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MEDFOK
D
M
AIL TRKUN
WINNER
Pulitzer Award
TOR 1934
Twetity-uinth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY DECEMBER 30, 1934.
No. 239.
ft M "If vf
By PAUL MALLON.
" (Copyright, 1934, by Paul Mallon)
WA8HINTOON, Dec. 30. The la
bor bMi are buzzing again, and It
looks aa If aomeona may get stung
thii time.
King Bee Green
ef the A. F. ol
L. privately call
ad a few days
i go for a meet
ing of the exec
utive counclllora
in the hive here
January 29. The
newa about It
may be out by
he time you
read this, but
for several days
, It was not an- M"
Enounced, possibly because there was
such an Inside stir about It.
One swarm wanted to go to Miami,
where the surroundings Include
bathing beauty revues and other
relaxations for tired labor leaders.
The predominant swarm decided
that, while Washington offers dis
tracting new deal Influences, H
was probably a better spot to con
alder the serious business at hand.
The aerious business will Include
the 30-hour week, section 1-A, the
labor board and a lot of other
things, but the most aerious busi
ness of all will not be on the
agenda.
It will be the thought back in
the minds of the leaders that they
may face three major strikes within
the next six months textiles, auto
mobiles and steel.
One major labor official, not
Green. Is now privately predicting
that fill three strikes will materially.
Of course, labor leaders sometimes
predict stiikes for whatever bar
gaining advantage such a threat
may bring, but anyone can see that
the situation Is so serious as to
demand energetic attention.
Teamlnc
What stirred up the labor hive
lately was the Inside report that
the three large Industries (textiles,
automobiles and steel) have some
ort of unofficial working agreement
on labor policy. It is supposed to
call for Joint action In event of
trouble.
Whether this report Is true can
not now be stated. Automobiles and
tteel have frequently worked to
gether on many things backstage.
They ere naturally associated in
production. How t textiles got Into
that crowd is not clear. However,
the only point now Is that labor
leaders are accrediting the report
and making preparations accordingly.
The subject may not be mention
ed out loud at the council meeting,
because the gathering waa called
merely to formulate a legislative
policy for the coming session of
congress. The council was formerly
limited to 12 old guard leaders,
but the last A. F. of L. conven
tion Increased the membership to
eighteen and let a lot of young
guards in. That means It will be
lively.
FLAREAT NIGHT
CLUE 10 DISABLED
AND LOST PLANE
Radio Flashes Word All
Aboard Airliner Forced
Down In Adirondacks Of
New York Safe Search
ers On Skis.
APPARENT CHOICE FOR SPEAKER
ALBANY, K. T., Dec. 80. (AP)
State polka early today reported a I
large firs on the north side of Fish ;
mountain, In lower Hamilton county, j
which they believed to be a signal ;
of four men missing since Friday ;
night when an airliner waa forced -down
In the mountains.
GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Dec. 29.
(API A flare, believed to have been
lighted by occupants of the disabled
airliner, forced down in this section
last night, was sighted tonight near
Lasselsvllle, 14 miles west of here.
The flare was reported by John
Leek, an election commissioner of
Fulton county, who was on lookout
with a searching party on top of a
hill.
He said the flare appeared to have
been about two and a half miles
west of Lasselsvllle. He said the light
shot Into the air shortly after 0 p.
m., the time the four men on the
disabled plane were Instructed by
radio to send up flares.
Lasselsvllle is more nearly on the
airlines course than the section In
which the search has been concen
trated. It Is about 40 or fio miles
south of the Caroga lake area In the
Adirondacks where most of the
sea rch era a re workl ng .
'1
'i
lift
BANDITS ALL SET
T
E
Masked Quartet Discover
Mistake And Force En
gineer To Stop Near
Tacoma And They Escape
In Auto Search Starts.
W.C.T. MRDSTO
E
Appoints Self Chief
Rep. Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, for many year a leading;
Democrat in Congress, appeared the likely choice for the speakership
post, made vacant by the death of Speaker Henry T. Ralney, as vari
out state delegations held pre-session caucuses. (Associated Press
Photo)
ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 29. AP
From an unknown location a co-pllot
of a Boston-Cleveland air liner miss
ing since last night flashed word by
radio today that the plane was down
and Its four occupants "all O. K."
"We are on a mountain somewhere
between Albany and Uttca," radioed
Co-pilot Jack H. Brown.
"I don't know Just where, but we
are north of our course."
Brown'a voice came through a
loud-speaker at the airways radio
station a few minutes after search
ing parties on snowshoes started into
the Adlrondac foothills, fearful the
plane and Its passengers were In dire
distress.
Radio experts of American Airlines
worked frantically to set up a new
aerial to establish better communi
cation with the plane.
Radio static often blotted out
Brown's vole after his message came
through;
"Everybody's all right. Please tell
our folks," he said cheerfully.
"We crashed up In a group of
trees. We have built a fire so you
can find us."
"Wo are at 2,200 feet altitude."
The American Airlines began set
ting up directional radto finders at
Albany, Boston and Buffalo.
4
Bewildered
The white shirts cannot yet un
derstand what happened to their
white sulphur buslneiw conference
report when submitted to the White
House.
They knov the published stories
were wrong about trelr emissary
being snubbed by the president. It
was their mistake, due to the fact
that the business emissary went to
the White House without an ap
pointment and found President
Roosevelt's schedule full for the day.
The White House asked him If It
rould Rrrnnge an appointment for
the next day. but he had to be in
New York that day, so he left the
business platform.
T't". was understandable, but It
does not explain why Mr. Roosevelt
let the platform remain In a pile
of papers for several days without
looking at It.
Even more perplexing Is the fact
that a certain gentleman at the
White Sulphur Springs conference
was supposed to be an indirect
representative of the president. He
did not directly say so. but he
talked and acted like it. and they
accepted him as such. He counseled
moderation In the platform and they
followed his advice.
In view of what has happened
since, they are beginning to wonder
whether they were outwitted.
SAAR JAILED
T
Fun
Wutt until Uncle George Holden
Tlnfcbam hears about Secretary Hull.
Congressman Tlnkham was excited
In a statement a few day ago be
cause Secretary Perkins has co-operated
with the League or Nations
In labor matters. He dors not know
It yet. but Mr Hull has gone
vp furthT and pent brain truster
prof. Jsmea Harvey Rora to Gen
eva to confer with othr world econ
omics under the auplea of the
Irneiie.
Mr. Hull's perfect alibi is that
prof. Rprs was appointed by the
lrflsue as the American member of
the f-onomlc rommittee. At two
frl:rr melncs. the ITnlted States
w-m r,nrer.rnt'd by Prnf. Viner nd
Pref. TlinrpM brain trusters both.
SAARBRUECKEN, Saar Basin Ter
ritory. Dec. 2D. (AP) Guards along
the French aide of the Saar frontier
were heavily reinforced tonight as
two Americans struggled to extricate
themaeU'cs from difficulties with Ger
man and Saar authorities.
Meanwhile, Americans back home
in the Saar to vote In the plebiscite
Ja n u a ry 13 were f r 1 gh te ned at re
ports published In European news
papers that they might lose their
United States citizenship.
In the tolls of the rigid regulations
Intended to keep undesirables and
mere, curious out of the Saar. short
as It Is of beds and hotel rooms, was
Chester Watklns of Atlanta. Ga ar
rested at Mettlach, Germany, because
he had no special permtt to crota the
border.
In prison at Waldmohr. Germany,
was Miss Elsa Slttell of New York,
jailed because she allegedly made de
rogatory remarks about Adolf Hitler's
storm troops and picked nazt guards.
Meanwhile, French gendarmes, mo
bile guards and secret police opera
tives were concentrated along the
Saar frontier to help Saar authori
ties scrutinize foreigners attempting
I o enter the basin and forestall. If
! poMlble. frontier Incidents.
The American group In the Saar
j was frankly worried over reports vot
ing might cost them their cltir.enshlp.
T
TO KIDNAP F. D. R.
TOLD COMMITTEE
New York Attorney's Plan
To Establish Fascist Dic
tator Also Heard Gen
eral 'Strike To Bring
Soviet Rule, Plan End
Hearing On Msms.'
'BABY FACE'S' PAL
WHEN SLAIN HELD
IT. SHASTA JAIL
John Chase, Last Dillinger
Gang, Caught In Northern
California Town Hitch-
1 Hiked After Nelson Killed
Last Month.
TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 20. AP)
Section one of the O. & W. passenger I
train No. 458, south bound from Ta- I
coma, was held up by four masked '
bandits two miles east of Bucoda '
early tonight only a short time after I
it had left Tacoma. I
According to word received by Ta
coma police, the bandits were se
creted aboard the train getting aboard
either at Tacoma or East- Olympla.
It Is believed the bandits thought
they had boarded the section of the
train pulling the baggage and mall
cars and. upon discovering their mis
take, stopped the train and disap
peared Into the darkness.
The bandit were heavily armed.
Section one was pulling passenger
I cars only, but the robbers did not
bother the passengers, according to
reports. The second section of the
train, which did carry the mall and
baggage, was not molested when It
passed through Bucoda a short time
later.
The bandits had secreted them
selves between the coal tender and
the first car. After discovering that
the train was not pulling the mall
and baggage cars, the men crawled
over the tender into the cabin of the
engine, covering L. Q, Graham, the
engineer, and his fireman. The en
gineer stopped the train and the ban
dlta left and were reported to have
been picked by an automobile which
had been following them. ,
The bandit machlue. It waa aatd,
sped northward after picking up the
four men.
It was the first train robbery In
this district In 25 years, railroad offi
cials said.
Peace officers throughout southwest
Washington have been notified of the
holdup and are watching alt highways
for the bandit gang, It was reported,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (AP)
A reputed communist plot to kidnap
the president and an alleged fascist
scheme to set up a dlstatorshlp were
made public today by the house
committee which has been Investi
gating un-American activities.
Walter 8. Steele, of Washington. D.
C, appearing for the American coal
ition of patriotic, civil and paternal
societies, said a red plan was being
widely circulated In communist cir
cles to create civil war during a gen
eral strike; invade the White House;
kidnap the president, his cabinet too;
take over the government and super
sede It with a soviet state.
An army captain. Samuel Glazier,
of Baltimore, in charge of a Civilian
Conservation camp at Eldridgo, Me.,
gave the committee the testlmon)
concerning the dictatorship plan.
Glazier safd that Jackson Martin
dell. New York attorney had dis
cussed with him formation of thfc
"American Vigilantes." half a mil
lion strong, and backed with 8700.
000.000 to turn out the administra
tion and set up Mftrtlndclt as dic
tator. Glazier testified In New York
recently. His testimony was mndc
public today before Steele appeared
before the committee.
Mnrtlndell. Glazier said, told him
"he knew with the present policies
of the president, eventually the coun
try was coming to a revolution and
when that time came he wanted to
be ready with his organisation to
take ovrr the reins of the govern
ment. "He said there ought to be one
man who would run the country:
and he would be the head of the or
ganization." A police raid on a communist
strike school during the Minneapolis
truck strike last August, Steel said,
yielded the first documents disclos
ing the plans.
The hearing today concluded the
committee's protracted inquiry that
took It through a maze of testimony
on communism, nazltm and fascism
In the United states."
Chairman McCormack fD., Mass.).
said the committee might seek an
extension of time to write its report
to the house.
BULLETIN
DECISIVE BATTLE
II
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29. fAP)
The department of justice began
making good tonight on its vow
to "get the last laugh' on the
remnants of the fast vanishing Dil
linger gang.
Capture of John Paul Chase, 32,
supposedly one of the "toughest"
of the whole murderous band, two
nights ago at Mount Shasta, In
northern California, was announced
tonight by members of the depart
ment here.
Chase allegedly was one of the
"Baby Face" Nelson trio that shot
it out with federal agents at Bar
rlngton. 111., November 27. killing
two officers, Samuel P. Crowley and
Herman B. Hollls.
Nelson and his wife presumably
were the other two. Nelson was
killed. His wife wns taken later and
sent to( prison on a parole violation
charge. Chase got away.
Northern California was supposed
to have been a stamping ground ror
the remnants of the gang.
With increasing determination the
federal aecnts art trnps at various
points whrre "Baby Face" and his
confederates supposedly had been
operating in northern California and
Nevada.
Two months ago one of the traps
clicked, and John Paul Chase, deny
ing his identity, was caught In It.
Police quickly Identified him as one
of the IB-or 20 still uncaught as
sociates of Nelson.
E. P. Gulnane, chief of the dlvls-1
Ion of Investigation here, told of the
complicated snnres set for Chase.
Old haunts in San Francisco, Oak
land and In Marin county across
the Golden Gat were spotted pain
stakingly. Six years ago Chase work-
I ed In the state fish hatchery at
Mount Shasta. The last was only
!a shot In the dark, but it worked.
According to Gulnane, after the
j Nelson death and the murder of
the two federal agents In Illinois.
I Chase hitch-hiked across Montana to
j Washington and Seattle.
I He was on his way down the
1 coast to San Francisco when he
j dropped In at Shasta to make
"touch" on the friends made six
years ago. He was "broke."
I Within three hours after the
friends recoRniwd him. Chase was
1 in the Shasta Jail, Gulnane aald.
I Iiistr.imentnl In the capture were
( six crack federal agents, who flew
to the scene In a plane, and two
j country policemen Chlf A. L. Rob
erts -of 8hata and Chief Manuel
Mmottl of Hfnuallto. It was Robert
who kpt Chair under surveillance
j until the frdyrwl men arrived and
Mrnotti mart the positive identifl
I ration.
T SEES
AGAINSTALCOHOL
President Ida Smith Teils
Program For Drier Amer
icaDrive Against Crime
Handicapped By Booze,
She Says.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30. (AP) The
New Year's resolution of the nat
ional Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union "continued champion
ship or national prohibition of tlc
traffic In beverage alcohol and in
other narcotic drugs."
Until that objective is attained,
the organization announced today. It
will fight for prohibition of alcohol
traffic In all federal areas, Including
the District of Columbia, and the
prohibition of all liquor advertis
ing. Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, presi
dent, complimented the government
on Its efforts to stamp out criminal
and drug rings and added:
"But the success of any national
drive upon crime or the drug men
ace la fatally handicapped bo long
as it falls to Include a fearless at
tack upon the moat serious factor
j in the problem the powerfully pro
tected and mgmy capitalized irauic
In beverage alcohol. Any successful
fight against narcotics must Include
relentless battle for abolition of the
liquor traffic."
The initial Item In the W. C. T.
U. legislative program for 1935 is a
pledgo to renew the campaign for
national prohibition. Pending that,
Mra. Smith aet forth;
The national organisation, chal
lenging the action of congress In
1934, will press for the reconsider
ation of dry law protective measures
In all federal arena, such as the
District of Columbia, territories.
army and navy atatlons, hospitals,
posts, Indian reservations , and nat
ional parks. i
. "Next will be the support of meas
ures concerning the pledge of the
second section of the 2 1st amend
ment to afford more adequate pro
tection or dry states and areas by
prohibiting all advertising of alco
holic liquors over the radio and in
newspapers."
jK
I
PRESIDENT EYES
GIVE JOBS-TO-ALL
Plan To Double CCC Mem
bership Reflected In Local
Forest Service Activity
Put Employables On Re
lief To Work Aid.
Balked by the pension board In a
movement to retire several mem
bers of the police force on pensions,
Mayor Charles Smith (above) of
Seat le "fired" Chief George M. j
uomsiocK ana assumed omsiocK s
duties himself. During the long
shoremen's strike last summer,
Mayor Smith fired Chief George F.
Howard. (Associated Preas Photo)
T
E IT'S EVENT
PITTSBURGH, Dtc. 39. (AP)
Plain truth may become arnsational
newa because of lt rarity. Dr. Robert
A. Mllllkan, one of the half dozen
foremost leaders of American science
said today.
"If," he said to the American as
sociation for the advancement of
science, "the present craze for the
new regardless of the true, In art,
science, society and government goes
much further the remedy may be
found In the prospect that a nugget
of sober uncolored truth may become
the most exciting newa there Is.
"I venture the prediction that our
present age. because of Ita craze for
tne new regardless of the true will
be looked upon by our children's
children with more amszement and
ridicule than we ourselves feel be
cause of the credulity of the middle
ages or the smugness and hypocrisy
of the Victorian age,""
Dr. Mllllkan then went on to tell
what you can believe as true about
the cosmic rays.
JAPAN PLEA FOR
TO
REPORT BAY CITY
ILi
PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 20. ( AP)
The United States attorney here was
advised today by the U. 8. marshal at
San Francisco that E. C. Sollnsky,
deposed superintendent of Crater
Lake national park. Is expected to sur
render In San Francisco Monday.
Sollnsky was Indicted by a federal
grand Jury on a charge of misuse of
federal funds while assigned to Crater
Lake. Bond has been set at $8000.
Two of Sollnsky's former aides. A.
H. Edwin, chief clerk and disbursing
officer, and I. F. (Ike) Davidson, su
perintendent of park construction. 1
likewise were Indicted for alleged pay-j
roll manipulation. Edwin's home Is
at Med ford and Davidson lives at
junction City. They are at liberty on ,
bond.
Sollnsky has been sought by deputy,
marshals in California and Oregon
for two weeks. Trips into the high
mountain country of Amador county,
California, where he was reported to
be working aa a cedar buyer, were
futile.
: Continued on Page Eleven)
I hll.lrrn !Me
COl FAX. Wash.. Dev. 2f (AP)
1o rhilfircn In a family of 14 were
kriri outrlat, a third was hurt eo
ivd'.v ?he may die. and three other
mvnbrs of the family of ElmeT
N ciiols of Miecow. Idaho, were less
e-.ouly hurt. In an automobile tc
f s&a ntaj berj i?dj .
SALEM. Ore.. Dec. 29. (AP)-1-Torrents
of water, supplied by a 2 3
Inch rainfall in 2 hours, tonight
rolled over the banks of the newly
completed Bhelton ditch, flood con
trol project here, and flooded an
area from one to five or more blocks
wide ar:d at leaft a mile long l
the southeast action of feaiem. Por
tions of this district were t'i'sJd
into one broad, rushing rirer.
Forces from the city and county
engineers' offices late tonight were
j watching the new flood control
nd further serious Inundation ol
prraga tfl galea,
RUEKOft AIRES, Dec. 2ffAP,
Paraguay' and Bolivia's blrirft
armies tonlpflit were slowly coming
to grips In thrlr battle fnr p?sr
Mon of Bolivian oil fields.
The rn garment in which an
climated flu. W0 troops evrniy di
vided will take part, wns en"-tei
io be r;,ciiv(; in the t href-year old
Chao war.
With developments lackin? lo rnn
firm rep rtA frnm I Pa?, ter
riT that Oneral .Jon fcs' imrrl
bla's Pan-a-nyst'; hud lamvl-ed their
long rxpTtd r.eril offcisvvp rU
tefd fis'utine aii'l kirmShn tn
ver; " :rs pa-.f r l-lnrr IHf
rival ' ' ic , ii ns te jl;,n ,J lor
SAM BROWN SEEKS
IT
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29, fAP)
A quiet but definite refusal of Jap
anese demands for naval equality
was the United States' answer to
night to Japan's formal denuncia
tion of the Washington naval limi
tations treaty.
Bocretary Hull, accepting from Hlr
oal 8a I to, suave ambassador from
Japan, the official signal of the death
of the 55-3 pact of December 31,
1016, declared he did o with "genu
ine regret."
Pledging, simultaneously, contin
ued efforts to "promote peace
through disarmament" by cooperat
ing toward new naval limitation,
Hull nevertheless declared that ei
perlence had shown than "equality
of armaments" was not the path to
peace.
: STATE FARM BEH
H ENJOIN BARBERS
ft.MFM. Ore, lee. 2P (UP
Sta'e unit at anMp t"dy held that
Senator f am Brown, nervals furm
rr. thr prcifiUe sii'Twor to Max
rirhlrnr, atatf dlrertnr rt agricul
ture. Dftno-rnt;e leadfra a,vrtei
Brown. h;. l'.t the Republican
yuhfriMtn " in I no'n I tia' !'n to J jV
Dip-: a lr .'It .--ii'mir ,an'1lrl.i's
ii' 'i'.fi by (Hnern'jr -fleet t". H
FROM PRICE COTS
FOR COMING WEEK
Oreiron: Unsettled flunday nd
probably Monday with showers west
and local showers or snow flurries
east portion: not much change In
temperature: fresh west and south
west wind off the coast.
BAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20 (API
Outlook for far western states for
period December 31, 1034 to Jan
uary 6, 1U35 Inclusive: Oeneratly fair
weather, except frequent periods of
rain In Washington, Oregon and
northern Idaho. Temperatures will
be somewhat above normal In Pac
ific Northwest but normal elsewhere.
CHICAGO. Dec. 29. f APi A court
order was issued hers todsy enjoln-
1 inn Chicago bartter from charging destroyers to make
e than 2!V cents for a shave and AO runs at varying speeds aiona the
irnt for a haircut, the level fixed liner' track with a view to draft!
ATLANTIC LINERS
TRAVEL TOO FAST
PORTSMOUTH, England. Dee. 29
(API American liners approaching
Southampton may soon have to ob
serve an official speed ''mlt. as th
result of complaint lodged by Isle
of Wight authorities.
The wash of t he speedy Incom
ing veanela, they declare, has caused
considerable damage on the island's
shores.
It has been arranged for British
series of trial
ON PAYROLL TAX
TO INSURE J
Favor General Idea, But
Opposed To Any Com
pulsory Contributions To
Jobless-Plan Opposition
In Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. t AP)
The National Association of Manu
facturers today stepped Into the
approaching congressional battle
over, social security with a denunci
ation of any unemployment Insur
ance system involving compulsory
contributions by Industry. ,
; It made public what it termed
an analysis of British experiments
In this field of sociology and assert
ed the major conclusion to be de
rived therefrom waa that "no sys
tem of unemployment Insurance has
any chance whatever of success un
less it Is on a contributory basis."
The association Is on record es
favoring the general Idea of iuch
Insurance but is resdy to campaign
against any plan, such as that ad
vanced by prominent administration
advisors, for a tax on payrolls to
provide a fund for payment to the
Jobless.
This idea was the kernel of the
Wagner Lewis bill subject of ft pro
tracted dispute at the last session
of congress which had the out
spoken support of Secretary Perkins
and of orgnniMd labor. The meas
ure died In committee, but ts to
be reintroduced, although it may be
modified. The measure called for the
federal tax on payrolls, with ex
emptions for employer contributions
to stste unemployment insurance
pools, as a means of encouraging
and increasing the latter.
In opposing this and similar plans,
the National Association of Manu
facturers had,, and will have, the
cooperation of the Chambsr of Com
merce of the United States and
other big business organizations.
They favor some plan whereby all
employer support of Insurance pools
would be entirely voluntary.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. (AP)
The Roosevelt administration, some
high officials forecast today, will ask
congress for power to put all "em
ployables" on the relief rolls to work.
At present their number is estimated
at 3.500,000 to 4.000.000.
It was believed, however, that an
elastic program would be sought,
with the government leaving to pri
vate business as much of this Job
crcntlug task as it can assume.
Though there were Indications the
plan Mr. Roosevelt will lay before the
congress convening next Thursday
has not been completed, certain of
ficials who declined to be quoted by
name saw the administration moving
toward a "Jobs-for-all" goal.
The Washington Post, placing the
number of unemployed workers In
volved at 4,000.000, said the plan was
to give them Jobs "on projects fin
anced In whole or part by the gov
ernment." As the president drafted his mes
sage to a session which will deal with
so many momentous Issues that lead
ers expect it to last well Into next
summer, it became known that one
project being weighed by the chief
executive is to Increase the member
ship of the Civilian Conservation
Corps from 350,000 to 1,000,000. Rob
ert Fechner, director of the CCC, de
clined comment on this, but he Jiad -said
previously that the national for
eat service and the park service had
estimated there was enough work of
the nature done by the corps to keep
a million men busy for so years.
Among other plans placed before
the president was one to put many
Idle to work eliminating grade cross
ings. Some officials thought this had
virtually been decided upon, though .
tho amount of the expenditure was
not mentioned. The national re
sources board recently suggested a
500.000.000 long-term program of
crossing work.
Although the number of persons
receiving federal aid has been esti
mated at 10.000.000, Relief Adminis
trator Harry L. Hopkins la seeking
to return some 4,000,000 "unemploy
a b!es" to the care of the states. Tat
lee.ves 15,000,000. of whom some 3.
500,000 to 4.000.000 are estimated to
be bread' winners and the rest dependents.
RATS IN ENGLAND
DEFY EXTINCTION
LONDON, Dec. 29. (AP) England
wants a Pled Piper like the man
who lived In Hamlin town.
Oaa attacks, firearms. deadly
poisons and all the , schemes of
modern science marshalled against
the entlma ed forty-odd million ro
dents resident In the country have
failed.
The common brown rat continues
to survive and thrive In spite of
modern, ruthless warfare. Authori
ties believe that the rata have be
come more numerous by twenty
millions In the last 60 years.
QUICK FINISH TO
SOVIET PLOTTERS
tin tsi frtrbori clsuyu. fcutg "UU1" (CgllUUVfifc
(f iprlRh(, 1D1I, ttr the Amh IMeil
Prrsi)
MOHCOW. Irc. 29. A LenlngMd
firing srpiad totlsy ended the lives ot
14 asserted antl-btalln terrorists con
victed of plotting and carrying out.
the swaMlustlon of Sergei Kiroff,
powerful rommunlnt, December 1.
Iironld Nlcolsteff. who the bovlet
aatd had confessed to firing the shot,
and 13 associate were shot In the
city where the murder was commit
ted. The execution took place Im
mediately after the mihtnry collf-
t turn of the supreme court had found
Local Preparations
Fo flowing the announcement yes
terday from Washington, D. C. that
the president and his cabinet are
seriously considering a plan to more
than double the enrollment of the
Civilian Conservation corps, it was
revealed M the offices of the Rogue
River national forest that recom
mendations have been sent to the
regional offices at Portland for ntna
new CCC camps In the local forest
should the national expansion plan
go through.
Supervisor Karl Janouch announc
ed that the Rogue River forest serv-
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ESTILL PHIPPS IS
Another Medford student at the
University of Oregon- 'has recetved
recognition nationally for meritor
ious service, the latest being William
Estill Phlpps, editor of the Oregon
Emerald, student dally.
At the national student editors'
convention in Washington, D. C. Fri
day, phlpps was elected to the exe
cutive committee of the body, just
before the student editors started on
a trip to the White House to Inter
view President Roosevelt.
iiou.YWfini). Cal..
2$. Talk nbont a steady job
rlnrinir tliisft linril tiliios. Got
this one: President Roosevelt
sent a letter yesterday to tin
federal trade commission ask
ing them for a report. They
have been iiivestii?ating six
years, lie told 'em, "I don't
,vant to hurry you boys, but I
thought mayhe you nau a low
preliminary notes made that
vou could hand me. Of course,
I expeet nothing tnorougn at
thin early date iust anv little
casual information that you
mignt nave pieueu up aeciaem.
allv diirine vour mere ail year
of 'holding the office."
They have just about been
introdneed lo each other by
now. Vou i s,
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