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edford Mail T There Is A Place No matter what you have to Ktl, want to trnd?, or n1sh to bur, them li a place In Mull Tribune classified for jour Ad. Ise these Adi and tet result Ju.t as your neighbor Is dolnr. Thirtieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1935. No. 61. The Weather j Forecast: Cloudy tonight and Satur- j day; moderate temperature. Temperature: Highest jesterday W . Lowest tht, morning - j M RIBUNE EflSTO M M 1 i -- aws I SPEEDING SEDAN Bfijpd WITH 6 SUSPECTS mmk is surrounded: By PAUL MAI.LON. (Copyright. 1935, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, June 1. The NRA decision struck President Roosevelt harder than published accounts have Indicated. Immedl ately after it swept away the basic legal ground on which his new .deal stood, his ''associates now agree, he was person ally as confused as were all his lawyers. He did not say or do anything for that almule reason. At'l MALlO Within twenty-four hours, how ever, his silence developed a pur pose. A reaction in the country be gan to be evident. The president then decided to fight to preserve more than the semblance of his busi ness reform program. He continued to remain silent in order to permit the full scope of the reaction to de velop. He wanted the wind of public opinion to fill his sails and deter mine his course; which, his counsel lors seem to agree, was wise strat egy. Presidential lawyers explored all the possibilities which have been printed and some which have not. A leading White House counsellor gave ao off-the-record analysis of the situation as he saw it, which offers an indi cation of the fundamental depths of government which were probed. Said he: "This country has gone through a revolution, whether It knows It or not. Future historians will realize it better than wo do. The revolution Is over, or rather tt was over until the supreme court -spoke, "The prosperity of butslness is not a local stato matter. Everyone now recognizes that, no matter what the supreme court says, ' "The national government nas been accepting that fact as settled, because the public agreed. It has taken extra-constitutional steps to provide an orderly, bloodless, govern mental revolution, furnishing central authority which business needs for cooperative effort. "If the supreme court says it can not be done because of the consti tution, and the people want to do It, the constitution will be changed. The only other thing possible is a dictatorship, and we do not want that." These are sharp words for a presi dential counsellor, but they were mild In camparison to those offered by some less conservative authori ties. The most favorable phase of the decision was the reaction to it. For weeks before, business men (U. S. Chamber of Commerce, et al) were complaining publicly that the new deal should let them alone so they could go ahead. If very man of them went ahead, it was not apparent. The depression in the stock market was unexpected and remarkable. Some business men explain this by saying that they could not atirf. a" bull movement In and out of the market because they did not know what the president was going to do. This is entirely true. The inflationary or deflationary results rested enttre.y with, whatever decision he made. But most authorities also suspect ed that. If nature were permitted to take its course, a deflationary period of prtce-cuttlnK and wage-cutting would set in. which would more than offpet any business hallelujahs at be ing released from covernment re straints. What is driving lawyers mad is the j fact that the supreme court did not i really lay down any fixed policy of restrain against the government In Its NRA decision. For instance, the court said the, rerall poultry business In New York City Is interstate commerce as far as ; federal anti-trust law Is concerned.' but not as far as the NRA provision j of wages and hours Is concerned. I In other words, for one federal j law. the business is Interstate com- i merce and rubject to federal rcgula- : tion. but. for the other, it Is not., This definition w evidently o muddy that the court ItjMf added: "The precis line can be dram only a individual ca.ers arise." ; V. Influential busine men have been making a subtle drive on Unc.e Dan Ropor, the comn.erce secretary. By telephone and tclecraph thy have been advising him lately to con duct his department for the bene-' fit of buMr.ec. in the same sptnt . in which the labor department is i-ondueteti for Ip.bor. They did not ;! him so directly, but their penil hint- were bar-eri on the teehnc that Mr. R.?per ppjiti'-al nfl'-kimmid rnr 'iijsed inn to lay iindii" sties on r?n pha.e j Th drive is not trended to r.'t him out of the cabinet, but to por-'"ir-"?.? h:m to i e-or. that ' p.ere ..- iCOitjUiaed, XfCA -a Mystery Car Hemmed in by Armed Men Near Hold man Road to South Of fers Escape Evade High way Patrol. PENDLETON, Ore., June 1. P) A tan sedan speeding nearly 100 miles an hour tonight turned ttw search for the Weyerhaeuser kidnap er to northeastern Oregon' wheat land where. William Edward "The Fox" Hickman who kidnaped ana butchered little Marian Parker of Los Angeles was traced to the ground in 1927. The tan sedan late today roared past two deputy sheriffs crulslru; eastward on the- UmatllU-Walluta highway, less than 35 miles from the place former Sheriff Tom Gurdaoc and his deputy Buck Lucllan cap tured "The Fox." The deputies from the Umatilln eounty sheriffs office spurred their car to 91 mile an hour but the tar. sedan was travelling ao fast they didn't even see what make of car it was or what type of license It ca--rled. But it was almost definitely es tablished that the sedan turned southward probably at Cold Spring and headed toward Holdman and roads guarded by county and state officers A check of main routes indicated the oar was in a 45-mile areH ringed with officer prepared to shoot to kill, if necessary. Hickman waa fox enough to allp right out of an aroused Ixm Angela but met his doom when he turned his i?reen Hudson car onto UmatUL) county highway. He waa captured near Eoho, Ore., on the Umatilla Pendleton road and returned to death on the fallows in California. With the broad Columbia river hemming them on the north, the only alternative route for the five or alt men reported seen in the tan sedan would be southward. At the little road marker called Holdman there is only one telephone and the ranchers living there aa'd they had been in the back of the house earlier in the evening and would not have known if the sed.a sped past in the twilight They took positions at the front cT the house after advised the men wl.c collected $200,000 ran.-om and releas ed little George Weyerhaeuser of Ta coma this morning mlgh be In the area. Two deputies took a station on Uie Holdman -Pendleton road, about tw.i miles north of Holdman. Besides the road south from Holdman to Pen dleton waa a little-used canyon road from Holdman to Helix, on the east. A road eastward from Helix connects with Athena, which Is on tne main highway from Pendleton to Walla Walla. Two state police guarded the Athena section of the road from Hel ix and Holdman. Other deputies were scatterei throughout the area and city offloe.'a watched approaches to Pendleton. State police, who were ordered to day from Salem headquarters to stand ready for emergency action in the kidnap pursuit, radiated fanwlse north of Pendleton tonight. Two deputy sheriffs were stationed on the Cold' Springs-Pendleton road near Holdman. and state police under Sergeant Staata of Pendleton and Captain Hoe of Baker took strategic posts on connecting roads. The strongest concentration wag to the eastward of Athena on the Pendleton-Walla Walla highway. Should the sedan approach Walla Walla It would find the roads guard ed by city officers there. Sheriff's deputies in Washington were watch ing roads west as far as Wallula. Even before Washington highway patrol headquarters at Olympla re quested aid of Oregon atat police today, descriptions of the suspects were supplied all officers. When the word was flashed that the $300,000 ransom waa paid and little George Weyerhaeuser safe home, the state police had no delu sions as to the deperatene of the kidnapers and were ready. If not willing, to shoot it out. State Police Captain Mason t Salem, acting in the absence of the superintendent, took Information supplied by the Associated Press and ordered all central and eastern Ore gon state police to be ready to actu ally Join the case and keep advised of developments. Eight or nine state police officers were in northeastern Orepon to aid deputy sheriffs In the search tn the notorious tan sdn. Hot r hie I nlloned .SEATTLE. June I T- Rjnnitw do-n a "'.ioi tip'' that three nen. on of them Vc-v Davis canstr name. In the George WTerheuar k'dnaf :nc h3d charred c of a hwl he i 4 a rr. this r;.or;:i:z S-r-eff W :::r. B Se er'.':'," srd ;i Cl"P'.ltiv: i.vk fingerprints Irm the room to- Drouth Diary Of George Weyerhauser'a Stay With Kidnapers (Copyright. 1836. by tb. Asaociawd Press and Seattle Times) "I'm awfully glad to gt back. "A man grabbed me and put n! hand over my mouth and pulled me Into the tan sedan. "He put me down in the back and covered me with this blanket. It certainly Is dirty. Isn't It? And then we drove and drove and drove. They told me I wouldn't be hurt If I didn't yell out, and I didn't want to be hurt ao I kept my mouth shut. "I signed my name three time. Once on that envelope, once on the ransom note, and once at the bottom of the blank paper. "The men told me there were an In the kidnaping, but I only saw three. They called one another Bill. Hnrry and Allen. "They always gave me all I could eat. Ves sir. they treated me fine. "They only hurt me once. T.iat was when one of them lifted me out of the car. I said. 'Bay. don't you hurt mi.' And he said. 'Young man, you're too valuable to hurt.' "Tliey always kept telling me they would turn me bark to my father. "They used to put me in the closet at night. It wasn't bad. They always put a mattreaa against the door and one man always laid on it. "You know they put sharkles on me? Aw, the.y didn't hurt. They didn't put them on that tight. Hand cuffs? I don't know handcuffs. T rode the trunk In the car. Sure it had holes In it. How could I have gotten any air? My legs were bent a little but they didn't hurt after X walked around a little. "They always took the blindfold off my eyes and I could eee things In the house. They always wore masks. They looked funny and 1 laughed at them at first. "My uncle. Mr. Tltcomb, brought the money to them. "About 10 o'clock last night one of them aald, 'We are going to put you In the road. You Just keep on walking. Pretty soon your father will come along and give you a ride home. I walked four miles or more. I wasn't afraid. I came to a house, went to the door and knocked, and then I said 'I am the little kidnaped boy'." G 10 1 WASHINGTON. June 1. (AP) All the crime fighting forces of the de partment of Justice were unleashed today after the kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser, nine-year-old Tacoma, Wash., heir as soon as the child had been released safely on the payment of $200,000 ransom. "Our long grind In the hunt for the kidnapers is Just started." waa the grim statement of J. Edgar Hoov er, close-mouthed director of the fed eral bureau of inveatigation. He ex pressed confidence bis "O" men would (get the kidnapers but declined to hazard an estimate of bow long It I would take. I The signal for the start of the man ; hunt was given by Hoover to his j Tacoma agents by telephone Immedl I ately after he had been informed of I the lad's return. I He had held his men In restraint pending safe delivery of the abducted lad under the bureau's policy of mak ing no move that might Imperil the I life of a kidnaped victim. j During the eight days the boy was in the hsnds of the mysterious j "Egoist." however, they have not been idle. i It it known they have studied csre- fully the typewritten ransom note mailed, by special delivery, to the family Immediately after the abduc , tion, but whether the bureau's ex pert have found significant finger prints or other Identifying marks pointing to a known gangster or other criminal is an official secret. It was learned also that federal op eratives here slresdy have prepsred a lift of the serial numbers on the ran- ; torn bills. Day ind nijht since ! i Thursday a special crew has been busy on the uppr floors of the J'J- ; tic department building tabulating . and printing tbem. This fact Indicated the family has ; cooperated clorely with federal agents! p'nee 'he boy was klo'naped and that 1 tne ran-orn -nne prooaDly a pud ; ;a. Titeisv. on the filth day men- j Area States Ravaged by Flood and Wind Kidnaped Boy and Where Freed tX 1 f .Him- VANCOUVER &-jgg fA t island S ffl jS8$at$ PI tes mi mifo Mi E (CopyrlRht, Ifm. by the Assoclntrd ' Press) QUETTA. India, June 2. Sunday) Fires flaring in the ruina of this city of death, devastated by earth quakes at a loss of life estimated at 30.000, bunted themselves out today, but authorities feared an outbreak of cholera. Doctors, nurses and medical equip ment were being rushed here by air planes after mosffof the fear-stricken, scantily-clad survivors spent another night under the open sky, shying away from shelters erected by sol diers. Floods accompanied the fires which raced through the devaatated area last night, threatening to swell still further the roll of dead and injured. QUETTA, India. June 1. ;p) Thj number of dead in this eanhquak--itrlcken area was unofficially esti mated at 30.000 today as relief work went forward under martial law, pro claimed to facilitate rescue ot the injured nd burial of the victims. The bodies of those who died tn the catastrophe were burned or bur led as soon a they were rew vered U avoid the risk of an outbreak of dis ease. One of the disaster's most tragic Incidents was the razing of the ger eral hospital, killing 200 to 300 pj tlents. Floods outside the city added ix the horror within. Water gushing from fissures caused by the quake in some places flooded to a depth of several feet. FLEET STARTS ON TACTICAL DRILLS ABOARD TJ. 0. S. PENNSYLVANIA IN MANEUVERS AT SEA. June I. iff Ninety-two combat ships of the United Mates fleet were started to day by its commander in cief. Ad miral Joseph M. Reeves, upon a series of the moat intense tacticai drill attempted In the annual ma neuvers. The exercises were marred shortly after noon by the nosing over cf three of 38 seaplanes as the flyiru machlnei were alighting on the rou;h seas. No one wa hurt and the three planes were quickly picked up by a crash boat from one of the dread naughta. Oregon: Pair Sunday and Monday; rising temperature and falling hu midity; fresh west to north wm wind off the coast. SAN FP.ANCISCO, June l(APl Weekly outlook for period June 8 to 8. Inclusive: Far western states: Normal tem perature and fair veathT. but con- aiderabl cloudiness mid. a times, j unsettled weather west ol the Cas i ttll ffi9ua tains, FAIR ANDNORMAL, WITH CLOUDINESS 0. s. c. OF ATTACK' ON KERR Resolution- Holds Report of "University Professors" Biased and Unworthy Citizens Weary of Strife CORVALL1S, Ore., June 1. (AP)-f-A resolution denouncing the Ameri can Association of University Pro fessors' committee report on Oregon higher education as biased and an "unwarranted attack on the state board of higher edupatton" was pars ed today by the Oregon State Col lege Alumni association. Alumni and friends of the Insti tutions were urged to unite in dis couraging such "disturbing influ ences." The action was taken at the association's annual meetings held In connection with commencement week-end. Full discussion of Issues involved waa held before the resolution wat presented and passed unanimously, alumni- officers reported. Copies were ordered sent to all members of the state board of higher education. The text: '"The disturbing Influence on higher education caused by the bias ed report of three members of the American Association of University Professors and distributed by two University of Oregon raculty mem bers is deplored by the Alumni As sociation of Oregon State college. "As already pointed out by the press of the state, the release of the report serves no useful purpose. It Is an unwarranted attack upon the state board of higher education and tends to continue turmoil and strife after substantial progress has been made toward attainment of harmony. "The report disregards the funda mental purposes of higher education (Continued on Page Six) 441 BLUE EAGLE CASES WIPED OUT WASHINGTON, June 1 ryp Ap parently throwing off the last vest -ges of restraint imposed by NRA now dewl wage-hour and fair tra'e practice piorUions. President Roose velt todiy dismUsed 441 court cas involving violations of olue eag rules. Thi wholesale action, coupled with an announcement that other legal actions contemplated would nu; be Initiated, followed close after th dropping of hints In high quart- that the president would propose . stop-gap NRA legislation. And if any permanent plan was reedy for sub miwlon. congressional leaders, a least, lacked any Inkling of It. Mr. Roosevelt cruised on Chesi pMke bay aboard the Yacht Segno1,, tonight while the capital (ondero1 without answer the course the ad ministration will take. The most uni form speculation of observers tint further sounding of the ni tion's re-itlr.n to the overthrow M NRA would precede any definite a: Woo. R.A, LAIN SOUGHT BY G. 0. P. P.y T. HAROLD OLIVER AHtneliitpri rre.ns Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June L AP) Swift passage of some voluntary In dustrtal regulatory measure to replace NRA waa demanded of the adminis tration today by senate Republican spokesmen. Seeking legislation at the present session, they predicted "keen and bit ter strife" If an attempt were made to amend the constitution to provide federal control of the nation's eco nomic and social structure, regardless of state lines. "Iet's not get gun-shy of the con stitution because of this en cm" said Senator McNary of Oregon, the minority floor leader, "Everyone has suffered from the shell shock of the supreme court's decision, of course, but we ought to do something of a voluntary nature." Interpreting President Roosevelt's press conference statement and Dem ocratic talk of an all-summer con gress ion al session as part of a plan to build up popular sentiment for a constitutional amendment, McNary and other Republicans aaw a tough political scrap ahead for 1030. While the Oregon senator would not attempt to say what the Repub lican attitude would be If the presi dent made a constitutional revision the prime issue. Senator Vandonberg of Michigan, who also has been men tioned as a candlate for the Repub lican nomination, registered a strong protest. "The president set the stakes for the 10:16 campaign yesterday," Van denberg aald. "He Is not simply ask ing for federal control but for na tionalization. If under any other flag but ours that would be fascism or communism. It Isn't the length, but the direction of the step. "What he asked for yesterday waa not merely for America to decide whether one section of the consti tution Is Inadequate, but whether we should tear up the old conception and embrace the new. That inevitably is the 1030 campaign Issue." Terming the president's ststement that thi: supreme court decision had sent America back to the "horse and buggy" age as a "gross and malig nant exaggeration," Vanderberg de clared that lr the simile were Justi fied "the Democratic platform of 1932 was a horse and buggy plat form." Senator Stelwer of Oregon agreed tt was better to amend the constitution than to "gradually usurp" Its powers, but aald whether such an amend ment would be the outstanding issue next year depended on Ha nature. He added: "If It Is proposed to make Washing ton Into a Moscow then it will be an Issue of outstanding Importance." PORTLAND, Ore., June I (AP) Bridges across the Columbia river and all principal highways In Oregon were under heavy guard today as the state police, upon request from Olympla. laid In wsit for two sedans reported to be carrying six men Involved In the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping at Ta coma. DENVER. June 1, ( AP) An sir- plane dragging a rope ladder flew low over the flood waters near Mc- Cook, Nb., today and rescued two men from a boat bobblnb about tn a blark stream filled with floating logs and bits of houses that thre.it end destruction, a message received I by witcIcm revealed. EDIATE N. WOODCUTTER TOLD FREED YOUTH NOT 'TO BOTHER 'Go Away; Don' Fool Me Was Warning When Boy Rapped at His Window Early Saturday Morning ISSAQUAH. Wash., June 1. (AP) When a small frightened boy knocked on his bedroom window this morning and Louts Spiers, 45. Tiger Mountain woodcutter, said, "do away, don't fool mo," he refused to hear an oppor tunity to enter the hall of fame. The wet, bedraggled little boy was 0-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, kid naped May 24 and safely returned to his family today after payment of a 200.000 ransom. Realizing he was not wanted, the little fellow picked up two blankets his abductors had given him when he was released and walked down the road to the Oeorge Bonlfas home, where he was given a welcome by Bonlfas, hla wife and children. "My goodness!" said Splera when to'.d he had turned away a boy sought for eight days and for whom $200,000 in ransom had been paid. "I have been fooled so much lately by boys coming up here that I thought I was being fooled again," he said. (Copyright, 1036, by the Associated press) TACOMA. June 1. (AP) Ran somed for $200,000 little Oeorge Weynrhauscr was freed by his kid napers today while a spreading hunt for his abductors closed around a mystery automobile speeding through northeastern Oregon tonight. While hysterical parents lavished attention on the curly-haired youth. (Continued on Page Twelve) FANATIC TRIES WIN WIFE'S LOVE HIGH POINT. N. C, June 1. (VP)" R. J. Rt,7gs, 30-year-old fining sta tion operator, was found nailed to a cross near here early today and offi cers, terming him a "religious fanat ic," quoted him as saying he had h'.j young son "crucify" him in hop nf regaining his estranged wife's affe- tlons. Riggs was found nailed through the flesh between thumbs and Ind'.x fingers of each hand and throng n the flesh of hi heels to a crude wooden cross which lay by the road side near his filling station. He was taken to a hospital where attaches said hi injuries were painful but not serious. He first told a story of three me a having broken Into hi home witr. the cry "you've been so good we're going to nail you to a cross" but Solicitor Gaston A. Johnson, tald ttttt under questioning he confessed hs had Donald Rigga. hla 15-year-old sot by e former wife, spike him to t ie crossed boards with ten penny nails "He admitted he made tte croii himself, got the nails and every thing," Johnson said. IN KARPIS CHASE SALEM. Ore.. June 1. (AP) All Oregon state police mere put on the lookout for the kidnapers of Oeorge Weyerhaeuser, 9, by orders of Cha'lc P. Pray, state superintendent, today. Descriptions ot the men suspected of the kidnaping and descriptions of the automobiles they were alleged to have operated, were received at police headquarters here early today and were promptly relayed to all state troopers. "My men have been Instructed to do everything possible to assist In the capture of these bandits," Pray declared. Ride roads will be watched closely and all persona resembling the kid napers will be questioned. Pray said. Prsy said his department was In cloe touch with the federal govcrn- i ment authorities working on the ; esse. Pray himself was at one time a federal senU 6-FOOT WALL OF Republican River Valley in Nebraska Inundated Death List Placed at 250 Special Train Rushes Boats Six States Hit McCOOK, Neb., June I. (p, A new menace, a six-foot wall of water, rushed down the already flod swol len Republican river valley in south ern Nebraska tonight aft, rellf workers had estimated disaster fatal ities In the region might wich 350 Sixteen persons were known deid In floods and tornadoes which wert southern Nebraska, Inundating thou sands of acres of Dundy. Chase, Hay es. mwjicocK. ned willow, Frontier Furnas. Harlan. Franklin, Webster and Nuc'colls counties. The flooded territory was mor than 200 miles long and at some points the river, normally a small stream, was- two and a half mites wide. Property damngw was estimated af ter first surveys of thu havoc at aev. eral million dollars. McCook and Ox ford alone counted their loss at H, 500.000. Army authorities rushed large boa's to Oxford by special train to eld In rescue work. A telephone; official at Holbroofc, about 20 miles down river from Mc Cook aald the wall or water, bettered to come from a broken dam near Parksone of two adjacent Tillages washed eff the map Friday with a known loss of 8 lives was nearim that town and would probabty sweep Into Oxford early Sunday morning. Tf we don't reach the itrandcl persons tonight, they'll probably b deai tomorrow," Nissen said. The riood surged Into Red Cloud, 70 miles down the Republican's course from McCook, late today and soon had swept away all low land houses into it floatsam o de-br'a from earlier ravages. The Republican was two miles wide and the wati? five feet deep in the Burlington nail road station there tonight. (By the Associated press) Floods, oloudburats and tornadoes In six western states heart of the 1 0.14's historic drouth area caused 62 known deaths last night, destroyed millions of dollars In property and (Continued from page six.) E WASHINGTON, June 1. (Ft Presi dent Roosevelt today completed a statement on NRA and then repartU for an overnight cruise on the Chesa peake bay without giving any further Indication of his views on the future of the recovery act. He left the capital amid Indications given by high sources close to the White House that he was likely reject all plans for stop-gap legisla tion for the present and to await t.te country's reaction. SAYS' SANTA .MONICA, Cal., May 31. Our state assembly is hav ing a torriblo fight. There is 27 "Kpics" (eliminate poverty in California), the Sinclair ticket. That's out of a mem bership of 80 in the lower house. Well, the fight is just among these It's a bill to stop all these unemployed that's flock inc into the state (it passed the In.vop linnsel. Some Knies say they can eliminate the poverty in the state, but tney can i eliminate all the poverty that eomes in. Others say that one state can't bar people of other itatcs. All of which pets back to my plan, that is of beine able to wive the supreme court and ask them. They reply with a niv;ht lctter. and the whole thin? i settled once and for all. flCiL , e UcM.uat SyadlcaM, ta.
