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MeDFORD MAIL' TRIBUNE The Weather Forecast: Cloud? tonight, followed by showers Tuesday; no change In temperature. Highest yesterday - M lowest this ni o r n I n jc . 49 Good Business tt Is good buittieis to uh the classified pass of this newspaper. These little Ads bring surprising re sults and In rooit cases proTe to be a cnod Investment. Try them. Thirtieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1935. No. 11. uumw B 1 Bf -i By Paul Motion (Copyright, 1935. by Paul Mallon.) WASHINGTON, Juna 17. Tha ni ter policy usually aaaaya three pounds of politics to ona ounoa of allver. That la why political ra 1 n e r a 1 o glata have been dash ing about for a week trying to evaluate what Secretary M o r genthau said to Senator McCar ran. On the eur f ace the letter appeared to say nothing except that the treasury was movlne ahead PAUL MAI.LO.N with the policy as rapidly as any reasonable person could expect. But If you treat the letter witn a pco. acid of expert analogy, you will llnd nuggets between the lines. Dp to now, Mr. Morgcnthau has always lifted his hat when bowing to silver senators. This time, he lifted his nose, blandly asserting that "only those primarily interested In speculation In silver" would want to know what McCarran wanted to know. This was enough to arouse sus picions about a possible change of heart at the treasury. Proof of tt lay In a succeeding assertion by the secretary, distinguishing between the stabilization fund "primarily having to do with International exchange" and the silver policy, which lve Im plied was a "domestic matter." This Is a reversal of the theory on which the silver policy has been based. These hints are only substantia tion of other convincing but un mentionable evdence that the treas ury is looking at silver with a more realistic eye. The recent predicament about the world price seems to have caused the change. Tills does not mean that the pol icy will be "materially slowed down: at least not until after the next elec tion It docs mean the treasury will be less aggressive hereafter In play ing Into the hands of silver specu lators. Good church people are shivering the timbers of the navy with pro tests following the mld-Paclftc ma neuvers. A heavy surf has been roll ing In from them, protesting against this "war-like gesture." The admirals have battened down their hatches, fled below deck. Obviously, the peace lovers do not understand the Inside purposes be hind the maneuvers. The navy sur rounded Its activities with such semt Tldlculous wartime censorship that Its silence has added to the case against It. The truth Is the war gnmca were purely defensive. No unit of the (Continued on Page Four.) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Horace Bromley refusing, very fool ishly, to be blackmailed out of 10 bucks, the threat being to run a 12-year-old cut of him in this paper. "June-bug" Porter back from Old Oregon. his green toenails modlshly encased in a pair of yellow socks. Sid Newton putting talcum on his phis to keep his shotgun from kick ing all the hide off it. Offisah Sharkey sfunlng hlmaelf up for the quite-trite club, by a resound ing "Oh, yeah?" Arnold Young, remodeling a house, wondering why the original builder didn't shoot the other two dollars and mske a good house while he was at It. Stanley Craft, waiting to see Side Glances, so he could check up on the reporters' movements over the week end. Fred Colvlg. Jr., running into the bad luck of finding a Job his first dy of vacation from school. Jimmy Moore and Sam Jennings barking into the public address syi tem st the Gun club as though they'd been doing It all their lives. FISHERMAN SAFE AFTER OF MrMINSVILLE. Ore.. June 17. iAP( Elbert E Hoilister. missing In the rsnyon of the West Nestucea river since Sunday afternoon, walked into the Meadow lake clubhouse near here at noon today. He was little (v. worye for having tpent the mgnt wandering through the forests ol western Oregon. BEAT-UPS CITED BY OFFICERS IN OPPOSING PLEA Decision Bolsters Governor Martin's Stand' Against Interference With Mill Men Who Wish to Work PORTLAND, Ore., June 17. (AP) Judge James W. Crawford today de nied the application of officials ot the BawmlU and Timber Workers union for a temporary Injunction prohibiting county and state offi cers from Interfering with picketing at the Bridal Veil mlU property east of Portland. Union officials filed suit last week seeking to enjoin Sheriff Martin T. Pratt of Multnomah county, his deputies, and State Police Superin tendent Charles P. Pray from arrest ing and dispersing pickets after county officers had lodged 337 ot them in Jail. Another 260 were scat tered by state police. The union based Its plea for an Injunction on the asserted right to "peaceful picketing." Sheriff Pratt contended picketing had not been peaceful and cited the beating of truck driver near the Bridal Veil property last Monday. Union mem bers claimed their men had nothing to do with the Incident. The circuit court decision today further bolsters Governor Charles Martin's announcement that picket ing of mills by other than men pre viously employed in them must cease. The governor last week ordered mo bilization of the state police to halt "Jeering mobs and Intimidation ot workers," and declared the "entire resources of the state should be thrown behind law and order." -4 I- THING OF PAST MRS SAILOR UNION LEADERS ; SAN FRANCISCO. June 17. (AP) The four-months-old Pacific coast j on tanner striKe is ended ana me men "are getting back to work as fast as they can." George Larscn. secretary of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, said In answer to a tele phone query today. Termination of the protracted walkout followed bv only a few days dlsbandment of a second federal mediation board attempting to ne gotiate a settlement. O. K. Cushing. chairman of the board, declared ef forts to bring the disputants to peace terms failed because the board was ' powerless to take definite ac tion. At the several oil companies' mi- j rine departments It was reported to j day, strikers have been applying for work "in the usual way." THE DALLES GARAGE DESTROYED BY FIRE THE DALLES, Ore.. June 17. (API The Miller Motor company garage was destroyed by fire here Sunday. Total loss. Including several automobiles, a stock of electrical equipment and considerable furniture stored in the rear of the building was unofficially i estimated by employes at $50,000. The blaze apparently started from an explosion which occurred when an employe, A. Ouske, switched on the ! lights In the garage. Guske was knocked unconscious by the blast but recovered sufficiently to regain the street. He was badly burned. Villard Tells Oregon Grads Life Challenges EUOENE. June 17. fAP) Chal lenged by their commencement speaker. Oswald Garrison Villard, noted editor, to work in solving the world's problems with less selfish aim than did their elders, 561 students re ceived their degrees In the 58th an nual graduation exercises at the Uni versity of Oregon this morning. Life was presented to them as a direct and menacing challenge by Mr. Villard. who then went on to point out what opportunity there is for graduates to work for human better ment. Mr. Villard became an alum nus of the university when he was invested with the hood for the high degree of doctor of laws at the oonclu- seriously and strive for the bettr Ulon of his addresi. He is the son t ment of their society. Greetings from of the late Henry Villard. early day ( the state board of higher education j railroad bui)der and. benefactor of the i were conveyed by B. T. Irvine, mem- university. ber ot the board. Tom Mooney Is Granted Habeas Corpus TIGER WOMAN TEARFUL ON REGAINING FREEDOM SISTER GREETS SLAYER AT PENITENTIARY GATE; TO MAKE HOME IN EAST TEHACHAPI. Calif.. June 17. (AP) The woman they called a tiger be cause she slew anotner woman with a hammer. Clara Phillips, walked out of prison doors today. It was 7:35 o'clock in the morning. "X can hardly believe It's true," she said with eyee bright, hands shaking and voice aqulve?. She was nervous. agitated, wholly unlike the woman fifteen years ago who was arrested for beating Alberta Meadows to death in a secluded hillspot in eastern Los Angeles. She looked more like an actress than a woman being released after being held more than twelve years In the state penitentiary on a charge of murder. A small black hat fit snugly over her waved hair, a longish bob. and she wore a blue and white flowered dress. Under the California law her pris on sentence on conviction for second degree murder was I nde terminate ten years to life. Before commitment to the state prison she escaped from the Los Angeles county Jail and was arrested months later In Honduras and returned to pay the debt to socl- E T TACOMA, June 17. (JP) J- Charles Dennis, United States district attor ney, and his assistant. Owen P. Hughes, today are busily consulting with department of Justice agents. checking on the Weyerhaeuser kidnap ease which the government will pre- wnt before tne United States grand Jury ordered by Judge Edward E. Cushman to reconvene Wednesday. Indictments will be sought by the government against Harmon and Mar garet Waley. alleged participants in the George Weyerhaeuser abduction. The Waleys are being held Incom municado in the Thurston county jail at Olympia, closely guarded by federal agents. The nationwide hunt for William Mahan, reputed "brains" of the Weyer haeuser kidnaping, was still in prog ress today. TREET CARS OF OMAHA. Neb., June 17.--( AP) A military order by Governor R. L. Cochran ordering street cars off the streets and Jail sentences meted out by the military commission court to day marked the occupation of Omaha by the Nebraska National Ouard in the strike or organized worlters of the Omaha and Council Bluffa Street Railway company a strike that has brought two deaths and injury to more than 150 persons. Governor Cochran's order taking the cars off the streets was delivered when the street car company ignored his ultimatum directing the company to appoint an arbitrator by 10 a. m. today. At the same time the doctOT of laws degree was conferred upon Dr. Nor- man Franklin Coleman, former presl- dent of Reed college, Portland. For the first time in the htstorv of the university, the commencement exercises were broadcast to the state by remote control from KOAC. Mac Arthur court was the scene of the graduation pageant and a large crowd of visitors and townspeople filled the auditorium to witness the im pressive ceremonies. Greetings from the state of Oregon were brought by Oovernor Martin, who. In a brief talk, urged graduating students to take their citizenship A o3 Clara Phillips ety for the killing of the woman site suspected of intimacy with her hus band. It was a small automobile In which she left the state prison, not unlike the machine In which she drove Al berta Meadows up Use brown hillside (Continued on Pje Eight) DUE THIS WEEK The Oregon State College has named W. D. Cordy, for the past 10 years attached to the extension service at the Corvallls station, as assistant to County Agent Robert O. Fowler, in the handling of horti cultural work In this county. The appointee will arrive this week to as sume his duties. A formal state ment will be Issued this week by the Fruitgrowers' league upon the duties of Cordy. Cordy is a graduate of the Uni versity of Michigan with experience as a practical fruitgrower. The appointment Is a part of the program for the co-ordination of horticultural and agricultural work In this county. Under the new plan County Agent Fowler will be able to devote hla time to agricultural problems, and attending to the numerous details arising from federal agency contracts, such as the hog-corn and wheat con tracts. BROMLEY LINES UP CRATER PROGRAM The Crater club will hold another "eruption" in the basement banqiet room or the Hotel Medford this even ing, beginning promptly at 6:30 o'clock. This meeting will mark the end of H. D. "Johnny" Reed's term as big eruption of the club and win also be the club's farewell party for Major Clare Armstrong. A special program has been pre pared for this evening under the direction of H. L. Bromley, chair man of the entertainment commit tee. The election of officers will also be held. Music and refreshments will be featured in addition to the usual banquet. STEER HIDE EVIDENCE IN WOODCOCK'S TRIAL Selection of a Jury In the trial of Joe Woodcock, resident for the past two years of Gold Hill and Rogue River, charged with "transportation and attempted sale of livestock, with- i out bni ot from the owner." ! underway in circuit court today, ' The caB hM n pending for sev- jcral months. in ma or ine steer in the case. wlth brands and ears attached, will be introduced by the state, as Its main exhibit. PENDLETON, Ore., June 17. (AP) County Judge CUve H. Cheshire of Pendleton waa elected president of the Umatilla County Pioneers asso ciation at the annual meeting In Weston Saturday. Income Shares Quarterly Income shares, bid 1.33; UIM I II. F.TI KING OF OREGON T Portland Veteran Retains Title by Missing Only One Bird Out of 200 New ton Wins in Handicap Fran M. Troeh. the Portland vete- ran, stood out today as the best per- j The Long "alia re the wealth" subatl former of the Oregon state trapitute for the administration social se shoot held at the Medford Oun club, curlty bill was rejected today by the By cracking 100 straight targets in senate, the second half of the stale singles The substitute, offered by Senator championship match yesterday, Mr. Long (D.-fA.), would have provided Troeh retained hia state title. In old age pensions for nil people over shattering 90 out of 100 targets in the first half of the contest Sat urday he completed the event with the remarkable tally of 199, Ail-Around Champ, The ace shooter from Portland also won the all-around championship of the four-day tournament by scor ing 337 out of a possible 350 In the 300 10-yard event, 100 handicap and j 36 pairs of doubles. He won the state championship doubles on Saturday by breaking 48 out of 60. thus cap turing three titles during the meet. The Oregon state handicap cham pionship was won yesterday by Sid Newton of thia city. The matcn ended In a deadlock with Newton, Charles Follette of Forest .Grove and Ted Kowalski of Monroe tied at 97 out of 100. In the shoot-off of 25 targets Kow alski was eliminated, but Newton and Follette remained deadlocked, each having a straight run of 35. In the second 35 Newton again had perfect score, while Follette was down two.. The handicap shoot-off was the final event on the program and was (Continued on Pag, Eight) BY SKY CLIPPER E MIDWAY ISLAND. (VIa Pan-American Radio.) June 17. (p) Flying "blind." the Pan-American Clipper seaplane hopped off today for Hono lulu on Its return flight to the United States mainland. Immediately after the giant ship rose Into the air after a graceful take. off, all curtains were drawn and pilots were compelled to rely solely on in struments for dlrectllon, speed and altitude. - C. W. Winters, Miami, Fla., and Philip Berst, New York. Pan-American officials who were passengers on the Honolulu-to-Mldwsy flight, re mained here for further Inspections. The 1600-mile Journey to Hono lulu Is expected to take slightly more thsn the 9 hours, 13 minutes con sumed on its westward hop, due to expected headwinds and also to addi tional flight observations. Captain Edwin C. Mustek and the usual crew of five were aboard. This tiny mld-Paclflc Isle's 3d residents and two guests bid a long ing farewell to the big seaplane and Its personnel, realizing It may be months before they return. T STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal.. June 17. 0P) Nearly 1.000 graduates of Stanford today left the academic cloisters with a warning from a fel low-graduate of 40 years sUndinj, . . ,w . former President Herbert Hoover, that freedom was the chief essential of so cial security and that that freedom must be realously guarded. Mr. Hoover was interrupted by ap plause from the 10.000 persons at tending the university's commence ment exercises yesterday when he de clared, "the flrat of social securities Is freedom freedom of men to wor ship, to think, to speak, to direct their energies, to develop their tal enta and to be rewarded for their effort." find Klnod Mrtlm. BENXELMAN, Neb.. June 17. .TP; The body of Mrs. Harold Mosler. 34. who lived on a farm 13 miles south of here, was found near Benkelman today and hope wa abandoned for flndlna her flre-vear-old dauunter, Betty Jane, safe after flood wafer last night swept them from their farm. SHARE THE WEALTH PLAN OF KINGFISH KILLEDJJENATE Chorus of 'Noes' Greets Proposed Substitute for ' Administration's Pending Social Security Legislation WASHINGTON. June 17. (AP)- 60 who did not have an Income of $500 a year or property worth 3,000. It would have been financed by a capital levy on wealth beginning at 1 per cent on fortune of $1,000,000 and 00 per cent on all above $8,000,000. Long's plan waa defeated by a chorus of "noes" without even a rec ord vote. . WASHINGTON. June 17. (AP) In a pep talk to state works progress administrators. Hsrry L. Hopkins as serted today the next six months will be the crucial time in carrying out the $4,000,000,000 program and "the public and the president are looking to you to see that the Job la done." Earlier, a alight decline In the number of persons on relief In cities was reported by Hopkins, the relief administrator. WASHINGTON. June 17. (AP) Senator Norrls (R.-Neb.) today pro posed an amendment to the conatltu- ('Continued on Pago Five) GIRL WS7ACE DEATH IN CHINA FOOCHOW, China, June 17. fAP) Death before a firing aquad or un der an executioner's axe faced lfi girls today ns the possible penalty for their activities as communist spies. Military authorities at Hul Chang Informed the loca. garrison that the glris rounded up there were court martlalled and "all confessed their guilt." Dispatches asserted Hul Chang au thorities were pondering the penal ty for the group. Chinese circles here said the girls had a fair chance to escape with their lives but warn ed: "Sex and beauty have not always in China stayed the executioner's axo or the firing squad." GO PLANNED IN FALL NFW TORJC. June 17. ( AP) Jim my Johnston, director of boxing at Madison Square Garden, said today he would open negotiations Immedi ately for a heavyweight championship bout between Jimmy Braddock and Max Schmellng here In September. Completely re-arranging his plans which originally called for no title defense for Braddock before 1936, Johnston said he would confer tomor row with Joe Oould. Chamber Co Central Pt. H. A. Thierolf and A. H. Banwell. vice-president and manager, respec tively of the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce will be main apeak- ' . , . ,, . lers at a picnic In Central Point to- J; . ... ,, official! end the beautificatlon con test recently held in Central Point. At the request of Central Point cltl-r-ens. the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce selected the Judges who were Mrs. Ralph Woodford. Mrs. J. Verne Shangle, and Mildred Beeson. The Judges will announce the win ners tonight and prizes will be award ed. Thierolf and Banwell will also speak to a group of Applegate citizens In the Applegate Orange hall Wed nesday at 8 p. m. Citizens In that community have recently completed an organization for the purpose of promoting a dam on the Applegate which project nas been endorsed by the Jackson County Chamber of I Commerce. i It was also announctd today that i nan eu win ne n.e main 'the Rotary club tomorrow, hla sub- BASEBALL National, BOSTON. June 17. ( AP) Berger's tenth and eleventh home runs of the season drove In a total of five runs today and enabled the Braves to defeat the Cincinnati Reds, 8 to In the first game of a double- header. R. H. K. Cincinnati .. S 8 8 Boston .. 8 11 3 Batteries: 8 e h o 1 1, Hollingsworttt and Lombard!: Brandt and Hogan. Second game: R. H. E. Cincinnati 10 0 Boston .. ........... 6 S 0 Batteries: Derringer and Campbell; MacFayden and Hogan. R. H. E. Pittsburg 13 aa u Philadelphia i 3 11 0 Batteries: 8wltt and Orace: Wal ters, Prim, Bowman and Wilson. H. E. Chicago .. fi 8 1 Brooklyn 3 11 0 Batteries: French and O'Dca; Earn, shaw and Lopez. R. K E. St. Louis , 3 0 3 New York U 19 1 natwri..; P. nn, Harrcll and Dc lanccy; Schumacher and Mancuso. SWEPT AGAIN BY SPREADING WATER By the Associated Press The Republican river, which two weeks ago caused scores of deaths and property damage estimated at 13, 000,000 in south central Nebraska, swept out of Its banks today, inun dated thousands ot acres of land and washed out reconstructed railroad tracks and several bridges. Swollen by cloudburst and steady rains in territory drained by its trib utaries, the stream wsa a mile wide at McCook and three-fourths of a mile wide at Trenton. No loss of life was reported from the new floods, families who had Just returned to their homes In the lowlands fleeing to the hills again upon a warning by police. From three to six Inches of rain fell yesterday .and while the rains had ceased In the seoiion Unitty, heavy clouds threatened additional down pours. Residents of the lowlands of the river near St. Francis, Kas., watched apprehensively as the normally 30 foot wide stream spread to three quarters of a mile, and prepared to evacuate Immediately should it rlxe still further. DOUBLE LAST YEAR The vacation Bible school being conducted by the Zlon Lutheran church opened today with attendance doubled over that of last year, and with an unprecedented attendance of pupils between the ages of 13 and 18 So large waa the registration In that ae group that Rev. Kabele has de cided to add more teachers, and Issu ed a special Invitation to boys and girls of that age today. The Bible school will be In session for two weeks, studying the life of Jesus Christ, Rev. Martin G. Kabele Is supervisor of the classes. - operates in Civic Picnic Ject confined to an explanation of the chamber's five year development program. These meetings are In keeping with the chamber of com merce policy to present its program and objectives before groups of Jack son county citizens at all times. Con siderable work of this nature has been done during the past two years which has brought about, chamber of commerce officials point out, a better understanding between the various communities in Jackson county. Two years ago, the chamber spon sored a number of trips for the Med ford CMeemen. particularly to the granges throughout the county. The past year speakers have appeared upon many occasions at grange meet ings and other functions. In this way. It Is believed that those In the rural districts can become better acquainted with what the chamber of commerce Is doing. These meetings also are part of a progrsm established year before last by tlje cnamDer of commerce. At that IConUnued on Pag four. Writ SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA WILL SCAN CASE Action Again Raises Ques tion Legality of 18-Year Imprisonment Convicted Preparedness Day Bomber SAN FRANCISCO, June 17. (AP) The California state supreme court today Issued a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Thomas J. Mooney, con victed San Francisco preparedness day bomber. The writ is returnable June 37. Issuance of the writ brings the question of the legality of Mooney'a 18-year imprisonment Into the state's highest tribunal for the second time. In 1018, the supreme court denied a petition for a writ of coram nobis, and the action was generally taken, to mean that Mooney had no remedy In the state courts for his convic tion on asserted ly perjured testi mony. However, Chief Justice William B. Waste pointed out today that this is the first opportunity the supreme court has had to pass on the habeas corpus action. On June 37, Attorney General U. B. Webb will file his return, and the supreme court will then set a date for the hearing. At the close of the hearing. Jus tice Waste added, the record would then be referred to the supreme court for determination. L DIRECTORS TODAY Election of two directors to the Medford school board is being held today at the senior high school on South Oakdale instead of at the Junior high school as waa announced In this paper last week. Those who have filed for the posi tion are Dr. R. E. Green and Mark, Jarmln, present Incumbents. The election Is open to ail legal voters. and the polls will remain open until 7 o clock. CONVENTION IN SALEM A ALUM, June 17. iTP) The Injuri ous effects of the borrower of credit control by politically appointed bodies was the substance of the opening talk, today by Frederick Greenwood of tho Bank of California In Portland, presi dent of the Oregon Bankers' associa tion, delivered to members of the as sociation at the annual convention here. Greenwood placed emphasis on the necessity that bankers take greater interest In public relations and work out a program. Instead of leaving In formation relative to banking and bank operations to so-called "radio reformers and political agitators." BEVKKLY HILLS, Cal., Juno 15. If you have seen a fellow entirely hidden behind a thin amp post today, it's your fa vorite sporting writer, who predicted Max Baer in tho early part of the first round. From what I can hear Kata Smith was the only one who jjucssed it right. So Katie, from now on I am for you no matter which side the mountain the moon is on. I am glad the judges told us who won for you couldn't tell from the broadcasting. Broadcasting for all big sporting events should be sold to Flenry Ford, for he only tells yon who is paying for it and don't try to soli you a car, nor name Dizzy Dean's dog. fjjL e U. MtKMiht ferttut. IM.