Medford Mail Tribune AWARDED Pulitzer Prize FOR 1934 Tweuty-niutb Year MEDFORD, ORKGOX, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1933. No. 304. ' The Weather Forex-ast: I loudy Sunday and Mon tis ; mod r rate temperature. Temperature lll;het yesterday . ... 5n ' Iiitet jeMerday .. 30 ; 1 By PALL MALLON. (Copyright, 1936, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, March 18. The AAA would like to start a campaign to plow under every third, rumor. The latest one which haa sprung up to annoy the officials Is the Bironeous story that cotton loans might be stop ped. This yarn Is supposed to have been largely re sponsible for the recent break in the cotton mar ket. The admin istration has ln veatigated to VAVl. MALLON learn who started It And has a fair idea of the identity of the culprits, but no proof. As a result, the AAA-ers are prod ding Chairman Jones of the house agriculture committee to hurry along his bill requiring a reporting system for the cotton markets, similar to the one now In force on the grain exchange. This would enable the government to know which operators are short or long and likely to profit by fanning bad rumors. They say this reporting system has virtually stopped rumor-fanning on the grain exchange. Another sour one now In circula tion Is that the AAA has Insufficient money to meet the third payment on the corn-hog contracts. Whoever started this one failed to read the AAA law. It Is so worded that such a situation never can arise. The treasury may advance AAA funds for payments on contracts and then reimburse itself later from processing tax receipts. Therefore the AAA can pay until the treasury it self runs dry. The. business of rumor-spreading U not confined to marketeers. Whenever any particular group eannot find out what the new deal la eolng to do to an Issue. It usually Invents a rumor that the adminis tration will do such-and-such. This fictitious story arouses administra tion officials, who then announce what their real course will be. The fictitious story merely acts as a bonfire to smoke the government out. As a result, there are generally more' rumors In Washington than starlings. The system is not particularly new, but brisk activity has given It Increased prominence lately. (You may recall that President Roosevelt's holding company message was in spired by planted rumors that he would withdraw the legislation.) No neater plumbing Job was ever done In congress than the one the plumbers did in the senate appro priations committee. When the relief bill came out of that committee, it contained a strange provision permitting Mr. Roosevelt to put the government into any business, except the plumbing business. It specifically required him to let all relief works plumbing out to private firms. All lobbyists gasped at the provision with envy and won dered how It got Into the bill. The truth seems to be that the labor group fixed that congressional pipe line for the plumbers. The in dustry Is highly organised. The lanor boys knew the provision would rum antee them a union wage scale for plumbers, even if they failed to wet the prevailing wage for carpenters, plasterers, etc. Therefore, labor Senator McCarran threw the Stlllson wrench Into the bill for the plumbers, after his pre vailing ware amendment was defeat ed. The pink slip which you filed with your income tax this time never will be made public. All concessional authorities are certain that the re pealer will be passed by concrete some time before adjournment. Even the progressive senators fighting against It will privately admit they have little chance of stopping the repealer. They can filibuster for a while, but not from now until the end of the ses sion, .main St a small bill like that. The treasury la planning to make the sltps public in October, so con gress has lot of time. Cfencral Johnr-on may c1- rich out of f!a!l'ng the pved plpera. He Is swamped with contract offers, has signed three luscious magazine con tracts and is publishing a book. HI spokesman says he is so baT he rill not have time for much radio work. His ofllre here is as big and as busy as Hury Lone s. Political meteors come up fast, and disappear the same wsv. s-tjj ;n 5iinr V".'i;e he f-.rr' ?o v,rp 3 irz fuh. It was no" rr,r.nA", M in nny wsy jt rj recent radio sffray. There ire twenty-or je;:'e snd d:.Tinrt co an Vi":r ; f ,.ii:i-' under the rr?':: r. t Cbm ;c awl jd f t r"; t .j mi ER VERSAILLES PACT; PUNSBIG ARMY War Excitement Grips Euro pean Capitols, and France Sees Pre-World War Germany Seeks Air Force CI.EYF.I.AVI), Marrh 16. (AP) The foreign Affairs Institute heard the news of Relrhsfuerer Hitler's latent order In Its rloMng session today, and expressed be lief "the I lilted States cannot stay out of a European war." The Institute's clohinjr an nouncement was that it agreed "the I'ntted States should adopt a more aggressive program in world afralrs." Itr. James T. Shotwell of Col umbia university, chairman of the American committee of In tellectual ro-operation of the League of Nations, said Hitler's action Is "shocking." (By the Associated Pre) War weary nations 16 years ago adopted the world's most far-reaching treaty, designed to crush forever Germany's military power, only to have that pact scrapped yesterday. Modifications and revisions have marked the instrument since. Oppo nents of Germany charge the ground work for the kill was laid with the advent of Adolf Hitler to power. The cry of violation arose months ago from Paris as Prance viewed with fear Hitler's enormous semi-military group of storm troops. Geneva circles considered the first official step to break the treaty was the disclosure six days ago that Ger many, forbidden to have a military air force, would transfer its large civ ilian corps to the direction of the relchswehr (regular army). This followed the British move for an Increase in defense appropriations. the government pointing to Germany as the reason. Because of this Hitler cancelled the prospective visit to Berlin of Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, but Simon is now scheduled to make the trip within three weeks. Hitler gave a cold as the reason. Berlin's announcement yesterday followed within 13 hours the votes of confidence given Premier Flandln by the French chamber of deputies for his demands of a doubled mili tary conscript service in view of Ger man's "vast rearmament." (By the Associated Press) Intense excitement gripped Euro pean capitals Saturday as the Ger man government, suddenly slough ing off the military provisions of the Versailles treaty, decreed com pulsory military service in the Reich. The action, following soon after Gen. Herman Wllhelm Goerlng's an nouncement that Germany haa an "official" military air force, was taken in many quarters to be the relch's direct answer to the French adoption of two - year compulsory service and the recent British white paper criticising German rearma ment. ' PurU levered. Paris. In particular was stirred by the news from Berlin. Frenchmen re calling the similar sequence of events thst preceded the outbreak of the world war. 'T.-iephone wires between London. Pirls and Rome, prime movers In an ittempt to weld Furopean nations into an Inclusive security agreement that might lessen the danger of war. were kept hot as statesmen of the three nations consulted as to the significance of the German move. Old Fe Blame other. Berlin Denouncing G e r m a n y's neighbors fcr rearming in B3erted violation of the Versailles treaty. Adolf Hitler cited the French action In doubling the term of armv con script service as the last straw lead ing to the German cabinet's decree which. It was estimated. wl up proximately quadruple the relch's regular army. Psrls France, asserting the Ger man action had wrecked the pro posed elaborate set-up of anti-war and mutual assistance pacts, pic tured Europe again in two armed camps, each struggling for the bal ance of power. Just as was the case before the world war. (Continued on Page Ten) '5 & 1 0C HEIRESS 10 LONDON. Eng. Marrh . fAPi ! Barbara Hut ton Mdtvnnt. Wool worth 1 h-irM. tonicht revealed she risd In-1 tinj'ed prrvwiiinr to dtv.rre her, hnhnnr1. Pnnr A!eis Mdivanl i TrUaTht Barbarn rernmnefi m j rluion ;n her hotel suite. ith her' ms!d and masseur ft so company. Only the bur gtat-ment that di vorrepr'veeirrs had h-en maniT'i- fci ' Ei m uij'. . ..' ; i if : i tne "Id si'! " -.e r-p' ' '.en up- r- r r.'1 r - '.ry s:,., ; in-e Robot Flying Nears' Perfection i.H Jr 8ie T6" mak.e Up.tl1,? P"lb,e crew of department of commerce test piano which was In Oak !.tj"'r 5r Tl? 2 fli0h Wlth the Ultimte floal beln0 JumP t0 Hawait- The plane robotcon. T.dLib' Xli0 C"? ' ?,Yton5l,M". A" Pi Cheate" Snow, departmen? o? eomm.rV. - . ,,., w. w. OAKLAND. Calif.. Mar. 16. (AP) The department of commerce experi mental precision flight plane soared through blinding fog over the Pa cific today and Its crew was able to determine Its exact position merely by looking at a quivering needle on an Instrument board. Returning here from a test flight of more than four hours, members of its crew said they were "elated" IMPERILS CREDIT SALEM. March 16. (AP) Federal Public Works Administrator Harold Ickes today by telegram to the gov ernor, lent additional opposition to the so-called Ickes-Grange power bill passed by the legislature when he de clared that placing the proposed Bonneville transmission lines on the tax rolls "might detract from secur ity of the loan." Ickes' telegram was In response to that sent him by Representative O. Henry oleen. Fred E. Harrison and J. F. Hosch. In which they asked him If the attachment of the clause which would place the proposed transmis sion lines to bo built by the state power commission on the tax rolls on the same basis as private utili ties, would "Injure prospects secur ing public works funds for the loan to Oregon to build these lines." Ickes stated further In reply, "it Is Impossible to answer question cate gorically. The tax burden on state owned transmission line might bear upon whether or not project was self liquidating. Estimated receipts and revenues of rural electric line- might be decreased by reason of tax levies. "Of course, question of tax ex emption Is matter of state oollcv. My only purpose Is to submit for Oregon: Fair east and cloudy west your consideration fact thst credit I Portl'J Sunday and Monday, occa of state Is not pledged but bonds of I "lon" r,ln Sunday northwest por authorlty are payable solely from ! "cn: "moderate temperature; moderate revenues and so taxation might de-! to ,r"n ",,tn shifting to northwest tract from security of loan." I wln1 " "le c0"- The Ickes bill for rural electrlfl-1 SAK FRANCISCO. Mrrn iB.,AP) cation was much amended by thc.-outiook for pl01 Mrcn , 2, legislature and as passed was declar- I inclusive- ed virtually the "grange power bill" I General rain first part of week and as endorsed by the grange leaders intermittently thereafter In North who were lobbying for the bill here. I Pacific states. Temperatures some The power Issue was one of the ma-1 what below normal. jor controverslsl subjects of the leg islature, it is now before the gover nor for veto or signature. ALL PROSECUTION OF INSULLS ENDS CHICAGO. Marrh 10 ( APi The : performed to rieTeaa the rellrf bur state gave up all effort today to send an on destitute famine wa prom the Insulls to priwn. , ' lscd today by District Attorney Frsn- iwmii ia noio namuei ana,'"' "r"v. Martin Instill criminally responMble for the investment debacle which cost holders untold millions had proved fruitless, and State's Attor ney Thomas J. Courtney announced his prowutora would move Monday to dismiss the last indictment re mstnin. Sumnej. at 7.V t renrty to plunge hn r k into hi i i n m in mi fi vi wry ruparity with some industrial firm finsnee. a close associate said today. rud out. Martin. t-n years younger. Is un-derti-Kd to hae arepted a business offer in Canada, uhirher he mut re-t-.irn s. an aiicn under ternis of hi CAtt aittion. IMUI9 operaior, ana -apx. Albert r. at the performance of the new type radio compass they were testing with view to making ocean aerial naviga tion a more or less automatic pro ceeding. Figuratively the plane was able to follow radio waves sent out by or dinary ship, shore and broadcasting stations. By watching the compass needle tho crew was able to tell ex actly when the plane passed over a ROOSEVELTS WED 30 YEARS TODAY WASHINGTON, March 16. (AP) The Franklin Delano Rooscvclts quietly observed the eve of their 30Ui wedding anniversary tonight, but preparations for a family reunion tomorrow showed many little signs of sentiment and remembrance. Because of the Illness of Louis Howe, chief of the president's secre tariat, the only entry thus far on the Sunday schedule was a family dinner and on that dinner's menu was scrambled eggi. Almost Invariably during these 30 years; the Roosevclts have served scrambled epgs Sunday night and that custom goes back to the wedding day. Among the gifts was a handsome silver chafing dish. Mrs. Roosevelt presided over It at their first Sunday night supper and she will preside again tomorrow night, All the president's Immediate faml- ly had planned to visit the house but various developments Interfered E E POOR UNDER FIRE MARTTNKZ, Cal., March 18 (AP) A thorough investlitatlon of reports that sterilization operations were Healey previously announced the Contra Cotta county grand Jury had been seek t nit information on reports that a number of women Inrludlnjt an 18-year-old unmarried Rlrl. under went operstlont on the advice of Mra. Ruth MrCord. former county social welfare dirertor. Ilex Rover. at'iMant rtiriri attor ney .ld Mrs Mrf.ord hsri unred utenli-yition for heads of destitute families. Rum fVuird freiuirin BALKM. Ore.. Marrh 18 (AP Th state liquor control commission will mee for i w three.day aiwinn in rortiar.d. b8innltn next Monday, i was tiuiouiiccd ijto touay. Heaenberger, U. S. A.( navigator. ship 12.000 feet below, but the fliers saw neither the ship nor the surface of the water. The plane was rolled Into a hang ar. James L. Kinney, of the depart ment of commerce staff, said it might make another short flight tomorrow. He aald weather conditions between here and Hawaii continued unfavor able. The big air cruiser's untlmate goal Is a flight to Honolulu. EX-DRY AIDE 10 MIL CELL FOR FALSE AFFIDAVIT PORTLAND, Ore., March 16. f AP) Reasserting the axiom that law en forcement officers must be above suspicion. Federal Judge Fee today sentenced J. C. (Tony) Spear, former special Investigator for the Oregon liquor control commission, to serve 15 months In McNeil Island federal prison for defrauding the government of $27 In a false claim for fees. Spear was operating In Portland when he was rallrti as a witness in federal court here. He had previ ously been working in the Grunts Pass area. The complaint said that notwithstanding the fact ho was In Portland on business when the case was callrd ho filed a claim with the government for transportation from Orants Pass and return. Spear Is a former federal prohibi tion officer. The court refused to entertain pleas for leniency, spear knew. Judge Fee said, the penalties for filing such fnlse affidavits. The fiovernment further charted that Spear received compensation from both the federal and state govern ments for trips he took from Rose bunr, Astoria and Seaside. At McNeil Island Spear will be a prison mate of many men he sent to the federal prison for liquor law vio lations. WASHINGTON. March H (API A record total In new security Issues during the life of tho securities com mission !29..'.00.000 since March 1 today caused Robert E. Hcaly of ihe SEC to predict that the lona SFCIK RIVF PROSPERITY SIGNiFERA AID VOTED; frozen capital market hsd begun to j continue the federal relief admlnls thaw out, tratlon another year, but deferred The Roosevelt administration haa llol"m ',nt11 Monday on a proposal been watching for such z!-r.s with to ,Jttn'1 th pw two additional the hopeful earnestness of Esklmoea ;'" looking for spring. Many economists! Tne ,nl't ln presidential plans, at have asserted that a revival of the Urncd M n amendment to the in securities market la essential to r- I flfl0 W.00 work relief bill, stirred oon- eovery, The total thus far In March waa larger than for all of January and February and was larger, also, than for any similar period since the se curities act of 103 berame effective. RAM fRANClwro. Mreh 1. -AP Oeneral acttrlty along the pacific (want was reported even with recent wyks but showing a fair gsin over last year. Automobile sales made a spectacular gain, but retail and wholesale trade was unchanged. Car- loadings were lower, and moat agri- i iunuxa. tux wua awujr. GOVERNOR ORDERS OOLE FUND PROBE 5 Final Report in Month and No Publicity Till Com pleted Federal Audit of Expenses Satisfactory BALKM. Ore., March 16. (AP) A full and Impartial Investigation of the administration of unemployment relief in Oregon, with no attempt at whitewashing or the suppression of facts, will be undertaken immediately by a committee of three rltlzens ap pointed by Governor Charles H. Mar tin. The investigators, whom Qovemor Martin said he had not yet selected. will be governed in their conduct of the Inquiry by five conditions im posed by the executive: I The Investigation Is to be com pleted within 30 days and a report made directly to the governor, in or der thst the uncertainty and unrest occasioned by the inquiry shall not unnecessarily be prolonged 3 Affidavits of persons having complaints to make are to be taken by the committee and investigated. 3 There shall be no publicity given to the committee's operations until the final report Is made public by the governor. 4 The committee shall have access to all the financial records of the relief administration, but the confi dential nature of personal case rec ords regarding clients will be main tained with the understanding that racta may be ascertained direct from clients In the form of affidavits. This la required by federal regulations. Announcement of the Investigation and the manner In which It Is to be conducted followed a two-hour closed conference between Governor Martin; T. L. Edmunds, regional federal re lief administrator for tha ninth dis trict, and members of the recently re organlKod stato relief committee. A spot audit of the state relief activities woe now virtually complet ed ny the federal administration, T. L. Edmunds, regional federal relief administrator, stated today after he had been In attendance at the exec utive session stilt In progress In the governor's office between tho execu tive and the relief committee. He declared all vouchers were re ceived In the audit and the federal probe Included everything but case records, and that everything had been In regular order and the administra tion satisfactory. ghouMage ! lIMP'Q T I SAN FRANCISCO, March 16. (AP) Attempts to rob the tomb of Peter Donahue, San Francisco's early clay "iron king.' were discovered by police here today and a double guard was established at the expensive crypt containing six members of the family. The vandals apparently entered the musty tomb on two successive nights. The first night they pried loose gran ite slabs walling up two of the or nate caskets. These caskets were un covered. They contain the bodies of two small Donahue children. Whether anything of great value had been taken from the tomb was not apparent to police. Relatives of the family were sought In an effort to learn whether Jewelry or other valuables had been burled with their possessors. DELAY PI PLAN WASHINGTON. March 16. fAP Responding to President Roosevelt's request, the senate today voted to slderable speculation. Mr. Roosevelt hsd said the FKRA waa to be abol ished as quickly aa possible undev the new setup. In more than one capital quarter there were private observations that with the delay of the social aerurlty program and some other pl'.ns, a partial continuation of the "dole" might be necessary next winter. Lady l.titdy to Me'.loo. NEW YORK. March 16. (AP) Miss Amelia Rsrhart. noted flier, accepted today an l.ivitation ex fended by the Mcxicr n ronsul gen eral, Fdtiardo Vlllnnennr. to make a good-will flight to ixtco, D. F, Mpurt Prlc and Crop DFNVER, Colo, March !. (AP) Agricultural adjustment administra tion officials tJday presented to the potato groweri of five we tern state a plan for the regulation of Dot a to ipiouucUoa icd aa luueaM in pnece. PEOPLE ASK JOBS 10 AID FAITH IN WASHINGTON, March tfl. (AP) One of the country's foremost indus trial leaders Henry I. Harriman be lieves President Roosevelt has lost some of his popularity during the last four mouths. The president of tha Chamber of Commerce of the United States ex pressed this view in an address last night to the Washington board of trade. In which he said that "the people still admire the president and want to have faith In his policies, but they also want Jobs." Speaking on "The First Two Years of the Roosevelt Administration." Harriman observed that, although the president maintained his "remri.rkn.ble popularity" until recently, "the story has been different during the last four months. "Some blame the last administra tion for the bitter daya of '30, "31 and "32." he said. "Now they are beginning to wonder whether the new deal will give them work and the comforta 6f life. They see seven to ten million men still out of work, and they see a sixth of the popula tion dependent upon the dole for support. They are asking whether this should be so after two years of almost absolute power." The speaker expressed the belief that tho country is "not so much Interested Just now in experiments looking toward permanent economic and social reforms, as It la In action that will bring an acceleration of business with a consequent further Increase in employment." PLANE WITH SIX ABOARD LOST IN L BRAZZAVILLE. Middle Congo, Mar. 16. (AP) Six airplanes awept back and forth across the Congo's Jungles today in search of Edouard Renard governor-general of French Equator ial Africa, his wife and five com panions, who crashed somewhere In the Jungle district. . Orave fears were felt for the Uvea of tho seven since the district ta awampy and known to be Infested with cannibals. Four military and two commercial ptanea were ordered to keep up the hunt In the hope that the party may have landed In some clearing and still bo alive. A native of Holland, Mme. Renard was the widow of Michael Wlnburn, wealthy American soap manufactur er and philanthropist and Paria no ddy leader. She married Renard In Paris, Oct. 10, 1033. The big plane in which the party set out on an aerial tour of Inspec tion was last heard from at 10 a. m Friday, when It reported by wireless that It was flying through thick fog, buffeted by storms. T KANSAS errr, Mo.. March 18. (AP Tha begrimed and vlnd-buf- feted plains states were granted a partial letup today from the worat dust storm In years. Clouds of dust partlciea high In the air still obscured th sun, and soli snd sand continued o blow from the scarred and drifted fields of southwestern Kansas an parts of Ok lahoma. Rut the gr.lellke winds which whipped over wide areas li Wyoming. Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas. Oklaho ma and th Texas Panhandle yester day and last night, bearing away tons of top soil, hnd aubslded for the moat pftrt. i Relief came to part of the area. In the form of snow and rain, chiefly In Wyoming. Nebraska and central Kansas. Temperatures have dropped sharply. The Kansas City weather bureau reported that the dust waa being car ried high In the air today over Mis souri and Iowa Into Illonots. Belief waa expressed that the clouda would be noted far In the east. 4 Oratory fur Indians PENDLETON, Ore., March 16 (AP) Judge Stephen A. Lowell, Pen dleton attorney, and E. A. Towner of Portland will addresa the Indiana of (he Umatilla reservation hey next Thursday on the Wheelei Howard measure to ehs.nge the status of res ervation tribef-men. Admit Mt'trtton. TACOMA, March 18. (AP Arnold Bailey, 31, entered a plea of at tempted extortion today In superior court. Sentence will be passed next Saturday. Bailey waa accused of writ ing threatening letters to Prank S. Raker. Tacoma publisher, in which &a dauaAdtd 16000, LINES RECOGNIZE EASEDJN DOCKS Stevedores Resume Loading Ships at Portland Labor Troubles in East Vex New York Moves to Balk Utility Strike. PORTLAND. Ore.. March 1rAn Partial settlement of lh .m.rv strike waa announced here this after. noon wun word that three steamship lines signed recognition acrcemcnta In New York with the International 8eamen'a union. C. E. Carter hn.ln. the Portland local of the aeamen'a union, announced that the Calmar. Isthmian and Shepard lines agreed to recognize the union for collective bargaining purposes and to employ union members upon their ships. Rejoicing over the nffrAm.n. ti, shlp'a crew returned to the ate'amer Steel Trader of the Isthmian line and longshoremen heron nn.vin. cargo. The Teasel had lain Idle a er wnn union seamen and long shoremen refusing to board her. Three oil tankera, the Tejon. Merl coa H. Whlttler and Mojave. remained crewlesa at ithelr respective dock because oil companies and the sea men s union nad not come to terms. Under the new agreements opera tions also were resumerf nn th. c.t. mar line freighter Portmar where a alu-hour atrlke occurred today. Since tne crew waa union. It remained on board but refused to koep up a head of steam to operate loading winches. The agreement eased tension here where the longshoremen's strike of last summer waa particularly bitter. The Shepard line steamer Wind Rush, tied tin at nenttl. tit n.. week, was expected to complete her wars in i-ugot sound and come to Portland not week. , , n v the A ssocl a t ed Ptess Labor troubles splotched the na tion's Industrial map Saturday. An thracite, electric service, shipping, firearma and cigars were among the commodlttea affected. Striking women employes of a San Antonio cigar factory clashed with police . and eleven were arrcsttd. Bricks were hurled, but there were no serious casualties. Because they refused to call off a strike at tha olen Alden Coal company's operations, 39 officers or the United - Anthracite Miners of ' Pennsylvania were Jailed for con tempt of court. New York prepared to meet a threatened strike of utility employes with Mayor Laguardia promising that the city will not be plunged into darkness if the walkout occurs. An orderly strike at 1000 employe of the Colt'a Pater.t Firearma Manu facturing company continued at Hartford. Conn., while granite work era In the Br.rre, Vc. territory de cided on a 14-month truce with em ployer!. . The national labor relations board In Washington pondered the case of the Chv.y, Ind., Screw and Bolt com pany which, the board said, haa re fuse! to file a certified payroll list or Ad on a request to hold an elec-: tljn. In the soft coal field a commit tee of operators and United Mine Workers prepared to meet ln Wash ington Monday to draft new wage and hour contracts for the vast Ap-. palachlan territory. Portland People Pungle t p PORTLAND. Ore., March 16. (AP) More than half of the current tax roll of 16.286.66S waa collected up to March 18 for the first quarter of the tax collection season. The col lection broke all recordt for prompt returns. Rogers SANTA .MONICA. Cal. Mai-. 15 I was reuding a rather sur prising tliintc. Of course, you know that a whole lot of tho states are honding themselves very lieavily to pay their pro portinnatc share of their own relief. Hut did you know that some of 'em don't do anything they just let the federal gov ernment pay tho whole, thing. Now, that tiling can t go on. You are going to hear a howl like a pet coon if they find the government is handing out a whole bisi'iiit to one state and just a half to another state. They are going to testify at the ballot box in 10.16. 7