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Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: Cluudy and unsettled with J showers tonight and Wednesday; not much change In temperature. Illrhet yesterday 46 ; l-owett thL morning 3A WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 Tweuty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY" 8, 19H5. No. 216. MmaflHH mn mess use By TAI L MAU.ON (Copyright. 1935, by Paul Million) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. A budget Is a simple thing. You figure how much money you expect to have coming in ana V now much sxpect to sped, president Roose- relt figures his: income next year win be a Uttlc higher, because bustness wlll be a' uttle Setter and more taxes will be coming In. He expects his expenses will ifj- be about tne tame, because Paul Milloo what little economies he can make In unemployment relief must go to Improve the national defense and other things. On that basis, he accounts himself as being 4.8 billions behind this year and predicts he will be 4.5 billions behind next year. That Is all you need to know about the budget. At least it la about ell you wtil find out. If you dig through the 871 printed budget, pnges (sl? of a large dictionary, from now until doomsday. With Mr. Roosevelt, budget mak ing Is at once a science and an art. He became Interested in the sub ject when he waa governor of New York, and those around htm can see that he likes It. Last year he introduced the dou ble entry bookkeeping system. He counted his Income in one column, but his expenses in two columns, one for real expenses and one for emer gency expenses. His adversaries fleured that one out easily. They added up the two expense columns. This year, they will not find it so easy. He has moved some of the emergency Items (Tennessee vaney. puonc mmaingsj bark into the regular budget column. He has started to combine his two expense columns, so it is extremely difficult to tell which is which. That will hinder any critical com parlson between proposed and past expenses. But he has worked in an other new idea which will absolutely prevent such comparisons. He has lumped the biggest Hem of expense In one single figure, the 3.9 billions he proposes to spend for "relief of unemployment." An added complication Is the fact that the regular budget Is not segre gated and totaled as last year. An entirely new and different list of categories is laid out. In It. regular and emergency expenditures further overlap. Also. Mr. Roosevelt has abandoned the arrangement he originated of estimating a second year in advance. You may recall that, at this time last year, he had hoped he would balance this budget he Is now offer ing. This time he makes no promises beyond July 1, 1930. The boys who know their budget making from the Inside say that Mr. Rocsevelt was moved to make these changes because his problem was changed. Last year there was tremendous pressure for budget bal ancing, which he assuaged by antici pating a balance a year in advance. This time everyone realizes the budget cannot be balanced and the pressure la now limited largely to curtailment of heavy relief expendi tures. The program he offered to congress last Friday was supposed to assuage the curtailment pressure by anticipating curtailment of relief rolls. Different situations require dlf . ferrnt budget methods. Ycu mlcht call Mr. RoosevMt'a new technique "the brown budget avstem." Ordinary bookkeepers mark their excess emergency expenditures In red Ink and nominal expesdl tures In black Ink. Mr. Roosevelt has combined them. ArM's will te'.l you that the re sult of combining blark and red make a rather vague and uncertain color of brown, but that does not destroy the aptness of the metaphor. Of course, some critics will be meanles enough to insinuate that Mr. Roosevelt Is color blind, as far red Is concerned. There is just no pniflbilitv of pleasing some people. The White Houe Is working smart nolittcal stratesv airainst the bonus. hut It mav be too late. It Is not r-tiv rrt nrw that Mr. noose - vtu will lnMt roneres provide two billions more of taxes If It wants to springs Indicated that the highway pir the two- b:lllon dollar bonus. j there is passable with caution, but You can see where that puts the .now also w "'it to !"' been fall bonus romresMTirn. Right In front I mg ateac.lly today In thf. region, cf the taxpayers' buzz saw. There j The weather bureau reported a a-e more pripl In every eoncres- I depth of 22 Inches at the summit of I nil dU'rlct v.-io w:-. have to pay t sexton mountain, which has hf."to- t):e In.-renvd 'sm than tnere arr ui n..tfl hnm.'n r-nrn the ' hrnus. They will yell Just as louniy HCM"? the bi-PMS as the v-era:is r-'t yelllnc for It. If they are properly orr.'.red in time. 1 In me from hiinMrnir --Mr. E1:. x nc an vi nt-U-.ui'iu.i.: 'THAT'S THE 11.117! DECLARES DRIVER OF Aged Neighbor. Also Places Hand On Accused Man's Shoulder in Dramatic Court Room Identification (Copyright, 1933. by the Associated Tress) FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 8. (AP) Twice today Bruno Richard Haupt mann was identified by witnesses in his murder trial and to one of them he muttered: "You're a Jlar!" The stato failed In Its second at tempt to get the ladder down which it contends the baby waa carried to its death Into evidence and the de fense pursued a vigorous attack upon the efficiency of the New Jersey po lice after two state troopers testified they could find no fingerprints o:i the nursery window silt. (Copyright, 193.-. by the Associated Press) FLEMINGTON. N. J., Jan. 8. (AP) Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Bronx, carpenter accused of the kidnaping and murder of baby Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was twice Identified in court today by witnesses. Amandus Hochmuth, aged former neighbor of Colonel Charlea A. Lind bergh, Identified him as a man with a ladder and a "dirty green" car near the Lindbergh home on the day of the crime, and John Perrone. Bronx taxicab driver, pointed to him aa the man who gave him a dollar to deliver a note to Dr. John F. (Jafsle) Con don In March. 1932. . Perrone, taking the witness stand shortly after the opening of the af-j ternoon session, wtlked to Haup-' mann, slapped a hand on his shoul der and declared: "That's the man." "You're a Mar" "You're a liar." Hauptmann mum bled. His voice was so low It waa heard by only a few newspaper men and his counsel. Edward J. Rellly, chief of the defense legal staff; attempted to get the reply in the record, but Attorney General David T. Wllentz objected on the ground It waa not heard by the official court stenog rapher. The court ruled the record would stand without the declaration for the present, but Rellly might offer news paper men later as witnesses to insert the reply In the record. For the second time In the day's proceedings the crowded court room became hushed. Earlier in the day the spectators had been startled by the unexpected testimony of Hochmuth, who pointed a shaking finger at Hauptmann and said he was a man who on March 1, 1932, near the Lindbergh home, "glared at me as If he saw a ghost." Perrone, asked If during the time he waa a taxicab driver he ever had occasion to visit the home of Dr. Condon, said: Delivered Jafsle Note "Yes, sir." "At what address?" he waa ques tioned by Attorney General David T. Wllentz. "At 2974 Decatur avenue." "What date waa It, If you remem ber?" "March 12. 1932." "What was the occasion of your visit to the Home of Dr. John F. Con don?" "I had a man give me an envelope addressed to Dr. Condon." "Who was the man who gave you that envelopc?'" "Bruno Richard Hauptmann." "Is he in this room?" "Yes, sir." "Come down and point him out, please," Wlients invited. (Continued on Page Three) 4 GROWING DEEPER State police said this afternoon that the depth of snow on the Siskiyous, reported by the weather bureau as wing u . w """ steadily Increasing today with a hevy snowfall. Autolsts were said to be making - the crossing with some difficulty, al though the highway is being kept ! onen for travel with chains. The : 0niy available reports from the Green mre seen mue snow mis wimtr, I ifitlirvr-iTAV Ion A AP. Posttnaf-ter GenerM Farley today In dif-ared that Charles B. Farls of St. Louis probably would be named Judge of the eighth circuit court cf Op i dts i. and that William Denman ct Ftm'-iwo .h favored fcr the hrn-n n the ninth circuit court oi t appeal. ' Confessed Firebug Tells Stadehnan M i T A D E l H A !i Former Secretary of State P. .1. MiHlclmiin Has too 111 to attend the formal induction Into offlre jester- day of h)s j,,irrMor( Earl Snell. .OF C- TALKS TO ROTARY C. L. Mariner, representative of "Nation's Business," official organ of the United States Chamber of Commerce, addressed the members ; of the Medford Rotary Club at the first meeting of the 1935 season to day In the basement banquet hall of the Hotel Medford. The speaker stressed the Importance of the busi ness men organizing so that govern ment legislation affecting ihelr In terests might be favorably Influ enced. He pointed out the import ance of an expression from the busi ness interesta of each section of the country, so that legislators, both in j state and national bodies, might be guided in important governmental matters. Such a cross-section of opinion of professional and buslnes men would prove Invaluable to sen ators and congressmen In Washing ton. he said. Mr. Mariner told of the events leading ud to and the need for the formation of the United States! Chamber of Commerce and pointed , out the stand of that organization ; on present day Issues affecting bust- ness. He said that the United States Chamber of Commerce Is particu larly Interested In leclslatlon tend ing to the reduction of taxes affect tng business, the furthering of econ omy in- government and improve ments in the set-up of the N. I. R. A. and N. R. A. The dangers of currency Inflation, the menace of communism, and the results of excessive government com netltlon with business, were Minted out by Mr. Mariner. w-t 1 1 .. i I IL at todays meeting, and tho main! home from which he ran away last j court, tor paymcn- of the Judgment nmjor m.vi uy. address was preceded by an Interest- Saturday. ! against them, and to whom and for clsion in which only Justice Car- Ing talk by Lee Bishop, who gave I Chief York said the lad was found ; adjudication of the various claims. I dodo dissented brougnt a quica brief facta on the Lindbergh kid- i wandering In the Southern Pacific i Circuit Judge Arlle O. Walker of j statement from Donald R. mcnoerff. napping case, and explained the i railroad yards here Sunday night by j McMlnnvllIe has been assigned to : President Roosevelt a No. I co-or-background of the much publicised , Switchman Jamea R. Trollope, who : the case and will come here to pre- j dlnator. Warning against predictions defendant, Bruno Richard Haupt- took the little runaway home fed . side at the hearing, on a date to be ( aa to what the court may dcc.tlc mann. 'him and notified officers. 'fixed later. about NRA, he aald: E . vL - III t'. T , -W I Here are the efcht men anfl four tlmrles . Lindbergh, Jr. Ovulated LOST PROSPECTOR Man Missing 85 Hours Stag gers Into Camp With Tale of Untold Wealth in Rug ged Arizona Mountains PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 8. (AP) Charles Wllllama, 41-year-old Phoenix war veteran and amateur prospector. missing 85 hours in ;he superstition mountains, staggered into a camp nine miles from Apache Junction early this morning, carrying an esti mated pound and one-half of rich "free gold" he said he. found In an unnamed deep canyon. The "nuggets" were Identified by officers and prospectora as "almost pure gold." They appeared so rich it was difficult to accept readily that they had been found in the atatc in which they were shown. Old-timers said, however, they ap peared to be "volcanic type" of gold which might contain some sliver. Williams was weak, apparently from hunger, and almost incoherent when brought to the sheriff's office here at four o'clock this morning by Ed Lay ton, J. A. Worsham and Jim Potter, all of Phoenix, into whose camp he blundered. It waa after noon Friday that Wil liams walked away from the car In which, with Mrs. Williams, he hid driven to the base of the foreboding crags near Hackaberry Wash, to van- sn He had been sought unsuccessfully since, and told sheriffs deputies here this morning he had been lost "irtu ally the whole time since he made hi find. News of Williams' rich find spread rapidly, early today, and the sheriff'.'; office qxilckly was thronged with "old timers" who were speechless at the signt or tne nanorui oi nuggets wi- liflnut IwouBlrt with him The veteran said he had "at least 20 pounds more like It" cached In the hills. His shirt waa sleeveless. He flflld n0 nfld cut th o(f to make a sack for the rest of the gold "Every bit of It took out without a tool." he said. "I don't know how much Is there. I worked only with my hands.' While he talked, the nuggets, some aa large as a quarter in diameter, lay on a desk surrounded by a Jam of starry-eyed spectators. IN ROSEViLLE, CALIF. noSEVILLE-CaH77nn. ,.(AP)- ,. . . . . t. rf todav that 10-year-old Ivan Hayes la being held here, pending hla re- !,.. hi. vi.n..tu m.it. nr. Hauptmann Jurors Face Camera at tinmen h li'dd Hie fate of Hnino Tress I'hoto.) Stamp Collectors Protest Farley's Playing Favorites NORFOLK.- Va., Jan. 8. i7P The Norfolk Philatelic society, an organisation composed of prom inent business and professional men who col lec t s ta in pa. tod ay sent a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, stating that they had learned that Poatmnster Gen eral James A. Farley waa "dis tributing to certain persons en tire sheets of recent commemora tive stamps not available to '.he public." which, as a. result, "have Assumed speculative value to ten thousand times greater than their original value" FEHL S REPLY TO INTER-PLEADER , . .... : Reply of Earl H. Fehl. state prison nmate serving four years for ballot . theft, his wife Electa A. Feh . and his mother-in-law, Corinthla E. t Stalley to the interpleader suit filed by Nledermeyer, Inc., in a Judgment against, them in favor of Fehl, was filed today In circuit court. Restoration of the Pacific Record Herald building and $1000 attorney fees are sought by the Fehl's. Mrs. Stalley seeks 500 attorney fees, and $900 from Ted Helmroth of Griffin Creek, and J. B. Thomas of Ashland. for use of the building during the time It has been In their hands. H. Von Schmalz of Burns, one of Fehl's counsel In the ballot theft trial, and George A. Rhoten of Sa lem appear ns their attorneys. The Fehls assert i:.. the reply that the claims (Attorneys Kelly Ac Kel ly, "If they performed the services they claim was without authority." The law firm claim they defended Fehl In the original trial, and pre j pflrefl the br(ef 1or tne M,Preme court nppeai( Rd made an argument be ' fore that body. They seek $2000 fMS Claims of Jackson county for taxes. Attorney T. J. Enright for fees and J. B. Thomas and Ted Helmroth for money loaned, are asserted "to be without rights." The reply states that the Fehls purchased the Pacific Record-Herald building at a sheriff's sale for $5, 372.42 on January 7. 1933. and bor rowed $1400 from Helmroth, and $3. 900 from Thomas for the purpose, providing $72.43 of their own funds. Corinthla E. Stalley assumed the $16.- 000 Judgment awarded Roy A. Parr. In a libel suit against Fehl. The j certificate of sale of the building ! was sealed and turned over to the I county treasurer with Instructions ' written on the envelope that It j should not be opened except in the presence of the above named. In IBM. the reply .ay,, the certificate! ' ... ...tnH tn H.immih .m, i i Thomaa "without authority." Nledermeyer. Inc., tiled the Inter- nl..HM fnr rletermlnntlnn hv the H "ip( ma nn, on (rial In t lemliitn, S. of Setting Barn Blaze OIL CONTROL LOSS FOR ENTIRE hTO I Action by Supreme Court Seen in Some Quarters As Spelling Doom Other New Deal Legislation WASHINGTON. ' Jan. 3 Ai The new deal, deprived of a portion of NIRA which the supreme court toss, ed out of the window as unconsti tutional, still strove today to keep the federal lid on "hot oil." At the same time, the belief was expressed In one quarter on Capitol hill that the high tribunal's act m scrapping an oil control provision In the National Industrial Recovery Act spelled the doom of some other new deal legislation. Senator Adams (D., Colo.) said some of the laws behind the gov ernment's agricultural program con- talned provisions similar to the oil contrQl turw wWch thft ftUpromfi on d deleRftled too much law-making . .. 0 IH.f ' " Agriculture to Hear Echo. "We have gone the whole way In these delegations," said Adams. "It can hardly be expected that the courts will uphold all the delegatlona con gress attempted. It Inevitably will some of the agricultural agen- cle5" T section scrapped by the 8 to 1 decision was 9 (C under which the government has been undertaking to bar from Interstate commerce oil produced in excels of quotas fixed by state agencies. This petroleum la known aa "hot oil." . Secretary Ickes, oil administrator, noted that the decision "did not rul on the oil code" embodied In other parts of NIRA. still lime Code. "Wo still have the code and will continue to operate," he declared. "We will attempt to regulate hot bll with every resource we have." While some oil leaders in the great east Texas field expressed fear the 41-a-barrel price structure would col lapse under a flow or Illegal oil, and strove to prevent a return of "Jungle law" In competition, one school of thought In New York contended the code and atate regulation combined would handle the situation. Moves to present new legislation, remedying that one which the hljh court turned thumbs down, were al ready under way. Chairman Cole (D.. Md.) of a house sub-committee handling oit matters, said It would be a good guess that the committee would urge new legislation. Problem l'p li States. He said the court decision "leaves the problem entirely to the states, without any federal assistance. Such assistance waa Invaluable In bringing the lndtistrv out of cbfloa and put- ting production moro in line with demand." The high court's first decision on Recess 4-. f'r Hie kldimp tuutder ol Louisiana Utopia Planned By Huey He Tells Accusers WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (API Senator Huey P. Long today de scribed his so-called Louisiana "dictatorship" aa his planned "Utopia." The description was made in answer to charges by the women s commtttece of Louisiana the atate no longer has a Republican form of government. Only yesterday the self-styled "Ktngflsh" told the senate the new state laws for his "Utopia" had been voted by the people of Louis iana, who also had named him head of the Democratic party in the state. BY G. G. C. LEADER T Mra. Henrietta B. Martin, president of the aelf-atyled "Good Government Congress." which waa used by Agl- tatora E. H. Fehl and L. A. Banks, now serving atata prison sentences, aa a vehicle for turmoil campaigns In thla county, Monday (lied suit In federal court at Portland, against Mra. Blanche Virgin, operator of radio atatlon KM CD here. Mra. Mar tin seeks ,35.000 alleged damagea "and $4,500 attorney's fees, on the ground that Mra. Virgin cancelled a radio talk Mrs. Martin aaaerta (he arranged with Lee Bishop, radio station man ager, for New Year'a day. The complaint allegea that Mm. Virgin, after the arrangementa for the air talk had been made, colled Mrs. Martin by "telephone and In formed her It had been cancelled, because KMED would broadcast no talk that had anything to do with the "Oood Government Congress," and further, allegedly declared that went for the tuture, too. Mra. Martin allegea that the ban ning of the talk caused her "great embarrassment." and "to be held up to rldlcle and opproborlum." She states she desired to deliver a messago on needed legislation which the "Congreaamen" were unable to hear. The complaint asserta that the purpose of th "Oood Government Congrcaa"- la to promote better oltl zenshlp and good government. Portland papera. In commenting up on the tiling of the suit, pointed out that many of the active workers and leadera In the "Good Government Congress" were now repining behind prison bars, for conviction of ballot theft and one for murder. Mrs. Virgin, operator of the radio atatlon KMED, aside from admitting she had been served with notice of the suit, "had no comment to make." Mra. Martin could not be reached by telephone at her home near Cen tral Point, up to 3 o'clock thla after noon. Marauding dogs are again taking toll of sheep, chickens, and even calves. In and near Medford. It was learned from police officials today Last week dogs killed nearly 60 sheep belonging to J. J. Osenbrugge. The sheep were In a pen at the Jack son county fairgrounds, and were til killed In one night's depredation None of the flesh waa eaten, the dogs apparently killing for the sport. Similar raids have been reported In the past, and the doga that have been caught In the act summarily dis patched. Several dogs have already been taken; one a Chow having been caught !n the act of killing chlckeus. A round-up of killer dogs is now under way, and the situation la ex pected to be cleaned up within a week. Roosevelt Fights Slight Head Cold WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AP For the second day. President Roosevelt remained In the executive mansion to treat a slight head cold which has bothered him for several days. However, he planned to go to the executive office later in the day to meet with the emergency council In Its regular session. jury chosenToiTtrial of la grande resident LA GRANDE. Ore.. Jan. 8 lTi After a day and a half of careful verbal sparring, both prosecution and I defense expressed satisfaction ahortly before noon today at the Jury eelectd In the trial of State vs. Bowman, charged with the murder oi FVed Ldjrijiiln, rendition publUber. FOR DEED, CLAIM Joe B. Holland Witness for State in Prosecution of Ashland Men Claim In cendiary Pact Was Drawn Joe B. Holland, 5, of Astoria, a butcher, and father or seven children, testifying as the state's witness in the trial of George High, and his brother, Robert N. (Babe) High, of Aahland, on a charge of setting fire to & model barn on the Balfour Guthrie tract, January 4, 1933, for the alleged pur pose of collecting $15,000 insurance, swore on the witness stand this mor ning: Theron ;Red) Martin, now serving a year in the Multnomah county Jail, on a burglary conviction, and indict ed with the High brothers on an arson charge, "poured kerosene on the hay, and touched a match to It"; That George High had promised him ( Holland ) half the Insurance money, for burning the barn: That Robert (Babe) High, drove Martin and himself, to the barn from thla city and waa seated In an auto while they broke into the barn. Itrove to Klamath Holland, who has entered a plea of guilty, further declared that after set ting the blaze, Robert High drove the trio to Klamath Falls and stopped on a hill to watch the fire, before pro ceeding to that city. The confessor testified that he bad registered at the Hotel Jackson in this city, and purchased the kerosene at a. South Central avenue service station . - . ' Holland said that ha made an agreement with Robert (Babe) High to pay 11000 for burning the barn, to be paid by George High, and divided three ways between Martin, "Babe" High, and himself. Holland testllled yesterday George High promised him "half J-.e insurance money for the Job." Holland alleged that following the burning of the barn, he remained three or four days In Klamtah Falls, and then with Babe High returned to Ashland, "with a lady known as Alice." From Ashland, Holland aald he called George High at Astoria, Oregon -and asked him to come to Ashland. In a conversation with George High after his arrival, Holland asserted, he told him: Wanted Agreement "Babe insists on some sort of a written agreement," and George High replied : "I won't incriminate myself that way. You will have to take my word for It, and wait for the Insurance money to be paid." Holland further alleged that George High told him: "The fire was a suc cess, but I'm sorry you took Babe In; he talks too much." George High returned to Astoria, and Holland testified he went to the same city. He declared he again In sisted on a written agreement from Georgo High, and wan told by him: "I won't Incriminate myself. I waa In Astoria, and had nothing to do with It." Holland claimed he telephoned George High at his home In Astoria "to go see a lawyer and fix up some kind of an agreement, or I will tell the whole thing." George High still was dilatory about any agreement, Holland testi fied, and averred: Told Nephew "I then called up Flnley High, a nephew of George's, and asked him to come and see me at Seaside. Flnley (Continued on Fage rhreej UKVKRI.Y HILLS, Jan. 7. It was a witteliCnl waiting tveek onil. (jonyross met Inst week. Hut tliry really didn't have time to do any damage. But lotlny the taxpayers will start ifferini. The Uaiiptinaiin case was nt the waiting stage. Japan ought to eome through with another ultimatum by today or Tues day. The president sent anoth er r.'.e'ngc to congress Monday. It's really not a message. It's a working schedule.
