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The Weather Forecast: Fair Sunday and Monday, but cloudy or foppy near the coast. Temperature Highest yesterday ......... 82 Lowest yesterday 65 Thirtieth Year High Court Delays Blamed for Siskiyous BeMtoid By P.M L MAI.I.ON Copyright, 1935, By Paul Mallon WASHINOTON, Aug. 2. The way rongrcss has played deaf to President Roosevelt's continuous demands for abollslhng tax-exempt securities Is beginning to cause talk. The p r e a 1 dent dusted off ' his t a x-e x e m p t trumpet again the other day when he sounded a charge against the thrift lest multl - million aires, who drew 37 per cent ol their Income from tax-exempt Rerurttles three 'AIL M.UXO.N ..a.. at,n n has been blowing that same bugle call orf and on for a year, and nothing ever happens. The troops do not move Ordinarily, the White Houso only has to whisper to get action out of congress, but. on this one Issue even the headline thunder It emits falls to stir up anything more than a long, suspicious silence. It Is such a pecu liar situation that you might reason ably suspect the desires of the new dealers In this respect are not as avid as they sound. The fact Is most congressmen have the same Impression. The real reason why congress never does anything about the tax-exempt accurltles is that It Is generally un derstood on the Inside that the new dealers are largely trying to sweeten the government bond market. By al ways threatening to abolish tax exempt securities in the future, they make existing government bonds sweeter. Furthermore, it you dig deeply Into ' the upper crust of the fiscal strata here, you will find that not all the financial authorities of he new deal are convinced that a constitutional amendment would be a good thing. Heavy undercover dissension crop ped out at a congressional meeting at the White House when that sub ject was mentioned lately. For one thing, the. effect on future treasury financing Is questionable, .lany small communities could not float bond Is sues under such conditions. If the federal government can tax state bond Issues, it can run the states themselves. Also, the multl-mllllonalres Issue Is at least partly ballyhoo, because the rich bondholders pay a considerable tax In reduced Interest rates on such bonds. Consequently, you may expect this subject to remain In the bugle-talk stage for a long, long time. The so-called progressive group has some of the large.st-lunped tootera on the tax-exempt trumpet. They have been demanding for years that some thing be done. The other day they ' had an opportunity to carry out their Idea. A proposal was made to permit taxation of bonds of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Their howl against it was the loudest. No one has noticed It yet, but Mr. Roosevelt has sworn off those private little exchanges he lndulced in with friendly newsmen In the front line at hla press conferences. Hie reason Is that, a few weeks ago. some of the correspondents began printing this . peralflace. The president apparently was astounded to Ilnd In his morning paper one dny a highly seasoned ac count of his observations about the relative merits of hardheads (fis'n and soreheads (politicians That ended that. Tlie secret of the lobby committee Investigation was hardly a ferret. The Investigators were out for publicity only. They wanted to advertise the aina ot the utilities in a hurry. No time could be wasted on a legitimate Inquiry for the purposes of legisla tion. They had to smear the power boyi (while Senator Wheeler held up the utility bill) in order to change congressional votes and public opin ion for Mr. Roosevelt's inaccurately named "death sentence" provision. They got away with unusually high handed tactics beraure no congress man dared to protect. The Indefensi ble activities of the worst or the cur rent pub'.ic utility dinners wer too much for mwt of the utilities them selves to defend. The houM! Is ruled by a private tri umvirate. Speaker Joe Byrn?. Rule Chairman O'Connor and Whip Pat Boland. Not included in the group (Con"nuea n Pae fcitfhtl ! nrlt . K lnrv SAN PEDRO. Calif, Aug. 3 t.M'i Freely foreraptlng Democratic suc cess, but declining to discuss a list of current political toplcf, Pes -.master General James A. Farley went Hshore br briMiy tr.rf.iv b'-iT de parting on t;;r iir.'T M.iiolo tonigu'. tog i Hcaciaiiu v aca U - a. Medford Mail Trjb a mm KELLAHER FACES CHARGE AS AIDE FOR J50J1 FEE Marion Circuit Judge Given 'Reasonable Time' To Call Grand Jury, Ere District Attorney Files Informa tionAlleged Connivance Revealed. SALEM, Ore., Aug. 3. (AP If m grand Jury hearing In the case as sertedly Involving Dan Kellaher, for mer state parole officer, and L. A. Banks, convicted Medford slayer, is not called within a "reasonable time," District Attorney Trindle of Marion county today said he would file an Information against Kellaher to ob tain an Immediate Investigation. It was Indicated a "reasonable time" meant some time next week. Kellaher was accused by Assistant Attorney General Ralph Moody yes- terday with having entered Into a ; contract with Banks, now serving a : life terra at the penitentiary at Sal- ; em, whereby the ex-parole officer was to receive $50,000 If he succeeded in having the former Medford editor and orchardist freed from prison. Delay Reasons Given In answer to District Attorney Trindle's request for an immediate grand Jury hearing. Circuit Judge McMahan said that he hesitated to call In the Jury, mostly farmers, un til after the harvest season; that he wants to make a Judicial Inspection of the contract Kellaher Is asserted to have signed with Banks; and that he fthe Judgei Is scheduled to make a trip to eastern Oregon next week. It was indicated a definite decision on the question of calling the Jury would be rendered within a day or two, however. Trindle said he would sign the Jus tice court information If Judge Mc Mahan did not call tho grand Jury but intimated he was not certain whether to bring charges under the, bribery or malfeasance statute. The alleged contract was presented as evidence at a hearing on a pardon, for Bnnks at the office of Governor Charles Martin yesterday. The docu ment was dated May 6. 1935. the same day that the governor In a let ter Informed Kellaher he was reliev ing him of his duties as state parole officer a post to which he had been appointed by former Governor Julius Meier In 1931. Kellaher was succeeded by E. M. Duffy of Portland. Banks was convicted of the shoot ing of George Prescott, Medford con stable, who was slain in July. 1933. when he sought to serve a warrant on Banks involving burglary charges arising from the disappearance of ballots following Jackson county's turbulent election. Tlnn freedom Purchase The document which Moody con tended was a legal contract between Banks and Kellaher. in addition to providing that the latter would re ceive $50,000 if the former Medford man was given his freedom, also was asserted to contain a clause granting Kellaher an unnamed amount even If an attempt to win a pardon proved unsticcessful. Moody Indicated today he was ready to go before a grand Jury at any time. State Parole Officer Duffy was re vealed today as having been respon sible for the appearance of the docu ment at yesterday's hearing. Duffy said that Banks had grown tired of his agreement with Kellaher. saying that Kellaher "was not big enough to handle the Job." and that he turned over the document when Duffy ad vised him to "come clean." Moody contends that Kellaher vio lated his oath of office by asertr.dly entering into an agreement to aid In freeing a person serving time. WRECKS KILL 12 SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 3. (AP Trsfflc accidents were blampd for 12 deaths in northern California today, five of them in a head-on collision between two heavy truck near Al txiras. Tto men were killed and three ?eriou5ly Injured in an automobile upset seven miles north of lone in Amador county; a two-year-old Fresno boy was crushed to death when a backinz car ran over him at Anttoch and a man and a woman were fatally Injured In separate acci dents at Oakland. A Palo Alto man and his 75-ycar-o!d mother were killed near Walnut Creek whn a car in which they were i riding U-tt the hlch-vay and pinned h-d-on in'o a trrr. Th-y tc A. W. Milicr, 32. and Mrs. A. W. Miller, 75. Chicago Boy Killed Stealing Milk For 7 Hungry Children CHICAGO. Aug. 3. (AP) Sixteen-year-old Edward Schulte was shot and killed today when police said he and a companion crept into a doorway to steal an 11-cent quart of milk for hungry brothers and sisters. Joseph Klrner, 40. said he fired when he heard Schulte whisper ing to Arthur Wozniak. 1'8. Arthur's father. Joseph; told Police Sergeant Luner Sand the family's milk supply was cut off last week. There are seven chil dren In the two families. NEW TAX ACT DUE TO E Business Renews Attack On Revamped Bill As "Disor ganizing" Fish Assails Measure. WASHNGTON, Aug. 3. (AP) The $270,000,000 tax bill was pushed to the point of passage by the house to day despite warnings that President Roosevelt docs not like Its present form. A formal roll call vote waa delayed until Monday. But even the Republi-1 cans, who had filibustered it at the ptart and later gave up attempts to amend it, agreed that ballot would pile up a huge majority for the bill. : Treadway (R.. Mass.) had a motion pending to return tho bill to com- mlttee but that, too, was slated for ! defeat. In brief, the measure would boost j the taxes on individual incomes over ; $50,000; replace the present flat cor- i poration income tax with a gradu ated levy; subject inheritances and gifts Lo new levies on top of those already imposed on estates and gifts; enact new taxes of 6 to 20 per cent on excess corporation profits. Business renewed its attack on the revamped bill today, through Harper Sibley, president of the United States chamber of commerce. He said It "would increase the forces of dis organization." Writing In the chamber's "Wash ington Review," Sibley promised there would be no relaxation of ef forts to defeat the bill, which "de monstrates the hazards which all business enterprises, regardless of size, will run so long as public fi nances are not brought into an ord ered condition." The President had proposed new taxes to bring a "wider distribution of wealth." In many respects, the bill followed his broad recommendations. In reaching the voting stage, the bill sailed through a storm of amend ments. Only one was adopted. That concerned the deduction of corpora tion's charitable gifts. It likewise was assailed by Repub licansRepresentative Pish of New York was one of their spokesmen as "confiscatory, socialism and de magoguery." 5 MEM DIE WHEN ALTURAS. Calif.. Aug. 3. (AP) In a head-oncolllslon between two trucks five miles west of here Friday night, five workmen were killed and five others narrowly escaped death. The dead: Jack Asher, 40. Alturas; Clarence Chance. 30. Alturas; Harold Allred, 33. Alturas; Wesley Polander. 50. Lake City; Roscoe Conklin. 21. Ccdar j vllle. The men were riding aboard a con- tractors' trui.-k rnroute to Alturas from a road construction Job at Can , by. west of here, when their machine , collided with an east bound supplies ! truck. ' Loose boards on the latter pierced the entire ieneth of the truck bear i lnit the workmen, decapitating AU- I rrd and reusing almost Instant death j tr the others. Don Gray, driver, and three others : on the construction truck were un hurt, as was Lester Vernon, driver and sole occupant of the other vehi cle. Coroner J. V. Ktt of Modoc county ordered an inquest tomorrow. MEDFORD, OREGON, f4 THOUSANDS PERISH IN FLOODS ; ! V I5 At least 10,000 died In one day and untold property damage waa done when the Yangtze river went on a flood rampage around Han kow, China. Hero la one view of the flooded atreeta with tuba being used for tranaoortation. (Associated Presa Photo) STKU1KNVIU.E, O.. Allf. (AIM wrlp of rloiiilhiinta mill Mrrc thunder storms left a destructive trull tiuilpltt over Hide areas of the state. NON-STOP HOP OF SOVIET AVIATORS OVER POLE FAILS Oil Trouble Over Barents Sea Forces Return High Speed Maintained Till Halted. MOSCOW, Aug. 3. ( AP) Oil trou ble over the ley Barents sea thwart ed tonight the ambitious attempt ol three Russians to fly non-stop from Moscow to San Francisco, across the North Pole. Disappointed, the filers turned about over the southern part of the sea and landed at Leningrad at 10:30 p. m. (1:30 p. m.. P. S. T.) A defective oil line spoiled their dream of setting a new world's non stop record In a 8.000-mile hop to the Golden Gate from Moscow. A radio message, after eight hours of silence, said a Une from the dis tributing tank beran throwing ofl excessive quantities of oil and the crew was unable to discover the cause. They had made the first part or their flight an 875 mile stretcn from Moscow to the Barents sea at an average speed of 108 miles an hour, considerably better than had been expected. Taking off from Moscow at 6:03 this morning. (8:03 p. m. Friday. Pacific Standard time), the plane had reported its progress regularly until 2:25 this afternoon, when it embarked upon the flight over the sea, the most hazardous part of the Journey. Before turning back on their trial the filers asked permission or Soviet officials here, which waa immedi ately granted. A commission was appointed to go to Leningrad and Inspect the plane when it landed In an effort to determine the cause of the trou ble. A spokesman at the Amerrcan embassy issued a statement saying "The American embassy learned witn deep rctrret of the failure of Lev- aneffsky's trip, and hopes that this will not lead to abandonment oi the project of a flight to San Fran cisco.' A 1600-mile stretch remained 0- tween the fliers and the North Pole when they turned back. They would have had to cover 1 050 miles from the po' to reach Prince Pat rick Inland, the first land they would have seen on the North Amer ican continent. Their speed, If maintained, would have brought them to San Fran cisco before dawn Monday. Pacific Coat time. remefrv Murder tnf,f.pi PKSCO. Wa;i.. Au. 3. ,T Prose cutor C. M. O'Brien of Franklin ! county said today that Gerthrle Horn. I ncro. held In the county Jail for tvo I month, has confessed he killed an j unidentified man, found In the re-r i of the Pasco cemetery May 18. Hdtrr Late Ihnn ier ROSEBURO. Ore., 3. -VP, A saw mill built In the heyday of 1921 but never operated, now la being equip ped with machinery and Is expend to orin its operations the laat of this montii. SUNDAY, AUGUST -!, - m 'ir. . MILITIA CALLED TO CALM HECTIC Court Injunction Against Troops At Polls In Harlan County Voters Quizzed. LOUISVILLE, Ky.( Aug. 3. (AP) Factional animus broke out In ar rests, embittered charges and hur ried court hearings in Kentucky's primary election today. National Guard guns covered Harlan county. Circuit Judge James H. Gilbert enjoined the troops from Interfer ing with the Harlan election eight hours after 700 occupied the county at dawn. Comminuted by Adjt. Gen. Henry 11, Denhardt, tho soldiers quizzed voters, and examined ballot boxes and books. They arrested &t least seven election officers. Six to eleven men patroled each precinct. Judge Gilbert ordered the injunc tion served on Denhardt at Harlan. He laid the general was in contempt If he had taken troops to Harlan, because of a previous injunction for bidding it. The secretary of state was quoted as having denied issu ance of an executive order for the Harlan occupation. Oov. Ruby Laffoon'a administra tion has favored Thomas 8. Rhea for the Democratic nomination. His principal opponent has been Lieut. Gov. A. B. "Happy" Chandler, backed by former highway chairman, Ben Johnson and former U. S, senator and governor, J, C. W, Beckham. DEATH WATCH OF LOYAL DOG ENDS PORTFITVILLE, Calif., Aug. 3. A dog's week-long vigil over the body of his dead master was ended today when two fishermen stumbled upon the remains of Jacob J. Abernathy. 66-year-old rancher, on the bank of a smalt stream Iq the Mllo district, 25 miles cast of here. The dog. lean and ferocious from his long watch, at first defied at tempts to move the body. Authorities j believed Aberanthy. who had driven his truck into a secluded canyon to obtain wood, died from natural causes. He had been miwing a week. CRIMINAL INSANE ESCAPEJSYLUM FULTON. Mo.. Aug. 3. APt SIX criminally insane prisoners confined in Missouri state hospital No. 1 es caped tonight after overpowering two attendants. They fled on foot and were oe bllevert to have head :d south or southeast from the hoapital which Is not far from the state peniten tiary at Jefferson City from which plaee the six had been transferred. Ptate highway patrolmen, sheriff d.-putles and ho-ipltal employes head. jrd by Superintendent Hnlpti liiuKfi ere In pursuit. 19?,o. P 1 Lynching by Prosecutor M R MEDFORD YOUTH FIGURED PvTa LYNCHING 'JOKE' 1 Warned Of Coming Violence By Phone, Luke Lancje Slept No Adverse Com ment In Siskiyous. (By HICK AIM'I.ECiATE) While a mob raided the Siskiyou County pall and kidnapped and hanged Clyde L. Johnson, admitted slayer of the DunBmuir Chief of Po lice, F. R. Daw, Luke Langc, Medford boy and special deputy sheriff In the California city, peacefully slept in the Yreka fireball two blocks away, even though he had Just been warned of the Impending violence by tele phone. Said Lange to a Mail Tribune re porter yesterday: "It was a cnae of Wolfl Wolf! They'd been kidding me about being a deputy sheriff all week, and someone waa always call Ing me and telling mo they wore lynching Johnson at the Jail. I got so used to it that I thought they were Just kidding again when they called me on the 'phone Friday night." Another Medford citizen, Miss Ida Wilson, who Is employed In the same Broadway cafe where Fleming Mar tin, the young man held at a point of a gun while the raiders spirited Johnson from the cell house, wont past the Jail a few mtnutcs after the Jail wm broken Into. She was on her way home, passing close to the bat tered door, but bhw nothing amiss, and heard no strange noises. She snld yesterday that the first thing she anew or tne lynching waa when the oxclted crowds were telling about It yesterday. Firemen L'npreturhcd Although Lange went back to sleep after hearing the alarm, ho Is cer tainly not being censored in Vreka. Another alarm, apparently sent to the firemen at the fire hall by the girl on duty at the telephone ex change, also failed to get any serious response, tho call of "Lynch" havina been repeated so many times during mo wecic mat ail or the some fifty citizens queried replied that thev would have lent no credence to the call themselves. A few were grinning at Lange yes terday, and playfully saying "Swell deputy sheriff you turned out to be" with huge grins, and patting him on tne nacK. The little town is dustlntt lta hands now. figuratively, and think ing that the Job was a bad one well done. No adverse comment could be heard about the lynching, and all agreed, some profanely, that Johnson got "what was coming to him." Law's Delay Irk All In Yreka, Including the city po lice, are agreed the lynching came as a result of the as-yet-uupunlshcd slaying of Steve Kent, stato highway patrol officer, and Lea Quiglcy. city police officer, in Yreka on the night of March 14, 1033. Those two officers were sho t down In arresting a man named Hall. Hall Is still in Folsom prison In California, under a sentence to hang, but still unhung after more than two years. One Yreka man stated yester day "The only regret that Yreka citizens have about the lynching is that those Dunsrhulr fellows didn't let us In on it. We'll show the they can't kill our police officers and get away with it. A chorus of "Yes'a" showed how near he was to the gen eral sentiment. Curious at Morgue All yesterday morning the people of Yreka. and from the surrounding country, filed through the Kuntr undertaking parlors to look at the body of Johnson. Dressed in a white shirt of fine quality, and an expen sive pair of dark, pleated and fash ionable trousers and nothing else, the body still lay with bound feet, and angry red welts around the wrists showed where the hands had been bound. Another red welt ran around the neck, and men. women and children singled by with curios- (Continued on Page Eight) TURK KILLS SELF, LACKS HEIRESS NEW YORK. Aug. 3. AP) Prince Abdul Kerim Effendl, 30-ycar-old de scendant of the former ruling family of the Ottoman Empire, committed suicide by shooting himself In a Man hattan hotel today after sending a letter to the police commissioner say ing that he had fatted in his efforts to win an American heiress as his bride. une Mob Fury Victim Clyde L. JohtiHim SOLON SEES NEED ANTi LYNCH LAW IN YREKA AFFAIR WASHINGTON, Aug. S. ( AP) The report of a lynching near Yreka, Calif., brought from Senator Costl- gnn (D Colo,) today a statement that the "lynching evil la not being controlled by states and demnnds natloi.nl legislation." Senator Costigan Is author of an antl-lynchitifr measure which would Impose a definite federal responsi bility for law enforcement on local peace officers. A determined filibus ter prevented nctlon on tho bill earlier in the session nnd It still reposes on the senate calondnr, "The recent epidemic of lynching, which has Included victims south and north, again demonstrates that the lynching evil la national, not local," Costigan said today, "All reasonable men and women are shocked beyond measure by the danger of mob law. The lawlesa hands tluu assort mob power over life and death, without an oppor tunity to the accused tc bo heard under fair conditions in his own de fense, can cosily bo persuaded to pi a co the lighted torch and commit other jipspenkable crimes against the homo of any citizen." PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 3. AP) Ernest Georgo Boyd of Jacksonville today asked police to aid in locating one of his twin sons. Leroy Oeorge Boyd, 14, who disappeared Tuesday from a boarding hounc here. Ho was described as having blue eyes and brown hair and was wcorlng a blue shirt, brown cop, brown short cord uroys and high-top boots. No one In Jacksonville could Iden tify Boyd or his two sons last night, although It was learned there are several Boyd families living In that district. Oret-on: Fair Sunday and Monday but cloudy or fogy near the coaftt; wanner with lower humidity In the interior on Monday; moderate west and northwest wind off the coast. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 3. 'IV Outlook for far western states August 5 to 10: Fair except local thunderstorms southeast California and eastern Ne vada, and unsettled with light rains Washington, northern Idaho and western Oregon erly In week. Tem peratures moderate at beginning of week, becoming above normal over Interior middle of week; considerable fog on California coast. BABE SUFFOCATES IN CRIB BEDDING PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 3 (API Mnrlln Dellcrt. flva-months old son of Mr. and Mrs. JacX Dcltert ol Portland. na nmjthered to dealn by brddlnn In hla rrln today during the brlrl absence ot hla mother. It's Vacation Time Have the Mall Tribune follow you on your summer vacation. Hotter than a letter from home. Telephone 75 or drop a postal giving your old and new address. No. 1.14. HALL CASE CITED AS UNREST CAUSE. Police Slayer, In Folsom, Saved By Legal Loop holes Stirs People No Clue To Mob Members. YREKA, Calif.. Aug. 3. (AP) The supreme court of the United States was criticized by District At torney Jnmcs Davis tonight in a statement concerning the lynching here of Clyde L. Johnson for the alleged slaying of Chief of Police F. R. Daw of Dunsmuir. Davis declared that "uncontrol lable unrest among the citlzena," which he said led to the lynching early today, was caused by "apathy of the supreme court of the United States" and other federal courts in nuothcr recent police slaying case. Tho district attorney issued hla statement only a few hours after the 24 -year ol d Joh nson waa d ra g -ged bore-footed from his cell in tha county Jail and hanged to a pine tree three miles from this mountain town. The other case referred to by Davis waa that of George Hall, now under sentence of death in Folsom prison for the slaying here two years ago of State Highway Patrolman Stove Kent and Lester Qulgley, Yrokn garage man. Halt appealed from the conviction to the state supreme court and. when this waa denied, started habeas corpus proceedings In the federal courts. His execution was delayed by tho petition, which Davis satd t now bo fore the country's highest tribunal for action. "As district attorney of this coun ty." Davis' statement aald, "I want to say here and now that the apathy of tho supreme court of the United States and tho federal courta through which tho George Hall case Is being proceeded by slow manipulation has created In the citizens of this coun ty a distrust of the legal machinery represented by the upper court of thl country." "This case, and this case alone." tho statement added, "has creoted an uncontrollable unrest among the cltlwna of this county and, I be hove. Justly so." Davis reiterated a previous declar ation, however, that he would make every effort to prosecute members of tho mob. "But so far." ho sold. "we have been unable to establish the Identity of anyone who partici pated in the lynching." Undershcrlff W. J. Ncilon, who said none of the masked lynchers had been tdontlflcd, declared his office would attempt this task and furnish all evidence possible to the grand Jury. Authorities turned attention to Dunsmuir, 40 miles south of here, In their search for the lynchers as A. U Wirln, American Civil Liberties union official In Loa Angelea, demanded "Immediate and aggressive action" from State Attorney Ooneral U. S. Webb. In San Fra nc laco. ho we ve r. Webb said he would not enter the case un less "constituted autthorlties" fall In , performance of their duties. Owen Kesacll, state criminal Iden- (Continued on Page Pwalve) SAYS: 1SKVKIJLY HILLS. Gal.. Auc. 2. Ukvc is rntlier nn amazing stiiteinent. It didn't net much publicity in the press, but it w as in there. It was made by the urcsidet (who has access to the records and must know). "Fifty-eight of the richest peo ple in tho united Mates paid no federal tux on 37 per cent, of their incomes." This soakins the rich has got two sides to it. Roosevelt gets him a pack of humorous "brain trusters" to help him dovise ways nnd means of trying to get at this extru 37 per cent, and the rich get them some lawyers that are just us smart ns Roosevelt's tribe and their job is to cook up an antidote. So up to now most of tlie'soak itiR has been done in tho papers and not at the cash register. ( llli. McNtuihl Syndicate, Ids.
