ail Tribune
WINNER
EDFORD
Pulitzer Award
fOB 1934
Twenty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1935 .?
No. 280.
The Weather
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Lowest jrMcrday 34
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By Paul .Mallon
(Copyright, 1935. by Paul Mallon)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16. Long
view prophets are beginning to get
their range adjusted for the presi
dential election
next year.
Everyt h 1 n g l
too uncertain to
warrant any open
talking, but the
beat ones expect
a three-cornered
race. They believe
the final entries
will Include a
radical of the
Huey Long stripe.
If not Huey him
self. Thla third
ntrv will have
PAUL MALLON
no chance of winning for himself,
but he might Interfere seriously with
Democratic plans for President
Roosevelt's re-election.
You can see It If you consider that
the Democrats polled about seventeen
million votes last November, the Re
publicans thirteen millions. A switch
of two million votes In the right
spots would have changed the results
of the landslide.
If a radical can take several mil
lion votes away from the Democrats
next year, the race will not be won
by default, as everyone has been pre
dicting. This analysis Is not Just a personal
viewpoint of ope or two men. It rep
resents the vague basis on which
advance planning now la being don!
In several camps. The political harvest
you will reap next year Is beginning
to be planted now.
One small seed may be discerned
In the hobnobbing of certain sub
stantial anti-new dealers with Huey
Long. The parley people have not
Iced It and are asserting that these
- i.t-.ui Hnev'a attack on the
Democratic chairman-general. This li
probably not entirely correct,
there can be no doubt that those
..h.m rioalcra orivately mentioned
by the Farleyltes have been lending
aid and encouragement of a sort to
the Louisiana eccentric. That Is only
natural. His attacks are food for their
elephant.
Par-more Important is the., prospect
that a third party radical movement
will not lack money next time. This
angle Is not being overlooked even
now. It Huey wants a war chest, lie
will not have to travel more than 2.10
miles from Washington to find plenty
of people who mlcht be glad to chip
in on anything with a reasonable
chance of atopplng the new deal.
Many things may happen In the
next year to chage this trend, but
there can be no question that It Is
the trend which will guide strategy
for the next few months.
So far this has been the dullcs.
session of congress since the depres
sion started. The meetings of bot.i
houses arc still being curtailed to an
unprecedented extent. And when they
do meet, the usual sparkle of polltl
c..l debate la lacking.
The main reason, of course. Is t.iat
President Roosevelt Is feeding his
program out very slowly, one piece
at a time. But there is a deeper
contributing cause.
You may not believe It. but there
Is less bunk snd hokum In congres
sional discussions now. Congressmen
are cutting down on their stage play
for home cosumption. The record Is
less padded with political blurbs.
One wise observer says the boys
are beginning to realize at last that
the old-fsshloned hooey does not get
over with the voters aa It used to.
The Moses noise 1rw.s not seem 10
have made the slightest impression
on the White House. Mr. Roosevelt,
behind his phlegmatic silence, is not
much annoyed. Apparently he In
tends to follow through on his move
to squeeze the New York park com
missioner out of the New York city
The White House slant la that
Moses has lots ot friends for whom
he has performed favors. These
.... 1 .. nnna Trhrt are
Irlends arc me u."
making the noise. In the White House
opinion. '
No other reasonc exist for the
v. tli.n thrws Which hSVC
been printed. The public excuse is
that the president wants a New York
city rellei oirccwr -
.... ... i. Mm. tn the lob.
. i. mti Hmiht. however, that
thla question would not have been
raised had Mr. Moses been less aar-.i-
hmit Mi. Roosevelt In the
Mosee campaign for governor of Nex
York lsst year.
Mr. Roosevelt remembers both his
friends and his enemies.
There can be no question about
Mr. Roosevelt's memory being unus
ual At private conference recently
he 'mentioned offhand the precise
number of vessels Involved In var
ous war-time transactions which oc
curred when he was assistant secre
tary of navy.
Mr. Roosevelt's new shipping pro
posal w;ll contain a new type of
vrntmueo n Pas. K.gntl
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J-esl Migration Start..
SEATTLE. Feb. 1 (API Coast
g-iard cutters, charged with protect
Ir.g t--,e North Pa.lfics sell herds,
-eported to S'sttle division head
qusrtfrs today that the nave
stalled their Brest annual miesauoii
- Be; .fig a'
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CAPITOL EXPECTS
ON GOLDjLAUSE
Business World and Wall St.
Also Anticipate Opinion
Attorney General Can
cels Trip to Florida.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (AP)
The national capltol tonight keyed
Itself up to Buspenae-f.lled week
end, firmly convinced that the long
awaited supreme court gold decision
will be handed down on Monday.
The last two Saturdaya had
brought announcement that the ver
dict would not come on the follow
ing Monday, opinion daya. Today.
the court departed from that newiy
established precedent. It met, con
sulted, and left the capitol without
authorizing a statement of any kind.
The absence of what had thus be
come a customary announcement was
quickly Interpreted aa meaning the
decision would surely come on Mon
day. This belief had root In official
quarters also. Attorney General Cum-
mlngs cancelled railroad reservations
for Florida late today. He had plan
ned to leave tomorrow for Palm
Beach for a brief vacation, but upon
learning that no announcement on
the casea had been made he quickly
changed his plans.
In the business world, too, prepa
rations were baaed upon the expecta
tion of a Monday opinion. The gov
ernors of the New York stock ex
change were advised to hold them
selves in readiness for a hurry call
meeting before the market opena.
There has been much talk of clos
ing the exchange when the verdict
la announced ?o that tradera may
analyze the opinion and avoid hya
teriral dealings. In the event that
the decision goea against the govern
ment. However, among the governors,
sentiment la understood to be that
the market should remain open for
business aa usual, but with all deal
ings subjected - to strictest regula
tion. BAKER ATTORNEY
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8ALEM, Feb. 16. (AP) rrank C
McCulloch, 43-year-old attorney of
Baker and world war veteran, will
succeed Charles M. Thomas as public
utilities commissioner of Oregon on
March 1, reporta from well Informed
state house source today revealed.
Governor Charles H. Martin, be
yond Indicating that Thomas may be
replaced at the expiration of his term
of office February 28, would neither
affirm nor deny the report of Mc
culloch's Impending appointment.
McCulloch Is a practicing attorney
In Baker, where he has resided since
1000, and 1 the son of Hon. C. H.
McCulloch. circuit Judge of the
eighth Judicial district. He Is a grad-
uat of Stanford university. Is mar
ried and has one son.
He was retired from service with
the marine corps aa a major after
being wounded in action In the Ar
gonne. and has been prominent In
American Lettion affairs In the state
for several years.
McCulloch has been In Salem the
past few daya and haa been In con
ference with the governor on several
occasions.
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DENVER. Feb. 18. (AP A final
armistice was promised today In all
"wars," either In the courts or with
fists or gun3. between cattlemen and
sheepmen In the wesv.
F. R. Carpenter, federal director
of grazing, predicted the Taylor graz
ing act will set up a permanent truce
between the growers of cattle and
sheep.
Carpenter said that In recent years
there has been constant strife be
tween cattlemen and the growers of
nomadic flocks of sheep.
EEAR FORAYS BY
BEAUMONT, Tex.. Feb. 16. (API
New gunning forays on small-town
banks were feared through the south
west tonight as a result of an am
munition robbery at a national guard
armory here today by the range coun-
1 try's nrw No. 1 bad man 22-;ear-old
' Rmor.d Hamilton.
, T.ie one-time associate of Chdt
Birro (innj siain with his cigar-
, smoking giri friend. Bonnie Parker
I fwired eizht sub-machine guns and
3600 rounds of ammuritation, aided
I bv a confederate.
Pinrerprmts poitl'.e; IdentUicd
H . rr .Ton aiiri polirr n,r.:-f.! ex
t. - ., vii: .: -..'. rciuw hjf
rORMER PRESIDENT AND 'BOSS'
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Herbert Hoover (left) In New York with Thomai A. Buckner, presi
dent of the New York Life Insurance company, shortly after Mr. Hoover
took his place as a member of the board of the company. (Associate
Press Photol
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Anti-Trust Law Suspension
and Price Fixing Held On
Average Pocketbook
President to Urge An
other Year of NRA.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. (AP)
An assertion that "ample evidence"
already Is available that recovery ad
ministration codes have been "pro
moting monopoly" was thrust by
Senator Borah (R., Idaho) today Into
the widening debate over NRA con
tinuance. Even as he spoke President Roose
velt worked on a special message to
be transmitted on Monday, recom
mending a one-year extension of the
recovery act. with authority for ex
tending It another year If necessary.
Borah, one of the original critics
of the NRA on the ground It tended
to Intrench monopoly through sus
pension of the anti-trust laws, made
his statement In an interview after
a senate Judiciary subcommittee, of
which he Is a member, opened and
quickly closed the doors on an un
official Inquiry into charges that
codes hnvn oppressed Independent
business. It was described only as a
"preliminary cancellation." The In
vestigation has not been authorized
by the senate.
"Of course I am glad the investi
gation Is going forward," Borah said.
"We cannot have too many facts, but
there Is already ample evidence at
hand that monopoly under NRA Is
draining the pockets of the average
man In the United States through
price fixing.
"If the farmer geta a raise, he also
gets an Increase In prices for the
things he has to buy. If labor get
a rise In wages, he more than pays
it out. on account of the Increase In
price for the things he has to buy."
The executive. In addition to the
extension, definitely has decided to
scpk permanency for some of the
fundamental provf-Ion of the act.
Including those abolishing child
labor, fixing minimum wages and
maximum hours, and guaranteeing
the rlcht of Inbor to bargain col
lectively. 10 RETAIN BETTY
NEW YORK. Feb. 16. (AP) The
New York Sun saya Betty Oow will
return in a few weeks from Scotland
to become nursemaid to Col. and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh's second
son. John.
Miss Oow. formr nursemaid to the
murdered Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr..
and an Important state's witness at
the trial of Bruno Richard Haupt
mann, sailed last night on the Berrn
garla.
She was driven to the pier from
Englewood. N. J, where a farewell
party was given for her in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Orant.
The Sun quotM Mrs. Grant as say
ing Miss Oo-v would rejoin the Lind
hcrcli !nlf at the hnme of Mrs
Dwrht W. Morrow, Mr?. Lindbergh's
mother. In Enelewvd after a viMt
with her mother In Scotland.
Iliiry Joe Minn
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 16. (APt
Funeral services M be held here to
morrow for Jop Simons, fornifr
Mff an,. Liiiicd oiatrs senator, who
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AND PEEVED OVER
patronage: jobs
To Give President List of
Republicans On Payrolls
Unrest in Congress Held
Sign Bourbons Soon to
Battle Among Themselves
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. (AP)
New and unwelcomed evidences of
dissension In their own ranks arose
today 'to worry democrats on Capitol
Hill, particularly In the house.
They are unwilling, of course to
let their names be used In connec
tion with their remarks, but several
expressed fears of a "blowoff" soon
unless . greater harmony la attained '
between house members on the one
side and administration officials on
the other.
One development of the day was
a White House visit by five house
members to protest that too many
republicans and too few democrats
have Jobs under a democratic admin
istrntlon. They talked with the president
more than an hour. The upshot was
the calling of a new democratic cau
cus for Thursday night to talk over
for still another time the patronage
situation.
Representative Sabath of Illinois,
chairman of the patronage commit
tee, remarked after the White House
meeting that he thought everything
was "fine," Representative McFarlane
of Texas, a committee member, said.
"I think we made progress."
But privately, eoinc conferees ex
pressed the view that the thing was
far from settled. They were to sub
mlt to the president later a full list
of republicans who have been given
Jobs In preference to democrats. But
the president. It was reported, made
no definite promise as to what he
would do with the list,
Other things, too, were pointed out
by at least a few of the leaders aa
Indicative of general tension In the
democratic party.
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ANCHORAGE. Alaska. Feb. 16
( AP) A heavy snow storm, which
started last night, prevented planes
in thla region taking off again to
day to resume the search for a plane
and three men unreported since they
left McGrath for Anchorage a week
ago today.
The overdue plane contained Pilot
Donald Goodman. Bob Lowery and
Paul Keating.
ATLANTIC FLIGHT
ISTRES. France. Feb. 17.-(Sunday)
(AP) The sturdy veteran of trans-
Atlantic flights, the airplane "Jopeph
lbrlx." roared steadily over the
south A'lantic early today in an at
tempt to shatter ita own -ion-stop
record.
Piloted by Paul Codos and Maurice
Rossi, crack French airmen, the air
plane had covered approximately one
third of Its projected 6.875 mile
flunt from ttres, France, to Buenos
Aim.
NO PAY SESSION
AND USE OF VETO
Governor Firm Necessary
Work Will Be Done and
Appropriations Kept With
in Budget 725 Bills,
None Important.
SALEM, Feb. 16. (AP) Deferrment
of highly controversial Issues In the
Oregon legislature until next week,
and with the ways and means com
mittee bill still In the offing, ad
journment of the session at the end
of 40 dayst next Friday waa out of
the picture.
Governor Charles H. Martin, anx
ious the members bring In the ap
propratlon bill and to enact his ad
ministrative measures before the
next week la over, declared on the
on hand he would veto all appro
priation bills If they do not keep
within hla proposals, and would keep
the members here without pay until
the necessary work waa done. After
Friday the $3 a day stops for legisla
tors.
At the same time Governor Charles
H. Martin reiterated hla stand there
would be no additional taxes levied
In the state.
A survey of progress during the
first 34 daya of the session revealed
little action on Important measures,
but did show disposition of scores of
minor bills out of the 725 bills Intro
duced to date. The senate kept In
session during the afternoon today.
Beginning Monday It was expected
oratory would be rampant In both
houses. The lower branch will tackle
the "cocktail" bill to permtt serving
hard liquors with meals. It will
struggle with the five bills directed
at organized tabor, Including the antl
lnjunctlon bill. A 3 per cent surtax
on Incomes In an effort to relieve
real property of school taxes will also
be on the house program.
In the senate battle will be made
on the county unit system for schools
on a three-way divided report. The
senate also haa the house approved
old age pension plan which barely
got through the house with but one
vote to spare. The four cents as
sessment against employers and em
ployes to build up the pension fund
was believed doomed to defeat In the
senate. The governors general fund
bill remalna atlmled In the senate,
with indications now a tithing bill
will take Its place.
Monday will bring the executive's
first veto, It was learned, on a meas
ure which he believed unconstitu
tional. Monday will also aee intro
duction of a 20 per cent amusement
tax. The oleomargarine bill, recur
rent at every session, came In today.
The aenate aet a different prece
dent today when, following arguments
on the unanimous adverse report on
the bill which would permit longer
trucks on the highways, members
voted to Bend It right back to the
same committee. The bill was apon
sored by truck operators.
Harness races will be permitted un
der the pari-mutuel racing act In
Oregon if the house bill Is likewise
approved by the senate. The bill had
plenty of votea to spare aa It went
through tho house.
ERAI
Oregon: Cloudy Sunday with rains
northwpst portion; Monday fair eaat
and cloudy wcat portion; with little
change in the temperature; moderate
southerly wind o(f the coaat.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16. (AP)
Outlook for period Feb. 78 to Feb.
23 Inclusive:
Far Western States The outlook
for the coming week Is for normal
temperatures and fair weather, ex
cept that rains are probable In the
Pacific states from San Francisco
bay region northward the first part
ot the week.
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BALTIMORE. Feb. 18. ( AP) Two
boys, members of poor lamllies. were
awarded a 928.000 gold hoard today
but with all their wealth they could
use none of It to buy even the trim
mings for tomorrow's dinner.
Judge Eugene O'Dunne decreed
that "finders are keepers" In ruling
the treasure 3,558 gold coins be
longed to Henry Grob and Theodore
Jones, who unearthed It tn the cellar
of the Jones home.
Actual possession of the gold must
await a formal order, "subject to ap
peal.' If some of several disappoint
ed claimanta to the rich find should
appeal as two have Indicated they
will the small fortune may remain
In escrow for some time.
The boys, 16 -year old eons of fam
ilies on relief rolls, discovered an old
copper pot full of gold last August
digging In the cellar for a place to
.hide dues from mmbera
of
club,
DEAT 5 I E SENT
JUF AND JURY
IN BKUNO TRIAL
New Jersey Governor Also
Listed tor "Revenge in,
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Letter Hauptmann jusi
a Number Now.
TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 16. (AP
A letter threatening death to Gover
nor Harold G. Hoffman, Justice
Thomas W. Trenchard and tho Jurors
who condemned Bruno Richard
Hauptmann to die in the electric
chair waa received at the executive
offices today as prison doors closed
on the man convicted of killing the
Lindbergh baby.
Hauptmann, the silent German
carpenter who said he would go to
the chair "like a man." entered the
death house at New Jersey state pris
on still pleading he was Innocent of
any part In the kidnaping and kill
ing of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. i
Ho threw back his head as two !
guards to whom he was manacled led j
him up the prison steps, and his last I
words as the big steel door closed
behind him at 10:33 a. m., were: "1
am Innocent."
Shortly after Hauptmann donned
the drab prison uniform and bogan
the routine and restricted life of a
condemned man, Governor Hoffman
made public the letter, dated Wash
ington, D. C. and mailed at 8 p. m
last night; written In a long scrawl,
and bearing a crude skull and bones,
the letter, sent to Hoffman, and ad
dressed to the state's executive, Jus
tice Tranchard, who presided at the
Hauptmann trial, and the Jury,
warned "you may all meet the death
of revenge" If Hauptmann'a sentence
to death li not commuted to "life
sentence" by February 37.
The governor said he would turn
the letter over to tho department of
Justice.
4,I want to havo this mark (the
skull and cross bones) removed from j
Hauptmann," the writer of the let-1
ter said, "and at least give him life
sentence till the kidnaper Is found.
If not so may you all meet the death
of revenge, not even all the army or
the state militia can protect you.
If you do not make tho move men
tioned by February 37, It will be to
bad."
The letter was signed "B-36 and
15,000 people of the U. 8. A."
Roos for Bruno.
TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 16. (AP)
Bruno Richard Hauptmann waa booed
by Inmates of the New Jersey state
prison today as he entered the death
house to await the outcome of tf
forta by hla attorneys to aave him
from the electrlo chair.
' The German carpenter, who ontercd
the prison still protesting he was
Innocent of any part In tho kidnap
ing and murder of Charles A. Lind
bergh, Jr., and who heard some one
in the crowd answer "we know you're
Innocent, Bruno," found the prison
atmosphere tense.
Throe prisoners saw him aa he was
being examined In a small room oft
the center corridor and started to
boo. Immediately 600 in the mess
hall Joined in. It waa several minutes
before guarda restored order, ine
three were taken to their cells and
will be disciplined.
EUROPllPPER
POOL COLLAPSES
LONDON, Feb. 16. (AP) Partic
ular In an attempted pepper pool
today were reported seeking the aid
of powerful Dutch Interests In
effort to salvage something from the
wreckage of the most extensive spec
ulatlve crash Mincing Lane haa suf
fered In recent years.
A representative of the London
pool, whose name was closely guard
ed, conferred with Dutch Interests
yesterday. It waa learned.
It waa believed here the visitor
from London brought back a tent a
the agreement which may serve aa
a basis for further negotiations In
tended to lighten the load of brokers
and others caught In the crash.
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SAN TRANCISCO, feb. H. (AP)
While three babies recovered, pre
sumably because they drank In im
munlty to diphtheria with their
mother's milk, a five-year old girl
remained seriously 111 today of a toxin
Injection given by an Interne who,
according to health authorities
reached for the wrong bottle.
Doctors feared Loula Lowden w?.s
dying. Natalie P.ojnovsky. another
child iflven tho undiluted toxin by
mistake for the Immunizing diph
theria toaln. died Thursdsy, one
week sfter the Inooculatlon.
Coroner T. B. W. Leland took
charge of the Rojnovaky case today,
summoning parents, doctora, nurses,
snd Dr. J. O. Oeiger, city health
I
their : director, to an Inquest next Tucs-Iday.
Lost In Macon Wreck
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Warrant Officer Ernest Dailey(in
at), radio operator on the U. S. S.
Macon, was one of the two men
missing after the airship's tragic
plunge into the Pacific off Point Sur,
Calif, Eighty-ont members of the
crew were saved. (Associated Preso
Photo)
SOLE WIDOW SOON
10 BE A
Joy for Every Wife But Mrs.
Ernest Dailey in Sequel of
Air Tragedy Happiness
Fades and Future Dark
SUNNYVALE, Call!., Ten. 18. (AP)
Desolate end bowlldered Mra. Ern
est Dailey, sole widow of the Macon
dtaaator, peered, today with youthful
eyes Into an unknown, frightening
future. She la an expectant motner.
Not for two long daya after the
sinking of the navy's mammoth dir
igible, with Us sequel or joytui news
lor every wife but her, did aho glvo
up' hope of ever seeing again the
heroic young radio man who atuck
to his poat to summon aid for
others, and then plunged to his
death In the Pacific..
Somehow ahe had lived through
tho black hours of Inst Tuesday when
the women huddled In the welfaro
building at the alrbase here, knew
only that the Macon pad fallen Into
the sea. Then at laa', came the mes
sages which changed agonized sus
pense Into hysterical rejoicing for
one after another.
"Only two mlaslng" clicked the
proud message, listing Dailey and the
unmarried Plllplno meas boy, Flor
entlno Edqulra. It had been a aplen
dld rescue of Bl men. But In those
words "only two" lay despair for one
woman, suddenly Isolated In her
grief.
She collapsed then and was taken
to the home of Chief Boatswain's
Mate end Mrs. W, A. Buckley In near
by Mountain View. But not until
late Thursday did sho admit In a
hysterical outburst of sobbing that
sho no longer believed her husband
might have escaped to shore on some
bit of floating wrbckago.
Her face pale against the tear-
dampened pillow, ahe clutched In
the crook of her arm a bunch of
flowera brought her by a sympathetic
visitor.
"I loved flowers," she said, adding
Jerkily through her sobs, "and he
waa making a garden for me, you
know."
f.lfe had looked sunny for Mrs.
Dailey since ahe met the young rado
man lesa than three years ago at
Akron, Ohio, when the big ship waa
nearlng completion. Tholr home la
In San Jose, where Dailey was sup
porting also his father and Im'alld
mother, and ambitiously studying to
become a warrant officer.
llo had Just passed his tests.
Money waa very acarce and Mrs.
Dailey found a Job In a San Jose
department store to earn the money
to help him buy hla new warrant
officer's uniform. It hangs In the
closet now. still unworn.
Those nights of study will boost
the pension a little for Mrs. Dailey
but the pension of a warrant officer's
widow Is less than 920 a month. The
young wife had planned to leave her
Job soon, to get ready for the baby.
Sympathetic friends say, "What will
you oio?"
"I don't know," she mutters,
dully.
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FREELY UPSTATE
PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. IB (API
The old homestead or the new city
home of Multhomsh county Is not
nearly so i kely to be sold for taxes
this year.
The sheriff's ofilce announced to
day that tex money la pouring In
thla year mora than twice la fast as
last.
Current and delinquent far collec
tions alnce February X haw been
esoj.411 0 thla year compared with
2PB H38.74 f ir the corresponding per
iod last yew.
SENATE HIS PLAN
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Aged Doctor, Quizzed by
Finance Committee, Ex
plains All to Doubting
Solons Opposed to Sav
ing Money Majority of
Signers Under 60.
WASHINGTON, reb. 1. (AP)
Orlm and unsmiling, the author of
the Townscnd 200 a month pension
plan sought for two hours today to
convince the senate finance com
mittee that his Idea was the cure
for the economic Hla of the country.
The gray-hnlred physician. Dr. F.
E. Townsend. found the lob a little
harder to convince the senators that
It hsd been the thousanda of men
and women over 60 who want the
$200 a month.
Townaend faced a aeml-clrcle of
hostile senators snd tried to answer
their questions, some aerloua and
others obviously designed to ridicule
his plan.
At the conclusion, Chairman Har
rison announced the committee would
conclude lta hearings on the admln
Istratlon'a social security program
next Wednesday and would try to
frame a bill fair to all, but he
warned the Callfornlan It would not
Include old age pensions of 200
a month.
The senators, deluged with pett-1
Hons for the Townsend plan, quea
tioned him closely.
l"or a time the hesrlng wsa turned
away from the merits of the plan
and converted Into an Inveatlgatlon
of the organization built up to aup
port It. Townsend testified the or-"
ganltntlon hss collected about tSO.OOO.
and spent around 149.000, and that
ne received too a week.
Deficit Seen.
Most of the questioning on the
plan Itself revolved around Its fl-'
nsnclng. Senators argued that t
would coat 24.OO0.OOO,O0O a year and
t.hnt. ,h. n-AHH.M .
. H,upum.-u uvu per. ceni
"transactions tax" probably would r
leave a deficit of ,19. 000,000,000 a.
year.
A little lmpatlentlv. Towniend rs-'
piled that the plan would double
or quadruple business snd bring an
era of plenty In which the cost
would be a mere trifle.
He argued that 4,800,000 of the
10.000.000 people over 60 would have'
to give up Joba which would be,
available for the unemployed, that
spending of the pensions would bring
a wave of prosperity, and that this
would give the theory of mass pro
duction a chance to operate, thus
keeping down prtcea.
When the unfriendly senators be
came a tittle too persistent about
the money, Townaend explained that
the cost would be nothing like 124.
000.000,000 at first, because It would
tske years to get all the aged on
the penaton rolla. He pointed out It
had taken two years to build up an
army of 4.000.000 during the war.
Pice Alientlng Angle.
As Townsend explained that hie
plsn called for each pensioner to
spend his 200 for commodities or
services esch month, Chairman Har
rison asked:
Would shooting craps with half
n u.,r-ii n.nvr iriiuws go services' .
wnat taken aback.
"But buying the dice would ba
commodity?" Senator Barkley (D.,
Ky.) auggeatcd.
"Yes." the doctor agreed.
"What are you going to do with
the white collar man on a fixed
salary?" Harrison asked.
Enhsnce hla ability to buy by In
creasing his psy."
Harrison said that with 10.000.000
or more aged, the plan would coat
24.000.000.000 a year. But e two per
cent tax would raise only five bil
lion doilara leaving a deficit of
alO.OOOO.OOO.OOO a year.
Sarcasm Hurled.
Yes," Townsend sntd, "but we will
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WILL
ROGERS
$qys:
HKVKRI.Y II1U.S, Calif.,
Feb. 13. Comptroller of the
Currency O'Connor is visiting
his home out here. He is very
enthusiastic about the Neb
raska plan am) says other states
arc watching it. They did away
M'ith state senate and house,
too, and formed a smaller
simple body and Im cut down
the amount of counties in the
state.
The whole thing cuts down
expenses tremendously. It's a
marvelous idea, but tough to
iiet through, for look at those
jobs iost. Some states, Georgi.'i
mid Texas (if I remember
right), their constitution gives
every 10 sinners to an applica
tion a county of their own.
Tours for the Nebraska plan.
Ill CKiSwifS3Ri( It
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