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AWARDED
Pulitzer Prize
FOR 1934
Thirtieth Year
ilEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1935.
No. 15.
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(By Paul Mallon)
(Copyrigth. 193S. by Paul Mallon)
WASHINGTON, April 9. Worried
diplomats have their eyes glued on
a generally overlooked situation 'de
veloping on the
Rhine.
The Trench
are throwing tor
ward lorces and
pushing them
up against the
German border.
The Germans
have noticed
them setting up
barbed wire en
tanglements and
trenches between
f o r t 111 cations.
The activity has
cause public fears on the German
side.
It is not generally known, but
the French also are maintaining a
24-hour air patrol along the border.
Apparently they are guarding against
a surprise air attack from the air
planes, which Hitler recently un
masked In Berlin.
The French, of course, Insist these
measures are defensive necessities.
Those In the know believe they are
not that st U, hut really are subtle
threats for diplomatic purposes.
Fundamentally, this new kind of
diplomacy, used by all the other na
tions of Europe, as well as France,
Is that of a highwayman. He point
hla gun as a defensive threat for
the purpose of persusslon. This In
ternational practice la rapidly ap
proaching extremes which are caus
ing our Informed statesmen to wag
their heada In silent doubt.
It Is a certainty that the Thurs
day meeting of the old allies will
Issue a. strong warning to Hitler.
The only question la how much else
they will, do .-s -
There la Increasing talk among
Frenchmen about the advisability of
going In now and cleaning Hitler
out before the lob gets too big to
perform easily. The French press has
been taking sly digs at Sir John
Simon, the British negotiator, on
the ground that he opposed the last
war. These digs undoubtedly were
Inspired by the French government,
apparently to prod the British Into
some stronger Joint action than the
mere Issuance of statements.
The British, however, do not re
act easily to prodding and the
chances are no serious steps will be
taken.
The NRA governing board dis
cussed In a secret session a few
days ago the advisability of impos
ing a code on the structural steel
Industry.
The union crowd wanted to do It,
and tried to sell the idea that such
a strbng step would show that the
blue eagle is not dead, that it has
a few teeth left. Four members ot
the seven-man board Indicated sym
pathy with the Idea, including the
two labor members, one of the In
dependents (Hamilton) and even
Coordinator Rlchberg. . '
If a bird bites an Industry, that
would be a story. The NRA haa
shown Its teth several times, but
rot recently, and It never has bit:
ten anyone very hard, at least not
a mBjor Industry employing 150,000
men.
The matter Is to be put up to
President Roosevelt, but the pros
pects for Imposing the code are not.
at this moment, very strong.
Once before, Mr. Roosevelt Inter
vened to prevent the Imposition ot
an unsatisfactory code on the fab
ricating and structural steel In
dustry. The changes he ordered were
effected, and, last July 11. General
Johnson actually signed a code. But
that ended the matter because the
Industry declined to accept It. En
forcement never was seriously at
tempted by NRA In the hectic era
between Johnson's depsrture and
the Installation of the new board.
The unionists are steamed up
about the matter and are planning
to take the Issue before Pat Harri
son's finance committee, now con
sidering the new NRA bill. .
The navy sea-dogs are not growl
ing where anyone can hear them,
but nothing would give them greater
pleasure right now thsn to sink
their teeth Into the leg of Treasury
Secretary Morgenlhau.
It seems that the treasury declined
to use the navya wireless system for
communlcatlona between Mr. Mor
tenthsu. sun-bathing at Sea Island.
nil Mr. Roosevelt, fishing In the
Atlantic. Instead. Mr. Morgenthau
rtm-tded to use the tressury coast
guard. A coast guard, vessel Is sup
n.M to have been statlonad nea:
gen Inland for that purpose. ,
One nlcht Mr. Norgenthsu sent a
confidential message to the presi
dent, but the coast guard vessel
lulled to get it oft until morning
Tiie reason offered on the Inside
was thst it was unable to raise the
navy during the night. Further
more, stories csme out of the Florida
white Ilotisc encampment stating
thai the navy w:n o;i -f wlre:ea
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MEASURE PLACES
CEILING ON ALL
E
Section Permitting Conscrip
tion of Man Power Voted
Out President Given
Broad War Authority
WASHINGTON, April . S. (API
Carrying a sternly worded provision
tor taxing away all excessive war
earnings, the McSwaln anti-war pro
flu bill was passed today by the
house and sent to the senate. The
vote on final passage was 367 to 15.
Just before passage, the house, by
a 08 to 183 vote, eliminated a. sec
tion permitting conscription of man
power In wartime. -
The bill would give the president
broad powers to commandeer the
nation's money, publto services and
Industrial and material resources to
prosecute war.
To prevent uncontrolled prloe
booms rising out of heavy wartime
demands, the measure would place
a celling over all prices upon declar
ation of war.
The house voted "that upon the
declaration of war there ahall be Im
posed a tax of 100 per cent on all
excess war profits that may be earn
ed during said period of war , . ."
On this, the senate was expected
by some house members to attempt
to hang a specific tax schedule, - so
drastic as to restrict corporations'
war earnings to 8 per cent ot their
Investment and Individual Incomes
to around the 18,000 limit of a major
general.
The three per cent limit was op
posed by a war department apokes
man earlier In the day before the
senate munitions, committee.
It was generally'expected that con
siderable difficulty would be en
countered In reconciling all the dlf
fcrencee, . ..: ' s.-- '
The McSwaln bill and the one ap
proved by the munitions committee
differ In many respects.
The house had voted to send the
bill back to committee to eliminate
the conscription provision. The com
mittee, on the floor. Instantly did
so, and passage came in a few min
utes. HOUSEATTALENT
RAZED BY BLAZE
Faulty wiring In an adjoining wood
shed la believed 'to have caused a
fire at 13:35 o'clock this morning
that completely destroyed the four
room house occupied by the foreman
at Southern Oregon Experiment sta
tion near Talent. The building and
woodshed burned to the ground in
about two hours.
Equipment was called from the
Ashland fire department, and the
chemical rig from the Medford fire
department, but firemen were unable
to control the blaze. They succeeded,
however, In saving the Implement
barn nearby and a few pieces of
furniture from the burning house.
The house was located 100 feet south
of the experiment station building
occupied by Piof. P. C. ReJmer.
Vaughn Quackenbush is foreman.
No estimate wf the loss was avail
able today, but Pire Chief Roy El
liott believed the figure would not be
high. -
Staying Witness
Regains Liberty
PORTLAND April 9. jp,-After
having been held ,n Jail here fcr
seven and a half months as a material
witness in last summer's longshore
strike slaying, Willis V. Bethards fin
ally has won hla release.
Circuit Judge Jacob Kanzler late
yesterday ordered Bethards liberated
on t habeas corpus proceeding. The
court instructed that he be paid II. AO
a day witness fees for his time in Jail
and that the county pay the rent for
his room in which his belongings had
been stored during his Incarceration.
Fraternity Vice Charge
Threatens Wide Scandal
IOWA CITY, la, April 8 (AP)
Hyman Bluesteln of Lynn, Mass..
president of the Phi Beta Delta fra
ternity at the University of Iowa,
whose S3 members were charged with
keeping a "disorderly house." ssld
today the men would file Indlvldusl
petitions through the desn of men
for relntstment In the school.
The fraternity president said the
members wanted a hearing with
President Eugene A. Ollmore and It
they failed to get satisfaction would
"break things wide open for other
fraternities."
Bluesteln asserted the families o!
;l the Phi Beta Delta members were
behind, toem and bad assured Ilnan -
MAN SLAYS WIFE
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Herbert 8. Hurd, 77 (left), held In connection with the fatal shoot
ing of hit wife, 64 (right), in Kansas City told police he had been
tortured by her in an effort to make him disclose the hiding place of
hidden wealth. He was aald to be crazed by knife and flame wounds,
(Associated Preaa PhotoV
RESCUERS START
T
INTO BUCK LAKE
Definite word as to what haa be
fallen Dr. WilHam Ohanaiee and his
wife, of Portland, who left March 8.
for their cabin In the Buck lake dis
trict, in wild and rugged eastern
Jackson county, and have not been
heard of since, will not be known
here before Thursday, according to
Stat- police. Pears are felt that the
couple may have perished in a bliz
zard, or are snowbound in their cab
n. '
K. t. Moon and Thomas Hod son of
Aahland. expire need and expert
woodsmen and skilers left yesterday
afternoon, from the Charles Lindsay
ranch In the Dead Indian diatrict, for
the Chandlee cabin. They are expect
ed to reach the Chandlee cabin by
early Wednesday afternoon. Another
dav will be required ere the rescuers
can make their way back to a tele
phone. Hodgson la well acquainted
with the country, and mapped the
trip to reach the Chandlee cabin by
Wednesday noon.
Eight Inches of new snow fell over
the route of the two searchers yea
terday afternoon and evening, which
makes travel more difficult.
The Chandlers expected to stay ten
days at their cabin. Enroute they wen
halted at the A. T. Jenkins mountain
ranch for two days, by snow. When
the storm cleared they resumed their
Journey. The next day, another blla
rard swept over the region, leaving
two feet of soft snow. When they left
Jenkins, he was apprehensive of the
trip. When the Chandlees failed to
appear after a month, he notified the
authorities last Saturday. The re
gion la Isolated and has meager tele
phone service.
.
Jimmy Continues
Show Recovery
PALL RIVER, Mass., April 9.-
Jimmy Nellson, 13 year old San Jose
lad who was operated upon Saturday
for a ruptured diaphragm, today ap
parently continued his definite prog
ress toward recovery.
In another wing of the same hos
pital, Alyce Jsne McHenry. 10 year
old Omaha girl who underwent a
similar operation about a month ego,
continued her steady convalescence.
cltl support to obtain legal assist
ance, If necessary.
' It was also declared by Bluesteln
thst the fraternity. If falling to get
sstlsfsetlon from university ortlclsls,
would subpoena witnesses who would
testify thst two girls, ssld to have
stayed st the fraternity on several
occasions, had frequented other fra
ternities. '
The boys were stltl staying at
their house lodsy, slthotwh process
servers were busy attaching furniture
to satisfy bills.
Thomss Martin, mayor of Iowa
City, ssld today the city would co
operate with university and county
i officials in cleaning up any vice In
1 Iowa City.
FOR "TORTURE"
DIE IN COLLISION
CAUSED BY STORWl
SACRAMENTO, Cal April 9. (AP)
Ten railway section hands wen.
killed In a train collision near Rose
vllle In the worat of a series of acci
dents blamed today on a California
storm which claimed 30 Uvea.
The swirling rush of flood waters
and record breaking rains over the
state also caused uncounted property
damage.
The ten members of the section
crew, who had been repairing South
ern Pacific tracks swept away by the
rains, were Instantly killed last night.
An eleventh worker ftvas possibly fa
tally Injured. Three otnera escaped
with minor hurts.
Their light motor railway car
crashed at high speed head-on with
a gravel train, throwing mangled bod
ies flying Into a 60-foot ravine be
side the tracks.
(By the Associated Press)
The worst nor'easter In years raged
along the North Atlantic seaboard
today. Inland rampant rivers
brought the sporadic threat of
heavy flood damage.
With tumultuous seas running In
the North Atlantic, the British
freighter Badagry, wallowing 200
miles east of St. Jonns, N. P., sent
out an 8. O. fl.
"Hold filling rapidly," the message
said. Several ships were proceeding
to her aid.
Long Island and the Jersey coast
were bearing the brunt of the . 70
mlle nor'easter. At Jones Beach and
Fire Island, favorite beaches of New
Yorkers, waves 40 feet high rolled
ashore.
In California, the heavy rains have
forced rivers to flood stages. . Cur
rently, more than a dozen persons
have lost their lives as a result of the
high waters.
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STATE REEMPLOYMENT
ADVISORS APPOINTED
SALEM, Ore., April 0 (API Aa
provided for by the 1935 leglslsture.
Governor Martin late yesterdsy nsmed
sn sdvlsory council for the state re
employment service. The council will
meet with Ouy V. Lltner, federal re
employment director, to thresh out
problems of the employment service
in the state.
Members nsmed were J. C. Joy,
Hermsn F. Msnasch. Ross B. Ham
mond. Dr. Dexter Keeser, Major Oeo.
B. Bandy and C. C. Hockley, all of
Portland: Judge Fred Plsk, Eugene;
Prank Jenkins, Klamath Palls, and
Walter Norblad, Astoria.
Dredge Tender la
Wrecked By Blast
PORTLAND. Ore . April Q.i&t One
man was seriously Injured today when
the dredge tender, "Santlam." tu
destroyed by an explosion at the gov
ernment moorage nar the Llnnton
docks. The Injured man waa W. H.
Creister of Oregon City, captain of
the tender.
Tne blast was caused by trouble
ulth the gasoline heating and light-
iOi ayatem. harbor patrolmen aald.
PLACED IN JAIL
AS
Charges On Which Deten
tions Made Not Told by
Nazi Officials Subsidies
Law Is Also Abrogated
(Copyright, 1035. by the Associated
Press)
BERLIN, April 9. (AP) An au
thoritative source revealed today that
seven protestant pastors and one
Roman Catholic priest have been
taken into "protective" custody dur
ing the last week In retaliatory
measures against recalcitrant cler
gymen. The retaliatory measurea were eaia
to be under way In various parts of
Germany.
The charges on which the deten
tions were made was not announced.
Bishop Melser of Bavaria has taken
steps toward obtaining their libera
tion. At Bremen Dr. Stoevcaand, a lead
ing member of the confessional coun
cil, and Dr. Meyer have been Jailed.
At Melsterwald, near Danzig, the
Rev.- Father Aeltermann haa been
incarcerated for "the pltlcal mis
use of his pulpit."
From Karlsruhe It was reported
that the church aubsldles law of
Baden was abrogated March 91.
This Involves a loss to h Catho-
He
priestnooa of G70.ooo maris
(268.000), while the evangelical
churches are deprived of 404.300
marks (A161.720), and the old Catho.
lie community of 14.600 marks
9B40) which was the allotment of
1034.
How the churches are to meet
deficit of this magnitude was not
explained.
E
'S
In view of the fact that rabies haa
become quite prevalent In Portland,
Medford city police are today Inves
tigating the case of Ray Young, who
was attacked and severely bitten by
a dog, at the corner of Main and
Tripp street late yesterday afternoon.
Dr. Wm. P. Honey dressed the
wounds. He aald today that the bites
broke the akin of Young's leg In sev
eral places, and tore the flesh, caus
ing some bleeding. Dr. Inskeep, coun
ty health officer, ordered the dog Im
pounded for a ten day observation.
Aocordlng to the report Young gave
yesterday, he waa proceeding home,
when the dog, which waa accompan
ied by Its master, sprang upon him
for no apparent reason.. The police
have not yet found the dog, but re
port that when the animal Is located
It will be locked up. There la a city
ordinance against any dog running
loose In the city during the months of
April, Msy and June, the poUce aald
OF
WOULD BE AUTHORIZED
WASHINGTON, April B. (AP) Re
construction of the Oraya Harbor,
Wash., Jetties and Improvement of
the channel of the Snake river for
navigation would be authorised In the
rlvera and harbora bill which pro
vides expenditure of more thsn 8
200.000 for projects and more than
iso.000 for maintenance work In the
Pacific northwest.
Deepening of the Umpqua river,
Oregon, channel to 29 feet with con
atructlon of a south Jetty where the
stream enters the Pacific ocean at a
cost of 11,200.000 waa on the Hat.
1
Beer War Flames
Anew In Vancouver
VANCOUVER, Wssh., April 0 fPi
Vancouver's peraletent "beer war,"
the constant Irritation of which has
harraased brewerlea In the Paclflo
Lnorthwest for many months, flared
into new activity here today.
Thirty-eight men, members of the
brewery workers' union, undertook a
picketing campsign agatnet the brew
ery here and against restaursnte and
other plaoea which sen what they
describe aa "unfair" beer.
ROXY ANN GRANGERS
PLAN FRIDAY DANCE
Roxy Ann Orange plana a public
dance next Friday nliiht on the new
ly reflnlshext floor of their Fiall. The
announcement alo stated that better
muRlc will be provided for the af
fair, for which a tmall admittance
will be charged.
Oregon Hmlhrr.
Fair umight with freezing tem
perature eat and local frost west
portion; Wednesday fair eicept be-
coming unsettled on the coast:
warmer Jn the Interior; moderate
' changeable wlod, off Uw ooaaV
BULLS TAKE
IN STOCK MARKET
AFTER KING LULL
Many Leading Issues Up $1
to $2 Some Advance
$3 to $6 Various Rea
sons Held for Movement
NEW YORK, April 9. (AP) The
creeping rise of the stock msrket
of the past several daya finally blos
somed out Into a full-fledged bull
movement In the last few minutes
of trading today.
Many leading issues chalked up
galna of 91 to 92, and a few rose
about 93 to 10, as stocks were bought
In blocki of 1,000 to 2.000 shares.
Wall Stieet attributed the upsurge
chiefly to Indlcstlons that the im
proved action of the market for more
than a week had finally put bears
Into full retreat-
Borne quarters mentioned Infla
tionary Implications of the enact
ment of the 94.880.O00.OOO work-re
lief bill, and the steady rise In bsr
silver prices, which reached & 7-year
top at 63 cents an ounco today.
U. S. Smelting, recently weak sil
ver Issue, rose more than $0 to above
8104: International Business Ma
chines. (4 to 9107; Union Pacific
more than 9S to above 890: Case
82.80 to 952: American Telephone
over 1.60 to 9107.50: General Motors
about 91 to above 929; DuPont near
ly 92 to 903: U. 8. Steel more than
91.60 to above 931; and Santa Fe
91.76 to 940.25.
In commodlttea, corn rose about
to 1 cents a buahel and cotton 60
to 86 cents a bale. Wheat moved nar
rowly.
'
CAN PEAR HEARING
SLATEDJPRIL 22
SAN FRANCISCO, April S. (API
The San Francisco office of the ag
ricultural adjustment administration
announced today that hearings . on
tne proposed marketing agreement
for canning pears will be held at
Berkeley April 19, Medford, Ore.. April
22, and Yakima, Wash,, April 28.
Tne agreement to be considered at
the three hearings was prepared at
a meeting of Paclflo Northwest pear
cannere and growers several weeks
ago and was sent to Washington for
consideration by AAA officials there.
The Berkeley meeting will be held
at Agriculture hall on the Univer
sity of California campus, the Med
ford meeting at the Jackson county
courthouse and the Ysklma meeting
at the Chamber of Commerce audi
torium.
FROSHXPECTED
IN EARLY MORN
A frost warning will probably be
eent over the valley tonight to pre
pare orchardlsta for a freeze that la
expected to occur In tnw early morn
ing houre, R. J. Rogers, meteorolog
ist, aald this afternoon. There la no
way of determining the severity of
the frost until late this evening, but
Rogers said Indications were that the
temperature would reach a point
where flrlng-up will be neoeaaary. The
weather bureau forecast frost tonight.
ana clear, warmer weather tomorrow,
The buds of many varieties of pears
are ahowlng some color, and the earl-
ler varieties are almost ready to come
Into bloom. A majority of the buds
are well separated Into clusters. In
regions where the buds are ahowlng
color. Rogers aald fl ring-up will be
necessary, but no general smudging
la anticipated tonight.
Ochs, Newspaper Genius
To Final Rest Friday
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 9s
(AP) The funeral of Adolph 8. Ochs,
who trod a pathway from ths Inky
grlms of a newspaper prlntshop to
Journalistic renown as publisher of
tne New York Times, will be held
hers tomorrow morning.
In the Julius and Bertha Ochs
Memorial Temple Mr. Ochs built to
honor hta parent, services will be
conducted by Rabbi Abraham Fein
atein. Immediately afterward the body
of the 77-year-old newspaperman, who
died of a cerebral hemorrhage yes
terday, will be placed aboard a train
for New York where services will be
held Friday at Temple Emanuel.
The Journey his body will take
in drath will be ths same Mr. Orhs
took when, as a young man who
Smile For Beauty
Is Doctors Advice
For Womenfolks
NEW ORLEANS, April . (AP)
Mllsdy wss advised todsy by Dr.
J. Howard Cram, New York plas
tics surgeon, to stetch her mouth.
"Stretch your mouth 50 times a
day." said he, "If you want to keep
It beautiful.
"Some women are afraid to amlle
because they think It will cause
wrinkles. That la ridiculous.
"Stretching exercises should be
given In conjunction with fecial
masssges. Everything should be
done to help retain the elasticity
of the skin."
Dr. Cram gave his advice In an
address before the American Cos
meticians' sssoclstlon.
LAND BOARD ML
MAKE LOANS WITH
BOND SALE FUNDS
SALEM. April -(AP) Sale ot
92.500,000 In bonda now held by the
state land board aa fast aa good
farm loana to replace them can be
obtained, was determined by the
board at Its meeting yesterday upon
a motion by Secretary of State Earl
Snell.
It was pointed out that In the
last four years the board has made
few new loans on farms, taking
funds received from loan payments
or from reflnsnclng of farma with
federal agenclea tor bond Invest
ments. Only 94,000.000 In farm loans
are held by the '.tate land board.
The board decided It would aell
all lands on which it had fore
closed aa rapidly aa they could be
appraised and made ready for mar
keting. Members of the board tenta
tively agreed that the land board
should employ a special worker to
handle sales of foreclosed property,
aa well as to assist In the collec
tion of delinquent payments . on
loana. E. T. Pierce of Salem waa aug
geeted by Governor Martin for that
Job.
The board also determined to set
the rate of Interest on loana on farm
property made by the board at five
p?r cent annually. This is a reduc
tion of one per cent from the exist
ing rate on land board loana.
The new rate will not become ef
fective until July 1 and then will
apply only on amprtleed loana which
Is the only type of mortgage advance
the board thereafter will be author
ised to make.
The board decided to permit exist
ing alz per cent loana to receive
the lower rate eten though the ma
turity date waa not reached, pro
vided the borrower could qualify for
a new loan under exlatlng apprai
sals. The board will not loan to ex
ceed 60 per cent of the market
value of land.
BLAZE DEST
OORVALLTS, Ore.. April (API-
Damage estimated by firemen at from
$60,000 to 78,000 was caused here
today when fire swept through the
Cor vail Is Methodist Episcopal church.
The church was built In 1033 at a
cost of 1160.000.
Every piece of equipment In tht
city was called to combat the 3 a. m.
bla. The fire already had burned
from ths basement to the attlo of the
largo structure before an alarm waa
sounded. ,
The board of trustees will meet to
night to lay plans for the future.
Dr. U. O. Durbach, chairman, aald
ths church will plan Immediately for
a reconstruction program. Insurance
amounts to about a&O.OOO. '
.
Han Franrlaro Butterfat.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9.- AP)
First grade butterfat, 83c f. 0. b
San Francisco.
had built the Chattanooga Times
Into one of the south's leading news
papers, he set out to the task of
rebuilding the New York Times.
In this larger work, he snatched
the New York newspaper from fi
nancial disaster and, In Its direc
tion, won acclaim aa a genius of
American Journalism.
After the news of his passing there
cams world-wide tribute.
In Washington, leaders In the gov
ernment stopped to do htm honor
and to csU attention to his contri
buttons to American Journalism.
The Tennessee legislature, In I
night session, paused out of respect
to the man who began as a "printer's
devil" In Tennessee.
His philanthropies and works in
ths public Interest wers balled la
PUlaj quartera.
TO DECENTRALIZE
OF WORKS RELIEF
'Home Rule' Will Be Sought
to Speed Spending . of
Huge Fund Labor From
Relief Roles Is Intention
WASHINGTON, April ft. (AP) Sec
retary Ickes said today a new decen
tralized public works administration
would be created In the atatea to speed
new projects and co-ordinate them
with other parts of the 4 ,000,000 ,000
work program. - .
His statement at a press conference
conformed with other official assur
ances that great "home rule" will be
sought to accelerate spending tha
work fund and transferring 3,500,000
jobless from direct to work relief.
Ickes said he plans to set up legal,
financial and engineering divisions
"In minlaturo" In the states "so they
can pass on tho projects and tend -them
In here.'
Co-operate With States
He added that the new organization,
which he aald could be set up "1m-.
mediately," would co-operate with
state planning councils In the entire .
program.
Icke said that "so far as possible
labor on projects ought to corrfe from
relief rolls."
Despite an Informal ruling by
Comptroller General McCarl's of flea ,
that purchase of sub-marginal land
and subsistence homesteads were not -authorised
by the work act, Ickes said
It was bis "own opinion" that tha
act waa broad enough to cover sub
slstence homesteads.
After signing the bill Into law lata
yesterday while returning from a fish- -Ing
trip off the Florida coast, Mr.
Roosevelt aped on to New York to
attend the funeral today of hla cous
in, Warren Delano Robblns, the
American minister to Canada,
Government circles noted that a
statement Issued aboard bis train as
ha signed the Job-making measure
contained these sentences:
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ON OUSTER PLAN
WASHINGTON, April . (AP) Mrs.
Cornelia M. Fierce, wife and secre
tary of Representative Pierce. (D-
Ore.), today refused to comment on
reports she was to be ousted as a
member of Oregon state board of
higher education.
Mrs. Pierce said she might have
something to say on the subject in
the near future but explained tha
she did not care to make any state
ment now. She aso refused to give
newspaper men a photograph of her
self or to permit news photographers
to take her picture, saying that it
was wanted "only because t am go
ing to be shot st sunrise.
HUGH BAILLIE ELECTED
HEAD OF UNITED PRESS
NEW YORK, April 9 (AP) Ilee-
tlon of Hugh Balllle aa president of
ths United Press association waa an
nounced today. Balllle, former exec
utive vice-president of the organisa
tion, succeeds Ksrl A. Btckel, who haa
been president of the United Press
since 1933. Blckel will continue as a,
director.
The change la effective at once.
WILL
ROGERS
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif,
April 7. Well, the relief bill
is all passed now. All we got
to do is just sit back and see
how it relieves. I hope the real
needy get at kast their 10 per
cent out of it, anyhow.
We have ways and means of
gathering any sort of informa
tion. How much money you
earned to a nickel, how many
rabbits were born in the Dako
tas, how much rainfall fell be
tween here and Honolulu, but
we just can 't seem to get even
a fairly reliable count of who
needs helping and who don't.
What would be the matter
with taking all our guys who
do nothing but gather tiseleai
statistics and put 'em on thir
relief work
Tours,
file.
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