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V 4XT The Weather Forecast: Unsettled and Might ly colder tonlfht; cloud; Saturday. TEMPERATl'RB Highest yesterday 4!) j Lowest this morning . S9 They Get Results! A pleasing fact about Mat Tri bune cla&sltted adf If that practically every reader of this newspaper reads these adv That U why ads get results. Medford Tribune Thirtieth Year Full Associated Press MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMB 27, 1933. Fun United Press No. 237. nrn K Tfl 1V1 By PALL MALLON Copyright. 1935. By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. It was not apparent on the surface of the recent TV A arguments before the su preme court, but the new deal pro gram was Jockey- rrr"5! ed farther baclc InU) an embar rassing technic al position. To an outsider It may be amaz ing, but govern ment counsel had to concede that all the federal "yardstick" pow er projects are unconstitutional, as such. Both UjL mallon Solicitor Reed and Special Counsel O'Brlan ad mitted the projects must be for the purpose of navigation, national de fense or flood control, else they arc Illegal. The development of power can bo only Incidental. This puts the shoe on the opposite foot. Messrs. Roosevelt, Norrls and congress have been bearing down on the other one publicly. Their state ments have placed greatest weight on the power angle, with Incidental pressure. If any, upon navigation, na tional defense and flood control. ( This misfit of the right foot In the left shoe and vice versa may not cause much legal toe torture as far as the TV A Is concerned, but the new deal lawyers are wondering what they will say when some of the other fed eral power projects come before the court. v ' In the TV A case, the government was able to show that Muscle Shoals was built dudlng the war as a na tional defense nitiate project, which was, at least, an argument for TVA. But TVA la the only one of the various projects started on that ground. A feminine federal official who re cently visited Kansas will not be sent out there again next year as a cam paign speaker. It was not so much what she said In her speech, but her "off the record" remarks, that slaycd. (Continued on Page Ten) Woman Loses Life On Alaska Beach KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 37. (P) The arrival of the U. S. coast guard cutter Cyane here today brought to lleht the details of a Christmas eve tragedy in which Viola Monroe, native of Astoria, Ore., perished and William McHale, 50, formerly of Sv erett, Wash., nearly lost hla life. The woman died on a beach from exposure. She and her companion warn to an Island after McHale 'a yoa boat struck a, submerged object end aank Tuesday night In Bchm canal near here. BOY WHO KILLED PAL CLEARED BY READING NEW YORK, Dec. -27 (UP) A 13-year-old boy who killed a Pa rnate last (all with an Iron bar. was discharged today by Justice Jacob Panken In Bronx children's court alter the lad had read and submitted written reviews ol tour books as signed by the magistrate. Panken aid the boy waa a "splendid youngs ter," for whom probation no longer waa necessary. The books: Utopia. Connecticut Yankee. Adam Bede and It's Never Too late to Mend. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS t-v.ar Mrriwtif looking critically on while Bawb Smith deftly sprayed bed bugs In the city klink with a squirt gun, causing them to turn up their heels with alacrity. Ethel Houston the center of an admiring throng of spectators ex amining her new engagement ring from Ward Howell. Ashland football star now brushing up on his cddl eatton at the U. Forrest Harrison bashfully trying to hide a splendid b:ack eye from his cronies, but not trying to tell them a piece of kindling flew up and hit him. His story Is that H was a tightly rolled n:-pper. Sonsmontor Jean Eberhart paring over the lut of hiA basketball Pay ers. i:nd pondering the visrlwltudes of b:ng .Soiurnentor, and outlining hl b.n. campaign. Dan Herring wondering w.jat - he could do wit:i lour or five fairly cood Milts that he wants to get rid of. Two packages for Mr. and Mrs. Dean P::er finding their way into he M T office, causing concern a -ticn p.n - m! imuk ihcir owners don't get them. 5-PQINT PROGRAM F0RL.0FN.PARLEY Withdrawal Italian Troops First Item Payment of Indemnity by Italy Is Also Factor in Plan (Copyright, 1935. by the Associated Press) MASAI A, Eritrea. Dec. 27. An Italian Red sea fleet, the most powerful Italy ever has concen trated In these waters, Just has completed maneuvers designed to prepare for "any eventuality," It was learned tonight. Col. Pedro Del Valle, or the Untied States marine corps and an American naval atari. e at Home, said the maneuvers were carried out with a high degree of efficiency. Colonel Del Valle has been acting as a neutral military observer In East Africa. ROME. Dec. 37. (AP) Italy was reliably reported tonight to have called out 4.200 new recruits, for her air service. More than 1.000 of these spe cialists were sold to be machine gunners. ADDIS ABABA. Dec. 27. P) Re liable sources disclosed today the Ethiopian delegation to the league ot nations has been authorized to dis cuss peace. The basis on which the delegation was authorized to talk of a settle ment of the Italo-Ethioplan war was said to be a program involving the following five points: 1. Withdrawal of Italian troops from Ethiopia. 2. Recognition of Ethiopia's sov ereignity. 3. Payment of an Indemnity by Italy. 4. Delimitation of the boundaries between Ethiopia and the Italian colo nies In east Africa, by a league of na tions commission. 6. Agreement by Emperor Halle Se lassie that Ethiopia would seek for eign economic, administrative and fi nancial assistance and advice, but that Italian Influence would not be permitted. It was officially denied, however, that the emperor was offering peace terms or that he had agreed to the points outlined. It was stated the emperor Insisted first on Italian withdrawal from Ethi opia. MAHONEY VETOES KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 27. P) Veto of the ordinances passed by the city council granting a franchise to the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company came as a surprise move from Mayor Willis E. Mahonry. Mahoney sent .the ordinance back with a veto message assailing the telephone company for opposing In court rate reductions ordered two years ago by the public utilities com missioner. The ardinonce. passed unanimous ly by the council, would have given the company a franchise for 12 years. It now must have the vote of four out of the five councilmen to stand The previous franchise expired in August, Included In the proposed franchise provisions was a 3 per cent tax. "Until such time as the Pacific Telephone company compiles with the order of the utilities commissioner to reduce telephone rates In Klam ath FbIIs. I cannot and will not ap prove any franchise," said Mahoney's statement. Women and Make Best By Ruth Cowan Associated Press Staff Writer CHICAGO. Dec. 27 Women apparently make betfr air travelers than do men. This information showed up today in a study of the needs and attitudes of air passeneers made by a large airline 'The American Airlines) in establishing a "ground school" where its 75 stewardesses are taught applied psychology, some home economics and aviation rudiments. Some of the things the company learned Bbout Its clients, paid New ton WU?on, instructor, and S'eARrd esses Grace Hall of Milwaukee. Wis., who has flown nearly 600.000 miles, and Ruth Phelan of Iowa City. la., with 400.000 miles In the sir. were: Women flying the first' time relax "quicker than men ftr.t-Tliehtera. j Women tftke bad weather calmer j than do men. Actor, YOUNG 'NBfcKE LEAVES HOSPITAL Caleb J. Milne IV (left), leaving the Doyleatown, Pa., hospital with a federal agent. The victim of kidnapers, Milne waa tossed into the roadside. He waa hurried away by government men to an undisclosed destination. (Associated Press Photo) LAVAL EXPLAINS PEACE EFFORTS, (Copyright, ll)3.-i. by the Associated Press) PARIS. Dec. 27. (Pi Premier La val. staking the life of his govern ment on his explanation of his efforts to settle the Italo-Ethloplan conflict, told the chamber of deputies today he had been Informed Italy would consider an oil embargo "an act Im plying war against Italy." Enunciating his policy of further efforts to settle the conflict and avert a European war. Laval Indicated he opposed further sanctions against Italy by asking who could guarantee that such sanctions "would not run the risk of spreading the conflict." He promised wholehearted aid to Great Britain, however, In fighting off any Italian attack which might result from enforcement of sanctions. Laval's speech was regarded In the chamber of deputies lobbies as vir tually assuring him of a narrow but safe vote of confidence on his for. elgn policy tomorrow. (Continued on Page foul.) SHIPMEl'ITRUIT ILL Despite the holiday lull, fruit shipment from the Rogue River valley for the season will pass the new year, well over the 3000 car mark, according to Southern Pacific freight figures. Total fruit ship ments up to last night were 213" card, divided as follows: racked pears 1.3.11 cars Cannery pears 616 cars Apples 183 cars Fat People Air Travelers Women . generally obey Instructions better. Women are more eareful where they put cigarette ashes. Men demand more service and at tention than do women. Men ask more questions. Men get restless quicker than wo men. Male epicures are more fussy about the menu than women on a diet. Women. If air sick (company's lat est records showed only 50 passeng ers out of 21,000 got airsick), take It less seriously than men and they take something to settle their turn miev even if it dors "ute awful." with less squirming than men. In general, the company learned: "Well-upholstered folks make bet- ter air travelers than tall, lean and riervou types. I "Children and gray-heads set the biaUst thrill out of flying and make I the beat pst-ngcrm' Wrestler Shed Light on CIA STUDENTS FORCED TO HALT TOKYO. Dec. 27. P) A govern ment spokesman ha id today Japanese consular reports reaching the foreign office charged that missionary schools under American and British Influ ence were talcing a leading part In the present Chinese student agitation against Japan. This was a noteworthy feature of the current wave of antl-Japanltm In China, the spokesman asserted, be cause mission schools had remained passive in previous student agitation. SHANGHAI, Dec. 27. fP) Two thousand Chinese students halted their "advance on Nanking" In commandecered train when they were 70 miles from their goal today. Threatened by the government with stern measures, they gave up their attempt to reach the capital, wh lc h waa p 1 a nncd as a p ro t est against Japanese "aggression" and the movement for north China autonomy. Many started for Shanghai In bit ter weather which sent scores back to their homes suffering from ex posure. Their decision onded a five-day rail way tteup, which the government had attempted to terminate by sending (Continued on Page Plve) OF KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 27 ( AP) A binnket of slushy snow ay over the Klamath baln today, two days too late for the promised "white Christmas." Highway plows were busy in the mountain sections, with all main roads open except for Crater Lake highway from Government Camp to the rim. Four Inches of new snow was re ported on Grecnsprlngs highway, with traveling particularly hazard ous be teen Hayden mountain and Klamath rails. Sun mountain, on The Dalles-California highway, had an elght-lnen blanket, and there wss more than half a foot of new snow at Crater lake, CARL BEESON HOME BURNED IN TALENT TM.ENT. Dee. 27, (Spl 1 ChrUt maa morning the rridrne of Carl Beeaon was completely destroyed Dy fire of undetermined origin. The house waa one of the old landmarks of Talent and had Just been remod eled. Practically all the household fOo6h were waved. Ttrf Ashland f'.re department was cailfd nd rendered n.Jta tA. TO DEFEND PLAN IN PUBUCJIEBATE California Crusader, Or ganized to Fight 'Crack pot Legislation,' Issue Challenge Pension Father SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 27. (UP) The California Crusaders, non-partisan organization pledged to fight against "crackpot legislation." nas challenged Dr. P. E. Townsend to de fend his old age pension plan on the debate platform. Samuel J. Hume. San rranclaco re gional director of the orgsnlr&tlon, was chosen to meet the tall, bespec tacled "leaders of millions" If the de bate Is arranged. Challenge Issued. . In a formal challenge to Dr. Town- send, who would return prosperity and security to the nation by paying every citizen over 60 yers of age $200 a month, the Crusadera "offer ed to debate the plan's merit at any time, any place In California." The Crusaders f-jinounced that "after exhaustive study of the Town send plan by the research, and Intel ligence council j we are convinced that your progmm. If put In operation, would result In economic disaster for the nation." "In order that the Townsend plan and all that it Implies may be brought fairly before the public, the Cali fornia Crusaders challenge you to de bato this question at any time end any place- an California, you will name." 1 They declared they were In sym pathy with "any workable proposal which will bring security to the aged, but were directly opposed to the Townsend plan. Held Non-Feasible. "Non-feaslblltty" was given as she Crusaders' principal objection to the Townsend plan. "What we want to know." the Cru saders, through Henry U. Chacc, sec retary of the executive committee, asked, "is how the proposed $200 ai Continued on Page Pour.) TO START FOR PRISON Order on commitment of George A. High and Robert N. (Babe) High, brothers, and residents of Ashland, under a four and one-half year sen tence In state prison for setting fire to the Balfour-Guthrie barn near Ashland, for the purposo of defraund Ing an Insurance company, will bo Is. sued this afternoon, the district at torney announced this morning. Advices received from ealem stated the supreme court mandate affirm ing their conviction was mallvd Thursday afternoon. The commitment papers will be placed In tho hands of the sheriff and the High brothers probably tak en to the state penitentiary Saturday or Sunday. Last week George High, with At torney W. M. Brlggs of Ashland, made a plea to the court for leniency, which was denied. Last Wednesday. George High voluntarily surrendered to the county Jailer and Joined his brother who has been Incarcerated since last July. George High was ac companied to the Jail door by his mother. ' Joe B. Holland of Astoria, confessor of the arson plot. Is on parole, and Theron (Red l Martin, an accomplice Is In state prison. The High's were convicted and sen tenced last March, after a aensatlonal trial. New Currency In Western Pockets SAN PRANCISCO, Dee. 37. (API More than S.ono,000 of additional federal reserve :.otes went Into elr culatlon In the far west during the week preceding Christmas. The re serve bank here reported today the rlrrulatlon on December 24 was 285.940 000. The rurrent figure compared with ?H0 197000 a week earlier, and 1214 10.1 000 a ysr ago. The lu cres.. fmm Inst year was about 33 per rent. BPRINOFIKI.D. III., Dee. 27. (UP) Dana Stewart. 14. Peoria count7. won the state spelling championship Ktay though he misspelled three out of 200 words. The wo.-ds he miMd were: emollient, magnctle snd Jeremiad. TO IfJSTILL HOPE Chancellor Hunter Says j Hopelessness Greatestj Tragdy Youthful Think-! ing Hits Sophistries PORTLAND. Ore.. Dec. 27. (,T) Dr. Frederick Maurice Hunter, chan cellor of Oregon's system of higher education, told 1.000 teachers today' that one of the g rentes t tragedies is the hopelessness In the thinking of American youth. This hopelessness as they face the future, Dr. Hunter said. Is the re sult of the welter of , sophistries. newly-born doctrines and theories which are thrust upon young men and women from every side. Must Point Constants The Oregon chancellor said such hopelessness must be fought by point ing out to youth the basic and per manent constants of life and society. These, constants, he said are God, the family, patriotism, the ownership of private property, education and the love of liberty. Dr. Hunter, former chancellor of University of Denver, said "we hoar so much of state socialism and other things that we begin to consider It old-fashioned to remind ourselves of freedom of the press, freedom of speech snd the other guarantees of liberty we won long ago," "American youth should be the most hopeful, In looking at the fu ture, of all youth groups of the world," Dr. Hunter said, "by reason of the peculiar Inheritance and tra dition. But It la this selfsame habit of freedom that Is youth's undoing. Sophistries lilt "A welter of sophistries Is thrust upon his consciousness as ho envis ions his future and weighs his op portunities .for a creative and satis fying career. His thought processes are blurred and chaotic as he weighs (Continued on Page Seven) BEAlGUPlFE BRINGS $50 FINE Prank Norman, 29, a meat cutter at the CCC headquarters detachment, waa this morning fined $50 and costs In Justice court on a charge of as sault and battery. The complaint was signed by Helen Norman, his wife. Norman was arrested by city police last night at the Norman apartment. According to the police bulletin, he had been drinking, and had been beating his wife, after a family dlf ferencc that had lasted for several days. Justice of the Peace William Fl. Coleman, before whom the case was heard, ordered that 25'of the fino might be suspended pending the settling of property between Norman and his wife. $268,000 Tax Paid On Estate of Ayer SALEM, Dec. 27. ( AP) The state treasurer yesterday collected the largest Inheritance tax ever received by the state of Oregon B2fi8.ouu from the estate of the late W. B Aver of Portland. The estate waa reported to have pnid an additional federnl lnheri tance tax of $300,000, The (rrosa value of the property was placed at $2,300,000. Late Christmas Buying Rounds Out Fine Season NEW YORK. Dec. 27. AV-An un expected rush of late Christmas buy ing, aided- by the cold wave, helped the majority of retallera to end the most Batifa.:tory holiday season In five years, Dun At Bradstreet, Inc. said today. "From s week earlier volume ex panded 10 to 30 percent, while the comparative 1934 total was exceeded hy an estimated ranc of 12 to 2.1 percent.' the survey snld. "The distribution of bonuses, dou ble salary checks, unexpected bank payolfs. snd the heaviest holiday travel in ywrs brought a freedom of Christmas spending tMt ha hyn unmatched flnce IP'JO. the volume of retail sales vfndln the totals lor Todd Mystery Meanest Thieves Steal Wood Given To L&C&1 Woman Red Cross officials and workers are figuring on a way to catch the meanest thief, who has shown up In thlc vicinity In a long time. Miscreants have been stealing wood from a middle-aged woman, almost as fast as the Red Cross can bring It to her. Two tiers brought to her home Just before Christmas were stolen In a night. The woman has been making her own way by thrift and her own labor, but found It necessary to ask the Red Cross to furnish wcod, which that agency did. Then the vandals came In the night and mado off with most of the meagre store, while the owner slept. Another supply ot wood to last through the holidays was furnish ed. As yet It has not been taken by marauders. TO L GRIP OF COLO CHICAGO. Dec. 27. (AP) A new snow carpet rolled out of the north west today carrying warmer weather for a frost-bitten nation. It vna duo to whiten the same path In which zero chill dealt death directly or indirectly to at least 212 persons In the last two days. All but four states Washington, Oregon. California and Nevada shivered under freezing temperatures when the snow wave began winging eastward. . Snow fell In North Dakota, Min nesota, western Kansas and Iowa Temperatures moderated In the northern great plains. By nightfall snow was expected to cover the mid west and east. The number of deaths continued to mount. Eight more were added to the list of exposure victims, four In Illinois, three In Pennsylvania, and one In North Carolina, boosting the total to 03, A fourth person died from burns In a CCO camp fire at Waterbury, Vt. Trafflo deaths rose to 87 with a new accident in Mich Igan. Snowdrifts and Ice still Isolated some communities. Orcat South Bay, along tho southern edge of Long la- land, N. Y., was frozen over for the third time In fifteen years and coast guardsmen rigged up loa scooters to carry food to families cut off from the mainland. No bread had been brought Into Centervllle, Md., since Christmas eve, but heavy Yule stocks continued to hold out. Buses were blocaded off from the south, and the mall could not come through. All the southland was due for an other freezing tonight, even the northern counties of Florida. Frost was forecast for Louisiana. Tennessee was warming up and snow was on the way. Virginia waa warmer. Ice bordered the Ohio and Kentucky riv ers, and the mercury dropped to 'U betow in northern Kentucky. Brookings, 8. D., with H below, Fergus Falls, Minn., ftnd Orand Forks, N. D., each with 18 below and Charles City, Iowa, and Devil's Lake. N. D each with 12 below, were among the nation's cold spots. From Ohio to Idaho rising tem peratures and snow were forecast for tonight. Abandon Ship. VLADIVOSTOK, Russia. Dec. 27. (API One hundred passengers have abandoned the stranded soviet steamer Loaovskl and are trekking scross eight miles of ice to the nhire of the Okhotsk sea. It was lean..- today. the comparative periods of tha ysars Intervening. "Individual purchases were lsrger this season, charge accounts were used more generously, and cash sales Increased. "Many stores reported sell-outs ot toys, sporting goods. Jewelry, ststlon cry. handbas and some toiletries be fore the shopping period closed. "Wholesale trade revealed leastlwin the usual late December decline, but volume of orders was smaller for the wek preceding, although running wfll ahead of last year's showing. "Although production for the cur rent yer was the largest since 1030, manufacturers of farm equipment plan to advance schedules fully 25 p"r cent for the opening quarter of &)0." the review said. INTENDEGUESTS REVEAMDENTITY 'Duke' York, Actor and 'Lord Landsdowne' Wres tler Give New Information Zasu Pitts Testifies LOS ANQELES. Dec. 27.- "Duke" York, film actor, said today he and a wrestler appearing In Holly wood rings as "Lorn Landsdowne" were the gueBts Thetma Todd plan ned to tako to a cocktail party Sun day afternoon. Dec. IS. York made his statement to Chief Deputy District Attorney Robert P. Stewart as the grand Jury resumed Its Investigation of the actress death. York declared he had not offered his story earlier because, he feared an attempt might be made to "break" his motion picture career. Mrs. Ford Hostess The cocktail party, on the after noon before Miss Todd's body waa found in a garngo near the "Side walk Cafe" she operated with Roland West, was given by Mrs. Wallace Fotd, wife or the actor. Mrs. Ford has told Investigators that someone with a voice exactly like Miss Todd's telephoned her Sun day afternoon and said: "You are going to drop dead when you sea; who I'm bringing to your party." An autopsy, which fixed the cause of Miss Todd's death as monoxide poisoning, also Indicated she met death early Sunday. - York declared that he ftnd Lands downe were planning a "gag" for the amusement of Mrs. Ford's party. "I was going to wear a starched shirt front with a ribbon across the front, and cock a monocle. In one eye. Lord Landsdowne. one of my close . Continued on Page Four.) UVAFLOODBlBED. BY PLANES TO SAVE 10 ITER SUPPLY HILO, Hawaii, Deo. 27. p) Army airplanes today dropped 600-pound bombs on the lava flood threatening the city's water reservoir, four miles away. Army officers attempting to make new course away from Hllo for the smoking molten rock described con ditions as "very favorable for bomb ing." The first plane after dropping Its load of explosives returned to Hllo at 10:50 a. m. Other planes dropped bombs In In dividual assaults on the lava .source 12.000 feet up on Mauna Loa In an attempt to seal the vent which has poured lava for five weeks. If unable to plug tho great crater, fliers hoped to divert the How from Hllo. How effective was the bombing was not known Immediately. . November Liquor Sale Sets Record SALEM, Ore-, Dec. 27. (UP) The Oregon liquor control commission sold $657,798.72 worth of bottled goods In November, a new record, according to a report today. In 11 months this year, the commission hna grossed $5,203,550.11, with net earnings of $1,656,851.70. Christmas business, still unesMmAted. was ex pected to top all monthly records. 6 DIE AFTEr'dRINKING TOASTS ON CHRISTMAS ALIQUIPPA. Pa., Dec. 37. (API Six person are dead after supposedly drinking liquor from a 14-gallon container which police chemists studied today for traces of poison. Investlirntors said the liquor wm drunk In Christmas toasts. The vlc tlma two women and four men lived within a four-bloc ares. ATLANTA, Oa.. Dee. 37 (UP) Atlanta youngstera who rarely sea Ice. tried a new sport today when Dixie's cold wave froze ponds In Piedmont park. None had ice skates, so they tried roller skates on the slippery surface. Most of them ended up on their backs. 4 Income Shares Maryland fund, bid 17.63; asked 19.06. Qugfterly Income shares, bid fl.4; asked 1.M. - -
