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PAGE TEN TJEPFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORU, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 30, 1935. PWA CHIEF GIVEN LENGTHY LIST OF LOCAL PROJECTS (Continued from page on.) Big Dipper Going Dippy From Pull As Forces Twist Handle Into Cup BACKS IFE ALIB ioll?r. The attitude of the railroad toward such a, project was not learned. The tunnel project was submitted by the Jackson County Chamber of commerce, which organization also hubmitted a plan for a chromlte sur vey for southwestern Oregon with the view of ceeabliehing a central bene flclatlng plant and chemical works at some point along the railroad. The estimated cost for the suvey Is given nt 5.OO0. Acting as bpolcesman for the cham ber waa Albert Burch, prominent mining engineer, who also acted In the same capacity for various other committees In the county, among whom were the city and county schools, the Modlord and Talent Irrl untion diHtricts, the Medford public library, Jackson county, the cities of Medford, Eagle J-oint, and Central Point, the Medford water commission, and others. Those Included are only the ones that reported their plana to the Jack son county chamber of commerce, but several reported directly to Hock ley. The chamber attempted to get In touch with every organization In the county, but some may have been misled, or unrecorded, due to tho short notice given, according to Chamber Secretary A. H. Banwell. Must Hurry Proposals Any person or group of persons still having plans not submitted are asked to get In touch with the state PWA office Immediately, Hockley announc ed. Various projects submitted for dis cussion, with estimated costs, are given: Medford schools: Athletic field at senior high school, estimated cost $10,000. Would Include football field, grandstand and bleachers, drainage, fence, track, tennis court, baseball field, and lighting. Medford public library. Addition to present building, 960,000. Repairs to building. $1000. Repairs to eight branches jn county. Including those located at Butte Palls, Central Point, Kagle Point, Oold Hill, Phoenix, Rogue River, Talent, and Jacksonville, at a cost of 910,000. Repairs to pres ent book stock, 92000. Medford Irrigation District: Dam at Butte creek which would store ap-; proximately 15,000 acre feet, would guarantee Medford and Rogue River districts against water shortage, and would provide water for an additional 2000 acres, at a cost of 9400.000. Talent Irrigation district: Dam on Beaver creek, and 13 miles of canal. The dam to store approximately 20,- 000 acre feet, guarantee the Talent district against water shortage, and provide water for additional acreage, $378,000. Central Point: Sewage disposal plant, necessitated by the fact that present sew ago disposal la made by dumping Into Bear creek. Estimated cost between $15,000, and 935,000. Would Replace Taring, Medford: Replacing of old paving with new non-skid asphaltlo surface, $62,771. Extend and enlarge two stonn aewer trunks, which are now over loaded, $44,503. Construct modern In cinerator and clean up present gar bage grounds, located In close prox imity to Improved resident area, $50,000. Replacing antiquated street lighting on Main street, and In stalling new lighting on Central and Riverside avenues, $33,400. Installing drainage for widening and extending main and cross runways at city air port, providing four warm-up aprons, leveling of 65 additional acres, and Improving lighting system to conform with proposed Improvements. $93,308. Widening, deepening and rip-rapping banks for 7000 feet along Bear creek channel for flood control In city $176,000. Developing with roads, camp grounds, lookout towers, ramping fa cilities at Prencott Memorial park on Roxy Ann, and beau tl flea t Ion of Bear creek park way, $104,504. Re placing Jackson street bridge with modern concrete structure, and mov ing present steel bridge frnrn Jack son street to Mc Andrews street, $H5, 000. Conntructlon of modern swim ming tank (community), $15.000. ' Conntructlon modern auditorium civic center. 9100.000. This brings tin total of alt the plans to an esti mated $702,634.70. any part of which Is a separate and distinct plan. Jackson county: 50 miles road sur. facing and oiling. $250,000. Elimina tion of two grade erocMngn west of town of Roruc River. H0O0. New bridge. Mr Andrews ford, $10,000. New bridge over Bear creek on Dead In-dlan-Ahland roai. $13,000. Removal gravel bar ahove Bybee bridge, on Rogue river. $15,000. Total of all plans, $2PH,000. Ilrenolr Proposed. Medford Water commission: 10. 000.000 gallon concrete circular reser voir, fm reserve supply. $100,000. Rr. placing of 10-lnch wood pipe with 10-inch cast Iron pipe on Bear Creek crossing. $4000. Construction 8-lnch cast Iron pipe line on Mc Andrews road between N. Centra! and Court street to provide greater fire protec tion In mill district. $'1000. Replacing of 10-lnch wood pipe with east iron on cross. town main, $13,305. Con struction too.OOO gallon stsndplpe nnd pumping plant tn service bits above gravity system. $25,000. All of the plan would total $145 305 ErrIc Point: Water system. Esti mated cost $12,000. but considerably less if arrsnRfment rould be made to link with Medford system. County schools: Repairing of pres ent butidtnps. replacing of present mi tiding, or const met ion of new school bnildlnqs st the following i place: New buildings Eagle Point. AM'lope, Climax, North Phoenix. Provolt, Sterling, Brownsboro, Pun ks). Reese Creek, North Trail, Mttle Butt Creek. Anderson Creek. Utile Applegat. Pern Valley. Buildings needing repair Jacksonville, Orlffln Creek. Ruch. Central P.Mnt, lone Pine. Anlloch, Lake Creek. Rogue River. I ot Creek. ApplcRate, Oold Hill. Flk Creek. Butte Palls. Tnlo. Howard. No estimate ol the cost was give a at, uie tuetUAf vi By E. H. TIPTON PASADENA, Calif. (AP) The Big Dipper Is being bent out of shape, like haywire. The forces of the universe which keep stars In motion are turning the Up of the dipper down. Within a few thousand years, this Up no longer will point to the North Star. A similar movement of stars also Is bending down part of the handle. Within 200,000 years, astronomers estimate, the cup of the dipper will become the handle, the present handle tho cup, and the whole will appear upside down. .Ml Ear Is Two Stars Astronomers at the Carnegie In stitute's Mount Wilson observatory havo been Interested In a single star of the diper, Mlzar (or Zeta), the second from the end of the handle. It Is a "binary" or double star two strtra so close together that they ap pear as one to the naked eye. They almost eclipse each other In 21 day periods of revolution about a com mon point, so tho light from them slowly dims and brightens. Mlesa was one of the first double stars measured by Dr. Francis Pease, using a 20 foot Interferometer attached to the giant 100 Inch telescope. But Dr. Frederick C. Leonard, as tronomer of the University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles, has made study of the change taking place In the dipper, as Illustrated above. "A most Interesting fact about the stars of tho Great Dipper Is that five of them, beta, gamma, delta, epsl Ion and zeta, are moving across the face of the sky at approximately the same angular rate and In a direction nearly parallel to that from beta to delta," Dr. Leonard said, "while al pha and zeta are moving In rough ly the opposite direction with com parable angular speeds. Not Always A Dipper "Because of this difference In dl rectlon of motion, the stars have not always formed a dipper. Five of the stars are members of a moving clus ter, the so-called 'Ursa Major group, which Includes also Slrlus, the brightest star In the entire heavens. These stars aro approaching the solar system with speeds ranging from about 5 miles a second, In the case of epsllon, to 10 miles a second In the cases of delta and zeta." Astronomers say all the stars of the Big Dipper are brighter than the sun. alpha and zeta being 60 times as brilliant. They appear less bright because of their distance. Light from the sun reaches the earth In eight minutes. Light from the giant stars of the Big Dipper re quires from 60 to 100 years to reach the earth, some of the stars bolng far more distant than others. 4 Communications IMwicrwn With RamniiT. To the Eilitor: I only get a chance to get hold or a pnpnr once In a great while, on account of being short on cash o Jnat tonight I ran acroaa "Picking Money Off Treea (In your January 18 Issue), by Ramsey Benson. Dear Editor, ploaso do me the favor of mailing thla K Benson, If you haven't room In your paper for It. In your trying to Imitate "Will Rogers" and bo funny, to my knowl edge and way of looking at the lay of the land, you Juat become tragic. In your reference that the govern ment goes out and hanga the money on treea for men and women to "go out and pick," la to me an Insult to the Jobless and the ones that the government la helping. In fact, the government la keeping them from starving. Most every man la willing to work for hla keep; there are thousands of men begging for work, honest and quite righteous manhood, prospecting. mining, doing almost anything to keep the wolf (and all her pups) from the door. Now, Mr. Benson, you may be a "big ahot" to yourself, you may be the keen stuff to your mother, but as a commentator on the present world tragedy, you're the "skunk's cabbage." If people like you would encourage the government officials, and give them your "physical, moral and pen ned support," It would onlv be a hhort time until there would be Jobs and work and happiness for all. Indignantly. B. W. 1IARDMAN 335 So. Ivy. Mcdlord. 'rZIZm ON KIDNAP NIGHT , "1', J ,5 I (Continued uom rage One) v 0 I V M;.? i f 1 I f I Mke the old oaken bucket that hung In the well, the Bis Dipper Is becoming worn nnd battered after countless centuries of hanelng In tho northern sky. The upper dlagrani'shows how It looked to an early Nean derlhnl family. Today, Its outline nrohalily more closely than ever be fore represents a dipper, as the center diagram alums. Though von need not sit up nights trying to verify It, the lower dlngram Is the astrono mer's conception of how It will look In the dim, distant future. BANDITS DESERT WOMEN IN FLIGHT f . JJ 4 r 'ft Vjlj Hs L When Alvln Karpla and Harry Campbell ahot their way out of a f?i SS "I'i? 1At,ant' C,ty' N- J" tha ,eft behlnd Winona Burdette (right) and Dolores Delaney. Philadelphia police Issued the picture at the left at that of Harry Campbell. (Associated Pre. Phnn. fered an alibi to Hauptmann s Jury for every Important date connected with the crime. The state, taking her over for cross examination, Immediately attacked her credibility on her assertion she had never used a shelf In a broom closet, and therefore had never seen the shoe box In which Hauptmann said the dead Isador Flsch gave him the 914,600 Lindbergh ransom money found In bis possession. She admit ted she did use the shelf. She said Hauptmann waa with her tn New York on tlv night of March 1, 1033. when Baby Lindbergh was stolen from his crib more than miles away. She testified he was at home with her and a friend on April 2, 19,32, when Dr. John P, (J&fsle) Condon said he paid Hauptmann the aso.000 futile ransom In a Bronx graveyard. She said Hauptmann spent the eve ning of Nov. 30. 1033, at home. MARTIN'S BARRAGE SPURS SOLONS TO ACT ONJILL NO. 1 (Continued from page one) pointed the new members of the com mission as forecast by the Associated Presa during the afternoon and the new srtup now Includes: Iw Wallace, Portland, member of tho house; to succeed M. p, corrl gsn of McMlnnvllle. Charles E. Riley, Klamath Palls: to succeed Dr. L. K. Hlbbard of Burns. George K. Aiken, Ontaro, newspa per man; to succeed Carl Sllven ot Baker. Dexter Rice, Itosfburg, attorney; to succeed Dr. Irving Vlnlng of Ashland. E. E. Wilson, Corvallls banker; to succeed J. C. Vsndervert of Bend. Tho start of the small loan battle was Indicated when the Interim com mittee report on the issue was read In the house today. The report hitd been awaited before action on nu merous bills designed to reduce the Interest rates was taken by committees. The report, which urged the re tention of the present uniform sys tern be retained, with tho exception or exempting the 30 or less provi sions, was signed by Tunis J. Wyers, Otto K. Paulus and Oeorgo R. Turn bull. A minority report by James H. E. Scott recommended the repeal of tho present system, whllo a partial dissenting report by C. c. Chapman recommended tho rate on loans of 300 and under be raised a halt per cent to 3(4 to tako care of possible losses on the 30 loan provisions. DISCUSSION SET SALBM, ' Jan. 30 (?) Discussion In the senflto today on the adminis tration measure creating a state plan ning board was mado a special order of business for the late afternoon ae.islon. The motion wna made by Senator F. M. Franc tscovlch. Three other bills already given a favorable vote by the house, were passed by the senate, including legis lation to regulate Issuance of badges of authority to police officers: pro viding a penalty for the taking of livestock without permission o the owner, and providing or the compu tation o inheritance taxes. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press 1 FLEMINOTON, N. J., Jan. 30. Bruno Richard Hauptmann's wife, the mother of his own small child, offered a tremulous alibi to his mur der Jury today in an effort to save him from the electric chair for the kidnaping and murder of Baby Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. She said Hauptmann was with her on tho night of March 1, 1932, when Baby Lindbergh was stolen from his crib at Hopewell, N. J. She further upheld her husband In his contention he spent the evening at home November 26, 1933, when he was alleged to have offered one of the ransom bills at a New York the ater. Disputes Stale Witness. She also disputed ths testimony of a state witness. Mrs. Ella Achen- bach, her former employer, who said the Hauptmanns called on her In March, 1932. after the kidnaping, saying they had Just returned from trip and that Hauptmann was limping. Mrs. Hauptmann said the call waa paid In 1931: further that she had had a quarrel with Mrs. Achenbach about pay. Edward J. Retlly, Hauptmann's de fense chief, asked Mrs. Hauptmann: 'Now on Tuesday, March 1, 1032, did your husband call for you that night? "He did." "At what time?" "Well, maybe It waa seven o'clock, maybe quarter after seven, maybe quarter before seven. I don't know exactly the minute." And how long did he remain there (at a bakery) before you and he left to go home?" "Oh, about half past nine, quarter to ten." The Lindbergh baby was stolen be tween 7:30 and 10 p.m., on March 1, more than 60 miles away. Althl for Ransom Night, Mrs. Hauptmann also offered an alibi for her husband for the night of April 2. 1932, when Dr. John P. (Jafsle) Condon testified he paid him the $50,000 futile ransom. She said Hans Kloeppenburg and Hauptnttinn and herself were In the Hauptmann home. "And what were you doing?" Bellly asked. "My husband and Hans make mu sic, play the mandolin and guitar: and after this we played cards, all three of us. She rebuked state hints that her husband had been untrue to her. About Mrs. Greta Henckcl with whom. the state brought out. Hauptmann drank coffee In the mornings while Mrs. Hauptmann was abroad, she said: "Mrs. Henckel was not only a friend of my husband. She was my friend, too." "Did you ever entertain any thoughts or opinion that your hus band waa untrue to you?" "Never." she said. Voice Tremble. Mrs. Hauptmann spoke in a trem bling voice, which was almost inaud- Blesslnga brighten as they depart. ( feXv nTiRftoimfifiltofTlIl . ,(31Mrf I PIP (jiff) QD Gafgjaagfe) ViaeiKM l)Ruciia"Tiis ihomr IManuii '.., A.Utb Ceutury J'lauio THIS sensationally low lire takes you to Chicago, vis Sin FrAnciKO, and Ease on our famous Over I And Limited. Ticket is good in coaches and chair cars only. Or, if you go East and biik at the "all-year round trip fixe," you can go or tttum through California and sunny Southern Arizona for exictly the same rail fare (to New York, Chicago and most eastern cities) as you pay to go and return on direct routes. lbe all-year round trip fare from most Oregon points to Chi cago, one way via California, is only $111 good in all types of accommodations on all trains. Southern Pacific J. C. CARLE, Ajcnt. Tel M lble. Her husband regarded her ab atractedly. colonel Lindbergh, rather of the slain baby, appeared more in tently Interested in her word. She produced new testimony about lumber, saying a peddler's wagon broke down In front of the bouse In which they had an apartment. Tne landlady refused, she said, to buy the lumoer on the wagon, so the peddler left It and It waa used to build the garage in which the 14.600 Lindbergh ransom money waa found. The state had produced expert testimony to trace the kidnap ladder to Haupt mann through Its lumber, contending part of it was taken frcm Haupt mann's attic and part purchased at I wronx lumber yard. She was unable to say definitely that the dead Isador Ftsch had brought any packages or bundle to her home during a farewell party b fore he sailed for Germany to die. Hauptmann. who left the stand Just before his wife took It. said Flseh gar him a shoe box containing the Lindbergh ransom money, and that he (Hauptmann) was unawara of It contents until months later. Flsch Brought ftultcasee. "He (Flsch) brought some suitcases maybe a week or two before he left," Mrs. Hauptmann said. She stood oa her toes to show the ! Jury how she could not reach the top shelf of a broom closet in which Hsuptmann had testified he placed the shoe box Flsch had given h!m She supported her husband' testi mony, on the point that the closet had a leaky roof and that a plumber had been called to try to fix It. Hauptmann said the ahoe box be came ralnsoaked and that he discov ered It contents accidentally when he hit It with a broom. It was be- cause she could not reach the shelf, Mrs. Hauptmann said, that she Was unable to testjry that a shoe box had actually been kept on it. Rellly, bringing up the matter of Mrs. Hauptmann's Joint bank ac counts with her husband, which fig ured In the state' case against him. asked her: "You trusted your husband, didn't you?" "Who shouldn't trust a husband?" she asked. Cross-Examlrmtlon Opens. Rellly turned her over to the pros ecution for cross-examination, re marking: "I don't know. That speaks well for some of us." Hauptmann's own testimony ended with re-crow -examination by Attorney-General David T. Wilentz, who made blm admit that a payroll record did not support his claim that he worked April 2. 1932, the day of the ransom payment. He also stated for the final time that he could not say either yes or no as to whether he had written Dr. Condon's telephone number and ad dress on a panel found In hlsiaome. , "You have a very good mind, ijaru-' n't you?" Wilentz remarked. "Well, I don't think so, ndt so good." said Hauptmann. j - Hauptmann testified that letters : from Flsch which he said were mys teriously missing after his arrest, contained queries about fur and stock dealings between them. Hauptmann has contended th-.t Flsch was tn active partnership with him. not only Jn the fur business, but In stock market speculation a well. He was unable to show, during a long and gruelling croas-ex ami na tion, that he had any books or other record of Flsch 'a participation In stock purchases, Letters Demanded. Soon after Edward J. Rellly. hla chief defense counsel, began redirect examination yesterday he demanded the state produce letters which Flsch wrote to Hauptmann before he died tn Germany. The state brought In one postcard today. "In every letter he was asking me how mere the stocks and In one let' ter I told him I got to sell his thousand Etlngonschlld," Hauptmann said. The Importance of Flsch as a stock market partner to Hauptmann Is chiefly concerned with the circum stance of Hauptmann'a assets in creasing .more than M4.000 after the tSO.OOO Lindbergh ransom was paid. Hauptmann claims that much of these assets represented cash from Flsch. Rellly sought to counteract two damaging points of the state's case. He handed Hauptmann his notebook. which hsd been put Into evidence by the state, and had him spell out the word "boat" found therein. In croM-exsmlnatlon Attorney Gen eral David T. Wilentz had pointed to the same word spelled "boad," just as the word was spelled In the Lindbergh ransom notes which hand, writing expert have said Haupt mann wrote. Denied Using Plane. Hauptmann denied that he had used a plane in evidence against him since 1928. j The markings of the plane were identified by a wood expert as simi lar to those left on the kldnsp lad der, also In evidence sgalnst Haupt mann. He pointed out two other planes tn hi tool box and said they were better Instruments, preferred by him for his carpentry work. He denied an implication of the state that there hsd been Improper relations between him and Mrs. Greta Henckle. a comely matron, witn whom he drank coffee while Mrs- Hauptmann was abroad. Rellly also had him meet the tes timony of the mood expert on an other point the absence of a "4 Ineh chisel from his tool kit. A i Inch chisel was -found near the kid nap ladder, and a chisel of that sin had been used In construction of the ladder, the expert said. Three Chisels Missing. "There are three chisels missing.' Hauptmann explained. "Them chisels they are no good at all. They were laying in the garage. That la the chisels I bought first when I started carpenter over here." Hauptmann also declared that not one dollar of the Lindbergh ransom money which police found In his garage 14.600 ever went Into any of his brokerage accounts. He said he never used any disguise or trteq in any way to conceal anything when he passed the 12 to 15 ransom bills he admitted spending. The state in producing for Rellly .the one postcard from Flsch, declared no other com munications could be found. 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