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Newspaper Page TextIt's Vacation Time Have the Mall Tribune follow you j. on your ramer vacation. Better than a letter from home. Telephone . 7a or drop a postal firing jour old j and new address. IFIBU Thirtieth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULlr V o. No. 93. Ffl The Weather Forecast: Partly cloud; tonight and Wednesday; little change In .tem perature. Highest yesterday ; ?7 Lowest this mnrnlny 4g Medford NE 1V1A1JL T I Nhys I WEYERHAEUSER !fi By PAUL MAIXOX (Copyright. 103.1. by Paul .Ma I Ion) WASHINGTON, July 10. Stranger things may have happened in Wash ington than those now happening on the wealth-tax plan, but, if so. no one can re member when. It 'may be the heat, and then again It may be the stu pidity. The latest chap ter In thle scrio comic mystery hangs on the ap pearance of PALL MALLON Treasury Secreta- ry Morgenthau before the house ways and means committee. He was sup posed to offer the new plan, but when asked about It. he apparently had never heard of It. He declined to say how much, additional revenue the treasury wanted. If any. He re i fused to hint at what rates he ex ' pected. All he knew about taxes was what Vie read in the president' mes sage. This left the poor old Republicans flabbergasted. No one ever tells them what Is going on inside. They tried to ask questions, but the Democrats leaped at them with charges that they were trying to oppose taxes on the wealthy. This led to political debates which placed the meeting on a level with the average meeting of a small town council. Mr. Morgenthau stood on one foot or the other, say ing nothing. It loked almost as if the Demo cratic committee members had en tered Into a conspiracy to protect Mr. Morgenthau against saying anything. That Is exactly what happened. The Inside story dats back to a conference at the White house a few days earlier (July 4). The Demo cratic commltttee men (Doughton, Hill. Cullen. Cooper) filed Into the president's study on that occasion with perplexed brows. They tried to be deferential, but hinted broadly that the president's wealth-tax Idea was somewhat "ridiculous." In fact, they are supposed to have used that exact word, but in a less offensive way, something to the effect that the Idea placed them In a "ridiculous" position. Their contention was that the. rates suggested by Senator Harrison for the administration would raise only 8134.- iContlnued od Page Four.) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Two little fiends, one red-headed, on South Fir. street, catching a oaby robin the mother and father birds frantic, trying to beat the brats off. but getting only blows for their par ental effort at rescue. Bert Orr dashing about town wlt.i a great display of vigor, despite his recent Illness. Ralph Boutelle pooh-poohing the Idea, that running 16 tons of beets through his .cannery In three Jays wis any particular feat. Bill Gates disappointing his pub lic but causing no end of relle! to the donkeys, by falling to appear for his rodeo performance at the donk ball gome le-st night- Theodore Braflsch, artist working on the Catholic church, walking home when day Is done, liberally splattered with oil paint. 24 DiE AS HEAT GRIPS MIDWEST KANSAS CITY, July 10 .J. Wilt ing heat claimed ft heavy toll In the mMx&st today. Additional death) In Texaa, Ne braska, Kansas. Oklahoma and Mis souri Increased fatalities to 24. Little Immediate relief was mi by A. M. Hamrlck. federal m'Worolnlat here. A blazing sun sent the mer cury rocketing aaln today. A maximum of 109 decrees was re corded yesterday at Phllllpsburg. Kns . and 108 ftt Dresden. Hundreds of city dwellers spent last night In parks and yards. INCH DEEP HAIL FALLS IN DESCHUTES FOREST BEND. Ore.. July 10. (AP) A h . ram and hatl urm swept over: the w.ilkpr mountain country 50 ; miles south of here in the Deschutes National forest last nlpht. Hall pilfd j up an Inch drp in some places. j Although nearly an Inch of rain j fell at Skookum butte .n the forest, i there was only a trace of nreripira tion a. Btnd. ( Ram was general in iha ItmtviUc i district. LAD IS STATE'S STARWITNESS Government Scores Point When Fingerprint of Mrs. Waley Identified As Found in Tacoma Hideout Home FEDERAL COURTROOM, TACOMA, Wash.. July 10. (AP) George Weyer haeuser, nine-year-old Tacoma boy, was being called as the government's star witness this afternoon during the trial of Mrs Margaret Thulln Wa!ey, charged with his kidnaping under the Lindbergh law. United States District Attorney J. Charles Dennis told the Assoeiatod Press the boy would be placed on the stand as soon as technical testimony about fingerprints In the Spokane kidnap house was finished. The boy was brought Into the fed eral building during the noon recess and placed in United States Marshal A. J. Chltty's office. FEDERAL COURTROOM, TACOMA. July 10. (AP) The government scored a point today when A. M. Kohn, federal fingerprint expert frcm Washington, D. C, Identified as Mrs. Margaret Thulln Wa ley's a fingerprint on an electric llght gioDe from the attic of the Spokane "hideout hou'.e" In the George Weyerhaeuser kidnap case. In Mrs. Waley's statement on ar rest in Salt Lake City she denied ever being in the attic. Courtroom spectators recalled that on his release for $200,000 June 1 little George wild ha once heard someone ' moving (Continued on Pag Five.) SENATE INSISTS DEATH SENTENCE BE LEFT IN BILL WASHINGTON, July 10. (AP) By an abrupt change of tactics, the sen ate today sent the hotly-disputed public utility bill to conference and instructed its conferees to Insist on the provisions desired by President Roosevelt to outlaw "unnecessary" holding companies in seven years. There was an advance understand ing, however, that a disagreement with the house on this section would result in a request to the senate for "further instructions" with confereea. The administration had fought to block concurrence of the senate In the house version of the bill, which had eliminated the section providing for dissolution of all holding com panies by 1942 except one for each regional system. Senator Dieterich (D., 111.) abrupt ly withdrew his motion, to Instruct conferees "not to Insist" on the abo lition provision and the proposal went through without a record vote. Immediately Vice-President Garner appointed as senate conferees Chair man Wheeler (D.. Mont.) of the In terstate commerce committee, who had charge of the bill in the senate: Barklcy D., Ky.), Brown (D., N. H., White (R., Me.) and Shlpstead F.-L.. Minn.) EUGENE MAN DROWNS ON TRIP TO ALASKA FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash., July 1U (UP) The body of Vernon Wilicrt. 25-year-old Eugene, Ore., man whose sailing trip to Alaska with his wife was tragically ended by his drown ing late yesterday, had not been found today. His wife Joined thoe searching for the youth's body, believed carried far Into Puget Sound by strong currents. Policemens' Womenfolk Fear Moral Corruption NEW YORK. July 10. fiPt The plaint of "heartbroken mothers" who worry about the "bad women" their policemen husbands might meet in the course of night duty has brought out the philosophical side of Mayor LaiZuardia's official nature. "If man la good, decent and clean, he will continue to be so, re gardlew of the work he Is assigned to." assured the mayor in a sort of ad v!c-to-t he-lovelorn homily print ed in "Spring 3100." the police m.iea zinc. The complaint the major received said: "I am a tou.kt mother and know iota of mothers in the same position as 1 am. Our husbands are youruc men. paln-clothes policemen and are mixed in wltb all kind of bad wom en and are never it immc at n:?;t "I k you to change all youni married mea out of Uieae Jobe." . . - ( Max Admits, Denies Marriage on Rocks j Me X. C I; : . n jL Vim ., i n.aiin - 'r - li iimiii inril J-inminiiiil .. M-i lUri, former heat uumkiu ring cnRHRainent. denied today Hint he hnd separated from his bride or eleven da vs. He was quoted in New York press reports last night n saying that because hl wlfev tormer coffee shop owner. Insisted on a Catholic weddlns ceremony lo supplement their civil marriage, he had lrft her. The pair are shown as they were bring congratulated hy .luMlce mckinson Letts alter the ceremony, (A, P. Photo.) ENTRY TO FOREST IS RESTRICTED AS FIRE SAFEGUARD - SALEM, Ore.. July 10. (AP) Gov ernor Martin today closed to entry except by permit 150,000 acres of timber land In Jackson county. The ordpr will be effective July 12. The sections closed are In the Butte Falls territory and in southern Jack son county, Lynn F, Cronemiller, state, forester, explained. Supervisor Karl Janouch of Rogue River national forest stated today that the foregoing proclamation af fects no land within the borders of Rogue River national forest, but that under a similar proclamation from the governor all land within the na tional forest comes under certain re strictions. These restrictions, Janouch said, require that anyone entering the na tional forest must refrain from smok ing or discarding any burning ma terial while traveling along any road or while camped at any spot not designated as a national forest camp. He must also possess an axe, a shovel and a bucket while camping and must have a campfire permit ex cept when occupying a designated camp. DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY LOS ANGELES. July 10. (UP) "Death Valley Scotty." nomadic des ert mystery man, was reported today ill In a hospital at Randsburg, Calif., where he had been apparently for several days. Friends here had prepared to launch a search by airplane for "Scot ty' whose real name Is Waiter Scott when he failed to show up pf ter being missing for three weeks. Reports from Randsburg indicated Scott hsd walkd into town after more than a week wandcjlng across the desert, bought himself a truck full of eggs and began distributing these instead of the gold pieces he formerly tossed out with a lavish hand. The letter went on to suggest o'.ler policemen for the kind of work that worries "heartbroken mothera." The mayor urged that a police, man's wife do her share toward mak ing a policeman's lot ea.,;er. "Avoid nagglrwE, make allowances for many little irritations.' the mayor advised. "Sometimes your husband will come rome tired or disappoint ed. "Invariably, a few moment, yt a half hour or so of patience and un derstanding will rcstor his mental state, then the cheer and comforts of home will brace him and send hm off the next day hopeful, confident and happy. All the advice was not to the wife The mayor added: "A good husband and rather ran alwaya arrange .!m to pe n d -: t rt hi family" a r,d " h f nil not complain or even dicim the tU&gi aeea wai. on dul." liiauiplmi uhuse uffnlrs of the heart I baseball G. PASS PROTESTS American. R. H. E. St. Louis 7 12 I Philadelphia 3 8 1 Batteries: Coffman and Hemsley; Marcum, Dietrich and Richards. R. H. B- Chicago 0 3 'i Boston - - 7 H; 0 Batteries: Phelps. Fischer. Wyatt and Sewell; W. Fcrrcll and R. Fer rell. Cleveland at New York postponed; rain. R. H. K. Detroit - 11 18 3 Washington 13 14 1 Bridges. Sullivan, Hogsett and Hay wofth; Whitehlll, Newsome, Linke and Bolton. National. R. H. E. New York - 10 15 1 Pittsburg '. 3 6 2 Batteries : Schumacher and Man cuso; Hoyt, Bush. Blrkofcr and Pad den. R. H. E. Boston 4 9 3 Chicago 6 10' 0 Frankhouse and Hogan; Warncke, Root and Hartnett. FEAR PESTILENCE IN FLOOD REGION (By the Associated Press) The threat of pestilence loomed to day in flood-stricken areas as ram paging rivers receded In the east. Governor Lehman, personally di recting relief and rehabilitation act vities in New York state, supplement ed the warnings of health officials In urging that all drinkn.g water be boiled to prevent a possible outbreak of typhoid fever. The governor said the situation in the flood sectors of the state "is Im proving generally." Forty persons died lh upstate New York, four are still missing and prop erty damage was estimated at 26, 000.000. ' About 3.000 persona were made homeless by the floods. Swirling streams that damaged crops, turned roads Into canala and Inundated cellars in northeastern Maryland receded today. In the south ern part of the state the damage waa estimated at $15,000. ' 3 VIOLENT DEATHS IN KLAMATH AREA KLAMATH FALLS. July 10. fAP Three violent deaths, all of them coroner's cases, occurred In the Klam ath district today. The body of an unldentifed tran sient was found beside the railroad track near Midland. Investieating officers said the man. about 40. ap- ! parently had fallen from a freight train. Lee Elliott. 30, lumber mill em ploye, was instantly killed when caught in the machinery at the Kev terson 'lumber plant. Hia head was enwhed. Coroner Oeorge Adle-r said the body of a man had been found hanged at Lamm's camp in the mountains. He : was Investigating to determine if the man hsd taken ills own life. The ' name of the victim had not yet been 1 learned. lime Iipoii nlninst as numerous as his FAIL TO SAVE JOB OF 'AG' INSPECTOR GRANTS PASS. July 10. (AP) In keeping with his declaration when he took office as state director of agri culture, that there must be no dis sension or turmoil In Inspection dis tricts. Solon T. White last night an nounced the Impending release of E. W. Rohlen August 1. Rohlen. deputy st&te Inspector with one of the highest records in the de partment, la a victim of circum stances, White told the county court. Grants Pass Gladiolus society and newsmen at & hotly debated meeting In the court house here-. Three points caused the "agita tion." White charged. First. White's request for formal resignation of Rohlen when White assumed office. Protests followed and White promised Rohlen would be re tained. Second, an Inquiry aa to re action here If Rohlen were moved to another district at higher pay. Pro tests again followed. Third, an nouncement that district Inspection headquarters would be moved to Med ford. Locally, newspapers, the Gladi olus society and county court inter preted the move as a possibility that Rohlen would be removed and pro tests again followed. White said he was tired of the pro tests. White blamed Rohlen for not com menting and refused a proffered af fidavit by county commissioners that Rohlen told them he would be the first to be told of any change, "I couldn't get my staff to believe that," White declared. "They will say I backed down, and stff morale would be ruined." He said he had heard staff members at Salem gossip ing about the protests and wondering If "White really has any backbone." DOROTHY HESTER Robert D. Hofer, his father, R. W. Hofer. and his wife, who la the for mer Dorothy Hester, flying In a j-6 Travelalr Speedwlng. visited briefly at the municipal airport this afternoon en route from their homea In Port land to San Diego, where they will visit the exposition. Mrs. Hofer li a widely known aviatrix who haa held several records for women fliers. She and her husband arrived at the local port several weeks ago en route to the fair but were forced to discon tinue that trip and return to Portland because of engine trouble. Secretary9 s Job With U. S. Bureau Has Its Drawback WASHINGTON, July 10. (AP) Here's a girl who must get all tired out Just telling people wnat she does for living. Asked what her Job is, she took a deep breath and said: "Secretary of the adnlmlstratlve assistant to the associate director of the standards and research di vision of the L'nlted states employ ment service of the labor depait ment " BAER AND BRIDE T Playboy Pugilist Admits, De-j . nies Rift Wife at Home, While Max With Restau-i rant Party in New York NEWARK. July 10. (AP) Max Baer, former world's hcavywelKht champion, denied today he had sep arated from his wife, the former Mary Ellen Sullivan of Washington. D. C, as he boarded a plane at Newark air port for Baltimore for treatment of his hands at Johns Hopkins hospital. "There's nothing to it," Baer said, 'm coming back tonight to Join my wife at Long Branch." Baer wore a green suit, a green lie. and brown suede shoes when he boarded the plane. He waa smiling one minute and showed evidence of worry the next when he spoke of his personal affairs. Argument Admitted He admitted he and Mrs. Baer hsd had a "little argument" but he said they would have a "loving reunion" when he returned from Baltimore. He denied having said that he and his wife were separating. (Continued on Page Seven) D. R. SCHENCK, 86. STRUCK BY AUTO; SERIOUSLY HURT Suffering from a broken leg and severe nervous shock, D. R. Schenok, 80. of 823 West Tenth street, was in a serious condition at the Commun ity hospital today as the result of being struck by a car about 8:4fi last night while crossing the street on West Main at the Intersection of Mis tletoe. The attending physician stated to day that, despite hia advanced age and the daze In which he waa left by the accident, he haa a good chance of recovery. Hia left leg was broken at the knee. He also sustained body bruises and an examination was to have been made today to determine whether or not he waa hurt Inter nally. The car that struck Schenck was (Continued on Page Eight) BAER CAN BATTLE IN FALL IS EDICT BALTIMORE. Md.. July 10. (API There are no broken bonea In Max Bacr's hands and he will be able to fight in September. Johns-Hopkins physicians said today following an ex amination of the ex-champlon. Dr. William F. Riennoff, Jr., the physician, said that no ligaments tn Baer's hands had been torn. He told Baer that hia hands are In no ahape now for heavy work and added chat he ehould not have fought Braddock with hia hands in their present con dition. Goodrich Repeats Denial of Murder DETROIT. July 10.t-fD Merton Ward Goodrich, for the second time in 24 hours, pleaded not guilty to day to the murder of 11-year-old Lil lian Oallaher. Hie trial waa aet for July 17 by Judge Christopher E. Stein of recorder'a court. Goodrich waa brought before Judge Stein for arraignment on the Infor mation, the last formality preceding trial. Banwell Tells Purpose Chamber of Commerce Editor's Note: Due to the fact that the chamber of commerce has so many diversified arthltlea and aw because few people really under stand the full purpose of the organization and Its benefit to the com munity. The Mall Tribune has repeated A. II. Banwell, manacer of the Jackson County Chamber to prenent the following statement on what a chamber of commerce Is: 1 The chamber of commerce It a i group of businessmen and women banded together to do those things 1 to protect and promote the general ' welfare of the community which It serves, which they cn do more ef ' fectlvely than they could aa lndi 1 vlduals. ' Another definition of a chamber of commerce Is that It la an organi zation of businessmen and others, who ahare their point of view, to promote commerce and Industry and those general interest of the com munity which effect commerce ana Industry, or with reference to which DeoDle en traced tn commerce and industry should concern thenueives. The bualucM of a chamber la con Roosevelt Ignores Whisper Campaign Regarding Health WASHINGTON, July 10. (JP) Friends recently have called Presi dent Roosevelt's attention to "whispering campaign" relating principally to his health. The White House readily con ceded this today, but Indicated Mr. Roosevelt Is ignoring It. There is no apparent concern at the White House about the per sistant reports of such a cam paLgn. It waa recalled there that such talk has developed about almost very president, particularly around campaign time. WITHOUT NEW TAX IS SALEM, July 10.-(AP)-The state's share of the proposed 93,300.000 new capltol building can be financed by, direct appropriation of the legislature without adding new taxes and at the same time remaining within the six per cent tax limitation, the proposal State Treasurer Rufus C. Hoi man to day presented to the board of control showed. The suggestion of the treasurer was worked out for over a three year per iod after consultation with experts in the treasurer's office, the tax com mission and the secretary of state's department. Holm an used the figure tentatively set out aa the coal of the new structure of which it was pro posed 49 per cent would be paid as a grant by the federal government. Must Raise J.1.02A.OOO. On that basis. Oregon must raise (1.925,000. Thla would be done, Hol man'a plan proposed, by an appro priation of $650,000 at a special res slon this year or next year and by a 1037 legislative appropriation of 378.000. . ... Elimination of bond Issues and the Interest rates, as well aa doing away with the need for calling a special election was Included in the plan, and Holman stated estimates revealed the book deficit of the state would be 91,301,430, but theme would be no cash deficit In the general fund. The book deficit the first of thle year nas 9 1.643 .OAS. The figures presented showed tho (Continued oo Page Three) HOT SENATE DEBATE WASHINGTON, July 10. (AP Debate broke In the senate over the administration's AAA amendments today with crltlca demanding expla nations of their Intent and Chairman Smith of the agriculture committee Insisting they would not set up a "dictator" over producers. Explaining the measure In response to demands by Senator Byrd (D., Va.) and Senator McNary. the Republican leader, limit h said the bill was "an attempt on the part of the govern ment to aet up an organisation for the farmers that will stand as a bul wark against organized processors and distributors." MRS. McNARY BRINGING BABY TO COOLER WEST PORTLAND, July 10. (AP) A spe cial dispatch to the Journal today from Washington, D. C. said Mrs. Charles L. McNary, wife of Oregon' senior senator, and Charlott. recently adopted baby daughter of the Mc Nary's, "fled the mid-summer hoat of Washington Tuesday afternoon and are on their way to ro-occuriy the senator's country home near Salem " The senator will Join them as soon as congress adjourns. structive action. It la organized for service and accomplishment and the character of its business and it value to the membership and to the community it serves la deter mined not merely by the fact that it ta doing something but by wnat It U doing and how it is doing It. Obviously what a chamber of com merce should do in a community de penda for one thing upon what needs to be done. The chamber la, or should be. made up of business lead ers who have become leaders through practical efficiency. Therefore the XContjxiued, on Fag Seven FROM ETHIOPIA MAY JESTAYED New Instructions Received With Ethiopia's Demand for Immediate Convoca tion of League Council ROME, July 10. (AP) Benito Mussolini called 120 generals and other high ranking officer of his army Into council tonight aa an offUinl spokesman termed Ethio pia's latest nppent to the League of Nations another "useless at tempt" to prolong league influ ence over the Italo-Kthioplan controversy. , NAPLES, Italy. July 10. (AP) The S. S. Belvedere sailed for East Africa, today, bearing the 2,000 blackshlr volunteers of the January 3 division to whom Premier Benito Mussolini delivered Saturday his dictum of an "Irretrevable" decision in the Ethi opian dispute. The S. S. Colombo will leave thla evening with another 2,000 soldiers. ADDIS ABABA, July 10. (AP) Nev Instructions from Washington, aa a result of which the withdrawal In structions to Americans In Ethiopia may be rescinded, were understood tonight to have been received by W. Perry George, United States charge d'affaires here. Several Americana already hav started to leave Ethiopia aa a result of the state department Instructions Issued last week, but no panic of any sort was evidenced. The new instructlona were reported received simultaneously with an an nouncement from the foreign minis try that Ethiopia, "persisting In a peaceful solution" of the dispute with. Italy, demands the lmmedata convo cation of the council of the League of Nations. , Failure to agree In the Italo-Ethl-oplan conciliation commission meet ing at Scheveulngen, The Netherlands, "following the refusal of the Italian arbitrators to examine the question of Ualual" did not aurprise Ethiopian (Continued oo Page rhreej IN MARTIN RECALL PORTLAND. July 10. p IM M Scott of Portland, former chair man of the atate highway commis sion, today declared he la not inter ested in nor connected with any pro posed recall movement against Gov ernor Martin. Reporta from Salem thla week In dicated that Scott had Identified himself with a Marlon county group which proposes to contest the tight jf Martin to serve aa governor while at the same time drawing, or entitled to draw, a federal pension as a re tired army officer. STORK DUE IN NOVEMBER FOR JAPANESE EMPRESS TOKYO. Japan, July 10. (UP) Empress Nakago will give birth to a child In November, officials announc ed today. They said the condition of her majesty la satisfactory. Five children have been born to the emperor and empress. One prin cess died In 1028. The crown prince, their only aon, waa born In 1933. SAYS liUVEKLY HILLS, Cal., July ). Hurrah for Mr. Rockefeller, 06 years old one of the very few men that knew how to give money away so that every dol lar does good. That's more than our covernment can do. It's more than anybody can do. All over tne worm ia a Rockefeller doctor swatting at a mosquito or trapping a poi sonous fly. I flew tho whole Kast coast of Brazil and they have eliminated mosquitoes. However, I do wish he would spread some of that Standard oil (or even Gulf) on some of these home talent mosquitoes. There is no end to that old sentlciiiiin's talents. He beat insurance companies without dyiim. They just got discour sed and paid him. He will make the 100 and some to spare.