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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Forecast: Cloudy tonttht and m day with occasional rmlni Dot mucli charm in tt mperatura. Illrhm .vesttrdar 43 Lowest thli morning H7 M EDFORD M ail Tribune WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 Tweuty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 193-1. No. 232. Bt PAVL MALLON Copyright, 1934. by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 Vou could see a wholly different business atti tude toward the administration on the Inside-of that White SulDhur Springs meeting Df Industrial naster mlnda. Six months . igo, these same business leaders were tearing and nortlng at the new deal. But at Ills meeting, they actually held up thetr program until thV could get word from uu the White House that It would be acceptable. There was no whispered criticism of President Roosevelt or hta poli cies, but only a genuine and some ' what meek desire to work things out amicably. What the effort will amount to remains to be seen. The real reason that the meeting was called was to create unity among the white shirts. The U. S. chamber of commerce was always saying business wanted one thing, while the National Associa tion of Manufacturers frequently as serted It wanted something else. The administration has often told business representatives privately that It could not do very much for busi ness until business agreed on what It wanted. The new cooperative organization la supposed to keep the new deal advised on what business needs from the government. In that respect,. It .will probably work out very well. There was a lo of Inside sparring at the start of the meeting be tween the chamber of commerce and the manufacturers' association. Both wanted to get control of the key positions. The manufacturers' crowd Is young er and more militant. The chamber group favored a liaison with the new deal, all right, but it did not care to move as far or as eagerly as the manufacturers. . The manufacturers thought they walked off with the show when they got seven of the nine key committee chairmen. However, this coup was not as sweeping as the figures Indi cate because some of the seven are also members of the chamber, al though their first love Is supposed to be for the manufacturers, five of the seven are officials of the N. A. M. The rivalry really did not go very far outside of the officers of both organizations. The delegates did not ceem to care much about It. There may be some trouble on that score later, but no one be lieves It will Interfere with the new co-operative effort. This new business spirit does not mean that the business organiza tions have changed their economic policies and embraced Mr. Roose velt's. The manufacturers started the move for the conference and they have a fixed program which does not Jibe with the new deal. They want a balanced budget, dollar sta bilization, no government ' competi tion with private Industry, reduced relief, outlawing of sympathetic strikes, and abandonment of the majority rule of unions. The change merely means they are going to try to get these things by cooperating with the new deal rather than fighting It. The new deal Is trying to whoop up the businesA advisory and plan ning council and make It the really representative and Influential liaison agency. It is composed of about the same crowd that met at Whlto Sulphur, but business men do not like It very much because they believe It is under the thumb of Commerce Sec retary Roper. However, the head of It, H. P. Kendall, Boston textile manufacturer, conferred with Mr. Roosevelt a few days ago on arrange ments to step up Its activities. The council has been meeting every two months, but henceforth will meet monthly. The executive committee will meet every two weeks. PI MAN SEES EARLY START ON L PUNT C. C. Hockley, Engineer for Administration, Says Con struction Can Start Soon After Plan Contract Signed After a conference yesterday with Fred Scheffel, city superintendent, and Charles P. Parrell, city attorney, concerning construction of the Med ford sewage disposal plant, C. C. Hockley of Portland, state engineer for the Public Works administration, announced that work will be started on the plant within ten weeks after the contract for plans and specifica tions has been closed with Greeley & Hansen of Chicago. Construction will be started, Hockley said, Immediately upon receipt of the plans, and Is es timated to require four or five months. Hockley made a day's trip to Med ford yesterday to arrange final details with local officials on the project, and also to confer with officials on the proposed Butte Falls and Jack sonville water supply systems. He said that Greeley 6s Hansen, the Chicago engineering firm which as sisted In preparing the application for the 9100.000 government loan. Is considered one of the best for sewage disposal projects, and that the Med ford plant, when completed, will be comparable to any sewage disposal facilities In the country. Must Plan Ahead The state PWA engineer sounded a warning that public bodies must In the future be prepared in advance to secure either local or federal aid for (Continued on Page Nine) L ACCORD IF TREATY FAILS LONDON, Dec. 20. (AP) A spokes man for the United States naval dele gation said tonight that Great Brit ain and the United States are like ly to sign a naval accord between themselves after 1936 If there Is no general International naval treaty by that time. The statement was made follow ing the close of the naval conversa tions which have been carried on for the last two months among delega tions from the United States, Great Britain and Japan. These conversa tions, designed to pave the way for a new naval treaty, did not result In an agreement. The American spokesman said all three powers concerned were making efforts to bring about a general agreement but. If Japan declined to enter a new treaty which would be satlsfactry to Great Britain and the United States, then the Americans and British undoubtedly would make their own agreement. F.W.STREETSIS OF The extent to which NRA la being challenged in the courts these days Is shown by a private check-up from the files of Its litigation division. In the past six weeks more thsn 300 NRA cases have been docketed for legal action. Altogether, a total of 874 cases have been docketed sine NRA began. Of this number, 485 have been re ferred to the Justice department. There are 153 caws now pending In courts. Virtually all these case result from efforts of NRA to get com pliance with codra or administrative orders under them. Word has recently been received In Med ford of the sudden death of F. W. Streets, former well known resident of this city. In an automo bile accident on the Ventura high way near Santa Paula, California, on November 31. ' Mr. Streets was motoring from Ventura to his service station on Harvard Boulevard and Steckel road when another car driven by a Mrs. Lola Morton of Pasadena ntn Into his. Mrs. Morton was also Instantly killed and a woman companion of hers seriously Injured. Mr. and Mrs. streets lived In Med ford about 1A years ago when Mr. Streets was for a time secretary of the local chamber of commerce. Lat er they moved to Grants Pass where Mr. streets for a time managed the Oxford hotel In that city. A few years ago they moved to California to be near their daughter, Mrs. Herbert Kentner of Ventura. To keep himself occupied Mr. Streets who was well along In years purchased and opera ted service station In that popular tourist section of southern California. The census bureau has completed a survey showing that one-fourth of the factory wspe earners of the country are In 11 counties. A total of 11.700 banks hare signed (Continued on Page Six) PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 20. (UP) Men plunged Into the bargain coun ter alMes of one downtown depart ment store here today without being harawrd by theelbows and titters of a feminine horde. The store opened at 8 a. m . for men only. At 0:15. hen the men hid made their purchase of pink un mentionables for wivra and girl friends, thev fled out r-lde doors be fore the clamoring invasion of o- Choctaw Squaw 125 Years Old' On Last Trail MILL CREEK. Okla.. Dec. 20. :p Klzlah Hotao, 135-year-oid full blood Choctaw Indian woman, died at her home near Granite Mountain yesterday. A a 15-year-old girl, she rods a pony over the "Tiail of fear.'' followed by the Choctaws in 18.3. when they were evicted from Mn siMippl to the land that la now Oklahoma. Hair a century ago she wa a familiar figure at family pow wows, but quite her social actit Ulee at 75. She never had aetn a railroad train. Her hearing an? evecht were nearly perfect unt:l her flenth. World Markets Will Be Closed Over Christmas NEW YORK. Dec. 20. ( AP) Christmas day will be marked by suspension of business on all Im portant security and commodity exchanges throughout the United States and abroad. It will also be observed as a holiday by banks and other financial Institutions. All the New York exchanges will operate on Monday preceding Christmas. Members of the New York stock exchange are circulat ing a petition for a special holiday on Monday preceding New Year's day, but not the Monday preced ing Christmas. RACIAL OUTBREAK AS Ti FLIEGEL RESIGNS PLAN COMMISSION FOR COUNCIL SEAT Joseph F. Fllegel today announced that he has submitted his resigna tion as a member of the city planning commission to Mayor George Porter and members of the commission. In order to fully assume the dutlea of councilman from the first ward, a position he received In the last city election. The resignation will be considered by the city council at Its next regular meeting. Mr. Fllegel stated that, although he resigns with deepest regrets, he feels his resignation la necessary for the fulfillment of the duties Invested In him by his election as councilman. He was appointed a member of the planning, commission on February 15, 1927, by former Mayor O. O. Alender fer, and has served on the board con tinuously. Although the planning commission had existed several years prior to that time. In that day the commission was still pioneering, com pared to Its present functions. Through experience with the restriction of property use, the commission gradu ally gained recognition and Influence until today It Is considered one of the most valuable boards of the city administration. Mr. Fllegel, In . summing up his work with the commission, stated that lta principal objective la to plan for the future, as It has no power to remove properties or Interfere with their present use. By compelling re stricted use of property in the future, Mr. Fllegel said the commlsson can attain Its objective. He believes that the city of Med ford has never spent a sum of money for better purpose than the 1500 ex pended to obtain the services of Jacob L. Crane, consulting and planning engineer for New York city, whom he said has been a great aid In system atizing the procedure of the com mission, and In simplifying its work. Mr. Fllegel said that, although the commission has not been very active during the past few years, due to the lack of building. It has taken an Im portant part In numerous projects supported by federal funds and has been publicly recognized by several federal represents Itves as ranking with commissions of the best planned cities on the coast. TAX COLLECTIONS Collection of current taxes In Jackson county for 1834, will show an Increase of 16 per cent over 1033. according to Gertrude Martin, chief deputy of the tax department of the sheriff's office. Total amount of 1934 taxes collected Is 1797,838.84. This year 59 per cent of the total tax levy was paid. In 1933, It was 43 per cent. Delinquent tax collections the past year will, according to the chief deputy, "aggregate close to $400,000." or nearly double the 1933 delin quency payments. Returning confidence, federal loans, and Oregon tax laws, permitting quarterly payment of the taxes, are given as the reason for the Improvement. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (AP) President Roosevelt today accepted with thanks the services of a com mission to administer funds to be i collected at the president's birthday : ball celebrations January 30. i The commission, to be headed by Henry L. Doherty as chairman and I Jeremiah MUbank of New York as I vice chairman, will administer the 30 per cent of the funds to be devot i ed to Infantile paralysis research. The ' other 70 per cent. It was announced, will remn In the various commun ities to aid victims. KINGFISH MUST FACE $500'000 LIBEL SUIT Tennessee Governor Orders Troops When Lynch De termined Mob Runs Wild and Burns Court House SHELBYVHiLE, Tenn.. Dec. JO. (AP) Six hundred national guards men marched Into town today after disorders of the last 34 hours in which the courthouse was burned and two men were killed In a racial outbreak. The troops were ordered here by Governor Hill McAllster after a mob ran wild yesterday on the scent of a lynching, fighting to carry off a ne gro whose trial on a charge of at tacking a young white girl was Inter rupted as the sullen, raging group stormed the courthouse. Dawn brought a dismal sight to Shelbyvllle, its once proud court house a hulk of scorching bricks, and a litter of debris covering the courthouse square where two were killed and a score wounded in yes terdays attempt to seize E. K. Harris, negro on trial charged with assault ing a white school girl. The list of dead and wounded was unchanged during the night, and two men earlier pronounced dying at the hospital were reported "resting eas ily." The death list of two Including Raleigh Edwards. 30, wounded in Wednesday second mob attack, and an unidentified man. The latter, ac cording to Dr. Jnmes Morton, hos pital superintendent, was pronounc ed dead at the hospital after the shooting, but was removed before Identification could be made. There was quiet throughout the early morning hours. Throughout the night the embers smouldered luring only an occasional automobile load of curious. The courthouse was fired last night after the mob had been re pulsed earlier In its efforts to gain entrance and seized Harris. T Milton Merithew, 80. of the Evans Creek district, convicted last October by a circuit court Jury, of a statu tory crime Involving a 14-year old girl, waa sentenced yesterday by Cir cuit Judge H. D. Norton to serve an Indeterminate sentence of not more than four years in state prison. Upon the -Jury's recommendation of leniency. Merithew waa granted a parole upon condition that he not make his residence In Jackson or Jo sephine county, during the parole period. Merithew Is paroled to Dan Ketlaher of Salem, state police offi cer. Another condition la that he "be a law-abiding cltlswn." Violation of either condition, the parole order states, will result In revocation of parole. The parole order also states, "the complaining witness has now left the state." Merithew was convicted last Octo ber, but sentence waa deferred pend ing Investigation of the case by the court, to clear certain points. During the trial of the case the public was barred from the courtroom. BIDS ARE OPENED According to a dispatch from Port land today the low bidder on the paving work on the north Med ford section of the Pacific highway waa the Jacobson and Jensen company of Portland, with a price of 18.313. 50 for the 1.4 miles. The Mountain States Construction company of Eugene was low with a price of 9.34Q for the quarter-mile paring of the south Ashland section of the Pacific highway. ' It waa reported the state highway commission, bureau public roads and state forester, would recommend 100,000 allocation of forest road funds for the Tlller-Trall cut-off. Accused of Death PRESIDENT ! JERS TAX SYSTEf JBE TO HALT OvtnLAPS i 1 Federal, State and Munici pal Systems Will Be In vestigated by Treasury Gas Tax An Example Portland. Ore., police charged Joseph J. Osbourne (above), 29 year.old special policeman, with the slaying of Joseph Mlsh. At Mi first court appearance Osbourns was hit own spokesman. (A.io elated Press Photo! TD Official confirmation that no par don will be granted L. A. Banks, for mer local agitator and orcharding serving a life term in state prison for the murder of - Constable George Prescott, March 16, 1933 has been re ceived by District Attorney George. A. Codding In a letter from Governor Julius L. Meier. The letter from the executive of ficer reads: "X have before me your letter rel ative to a pardon for L. A. Banks. "You have undoubtedly learned from the press that I do not contem plate any action on this case during my term of office." Banks, through relatives, sought a pardon after serving but 18 months of his life term. News of the pardon plea, caused a wave of protest to sweep the state and the" governor was swamped with letters opposing the granting of exccutlvo clemency. Charles P. Moran of Cleveland, Ohio, reputedly wealthy, brother-in-law of Banks, promised to take Banks back to Cleveland, If he was pardon ed. A number of upstate cltlrens and residents of Portland were enlisted by Moran in support of the Banks pardon. Many later withdrew their support when apprised of the evi dence and facts. County officials who have return ed from Salem this week, report that paroles to Walter J. Jones, former mayor of Flo true River, and E. H. Pehl. serving four year terms In the penitentiary for ballot theft, are not likely. Both men filed parole appli cations at the last parole board meet ings. Protests against Fehl's parole were freely signed by residents of this county and submitted to the parole board. The petitions also ask ed that If Pehl should i be granted a parole, he be barred from returning to this county, during the parole term. No protest. In the shape of peti tions, were filed against a parole for Jones. Petitions favoring It were re ceived from Rogue River and Cres cent City, Calif., residents. Jones was a leader In the so-called "Good Gov ernment Congress" activities that lead to the vote-stealing. He was also one of the "alibi witnesses" for Banks at his trial for murder. . WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (AP) In a move Intended to prevent the ' overlapping of taxes, President Hoose- I j vclt today directed the treasury to J ' investigate the federal, state and ; municipal tax systems. A national conference on taxation 1 next summer may result from the . Inquiry. i Secretary Morgenthau disclosed the ! plan and shortly will name a staff to make the Inquiry, "The study will look forward to zones of taxation and eliminating overlapping," Morgenthau said. "It will be a long range study with the possibility the president may call a conference next summer of the vari ous agencies Involved In taxation. Collection Economy Claim "It will Include the -'question of who collects taxes the most econom ically. It might Involve the question of the federal collection of all In come taxes." Morgenthau said the gasoline tax was an excellent example of a levy employed by both federal and state and sometimes local governments. Investigators will look Into the question of whether In such a case the federal government should mako all the collection and then distrib ute revenue back to the states and local governments. The question of tax exempt secur ities also will receive attention along with duplication In the assessment of liquor taxes. The treasury for some years has favored a constitu tional amendment to eliminate the exemption from taxes of some feder al and state Issues, Broadening federal Inquiries Into bank credit conditions, Morgenthau also announced the treasury would make a special study In the Cleve land federal reserve district to sup plement Its recent Inquiry In the Chicago region. IRENE DUNNE VISITS PELLETTS BRIEFLY En route to Seattle, where ahe wu to have been on location today 'a the moving picture in which she is working. Irene Dunne, screen star was a brief visitor yesterday at the Med ford municipal airport. It waa re vealed by Mr. and Mrs. Homer Pcllet of the R. H. Whitehead residence op South Central avenue - Passengers on the United Airlines plane Included L. D Sanderson of San Francisco, who is acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Pellett, and who said that the screen star la expected to return south December 29, p- albly to make a brief stop in Medford. Human Guinea Pigs Freed After Test of T. B. Serum My ROBERT E. tiF.K.I R (Associated Preat Staff Writer.) CANON CITY, Colo.. Dec. 30. Ml The thread of life outside prison walls wsa picked up again today by two life term convicts who risked death but won liberty by volunteering their bodies aa the show windows In which doctors witnessed a battle of tubercu losis baellll. Carl Rrickson, 88. of Denver, wha nerved 19 years for slaying his wife went back Into the world a bit b'l llgerently. MJke Schmidt, 63. who paid with 13 years of Imprisonment for assaulting hit daughter, wept. "I've got a mining proposition ahtaJ of me and I'll get along If they Just let me alone. muttered Erlokaon There's not a friend left to me WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. ( AP) The District of Columbia supreme court ruled today that Senator Huey Long of Louisiana must face trial on the MO.OOO libel suit filed against him by Samuel T. Ansell. Justice Peyton Gordon, who deliv ered the opinion, rejected Lynn's e'.alm that hi wnat do, It Ion entitled him t izm'jfrXL list UteJ 1499 yM $$$t &rt Ut dottft't BHr much." Schmidt said in his limping Engl Lab. "r don't know Just wnat I'll do." He added that he Intended to tto to Denver and look for a job. he worked on a railroad before he went to the penitentiary. Oray, sharp shadows , of a wlnt:r dawn were cast about the formidable prison as the two convicts we.e brought from their cell today by Warden Roy Best and told the tlnn had come for prison ga'xs to open far them. "The governor told yoJ if you would permit the doctors to test out their tuberculosis serum upon you, thV vou would be liberated.' the warden tuid "You have carried ut your e.irt of t,te DargAin and now the governor u carrff out hxs LEGISLATORS END WORK FOR HUEY BATON ROUGB, La., Dec. 20. (AP) Huey Long's special session of the legislature adjourned at noon today after enacting 31 new laws. Long, through his new bills, took a big leap Into local government In the state, put taxes on the "big money Interests" and launched a few "poor people" and altruistic projects. Through bill amendments slipped in today and yesterday Long's ad ministration took control or the city government of Alexandria, made sweeping changes In the government of Baton Rouge and put a tax on his old self-asserted enemy, the Standard Oil company of Louisiana. CAR MEL, Cal., Dec. 20. (AP) A foot-by-foot search for the missing Mrs. Eliot Boke Schaffner, 30, society matron, waa begun this morning by 335 officers and men, some of hem on horseback, from the United States army presidio of Monterey. An army plane . from Crlssy field, San Francisco, scheduled for tactical maneuvers at the Presidio, was to be diverted to the search upon Its arrival. The men were from the 11th cav alry and the 70th field artillery. They were afoot with the exception of a platoon of cavalrymen, who were scouring the Carmel woods. Mrs. Schaffner, wife of Joseph Schaffner, clothing manufacturer, dis appeared from her home here early Tuesday. While Sheriff Carl H. Abbott of Monterey county believed Mrs. Schaff ner had fulfilled a threat to com mit suicide by walking deliberately Into the bay, the Intensive search was launched to remove any possible doubt that she might be dying of exhaustion or Illness In the rugged country near her home. T PRICES ARE FIXED PORTLAND, Ore.. Dec. 20. (AP) The market for turkeys Is fast be' Ing made here with some slight In crease In sales to retailers In. the past 24 hours. In a email way the resale price to retailers was established at 24 cents for toma and 25 for hens of extreme top quality. Toms weighing more than 10 pounds were not sought generally. The latest purchases by whole salers were around 22 cents straight across for toma and hens, while up to 23 cents waa paid for hena which continued In rn""t demand. Leading distributors aald today they have In sight about all the tur keys they will need, with ahtpments continuing at least until Monday, BUSINESS CHIEFS Rogers Has Pears To Prove Someone Reads His Humor At lsst Will Rogers has "round somebody that reads his articles." and he has a box of Medford pears to prove It. The famous humorist, whose re marks on world events sr a dstly feature of the Mall Tribune, vis ited here about two years ago and later stated In one of his widely syndicated commentaries that, al though he hsd spent the better psrt of a day listening to the tolas In Medford telt what a great pear producing section this Is, no one offered him any tangible evidence to back up the claim. The typically Rogerlan remark was contained In a telegram re ceived yesterday by O. R. Oreen. Medford manager of the Amerlcsn Fruit Growers, who had sent the humorist a, gift box of the com pany'a "Blue Goose" brand Corn ice peara and a personal letter re calling his "fruitless" visit here. Rogers replied by Western Un ion as follows: "At last I found somebody that does read my articles. Thanks for pears. I won't doubt you all any more." $228,731,000 NET WAR PROFIT IDE BY DU PONT FIRM Senate Committee Investi gator Reveals Huge Sum Left After Deduction of Taxes During War Years WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. (AP) Alger C. Hiss, senate munitions com ! mlttee Investigator, testified today j the Du Pont Powder company had a : net profit of 1228.731.000 after taxes j had been deducted during the World war. Hiss told the committee the com pany's annual statements showed It did a gross business during the years 1015 to 1018 Inclusive of 91,167,000,- 000. Of this, a225.O00.000 went Into sal aries, aaoa.000,000 into materials. 72.000.000 to taxes and 115.000,000 to employos in bonus payments. CARIL AREA FOR PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 20. (AP) Dr. Harold B. Myers, toxlcotoglst. has reported to Captain of Detectives Keegan that the 22 "dehorn" deaths here this month have been traced to one five-gallon can of denatured al cohol. Police have charged that the con tents of this can of poisonous alco hol were sold through a drug store operated by Solomon Miller. Miller. his son, Spencer, and a clerk, Irving Schwartz, hava been charged with manslaughter. Dr. Myers said the stuff that the 22 men drank and died from In the north end district waa approximate ly "100 per cent poison." L PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 20. (AP) The airways and the rails, commen deered by Santa Claus for this very busy Christmas, are thundering record volume of mall and expresa In and out of the city of Portland. All records for airmail volume were shattered this week when 633 pounds went out on Tuesday. The entire second section of the Southern Pa cific limited from the south last night consisted of mall and express cars. Because of the rush trains from alt directions were running about 35 minutes late. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINOfl, W. 1 Va.. Dec. 20. ( AP ) America's "big business" dispatched lta auggestlons today to President Roosevelt for ''the revival of the normal process of In- J dustry and trade," decided upon in i three days of Intensive study by some 90 prominent executives. , The 11 point report which will be presented possibly today waa drafted by such leaders as John J. Raskob. ! a former Democratic national com- ; mittee chairman and now a director in General Motors; Henry I. Harrl man. prrsldrnt of the Chamber of Commerce; Owen D. Young, General Rleetrlc company, and C. L. Barrto and Robert L. Lund, chlefa of the National Asaorlatlon of Manufacturers. ftan 1 mm I mo liulterfat SAN FRANCIHCO. Dec. 20.-(AP) -First grade buttelat 31 fob. San i Franc leco. Ex-Film "Heavy" Says Bank Roll Now Totals $11 LOS ANGELES. Dec, 20. (P Ona suit, shiny with wear, ta all Erich Von Strohelm. former Aus trian army officer and later one of Hollywood's most unique ceHb rttles. haj to remind him of (he days when he was paid as high as ft. 000 weekly for hi services as an actor and director. Von Srohelm, who began his film career nearly a generation ao under D. W. Griffith, and later directed e rotation I mcccMes. de clared In answering a fsllure t i provide complaint of his divorced first wife, that he today la fir tually pettUu and unemployed In fsct. the former actor-dlrec tor declared his oank aocor.nt amounts to onlv III 11. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (AP) Irenee Du Pont told the senate mu nitions committee today "the only way to wage war Is to have an abso lute monarch at the head of the government.' The powder manufacturer made this observation while being ques tioned about the advisability of con scripting industry in time of war. Du Pont added that conscription of industry would bring "a terrible amount of lost motion and confusion." "We will have a hell of a time In case of war. whatever the system." Du Pont testified, standing with his pipe In his hand. Discussing plans for war, Irenee Du Pont said: "The only way to wage a war Is to prepare In advance, otherwise you ar going to have a hell of a time. If we are well enough prepared we will never have a .war." "Germany waa well prepared," Chairman Nye said. Yes." Du Pont replied, "extreme ly, but she was an aggrcslva nation." FREE MATINEE FOR ALL CHILDREN ON The annual Mall Tribune Christmas matinee for southern Oregon boys and girls, presented through the gen erous co-operation of George Hunt theaters, will be held Christmas morning, beginning at 10, at both the Craterlan and Rlalto theaters. Two fine Mickey Mouse comedies, "Mlckeys Orphans' and "The Oro cery Boy' have been secured for this fine program to be shown with an especially fine children' picture. "Black Beauty." All children are cordially Invited to enjoy this fine program, which wilt be shown at both theaters, and aa an added treat applea will be given to all kiddles attending. The pictures, especially appropriate for this free matinee, were secured by Mr. Hunt with the Idea of general, all-around entertainment for boya and girls of all ages. Esther Ralston and Alexander Kirkland are the fea ture playera In "Black Beauty," and plenty of action and thrills are prom ised. The staff of both tht Rlalto and Craterlan theaters have gener ously offered their services In the staging of this free matinee. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 20. (UP) A tiny stain on a hatchet found In the dwelling of Special Officer Joseph Osbourne, 24, waa classified today as human blood, strengthen ing the police charge that Osbourne killed Simon Mlsh, 70, retired furni ture dealer. Dr. Warren 0. Hunter Identified tht spot aa human blood. It waa on the handle of the -weapon. The stain waa so small It wsa Impossible to classify It more definitely. Police have contended that Mlsh waa struck from behind, either with, a sharp meapon such as an axe, or by a square bottle, usually contain ing liquor, which Is missing from the Mlsh residence. BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Dec. 19. Read all the papers thru today and I enn't find a new plan to save the country. Kind of slack season before Christ mas, I piles. Boys ain't think ing as pert as they usually are. That Yugoslavia, they just seem to want to fight anyhow. Re. a good joke on them if no body prevented 'cm. Vc had heard of all kinds of likely wars between nations, but this one that Mussolini dog up is a new one Italy versus Ethiopia. That's goinc a long way for an enemy.