the Weather
Forecast: Fair tonlrht and Friday,
wKh tot- little change In tempera
ture. Hlfhest yesterday
Lowest this mornlnf a
M
EDFORD
Mail Tribune
WINNER
Pulitzer Award
FOR 1934
Tweuty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1934.
No. 220.
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MBfr SUDDENLY EXILED
LEAGUE INFORMED
Paul MalloD
By PA IX SIMAON
Copyright, 1934, By Paul Mallon
WASHINGTON, Dec. (.The gov
ernment Itself learns something new
about governing every day. -mere is
lor instance, tna
case of the fed
eral trade com
mission invr . -gating
the tex
tile mill profits.
As an after
math of the tex
tile strike the
commission was
' directed by the
president to
study operations
and profits of
all textile mills.
Tt fnlled to set
any response to 1th questionnaires
from about 300 firms.
. In checking up on the recalcit
rants two commission account went
to New Jersey where many small tex
tile firms operate. Some have as few
as 6 to 10 looms in an old house
somewhere, yet their incomes often
run as high as $5,000 to 6.000 a
year.
With the cooperation of a textile
association, the government agents
got reports from about 40 firms, but
could do nothing with Hie others be
cause they kept no bocks. Informed
of this the commission here wired
back:
"Tell them to glvo us Information
from their Income tax returns."
When the agents went to the as
sociation with this proposal, the sec
retary threw his hands in the air
and exclaimed:
'Most of these fellows don't file
anv tax returns I"
It would be worth while to see
Treasury Secretary Morgonthau ex
plode when he hears about the tex
tile tax evasions. The mere mention
of the phrase "tax evasion" sends
him Into snasmsL, Beforo ;. he,,-ge$
through we will probibly have In
spectors out ringing door bells and
searching houses to see If the tax
payers are holding out anything.
' The tax lawyers hero are up in
arms about many of his recent rul
ings, especially as regards estates tax
collections. Several decisions are be
ing appealed.
Some of Mr. Morgenthau's suspi
cions appear be Justified. The
little textile operators have not been
detected before because they could
move from place to place, state to
state, before the tax collectors could
catch up with them. But the cost to
..mamt nf collecting the tax
probably will be greater than the
amount ui .
Also the temptation for Internal
revenue bureau workers Is great. It
may come out soon that a clever
scheme was worked by one bureau
sub-official. He looked over assess
ments. When he came to a particu
larly juicy one, he filed It tempor
arily on the top shelf. Then he scrib
bled a. note to a close friend who is
a tax attorney of a sort In New York.
The lawyer friend called on the tax
payer and suggested a contingent fee
arrangement to get the assessment
lowered. . ,,
It was a good" business while It
lasted.
The Borah-i .etcher row about who
Is going to run the republican party
was largely encouraged by news to
keep things Interesting during the
oull pre-holldr.y season.
There Is a sound basis for It all
right, but as every Insider knows,
the question Is now purely academ c.
This may be the time to talk about
reorganising but it Is not the time
to do the reorganising.
Senator Borah's game Is to stir
up the animals and bring long-range
pressure on Chairman Fletcher In
preparation for the ultimate reor
gsnlratlon. To a certain exten t. Mr.
Fletcher Is Mr. WIN end Mr. HI l.es
is the conservative elemrrtt of tnc
p.rty. They will havo to make con
cessions to Borah in whatever de
gree he I. successful In stirring up
the party, but they do not Intend
to abdicate. o-h
Mr. Borah Is still Just Mr. Borah.
His crowd in the senate has gone
democratic, but his wisdom will ap
peal to party followers who want a
fhsnge.
r ,?
Drastic Order Will Force
27,000 From Borders
2000 Already Deported
Some Without ' Country
Champion Steer
Brings $3 Pound
At Chicago Show
' CHICAGO, DM. 6. (P) "Gam
ut Idol," th grand champion
steer of the 35th Jntenn.tloi.tS
Livestock exposition, was bought
at auction for 93 a. pound today
by the Korger Grocery and Baking
company of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The price was more than double
the 91-30 a pound bid for the
Brlarctllf Model' last year. It
was the fifth time In the histo.7
of the sale that price reached 3.
"Campus Idol" weighed 1,144
pounds t sale, and will bring lrs
owner, Iowa State college at Amos.
3.433.
GENEVA. Dec. (AP) The
Hungarian government Inform
ed the league of nations today
that Yugoslavia had suddenly ex
iled 900 persons. Including wo
men, and children, aged and In
firm. The Hungarian statement It Is
expected, will be taken up to
morrow by the 4engtie council.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Deo. .
(AP) The Yugoslav government, it
was announced today, has decided to
expel all the 27,000 Hungarians now
living in Yugoslavia.
The government decision means
that the uprooting of the entire
Hungarian element in Yugoslavia.
' It was stated authoritatively by
expulsion will be a gradual process
but will proceed relentlessly.
About 300 luckless former Hun
garians have found themselves with
out a country. This group was com
posed of men and women who re
nounced Hungarian citizenship pre
paratory to becoming Yugoslavs.
Hungary has thrown them out and
Yugoslavia will not permit them to
return. They are living In three
trains stranded In "no man's lond"
at the Hungarian-Yugoslav frontier.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 8.
(AP) The Hungarian government de
cided today to place before the league
of nations the expulsion and alleged
ill-treatment of hundreds of Hun
garian citizens by Yugoslavia.
There has been tension, between
the countries since the assassin a tlbn
of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and
the subsequent Yugoslav charge at
Geneva that Hungary was involved in
the crime.
A government spokesman said
Hungary would be justified in ex
pelling Yugoslav citizens living in
this country but would not resort to
this reprisal until the matter is aired
at Geneva.
FOR LOSI FLIERS:
HONOLULU, Dec. 0. f AP) Weay
but willing naval searchers went on
relentlessly today In the hunt tor
Plight Lieutenant Chas. P. Ulm and
two companions, missing since Tues-
day when lack of fuel forced their
trans-Pacific monoplane into the
ocean.
Pilots of a dozen navy seaplanes
were ready to take off at dawn to
retrace courses over 200,000 square
mucs ot tne adjacent Pacific which
has been combed the last two days
lor tne ill-fated filers. Not until all
hope has -vanished will the search
end.
Chances dwindled, however, aa the
hours piled up past the time It was
believed the "Star of Australia" could
remain afloat with Ulm, Co-Pllot
Oeorge Llttlejohn and Navigator J. L.
Skllllng. The trio had no llfe-sav-lng
equipment to take to when waves
engulfed their plane.
HOTEL ST. FRANCIS
PATRONS ROUTED
BY MORNING FIRE
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8. (AP)
A five alarm fire routed hundreds
of guests from their beda In the
smart St. Francis Hotel early today
before firemen brought the blaM
under control half an hour after lb
broke out at 5:46 a.m.
Residents In the popular down
town hostelry were awakened by the
shouts of firemen and calls of room
clerks and hurried Into the lobby
in various staRea of attire. Firemen
6aid the blaze was checked so quickly
they never were-In any real danger
and sent them back to their roonu
not long after they were awakened.
Manager Jamea McCabe said dam-'
age . probably, would be confined to,
the popular colonial ball room and
the Italian room, both on the mez
zanine floor where the fire atarted.
apparently In a pantry. McCabe de
clined to estimate the amount ot
damage. 1
Fire Chief Charles Brennan esti
mated damage at 100.000. His left
hand -waaourned when he-slipped
on a service stairway between the
aecond and third floors. Two other
firemen wera overcome by smoke.
Among the guests awakened by the
telephone operator were Eat O'Brien
ot the films and his wife; Cliff Du
rant, son of the automobile manu
facturer; and the Herbert Flelah
hackera of the San Francisco bank
ing family.
THIEFTElNS
CCC MAN'S COAT
It may be that petty thieves are
oftentimes Irked by guilty conscience,
but It Is not very often that the
conscience pricks one to the extent
that he pine a note to stolen prop
erty and places It carefully on the
front porch of a city policeman.
Officer Joe Cave has that story
to tell, after his wife went to the
door yesterday to find a light gray
overcoat there. Included .in one of
the pockets, with a pair of unre
moved gloves, was a not saying:
"This coat belongs to S. E. Trent;
return to police station."
The coat was atolen" from Trent,
a CCC enrollee at Camp Evans creek,
after he had left It In his car Sat
urday night In front of the Natato-rlum..
U. S. SEES
IN
L TREATIES:
Soviet Leader
Norman Davis Says Action
Would Lead to Insecurity.
Suspicion and Competi
tionNo Real Adventure
By HAROLD P. BR AM AN
! (Associated Press Foreign Staff,)
LONDON. Dec. 6. VP) In the flrsi
public statement of United States
policy since the trl-power naval con
versation began, Norman H. Davis,
United States ambassador-atlar(-?,
a Id today that abandonment of the
Washington and London naval treaties
"would lead to conditions in lnae J
curlty, international suspicion, and
costly competition with no real ad
vantage to any nation."
This statement, regarded as a warn
ing, to Japan, was made before the
American Correspondents' associa
tion at a luncheon.
Heretofore, all statements on the
American policy have been releasei
through a delegation spokesman.
Da-vis declared that "the American
government stands for the continu
ance" of the principles of the two
treaties. ,
.' Sir John Simon, British foreign
secretary, met wjth Ambassador T&u
neo Matsudaira today and urged that
the Japanese explain as soon as pos
sible what they intend to do afte:
they denounce the Washington treaty.
The British foreign secretary also
suggested that If the Japanese had
any new proposals to make they
should do so as quickly as possible
The Japanese ambassador replied that
he would confer with the other mem
bers of his delegation.
Admiral William R. Standley of the
United States explained the American
building program at the lunchem.
and said all construction in the
United States navy, except that of
alrariLtJTiex-.wA-ntlrly replace
ment -work.
STUART AND SONS
ARE LOW BIDDERS
2 ROAD PROiECTS
EXPOSITION GIANT DIES
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
ORAYSOV, Ky.. Dec. 8. (API
Jacob E. Littleton.' 35, the 7-foot-J
Riant who entertained children at the
Enchanted Isle of the Century of Pro
gress exposition In Chicago, la dead.
Littleton died suddenly yesterday
at Aden, near here, at the home of
his ralher-ln-law. Will Terrell. He
was taken HI Monday.
SLAYING YOUNG GIRL
LANSING, Mich.. Dec. l.tlT) la
Toy Carson, 22, a former reformatory
Inmate, pleaded guilty today to a
murder charge for the slaying of 12-year-old
Leona Georgia Love, and waa
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Less than 24 hours after the child's
body was found stuffed into a cul
vert. Carson made several confessions
His last statement, announced by Pe
tectlve Serjeant Philip K Huston of
the state police, said ha shot the girl
when she repulsed his advances and
threatened to tell her sister. .
The new dealers are getting after
the public utilities quietly as well
as In speeches.
The PWA legal division sent
around the country some time ago
two model laws, urging the state leg
islatures to pass them. The first was
a state revenue bond act authorising
municipalities to Issue bonds for sale
to the PWA to obtain government
funds with which to construct city
power plants. A unique provision
provided for repayment from the pro
ceeds of the plants. Thus the bonds
would not be a further burden on
local taxpayer..
The second model law lessened the
time limit for advertising new bond
l','UM to 10 days. This was rountel
on to speed construction of local
power units.
The two models acre sent to 30
state legislatures which will act on
them this winter and from the demo
crats complexion of the legislature.
you cm guess how they will gener
ally act.
JConunued oa Paja BLij
Bankers and President
Are Good Friends Again
ny c-!..nK A. JAGt.F.R
Associated Pres Financial Editor
NEW TOrtK, Dec. 6. ( AP) The
mont lmprpflMve evidence thus fr
that the reapprosrhmcnt between
the administration and the bankers
is real, arcording to some important
quarters in Wall street, ti the heavy
oversubucrlptlon for the treasury's
new offer of bonds and notes,
The fact that total subscriptions
for the treasury's two new offerlnps,
nseregiUlng fK0,000,000 ran to 15.
?, 00 000.000. appears to have aston
ished both Washington and Wall
;reft. The drmsnd from banks, for
Ut loug term government bond was
said to be particularly impressive.
It was only a few months ago that
many banks were actively shifting
their Investments In long term gov
ernment bonds to short term irues.
Wsll Street oankers explained:
1. Confidence in the future han
improved.
2. Banks have sharply reduced their
holdings 'of long term bonds, end
could well expand them.
S. Banks are under severe pressure
to find Investments that will bring
them Income, and are being forced
to abandon their predeliction for
l short term Issues bearing extremely
low Interest rates.
4. The new 3!fc pr cent bond
seemed, euiactheij priced.
PORTLAND, Dec. 6. ( AP) Kern
b Kibbe of Portland was the low
bidder on the largest of six road
projects for which bids were opened
by the state highway commission to
day, bidding $92,504.50 for 1.41 miles
paving on 82nd street- from Clinton
street to Foster road.
R. I. Stuart te Sons of Med ford
bid low on two Jobs, In Coos and
Douglas counties. For the .34 mile
paving and widening of the Golden
avenue-Johnson avenue section or
the Oregon Coast highway In Marsh
field they bid 12.150. On the six
tenths mile paving and widening oi
the Roaeburg section of the Pacific
highway they bid 926.914.
Averlll and Phllpott of Portland
bid low on construction of the Wal
lace bridge over Yamhill river on
the Dallas-Coast secondary highway
in Polk county at $21,153,
The Newport Construction com
pany bid 36.673 for low on 6.58
miles .e widening, surfacing and
oil mat surface treatment of a sec
tlon of the Pendleton-Cold Springs
highway in Umatilla county.
Hank In 6c Brooks Construction
company of I-acentcr. Wash., had
low bid, $41,364, on the four-tenths
mile grading of the Bolon Island
section of the Oregon Coast highway
in Douglas county.
The members of the state high
way commission Individually, and j
as a body, committed themselves op- 1
poaed to bill-board advertising when
It Interferes with scenic beauty along
major roads.
Looking toward widening the Pa
cific highway through Gold Hill in
the near future, the commission au
thor led the purchase of right-of-way
from the Southern Pacific com
pany at that place amounting to
t2327.
Portland Turkey
Market Perks Up
PORTLAND, Dec. 6. AP)Ch
offers of up to 22 cents a pound for
fancy dry-picked young turkey torn
snd hens was announced today by
leading carload distributors for Port
land delivery. Perhaps a cent less was
generally available at nuntry points
Tills gave a decidedly better tone
to the market. Although the price
Increase appeared mostly speculative,
the producer Is the one who will, for
the moment, rvp the bnflt.
Sergei Mlronovlch Klroff, one of
the nine member of the communist
party's political bureau, was assas
sinated at the party's committee
headquarters at Leningrad. Later
soviet police announced the capture
of the man who fired the shot. (As
lociated Press Photo.
66 ARE EXECUTED
IN ASSASSINATION
OF SOVIETLEADER
Summary Death Dealt All
But Five of 71 Persons
Arrested Secrecy Cloaks
Method of Execution
FULL PARDON ON
Li
By CHARLES STEPHENSON' SMITH
Associated Press Foreign Staff
MOSCOW, Dec. e.-(AP) Sixty-six
persons, including one women, had
paid with their lives today for the
assassination of Sergei Klroff, red
Reader and friend of Joseph Stalin.
Tho 66 were tried in Moscow and
Leningrad yesterday and summarily
executed. The ashes of Klroff, him
self, were scaled with proletariat
pomp and ceremony In the fall ot
the Kremlin,
The official announcement of the
execution was brief. It said that a
woman named Zlnalda Bullglna was
among, those executed In Moscow.
Just what connection the 66 had with
the crime, actually committed1 by a
discharged former Soviet employe,
Leonid Nlcolleff, was not specified.
Property Confiscated
The list of the condemned showed
a duplication of family names and
middle names In three classes, indi
cating that brothers bad been execut-
Rum Czar Shows
Portland Police
Illegal Sellers
PORTLAND, Dec. 6. ,T) Dis
couraged by the inability of city
police to obtain evidence of 111yVi
liquor sales, Oeorge L, Sammls,
administrator of the Oregon liquor
control system, led a series of po
lice raids here last night.
Seven places were visited and 11
arrests were made. Those arrested
were booked in the county Jail on
disorderly conduct charges.
LOSE FIRST FIGHI
L
OF ROGUE,
SUSPECT,
TAKEN BY POLICE
Long Search in Wilds of
Lower River Area for
Hugo Mayer Ended Cap
tured Without Struggle
A petition asking Governor Julius
L. Meier toy grant a full pardon to Al
bert W. Reed, former Denver, Colo.,
resident serving a life term In state
prison, for conviction of "the slaying
of Victor Knott, Ashland policeman, j
on the night of November 18, 1932, j
during the burglary of a warehouse,
was served late yesterday, by Attor- J
ney Gus Newbury, upon District At
torney George A. Codding. t
Codding announced today that the
granting of the pardon would be
"vigorously opposed by Jackson
county." The petition asks that a
hearing on the granting of executive
clemency bo called, at the expira
tion of 20 days.
Life Kccohinu'itded
Reed was tried and convicted, In
this county, In February, 1032, of
first degree murder, with a recom
mendation by the Jury of life im
prisonment. He was indicted with
Paul McQuade, and Lee Jackson, for
first degree murder. McQuade and
Jackson are fugitives from Justice.
The petition for pardon is based
upon the following grounds, (1)
conduct of a Juror, to-wit; that a
woman member of the Jury, on a
Sunday, during a trial recess visited
the scene of the crime In Ashland,
contrary to the court's instruction;
(2) that the court erred In the ad
mission of evidence, to which his
counsel excepted, of . a burglary in
California, and evidence that stolen
goods had been found in Reed's
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POLICE DISRUPT
BEND. Ore.. Dec. 8. (AP) Stake
gambled In a poker test of central
Oregon mayors remained In place to
day after police had laughingly play
ed the final hand. ,
Before the police showed up to
sweep the chips from the table tbe
big stack sat In front of W. A, Rahn,
mayor of the one-mon town of Milll-
can, who had called himself Into
special session to expand the city
limits of his vlllnge so ho would have
plenty of dPSTt, to gamble.
Acalnst the acres of desert gam
bled by Mllllcan, other mayors staked
ghost towns, ranches, sawlogs, poti
toes and, It was rumored, a mid 1st
colony.
But wbo won what was a mystery
after police gathered up the chips and
carried two mayors off to what they
said was their "Just reward." The
arrests were ns murh fun as the game.
None of the five mayors who played
got near the Jail.
E
TO DU PONT FIRM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. (AP) Evi
dence that the Du Pont company
sent a shipment of powder to Hol
land In 1020 for reshlpment to China
while an embargo was in effect
against sending munitions to China I
was received by senate Investigators ,
today. i
This came after Senator Clark (D.,
Mo.) had asserted that It was not
necessary for the United States to
enter the world war "except to pro
tect the munitions makers' profits."
Also, the munitions committee was
told that the state department files
showed no Indication the department
had suggested a conference of arms
makers called by Herbert Hoover, as
secretary of commerce, before the
1025 Geneva arms conference,
The former president aald yester
day Frank B. Kellogg, secretary of
state in 1920, had suggested the con
ference. During frequent clashes with wit
nesses, Senator Clark told Irenee Du
ont, munitions manufacturer, at one
point that the latter was not "run-
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 6. (AP) A
ruling of probable cause, sufficient
for the removal to Oklahoma of Alvin
H. Scott and Mrs. Margaret Hurtlenne
his housekeeper, held on a conspiracy
charge In connection with the kid
naping last year of Charles F. Urschel,
Oklahoma millionaire, was handed
down today by Kenneth Frarer, Unit
ed States commissioner.
It was explained, however, the case
must be brought now before the fed- '
eral district court here for a removal
warrant. The district court, thus, i
will have to review the evidence
which for two days has been present
ed to the United States commissioner.
Federal agents testified at the hear
ing that 91360 of the 9200,000 ran-1
som paid for Urschel's release was
found on Scott when he was taken
to a hospital early last month, and
that more of the ransom notes were
found In the Medford home where he
lived with Mrs. Hurtlenne and his
five children.
Similar removal order complaints
pend against Clara Zeldman, said to
be the wife of Albert Bates, serving a
lite sentence for Urschel's kidnaping,
and Vdwaj-d Feldman, her son.
The United States commissioner Is
not empowered to Issue an order for
removal of the defendants to Okla
homa: it must be Issued by a federal
Judge In this district.
Upon Commissioner Fraaer's ruling
today, attorneys for Scott and Mrs,
Hurtlenne announced the decision
would be fought In federaKcourt
when the United States attorney pe
titions for a warrant for removal,
based on the commissioner's findings.
OOLD BEACH, Ore., Dec. 8.-p)
Sheriff Frits Smith of Curry county
stated today that Hugo Mayer, elderly
and eccentric resident of the woodtd
hills of this region, had confessed to
the slaying of Robert Fanta on th
morning of November 6. in the wild
backwoods of the Illinois river coun
try. The confession, Sheriff Smith said,
was made to him, Guy Forsyth, state
policeman, nd Pat and Larry Lucas,
who live at Agness.
nlng this investigation.'
4-
PIPES SETTLES
E
$13 Nugget Taken
From J'ville Mine
JACKSONVILLE. t!. . (Bpl.l
Ed Penet and Walwr Wliltnr rewnl
I? took a thirteen dollar nugget out
of their mln. Several montns a?o
thr took out a Mty-elht dollir
nugget from the same mine, the larg
est nufg't ever found In any mine In
Vaciouvlllt.
HIGGINBOTHAM CITED
AS DRUNKEN DRIVER
' William A. Hlgtrinbotham, 69. of
Central Point, wnn to appear at Jus
tice court In Medford today on
charges of driving while under the
Influence of Intoxicating liquor. He
was arretted last night by state police
on the Pacific highway north of Med
ford. State police records show that on
jvpt. 1, 1M2, Hlgglnbotliam was ar
j rested on the same charges.
LONG OlJSTs'wALMSLEY
I AS STATE PARTY HEAD
BATON ROUOR. U Dee. .--TV-;
Senator Hi try p. Long today had
j Mayor T. flemmes Wslmsley, his Nsw
j Orleans enemy, removed as chairman
of the Democratic state central com
: mlttee. and the senator was elected
, in his place by an overwhelming mi
: jorlty vote, over a vigorous piOtest
Vbj tae major.
A settlement out of court was ef
fected this morning in the damage
suit of Bertha E. Sawyer against A. W,
Pipes, landlord of the Liberty build
ing, The decision was reached aftsr
the Jury had been drawn snd hul
visited the scene of the accident upon
which the suit was based, The plain
tiff sought 92.300 damages. No an
nouncement was made as to the
amount Involved In the settlement.
The plaintiff alleged in her com
pUlnt that while descending the back
stairs of the Liberty building one
evening last February, she tripped
and fell, sustaining an Injury to her
foot. She allowed that the stair wry
as not properly lighted and lacked
-censm sareguaras.
In answer to the complaint, P!p?s
sxnerted the plaintiff failed to exer
else proper care and the accident was
due to contributory negligence, and
that all proper safeguard- were pio
Tided.
VET SAYS REVOLT
SEATTLE, Deoi . ! Volnej P
Moonay, national oommander of tho
Disabled American Veterans of the
World War, here on a speaking tour,
told Interviewers today ' that a revo
lution in tha United States "Is a lot
more probable than many people
think."
"It was western counsel for the con
gressional commltteo on un-American
activities recently," Mooney aald.. "And
a few weeks ago, In Los Angeles. I
sat In hearings In which activities
of anti-American-groups were discus
sed. A revolution Is a lot more prob
able than many people think.
"And, If you look at the alza of
our standing army, you'll see what I
mean when I say veterans' organiza
tions would be the first line of defense."
OOLD BEACH. Ore.. Dec. . fm
The search for the atrango hermit of
the Coast range mountains In Curry
county ha ended.
Hugo Mayer, elderly eccentric.
sought In connection with the slay
ing several weeks a?o of Robert Tantz,
was captured In the wild backwoods
of the Rogue river country last night
and was brought to Jail hero, whera
he was held by Curry county officials
on suspicion of murder.
Sheriff Prlts Smith Is awaiting word
from Josephine county authorities,
nd will take his prisoner there soon.
The killing of Pantz took place In
Josephine county, near the boundary
line.
Admits Bhnotlna.
Police here aald Mayer admitted
shooting Pantz, and aald h believed
the man hsd been plotting against
him.
Mayer'a arreat ended one of tha
most exciting and difficult manhunt.
In this part of th country. Tor 8ft
years Mayer had rangad the thou
sands of acres of untracked rough
terrain. He could out-travel any pur
auer. Mayer was captured at his cabm.
He did not seem surprised when th
officers challenged him. and offered
no resistance. Five deer grazed In
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0-C CERTiFiGATES
IS
PORTLAND, Dec. 0. (P) Lc than
two hours after a dsrlng escape from
the county courthouse, where he was
being examined by a psychologist and
a psychiatrist, Harvey Havelock Hsn
dron, 17, wm captured when ho re
turned to the scene of one of his
former crimes.
The boy was attempting to holdup a
pawnshop when two detectives found
him. He h"d previously been Jalld
for robbing the same place.
Russia Fears Agreement
Of France and Germany
fly JONKPH E. BIIAKKKY
A-Miclntrd Pre I orelgn Stuff
(Copyright,, 1914, by the Associated
Press
GENEVA, Dee. fl. Alarmed at the
proie:t of a close understanding be
tween France and Oermany, Soviet
Russia has asked France not to con
clude any political accord -ith an
other nation pending the fate of the
projected pact of eastern European
securities.
Russia wan described by League of
Nations sources today as fearing iso
lation for herself would result from
any Pranro-Oermsn pollUral accord
It was understood Fraoca baa
agreed not to P'-tke any special bi
lateral politics' treaties without con
suiting Russia beforehand.
France, It was said, will continue
her efforts to get both Oermany and
Russia Into the proposed eastern Eu
ropean seeurtle convention often
called the "Eastern Locarno pact."
Such a pact, In the opinion of the
French s'atesmen who proposed It,
would Insure peace on Oermany's
eastern frontier.
Russia has come to the position of
giving prime Importance to the east
ern part as with peace assured on
her western boundary, she would be
left freer to cope with the Japanese
problem in ths Fa SasU -
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, (AP) The
comptroller general's office said to
day that certificates of settlement
had been issued to all Oregon coun
ties, except Linn, eligible under the
California and Oregon act for land
grant tax refunds for 1033.
The certificates were sdit to the
counties November 2?. No claim was
received from Linn county, it was
said.
The tax refunds are based on an
agreement whereby the federal gov
ernment pays tho counties in sum
equal to the amount the taxes would
have been If the land lid remained
In private ownership.
BKVKRIjT JIirLS, Cnl., Dec.
5. In h legal (fnme, two Cali
fornia collpgn students vrrsim
United Slates supreme court,
United States Bupreme court
wins. Score: Court 9, Students
0. College boys get nwful smart
nowadays but that old supreme
court lias still got quite a bit on
the ball.
Speaking of colleges, I feci
real sorry for lluey Ijoiif?. I
believe his team was as good as
Tulano's (if not better) but
they didn't kick goal after
touchdown. The first bill to be
passed by the next sovereign
state of LouiMann legislature
will rend as follows: "In accor
dance with and in defense of
state rights, any football kick
ed through goal after touch
down, is null and void, unless
done so by University of f,ou
isiaiiA." It's the one bill that he over
looked last fall. So ho has no
body to blame but himself for
not being in the Sugar Bowl
New Year's day.
1 LltM8y"'!l!il?. .