed agency off to ayflyvng start. In what la Intended as a man to man chat with the people by radio tomorrow night he will speak In this fashion for the Wat time since last June when he left for a Hawaiian Tacatlon. The three month Interval has brought new and outspoken demands from business leaders for at least a new definition of not a shift in the present trend of administration poli cies especially those vital ones deal ing with government spending, bud get balancing, currency atablllzation and NRA control of business. The same period has allowed Presi dent Hoosevelt personally to tour the eountrv and. In the seclusion of his Hvde Park home to gather advice from leaders in all walks of life In dustry, labor, agriculture and fin ance. - If organized business, through such outlets as the United States chamber of commerce, has become more deter mined In opposition to some phases of the new deal, It was believed the president too has returned to the White House with new Idea and firmer convictions for charting his recovery program. That he should not hesitate to voice them tomorrow, bluntly replying to critics and to what he calls the grist of the "rumor mill." was the call of many of his followers. Also It was a generally expressed desire that the chief executive elaborate on the fu ture of government code partnership with business. The president himself set aside all possible time both today and tomor row for writing his speech, but gave no hint of the subject matter. NRA was outstanding in speculation over the president's tslk. Already the reenvefv unit is launched on a "evo lutionary" road toward legislative permanency with a live man uosro ' replacing Hugh 8. Johnson. At the outset. It confronted the task of pass ing on one of the major Issues be tween labor and industry the short er work week. IN LIQUOR COS! PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 29. (AP) New reductions In liquor prices were r announced today by Administrator i George L. Sammls of the Oregon state liquor commission. The cuts were possible through re durtlons obtained from supplies and reduced costs of operation, he said Straight Bourbon whisky, bottlco out of bond, Is now as low as 70 cents a pint and strslght rye whisky can be had for as low as S5 cents a pint. Lowest priced Canadian rye whisky la I95 a pint. Scotch whisky of the commission's own bottling sells for 12.85 a firtn for five-year old stock and 2.9J a fifth for 10-year old. Gins as low as 69 cents a pint, do. mestlo brandy as low as 70 cents and California sweet wines at 65 cents a quart In bulk are offered. WEATHEROUTLOOK Oregon: Fair Sunday and Monday but with torn cloudiness In north went portion and on const; somewhat cooler in Interior Monday; moderate northwest wind onsnore. MAW FRANCISCO. Scut. 38. (AP) The outlook for the coming week in far wAirn atatea is for fair weath er and normal temperature but with rains first part of week In the North Pacific states and northern Idaho. PORTLAND 'REDS' FACE INDICTMENT PORTLAND. Ore.. Sept. 29. AP Indictment charging seven aliened member of the communist party with "conducting an assemblage of persons and erinnimtlon advoeetiiK criminal syndicalism" were returned today by the Multnomah couniy grand Jury. No true bills were returned in the cases of 23 others, all of whom were arrested In raid July 27 while th vaterfront strike was at Us height. Bail nf 11000 earn ss set tor Hum? Indicted. ' - Green, A. F. Of L Head, Faces Test Of Power In National Meet This Week Three Big Unions In volved In Deadlock. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20. (AP) The deadlock between executives of the American Federation of Labor and leaders of Its building trades department over the status of three big International unions outweighed all other pre-convention Issues today and produced threats of a, major schism In organized labor's ranks. Rumors that the federation in its convention opening here next week might be asked to revoke the char ter of the building trades department unless the latter body yielded in the bitter controversy were widely circu lated. . William Green, federation president, and other federation offi cials, remained noncommittal when asked about them. Observers said Green's power ap peared to be facing a test in the in ternal crisis. The three international unions carpenters, bricklayers and electrical workers withdrew from the building trades department sev eral years ago. Last June the execu tive council of the federation recom mended reinstatement. The building trades department. In annual convention ending yesterday, refused to readmit the three unions. which have a membership of about 468.000, or about the same number as the other unions In that division of the federation. Green went before the building trades and asked them to reconsider. He called their action Illegal. The department refused to reconsider. Talking freely about other matters before the federation. Green said .he most important general Issues would be the 30-hour week, higher wagas and labor's "no-partisan political pro gram," The latter referred to the federa tion's questionnaire sent recently lo all congressional candidates asking their positions on matters involving unemployment, labor and other" eco nomic problems. Stressing what he said was the ne cessity for shortening hours, the stocky, gray-haired head of the fed eration said that if every man in the United States who wanted work could be given A Job. there would be but 28 hours of employment for him each week. E SLAYER OF GIRL MA RSH FIELD. Ore., Sept. 39. (PV The body of Charles Brennan. 64, sought In connection with the ax slaying of his young girl emplo? was todty found floating in the Co qullle river. Brennan, a Myrtle point baker, had been missing since 7 a. m. Monday. A few hours after he was last seen, the body of Mrs. Hazel McGee, 34. his employe, was found in the bed in her room above the bakery. She had been brutally murdered. Tne ax, the death instrument, was nearby. An alarm was spread over southern Oregon and Brennan was sought In many quarters. Police believed, how ever, he may have taken his own Ufa. and a search of tt.e waters of Co qullle river was ordered. Today his body was found by a Co- qullle fisherman near a bridge. It was floating under brush near the nan of the river, about nine miles down stream from Myrtle Point, beyond the point at which dragging operations were underway. Police had attributed the slaying of the girl to Jealousy. Mrs. McOee, sep arated from her husband, had been working for Brennan for a couple of years, and came with him to Myrtle Point from Seaside a year ago. They were seen together frequently at parties. A day or so before the girl was killed, acquaintances said she went out with snother man. . Mail Tribune Has Free Booklets On Housing Act Plan A supply of booklets, "How Owners of Homes and Business Property Can Secure Benefit of the National Housing Act," has been received by the Mall Tribune and may be obtained at this office free of charge by anyone interest ed. The booklets, prepared by the Federal Housing Administration, besides giving full Information on how to secure benefits of the plan, also gives numerous helpful hints on Improving homes and business building, with many Illustrations showing attractive results obtain ed through moderntration of out moded or dilapidated structures. Preliminary meetings were held In San Francisco as labor chiefs of tha nation prepared for tha annual American Federation of Labor convention 10 be held in that city beginning Oct. 1. Upper: left to right: Frank Morrison, aecretary of the federation, and T. A. Rlckard, New York, teeond vice-president. Lower: I. M. Arburn of Washington, D. C, and Matthew Woll of New York, a vice-president of the national labor organization. (Associated Press Photol Legality Of Recovery Laws To Be Considered At His toric Session Oil Code And Gold Hoarding Law Contested. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. (AP) Justices of the supreme court gath ered in the capital today for the opening on Monday of what appears likely to be the tribunals moat his toric term. In the hands of the nine Justices will be cases holding possibility of sustaining or upsetting major parts of the New Deal. Already before the court are five casea arising out of Roosevelt recovery laws. Of the "new deal" casea pending before the supreme court, three were from the East Texas oil field. In gen eral they attacked the authority of the federal government under the NRA to control oil production. Two others from New York assail the authority of congress to prohibit gold hoarding and suspend gold payments. Some doubt now exists as to the status of the oil cases. The Justice department announced tcday that producers of oil in Texas who vio lated the state quota would not be prosecuted by the federal government for auch violations committed prior to last Tuesday. At the oil admin istration It was Indicated that one of the case thus might be dropped but that two others would remain before the court. There Is doubt whether the oil cases as a group will be decided oTl their merits or dismissed without a hearing. The Justice department pre vously had urged the court to review them. It disclosed the casea were prepared, tried and decided In the lower courts under a misapprehension on the part of all Involved, Includ ing counsel and the Judges, that the revised executive order of President Roosevelt made oil production In ex cess of quotas allowed by states, un fair trade practices and violation of the petroleum code. If past cases can be taken as a rule, the supreme court decisions on the cases Involving the constitution ality of New Deal acts may be close. The same nine Justices affirmed last term 0 to 4 decisions on the legality of the Minnesota mortgage morator ium and the New Tork milk control 'act. i However, the action of the court ; in the two atate casea Is not accepted ; In legal circles aa definitely rore 'casting Its position on federal "neu deal controversies, j Although the national recovery act I was emergency legislation similar to the two state laws sustained by the court, the state laws had the ad vantage of being enacted under pol ice powers not enjoyed by the fed eral government. Ex-Mrs. McAdoo Is Hurt in Rock Leap HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27. t AP ) Nursing a fractured leg. Mrs. Elesno. , Wilson Mr Ad no, divorced wife of U 8. Senator William a. McAdoo. and ' daughter of the late president. Wood row Wilson, la confined to her apart ment here. She suffered the fracture recently in Jumping from one rork to aiKthr In Palm canyon, nf ar jPslm Springs. New Jersey Conference Re jects Criticism Of Alleged . .White House Party Of ficial Comment Brief But Caustic. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Sept. 29 (AP) President and Mrs. Roose velt were censured today by the board of temperance, prohibitions and public morals of the New Jersey conference of the Methodist Episcopal church because the board said, beer was served to young people at a Christmas dance at the Whits House, The report of the committee, head ed by the Rev. L. L. Hand of Lam- bertville. which was presented at the morning session, said: "How It hurts the whole make up of a true citizen to read In bold headllnea: -Beer flocda white house' The report further quoted an al leged newspaper account of the party, which was given for the younger Roosevelt s, as saying, " "The stately front hall waa piled up with kega of beer as the dancers drank to sat iety of the Rooseveltlan beverage. In the conviviality of the occasion, all formalities were thrown overboard and hilarity reigned." "Such Is the example which the chief executive and the first lady set for the youth of the nation," the report said In closing. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. ( AP) Irritation waa evidenced at the White House today about a report presented to, and rejected by, the New Jersey Methodist Episcopal church conference criticising Presi dent and Mrs. Roosevelt for an al leged beer party in the executive mansion last Christmas season. Official comment, however, wai limited to this statement by Stephen T. Early, one of the president's sec retaries: "The report Is so obviously untrue that it couldn't be either decently or officially recognised." T FOR GRAZE AREAS KLAMATH FALLS, Spt. 29. f AP) Applications for the formation of 16 grarJng districts In Oregon have been filed under the new federal grazing law. It was satd at a meeting of stockmen here Friday with Rufus C. Poole, assistant solicitor of the department of the Interior. The meeting, attended by about 300 Orrgon and northern California stockmen, was called to gain infor mation m-hlcb will assist officials In drawing rules and regulations for ad ministering the act In Oregon. Hear ings on applications for the creation of districts will be held here Octol. U and a. Burns on October IS Prevention of ranee deterioration through overdrawing and stabilisation of the livestock Indtistry are the main purposes of the set. Poole said. It was revealed that within the next few days notices will go out for creation of three ir r districts In Lake. Ms;, heur and Harney counties. 'Very Important' Evidence Given Against Hauptmann Identity Kept Secret Sanity Test For Accused Trial May Start On Wednesday. By FRANCIS A. JAMIEftON (Copyright, 1031, by the A'soclnlcri Tress) NEW YORK. Sept. 29. (AP) A mystery woman witness entered the Lindbergh kidnaping Investigation tonight with the disclosure by Dis trict Attorney Samuel J. Foley that she had given him "very important" Information in the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. accused of ex torting the aso.OOO ransom. Foley said he had questioned thr woman privately and she had not ap peared before the grand Jury. "She came and went as quickly as Lindbergh, and nobody knew any thing about her," he said at a prccs conference. The prosecutor declined to reveal trie woman's nsme. where she eamc from, or where he had conducted the examination. I To a auggestlon that he might be withholding this information to make I her testimony at Hauptmann's trial a surprise, Foley replied: "That is true, but It Is not the principal reason. This Is one thing that will not leak out." Foley's announcement started con jecture as to whether the woman might be the "Mysterious Mary" whos picture the Dally News said was in Hauptmann's album of snapshots. 1 The department of Justice was said : by the paper to be seeking the girl j for questioning. Discussing the case In general, Fo ley aald: 1 "At present the only man against whom we have sufficient evidence to act In Indictments Is Hauptmann. We have no new leads. We have no Information that might tend to Iden tify anyone as an accomplice." Discussing the sanity tesva proposed for Hauptmann, District Attorney Fo ley said one psychiatrist would no ch ofn by him, a second by New Jer sey authorities, and the third by James M. Fawcett, Hauptmann's counsel. Ths district attorney then disclos ed that Dr. John F. Condon haa not Identified anyone as the mysterious "John" to whom he handed the aso. OOO ransom small bills In a Bronx cemetery. "Are you looking for such a man?" Foley was asked. "No." he replied. Joseph Bowman, who some offi cials said bore a resemblance to "John." was questioned In Chicago by police and federal agents. Chief of Detectives John L. Sullivan an nounced there he could find nothing tangible to connect him with the esse. Bowman was seized last night with a woman who gave her name as Goldle Ferris and who aald she was his wife. Although no charges were placed against him, Bowman was held at the Chicago detective bureau after the questioning. Foley aald, however, he would re quest In Bronx county court next Wednesday that a special panel of 300 veniremen be selected from which to pick a Jury of 12 men. By a special psncl he said he meant a group of men who have already indicated they have no objection to capital punish ment. "The prosecutor's office will be ready for the actual trial any day after Wednesday, by which time our trial papers will be complete," he added. CORVALLIS, Ore-, Sept. 29 (AP) An Increase of more than 88 per cent over last year's first day regis tration at Oregn" State college was announced tonight by Registrar E B. Lemon. Returning students registering to day brought the total to 2203 com pared with 1668 on the correspond ing date a year ago. No tabulation by classes had been made, though many more freshmen were added to day to the 800 registered yesterday EUGENE, Sept. 39. (AP) The to ts! of registrations at the University of Oregon reached 2955 at noon Sat urday, the largest enrollment since 1930. This total is an eighteen per cent increase over last fall at this time. Train Derailed, 2 Die in Auto Crash CONVOY. Ohio. Sept. 27fAP Both the engineer and the fireman of the Gotham limited of the Penn sylvania railroad, eastbound from Chicago to New York, were killed when part of the train was derailed after It had struck a stalled automo bile early today. A!! of the passe i. cers. however, were reported to hav. escaped serious Injury. ENROLLMENT GAME ENROLLMENT GAIN l" JY . """H It Jrs Vr i - ' v Bruno Richard Hauptmonn and his wife are pictured In this snap shot from the family album resting along a roadside a few miles from Mt. Whitney, Cal., while on a motor trip. ( 1934 by News Syndicate Co., Inc., from Associated Press) DEATH SENTENCE FREED Mil GUNS Virginia Outlaws Shoot Way To Liberty, Wound Three Officers In Jail Dash Manhunt Opens Source Of Weapons Puzzles. RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 29. (ff) Shooting their way to freedom In a sensational escape from Jail, two no torious gangsters under sentence of death for murder today wounded three officers end tonight were sought over a widespread area. Walter Legenza and Robert Ma's, the criminals, suddenly drew pistols as they were being led from their cells In the Richmond city Jail to confer with an attorney. They shot Warden W. A. Moore and Deputy Sergeants John A. Delph and then ran through the front reception room, firing wildly. Police Officer W. A. Toots, rush' lna to the Jail entrance from the out side, received a bullet through his chest, as the gangsters forced their way throuch the Jail door, t Racing through an alley next to the Jail, Legenza and Mala held up a mall truck at Fourteenth street and forced out Joe Richardson and H. D. Moon, negro drivers, with a pistol. They drove th truck several bloats to where K. T. Carpenter waa perking a sedan, took it after dragging him from the scat, and drove away at i rapid pace. Every available city and state po liceman was summoned to Join in tho hunt for the two men, who were awaiting transfer to the death cell in the state penitentiary for their part in the holdup and laying of E. M. Unbuild, federal reserve bank rot'l driver here last March. Legenza. who boasted at his trial that he had cracked safes from Nw York to New Orleans, and Mais, now suffering from six bullet wounds fired Into his back by Baltimore police, had been guarded with the greatest of care, police fearing "outelde aid. The manner in which they obtained guns was a complete mystery as no one had been allowed to see them ex cept Mais' mother. E rORTI.AND, Ore., Sept. 39. (API A Jewish Dunne for Governor club has been formed with headquarters here, It was announced today. Snmue) H. Cohen Is secretary 01 the orgnnlratlon whlrh will cam paign among Jewish pet In the Interests of Joe E. Dunne, .iepubllcsn nominee for governor. Portland Merchant IHes PORTLAND. Sept. 29 P Julius Durkhclmer. 77, for mny yesrs Iden tified prominently with the whole sale rooery business In Oregon, died at his homo here rrldsy night from a heart attack. ItiMrrr hln I ailed LANCASTER, Mass., b pt. 29 CT'l Mra Nsthsnlel Thayer, a direct de scrndent of Psul Revere and former national republican commltwewomsn for Massschusetts. died today. Her msldn nsme wss Pauline Revere Hrr hiiftbsnd. Nsthsnlel Thsyer, dleil in 1011. AND POLICY CAMPAIGNJSSUE 'For Or Against' Put Up To Voters As Election Nears Republicans Seeking Enough New Seats In Con gress To Check Executive. WASHINOTON, Sept. It. (AP) With 38 days to go before tha Amer ican electorate writes the answer, the main Issues In the national political cauldron today had boiled down to a direct "tor or against" Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The question of the continuance of the Roosevelt reign Is sharply etched across the nation In contests between Democratic and old guard Republican candidates for congress and high state offices. Only in the campaigns of some Independent and progressive Republlcana la tha Issue expanding to Include support of a majority of the Roosevelt recovery moves. The now wldo-open csmpalgns of both major parties have brought rapid developments In the past weeK. Even these will be overshadowed In the next six as mora national party leadcra take the stump throughout the country. Democrats are striving for tha re- turn of a twd-ttilrdi majority In tha house, now that they are assured, aa a result of primaries, of control of the senate In the next congress. Repub licans, on the other hand, are blast ing criticisms at the "new deal" In terrific effort to capture enougn house seats to block a repetition of what they contend was the log roll ing of legislation In the last con gress. With all of the Intra-party con tests concluded except In Rhode Is land, candidates for 430 house and 33 aenate seats and 34 governorships now are lined up for the race to the November 8 finish wire. New York Democrats and Republl cana topped off the Intra-party bat tles this week and their nominees are pledged for and against the New Deal, respectively. At their Buffalo convention, Dem ocrats dropped all signs of faction alism and re-nomlnated their entire state ticket, headed by Governor Her. bert H. Irfhmnn, and Senator Royal S. Copcland. 4 SALE $15 A. rKNDfjRTON, Ore., Sept. 30. fAP The Stanfleld Irrigation district to day announced 1000 acres of new land Is being placed upon the market fct 15 aii acre, ready for Immediate settlement. Prospective settlers are warned, however, that they will need some capital with whlrh to erect build ings and develop their land. Farmers on the project are engaged In dairy ing, raising sheep, hogs, turkeys chickens, alfalfa, corn, potatoes, ap ples, pesrs, melons, beans, small grains and all kinds of vegetable and small fruits. Terms are half cash, a fourth In two years from dale of purchase and the remaining fourth In three year from dale of purchase. The offering is the result of 100.' 000 worth of construction work be ing done on the district hy the Unit cd States bureau of reclamation. Oregon Shows Speed And Power Over Highly Touted Californians Last Year's Stars Not Missed In Touchdown Harvest. By I'rnnk O. Gorrls (Assoclsted Press Sports Writer) MULTNOMAH CIVIO STADIUM. Portland, Ore., Sept. 39. (AP) A aoomtng. booming band of Oregon' University grldders sounded a wsrn- lng challenge for the Psclrie coast conference footbsll chsmptonshtp In Multnomsh stadium today when they soundly trounced the touted University of California at Los Ang eles Bruins, 26 to 3. Not expecting anything Ilka the lopsided victory, the small crowd 01 about 13,000 fans were lett In a dizzy ' wnirl when the battle waa over, and they went away talking of another title. Oregon claimed a shore of tha crown with Stanford and Southern California last year. Mlknlak Not Missed Ths green and Inexperienced Ore gon backfleld alashed and knifed Its way through the U. C. L. A. tackles with such surprising power and speed, the Webfoot followers failed to miss the great Mike Mlkulsk, Mark Temple and Lelghton Oee ot last year'a combination. Bringing their own Loa Angeles weather with them for the flrat bat tle of the season between the north and south divisions of tha confer ence, the U. O. L. A. wsrrlors started out like they wera headed for vic tory. Bruins Score First The Bruins drew first blood In the second period when they marched to Oregon's 8-yard line, and William Murphy planted a field goal for three polnta from the ls-yard atrlpe. Ha place-kicked from the right aids of the field and the ball Just reached the goal posts, hitting the upright end bouncing over the crossbar. The slim lend was on ths score board for only a short tlma aa Ore gon came right back with a 38-yard march to u. O. L. A.'s goal line, Maurice Van Vllet, fleet footed helt back, romping over from the 5-yarl line. Ray Morse, co-captaln and end. nad put tha Wcbfooters In a posi tion for the drive when ha blocked Ted Key's punt and Stan Rlordan caught the ball for Oregon. A ahort pass from Van Vllet to Bob Parke, and a 17-yard dash by the former put the ball on the -ysrd line for the touchdown play. Hugh McCredle. nephew of the lata Walter McCredle, famous bascbsll player, failed to place kick the try for point but the touchdown sparked the O-egontans into a veritable thrashing machine and they mowed down the wilting Californians wnn ease ths rest of the wsy. They marched forty-three yards esrly In the third period, scoring on an aerial ahot from Van Vllet to Parke, and added two more touch downs In the fourth, Ray Moras romping 33 ysrds on an end around play for the first and Prank Mlchek, hard driving fullback, tallying the last on a smssh through tackle from tne 14-ysrd line. After Gsgnon missed the extra point following the third period touchdown. Quarterback Ralph Ter Jeson called for a pass tha next tune and tha play reglstred. Van Vllet throwing to Parke. Walker place kicked the last effort. The Webfootera took advantage of every break they got In the game. They scored their first touchdown after blocking a punt, tallied their (Continued on Page Pour) WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. Flew in here Thursday 'after noon rind whnt (,'rects my eyest Wnsliiniiton's monument had ft scaffold built up around it. I snid to Jesse Jones, Jessie, don't tell me the "New Deal" is rebuilding George's monu ment T" Lobby of hotel full of badges and found out it's the poliee from everywhere getting their code. They was afraid to como and get it under Johnson. Tho president lias picked five men to replace Johnson and run the NHA. I think that's what these police chiefs are all doing here. They arc going to help him arrest the men that br appoints, for nobody would take a job like that voluntarily. i H7He8autSyillate, 1st.
