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Mail Tribune Bargain Days Subscription Rates Effective This Week The Weather Forecast: Talr tonlfht nd Fri day; rllng, temperature Fri day. TEMPERATURE Highest yesterday , Lowest this morning , as . 44 Thirtieth Year By PAUL .MAI.I.ON (Copyright, 1!I35, by Paul Mallon) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 26. New Dealers on the granary trail through here have the Idealistic slant. They talk much of the i o c 1 a 1 reforma tion and little of the sordid affairs 3f politics. Yet a political blood hound docs not necessarily have to have an un usual nose to icent the fact that someone has been working the sther side of the street out here. Jl ! Ominous poutl- PAUL MALLUN cal footprint as large as the shoes of Democratic Chairman - Postmaster General Parley aeem to have been left on the shady side all through this middle west. Here In K. C. they lead right up to the door of Boss Fendergaxt. who mixes concrete and politics, by the machlhe method, suits. with excellent re- l m Hyde Park, N. Y., that the presi dent has approved the project. In case you have not heard, the i bigness of his Democratic heart may be measured by the fact that he has permitted one neptibllcan a solitary one to hold office around these parts. The Republican Is one of nine circuit Judges Mr. Pendergast decided not to kick out. This may give you a hint, as Pen dergast goes today, not only Kansas City, but the state of Missouri, Is. very likely to be. dragged along. And If you want to know where Mr. Pendergast Is going, you have only to learn that one of his better men (Matthew Murray) was given charge of WPA relief work spending In this state by that well known prac tical Idealist of the New Deal, Harry Hopkins. In Illinolss. the New Deal tlcupW with tho Kelly Chicago machine; In Wisconsin, with the La Follets. Both machines, like that of Pendergast, are dominant controlling powers. , Outsiders may wonder whether any politcal bed la large enough to hold sxich strange fellows. Kelly, La Fol lettes and Pendergast would not even speak to each other on the street, so radically different are their views. That may not be necessary under the Farley decentralized remote . control system. They take the money, run their own balUwicka In their own way, and may be expected to deliver on election day. The Pendergast machine la a Varc model with a special accelerator. It does more than dole out Jobs. Prom the Inside, tt Is considered something of a philanthropic Institution. The ward lieutenants look out for the poor of their neighborhoods, furnish food and coal at times to the needi est, give Christmas baskets, promote dances and picnics. There are no clubroom pool hangouts, such as Tammany provided for the young men to grow up In, but the same buses which take them to the picnics deliver them at the polls on election day. The head man Is in the ready-mixed concrete business. Consequently, very little concrete is ever mixed out here. But there Is a lot of new building, a (Continued on Page Seven) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Jimmy Lewis, whose mother had Just stopped near church to pick up a pedestrisn and told Jimmy to run on to church Instead of riding down town and back, saying: "aw, lemmc ; go with you. You won t have to pick : up any more people." Mary Edmlston Hrllver recalling j the time, as a child, that she wanted j to know whether her movie-solng j status was as a child, adult or loge. ; that being the price range announced outstde. i Chuck Reum being surprised at the eagle eye, of hunting gulden. On a recent shooting expedition he saw no deer, while the guides saw seven! BUI McAllister thinking a reporter was hitch-hiking when he Inquired about an expedition of mouth-pieces to the bur convention in Salem. Bob Smith, half hark and assistant window rxli-her at the el'y hall, scrubbing off spcks from a window under the very critical eye of Vern Canon. A drunk becking money on the grounds he was a cr'.pple. and then gome t;tnu?h tiir mehland fling -fer -r r.-.t r.t-iclt a lew morf Medford Full Associated Press $1,575,000 GIF! WILL BE ADDED TO Fl Project Expected to Furnish Work Many Large for Over Year Other States Get Allotments Coin WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. (AP) Secretary Ickes formally announced I nr. his nreKa conference todav that President Hoosevelt had approved an allotment of $1,575,000 from the works relief appropriation' for a new state capltol building In Salem. Ore. The project will be under the su pervision of the public works admin istration. Tho allocation represents a 45 per cent gift by the federal government. Oregon having made available $1,925, 000 for the new building. It has been estimated the project would give work for more than a year. Ickes' statement today was con firmation of an announcement made WASHINGTON. Sept. 26. (API Attaches In flie offices of Oregon members of congress expressed the opinion today that Oregon's request for funds for a new capltol and site probably was contained In the $200, 000.000 public works program ap proved yesterday by President Roose velt. Tho state had asked for a $1,575. onn errant for n new building to re- nlacft the.canltoi burned last spring and another application of $700,000 to aid in purcass of a site for the new building. The president made no Immediate announcement of the projects ap proved. $267,000 AT PRESENT The total warrant indebtedness or Jackson county, up to September 1. totaled 3291,508.74. which has alnce been reduced by the calling of out standing warrants amounting to ap proximately 24,000, bringing the total to around 267,000. The war rants embody tho general county fund, the high school and non-high school district tuition funds, and the county road fund. The facts and figures are from the records of the county treasurer's or fice. The total warrant indebtedness on September 1 last year amounted to 9360.889.10, Indicating It la running about the same for the past threo years. Warrant indebtedness will be fur ther reduced . with recel pt of the Oregon-California land grant fund, which amounts to approximately $62,000, and brisker payment of cur rent taxes, now In a lull. Jackson county's O-C money was delayed In receipt, due to an error In the department of Interior, where the claim and records were "mis placed." No provision is made In the an nual budget for a warrant Indebted ness fund. County officials said today that Jackson county at present Is in bet ter shape than most of the counties of the state. D. G. TYREE TAKES D. O. Tyree, associated for the past 12 years with the California Oretiuii Power company, and manager for the past, eight years of the Investment department of that organization, an nounced yesterday that he has re- signed his position here and Is leav- lnr at once with his family to ac- cept an appointment as associate dls-1 trlct counsel for the U. S. bureau of reclamation at Portland. The work will not be new to Tyree. Tho stated thst he was with that bureau for eight years before enter ing the power organization. He. with his associate, will handle the legal work for the bureau In Washington. Idaho and Oregon, where some of the rea;est reclamation projects ever undertaken in this country are now underlay. Mr. and Mrs. Tyree and their daughter Emiiy. are leaving tody to r.ixfc thr'.r home in Portland. Mr. T1 r-f'm vi?eeor das not yet been Legion BASEBALL 8T. LOUIS, Mo.. Sept. 36. (AP) Rain today forced a postponement of the second game of the Cardinal Cub series to definitely determine If the world champion St. Louis club can halt the rampaging and pennant bound men of Orlmm. A double header will be played to morrow, the first game beginning at 12:45 p. m. (C. 8. T.) Amerlcnn R. H E. Washington a 10 1 New York 4 7 4 Batteries: Lanahan, Pettit, Russell and Bolton; Murphy and Glenn. LEAGUE NOTIFIES BELLIGERENTS TO L DEC. 4 GENEVA, Sept. 29. (AP) The League of Nations council today gave notice to Italy and Ethiopia that they cannot start war until Dec. 4 without violating the league covenant. If either starts aggressive hostilities before then, that nation will be deem ed to have committed an act of war against all members of tho League of Nationsthereby automatically calling for punishment by the other nations. This notice was Implied by a una nimous vote with the Italian dele gates conspicuously absent to draft a report of recommendations for the settlement of tho Italo -Ethiopian conflict under article XV of the cove nant and a decision that this article was In operation as from Sept. 4. This means three months must elapse from that date before hostili ties can be undertaken without dis regard of the covenant. The action was taken In tense ex cltcmcnt and In tho space of 70 min utes. Previous to the momentus session the corridors of the league buildings were a milling mob of statesmen and observers. Foreign ministers elbowed prime ministers In the throng. They viewed, with fast moving rip pics of comment, the act of the Ital' lan delegation which stalked out of the building after a toast at the. bar before the council's public session be gan. f I, CAL, CAFE; COPS SEEK SUSPECT EUREKA, Cal.. Sept. 28- (AP) An explosion that wrecked a restau rant and brought critical Injuries to Its operator. Mrs. Hat tie Vollmcr, and lesser injuries to several others, sent officers In search today for a man they said they suspect of caus ing the blast. Powder experts said the explosion, which last night shattered the calm of Klamath, small community 70 miles north of here, was caused by dynamite. Mrs. Vollmer was taken to a Cres cent City hospital, where physicians ssld she had a broken leg and in ternal Injuries. Mrs. Thomas Fisher, Portland. Ore daughter of Mrs. Vollmer. had a broken ankle and cuts and bruises: Thomas Fisher, her husband, severe lacerations and bruises, and Mrs. Martel Kelton, who lives In a house adjoining the restaurant, was cut by broken glass. Gilmore President Arrives By Plane For Brief Visit E. B. Gilmore, president of the Oil more Oil company, acompanled by B. A. Row!, manager refined oil sale, arrived In Mr. Gilmore s private plane at Medford municipal airport Wei j nesday evening, leaving this morning early for San Francisco. Mr. Ollmore is returning to Los Angeles after a ; hunting trip in Canada. j The Gilmore plane Is i Skyrocket, six-place cabin BellancA job, fin ished in Gilmore red and green and powered by a 550-horsepower Wasp motor. The ship has a cruising npd of 185 miles per hour, with a range of 1000 miles. The plane is piloted by Charles A. LsJotte, who was as sociated during the wr with many of the pilots of the United Air Line who are well known In Medford. Mr. Gilmore was very pleased with the airport and the efficiency of Its manas-onrnt. and tM that the sir- MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, Renews Demand for Bonus Payment ALLEGED F OF THOSJVIOONEY Activity of Utility Detective Told From Witness Stand $5000 Reward Offered to Participate in Plot SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 36. (AP) I Warren K. Billings, prisoner No. i 10,609 at Folsom prison where he Is serving a life term, was called to I the witness stand at Thomas J. Mooney's habeas corpus hearing to day. Silenced once earlier when he at tempted to object to questions. Bil lings was told by Supreme Court Referee A. E. Shaw that his sole rights at this hearing "are those ot a witness. You are not a co-defendant or petitioner." George T. Davis of Mooney's coun sel asked him a series of preliminary questions as the small, sandy-haired man -nt calmly in the chair, quickly answering all Interrogations. Tells of Detective. Davis brought the name of the late Martin Swanson, public utility detective. Into the picture, Billings said ha met Swanson on July 18, four days before the parade bomb ing. "Swanson said he was sorry. He had had to send me to the peniten tiary in 1013 and said he might be able to get me a Job," Billings aatd. "Swanson took my address and then left. I caught a Jitney bus and went home. "I saw him the next day in re sponse to a telephone call. He in troduced me to several officials or the Pacific Gas & Electric company. "His attitude' seemed' entirely friendly. One of the men he intro duced me to gave me an employment blank. I left the building with Swan son and went to the utilities ga rage. Reward Offered. "Later he produced a poster of fering a reward for the apprehen sion of anyone In connection wltn tho bombing of power trn.miMloni towers at South San Francisco, He asked me about Tom Mooney, how well Z knew him and when I last saw him. "He then said how would I like to have this $5000 reward. He sug gested t could do many nice things on that money. "He said It would be easy for me to earn the reward. Swanson said all that would be necessary would be for me to go Into court and Ray I knew Mooney and that Tom had told me he was the man who had dynamited the towers. 'I made arrangements to talk to him that afternoon." Billings said he sent a message to Tom Mooney by another union man, explaining he had seen Swanson and wanted to see Mooney. Mooney Told of Plot. "Tom sent me a message and then I met Mooney. I explained about Swan son 's attempt to get me to tes tify against Tom, I . proposed to Mooney that I be allowed to partici pate and tell Swanson I would tes tify and then expose him In court. "Tom refused because ho said I would be endangering my life If 1 attempted It and asked me to let the matter drop. YOUTH ADMITS PLACING POISON IN KINS COFFEE LOS ANGELES, Sept. 36. (AP) Nineteen-year-old Leroy Drake, Jr., early today confessed, Detective Lieu tenant Frank Condaffer said, that he slipped poison Into the eoffee his aunt and uncle drank a week ago and attempted to hide their deaths by shunting their bodies off a pier Into the ocean in their own automobile. Drake was booked on suspicion of murder of the dead couple, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stelnheur. both 60. The confession of the curly-haired Junior college student came a few hours after the bodies were recovered from the submerged automobile In San Pedro harbor. He admitted from the start. Con daffer said, that he had disposed of the bodies, but maintained for a time that his uncle was poisoned by his aunt, who then ended her own life. "I wts awaiting hearing on an ap Dllmtion for nrobstlon on conviction Ml 111 BBmSB First President Manuel Quezon (above), ulio was selected by an overwhelming majority of Ills countrymen to heroine the first president of the Philippine Wand. DIS1SS ELLIOTT Testimony from a score of witnesses continued today in circuit court. In th $50,000 damage suit of Robert Robinson, 10, as a result of an acci dent August 3, 1934, during tho course of a fire In the Hotel Medford, in which he received Injuries result ing In amputation of a leg. The suit Is directed against Fire Chlof Roy Elliott and City Fireman Ed Kanoose. driver of a hose wagon. By agreement hotnuan rAiinitl fnr Knth mAm fVin ut mR ailmirlKa tlBtt Fln chlff Elliott, Fireman Kanoose remaining as the sole defendant. Unexpected speed developed In the trial, and tho case Is expected to be in the hands of the Jury lata today. Defense witnesses this morning tes tified that young Robinson Ignored I the warning shouts of Charles Gcp- pert, a volunteer n reman, ana j. i. (Shorty1) Conrad, to "got back, get back, the truck Is coming that way!" Tho youth was standing with his bicycle at the corner of Main and Ivy streets, and was caught in the sweep of the hose when It was dragged around the corner. He was talking to two girls, witnesses testified, with one leg over his wheel, at the time. The speed of the truck was estimated by wltn ewes, at "from 10 to 18 miles per hour." It was also testified thst "there was plenty of noise, and some excitement" and that "others standing on tho sidewalk and In the middle of the street moved back." Robinson testified that ho did not hear the warnings, and that he did not know the fire was In the Hotel Medford. but thought It was In a Sixth street apartment houee. (Continued on Page fen) daffer quoted Drake as saying. "I felt Z had little hope or escaping a prison term and that the disgrace would cause the death of my aunt.' The youth, Condafer said, declared he determined to kill the elderly wo man and went to a drug store where he purchased a deadly poison and several other chemicals, to avoid sus picion. The poison was sllppfd Into the coffee as it mas brewed In the kltch- en. The youth, who said he lived with his aunt and uncle since he was three years of age. identified the bodies. He said his parents reside in Wash ington, D. C. Condafer said the youth confessed to htm he had forged the name of his uncle to a check since the man's disappearance from his WeH Forty third street home. The youth also told Mflcers he was the beneficiary in his uncles will and, of the pneumonia to hjs left lung to bis Hi lraraoc policies, Ihattcc been Tribune 1935. COMMUNITY CHESTi WORKERS PERFECT; PLANS F0R DRIVEj 'Be a Good Neighbor' Key-, note for Campaign Which Will Be Carried On Oct. 9-11 Announce Leaders At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Community Chest last night, plans for the annual campaign for funds were perfected and the final organization completed, according to an announcement today by M. N. Ho gan, general chairman, and Frank Hull, manager. The slogan "Be A Good Neighbor," was selected to be the keynote of the campaign which will be held October 9, 10 and It with the opening day, Wednesday, October, 0th, designated as "Community Chest Day." An entirely new plan for contribu tions was adopted by the committee, in which the employed of Medford and surrounding area will be asked to give one day's wages to the chost fund. It Is estimated by members of tho executive committee that the chest will go "over the top" this year if every employed person will "be a good neighbor" to' the extent of con tributing the earnings of Just one day to the welfare and relief of those in need. Plan Wide publicity The program of publicity, outlined by the committee comprising Lee Bishop, Moore Hamilton and Herb Grey, embodies the use of such media as newspapers, radio, billboards, the ater "trailers" and window cards to (Continued on Pago rhroe) 4 2 T IN TRUCK UPSET Two CCO men, Miio V. Flock and Harold A. Llthorland, who were In jured when the truck In which they were riding went over the grade In the Grecnprlng mountains Tuesday, were reported resting comfortably to day at Sacred Heart hospital, Both are suffering from Injured backs, and In addition Flock has a badly cut face. According to Information Just re leased from CCC headquarters, the truck was taking several enrolecs from Camp Clear Lake to Camp South Umpqua Falls. It was driven by Sellg Grubb. Grubb pulled over to the right of the road to let s car paM, got in loo so gravel, and in speeding up his motor to gt free of tnc gravel, shot across the road and over th? embankment. Lltherland and Flock were pinned under the machine as It went over. fehlKsIe TO RLEJRIEFS SALEM, Ore., Sept. 3fl.- (UP) Earl H. Fehl, ex-Jackson county Judge serving a penitentiary term for ballot theft, asked the supreme court yes terday through his Salem attorney, George A. Rhoten, to be allowed until November 1 to file briefs to dismiss his appeal from a cost bill. After Fehl's conviction in Klamath county the stats asked $S,094.fiO In costs. Fehl objected, and $1,133.10 was eliminated by the court. He ap pealed from that decision and the state moved for dismissal because Attorney Rhoten did not file a notice of appeal with Ralph E. Moody, as sistant attorney general and special prosecutor. Time EnJ,"sunday NEW YORK. Sept. 36, ( AP) Time will turn backward Sunday in com munities which have borrowed Mum mer sunshine by the daylight saving plan. In most eastern states and In some "f the midwest, clocks will be set (back an hour at 3 a. m. They were wt ahead April 38. SEN. LEWIS SUFFERS PNEUMONIA SPREAD MOSCOW, Sept. 20. V-Senator 3. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois suffered a relapse during the night, and his condition today gave rise to new ap prehension, the first sign of a spread full United fresi Donkey Mite Boxes To Catch Pennies of Democratic Ladies WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. (AP) The Democratic donkey has turned into a mite -bos bank for the women's division of the party. Hundreds of small metallic don keys, each with a slot Instead of a saddle, were being sent out from headquarters here tnday on the general theme that now Is the time for good pennies to come to Ud of their party. Mrs. James H. Wolfe, women's division chairman heading the drive, sent with each small donkey a pledge card: "I hereby promise to contribute to my woman's Democratic organi zation (one coin) each week for a year, aa a 'women's mite' to pro vide a fund to organise the women of my country, state, and nation, to back our president and his pro gram of a better life for the Amer ican people." ROOSEVELT LISTS WASHINGTON, Sept. 38. (AP) The White House announced today that President Roosevelt would make four speeches on his trip across the country beginning tonight, the first a brief farm talk at Fremont, Neb,, Saturday afternoon. The other set speeches will be at Boulder dam next Monday about noon; at Los Angeles In the Holly wood Bowl, a brief speech Tuesday afternoon; and at San Diego, Wed nesday afternoon. Stephen T. Early, a presidential secretary, in announcing the speech- making Itinerary, said the Boulder dam and San Diego addresses would be the main ones. He added the Fremont speech, lat est to be put on the Itinerary, would be a brief word of greeting, either from the train platform or a speak er's stand alongside the private car. The address there. It was announced, would bo Intended to Interest the farm states of the midwest. Topics Withheld The subjects of the other speeches were withheld, Howover, the one at Boulder dam Is expected to deal with a history of the long fight culminat ing In this huge flood control works on the Colorado river which Is being dedicated next Monday. Mrs. Roosevelt, who will accompany (Continued on Page rhree) 3 IS Mr. and Mri. H. L. McNlece of Oold Hill and George Cunningham of Med ford are In the Sacred Heart hospital today as the result of an auto crash IhMt tnllaa frnm nnlH til 11 ahnrtlw h. fore 0 o'clock last night. According to Mrs, McNlece. they were all three returning to Oold Hill from Medford, with Cunningham at the whe-tl. An oncoming car crowded them, and struck the rear end of their car, forcing It off the road, It turning over twice before coming to a stop. The other machine kept on going, Mrs. McNlece told hospital attaches. . The report from the hospital stated that Mrs. McNlece sustained several broken ribs, but that the two men suffered only bruises. The car was badly damaged. CHALKED UP BY SEALS SAN FRANCWCO, Sept, 38. (AP) Breeding along under the momen tum which carried them to victory In the second half of the spilt 103s season, the San Francisco Seals to day were within comfortable striking distance of their first Coast league baseball pennant since 1031. Manager "Lefty" ODoul's sluggers winning 75. made it two In a row over the Los Angeles Angels, first half winners, yesterday and needed but two more wins to cinch the title. Silver NEW YORK. Spt. 3a (AP- Bar MAIL TRIBUNE BARGAIN DAYS NOW No receipts will he Mtued at Bargain Ratrs after closing date. Better if urryl No. 160. IOWA ELECTED NATIONAL HEAD Convention Booes Patman, Author of Inflation Bill Vetoed by President Method Not Paramount CONVENTION HALL. St. Lout. Kept. 26. (AP) The seventeenth annual convention of the Ameri can Legion adjourned sine die at 3:15 p. m. here today. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 28 (AP) Ray Murphy, Ida Grove, Iowa, today was elected national commander oC the American Legion. Murphy was elected on the second ballot. Murphy, Tows stabs commissions of Insurance, during the post year was chairman of the Leg loo's na tional commission on Americanism. He had been chairman of Its national athletic commission and also a mero ber of Its executive board. An attorney, he graduated from Iowa State university in 1913. For short ttme after his graduation Ha practiced law at Metollus, Ore., but returned to his native city of Ids, Grove, Iowa, where h has since re sided. He served with the thirty-fourth division during the world war, seeing overseas service and attained .th rank of captain. By HOWARD W. FMEGEH Associated Press Staff Writer ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 33. (AP) Shouting approval, the national con ventton of the American Legion to day renewed its demand for lmmcdi ate cash payment of the soldiers' bo nus. Delegates and Legionnaires who packed the convention hall roared 4 unanimous vote in favor of a three paragraph resolution that scorned tha vetoed Patman bonus Inflation bill. Loud but brief discussion preceded: the action, featured by prolonged booes directed against Representative Wright Patman of Texas, author of the bonus Inflation bill vetoed by President Roosevelt at the last con gressional session. Finally Cheered Patman, ardent supporter of Infla tion of the currency as a means of payment of adjusted compensation certificates, finally won. cheers when he concluded a flve-mlnuto argu ment with the statement that tha method of payment whs secondary to the main Issue. The resolution, as Introduced and passed, follows: "Be It resolved: "1 We request Immediate cash payment of the adjusted service cer tificates at face value, with cancella tion of accrued Interest on loans, and refund of Interest paid, and do here- (Continued on Psse fores) Crater Lake and Klamath Christian Endeavor union will hold an officers' council at Anna Springs tomorrow night and Saturday. Walter Myers, state field secretary of the Christian Endeavor, will be the principal guest speaker at the assem bly. Other state officers will be pres ent, and a fine program Is promised by The 1 ma Parrlsh, Klamath Falls, who Is In charge of arrangements. AH members of Christian Endeavor groups In the union are Invited to attend, and are assured a pleasant outing as well aa an Interesting meeting. The council wilt open Friday eve ning at six-thirty with a potluck supper, followed by worship service. The Rev. A. C. Bates will address the group, and the evening will close with a bonfire and sing. Saturday, members will breakfast at eight, the rest of the day being spent In varied activities, including period conferences, a state program, an exec utive meeting, sports, forum, ides, exchange and other features. After an evening address and another bon fire, the council will close at eight thirty Saturday night. Income Shares MryUnd funding, bid tlt.92, iuk4 $16.30. Quarterly Income thutt. bid II. 4, twet as ronnirtna. v, 1
