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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1033.
No. 63.
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The Weather
Forecast: Fair tonight and Friday;
slightly cooler Friday.
Temperature;
Highest yesterday ..-..103
I-ouest this morning .... 53
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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
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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.
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