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Medford Mail Trtbune AWARDED Pulitzer Prize FOR 1934 Thirtieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1935. No. 27. The Weather Forecast: Cloud with rain late to night or Wednesday; frost tonight. Temperature. Highest yesterday . 46 Loaet Ihll morning .. , 40 I VdH-s I SLEEPING FAMILY By PAIX MAM.OV (Copyright, 1035, By Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, April 33. Do not ba surprised If a bright young agent rin.Rn your doorbell shortly and starts asking 3,310 sim ple questions about your home life. It Is an ides, which one of the brain trusters thought up one rainy afternoon recently, when he was looking out. the window, won dering. The thought Is under stood t o have come to him vir PAUL MALLON tually without effort. As he reasoned It out, the government la trying to plan for all Its people and here It does not know much about you, at least about your private life. Thus evolved bureau of labor sta tics form No. 807, with 18 pages of simple questions. It has not been made public yet, but It has been ap proved by the bureau of home eco nomics and considered at a private meeting of the central statistical board. The Inquisitive thlrsters for knowl edge have decided to try It out first on families In rural communities un der 2,500 population and Income groups under 2.000 a year, thus cov ering several million families. They have figured it out that each family will require from three to six hours to answer the 3,310 simple questions, depending on the intelligence of the family and the state of household bookkeeping. The questions unquestionably will strip civilization bare. They will not only develop the number and price of "union suits and combinations" pur chased by each member of the family, but also "corsets, girdles, brassieres, bloomers, panties and slips (cotton, silk or rayon)." Recitation of the outstanding inqui ries would take up most of this whole page, but the following are fair samples: Time employed? Rate of pay? Earn ings? (for each quarter year). Rent from boarders? Other In come? Expenditure for household medicine, recreation and a thousand other things? Have you a dinette? Elevator? En closed porch? Janitor service? Play space? How much laundry? Wet? Rough dry? and (believe It or not) mangled? How much atarch, blulngf, cleaning powders, steel wool? These, or course, are only prelimi nary questions to get the lay of the land. Next the agent will ask you to Itemize your expenses by quarters for 301 different foods, including peanut butter, figs, cod liver oil, soft drinks consumed at home, "other drinks" consumed at home." prunes, dates, brussel sprouts and collarda. There are no separate questions provided for frankfurters and bologna, both being combined under one heading, apparently for the sake of brevity. But the agent will want to know the sex and ace of persons served at each meal during the last seven days from the famlfy fund. The clothing question, however, is (Continued on Page Six) 4 SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS City Inspector Frank Rogers giving building operations at 33 North Cen trsl the crttlcel eye. Bernal Slead being plutocratic by rattling money in his pockets. Heinle Fluhrer and Hamilton Law going for a ride to cool off after a fa-nt badminton set. Roy Leo basking in the sun In front of his p'.ace of business. f "Rosy'' Hownbaum proudly an ftunring that freight shipping la in easing. Verne Cannon doi ng the spring house cleaning at the city hall by polishing the front door panels. BUI Bolder taking advantage of few minutes of sunshine to put on a grey suit and grey hat. Edith Stump, maintaining that no matter hov early she arises, she's al-m-avs lute for work anyway. Fve, n lor.z dc-ijing traffic ltke a Barr.ev OMfid on Ve-t Main street. Rill Vet "At in'e.'f'e; li r smr'nz "Sylvia" to 12 fenerp a, the Colonial K.iln In Pendleton PFNDLETON. Ore.. April 33 AP More than an inch of rain which hs; fallen here the pat two days has :e. ivei the 5p:rlts of what irrowerv Las: riafht .13 inch fell httv with ronidrar? mio- :.V. in moun- ta:n section. ,Sreft:n were up coa idanbr bus not uv UooA lUa. i i TRAPPED BY BLAZE Body of Merle Sharrai and - Two Children Found in Apartment Silverton Suffers Heavy Fire Loss NORTH BEND. Ore., April 33. 4JP) Three persons were burned to death in a rooming house fire In the busi ness district here this morning. For a while the blaze threatened to sweep . surrounding structures Seven other resident of the room ing house were able to flee the early morning blaze which swept mainly through the second story of the struc ture. The dead : Merle Sharrai, 35, taxi driver: his j daughter. Merlyn Sharrai, 18 months of age. and his stepson. Richard Marks, 8. ! Mrs. Sharrai was not at home at : the time of the blaze, which first wss j noticed about 3 a. m. Sharrafs body was found In a closet, where he apparently rushed In an effort to escape the flames. Th tiny girl was burned to death in her bed and the boy was found suffo cated in pillows with which he had attempted to fend off the blsze. Origin of the fire was not Imme diately determined. Mrs. Joe Owens, who occupied the apartment next to Sharral's, discov ered the fire. Finding smoke pour ing from the locked door of the Shar rai apartment, she Immediately called the fire department. The door was battered down, disclosing the sorry tragedy. Clyde Butcher, a baker, also saw the flames, while on his way home from work, and turned in an alarm. Firemen estimated the damage at $5,000. 8n.VERTON. Ore.. April 33. IPi A fire, originating In the rear of a billiard parlor this morning, destroy ed an entire business block In the center of the city before the flames could be brought undfr control. Twelve business houses. Including the Palace motion picture theater (Continued on Page Seven) TAKES STAND TRIAL OF LANISON SAN JOSE. Cal., April 33. (AP) After Its brief respite from testimony Teste. day for an inspection trip to the Lamton cottage on the Stanford campus, the Jury in the second mur der trial of David A. Lamson settled down to listen to the defense wind up It lengthy case today. Appearing tense and nervous. Mrs. Buford O. Brown, widow of the Stan ford Journalism professor who com mitted suicide between the two Lam son trials, wss the first witness to day. The Browns were neighbors of the Lamsons and she was among the first to visit the cottage after M-s. Lsmson was found dad In the bath room Memorial day, 1033. Mrs. Brown testified the bed In the back bedroom, where Lamson said he had srent the night Instead of with his wife because she had been sllght- jly M. appeared as If It had been i slept In. The witness was again asked to testify concerning an undershirt worn by Lamson the day of the trag edy, about which considerable evi dence has been given, aa to blood stains, where It was found, etc. Over prosecution objection, it was intro duced into evidence. WASHINGTON. April 33. AP) Contract for dredging the Willamette River. Oregon, at Jackson Bend bar waa awarded by the war department to Sacton & Looney, Portland, fot 424.808. No Guy Ever Led Her to Altar Insists Mae West HOLLYWOOD, ca n.. April (API Let m sav what they want. and dig up all the musty old papers the nieime. but Mae West has her srnry and she's sticking to it There ain't any husbands misting in her life because she never mar- rled sny. And that. si:d the buxom Mae I decisively. go for the startling d:s 1 c.ivery of marriage license issued to a Mae West and a Frank Wal lace In Milwaukee on April 11. '911. "Me a Milwaukee bride?" sa:d Mae. -Vo it mut have been two other i j"-p. Fact 1. I never had ben in Mil-? a; -ice unt;l about four ;rarA 1 i j 1 "& i m .WU UU frtt "4 JEflra Davidson Tells GEORGIA GOVERNOR ATTACKS FDR Governor Talmadge of Georgia is shown In hit Atlanta office as he called President Roosevelt a "radical In the extreme form," at tacked the NRA and AAA and predicted a third party movement In 1936. (Associated Press Photo) RELIEF IS RUSHED F TEHERAN. Irak, April 33. (AP) Unconfirmed reports received here today said 483 Inhabitants of Mezan deran province In northern Iran (Persia) have died in a series of earthquakes which have shaken the area since April 13. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press) TAIHOKU. Formosa, April 33. (AP) Relief agencies, experienced In dealing with earthquake disasters, rushed food, water and medical sup plies today ino remote sections of northwestern Formosa devastated tn Sunday's catastrophe. The problem of supplying water to the survivors became one of primary Importance as a tropical sun parched the tongues of stricken lnhabitsnts and added to the hazard of the spread of disease. Scarcely a pi pel 1 ne or a reservol r was left undamaged In the entire stricken area. Hasty repairs to the shattered rail way line leading from here to Tai nan and northward enabled relief workers and physicians to speed Into the interior with their welcome stores of water, food and blanket. The latest official casualty figures, which It was believed would be sub ject to only minor revision, gave the number of dead as 3,152 and the total seriously wounded as 10.406. Damage wa estimated at $3,000,000. OF The condition of Robert Wayne Carrol. 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Carrol, who was seriotisly injured when struck by an auto on East Main street yesterday morning, was reported Improved this afternoon at the Community hospital. The small boy suffered concussion of the brain, lacerations and a mangled foot when he ran Into the path of an au tomobile. , .January y I have called me up and insisted they j were married to me some place or i other. But I never wss rnarnea t them or Frank Wallace or anyone ele. I f n-ight t know if I ever msr rled or not. oughn't I?" As for the relief worker who un earthed the singular marriage llcen? Trom Its Milwaukee city hail Me Well, Mae said he could take It and keep It. The "she done him wrong gal" iiid her studio workers today pre pared to meet snd dny a tnera uprising of Frank Wallscen hrougfi tfiTnynniri on Pun fikmu T , CALLANDER. Ont., April 33. (AP) Dr. Alan Brown, internationally known child specialist, examined the Dionne quintuplets at 3 a. m. today and found them "satisfactorily re covering" from head colds. He said their physical condition waa "excel lent." Dr. Brown, physician In chief to the hospital for sick children, To ronto, drove here last night at the request of Dr. Allan Roy DaFoe, the quintuplets' physician. His visit fol lowed the request of Oliva Dionne, father of the children, that a con sultant be called in. Dionne believed their condition was more serious than he had been teld. The Toronto specialist Issued a statement In whlrh he said he found the babies satisfactorily recovering from an upper respiratory infection which apparently had been transmit ted to them from an outside source. This, he said, emphasized the fact that if the children were to survive they must be kept from contact "with Individuals other than those in actual care of the infants." He paid tribute to Dr. DaFoe s handling of the situation which he said had been "thoroughly scientific." Med ford Rl wants club amassed a total of 40.180 points last night to defeat the Rotarlans, who scored 35. 650. In the second of a series of bridge tournaments between the two clubs. The victory made the stand ing one-all. and a play-off will prob ably be held in the near future. It was announced. The players were: Klwanls J. H. Fletcher, A. F. West, J. H. Reynolds, Ted Oe Bauer, Otto Frohmeyer. Olen Arnspiger. Frank Ptrl. Darwin Burgher, C. C. Lemmon. C. S. Butterfleld, J. C. Mann, Max Pierce, J. C. Thompson and Dr. C. H. Pafcke. Rotary Dr. Charles Lemery. Dr. C, I. Drummond. Herold Kicnstcin. Ir Schuler, J. C. Boyle. C. O. Smith, Charlea Ellis. Oren Shenck. Dr, B L. Laeeaon, Oeorge Henaelman, Ed Shock ley, Ben E. Harder. F. W. Heah and Pete Denaon. After the tourna ment the Rotarlans served refresh ment. New Bar Examiners I Selected By Court , SALEM, Ore.. April 33 -(APf-Two : - ,h. Qf bftr examlnpnt WPre , made today by the supreme court. I John W. Revnolds snd R. R Bulli- vant of Portland were named to sue- ceed Roscoe C . Ne on a nd B . A Green. rrslEned. The next bar ex aminations wil be held In Balem in July, at which time loo applicant will seek admission to the bar. Navy Plane (io i-outh. ASTORIA, Ore.. April 33 i API Nine navy sea piane droned over Atnrls from the south today and .-ontinu'd northward up the Pacific cowt The flight aq.iadros passed oec bat tt iXl p,Q. AT Crater Park Boat Deal in Trial 2340 OUT OF JOB RESULT OF STRIKE Company Will Make No Ef fort to Operate Toledo Factory Closed Shop Demand Rejected by Firm TOLEDO, Ohio. Aptl 33. ( AP) Officials of the Chevrolet Motor com pany closed Its Toledo plant today. throwing 2.340 men out of work, as members of the United Automobile Workers Federal Union walked out on strike. A recent automobile labor board election showed this Is one of the few plants In the automobile Indus try where a majority of the workers are members of the union. Fred Schwake, union representative, said about 600 union men walked out as the first shift of 1,100 work ers came to work this morning, and the other employes were sent home by Hugh Dean, chief of manufactur ing operations for the entire Chevro let corporation. Definitely Closed Dean announced the company will make no effort to operate the Toledo plant, which he described aa "defln Itely closed," thus affecting about 1 .300 additional workers who have heretofore reported for work In a sec ond shift. Dean said the company had 3.340 men on Its local payroll and that the shut-down affected all of them. The strike, described by labor lead ers aa of national significance, came after company officials rejected the union's demand for a closed shop, although the company offered num erous concessions Including a general five per cent wage Increase and rec ognition or seniority rights. The com pany also offered to meet with duty accredited representatives of Its em ployes upon questions of grievances, and promised no discrimination against union officials. BASEBALL American. F. H. K. St. Louis 6 11 3 Cleveland - 7 11 1 Batteries: Wetland, Andrews. Coff man. Knott and Hemsley; Harder, C. Brown and Pytiak. R. H. K, Washington , 14 . 0 Philadelphia 4 13 3 Batteries: Hadley. Llnke, Pettlt and Bolton: Cain. Lleber, Mahffey and Fox it. r. h. r New York 4 9 8 - 7 10 0 Boston Batteries: Ruffing. Murphy. De Dlckey; Oster- Shong, Tumults and mueller, H. Johnson and R. Ferrell. National, R. H. B. 6 10 3 13 13 1 Bowman, Por.- Philadelphia Brooklyn Batteries: Hansen rulo snd Wilson, Jorgens; Clark. Vance and Lopez. Leonard, R. R. C Pittsburgh 4 8 1 Cincinnati 8 7 3 Weaver, Swift and Padden: Freltas, nrrnnnn. ocnoit, Mac Fa yd en ani Campbell. R. H. cnicago 5 7 8 St Louis 3 13 0 French. Joiner. Kowalik and Hart nett; p. Dean and Davis. FEARWYSTOST SEATTLE. April 98. fAPI The small 36-foot outboard motor boat In which three youths started across Puget Sound last Saturday ntght in heavy weather was found this fore noon by the coast guard patrol boat Cvgan. overturned and In -shore near Whldby island, the Cygan radioed. The missing boys are Peter Ferry, 16, son of Mrs. EMmbeth H. Ferry. and president of the Queen Anne J high school senior class; Alvin Ertck- j son. 17, Queen Anne senior. !nd son i of Mr. snd Mrs. A. E. Erlckson. snd Hugh Andrews, IB, former Queen Anne student, now attending Urant high school at Portland. nbb Gels A. P. Pot MARHHPTELD, Ore.. April 33 fAP) Wendell Webb, managing editor of the Coos Bay Times, will resign in May to take a position with the As sociated Pr la Portland. t rsvasl- is THOUSANDS READY TO GREET CLIPPER ON RETll FLIGHT Message From Huge Plane Says Land in Sight After Bucking Heavy Head Winds Across Pacific ALAMEDA. Oil., April 23.,) The first aerial round trip be tween here nnd I In will t was com pleted today with arrival here at 3:.VO p. ni. of the experimental trunsMirlflc seaplane, Pan-American ( Upper, ufler burking heavy head ttlndg much of the way. ALAMEDA. Cel., April 33. (API Land was sighted by the Pan-American clipper, en route from Pearl Har bor, Hawaii, to Alameda airport at 3:16 p. m. Pacific time, today, said a radio message received at headquar ters here of Pan-American Airways. Four minutes later the plane mes saged she was heading for the Golden Oate. A crowd of 6.000 people was on Alameda airport awaiting the ship's arrival. The two messages from the plane gave no Indication of the plane's dis tance from her base here, nor any data on altitude or speed. SOCIETY LADY'S FINGERSSTICKY CANNES. France, April 23. (P) Police today snnounced they had found Jewelry worth 1.000.000 francs about fl5,000 In a strong box hidden In tho hotel room of a Lon don society woman, Mrs. John Clr cultt. The search was conducted with Mrs. Clrcultt in Jail, where she had been placed on a charge of stealing a 93.000 vanity oase from Mrs. Har old Laurence of New York. The police said the Jewelry they found Included a brooch worth 30. 000 francs about tl.950 belonging to another English woman, Mrs. Scott Culllngham, a friend of Mrs- Clrcultt. TAXAT10RBWARNING WASHINGTON. April 33. (AP) Secretary Morgenthau told the senate finance committee today that any of the bonus plans now pending would require additional expenditures and therefore would call for additional taxes. The cabinet officer, surrounded by a semt -circle of senators, warned that "a material decline In the mar ket price of government securities" would result from any large expen diture outside the budget. eugeneHTdefies Ef EUOENE, Ore., April 33. (AP) Defiance to the threatened strike of sawmill and timber workers' union members was hurled today by the Fischer lumber mill with the decla ration that In the event of a atrlke ths company will attempt to operate with loyal workmen. The company declared It could' not afford to Increase the present wage srsle and did not Intend to do so. Townsend Sees Need of Education in Politics WASHINGTON. April 33. (AP) Di. F. E. Townsend revolved In his mind today a proposal to set up a $100,000,000 foundation to "teach people to think politically." The white haired father of the $200 a month pension plan, which was defeated last week In the house of representatives, made It plain his principal and first aim Is still that pension program. A newspaperman asked him wheth er he considered the Townsend or ganization a permanent thing. "It will be permanent." he said. "It will act as a great educations! force. People must be taught to think LppUUcaliy- Tbej never have. Tbty.litan too sun; thlcis t com," Spaniel Gulps $80 From Open Purse, Money Recovered BUHLTNGAME. Cat., April 33. (AP) Sammy, an lnqulaltlve spaniel, was recovering today from a vain attempt to turn himself Into a bank. At the home of his mistress. Miss Natalie Lipman, Sammy spied an open purse from which bulged 980 tn bills. He gobbled up most of the money but left a bit of one bill sticking to a paw as evi dence. Some medicine wsa applied and the remains of the bills were re covered, and exchanged for fresh bills. HUEY'S OUTBURSTS TO BE IT WITH FROZEN SILENCE WASHINGTON, April 33. (AP) Democratic traders In ths senate de rided today to apply tha "silent treatment" to Senator Huey Long (D.. La.), who cut loose yesterday with a new auault In which ha flunit such words as "chinch bua" and "Ignora mus" at new deal chiefs. . After experiencing; some difficulty and mental attain In remaining In their aeata while Long voiced his threat to take Louisiana out of the tax-paying union, the leadera were said to have reached the conclusion that better results would be obtained by silence than by returning shot for shot. Senator Robinson of Arkamaa. the Democratic leader, was all aet to re ply at one point yesterday. But he consulted associates first and Chang. ed his mind. Vice-President darner advised against a reply on the ground that Long could be handled better If let alone. Whether or not this agrees with the future strstegy or Secretary Ickes. pvibllo works administrator, and Harry L. Hopkins, relief chief. It waa said authoritatively today to be the policy of senate leadera at least for the present. . SLATED TONIGHT It's early to bed tonight for valley smudgcrs, for the westrer bureau pre dicted frost for Wednesday morning. R. J. Rogers, metetorologlst. said the frost will probably be moderate, but that orchard tsts must be on the Job to save buds that are now well de veloped. Petals are falling on tha early va rieties, and all orchards are now In bloom. If the neat la not kept up during freezing temperatures, great damage could be suffered at this stage of the crop, Rogers said. SALLEE GEIS HEARING JUSTICE COURT TODAY Melvln Franklin Salle, charged with a statutory offense Involving a seven-year-old Central point girl, will be given a preliminary hearing this afternoon In Justice court, 6allea has retained Attorney M. O. Wllklns aa enunnel. The defendant la held rn the county Jail on $3500 ball. The dis trict attorney reports Bailee resides on Yankee creek, and has been em ployed on local SERA project the past winter. Ha Is married and has one child. have permitted politicians to do their thinking for them "We are thinking of a great edu cational foundation to teach people to think politically. A hundred mil lion dollara could be raised for It. Asked how the money could be raled, he raid: "By asking people to give a dollar each. They would do It gladly, and many would give more.' AskcJ whether the Townsend or ganization had formulated a definite set-up for the educational founda tion, he replied; "We are doing one thing at a time, taking first tha pension plan. I have seen In politics that It la best not to PAYROLL PADDED TO BUILD CRAFT CUIiHX-AIDE Former Construction Boss at Lake Testifies in Trial of Solinsky Edwin Is Slated As Next Witness PORTLAND, Ore., April 33. (AP) Isaac F. Davidson who pleaded guilty to federal Indictments charg ing payroll padding and defraud, took the stand today as a witness against E. C- Solinsky, former super intendent of Crater Lake National park, who Is on trial for similar in dictments. As the second day of the trial be fore Federal Judge James Alger Fee proceeded. Davidson, former con struction superintendent at the park, testified that he waa ordered by Solinsky to build a boat for use on Crater lake In tho spring of 1933. As no funds remained to purchase materials after the 1031 season, ba used his personal funds to buy the boat materials and build the boat In Medford. Edwin Advocated radillng' Davidson testified that In May, 1033, E. A. Edwin, chief clerk at tha park, approached him and said there still were no funds In the park ap propriation to pay for the boat and they would have to pad the park par rolls to secure the money Davidson advanced to buy materials. ' Davidson testified he protested, but was won over to the plan when he was Informed he would not recover the money advanced unless he ac quiesced. Ha said Solinsky paid htm I33B In June, 1033, and paid tha balance of the $785 due In August, 2033. The total cost of the launch was ,$1335. but approximately $400 of materials were paid for by the park adminis tration In the regular routine, Made No Profit Davidson did not receive any mors money from Solinsky than he had ex pended for materials and labor on the boat, ha admitted under cross- examination by George Neuner, Sol- lnsky'a counsel. The boat, priced at IH400 In the catalogue of the com pany from which the material! wera purchased knocked down, still la la use. It was stated. It waa Indicated the defense might contend Solinsky waa Justified tn se curing ths boat even though payroll! were padded to secure the money. Davidson testified the boat was need ed In the park. Solinsky Not Linked Davidson did not link Solinsky dl- dectly with the purported padding. He swore he did not know where Solinsky obtained the funds for the boat. Edwin's testimony, scheduled to come next, will connect Solinsky with the plot, United States District At torney Carl C. Dons ugh declared. In his opening statement to the Jury, Donaugh ssld Edwin would testify that Solinsky ordered him to falsify the payroll records, and to enlist Davidson to assist him. PORTLAND, Ore., April 33. (UP) -A federal court Jury to hear graft (Continued on Pag Seven) WILL ROGERS SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 22. That Europe ii funny. The loader of one coun try, maby Hitler, mnby Mus solini will say something, then all the others will run together and hold a conference. "What did he sayt Do yon think he meant itt Do you think he will fight or is he bluffing! Then they all (to home again and then in a cou ple of days somebody else will make a statement, Then tho huddle starts nil over again. Of course, before each gath ering adjourns it's understood and goes on the minutes of the meeting automatically that ws (the U. S.I are indirectly to blame, that if we would jmt meet with 'cm they could blame it on somebody else. Tours,
