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Medford Mail tribune AWARDED Pulitzer Prize FOE 1834 Thirtieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1935. No. 17, The Weather ForflMst: Fair tonight and Friday, but cloudy ana unsettled at timet.; frost Friday morning, HUhfet yesterday 68 Lonwt this mornlnj 16 0) 0) (By Paul Mai Ion) Copytight. 3933, by Paul Malloa WASHINGTON, April 11. The few feaily lie portant newr deal big-wigs discovered on their desks the other day privately printed book, ele gantly prepared and bound with glazed bule lea ther. I contain ed a plan which apparently was being aubmitted In conference. plans hava been jumping out of envelopes here for years. ' Occasion ally they have been as thick as the par ticles in a dust atorm. This one waa different. You ' could discern that the minute you lifted the glazed leather cover, car rying the gold embossed title: "re covery or radicalism" ' There, on the first two pages, were Indorsements quoted from one of the president's most Influential advisers In good standing. The only party named as author was the unidenti fied "Committee for economic recov ery," but the book was accompanied by a letter from Allie S. Freed, of New York, who said he would call later and explain. Mr. Freed la the man who arranged those dinners between business men and new dealers several months ago when liaison committees were estab lished. He speaks generally aa a friend and authority of the new deal. This is why aome gasped when they noted that "his plan counseled Mr. Roosevelt to change the middle-of-the roa4 course at once; fight the radical (naming Townsend, Long, Coughlln and Upton Sinclair); pro mote the durable goods industries; amend the securities act; discount real estate mortgages; in short, aave the country from an-Inevitable radi cal crisis by a awing to the right. Obviously the book was prepared on the assumption that its deduc tions would not be publicly circulat ed, because It speaks more boldly than frienda of the new deal ordin arily do. It says, for instance, that "we must make real headway toward substantial recovery or expect radi calism by 1938." It refers to Father Coughlln as a demagogue who la able to delude 5,000,000 people; Dr. Town send aa an Impractical dreamer; Up ton Sinclair aa a dangerous radical, and Huey Long aa the Hitler of Loui siana's return to the dark ages. " "There is only one real cure for this type of radicalism," the book continue. "It Ilea solely in economic recovery. "We should put full steam toward recovery and relegate everything else to a position of secondary import ance. Thinking people should be made to reali7 that the nation ia facing a very serious crisis and that our hope lies in the leadership of Franklin D. j Roosevelt. jf "If an Individual like Townsend must be taken seriously at thia time anything is possible a year from to day if economic recovery shall not have been obtained." Section charta based on returns of 1928 and 1932 are carried in the book to prove that the radicals may de feat the president and cause the elec tion of a minority republican admin istration. ' To thwart this, the first phase of tha proffram advisee four steps: 3. "Economic recovery must be made the paramount issue ". 2. "A definite program of counter action should be studied and plan ned malnlv by men outside the gov ernment. Thia must include leader from all walks of life." 3. "Newspaper editors and radio broadcasting stations should be edu cated in order that they may under stand the damage threatened by denv acogues we ahould be careful not to Interfere with free speech. w should, however, prevent the quotation of statistics which are without proper bsais, and of willful mts-statementa of fact. 4. "Important members of both lib eral and conservative groups shou'.d be brought to the realization that, while they debate their own beliefs unprincipled radicala are eonpirin tcj destroy the nation. The economic plan accompanying the proffam ia detailed and extensive There axe fifty puses of charts fthe book ha ninety-six parea in au. showing how "eight minion people can be re-employed beginning June 1 at the rate of one million a month Most of the unemployment ia in durable Roods and the service Indus tries, tup deferred demand for pro- 6u-t of each of th?e indufttrl 1 rarfu!! calculated, and totals 49. 273 000 000. Tbe deferred demand a estimated for severs! of the major Industrie la: autoa (deficiency for 3 years! M-000,-000; home building (10 years! $20. 000000; industrial p'.ar.t ocwolescence f5 rears i 5. 000 000 000; riertr'.al en-"r- (10 var. 14 50 00 Yt electric' (CotiUnuKt pa rii I-'z-l HAL ATTAINS HIGHEST LEVEL N IE YEARS Bloc in Congress Resumes; Campaign With Vigor ', Drinks On House in Tono- ' pah Old Mines to. Open! Bv the Associated Press Silver prices boomed tne world over today in response to the announce ment that the United States treas ury would pay 11 cents aa ounce for newly mined metal from American mines. Silver mining circles In the Rocky Mountain area were Jubilant. They hoped it was a step In restoration of the old statutory price of silver at 91.29 an ounce. The sliver bloc in congress resumed its campaign with vigor. The senate agricultural committee approved the Wheeler mandatory 18 to I silver pur chase bill. Sliver prices shot up to the highest levels in nine years in Kew York and London. The Montreal silver futures market boomed. The London price reached the Kew York equivalent -of 64.745 centa an ounce. Fireign metal was later sold in New York at 68 cents an ounce, up 1V4 centa from yesterday'a final bid price. ' Shanghai bankers, however, took a gloomy view. Since China is on an actual silver money basis, rise- Is Its price waa said to have a defla tionary effect. Nevertheless, the sit uation has been partially mitigated by imposition of a silver export tax. TOKAPAH, Nev April - XI. Wt Drinks were "on the house" in some Tonopah saloons today aa Jubilant miners enthusiastically greeted the government's increase in the price of newly mined silver to IX cents' per fine ounce.. In many another old Nevada min ing camp, the increase was hailed as the bijagest mining event in man? years. Tonopah, Virginia City and Eureka, ail "bonanzas," in their day, expected greatly increased mining ac tivity. Scores of other "ghost towns in (Continued on Page Two) MAY 1 ZERO HOUR FOR MRS. PIERCE SALEM, Ore., April 11. (AP) May I will be the final day for Mrs, Cor nelia Marvin Pierce to resign aa member of the state board of higher education, It was learned here late yesterday. If Mrs.- Pierce, who has indicated from Washington, D. C, that she will not resign, does not change her mind by that time Governor Martin will take the first steps toward her re moval, it was reported. The governor will charge that Mrs. Pierce has not attended board meet ings regularly, the records showing that she had attended few of the board's sessions since Walter Pierce was elected congressman from the second district and she became his secretary. Mrs. Pierce waa named to the board by former Governor Meier and was reappointed in 1933. Her term dees not expire until 1840. exmMaie-' S JAIL VISITOR HERE Vrrell H. Hasp, one of th first In mates of the government prison on Alcntrai Island In San Francisco hay, was detained In the county Jsll for a few hours yesterday en route to Chehalla. Wash, where he faces an other charge, Raap. whose prison mates were Ai Capone, Chicago gang ster; "Machine aim" George Kelly and other notorious outlaws rounded up by Uncle Sam, was arrested as he finished a term for postofflce rob bery. He was transferred from Mc Neil's Island federal prison to Atca trsx. Rasp was In the custody of Deputy Sheriff B. H. compton and ni.trtct Attorney Sorrell of Lewis county, Washington, AQUITAN1A PULLS OFF SOUTHAMPTON FLATS SOUTHAMPTON. Aplrl 11. (AP! The S. 8. Aqultsms. sfwr brtng aground on mudbsnk sine yt- dT, ss rff!ostd t 8:10 p. m. to. dsy n! hrIi up the Solfnt for the Southsmpton dorx. MRS. DOTY AUTHOR OF MAIL TRIBUNE POEM The poem. 'The right ts On.-j published in Wninedr' edition of ( ' the Mll Tribune tompojM oj i Mrs. w D. Dow. The nimt a us- j sdvstUnUy left oil. 4 Jackson Dixie Howell Of Rose Bowl F ame Seriously Hurt LYNCHBURG, Ya., April 11. AP) "Dixie Howell, former Uni versity of Alabama football star, now a rookie with the Detroit Tigers, suffered a skull fracture In practice here today. Tossing a ball around with his teammates, be was felled by a hard drive from the bat of Johnny Mtse, Players of both teams car ried him from the field uncon scious. His condition waa reported aa serious. t Howell figured prominently In the Rose Bowl r football game of last Sew Year's day, his forward passing helping Alabama to vic tory over Stanford. PERIL FOR LEAGUE SEEN BY BERLIN IN FRANCO-RUSS PACT Copyrtghtd, 1935. by the Associated Press) BERLIN. April 11. An official German source stated tonight that Berlin sees the League of Nations "being destroyed" by the Franco Russian agreement. This agreement yet to be signed, la for mutual assistance in case the league members fall to combine against an aggressor. The Franco-Russian move, coming almost simultaneously with the an nouneement that Premier Mussolini intends to keep 600.000 Italian sold lera in uniform until the atmos phere clears, was regarded officially as kiPlng the Stress conference at its birth. "The Paris and Moscow policies," said a German government spokes man, "will result In the moral end factual weakening of the League of Nations rather than a strengthen ing." The two powers were said by this accord to have "followed the eastern pact principle but In a different form," While no extraordinary uneasiness was displayed over the possibilities of the new step, several "trial bal loons" have been sent up to feel out the French on the possibility of Pierre Laval, French foreign minis ter, hatting at Berlin on his way to Moscow for a talk with Reichsfuehrer Hitler. . PORTLAND, Ore., April II. (AP The appointment of Estcs Snedecor. Portland attorney, as auditor-referee of the prolonged controversy between the city of Salem and the Oregon- Washington Water Service company over condemnation of the Salem sys tem, waa announced here today from the office of Federal Judge JamesJ Alger Fee. Peace of Europe May Hinge on Stresa Hi F RAN t?i.s-r.- W C E sat i - a-ainut. mm With the peer of Europe In the balsnre, the leadinf dlplomelte feprewirtsihee of F.ntlarsd. rranr end tut met et Mre, IfeOy time tn m Irtpertite serurttr eonferenee fo determine whet erttoa to tske IB eitawer to OerntsBjf riotellen of th Versiii, trrair. Th Inrefion of ttw la fliown en the map end the aeene of the eonferenee Is ptrtsred. lower left. The ronreraeibHw sp pea red lllietr ?o eedomlneled fcf. left to rtihi, hove, t'spt. Anthony Idem end Wr 4nh slmnn, leadint Brfiflt dlplomete; Inltls ,otlrh, ilatlan under aeeretery for Jirrtn fft; Mleree M tal, tretM-h fiireim miniter: and Premier Henito Mumltnl of Italy (lit tit J, boat ts th eonfereBt, lt Is etpeeted to prearot frfeii of united actloa ot tn three power. (Aaaoaated Press rbotos County FRENCH INSIST ON GERMAN! KEEPING ARMSJJMITAIN Stresa Conference Opens With French Determined to Make League Appeal Basis of Tri-Partite Action MOSCOW, April II. CAP Taas ! (Off lets! Russian) news sjceney i tonight confirmed reports the So- i vtet and France had reached an agreement In principle for a "Franco-Soviet convent ion of se curity which will be concluded In the veryynear future. By the Associated Vr&s i The premiers of Great Britain, i France and Italy went into seclusion ' at Stresa today to discuss Europe's ' peace problems while the rest of the world looked on with varying emo- tlona. Not since the Paris pease con-1 ference had there been a meeting! between the heads of the three gov- i eminent. In Berlin, German officials, main taining an ironic pessimism, express ed the view the next move regard ing Germany's rearmaments is up to the Stresa conferees. Germany Is de manding equality without any strings attached and a German spokesman said that unless equality ia granted, "we can't discuss further conferences." Authoritative quarters is London were informed the newly-developed agreement between France and Rus sia on mutual assistance would have to be explained at tha Stress, confer ence wtth a view toward determining just what relation it has to the League of Nations covenant. Moscow Itself was silent on the Franco-Russian agreement as Maxim Lltvinotf, Russia's foreign commissar, started for Geneva to attend the league council meeting called for April 15 at which Germany's rearm ament will be discussed. With - the question of the Inde pendence of Austria one of the chief subjects for discussion at Stresa, an official Austrian newspaper suggest ed the question of what should -be regarded as Interference In Austria affairs should be determined solely by the Austrian government. Continued on Page Se?en MOTHER HURLS CHILDREN TO DEATH FROM TRAIN PAOEBBOBH, Germany, April 11. (API Elisabeth Freundllch, 31, to day confessed hurling her son, 9 years old, and . her baby daughter from a speeding train "becaua of poverty." The boy died tn a hospital and the girl, physician said, ptob&blj will die. MILAN m j VAT C3 I17J I-"--- Bank Building Divorce Pending li Mrs, Lot Spreckei (lower), for merly the socially prominent Loia Clarke Da Ruyter of New Yor& Ha jatabllshed residence at fteno Nevn preparatory to seeking divorce from Adeiph 5, Spreckels (above), an hair to ih Sprecksta sugar fortune. Associated Press Photc ENGLEHARDT ASKS DIVORCE DISMISSAL 3. O. gsgiehardi yesterday filed answer in circuit court to the dlvorc mtt of hie wife Dora Englehsrdfc, filed more than a year ego. and aeeks dismissal of the suit without cost, and no di?fskm of property, aa sought, Supporting affidavits of Hei nle Undehacht and Esther Srickson, are submitted in support of the plea. The answer further aitegea that the plaintiff advised the children not to mind the defendant, that the two son sold vaiu&hle dairy cows at the sug gestion sf the plaintiff and disposed of hams without itjtijwrtty of the de fendant, and that any division of property would srtrat bankruptcy, and "reduce the plaintiff to penury. The affidavits set forth that tha dairy ranch, located on Rojrue river, has a monthly Income of ts which recently rose to 100 per month. Attorney V, A, C. Ahlf of -Grant Fasa appears as counsel for Sngie- hardt. :r?23SWW 4 ftT 111" A.,: . j IlinnrP mil nfl HT iiuru run ritutr FROM DUST KILLED BY LATEST STORM Dun-Colored, Clouds Have Swirled Through South west for Month Dust Pneumonia Taking Toll KANSAS CITY, April H. (AP) Hying dust and sand choking, op- presslw, Inevastbl lightened their t grip on the southwest tods. Where In other years at tW sea ; son, wheat and other crops nave spread thetr checkerboard pattern i over the landscape, them are fesrren fields without a blade of (trees and deserted highways, I For " a menth dun-colored cloud have awtrie-d and feUlowed. Hopes for , relief, rslsed earlier this week by i promising weather forecasts were IshaUered yesterday by a dust fells 1 ?at& labelled as the "worst" s? tha I A the tstpefc storm roared overj Kanss Colorado. Oklahoma, Texas and New Mrxtco, the government's monthly crop report was released. , Wheat Ctep Tere. UA large proportion of the acre sge'ln this Important winter wheat rp& was heSng abandoned, ti said. Tl5 condition of ihi wheat tmp in six Kansas eountiwi Graham Oaw, Greeley, W I e h i t a Hamilton ano: Krarney was .tste4 aa ro. Kenneth Welch, relief adminis trator tn Baca emtniy, Colorado, Mf no crop whatever can fee ex pected in sonthest?m Colorado xn let heavy spring rstns come, "I do not see lisw anyosse cart continue to l!?e hers If these storms continue. Welch added, . r?mrmonfa incmufs 15ust jmenmonla it fnrreatng rapidly among ehiktren in Bae Continued on. Page Seven! ALLOTTED STATE SALESf, Ore.'Aprtt It, f APJ A telegram stating that Oregon had been allotted for ynemptby ment relief In Aprit was received here today by Governor Martin from relief officials at Washington, D. C. The governor had requested !, ir,QGQ In relief money for April. The telegram contained no word sa to where or how the money was to be distributed. The governor said he expected further communication explaining those details, , Conference I -" M - o '". Sold to Reel Fight Scene Is Too Realistic Joe Brown Hurt HOLLYWOOD, April II, AP A motion pscture fight scene that became Uttla too realistic put Joe E. Brora, motion p'.cture com edian, under the care of docjora today witii as injured back. Brown was knocked down and trampled In mob scene from it new film. Two tendoss were tmn and it ba4 not been ascertained today whether any of his ribs were broken. Physicians said the asel dst aggravated an ofeS injury sus tained during Brown s circus days when ha fell off a high trapeze and broke hts back. MELLON RETAINED BANK STOCK WHEN SECRETARY. CLAIM PITTSBURGH, April IL CAP) The government today pursued its charge that Andrew W, Mellon sever diveated himself of !0,000.0K5 worth of hank: niock before; becoming; secre tary of the treasury in 1921, Mellon counsel claims, at the hearing now tinder way before the board of tax appeals that the stock was sold to hi brother, R, B. Mslioru Through the bcK&s of R B. Melton, Attorney ?, E shearer for the govern ment sought to ah&3f today thai the financier received In 133 i a sum al most equal to the dividends derived from the stock by R. 8. Mellon, . The books showed R. B. Mellon re setved dividend of &O0 that year, and the government claim 735,- 39?,.S4 was transferred .to Andrew w, Mellon aa interest on the note gives hy a. B, spoil receipt of the stock. The hank stock was tha first ques tion tackled by government attor neys aa th?j" launched into thefr esse to prove their claim that Mel lon owes the government 3.0S9.0GO In taxes for 1931, Presentation of the Mellon side of the caw, so f ar aa th Pittsburgh 'witness are concerned waa completed yesterday. The case is to be taken to Kw York probably shout four or five weeks hence. The tax coram tsalonsr petition too ih position that th 1804,000 in dividends paid to B B. Mellon Is 1831 should have actual!? been reported by Andrew W, Mellon dividends, instead of the 755,307 re ceived from B. B and reported as nsieresW Upon th! tha- petition contends, Metlon's taxable income. subject to the surtax rat should be increased by 47,133. OLD AGE PENSION BOOSTERS SUFFER SETBACK IN HOUSE WASHIHOTOH. Aprtl It. (API Hanse grattpt eupporslttt Use Tvmss- enJ or oUwr iibersi em sge pension KtitaiM ttttfered iaWrt defetS na a smashing one ts U house tods took up she sdmmsstrstions tocin seeuritT MB, The ctiMl toU w on resolu tion msilni the sociaS seearttj bill the pesfiine btaiises. The rso'.s- ttsE pemtftted oniy ejsesdmentstiss r.ormallT weotd be Is order, eacaers of the Townsend end ttsndeett (sills imroedleteJy ehtae4 ttwt "ei" iitt their pEso. Thtf sought to B(Mi the itMttl tton so ;o specifiesllf eUriw pweetttetBwt of the T8wnseB4 nO Lyndeen biiit. After Democratic seaders essorif them ReprejenUttre O'Connor iD. S, T.t had eitprease the hope that th Towtoeixl end Lundeers MIU ootsid be ottered at amendmer.U issfestltusea. th hotae heat dowa, i88 ts S4. the proposed emendrrteBt sp' ettiesUy etttaoriaisg their presensa- 4iart. The resolution wise adopted, M to ioj, on a roil tali Tote, SHOT DURING VER CHILDREN Btmrm, Ors.. pr it. cap Harry Church. . Haraey esantj rancher, wee held in Jtl here today whtt th sheriff office Inreetfgeted the aisflnit fart night of Johis Mc Mantis, ahotit so, a wighBor, who waa shot to death in Churo,' home. Sheriff 0. W. Fraeier eaid Church declared he shot to ett-defBa. The two men had quarreled, the rttertff said, orer at! rttme!st that Imoteed email sons st both fami-Uec RANCHER FUSS 0 Littrell DEPOSIT WAIVERS TO SHARE PROFIT IS ANNOUNCEMENT Valuable Property On Main and Central Will House Drug and Jewelry Stores Purchase Priee Not Told a tlttren, owner st Use UttteM Ants Pktim company Isess, t5da7 c Tr.- ptetf isegoitaUsBS for tS Barertue 'ji. for & unaBnosiseeti I'-j.n. aftfft was spproverf b7 the o mnctam tst tlx tessk, whlejs cSsssea to ixn ob Much SJ, J93i. Mmaf fto!t from the t&ts wOl be use Itqttffy the eWtta of tinse GtpoMsi irt8snet c SO percent writer ; tt Uttiell Meted ths; M tonpsn i t&s b'iidin;. wMeh Is .o be eompje If remodeled, wtll be sesupiea Iw s dnT ore, Bd the part, Uctsg a Cfvurx. street be ts.ea. ctst 6y Iocs! sseter, we H h?e to u.-? of the si a'a Bqe to tr.e fs& . r '. finsl details h'-:t sat yet fcees ctecKd up, he deetttted ta ntss B sew ocTupj:: In..udj in the remodelfts tr.s re piste Kinds frost lor both ttdee ot the taWig, n4 to tertor reOsSefchsg, siihoueh ttt see on. iU-jtj o'.'.'f iriu r. be t'.tA at thte time. Work wilt usxt c ptefee ot thte city, bss co.-npseted bit figtEres, tss 0mtrcta ess be let, 1A tmi Mtd. . .'''rQtiatlb.- for tha p.i rebate m etaned a'oout J dj jjor It learsed. - . WARNING ON FROST 'ROBABLE TONIGHT A frost warning wltj profesWy be aerst out to erchartiists agais torslght, according to t6sessssty egestlt Of fice, the weather bureau harinjf fore cast freeUsg temperafars tor FtiHtj Bamatsf. The, wee titer wee expected to beeosse unsettled at time a. hw- ever, and the aeveritf at th ftp ratnrtot be determines mstll tot this everting. Only a tew orehtnUats smtMged I!', night, tbe temperature hs'.nj reached only to M degree IE Usd ford. There waa a Kgo hare of emttdge is the lower pert of thi reiiej t sun rise. 41 Drunk Drivers Bereft of Permit BALES, April II. (AP) The pes. ait? of hjtvtng their openttog ii ecisex RTofced w tapeeM oa etstsmobile driven during Mr?h( the secreterj of itAie's o.'.'.ce re ported today, Brieistj whtie totolt-, ca',d was reepostsihi for 41 of the revocations. Thsrnty-t'i'o ilcinij suspeseio&e were iiated during the month. ASTORIA, Ore.. April H (AF) Jstatt Keilsese of Portland, a trtsk drtwr, droRed te tfce tewle end Cierk rirer near here today when he slipped from a log boom. WILL BEVEBLT HILLS, Cal.f Apr, 11 My boss i dead, my friead i dead. Adolptt Otehg, owoer fE the great Xew York Times, in the first man tlmt I fcr wrote for and it was him rcr stiBalltr that got we to try it. Tfctiik of being lucky enough to break in at the tap. r thrt paper is the top. He sm fine frifnd ami lias eitken. Then another good frienJ, Warren Bobbin, onr minister to Cands, is Botte too. K the man who took me in to gee Mntsoiini when I got the fam ous "castor ei!" interview, He next took me to see the presi dent of Mttle Sstt Salvador when he truss minister there, A fine feiiow, Wrre(t, and otir dil1om8tte itenrtca will mim hta, ids. t lUXlTZX! iia aata la.
