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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Tuesday. Cooler tonight. Temperature: Hljtheit yesterday IS lowest this morning . ... 44 Medford Mail Tribune WINNEB Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER, 15, 1934. No. 17C. By PAUL M.U.LON. WASHINGTON. D. C, Oct. 18.7-The feelings of the labor board were hurt the other day when Attorney-General Cummlngs a n - nounced It had no cam In the rltal Houde labor prosecution. No one Inside the board had the slightest ad vance notion, that Mr. Cum mlngB waa going to throw them down In public. The first they heard of It waa 4 when newsmen "came running to them with the Cum- minga announcement. They had been holding private conversations with the Justice department for the purpose of preparing the case for trial, and they thought they were going ahead. Board Chairman Garrison gathered hie boys in the crying room when he received the bad news. They decided to remain In seclusion Indefinitely, but they did make denials off-the- record of Mr. Cummlngs assertion that they agreed with him about the weakness of the case, Paul Ma Don STEVE SCOTT. 1 4 j 1 Youths Hunting With Grand father Become Separated Sudden Encounter Be lieved Cause of Accident. Steve Scott, fourteen, .on of Mrs. J. F. Tuff, of ISranta Pail, diet! at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon In the Community hospital at Ashland from a gunshot wound Inflicted Sunday mornlngr by Or-onie Lewi., 14. also of Grant Paw. while the pair were hunting In th. Hyatt lake district with Mike Tucker of Ashland. Scott's grandfather. The three had become separated, according to the story told to In vestigating officers, and Lewis was surprised to suddenly we Scott stand ing on a rock .bout 75 feet away. In turning toward Scott. Lewi, la eup powd to have accidentally pressed th trigger on his 25-30 rifle, the bullet strtkfhg his friend In the ab domen. A blood transfusion about noon failed to halt approaching death. ma bm Poincare, Last of FrAch War Leaders, Dies InJiyjuxJ U oi - TO mm MINERS GO INSANE IN MASS SUICIDE ATTEMPT T! T Even those men who made blind fold tests for cigarette advertisements could smell something wrong about this one. Anyone who knows Attorney-General Cummlngs will never be lieve he would make such an Impor tant decision without first getting the approval of the White House. That Is not the way he works. Also, It Is quite unusual for one govern ment department to throw down an other department In the newsapers without, at least, asking the approval of the other department privately. These significant facts have cast an Importance on the split 'far "beyond the question of legal differences be tween two departments. The natural suspicion la that the h Ighest authorities are not pleased with the way the labor board has taken them out on such a strong pro labor limb, and that they are easing themselves back to safety. A fair con elusion seems to be that at least some one up above Is putting the screws delicately on the labor board, the chairman of which Is shortly to re turn to his law classes at the Uni versity of Wisconsin. The matter la of utmost importance because the case was built around the Houde company's refusal to bargain with an organization of a majority of employes. It was the case which set the precedent for the Kohler, Bald win Shovel, Guide Lamp, and other similar labor board decisions. Someone also seems to be wrong about the question of keeping Gar rison on here after his strong pro labor decisions. The new dealers have been passing around the word that they have repeatedly urged President Glenn Frank, of the University ot Wisconsin, to let Garrison remain, but that Mr. Prank waa adamant. Now Mr. Prank has announced that he has not heard from the new dealers since last August, which certainly In dicates a difference of opinion about who wants Professor Garrison, and how much. The best Jobs In the government are those on the code authorities. There Is one fellow, for instance, who Is the government representative 'on four minor authorities. He has them meet at his office every Wednesday, tak ing them one after another. He gets SO a week for each Job. making a tidy 200 for the day's work. Some of the big shots on the larger code authorities receive up to M.000 a year for their code authority tasks All these salaries are paid by the in dustries, and the government has nothing to do with them. This system is certainly an over looked Item of unemployment relief, i but lately there has been considerable uneasiness among the soft Job hold era. It seems that the Industries have shown a certain reluctance to chip in for support of the code authorities since Oeneral Johnson re-lgned. Not because they pine for the general, par ticularly, but they do not know where the reorganiratlon of the NRA is going. For instance, one large code au thority here ran short of cash ana sent out an ansespment order. All it got hark was a stack of questions about the future of the NRA, but no checks. William Gren. president of the American Federation of Labor and opponent of vertical unions, had a gvd reason for coming out In favor of vertical unions for the big Indus tries a fw days ago. The innde on tVtat is his hand waa Torrid by 4f0 ooo automobile workers '!-o rr-ently served notice that they are co'.ne to organic one union for "lir-ir industry inMead of trying to cr'i.inlre separate unions of machtn F painters, etc. L'p to now the only Important ver tirai unions in the American Peder a: rn Tabor were t'-e text.! ano c.i rMfcrr.v un'env tiren' new (Continued on Pae Four.) Lying In n critical condition In the Ashland Community hospital. Steve Scott. 1. of Grants Pass, is suffering from a bullet wound In the abdomen he received at 9 a. m. Sunday when he was accidentally shot with a 25-30 rifle by George Lewis, also 14. ot Grants Pass, a hunting companion. The accident occurred in the Table mountain district near Hyatt lake. Dr. Bernard Q. Barkwlll of Ashlana. attending physician, stated it will be four or five days before It will oe known whether young Scott will re The bov was shot while standing on a rock about 75 feet from Lewis, as the two had separated from a third hunting companion. Mike Tucker or Ashland. Scott's grandfather. Turn ing to note the whereabouts of his companion. Lewis unknowingly swung around also, and evidently atartled to see Scott standing on the rock, put too much pressure on the trigger. Struck In Side The bullet struck Scott in the side. probably piercing the kidneys, and coming out through the back. Lewis is not being held by authorities. The injured boy was taken to Ash land bv Dr. Barkwlll, who had been summoned by a telephone call from the Hvatt prairie region put In by Fred Henry and Marion Dizier. two residents of the district, who happen ed by on horseback shortly after Scott was shot. Phil H. Stansberry. deputy sheriff, and Sergeant Ed. Walker of the state police game di vision were summoned from this city. Trio Separated The two boys, bcth of whom are Boy Scouts, and Tucker had separated when they came upon some deer tracks, with Scott In the center when the accidental shot was fired. The party had left for the moun tains Saturday morning and were to have returned last night. Young Lew is Is grlef-strlcken over the accident, which befell a close friend. The Injured boy is the stepson of Ding Tuff, Of 724 East L street. Grants Pass. George Lewis is the son of M. M. Lewis, of Grants Paw, a for est service employe. PECS, Hungary, Oct. 18. (API- Convinced there wa "no more hope for them" a member of the Hungar ian parliament emerged today from the black pit where for 106 hours. 1,200 miners have been self-entomb ed, striking for more pay. "I expect a terrible catastrophe in the coal mines any moment," s&ia Janoa Estergalyoe, democratic social 1st parliamentarian who descendea into the mine in an attempt to medi ate with the infuriated men. What I saw down there will be the most terrible remembrance of my life," he said. "The miners have be come absolutely Insane from their awful experience. "They are determined either to com mit suicide by wrecking the pumps, or to blow up the mine. There Is no more hope for them." Until Estergalyoe returned from the bottom of the thousand-foot pit. nothing had been heard from the miners since early morning when they sent up a request for 345 coffins with the words: "We are determined to die. Forget about us. Goodbye to the children. The more violent of the hunger crazed men have been tied to posts by their comrades to prevent them from killing themselves, said Ester gal yoa. "The trade union no longer has any control over the men. Utterly ex hausted, they are huddled down there in the heai, lying on the dirty, water soaked K I of the mine, with the huge chunks of coal for pillows. "Some are unconscious. Nearly five days without water to drink has parched their throats, and they could not eat If they had food. In their ag ony and thirst and hunger some of them utter sounds like tormented animals." 5 YEAR EXTENSION ON R. F. C. LOANS IS FN! ISF PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct. 15. (AP) Shot in the head, the body of a man registered as Charles H. Clark of Los Angeles wss found in a hotel room here today and his wife was missing. Police were Investigating to deter mine If the wound was self-inflicted or if foul plsy entered the case. The coroner said the man had been dead at least two days, giving a big head start to any possible assailant. H. Yoshlmura. proprietor, who found the body, said Clark and Mrs. Clark registered October 3. A day or so later they moved to another room. Yoshlmura aald he had not seen Mrs. Clark aince October 0. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. (D A five-year extension, where possible and desired, was decreed by the Re construction corporation today for all outstanding loans. Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the corporation, released at his press con ference a note which has been sent to managers of the RFC loan agencies. "I wish to emphasize," It aald, "that it Is the desire of the directors of this corporation that leniency be granted to all borrowers, and where all secur ity will not suffer by giving exten sions, that they be granted where de sired, for as much as fire years from the 31st of next January. "Partial payments are preferable but forced liquidation Is not in the interest of recovery, and we wish to be as helpful as possible to our bor rowers in meeting their obligations of citizenship, aa well as to pay their debts to the corporation." The chairman ssld debt payments were coming In faster than the RFC was lending. He said the RFC would rather the debtor used his curren funds for other purposes and stretch ed repayment of the debt over a long term. 4 IS SOUGH! IN PORTLAND PORTLAND. Oct. 15. pi Police dtteetlrea today were looking for a thief with burns on his fet or Early this morning a prowler en tering a restaurant kitchen by an air Tent, fell into a pan of hot greaw on a store when his rope broke. Ap parently he waa not seriously Injured for he waded through the grease spattered kitchen to the cash regis ter and escaped with 115. MAID TELLS OF STOLL KIDNAPING II Ml ! An hour and a half of harrowing experience was related by Mrs. Ann Woolet, 24-year-old ma'd, who was forced to tape the hands of Mrs. Alice Stoll, seized from her Louisville, Ky., home by a kidnaper. She Is shown describing how the man bound hers to a chair, gagged her, and then fore eh Mrs". Stall, Ml with a severe cold, to accompany him after leaving a note demanding ransom of $50,000, which was paid, but Mrs. Stoll was not Immediately freed. (Associated Press Photo) HEARD IN EFFORT Lindbergh Kidnap Suspect Tries To Account For Movements On Day Of Crime Wife Takes Stand POLICE CLOSING IN ON BALKAN TERROR GANG NEW YORK, Oct. 15. (AP) Bruno Richard Hauptmann sat erect In the witness chair In Bronx supreme court today, looked his attorney straight In the eye and denied that he murdered the Lindbergh baby "on March first, 1932,. or any other time." The denial came In answer to di rect questions from Jas. M. Fawcett, his attorney, toward the close or several hours of examination In I1I3 fight to escape extradition to New Jersey to face an Indictment charg ing him with the murder of the baby. First he said he waa not In New Jersey March 1, 1933. "Did you murder the child, Oharlea Augustus Lindbergh?" Fawcett asked. "No," replied Hauptmann. "On March first, 1933, or any other time?" "No." The state then called a New Jer7 atate trooper who Identified a note found on the Lindbergh baby's crib the night of the kidnaping. Another witness, James S. Phelan of Weehaw ken, N. J Introduced a ransom note as one he had received at the office of Col. Henry Breckenrldge, counsel to uoionei L.inaoergn. Albert S. Osborn, hsndwritlng ex pert, also testified for the state. The hearing recessed at :4i p. m. until 11 a. m. tomorrow. K.F. HERE IN OPENING E Mayor Mahoney Leader ot Group Making Hop Over Hump In 45 Minutes Re turn 3 P.M. Enthusiastic NATIONAL FUNERAL SET FOR SATURDAY EX-PRESIDENT (By The Associated Press) The police of two nations closed in today upon missing members of the Balkan terror gang believed to have planned the assassination of King Alexander and Foreign Minister Bar thou at Marseille, announcing the ar rest of one at Melun, France, and picking up the trail of another t Oeneva. Swlsa police announced the myste rious "doctor." known ss Kvaternlk, supposedly chief of the assassination squad, had been sighted in Oeneva, while Melun police announced the capture of Sylvester Malay, alias Zil ni who -had been sought four days in Fontalnebleau forest after escaping the day of the assassination. Police of Budapest, Hungary, an nounced not the slightest proof could be found that Alexander's assassins. Vlada Tschernocemszk, alias Petrus Kalemen, had ever lived In Hungary or Inhabited a military camp there. Dr. Ante Ravellch and Ouatav Pe rec, together with the "gun girl," Marie VJoudroch, were still sought. The former two were thought to be leaders of the gang. TOT TOSSED IN FURNACE OF APARTMENT HOUSE MOUNT VERNON, N. Y Oct. 18. (AP) Police aald today that Law rence Stone, husky young laborer, had confessed throwing 5-year-old Nancy Jean Costlgan Into a huge apartment house furnace. A tiny gold ring, a child's wrist watch and a few blackened bones were removed from the furnace yes terday after the six-foot, ollfed flames had been turned off. They were all that remained. The trail of blood through a base ment maze w Interprets by police as mute testimony of a brutal as sault, but Stone's confession, as an nounced by Chief Inspector Michael I. SUversteln, aald the girl was hurt In a fall. Stone, discharged handyman at the apartment house, was quoted as con fessing he had been playing with tne child In the basement and had hit her with her rubber ball. She fell, he said, striking her head on the con crete floor. Then she "turned blue." Stone started to carry Nancy Jean upatalrs, the confession continued, but became panic-stricken. He threw her Into the flames. Blood smeared on his clothes leo to the arrest of Stone, who Is 34. He Insisted during hours of questioning that he knew nothing of the slaying DEATH OF CTXUMBO LOS ANGELES, Oct- 15,-HVP) weeks have elapsed since Russ Co. lumbo of the films, was accidentally killed by a friend. His mother, Mrs Julie Col umbo, is still receiving bou quets of flowers dally with cards reading: "Love from Carole end Russ." The flowers and the cards are sent each day by Carole Lombard, film star to whom Columblo was reporter! engaged st the time of his death. Mra. Columbo Is critically 111 In Santa Monica hospital and because of her condition phyaiclana fear to tell her that her son Is dead. The drjiKht of the laM summer U st. mated to ftave w'.ped out 100.000 iuare mile of waterfowl breediiH: grounds. j NEW YORK. Ort. 13. ( AP) Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbllt was often -found In tears by her friend Prince Gottfried Zu Juhenlohe Van La n gen- jbuj at the fashionable European re sort of BlsrrlU. he told reporters (Upon his arrival today on the 8. S. Bremen to sid in the Vanderbllt de fense in the curt battle for eutMy of i Mr a. Vanderbllts daughter Gloria. COP HELD AS SLAYER OF THREE OF WIFE'S FAMILY ALEXANDRIA, V Oct. IS (AP) A young policeman was held heie to day to answer charge, of murdering three member, of hla wlfe'l family. Oeorpe D. Roberta waa the man held, fie waa accused of fatally ahoot Ing hla father-in-law, Ward E. Blu art. 44; Stuart', brother, Oeorge, and William P. Stuart, 66 year old father of the other two. Deaths In the ahootlnit tragedy mounted to three when the elder Stuart died early today In a hospital. The other two died shortly after the shotting. Police were to'.d the 28-year old former marine, originally from Wln fleld Kansaa, and hit wife quarrelled last week, Robert, forbidding her to go to her father'a home. Neighbor. said they had aeparated about two month, ago but had been reconciled Last night, the atory offlcera pieced out had It. the young tillccman went to their ai.artment for lunch and found Mra. Roberta absent and noth mg prepared for him to eat. The po lice Informant aald Roberta then went to the Stuart home, where he found hi. wife. The .hooting follow ed. Afterw.rd.. police aald, Roherta walked to headquarters, where on the advice of hla attcrney. he made no ststement after aurrenderlng to ma former matea. NEW YORK, Oct. 16. (AP) Bruno Richard Hauptmann testified before Supreme Court Juatlca Ernest E. 1. Hammer In auprem. court, Bronx, to day that h. wa. at hla East 32nd street home in the Bronx the night of March I. 1033. the night the Lind bergh baby waa kidnaped. Asked by hla counsel whether ne recalled "the first day of March. 1933." Hauptmann teatifled without hesitation that ha remembered tak ing hla wife, Anna, who preceded him on the atand, from a Bronx lunch room where ahe worked that night. He remembered clearly, alao, he said, taking her to work that morn-lng. At Home All Mglit The prlaoner aald he called at the bakery between 6 and 7 p. m. the night of the kidnaping, had aupper there, and -went home with hla wife, remaining at home that night. Jamea M. Fawcett, defenae coun sel, completed hla direct examina tion of the witness shortly before 1 o'clock, and a receaa waa taken until 3 p. m. Hauptmann aat rigidly In the chair, his face freshly ahaven, and wearing a grey ault, white soft ahlrt, and for the first time In hla court appear ancea alnce he waa placed In Bronx county Jail, he wore a necktie. The tie waa a dark blue with polka dota. Once while the attorneya were in conference he looked over the court room and seemed entirely composed. Wife Barks Atory Mra. Hauptmann, who preceded her husband on the atand, testified that (Continued on Page Eight) SHANGHAI Oct. 1J. UP) China gave lui answer today to the United Statea allver policy a 10 per cent tax on all export, of the metal. The nationalist government, after weeka of deliberation on the situation put the tax Into effect today, deem ing unsatisfactory Amerlca'a reply to ncgotlatlona for "cooperation." The drain of allver from China due to Increased prlcea. has lowered Chinese purchsslng power snd alarm ed government and financial circles China', currency la based on silver. Provisions of the export tax are flexible and the government la ex peeled to change It whenever neces sary to hold export, within limits required by balance of payment. Denmark la one of the few coun tries In the world where a boom In Building constru'". :on la materially i assisting employment. Th Kansaa Modem Language ' aoriatlon will conduct a study of t.ie six Indian dlalecta formerly spoken In Kansaa, IX5NDON. Oct. 13 (P) The price of allver rose a half penny on the London market to 341. pence (.0.54 15-I6 Ita highest price sine May 1029. under atrong apeculatlve de mand cauaed by China's export tax upon allver. The belief waa th price would jo atlll higher. . . Only two ipeclea of fleaa are dan geroua as carriers of bubonic plagu germs. 74 yeara old. The shock of the Marseille aasaas- Inatlona may hare hurried the end. M. Poincare grieved over the dtsaa- Assassinations at Marseille Seen As Probably Hurry ing End-Doctors Gave Op Hope Two Years Ago. By JOHN KVAN9 (Associated Press J-'orelpn Starr) hARIS, Oct. 16. (AP) Raymond Poincare, one of the last of France's great world war figures, died quietly at 3:30 o'clock this morning. Piloted bT Bill Randall, the Ryan Ine war-time president and "aav- alrplana of the Oregon Air .Service i lor the franc" ten years later, was Inaugurated regular da!l7 Jlying ser vice between Medford. Klamath Falls and Lakevlew today when It landed at the municipal airport at 1:45 this afternoon with a party of Klamath Falls citlrens who were met by a representative group of local citizens. The trip waa made from Klamath Falls In the face of a stiff wind In about 49 minutes. The Klamath Falls delegation was made up of Bert Hall, well known Klamath Falls hotel man: Earl Reyn olds, secretary of the Klamath Falls chamber of commerce: Ted Glllen waters representing Mayor Mahoney of that city and Frank Jenkins, pub lisher of the Klamath Falls papers. All the visitors were enthusiastic over the .trip the thrilling portion of which was shooting above the clouds around Mt. Shasta, the snow peak of the mountain glistening In the after noon1 sunshine, above them, the clouds extending aa far as the eye could see, like a tempestous sea of waves and breakers. At three o'clock the party returned to Klamath as they had come, while this morning they made the trip from Klamath to Jjkeview, maintain, ing approximately the schedule that will. It Is hoped, be permanently maintained. Oregon Air Service has made a very reasons ble passenger rate one way and round trip, also a cheap express service, and It Is hoped will eventu ally ecu re. a mall contract to connect the Isolated Lakevlew country, with the outalde world through Klamath av.d Medford. Among the Medford citizens greet ing the visiting ship were Roland Hubbard, Jim Collins, Fred Scheffel, Frederick Heath, Councilman S. A. Kroschel, Curtis Darby, Charley Fur nas, and Robt. W. Ruhl, OFFICERS SPEED ' associated Hrtat f'hoto Raymond Poincare trous event, for he knew King Alex ander well and Louis Barthou was' his life-long friend. Funeral, Hat ur day Poincare will be given a national funeral Saturday Immediately after President Lebrun's return from Bel grade to attend Alexander's funeral. The body will He In state at the Pantheon until Saturday noon when It will be taken to the Notre Dame cathedral for services, then returned to the Pantheon for Premier Dou- mergue's oration. After a military display the body will be taken to Samptgny for a pri vate burial at Nubecourt, where It will be with his parents and brother In the province of Lorraine which he loved so much. Although virtually In political re- LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. lfl. (AP)-- The fifth dsy since Alice Speed Stoll was snatched from her exclusive home found an ever widening search being spread over the state and op timism held that a "break" In the case was nesr. "We're working at top speed," said Harold Nathan, asalstsnt director of the department of Justice, when ssked If the expiration of the arbi trary five -day "deadline" would mean an Increase In the activity of the force. Just what hope was held waa hard to deflnti and as difficult to find basis in fact. Federal agents were noncommittal, beyond reiterating that safety and the return of Mrs. Stoll wa the first consideration. Nathan gave a press conference at the office of Louisville Ssfety Direc tor Dunlsp Wakefield st noon today. Wakefield and Mayor Neville Miller of Loutavllte also attended. The chief investigator said he had no Idea whether a contact was evnr msde with the kidnaper by the Stoll family. With regard to the with drawal of officers from the Stoll e tate he explained that activity In the case no longer centers there and that Is why he has no particular In terest In the place. Nathan has, he said, no reason to suppose Mrs. Stoll Is not alive, and he has none to suppose she Is alive VIOLENCE RENEWED ON PORTLAND DOCKS (Continued on Page Two) POPE OFFICIATES AT VATICAN CITY, Oct. lfl. (AP) Pope Plus married his nephew, Count Franco Rattl, to the heiress, Angela Marie Crenpl, In a brilliant ceremony today In the consistory hall attended by many dignitaries of the ecclesias tical and aristocratic world. This was the first marriage cere mony the pope has performed In eight years, and waa one of the moat colorful here In the present century. PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 15 fAP) Beat-ups and a reported stoning of non-strtker longshoremen marked re newed violence on the Portland water front today. Deputy District Attorney Joe Price ssld M. J. Manvllle related he was dared by a blow on the head while walking on the sidewalk near a long shoremen hiring ball. 8ANTA MONICA, Cal.. Oct. IS. In my late world pilgrimage In search of a def nlte platform (or the Re publican party 1 hit about a half dozen of those Balkan nations, and Yugoslavia, where this murdered king come from, was one of 'em. 1 learned quite a little bit about him and hla country. He was the only king over there that really did his own "dictat ing." Generally those kings Just do a little "kinging" and let somebody else do the "rough stuff." He la a Serbian, but there's another band of people In his country called the Croats. Well, the Croats are sorter like the "Liberty Leaguers" here. They say they are downtrodden, but the one thing their whole country Is united In, Is that they hate Italy. Well, a Croat killed the king, and It was In France. But the whole country is united In saying that Mussolini fur ntshed the ammunition. Well, why not blame poor old Mussolini. Didn't Flomevelt bring on the drouth? Yours for European newa that'e fit to print. ltCMfKau1t Synliit. Uav. .
