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Newspaper Page TextMedford Mail Tri Good Business ft Is good business to use the classified pajte of this newspaper. These little Ads bring surprising re sult and In most cases pro re to be a good Inrestment. Try them. Thirtieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1933. Ko. 80. rvinirfl Li c&sLlzzi -- M The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Tues day; no chance In temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday 78 Lowest this morning 44 rune m mm 1 j truvM MuyUn Nys GENER gmtd MAY By PAIL MALLON (Copyright. 1935, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, June 24. The pol itical frosting was so thick on Pres ident Roosevelt's wealth-taxing pro gram that some confusion has developed aa to what Is In the cake underneath. If there la a cake. The best tax l economists out side the govern ment have been caning on It among them selves to separate the froth from the substance. What they have MALLON found la that, no matter now you slice these wealth-sharing etiKttes- Hons, they still amount to little more than good campaign slogans. Not only from them, but also from good new deal sources, you can learn off the record that this phase was Intended primarily as a little polit ical sweetening for Huey Long, who has been sour on the new deal lately. Mr. Roosevelt wisely neglected to mention any rates for his wealth sharing inheritance taxes. This makes It difficult but not impossible to get a good Idea of what to expect from them. The only rat guide you have. Is the one offered by Treasury Secretary Morgenthau a few weeks ago. When the bonus was up. he suggested a schedule of extra-heavy Inheritance rates, matching existing surtax rates, lie estimated they would raise- 8300. 000.000 a year, possibly more. Presi dent Roosevelt does not want to ro that far. so. If you take the 8300. 000.000 revenue expectation from this source, you will have an optimistic advance guess. i It you slice this up among 120. 000.000 people, you will find that your ' slice would be 62.50 a year, which you would not get because it would be applied to reduction of the federal debt. And If you apply It to a 829.000, 000.000 debt and compare It with a $8,500,000,000 budget, you can see that Mr. Roosevelt will have to go cut and slay a lot of millionaires fast to get nis books balanced that way. The truth Is that the government may break up a few hundred fortunes this way. but that the great bulk of the wealth of the country does not lie In these bulging reservoirs. To et it another way: 133 estate taxes were paid In 1933 on estates valued at more than a million dollars each. The net taxable worth of these estates was 284.000,000: the federal tHX paid S28.OO0.00O. If the govern ment had seized the.11 estates entirely by a 100 per cent tax on them. It v.ould have received only $256,000,000 more than it did. No one Is proposing to co more than half that far, in cluding Mr. Roosevelt. Slice the froth off the plan for taxing more heavily the incomes of more than a million dollars, and you will find the same thine. In 1933 there were exactly forty-six persons In that class (in 1929 there were (Continued on Page Four.) SSDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Lloyd Hammock, m ' with folded windshield an open enr falling to re- spond to a conversation at 4ft miles n hour. Asked why, after the trip "The wind took the words right out of my mouth." Tom puson. to Jerry Jerome, scrosj the street: "Whataya know?", and .Terry answering "Practically every thing. What do you wantta know?" Suzette Stennett In swimming at the "hot-sprlntm." and again In an Ashland pool a half hour later, and swearing she hadn't snesked over the fence at the second place, in her swimming suit, to avoid payment. Bob Lewis, after miraculously es caping cuts that caught Dick Lewis and Bob Colvig when the letter's windshield flew up at 43 m. p. h. and ahattered, warning the other two against dripping blood all over his elean white shoes. SEEN MING TRUCE MEXICO CTTT. June 24 (UP. First Indications of a truce in the lens struccle between the govern ment and the Catholic church were sren today In dispatches to the news paper El Universal that the .a:e of Coiirr.a is permitting trie return of priests expelled last April. PALI, IL SHE BE CALLED National Guardsmen and State Police Scatter Union Lines to Permit Reopen ing of Lumber Plants EUREKA, Calif., June 24. (AP) Tension eased noticeably today in the lumber strike area here as several hundred longshoremen, who walked out In sympathy with mill workers returned to their Jobs and William Kaarte, 42, picket, slain In Friday's rioting, was burled with complete ab sence of demonstration. PORTLAND. June 24. ( AP) An attitude they described as "mast hopeful" was taken by union officials here today after a series of confer ences designed to end the disastrous lumber strike. The expression was made by A. W Mulr, spokesman for the striking Sawmill and Timber Workers" union, and by D. E. Nickerson, chairman of organized labor's strike strategy com mittee. Both men and their co-workers had said earlier in the day that the one thing they are seeking Is settle ment of the controversy at the earliest possible moment, and that the day should bring results. TACOMA, Wash., June 24. (AP) Steel-helmeted National Guardsmen, armed with bayonets and state police swinging clubs and throwing tear gas bombs scattered pickets and permit ted reopening of Tacoma sawmills today. Summoned hastily, the Tacoma central labor council was reported to be considering a general strike in retaliation for the attempted break-up of the two-months' old strike. (Continued on P"se Eight) MULTNOMAH DEMOS WOULD OUST BEGKMAN AS PORTLAND, June 24. (AP The revelation that John J. Bcckman. chairman of the Multnomah county Democratic central committee, lias been appointed attorney to handle affairs of the state corporation de partment's building and loan asso ciations, was stirring up a new brand of political gossip here today. For several months Beckman has been under fire by a certain ele ment In the Multnomah county central committee. The opposition, headed by H. J. Langoe. secretary ol the committee, has declared Beck man has Imposed a "boss rule" over local Democratic affairs and that application of political patronage has been considerably less than satis factory. Langoe and others have taken the attitude that by accepting the at torneyship with the state corpora tion department, Bcckman has dis qualified himself as chairman of the county committee. WILL ERECT MILL AT E PROVOLT. June 24. (Spl.) Final plans have been completed for leas ing of the gold quarts mine owned by Glen Provolt of this community and Z. B. Truxell of Greenville. Cal. The mine, across the Applegate river from Provolt, has been taken over by T. M. Darnell, P. C. Dressel and W. O. Reynolds of Indiana. Within 30 days, they expect to erect a mill at the cost of several thousand dollars. C-C Mining Committee Has Important Status The mining committee of the Jack son County Chamber of Commerce is one of the most important In the or ganlzation. it was announced by of ficials this morning. Although per haps Its work Is not given the pub licity which is received by other com mittees, nevertheless Its activities are vitally Important. The purpose of the mining com mittee is three-fold: 1. To encourage legitimate mining. 2. To discourage illegitimate m'n ing. 3. To advertise mining possibilities here oy giving only t'ne true facts. By virtue of the fact tl.At there '.s no up to date survey avails 9 res tive to minerals in this section, tne Mrs. Waley s UNION HEAD HELD IN EUREKA One of the many persons Jailed In Eureka, Calif., after police quelled a bloody two-hour battle between strike pickets and employes of the Holmes-Eureka lumber mill was J. B. Wllllngford (in suede jacket), president of the Sawmill and Lumber Workers Union local. One person was fatally shot by police In the melee. (Associated Press Photo) All OUT OF TOURNEY LONDON, June 24. UP) Wllnier Allison, of Austin. Tex. top ranking American player w&s eliminated from singles competition In the Wimble don championships today when he dropped his first round match to Vivian McGrath of Australia, 6-4, 6-3, 7-9, 7-fl. The American star was the first seeded played forced out of the men's championships. Allison staged several game rallies during the four-set match, but his frequent misjudging of distance was costly. Moat of the other leading players. Including Sidney B. Wood and John Van Ryn of the United States con tingent; Fred Perry, British and Am erican champion and H. W. (Bunny) Austin, the tournament's fourth ranking player, advanced easily Into the second round, but Roderlch M-n-zel. the big Chechoslovakian, was forced to go four sets to defeat L. C. Cater of England. WASHINGTON. June 24. (AP) A senate banking subcommittee today approved a Joint resolution extend ing for one year from June 30 the temporary deposit Insurance law guaranteeing Individual deposits up to 5000. The full committee will consider the proposal tomorrow. Subcommittee members were re luctant to discuss the action, but several Insisted it did not mean the pending administration bank bill was going over until next session. Trial Of Bromley Scheduled Friday The trial of H. L. Bromley, ar retted early Saturday morning on a charge of drunken driving, by state police, was set this morning by Jus tice of th Peace William P. Cole man, for Friday morning. June 28. The defendant was arraigned Sat xirday afternoon, and asked until this morning to plead. A continu ance was granted until Friday, when a plea of not guilty was entered. work of this committee Is made more difficult. It wbs stated. Last year the committee recom mended a project to the Public Works Administration for s chromit surrey to be made In southern Oregon and northern California. In order to de termine what mines are operating in this territory and also to be in a po sition to bring buyer and seller to gether if necessary, two - of ques tionnaires wre published by the committee for the use of those who have mines snd may likely to dis pose of them. These questionnaires are available at the Chamber of Com-rr.er-e 0"; and are rv.c ever by tne committee very thoroughly when i filled out. HARKS 41 ST YEAR LONDON. June 24. (UP) The Prince or Wales, thn empire's "super salesman" approaching middle age still unmarried, celebrated his 41st birthday quietly Sunday at his coun try home In Berkshire. The usual stiluie ot guns to the heir to the throne was fired today. There were no ceremonial celebra tions Deceits the birthday fell on a Sabbath, but the prince spent much of the day receiving and replying to messages of congratulations and good wishes from all over the world. TAKES OWN LIFE MADISON. Wis., June 24. f UP) Mario Pacettl. 21, honor student and star guard on the University of Wis consin football team who was sched uled to enter West Point July 1, com mitted suicide here Sunday. Pacettl'a body was found at Eagle Heights, overlooking Lake Mendota and the university csmpus. scenes of his athletic triumphs and of an un happy love affair. He had driven there In a rented automobile, taped an Inner tube to the exhaust pipe, and directed dead ly carbon monoxide Into the car through a small opening. BASEBALL n. .. 4 .. 1 New York Cleveland Batteries: Tnmiilia and Dickey and Phillips. R. H. Boston 4 0 Chicago 6 11 Batteries: Rhodes, Orove and Ferrelj; Phelps and Shea. (10 Innings) R. H. E. Philadelphia 1 1 1 St. 3 0 0 Batteries: Mahaffey and Richards; Thomas and T1m.ey. National. R Cincinnati - 6 Philadelphia 4 Batteries: Shott. N'on. mann a.nd Campbell: Davis, Pewulo, Jorgena and Todd. H. E. 17 1 7 2 Herr- Bivin. (10 innings) R H. E. Chicago 10 13 0 New York 9 12 0 Batteries: Lee. Kowallk. Hnhaw and Hart net l; Par melee. Smith and Mancuso. R H E St Louis 12 18 2 Brooklyn 7 13 J Batteries: P Dean. P Collins. Huesser. J. Dean ' and Davis, De- lancy; Znchary, Leonard, Munns and Lope. Phelps. NEW ORLEANS. June 24. ,UP Federal narcotic agents and police uncovered evidence purported to Imply a plot to muni;lc arm Iroin the L'ntfyl Sta'.e Into Honduras in a raid here today. EX-GRIDIRON STAR Trial Is ROOSEVELT WANTS WEALTH TAX BILL PRESENTATION Congressional Leaders Told President May Insist On Action Senator Bora's Backing Lends Hope WASHINGTON, June 24. (AP) Congressional leaders were Informed today. Just a few hours before talk ing with the president himself, that Mr. Roosevelt would like to have his wealth tax program enacted this session. The word was conveyed to them by a close friend of the president's, who talked with him today before arrangements were made for the leaders to discuss the situation with the president. One of the leaders, asked whether his understanding was that Mr. Roosevelt would insist the taxes be acted upon before congress adjourns. replied: "I assume so." Senator Borah's declaration that President Roosevelt's proposal for new taxation on wealth is "sound In principle" lent encouragement to day to a group of legislators fight ing to put such a plan across this session. The group, In which Senator La Pollette ( Pro., Wis.) la prominent, gavo notice that unless the adminis tration pressed a separate bill at this session to carry out the Roose velt program they would force the issue by offering It as a rider to a pending resolution extending $500, 000.000 in "nuisance" taxes. Realising that attempts to amend (Continued on Page Eight) STOCKTON MILLING PLANT IS BURNED STOCKTON. Cal.. June 24. (Ti The Stockton plant at the Taylor Milling company. Including all ma chinery and a considerable amount of grain In the two buildings, was de stroyed by fire early today. H. E. Boss, manager of the plant, said he could not estimate the loss, because all records not consumed In the fire are In the company's main office In Los Angeles. Unofficial es timates placed the damage at about MOO .000. Breaking out About 4 a. m., report edly due to spontaneous combustion, the flames swept a two-story ware house filled with poultry feed and other mill products and spread to the company's five-story machinery building adjoining. Pour hours later the plant was a total loss. Fill GROWERS MEET The meeting of the directors of the Prult Growers league and orchardists scheduled for tomorrow noon at the Mfirord hotel has been changed, It waji announced this morning by J. B. Kirk, president of the Fruit Growers league. The meeting will be held with the Rotary club Instead, In order to present Dr. George W, Peavy of the Oregon Agricultural Collegs a larger audience. All directors of the league and or chardists who Intend to be present at the meeting are urged to notify the Chamber of Commerce Immediately so that the necessary reservations can be made. ARREST NO MEXICANS IN BOMBING U. S. EMBASSY MEXICO, D. F., June 24. yp) A United States embassy official said today, "no arrests have been made and po&Albly none will be made." in connection with the bombing explos ion on the embassy grounds yester day. SAFEWAY STORES SHOW INCREASE IN BUSINESS NEW YORK. June 24. (API ! Safewny Stores 87tem report sale. for the four weekA ended June 15 of MI.S11. 168 against I19.XX402 for the 1934 period. 4 Income Shares Maryland fund bid tlfl.13; askid I7 44 Quarterly Income shares bid lUfl. asked 1190. Scheduled for July 5th ASK BAPTISTS TO CONDEMN EVILS IEI Immoral Motion Pictures, Gambling, Liquor Traffic and Ads Included in Resolution at Assembly Hv Frank F.wlng (Associated Press Staff Writer) COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., June 24. (AP) Resolutions condemning Immoral motion pictures, gambling,! liquor traffic and advertising; repres- j slon of religion, child labor and a j host of other elements committeemen ! styled evils of modern society, were placed before northern Baptists in annual assembly here today. Accompanying the far reaching resolution committee report ware nominations for 1937 convention of ficers and officials of a dozen general church organizations. Dr. J, H. Franklin, president of Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester. Pa., was nominated president of the 1937 convention, considered tanta mount to election since the conven tion seldom votes counter to recom mendations of the committee. Officers will be formally elected to morrow and resolutions voted. Dr. Franklin recently retired as foreign secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission society. Striking at repeal without men tioning It by name, the resolution report stated "a larger number ot automobile accidents, Increased boot legging, and rising consumption of strong drink among all ages are the reappearance of devastating evils always accompanying- the liquor traffic." The temperance resolution deplor ed the "Increase In liquor advertising In newspapers and magazines and on the radio with its attendant demor alizing influence upon the Ameri can home." Antl-lynchlng legislation was rec ommended strongly so that "lynching may be punished as effectively as the kindred crime of kidnaping. NEARS COLLAPSE rvwraiNO. N. T.. June 34 Mr. Eva Coo, waated and nerve wracked after nine months In sing Sing prlaon'a death house, was near collapse today as she awaited her eM .utinn TtiiirMtav nleht. Th .int. lava Mrs. Coo, Ostcgo county rosdhouse keeper, must die for the "Insurance muraer issi .um mer of her handyman. Harry Wright Only executive clemency can save her from becoming the fifth woman elec trocuted In New York. The nine months In the death house have turned her blond hair to gray. She has lost from 25 to 30 pounds and complain of Intense headaches and sleepless nights. Be cause of the headaches and nervous ne. ah ha abandoned her only activity, embroidering handkerchiefa for friends. BOISE. Idaho, June 24. (AP) Funeral services for John D. Daly, retired Bolae business man, who died here yesterday, will be held tomor row. He was born In Canon City. Ore. He began his business career i tv, mrrontit fcrada in eastern Oregon and was one of the found ers of the First National bank or Ontsrlo, Ore. Business Upturn Slated Say Wall Street Seers NEW YORK, Juna 34. (AP) If business follows the same psttern of Intermediate cycles It has pur sued sine the spring of 1933, Wall Street analyats say the net few months should see pronounced upswing. Since the bsnklng holiday In March, 1933. there apparently have been three small eyelet or waves of business activity, each of about nine months duration. It appears then that business ac tivity Is now around the bottom of the trough between the third wave, and a fourth or oncoming wave. ! Measuring these cycles by the monthly Index of Industrial produc tion complied by Standard Btatlatlca I Co.. and based on 1028 as 100, the ! first nine-month cycle started from : a level of S5 In March. 1033. It I reached Its crest In July at 88.4, and subsided through November. 3 Dr. W. P. Sheparil, of 8nn Fran clhco. natluiMlly known ph.'Klt-lan, will be main speaker at a fnrnni lum-hron at the Hotel Medloril Thursday noon spoiiHorwl by the Jackson County Health association, Jackson County Medical association anil the Jackson County Chamber ot Commerce, EGAN LEADS FIELD IN NORTHWESTERN BY SUB-PAR GOLF SEATTLE GOLF CLUB. Seattle, June 24. ( AP) H. Chandler Egan, former national champion and Walker eup team member of Med ford, Ore., shot his way Into the 18- hole lead of the Paclflo Nortruvest championship this morning with a 71, two under par. Egan was over par on but one hole of the eighteen, the seventeenth. There, he three-putted. Coming to that hole the gallery fig ured the brilliant veieran. by equal ing par and then gottlng a birdie at the comparatively easy eighteenth, might get a sparkling 60; but he couldn't make It. He shot birdies at the second, ninth and eleventh. With a score of 80. two over par, Mrs. J. B. GUmour of Seattle, took an early lenU In the qualifying round of the Paclflo Northwest Women's golf championship at Broadmoor. Right on her heels enme Mrs. B. E. Eva of Portland, with an 81, and Miss Barbara Beach Thompson of Palo Alto, Calif., with the same score. Other scores Included Marian Mc Dougall, Portland, defending champ Ion, 83. LESS TH1SJEAS0N WASHINGTON, June 34. (AP) A prediction that fewer hoga will be slaughtered this summer In the Unit ed States than for mnny years was made today by the department of agriculture. It said stocks of pork on June 1 were smallest for that date In 20 years, and stocks of lard were the smallest In 13 years. Inspected hog slaughter In May was reported at 3.173.000 head, about 48.8 per cent smaller than In May last year, and tho smallest for that month since 1696. For the eight months of October May, hogs slaughtered under federal Inspection totnlcd 34.016,000 head, 34 per cent less than the corresponding months In 1033-34. The second wave started In De cember. 1833, from a trough at 67.1, or aubstsntlally above the previous bottom. It worked up to 70.8 In May. 1934, falling to get as high as the previous e r e a t, then slid down through August. The trough from which the third wave started was S3.2. In September, somewhat below the previous one, but still well above the 55 level from which the first wave atarted. The upward sweep carried Into last March, when a crest of 84 8 was reached, which again failed to top the crest of that flrat steep wave. Just where the third wave ends is yet to be determined declslvly. If the nine-month pattern Is to be followed precisely, the low point should be this month. Standard Sta tistics Co.'s pretlmlnsry estimate 01 Its Index for this month Is 74 3. well above the b o 1 1 o m a ot previous tfougha. FULL CONFESSION HOPEOFOEFENSE Attorneys Will Seek Delay in Kidnap Trial Account Nervous Condition of Ac cused Woman Is Forecast TACOMA, June 24. (AP) Trial of Mrs. Margaret Watey on charges of kidnaping and conspiracy In the (200.000 abduction of 9-year old Oeorge Weyerhaeuser, was set by Judge E. E. Cushman m federal court here today for July 5. Mrs, Waley. whose husband already Is In McNeil Island federal prison serving a sentence of 40 years for the kidnaping, was not In court. She spent the week-end In the Thurston county Jail. Upon the request of Stephen J. O'Brien, Tacoma attorney appointed by the court to represent Mrs. Waley, Judge Cushman said actual taking of testimony would not begin until July 8. Long Preliminaries Impaneling of a Jury and other preliminaries will occupy the court until that date, the judge Indicated. Whether Mrs. Waley win go to trial on the other indictment against her, that of extortion, will be de cided on July 0, Judge Cushman said. In that Indictment, Mrs. Waley la accused of mailing the second ran som note to the Weyerhaeusers, ad vising them of the arrangements for payment of the $200,000 ransom de manded for the return of their boy. (Continued on Page Two; DRIVElM IN SALEM, June 24. (AP) Only about oneTfourth of the automobile drivers In Oregon have obtained new operators' licenses or renewed their old ones. It was announced by the state department. It was estimated there were about 360,000 operators In Oregon. The time for use of old permits ends at midnight next Sunday, after which arrests will be made by state police for violations of the law. The new licenses will be good for two years. Extra crews were put on by the secretary of state to handle the rush for permits this week. Under the law only persons over 70 years of age, new drivers and those who have had suspensions or revocations, after the periods are up, sre required to submit to examina tions. METHODIST CONFERENCE IN SALEM DURING WEEK SALEM. June 24. (AP) Approxi mately 100 ministers and a like num ber of lay delegates will meet here this week for organization of the 83rd sewlon of the Oregon annual conference of the Methodist church. SAYS'. UEVKKI-Y IHIiLS, Calif., .Tim 22. Mr. Roosevelt went to see Ynlo rnco Harvard in boats today. Funny lie didn't rro to sco the biff leasrue row at Pouehkcepsie. Those West ern colleges can drag an anchor and beat Yale or Har vard. Thev are seatins a new sen- alor today. The whole argu ment is whether he is 30 years old or not. West Virginia keeps no records and they can't re member back that far. Funny thing about being a United States senator. The only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement necessary. They just figure that a man that old has got nobody to blame but himself if he geta caught in there. Yours, C 1M. elcKsusat Eradicate, tsa.