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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Saturday; somen hat cooler Saturday. Temperature H1ffltet yesterday B7 Lowest tills morning - 60 1EDF0KD' MAIL TRIBUNE It's Vacation Time Hare the Matl Tribune follow yoa on your e mmer vacation. Better than a letter from home. Telephone 1& or drop a postal firing your old and new address. E Thirtieth Year (Eighteen Pages Two Sections) MEDFORD, 01? EG ON, FRIDAY, JULY 39, 1935. No. 101. jnJ L S) 1 Atevs ilDENIALOFCOIN 'I ufe in prison IBANKS finNSPlRAHY; Wml CAUSES ACTION f DECLARES MOODY ",n" ' "" " ' l 1 By PALL MALLON (Copyright. 1935, by Paul Mallon.) WASHINGTON. July 19. New deal era In the higher altitudes here have tittered for week about the my they took a e n e r a, 1 Johnson In as works progress administrator for New York, it seems that, after leaving NBA. tl-.e general got un der the hide of Belief Boss Hop kins (lf not ako the President himself) by go ing around the country bellow- PAUL MALLON boondogcllng In the relief adminis tration. The boys on the Inside say It cvas Mr. Hopkins who conceived the Idea of shutting up his critic by absorb ing him. Mr. Hopkins went to the President and urged that Johnson be recalled to the colors and put In charge of the world's largest boon doggling center. New York City. The general swallowed the bait and landed In New York to show those fellows up there how to administer relief. It was not long until Johnson Im plied that perhaps some boondoggling was necessary. At any rate, ho an nounced that, as some planning had already been mapped out, he would not attempt to do It all over. Ills fate as a boondoggling kibitzer was not definitely established, however, until the list of New York City pro jects approved by Mr. Roosevelt was given out. Since then, tho sleeve laughing hero has been concealed with difficulty. As an Indication of what General Johnson lias found to be a good re lief project (with the president's ap proval), his list contains an Hem of 31,600 "to furnish recreational lead ership" for nurses and Internes In hospitals. Formerly some new dealers hsd assumed the nurses and Internes were having a fairly good time. In fact, certain hospital critics have In sinuated occasionally that ihey wero having too good a time. However, anything that was lacking before can certainly be made up with the 31, 500. Most of the projects are . designed, however, to disclose Information for which the world long has panted In suspense. For Instance, there Is 7. 350 to Investigate the title of old streets and highways In Queens; $130,000 for preparation of a subter ranean map showing the contour of rocks under the city, to show what Is holding It up; 29.400 for a card history of every lot tn Queens; 527. 750 to determine the effect that buses have on the speed of passen ger transportation; $34,650 for an in dex digest of all aeronautical maga r.lnes; $44,100 to "mobilize neighbor hood resources for the promotion of wholesome behavior among children." Do not let anyone tell you that the new deal has forgotten the sup reme court defeat It suffered In the Schechter Poultry case. Johnson's new boondoggling Includes $178,500 "to investigate the entire live poul try Industry In New York city." If you look into Johnson's list very closely you will find some other relief projects which are badly need ed. For instance, the first Item Is $208,680 to find out what Is In the air In New York. Visitors have oc- (Conllnued on Page Nine) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Passersby eyeing speculatively the boat in front of a rummace sale with a closed lid. but open hasp, carry ing this Inscription: "Don't let the monkey out." Very provocative and maddening to the r,mll boys. A long tan California touring car standing in ther middle of Central street near Main, the motor running briskly, and not a soul aboard, or near, excepting Irate, honking mo torists trying to get by. Roily Beach giving a reporter reams of information about the Dokte meet Monday, and making t.e discourse so long Decausc men j It wouiu mens .irounii, "is of a "local" rating. Roy Craft relating out of one aide of his mouth about how he iwd to roll cigarettes with one hand while riding on a freight tram In a htgn wind, and out of tlie other fide de manding the fan be turned off so he could get tiie one he waa work ing on wrapped. Earl Foy nonchalantly flicking ashes Into a full waste basket in different of rrul:s until he flia fcvered h;s hv hat ftb.v.i', u go up in fames a:ng with trie waste Is'''' j " -4 Suit in Supreme Court Is Planned to Test Govern ment Rights to Set Up Bureaus in States Is Word WASHINGTON, July 19. (AP) Senator Long (D., La.), today served notice on the administration that a suit would be filed In the supreme court to test the right of the federal government to enter into states with educational and other bureaus for ex penditure of PWA money without consent of the state. Taking the floor during debate on the AAA bill to "talk on the Issue of the day," Long referred to news re ports saying his state had been de nied further PWA grants, and com mented It served to let the cntl Long congressmen from that state know they would not "get their 30 pieces of sliver." After a brief discussion of the amendment that Louisiana would re ceive no further PWA grants because of recently enacted state laws. Long said: "I have been advised that Loufsl ana will file a suit In the supreme court which it will win to contest the right of the federal government to set up boards within a state with out Its consent." W. U. FINED $500 FOR DELIVERING PROTEST 'WIRES' CHELSEA, Mass., July 10. (AP) The Western Union Telegraph com pany of New York today was held In contempt of court and ordered to pay a fine for "publishing and de livering" telegrams of protest to the district court affecting cases involv ing alleged radical pending before It. Telegrams from the New Theater league In New York, from an Ameri can youth congress in Cambridge, Mass., and from organizations In Chelsea concerning an actor and a Chelsea resident arrested at differ ent times several weeks ago formed the basla on which Judge Samuel It. CutLer summoned the company Into court. The various telegrams alleged the defendants were held on "framed" or "trumped up" charges and de manded their release. SALEM. July 19. (AP) Concen tration of more state departments In Salem rather than construction of a proposed state office building in Eastslda Portland was urged by Gov ernor Martin In the state board of control meeting today. The subject was brought up when a report for such a project showed a saving of about $300 a month In rentals. The branch state office building would house the motor ve hicle department, the state police ana other departments. Whether the board would approve the project was not determined. The board, however, did Instruct Dan Fry, secretary to the board, to prepare briefs showing the cost of the proposed structure, present rent als now paid In Portland and other data. The proposal to erect the building was presented by the East Portland Commercial club. Fry in formed that leases on the Oregon building, in which a large number of departments are boused, would not expire for three years. STREET CAR EMPLOYE FIRES UPON ST COUNCIL BLUFFS. la.. July 19. (AP) Two persons were reported 1 wounded by gunfire from a non ' striking street car employe drfend ing himself aaln&t a crowd of plck- cts st the Council Bluffs Street car f barn early today. First reports said six shots were fired by the tram worker as he raced i from his automobile to the car barn, ! and James Damson and Richard Stev c;..'o:i. strikers, frlj mounded. Part of tiie Red Sf ip kr.ujwi as. foul bay it's on the Egyptian slcic MARTIN IN FAVOR RETAINING STATE BUREAUS IN SALEM DETROIT, July 19. (AP) Morton Ward Goodrich brought his trial for the murder of 11-year-old Lillian Gallaher to an abrupt end today by pleading guilty. Pale and trembling, the one-time trap drummer in beer garden orches tras stood before Recorder's Judge Henry S. Sweeney a sentence of life Imprisonment at hard labor tn the Marquette branch prison was Im posed. REED WILL FACE BURGLARY TRIAL IF Shasta county. California, through Its ahcrlff, W. W. Sublett. haa filed a hold warrant, charging burglary against Albert W. Reed of Denver, Colo., serving a life sentence In state prison for conviction of the murder of Victor Knott, Ashland policeman, on the night of November 18, 1PJ2. Notification of the action of the California authorities has been served upon the warden of the state prison, and District Attorney Georg'j A. Cod ding of Jackson county. Paul McQuade and Lee Jackson, fugitives. Indicted with Reed, In this county for the murder of Knott, are also named In the California hold warrant for burglary. They were companions of Reed on an auto trip from Denver, Colo. A plea for a pardon for Reed was recently filed with Governor Charles (Continued on Page Four) KILLS OFFICERS MIDDLEBORO, Ky., July 19. (AP) Thirty deputies with bloodhounds combed the eastern Kentucky moun tains today for a 77-year old moun taineer wanted for killing two Lee county, Virginia deputy sheriffs. The officers. Arch Remond, 45, and Robert Bailey, 66, went to his Vir ginia home, three miles from the Kentucky border, and arrested his son-in-law, Luther Poore, on an em bezzlement warrant. Green Allen Brooks, the man wanted, fired on the officers with his rifle as they led Poore away. The bodies lay In the dust an hour before Sheriff R. p. Giles of Lee county arrived. He organized the hunt for Brooks. The mountain man apparently slipped out the back door of his home and fled to the hills less 'than 300 yards away. IN HONOR OF MELVIN The memory of Al Melvin. generally acclaimed as the greatest athlete ev-r to graduate from the Med ford hl;h schol, will be honored by naming the new football field on South Oakda'.e 'Melvin Field," If a petition to tnat effect being circulated today la suc cessful. Melvin, a football, basketball, base ball and swimming star, and a .c markable tennis player, was acciden tally killed at Yuba City Junior col lege near Marysvllle, Cal., In the spring of 1931, when he slipped while hl?h Jumping, and broke several ver tebrae in his back and neck. 500 CATHOLIC FAMILIES LOSE HOMES IS CLAIM BELFAST, Northern Ireland. July 19. vT Tiie Iri&h News, official na tionalist papr. said todav 500 CV.h ollc families have lost their homes through disorders resulting from Orangemen's celebrations of the an niversary of the battle of the Boyne Hugh Faloon. 60. shot In the stom ach yesterday in a new outbrea of r;e d!ordrs kt Portado -n. near Bl fat. dld today, the cgatn viitlai Assistant Attorney General Says Statement Sent Out From Murderer's Prison Cell Viciously Libellous; Assistant Attorney General Ralph E. Moody, here today to collect rec ords and data In opposition to the granting of a pardon to L. A. Banks, former local agitator now serving a life term in state prison, character ized a statement, purportedly Issued by Banks from his cell, In which the convict charges, a "conspiracy" to send him to prison, to deprive him of property, altenate the affections of his wife, and poison him, as "viciously libelous bosh, both by Banks, the author, and the publisher of the paper In which it was pub lished." Headlines on a story published to day In a local weekly, say the state ment "was released from the con victed murderer by Mrs. (Ariel B.) Pomeroy, and sets forth conspiracy, charges Levens was poisoned." It la further alleged In the state ment that Attorney Frank J. Loner gan of Portland, chief counsel for Banks at the Lane county murder trial, was "lax;" that Levens, now deceased, and then assistant attor ney general, "made the statement In the presence of persons now living, that Banka was framed," Assistant Attorney General Moody Is declared In the statement to be "one of the leading spirits in the conspiracy to drive Banks from Jackson county." Wife Quits Visiting The convlct-llfer states in the art icle. Mrs. Banks has discontinued (Continued on Page Three) PASSlGERlLLED OHTCAOO, July 19. Tp) One pas senger was killed and 40 were in jured when a 73th street atrect-car, crowded with children bound for a south side beach, crashed Into the steel support of a railway subway today. The crash amputated one child's lerg. The paaseruer fatally Injured waa a man, not In j mediately Identi fied. A half donen ambulances rushed the screaming victims to the Jackson Park hospital, where attendants said seven passengers were severely in jured. The car, filled to capacity, leaped the track as It neared the subway eaat of Greenwood avenue. Fire broke out along the roof, but firemen ex tinguished It quickly. MOSCOW U. CANCELS SUMMER SESSIONS MOSCOW, Idaho. July 19. (API American students who came here for the annual summer school session of Moscow university were informed to day It had been cancelled. The explanation given the collegl- ! ana In a last-minute decision was I that the teaching staff waa urgently needed elsewhere. rind Miners Bodies VAN LEAR. Ky., July 19. (API The bodies of John Gool and Prank Tuzy, last of nine victims of a coal mine gas explosion to be located, were recovered today. McNary Bonneville Bill Stirs Capital Politicians By NATHAN ROIlhRTSON Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON. July 19. (AP) A capital still agitated by the power struggle found food for thought to day In a situation which firms the republican leader of the senato of fering a bill to carry out a ni.iju: I'hase of the Roosevelt power pro gram. It waa uktn as a trllng nw in dication that the electricity contrc- versy like so many other issnos In j recent years Is one on which neuhcr party always dnes up solidly. pr and con. ! The setting was a White House con i ference at which Senator MrNary of Oregon, senate minority leader, agreed , to Introduce a bill providing for the administration of the Bonneville dam project In Oregon and the sale of power generated there. Sale of power under the Tennesee Valley project has been one of the chief focal points for attack on the ; administration In the courts and ' from some political lenders. It had ' ben haikd by republicans of the 1 wore cpnjcrvaUYt promis Cloud Cavalrymen Stage New Stunt In Russian Army MOSCOW. July 19. (API Cavalrymen of the air went into successful mimic action by para chutes near Moscow last night. Three groups of Infantrymen, each group consisting of 36 sol diers, each man carrying full war equipment, were dropped from airplanes behind hypothetical ene my lines In war games. Their descent from the sk was made under cover of darkness. They re-formed in platoons and attacked an "enemy" village, set ftre to It, destroyed two railway stations, and then succeeded in forcing their way back to their own lines. CHAMBER'S DRIVE ENDS NEXT WEEK Although many of the workers in the membership campaign being cun ductd by the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce failed to report yes terday, those who did brought In ad ditional memberships. It was an nounced by B. E. Harder, president, this morning. Most of the teams aro only working mornings, but an attempt will be mado to complete tho campaign some time during next week. New memberships submitted to the Chamber of Commerce Include: C. N. Culy, George Hcnsehnan, Unique Cleanera. Medford Tent and Awning Works, R. G. Fowler. Two additional memberships were taken out by Perl Funeral Parlors. The first two days of the campaign have so far produced between 30 and 40 members, It was announced by Chamber of Commerce officials, and it la believed, that this number will be more than doubled by the tlr.ie all the commlttco members submit their final report. PORTLAND, July 19. (!) A. Milne, Portland contractor, was low with a bid of 13l,061 when proposals were opened by tho Federal Bureau, of Public Roads today for surfacing aee tlons of the rim road In Crater Lake national park. The work will be done on the north and eaat section of the rim road from the Junction with the Lodge Diamond Lake road to Cloud Cap. The section is 12.3 miles long. In cluding a one-mile spur to Cloud Cap View Point. Edelfson & weygandt of Portland waa second in the bidding at 142, 886. A. C. Greenwood and P. J. Dunsault, both of Portland. Joined In a bid of 164,313. Bids ranged up ward to $163,956. BROTHER OF FAMOUS SPEED FLIER DROWNS GULFPORT. Miss., July 19. ( AP) Walter Wedell, brother of the late Jlmmle Wedell. world famous air plane speed champion, was drowned In the Gulf of Mexico 15 mllesoll Gulfport at 12:20 p. m., today when his airplane went Into a tail spin and crashed In the water. He was reported to have been traveling alone. WASHINGTON. July 19. fAP President Roosevelt plana to motor to Annapolis, Md., tonight for a week end cruise on Chesapeake bay. ing campaign issue for 1936, as an instance of government competition with private business. In some respects the Bonneville project Is similar to TV A. in others It is different. The Tennessee valley experiment is a broad scale plan for virtually rebuilding an entire section of the country. Bonneville is confined to navigation and power. But while soil erosion, fertiliser production, colonization and other collateral features of TV A are absent from the Oregon proirram. Its power angle closely aparallris the situation in the Tennessee valley. In both cases dams were erected by the federal government aa navigation aids, with power a bl-product. A dis trict rour held the sa!e of power by the TV A illegal, but the derision re cently was ovrr-rulfd by the circuit of appeals at New Orleans. The case Is expected to go to the supreme court. McNary has been an Important factor in the development of the ' Bonneville dam from the outset. ' Frlf-nds of the republican loader -, aid ther was no olit!al signifl 1 cau'.e la als introduction ol Uw 0UL MILNE'S BID LOW ON PARK RIM ROAD UTILITY DIVIDENDS IS CUARGEIN QUIZ Associated Gas & Electric Furnished $700,000 in Effort to Defeat Holding Company Bill Is Claim WASHINGTON, July HO. ( AP) A senate lobby investigator charged to day the Associated Gas and Electric company had paid no dividends to common stockholders for years yet It had "taken the good part of a year's dividend" to spend 700.000 in an effort to defeat the holding company dissolution bill. Previously, the lobby committee had received testimony from William A. Hill of Boston, an attorney for the Associated company, that the ulti mate consumer would have to pay tho cost of the campaign against the utility measure. It also heard U. E. Beach of Ithaca, N. Y., securities manager for Associated, testify that he Instruct ed company managers all over the country last week to "destroy" all their records bearing on opposition to the legislation. He said he "didn't want the rec ords found In case of the Investiga tion" by congressional committees. Senator Gibson (R., Vt.) made the statement about the company after developing from Beach that It had paid no common stock dividends. Gibson asserted the holding com pany must have passed the $700,000 (Continued on Page Nine) HAROLD GREY TO Harold b. Grey of Medford, who has been associated with the fl. E. R. A. offices here, haa Just been appointed aa director of tho division of labor and management of the central of fice of t the Works Progress adminis tration here, it haa been announced by Tom W. Dclzell of Klamath Falla. himself appointed supervisor of the Works Progress administration for the fourth district a few days ago. Three Klamath Falls men were named with Grey, Kenneth Perry as engineer. Nelson Reed In charge of personnel, and F. E. Thompson will be engineer In charge of the division of projects and planning. The finance dlvlalon will be under the care of Vic tor Balrd of Marsh field. The list completes Delzell's ap pointment for the present, he said yesterday. The work to be accomp lished under the Works Progress ad ministration will be suitable for work by professional and semi-professional unemployed, as well aa various man ual labor enterprises. BOY WITH BROKEN NECK NUMB EXCEPT IN ARMS GRANTS PASS, July 19. (AP) Floyd Clark, 21, Glendale youth whose neck waa broken In diving In too shallow water near bis home Wednesday evening, waa conscious and rational In a hospital here this morning. He Is able to us his arms, but all the rest of his body Is numb, at tendants reported. Ills condition re mains serious. PRISONERS GAS BARRAGE FOILS PLAN FOR ESCAPE DAYTON, Tenn., July 19. (AP) Hoping to escape in the con f union, prisoners in the Ktiea county Jail set fire to an Insecticide with which they were spraying cells. The burning chemical gave off a gas which sent them marching sub missively to the Jailer with thront burning and tears streaming from their eyes. BASEBALL American R. H. St. Louis 7 11 New York 6 10 Andrews. Knott, Thomas and Hem sley: Gomes1:. Brown, Deshong, Mur phy and Dickey, R. H. E. Detroit , , 9 12 2 Boston 7 11 1 Bridges, Hogsett, Rowe and Coch rane: Ostermueller. Wilson. Hockctte and R. Perrell. j R. H. E. Chlcaeo ..... 7 13 0 Washington 2 6 0 Kennedy and Sewell; Hayes, Pettlt and Bolton. National R. H. E. Boston 6 13 2 Pittsburgh 6 13 1 Belts. Cantwell and Hogan; Lucas, Hoyt and Grace. R. H. X. Philadelphia 0 5 2 Cincinnati . 3 7 0 Hyl. lohnwn and Todd. Nelson and Lombaardi, aa -4 " JS'if I 1 "m torn The fulled mates Circuit Tnurt of Appeals In Boston rulrtl processing and floor taxes collected under (he agricultural edjuMmriit act uncon stitutional. Judge George II. Bingham (middle) dfswnted In the opinion of Judge George K. Morrrl (top) and Scntt M lUon (bottom). Associated Press Photo, PROCESSING TAX RECOVERY SUITS IS WASHINGTON, July 19. ( AP) The senate, today adopted an amend ment to the AAA tax bill prohibiting suits to recover processing taxes. except where the processor shows he has not passed on the tax to the consumer or producer. The vote came after the question had been debated most of two days- Protests that denying the right to aue for tax recovery was "un American" and "dishonest" were mado by supporters of the compro mise measure finally adopted. Administration forces originally had asked that none of the processors who have paid more than $000,000, 000 of AAA taxes be permitted to fUe recovery suits. The vote favoring the compromise was 61 to 23, while the tax recovery cuntruvetsy engaged the senate, Frank J. Wtdcman, assistant attor ney general in charge of the tax di vision, disclosed that suits growing out of the AAA levies had climbed to a total of 359. The total had been reported as 153 a few days ago. be fore the circuit court of appeals at Boston ruled the taxes unconstitu tional. . Small (ira lire The fire department was called shortly before 3:00 o'clock this aft ernoon to extinguish a small grass fire at 690 South Riverside, Maryland Pund: Bid 18 28; asked n.ei. Quarterly Income shares: Bid 1 34: uked 1.18. 4 i I Income Shares 120 NAMES LISTED ON PETITIONS FOR Majority Shown From Med ford Trial 'Reeked With Prejudicial Conduct' Is Claim Made in Petition Malorttv of thft isn n.m. nM .v,. petition for an Investigation Into a, pardon Dlea for L. a. R.nk rw, local agitator serving Ufa in ,tat prison lor in murder of a pea of ficer, are Hated from Medford, with 18 Klvinir Salem and Portland .H- dreases. The Detltlona were fllerf In th. ernor's office. The Dreambl to th. n.tmnn culated In thla city la aa follows: "We the undersigned, fre think. Ing, citizens of the state of Oregon, respectfully petition your Excellency for on exhaustive Investigation of th Unjust conviction on aiwint riiiopu murder chareea of a nrnmin.nt im- sen of Oregon, under conditions and in a trial recKing with prejudicial conduct, denying fair and Impartial trial wherein lustlca mnxt h n-th- out purchase. when all the mechanisms for the production of tusttpA f.n h i..- of glaring technical defects, to func tion in the manner prescribed by ths Constitution of the State of Oregon, and the fundamental lawa enacted thereunder, then, and In that event, we resort to petition for the power of Executlvo Clemency, which a com plete reconsideration of the case of Llewellyn A. Banks will clearly show For reasona arising nut. nr tt.. case, that screams out with mob hysteria, animosity, fear, greed and nl.imi, we uirtner requeat your granting such hearing In the Exe cutive Chambera as the relation of all the facts of the case require, with in fifteen days following presenting thla petition to your Excellency." The official list Is: ftlchard J. Neuberger. Portland. C. A. Melvin, Portland. David C. Epps. Portland. Bertha Van Dolah. Portland. Mra. Mary Shand, Portland. Albert Slaughter. Portland. Byrn O. Carney. Portland. Oco. M. Clevenger, Portland. Peter Zimmerman, Yamhill. J. E. Bennett, Portland. Frederick H. Schmalz, Portland. Walter O. Redmond, Portland. Kelley Loo, Portland. (Continued on Page Nine) TH TO PLAY HERE SUNDAY When the Broadway rlmn. celled their game with the Medford itogues, tney at the same time can celled their Monday and Tuesday gamea with Klamath Palla, so the two teams got together late this afternoon and arranged for a game between themselves at the falnrrnnnri for Sunday at 2 P.M. ine Klamath nine Is now on top of the hean In tha Rotithm league scramble, with their winning vi wie pennant assured. Hum Urecg Visits. Humbodlt "Hum" Gregg, formerly associated with radio atAMnn trurn here, was In Medford today renewing urn acqusimsnces. He. with his wife, is now visiting In Aahlnd. "Hum" stated this afternoon that hs has been In radio work for the last several years In San Francisco and New York, and la now located in the bay city. SANTA M0NIGA, Cal., July 18. livery morning some state court declares, "So and so tax declared illegul." If this keeps on everybody will get back everything they paid in. In other words, the way the courts are going now, they may declare the whole de pression and everything con nected with it illegal, and that it all has to be done over again. Say, that judge sure give Eu ropean fortune hunters fits. It's generally men that do it, but this time it was a girl who led our rich young hopeful astray, which proved that the young American male can be as sappy as the female. Yours, i H. HtNauaM Sj4lttte. la. kS r
