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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather I t orf cast : Cloudy tonight and Sat- t urday, with rata tonight; slightly 1 colder tonight. j lllchet yesterday . 43 ' 1 owrst this morning............. - 41 !i sdpord .Mail T RILUNE WINNER Pulitzer Award TOR 1934 Tweuty-uinth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1931. No. 227. mm PORT ORFORD LINE 10 LELAND WOULD TAP RICHJEGION Independent Concern Asks I. C. C. Permission for Building of 95 Miles New Yorker Heads Project uei f - ro)nn MS iMl Cloudburst Floods Force Calif ornians to Leave Homes iWALLS OF WATER Legislators Missing in Holocaust WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. (AP) The Gold Coast railroad today applied to the Interstate commerce -commission for permission to construct aproxl mately 95 miles of railroad In Ore gon. The railroad company is now con structing dock and terminal facilities at Port Orford, Ore., and plans to extend a railroad southward along the coast through Frankford to Rogue river with an ultimate spur to Gold .Beach, the county seat of Cum county, thence up the Ropua rli er through Agnes, Illaho and Marial to Lcland. where it will connect with the main line of the Southern Pacific railroad. " None of the towns through which the line passes is Incorporated, but the application says that other new towns are contemplated at strategic points. The road. It Is claimed, would tap very large holdings of timber, coal, copper, cement rock, vegetables, stock, fruit and dairy products. Harrison Osborue of New York city Is president of the company. The application filed today with the Interstate commerce commission was made by Gilbert E. Gable of Port Orford on behalf of himself and others interested In the proposed construction. Independent Group The application said "the appli cant has no relation by either traf fic or financial with any other oper ating railroad, corporation or corporations." The promoters plan to obtain a loan from the reconstruction finance corporation. The cost of the proposed project was not disclosed or discuss ed In the application. The line would be an extension of railroad docks and terminals now be ing erected at Port Orford, the ap plicant said, and would tap ."very K X A . 39,231 PER CENT WAR TIME PROFIT LAID TODU PONT Old Hickory Powder Plant Made $1,961,000 Profit Assertion Made by Senate Munitions Investigator NEW YORK. Dec. 14. P) The World-Telegram said today the senate munitions committee has decided to Investigate the pri vate banking house of 4. V. Mor gan & Co. The paper said Its Informant was Senator (i era Id p. Nye, chairman of the committee. This Aso4'ltitcrt Pres nlinlo shows fltimes conMimlng the Kerns hotrl In I.aittlng. Mich., Mhere more than 20 person- were' known to linve burned to death or drowned when they lenped In the Grand river. Among the (lend and missing were members of the Michigan legislature. CANFIELD TELLS PARK POLICY AT Continued on Pago Five) FLIERS BAIL OUT WHEN ARMY SHIP DROPS INTO BAY SAN PRANCISCO. Dec. 14. An army plane crashed Into San Pmnclsco bay today near the Fcny building, after its two occupants sate ly balled out. The rescued filers were Lleutcnart r. L. Anderson and Sargeant Duncan R. MacVean, stationed at Crlssy fie: t They were flying In a threc-plnnc training formation at 70O feet, skim ming Just under the clouds, when their motor failed. The plane burst Into flames as U hit' the surface. Gasoline sprevl over the nearby water from the fuel tanks and caught fire. The ship sank In a few minutes. A ferry boAt put about and a num ber of small vessels from the fleet anchored nearby, went to the rescue of the two parachuted fliers. Thoiwnds of Urnse faces on ferrv boats and the anchored warship watched the thrilling drama. DOKE'S FATE AGAIN IN HANDS CALIFORNIA JURY WOODLAND. Cal.. Dec. 14. (API The Jury in the second trial of Jud aon C. Doke. charted with the mur der or Lamar Hollingshead. be can deliberations Rt 3:30 p. m. today after Judge Neal Chalmers had completed hi Instructions. PrlMincr foft I tan Me Dally. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. UP) Average daily population of Utah'f tate prison during the last ftsc: year was 307 prisoners. Cost of feed ing them was 64 cents a day. 21 'Ounce Baby Born In Salem Fed By Drops SALEM. Dec. 14. ..-Pi A med. cine dropper waa azain brought Into service to feed baby at t ie 5slrm General hospital when a tiny g'.rl welshing only 21 ounces as born lat night to Mr. a::d Mr w. Wrih Rim of Sam. T'.ie b!y w.i a Ix-'.ng cared t j in an incubator nd oxyrn wm beitv Adnunitred Tiie child ws ma'.l?r thn t.ie baby aon of Mr. and Mrs. Henrt Martin of Sslem. which tu re ceived at the hospital Novcmbc. 28, when it m four days o:d and we'.s'icd Ito p-inni and 1? David H. Canflcld, recently ap pointed superintendent of Crater Lake National park, was guest of honor at ft Medford Chamber of Com merce luncheon today at the Hotel Medford. A large number of men and women, prominent In business and civic affairs of this city, representa tives from visiting southern Oregon communities, and officers and offi cials In government service In this area, accompanied by their wives attended the meeting to do honor to the youngest National Park superin tendent in the United States. t "We are approaching a milestone in the' development of Crater Lake National park," Superintendent Can field said In his Interesting address. "Due to the recent availability of emergency funds and man power In dications are that we will complete our ten year program of Park devel opment within two or three years." the speaker said. . Mr. Canflcld pointed out that the policy of the National Park service called primarily, for preservation of park areas, to a great extent In their Continued on Page Five ) FF T Truck owners are urged by the sheriff's office to have their trucks weighed before applying for 1935 licenses. Under new truck regulation all truck owners must present a signed weight certificate. Issued by scale owner or employee, before a license can b issued. The new forms for weight certificates are now in the hands of scale owners. Licenses for trucks can be pur chased on a full year, or half-year, basis. NEW YORK, Dec. 14. (AP) Mae- kay radio reported receipt of a mes- 12 BRITISH VESSEL IKS IN STORM PARENTS' MURDER FOUNO SAFE AFTER Hy Nathan RobcrtMm WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. (AP) A senate munitions committee Investi gator asserted today that the Du Pont company profits on the wor time Old Hickory plant In Tennessee were 30.231 per cent on Its Investment. The statement, quickly disputed by the Du Ponts, was made by Alger C. Hiss on the basis of evidence that the company's profit was 91.001,000. Hiss said the Du Pont Investment was only $5,000, the capitalisation of the subsidiary which built the plant, and tii at the government paid all the costs and bore all the risk. Du Pont Denies Claim Just previously, Pierre S. Du Pont, elder of the noted powder manufac turers, had distributed a statement to newspapermen saying the company's profit from the project, after taxes, was "less than one quarter of one per cent on the total expenditures under the contract." The Du Pont company built the plant near Nashville, Tenn., In 101), under a contract making its fee only OF Kidnaper Found Shot to Death Exchange Privately Owned Forest Lands Near Pros pect for Federal Acreage Is Asked by C. of C. SHANGHAI, Dec. 14. (AP) A re port from Tsingteh said tonight that il sage from the liner Aseania stating ; little Helen Prlscllla Stam, three; The contract provided, however, that all survivors of the foundering j months old daughter of the murdered that the company would get a per Brltish steamer Usworth were res- American missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. j ccntage of all powder manufactured cued today In heavy seas In mldat- j. c. Stam, had been found alive and J which quickly mounted to H.Ool.OOO, lantic. j was being taken to Wuhu, mission ' the Du Pont testimony said. ' Apparently 12 lives had been lost ; headquarters. I say Profit 275.000 In the tragedy. All of them went! Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Kofleld of Bend, , Company officials contended their down when a lifeboat from the Bcl-jore., reported to have disappeared at profit was only 27o.OOO after deduc glan steamer Jean Jadot capsized, j about the time the Stam were nb. itton of taxes and disallowance by the iwo vi mo acaa were ucnnuciy ducted, are aafe. a tcleirrain to the known to have been the lifeboat's Chlna Inland mlselon said. They are crew. Of 12 of the crew taken off the Rt imtu conditlon8 havc Mt us worm in me capsizeo. ooai, oniy two were rescued. The Jean Jadot reported that the two were the only survivors they had aboard. The Ascanla radioed that there were 18 survivors from the Us-i worth aboard her. The Usworth. was reported to have had a crew of 30. Rescue woric was made precarious by the high running seas that pound ed lifeboats and washed away the coils of rescue. lines. Early this ' morning the Usworth radioed the rescue ships standing by to "please try man boats as Impos sible fling any more lines." When the rescue of the Inst sur vivor was completed the Usworth was still afloat but was foundering hope lessly, bombarded by the mountain ous waves that disabled her last night. government of expense claims, Du Pont told the committee todaj that Newton D. Baker, then secretary of war, plainly Indicated to him In November, 1017, that he considered the Du Pont Powder company "a ROBBER HOLDS UP AT Al KLAMATH PALLS. Ore.. Dec. 14. ( AP) The Alturas branch of the Bank of America in northern Cali fornia was robbed of $500 shortly af trr noon today: An unmasked man obtained the money from Ole Nellson, teller, and tied. The report of the finding of the baby was relayed here from Wuhu. Wuhu reported that the Reverend ' species of outlaws" because of the Mr. George Birch of Canada, a mem- j terms the concern had Insisted on In ber of the China Inland Mission and building the government powder lac- stationed near Tsingteh, had the n- jtory. fant and was carrying it to safety. ! "Naturally X resented the remark," There was no Indication as to the ! Du Pont said as he leaned forward health of the child. ! earnestly to explain to the committee Whatever the baby's condition, it Is details of the preliminary negotla- assured of the best medical attention 'tions for construction of the plant at for the entire staff of the American Old Hickory. Tenn., which was de Mcthodlst Episcopal foreign board ' layed some months after Baker can- mission hospital at Wuhu, under the Icelcd the original contract. direction of Dr. Robert Brown, nwaits the child's arrival. It came into the world Bt that hos pital Sept. 11 by a Caesarian opera tion. The Information from ' Tsingteh was that the bodies of the Stams had been placed In coffins upon the orders ,f Governor Liu Cheng-Hwa. The Chinese magistrate at Wuhu had requested Governor Liu to send the bodies there for Identification. It was not Immediately Indicated how the rescue had been made, altho It was known that government troops were In pursuit of the bandits who raided the city of Tsingteh. murdered the baby'a parents, and presumably kidnaped the child. A resolution urging immediate gcr crnmental action for the exchange of 5000 acres of timber, belonging to the Roue River Timber company, be tween the southern boundary of Cra ter Lake national park and Prospect, lying adjacent to the Crater Lko highway, was adopted by the roaJs and highway committee of the Jack son County Chamber of Commerce at a meeting held In the courthouse auditorium yesterday afternoon. A second resolution advocating the designating of the land exchanged as the will of Will T. Grieve Memorial park was also adopted. Would Preserve Scenery. The purpose of the meeting was to take action toward preservation ol the scenic beauty along the Cratsr Lake highway and the resolution was worded to embrace all forest scenery along Oregon highways. The resolution was Introduced by R. C. Orosbeck, attorney, of Klamath Falls, who in a brief and telling talk, declared preservation of highway scenery was a duty of the govern ment, and that the forest service, the timber companies and depart ment of agriculture should cooperate toward that end. E L. Mcsereau, general manager of the Rogue River Timber company, told the meeting that plans were con- I' (Continued on Page Twelve) TO SHUN IVIES OF T 300 Residents Leave Homes Roads Buried in Mud Waters Follow Path of Last New Years' Flood YAKIMA. Wash.. Dec. 14. (A) A report reaching Yakima today from Sunnyside, 30 miles south of her, said that Martin HogAn, abductor of Clarence D. Parrel!, Ellensburg thei ter man, was found dead in a field. with a bullet hole In his head. Parrell was kidnaped in Eilensburjt December 0, as he was getting Into his automobile after leaving his thea ter. He was released after being held captive overnight. He was suffering from Injuries received when his auto mobile overturned on the highway while he was driving with his captors. Hogan and a youthful companion were being sought by posses when the body was found. OFTEN HOST AT LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14. (AP) Flash floods, loosed by cloudbursts back of La Crescents valley, roared down a half dozen canyons today, drove 300 residents of Montrose to safety, burled numerous roads In mud. rock and gravel, but several hours later a survey showed there had been no loss of life and very little serious damage tt homes. The cloudbursts sent water rush ing down the canyons In walls rang ing from six to ton feet high. They cut a path a half mile wide as they spread out on the flat hillsides and swept through Montrose to Vcr dugo Wash, from where they were carried Into the Los Angeles river, which runs to the Pacific ocean. The water coursed along the path of the destructive flood of New Year's day, 1034, in which more than 30 persons were drowned and prop erty damage soared Into the hun-. dreds of thousands of dollars. Hal Noon of the Los Angeles flood control district headquarters, said that while it is stilt raining In the Montrose-Las Crescent a area, the situation has Improved, "the only real danger now being In continu ance for some time of the rain which might cause added overflows." KIDNAPERS' FREE CHIEF OF POLICE As In former years, no checks will csraped in a coupe. He abandoned be accepted by the sheriff's office I the car at Likely, Cal.. and Joined in payment of license fees. two companions In another coupe. The license fee for pleasure autos The men Were betieved heading remains at a5 per year. j north after first starting south. EARTHQUAKES PRECEDE ERUPTIONS IN HONDURAS TEGUCIGALPA. Honduras. Dec. 14 T The upthrust of Mount Erapucn and its transformation into en active volcano was' reported today by Gov ernor Santarosa of Copan province in a telegram to the federal govern ment. Governor SsnUrosa reported in, v. the earthquakes throug'KVit his d trlct, which be:n 12 diva were continuing without eMatirn. H:s report to the national govern ment said: "Earthquakes radlatir? from .V j central prt of this district stem to i be centered on the outskirts of te city of Cjpan in te Merendiin mou.v i tain ra:i;e ( "Wt bceve uui Mount 1 Cii- menelto. close by, Is Increasing In sire and tljet the same Is true of Mount Erapuca, the latter becomin-; a perfect volcano such as caused ti? rit ruction of ancient Copan tl In 500 A. D. "The earthquake are ao caus if a change in Mount la Bufa. which In lf)08 erupted, occasioning the strong earthquake on August 28 of that yrt "The previous activities and inr p rev nt phenomenon have ranged s panic in the city ol Copan s.ia throughout the dUtrict. since m .vibtrranein disturbances are be lieved to center here. "Pe dispatch a technical com mlAAlon to a-Hfijl In preventing a d.a ''.t to the pu o'.ic and calm i.u-population." K. F. MAY BE HEAD NEW SCOUT AREA! BEND. Ore , Dec. 14. Forma tion of a new Boy Scout area council with Klamath Falls as administrative headquarters, was considered at a meeting of sciu; wqrkers In Bend last night, and W. L. Hiyward. savo clste regional executive In North Pa cific states, was authorlred to pro ceed with the arrangements. Bend and Ltkeview tn Oregon, and Alturjf in northern California would be tie administrative points tn the proposed Klamath area. Up until dissolution of the m,ti-Columbla-Desehutes ares council la , summer. Bend and other central Ore 2on district council were adminis tered out of The Dalle. Organization of the Klamath ari will rerAnitte appointment of a vout executive-, who will super viv all district councils In the area. ARKANSAS CITY, Kas Dec. 14. (AP) A widespread search ' for Art Catkins. HerliiKtou. Kas., chief of po lice who was kidnaped yesterday by two gunmen, ended early today with his release after 14 hours in the hands of his abductors. Calkins, kidnaped yesterday when he sought to question one of the men regarding the mirchase of revolver I ammunition, was released unharmed four miles east of Klldare, Okla., early today. B ought here to meet friends who mere to return him to Herlngton. the chief declined to go into details of the kidnaping. ' I have a hunch why I was picked up but I won't say why," he said. NOT DEAD, IS REPORT LOS ANGELES. Dec. M. f AP) Rumors In Ouayaqull that tome mysterious radio report emanated from the Oalapagoa Archipelago re vealing the miming Baroness Elolse Bonsquet de Wagner hid been found dead were proved without foundation todsy when Captain O, Allan Han cork reported by radio that his search for the solution of the strange dis appearance was still under way. PORTLAND. Deo. 14. i7p Cath olics of Oregon will be asked at mat Sunday's services to take or to renew their pledge to discourage by absence from them, all moving pictures that are suggestive, crime -breeding, or In other ways unwholesome socially or morally. I Archbishop Edward D. Howard of the Oregon archdiocese made the an nouncement today. He has written to all pastors to again call attention to the "Legion of Decency." "The bishops in the general session of their recent annual meeting." rw wrote, "were of one mind in exprest. lng the hope that the gains made against salacious moving plctuiet would be conserved and augmented They felt It would not be wise toJl low the impression to prevail that the Legion of Decency has In any sense of the word accomplished );q entire mission." Then referring to a new and briefer form of pledge which the people will be asked to take Sunday, the arc i hlshop wrote: "It would augment the solemnity of this ceremony If al each mass, your people are asked to stand sid renew the Legion of De cency pledtre, repeating the sam?, phrase by phrase, after the officiating priest." Dies In Ilox Car SALEM. Deo. 14- ( AP) A young man. apparently little more than 30 years of age, was found dead In a box car "spotted" In front of the Oregon Electric freight depot here today. Nothing could be found about hlc clothing to Identify him. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 14. (AP) Who murdered Blmon Mlsh? To that question police detectives today continued to seek the answer as they considered three possible mo tives: Revenge, robbery, and sudden anger. The 70-year-old retired merchant, diving In at least moderate circum stances, was brutally and fatally beaten last Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. His body- was found In a fish pond at the rear of hla residence. , The coroner said he was hot yet dead when he was thrown or fell Into the water. The body of his pet dog was In the water beside him. The coroner said It had . bean drowned or choked to death. Mlsh lived alone. His neighbors said he often "threw wild parties" attended by young men and young women, soma of whom occasionally spent the night. Those who attended some of these parties said Mlsh had often evinced mora than usual Interest In the young women who attend ed. The ele mcnt of sordldness entered the pic ture here. It wan said, and on this bails police examined the revenge theory. Mlsh did hot customarily keep large sums of money In the house. but he did wear a diamond ring worth, perhaps, IflOO. This was mlsS' lng when his body was found. Strong boxes In the house had been ran sacked. Hence, the strong tendency to the robbery theory. Neighbors declared Mlsh was ex tremely Intolerant and overbearing as a host. He and his guests frs quently engaged In violent disputes and he had been known to throw 1r reconcllables from the residence. Thus a sudden flame of anger, perhaps fol lowing a round of drinking, might have led to the slaying. anthon7drexel dies IN NEW YORK HOTEL NEW YORK. Dec. 14. f;p) Au thony J. Drexel, Sr., 70, Paris and Philadelphia, Pa., banker, died at the Ambassador hotel today. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14. (AP) With a torrential rain falling In th Sierra Mad re mountains, 15 miles north of Los Angeles, county flood control authorities today ordered more than 300 residents of Mont rose to evacuate their homes and get to aafety at once. The Montrose-La Crescents area., where the 1034 New Year's day storm caused more than 30 deaths and property damage running into the thousands of dollars. Uxiny experi enced the heaviest rainfall since a storm of Mexican origin crowded Into southern California last Tuesday. Wall or Water Coming J. R. Mlml, deputy county flood control engineer, warned residents that a big wall of water was rushing down Pickens canyon, the mouth of (Continued on Page Five ) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. (AP) The Association of American rail roads an nou need today load I ngs of revenue freight for the week ended December 8 were 551,011 cars, an in crease of 62.B93 over the preceding week which contained the Thanks L' 'ng holiday. The loadings for the week were an Increase of 9.010 cars over the cor responding week In 19.13 and an In crease of 30,404 over the correspond ing week In 1032. BLOOD LUST SLAYING OF BLAMED IN YOUNG GIRL Snow In ffpnkMne Ires. SPOKANE. DfC. 14. iA A two inch blanket of wet snow coven d lo;ands of eastern Washington to day. with deeper snow tn the higher rec'.on. Mrre snow, nith little rhsn -tnumiwrature mas forecast lor today and filiu0y. VIENNA. Dec. 14. ( UP ) Minister of Interior Major Emll Fey Is slated for esrty Bsaanslnstlon by a small group of determined fanatical nsrJs the United Press learned last night from high authorities. The plot i , pari of terrorist ftctlvitlea keeping 'Europe in turmoil. NEW YORK, Dee. 14 -TPi Trt confessed slayer of Grace Budd, lU yeara ago, sat In his cell at police rears ago, sat In his cell at police headquarters today mumbling Inco herently and lapping hla head w.t2i the tips of his fingers Police said the prisoner. Albert H Fish, 65-year-old father of six chil dren, who has been Identified by members of the dead girl's family as the man who lured her sway cm tha promise to take her to a blrthd.iy psrly, spent a steeple night. A sandwich placed In his cell at 4:1') a. m. was left untouched. Fish led police to a deserted houic !n the Worthin&ton woods, BmsfoM, Westchester county, late yesterday. Buried in the vicinity was the boy, butc Acred bj a meat cleaver. Verification also was sought of tht skull recovered near the house under Fish's direction. Police believed m: ords of the New York dental clinic will prove two gold fillings, still in tset In the back teeth of tha skull were placed in Qrace Budd's moutb at the clinic. Polios Mid the skull, taken to po lice headquarters last nlht, wsi plainly fractured on top, and test the lower law hung loose, as If frac tured. Detective William King of the mtv lng perfons bureau, the man who hai worked on the case since the g'ri disappeared and who arrested Fish yesterday, said today tha prisoner in his detailed description of tne laying, left no doubt that the crime was eoounitied to satisfy a blood Just HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 13. A fine old friend mid one of the lat of the great cowmon died in Fort Worth, Texas, W. T. WnKoner. One of the bij: Rost ranches in the United States. It hud oil nil over it and it made him ' sore every time they found a now well foi' he said it was always on thu best grass land and just spoiled it for that many cattle. I In would rather lose a dollar on a cow than make a thousand on nn oil well. Ho loTed good horse and had the best in Texas. There will never be any class of people in our country that can replace the old Western cowman for common sense, shrewdness, humor and fine citizenship. The Three D lost a real boss. 9 liCX'iuMSraIicts U.