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Christmas Carols and Parade for Yule Opening Here Monday Night The Weather Forecast: Sunday, unsettled wltn occasional rain; little change m temperature. Highest yesterday - 4 lowest yesterday 35 M EDFO KB Mail Tjibune WINNER Pulitzer Award rOR 1934 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY,. DECEMBER 2, 19:14. No. 216. By PAUL MAL1.0N (Copyright, 1934, by Paul Mallon) Paul Mallon Improvement WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. Business was a little better In November. It will be a little better than that In December, and January should show a mite of Improvement over December. That estimate Is not Just the usual whoopla which seems to be getting popu lar again, but a : reasonable view of the situation based on compe tent figures and studied expecta tions. What seemed to have happened is that. In the early fall, strikes and price uncertainty caused stocks of goods to be depicted. Now the price level Is drawing business confidence. Stocks are being adjusted to demand and demand also is asserting Itself In replacements. The stock situa tion Is such that the trend will un doubtedly continue through Decem ber and probably January. All this means that we have had a mental recovery, and that the men tal recovery Is very slowly generating better business. It does not mean you should put any faith In the cur rent cackltnit enthusiasts who think everything la going to be bigger and better at once, or any time soon., Christmas The tip of those best able to Judge the prospects of Christmas retail trade is that It will be at least 40 per cent above last year, A heavy movement of Christmas goods has been noticeable. People seem to have more money than last year, gtner ally, and are more Inclined to spend It. If advance expectations are real ized, It will be the best Christmas since 1030. Prices You probably have the wrong Idea about prices from reading the gen erally published figures. Everyone thinks prices have been going up. The truth la that the only prices which have Increased materially this year are those of foods and farm products. The drouth did that, with some debatable help from the AAA program. last January the price level ot everything except foods and farm products was 77.6. That was for the first week of this year. For the week of November 17 the compar able figure was exactly 78.3, a dif ference of less than a point. During all that intervening per iod, covering nearly a year, the figure never went higher than 79.U and never lower than the figure for the first week in January. For the last three months It has been practically unchanged. Money That price situation seems to be a rather broad response to Profes sor Warren, the committee for the nation. Father Coughlin and all the others who think dollar devalua tion la the key to price levels. President Roosevelt devalued the dollar January 31, and the price level of all products not influenced by the drouth is Just about the same as before the devaluation. It went up sUghtfly for a while because of fear and speculation, but It soon adjusted itself to more Important matters than dollar devaluation namely, supply and demand. Incidentally, the Washington bal lyhoo of last year, you may re member, was bawd on the restora tion of the 1928 price level. You have not heard much of that lately, and you won't. What they are talking up now Is for the readjustment of prices to encourage distribution. They arc not trying to fool with the general prtce level any more. Ralls The only Index now going back ward Is freight car loadings. You wouid think that, with business activity Increasing, the railroads would be getting their share. They are sharing, but the drouth hit them so hard that their aversge traffic' figure Is suffering. Livestock and grain shipments arc down to about 60 per cent of nor mal. Ore and lumber are also down, but other Items are holding their own. Notre The building improvement was not due to Che two bad boys, Mr. Moffett and Mr. Irkes, but to a flurry in residential construction. It may not last. Foreclosures arr still going on at the rate of about 30.000 a month, and while people are losing their property at that rate, the outlook is hardly rosy. The textile settlement helped in dustrial production and employment. So did the frrowth of steel activity. Losers in that index this month Included automnb..es, shoes and to bacco. There has been a pick-up In gls.Mwere manufacturing, which In dicate an rpe cunon of wide spread synthetic Christmas cheer. E FOR REPUBLICAN .SHIP '"Human Sympathy" Need Says Oregon Solon Low Interest Rates To Farm ers And No Price Fixing Favored. TRANSOCEAN FLIER PLANS COAST-AUSTRALIA HOP PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 1. (AP) The declaration that "the Republican party should quit Its abstractions and alarms and get down to the level of human sympathy and human under standing," was one of the quotations In an Interview with United States Senator Charles L. McNary, which the Oregonlan printed tonight. The Oregon senator, Republican floor leader, was quoted to the effect that the Republican party must do its utmost to rescue the nation "in co-operation with the administration or otherwise." In discussing the errors of Repub lican leadership in the recent politi cal campaigns, Senator McNary "broke a comparative silence on political and legislative subjects," the Oregonlan said, on the eve of his departure for the national capital and another ses sion of congress. "I offer no criticism of the sin cerity of political sagacity of my Re publican colleagues." the paper quot ed McNary in connection with the recent campaign, "but it should now bn plain that a party cannot gain the attention of a people distraught by business and employment worries by extolling the nobility of the fore fathers, the sancltity of the consti tution, and by spreading alarms over regimenattion and bureaucracy." The Oregon senator was then quot ed as having declared: "'Regimenta tion' is a fine, mouth-filling word but It fills no empty stomachs, and a man who Is worried over where nextv month's rent is coming from cannot be aroused to an interest in the evils of bureaucracy. Democrats Once Wobbly "Six years ago It wae said that the clock had, stopped for the Democratic party," the quotation continued. "H was predicted by Republicans that the Solid South had been lastingly shattered. The man who Is now president of the United States was the governor of New York. "He did not believe the Demo cratic party was beyond revival and he set out to revive it. Whether it was new leadership, or new Idea, or (Continued on Page Seven) SEEK CALIFORNIA PALS OF NELSON SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 1. (AP) Federal authorities pushed prepara tions tonight for the roundup they hope will snare all the California un derworld characters who helped hide the slain Oeorge (Baby Face) Nelson during his sojourn In the San Fran cisco bay area last summer. As the body of the midwestern des perado who reigned briefly as pub lic enemy No. 1 was being given its "last ride" In Chicago, Federal Dis trict Attorney H. H. McPike an nounced he would ask grand Jury Indictments next Tuesday against nearly a score of persons suspected of harboring Nelson. MELBOURNE SWEPT BY WIND, TORRENT MELBOURNE. Australia. Dec. 1 (AP) A terrific rain and wind storm out of the southern seas to day had brought death to at least eight persons and caused property damage of more than ftl. 225.000. The storm was described as the worst ever to visit this part of the Island continent. For two days the wind-swept torrents smote the city. Scores of small boats were hurled ashore and Inland seas a mile across have been created in many cases overnight. 4s te . . 1 1. 1 a J- FEDtKAL EXPERTS World News At a Glance Economic Signs Point To Revival Unemployment Listed As One Unfavor able Depression Factor. Charkt P. T. Ulm, co-pilot with Sir Charles Klngsford-Smith on hit California to Australia flight sev eral yeare ago, plars to takeoff from Vancouver. B. C, for a second transpacific jaunt to Melbourne, via Hawaii and Sua. Ulm (center) will be accompanied by George Littlejohn (left), co pilot, and Jay Shillings (right), radio operator. Ulm said he might takeoff from Oakland, Cal., where this picture was taken. (Associated Press Photo) OAKLAND, Calir.. lire. I. (AP) Captain OhnrlM p. T. Clm annnuwe-d drflnltrl.v lie would not take, off today on his trans-raclflc flight to ll innlulu and Australia, bat would to "Just hi soon as tvratlier permitted," probably tomorrow. BALK DISARMING MAKERS COLORFUL FLOAT 10 LEAD PARADE TOLD STARTING 7:45 New Evidence Before Senate 'Sensational,' May Shake Europe Hint Sabotage At Peace" Conference Hope For British Inquiry. DEATH OR PRISON WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. (AP) New evidence that munitions maKers act ively sought to block disarmament was arrayed today for public disclos ure when the senate Investigating committee renews Its hearings Tues day. An Informed source reported that the new evidence was so sensational in character that "international re verberations' would follow its intro duction. Among other things, senate muni tions committee members hoped the disclosures would result in a thor ough Inquiry Into the arms industry In England, where an Investigation already had been proposed, and In other countries also. Other committeemen were under stood to feel proof that munitions firms endeavored to sabotage peace conferences would add a powerful ar gument for supervision of the arms traffic. Such supervision recently was proposed by the state depart ment. For the hearings which open Tues day, the senate committee, headed by Senator Rye (R., N. D.), has sum moned officers of the Colt Patent Firearms company, the Winchester Arms company, the Remington Arms company and the E. I. DuPont de Ne mours company. DuPont officials testified at the hearing last fall. There was no Indication as to which of these concerns, If any, had op posed arms limitation agreements. Slighting references by some muni tions company officials to disarma ment conferences and negotiations already i.ave been introduced into the record of the committee, which Is conducting the first arms Inquiry held by this or any other modern nation. A South American representative of a New York submarine maker write his firm that he could be sent as a delegate to a Geneva peace confer ence and suggested -that his employer take care of his expenses. The proposal was not accepted, but In Informed quarters today It was said that the data In possession of the committee went beyond propos als and definitely showed that arnu concerns tried to make disarmament parleys a failure. f 'filial Wtlfarr Hmd WARM SPRINGS, Dec. I. (API President Roosevelt todiy advanced Mis Catherine lr.r:ot. of Wiscon sin, to the pot of r h;r nf t.i rhrt a bu:eau of t;e dp,rtmen of labor. DENVER. Dec. 1. (AP) Final so lution of the Denver mint robbery 12 years ago In which 1200.000 In currency was snatched from armed guards, was announced tonight by Chief of Detectives A. T. Clark with the Information that Harvry Bailey, convicted kidnaper of Charles P Vrerhel, Oklahoma City multi-millionaire, was the driver of the robber car. Five men and two women all of whom are now in prison or dead ver lmulvrd In the crime which has hffled the bet dettive minds in country for mre than a decade Cluk said. COLLEGE EDITORS CHICAGO. Dec. 1 .(API Western conference college editors today tele graphed Senator Huey p. Long (D.. La. I, collect, condemning what they termed his "unwarranted cenvir ship. over their collrsiues on the Louisiana State university student daily, "Reveille.'' The telegram was a copy of double barrelled resolution adopted as the first act or the Big Ten edi torial association. The other shot conieir,ne! the er,ator for hi ' sopic political meddling" in 'fiuttli txluUQisAl arfairs," Without lacking any of the en thusiasm and brilliance of past Christmas openings in Medford, the celebration tomorrow evening that will - usher In the Yuletide season will bring pleasing and worthwhile entertainment to Mother and Dad ns well as Joy to the kiddles. Med ford's many well known musical organisations will be especially fea tured In Christmas carols on the streets of this city which may be enjoyed by holiday crowds while colorful Christmas window displays are being viewed. Tentative plans for . the Monday evening program were announced yesterday by Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann, who heads the entertainment com mittee for the merchants. A grand parade will be held on Main and Sixth streets, beginning at 7:45. headed by a colorful Shell float with live tumblers performing on the brilliantly decorated truck plat form. Among the musical groups to be then featured will be the Medford Gleemen. Jackson county teachers' chorus. Elsie Strang's wo men's chorus, the high school band (Continued on Page Twelve) GIRL, 14, HELD FOR STABBING LIQUOR CRAZED STEP-DAD SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1. iVP) A 14-year-old girl who "only Intndcn to scare" her step-father was held In the detention home here today piiyslclana gave the step-father a blood transfusion in an effort to save his life from three stab wounds thev said mlflht prove fatal.. "My step-father Is a good man but when he drinks he goes crazy and Is destructive," the girl, Constance Forbes, told police. Officers aid she told them the step father, Thomas Forbes, waiter, came home early today and demanded 2 tie had given her a few days previously. "I said I gave It back to mother," she declared. "He did not believe me I grabbed a kitchen knife and tried to fare him. Then he chased me through the house. Then he started breaking my grandmother's table, I raised t j kiife. X only meant to scare him." i 111 III 1 j FARK JOYFUL Allegheny Streams At Flood Stage Missouri, Idaho . And Utah Blessed By Snow '- Moisture " Short age Lessened. (By (lie Associated Press) Floods, gales and heavy snowfall dotted the American weather map last night as the Missouri valley continued to dig out of Its Thanks giving snowstorm. Northern Utah and southern Idaho received snow Saturday. The storm which Frldsy night deposited five Inches of snow on the area continued without ceasing to the gratification of farmers and stockmen. Fears of a 1035 shortage of muni cipal and Irrigation water were dis pelled by the snowfall in -that area as readings In the. Wasatch moun tains showed a total depth of 41 Inches this fall. The eastern slope of the Allcghe nles In the region of M&rtlnsburrf, W. Vs., feared damage as, streams rose suddenly to flood stage after a 3.10 Inch rainfall In 34 hours. Already soaked with a week's rain fall, the earth was unable to absorb more and the heavy run-off soon ralred the flood threat. The Shenen doali river was 13 feet above normal south of Martlnsburg and was ris ing one foot each hour. The Potomao at dam No. four was reported to have risen six feet with the crest of the flood not expected to reach there until today. Both riv ers surged over highways In low-lying sections but without serious damage. Oregon coast towns were repairing damage done Frldsy when one of the worst gales of the season lashed the coastline. Yesterday a raging snowstorm piled snow six feet deep In Crater lake national park. All highways blocked In Missouri by the Thanksgiving storm had been cleared and normal traffic resumed. IN LOS ANGELES LOts A NO ELKS, Dec. I. f AP) Tear gas bombs exploded again to day In the heart of Los Angeles' business district when police broke up another late-afternoon demon stration In the street car strike. As federal mediators reported "progress" In negotiations to end the strike strife, pollre rushed to Sev enth and Broad-ray when about fifty men were reporter In "booing" dem onstration as atrret ears passing the busy intersection, scene of several hectic engagements between police, car crei and men identified as strikers. Today's ratuftiues hroiiEht afWd names or the roster of bruised strlkr L WASHINGTON, Dec. I. ( AP) The suggestion that an upward cycle swing In business has begun was en- 1 closed today In an official memo randum, drawn by a federal econo-! mist and circulated among officials In one important government agency. I Three other government economists, although unwilling to be quoted, are , known to have tentatively reached this same conclusion. I A cyclical swing is ordinarily un derstood to mean a long term move ment of business. This opinion, however, Is not now held by all government experts. In fact, many of them doubt that thero Is such a thing as this kind of an economic cycle. There is evidence on both sides of the long-term upward swing thesis. The principal tangible support of the theory la the movement of vari ous statistical Indicators against the usual trend. This does not neces sarily mean that conditions now are unusually good, but simply that the economic signals are pointing up de spite depression forces. The American Federation of Xbor has reported that there are 560,000 more unemployed men' than In Octo ber last year. While opinion varies as to the accuracy of this figure and the Immediate significance, the econ omists seeing the upward swing hold it Is one of the unfavorable factors now slowly and steadily being over come. A major Item In the analysis of the four government economists who see an upward trend is that a com paratively continuous forward move ment In the consumption goods In dustries Is beginning to stimulate the dormant capital goods Industries, . By the Associated Prcs Domestic. WashingtonSenator Borah de mands G. O. P. "revolution" unless conservatives agree to complete party reorganization. Muskegon, Mich. Crew of 33 saved In thrilling rescue from wrecked "Jinx" freighter; one rescuer drowns. Tulsa. Okla. Federal Judge's son. Phillip Kennamer. 19, charged with murder for Thanksgiving slaying of youth; says he shot In self defense. Police see extortion plot link. Washington New evidence that munitions makers tried to block dis armament may bring international reverberations. Reno Ann Harding starts fight for daughter "as mothernot ac tress." Washington Huge Hopklns-Ickes relief requests stir congressional row. Warm Springs F. D. R. maps vast work relief program; to consolidate' emergency agencies. Foreign. Moscow Assassin kills Soviet poll- ! tlcal leader; "enemies of working ! class" blamed. Paris Flandln gets rousing vote J of confidence, pushes war chest bud get. Berlin Hollywood girt held by n a 7.1s to be expelled from Germany, Rome Italy ponders African ex pansion threat: delays answering in vitation to denounce naval treaty. Budapest World wheat control plans Jeopardized by Argentine refus al to be bound by pact. Leeds, England Mother, 62, to hang for "mercy murder" of son. FDR S OBJECTIVE TO PROVIDE IRK AND Ei RELIEF Public Housing Program And Partial Bonus Pay ments Favored Confers With Hopkins And Rich berg In Georgia BAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1. (API Oregon state's financial standing was reported In "excellent condl tion'' here, today by Governor Julius L. Meier, who with Mrs. Meier is visiting In San Francisco. Governor Meter said the Oregon deficit, which he stated had been running as high as 4.600.000. will be reduced by more than 3.000,000 In the present blennlum. He at tributed the reduction to strict economy. .Business conditions In Oregon, Governor Meier said, are showing general Improvement. NKW YORK, Dec. 1. (AP) The New York American says evidence es sential to the prosecution of Dutch flchultr, on income tax evasion charges has been reported missing from the files of the treasury department and federal officials. Bchulta surrender ed to authorities this week and Is held In lack of e 100 .000 bond. Several sheafs of documents, the newspaper asserts, cannot be found. Including confidential reports on Scbults's financial activities used In presenting the case to the grand jury. The American adds there was no Indication whether the files were mis laid or stolen and also declares de partment of Justice agents have un der surveillance a Broadway building housing many lawyers' offices, In con nectlon with the esse. Oregon: Unsettled Sunday with occasional rains west and local rain or snow east portion; Monday fair but with considerable cloudiness west portion; little charge In tem perature; fresh south to west wind off the cosst. Outlook for week. December 8 1 to 8. Inclusive: Fair weather except 'occasions! periods of rain in Wash jlndton, Oregon and northern Idaho Temperatures will be normal. COLUMBIA BRIDGE HEARING DEC. 18 STEIWER SEES NO WASHINGTON, LVC. I fAPl The biard of army engineers today et December IB for a hesrmg on the proposed toll bridge across the Columbia river at Astoria, Ore. The' hearing will be held In here The propose! bridge w:u:d con nect highway a Ion? the Oregon 4 and Wshinngioa Gouw WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. (AP) The opinion that the United States la gradually being forced into naval armament race with Japan was expressed today by Senator Steiwer (R , Ore.) He dried the United States "la getting the worst or the deal" in the preliminary naval conversations in London, but asserted that It would be "Impossible" to grant naval parity to the Japanese. lumber llti'ltieo St r ml j PORTLAND. Ore, Dec. 1. ( API The Western Pine association today reported that new business amount ed to 39.148.000 feet during the week ending vovember 34. This was about two per cent under the three vesr weekly ave:sge (ir November, nd one per rent less than for the IS WARM SPRIN03, Ga., Dee. I. (AP) President Roosevelt moulded a new and vast work relief program con solidating various existing emergency agencies in a conference today of his principal aides. Ho laid down the objective of work In place of unprofitable direct aid grunts as reports for this goal were received from Donald Rich berg, di rector of the emergency council; Harry L. Hopkins, relief administra tor, and Rexford Guy Tugweil, under secretary of agriculture and Intimate consultant. Mr. Roosevelt reserved his Judg ment on details as the Saturday af ternoon party in the little White House cottage on Pine mountain end ed, but It appeared certain that out of It would come a huge public works program calling for housing construction and probably payment of bonus to veterans on relief rolls. Richberg, who flew here from the Tennessee Valley development and departed late In the day by plan, said no formal recommendations were submitted for a permanent NRA. but he repeated his suggestions for re tention of the principle of collective bargaining on a voluntary basis as set forth in the existing article 7-A of the national recovery act. LffKDS, England, Dec. 1. (AP) Mrs. Mary BrownhlU 63 years old, grey-haired and . frail today was sentenced to be hanged for the "mercy murder" of her Imbertle son. A Jury needed only five minutes- to rind her guilty. The woman, arter 80 years spent nursing her Imbecile son Denis, gave htm 100 sedative tablets and turned on the gas when she learned aho faced an operation which might cost he- life. She feared that Denis. left alone. would suffer what a physician call ed a "veritable living death," it was testified. Mrs. Brownell heard the verdict stoically, head erect, Asked If she wished to address the court, she said "I did It In mercy." Many in the courtroom wept. The Judge, under English law had no alternative but to sentence her to death. Donning his black cap to Impose the sentence of death, the Judge said: "We have to take the law as It Is, always remembering that Id other, higher hands, mercy may be extended. No person in this country has the right to take the life of any other human being because he or she thinks It would be better for him to die." EVIDENCE FADES GANGSTER'S CASE EAT PROTEINS TO BE SLENDER GALS CHICAGO, Dec. t. (AP) Don't hunger-strike for that sylph -like more proteins 1 That was the prescription given today by Dr. Leo K. Campbell of Rush Medical college after trying It out on his patients. Without becoming dinner table martyrs, they lost from 10 pounds In four weeks to 05 pounds in ten months an average of two to three pounds cast off every week. Here's how: Decide what your Ideal weight would be. Then serve yourself a gram of protein for every pound of the estimated perfect wleght; with the calories 10 per cent below the minimum requirement for the Individual. WINS DAM ACTION TILLAMOOK LIGHT E PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. I. (AP) eTIve men three of them suffering from severe colds were removed late today from the Tillamook Rock light house, where raging seas had kept them virtual prisoners more than three weeks. Over dashing waves through which no craft dare come close to the rock, the men were swung on a breeches budy set up after the lighthouse tender . Rose finally succeeded in "shooting" a line to the rock. Fresh, groceries and other supplies and two rello? lighthouse attendants were landed on the rock over tii breeches buoy which operates on pul leys like an endless clothesline. R. R. Tinkham, district lighthouse superintendent, announced the ten der Rose sent a wireless to him that the men were removed end woud be landed at Astoria. Henry Jenkins, acting head keeper; Ed Laschluger, storm keeper, and Harry Ratty, foreman of a repair crew, were all suffering from colds. Others removed were Werner Storm, a keener, and Can Hanel, a member of the working group. Those deposited on the half-acre rock, which Is a mile off the Oregon coast and completely surrounded by drop water, were William Hill, regu lar head keeper, and H. W. Banner, relief lightship wireless operator. Astoria Pioneer Celebrates ASTORIA. Ore., Dec. 1. (AP) Astoria's oldest pioneer resident wlU celebrate her 100th birthday here tomorrow. She Is Mrs. Eliza Jane Hustler, bom in Illinois In 1034, who has lived la Astoria since her parents settled here la 1848. yrlan Workers Perish BEIRUT. Syria, Dec. I. (AP) Thirteen workmen were crushed or burned to death, and eight serious ly Injured today In the explosion and collapse of a port warehouse) where oils and powder are stored, previous week. SPOKANE. Wash., Dec. I (API Mrs. C. M. Payne today was award ed 018.500 in her suit agalnnt David H. Ryan, of San Diego, because she failed to get a contract at the Grand Coulee dam that she said Ryan promised her. Ryan, ho had a contract from the federal government for prelim inary excavation at the site of the trwooO.OOO hydro-electric project on I the Columbia river In central Wssh llnglon, was alleged to iiave agreed to have Mrs. Payne's company move I 000 000 yards of material. Ryan contended that Mrs Payne was not Munctally cm p hit of completing alas con tree U SANTA MONICA, Cal., Nov. 30. RoHding the list of guest it bit; wedding in London, Grand Dulse Diniitri of Russia, Cinind Duchess Xenia of Ruk iin, Grand Duke Vladimir of llussin. Moscow will get a kick out of tlint. Then there was a big bunch of German ex-nobility. It was really a pre-war gathering. It iwas a very graeious thing of I King George of Knclnnd to diif I up nil these old "has bcens" and let 'em live over nunin past j glories. Kven if it was just for a day. f UiCXcDsuiM SjraliMlt, 1st,