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Many Join Jackson County Chamber of Commerce in Membership Drive edford Mail It's Vacation Time Have the Mall Tribune follow you on your t mmer vacation. Better than a letter from home Telephone 75 nr drop a postal giving your old and new address. Thirtieth Year MEDFOTiD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1933. No. 99. The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Thurs j day; continued waim. Temperature ' Highest yesterday P8 j Lowest this morning . 58 M Tribune BIS. MJEV IffEH II WM TE11 I : ; j ; j I Nskys I By Ull MAU.ON (Copyright, 1035, by Paul Matlon) WASHINGTON, July 17. Midsum mer day-dreaming about politics con tinues. The latest vision conjured up Dy p O 1 l v 1 FW? clans around the electric fans Is that President Roosevelt may be defeated for re nomlnatlon a t the Democratic convention. This view seems to be widespread around the coun t r y. Apparently the wish of cer tain Democratic I'M. I. AI.V1.LON coneressmcn Is the father of the thought. Every practical politician knows It is next to impossible to prevent re nomlnatlon of a president. He con trols the party organization. The dream ends when you start considering who could be nominated In Mr. Roosevelt's place. Senator Byrd? He would not consider It. Lew Douglas? He has no organized po litical following. Huey Long or Gov ernor Talmadge? Their candidacies are so weak that even they know they have no chance. These names Just about exhaust the possibilities. The facts behind this situation seem to be: Some of the conservative and radical Democrats would like to get rid of Mr. Roosevelt at the con vention and are trlal-balloonlng the suggestion. They know his popular ity would have to decrease to noth ing before any formidable movement could even be started. The talk Is being fostered mainly In an effort to influence his actions. Conservatives want to frighten him Into going a little slower. Radicals vice-versa. A representative from a mid-western state arose In a closed meeting of the house steering committee a few days ago and said: "I have supported Mr. Roosevelt right along and have been called a rubber stamp for so doing. The other day I went down to the White House and could not even get in to Bee him. I can't get patronage. Now If I were a rebel ho would pay some attention to me. "That Is what I am going to be from now on." tn other words, there Is no sense In giving loyalty away when you can get paid for It. This Is a further explana tion of the recent congressional re volt. More Inside trouble has developed between the White House and the House leaders over the revised FTaz-ler-Lemke Farm Mortgage Act. The Frazler-Lemke crowd had 210 signatures on the petition to bring the bill up the other day. Co-Author Temke went down to the White House. Later the President was quot ed In the cloakroom as saying that any bill which had 200 supporters de served to be brought up for discus sion at least. But the nominal leaders of the House sre secretly against the bill. (Continued on Page Six) DALLAS. Tex., July 17. (AP) Many times Mrs. Marie Prltchett. po , m.irnn ban landed safely after parachute Jumps from airplanes at high altitudes. Now snc is recover ing from a sprained arm and severe body bruises sustained In a fall from a chair. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bob Forter, electric refrigerator salesman. Introducing Ingenuity into his game by prowling the rlty streets keeping an eye peeled for ice-cards out. A California, sedan currying the "sir stream" effect even farther with airplane propellers front and rer In lteu of bumperr. Apropo of nothing In particular, there were 67 people seeking to avoid sunstroke by lolling In the city park this noon. Twenty-nine were women, two were babes in arms. Tommy Culbertson thrilling the populace with a few dips and whirls over the village In his airplane. Pete Belcastro. raster. Insisting that he pot the blisters now on his dukes by driving a "muck stick" at his gold mine, and not by pounding the mat while getting licked by small boys up near Leland . Hob Deuel, chairman of the land appraisal committee of the chambre tie commerce, telling the city council that he d have had a report to make, had he not suddenly discovered thai he and Fred Scheffel bad appraised the wroi;g property. ft iWTS, s I V ' h rt i FOR NEW TRIAL Young Wife Of Weyer hauser Boy's Abductor Shows No Emotion When Led To Bar For Sentence. FEDERAL BUILDING, TACOMA. Wash., July 17. ( AP) Mrs. Mar garet Thulln Waley. 19, convicted In the George Weyerhaeuser kidnap case last Saturday, was sentenced by U. S. District Judge E. E. cushman today to serve 20 years In the federal de tention farm at Milan, Mich. Judge Cushman denied her mo tions for an arrest of Judgment and a new trial after overruling the gov ernment's objections to the motions being filed more than three days af ter her conviction. Chief Defense Counsel John F. Dorc submitted his motions without any more argument than he had made during the trial last week. Woman Vn moved Mrs. Waley allowed no outward sign of emotion when called to the bar for sentencing. She stood mute when Judge Cushman asked her If she had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced. Neither the government nor de fense attorneys made any recommen dations about the sentence. Mrs. Waley had tried twice to plead guilty to the Lindbergh law con spiracy and kidnaping counts under which she and her husband, Har mon M. Waley and their fugitive co defendant, William Dalnard. alias Mahan. were Indicted. She said Sat urday she was satisfied with the con viction, verdict and U. S. Marshal A. J. Chltty said she told him before the Jury came In that she hoped "that Jury won't acquit me." Husband Given 45 Years Her husband pleaded guilty during their arraignments last month and Judge Cushman sentenced him to years in whatever federal prisons U. (Continued on Page Two) CHAMBER'S DRIVE IE P The first day of the membership campaign being conducted by the Jackson County chamber of com merce was extremely encouraging, it was announced by B. E. Harder, president, this morning. "The gen eral public approves the activities of this chamber ot commerce," stated Mr. Harder, "and there seems to be a willingness on the part of many to back their faith in the organisation with their money." Due to the warm weather and the fact that many are on vacation only a few calls were made, but Mr. Har der has announced that the cam paign will be continued for one week so that everyone will be given an op portunity to Join the organization. Members obtained yesterday are as follows: Dr. LcRoy C. Jensen, Dr. B. L. Lageson, Dr. R. W. Clancy. Dr. D. H. Find ley, Dr. R. W, Sieeter, Frank Farrell, Newbury and Newbury. Jen kins Sign Company, The Beverage Shop, City Cleaning & Dyeing Com pany, Nanscn's Dairy, Sunrise Auto Court, Fred W. Scheffel, John E. Peters, Wit ham Magneto and Parts Company, Flynn Electric Servlre. John W. Johnson, and Med ford News. Additional subscriptions from those already members of the chamber of (Continued on Page Seven) Sharp Cut in Rail Fares Urged to Boost Traffic WASHINGTON. July 17. AP A sharp cut In railway passenger rates was recommended today to the Inter state commerce commission by one of its examiners after a lengthy In vestigation. In a report. Examiner Irving L. Koch suggested as a reasonable maxi mum future fare basis a rate of two cents per apssenger mile in coeches and three cents In Pullmans. The present rate, described as un reasonable, is 3.6 cents per mile. Action by the full commission on the recommendations will be taken in a few months. The report found the Pullman sur charge to be unreasonable and recom mended Its elimination. Extra fares charged for extraordin ary and supplemental Pullman serv ice were held not to be Illegal or improper. FOUND GUILTY - When the Tacoma, Wash., federal Jury found Mrs. Margaret Waley guilty of psrtlclpatlon with her convicted husband, Harmon, and the fugitive William Mahan In the $200,000 Weyerhaeuser kidnaping, she said she was satisfied. She was heard to say, "My goodness, I hope that ury doesn't acquit me." The 19-year-old woman Is shown sur rounded by her attorneys. (Associated Press Photo Wife Locked in Garret For Five Years, Is Freed When Cops Investigate PHILADELPHIA, July 17. (JP) Grey-haired and hollow-eyed, her body wasted to leas than 70 pounds, Anna VanOleve stared up from a hospital cot today and offered detectlvee bar only explanation for five years spent locked In a garret prison with only scraps for food. "My husband didn't like my cook ing," she whispered. She looked all of 80 years she Is 48 when the detectives found her on a bed in a lonely third -story room, bereft of light by boarded windows and nalled-down shades. Her eyes were sunken In her hed, and her skin hung on her bunes. Sores pocked her face and hands. An old black dress was wound about her, tacked with safety pins. She clutched bread crusts in each hand. A cup of water and a bucket were on the floor. Besides the bed, the room was furnished with a chair. The door was locked. She was too weak to walk, so they carried her to an ambulance and sped her to morals court and then to a hospital. Two glasses of milk was all the food she was allowed, but that seem ed to strengthen her. She had raided the garbage pail for at least one ravenous meal while her alleged captors her husband, William. 54-year-old window washer, and his sister, Catherine, 57 were (Continued on Page 1'woj SPEAKEASY THIEF GETS CONFEDERATE CURRENCY DURHAM. N. C. July 17. (A) Floyd Bell went to sleep in a ap-ik-easy, he told police, and somebody robbed him of $30. The Joke. If any, was on the thief, too. The money was in confederate currency. 1 Income Shares Maryland fund, bid $16.33; asked 17.66. Quarterly Income shares, bid 1.35; affked 1.48. The report added that low experi mental fare bases In the southern and western districts were not unreason able or otherwise unlawful. Before action Is taken by the com mission on the recommendations fur ther hearings will be held by the full commission beginning October 3. The report asserted passenger rev enues declined so severely before and during the depression that extraord inary n easures are Imperative if rail roads are to retain that traffic and Insure a reasonable share of Increased future traffic. It Is said the future looks promis ing but the railroad cannot hone to share In that market except at fares more nearly commensurate with the price and convenience of travel by highway and changed economic conditions. : - -:- -:- SATISFIED SEEKING SLAYER TACOMA. Wash., July 17. (AP) A heavily armed posse was moving at dawn today screws the Stuck river bottom 13 miles from here expecting momentarily to flush the suspected gunman killer of two Puyallup po licemen, i The Puyallup valley's greatest manhunt swung to the Stuck river bottom late la-t night after a woman In a berry pickers' shack told officers a man answering the description of the slayer had rushed Into the shack, demanding food. SEATTLR, July 17. f AP) A man suspected to be the fugitive killer of two Puyallup police officers following the robbery of the Ortlng State bank Monday, attempted at the point of a pistol to stop two Kent women driv ing an automobile betwren Kent and Ren ton Junction early todny, Deputy Sheriff O. K. Bodla of King county reported. Instead of complying with the man s order to stop the driver speed ed up the car. Neither woman looked bark to see what became of the high waymsn. GRAND RAPIDS, Neb., July 17. fAPt Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Perrlne, operators of a tourist camp near here, told police today they were positive William Dalnard, alias Ma han, the alleged leader of the Weyer haeuser kidnaping, stopped at their camp seven hours late yesterday. They identified pictures of Dalnard as their "guest." AAA PRICE FIXING LOSES IN SENATE WASHINGTON. July 17. (API Reversing Its action of yesterday, the senate voted 44 to 41 today to strike price-firing provisions from the ad ministration's AAA amendments. The vote was regarded as a setback for administration forces, which had called the price-fixing section a major part of the bill. The rejected provision had been placed In the legislation yesterday by a senate vote of 40 to 38. Foes of price-fixing gave notice that other language In the bill, written by the house and touching on the same issue, would be taken up as soon as other senate amendments were out of the way. ADDED PWA FUNDS GRANTED CITY EOR Revised Agreement Expected Back From Washington Thursday Word at Coun cil Meet Action Friday It was announced at the regular meeting of the city council last night that although no official word has yet been received here, the city of Medford's application for additional PWA funds to meet the cost of the construction of Medford's new sewage disposal plant, has been approved at Washington, D. C. The announcement was made by City Superintendent Fred Scheffcl. who said that the re vised loan and grant agreement only needs the nec essary official signatures, according to word recaived here. The revised agreement la expected to be returned Tnursday of tills week, and will be brought beforo the council at a spe cial meeting Friday. The application for additional funds was made ncceivnry when an acceptable bid of (103,000 was mr.de by It. I. Stuart, contractor, which la in excels of the originally scheduled cost of the plant, set at $100,000. Several alternate bids were received but it was agreiKl by city officials to accept Stuart's bid, which figures the total cost, of the plant when complet ed. The alternate bids listed several prices under the $100,000 mark but omitted several features of the sew ago plant that would have necessitat ed additional cost In the future for their completion. The council adjourned until Fri day, when the special meeting was (Continued on Page rhree) SAYS NEWSPAPER SALT LAKE CITY. July 17. lP, The Descret News says It has receiv ed authoritative Information that William Dalnard. alias Mahan, sought for the kidnaping of George Weyer haeuser, waa arrested In the railroad yard here five days ago and is being held here. Department of Justice agents re fused to confirm or deny the story, but unofficially Indicated Mahan 'o arrest in tho near future not Tar from this city Is not considered unlikely. BELFAST FACTIONS IN HAND TO HAND BATTLES BELFAST. Nortnern Ireland, July 17, (AP) Hand to hand fighting be tween the opposing factions of the recent riots broke out again today at a cemetery where the burial services were being performed for a victim of the Protestant-Catholic fighting. Three persons, Including a young boy, were beaten in disorders that broke out while the funeral proces sion was en route to the cemetery. The military was called out to rescue the boy from the mob attacking hjm. TVA CONSTITUTIONAL SAYS APPEAL COURT NEW ORLEANS, July 17. (yp, The United states fifth circuit court of appeals here today declared tne Tennessee Valley Authority act un constitutional. The opinion reversed the recent de cision of Judge W. I. Orubb In the federal district court of north Ala bama In which Judge Orubb Issued an Injunction against the sale of TVA power to a group of north Ala bama cities. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 17 (UP) Don Broughton, 31, well known former transport pilot, crash ed to his death late today while testing an airplane here. BASEBALL National. First game: ft. H. E. Brooklyn 6 10 a Pittsburg 4 !8 3 Batteries: Clark, Vanoe and Lope-: Bush, Blrkofer and Padden, American. First game: R. H. E. Cleveland - - ft 10 a Boston 13 18 8 Batteries: Harder, L, Brown, ie and Brenzel: Cascarella, Wslberg and R, Ferrell. Detroit tt Philadelphia postponed; rain. UTILITY LOBBYIST ORDERED EVIDENCE BURNEDJ! CLAIM Western Union Operator Tells Senate Probers of Alleged Effort to Keep Telegrams Out of Hands WASHINGTON, July 17, ( AP) Testimony that the Associated Gas and Electric company had paid West ern Union boys at Warren, Pa., three cents apiece for signatures to tele grams opposing the utility holding company bill, was given senate lobby Investigators touay by Elmer Dan lelson. Warren messenger. Young Danlelson, who testified earlier he helped destroy messages but denied knowing they were anti utility telegrams, told the committee the Associated paid him 18 cents for six signatures he got, tn money be ing given through Jack Fisher, sus pended Western Union manager at Warren. WASHINGTON, July 17. (AP) Testimony that R. P. Herron, bond salesman for the Associated Gas and Electric company, said he had re ceived Instructions from his super iors to destroy all papers that may prove damaging In the congressional investigations of activity for and against the utilities bill was received today by the senate lobby commit tee. This was given by A. F. Chrlsten son, Western Union operator at War ren, Pa. Previously testimony said Herron had dictated several hundred antl utlllty bill telegrams in the Western Union office and had signed them with names taken from the telephone directory. Burned in Basement Later, It was said, copies of the original telegrams were found burned In the basement. Chrlstenson said he had heard Jack Fisher, ousted manager of the War ren Western Union office, and Her ron talking the day of the evening the records were burned. He said Herron remarked, "It would be nice if a fire could be arranged in the basement." - Fisher replied, Chrlstenson said. It might be "all right as the 10-year lease on the building was up any way." Testimony that Fisher had told him Herron faced danger of a 30 ycar sentence for forging the tele grams also was given by Chrlsten son. Meanwhile, Philip H. Gadsden, chairman of the committee of pub- ( Contl nued on Page Seven Klamath Principal Heads Youth Move WASHINGTON, July 17. (AP) Paul C. Jackson, principal of Klam ath Union high school, was today appointed Oregon director of the national youth administration. The announcement was made by Aubrey Williams, executive director. President Roosevelt has allotted $50,000,000 of work relief funds to aid young people between the ages of 16 and 20. SCAB EPIDEMIC HITS GRAIN' IN MINNESOTA ST. PAUL, July 17. P) new threat to wheat crops was added to day to the already serious rust wlien Dr. E, O. Stakman, University or Minnesota nathollglst, reported aoto has attacked grain. "The heavy acab epidemic la af fecting both wheat and barley," he said. Society Matron Fights For Lottery Legalizing By Mary Kllrnbeth Plummer Associated Press Staff Writer NKW YORK, July 17 (AP)lamb ltng, as Mrs. Oliver Harrlman sees It, Is one thing, and lottery Is another, and she's leading a determined fight to prove that the one Is not the other. Her fight la for the lottery. She wants It legalized, and she Is htad of the national conference for legalising lotteries. At the moment the white-haired society matron and her organisation Is promoting a contest by which any one, for a fee of II. may submit a title for a poster with a chance to win a big prize, the surplus going to hospitals. "Oarnbllng I wasteful," she said. "1 don't consider a lottery gambling. You don't waste when you do some thing for your country." Fresh after the first stage of a i "friendly Investigation" by th dis Airship Snatches Passenger Aboard Without Stopping MOSCOW. July 17. (fp) An air ship, floating at a height ot 300 feet, today hauled up a paisencr from the ground with the aid of a cable and hook. The hook and cable previously had been used sucessfully in load ing and unloading freight, but this was the first time the appa ratus had been employed with hu man cargo. A Red army soldier volunteered for the experiment, and was pull ed board the airship 10 minutes after he had been yanked from the ground. IS REQUESTED BY T PORTLAND, July 17. (AP) The la-ounce glass of beer, set as a maxi mum some time ago by the Oregon state liquor control commission, was under fire today by a group of restaurants which Attorney John Kaste of Portland said he was repre senting In an appeal made to the commission yesterday. Kaste said the beer business In restaurants had fallen off 00 per cent, and attributed the decrease to the fact that downtown beer gardens offered "a glass of beer, vaudeville and a fight film for a dime." He asked tho return of the 18-ounoe schooner, previously outlawed by the com mission. Members of the control board told Kaste there was no price limitation and that therefore the restaurants could Blv two 13-ounce glasses for a dime or one for less than that figure but the attorney said It was "too much trouble dirtying glasses or monkeying around with pennies. He declared the limitation on the alcoholic content of tho suds made unnecessary the continued ban on larger glasses. Kaste was Informed he could take up the matter with the courts or that the liquor control board would hear representatives of all groups Involved. HIGHEST IN 5 YEARS DPINVER, Colo., July 17 (PVTho highest price for hogs on the Denver livestock market In the past five years, was paid today when eager buy ers offered 10.25 a hundredweight. The price was 28 cent Above the market's top Tuesday. Stockmen Interpreted the Increase as a direct result of the U. 8. circuit court decision Tuesday declaring the AAA processing tax unconstitutional. The processing tax Is 12 25 a hundred. S. S. SMITH REPORTED SOME BETTER TODAY B. Sumptcr Smith, woll known Medford resident, who has boen ser iously 111 at the Community hospital following an operation Friday, was reported slightly Improved today by his attendants. FIVE HEAT FATALITIES RECORDED IN PORTLAND PORTLAND. July 17. (P) Addi tional deaths reported to the city health bureau today brought to five the total number of fatalities direct ly resulting from the record hea. I wave here over the week-end. trict attorney's office, Mrs. Harrlman figuratively rolled up the sleeves of her flowered print frock and went on with her work. "It Is Just a friendly Investigation to see that everything la all right," she said. "It's a perfectly natural thing for them to do. They wanted to see that 1 am not being used by racketeers. "The movement will be a success, she said confidently. "The public is beginning to see that we've been building hospitals In Europe. "This fail," added Mrs. Harrlman, "one hundred hospitals In New York state will close for lack of funds. The mayor says he must have $30,000,000 for New York city s Jobless. "Where can we get the money? People can't be taxed any more. But people will take chances. If every other country In the world can run a straight lottery, why can't we?" PIPM Oil Text Of Plea For Slayer's Liberation Bears Familiar Ring Of Turmoil Days Propaganda In County. Circulation of petitions protesting fiRftlnst the granting of any execu tive clemency to L. A. Banks, form er local agltntor now serving a Ills term In state prison for murder and deploring "the persistent and repeated" agitation to that end, started In this city and county late yesterday, and were widely signed. Coupled with the petitions was the forwarding to Governor Martin at Salem of letters and telegrams, vigorously objecting to any leniency for the slayer. The present attempt la the second ' In two years to liberate Banks. Ths first was launched last December by Banks' brother-in-law, the late Charles P. Moran of Clovoland, Ohio. Julius L, Meier, then governor, denied tne plea. A deluge of protests flooded th governor's office from this county, at that time. All the data and letters collected In resisting that abortive effort were destroyed In the ftra that swept tho state capltol building last April, Assistant Attorney Oeneral Ralph. E. Moody of Salem will be here Fri day, to procure new data. Attorney uencrni Moody, over the telephone yesterday, characterized the pardon Investigation plea as a "political move," and "backed by a number of political foes of the governor," In cluding Peter Zimmerman of Tam- t Continued on Page Two). By the Associated Press Thousands Of Part fin Nrlh.. workers, unemployed for more than win weens oecause or a strike, were back Rt Work todav nH lnmh once more taking Us place as one of cne principal industries of Oregon and Washington. More than half of t.hn iitmhiMrr,. panics are neartng normal produc tion with others now negotiating with their former employees In order to open as soon as possible. scattered reports of violence con tinued from inlTM nmnFa mnM VVa-K- 1 11 (I ton state nntrntmnn mrf MsHaH.i Guardsmen are remaining on duty In some ci lies, W hat's In a Name, " SAM DIEGO, Calif., July 17. (API If the two lawyers who applied for membership in the Ban Diego ear association live up to their names the Jxidge won't have to ask them to talk louder. They are John W. Holler and Oeorge K. Bellows. BJSVURIjY HILLS, Cnl., July 10. Put Hurley called me up last night, Rfiincnibcr Pnt, eo retnry of war diiriiiff the tims when we had no trouble with the constitution, but had it with everything else. Well, sir, there was a cheer ful, and in fact an arrogant ring in Pat's voice. You know Republicans' voices are chang ing. They are not whispering any more. You meet one now and he hollers across the street, "Hello, hello, did' you know that our free American institu tions are in greater danger to day than ever before t Did you know that our constitution is in jeopardy t Did you know they are going to take our Rolls Royces away from us and make us ride in mere Cadillacs t "Did you know that six months ago there wasn't a Re publican presidential candidate in a carlond and now there is over a million! Happy days are here again I" C UtNsuiht Syndicate, taa. miJSlDS BACK ON LUMBER JOBS
