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Newspaper Page TextMail Tribune Why Wait? Ton are lo.lng time. Write that Want Ad now and hare It ready tor the nrxt luiie of the Mall Tribune. Why keep jour fii.toniers Halting? Thirtieth Year MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 193,-. No. til. V It ET"3 lixJ UU ILU u vJ tl The Weather Forecast : Fair tonight am Thui (lav; high day temperature and lw humldit. Highest yesterday ... - ........... .101 Lowest this morning............ M MEDFORD By PAI L M.U.LON (Copyright, 1035, by Paul Gallon.) WASHINGTON, June 5. rresldent Roosevelt has been receiving dally, and sometimes hourly, secrrt report Jon wc-cutting and hour-lengthening since the NRA decision These h:ve been collected dv gents o the la bor department out through t.io country, wired to headquar ter here and shlppeJ over to t'.i Whit? House almot as fast as the:; come. I'.MI GALLON So far, they indicate the respon sible leaders ot the country are show ing some real business leadership o." their own. During che f'.rs week following the decision, no report win received Indicating anything like a general move to tear dor.Ti NRA standard among major employers and major industries. , The reports ful'7 bore out what the leading employer have been saying publicly But the little fellows generally we.t not observing such restratr-t The reports indicated about 600 cases of wage cuts or hour-Iengthcn'ng from New York City alone. One milential senator gave out a statement a few days after tne Nil K decision, announcing that it did nut affect the AAA program. A f?w hour. later, ho oecided to correct thU state ment, and Issued a substitute saying It did. He is the only one of the 530 con gressmen who got out publicly on both sides of the issue, but a gooi many of the remaining 829 were even more confused. '"' " . i Very few among them read the de cision. They relied upon what the? heard ot'.iers saying, and n moar cases, the others had not read It either. Consequently, there was m limit to the Imaginary possibilities expressed among the bewtldred leg islators a week after the decision At least, a clear-cut cross-section of opinion nmong them could not bs obtained. The nig noodles In PrtMiden; President Roosevelt's alpha-bet souo may be "urllng legally, but Dr. Tu well's rural resettlement noodle is being quietly nurtured aim!, un damaged. Dr. Tu?well may be for gotten, but he is not gone. Unnoticed, he is organizing a head quarters here which will ;each Its maximum efficiency and emol.-.y 2.000 office workers within a year. He ex perts to have 4.000 more employee In the field by then. His unit will purchase b- tveen 5" md 100 million acres of land. Th'! area. If consolidated, woukl cover perhaps half the state of Texis With in a few months he expects to begin putting unestlmated thousands tc I o:-x on this land, planting trrass aid trees, terracing, ditching Vor pe--sons In the areas will be "rattled." It is nt a big enough pJect to replsce the NRA. but It Is big. A quiet organization Is being ef fected In the Ftleral Housln.T Admin istration and the new denrs ma (Continued on Page Eight) S!DE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Members of the city council last nizht rinding the task of government to be it hot one. peeling off their tier and coats accordingly, and every thing proceeding cooly from then on. Earl Foy retiring to his garden for few minutes work, and discovering to his dismay that the job will take most of the summer. Paul Sakraida relating the "bear" . far'g and still pretty Jittery over !ast - Mcht bruin slayln? episode. Jaeques Matalque sticking the reg- j tratton table squarely in the door I st the art exhibit so that persons, wouldn't miss it. and then stepping rack to view the artistic effect, with profound "Ah!" j ENGLEHARDT SETTLES ATTORNEY FEE CLffl :-:pu!anon filed yesterday n ;"r"tn court netting forth that the vr. of V A. C. Ahlf. a woman 'T-rnev of Grants Pass, against Pro!. : C. EnelMiardt. Eagle Plnt district 'Ticiier for 9250 for legal sen ices -s:ie.-ed had been settled for f!00 suit was for erv'.ce in the r .'Art!-, clncr.e B the frnw o: '. i -ip ; " uit is dropped, and tne case FIVE IN SOUGH! FOR QUESTIONING G-Men Mum On Details Passing of Bank Note in Eastern Oregon First Defi nite Clue Clues Probed SEATTLE. June 5. .'P. Six King county deputy sheriffs firm ed with sub-machine tuns mid shotguns, hurried from the county-city building this afterwon on a "hot Hp" regarding locail-n of the hideout of the kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser. Before two cars left with depu ties. O. K. Rmlla. chief cr'minal deputy, said, "It looks hot; we're not taking any chances. He would iiot say where the party was going. Iepuiles have searched the Is saquah district all week Tot the hideout, believed near the lonely road where George was r -leased last week. By l.EI.AND II ANN' I'M. Associated Pres Stafr Writer. TACOMA. Wash., June 5 AP) Police of Portland. Ore., today named five men as wanted for questioning In the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping with federal officers here, refusing com ment, waited to strike swiftly at the first serious slip by the snatch gang. Federal agents in charge of the manhunt here refused to affirm or deny whether the men named in Portland were wanted by them, but asked to be given their names. Captain John Keegan of the Port land detective bureau named the men as Richard Pranzeen and Elliott Kitchener. Indicted for the Denver and Rio Grande railroad robbery February 2; Jack Bailey of Portland: Clarence Martin and Herbert Lester Johnstone, alias 'Shadow." Last Seen May 15. The Portland officer said Bailey had last been seen there May 15 and that Martin and Johnstone were suspected of Implication In a $10,000 extortion plot against the mayor of Olympia. Wash., several years ago. Franzeen and Mlchener were last seen In Salt Lake City several weeks ago, Portland authorities said. The usual "nothing to say" was (Continued on Page Twelve) Y The Med ford post of the American Legion will hold its regular meeting Monday evening. June 10, at the Eagles' hall. At that time nomina tions will be In order for officers for the ensuing year. Reports of stand ing committees will be made. The local post has been working for some time on plans for acquisi tion of a club house of its own in Medford, and to raise money for the venture has decided to establish an "amusement center" In the building formerly ocupled by the Marsh Gro cery company. The organization Is offering a $5 prize to the person who submits the best name for the new establishment, which is to be opened in the near future. Details may be had by calling Lee Garlock. 312. PACIFIC PETROLEUM AGREEMENT CANCELLED WASHIHOTON. June 5 (API Cancellation of the Pacirlc eoat pe troleum rellners agreement because of the supreme court NRA decision was announced today by Secretary Ickee, the oil administrator. Income Shares Quarterly Income shares: tl.30 bid; $1.43 asked. Bear Makes heading Ph The temerity of a large black bear., no matter how hungry, in planning1 meal at the Sakraida ranch near, Phoeni with one of the small Sa- XraWJa pigs as the entree was too much for that family last night. I and after a two-hour chase the besr was crippled by a home marie .U j plsto:. and brought, down with a ( -lfle in t-.e hands of Dick Sakraida, ; who posa-.bly owes his life to a small b'.ack dotr. la' r. eht as the family was out u, ;-: r'r:..v: ' ; fir.; t:.e vr.y Frk.- 1:! ' 1m,, j ,barn. Se cred out to wr family. I Plan New Legislation to Replace Invalid Codes SHELTERED KIDNAPED YOUNGSTER :f&Svfm DEUNQUENCIES TO H lftff 4 BE FORECLOSED ON V? nlrnn , .1'-1 'fI Louis Bonifas and his family became prominent in the news when they fed nine-yearold George Weyerhaeuser and returned him to his parents In Tacoma, Wash., after the kidnaped youngster was released near Issaquah, Wash. George found the home after walking nearly four hours from the place he was freed after the abductors had re ceived $200,000 ransom. Betty gave her shoes to George after he had gotten his feet wet walking down the old country road. The Bonifas children are (left to right) Betty Lee, Walter Eldon, John Paul and Lucille Lois. (Associated Press Photo l CLOUDS UP AGAIN IN SEATTLE AREA SEATTLE. June 5. i,V The Pa clflc northwest lumber strl. ltua tion. brightened the first of the weec by the l mlted resumption of opera tions at numerous centers which sent an estimated 8.000 men bick to woilt. clouded up today as mills wire qu'e; again here and at Longvlew. Some 3.800 men had gone back to work at Long view in the bt Weye. haeuser and Long-Bell plants the first of the Aeck. but operations were stopped 'his morning when employes refuseed to pass a picket line estab lished by the Shingle Weaver' union The Shingle Weavers. Hire the Saw milt and Timber Workers ur.lon. ar? an affiliate of the Carpenters am Joiners of America, and have rejects-l from the outset the "Longew set tlement" of last week, by which thi strike over the area was believed ended. Five Svittle plants which rd re sumed operations on Monday were quiet today, and no plats were known, either, to reopen mills at Tacoma. An Informal vote taktn there among rfnlllworkers. by a com mittee headed by Mayor G-orge A Smitlcy. showed a vote of 7 to 1 r. favor of -e turning to "work, nut em ployers chowed no signs this morn ing of resuming operations. ASK HERRlOnO SELECHABINET (Copyright, IMS. by the Associated Pres) PARIS. France. June 5. (AP President Lebrun. trying to reorgan ise the French eovemment. today designated Edouard Herrlot. three time premier of France, to s-lect a new cabinet and carry on in the face of the nation's financial crisis. The veteran government head, who Is leader of the radical socialist party and an advocate of France's payment of her war debts to the United States, was selected for the task after Pierre Laval, foreign minister, had failed In an rffort at rallying a new cabinet around him. Mistake of oenix Ranch and two of her sons. Dick and Leo. sa'-e ehae on horseback, armed with a rifle. T.ie animal fled towards tne LoffT ran-h. streaking within a few et of Warren Loffer who was sur prise whl busy Irrigating a field, and fled to the upper reaches of a tree. Loffer Joined the chase In a ten moments, armed only with a shovel, and as the pursuers raced across the road and entered the Oregon orchard. Pr?nk Schuler emerged from tits froi.t dor with a rifle in time to f - i r tiu'.f'K hots st the fast (i.jne-.r.? h-,ci-o':.-rr of the (Continued on Page rre.ve) ft-- jr. I E SPACE AT PLANT Construction ta now well under way on the $100,000 cold storage plant of the Pinnacle Packing Com pany, Inc., on South Front street, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. The basement has been completed and building of the walls is under way. The new structure will toe an addition to the cold storage facilities of the No. 4 plant or the company. The combined cold storage plants will have a capacity of 235,000 boxes of fruit. The new structure will be three stories high, constructed of steel and concrete, modern and flrcprool throughout. It will be 70 by 100 feet in dimensions. Excavating for the work started three weeks ago. The new cold storage plant addi- (Contlnued on Page Twelve) SHY GARBO SAILS ALONE FOR HOI NEW TORK, June B.(UPi Greta Oarbo sailed for Sweden yesterday aboard the Swedish-American liner Kungaholm for her annual vacation. Only a few newspapermen an! photographers saw the shy actrests as she detrained Rt Newark then sped by taxi to her boat. She was dressed In a gray eruemble and was escorted by Carter Gibson, studio executive. Miss Oarbo wu travelling under t the name of Karin Lund, as Is her : custom. She sailed alone. I Capt. Ele Ellsen. an old acquain tance, welcomed the actress aboard 'ship and Invited her up on the bridge. A little boy named Nils Hansen said "I shook hands with her" after he 'wandered off the ship. j Previously the actress showed her surprise when told people were anxl- ! ous to see her, "Why do they want to see me?" she j asked. "What do they want me to jsay? Id so like to see things and shop." T LIONS CONCLAVE WILL BE IN NEWPORT THE DALLES. Ore.. June 7. A' Newport H1 re the a.t for he 19t district i onverition of L:ons clubs, a a result of the vote take:, at th concluding eAion of this year's con vention here yesterday Office- named Include; fi-v Tim othy Watson. Tgrd dtsftct gov ernor, and O. F Tate dietrt ecr tary. SALT LAKE CITY. June 5. (UP) When a truck came through a narrow alley. Mrs. Mildred Wyatt squeezed up ariiir..! the vill f.o 1": it p-sv liT sq-jee, UKs-n't ei:ouzn. She ika trra'etf t. a hospital for chest and arm injuries. pity issmm Will I IUULVUI 1 1 L.I 1 I I Council Orders Cleanup of Old Consolidated Fund Townsend Action Waits Opinion of Attorneys Immediate foreclosure of old con solidated fund assessments in one amount of approximately (6000 was ordered last night at a regular meet ing of the city council. City officials pointed out that the assessments have been delinquent fo many years, and In following out a program to clean up all delinquencies, the council has found It necessary to Insist upon Immediate payment. After conaideration for several weeks, J. F. Fliegel. chairman, reported that the license committee Is not ad vised as to whether or not the mat ter of the city's approving the Town send Old Age Pension plan comes wtthin the province of the council. Without approving or disapproving of the plan, the committee recommend ed that the matter be referred to the city attorney for an opinion as to whether or not the question Is such as should be considered by the coun cil. Request Studied Chairman Fliegel reported that the application, submitted by Mcdford baseball National. fFlrst game) R. H. E. New York S 1 Philadelphia 4 7 0 Batteries: Fltzslmmons. Chagnon and Mancuso; Jorgens, Johnson and Todd. Second game: New York R. H. E. 7 19 2 Philadelphia 4 10 1 Hubbell and Mancuso; Walters. E. Moore, Pezzulo and Wilson, (First game) R. H. E. Brooklyn 3 11 0 Boston 0 8 1 Batteries: Mungo and Lopez. Phelps; Brandt, Betts and Hogsn, Spohrer. (Second game) R. H. E. Brooklyn .......... 2 7 1 Boston - 10 10 0 Batteries: Earnahsw. Bablch, Vance and Phelps; Frank house and Spohrer. St. Louis at Pittsburg postponed: rain, R. H. B Cincinnati 2 ft u Chicago ..., 3 6 0 Schott and Erlckson; Fivr.ch an 1 Odea. American R. H. E. Philadelphia 0 11 l New York ..: 7 12 0 Marcum. Caster. Wllshlre and Rich ards, Berry; Tamulis, Murphy, Brown and Dickey. First R?me; K H- E Cleveland 1 4 10 1 Detroit a 8 I Hudlln and Pytlsk: Bruges and Cochrane. (10 Innings) R H. t, Boston 4 10 A Washington 5 S 1 Grove and R. Ferrell; Whitehill and Bolton. H. S Chicago o 2 ! St. Louis 2 7 : Whitehead and Sewell; Kntt an ! Hemsley. STILL EFFECTIVE SALEM. Ore., June fi.(UPi Labor Commissioner Charles Gram warned today that Invalidation of NRA has no effect on Oregon"! minimum wat(e laws for women employes. He said there were Indications that vge cuts and hour increases were contemplated by employers of women In many sec tions of the state. "The minimum wage which can be paid women workers Is 30 cents ar hour." said Oram. "The maximum work day la nine hours and the maximum work week Is 40 hours. These regulations were in effect be fore the NRA anc. are still In opera tion. Cannery workers on piece basl must averaye 27;3 cents for at leait per cent of the workers Women on utralpht salary in canneries must be paid the 30 cent oilnlmnm." ALTERNATE SITES Governor Tells Planners to Submit New Location if Old Grounds Found Too Small Left to Solons SALEM. June 5 (JP Governot Charles H Martin today am.ou nc1 that he la Instructing the stite plar ring commission In Its studies of the new capltol building projec to pre pare plana for a building to be lo cated on the site of the structure recently destroyed by fire, n adop tion to any plana they may subm'.f for another site if they dee'de that the present grounds are too small to be efficiently utilized In the event the plannirg boa-xJ should it-commend another :t f: the new capltol the legislature, in this manner, will have before it al ternate proposals from wMlch tc choose in passing final judgment up on the final location, Oovcrnor Mar tin pointed out. Group Plan Advocated At a recent meeting with he gov ernor, the planning board postponed final action upon selection of a site to be recommended to the hoard oi control and the legislature until It had completed Its study of possible locations. Some members of th board, inclined toward construction of a group of buildings ratner than a single capltol structure, ''ontcnde'l that. , tha. jjgesent grounds arc n.H large enough to accommodate such s group, and suggested that 'he avail ability of larger sites be investigated Objections by some of the leglsH ture to the alleged extravagance 3t (Continued on Page Twelve) SALLEE ON STAND DENIES MP CENTRAL PT. GIRL Melvin Franklin Bailee, on trial be fore an all-man Jury In circuit court, on a charge Involving an elleged sta tutory offense against a seven-year- old Central Point girl, was on the stand this morning for cross-examination by Deputy District Attorney George W. Nellson. Sallec denied the accusation, and Introduced testimony in an attempt to prove an alibi, that he was not In Central Point at the time of the com mission of the alleged crime, but was In this city at the corner of Main and Central avenue, at "three minutes to three," a time he fixed by looking at the clock on the Jackson county bank building. Salee was positive on this point. Mr. and Mrs. Verne Orr, cousins of the defendant, testified that they had (Continued on Page Twelve) Lad Cremated In Ranch House Fire OREGON CITY. O-e.. Jure . ! Ernest Olle Cooper. Jr., a. burned to death at the home of his parent. and Mrs Ernest a. Cooper, vesterdej afternoon. Mr. and Mra. Cooper, who reside In the mountain oo.tntry t. the south, were on other parte of fc.v: rsnch when the fire started ,ind were unable to effect entrance to save the boy when th.y returned to find th home In flames. Army Offers Plan for Spending Relief Money WASHINGTON, June 5. APj i Additional proposals for spending work relief money at army post and national cemeteries were put forward today by the war department. The d'-par'.ment filed apl.catior for I27.4S7.390 to carry on 41 projects. Moat of the money would go for br- ; rack, hospitals, shops, service clubs and other Improvements at army sta tion in Haws II and the Canal Zone. The rest would be spent at various points In 14 states. Another batch of applications pre sented by the department yesterday aked 'i7.'i4 733 of work relief fund. Official suited tie projects to be ! flnanred with th:s would b ivl ' liquidating ' because the government f Blue Eagle Dead Along With Code Practices of NRA WASHINGTON, June 8. (AP) The blue eagle now la official ly dead. It never was a statutory bird, having been created by General Hugh S. Johnson, first NRA boss. In recent months Its use as a compliance weapon slumped to small proportions. There was a possibility that trade associations might attempt the use of some sort of a label, but it won't be NRA's blue eagle. The bird was to have been abandoned as an NRA symbol. Dropping of code enforcement killed It. ' F STATE INFORMED SALEM. Jun 5 IPi Tho wtin- cate of apportionment of highway an grade croaalng funda. of whl'.h Ore- gon waa -Ulocatod, 3.4O0,0O0. taa mall cd today from wnahtngton W. n Lynch, c'.ilef of the feoeral bureau ot publlo roada at Portland today ad vised the atate highway commiaalon. As soon as these funda are received the allocations within the .tale chji be made Yy the commission and wo t started at once. The first letting which would be about '.0C0.000. could be' awarded wtthin a nonth. It waa estimated. The Information received t.y Lynch stated the new regulations would be on strict relief lsbor basis, tne regu lations to follow ' 'limcd'ate'y after the certificate. In the n.cantltm. partial road programs could be pre pared by the state for projects that will use SO per cent labor from relief rolla. 4 BILL BY HOUSE WASHWQTON. June fl. f-T A djU to authorize construction o half s dozen key army air baaea t guard Alaska, the Panama Canal, and the nation's frontiers against any enemy attacks was paased today by the house and sent to the senate. The measure recently wm the cen ter of International reverberations when It waa disclosed an officer ot the army high command had told the house military committee It contain ed a camouflaged provision for a-, air base on the Canadian b.vrder. In establishing the new osses. tne war department U directed to con sider sites in the Atlantic uoUheast. Atlantic southeast and Ciribbean. southeastern states, Alaska, Pacific northwest and Rocky Mountains. WILSON ABSOLVED IN DEATH YOUNG FRALEY A not true bill waa returned yes terday by the Jackson county grand Jury against Jack Blakley. also known aa Joe Wilson, chsrged with In voluntary manslaughter as the result of an auto accident on the Jackson ville highway two weeks ago. when Prancla rraley, 13. a boy bicyclist, waa killed, after the auto driven by Blakley had collided with an auto he attempted to pass. A doren witnesses were heard, and the grand Jury spent three days Investigating the cane. Following the returning of the not true bill, the grand Jury recessed subject to further call, would save rent and heary mainten ance costs. Meanwhile, state highway depart ments learned how much of the MOO .000,000 already set aside for highway construction and grade crossing eliminations they will have to spend. Secretary Wallace divided this amount among the states yeatnr- day. making half of It available for streets and highways and half for eliminating grade crossings. The state highway departments must submit 1 detailed programs outlining what they Intend to do with the money. I Actual work can not begin, It was said authoritatively, until proposal i have been checked by Harry L. Hop kins' works prog re division to deter i mine whether they meet local relief neds. SKELETON SET-UP TO BE MAINTAINED FOR NRAFONCTION Action Before End Present Congress Session Roose velt Aim Suggestions Are Given to Law Expert WASHINGTON. June . (API Democratic leaders In congress said todsy President Roosevelt wss plan ning to submit additional legisla tion, before the end of the present session, to replace NRA 'a Invalidated code structure. Aside from the Immediate plana to retain a skeleton NRA aetup with extremely restricted functions, the form of future legislation has yet to be determined, however. The presi dent Is personally studying the pos sibilities. Chairman Doughton spoke of the possibility of using the federal tax ing power to devise a permanent aub atltute for the fallen blue eagle: but senate administration sources dis counted the likelihood of that. Volunteer Codes, .Icike Senator Clark (D.. Mo ), author of the senate bill extending NRA until next April, said he was "perfectly willing to retain a akcleton NRA or ganization" and a voluntary code system would be "a Joke." "I'd be glad to establish a sys tem of barring child labor and es tablishing maximum hours and mini mum wages, if It could be done," he sam. -But i wouldn't want it as a cover for all the monopolistic prac (Continued on Pagi five) HEAT OF TUESDAY '24 A weather bureau reading, taken aft 3:45 this a f tern on. showed the mer cury skyrocketing paat the centu-y mark, standing at 100.3 dcyrecs, thi hottest part of the day prohiMy st.U to come. The weatherman rolled up his sleeve today and forecast fair weaher to night and Thursday with h f h d temperature and low humidity prom ising no let-up In the unscnsonabl warm spell that yesterday boosted tlv mercury to 100 degrees, a re wrd sine 1D24 for weather prior to June d. In the temperature reach 1 102 degrees on June I and 2. but since then there has been no tem perature f 100 degrees or above that early In the spring. In ,19? how ever, the mercury reached 104 d. grecs on June 5, but Indications early today were that that mark may b-e eclipsed late thl afternoon Yesterday's high mark was reache! about 3:40, and thereafter .t became slightly Moudy and the teroernturi tapered off, OCTOPUS ATTACKS MAN GATHERING ABOLONES RICHMOND. CaJ., June (UP) While his wife and son watched. J. V. Sargent, gathering abalonea In Anchor bay. suddenly staggered and began flailing at his anklrs. An octopus had wound its tentacles about hie legs. For half an hour Sargent bat tled with the groping fish, finally killing It with a blow to Its head. It measured eight feet across the ten -tacles. HOLLYWOOD, rnl.. .Tune 4. Prance won't have to go off the fold norv. Their new boat broke the record so that mean all Americans with nothing to do when they get over thers will want to go on the fastest boat. The U. ?. treasury says that expenditures are running a bil lion and a half under estimates. That means more money than schemes. The baccalaureate addresses sriven to uraduates don't offer 'em much encouragement out side of ndvisiiiL' 'cm to vote the straight nepublicnn ticket. 1 C l. MeNssaM Si.diciU. tea.