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Medford Mail Tpibxj Why Wait? Toa are losing time. Write that Want Ad now and have It ready for the next issue of the Mall Tribune. Why keep your customers Halting? Thirtieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1033. No. 63. pi n The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Friday; slightly cooler Friday. Temperature; Highest yesterday ..-..103 I-ouest this morning .... 53 NE KM n '" jW " By PALI, M.U.LON (Copyright. 1935, by Paul Mullon) WASHINGTON, June 8. Most peo ple out In the country have the no tion that the president la the most powerful I n f I u ence In It. The truth ts exactly the opposite. A majority ot pres idents live agreed that the people are the most pow erful Influence. No president has dared to go far ther than ho thought they wanted to go. That tells the story of what has M.U.LON been happening on the Inside lately In connection with the reformation of the new deal. The Initial steps taken by the pres ident were only to save the skeleton of NRA. They were merely tho .pre liminary necessary and obvious moves. The bigger ones he has hinted at are withheld because the reaction of the country had not then' fully devel oped. At least the advisers to the president believed it had not begun to develop. The scope of further steps will be outlined when, and If, It does. There was considerable dismay In high circles because the president's strong background views, expressed last Friday, provoked so Jew tele grams and letters, showing reaction. Usually, his radio speeches have brought immediate national responses. The temper of the country can be Judged not only by the volume of such letters and telegrams, but by the nature of them, the tone, the Importance of names signed. One official hotheadedly tried to blame the press. The technique em ployed by the prpsldent appears to have been actually responsible. He did not permit direct quotation. The subject is deep and Involved. The full impllctalons have not yet sunk into the public mind. The reason you have heard little or nothing about the big new works program ts because it has run Into a thousand and one new Inner ob stacles. Inevitable red tape has en circled It. Plans have had to be changed and rechanged. The experi ence is proving again that nothing so stupendous can be done quickly and done right. For Instance, the president re cently ordered heavy projects thrown out the window. This had to be done because the government found It could not afford to spend so much money for materials and yet put 3, 800.000 persons to work. The result is that stacks of blue prints, prepared by cities In co operation with PWA engineers, are now worthless. One midwest city spent 5S,000 on preparing detailed engineering plans for a water works and . similar heavy projects. These went out the window on the gust of the president's order. The latest rechanglng restores Harry Hopkins to the top of the heap at relief headquarters. He has al ways been an advocate of heavy spending on light projects, some of which have been as airy as boon doggling. This undoubtedly means that, when they once get straight ened away on current perplexing preliminaries, the money will begin to fly. It Blso means that Interior Secretary Ickes and his PWA theo ries of spending are again at the bot tom. The new deal has run Into another supreme court Inside the house In terstate commerce sub-commltteos. The situation there Is not being ad- Continued on Page Eight) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ray Hendprson and Eli Campbell mi5slng their dinner as they sat through the noon hour in front of Ray's home, having one last good talk before Henderson departs for Yo semlte. "Rosy" Roscubaum using his tast ounce of sales resistance to keep a local merchant from selling him a paper Jungle helmet to "promote travel to Africa." Frank Rogers, building inspector, trying to account for all the unwar ranted curves on the Jacksonville highway. Vic Trngwald absent-mindedly waving a match for several minutes after putting tt out. while submersed in his paper. The Al Littreil kids on South Oak-I dale entering the soft-drink fild ! upon the collapse of the NRA. selling j lemonade for a cent a glass. Jolui Conner and Claude Hoover ;n the middle of the road planning a. swim party I Is 'f i I'M I AGREE TO EXTEND ORGANIZATION TO APRILNEXT YEAR House Ways, Means Com mittee Approves Resolu tion After Senate and Ad ministration Accept Plan WASHINGTON. June (API Bv a 19-to-5 vote, the house ways and means committee today approved a resolution extending the NRA organi zation until April 1, 1036, but re pealing all power of the president to approve, prescribe or enforce codes. The resolution accomplishing those purposes previously had been ac cepted by Donald Rchbcrg, represent ing the president, and Senator Har rison (D., Miss.), senate spokesman. WASHINGTON. June 6. (AP) A resolution extending a skeleton NRA organization until April l, 1936, but repealing all presidential power to prescribe, approve or enforce t codes of fair competition, was agreed to today by house, senate and adminis tration leaders. Earlier, a study of the possibility of preserving labor standards through Interstate compacts, bolstered by fed eral co-operation, waa Initiated by President Roosevelt. May Boost Inheritance Tax Congressional leaders also said that President Roosevelt may send a mes sage soon advocating Increased in heritance taxes to replace NRA as a means of distributing Income. The resolution agreed to had yet to be approved by the full house ways and means committee, but Demo cratic leaders expressed the hope that would bo obtained before nightfall and the "stop-gap" resolution brought up in the house tomorrow. The schedule, as the ways and means committee met to act this (Continued on Page fwclve) STATE ATTEMPTS TO BLAST SALLEE Rebuttal evidence in the circuit court trial of Melvln Franklin Sal lee. charged with a statutory offense in volving a seven year old Central Point girl, was offered by the state this morning, in an effort to refute the defenso alibi, which holds that the defendant was In this city at the time the alleged crime was commit ted. Mrs. Florence Hilkey. mother-in-law of the defendant, was "positive the road had not been fixed." Sallce claimed that the day before the al leged crime he had filled up the ruin in the road to Yankee creek. "The road, as far as I could see, was Just the same as It always was," she satd. Mrs. Hilkey also testified that Sal lee's reputation for truth and ver acity was "bad." Upon objection of defense counsel, the answer was or dered stricken by the court. Mrs Hilkey admitted she had talked to (Continued on Page Pwelve) PLANT PROJECT HERE K. V. Hill, engineer for Greeley A Hansen, Chicago engineering com pany In charge of the plans for the new Medford sewage disposal plant, arrived by auto Ia,t ntght from the Windy City to become resident en gineer on the local project until Its completion. Hill stated today that 26 sets of plans have already been sent out. Indicating a god competitive selec tion when bids are called on Wed nesday. June 12. Work will start as soon as the contracts are awarded. WOMAN IN HYSTERICS AS EXECUTION TIME HEARS GEORGETOWN, Del., June 8 (AP) Unnerved by her approaching doom and a terrific storm that lashed the prison, Mrs. May H. Carey, 55, wno will be hanged with her son. tomor row, broke down today and screamed frantically. The son. Howard, 27, who is to die with his mother for the playing of her brother. Robert Hifhens. 87. killed for his ?2000 Insurance pol icy, wept too as he heard his mother's entreaties for mercy. Thy at little and Jail attena ants watched with concern the hys teria or the woman, ho, several Bill Bowerman First Ransom Bill Found Agent T. C. Hunter (right) In charge of the railway station at Huntington, Ore., near the Idaho state line. Identified the first ransom bill to appear after J. P. Weyerhaeuser paid $200,000 In ransom to kidnapers for the return of his nine-year-old son, George. The $20 bill was given to Telegrapher C. E. Hannon (right) by a man who bought a ticket for Salt Lake Cltv. Utah. (Associated Press Photos) LY After completion of several months' work, and the Installation of $125,000 worth of new machinery, the Sterling Mines, Inc., will begin active work on development some time next week. according to D. Ford McCormick, en glncering consultant for the Qucrcus corporation, owners of the property. The machinery Just Installed in cludes a new Girand concentrator, the first commccial unit of Its kind In America, although used In South America and on a small scale in Ari zona. Although the Sterling Creek sec tion has always been considered rich (Continued on Page Two) TOPS CURRENT WAVE At the last reading of the weather bureau, taken at 2:40 o'clock this afternoon, the temperaturt stood at 96 degrees, with no promise of break ing the top out of the thermometer today. The high mark of the current heat wave was reached late yesterday when the mercury bubbled to 102, the hot test weather prior to June 6 since 1926, when on June 5 it was 104. BILL WOULD SUSPEND MINING ASSESSMENTS WASHINGTON, June 6. (AP) A measure to suspend for another year the annual 1100 assessment work nn mining claims held by location was passed today by the house and sent to the White House. BOSTON, June 6. (VP, Irving and Murton Millen, brothers, and Abra ham Fabcr, learned today from War den Francis J. L. Manasan that this was their last day of life that they m us t d lo ton Igh t for m order! ng a policeman during a bank robbery. times since her arrest, has refused 'food and been fed by physicians. J As the two condemned prisoners fretted through their last hours, car penters completed the rain-drenched ! 20-foot board fence which will hide j the gallows from the curious. The j execution is st for shortly alter 5 a.m. tomorrow. With all hope gone. Mrs. Carry ! prepared for death with no thought to comfort her except one that no I white omn ever has been hanged f In Delaware. i The son. Howard, had awaifd Hie ; arrival of his wife. Myr. and per j h..ps his three small children, to I wiiom nt hu not yet said farewell. SALEM. June 8. (AP) B F. Mul key, pioneer educator, attorney and legislator of Oregon, died In Port land early today at the age of 73. He was born at Blairsville. III., in 1862. son of the late I. N. Mulkey. early day minister and farmer. The ramily came to Oregon about 1B72 and settled at Pleasant Hill, Lane county, where Mr. Mulkey taught school. He was later county clerk of Polk county, represented that oo u n t y eight years in the state senate, was for five years on the faculty of the Monmouth normal school and five years president of the normal school nt Ashland. While living at Medford ho served that district as district attorney. He was twice a candidate for the congressional nomination, In 1910 In the first district and In 1926 the third di&trict. He had practiced law in Portland for the last 20 years. He was married in 1884 In Lane county to Matilda Parks, who died about 12 years later. He was later married to Constance Hawley in Polk county, who survives him. Sur viving children are Mrs. Nellie Stone of Salem and Mrs. Hazel Ballard ot Portland, children of the first mar riage, and M. C. Mulkey. B. F. Mul key. Jr.. and Mrs. Marvel Williams, all or Portland, children of the sec ond marriage. Attorney Mulkey served here as district attorney from 1909 to 1012, Inclusive, acquiring the respect and friendship of many throughout the valley during his term. Elected In the fall of irioa nrter serving as president of the normal mnooi at Ashland, he came to this city in that year. After his term ne remained In Medford about five years wlnle practicing law before moving to Portland. Attorney Mulkev Vn aIHi i in southern Oregon aB a brilliant rFRrr, una also a fine Shakes pearian scholar, he was aht t r,i,.- several of Shakespeare", works ny While practicing in M.if,.i was affiliated with George Cherry. ,ni" moved to eastern Oregon 439 MIDDIES GET ANNAPOLIS. Md.. June ln, Amid a steady roar or applauw from undergraduates and (snfemtor. o midshipmen rcc-ived tl.-lr diploma and the dw of bachflor of s. lenr-t today at the 8Stl, commencement of the t'nltfd Statca naval aalemy. Shortly after the graduntea had hurled their while midshipmen's caps Into the air. causing a scramble for them among the spectators. 314 filed Into Memorial hall and received their eominlsAlons aa ensigns In the navy. Twenty-five were coinii.lfloned wc ood Ueuwoaau In the marine corps. NAVY COMMISSION Named G-MEN'S SEARCH New Indications Point to Flight East Another Ransom Bill Turns Up in Spokane During Night i COI.mVATKR. Mich.. June 6. (Al) .Michigan .state police were awaiting a report from Tncoma. Wash., tonight In an effort to de termine whether there Is a con nection between the kidnaping of (ieorge tVpycrhaciiM-r and the discovery of a set of nbnuiloned Vn.lilngtnn iiutomuhlle licence plates here. Il.v 1.K1.AM1 IIAS'M'N Associated Press Maff Writer TACOMA, Wash., Juno 8. (AP Pictures of men wanted for ques tioning were added today to the hunting equipment of authorities trailing Oeo. Weyerhacuser's kidnap ers with new Indications the gang might be fleeing east. Sources close to the Investigation Indicated that Jack Ballcy. whom Portland police said was wanted for questioning, had been or was being queried by federal agents. Asked directly If this were so. a Justice department spokesman laid he couldn't say. but he smiled and winked at newspapermen In replying. KefusQ Name Jiuappcts Federal agents admitted they had a ecrles of pictures which were being carried about on various Investiga tion trips, but what suspects w-ro among the group could not be learn ed. It was Indicated that persons who believed they might have- sighted the kidnap gang were being shown the photographs, and the fact the pic tures were available was taken to strengthen further belief that au thorities had definite suspects In mind. The nppearance of another bill oi the S200.000 ransom found In Spokane last night gave further Indication that some members of the gang, said by the little boy to number li. might be fleeing east, since the first ransom note reported passed showed up Sunday night nt Huntington. In eastern Oregon. Spokane Is In the ex treme eastern part of Washington. Bailey, former bootleccor who once lived here, was one of six men nnmed by Detective Captain John Kecc,an of Portland, as being wanted for Ques tioning In the case. r.ggers Claims Alllil Another of the six he named. Mtlo Eggcr. convicted robber, said nt Ah. crdcen he knew he had been Investi gated by federal agents but that none of them had talked to him. nn rl day of the kidnaping. May 24, Eg- gers sam ne was working In a can nery. Reliable sources In Seattle declared a man had been taken Bway from a Seattle hotel last night In custody of (Continued oo Page Nine) VI ON FIRST ROUND OAKMONT COUnTRY CLUB, PITTSBURGH. June 8. AP) Over the same terrifying layout he once conquered as an amateur star ten years ago, Roland MacKcnzle. now a Washington, D. C.. professional, equalled Oakmont's tough par with a 72 this afternoon and took the lead In the first round of the United States open golf championship. BASEBALL American. 1st game (10 Innings) R. H. E. Cleveland 0 12 1 Detroit 10 15 2 Batteries: Stewart, Wlnegarner, L. Brown and Pytlak; Rowc. Hogsett. Sullivan and Hay worth, Cochrane. Chicago at St. Louis postponed, rain. Cleveland at Detroit, second game ; postponed, rain. R. H. R. Boston 0 6 2 Washington 3 6 0 Walbcrg. Rhodes. Horkette and Ft. Pcrreil; CppoU and Bolton. National. R II. E St. I-ouis 14 0 Pittsburg 3 5 1 Batteries: Ha-lnes, J. Dean and Dsvia; Bush and Gracs, New High School Coach HEAVY EXPANSION OF CCC DISTRICT TO BEGIN JUNE 20 Many New Camps to Be Built Old Camps Reoc cupied New Company for Work Roxy Ann Park New CCC companies will begin ar riving in the Medford district June 20, and in the six weeks to follow the district will be brought to an expanded strength of 33 companies and 6600 men. Many new camps will be butlt and a number of old camps will be rc occupled tinder the program, which is to double the strength of the Civilian Conservation, corps. The as signment of numbers to the new companies has been completed. Each company now In the Medford district has been training a staff or clerks, cooks, stewards and fore men to provide the framework for a new organization when a new com pany is formed. The complete list of Medford dis trict camps under the expanded pro gram was announced today by Major George R. Owens, district com mander. A new company. No. 2620. will oc cupy Camp prescott (Roxy Ann) near Medford. Co. 2627. also a new company, will occupy Camp Bonanza, at Bonanza. Oregon, near Klamath Palls. Co. 2631. a new company, will occupy Camp Klamath, at Merrill, near Klamath Palis. Another new company. No. 2628. will occupy an- Continued on Page Bight) FRUIfSiPiNG E PLAN AGREED WENATCHEE. Wash. Juno 1. fAP) The "grass Toots" growers program for Industry co-ordination of the Washington and Oregon apple and pear deal was presented to the ship pers of two states yesterday at Seattle by the farm credit administration of Spokane, and, according to word from there today, the plan mot with the general agreement of shippers pres ent. Tho Scuttle meeting was the result of a series of meetings held through out north central Washington under the requested impartial chairmanship of the FCA. The plan calls for orderly move ment of frnlt to market and an .In tensive program of advertising and sales promotion. The basis of the entire plan la a voluntary corporation, made up of signatory growers and signatory ship pers. National and state AAA are to bo utilized and co itrollcd so long as they remain on the statute books, the plan proposes, Although the plan whs developed by growers. It does not In any way depend on these legislative acts and may operate effectively should these present acts be declared unconstitu tional or otherwlsa be wiped off the statute books. It waa stated at the meeting. A performance bond would assure continued co-operutlon on the part of all shippers. The law of con tracts would be the foundation or the program. Virtually all nurlh uetitriil Wash ington shipping firms were represent ed at the Seattle meeting. Income Shares Quarterly Income shares, 1.20 bid; 1.42 asked. THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN KANSAS, MISSOURI FLOOD K ANNAS CITY, June (AP) Nearly 2.000 flood victims of Noith Lawrence. Has., pud nearby Kaw val ley farm lands were homeless today and other hundreds had been driven out In eastern Missouri where the ril ing Missouri uprrad over an estimated las square miles of fanning couiuty. Most of North Lawrence was i) trier water and thousands of arres of valu able corn, heat and potato land were Inundated with conslderanlr crop toss as the result of the break ing of a Kaw river dike north of Lawrence. RMdrntn had ample warning and moved most nf their belonging to safety. Only 30 families applied tor Rid CToia aid in Lawrence, scat of Queen Of Roses Seventeen-y earmold trend Hege berg will reign as queen of Rosarla during the annual Portland, Ore., rose festival. (Associated Press Photo) OF PORTLAND. Ore.. June 8. ( AP) Portland, aflutter with flags, rosea nnd bunting, and then more roses, today launched its annual three-day festival in which thousands pay hom age to the rose. Throngs filing through streets 'n which lamp posts have blossomel al most ovornlght into gigantic ?usc vases, and In which huge rose blank ets swing overhead At intersections, . Continued on Paje Two) CCC PAPER BEST The Medford District News, month ly newspaper published nt the CCC headquarters licre, has been named as the best district newspaper In the United States. The award was announced today by "Hppy Days." national CCC news pnper, which conducted the contest. Competition was divided between printed and mimeographed papers, Medford winning in the senior divi sion. Award for the best mimeo graphed district paper went to the Armfor News of the Boise, Idaho, dis trict. The Fresno Conservator, of the Presno, Cal., district, was .awarded second place In the printed news paper class. The Review, of the 18th district of the sixth corps area In the middle west, was third and the Port MacArthur News fourth. Meut. Roy D. Craft of the district headquarters staff Is editor of the prJ-winnlng Medford District News, which has been published for the past eight mouths. Sheridan Lumber Mill Is Burned SHERIDAN. Ore., June 6. ( AP) The mill and stored lumber of the P. 8. Yorks Lumler company went up In flames last night. Loss to the plant was estimated by officials at $20,000. No value was placed on the 1,000.000 feet of lumber destroyed in the fire. Forty men were employed. Only the office equipment was saved. the University of Kansas, which es caped the flood. Damage in Norm Lawrence was expected to bo confined to flooded basements and lower floors. The flood crest passed Lawrence, about 40 miles upstream from Kan sas City, this morning and poured Into the rich potato growing country between the two cities. There was ex tensive flooding of rich lowlands. Dikes were being strengthened in the greater Kansas area, but govern ment engineers expressed no fear of an overflow In the lowlylug Indvs- , trial and rehldentlat sections. Dynamite was used to breHk up driftwood piling up against several bridges here. U. OE 0. STAR ATHIETEACCEPTS Selection Pleases Students and Fans Kirtley Con tinues As Backfield Coach Burgher Goes to Idaho Wllilam "Bill" Bowerman. coach for tho last year at Franklin high school In Portland, star for four year on the University of Oregon football team, and star before that at th Medford high school, waa late yes terday afternoon named as coach of thoMedford high school, to fill the position vacated by the departure of D. K. Bungher to assume his new duties as dean of men and head coach At Boise. Idaho, high- school. The selection came as no surprisa to Medford students and fans, in that Bowerman Is extremely well liked in this city. His qualifications mak him Ideally suited to the athletic pro. (Fram heftur nlnnnaM rA. o j-....s vu mi niruiurc. schools. Has Athletic Record. Besides playing end on the high school team here, he played that position at Oreson. and also held down the quarterbaok post his last two years there. Ha was itimhi of the championship high school bas- Kcuunii team wnuo in high school, and was a distance runner of mark ed ability under Bill Havward at Oregon. Bowerman stated, upon learning of the appointment, that he was well pleased with his selection, Indicating - - (Continued on Page rhreo) FIRSTSERfUSFIRE RAGING AT VALSETZ SALEM. June . (in The first serious Oregon forest fire of the sea son assumed dangerous proportions irly today about six miles east cf Valsota on the Hsklns-Valseta rail rood. The fire Is In Polk county. State Forester L.v reported that not only a consldcr- ADie area of timber had been swept by the flames, but that trestlo No. 17, a large span on the rAitroad, had been burned. Cronemiller said his office was sending 100 fire fighters to assist In beating back the fire. SALEM. June 6. W) Continuation of the nresent warm wAth win suit In closing approximately 3.000, 000 acres of forest lands In western OrcKon, Lynn Cronmiler. state for ester, announced. The order would Include the Tilla mook county burn and a lanrn tnu'iv of land In Clackamas county. Cronemiller said the fire hazard, had Increased materially during the past 48 hours. GENEVA. Jun- 8. f API Thft in ternational labor conference employ era' delegates, meeting today, reject' ed An apnea! from various lender. including the United States delegr- uon, to collaborate in the Interna tional movement for a 40-hour week for labor. SAYS HOLLYWOOD. Oil if.. June 3. I.nolis lo inn like Washing- ton nhviiys (foes lo the wtouk' triu it when they wunt to know s . i) i c 1 1 1 i ii ;-' - Now Tuesday they culled in all the big Democratic loaders to sen what they "think" can be done. Well, why didn't they just quietly ask tli n supreme court what "could" bo done. Now if nothing can't be done under the present constitution why they better just foriret it, for I bet you a span of gold rmy mules that you ain't i;o inf; to iret folks to change that constitution. That's like asking an old man to change the brand of his chewing tobacco. Yours, C '!. McN.uhlSjodlcU. Ia. '
