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Newspaper Page TextMedford Mail Tribune WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 Lowest this morning 80 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, IffiW. No. 252. The Weather Forecast: Snow or rain tonight and Wednesday; slightly warmer tonight. Temperature Highest yesterday . 31 am T LI (3 ' 1 Uuv 6) By Paul Mnllon Copyright, 1935, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Norman Davis returned from the futile Lon don naval conversations exuding optimism and wRwrsaw: The roving am- WV baasador told newsmen he did not expect a naval race but confidently be lieved an ulti mate agreement Is probable. What he told them ofr the rec ord cannot be re peated, but It Is no violation of Paul an I loo confidence to dlsclusu that It was V even more roseate. No one here will believe him that is, no one in the state and navy de 1 1 If x atf I partments and, perhaps, even the White House. There is a widespread suspicion that Mr. Davis' optimism is a diplomatic pose, and that Ills hope Is diplomatic slush. The cap able amba&iador-at-large has been a diplomat &o long that his best friends suspect he Is beginning to believe the things he says. A fair statement of the way this government looks at the naval sit uation from the Inside is this : If the British and the Americans would promise to give the Japanese the right to full equality at the end of a definite period, say, five or ten years., a compromise might be reach ed. We will npt agree to that. The Japanese will not take anything Icjs. Our authorities generally are con vinced of the seriousness of Japan ese Intentions. They say the Japan ese have let us know In many little way that they Intend to get the right to parity In the future, and. if we do not want to give it to them. A they will take it. The conviction Is widespread that 1936 will be the crucial period of post-war naval hlr,tory. We are not going to start the race. When the treaty expires, we will go along building and replacing In accordance with the program laid down In the treaty. If a naval race Is started. It will be by the Japanese. If they build one ship above the 6-5-3 treaty ratio. then the race Is on. In that event our authorities are planning to get congress to agree to a slldlng-scale building program under which we can maintain a strength of 5 to. 3 against the Japanese. Few well-informed parsons place much faith In the interesting stort coming over from London by un official word-of-mouth cable. This yarn Is to the effect that the Jap anese delegates gave the impression when they left London that they were willing to enter any kind of agreement to save their faces back J home. They were supposed to be go ing home with the Idea of trying to sell their government the British compromise' proposal. This proposal is that each ,of the powers publicly announce Its building program for a period of years and agree not to change the program without giving advance notice. The program would be based, or course, on the 5-5-3 relationship. Japan would be granted In principle the right to build up to full naval parity but she must hold her an nounced program within the 5-to-3 ratio, although everyone would agree never to mention the word "ratio" again, tn other words, Japan would receive the theoretical right to par lty providing she promised not to exercise it. It Is probably true that the Jap anese do not want a race, because they know we could outbuild them. Thry want to restrict us and the British. If they can. Also, they ned a diplomatic victory for home con sumption. But whether they would accept this grand Idea is something else again. The yarn has reached the btgeest officials' ears here. Frankly. they have not been impressed. Another sub-roe yarn from Lon don Is the one that our officials, at the conference aknd the Japan-. ese at one point to define what they j considered to be "offensive weapon1 of war." The Japanese thought about j It a while and replied that battle-1 ships, heavy cruisers and aircraft carriers should be so classified. The Japanese then asked ua to j off-r our definition of offensive wea pons. The comebnek made by one of our delegates this classic: , "Any weapon is offensive when you' are In front of It nd defensive when i you are behind It " The Japanese hae not quite figured that one out yet. Th ituprein court cold fa, has stimulated fantastic estimates of con tract outstanding calling for pay ment In cold. Some published esti mates run up as hiKh as 300 nilllon dnllur an tiiTwelvnblr figure. No one know. precisely what Mir amount l. hut the be:t cirw of the bt 'it.uirtty iirrr 1a 100 billions. That Is nrar-y tm tinifs a :nu:h paid a there 1 i:v the world tCcuuuuid tu i', t-gtiij Fl FIRST SHOTS IN NEW DEAL DRIVE; j Measures Are Designed to Strengthen Executive's j Hand and Facilitate Cen tralized Control Methods SALEM, Jan. 15. (A1) The four in itial administration measures were Introduced Into the house today, ac companied by three special messages by aovernor Charles H. Martin. The messages were read !n the house by the reading cleric, the exectulve not choosing to present them personally. The four bills, designed to strength en the hand of the governor and fa cilitate centralized control, were as i follows: 1 Transfer to the executive office authority to prepare and enforce all budgets, supervise expenditures and effect consolidations, except such constitutional offices as secretary of state, state treasure.- and supreme and circuit courts. 2 Requiring all fees, fines, penal ties and other revenues collected by all departments, boards, commissions, and officers (including the so-called seir-sustafnl'.ig departments) to be paid Into the state treasury and be disbursed only by specific legislative appropriation. 3 Extension of the county unit system of school administration to all counties except those specifically rejecting the plan. A Establish a state planning board appointed by and. responsible to the governor, to devise a comprehensive long-term plan of development for the state of Oregon. MUle Power Now. Pointing out that the constitution imposes upon the executive the duty of advising the legislature from time (Continued on Pa Three) L OF WASHINGTON. Jan. 15. (AP) An attempt to obtain early action on birth control legislation was charted today. Representative Pierce (D., Ore.), veteran campaigner for a bill to open the malls to birth-control Informa tion, devices and preparations, said he probably would ask a hearing next month on the measure he Introduced this session. "I believe a majority of the Judici ary committee members are for the bill." Pierce said. "I hope to obtain committee approval by March 1. In an attempt to conciliate legisla tors who criticized the measure as an invasion of state rights, the bill nas been revised so that It would not ap ply to states having laws against dis semination of birth control Informa tion. BRANCH RESERVE BANK DIRECTORS ARE NAMED SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15. fAP) Appointment of directors at the five branches of the federal reserve bank of San Francisco was announced to day by Walton N. Moore, deputy chairman of the board of directors Those reappointed Included: Portland branch Edward C. Pease, The Dallea, Oregon. Appointments made by the federal reserve bank of San Francisco In cluded : Portland branch R. 8. Smith. First National Bank, Eugene, Ore. Anger or other passions aroused reason dethroned. GIANT NEGRO CANNIBALISM JACKSON, Miss.. Jan. 15. (UP) Suspicion of cannibalism was added to the Mississippi delta's double mur der case todf.y. Bolivar County Attorney Ed Green said that human flesh, salted and dried, found in the home of James H Coyner. giant nejro. "bore what ap reared to be the marks of human tmh." Officers from Pontiac, Mtch.. were en route here to question Coyner about the finding of four white wom en's heals in a truek nfar Fernds'.e. Mich., in 1P27. ner Is held in the county Jail. ! charged alth murdenna Mr. and M's. 'A. B. Turner In tiielr home at Clee ; land. Miw . IaM December. The killer ' i'jb'Ded and clfw- '.e .-on pie to tK.'tn itud mutilated tneu b-xiiva. Ma Ferguson Out As Governor But . Still In Politics AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 15. (AP) The nation's first woman gov ernor, Mrs. Miriam (Ma) Fergu- ion Is leaving the Texas executive mansion today, but not politics. "If anyone thinks I'm leaving politics forever he Is badly mis taken," said the woman who twice icrved as governor and before tht occupied the executive mansion while her husband, James E ( Farmer Jim) Ferguson, was chief executive. "Farmer Jim" commented that moving In and out of the man sion made him feel like "an old cow being turned Into an old range perfectly at home." He, too, declared he was not through with politics. IS IN MURDER TRIAL LA GRANDE, Ore., Jan. 15. (AP) Daniel C. Bowman, 55-year-old mis sion merchant whose rifle on Novem ber 9 caused the death of Fred Lamp kJn, co-publisher of the East Oregon- Ian of Pendleton, today was a free man again. A circuit court Jury here last night. after seven full days ' " hearing testi mony and arguments for and against Bowman's conviction on a first degree murder charge, spent a little less than three hours tn bringing in i verdict of not guilty. The vote was ten to two for acquittal and today Bowman was looking forward despite hints of civil action that may arise as a result of Lampkln's death to picking up the threads of his life where he left off more than two months ago. ' The Jury's speed In arriving at a verdict came as a surprise to many, who had expected more lengthy de liberation on the part of the nine men and three women of the Jury. In Instructing ,the Jury Judge Knowles stated a unanimous verdict would be required only If Bowman were convicted of first degree murder, and that a division, not greater than 10 to 2 would be permissible on a lesser charge or on acquittal. The Oregon, law governing verdicts recent ly was amended to permit a ten-vote verdict In all except capital cases. 4 ON CASH BASIS TODAY ASTORIA, Ore.. Jan. 15. (AP) Clatsop county was practically on a cash basis today as County Treasurer S. G. Trulltn ger Issued a call for war rants, endorsed but not paid for want of funds, up to Jan. 1 of this year. The call left only a few thousand dollars worth of county warrants un paid. In 1929 the outstanding war rant debt of the county was more than $300,000. 10 BURNS, Ore., Jan. 15., (UP) Preparations were made today for Immediate repoenlng of the $4,000,000 Edward Hlnes Lumber company plant and camps after officials had been notified of completion of a Umber trade with the government. The firm traded Orant county stumpsge for government timber in Malheur national forest which can be marketed over the Unea railroad in the Seneca region, according to word from Washington. We don't know the exact aire of our race, but it's old enough to know better. ALSO UNDER SUSPICION Coyner, six feet, six Inches tall and weighing 250 pounds, was arrested at the Green vljle postofflce Saturday, in a trap set tye someone who had been sending obscene letters to women In l Memphis and Indianapolis. Obscene letters were found In Coyner's house, addressed to women. Mrs. Turner aa an expectant mother when murdered. j Coyner waa convicted In Indiana of grave robbing and was paroled from the Indiana penitentiary after serving seven years of a 10 year term. Bullvar county officers have ques tioned the netrro wltnoul result. A wauh he carried when arresfd was idrr.tiflcd as Mie one stolen fro.n i Turner by his stiller, and a vlsp nf , nair found in his pocket wba Idetiti 'id tentatively a ft that of Mrs. Tu- Plebiscite Result Seen As Decisive Step Toward New Peace in Europe Nazis Celebrate Victory (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press ) 8AARBRUECKEN. Saar Basin Ter ritory, Jan. 15. The Nazis, having swept the Saar plebiscite with a poll of 90 per cent of the more than half million votes cast Sunday, today assumed full command of the Saar bruecken police force. They started out to round up about 130 men all the anti-Nazi memberh of the blue-coats. Thirty of them. and these Included some, who fled from Retchefuehrer Hitler's Germany. were said by the Nazis to have been Jailed before 1:30 p. m. Sixteen communists previously re ported arrested turned out to be policemen. The Nazi victory was complete. After a full night of tabulation the plebiscite commission announced the vote to be: For return to Germany 477.119 For the status quo 46.513 For annexation to France 2.124 (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) GENEVA, Jan. 15. The Saar coun cil committee of the League of Na tions today voted to ask. the league council "in principle" to return the Saar basin territory to Germany. The application for the Saar's re turn will be maae tomorrow In a resolution recommending the action In principle. The committee was headed by Baron Pompeo Alois! of Italy, the man who presided ove,r the commit tee when It achieved the agreement at Romo between France and Ger- (Continued on Page Hires) ACQUIT PIQUETT CHICAGO, Jan. IS. (UP) Louis P Plquett, former bartender and city prosecutor who became attorney and confidante for John Dilllnger, was acquitted on charges of conspiracy to harbor the outlaw by a Jury In federal court last night. The verdict was returned at 10.1'J p. m., C. 8. T., after the Jury had deliberated two hours and a half. The stocky, bushy haired lawyer. who stood trial In Judge William H, Holly's federal court, was the first to be snared In the government's drive against "gangland lawyers" and a complete rout of the Dilllnger gang. The verdict left leaders of the fed eral government's prosecution admit tedly downcast, while Plquett was loudly Jubilant. IE PORTLAND, Jan. 15. ( AP) E, C. Solinsky, deposed superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, was ar raigned before Federal Judge Fee to day on a charge of Juggling payroll funds, and was granted five days in which to plead. Solinsky was charged, together .with A. R. Edwin, former clerk at the park, and I. F. Davidson, park superinten dent of construction, with embcr-siling money by carrying non-existent work men on park payrolls. Davidson and Edwin have pleaded guilty. RUSSIArToOADRDPLETS WIN PIE AND HOMEl LENINGRAD, Jan 15. (UP) The government today awarded new apartment and 200 roubles a month to the mother of quadruplets, three of whom survived. The four Infants were born to Vera Fakeyev. wife of a railroad worker. The first, a girl, was born at home. The mother was rushed to h'js piU.1. where two girls and a boy were born. The boy died, but the mother and three girls are doing well. Prop Boy Hurt Albert Holzgan,.'. graduate of Medford high school in 1014, and now employed as prop o.. on the M-O-M iot at Culver City. Cal . wm injured recently while work ing with a latne. according to wo: J J received here He was treated for ' e-1iu( head ,-ut t'lat 'xaa ej.wctf:! to keep him from aork t-jt -uic tiac. Gen. Martin 6 e -n v o Majnr-grnpriil C'horlrs II. Miirllri. (rich!) Drmnrral, who rrtlrrtl from lri-cnn, tuki- onlli ' offltc from ('liter JuMIrr .1. I'. CtimpUrll of Mir lliaugliriil at Salem Muntlny. (AsMX'lutoil Pre Photo). D00L1TTLE SETS NKWARK, N. J., Jan. 15. (AP)--Major James R. Doollttle, noted speed flier, established a new transconti nental record for transport airplanes today, touching his wheels at Flyd Bennett airport, New) York. 11 hours 50 minutes after his takeoff at Los Angeles. Doollttle was timed at Floyd Ben nett at 8:26 a. m., (E-S.T.)'and eight and one half minutes later he set the low - winged transport monoplane down at Newark airport. Although previous transcontinental speed flights had ended here, Doollttle'. time at the New York field was con sidered for record purposes. Ills time of II hours 59 minuter broke by minutes the mark set last November 8 by Eddie Rickenbacker when he flew from Los Angeles to Newark In 12 hours 3 minutes 50 seconds. Looking tired but happy, the flying major was greeted here by Mayor C. Ellcnstclu. Accompanying the avia tor was Mrs. Doollttle and an oil company official. Doollttle's mark was made despite the fact that he flew off his course. "I didn't do the ship Justice," Doo llttle said. "I lott an hour and a half by getting off the course and should have been here that much ! sooner. 1 guess it was Just a case of j poor piloting." Mrs. Doollttle, however, said going i astray was the result of "dreadful ; Hying weather." "The ice was bad." she said, "and j weather conditions were awful. It's i all right for Jimmy to blame himself . but the weather man should tako I some of tlio blame, too." t Doollttle said the ship, a Vultce : transport, powered by a 735 horsepow er Wright Cyclone engine, functioned perfectly all the way, enabling him to , average about 217 miles an hour for the approximately 2600 mile trip. He left Union Atr Terminal, Burbank, Calif., at 8 27 p m.. (EST.) last night. HEALTH ASSOCIATION WING WEDNESDAY The bi-monthly meeting of the Ju'kvm County Health association will be held at the county courthouse tomorrow afternoon at 9 o'clock, with ; the phoenix and Jacksonville asso : clatlons acting as boeteu groups, j The program, besides reports on the Christmas seal campaign and budget, I will include a talk by Dr. W. O. ; Riflhopt on proper food, and one by j Dr. C. H. Pake on proper care of the teeth. ! Awning Humeri The fire depart ment was called to the Liberty build in,; at 1:40 this afternoon to extln ! guih fire In an awning, which wn I burned but nas the extent of the j damage. The fire was of unknown f origin. The department received a I Taie alarm a. 5 IS o'rkK-k Iwt vcn n'j, r,rti ,itwe w.ik Tirtik'0 fur jil.-e.-u Mmuevjta street. Takes Oath as Governor BY NEW ORLEANS i NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 15. (UP) New Orleans threw all Its public funds under control of federal court today to escape from Senator Huey Long's raids. United States District Judge Way no O. Borah accepted temporary Juris diction. He halted Lougs suit for re ceivership ngalnBt the city, pending In atate court, and Impounded every dol lar of city funds In the name of the United States government. It was a decisive victory for Mayor T. S. Walmsley, who Is fighting to prevent long from bankrupting the city, thereby rendering It prey to his state political machine. Tli ere was a general uprising against Long. Citizens at Clinton gathered In mass meeting last night to protest the stato dictatorship. Dis trict Judge W. C. Jones at Baton Rouge declared a state of emergency in the whole parUh to enablo Sheriff R. L. Pettlt to reappoint seven of his deputies which Long's forces had ousted. The anti-Long Square Deal associa tion sent a warning to Governor O. K. Allen today that "bloodshed Is immi nent." WIFE BEATER ESCAPES ' THROUGH LACK OF LAW CHICAGO, Jan. 15, (UP) Judge Joseph H. McGarry was so Indignant at Mrs. Mary Ballsano's story of being beuten with a poker by her husband, Andrew, that he sentenced Andrew to 40 applications of the same poker, and fined him 100. Andrew's fare lightened, however, when his attor ney called the court's attention to the Illinois lack of a whipping-post law. The Judge's face fell. PICKPOCKET DISCOVERS DEPRESSION NOT OVER NEW YORK. Jan. 16. (UP) Twenty-three times when arrested for picking pockets "Bankroll Max" Stern pulled a great roll of bills and de manded, belligerently: 'Why should I be a dip with alt this dough?" He was arrested the 34th time tonight and couldn't produce a nickel. "This depression Just Isn't past," he said. 4 CHILOQUIN CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH IN HOME KLAMATH FA LI 3, Jan. 15 ('j A midnight fire tragedy in the cow country on the outskirts of Chllo quln, cot the lives of four children, halfbroeds of the Klamath Indian res ervation, last night. The dead: June Gardner, 3, Hobertu Gardner. 10 months. Mert Gardner. 3. fir1f1 Gardner, 5. Fire broke out In the Gardner home from an overheated stove, w'lile the mother. Mrs. June Gardner, a KUmUh IiiflMii. wnq vlMtlng at tji (aoim ol a lrlcad, Q ZDs Hingrrni lo bring the New tlrnt lo stnln iirrin- rnurt, (led) In the I READY TO FIGHT IF By WAVNB T. COTTINHIIAM Associated Press Staff Writer. JAMESTOWN, Tenn.,, Jan, 15. ( AP) Sergeant Alvln ,.C- York ot World war fame, Is ready to go to war again but only If It la "neces sary" for the defense of this country. The man credited officially with annihilating "practically unassisted" an entire German machine gun bat talion, said today that were the gov ernment In need of a man to defend It, "I'd certainly' ftp but I wouldn't want to go 'over there' any more. "I'd want to meet them ( the enemy) right at our coast when they got ready to get off the boat. I don't think any of us would want to go over there any more, but we would all be ready to defend our country." The world war hero gave his views after the Introduction by U. S. Sena tor Nathan L. Bachman of Tennessee of a bill to recognize his feat by appointing him a major In the army and placing him In the retired list. York said he would appreciate the coinmlsFlon "very much ." He belonged to a religious sect opposed to war. Ho appenlod for ex emption from military service but his plea was turned down and be fore the war ended he performed the nmnzlng feat of killing at least 25 Germans and leading back 132 pris oners, including the machine gun battalion commander and two other commissioned officers. ?50fl GREET MARTINS Al CAPITOL RECEPTION SALEM, Ore., Jan. 15. (AP) Twenty-five hundred persons, mostly I democrats, filed through the execu tive offices at the state house last j night and greeted Oregon's 31st gov ernor, MaJor-Oeneral Charles H. Mar- Itln, and Mrs. Martin. Tne seventy-piece band of the 82nd brigade, Vancouver Burrock. Wash., played at the reception and later for dancing under the big dome of the capltol. The Chlloquln fire department, seeing the reflection of the blare, sped to a futile rescue. Little June- had struggled to the door, where she was found by Fire Chief Jack Pepper. Pepper alsa brought out the baby from Its bed. Both children died en rout, to he Klsnmth Agency hospital. 10 miles away. The heat and flames were too great to rescue the boys. One w.is found on the floor In the rear of the house, and the other still was in bed. The ftit'ier nf the children Is .onic- t a acre in JUaho, Brother and Two Sisters Come From Germany Handwriting Experts In sist Notes Work of Bruno (Copyright, 1035, by the Associated Press) FLEMINOTON, N. J., Jan. 15. (AP The dead Isador Fisch cam inferentlally Into the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann again to day as his brother, and two sister arrived from Clemany to combat In sinuations against him. Plncus, Hannah and Csena Fisch, and a nurse described as Minna Stegnlts, arrived on the He de Franca with the New York detective, Arthur Johnson. Hauptmann, on trial for his life aa the accused kidnaper and mur derer of baby Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., has claimed that Fisch gave him for safekeeping the Lindbergh ran som money which was found In hit Bronx garage. Experts Firm on Notes While these witnesses were arriving In New York, John F. Tyrrell, a Milwaukee handwriting expert, J whs being cross-questioned on the possi bility that Hauptmann's handwriting might have been Imitated In the Lindbergh ransom notes by another person. Tyrrell was the third expert to Identify Hauptmann's handwriting hi that of the notes. Meanwhile, outside the courtroom, there were these developments: Louts Blltzer, a New York attorney, recalled that Hauptmann came to him shortly before his arrest and sought the number of Isador Flsch'a safety box, saying Fisch owed him 414,000. Prosecutors said they believed th call was an attempt to create an alibi In the event of Arrest. Arthur P. Meyers, a handwriting expert of York, Pa., said he and his (Continued on Pag Eight) INDICTMENT FLAW IS TRIAL OF HERMIT GRANTS, PASS. Jan. 15. (API- Just as questioning of prospestlvit Jurors was begun In the trial of Hugo Mayer, hermit of the craggles, this morning for the first degree murder of Robert Pants isovember 0. 1034, a flaw was discovered In the indictment returned Saturday. Five men Jurors were selected by noon while the new grsnd Jury, fornv- ed since the one which Indicted 1 Mayer expired, waa ordered called to correct the defect. The Indictment Incorrectly referred to the Fants shooting In the wilds of the lower Illinois river vaUey as of November 0, 1035. Although Mayer pleaded not guilty yesterday, at no time has he denied the shooting. State and defense attorneys said they would proceed with the Jury selection while awaiting correction of the Indictment at 3 p. m. Mayer sat through the proceedings without visible concern. Mrs. Fantu Is here to testify at the trial. WILL ROGERS IU:T.KI,Y 11 ILLS, Jnn. 14 Congress ouiflit to really get into the main show this week. Last week was just the over ture. They will get settled lown thin week to "steady tax ine." All the "lobbies" are gathered in there to sec that the tax is put on somebody elno's business. But not on theirs. Congress got all their com mittees mnde up last week, and they are composed of two Dem ocrats to each one Republican, so what n pleasant year that poor fellow will bo in for. Course thero is an awful lot of different breeds of Democrats. I bet you before the session is over President Roosevelt will trade you two or three Demo crats for ono Republican.