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CARDS 0. S. C. ii f ri it - 17 . 0 Ws r u. s. c. 19 ST. MARY'S 7 . 0 U. OF C 0 MEDFORD 32 ROSEBURG 0 GONZAGA .. 24 IDAHO 20 TEXAS 7 IRISH 6 MINNESOTA . . . 20 NEBRASKA ...... 0 The Weather Forecast : Sunday clou dy ; con 11 n. ued mild. Temperature Highest yesterday -. 82 Lowest yesterday ..... 4B Medford M ail Tribune WINNER Pulitzer Award FOB 1934 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGOX, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1934. No. 169. J'4' raul HaUon 'BEANED' DIZZY ON TODAY TO By PAUL MALLON. WASHINGTON. D. C, Oct. 5 Life's most embarrassing moment for the liver enthusiasts co-me the other d&y when China walked In and protested strongly against our silver policy. Since then, the new deal advisers, who are respon sible for the ad ministration ac cepting this pol icy, have been Tery, very un comfortable. They are suppos ed to be search ing for a rear rangement In the policy, which may be announc ed soon. If one can be found. administration may get some new sti ver adviser. A protest from China la not In lt aelf a world -shaking development. What makes It o bad la that the sil ver boya always contended their pol icy would restore the purchasing power ol the Orient. Indeed, epeechea have been made on the floor of the United Statea senate that the whole world depression was due to depreci ation ot Oriental purchasing power, brought on by lower silver prices. Senatorial silver campalgnera In elated that all you needed to do to cure the depression throughout the world waa to boost the price ol silver. They were Just 10O per cent wrong. ... ritftmitea China's con tention that the sliver policy la hurt ing her. She .sn buy more with higher silver values, but can sell less. Her unfavorable trade balance drains silver from her country. , You can get a good squint at how It works by looking at the last trade ilcures. In August, we sold her a third more than we did In August of last year. But we bought from her only half aa much aa we bought In August. 1933. That leavea her with an unfavor able trade balance of about .2.500.000 with ua for the single month of Aug ust. She can pay ua that excess only by shipping ua silver. Behind the current triumphant American tour of thla Chinese gen eral, Tsal Tlng-Kal. there seems to be a somewhat Indefinite Idea that he may soon become the ruler of China, with or without a revolution. The American Chinese are atrong for him. Everywhere he goes, they give him a big hand. He la the moat popular Chinese since Sun Hat-Sen. ut no one from the Chinese lega tion or consular offices goes near him. He saved Shanghai two years ago, but he la still a rebel. The rich merchants of southern China, however, like him. They are supposed to be financing his trip. The Jupaneso laughed when Gen eral Billy Mitchell announced we could destroy Japan with a fleet of, aay 40 dirigibles. That made It un animous. The Howell committee, before which Mitchell made his statement, even tittered, Itself. So did the spec tators, most of whom were technical aviation expert. Every time the brilliant air en thusiast opens hi mouth a sensation comes out, but no newspaper would hire him as a cub reporter becauae he has a habit of letting his enthusiasm lead him Into exaggeration. A, for instance, hi testimony about the United States being five year behind In military air development. Every Impartial airman will tell you the truth i that Europe 1 about two yeara behind u. If the European nation were not behind us, they would not now be buying plane from us. Ace Hurler Unhurt and Confi dent of Winning Struck On Head Ball Bounds High Story of Cardinal Rout ST. LOUIS, Oct. 8. (AP) The red badge of courage flared like a beacon In the fighting hearts of the St. Louis Cardinals tonight as they accepted defeat and soberly reflect ed the close escape of their star of stars, Dizzy Dean. Those Cardlnala had been nearly clawed to pieces by the growling Bengal Tiger, suffering their worst licking In a month, yet. they were crinntng and eupremely confident thev would triumph In the end. Frankle Prlsch, leader of the Card inals, accepted the defeat with a smile. "What's there to say?" he asked. "We simply got the hell beat out of us. That's all there Is to It." Dean, knocked unconscious when Billy Rogell, Tiger shortstop, hit him in the head with a vicious throw when Dean came charging Into sec ond base, will pitch for the Cardinals tomorrow, according to Frlsch. Dean was taken to a hospital by Dr. Robert P. Hyland for an X-ray examination merely as a precaution ary measure. He said Dean was not seriously Injured and showed no Ill effects except a big headache. After Dean had been carried ' ofl the field, he was placed In bed In the dressing room, his head packed in Ice. Later he went to the hospital with his wife for the examination. You can't hurt me, hitting me In the head." Dean said. "I never knew I was hit until I woke up on the ground. I didn't see the throw atu. All I saw was a lot or stars ana moons and cats and dogs." "Sure, I'm gonna pitch tomorrow. I've been dyln' to get at them Tig ers again. I'll beat 'em. too." The ball that hit Dean left no mark on his forehead. It crashed against the skull and bounced 50 feet In the air like a skyrocket. One thing which I behind all this aviation and battleship hoopla I that the administration now la making up Its budget for next year. The airmen In the army and navy naturally want to get all they can for planes. The aea admiral want the Hons ahare tor battleships: the plane manufacturers, shipbuilders and dir igible constructor are pushing on tin Insider for bigger portions of the expenditures. For that reason, you can expect an exceea of propaganda from each fac tion until congress finally divide the awag. The only political man of the fly ing trapeze 1 the democratic sena torial candidate In Michigan, Prank Plcard. He Is from a clrcua family, widely billed aa "The Flyng Plcarda," and. In his younger days, took a turn on the high bars himself. On a recent Washington visit, Pl card was conferring with P.PC offi cials whon a hurdy-gurdy in the mrect below started playing the fly ing trape-.'e snc T:ie rr.ectliis was 8T. LOUIS. Oct. 8. (AP) The St. Louis Cardinals fell off their high perch before the home folks today with a reverberating crash, going to pieces on the defense aa the Detroit Tigers flayed five opposing pitchers and roared back Into the thick of the world series fight with a 10 to 4 triumph behind the under-hand de livery of another snapshooting star from the freshman ranks, Elden Le roy Auker of Norcatur, Kansas. The American league champions, launching their most vicious attack thua far with a revamped batting order, knocked Tex Carleton out ol the box In less than three Innings. continued their assault against 41- year-old Dazzy Vance and capped the climax of their explosive comeback with a five-run rally that blasted Southpaw BUI Walker off the mound in the eighth. The Tiger onslaught waa led by two playera who had been under critical fire because of their previous short comings Billy Rogell, the limping shortstop end big Hank Oreenberg. first baseman. Rcgell slugged home four runs, as he came through twice with base-hlta while the bags were loaded. Oreenberg, as If Inspired to show Manager Mickey Cochrane he made a mistake by dropping the gangling New York boy from fourth to alxth position In the batting order. collected four hits. Including a pair of doublea, to equal a world series record, and drove home three runs Five Cardinal errors, Including three by the usually reliable Pepper Martin at third base, contributed heavily to the Tiger scoring, duplicated the Jit tery performance of Detroit In the first game and made a "goat" of the famous "wild horse of the Osage where be had been an outatandlng performer only the day before. The Cardinals gave Carleton a one- run lead In the second on Medwlck'a single, Collins' double and a long scoring fly by Orsattl, but thla waa wiped out and carleton waa chased from the box by a three-run Tiger attack In the third. Two were out and the situation apparently under control when Cochrane doubled down the foul line, Oehrln"r and ooslln wslked, filling the bases and Rogell cime through with single through the Infield, bringing home two run. Carleton waa replaced by Vance, making world aeries debut In the autumn stage of one of baseball's most glamorous careera. Durocher failed to handle Oreenberg'h ground er, which went for a scratch hit and scored Ooslln, after which Martin handled Owens rap poorly and it went for another scratchy single. Vance (Continued on Page Pour) IMS M ML. 01 NAMED AS SLAYER OF SWEETHEART I J I i v? v , - Bobby Edwards (above), central figure in the "American Tragedy" slaying trial at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., In which he is charged with the slay ing of one sweetheart that he might wed another, heard a detective testify Edwards told him after the body of Freda McKecknie had been found, "I got out my blackjack rnd let her have it." Edwards is shown in ohotoaraphic study made In the courtroom. .Associated Press Photo. WILKES-BARRE. Pa., Oct. 6 i (AP) Robert Allen Edwards, 31- ycar old surveyor and self-styled 'lady's man," was convicted today of the slaying of his sweetheart, Freda McKechnie, a telephone operator. The Luzerne county Jury returned its verdict shortly after 8:15 a. m., and recommended that Edwards -die In the electric chair. The Jury began Its deliberations at 8:45 last night. Thus, the "Ameriran tragedy" ca of this coal mining region continued Its strict adherence to a famous lit erary parallel. RECOVERY ACT OF Federal Courts of Two States Hand Down Rulings Against Motor and Lum ber Code Price Provisions OKLAHOMA CITT, Oct. fl. ( AP) Intimation of his belief that the NRA retail motor code Is only a link In the "national usurpation of state rights" was expressed today by Fed eral Judge Edgar 8. Vaught aa he de clared the federal courts stand aa a bulwark guarding the rights of the American Individual under the con stitution. Without giving an opinion In the argument of demurrers to the Indict ment of Jack Klnnebrew, Oklahoma City car dealer, and O. O. Leadbetter, Norman dealer, Judge Vaught scored government attorneys for their con tention that the retail sale of new cars and the trade-In of old ones Is a transaction of interstate commerce. "If this la true," the Jurist said, "then congress has the right to regu late that sale price of the suit of clothes you have on; the right to say what price I shall pay or a merchant shall charge for the shotgun shells 1 buy; and everything la Interstate commerce, subject to the Jurisdic tion of the federal government." Edwards was accused by the state of solving an "eternal triangle" pre dicament by bludgeoning to death the sweetheart of whom he had tired so he could marry another girl. This "other'' woman In the case was Misb Margaret L. Cratn, with whum :.e had become acquainted at' collcfie. The youth was charged with killing Freda when thry went swimming ;n Harvey's lake the night of July Hi. Edwards heard the verdict wltn bowed head. He trembled when led from the courtroom. OF CHICO SLAYS 2 Jeweler and Ex-Convict Also Dead Answers Call to Surrender With Gunfire Gun Battle in Orchard CHICO, Calif., Oct. 8. ( AP) Three men were shot to death near here today In gun battles which re sulted from a highway patrolman's search for the Intoxicated driver of an automobile. The victims were William R. Mc Danlel 30, state highway policeman; Kenneth Davis, 33, garage employe, and their alleged slayer, Nick Tlrch inetz, 45. a Chlco Jeweler. A posse cornered Turchlnetz, a former convict, on a ranch three miles from his residence and shot him fatally when he answered calls to surrender with blasts from a rifle. Turchlnetz previously had fired at his wife, telling her "I thought you were a cop." Davis had received a call to aid a disabled automobile. Officer McDsn- lel sccompsnled him and the two men apparently were waylaid when they arrived t the wreck. Officers an Id tracks near trees at the scene showed Turchlnetz appar ently had stalked his victims from an orchard. Footprints led from tree to tree and Chief of Pollre Charis Tovee found rifle shells where the Jeweler had started firing. RAINY, UNSETTLED WEATHER OUTLOOK Oregon : Cloudy Sunday, followed by unsettled weather and rains Sun day night or Monday; continue mild; moderate southwest and sout'". wind v'f -.he coast. CATALONIA PLOTS Loyal Troops Surround Government Buildings in Barcelona and Thwart Foes of New Republic MADRID, Oct. 7. (Sunday) (AP) President Luis Companys of Cata lonia, who today proclaimed the In dependence of the region. Is Impris oned in the government palace at Barcelona, It was stated by an of ficial report which reached here at midnight. The government building was sur rounded by loyal troops. It was stated President Companys was reported to be transmitting pleas for help by radio and telephone. Minister of Intrior Deuces waa said to be a prisoner with Companys, and possibly other officials of the state. It was reported that Immediately after declaring the Independence of Catalonia Companys had given Oen eral Batet an hour to decide whether to swear allegiance to the new Cats Ionian regime. Before the hour had expired Oen eral Batet led his Barcelona garrison into the streets, and. sweeping aside all opposition, marched to the govern ment buildings. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. fl. ( AP) Federal Judge Harry B. Anderson late today ruled that price-fixing is un authorized by the national Industrial recovery act. The Judge enjoined federal offic ials from prosecuting lumber oper ators for selling at prices below those specified by the national lumber code. The decision waa handed down af ter a day In which' price fixing was attacked and defended In federal court here, A group of southern lumber men had applied for the In Junction to enjoin enforcement of the price provisions of the lumoer code. They had charged that price regulation was Illegal. Lowell W. Taylor, of counsel U r the petitioning lumbermen, declared that "It means that lumbermen ian sell at any price they want to, with out fear of prosecution." BYRD'S MEN WITH TRACTOR HALTED LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, (via Mackay Radio) Oct. 5; delayed (AP) Pour men were snowbound with a tractor today 180 miles east of the BjTd expedition's headquar ters here. Harold June, chief pilot In charge of the tractor unit, reported by radio the group was awaiting favorable weather to proceed to Grace Mc Klnly mountain. Its objective, now within two days running distance. Three of the crew slept In the cargo compartment while the fourth pitched a tent In the lee of the machine. They were hove to yesler day In a blizzard with wind of 40 miles per hour, which piled drifts that almost submerged the tractor, 4 EUOENK Oct. 8. (AP) A higher bond Interest for 1P35 necessitated a budget Increase for the Eugene school district of 14.000 more thin In 1094, It waa announced here. Estimated expenditures for 1835 were placed at $317,574. and receipt at Si 13,574.81, leaving an Item of 1205.000 to be raised by taxation E T (Continued on Page Eijbt) No Hrtmdrat There will be no loud sprak? i brcsdrRst of today's St. Louts Detroit gams by the Mall Tn bune. The broadcast will be r- SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 8. (APi The out 'oolt for the coming wt-v for far western mate is for gener ally fair in California and the pn teau region snd occasionally uni't tied in the north Pacific states witn frequent rainy period et of .lir ( s'Je mountains rr.'xlf rite tcn-tpCiatuie. VANCOUVER, B. C. Oct. 8 (AP The fourth attempt In less than a year was made today on the life of Inspector J. P. C. B. Vance of the Vancouver Bureau of Science when a bomb with a lighted fuse was found beneath his car. Vance was saved from Injury ano po-alble death by the alertness of Ills son and his own prewnre of mind. The Inspector went to nl parage to get his automobile, pre paratory to going to work. The suit cr failed to work, and a Vawr y i-f.f red sn nn attempt to fita.t the i')''.r, i I s -n ime running from the huuse. Coast Retailers In 'Improved Financial State9 Report Shows SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8 (AP) Heartening news to the business world waa given out today by the San Francisco board of trade. That body reported Pacific coast re tailers were In a "vastly Improved" financial condition, contrasting with the adversities they faced two J ears ago. The board finds only about half as many cases of "financial diffi culty" this year as in leaa. The board functions for whole salers and distributors of the Sen frVftndsoo metropolitan area, whose business covers the Pacific states Its reports of business condition ure therefore considered rrpre- -ntatlvft of the stste of trade on Mi mmdov n lop BABY BORN AFTER MOTHER DIES . .... . v . . Lf :,' ': .... r .... ON LINDY ESTATE Farmer Identifies Prisoner as Man He Saw Near Hope well Before Abduction Faith of Wife Unshaken Baby Ellen Marie Lewis In the arma of Nurse Mary Flaherty In an Oakland, Cal., hospital three days after medical science had brought her Into the world after her mother died. A post-mortem Caesarian operation, rare and requiring the highest degree of skill and sp:d waa performed after the mother, Mrs, Ellen Lwls, died of a cerebral hemorrhage. (Associated Press Photo) TA-CASCADE CONCLAVE CLOSES WITH FEAST, BALL Red Bluff Named As Next Meeting Place Hyatt Fish Discussed, But No Public Statement Many Plans Aired. For the purpose of developing the natural resources of southern Oregon end northern California through the combined efforts of chambers of com merce, and sportsmen's organizations, more than 175 members of the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland association met In buslne.ta and social sessions in this city yesUrday, in their fourth annual convention and rally. Prominent offlcUls and sportsmen from all sections of the Wonderland assembled In Medford during the con vention, which wna climaxed ftt the Hotel Medford headquarters Isst night with a banquet and ball. B. O. Harder, president of ' the Jackson county chamber of commerce, presided over the banquet, at which Inspiring and enlightening talks explained to asso ciation members the vast work which has been accomplished and which lie before the organization. At meetings of various units of the Wonderland association, composed of chambers of commerce officials, coun ty supervisors, hotel and resort own ers, garage, service station and auto camp owners, newpapermen, sports men, recreational officials, and trans portation officials, comprehensive pro grams were drawn up for the year. Recommendations of the units were submitted to a general assembly yes terday afternoon at the court house auditorium, and were all endorsed by the board of directors. Master plena for each unit, dealing with all phases of work which will promote a greater recreations! area, were compiled, and will be put Into effect by the organi zation. Red Bluff, Cel., waa chosen sa the host city for the next annuel conven tion, which will be again under the supervision of E. B. Hall, of Klamatn Fills, A. H. Oronwuldt, of Redding. ! Cal., vice-president, and T. L. Stan ; ley, also of Redding, manager. Flh DlM-UHsed I O. D. Matthews of Klamath Fall, i chairman of the aportsmen'a un'.t. I and Clinton J. Fulcher, assemblyman j from northern California, and director : of the sportsmen a unit, "presided oi la meeting yesterday at vHUch Impor taut decisions regarding the Hyitt i lake fish preservation plan were made ' An official statement from the bosrd of directors will be Issued in the near future, outlining a comprehen sive program, but no '.r '.cments wur: DEMOCRACY SEES NOVEMBER VOTE WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. (AP) Ex actly a month from today the nation's voters will deliver their first real ver dict on the new deal. With Roosevelt policies the clear- cut issue between the democrats and old guard republicans, lenders In both parties are using verbal hammers In drumming up enthusiasm for and gainst the administration. As the campaign progresses on sJl fronts, democratic chieftains continue to reiterate claims that the new deal will be endorsed by an overwhelming sweep In congressional elections. Sen ator Lewis (D., III.) In a atatement today predicted the next senate would have a two-third majority In favor of "the Roosevelt measures." Battering away at the administra tion, republicans assert they see en couraging signs In various sections which forecast gains In their strength In the house. The past week hss been replete with developments. After a swing through middle-western and eastern states, Postmaster General Farley predicted the democrats would gain a two- thirds majority In the senate and re fused to concede any sizeable losses of house seats. Anything the repub lics ns do between now and November 8, he asld, would not change the re sult of the election. By Francis A. Jamleson (Associated Press Staff Writer) NEW YORK, Oct. 8. (AP) Bruno Richard Hauptmann waa Identified today by a former neighbor of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh a a man he had seen emerging from underbrush on the Lindbergh estate near Hope well, N. J., a few weeks before the aviator's Infant son waa kidnaped. The testimony, given by Millard Whlted of Lambertvllle, N. J., was the first which has been disclosed linking Hauptman to the scene of the abduction. Whlted picked the German car penter, held on a charge of extort ing the $50,000 Lindbergh ransom, from a lineup of JO men at tho Bronx county courthouse. Then he told Captain J. J. Lamb of the New Jersey state police he was certain Hauptmann was the man he had observed lurking tn the bushes on two occasions. Whlted was permitted to return home after Cap tain Lamb said It would be unnec essary to hold him as a material witness. Lamb also went back to Jersey, taking with him a panel from Hauptmann's home on which telephone numbers pertaining to the case had been written. Whlted, who formerly lived on small farm near the Lindbergh es tate, first told his story of seeing a mysterious stranger to state police on the night of the kidnaping, March l, 1933. When Hauptmann was arrested, the farmer was sought Immediately. He was located only two day a ago. Simultaneously It waa announced Colonel Lindbergh will be one of 23 witnesses before the Hunterdon county grand Jury at Flemlngtoit, N. J., Monday, when Hauptmann's Indictment on kidnaping and nui der charges will be asked. Hauptmann was brought from his cell In the Bronx county Jail to the courthouse during the morning fc-r visit with his wife. The prisoner's wrists were shackled. Four guards were present for the 15-mlnute meeting, at the end of which Mrs. Hauptmann reaffirmed her belief that her husband Is in nocent. "Not for a minute iave I douDv- ed he was Innocent," she said. "I am more firmly convinced than ever. Yoa see, 2 have found out a tot of things since they arrested him. "If the police tell the truth, every body will feel like I do, that Bruno could not have done that horrible thing." Mrs. Hauptmann was asked If she could remember what she and her husband were doing on the night of the kidnaping and on the night when Dr. John F. Condon turned over the 850.000 ransom money In a Bronx cemetery. If I could only remember th?e yeara back, it would be such a help." she exclaimed. The district attorney reported h was ready to absolve the late Isa dora Fisch from complicity In Mis extortion case. Hauptmann has as serted Flsch gave him the ransom money discovered In his garage. WASHINGTON. Oct. 8 (AP)- Fl tiding fault with the present ma chinery for prosecuting crime, Scott M, Loft In of Jacksonville, Fla pres ident of the American Bar associs- tlon, tonight outlined this organiza tion's four-point program for tackling the problem. 1 i (Continued on fsgt Four.) ERBILT SEEKS PUBLICITY NEW YORK. Oct. 8 (AP) A de- mand that Mrs. Gloria Morgan Van derbllt's reputation be defended In public, since It waa publicly attach ed, will be made Monday when the court battle over the custody of her child Is resumed, It wss announced today. Nathan Rtirkan, lawyer for Mm Vanderbllt, said he would protest U Supreme Court Justice John F. Csr cw hit decision to bar the public und press from further hearings in the case. DETROIT, Oct. 5. I told you what the score would be yesterday, 3 to 2, and that It would be a great game anybody's game. Frankle Frlsch crossed ma up by pitching Bill HalU- han Instead of Grammar School Paul Dean. "Student" Rowe of Smack over, Ark., pitched, and, brother, he did smack 'em over. He certainly earned his diploma. lie ain't School boy any longer. He goes right Into the brain trust. The St. Louts batters didn't know any more about what he was doing than we do some of them In Washington. Yes, sir, he goes in the brain trust. He comes from wife's home state. Everybody played ball yesterday and that kid pitched ft great game, and dont forget BUI Halllhan. He was very, very hot, too. A muffed ball In the oenterfleld, a questionable hit over third base and, toughest of all, a little pop fly dropped on the first base line. The breaks were Just against BUI, but It would have been a national calamity for the kid from "Smackover to have lost, I bt I am the only one's been to that town. Well, I hear that plane whistling for the crossing. Yours, , C mH7ltlauM Smllcst. In.
