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Convincing The most convincing argu ment In favor of classified ade In the Mall Tribune la In the use of them, m them prove tlili ilatement to you. A trial will convince. Thirtieth Year Full Associated Frese . MEDFOED, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1935 Full United Prese No. 228. crz i rnnfi The Weather Forecast : Cloud- tonight and Tuesday; little chance in temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday 4U Lowest ttils morning Z MEDFORDMTRiBUNE (ft 1 070 0 i J j. wmm E 9 Ry r.ml Mallnn Copyright, 1935, by Paul Mallon WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 You have heard diplomats um such language ait the top Now Deal set uaed here whn they first heard about the Anglo- Franch peace plan. They could any little openly. Strictly. It was none of their business. But they could be sued for libel In the world . court for what they thought, about John Bull. The m 1 1 d eat ru;L .MALLON idea they had was that the British Tory govern ment had blundered out of the great eat opportunity of a generation, to re store the predominant prestige of the British empire In world affairs. It might have meant war. they agree. But they consider war Inevitable any way (two years off at the most.) The proposed settlement seemed to bring war nearer by strengthening Mussolini's prestige, weakening that of the league and restoring the old tr??orTes 'upon,, which the pre-war secret agreemein, ""vac founded by Britain. Prance and ItAly for par titioning Ethiopia among those three powers. Peace-loving Premier Baldwin Is supposed to have agreed to it because he feared what Mussolini's great air fleet would do to Britain's ships In the Mediterranean, they say. Our na val authorities do not believe Musso lini's airmen are that good. Supreme court Justices apparently have not been closely following the progress of New-Deal law-making. At leaf-t one has not. After the court had listened to ar gument In the AAA processing tax cose the other day, It proceeded to hear the Bankhead cotton act case As all New Dealers know, the Bank- head act was not originally accept able to the New Deal because it in volved compulsion, as distinguished from the so-called voluntary AAA control of crop production. Consequently, some of their bright young lawyers eyed each other when Justice Von Devanter broke into tne Bankhead argument to ask a lawyer: "Is this part of the (AAA) act we Just considered? However, the Justices have certAin lv been reading the International news. Also during the Bankhead ar- i continued on Page Pour.) TUESDAY IS LAST FOR SHIPPING TURKS SOUTH PORTLAND. Dec. 16. (API Tur keys continued to be offered In rath er fair volume at leading Oreaon pro ducing points, and receipts here, likewise, were fair. Today and to morrow were the last scheduled days for acceptance for California Christ mas shipment. Thereafter the call will be local. The Portland delivered price for dressed turkeys today ranged from 23 to 25 cents a pound, and the live bird ranee was 17 to 31 cents. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mrs. Vie Tengwnld losing her hoc Willi trying to negotiate a curb, enroute to the office wltn friend husband this morning. nd he laughingly sensing her of re vering the old Nipponese custom of removing the shoe before enter ing the home. Mr. snd Mrs. Ben Day pondering Vne suggestion they rename their hupe Great. Dane hound "Flfl." At the present time the hulking brute daggers about under the nom-de-plume of "Princess." Various pedesfrlans admiringly watching the gigantic feet of "Kill er" Shlkuma as he wended his way about town with Mack Ullard. Several Inspecting T. E "Dan" Daniels' new hand-mnde Ham ley saddle. Just delivered frcm Pendie-f-n and wishing they wre horses ihry could wear such sp'.endor Bud Hayes, Jackon county's Chick Sale marching about the city wltn ?n mfprewlve atr. And, ajthoueh It ha no slenif i canre, Bud brother Dnn marrr-ln? Riirj behind him wh!s a uiue bird cj,e c'.utched in one hind. 0 J; DATE SELECTION YET TO BE BY COMMITTEE Vote Shows Cleveland 54; Chicago 39; Kansas City 6 All Had Guaranteed $150,000 for Designation By Richard Re ml ell Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. (Re publicans chose Cleveland today for next year's party convention to nom inate a 1936 presidential candidate. The decision was made by the na tional committee. The vote of the 99 members of the national committee was: Cleveland 54; Chicago 39; and Kansas City 6. The selection was made by a secret ballot In place of the customary roll call vote Climate Praised Committee members had heard claims from Cleveland spokesmen that the city, site of the 1924 conven tion which nominated Calvin Cool ldge, had an auditorium seating 15, 500 and that the climate, tempered by Lake Erie breezes, would be more suitable than that of other American cities. The case for Cleveland Included ft guarantee of 1150.000. It was present ed by Mayor Harold H. Burton. Rep resentative Chester C. Bolton. Com mitteeman Walter Brown, former postmaster general; Joseph R. Nutt. (Continued on Page Plve) CHINESE STUDENTS PROTEST JAP ACTS (Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press) PEIPINO, Dec. 17. (Tuesday) Chinese sources reported tonight 60 student demonstrators, protesting "Japanese aggression," were Injured when 1.000 students clashed with po lice. Swords, butts of guns and firehose were used by the police in breaking up the outbreak, the most serious since Sino-Jnpanese tension recently increased, it was stated. Lieut. CoL Tan Taknhashl. Japan ese military attache at Pelplng, warned Mayor Chin Teh-Chun that continuation of the student rioting would constitute a violation of Mie Slno-Japanese understanding of last June and must be halted. With the gates of tho city locked, several thousand student demonstra tors were marooned for the night In side the city, unable to return to their universities. They shouted anti Jnpanese slogans in the bitter cold night. The students, defying police clubs, warning volleys of rifle fire and streams from fire hoses, had stormed through Hslpienmen gateway earlier in the day. SPINSTER USES THE DALLES, Ore.. Dae. 16 (Pi Miss Willie Jne Alden, about 45, was held In Jail here today Ln connection with a. hammer attar on her mother. Mrs Mary J.me Alden. 85 years old At the hospital It was said Mrs. Al den. though ln a serious condition from head Injuries, probably will re cover. Sheriff Harold Sexton said a annlty commission will examine the spinster daughter. Hoover Repeats Denial Of Plans for Candidacy ST. LOUIS. Dec. 19. ( AP) Tnls being Monday, former president Her bert Hoover gave his usual Monday answer today to the question of whether he was ready to make an announcement regarding hla candi dacy or refusal to be a candidate In the 1M presidential election. ; "I have noticed." he said, "that ; every Monday I have to answer that question and my answer Is. as It was , Inst Monday and the Monday befote. .that my sole interest is In placing the 1 issties clearly before the Amiican t pecple. The Issues, in my view, are the prratr.t that hBe rfitifrrn;tec! our ; - .,-; in m.tav years " t The titular head of the n-p.irli an (party arrived here at 8.30 aja, from Scion of- Wealthy Family Feared Snatch M M e WOMAN TELLS STORY OF SLAY1NGS In the roll of accuser and accused, Mrs, Peggy Pernios on tho wit ness stand In Port Orchard, Wash., telling her story of the slaying of six persons at Erland'e Point In March, 1934. She was tried on first degree murder charges with Leo Halt, Mrs. Pouloa accused Hall of the killing! when questioned by her attorney, Ralph Horr (right). (Associated Press Photo) MAY CLEAR PATH FORMURDER TRIAL SALEM. Dec. 16. (Spl.) Governor Martln Is expected to grant a pardon to Glenn Stringer. 23-year-old Med- ford youth serrir.g a term ln the state prison here, so that he can be taken to Vancouver. Wash., to fflce a murder charge. Stringer Is said to have confessed his part In the murder of Herbert Caples, Vancouver candy salesman, when confronted by Washington state police officials at the prison here De cember 4. Caples was killed March 11. 1934. Stringer served a term In the boys' training school several years ago. No new developments were reported today by the district attorney, In the confession of Glenn Stringer, 33. local youth, serving three and one-half years in state prison, for burglaries committed here. In which he Impli cated himself and Ralph Tremslne, also of this city. In the slaying of a (Continued on Page rbree) FOUR KILLED By RELIEF WORKER LOS ANOELE8. Dec. 16. (AP) A discharged federal relief worker turned a .30-. 30 rifle on the ranks of his former companiona today, killing four and wounding four. Much of the "Morocco leather" goods on European market comes from Kano, a city In Northern Ni geria, British West Africa. his California home to make the third In his series of addresses at tacking the New De Hi. He will speak tonight at a dinner of the John Marshall Republican club and It was Indicated he will deal with the administration's relief policies. Hoover said there had been re sponses, "most of them in the nature of approval." to his two previous anti-administration adrf-ewee dr llv-i ered at Oakland, Cel.. October 5. and in New York. November 18. He declined to talk of the pros- pecta of the AAA or other specific !- sues. but nodded affirmatively when it was sugeested the farm prostram. row before the supreme court, mWht Mrni&h material for bla fourth ad i ores. : Sri T IN SNOW OF PARK Losing their direction while at- tempting to ski from the lodge to headquarters ln Crater Lake national park, Raymond Erlckson, 17. and Jack Hamilton, 14. of Medford were lost yesterday from 3:30 In the afternoon until 10:30 last evening when found by park rangers. Tho boys suffered no ill effects from their experience and were homo today. They were resting when found by the rangers. Erlckson and Hnmilton were In the park yesterday Indulging ln snow sports In connection with activities of the Rogue Snowmen, locnl winter sports organization. They had been skiing In the vicinity of the lodge when they decided to ski to park headquarters about a mile distant. They sklled around a hill to avoid climbing over It and ln so doing be pan a cross-country trip in the wrong direction. The boys were not missed until some time later. When their plight was reported, park rangers under J. W. Montgomery began an Immediate search, basing the direction of the cContlnued on Page Two) BY The California Oregon Power com pany today presented a check to the tax collection department of the sheriff's ofDce for 30,659.O8. tta fourth quarter payment of cur rent tanes. Due to the fact that December 15. the final date for qunrterly pay ments, fell on Sunday, paymrnta were received today by the tax col lection department. Chief Clerk lrnlce Jennings of the tax collection department, re ported todav that payment a botn on delinquent taxes and on current taxes were "very good." OE GETS HEARING TONIGHT Charge of "careleane and Inef ficiency" against J. Q Adurrw, Ah- pubMe h,nrln(E ton th clty coun. ci, tonight. httJr7 wa orlzlnally set for !Mt Thursday but waa postponed be- CRUW of the ,.,. nJ Mr AAm. . 4 Several companies hating bin'ci. r.a -I In Ottawa, Ksa.. r'-enty toor ut I earthquake Insurance policies. FIND THELMA TODD DEAD IN CAR CAUSE OF DEATH Blood On Mouth And Nose But No Immediate Evi-i dence Of Foul Play Last Seen Saturday Evening LOS ANGELES, Caiif., Dec. 16. (AP) Thelm Todd, blonde screen actress, was found dead today In her automobile ln the garage of her Sea side residence. Detective Lieutenant A. S. Roeelll of the. West Los Angeles detail said there was blood at the mouth and nose, but there was no Immediate evidence of foul play. The county coroner was summoned and police said that a thorough ex amination would be made. Miss Todd was clad In a fur coat and had on a pink party dress. Her body was slumped back tn tho front seat of the automobile. Police said Mlas Todd was last seen Saturday night at a party at a fashionable Hollywood cafe (Troca- ucfO) , Capt. Bruce Clark ln charge of the West Los Angeles police said there was no evidence of murder. Mlsa Todd' bom Is several miles north of Santa Monica on the Coast highway, and close by a cafe In which she Is co-partner. The cafe Is popular with motion picture celeto rltiea. The automobile In which Miss Tbdda body was found was pointed outward, and the windows were open. The garage door was also partially open, aald police In discounting the possibility of carbon monoxide poi soning. 16 CARS OF FRUIT IM SPECIAL TRAIN A special train of 18 cars of ap ples and pears, destined for export, was dispatched to Portland last week by local packing houses. It was the largest shipment in several wceKS, Southern Pacific freight officials re ported. Pear and apple shipments rrom this section up to Sunday night total 2.086 cara and consisted 1.293 cars of packed pears, 618 cars of cannery peara and 178 cara ot apples. Apple shipments to date nave been fairly brisk, the present total of car shipments, exceeding those of the past two years. Pears have been moving at the rate of about five cars per day. Shipments are expected to lull during the Christmas holiday season and resume after the first of the year. HELD IDENTIFIED MINNEAPOLIS, Dec 16. (AP) Peter B. Nellson, assitant county at torney, today announced Wesley Andersen had Identified Isadora (Kid Cann Blumfeld as the slayer of Wal ter Liggett, weekly newspaper pub lisher. Almost simultaneously the Minne apolis Tribune said the Identification waa made, In a statement given the state's attorney general' office by Andersch shortly after he returned tc Minneapolis from a distant town In the state where he had been ln hid ing. Mrs. Liggett previously had posi tively Identified the Kid as her hus band's slayer. CHURCH PARSONAGES NOT EXEMPT TAXATION SALEM, Dec. 16. (API A parson age, owned snd maintained by a church as a home fnr Its pastor, Is not eiempt from taxation a part of the church property, Attorney Gen eral I. H, Van Wlnfcle ruled today. The opinion wns requited oy Dis trict Attorney Willie Went erf Clatsop county. Barbara Provides Yule Party Fund For Poor Kiddies NEW YORK. Dec. 18. (flV-Ed Sullivan wrote in his Broadway col um n In the New y or k Da 1 1 y News today that Countess Haug wit Reventlow, the former Bar bara Hutton, waa sending him S. 000 to provide chrlstmns dinners for 13,000 poor children. "I got such a wonderful thrill from tho party you arranged last year." Sullivan said the Countess told him over the trans-Atlantic telephone, "that I want you to run it again this Christmas. It will make me feel loss homesick, too." REST STALE CASE T COURTHOUSE, Port Orchard, Wn.. Dec. 16. (AP) The atate rested Ita case shortly after 11 a. m. today against Leo Hall and Peggy Peterson Pauloe, on trial for ftrst degree mur der ln the Erland's Point mass mur ders. The court denied defense mo tions for dismissal of the charges. Everett O. Butts, defending Hall, asked for a dismissal on the grounds the testimony of MrsPaulos, Hall's accuser, "was Incredible," and other evidence was Insufficient to send the case to the Jury. Rntph A. Horr. counsel for Mrs Paulos. sought dismissal of charges against her on the grounds there "was nothing to contradict" her tes timony 'that ahe acted under Hall's duress when she wont with him to rob the Prank Flleder cottage at the Point the night of March 28. 1934. Horr contended also that Mrs. (Continued on Page rbree) ABDUCTORS FREE HAVANA. Dec. 18. (AP) Nicolas Castano, millionaire, who was kid nnied a week ago and held for 9600, 000 ransom, was found alive today by the Cuban army. Details of enstano'e recovery or whether the huge ransom had been paid were not Immediately available. Police believed the kidnaping was ntnged by leftist revolutionary groups. Thousands of men had been thrown into a search for the wealthy snatch victim. Including the national army, navy and police. Army headquarters announced sol diers had found Castano and his chauffeur bidden In a house near the town of Santiago de Laa Vegas, on the outskirts of Havana. Two men guarding the prisoners were arrested, it was stated. Income Shares Maryland Funding, bid 17.38; adked IB flfl. Quarterly Income share, bid 1.46; aiiked 1.60. Townsendism Main Issue In Michigan Tomorrow BATTLE CHEEK, Mich., Doc. 16. (UP) Vote-appeal of the Town send old age pension plan will Be determined here Tuesday when MlrhUran'a third congressional elec troate goes to the polls. Two candidates, both of them lo cal attorneys, seek the congressional seat left vseent by the death of Representative Henry M. KlmhaTl. Republican. The Townsend plan. .ortn . mnnlh tsi everv person over 60 years of age, has been the only Issue of the cam paign. Vernor W. Main. Republican can didate and sponsor of the Townsend plan, won an overwhelming victory ln the primary and haa supported and been supported by the plan and Its ponors. Howard Vavanagh. Democrat, de nounced the plan as -extreme," I FESSION ON RANSOM PHASE Accused Carpenter And Isador Fisch Entered Pic ture After Kidnaping Of Lindbergh Baby Is Claim. TRENTON, N. J Deo. 14. (AP) Governor Harold O. Hoffman and Col. Mark O. Klmberllng, principal keeper at atate prison, denied pub lished reports today that Bruno Richard Hauptmann had confessed he and Isador Fisch collected the $50,000 Lindbergh ransom. The governor said, "I never heard of any such thing." and Col, Klm berllng aald emphatically, "There has been no confession of any kind." NEW YORK. Dec. 1. fP) The New York Evening Post aald today ln a copyrighted story that Bruno Richard Hauptmann "haa confessed that he and Isador Fisch collected the $50,000 ransom money for the Lindbergh baby." The Post said It obtained Its Infor mation "from sources so authoritative that they can not be Ignored. ' Hauptmann, the Poet said, still In sists that he had no connection with the actual kidnaping ot the Infant, but that he and Fisch. furrier who died ln Germany, entered the picture after the abduction and extorted the ransom money. Official confirmation of the alleged confession was not obtainable. The Post said: "Men close to Governor Hoffman ln no way expect him on the basis of what Hauptmann has told so far, to Intervene ln the condemned man's behalf. There la no disposition on the governor's part, it la believed, to re gard Hauptmann'a death house state ments as any more than a hopeful prelude to a much-sought full con fession." ' EXTRAS PUT ON TO A renl Clrriatma ruah waa noted at the Mrdtord poatoftlee today aa clerks quickly a sorted large piles of gift packages accumulated over tne week-end. Volume of Christmas mall exceeds that of a year ago, said Postmaster Frank DrSourA, and the heaviest traffic In years Is anticipated. Two substitute parcel post carriers were added to the postofflce staff to day to help handle the heavy mall. Last year no extra help waa employee, until a week before Christmas, Mr. Do.Sou.a said. The additional em. ployes are selected from an eligible list prepared In Washington and no one la employed at the local omce Mr. DeSouie explained. To accommodate the publlo the nostofflre and the aub-statlon will remain open until 9 p. m. next Sat urday. MANILA, Deo. 16. (AP) Com mercial trans-Pacino flying beoame routine today with the piuetaely-on-schedule arrival of the Philippine Clipper and her air mall cargo at 3:84 p. m., (11:64 p. m.. Sunday. Pacific standard time). favoring milder new deal pollct but refused to allow criticism the new deal to enter the cam paign. "The Issue." he Insisted, wls Town sendism and only that." Meanwhile Republicans, faced with the dilemna of supporting the Townsend plan or an out-and-out Democrat, have lent their support to Main but refused to take a stand In favor of the Townsend Issue. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg prominently mentioned aa a po' stble Republican presidential candl date, promised radio broadcast aid for Main but later left for Wash ington on ''Important legislative business." Oovernor Prank D, FltTjgerald grudgingly accepted old age pen sions "in principle" but made 1- elenr he would not aupport any thing like the Townsend pUo. Victim NOTE DECLARES CALEB J. MILNE HELD FORRANSOM G-Men Join New York Po lice In Search Note That Grandfather III Lures Young Man Into Trap. NEW YORK, Dee. lfl (AP) Spur red on by a tailor's story and the growing belief or relatives that Caleb J. Milne, 4th, had been kidnaped for ransom, officials Intensified their search today for the mvsterlouslv missing 24 year old scion of one ot Philadelphia's first families. The youth's grandfather, Caleb 1. Milne, Jr., retired textile magnate, reluctantly agreed with the kidnap theory. He had previously scoffed at abduction reports. WTille federal G-Men Joined New York state's "Scotland Yard" In the search for the handsome young actor, J. Sen warts, whose tailor shop M across the street from the modeet 'Murray Hill apartment of Caleb and his brother, Frederic, told how a strange man accosted them last Mon day night. Ransom Note Received It was to Frederic that a "ransom" note Indicating Caleb was kidnaped when he disappeared Saturday night, was addressed "Your brother he Isn't ln Philadel phia, we got him out In the country," the lettor postmarked Poughkeepsle, N. Y., said, "but he will be returned living If you will follow the letter we will send you. . "Available cash must come from New York. Keep ln touch with your grandfather and phone. The letters will be signed Zwttler." The note was written In newspaper type pasted on brown wrapping paper. It waa wrapped around a, Christmas card of the ten cent type showing a man and a woman ln a (Continued on Pese Three) TWO SLUGGED B! T ASSAILANT An unidentified assailant started a miniature "reign of terror" here late Saturday night and early Sunday morning when he slugged two Med ford men over the head, but fled without taking any loot, city police disclosed today. S. P. Akers, 60. who Uvea at All South Central street, reported to po lice that a man had hit him over the head with a hard object, knocking him down but not unconscious, after which the man turned and ran. Two hours later Tom "Tony" Seno- denoe waa also slugged on the head by an assrillant near Huson's confec tionery store at Main and Oakdale streets, he told city police. Senodenoa told police that after he went down after the blow, he grabbed the tnan'a leg, but hla attacker broke free and escaped without loot. It was neces sary to take three stitches ln Seno denoa scalp. In both easea the assail ant was bareheaded, and described as man of medium build, police are working on the theory that one men made both assaults. JOHNSON LASHES TOWNSEND PLAN VZXVT.n, Dec. 16. (API OemeraJ Hiyrh 8. Johnson, former ffRA head, lashed the Townsend old ftfe pension plan and public officials who sup port It. He said conorressinen arid other who promise their approval for the plan, "even though they know It won't work." are guilty of "unforgiv able cowardice." Johnson asked "where art we go ing?" He continued by saying: "The republicans can't tell us: the demo crats won't tell us." OKSYSWTA-IWOMTWA SHOPPlHGOMS-
