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Better The Weather Forecut: Cloud? and oecaatonally unsFttltd tonight ind turdav; normal temperature. Highest Yesterday ', ,, , &3 Lonfit this mornlnj 38 Tweuty-uintb Year M By PAUL MAM.ON (Copyright, 1935, by Paul Mallon.) WASHINGTON, March 1. Trie best balanced business picture since the depression started Is presented by the chart this month of ofMclalgovern ment figures. Industry has surged for ward teadlly since last September. Dur ing the last 60 days It has main tained the level J of about 00 per cent of normal operations. This has brought fac tory employment up o 81 per cent of normal and wages to 67 per cent, leaving wage, however, still some what out of line. Retail business has remained about the same during this five-month In dustrial surge, operating at about 7.1 per cent of normal. Tne railroads arc still Inaglng around 65 per cent of normal, but are showing lmprove ' tnent. The general price level ius been mounting for five months, but only because foods affected by the drouth are soaring temporarily. Other prices haw not shown much change All this you may sec at a glance at the following chart. It contains figures compiled by various govern ment and private agencies, brought up to date by expert private esti mate. for February. Each figure (exoep prices) is based on the 1923-25 averages as 100, All .figures except payrolls are adjusted vror seasonal variations so that they accurately reflect where we stand without regard to seasonal trends. (Continued on Page Twelve) SLAPS PLEAS S ACEM. March 1 . ( AP 1 Ef forts of sectional interests to dictate the construction policies of the state highway commission by legislative direction received a sharp rebuke today when members of the Joint roRds and highways committee of the house and senate Indicated that they were satisfied with the prevail ing policy of the commission rela tive to the distribution of road funds, and are opposed to such res olutions as that of Representative Snider to direct the highway com mission to complete the Fremont highway In eastern Oregon. Members of the committee Inter Tiewed following a conference with the highway commission admitted an inclination to turn thumbs down on such legislative dictation. Present when the commission was conferring with the joint committee was a delegation from Roscburg. Medford tnd Ashland, which had come to Salem to petition for the expenditure of $."000.000 for Pac ific highway reconstruction between Royeburg and the California line. Their plea added color to the ex planation of Leslie M. Scott, chair man of the commission, that lt,-r-lie distribution of federal and state funds for road construction the com mission Is guided by the regulations of the federal government and geo graphical considerations of popula tion and financial contributions to state highways funds. Representative Snider's home coun ty of Lake. Scott pointed out, has received state funds for road work In the amount of three times its contributions to highway funds, and In addition lias received Its pro rata chare of federal funds. 1878 DOG LICENSES PURCHASED 10 DATE Dcv "ensPs tas'.-ed In Jaciuon countv for 1935. up to lMt evenlr.i. tots'.fd 1.878 the largest number In me hixtory of the co. ntv. 1 ne couniy c:k ,rnrA 1641. .ird the Ash. and c.:r po'.:c r? w 't, ;-ro.-'jre l:cn-es 'i ,.: T.a-ei that with.n ers continue! t 3rd H :s ir 7 CK1 canine!" he-e Till be proper. y tar.T'd About JOO i'.-s are held by t f cojntv Humane ?.v:.e:? Txluy Is f;r.sl d.'t 'or b-.irr!-.-; '.i.e:;-?. ? f'.er - hlr.l pe" t- cft t "'" s- '? "l X-t- e.vinty co.irt for fa:.ur to pr v cure one. Emm Housing Campaign Starts Monday in Jackson County J j ! Medford Mail Tribune THREAT OF RECALL EQUAL 10 BRIBERY E Letter From Umatilla County Pension Seekers Brings Hot Statement Oregon Law Penalty Is Cited SALEM, March 1. (AP) Serving notice upon the Umatilla county Townsend old age pension clubs, which threatened recall against the governor that he "would not submit to such intimidation," Governor Charles H. Martin today called at tention to the Oregon statutes on bribing or attempting to bribe of ficers. The statement from the governor was provoked by "receipt today of a letter from the Umatilla County Townsend club, reputed to have ft membership of 12.000, which declared that unless the governor has the legiflature memorialise congress to pass the McGrosrty bill rather than pass bills now m the legislature pro viding "blood money from our state saloons," they would stand ready in Umatilla county and elsewhere 1b the state on a recall measure on each and every one who supports such legislation." Who Ts Governor? The governor declared further 'who is going to run the executive de partment of the state anyway, the governor or these blocks?" Then he asked "what Is this leading to any way? Is every public official to be ; subjected to the annoyance of these ' things? Such actions ends majority rule and destroys our Institutions, our democracy." The executive, with the Oregon code before him, pointed to the statute which invokes a penalty up to 10 years Imprisonment In the penitentiary and fine up to 1000. for anyone convicted of bribing or offering to bribe officers, and quoted the statute In full, which reads: "If any person shall corruptly give, offer, or promise to give any gift, gratuity, 'valuable consideration, or thing whatever, or shall corruptly promise to do or cause to be done any act beneficial to any Judicial, legislative, or executive officer or shall Intimidate or attempt to in timidate or shall threaten any In jury to the person or property of such or any Judicial, legislative, or executive officer with Intent to in fluence the vote, opinion, decision judgment, or other official conduct of such officer In any matter, ques tion, duty, cause or proceeding, which then Is or by law may come or be brought before such officer, or with Continued on Page rhree) -- III Suit, under four causes of action, for (8573 for damage as the mult of an auto accident February 9 last on West Main street In which June Rose Hansen, 13, sustained fatal In juries, was filed yesterday In circuit court by C. A. Hansen of the Oak Grove district against Rosier P. (Red) Carroll!, service station employe. Car roll was Indicted by the grand Jury yesterday on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. For the death of June Rose Hansen 7775 ta sought, $370 for injuries to Dorothy Hansen. $230 for Injuries to Clarence Hansen, and $200 for the wrecked Hansen auto. The suit alleges that Carroll was driving In a "reckless and wanton manner. and "at a high rate of speed." when his auto crashed Into the rear of the Hansen auto In which the family was riding, with Hilda Hansen, the mother, driving. K. F. YOUNGSTER ADMITS SHOOTING OF NEIGHBOR KLAMATH FALLS. Msrch 1. (API illy for possible enemies and, lls- A terrified youngster. Frank U- covering none, began a systematic t .u-iseairh of nearby home,, rcy Thompson. IS. awoke at the I ffmnd fp(ht- ccunty farm this morning where htjfnfd Rivl nPiir ,far!li Iltt:ng on the pent the night after the kllllnu ofjhed In his room. wslter Rsdl, 53. hli h()r )(U, , r,tfrrt - jt ,M nould be cxr'"ted t':e boys ra$ printed to a coroner's Jury tods' Radl. the father of three small children, was shot a he walked from hi home He truegd ba-k to the porrh. cMlaped and died before ". i-tor fculti be Butr.monrd Tr half tn hour Radt's d'sth 'R a rompiet mvtrv to Kiamath authorities. They questioned his fam - Automobile Plant Workers to Take Strike Vote SORROWING SISTERS KILL SELVES Jane, 20 (left), and Elizabeth Du Bols, 23, plunged to their deaths from a Paris-London plane near Upmlnster, England. The daughters of the U. S. consul general at Naples were said to have been grief stricken because two Royal Air Force flying officers wars killed In an air crash a short time before. (Associated Press Photol AUTHORIZE $3500 E SALEM. March 1 (Pi Stat bud getary appropriations authorlnfd to dale by the Joint ways and raetn committee, including M.OOO.000 mill age tix for higher education, al ready exceed the Meler-Hannen bud get requlrementa tor the current bl enntum by approximately 1130.000. it was learned following the meeting of the committee last night The total approver! so far. exclu sive of the higher education budget, was $6,047,463, of which 1B2,251 rep resented budgetary items for which no legislative appropriation was re quired. Appropriations yet to be ap proved were expected to swell the total by more than 750.000. The committee last night approved sn appropriation of ,40.145 for the state department of vocational edu cation and ,12.000 for the state hu mane society. Of the latter, 5000 would be expended .n eastern Oregon. 3,S00 In the Medford area and 13.500 In the Portland area. Mrs. Sid Richardson, manager of the Jackson County Humane society, upon receiving word that an appro priation of 3.500 Ivia been authorized lor humane society work in the Med ford area, said today that the funds will be spent over a period of two years In various protects throughout Jaciuson. Klamath. Josephine and Douglas counties. The appropriation will be spent en tirely In rural districts, Mrs. Rich ardson said, chiefly In looking after cattle In timbered areas, to see that stock Is protected valnst forest fire. Water conditions In the summer will also He Improved wltn the funds. and In Klamath oounty protection of stock from snow and cold will be developed. Individual cruelty cases will be in vestigated, and a portion of the fun-is will be used for humane education.'! purposes. Mrs. Richardson said. next door neiifh-j The youngster, who had been pun afemoon. ined fr,r coming home from srhool with his riot tr coiled, admitted he hti ben handling hU brother's rifle. He told the Ciftrift attorney. Hardin Blakmer. that he had playfully , pointed it throueh the window aa nadl was leaving the house. Tne gun d:"hargrd. The b ,y :outly held that he had nr kno-su th vapo:, va loarle'l i 'ti,rr arr eleven o'hr -children In Uhe Thompson family. MEDFORD, OREGON, MIDWEST STATES BY EARLY QUAKE KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 1. (AP) A light reathquake shook por tions of four mtdwestern states early today and sent residents of widely- scattered cities hurrying to telephones with anxious Inquiries. No damage was reported. No one was hurt. The disturbance apparently center ed In southeastern Nebraska, where a distinct? tremor at 5 a. m. (C. S. T.) was followed by another about four minutes later. Iowa, Kansaa and Mis souri points reported that 'windows and dishes were sharply rattled. Kansas City apparently was on the eastern edge of the area affected. The shocks wero felt ta far west aa Grand Island, Neb., and Sallna, Kas and as far north as Des Moines. la. Few per sons at first realized they were ex periencing an earth tremor and. the dull roaring that accompanied the shocks led many to ask If there had been an explosion. "It nearly shook me out of bed," said a resident of Manhattan. Km.. where earth shocks were last reported October 21, 1829. Prof. George E. Raburn of the physics department, Kansas State college, said tho quake probably was the most sivcre the community had experienced. The seismograph of Mrs. Vernon Seebureer In Des Moines was sharply agitate 17 seconds belore 5 o'clock, she reported, and several cltlwna said they were awakened by the "house shaking as If by a hard, gusty wind." "Persona who have lived through California earthquakes aay this un doubtedly was an earthquake." said W. S. Breen, government meteorolo gist at St. Joseph. Mo, "We have no tnhtrumcnts at the government ob- servatory to record eartn urnro, but about 6 o'clock t was awakened by what sounded like a very large truck lumbering down the street." JAIL The grand Jury, in It report filed ye te rd a y with se ven 1 nd lc tm n ts . commended County Jstler Harry lug l!ng and Jail Matron Mrs. Weyma-. "for efficient manaaement of the county jail." The managTnent of the county poor farm m-a. also praiaed as "efficient.' The grand Jury, Everett H Brayion. foreman, re-rnnrnded that a padded cell for the care of maantfay caw "be Installed at the a.ri!eat poMth moment" In the eoi ny Jail Ot.ie: recommendation ao'ifht tha Installa tion of a hood ovr the Jail co-.k-atove. to control smoke, and tie punting of the celling and I'.oor of the Ja;l k:tc:,fn. I; a a. o m-c-'Ki enjd at th hopiftl fenion of ;he county pwl farm be painted. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, RELIEF IN OREGON NEARS STNDSTILL FOR WANT OF COIN Money On Hand Will Last Only Week No More in Sight Until State Meets Federal Requirements No word from upstate SERA of fices concerning the maintenance of work relief In Jackson county has yet been received, but local admin istrative officials said today that the condition here Is very similar to con ditions throughout the state. Although work projects are not In operation here on Friday and Sat urdays, other relief operations are being maintained with the assump tion that definite word will be re ceived before Saturday noon. Direct relief In the form of supplies la not yet affected, but officials said this would be curtailed ' Immediately should appropriations cease within the next few days. The budget for March has not been received, according to officials. A budget Is usually received the first of each month as a basis for operations. PORTLAND, March 1. ( AP) The work relief situation In Oregon was at a critical stage today. The available money with which to carry on the relief program can last no longer than one week. Addi tional funds will not be available until the s ate government and the (continued oo page Dine) BONuTFIOTNGS WA3HXNQTON, March 1. ( AP) Hearings beginning Monday on bill to pay off the $2,100,000,000 bonus were ordered today by the houjse ways and means committee. Chairman Doughton said he expect ed the hearings would last "about two . days." Therefore, he added, there ts a possibility that some bonus payment bill will be brought to a vote In the house next week. The committee decided upon Imme diate hearings, Doughton explained, because legislative drafting clerks who are working on the pending social security bill estimated It would "take them several days and maybe a week" to finish drafting the mea sure aa It was tentatively amended by the committee. "We have no Intention of delaying the security bill at all," Doughton told newspapermen. "If the drafting clerks get through sooner, we may have to defer bringing the bonus bill up on the floor, but at present I do not expect that." J. F. Erlckson of the Medford Boxing commission said this after- noon that In a conference with mem- bers of the commission It waa de- elded to bar Masked Marvel, the wrest .er who started a riot at the armory last night, from future tp pea ranees In Medford. The decision was made ss a pre ventative measure against any repe tition of the mob violence that was demonstrated last night In protest of the Marvel's unorthodox wrestling. He was released by policemen after baring been escorted from the arena. WORK RELIEF HALTED PENDLETON. Ore., Marrh l f API Work projects under 6FRA funds were discontinued in Umatilla county today and 643 men were thrown out of work for the time being No allocation uf funds for March work waa rereited and the local com mittee waa notified that work muat be halted. Official here believe the matter will be settled within the net 4H hour. Dirert relief In the form of food- , stuff was still available here, ar- cording to CheahU. County Judge Cllve 8. 1933. HITLER AS REGION Wild, Adulation Showered Dictator in Visit to On Saarbruecken for Cele bration of Saar Return FORBACH, Prance, March 1. (AP) Two h u ndrrd re f u gees from the Saar basin territory, who said they were fleeing from natl threats. crossed the border Into Prance today. Included In the refugees were BO former detectives and gendarmes of the former Saarland police depart ment. Three refugees were said by the exiles to have been shot and wound ed by nar.is near Oudlngen. By Rudolf J out en (Associated Press Foreign Staff) SAARBRUECKEN. Saar Basin Ter- ritory, Qermany, March 13. (AP) Adolf Hitler came to the Saar to day and the population of the erst while League of Nations' territory went wild with adulation of the Relchsfuehrer. Tills was the day when the Saar basin territory, lopped off from Oer many by the World war and for the last 15 years under the government of the League of Nations, went back to German sovereignty. To celebrate the event. Hitler flew from Berlin to Mannheim, the last landing field before Saarbruecken, for the- local airport was flooded by recent heavy rains. With htm was Frants Von Papen, former rice chan cellor and now minister to Austria, Hitler arrived at the city limits at 13:50 p. m. Ahead of him stretch ed streets covered with flags and bunting. The avenues ahead were lined with Nazi storm troopers, re splendent In fresh uniforms. For as minutes he drove through the atreeta streets vivid with color, deafening with the shouts of the populace,-filled with cries of "Heltl" The arma of the stormers, the po lice, the aviation men, and the citi zens, raised In the Nazi salute, form ed a veritable arch of humanity through which the former Austrian army corporal, now leader of Oer many, passed tn triumph. (Continued on Page Six) E PROTESHOICED SALEM. March 1. (AP) Led by Collier C. Buffington, attorney, a group of commercial fishermen from Gold Beach appeared before the Joint legislative game committees last night to proteat the house bill which would close the Rogue river to commercial flahlng. Buffington pointed out that four years ago the people had Toted down a constitutional amendment closing the river, and that two years later they had referended and defeated a bill closing the river to commercial fishing. Better fish propagation will solve the problem on the Rogue river the attorney contended. BARTER BABES FOR FOOD IN CHINESE FAMINE AREA By Morris i. Harris (Associated press Foreign Staff) WUHU, China, Msrch 1. (AP) A famine so terrible mothers were re ported selling their own children for aa little as a Mexican dollar Is slow ly starving 8,000,000 Chinese In southern Anhwcl province. Stories of this worst famine with in memory experienced In this por tion of China were received in Wuhu today from missionaries within the 6.000 square miles affected. The death toll, already large, was reported steadily growing Unprecedented drouths which spread to virtually all China lan summer, were blamed for the plague of "low starvation. Relief of any form Is absolutely non-eslstant at preMnt. mlsalonaries said, as they appealed for aid to at least save the cmr.ctated children. A vivid picture of the gradual death from hunger that Is killing off the masses waa told by Oeorge 1SJ JV Will Come Again col. nnsroi. ttrnf.r, famous upeed and distance flier, who spent pari of jester day and today In Men ford en route south by plane, de- rimed IHs Intention to return here for a fishing trip s soon as possible. LIKES MEDFORD Vowing to return to Medford, which town he pronounced one of the finest he had ever visited, and profuse In his pralae of Medford's water, the beauty of the Rogue River valley, and the tastlness of the trout available here, Colonel Roscoe Turner, famous speed flier, accompanied by his me chanic, Don Young, left this city at noon today In the white Lockheed cabin plane which Turner la flying from Seattle to Los Angeles. The two were forced down late yes terday afternoon by bad flying weather after having flown from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City yesterday morfltng to deliver the Boeing trans port plane, that Turner and Pang born flew In the recent London to tountlnued on Pagt Four.) THREE HOOP TILTS .P. Central Point high school will en tertain three Tlsltlng basketball teams In a triple program Saturday night. The Pointer,' A team wilt play the Ashland htgh school seconds In tho main game, after earns Valley B team plays Central Point B team. This game will be the second In a two-out-of-three series for the county B championship, the first game being scheduled for tonight at Sama Valley. The first preliminary will be be tween the Central Point girls- team and tho Sams Valley girls' team. Sama Valley A team eked out a sur prise win over Bogus River high school. 30 to 37. last night tn the first of a two-out-of-three seiles. played at Rogue River. The second game for the county A championship will be played at Sams Valley tonight. Birch, China Inland mission worker from New Westminster, B. C, In i letter to Dr. Robert Brown of Chi cago. auperintendent of the Ameri can Wuhu general hospital. "A terrible famine engulfs constraining me to write you for Mid," he aald. "Two-thirds of this area is without food and the re mainder la approaching the same condition. Deuths are heavy, "It Is distressing to walk the streets these days with misery and death everywhere. "I hear of such things as five of family of seven starved to death I the man climbed a hill to cut fuel and collapaed dead, women with b'btes exhausted and despairing laid down and died He said children were being sold for a Mexlan dollar (about iO cents American money) for each year of age. Buddliiff crona were already belne ' j eaten. Rirrh said famine Is certain. nd continued a , i ftV. iif '-tv it . m ; AWARDED Pulitzer Prize FOR 1934 Xo. 291. AS PROTEST ON S Move by American Federa tion of Labor Surprises Membership of 20,000 Claimed ' East, Mid-West- DETROIT, March 1. (P) Franca J. Dillon, American Federation of labor organizer, announced today tbat a strike vote has been called for among members of 176 locals tn the motorcar Industry. The vote, he aald, would be in protest against the procedure of the national automobile labor board, which has been holding collective bargaining elections In the Industry. Dillon declined to estimate the number of men who might become Involved In a strike, but aald mem bership waa growing steadily. The automobile labor board in elections held In various plants so far has shown an American Federa tion of labor affiliation of only four per cent of the workers. William Green, president of cfce federation, la a recent visit here, said the federa tion membership wa approximately 30.000 paid up, with about the same number In arrears. Dillon. In announcing the action voted by the National Council of Automobile Workers' unions an A. T. of U affiliate, said today: 'The time has come to find out whether ve have a union or not. We've tried every available means to improve (Continued on Page Four.) KING PRAJADHIPOK ABDICATES CRANIJEIOH. Eng., March 1. (AP) King Prajadhlpok of Blam was an nounced by his private secretary to day to have, abdicated the throne. The announcement of abdication of the supreme arbiter of the ebb and flow of the tides" was made by M. R. Smaksman who has been here with his king on a "vacation" from troubled fflam. , The .ting's rejection of hts throne follows months of Internal disputes In Slam over governmnetal matters and repeated conferences In London with a delegation of countrymen who attempted to patch up the wide split between the monarch and his ad ministration officials. An official notification reaching King Prajadhlpok from his capital, Bangkok, that parliament had re jected his conditions for retaining the throne was the final straw for the picturesque monarch. Smaksman announced: "The dele gation renll7.es that this answer from Slam means abdication. WILL ROGERS BKVKULY HILLS, Cal., Feb 28. I get a kii:k out of Musso" lini. Now today ho Suva lie lia so nmny million and is ready for the world. Now he ain't talliini; to thfl world at all. He is talking to tho little kingdom down there in Abliysinia, the stepchild of Cleopatra, mid he is talking to kci'p. his own folks steamed up. He don't want war; his record shows that he don't, and it's because he is ready for it, he hasn't had any. I think he is too smart to no in there and even conquer this Aba-Dab-Ma country. lie would lose a lot of friends if lie pounces on that country, and besides Mussolini likes to do these thinprs just to devil the life out of France. He has kid ded France seriously more than any man alive. 1 aitirnKFtuxlflrwla.lafc. 0) 0) THRONE
