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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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."
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