Better
The Weather
Forecut: Cloud? and oecaatonally
unsFttltd tonight ind turdav;
normal temperature.
Highest Yesterday ', ,, , &3
Lonfit this mornlnj 38
Tweuty-uintb Year
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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
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Medford Mail Tribune
THREAT OF RECALL
EQUAL 10 BRIBERY
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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