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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather forecast: Increasing cloudi ness tonight and Tuesday; cooler Tuesday. Temperature: lllglipt yesterday ... R2 Lowest this nmrnlng 51 Special Rate j of 30o for one month to new I subscribers will last for only 30 days, beginning August 1. All subscriptions must be paid j In advance. T7 4IBUNE Thirtieth Year MEDFOKD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1935 Xo. 115. till Tffl 13) Bmmd fly PA I L MAM.ON (Copyright. 1035, By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON. Aug. 6. If you arc perplexed by recent happenings In Washington, be not disturbed. Con sider the situation of some of the big men of the ad ministration, like Senator Pat Har rison. They are on the Inside and they cannot find out what is golns on. The iena of the zodiac seem to be slightly mixed up. A hint of that osme the other day when Mr. Harrison publicly I'Al L .MALLUM Implied that he would champion the new tax program If he could only find out what It was. Mr. Harrison's dilemma, la far worse than yours could ever be. because he Is In charge of the program In the senate. The confused senator placed his quandary In the lap of Treasury Sec retary Morgenthau. who was testifying at the time. Mr. Morgenthau looked at It a moment and dropped It on the floor. He declined to touch It. siring he was embarrassed. Mr. Harrison suggested that the embarrassment was widespread. Some elder statesmen on the senate committee decided to go home and rest for the day. They thought that. If the administration tax spokesman in the senate did not know what the tax program was and the treasury secretary declined to tell him. It was time for everyone to rest up. The trouble with Mr. Harrison waa that he called on the wrong man. Mr. Morgenthau is supposed to bo In charge of taxes, but It Is tindcrstood that he learned of this bigness-taxing program largely by hearsay. If Mr. Harrison had only known what went on at that picnic lunch which President Roosevelt held on the top of Sugar Loaf mountain the day before, he would have been able to aubpoena the right witness. You may recall the great ado about Mr. Roosevelt slipping off secretly for a picnic lark that afternoon. It waa an nounced that only Roy West, lift new Ickes assistant; the president's per sonal sercetaxy. Miss Lehand. and a stenographer went along. The fact of the matter la that Mr. Morgenthau waa an unannounced guest at that picnic, but not the most Important one. The second one was Prof. Felix Fankfurter. advocate of the Brandeis tax philosophy of taxing bigness and the supposed ghost-author of Mr. Ftoosevelt's original tax program. Tf Senator Harrison had also sub poenaed an old man of the moun tain at Sugar Loaf he would also have learned that Mr. Morgenthau was overheard disagreeing strongly with Prof. Frankfurter about the tax pro gram It is understood Mr. Morgen thau leaned to the wholly indifferent, moderate program adopted by the house ways and means committee, if any. Mr. Harrison was not wholly devoid of information, however. He showed he knew a little about what was go ing on when he droped the sly re mark that the house bill "has been based on treasury recommendations." The news accounts of that Incident relate that a surprised look appeared on the faces or some democratic sen ators when Mr. Morgenthau permit ted that remark to go unchallenged. That put It mildly. What Messrs. Harrison and Morgen thau both knew, and the rest of the world did not, waa that Mr. Morgen thau'. Herman Ollphant, general (Continued on Page Four.) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Alleen Latham, gazelle-liltc. leaplns over a counter to display her ability and grace, and receiving a big hand from her congregated friends. Workmen, with hammer and chisel, cutting Dumpa In the skid-way In front of the chamber of commerce, following Insistent complaints from this department. Joe O'Brien, carber. taping his fin- per. pcslbly cut with a rairor. Sun Craft decked out .n wmte hos. white socks, white n!t and shirt, snd white Ilr. b':t denying that r was eln? to a-jply for a Job as sn int-Tie in a hcp;tM. Onsnon cuing a ?ld hv' 'in his ls-:e when adtirevd "B n tmr. monsieur, comment a:ies vou?" These French I Tom Culbert'cn and Frrd Heath committing a t?ctlcal error. In leadir.s three a - m y m a ?rs. . e 1 3 i iv c -the ck sirport. tr.ro.i; i a ira::n ot len trillion moi.qi.toca. BITTER BATTLING EXPECTED BEFORE ACTIONJNSENATE House Approves Adminis tration Measure 282 To 96 End Of Session De pends On Senate Speed. Oregonlans Favor WASHINGTON. Aug. 5. (AP) All three of Oregon's congressmen voted for the president's tax bill which swept through the house today. Representative Pierce was among 254 democrats voting for the mea sure while Representatives Ekwnll and Mott Joined with 16 other re publicans in helping pass the bill and sending It to the senate. By Clarence M. Wright Associated Press Staff Writer. WASHINGTON. Aug. 5. ( AP) The administration's tax bill, estimated to raise between 250.000.00Q and 270.- 000.000 additional annual revenue. waa ptued today by the house and sent to the senate. The vote on final passage was an nounced as 282 to 96. A bitter controversy In that branch appeared, certain before the measure, upon which the time of congressional adjournment depends, is voted on. The senate finance committee has (Continued on Page Hire) REGULATION BILL WASHINGTON, Aug. fi. (AP) The senate today concurred In house amendments to the administration bill for federal regulation of motor bus and truck transportation ot freight and passengers in interstate commerce. The bill now goes to the White House. Representing several years of ef fort, the bill Is one of a series advocated by President Roosevelt for regulating all forms of transporta tion and concentrating the task In the Interstate commerce commission. The measure places both common and contract carriers by motor under commission control as to rates and services. It generally exempts pri vate truckera. Under house amendments concur red In today, truckh hauling farm producta and owned by farm coop eratives and Individual farmers would be exempted from regulation, as well as trucks transporting news papers and fish. All of the exempted trucks, how ever, would be subject to commis sion safety and maximum hour reg ulation. GETS 15-MONTH JOLT ROSEBURQ, Aug. 5. (Pi Fifteen months In the state penitentiary was the penalty meted here by Circuit Judge Wlmberly to D. H. Whttted, of Myrtle Creek, who pleaded guilty to a morals charge Involving a minor girl of Myrtle Creek, where he for merly lived. Attempting flight with his three children In an automobile upon learning of his Impending ar rest. Whltted was apprehended at Crescent City. Calif., falling into a faint when accosted by officers. ACCUSED NEGRO LYNCHED BY SOUTHERN MOBSTERS PITTSBORO. Mtsa.. Aug. 8. (AP) I . reused of at - tempting to attack a 22-year-old white woman of Plttsboro Saturday night, was lynched by a mob which stormed the Calhoun county Jail Is, night. It wis reported here today. The moo. made up or mte cm rens. formed after the negro had been arrested snd overpowered an officer at' the jail, taking the kya to the Jail from him and seizing the prisoner. Bates waa taken to a sparsely set- J Mrd wctlon of Calhoun county and , was i-anzed from a bridge over Ya!o-;,,;-. river "he.e officers lo,.:-.'! j".. 3i Lia. W. TOeeU id tiic I je;Uf J&U OFFICER OVERPOWERED BY MOB w ?i hi : -rt. -4, i. tv $:Y3 ; f -t rt ., f t leiii(v .sheriff Martin Laiige miles Into Hie roimtrv and turned moh who raided the SI;-klyou county jail, seized Hwle I.. Johnson and hanged hlin from a pine tree three in Mrs south of here. The lynch mob, numbering 25 to 50 men. was believed to have come from IMins mulr. The mob took range's shoes. (Associated Press Photo). PAROLE FACING IS Application of Gordon L. Scher merhorn. former sheriff of Jackson county, serving a three-year sentence In state prison on conviction oi ballot theft. Is scheduled to come before the August meeting of the state parole board. Schermerhorn entered state prison about a year ago and will be eligible for parole, when he has served that period. Information received by Jackson county authorities at the Banks pardon hearing In Salem last Fri day, from unofficial sources, Indi cates that granting of a parole to the former Jackson county sheriff Is not a foregone conclusion. One source stated that the governor does not look with favor on a parole to him at this time. Schermerhorn (Continued on Page rhree) i young woman, an employe of a Pitts- iro cafe, told him a negro appeared at the window of her home after she had gone to bed Saturday nleht and demanded to be admitted to the She said she screamed and arou.1 neighbors who rsme to her avistsne and the intruder thn flr-d. Rlrwlhounds were piad on I trail of Cie ngro and Bates nr- ; rested near the home of another nezro who told the sneriir Bates nao been at hts house after the alleged attempted attack. The henff fMd after the srret of Ebte i:e ma pUtexi In the county :ail nd ::nd . k no legged cms the ui. woman bom iilmi) loose whh trussed barefoot hv up, curried 1 1 me inner of a SAWMILL START ABOUT SEPT. 1ST Present plant of the Medford Cor- poratlon (Owen-Oregon) call for the starting of the sawmill proper, about American September 1. James H. Owen, in Called end 6th rain). charge, said today. New Vork ? Boston - 3 6 3 "It all depends on how fast repairs Rufflng and Jorgens; Oestermuel to the railroad, and conditioning of ler, Hockette, Wilson, Rhodes, Bowers the machinery In the mill comes slong and logs come from the hills" Owen stated. Fall and bucking of timber, with a force of 25 men. started this morn ing in the Butte Falls district. Before the mill starts a supply of logs imist ! be dumped In the now empty log pond. , on the re-conditlonlng of the rail road 75 men are now employed. Owen said. They are repairing the roadbed, replacing old ties, strengthening trestles, and engaged in general repair along the entire line from this city to Butte Falls. A force of millwrights and laborers la also engaged In placing the sawmill machinery and various departments of the plant for operation. Owen saya from 105 to 110 men are now employed making ready for the start. The plant. In previous operations, furnished labor for 150 to 200 men, depending on conditions. BOXER SAVES YOUTH FROM DEATH IN SURF smuhia. ore., Aug. o.mi FrMdv S'cfle. Tacoms boxer, saved Bob Robinon. Portland high school jatnieie, rrom arowning in mm sun i i Long Beach. Wash., yesterday after Robinson had been swept seaward by 'a strong current. j Adr a Uhsc battie artiivt the cur tojrrnt .Steele fmailj Diount Robinson to Lac beach NOT KEEN TO NAB Court Apathy Blamed For Action Of Aroused Citi zensSearch For Miller Lags, Escape Almost Sure SACRAMENTO. Aug. 8. (AP) Be lief that higher authorities should 'step In" If officers of Siskiyou coun ty fall to take proper steps In the In vestigation of a lynching at Yreka on Saturday was expressed today by Gov ernor Merrlajn. The governor's statement followed a telephone Interview with W. H. Whit tell, news editor of the London Dally Mall, who talked with the state ex ecutive for five minutes from the offices of the English publication. YREKA, Calif., Aug. 6. (AP) Search for Robert Miller, companton of Clyde L. Johnson, who was lynched near here early Saturday morning after Chief of Police F. R, Daw of Dunsmulr had been slain In a gun battle by Johnson, lagged today as Siskiyou county officials expressed their belief he had escaped from this district. Likelihood that no determined steps will be taken to identify or prosecute members of the mob that dragged Johnson from the county jatl and hanged him to a pine tree three miles from Yreka was aoen when Siskiyou officials Joined with citizens of this sparsely-populated mountainous area In condoning the act. Courts Blamed. District Attorney James Davis was particularly outspoken In placing the blame for the mob's action elsewhere. He insisted the "apathy" of the courts was the real cause of the lynching. Davis cited the case of George Hall, who was convicted of killing a high way patrolman and a deputy sheriff here. Hall waa sentenced to hang In ( Continued on Page Eight) PLANEJASHES PARIS. Aug. 6. (AP) Prance's first stratosphere airplane was wreck ed in a test flight today, killing Ita pilot. Marcel Cogno. 28. The plane, which had been three years In construction, waa undergoing a final test when it crashed near Bon u feres. - A few spectators saw the plane gyrating wildly as without a pilot, then plunge to the earth. This gave rise to the theory the pilot fainted in the rarlfled upper air. Cogno, one of France 'a crack test pilots, waa killed Instantly. The plane had an air-tight cylin drical cabin for the pilot and waa supplied with compressed air. Its motor cylinders likewise were supplied with compressed air by an especially designed apparatus. The machine waa a single -motored monoplane. 1 BASEBALL and R. Fcrrell, Berg. Chicago . 3 Cleveland - Kennedy, Myatt and fiewell; gardner and Brenzel. R. 7 S 0 0 Wlne- H. E. 13 1 a a Phlladelphla Washington 10 Batteries: Benton, Martini Doyle and Richards; Whltehlll and Bolton. National R. H. E. Boston 18 1 Philadelphia 9 8 2 Brown. Benton and Spohrer; Jor gens and Todd. Brooklyn . New York Babich, 4 10 2 6 11 2 and Lopet; Earnshaw Smith, Stout and Mancuso, R. H. E. Chicago 1 B 1 Cincinnati - 3 9 0 Batteries: Carleton. Warneke and Stephenson; Holllngsworth, Brennan and Erlckaon. ORDER RESTORED IN CRETE STRIKE RIOT LONDON. Aug. 6. (AP) The Athens rorreapendent of Reutera fBrltlFh) News Agency reported today that General Bakopoulos had advised the government that order was re stored in Crete and that the strikers had agreed to disperse ceic-lully. KELLAHER DRAFTS REPLY TO BANKS Former Parole Officer To Be Cited In Court For Alleged Pact With Mcdford Slayer Is Announcement. PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. 5. (P) Dan Kellaher. former state parole officer who was accused of bargaining to help release L. A. Banks from the Oregon penitentiary for 50.000. aald todny that he still was preparing a statement to give the public the facta of the case. He did not Indicate when the state ment! would be ready. SALEM. Aug. 5. (AP) Informa tion against Dan Kellaher, former state parole officer, charging him with malfeasance In office aa a result of the reputed agreement he signed with Llewellyn A. Banks, in which he waa to receive 50.000 If he could ob tain Banks' release from the peniten tiary,' waa expected to be filed today In the Marlon county circuit court by William H. Trlndle. district attorney. Trlndle waa In conference with Cir cuit Judge L. H. McMahan today, and he stated he may file information against Kellaher later in the day. and prepare his case during the month for the grand Jury early In September. He had not definitely decided the ex act nature of the charge but believed It would be malfeasance. Exposed nt Hearing The alleged agreement was exposed during the hearing before Governor Martin late Friday when Deputy At' torney General Ralph Moody present' ed photographic copies of the con tract, which waa obtained from Banks '. (Continued on Page Eight) TALKElAKES NEW SHOT AT F. R. DAWSONVTLLE. Oa.. Aug. 5. (AP Tn a new blast at the national ad ministration. Governor Eugene Tal madge said today he would support President Roosevelt for re-election in 1035 If he quit "hla course of com munism" and let American Industry and agriculture out of the "hospital." The Georgia governor, whose recent activities have been ' interpreted as meaning he might make a bid for the presidency himself, added that unless the present policies in Washington are changed he will make a "coast to coast" fight to "put Americans there who will stand by the constitution and by the ''principles of Jefferson tan democracy." Scoring the national administration Talmadge said American industry "Is making some strides in spite of the new deal." T BBIXINOHAM. Aug opening of the entire 8. p, Re plant of the Whatcom Falls Mill been made possl ble company has by agreements reached today with striking employes, President D. H. Lowrcy announced. The shingle mill, employing 75 men, will reopen Thursday and the sawmill, with 300 men on the pay roll, will operate next Monday. TAOIMA, Aug, 5. fP) The lumber strike over, several hundred sawmill and timber workers union men were added to payrolls of a acore of Ta coma mills today. Just 13 weeks from the day the lumber strike waa called here. DOCTOR'S WIDOW FACES ACCUSED FORMER SUITOR CHICAGO, Aug. 5. (AP) -Judge P. McCarthy in felony court today Issued a warrant charging Mandevllle W. Zenge, 26 year old Missouri carpenter, with the emasculation-slaying of his love rival. Dr. Walter J. Bauer. Judge McCarthy made the warrant returnable tomorrow. Charles S. Dou gherty, assistant state's attorney, said he would go before the grand Jury tomorrow and ask that : murder In dictment be returned a! tlnst jgenge. Mrs. Louise Bauer, whose nu&band was mutilated and fatally injured last Wednesday, was expected to go before the grand Jury. Dougherty said she had been served with a subpoena. Zenge'a Iron nerves failed to break daplte 18 Hours of coiuttut eumlna Farmer's Fortune Goes Up In Smoke When Bed Changed ALGOOD. Tenn., Aug. 8. (A, Oral Bilbrey's wife made his bed. She made it out of nice clan straw and It cost Bllbery Just 17.000. The farmer was away from home and his wife decided to fill her mattresses or "tlcka" with new atraw. She had to empty the old straw, ao ahe built a bonfire and piled It high. Then Bllbrey came home and his wife remembered. Her husband wah thrifty. He had accuculated hla wealth In currency, stocks, notes and the like and hidden these away In a mattress. They all went up In smoke. WESTERN WRITERS CONVE ET Opening with an address of wel come by Mayor Oeorge Parter At the Hotel Mcdford tomorrow morning, BOO members of the League of Western Writers will convene hero for a five day annual convention. Elsie Carlton Strang will appear on the morning program, aa will a repre sentative of the Jackson county cham ber of commerce. Judge L. D. Ma hone of Portland, president of the national association, will make the response to Mayor Porter. AC 12:30 the party will leave by private cars, loaned by Mcdford auto dealers, for Crater laKe, stopping at Prospect for dinner on me return jaunt. (Continued on Page Eight) PORTLAND, Aug. 5. ( AP) The highest price since September. 1930, was paid for hoga at the Portland stockyards today. Choice light feeder plga were quot ed up to 12.50. Good to choice 170 to 315 pound hoga were generally $11.50, with load lota up to 1 1.60. Today's market was generally 75 to 90 conta higher than last week's close. A short supply and gradual Improve ment In eastern markets was respon sible. The Portland market hereto fore has lagged behind eastern quota tions. BAN FRANCISCO. Aug. fl (AP) Tom Mooncy'a petition for temporary release from San Quentln prison that he might be present when depositions are taken in Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, and in Illinois in connec tion with the habeas corpus applica tion, was denied by the state supreme court today. NEW YORK. AUK. . (AP)-(UB DA) Pear auction market weaker; aa can arrived: 30 California cara unloaded: 8 cara on track. California Bartletta. 28,000 bozca: 1.85gV20, averane $2.30. CHICAGO. Aug. S (AP)-(USDA) Pear market: California cars arrived; none on track: II cara aold California Bartlrtta. 7.580 boxea: $2.10a3.20, average $2.0. tlon and a dramatic meeting under police eyea with Mn. Bauer. The widow, who hurried here from Cleveland by airplane after the fu neral of her husband, waa led Into i room where Zenge, her former suitor, sat manacled, unshaven and half asleep. Zenge had been given no Inti mation she would face him. He looked up. Tonelessly, he mur mured. "Hello. Louise." She halted, apparently bewildered She did not speak for several min utes. They looked at each other, he stol idly, she moving her hands convul sively. The couple sat aa the clock atruik midnight. They conversed briefly, In - 'icoaotjllablo oi trivialities. Pear Markets TOURING STUDENTS LUNCHEON GUESTS, VISIT CRATER LAKE Pick Of Japan And American Colleges Journey Over Coast Country In Effort To Enhance Friendship. Students from Japanese and Ameri can universities comprising the sec ond Japan-America conference tour. left Mcdford in a 20-car caravan this afternoon for Crater lake, accompa nied by members of Medford Rotary and Klwanls clubs, who were hosts to the delegation this noon at a banauet given at the Hotel Mcdford. Representing the finest students of Japan and America, the delegation offered a chance for unusually inter esting and educational conversations among the Japanese students and Mcdford citizens, who were seated al ternately. Gates Toast master, W. A. Gates was toastmaster, In troducing M. Maruyama, prominent member of the local Japanese colony, who greeted the delegation In Japan ese. Because many of the students were unacquainted with southern Oregon, Maru described the scenic and recreational qualities to be found here; and told of the Industries of the community. While not under standable to the local citizens, the talk waa followed Intently by the 47 students of Japan. They are being ac- (Co" tinned on Page Five) RULE ON PARK BUSES WILL BE CHANGED IS OF CIME PORTLAND, Aug. 6. (AP) A spe cial dispatch to the Journal today - rrom Washington, D. C, aatd Director cammerer of the national park ser vice "haa expreased regret to Senator McNary that a party of Oeorgia school teachers was turned back at Crater Lake park because of rules' concerning exclusive privileges for sightseeing buses." Several daya ago a party of about 400 school teachers from the south waa denied entrance to the park be cause they were traveling in chartered buses. Par!, officials declared the buses could not be permitted to enter the park because a private corpora tion had exclusive right to operate buses on the park property. The Journal dispatch aald Cammer er declared "this incident will not be repeated." He indicated there will be a general discussion later of "the bus problem." Income Shares Maryland Funding, bid 16.43; asked 17.S8. Quarterly income shares, bid 1.38; asked 1.52. SAYS' SANTA MONICA, Ch1,( Aur. Well, haven't much tiino to do sny editorializing toduy. Today the big world s cham pionship cowboy contest starts, and I am busy setting on the fence blathering with 'em (which is about all I can do along cowboy sports line). Sonic of 'em are right from my home rantjc in Oklahoma and I think learned to rope on some of my stock. It's like baseball, it's a sport you can attend and know that it's not "in tho bag." You can't put a calf or bucking horse in a bag. Its not like prize fighting or wrestling, where the loser gets a big slice, too. Nobody is paid a nickel but the winners. Depression hit everything but horseback riding. There was never as many people rid ing ami interested in ranch life. But I must get back to my bliitliering. "Now Crosby, can yout" (1111, HcN.uaht Syndicate lag.