Medford Mail Good Business I It li ootf builnus to uh the ! une j clajiltl.d paj. of this nepapr. j Thtu little Ad bring .uiprlslnj K I lulta end Id moat cases prove to be I food Investment. Try them. Thirtieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1935 No. o .. u n o o U uii ll U Inl II II ln li I Mil ln( I The Weather 1 Forecast: Unsettled Sunday and Mon j da?; probably with showers; not much change In temperature. Highest yesterday M ?3.l Lowest this morning 42.? Trie 1EW (QHf JMJ A 1 E f I II! f W 11 U U hJ u By Paul Mellon Copywrtght, 1935. by Paul M&Ilon. WASHINGTON. June 15. They are saying Huey Long la crushed. At least ' ttia Democrale are aaylng It Jubilant ly, among them selves. They be lieve they taught him how to be a good boy In his 15-hour talka thon against the NBA bill. The secret or Long's Inlluence In the senate has been his ability to frighten every senator political ly, wh e n e v e r a n v o n e crossed aiACMUCM I'Al I MALI ON him he would threaten to go out and make speeches against him In his own district. The unwritten law of senatorial polltlca Is to live and let live. Senators knew Huey could make a lot of trouble for them. They let Mm get away with everything short of legislative murder for the last few years. That situation waa completely up set during the long talkathon. For the first Ufa, a group of democratic senators showed courage enough to dare Huey s wrath. (They were led by Black of Alabama and the new comer, Schwellcnbach of Washing ton.) More hurtful to Huey. perhaps, was the fact that those who were associ ated with him In opposition to NBA became secretly disgusted with him before his talkathon night was over. What Irked them was that Huey was trying to hog the whole show. They saw plainly that he was trying to make a dramatic hero of himself as the one and only congressional op ponent of NRA. t When the glassy-eyed fire-cater sat down at 4 a. m., he did not have more than two good, friends left In the chamber. This does not mean the democratic authorities are right In saying Huey '8 day Is waning. His filibustering mis takes may cause him to lay low for a little while until senators forget. But Huey la a rubber ball. He bounces. The current disturbed condition of political affairs could not have been better focused Into a single picture than that presented by the senate scene during the Long show. Here wan a prominent agitator, who is sup posed to have at least a few million supporters, wandering among sena torial chairs where the ghosts of Webster and Calhoun sat; his mind strained with fatigue, making rash assertions against every political lead er he could think of; his distended yea rolling abnormally; talking non sense occasionally with a fine humor and always with a shrewd political purpose; and no one capable of an swering him effectively or of stopping him. One of the oldest Republican sena tors turned to a pal in an adjoining chair and said: "If a democracy can survive this sort of stuff, it must be good." The answer to that Is Huey failed to win. No announcement has been made about It but the business advisory council has just about quit In dis gust. This Is the Roper committee of business men which haB been try ing to bore into the New Deal from within during the last six months. Harry Kendall, chairman, will re tire when his term expires at the end of this month. Wetmore Hodnes, secretary, is returning to his Montana rsnch. The only summer meeting scheduled is one for July 10. when the future will be discussed, pri vately. The trouble is that the business men on the committee are complain ing that they are the tall and not the dog. and they are getting tired of being wagged. Undoubtedly the New Deal will do something to pre vent an offlc.al walk-out by the com mittee, but it Is hardly possible that anything effective can be done. President Roosevelt sough and got authority early In his dealing to co ordinate government bureaus to pre vent overlapping. Yet, the other day, the science advisory committee foxind twenty-ettrht different government agencies preparing maps of the Unit ed States Most of the mapping Is being done by the coast and geodetic survey and the geological survey. Other mappers probably will be eventually consoli dated under these two. But tradelesa Yankee trader George Peek has found that fifty acencles of the government are concerned with foreign trade. An effort to met this cjtuatlon has been made through the commercial policy committee. where the beads of the varloxis agen cies get together weekly. Incidentally. Mr. Roosevelt seems to have given up the Idea of having an official coordinator. Both Messrs. Walker and Rlchberg are busy with other matters. Continued oa freiie 'EMPIRE BUILDER' IDENTIFIED WITH OPP DEVELOPMENT Mining Called 'Forgotten Industry' Of State Rejuvenation Held Recov ery Aid Local Project Described. Robert B. Strahorn.. "the empire builder," whose genius and energy, as a railroad builder and railroad executive, loom large In the Industrial development of the west, has resumed that role In the rejuvenation of the mining Industry In southern Oregon, and Is now actively representing in terests financing the Opp mine of the Pacific States Mines company, which is located near Jacksonville. Due to the Increasing Importance of the Opp mine enterprise, the head quarters of the company have re cently been moved from San Fran cisco to this city. "Mining is the forgotten industry of Oregon," says Mr. Strahorn. "If one mine can be placed on a sound producing basis. It will mean a speedy recovery for this section, and the en couragement of similar ' operation. Heretofore mining tn Oregon has been more or less haphazard. The first miner scratched the surface, and de parted. What we need most is a thorough rejuvenation of the mining spirit here at home, on a thorough and practical basis. This requires capital and enterprise and nerve." Mr. Strahorn's more notable oper ations In the west and northwest, over more than half a century. In clude: Conducting and organising the pub licity department of the Union Pa cific railroad. Conceiving, promoting and naming the Oregon Short Line In 1878, and extension to Portland and Butte. Mont., In IBS 4. Colonisation efforts in western states, including the construction of Irrigation, telephone lines, hotels and public utilities. Construction In the late 1680's, with Nelson Benett. of the Palrhaven Northern and Palrhaven Southern lines on Puget Sound tn the interest of James J. Hill, which now afford Great Northern entrance Into Vancou ver, B. C. Builder of the North Coast lines to Spokane, Portland and North Yaki ma, and Interurban lines In. Yakima Valley. Washington, as confidential agent of the late E. H. Harrlman. OrgiMileer and builder of the Port land. Eugene and Eastern and other lines in western Oregon In 1913, later absorbed by the Southern Pacific, followed In 1914 by the organizing, financing and building of the Ore gon, California and Eastern railway in eastern Oregon, later acquired Jointly by the Great Northern and Southern Pacific lines. Since 1900 the financing, building and operation of numerous public utilities in northwest states, Includ ing the Northwest Light & Water Co.. which he controlled and was president of for 35 years. Contacts during a busy life with E. H. Harriman, Jay Gould and James J. Hill and other pre-eminent giants of 'railroad development. In a reminiscent Interview, Mr, Strahorn discusses the plans and pos sibilities of mining development In southern Oregon as follows: "Yes." said Mr. Strahorn, "I have again with much pleasure resumed empire building In Oregon, at the urgent requests of those who are financing the Oppjnlne of the Pacific States Mines company, of which I accepted the presidency two years ago. You see that, with the increas ing Importance of the enterprise, we have moved the headquarters of the company up here from San Francisco. Your request for my views on the past and present of mining here Im poses a big contract. "But first your questions about the Opp mine. Well, our fine force of forty men up there, under the able direction of Engineer and Geologist (Continued on P?e Eight) WEEK'S PROSPECT Oregon: Unsettled Sunday with showers west portion and over moun tains; Monday probably unsettled with showers; cooler Interior Sunday; moderate southerly wind off the coast. SAN FRANCISCO. June 15. (API Outlook for the far western states for period June 17 to 32: The outlook for the coming week is for considerable cloudiness and oc casional showers in Idaho. Washing ton. Oreeon and extreme northwest ern California and cr fair weather i else where. The temperature wiU oe v-siawhat below normal. Dr. Hun ter Named Higher Education Chancellor WALEYS FACE TRIAL BUT NOT CAMERA AT TACOMA C " Harmon M. Waley and hit blond wifa hid their faces from tho photographar aa thoy left the federal building at Tacoma after arraignment before a United Statea commissioner on charges of mall fraud In connection with the kidnaping of nine-year-old George Weysrheuser, Their pita was "Not guilty" (Associated Press Photo) PROSECUTE WALEY L Mahan, In Texas, Escapes After Gun Fight, Report Weyerhaeuser Kidnap ers Will Evade Noose TACOMA. Wash., June 15. ff A trial during the summer was in sight today for Harmon M. Waley. red-headed 34-ycar-old ex-convict and his wife, Margaret. 19. Weyer haeuser kidnaping case principal, as the government took over the prose cution of the case under the strin gent Lindbergh kidnaping laws. Next Wedneseday. at a distance of only about 16 city blocks from where little George Weyerhaeuser was kid naped on May 24, federal grand Jury will listen to O-men as they disclose their evidence against the pair, arrested at Salt Lake City after ransom money was discovered. The Jury, made up of 18 men and two women, had been set to convene later this month, but J. Charles Dennis, U. S. district attorney, and Harry H. Johnston. Pierce county prosecutor, conferred this morning and Dennis announced that the gov ernment will handle the prosecu tion. A slightly different angle on the reason for the decision disclosed at Washington, D. C. by J. Edgar Hoo ver, director of the federal bureau of investigation. He said the pair would be prosecuted under the federal Lind bergh kidnap act because "Washing ton stjfte officials said they do not have the funds to bring charges un der their state law." Meanwhile, the search for William Mahan. accused accomplice of the Waleys and believed "brains" of the $200,000 snatch, shifted far afield from Montsna where It had centered since he abandoned his car there. Attemps to Implicate a fourth per son were also seen in a request by Chief William Cole, of the Washing ton state patrol. Par to the south, Ln Texas, officers near Kerbyville had a pistol fight last night with a man they had been "tipped was Mahan. The man es caped ln the shooting, which took place near a Civilian Conservation Corps camp five miles east of that community. TIGER LADY TO BE FREED ON PAROLE TEHACHAPI, Cal., June 15. (API Clara Phillips, who won the sobriquet "hommer murderess" following her conviction ln Los Angelejt in 1923 for the slaying of Alberta Meadows, will leave Tehachapl women's prison Mon day on parole. She will hsre served 13 years and IS days of a 30-year sentence, for second degree murder. Income Shares Quarterly income shares bid $1.35; .asked $140. HELD AS SUSPECT IN KIDNAP PLOT TILSA, Okla.. June (yp, Walter Lee Hayes, about 20, want ed In connection with ihc kid naping of George .Vc.verhaeiiser, at Tacoma, wash., was arrested here tonight. George Colllnx, state bureau of criminal Identifi cation operative revealed. McConnelt said the arresting offi cers, M. M, Barton and Phil Isenhauer, bureau operatives, tola him the man Is Walter Lee Hayes, alias Clarence Martin, sought by police for question ing in the kidnap case. The state officers, tipped off by an unnamed person here, trailed an Ok lahoma City woman, who Friday re ceived a letter from Hayes, to Tulsa, where she was said to have met the man In the Tulsa postofflce. The woman also was arrested but McCon nell declined to disclose her name. Barton and Isenhauer -were bring ing the pair to Oklahoma City to night, McConnell said, where depart ment of Justice agents were expected to question them tomorrow. The "tip off. McConnell said, had Informed officers thot Hayes was at tempting to "sell" a large amount of money which might be a part Of the kidnap ransom. Hayes, a Canadian county, Okla homa youth, has served a term in the Oklahoma penitentiary for forgery and one ln the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kas., for desertion from the army. McConnell said. MIDWAY ISLAND (Via Pan Amer ican Airways Radio). June 15. (AP) Successfully completing Its pioneering 1.323-mlle crtuw? west ward from Hawaii, the big Pan American Airways clipper plane glided to a perfect landing at Its mid-Paciric base here today at 8:40 p. m. Eastern Standard time. The flight, the first non-stop hop made' over this lonely sector of the Pacific and the second ever accomp lished west from Honolulu, was made In nine hours and 13 min utes. -Beautiful dash and without in cident," Cspt. E. C. Muslck. the clipper's skipper, commented after his arrival. Captain Musick announced the 19-ton seaplane would remain here over Sunday to permit the flight crew to make a study to the ap proarhes to the lagoon and coral reefs which surround this unique port. The return flight to Honolulu. then-e to California. Is expected to be started Monday morning, he said More 4-H Oeleratei. COR V ALUS, Ore.. June 15. (API i Scores more 4-H club members from alt parts of Oregon are scheduled to arrive here tomorrow to participate j in the annual summer elon now nearing the end of IU first week. HERE jnfPAROLE Woman Nabbed For Lying As Witness Legal Aide Of Urschel Snatch Gang Faces Life Term- OKLAHOMA CITY, June 15. (APt -Ben B. Laska, dapper defender of kidnapers, was convicted by a federal court Jury today of knowingly ac cepting as a fee part of the 4200,000 ransom paid ln the abduction of Charles F. Urschel, oil millionaire. A maximum sentence of life Im prisonment is possible. The little Denver attorney was alleged to have received the money from Albert Bates, convicted kidnaper now serving life. Crying "persecution," Laska moved for a new trial. Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught set July 2 for the hearing. He Indicated sentence would be pass ed then. No sooner had tho Jury returned Its verdict than Laska's star witness. comely Mrs. Molly O, Edison, also a Denver attorney, wts arrested for al leged perjury. At the some time, three govern ment witnesses who admitted guilt and aided In the prosecution were given paroles from five-year sen tences. They are Clara Feldman the woman Bates married three months before his arrest ln 1933 her sorf, Ed ward, and her brother-in-law, Alvln Scott. Mrs. Edison, tearful at Laska's con viction, and shocked by her own ar rest wos released under $6000 bond pending preliminary hearing June 21. She pleaded not guilty. ROSS LANE PAIR T, BEND, Ore., June 15. AP) Mrs. A I bert Anderson , 60. of Med ford , was In a critical condition In a hos pital here today as a reault of a traffic accident on The Dalles-California highway late yesterday. Her hii Abend also was serlounly injured. The Medford couple's car. north bound, was reported to have been Hldeswlped by a truck which did not atop. Mrs. Anderson suffered a frac tured skull, a frsctured cheek bone and fibula and a dislocated ankle. Anderson suffered Internal chest in juries and was badly cut and bruis ed but physlriana today regarded him as out of danger. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anderson live on Ross Lane. Mr. Anderson has not been tn good health for some time, and his physician had adsed travel. It is assumed here that it wa while on one of thee Jaunts that the pair met with the accident at Bend. No relatives could be found here last night who had received any further word of the condition of Mrs. Anderson. PALO ALTO. Calif., June 15. (AP) Harry K. Crlpes. 4. former Presi dent Hoover's chauffeur for the past two years, died t his home today from a heart attack. LABOR COMMITTEE FLAYS MARTIN FOR PICKE1GJTAND Strike Strategy Board Bit ter, Charges Governor Seeks 'Dictatorship,' Prac tices 'Cossackism.' PORTLAND, Ore., Juno 15. AP) The Portland strike strategy commit tee today charged Governor Charles H. Martin with attempting to "set up a dictatorship" and with "turning law enforcement officials Into a law less mob." An acrid statement by the commit tee aharply rapped Governor Martin's action ln ordering officers to disperse striking lumber worker pickets and declared he has "played the game of the employing interests." At the governor's direction, the statement said, officers "have In dulged In practices suggestive of the Cossacks of old Russia and present day Hitlerites In Germany." The com mittee represents all Portland unions. Meanwhile the circuit court hearing of a motion by union forces for an Injunction to halt police from arrest ing or dispersing picket at the Bridal Veil lumber mill continued. The star witness for the defendant officers was Marvin Jackson, Bridal Veil truck driver who testified he was beaten with a brass pipe by beat-up men wearing union buttons, and that his truck was run off a bank 20 miles from the mill. Following that attack, which union forces attributed to "radicals," and not their members, Sheriff Martin T. Pratt ordered picketing halted at the mill and arrested 237 men who per sisted in picketing. Then state police ordered into action by Governor Mar tin, drove the pickets from the site. Jackson quoted his assailants as having told him they wouldn't kill him this time, but warned him not to return to work. He said one of the men had a revolver. LA 1936 SHOOT CITY, AT T. E. Daniels of this city was unani mously re-elected president of the Oregon State Trapshootlng association at the annual meeting held last night at the Hotel Medford. Angus McAllister of La Grande was re-elected vice-president and J. C. Morris of Portland was chosen to suc ceed himself as secretary. The association voted to hold the 1036 state trap tournament in La Grande. Mr. Daniels Is also president of the Medford Gun club and the associa tion members from other parts of the state spoke highly of the efficient manner In which the big tournament here has been conducted. Plana for underwriting the 1939 shoot In La Grande and other matters of policy were dlscuosed snd several committees were appointed to con sider suggestions Intended to Increase attendance at future state meets. It was pointed out that continued addi tions to cash purses has had the ten dency to attract larger list of entries to the state meets and It was de cided to make every effort to enlarge the money prl7.es. Mr. Daniels and his associates ln the Medford Gun cl u b were gt ven credit by out-of-town asnocintloB membero for the success of the Med ford tournament, the largest state shoot ever held west of the Rocky mountains. NO OPPOSITION SEEN L Dr. R. R. Oreen and Mark Jarmln. Incumbents up for re-election as members of the Medford school board, have both filed -their acceptance of nomination, Supt. E. H. Hedrlck of the Medford schools announced yes terday. No others have filed for nom ination. Hedrlck stated, t Elections will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the Junior high school building on West Second street. New tttllty Hosfl. WASHINGTON. June 15. (AP) The senate today confirmed Clyde L. i Seavey. of California, as a federal power commissioner for the term ex piring June 22, 1040. 15,000 More Autos in State Than 1934; Close to Peak Mark SALEM. Ore.. June 13, (API Automobile registration this year shows an Increase over the year previous of more than 15,000 cars, and blda fair to surpass the all time peak mark of 1931 when a to tal of 283.000 were reported. The total cars registered for the first five months Is 366,033 as compared to 250.827 for ths same period a year ago. Secretary Earl Snell reported. Registration fees have increased $130,505. Truck type vehicles composed but 065 of the increase. WILL END TODAY 7 Singles And Handicap Events Decided Interest Centers On Veteran Troeh Record Attendance. With tha Oregon state singles and handicap ohamplonshlps at stake, the four-day trap shoot at the Medford Oun club will reach Its climax today. So much interest has been shown In the meet thus far that a record attendance for today'a events was an ticipated by club officers. The tournament has developed Into the largest state trap shoot ever held west of the Rocky mountains, and veteran trapptsts yesterday asserted that It will undoubtedly prove to be the biggest state meet In the United States this year. Yesterday 198 registered gunners lined up behind the trap houses, by far the largest turn-out at a state meet anywhere In the country ln re cent years. The tournament has attracted ex pert shooters from all the western states and Canada and competition has been especially sharp. While shooters from other states are not eligible for Oregon titles, they share ln the distribution of other trophies and all cash purses and their skill has added zest to the tournament and has served to keep all Oregon contestants on their toes. Frank Troeh. present state singles champion, was ln remarkably fine form yesterday. He started out by leading a field of 186 shooters ln the first half of the singles champion ship. He was hard pressed all the way, however, by Oscar Shlffer, the Timber trapplst who won the class champion ship on Friday, and held on to his crown In the first half of the event by the slim margin of one target. Mr. (Continued on Page Five) MISSOURI FLATS T LIFE . WITH RIFLE Ralston Carls. 54, for many years a resident of the Missouri Flats district of the Applegate valley, committed suicide about 10 o'clock yesterday morning because of despondency growing out of an Incurable ailment. according to County Coroner Frank Perl, who Investigated the tragedy. Carls' body was found about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon by a neighbor. Anton Schuessler. lying ln a gully about a quarter of a mile from his home. Most of the head was shot away by a powerful bullet from a 30-30 calibre deer rifle, the muszle of which had been placed ln his mouth before pulling the trigger. He had apparently sat down on a log, re moving his watch and knife from his pockets before committing suicide, left no note of any kind. Two men, Robert Mansfield and L. A. Fryer, who were Irrigating In the neighborhood, told the coroner that they heard a gunshot about 10 a. m. hut believed It to be that of a hunter shooting at pheasants. Carls did not seem more despond ent than usual upon arising Satur day morning. Joking with his hired men, and seemed quite In good spir its. He left his houw about 9 o'clock carrying the rifle with which he killed himself. He is survived by his wife, Bessie; a sister, Alice Carls, of Pendleton, and one brother. Eugene A., who lives of) a farm not far from the tragic spot. His body was brought to this city last night but wilt be forwarded to Grants Pass for burial. There will be no Inquest. Coroner Perl $tated. SEPT. 1, ES Denver Educator Wires Ac ceptance At $10,000 Per Year Salary Qualified By Experience. ALBANY. Ore., June 15. ( API Dr. Frederick M. Hunter, chancellor of the University of Denver, toniitht waa named new chancellor of higher oaucauon i or Oregon, assuring a new era for Oregon's oft-turbulent higher education setup. Chairman Willard L. Marks of tha state board of higher education an nounced receipt of acceptance from Dr. Hunter. He will take his posi tion as head of Oregon's higher edu cational system September 1. Dr. Hunter will succeed Chancellor W. J. Kerr, who became the object of hitter contention from the Urn he first was mentioned for the chan cellorship under the state's uniftca - tion program for higher education. wounds that finally crusted over temporarily but did not heal were made when the board of higher edu cation ln 193a named Kerr, president of Oregon State college, to the chan cellorship ater a policy of naming an out-of-state, man had been enunci ated. Faculty friction. Inter-city strife. rapid rotation of board of higher ed ucation personnel and genera) unsani tary discussion followed. On April 16, 1934, after tha contro troversy calmed on the surface, chan cellor Kerr announced his rcilgna tlqu, effective when a successor waa named. Dr. Hunter's salary will be $10,001) a year net, Marks explained, and the Oregon board will continue payments to the Carnegie Founda tion on a teacher's retirement pol icy which Dr. Hunter enjoyed at the University of Denver, and which, has been maintained by the school authorities there. "The state board of higher edu cation feels very fortunate ln se curing Dr. Hunter as chancellor ox the Oregon system of higher educa tion," Marks said. "For more than a year It has been seeking a chancellor and after in vestigating the qualifications ox those who It thought might be available, offered the position to Dr. Hunter. t The board feels that be cause of his ability, experience and personality he la exceptionally well qualified to head the Oregon system and meet our especial needs ln this state." As chancellor of the University ot Denver he has had experience ln an institution where the work Is com- . parable to that of the University of Oregon. Dr. Hunter has held the chan cellorship of tho University of Den ver since 1028. He long has been prominent ln educational affairs, particularly ln committee work and preparation of educational papers. Dr. Hunter waa born In Savannah. Mo., March 34, 1670. He received his A. B. degree at the University of Nebraska ln 1905. The reception given Dr. Hunter on his recent visit to Oregon was generally cordial, with no hostility hinted. The board of higher educa tion recently affirmed Its confi dence ln the unified system, and an out of state man was looked (Cciitlnued on Page Eight) SAYS' liliVKKLY HILLS. Cu!.. Juno 14. I Iiatc to report any short comings in one of iny heroes, but llncy is goinif back. Imaa inc only being able to talk 16 hours. Why, before he was fat tened by the luxury of senator ial life he would have talked richt on into July, but at that he pulled the biggest and most educational novelty ever intro duced in tile senate. Mo reaa 'cm the constitution of the United States. A lot of 'em thought he was reviewing a new book. Headline says "Japanese by thousands march farther into China." Yes, and in 40 years they will all be Chinamen. C IM. at clinch! Snllcata. la. AT