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ail Tribune EDFORD WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 Tweuty-iiintli Year BEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30,1935. No. 265. IMI The Weather Forecast: Insettled tonight ami Thursday; utile chance In tempera ture. Highest yesterday l l.owet this morning 34 M M WHEEL SE SIS . , i MM -- I Nsbys I PWA CHIEF GIVEN By TAIL MA1.LON. (Copyright, 1935, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. The new dealers are holding a statistical Ju bilee over the December-January business figures. Some larger :hest here have sxpanded a full ilx Inches at the surprising Jump ;n manufacturing ictlvlty. employ ment and wages. A few optimist tre even predict ing sotto voice that It meant a hfthv honm In i the spring.. TALL MALLON These optimists may be right. Cer tainly there is some basis for their Jubilation, yet the calmer ones among them recognize that some or the figures may be slightly too n coursglng. You can see it if you look Into the causes for the big boost In In dustrial production. That is the key index on which most of the elation is based. It Jumped 11 points in De cember and probably 4 more In January. This Increase Is at least twice as much as expected. Analyzing It. you will find the unexpected part of the boost was largely caused by automobile pro duction. All other production In creased a little during the turn of the year, but automobile production more than doubled. This forced an abnormal bulge tri all seasonally adjusted statistics be cause the automobile industry has changed tts season this year and is grinding out cars fast now at a time when ordinarily it would Just be getting started. With this advance warning, you may feast your eyes on the following monthly business dhart, through which the new dealers customarily keep track of business. The figures are theirs, except for the last month, which la privately estimated. All fig ures except payrolls and prices are adjusted for seasonal variations. Each Index except prices Is based on 100 as represented by the ' averages for the years 1923, '24 and '25 Inclusive. The rosiest part about It Is the way this January stacks up with the last three Januarys, no matter what caused it. Look yourself: (Continued on Page Six) WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. m A vast plan to extend federal regulation to all important forms of transporta tion on land, sea and In the air, was recommended to congress today Dy Joseph B. Eastman, federal coordin ator of transportation. A super-agency, In the form of a recreated Interstate commerce com mission, would rule the nation's far flung networks of carriers. East man urged that Instead of the present ICC of 11 men, the ne:v sgency have a membership of ifl. divided into five units: A finance division of three mem bers. A railroad division of five. A water carrier and pipe line di vision of three. 1 A motor carrier and air carrier ll vt?:on of three. A control board, composed of the chairman of the commission and the heads of the four subsidiary divisions tinder it. The office of coordinator of trans portation would be continued and would be filled by an ICC member designated by the President. Under a law proposed by Eastman, the coordinator could compel unlll fition of facilities. If orders for co ordination of facilities were dlsobered fines a-i high as 120.000 a day could be imposed. All transportation would be remov ed from NRA control. Dismissal wages would be given men displaced by con solidations of services. PORTLAND. Jn. SO ( AP . MM-yj.-u Triirvlny I the absolute dead line for licences for retail sale of beer. Tie edict was issued today by the Orfffon Liquor Control commission. . Pisces handling beer on a refill basl must hae W n-nw r:ed by mtdnif.t to::.o:re o the com-mii-m yUI taie step to invoke pen- LENGTHY LIST OF L0CALPR0JECTS Chromite Survey Is Also Deemed Important Schools Would Get Large Share if List Approved Proposal for construction of a combined rati and highway tunnel through the Siskiyou mountains at an estimated coat of between three and a half to ten million dollars, depending on the length desired, was the chief item In a long list of pro jects laid before C. C, Hockley, state engineer for the PWA In Oregon, at a hearing held here this afternoon. According to C. C. Hockley, state engineer for the Oregon PWA, the meeting called today at the city hall was primarily an explanatory one. for the purpose of hearing the needs of Jackson county. The projects sub mitted today were not applications,' he explained, but merely previews The actual applications .just be In the state PWA office before Febru ary 11, however. To accomplish this, It was stated that they should be In the mall before February 10. Many Needs Told At the meeting today many Im portant needs In this county were submitted for Hockley's examination, chief of whlet. was the plan to con struct a. tunnel through the Siskiyou mountains, to accommodate both rail and auto travel, at an estimated coat of $1,000,000 per mile. The plan states' that the benefits would be the approximate saving of three hours by train and one hour by auto between Portland and San Francisco elimination of 28 complete circles in a distance of 10 miles; lessening of danger from auto accidents Incurred on the winding road, especially dur ing the winter months; lowering of highway maintenance costs: reduction of cost for railroads, .resulting In great saving to this community In the shipping of products; possible Increase in tourist travel,, nany tour Ists not caring to drive; over the present Siskiyou highway; excourage ment of faster train service, and pos slble use of new high-speed stream' lined trains on this route, the pres ent grades making auch a move lm possible at the present time; increase of value of Pacific highway aa a mili tary highway and defense measure, Length Dictates Cost The estimated cost of the tunnel depends entirely upon the length, which In turn would depend entirely upon Aie elevation at which It was eventually located. A survey would determine this, It was stated. The possible length of the tunnel la given aa from three and a half to 10 miles. This would ben an expenditure of from three and a half to 10 million (Continued from Page Ten) FEHL'S AFFIDAVIT MAKER IS JAILED State police wore advised yesterday by Salem authorities that J. Taldon Bunch, defense witness In one oi the ballot-theft trials, and later as a state prison mate of E. H. Fehl. an affidavit-maker, had been arrested there on a forgery charge. Bunch last year made an 'affidavit that on the night .of the b allot -thefts, he was in the local county Jail, and exonerated Fehl from any connection with the crime. The rec ords of Douglaa county showed that he was confined in the county Jail 'at Roseburg. when he claimed he jwas In the Jackson county Jail. The I affidavits made In state prison, was ! published In the May primary cam paign pamphlet. "Black Political Plot" (ln which it was claimed that Fehl was "framed. UNDERTAKERS WAR BOON TO COUNTY ASTORIA. Jsn. 30 7Pi Two un dertakers, grappling in a price-slashing war, are indirectly pouring dollars into the Clatsop county treasury. Bids were opened here today for the burial of Clatsop's paupers for the year. One undertsker. it was found, bid one mill for eaoh burial ten for a cent. His rlrsl offered to Inter the Paupers free of charge. The price slashing atartd thiee year ago when one f:rm was encase J at 35 a burial. Next year the other V.'m cut the b'ri to US last year, after considerable dluatMen, the firt mentioned undertaker slashed his price to one mill and got the con tract. This year tha other went hl.n one mill better and o:d "no fee." Now tbe county court is seek.ng wi'-e. It don't know whether it an legally accept a "free of chae s4T Change LINER SINKS Ocean liners, coast guard cutters and other vessels rushed to the position of the passenger ship, Mohawk (lower left), as It sent out SOS signals after being rammed by the steamer Talisman off the New Jersey coast. At least 47 lives were lost. At the upper left Is a picture of Chief Steward Julius Jensen of the Mohawk being removed from a coast guard cutter. Jensen received a fractured hip In the collision. The damaged bow of tha Talisman Is shown at ths right. (Associated Preas Photos) SENATE REJECTION COURT ADHERENCE L OF N GENEVA, Jan. 30. (AP) League of nations circles learned with keen disappointment today of the United States senate's rejection of American adherence to the world court. The opinion had been held gener ally that ratification of the protocol was certain, j The news brought from represen- j tatives of the powers expression of i belief that the senate's action constl- tutes a severe blow to the building : up of International law and promo-1 tlon of peace through the policy of j settling disputes by Judicial process.! It was pointed out that the world powers at a special conference of fered the United States a privileged form of membership In the court which no other member enjoys. Some spokesmen declared the re sult should be a lesson to Europe to discontinue offering special privileges to the United States as the price of American participation In the Inter national organisms. The United States, they said, should accept the same responsibility In world affairs as other nations or remain outside the organizations of International cooperation. B.v II. II A HOLD OLIVKK Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Jan. 30. (AP) The Roosevelt administration, after (Continued on Page Two) 300 ELKS GATHER BEND. Ore . Jan. 30. Lodge men from the region covering a third of Oregon were here last night for one of the best attended mee tines of the Elks lodge held in the state east of the Cascade range. John Houston of Klamath Falls was in charge aa the visiting degree team initiated 35 candidates. Klamath Falls. Medford. Ashland and Grants Pass Elks came by a special train from Klamath Falls, and nere Joined here by lodgemen from Lake view, Redmond, Prlneville. Mad ras. Bend, Burns and LaOrande. More than 300 lodge members were guests of the Bend Elks at dinner. The special tram returned southward at 2:30 a. m. SENATE PROMISED DMA ON WORK RELIEF PLANS WASHINGTON. Jan. SO. (AD The administration arel tx!r. at the requeet of opponn of '.-ertaln phj of the I4 88O.0OOOOO 'ork re Urf bill, to ftirnlph the rn appro prl.tlonn committee Information ehoTrln how much and f'r what pur pone the huce fund cccild be ,pnt on rerloue claaMt of projects. Bear Admiral Christian J. Peoples, procurement officer for tlie treaaurr vho u alaed for an important poet. In ihe new rehe: aet'ip. pronUMd, to tasA tiat iv, teaesnvi in Liquor Board to Give Martin AT SEA WITH LOSS MOONVILLE DANCE FRACAS AIRED IN COLEMAN'S COURT R.'M. Conley. complaining witness in the Justice court hearing today of charges of disorderly and riotous conduct against H. W. Todd, Ralph Bender, Bert Conner, and Charles Knudsen, as a result of a fist fight last Saturday night at a dance held In Caton's hall at1 Moon vl lie, ad mitted under cross-examination that he "struck the first blow" in the rumpus. Conley testified that Bender called him a name, which caused him to doff his coat, and prepare for battle. Conley denied he carried a revolver, or that he had threatened to fill H. W. Todd, another defendant, "full of lead." He alleged that Todd struck him In the back of the head with his fist, while bystanders were hold ing htm after the combat lulled. Under further cross-examination Conley admitted he and Todd had a dispute over government wheat reduction money, and a board of i Continued on Page Two) DIOCESE ARCHDEACON PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 30. (AP) The Rev. H. D. Chambers, general missionary of the Eplscov il diocese of Oregon, was today nominated as archdeacon of the diocese by the Rt. Rev. Walter T. Sumner, bishop or Oregon The nomination, made during thc bishop's address at the 47th annual convention of the diocese, here to - day, was one of the surprise features of the meeting. Bishop Sumner said the action was taken as "a gesture of good will and gratitude to a faithful priest for nls long years of service. Shipbuilding Fixed Says By PBESTOW I.. GHOYER Associated Preas Pntff Writer WASHINGTON. Jan. 80. (API From a wlld-eved girl secretary and an enraged shipbuilder came the first positive assertion today In the senate munitions Inquiry that major ship butlderf were in collusion on naval bidding Mlf Judj Kitchen and Laurence Runell Wilder, chairman of tha board of Oulf Indiutries of Peneecola, the firl'a employer, testified agalnat the "big three" bulldera. The three were named aa th New York Shipbuilding company, the New port News Shipbuilding snd Drrdock company, and the Bethlehem Ship building company. Mlna Kitchen told the eager muni tion, inventigators ahe sat In on a conference where collualon was term ed a usual thing, and where a "fixer" In Washington waa described aa hav ing power to dltrlbut bualneaa for "a eon.lderatlon." Her teatlmony waa brief. She gate the committee records of whst she claimed took place at a meeting tn a i wah!iiton hotel on Auguet 9. 19flS. ) it u qmm ft i& tutc" OF 47 LIVES PRESIDENT'S BALL In orrler to clarify tame misunder standing said to exist as to the price of the Roosevelt ball tickets, it was announced this afternoon that they are one dollar per couple, not one dollar per person, as some had thought. While committees made final ar rangements for the most elaborate patriotic ball of the season, Mayo George Porter stated this afternoon that the president's birthday dance tonight at Oriental Gardens Is an assured success. Ticket sales Indicate a big crowd, according to Cole Holmes of the ticket sales committee, and,', with reserva tions coming steadily In the Cham ber of Commerce, everyone seems en thusiastic over the celebration. Besides a dance at Oriental Gar dens, which will begin at 0 o'clock a dinner will be served at Kotel Medford, from 6:30 until 0, at charge of ai. Twenty-five cents of this amount will be given to the na- (Continued on Page fteven) in 8:30-5:30 HOURS At a r.ieetlng of the Merchant's association held thla morning. It was unanimously decided to continue rpRUiPr st0re houra In Medford. Fcr moBt merchants these are from is&'J to 5:30 from Monday to Friday ! inclusive and from 6:30 to 8:30 on Saturdays. Storea operating under i this schedule Include department stores, womrn's shops, men's shops, Jewelry , stores, shoe stores, furniture storea. Wool worth's and Newberry's. Contracts Girl Witness allegedly were proffered to Wilder to get him some naval building. Wilder told the committee he had ; been disappointed at the day i bid ding for naval ships, saying ha was low bidder on three destroyers but E" failed to get them because vioue agreement among three" by which the 37-shlp program. shared, eech tsalng a third. MIm Kitchen related subatantlally ! the eame story a "the fixer" given yesterday by William Calvin, aecre tary-treaaurer of the metal tradea de partment of the American Federation of Ibor. She reported that Alex B Oravem, a Waahtrigton attorney, had offered to get wilder aio.ooo.ooo to aisoooooo in naval building for a consideration described earlier by Calvin aa I2S0. ooo. She quoted Oravem aa deacrlblng tha "fixer" aa "frankly a chlseler," but aaserted the man had power to have th ."'sl program "extended" for the benefit of Wilder snd Oulf Industries. without assistance or "the fliers," he quoted Oravem as saylnf. BO BieUACM oul4 tot saewsd. E BACKS UP ALIB Called for Her at Bakery and Went Home Early Is Claim Swedish Car penter Also Aids Prisoner (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) FLEMINGTON. N. J., Jan. 30, (AP) Two witnesses one his wife today supported Bruno Richard Hnuptmann a alibi for the night Babj Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was kidnap ed and slain. El vert Carlstrom, a carpenter of Swedish extraction who said he re- me in be red because It was his birthday testified he saw Hauptmann In the Bronx at 8:30 p. m., on March 1, 1932. Mm. Hauptmann testified her hus band called for her at her place of employment that evening and went home with her around 10 p. m. The Lindbergh baby was atolen from bis crib In Hopewell, N. J., more than sixty miles away, between 7 and 10 p. m., on March 1, 1933, Carlstrom said he was In Dunellen, N. J., March 1, 19S3, and went to cat In the evening at Frederlckaena bak ery In the Bronx where he knew Mrs. Hauptmann as a waitress. He had been eating there for two months, he said. He was In the bakery for 30 min ute and Mrs. Hauptmann waited upon him, he said. Saw Hauptmann There "Now, while you were in there did you see anybody else?',' reward J. Rellly, defense chief asked. Carlstrom pointed at Hauptmann in the courtroom. 1 I saw that fellov sitting right down there." Hauptmann stood up. "You were sure he was In there?" "I am sure." He said he er.w a picture of Haupt mann In a newspaper after his arrest. He told somebody, who told Rellly. He said hr did not know Hauptmann personally. He admitted on cross-examination the first time he saw Hauptmann after the Incident In the bakery was in Yhe courtroom. "What vm thr sthnufc Vilm ttint. .repressed Itself upon your mind so that you would remember his face as long as you live?" Attorney General David t. Wllents asked. "Because he was laughing at me In the bakery. Because I got mad at him and when I got mad at some body then I remember the face." Alibi For All Dales Mrs. Hauptmann tremulously of- (Continued on Page Ten) -- HELD ON CHECKS Ivan Myers, 30, of Grants Pass, was In the city Jail today, charged with obtaining money under false pre tenses, having allegedly paaaed two false checks to Medford business houses. , Police said Myers gave the Grand Hotel a check for $17.50 and Mont- 8ry Wsrd one for 910. both alleg- j cdly forged with the name of Sam Gold of the Grants Pass Bargain Houae. Three other checks, totaling iaeo.OO, were found In Myers' posaes jslon and were said by authorities to be bogus. I The prisoner, who was arrested after attempting to make the pay ment at Montgomery Ward Co., Is ex pected to appear before Justice of the i Peace Coleman Friday I CAPTURED BY JAPANESE TOKYO, Thursday, Jsn. SI. (AP) Rengo (Japanese news agency) re ported today In a dispatch from Hslnklng, Manchoukuo, thst a Jsp-anese-afsnchoukuosn force last night csptured Kslkha Mlao slong the Manchu-Mongol border and that the Mongols were retreating to the south ward. 33RD POISONALCOHOL DEATH IS CHALKED UP OLOVKReTVILLE, H. T., Jan. SO (AP) The "creeping death" today claimed a not. her poison alcohol vic tim, the lflth here and the 33rd In three central New Tork industrial SLUtt vVeUitO CtfleU wa U lata. Desperadoes Caught I T I Walter l.egcnza (lop), a ltd Robert Mais (helnw), termed two of the country's most desperate criminals. were among the. rive members of the "tri-state gang" of the eastern sea board ruptured by department of Ju rice operatives In swift raids n New York, Both are under death sentence In Virginia. (Aasoelntcd Press Photos.) . TO ACT ON BILL NO. 1 SALEM, Jan. 30. (AP) Still re verberatlng from the bombshells thrust into the Oregon legislative session yesterday when Governor Mar tin, with strategic awlftneas, leveled his verbal barrage demanding the passage of houae bill 1 which would give the executive control over fund: and commissions, the two uscs re sumed the business befjre thun to day. As a result of the executives per sonally delivered special message, an attempt will be made by the house today to place the bill on the calen dar under suspension of the rules. The measure was reported out of the ways and means committee without recommendation. Reactions of the abrupt message urging support In obtaining budgctry control over state funds Indicated the members of the house were swayed and would pass the proposal. The opposite reaction resulted In the sen ate and the measure when It reaches there will run Into much opposition. Late yesterday the governor ap- (Continued on Page Ten) OF WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. (AP) Sharp slashes in the working hours of codes were demanded of NRA to day by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. "Drastic reduction tn hours of worin must be made if we are to meet our unemployment problem," Green told the recovery board when lit opened hearings on revision of cede labor provisions. "The longer the unemployment problem endures, the more difficult it will become." Oreen said that 11,000,000 men and women were out of work and that organized labor was throwing Its full support to 30-hour-a-week legisla tion aa the only remedy unless code houra were reduced to that figure. ZIMMERMAN LEADS IN OAKMONT EARLY PLAY OUENDALE, Cel., Jan. 30 (AP) The only one of the early flnlahers to crack par, AJ Zimmerman of Port land. Ore., took the early 18-hole lead In tha opening round In the Oakmont aeaoo golf tournament here today, shooting a Jfl.31 9. This wa qn ll(SV Udtr perfect fifuis. MARTIN'S BARRAGE SPURS SOLONS Power RESIGNATION OF BARRY ACCEPTED AS INITIAL STEP Naming of Two Members Expected Late Today Albany Man Hinted As Possible Successor Brodie SALEM, Jan. 30, (AP) Governor Charles H. Martin today announced the acceptance of the resignation of Major Alex O. Barry of Portland from the state liquor control commission, thereby clearing the way for the ap pointment of a majority of new members which will give the. Incom ing executive control of the com mission. Before nightfall, It was Indicated, announcement of the appointment of the two new commissioners will be forthcoming, although the execu tive ofrice was non-committal aa to when the reorganization would be effected. Generally the acceptance of the resignation la Interpreted to fore shadow an Immediate reorganisation of the commission and lobby gossip Is today concerned chieriy with the personnel of the new commission. Hint Albany Man -Most frequtnely heard la the name of Arthur K, McMahan, Albany at torney and a former member of the house of representatives, as the prob able successor of E. TS. Brodte, who resigned as chairman of the board to accept the managership of a Cali fornia advertising firm. It is generally agreed that Jamea Burns, Condon, will be retained aa tha representative of the second con gressional district. It Is conceded that upon the gov ernor's choice of an appointee from the third district, Portland, hinges the Identity and political faith of the other appointee. The act creat ing the commission provides that not more than two of the three members of the commission shall be mem bers of the same political party. Burns, whose retention la consider ed certain, la a democrat; McMahan la also a member of that party, and unless Portland appointee Is a re publican one of the foregoing two must be sidestepped In favor of a republican. So far the only Port lander of re publican allegiance to be suggested with any degree of authenticity is Stanley Jewett, formerly connected with the coast biological survey. Whatever the personnel of the commission may be, there seems to be little doubt but that Frank Spen cer, Portland business man and clos friend of Governor Martin, will be the new administrator, succeeding George Sammls, resigned. SCHOOLBOY DECLARES HAUPTMANN GOVERNOR TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 80. (AP) Gov. Harold G. Hoffman received to day the test paper of a Paterson school boy. One question was: "Who Is the goVernor of New Jer sey?" The answer: ' Hauptmann." Men will sacrifice more for a poi son indulgence than for food. WILL ROGERS $qys: BATON" KOL'OE, La., Jan. 2!). Say, have you slept in on of these aeroplane sleepers? Left Los Ancfeles last night at 7 :30. At Fort Worth, Phoenix, Kl Paso and Tucson why they just land and net sas and you sleep riiflit through it. passiui! . . . . tr i over here headed lor .ew i wk and' Washington, nnd I just couldn't pass up this beautiful and historic old capital city. Mussolini has his Rome, Sta lin his Moscow, but Ilucy hat his Raton Rouu;e, and it's the prettiest of all. I landed on the very air field where the famous tear !?as war was fought Inst week. Ilucy has a beautiful new capitol building here that is ju.st six inches lower than AI Smith's Empire huildine. Thfl national guard have the town "well in hand." ft
