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EDFORD W There Is A Place No matter what you hate to sell, want to trade, or wlh to buy, there Is a place In Mall Tribune classified j for your Ad. I se these Ails and get 1 result .hut an your neighbor Is doing. lowest this morning... 49 Thirtieth Year (22 Pages Two Sections) MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1933. No. 60. The Weather Forecast: Cloudy tonight ami Smur daj ; moderate temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday 59 lA Tribune mm Mdws I ESTIMATE 20,000 Bwnd By P.U L .MAU.ON. (Copyright, 1935, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, May 31. The proof of the NRA pudding lies burled In the government's own monthly busi ness chart. There you may trace precisely what it has accomplished r in the WBy ot e q u a lining em ployment and - wages tn relation to Industrial pro duction d u r 1 ng the 21 months of Its existence. The NRA be came operative In September. 1933. - At that time fac- I'.W I mallon tory production was 84 per cent normal, employment 78 per cent, wages 59.1. It became Inoperative this last week of May. At this time factory production is authoritatively esti mated at 84 per cent normal; em ployment 81 per cent; wages 68.5. You need not be a mathematician to figure out that production now la Just where it was when the NRA started, employment Is roughly o per cent better, and wages 10 per cent better. The Importance of this Is funda mental In measuring NRA. Hardly a memory la good enough, to recall now that Its original objective was to equalize wages and employment with production. It was started be cause manufacturers were cutting wages and firing men while requiring the retained employes to produce more. This objective has been lost sight of. at least publicly. General Johnson turned chiselcr chaser and Introduced some innova tions which even ho had not thought of at the time he helped to write the original NRA law. His basic problem is disclosed by the figures for the July preceding the application of the NRA codca. For that month production was 100. but employment remained unim proved at 72.5 per cent and payrolls were down to the unbelievable fig ure of 50.8 per cent. Perhaps some NRA enthusiasts would rather take the July figure for the purpose of measuring NRA accomplishments. They are at liberty to claim a better showing for the Blue Eagle In that way. but. or course, basically the July situation was artificial. Tou may trace for yourself the pre-NRA business situation, and the fluctuations since its inauguration, In the chart which follows. All fig ures are official, except those of the laat month, which are unofficially estimated. Each figure represents the per centage of normal existing at the times stated. Seasonal fluctuations are eliminated. Normal u thp mnnthiv 1 Vera ire fnr flm vnnrt inn Anns. Inclusive, except for the price index, which is based on 1P26. (Continued on Page Twelve) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mildred Dugan petting the public ity, while it was really her Ulster Helen who sat the horse watch I p.? yesrerday'a parade. Walter lrerette. paying golf ir. the back yard with son Bruc?. .iioo. In out of the "roiuh" Mrs lve--ette's best f lower bed Bud Conlln up from Y.eka v watch his former proteges take a beatlnc. "Tlie Ash'nnd part of tn Medford team looked pretty ro-vi " he was neard to wv. Tom Culbertson turning up abor,'. 400 revolutions pr minute, by hard, trying to get the motor of his planr started Jerry 'D:avolo" Smith, parachutist, claiming that a Jumper d.en't &n towsrd the eround, the cround co toward the Jumper. And raher fa too. SHAW BERTRAM IN BANK'S HANDS KLAMATH PALLS. Mat 31. VP DisposAl of the Shw-Bc-tram Lurr. br coin rn -,y p: s n t here w.i s an nour.ced today by J R $r-v. p-e 0""d ;or t)rp nr "'."' r'v. i r. '., o- - j ! :c M i o San Pranr .'-n. -x;. c f .'i :rs The r-ext f-v di-j T.-,p Kla property is valued in exec. of or C' n.:'.hon doKars. I- is understood the j.r. -j.ir.lt w;!! hold .;, Trr-j-'f" :.".e ccT.nr ;f ;'..i".s ri; ;r; company. TOLL IN QUETTA: VILLAGER RAZED Three Violent Shocks Rock Wide Area During Night Villagers Are Crushed Beneath Falling Homes KARACHI. India. May 31. (API An estimate that 20,000 persons were Killed early today in Quetta alone bv the earthquake which Jarred north west India was contained tonight in a wireless message from the Quetta wireless station. ? The message was one of the first complete estimates to reach here since the earthshock wrecked all land communication lines throughout the district. B;fore the message arrived, unoffi cial and unconfirmed estimates had placed the death toll as high as 30r 000. Quetta reported that the number of injured was thus far estimated only as "In the hundreds.' Air Garrison Hit Earlier reports had told of the Royal Air Force garrison being badly hit with the death of 44 men. This last message said that most of the other garrisons of soldiers had es caped the most serious damage and that various troops had been ordered Into service digging through the de bris of the city and extricating the injured. The earthquake hit around 3 a. m with three violent shocks, devastat ing the countryside around Quetta. which is on the northern frontier. The soldiers at Quetta were bear ing the brunt of the work, for the majority of the police force was killed. The main military barracks es caped the worst damage, but the rear quarters, some distance away, were leveled. Hundreds of victims- were trapped in the congested districts of the city when they ran Into the streets at the first shock. Buildings, collapsing, buried them in debris. Rescue work was under way with dispatch, according to the meagre ad vices trickling through the broken communication lines. Quetta In Ruins Conservative reports here and at Simla, the summer capital of India, said there were at least 1.000 persons killed in Quetta and thai the village was laid In ruins. Although the offices of the gov ernor general and the staff college and military headquarters escaped se rious damage, most of the other sec tions of the town, Including the (Continued on Page Seven) RETAIL SALES UP NEW YORK, May 31 (AP) While there were some indications of re newed life in trade currents this week, several developments left some confusion and fostered an attitude of pause, the weekly trade review of Dun & Bradstreet says. Most Industrial Indices eased to po sitions lower than the preceding week, the review says, and In many In stances fallPd to reach the level of a year ago. The most precipitous de cline was In lumber. An abrupt lncren.se carried bank clearings 35.1 per cent higher than in the same period last year, accord ing to the review, which contrasted with a gain of 17.4 per cent the pre vious week. Increases were large at practically all the 22 banks report ing. The arrival of warm weather, the review adds, lifted retail sales In many cities to the highest, levels for any week of the month, with atten tion shifting abruptly to hot-weather requirements. While the volume for Msy in some districts probably will fall to equal that for May last year, sales for this week moved ahead suf ficiently to bring the fleues 0 to 11 per cent above the same period a year sco for the country as a whole. DRIVER OF DEATH CM MARSH FIELD Or-.. May 31. (APt j PreMmi Pack o-"d. youthful driver j n :j sMt.DTT.ool.e in lilcn Ailecn F. ;.-'r; a rri of Fr:''' vyj nt ;er life In a n rr-k on tl.e Bndon-Coquil .;:. 5. acquitted at of a charge of inol- 1 i:p-- suthtr but as indict- t chare of re--ks driving. tt Llr-rn Rhrc- rr.-'hT of th . :,1 It ; 000 dan-.nrb 'fl0'. ratflcood - wee. Floods Lindbergh Law W Toner of a stringent federal kidnaping law vas thrown behind govern ment forces todiiv with new reports that linked notorious RiiiigMer In the abduction of George Wcverhiieuscr (iiiue) of Tacomn. A.I. I'hoto). States Rights Question Raised by NRA Loss Is Roosevelt Assertion Congressional Leaders Voice Forecast Early Passage of Measure Extending NRA on Interstate Basis WASHINGTON. May 31. (AP) president Roosevelt today accepted the supreme court NRA decision as focussing the issue whether the federal government or the 48 states shall have control over national social and economic conditions. It raised the question whether the. agricultural adjustment administra tion and the securities commission were legal, he said, and meant the end of the federal alcohol control administration as now constituted Asked if the Issue did not point directly to a constitutional amend ment to empower congress to deal with national commercial conditions, he said not necessarily. He did not elaborate; nut appar- WASHINGTON. May 31. fAP) Two ently was exploring possibilities of j Democrill8chlff Justice William R. other laws to reach the new deal ob- Jectlves. laws that would be upheld ; Pattangall of Maine and Bainhrldge by the highest court. . j Colby were repurtcd today to be As to the AAA. he said the ques- S7eklng the formation of a Republl tion now before the country aa , can-Democratic coalition to nominate whether the federal government has 1 a presidential candidate In opposl any valid power to regulate crop pro- tion to the new deal In lfri6. ductlon. Judge Pattaneall. th Wafhlngton Ivsuc I p to People j pOSt says, has sent a letter to a The issue was up to the people, he , friend here revealing that after re added, Indicating an expectation that signing from the bench on reaching It would be focused determinedly In his 70th birthdey soon he would seek the years immediately ahead. to promote a coalition movement to Meanwhile, prompt enactment of ; restore what he called "orderly gov a measure extending the NRA solely ! ernmrnt." upon an Interstate basts was forecast Colby, who was secretary of state by some congressional leaders. ; under Woodrow Wilson, has also tak- It was added privately, because : Pn the Inttatlve similarly, the paper the Informants said the president adds. He has proposed that a num might change his mind and they did ber of Democratic leaders meet in a not want to be put in the poMtton southern city, preferably Richmond, of giving out erroneous Information , that the NRA extension measure '. would be followed by one giving the states power to enter Into compacts regulating hours and wages in their , Industries. The informants said that, although the president might now favor a con stitutional amendment giving th federal government power to regulate ( Intrastate commerce which affected j business across state lines, such an j amendment would not meet approval 1 of a majority of congress. WiU I.lmlt Action When the president decides to con sul' his concessional leaders, it was . (Continued on Psge Five I PORTLAND. Ore.. May 31. (APi merit charzir fortrery. Bargaining eomraUffs reprrwnting Dsig'nerty. desTlbd to the cou:t Pacific Coast puip and paper em- a wanted for Jatl break. ng in Port plovers and six thousand union paper land and as a prison fugitive from mill employes tvzan a series of dls . Idaho, was accused with another man euflon in rlnd metines here to-' not yet arrested, of having passed Cny on re-!-:':i o' agreements fUlu 31.000 uor.hof fortM che.kA in Coos 'nr . s-.'ir.y f.nd v ork .standards for and Doimifih counties in one after the next twelve month. moon esriy this month. Spread Applies Now S -Sex .O.P. Va , "to consider wine form of po- mical action that Is for our country and above party." Both men supported President Roosevelt In 1932. SENTENCE FORGER TO fflO YEARS IN PRISON MAn.SIIFIELD. Ore.. Mtiv 31. 1AP1 "' lfflJcr(' Newman, was sentenced to tn years !ln Oregon tttr pr:on to-ir.y when he pte;.ried g'Ultv to a snnd jury tndkt- : it r Death, Deu ruction in Colorado !NEW CLUES PLACEfMP ' ,GES' FROMj T Student Saw Man in Bus Reading Letter Addressed toVoIney Davis $25,000 Reward May Be Offered (Copyright. 193.1, by the Associated Press) TACOMA, Wash.. May 31. (AP) New reports placing members of the notorious Alvin Karpls gang nearby were heard today In the kidnaping of young George Weyerhaeuser, miss ing for nearly a week. While indications came a $25,000 reward might be offered to speed re lease of the 9-ycar-old boy. a Uni versity of Washington student fur nished new Information concerning the Karpls gang, named In the Ed ward G. Bremer kidnaping case. Fred Stojack. the student, said In Seattle he rode In a bus Friday night with a man reading a letter addressed to Volney Davis, lieutenant In the Karpls mob. Identifies Picture Stojak picked out a picture of Da vis as resembling the man with whom he rode, and who, the student de clared, asked information concerning the Pox and Vashlon islands, wooded retreats in Puget Sound. The stu dent viewed the picture In the Seattle Times office. The reward angle was Injected Into the case today when federal agents prepared to take over the case under the Lindbergh law, which provides (Continued on Pse three) SMALL FRUIT YIELDS SHORT IN VALLEY IS There will be a light croo of pench.-s and apricots in the Rogue R.ver va' ley. according to County Agent Robet O. Fowler. The cherry crop will also be less than last year, but not as short as the aprlcoU and peaches. "Curly leaf" and an early frost, Is given as the reason for the shortage. All three small f nil Us are expected Ui be ready for picking by June iiO. lAt sown spring grain needs rain, according to County Agent FowL-r. who says there has been no good rain since th first of May. The corn is up about a foot in many section. Along the Rogue river the corn suf fered somewhat from the raids of crows when first placed in the ground. PORTLAND. May 31The Journal said today that "a short cherry crop in Pacific coast states Is practical! a foregone conclusion." A shortage both In California and in Oregon, thv paper said, now Is confirmed by lead ing exierts, "and already this is no ticeable in the better grade and prlci; conditions." One prominent grower suggested a Royal Ann crop of about 60 to 75 pc: cent of normal. S. F. WATERFRONT TIE-UP LOOMING SAN FRANCISCO, May 31. fAP) The waterfront moved definitely to ward a lnbor tlc-up today ns the Waterfront Employers association of .Ssn Francisco at an emergency meet ing decided to demand that stevedore gangs handle shipments of California Packing Corporation products. Under the Employer association ( plan, as faat a- the gaiurs refuse to , handle the shipments, additional j gangs will be ordered, j Products of the California Packing 'corporation have beMi singled out be j cause of the dispute between that (company and the warehousemen's I union over propod unionization of I the company's Alameda warehouse. The warehousemen's union and the , longshoremen's union are allied. 'KIDNAPED' CHILDREN FOUND WITH MOTHER FI.SHERVILL E. Ont.. May 31. (AP) The reported kidnaping of the t-o small son of W. O. Tudhop col Iapd today whn the father an nounced he had learned the children nre safe with lh:r mother. A-SLTNCION. Paraguay. M7 31. W, Fiirtou fighiir-g waa reported frccu the Cftv-o tonight a mediator at Bueno Aires pleaded with PanuruAV an and Bolivian delegation n an ' fort to brin? about cessation of ho-U.itics. VL AJM CAUSE CULTIST'S ARREST L d Q L Cinema Star's Picture in Shrine to Influence Dupe Is Belief of Investigators HOLLYWOOD, May 31. (UP) Tli rough the parted lips of Valentino (done In oil.s) camo messages for Job n Doga n Wood messa ges I n -structlng the youth to purchcase supplies for headquarters of a "cult" of earthbound humans who could look Into the hercnlter. The messages, however, got young Wood Into a Jam with authorities, to gether with Marohene Jorgensen, who recently won $1000 from Lew Brlce, Fn .nio's brother." In a breach of pro mise suit. Unsympathetic police who raided the shrlno of the late film favorite booked Wood on a charge of suspicion of forgery. Wood, 20, Is the son of Mrs. Henry Hartt, prominent in Pasa dena society. Officers specifically accused him of forging the name of his wealthy aunt, Mrs. Edward Charles David, to charge accounts at a downtown department store and on checks cashed there. Marchene. young Wood said, posed as the medium at the actor's shrine. She transmitted messages from the dead actor's Hps to Wood through a Oulja like typewriter. "I couldn't get these messages my self." Wood related. "They would come through Marchene." Ho added that he waa engaged to the lovely Marchene and had given" her an en gagement ring. Detectives who Invaded the sacred precincts said lncenso burned before Valentino's portrait and fresh flowers were draped about it dally. They were busy checking records of the cult today with a view to locating other possible victims of spirit mes sages. Arrested with Miss JoraenRen nn Wood were Rudolph Stelnbok arrd William Schultz. all of whom resided In the hilltop shrine on a cooperative basis. EVADES CAPTURE PORTLAND. Ore. Mny 31. (AP) A man 'sought for qurstlonlng In connection with the robbery of the Woo.ll.uitt (Wh.j stHto bank, broke through a cordon of detectives who were lying In wait for him here to toclay. Two othera were nrreated. Detectives Horack and Klchenber Rer mild the man they nought was Mlko Mooney. Tho men taken Into custody were deacrlbed as Harry Moo ney. a bother, and Pat Lcary, a com panion. The arrests were niHfle at h house here In which the hunted man had lived. Police records showed that Mike Moonoy escaped from tho Columbia county Jail December 28 while swslt lng trial on a burglary charge. The Woodland bank was robbed of 1.900 Inst week by a bandit who kidnaped girl clerk but released her unharmed several blocks from the bank. PARIH. May 31 . ( AP) Ferdinand Bouia.son. called from the presidency (of the chamber of deputies, to mic- ceed Plerre-Kiiennc Flandin as pre i mier of France, tonight announced j completion of his cabinet. I BouisRon had announced he did i not expect to complete the ministry . until tomorrow, president Albert Le- bnin naked him, however. It whs un derstood, to try to complete the list Immediately In view of the urgency of the financial situation. The gov ernment was expected to be present ed to the president tonight. ASBURY PARK. N. Y. There ft fl 000.000 aliens In the United States holding Joba and earning money which rightfully belongr, to Ameri cans, ConirresAman Martin Dies, of Texas, told the minimi romentlon of the New Jersey Sentinel. Income Shares Quarterly Income huuea bid l.ii0, &kecl 1.3d. ROBBERY SUSPECT BOUM FORMS FRENCH CABINET BASEBALL National First game; R. H. E. New York 15 33 0 Boston 3 7 6 Schumacher and Mancuso; Rhem. Benton and Hogan, Mueller. Philadelphia at Brooklyn, post poned, rain. Second game: R. H. E New York 4 9 1 Boston 3 13 0 Hubbell and Mancuso; Cantwcll and Hogan. Mueller. Amcrlniu Boston at New York, postponed, rain. R. H. E. Cleveland 6 9 1 Chicago 3 6 2 Batteries: C. Brown. Harder and Pytlnk; Kennedy and Scwell. R. H. E. St. Louis 6 10 0 Detroit 0 6 3 ! Batteries: Wetland, Knott and Hemsley; Sullivan, Hogsett and Coch rane. L BE SOLD By DETROIT. Mich., May 31. (UP) A new and aa yet unestabllshcd com pany entered the highly competitive automobile industry today with a midget automobile designed to handle the transportation problem of 40. 000,000 Americans desirous of cheap but speedy travel. Tho automobile,' developed by J, B. Watson, an Independent reacaruh en gineer, will be marketed through a mall order sponsorship and will sell at aiSO to furnish transportation at a maximum yearly fuel cost of (00, according to Its originator' claim. Production or the car. Watson de clared, will begin In July with an orlglitil monthly schedule of 4000 units. Mall order house, he added, estimate requirements of 60,000 to 75.000 machine a year. Mnln plant, according to present plans, will be located In Detroit with four assembly plant at strategic spots throughout the country. Stock holder and backers of the project are the firms that will supply parts to the parent company. Chief attraction of a midget car such as Watson's has been "economi cal operation" and "reduced fuel con sumption." A number of such auto mobile have undergone experiment In laboratories of the Industry but Watson' la the first for which Is planned active production. Watson, who claims operating cost of his tiny car would be no greater than use of a street car or bus, has designed the machine to accommo date a single passenger. it Is a one-seater with a 32-Inch cushion width and a wheelbaae of 88 Inches. Leg room 1 half tho wheel base or 44 Inches. The machine looks like an over grown, enclosed motocycle. BILL CiSSELLTO E PORTLAND. Ore.. May 31. fAP) Chalmer William (Bill) Clsscll, 34. second baseman, was today appointed manager of the Portland baseball club of the Pacific Coast league. He Mieccpda Buddy Ryan, who resigned Inst night after Hollywood had beaten the Beavers 13 to 7 and 10 to 7 In a double header. Clsscll, who came to Portland this year from Boston, has played won derful basrball all season. He form erly was with the Cleveland Indians. He has been hitting at the ,337-rate and hi fielding ha been sensa tional. His appointment as playing man ager was announced this afternoon by E. J. Shcftcr. owner of the Beavers. Ryan will return to his home In Sac ramento, where he operate a string o( aervice stations. TO HONOR B. F. IRVINE SAI.RM. May 31. iPi Phe ne dormitory for the blind, au'horlwd by the legislature to be coi .struct 1 st a cost of IttO 000 and lorated a! .Salem, will be named for B- K. Irvlnt blind Portland editor. The state board of control today approved the dedication proposal ad vanced oy the Lions club of Salem Trie approval waa given In ipprecla t'oii o." .he "Intelligent act'vity" of Irvine la the interests of the blind TOF FOR REGION NEAR Hundreds Homeless, Prop erty Loss Heavy in Wake Wideflung Cloudbursts Denver Has Lucky Escape COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 31. (API Flood waters still roaied down steep mountain sides In east ern Colorado tOdaV hut their derlng menace of death and deatruc- .,u,a wua guile. At dawn today, the region tenta tively counted Its dead and mlssluj at S3. Its homeless In the hundreds and Dronertv damno in m.n dreds of thousands. Emerging from a night of terror and Its most disastrous flnnn in ia years, the harassed area took stock uy uuyjigni ana saw that thts east em slope city was the focal point of the waters' attack. Homes wei swept away, highway and railway bridges gone, and communication, power and transportation paralyzed. Death Mpures Pueblo Pueblo, scene of the 1031 flood dis aster, cacanert With nnm n.n- damage but no deaths. Denver's feara .nab vurouient jnerry creek would rampage through the city aa It did two years ago were dissipated early this morning as the crest of a blaclc torrent, roared Into the South Platte river without flooding the city. Greatest concern today was Centex ed on tho atlll Isolatod community vt Kiowa and Its pclghbor, Elbert, from which little news had emerged, butrr which suffered the brunt or two hugo torrents originating In a cloudburst on the crest of a watershed which sent part 'of the deluge down each side of the drainage. Efforts were being made today to reach Kiowa by airplane, by horse back and on foot. Brldcrea nn all rnns. approaching the village were wrecked. (Continued on Pag Seven) SALLErTraFACTTRIAL Melvln Franklin Bailee, Indicted by the grand Jury on a statutory charge involving a seven-year-old Central Point district girl, entered. a plea of not guilty in circuit court this morning and his trial was set for next Monday, or as soon there after aa possible. The defense, through Attorney M. O. Wilkin, announced that some witnesses would have to be sub poenaed from Klamath county. The court directed that they be Issued, and dispatched Immediately. HARVEY SEARS SCHOOL ATTENDANCE PERFECT Harvey Owen Bears, a member of the 1035 high school graduating class, closes his common school education with a perfect record for attendance. For twelve years he was neither ab sent or tardy. He attended the Phoe nix school for ll years, and the final year at the Medford Senior high, school. HOLLYWOOD, May HO We arc a funny people. Kusiness moil lui vi hnwlpfi from evrrv luni'lii'on tablr the evils of tilt! whole NRA. Then all at once the supreme court says: "Tho whole bridle is off, boys. From this ilav on every man lor him self." Now the same men arc rush ini lini'U tn the banouct tables and unoccupied microphones a.itl snouting wages musi ue maintained." "Cutthroat com petition must be o u r b e d, "Child labor is wronc." "Tho sweatshop must not return."' You just can t please t"mi people. Yours. WILL ROUKKS. P.S. Then the stock market went down 6 points. C 1111, HcN.tuht SodMM, O
