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1TEDF0RD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1934 PAGE FIVE 1 Farm and Industry Face Bright Period This Fall Says Economics Bureau Higher Prices for Most Products From Soil Increased Industrial Activity Confident Prediction WASHINGTON. Oct. 17. P Higher price for most farm product and Increased activity in many Industries during the fell months were pre dicted today by the bureau of agricultural economics la Its October price situation report. An Increase In the general level of - . ,. wholesale prices during the past year! from 104 per cent of the 1910-1914 average to about 113 ner cent was V" attributed to advances In prices of farm products and foods since prices of non-agricultural products remain ed practically unchanged. Farm Products Low. "Despite the marked advance from the depression low, farm products In percentage of the pre-war average axe still about the lowest of any speci fied group of products, where as prices of building materials, house furnishing goods, fuel and lighting products are the highest," the bureau eald. Increased activity the latter half of September indicated, the report added, that the seasonal autumn re covery In business was beginning. "The decline in business activity In the past few months' has been ac companied by some decline In em ployment and payrolls but the In comes of industrial workers are still somewhat larger than a year ago," the report said. Retail Trade Stimulated. This, together with the larger In comes of farmers and the government a' relief expenditures has stimulated re- tail trade. The sharp Increase in re tall sales In August was followed by only a slight recession in September in department store sales and a fur ther Increase In rural sales." The bureau analyzed farm price probabilities for the fall as follows: 1. Wheat prospects point toward taome further recovery" rather than a decline, depending on the condi tion of the southern hemisphere orop and the amount of grain fed to poul try and livestock in this country. a. Corn prices "may be expected to remain at relatively high levels throughout the coming year" with the present shortage of grain indi cating somewhat higher prices by De cember or January. 3. Potato prices are likely to re main at or near the present low levels during the 1934-35 season. 4. "The seasonal decline In hog prices now In progress Is more likely than usual and of shorter duration" due to fewer hoga and short feed supplies. 5. Prices of better grades of cat- tie "are expected to be fairly well maintained" during the coming two months although declines are forecast in the lower grades If the government ceases to purchase cattle and adverse weather sets in. 6. Prices of eggs and chickens are expected to go higher during the next three or four months, responding to the light supply situation. OF SPEAKERS CLUB Election of officers was held at a meeting of the Toastmasters club on Monday evening at the Holland ho tel, which also lncladed a round table discussion of the federal hous ing act. Webb Clark was elected president; Dr. W. F. Honey, vlce presldent: Fran Oray. secretary treasurer; Fran Hull, critic, and Victor A. Tengwald, critic of Eng lish. The discussion dealt with the var ious phases of the housing cam paign, with three-minute talks given by most of those present. Provisions of the act and its benefit to this community were outlined. Mr. ' Tengwald was designated toastmaster of the next meeting, to be held In the Holland Hotel Mon day evening, October 22. R. R. Turner, of Tlie Dalles, Dem ocratic candidates for congress from this district, will be In Medford on Friday. October 26. when he win give a radio campaign talk. It was announced today by Frank DeSousa. of the Jackson County Democratic central committee. Mr. Turner Is expected to spend the day In MedTord. Ralph Bteven aon. chairman of the central com mittee, will be In charge of a dele gation to meet him. Holdover Senator Sends Resignation SALEM, Oct. 17. (AP) J. P. Tates. Republican, holdover state senator from the 18th district, today sent In his resignation to the secretary of state. No reason was given for his action. Both Democratic and Republican central committees from the three counties comprising the I8th dis trict, Olllism, Sherman and Wheeler, may now nominate a candidate for Yates' heat In the senate. Girl to Woman Mn. P. M. McDow rll of Ros Ave. N., FortiAivi, Orrg., ays : " hen jut a friri in the iHolwnt ii (re 1 wis very nervou. and infRtiUr. I mrti Dr. TifTe'i Favorite PrrcnpM'iti and it fo'.rlt me riffht tio. 9uie'ed mv nm--i and 1 developed natural ty and hvl mr C-'iM' " . Write 1'r. 1'ifrc.' ( :nic. Buffalo. V. Y. NVw -r. t.V-i s'i ft . ")" 1 SI VL !.e. liie, tits, cr in,-.;!, tl.ii. " It Uw FuW 0' TEDDY JUNIOR GIVEN HOT SHOT BY ICKES ON SELL OUI CLAIM WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (Jp) Sec retary Ickes, who Is accused In a speech several days ago by Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., of "selling out," told reporters today that Roosevelt him self was an expert at selling out. "You know ordinarily I would not pay any attention to a charge of that sort," Ickes said In a press conference. "But when It comes from an expert, it deserves more consideration. Mr. Roosevelt himself Is an erpert at sell ing out." The secretary said he recalled In this connection the 1920 Republican con vention at Chicago which nominated Warren O. Harding for president. As a delegate at large from Illinois. Ickes said he had urged Theodore Roose velt, Jr., to Issue a statement "before that fate befell us." "I wanted him to denounce Hard ing and say that the old Roosevelt following would not follow him be cause of the virulent things he said against the first President Roosevelt. He refused. I Issued the statement myself and It did not carry much weight." When Harding was nominated, T. R., Jr., Ickes said, campaigned for him all over the country and later became aslstant secretary of the navy. NEW YORK, Oct. 17. (jp) A con gressional committee elicited testi mony from a witness today that mili tary units of the friends of new Ger many have been drilling on Long Isl and and In New Jersey under mili tary Instructions from Germany and In German-made uniforms. The disclosures were made by FTed erlch Karl Kruppa. formerly a. nasi propaganda director In the United States, aocordlng to his testimony. but now out of the movement because of his feeling It had no place In the United States. Questioned by Representative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, chairman, Kruppa added that tlio nazls were accustomed to punish Ger man relatives of German families in America which refuse or fall to obey orders of the friends of new Germany here. T SEATTLE, Oct. 17. (JP) Apparently trying to start a "new tradition," BOO University of Washington underclass men rioted In the fraternity district last night, ceasing only when police arrived after the rioters had raided fraternity houses, "ducked" member in shower baths and had been doused themselves by buckets of water flung from windows. The melee started with an effort by freshmen of one fraternity to enter a neighboring fraternity house to throw the latter's freshmen In the shower bath. Herbert T. Condon, dean of men said he did not plan any disciplinary action. He said an excess of enthusl asm over the university's football team's defeat of Oregon Saturday may have led to the outburst. 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With out hesitation, Whlted stepped be hind Hauptmann and placed his hand on the prisoner's shoulder. Hauptmann blinked his eyes. When Whlted took his place again in the witness chair, wilentz aakad him when he had seen Hauptmann. "Twice." Whlted declared. "The first time I saw him stepping out of the woods on my land. That was about 12:20 o'clock In the afternoon, about February 18 to 20, 1932." 'You saw him the second time," prompted Wllentz. 'Yes, the second time I saw him on a road three-quarters of a mile from the Lindbergh estate. It was between 4:30 and ft o'clock In the afternoon." The witness said he recalled seeing Hauptmann because a strange face was quite noticeable In that vicinity. Pawcett cros - examined Whlted. asking him If he had ever seen Hauptmann's picture since the de fendant's arrest. "I haven't seen a paper since the case started," the witness testified. Whlted declared he was "about six or eight feet" from Hauptmann when he saw him the first time near Hope well. "What made you remember the face of thla relator so well?" asked Faw cett. "He had a look of surprise on his face as If he had something on his mind," Whlted replied. Did ou ever see anyone before who looked like the relator?" "No, never." Howard School Plans Carnival Thursday Evening An entertaining and Interesting carnival Is scheduled for Thursday evening, Oct. 18. at 7:30 p. m., at the Howard school. A PreaR Show will open the pro gram In the auditorium. The primary room has prepared a group of "Living Pictures," and some "Upside-down Singing." Room one will present a "Man -Maid Minstrel Show", with Jokes, fun, and songs. A costume pa rade and contests head the program in room three. The Big Show, in the "Main Tent." or the auditorium, will be a special boxing card and wrestling matches, with a surprise feature event planned. Proceeds will be used to buy needed sports equipment for the school. Town's Civil War Vets Dead SUNBURY, Pa. (UP) Death has taken the last surviving Union Civil war veteran here. He was John A. Slpe, who shook Lincoln's hand at the time of Lee's surrender at Appo mattox court house. Teaches Sunday Hchool at SO BROOKLINE. N. H. (UP) Forty years ago George Nye started teach ing a Sunday school class at the Methodist church. He Is now 80 and still teaches, never missing a Sunday school meeting. hi , I ft .i i if r 1 Among witnesses Killed before the New Jersey (rrana Jury whloh In dicted Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the the murder of the Infant Llnrthereh was Millard Whlted. of Ijimbertvllle, N. 1., who Identified Hauptmann as a man he saw near the Lindbergh estate at Hopewell In February, 1932, Just before the kidnaping. Whlted. a lumberman. If shown In front of bis home with bis wife and children. (Copyright News Syndicate Company From Associated Press.) UQUOR QUEST 10 FORE IN ALBANY, Ore., Oct. 17. (AP) The liquor question Is prominent here with the lawful temperance league of Linn county now organleed to seek defeat of three Linn county prohibition measures on the Novem ber ballot. Walton H. Worrell Is to head the executive committee of the league whose organization will be extended throughout the county. The league will ask voters to give the present state liquor control act a fair trial and defeat the three prohibition measures on the grounds that prohibition would bring back bootlegger control. MARTIN REFUSES TO HILLSBORO. Ore.. Oct. 17. (Spl.) "I don't want to go In as governor of Oregon If I have to go In as a crooked, double-crossing politician. I want to go In If I can as governor for all the people," Congressman Charles H. Martin declared to a crowd of about 173 men and women of Banks and nearby fanners of that section, In front of the schoolhouse of dlctrlct No. 13 In Washington county. Earlier, before ft crowded luncheon hall at Hlllsboro chamber of com merce luncheon. Congressman Martin stated he would go Into office with out any promises being made to any one. "I have no political machine to build; I have no one to punish and none to reward,' ne stated. tumfoi pS poydE0 figs Apples In AU Stages SHOSHONE. Ida. (UP) The Dor rah ranch near here boasts an "ever- Dearing" apple tree. The tree was discovered to be bearing ripe apples, small green newly formed apples and blossoms all at the same time. T ALLY (Continued iron, page one.) John DUUnger, himself an ex-convlct from that Institution, and Plerpont organ 1 red a machine-gun gang that etched a frightful chapter In the his tory of modern crime. "I am the only man living who knows the 'who's' and the 'how's and I'll take thla little story with me on my last walk," Plerpont re cently wrote Miss Jessie Levy, In dianapolis attorney who defended him. That's what Plerpont did. He was not asked for any "last word," as happens now and then at electrocutions, and he voluntered none. He just sat down with a rue ful smile, closed his eyes, strained the muscles of his lanky six foot -two frame as the ourrent struck, clenched one fist that was all. Plerpont died one year and four days after he, Charles Makley. 60, and Russell Clark, 33 all of the crew that escaped at Michigan City walked Into the residence office of Sheriff Jess Barber at Lima, O., and killed him to free DU linger, held in the county Jail there as the robber of a Bluffton, O., bank, Plerpont was the gunner. Mskloy clubbed the sheriff with a heavy- caliber gun after he had slumped with Plerpont's bullet In his abdo men. Clark held Deputy Wilbur Sharpe and Mrs. Barber at the point of a third gun while the wife pleaded: "Don't kill dad I" The three were captured with Dll- lnger in Tucson, Aria., hideouts Jan uary 20, this year. Mly Attracts Attention AUSTIN, Tex. (UP) A lily in one of the biological pools on University of Texas' campus has attracted the attention of zoologists because of its size. A blossom measured 82 inches In diameter. One of Its floating leaves supported a child weighing 50 pounds. The lily Is a Victoria Regla, said to be native to the Amazon river. Burled In Wedding Suit BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (UP) Riley Johnson was burled In the dark suit, white shirt, collar and tie In which he was married A6 years ago. He wore the clothes only three times at his wedding, his 60th anniversary and at hit funeral. On Both Sldrs In Civil War PLEASANT HOPK. Mo. (UP) When James Riley Walker died here, he claimed the distinction of being the only man to serve on both sides during the Civil war. Walker ex plained that he was drafted for serv ice with the south whits living in Oeorgia, but that he escaped and switched over to northern forces. Washington Apple Yield Good WE NATCH EE, Wash. 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