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The Weather Forecast: Unsettled with show ers; slightly colder tonUht. Friday partly cloudy. Temperature: Wlthest yesterday ,. .. 44 Lowest thin morning 43 Turn Into Cash Vhe discarded article! to bare stored around the prem ises and have no further need for. The quickest, surest and most satisfactory way Is through Mall Trlhune classi fied ads. Medford Tribune j Thirtieth Tear Full associated Press MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1936 toll CnUed Press '4 No. 211. mm i ' : i m flSSIBEB If V By PAUL MALLON ;Copyright, 1938, by Paul Msllon) WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 Tha presi dent haa been tipped that hs can notr get the broad discretionary neu trality powers he -wanted out of the congress which opens Fri day. His legis lative leaders brought the bad news long be fore he finished writing his mes sage. They did not have to make a thorough canvass of . both houses to find PAUL MALLON out that the espltol hill -billies are set In their neutrality ways. The result is the promised war over peace between the White House and congress Is likely to be more fancy- than fatal. President Roose velt is making arrangements to that nr The world court setback at the opening of the laat session is atlll a tart memory, it was row bandied because the president did not know the strength ol the op position. The neutrality issue will not be. Presidents have ways of getting what they wsnt out of congress without fighting. Mr. Roosevelt's first wise Inside step has been to place the issue en tirely In the hands of his congres sional leaders. It was agreed the White House and slate department (particularly the state department) will take ft back seat and not try to do any driving. There Is something about the state department which makes con gressmen madder than they nor mally are. The department thinks lorelgn affairs should be completely free of congressional lor-rolllng. The log-rollers think those pink-tea dlp lomsts In the department are Inter national fops. Nesrly all th Inner crew agrees It was a tactical error Tor the de partment to have led ths fight Isst session. What Mr. Roosevelt's legislative leaders have In the bact ot their heads now is a compromise. Some- (Ccntlnued on Peg S!) Tn the past year,' 445 marrtige 11 censea were Issued In Jackson county by the county clerk, an Incrmse of 18 over 1934, when the totsl wis 427. on the other side of the Ulance sheet, there were six less dhorees filed in 1935 than 1934. In 19:4 139 matrimonial knots were untlid tn Jackson county courts. Last year there were 133 suits filed. Fw of the divorce actions were contested the psst year. , IS TakeCold Dip On New Years' Day PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 2. (APi New Tear's day was pot Ssturtay but it was bath day for 15 mem bers of the Oregon Volunteer Lie Saving corps. The 15. under leadership of B. E. Badley. partia pnted In the group's annual Nre Year's swim In the Willamette rlvit while scores of spectstors shivers on the bridge above them. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS . Philander McEntyre, a ltd of 100 summers, sauntering up the street Jauntily swinging his cane: "I dont like these automobiles. To cross one of these streets, you've got to be able to see four ways, all at once." Jack Houston displaying large book. In which all the interesting in formation he has amassed while pro at the Rogue Valley golf course Is listed. Mrs. rrank Grltsch being inordi nately proud of the Christmas tree decorated by her young offspring. Frankit. and turning out the room ltehts so the blue candles would show up better. June Nugent, of 33 Tripp street, reporting to city police that someone hsd poisoned her dog. and the cops starting an Investlgtalon. ai.other dog. around the comer of Main, aiso hav ing been poisoned. D..-k Lewis. Oonmsa flash, talking thus over with Max ti'.linsky. for mer Gonrafta msh. at the basketball same in Ajfilnnd. neither referring to .i.-..-J IRE MARRIES IN YEAR'S RECORD BOURBON LEADER SAYS ROOSEVELT WILLjlGN BILL Payment This Month Would Bring Veterans 97 Per Cent of Ultimate Maturity Value Comes Up Jan. 13 WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. p) -Sen-ator Robinson, the democratic leader, today predicted passage of a cash bonus bill which will "receive exec utive approval.", In his first pre-sesslon press confer ence, Robinson indicated such a bonus bill probably would be drafted along the lines of the Byrnes-stelwer pro posal advanced last session under which the adjusted service certifi cates would mature in 1938 Instead of J 945 as provided at present. It was designed so that payment of their face value this month would bring veterans about 97 per cent of their ul timate maturity value. Almost simultaneously, the house steering committee backing the Pat man bill to pay the bonus In $3,000, 000,000 of new currency agreed not to fight, on the house floor, any senti ment of a majority of members to strike out the currency-expansion method of payment. Extend Olive Branch "This committee Is extending the olive branch," said Representative Patman (D., Tex.), author of the bill, after a secret session attended by -14 of the score of members of the com mittee. "We want to cooperate to the end that the veterans will get their mon ey," he said. Patman said the committee intend ed "to permit the bill to take Its natural course." Such procedure would carry It to the house floor January 13. a majority of house members late last session signed a petition to take the bill from the ways and means committee. "If the house votes to discharge the committee and the bill Is consider ed," Patman said, "while we have not changed our views, If a majority of (Continued on Page Five) 1935 CRIME LIST No murders blackened the official records of Jackson county In 1935. according to the annual statement of the district attorney's office. There were two cases of Involuntary man slaughter and five cases of assault with 4 dangerous weapon. Inhere was a decided slump In crtmes'of violence. During the past year, 138 felony cases were presented, with a total of 26 defendants sent to state prison for an aggregate total of 75 years. Many entered pleas of guilty and were given (Continued on Page Two) IDA LUPINO SAYS T IrOS ANGELES. Jan. 3. Ida Luplno, pretty English actress, told the grand Jury today Thelma Todd was given to "morbid streaks.' "Thelma often told my father. Stan ley Luplno, she wouldn't care If she got run over by an automobile tomor row, because rhe didn't care about living," said Ml?s Luplno after leav ing the Jury's chambers. Miss Luplno was the first witness lled by the Jury in resuming Its nquiry after the holiday. Miss Luplno said the actress also ltd bad heart. Several years ago, wlle making a picture In England. Je collapsed and was warned by Pslcisns she must give up motion pi-ture mork in order to live. nvestigaton, have misquoted her concerning Miss Todd's romance with 'San Francisco businessman," de clitd the witness DACE DIRECTOR PAYS AJTO CRASH CLAIMS I-O ANOELF3. Cel.. Jan. J (AP) Se- suite against Busby Berkeley, film unce director, for damages to taling ,370.000 were nettled out of court oday for 195.000. Ths ruts grew out of an mtcme bile c-uislon last September 8 In which hree persons were killed and ! three . .rioiijly Injured. Berkeley's .fcori ;tai on sevond decree mur j rier c.tvea Is set for FV-bruary 34. j the JurjhsTing disagreed la the first 1 uuO. transgreSSis Oregon Autoists , Show Prosperity In Tag Purchase SALEM. Ore., Jan. 2. (AP) New automobile licenses Issued up to January -l totaled 135,498. or 14.257 more than on the same data last year, the secretary of state's office reported today. It was estimated that wel over 300,000 licenses would be sold dur ing 1036, with considerably more than a third of that amount al ready distributed. The department reported the "rush still on" as applicants lined up before the windows for their new permits. FUELED Si HERE IS LOST IN SOUTH SAJ JOSE, Oal., Jan. 3. (?) A re port that a plane, apparently In dis tress, was seen flying through fog over Calaveras canyon Tuesday after noon waa received today In the search. for Lieut. John T. Helms, missing army aviator. Rudolph Gogga, Mllpita rancher. Informed Sheriff George W. Lyle he saw the plane. Helms disappeared later Tuesday, after refueling at Ham ilton field on a flight from Medford, Ore., to Maxell field, near Riverside. The search' was not renewed from Moffett field today because of ad verse weather conditions. Attaches at the municipal airport here said that Lieut. Helms had land ed at the airport several day ago to refuel while en route to .Seattle, and had also stopped on his way south, on Tuesday. Attaches said that the plane Helms was flying was a, ter rifically fast pursuit ship, capable of cruising at 280 miles an hour. MAY BE SEIZED AS RETALIATION STEP Br the Associated Press Ethiopia, her first major offensive reported awry, served notice on the league of nations today that she will retaltste by seizing the property of Irallsns unless Italy abandons alleged outlawed war methods. The Afrlcsn empire. In a communi cation to Geneva, promised to refrain from reprlssls entailing inhumane treatment of Italian soldiers. But In Italy, where Premier Mus solini's government already has ac cused the Eehloplan warriors of de capitating fascist aviators and has cited that as a reason for southern aerial bombardment In which a Swed ish hospital unit was wrecked, ob servers speculated on a possible cam paign of "punishment." Reliable sources In Rome ssld Italy had vast quantities of "scientific weapons" which It Is reluctant to use against the enemy, unless Ethiopian war practices arouse a national de mand to "fight fire with fire." Some fascists thought a merciless serial drive might be Italy's course to "punish" the hostile armies for the alleged decapitations. The whole question of aerial bom bardments, particularly attacks on Red Cross medics! units, appeared In Geneva to be a likely topic tor dis cussion by the league council Jami, ary 20 or sooner. IN EIRES, BLASTS (By ths Associated Press) Plres and an explosion left 20 per sons dead and eight others Injured It: scattered parts of the nation today. Five died and five others were In jured In Buffalo, K. T when a cellar gas explosion destroyed a three-story tenement. Three fires In Wilmington, Del, killed five persons. A Chlcagosn and two young daugh ters he tried to save from their flam ing home In suburban Lombard were burned to death. Two men and a woman, all negroes, were burned to death In Joliet. III., fire. A rooming house fire In Washing ton caused the deaths of a woman, her IB-year-old son and a man. At Rochester, N. T- an elderly wo men died of burns after lJt other persons bad been carried to ssfety In an apartment fire. A middle-seed negro was near death t at Wilmington from burns suffered J In residential fire. 1 Notable Economic Ga Recorded Here in 1935; Further Recovery Is Seen Business Forged Ahead on Sound Basis Along All Lines in Rogue Area; Future Faced Confidently By L. C. FOX The new business year started today with prospects generally conceded to be good for continued economic Improvement oer the record established last year. Business leaders here were confident that in spite of obstacles that loom ahead, such as uncertainties caused by a presidential election, 1936 would carry the nation forward toward economic and social stabil ity. Prospects for betterment, It was agreed, were brighter than at this time last year, . At the same time a survey of 1935 showed that material Improvement was recorded during the past year, business being actually better than at any time since the beginning ot 1929. Harder Views Tuture In an Interview with the Mall Tribune Ben E. Harder, president ot the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce, made the following comment: "Business conditions In Medford and southern Oregon during 1935 were somewhat better than In In 1934. This advancement In business can be safely estimated at from ten to twelve peroent. Just how much this Improve ment was the result of government espendltures It la difficult to say. Agriculture, with the exception of the fruit Industry, showed a good Im provement, hardly any of which could be credited to government expendi tures, I'The year 1936 should show at least a ten percent Increase over 1935. If the market for pears could be Im proved, this, together with the bet ter outlook for mining and the pro ducts of the forests, would possibly Improve business conditions more than the estimated ten percent. "The fact that 1936 Is an election year Imay retard : recovery aomewhat-i but I believe basio lorces are ai. worn that will Improve the condition of southern Oregon and the entire coun try. "The Jackson County Chsmber of Commerce has now In the making various projects which It hopes to carry out and which should materi ally Improve conditions here." Statistics Show Gains Business Indices here today reveal- (Contlnued on Page Pouri BE Miss Mildred Beeson resigned today u assistant to A. H. Banwell, man ager of the Jackson County Chsmber t rvtmmerce. she Is rellqutshing her position because of Illness In her fsm- Uy. She will return wj ncr uwi Ashland. ..I.. D...nr .me to the Chamber of commerce here on Mey J, 1934. Prior to that time sne was wivn m A.hianH rhtmher of commerce. She is known ss a competent and courte ous office assistant and her resigna tion wsa regretted By tne tnamrc. of Commerce. Miss Beeson will be replaced by wnic.mott. daughter JM1B. ... u. ...1 . . .. 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Vsnce Wolgamott of Suncrest Orcnaras. miss nwp mott Is a grsduste of St. Msry's high school. ' NEW YEAR BEGINS WITH HEAVY RAINS The new yer started out with plenty of moisture, 1.35 Inches of rsln falling between 3:50 yesterday afternoon and 8:30 thl morning, about half the normal precipitation for the entire month of January, ac cording to weather bureau statistics. Total ralnfsll for the season be ginning September 1 now stands at 8 44 Inches, and excess of .11 above normal. Total precipitation In De cember waa 8.80. an excess of .49. Forecast wsa for unsettled weather with showers and slightly lower tem peratures tonight, partly cloudy, to morrow, Fresh snow lsst night brought the depth at Crater Lake national park headquarters to stx feet. The south and west entrsnce roads were closed today but snow pier crews wer at work and park officials here thought motorists would be able to get through to the resort tomorrow. Weather fend highway conditions may be obtained from the park radio broadcast each morning at 8:30. 4 EUGENE. Ore.. Jan. 3J-. tu gene building permits Increased froui S2HJ 0S3 In 1934 to 8217 473 In 1915, the city engineer Slid today. TARDY AUTOISTS TOLD TO SECURE PLATES FOR 1936 Belated autoists came to the sher iff's office today to get their 1936 license plates, as the state police launched a campaign against tardy motorists. Orders were; Issued to the highway patrol to stop all autos with old licenses and Inform the drivers to make haste in securing them or face appearance in court. Today two state policemen were checking Pacific highway traffic at the fair grounds and tomorrowthey will be shifted to the .North Pacific highway section. Checkers were also stationed at acksonvllle and at Grants Pass. In the" past Mthe'shirfs- of fice has Issued exactly 1000 tempo rary licenses up to the close of busi ness Tuesday. This does not include autoists who filed their applications direct with the secretary of state at Salem. , (Continued on Page Two) HANDSMERSGET EARLY LEAD 1936 BABY Mr. and Mrs. Melvln Handsaker nf Bcrrydale avenue took what appear ed to be an early lead today In the 1936 Stork Sweepstakes sponsored by a number of merchants who are awarding prizes for the first baby born in the new year. Mr. and Mrs. Handsaker became the parents of a seven pound girl at 7:50 this morning. The baby waa born at home, with Dr. W. O. Bishop the attending physician. Tha stork race was close, for just 12 minutes later, at 8:03, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Wyant of Talent became the parents of a girl weighing five pounds, 11 ounces, born at Com munity hospital. Dr. Harold B. OlI 11s was the attending physician. As far as could be ascertained to day, no babies were born here yester day, New Years day. Before the prizes are awarded, all births must be cars fully checked at the county clerk's office when vital statistics ate filed. The following -Attractive present, for the lucky in.it and Its parents were donated by Medford merchants: (Continued od Page Five) TURKEY MM QUIET PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 3. p Post-holiday uncertainty brought quiet to the Portland wholesale tur key market todsy, while definite word waa awaited from eastern msrkets, Turkey shipments east must go through San Francisco, as there Is no boat leaving the Pac.flc north west. Offers for turkeys in the Sac ramento valley were 22c for the best torn. This would mean Sic here. Nominal quotations here for dressed turkeys were 23 to 37 cents to prcl ducei-s. CARDIFF, Wales, Jun. 3 fAP) The former home of Aubrey Nell Mor gan, where the Charles A, Lindberghs stayed on their last vist to Wales, may have new tenants soon. Although tha renting scents said no negotiations for a tease had been started, fiire were burning in' the principal rooms and the house was ' beins aired as If tn preparation for i occupancy todsy. IIUUULILLi lifiLMU UUL.V IIL.VJ i IIIU I IU1 1 TALK PLAN STIRS Republicans Charge Annual Message to Congress Going On Air at Time to Catch Most Listeners WASHINOTON, Jan. 3. (P) Presi dent Roosevelt's decision to deliver his annual message to congress to morrow night, at an hour when the number of radio listeners will be greatest, was defended by democratic leaders today against republican charges of "politics." Replying to an assertion by Hemy P. Fletcher, national republican chair man, that the arrangement brought the annual presidential duty "down to the level of a political speech," Senator Robinson of Arkansas de clared: "I think this effort to make a mountain out of a mole-hill is rather absurd. It seems to me that no one should desire to prevent the country from having the opportunity of be coming familiar with the president's viewpoints, and tha anyone who takes that attitude can not Justify it." Byrns Answer? Fletcher He said the hour of 9 o'clock, east ern standard time, was chose u 'of course" for the purpose of giving the message full publicity. Speaker Byrns of the house hasten ed also to answer Fletcher. "This Is the president's message and certainly he has the right to in dicate when he prefers to make it," he continued. "While it Is technically a message to the congress. It Is an address to all the American people and the nation has a right to hear rhnt. Vi has trt khv ' '"But Representative Snefl '"of NtwH York, the house republican leader, applauded the Fletcher statement. (Continued on Page Five) 4 LAUNDRY TRAY AT E IN SALEM SALEM, Jan. 3. 'Mrs. Veva Mehs, 34, of Mlsroula, Mont., drowned at noon here today In a laundry tray in the basement f the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Smith. Efforts to revive her bv pul motor were declared useless after 40 min utes. City police officers reported she had been visiting at her home here the past month. They did not learn her husband's Initial, but said he was In Washington, D. C. She Is also survived by three smvU children. Mrs. Mel is was discovered, police said, by one of her small daughters. Mrs. Smith had left shortly before the nqon hour to bring her husband home for lunch. They called police and doctors at once upon their return. City Traffic Officer Don Nicholson said when he first arrived, Mrs. Smith hsd told him the woman had been despondent. Later, however, she told him the daughter was subject to spells and believed while she was washing clothes she fainted and fell into the laundry tray. Coroner L. E. Barrick was Investi gating. 0. S. C. Girl Killed By Lethal Fumes PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 2. fAP) Miss Marianna Miller, 19, student at Oregon State college, waa killed today by fumes from a gas heater in her home. Police said the death was accidental. A Jet In the room was open, but the gas was not burning. The girl's father Is super intendent of the Portland Oas & Coke company. Mlsa Miller was bridesmaid at a wedding New 7ear'a day. SCOUT LEADER VISIONS DEPRESSION, CRIME CURE NEW YORK, Jtn. 3. (AP) James E. West, celebrating his 25th anni versary as chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America, predicted today that another quarter century would see economic depression eliminated and crime waves flattened hy a public-spirited cttltenry. SEVEN INCHES SNOW MEASURED IN BAKER BAKER, Ore., Jan. 3. ;p even Inches of snow, the largest Mil regis tered here this '.son. fell in BUcer Wednesday afternoon ard night. The ; snow amount, to .64 of an tn?h of precipitation. approxt.ntely twice as. mii'-h precipitation a fell during the j entire mouth of December j F tSfe ..... "; Mrs. Wallace Ford (above), wife of the actor, waa believed to havi been the last person who talkec to Thelma Todd, actress founc dead in Loa Angeles. Mrs. Fore said she invited Mlsa Todd to a party the day before her body wai found. (Associated Press Photo) FARMER IS SLAIN BY SALEM, Jan. 2. (TP) Hvich Jean Sloan, 41, farmer at Broadacres, three miles west of Woodburn. waa shot end killed at his place early this morning, state Patrolman Farley Mo gan said the slaying was done) oy John Kyle, 65, a neighbor, after a reported drunken party. Kyle, arrested by police and brought to the Marlon county Jail, told police he shot his younger neighbor in self defense, Mogan said. Mogan reported Kyle told him the two men had come to Sa-Iem to see the fights, and returning had been drinking. After the shooting Kyle went to another neighbor's house and reported what he had done. Sloan received one shot through the abdomen and three In the back, Mo gan reported. According to the state police, Kyle had served time In McNeil's Island prison from Washington on a charge of poHMbSlon of mash. He has been operating a small chicken ranch near Broad acres in recent years. 4 GRAVE CONDITION Word has been received here by Clayton Isaacs, manager of the Palm er Electric store, that Mrs. B. J. Palmer, seriously injured In a head on auto collision near Salem Satur day, is not expected to live. Suffer ing from a broken arm, broken ribs, punctured lungs and other In ternal Injuries, her condition Is practically hopeless, Isaacs waa In formed. Mr, Palmer, who waa driving the machine back to Medford after the two spent the Christmas vacation with a daughter tn Salem, is also In serious condition much more so than was at first supposed but is showing a steady Improvement. The accident happened at Jeffer son, south of Salem. The Palmr auto was badly mangled In the crash. Nothing Is known here of the occupants of the other car. CAPITOL PLANNERS TO SEE ARCHITECT PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 3 rAF) The Oregon capltol construction cam mission toiiy ,'nvitea Carl Frellng-hurf'-u Gould. Seattle architect, to a conference looking toward em pic ring him to direct Its nation-wide archi tectural competition for selection of type, plsns and specifications for the new capltol. He left Seattle, at noon and ex pected to meet with. the commission tontpht. The commtaMon heard the rerrart of T. H. Banfleld. H. H. Lake and Dr. H. H. dinger, the svib-commlt.ee di rected to inquire of six nationally known architects If they would be amiable individually for employment as the architectural adviser for the commission. The six names were submitted by the OtMron chapter of tha Institute ot An.fcsn architects- BASIS OF SUIT FOR 4 in LI British American Tobacco Co. Sues Federal Reserve Bank of New York On Account Bullion Seizure NEW YORK, Jan. i.iP) The Brit ish American Tobacco company, Ltd., brought suit In federal court today against the Federal Reserve bank ot New Ydrk lor S4.331.509.7S whloh It alleges It lost as a result of the ex ecutive order directing the surrender of gold bullion. The company petition set forth ttiat early In 1933 It decided It could beat protect the cost basis of Its leaf to bacco by the immediate purchase of gold bullion, since It was engaged m selling its products In competitive markets where payment was made in pounds sterling. In gold, silver and on a non-mctalllc basis. On February 7, 1933, according to the petition, the company paid 1.. 818.S22 pounds, four shillings and 10 pence for 1.018 bars of gold bullion which It placed In a safe deposit vault tn New York. Cm August S3, 1933. tho petition alleged, the company "under duress, compulsion, thrents of Imprisonment and fine by the United States of America." delivered the bullion to the Federal Reserve bank and received for It 16,249.235.85 In federal reserve notes. These notes, the petition declared, had purchasing power at least M, 331,509.75 under that of ths gold. CITY CRIME WAVE GETS GOOD START IP V Three hold-ups and two house entries ushered In tho new crime year In Medford New Year's Eve, city police disclosed today. A. A. Heff, 329 West Jackson boulevard, report ed to police that a man held him up at the point of a gun, after first ransacking a bedroom ot hla room, R. C. Carley, of tha old Central Point highway, frightened a hold-up man from his back porch, and Florence Conger, J. L. Campbell and Everett Schaffer reported that a man In tha same neighborhood held them up at the point of a gun. Ncff told police that a man held him up with a revolver as he was making his way from his garage to his back porch alter putting his car away for the night. The atlck-up man got 55 cents. When the man had left, Neff discovered that he had en tered a bedroom by a side window, but nothing was discovered missing. Mrs. Delia Covins, in the front of the house at the time, heard no sounds, she told officers. Carley told police that someone broke the glass from the rear door (Continued on Page Five.) POACHER KILLED MYRTLE POINT, J.n. . W, An out-of-season deer hunt ended fatally for Wendell Roblson, 57, of Arsgo, who was shot through the head late yesterday by hla nephew, Harry Ira Collier. 22, of Arago. Roblson circled through the brush to stir any deer from their hlllalde hiding places. Collier saw a move ment In the brush and fired, he said. The bullet ripped through Roblson's head. Collier said he failed to resile he had killed hla uncle until he ap proached and leaned over the proe trate body, ahoute summoned other members of the hunting psrty. Dr. Russell Keleer, coroner, ssld an Inqueat msy be held. Income Shares Msryland Fund, bid 11799: asked 19.45. Quarterly Income ffhsres, bid 151; asked 1 .63. rrmllrton Htifer PENDLETON. Ore., Jan. 2. P Crime and automobile accidents de creased In Pendleton during 1915, Chief of Police C- E- Lemons said to dsy. During the Pendleton round-up when thousands of vehicles Jammed the street, not an accident was reported
