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"Buy Oregon" Keynote of Oregon Products Days Campaign This Week The Weather Forecast: Sunday rain; normal tem perature. Temperature Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday . Medford Mail Tribune WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFOKD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1934. No. 211. LrLc,L& iv mm mm. BiMnd I'aul Alafluo - WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. A harp hake-up la coming In the New Deal. It will be called a reorganiza tion, for the sake of appear ances, but It will "ncom pass an extensive realign ment of the bur eaucratic set-up. The btfreau bosses have had wind of It lor some time and are scampering to save their sktns or expand them. One . of the fanciest In ner struggles, which no one la sup posed to know anything about, is being waged between Metsra. Ickes, Moffet and Hopkins. They are tug ging at the i6 (count them) widely scattered bureaus relating to hous ing. The result of that struggle may be that rising Prank Walker (the ex-coordinator) will come in and take them all over. Walker has been working on housing privately for several weeks, unbeknown to any one except himself and, President Roosevelt. If he does not take over the whole show, he will . at least be the guiding genius in reorgan izing It. The relief set-up also will be ma terially revised, as will the PWA. The AAA will get off lightly, but the NRA will have its horns pulled In. The redealing this time Is going to be more deliberate. The Idea behind It Is to get things started on a permanent., basis... . . Reliefer Hopkins Is the fastest stepper in the administration. He can do a Virginlal reel so swiftly that you cannot detect, with the naked eye, that he has even moved. Thst was the technique employed In the recent change of PERA pol icy on the 30-cent minimum wage. The order was issued November 19, but it did not get into the news papers until three days later. Mr. Hopkins did not say so, but the cause of the order was his in vestigation of relief conditions in the south. He found on his per sonal tour that there was an actual shortage of unskilled and domestic labcr because that class of laborers (largely negroes) could get more money for less work in the FERA. This condition was rsther serious OF T Aged Power Magnate Calm As Turmoil Fills Court Other Defendants Jubilant Report Three Ballots Taken Trial Exhaustive. CHICAGO, NOV. 24 yp) In tTO hours and two minutes deliberation today, twelve federal court Jurors shattered the government's charges of a $100,000,000 mail fraud against Samuel Insull and his 16 business As sociates with a verdict of acquittal. Between lunch time and the dinner phour, the voluminous case, against trie ruler of a one time two billion dollar utility system was put into the hands of a Jury and decided In hJa favor. Jubilant at the near breath taking speed of the verdict. Insull exclaimed: "This Is the start of my vindica tion." j The Jury" decision read In a hush-' cd courtroom by Foreman John D j Lent came with- a rapidity startling' to defense attorneys and prosecutors alike. Mass of Testimony The case was developed from nearly five tons of business records, but when the Jury men retired to their pSij:SKite m ximxmmmfm. mmsmmBmm&Hwmm, i mim E 1931J1DICTED Dry Goods Trade Expects Increases In December Coast -To -Coast Survey Shows Upswing In Yule Spending. BUTLER'S 'PLOT' CALLED PUBLICITY Doient of motorist, win anowbound in th, high Sierra by n early winter etorm which promised a plentiful water aupply for next summer. This photograph was taken near Donner Lake, Cal. MEDFORD ACCEPTS SEVENTH VICTIM TURKEY DAY GAME BREMERTON MASS ROSE CITY FIELD! MURDERS SOUGHT room they sent out only for three let ters. TTi,lJ Qfnfx. rl.ffl IttAvnxn tn the cotton and tobacco areas or , " n " . , . '3 . . . , . --iftnT Dwlht H. Green, who had worked fr the south and also in the onion growing and beet sugar districts elsewhere, and employed workers were howling because the 2.40 a day going to those on 'relief was more than they received. It la not a new situation. Mr. Hopkins fought a telegraphic duel with Governor Talmadge of Georgia about It last year. Many words were spilled but no blood. More recently, Mr. Hopkins met with a group of business men In Missis sippi. He said to them: "All right, If we cut the government wage to 1 a day, will you give these peo ple Jobs?" The business men eald they were afraid they did not have the Jobs. "You admit, then," Hop kins replied, "that It Isn't our wage that keeps you from hiring the men." Something happened to make Mr. Hopkins reel around a few days later. There can be no question but that the about-face was directed by someone higher than Mr. Hop kins. In all previous similar cases he has brought up such subjects at his regular staff meetings. -The wage subject was NOT brought up. The first his staff knew about the order was when It came from the mimeographing room. Liberals will howl because they have always Insisted with Mr. Hop kins that the New Deal was estab lishing a new standard of living by a high wage scale. It will now mean lower relief wages through out the south, but It may mean an increise in other sections, where the prevailing wage scales, now to be followed by the government, are much higher. It Is another Indication of the elimination of unsatisfactory poll clea In the quietest possible manner. SMIVHJfcl. IN 5ULL nearly two yeara to attain a different result, took the verdict without ran cor. "The government presented Its case fully." said the young prosecutor, "we gave everything that we had to It.'' The case, in which the Chicago utilities builder and his aides were charged with bilking hundreds of in vestors of a huge sum, went to tlw Jury at 2:21 o'clock Central standard time) following a two hour charge by Federal Judge James H. Wllkerson At 4:23 o'clock, the Jurors sent out word they had agreed. Prosecutor, defendants and the Judge had left the building, expecting no such speJ Bailiffs hurriedly set out to bring them back to court. Smokei a Cigar The courtroom quickly filled first with spectators who had lingered the corridor, then with relatives of the 17 defendant. Insull came in puffing a cigar, hi cane over his arm The Jury's speed had hinted they had decided upon blanket acquittal But the court crowd awaited l high, nervous tension. Judge Wllkerson soon entered and took his place. In black robes. Ills clerk stopped the excited whisperlui with three taps on the desk. "Bring tn the Jury," said the Jud; The courtroom fell allent. The Jur- The Medford high school football squad last night accepted the In vitation of the Washington high school of Portland, Inter scholastic champions of tbat city, to play there Thanksgiving day, for the mythical state title. It will be the fourth trip of a Medford high school football team to the metropolis, on the same mission. Announcement ot the acceptance of the invitation was made by Paul Menegat, prin cipal of the Senior high school. Superintendent C. G. Smith left Saturday ntght for Portland,, by train, to confer with Portland school authorities, on the final negotia tions. Definite and final decision on the game, will be made Monday. The Medford squad came out ot the game yesterday without Injury, despite the fierceness of the Hood River play. Oregon: Rain west and local rala east portion Sunday and Monday: snows in high mountains; normal temperatures; , strong southerly wind off the coast. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24. Weekly forecast: In far western states: The outlook la for normal tempera ture and unsettled'- weather with rains over the north Pacific states anl extreme northern California. Local rains and snows over the northern plateau region and fair weather ele where In the far west during the com ing week. OIL LEADER ASKS BREMERTON. Wash., Nov. 24. ;P) Search for a supposed seventh vic tim of the atrocious "mass murder" at Er land's Point last March, in whl-;h six persons were found slain In a summer home there, was disclosed to be under way today by the state pa trot, which has renewed work on the case .4 , Chief William Cole declared that his offlcera have already searched the vicinity of the Frank Flleder horns for a two-mile radius, seeking some sign of a hidden grave which may fa- veal the other believed victim. Near- by beaches have also been searched. Flleder, his wife and four guests, on? of them a woman, were slain in the killings. 'From the evidence we now ha.7. tt appears that seventh person met death in that house that night;" sa'd Cole. "The probable only reason that this body was not left with the others was that Its presence would point tjo conclusively toward the perpetrators of the crime. "We believe that this body was moved In FUeder'a car and deposited somewhere in the vicinity, after which the murderea returned the Filed car to Its garage, and left tn their own " ' Although declining to reveal the nature or source of his new Informa tion, Cole said that It was supported by his own and other officers, Includ tn Chief of King County Detectives R. A. J. AlUngham, who la following the same theory. tOontinued on Page rhree) 7 INJURED, LOS ANGELES STRIKE NEW YORK, Not. 24. (AP) J. Edward Jonss, chairman of the ! national petroleum council. askea President Roosevelt today to remote Secretary Ickes am administrator of the petroleum code. "Because of a Tery widespread feeling persisting that he has lost the conlldence of the Industry which he directs." Jones wrote the presi dent, "I respectfully ask, because of my solicitude for the welfare both of the petroleum Industry and of the public, that you remove him." LOS ANGELES. Not. 34. (API Seven persons were sent to hos pitals for treatment for Injuries The two big things the admlnls- j received tonight In sporadic attacks tratlon Is going to ballyhoo this 'on street cars of the Los Angeles winter are housing and factory ob- Railway company, employes of whlcn solcvcnre. Mr. Roofcvrlfs best econ. are on strike. omlM, have submitted to him pn- After a quiet dsy In which most ta:lT Mime factor obsolescence fig- of the company's cars were In oper urer, ' wSlch are quite significant atlon. violence flared suddenly to Their computation, show that ap-, night. Bricks and ro.ka were nun proximatelv four billion dollars a d at the street cars and In one var has been laid aside by factory : instance poll"" reported a bullet. . and mine own-rJ for depreciation . i believed to have been fired from a Little of It has been spent since 'rifle. Imbedded Itself in a street 10 The totil njw svslUbie lor car ru..ln? small damage. lir.pro-.fr.em ar.1 ep..n.:.vn in in;. Only one of the -eren perwm ,tann: ni l -l nl ' .ea.t "red a c-mpsny "nP'"- ' rrM being prif-eierR To were (Coauaucd oo Pi ftueeji tttn. CALIFORNIA TOWN FACING FAMINE I STRAYER, COOTER TO LEAD SOLONS PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 24. (AP) At a gathering of Democrats who will be members of the next state legislature, John E. Cooter was agreed upon as candidate for speaker 1 of the house and W. H. Btrayer I tentatively named senate president (candidate. In a closed conference prior to today's meeting William Or ham and I Howard Latourette of Multnomah county withdrew as speakership pos sibilities in faTor of Oraham, thus virtually . tusurlng the election of the Lincoln county lawmaker. By long distance telephone Sen a tor Strayer gave conditioned ac ceptance of the candidacy. He said he would be a candidate provided he received a release from his pledge a number of months ago to vote for Harry L. Corbett, Re publican, for senate president. SAK FRANCISCO. Not. 24 AP Aid for the families of 600 Mador county gold miners, which Edward Vandrieur. president of the Cali fornia State Federation of Labor, declarrd were on the "verge ot I itarvatlon." was sought by the San Prune'. too labor council today. "The town of Jackscn faces ex tinction." Vandeleur declared In a tstment before ihe labor council !ait nleht. "becaune of the mine .-inerv action to limiting down the Alaa. NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (p Mer chants from coast to coast are antici pating the largest Christmas trade since 1931, the national retail dry goods association reported tonight, as serting December sales are expected to show an increase of 11 per cent over 1933 and 21.5 per cent above Ds cember, 1932. The association's estimates Wore based on a survey of Its 5,000 mem ber department and specialty stores and 30 states are represented In C!e tabulations. Should this upswing extend to Jl lines, the organization's statisticians figured, retail sales during Decern br would be about four and one-half billion dollars. Realisation of the anticipated tot al, the sun'ey showed, was predicted on prevalence of favorable weather The December sales total was estima ted as Indicating a level of retail ac tivity almost equivalent to 1931 re sults. More than 2.300.000 Individual Items would be sold. The toy association has estimated a Christmas business of 9200.000,000, In this division alone. Christmas aa? trigs clubs, with 7,600.000 members participating, were expected to pour approximately 1369,000,000 Into t ie December sales totals. The survey allowed, the association added, that New England retailers ex pected a 7.0 per cent Increase in sains middle Atlantic states. 9.0 per cent increase; middle west, 11.0 per cent: south, 13 per cent; mountain region, 21 per cent; southwest, 21 per cent, and Pacific-coast, 10 per cent. HUGE LONG TIE ION F, CHICAOO, NOV. 24. (AP) A huge public works program providing Jobs for all the unemployed was laid on the government's doorstep today by the United States conference of may ors. The chiefs of 90 big cities pledged co-operation with President Rooe velt and asked congress to enlarge tha scope of Its housing and slum clearance undertakings and to ad vance loans to municipalities at low Interest to speed local Improvements. Resolution containing -their plan were adopted unanimously and Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee. Wis. newly elected president of the organ tuition, announced the American Municipal association with members In 33 states had agreed to support the program. ' The mayors agreed "the country la reaching a new normal level," but pointed to a long-time program as necessary to meet the unemployment problem. They decided an adequate work relief fund must be provided and that Jobs must "be given Imme diately to all unemployed." "The best stimulus to recovery.' their resolutions set forth, "la a fed eral public works program promoted on such a scale as to make an lm pact on private Industry. Such i program not only lessens the burden of relief but provides the method by which the cities and states in be enriched by the expenditure, cre ate employment and benefits Industry and agriculture." The assertion by Major General Smedley D. Butler (above) that he had been asked to organize 500,000 veterans Into a fascist army waa branded a "publicity stunt" by Ger ald C. MacGuIre (right). Wall street bond salesman, who was named by tha former marine corpa chief aa the man who urged him to head the army. (Associated Presa Photos) P ! 9 Ik ' m : -I ITALY QUICK TO Situation Delicate But ,Not Held Serious Yugo-Slav Plot Charge Brings Diplo matic Action Early Hearing Sought. E DEFENDANT FREED ' BY SEATTLE JURY SEATTLE. Wash., Nov. 24. (AP) Charles Garfield Duke, wealthy north end property owner, walked from the! court room a free man tonight, ac-1 quitted by a superior court Jury of the "mockery slaying" of Dr. Leon W. Bquter six weeks ago. Tha Jury' was out two hours and a half. After the verdict, "Not guilty," was read, several of the Jurors left the Jury box and gathered about the de fendant. A few of them put their arms about his shoulders, and two of them were weeping. Duke's two grown daughters and his son, sitting in the front row of the spectators' benches, sUo burst into tears and came forward to em brace their father. Other relatives Joined In the demonstration. "Oh. my Oodt Oh, my Oodl" Duke sobbed, in a deep, shaken voice. A lew minutes later, he walked through the crowd to where Deputy Prosecutor John F. Walthew was standing. "You're not sorry, are you, really?" Duke anked, extending his hand, Walthew took the proffered hand and smiled. "I'm not particularly happy about It," he said. "Oil, I believe you are, I believe you ami" Duke cried. In a broken voice. All of the five women on the Jury and five of the seven men voted for acquittal on the 'first two ballots, a member disclosed later, and on the third ballot the two remaining men Joined the majority In a vote to free the elderly defendant. At no time, he said, was tfhere any consideration of talk of the death penalty. EM T BARN FIRE CLAIM George High, and his brother, Rob ert (Babe) High of Ashland, members of a well-known Jackson county fami ly, were arrested last night by the state police and the sheriff's office, on a warrant alleging "burning with Intent to Injure the Insurer." A per son, whose name the authorities de clined to reveal, Is also held aa a ma terial witness. All are held In the county Jail. The warrant was issued as the re sult of the burning of a barn, on a farm near Ashland, on the night .if January 4 1933. The Highs had tne barn insured for 116,000. Hay, belong ing to another, was in the barn and destroyed. In a civil action In federal court, for collection of Insurance money, a verdict waa returned In favor of the Highs. State police have been Investigating the fire for the past eighteen months Officers would make no statement as to the nature or extent of the evi dence they hold agatnst the Hli brothers. ROME. Nov. 24. (AP) Italy Jumped square Into the middle ot the Balkan battle over International terrorism today, lining up wltn Hungary In demanding Immediate Investigation of Yugoslav charges Unking Hungary with the Marseille murders. (A complaint Yugoslavia filed with the League of Nations this week al leged Hungarian "complicity" In the assassination of the Slav King, Alexander, last mouth, and charges Hungary harbored terrorists). "A nation cannot remain under accusations so grave as those ad vanced against Hungary by the Serb memorial." an official foreign office communique said. "Therefore Italy has demanded that Yugoslavia be made to prose cute her case Immediately and Hun gary be permitted Immediate de fense." "The situation engendered by Yugoslavia's action," the commun ique said, "la delicate." but it added that responsible Italian circles did not believe It could lead to im mediate more serious complications. lomorrow morning s newspapers, will publish strong editorials sup porting the government's stand. The press- agrnes that Italy sym pathlsed deeply with Yugoslavia in the loss of her assassinated king and understood her feeling of resent ment, but Yugoslavia's action In go ing outside the realm of ordinary law courts to the International tri bunal at Geneva was disturbing to the peace of Europe. AUTO SLAUGHTER Students Battle PARHA. Czechoslovakia. Nor. 24 (P) A group of 210 German studenia Abandoned the German university to night two hours after they had an nounced they would aefend the old school's Insignia against Crech stu dents who earlier In th day stormed the buildings in an effort to seise it. Savage fighting following the gov ernment' order that the Insignia handed over for use In Monday' in auguration of the new president of the Czech university resulted tn in juries to 22 German students. Police wore called out to diaper j several angry antl-aerman demon stration throughout the city, an 3 this evening feeling waa still run ning high. A savage fight thl afternoon be tween Czech and German students. In which several persons were wound - storming of the buildings of the Ger- man people' cultural institute and the breaking of most of It window. E PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 24. (AP) The traffic accident malady scourging Portland claimed another victim tonight When Oust Laven, 1 30, was crushed almoat beyond hope of recovery by an automobile driven by Kf. O. Anderson. Hospital attendant reported Lav en's skull waa crushed and he suf fered Internal Injuries. They said his chances for recovery were slight. DEAD MAN' BACK T PEDDTNO. Cel., Nov. 24 -ilf Oortt! Forrest Charlee, who legally died" seven years ago in in automo bile plunee frcm an ocean cliff, wit bark in Redding today accused of falling to support hi wife and fire children, Charles, whoa life wa Inaured tor 440,000. came back yesterday to act a:de by personal appearance the legl ' t-1:ltratton of demn his uppood vidov obtained prior to IliUig aulta tg ooUGCt t& luursaoa. CHIEF ENDORSED PORTLAND. Ore.. Nov. 24 (AP) Conrad Negstad, who headed the In ternational Longshoremen's associa tion of Portland In last summer's fttnke, wa given a fl-to-1 vot of confidence by the I. L. A. members who re-elected him president. Th off trial count of the 8A5 votes cast showed that Charles Peabody. another strike leader, wa retained a eretnry by an to-l margin. llatt Me hand and Jack AlKarn were selected from eight candidates to be dispatchers who 'will aasign men to Jobs from tbt Jointly oper and lUtizt bAlla. WASHINGTON. Nov. 24-fAP! A national education aoclatton spokesman was disclosed today to have accused Robert Pechner of violating the "principles of ara demlc freedom" In stopping distri bution among CCC camna of a pamphlet describing machines as modern monsters. The furore stirred among edu cator by the CCC director came to 4 head when J. W. Crabtree, NEA secretary, threatened to call a formal hearing unless Pechner barked down on hla action. Crabtree notified Secretary Dern on Wednesday that In the hope ppchner would withdraw the b on the booklet, he was "waiting a few days before arranging to aak for a formal hearing on this vio lation of the principles of academic freedom and in detense of the of fir of education " CARDENAS READY TO RULE MEXICO No Itnnmaii Indictment IA GRANDE. Ore., Nov. 24 (API The Union county grand Jury In session to conalder second drgrre mur der charges against Dan Bowman of Pendleton, and other cnwi, recused tonight without returning any re-fort. M EX ICO, D. P., Nov. 24. (T Facing potentially serious religious and educational problems but with no other pressing questions In Im mediate view. General Lazaro Car denas will take that oath of office aa 4fith president of Mexico next Fri day for a six-year term More than 73.000 person are ex pected to attend the inauguration cl the 39-year-old revolutionary retertn who 1 Mexico's youngent constitution al president. He succeeds General Abrlardo R. Rodriguez, named presi dent In 1932 to complete th term of Paarual Or I la Sub.o who resigned after three year In office. The ceremontea will be held In Vh hug national stadium and wilt be attended by high officials from M over th country and speciatly ap i pointed representatives ot nearly ever PENDLETON, Ore., Nov. 24. (AP Construction of, soil saving dam to fill In gullies and to check head eroMon was started this week on the Wild Hors project, which In rlude 38.000 acres of wheat and gracing land In tha Adams-Athena district. BEVERLY HILLS, Cel., Nov. 23 "Mexico, Mo. Tom Bass, well known negro horseman aged 75, died her today." Don't mean much to you, does It? You have all seen society folk per form on a beautiful three or flvt galted horse and said. "My, what skill and patience they must hav to train that animal." Well, all they did was to rid him. All this nepro, Tom Baas, did was to train him. For over 60 years Amerlca'a pre mier trainer, ha trained thousands that others wer applauded on. A remarkable man. a remarkable char acter. M-ny negroe have been great horaemen. Every big ranch ha Its traditional stories of what It famous negro rider used to do. Negro Add of the L. P. D. ranch waa perhaps th most famous. If old Saint Peter 1 as wise a wa give him credit for being. Tom, he will let you go In horseback and gtr those folk up there a great show and you get th blu ribbon your self. Yours, P. 8. That little Vanderbilt girl sure had a rough break. She baa to live with both of 'em. i lU4TaKuaiaiail tat
