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Newspaper Page TextMr The Weather Forecast: Unsettled with occa sional rain tonight and Tues day. Not much change In temperature. Highest yesterday....si Lowest thta morning . , in Right Method Sav time .Save steps Use the rljht method tor quick r sulta. If jou have a want of any kind advertise In the Want Ad columns of this newspaper. FORD Thirtieth Year Full Associated Preaa MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, IP J Full United Presa No. 250. Med M3mi RIBUNE yiwmiBiiT.cv.v r i .vt 1 a m w Tffl w ssaasssasaaesai I - ... m By PAUL MALLON . (Copyright, 1936, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 Subtle lighting effects - are one of the oustandlng unheralded accomplish ment a of the new deal. . To-wlt, Presi d e n t Roosevelt started his press conference off recently by an nouncing he had I J juat algned an order extending the stabilization fund for another year. No one cared anything about the sta rt UL MALLON blllzatlon fund. All naturally .wondered about dol lar devaluation authority, which waa In the same law. Devaluation? The president did not appear to know about that. He would have to see. Mumbling halt aloud, he read through the order. No, the order did not make clear whether he had continued his de valuation authority or not. News aeekera would have to check up with the treasury on that.. rLSJ Present waa the treasury's excel lent publicity adviser, Mr. Gaston. Be did not know either. He would also have to check. To do so, he went off, not In the direction of the treasury, but back into the WHTte House secretarial offices. Later It was announced that the president Nfaad "also" apparently continued his devaluation authority, unbeknown to himself, if you can Imagine' that. Newsmen, emerging, eald to them selves: "Well, the London devalua tion rumora today must be wrong. S because the president did Tiot even know about the aubjoct." This was the desired glow. It was reflected all over the financial world. It would be . simpler If the new deal shading system were not occa aionally like the street traffic alg esia In Washington. Some of the red stop-lights here mean go right and left. Some of the green go-signals mean stop (one at the main entrance) to the capltol grounds). Thus, while Mr. Roosevelt waa turning his green dlmmera on the devaluation rumors, some of hla Democratic congressmen were pub licly seeing red Inflation probabili ties from the AAAdeclslon. Also, the house was passing a two or three billion dollar . bonus bill without funds, and Postmaster General Par ley was telling the Democratic na tional committee that Mr. Roose velt wax a sound money man. . Through the kaleidoscope, this much can be seen for certam: Mr. Roosevelt Is preserving his (Continued on Page Pour.) . Union Head Visions 21-Hour Week WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (P) An ventuul 21 hour work week for American labor waa predicted today by Prank Morrison, veteran secretary or the American Federation of Labor. Making the opening speech at the International seamen's Union con Mntinn. Morrison recalled that not afM t.h Ktvtv hour week maujr now . waa almost universal. He said the forty hour week now waa generally scce-pbru. SIDE GLANCES . by TRIBUNE REPORTERS nrm Newland telling about the prodigious amounts of food he and Angy Todd eat while bucking up logs over In the Klamath country. Mrs. May Barnum atopplng her car on the Barneburg road to show ' her four-year-old nephew. Billy Heath. Jr soma pigs, and delight ing that young man by enticing all the porkers to the car by a bit of extemporaneous hog calling. Vern Cannon, backbone of de mocracy In these parts, bewailing the lose of his right hand man. Bob Smith, who has gone to start achool at the TJ. Milt Ottoman with nose glued against the window gating out Into the drlrxle. and wondering when the aun shone hot enough to draw all that water up Into the sky. ' A woodsel'.er In the lot on Sixtn street near the sv. tracks, tossing a chunk off his lc' to .put Into the oil dram "stove," with the remark "We've got wood to . burn." Joe Dobbyn. grsoer, looking loom lly at the swlrlpool of water In front of his Oakdale store, which j stream might keep a few prospective customers away. TO BE RETURNED Question of Billion Already Paid to Farmers Is Left Open Cotton Control Test Case Is Dismissed New Deal Law Score WASHINGTON. Jux. 13. (AP) Here Is the scoreboard on the government's defense or laws un der President Roosevelt: Gold clause won (5-4). Railroad retirement lost (4-5) "Hot oil" lost (1-8). Mortgage moratorium lost (0-9). NRA lost (0-9). AAA lost (3-6). Government right to processing taxes Impounded lost (0-9). First Bankhead act case dis missed' (9-0). ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. (API Ordering 200,O00,00o In Impounded taxes returned to processors becaubo they were invalid under AAA, ' the supreme court left open tod-iy whether the 1.000.000.000 of such ta7.es already paid to farmers could be retrieved by the taxpayers. In another unanimous action, the high tribunal also dismissed the first test- case on the Bankhead cotton control act. No decision was handed down in the only other new deal case before It Involving the Tennessee valley authority act. The tar ruling, given In the Louis iana rice millers case, did not cover whether the processors must prove they bad not passed the levies on the consumer before recovery' could be made. Litigation, already under way in the lower courts must decide that., Remains In Effect Government attorneys later em phasized this requirement of the amended AAA act would remain In effect unless the supreme court holds It Invalid. Normally, the court does not rule on questions unless It considers they are directly presented In litigation before It. Considering that no case had been made against the Bankhead law. the Justices said their review In this in (Continued on Page Eight) SLIDE DELAYS GRANTS PASS. Jan. 13. (API- Southern Pacific officials here ported this morning a small mud slide near Roseburg delayed the southbound Ashland local passenger train. Pour and one-half hours late, the Oregonlan. Southern Pacific train No. 329, southbound local between Portland and Ashland, arrived in Medford at 12:30 p.m. todayafter being delayed by a slide over the tracks near Prairie, aouth of Rose burg. According to railroad officials here, the slide was caused by the excessive rainfall experienced in southwestern Oregon during the past few days. More than 3. 600,000 were spent In controlling Insect pesta In the south ern California citrus belt In 1934. Income Shares Maryland fund, bid 118.41; aaked 19.91. Quarterly Income shares, bid 1.S4; asked 11.89. Townsend Chief Cheered By House Bonus Action CHICAGO, Jan. 13. (AP) Chances of passing the Townsend pension plan at this session of congress look ed brighter to the field general of the Townsend forces today aa a result of bouse approval or the soldiers bonus. Asserting the bonus vote was "an admission by the powers that be of the soundness of the Townsend plan.' Robert B. Clements, secretary and directing head of hie pension move ment, predicted addition of at least 100 representatives to the Townsend bloo in the bouse. The big argument for Immediate payment of the bonus was the effect the money would have In Increasing purchasing power." Clements de clared. "That la precisely the argU' meat for the Townsend plan. 34 Seamen Lose Lives BY BABY BONDS IS SENATE PLAN Harrison Introduces Bill and Predicts Passage All Veteran Organizations Favorable for Measure WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. Pay ment of the bonus in $50 baby bonds convertible Into cash at local post offloea was proposed In the senate to day by admlnlatratlon foroes. Senator Harrison (D Miss.). Intro duced the bin he predicted would be enacted Into law." He said no new taxes would be required to raise the funds at this time. - A statement appended to the bill said the additional money required to redeem bonus certificates would be 2,23 7,000.000. But advocates of the bond plan contended It would offer an Inducement for the veteran to hold hla bond, rather than cashing In Immediately. The three percent bonds would be dated June Is, 1936 and run until June 15, 1945 year of the original maturity date of the certificates. The authors of the bill Harrison ana Senators Byrnes (D., 8. C). Stelwer (D., Ore.) and Clark (D.. Mo.) esu .nated the amount due veterans In bonds at 1.838,ai3,950. To clear up odd amounta 187,786,050 In oasn would be needed, while the remainder of the estimated 3,237,0OO,OOO Invoiv. ed the treasury Ufa .Insurant ana other special funds, The American Legion, Veterans of porekrn Ware and Disabled American Veterans Issued a Joint atatement that they were "united In support' nt the senate bill, adding: "We hope for enactment of the bill Into law." The senate finance committee waa expected to give It speedy approval late today, but floor consideration can not start until Thursday, next rfav the senate meets. The bonda to De issued wouiu o In. small denominations. Harrison ex plained. In the belief many veterans would not cash all oi mem immwir tely, thereby lessening the strain on the treasury. ' The bonda would not be negotiable but would be redeemable In local postof flees. They would run for ten years and would bear Interest at I ner cent. The Interest la an Inducement .to the bonus holders to hold on to the certificates for greater value, 4- OFF INDEFINITELY LONDON. Jan. 13. (AP) Tuee- dav'a scheduled session of the Inter national naval conference waa post poned Indefinitely tonight, and I Jananese spokesman aald that dele gation again will consult with Tokyo. The spokesman aald tha decision on postponement waa reached at a long conference retween British ana Jananese delegates. However, no reason for the surprise move waa given Immediately. Earlier. It had been reported the Japanese delegatea would make new atatement on their "equality proposals at the Tuesday session. The bureau of blolojlcal survey of the federal department of agri culture has 14 wildlife refuges in Florida. "If It would aid business to In crease the circulation of money once, with the bonus. It should be much better to do It over and over a rain each month with pensions for our old people." Not only did the bonus advocates use Townsend arguments, Clements aald, but administration lawmakers Indicated they would "revert- to out system for raiting the money." He explained: "After a conference with President Honsevelt at Warm Springs, Sena to! (Walter P.) Oeorgt (D.. Oa.) an nounced that If they paaaed the bonus they would raise the money by a tax on Industry." The Townsendltea advocate a two per cent transactions tax to raise 200 a month pensions for every per son over 80 years. NAVY CONFERENCE LAWYER SLAYS OPPONENT TAKES 2 SHOTS AT JUDGE CHICAGO, Jan. 13. (AP) A dis gruntled lawyer shot and kilted At torney Christopher O. Kinney In cir cuit court here and then fired two shots at Judge John Prystalskt, pre siding. The judge ducked behind lit bench and escaped. The pistol wielding attorney, Iden tified as John W. Koegh, 69, ran amuck when Judge Prystalskl ruled against him In a case he had argued for twenty minutes with Attorney Kinney. Kinney dropped dead beside the HOUSING ACT IN TO AT SPUR BUILDING MEET TONIGHT Five members of the headquarters staff of the federal housing adminis tration will hold a meeting at 7:30 tonight In the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce to explain the pro cedure for the constructions of new homes and buildings. Those Invited to tha meeting In clude dealers in building materials, supplies and household equipment, contractors, architects, bankers and mortgage company heads. The meeting will be addressed uy John H. Hoppes, field representative of the federal housing administration in Portland, and John R, Towlea. spe cial assistant to the regional director In San Francisco who has been signed to Oregon as acting associate director. Other admlnlatratlon repre sentatives to be at the meeting are .Stewart Jameson, field operator, Irv ine Diamond, publicity man, and Leslie Peyton, manager of financial relations for Oregon. It la understood that the admin istration representatives will empha. size new construction under the fed, era! bousing act, not, however, neg- ( Co-tinned on Page Five) 4 HEAVY CLOSES TRAFFIC E PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 13. (AP) Rising flood waters held a menace to Willamette valley communities to day. Edward L. Wells, federal meteor ologist here. aid the Willamette river was rising at all points and that It will continue to rise from eaiem north for the next two daya. Wella aald the Salem creat probably will be 24 feet, highest since 1037, Already the muddy waters have dis rupted hlghwsy traffic between Sa lem and Albany. Monroe was almost Isolated. . SALEM, Jan. 13. (AP) Portion of the Umpqua highway west of Elk ton and the coast highway at Coqullle may be closed to traffic moat of the present week because of high water and slides, R. H. Baldock, Mat highway engineer announced today. ALBANY, Ore. Jan. J3, (API Albany and Corvallls were separated by high water that overflowed the highway directly across tna winanv ette river from Albany last night. There appeared to be little prospect that trafflo would be restored bef'rj tomorrow afternoon. EUGENE. Ore., Jan. 13. (AP) The Willamette river was near tha flood stage here today, and was ris ing. Between 7:00 a. m. Friday and this morning 6 43 Inches of rain (ell The amall river that runs through tha city of Kugene went out of IU banks twice) yesterday, halting trar fie on last Nineteenth avenue. Several sections of tha city wer without power during the day. HONEYMOON OF WEEK ENOUGH, SAYS JUDGE PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 13. (API- Judge Harry S. McDevItt set a tlms limit on honeymoon wnen n isaura a warrant for the arrest of Louis Hsmburt on a two weeks' old speed Ing charge. Hamburg raid he was starting on his wedding trip. "A week seem long enough for a honeymoen these daya," Judge alcDevttt remarked. Judge's bench at the first shot from Keogh's small bore weapon. Keogh fired three more shots De fore one of the attorneys In the crowded courtroom knocked blm out with a blow to the Jaw. One, aimed directly at Judge Pry stalskl as he sat on the bench, hit the judge's heavy chair. He ducked behind the bench. Another of the courtroom crowd struck Keogh's arm, and the third shot, again aimed at the Judge, ground Into the celling. A fourth went Into the floor. 5 NEW CCC UNITS WILL FILL CAMPS NOW VACANT HERE Five new CCO companies will ar rive from the mid-west this week to bring the Medford CCC district back to a strength of 32 camps. The companies will reoccupy Oampa Steamboat, Wlmer, Oasquet, Clear Lake and Applegate which were vaca ted last week when four aecond-oorps area and three ninth corps area com panies were disbanded. Only two oampa which were vacated will not be reoccupled for the present period. They are .Cooa Head, near Marshfleld, and But Creek, near Med ford. Oooa Head'a company was not disbanded, but moved to Camp Sit; kum when the second corps area company there .waa sent home. Three special trains are bringing the five new companies to thla dis trict. The first two left Two Harbors, Minn., January 12 with Co. 709 for Camp Oesquet and Co. 4742 for Camp Wlmer. It will arrive about January 15. The second train also left January 12 with Co. 2702 from Two Harbors, Minn., for Camp Applegate and Co. 703 from Allen Junction, Minn., for Camp Steamboat! Another special train was to leave Madison. Nebraska, January 14 with Co. 4740 for Camp Clear Lake. The seven old companies were dis banded as part of the program to reduce the civilian conservation corps to Its original strength of 300.000 men. An effort Is being made on the pan of the COO sponsors to make the corps a permanent Institution. HUGE RELIEF SUM WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. (AP) An appeal for an additional 13,500,000.- 000 relief appropriation was reported under consideration today by the United Statea conference of mayors. Mayor F. H. LaOuardla of New York City, president of tha organi zation representing most of the larg est cities, emerged from an executive aesslon to .promise a statement late In the day. "Relief," he aald. "was the sole sub ject under discussion." ' In addition to La Quardla, those In attendance Included Mayor Joseph K. Carson, Jr., Portland, Ore.. YOUTH IS SLAIN IN DEFENDING FIANCE NEVADA CITT. Calif- Jan. 13 (AP) Deputies bad few due In the search today tor two masked slayer-bandits who shot and mortally wounded a young miner, righting to defend his fiance against asssult. Chsrles Merer. 24, died a ' few hour after hla assailant beat him off with a rifle bullet and tossed his body Into a ditch, when he sought to protect tils sweetheart' honor. fflNGlEESLETNEW EXECUTIVE OF SCOUTS Th application of Irving Beetle) aa executive ot the Crater Lake area of th Boy Scout of America wis approved Saturday night by the exe cutive committee of th area coun cil. Mr, Beesley, who comes neie highly recommended by the Oakland Calif, council, will arrive In tho city Wednesday, January 13, to take up hi duties. in Wreck Off NEW MOVE HINTED IN FIGHT TO SAVE HAUPTW'S LIFE Two Washington Attorneys Join Defense Forces Possessors Ransom Coin Known, Claims Lawyer (Copyright, 103s. The Associated Press) TRENTON, N. J.. Jan. 13 Brunc Richard Hauptmann today told nls wife he waa ready to undergo further questioning by any of thr authori ties. He said he would tell anything he might have neglected to say. But oa reasserted his Innocence. By Dale Harrison (Copyright, 1933, by the Associated Preas) TRENTON. N. J.. Jan. 13. (AP) Bruno Hauptmann' lawyers, audden- ly augmented by two Washington attorneys and bolstered by possible new evidence, swung vigorously today Into a last ditch fight against his Friday night date with death. Retention of Attorneys Nugeot Dodds and Neil Burklnshaw, who a year ago saved a condemned man, was accepted a an Indication that a new move was contemplated In the United States supreme court. They were employed after the New Jersey court of pardona had recused Saturday to grant clemency to ihe condemned kldnap-slayor of the -Lindbergh baby. Ransom Claimed Found Bernard M. Flnnlgan, a Chicago lawyer, flew here to tell Qov. Harold Q. Hoffman a story of threo men who he said possessed 323,000 of . tho Lindbergh ransom money. Captain John L. Lamb, head of the detective devlslon of the state police said today that Flnnlgan had. writ ten "on March 38 last year that -be had a client who had told him the namea of three men who "mlghi" have Information leading to some of the ransom money. Lamb said Col. H. Norman Schwar kopf. head of the state police, wrote Flnnlgan two daya later and asked I continued on Page rbre ' f- ITALIAN CAMPAIGN . (By Associated Press.) Fascist Invaders of Ethiopia, their campaigns hampered by weather opposltes on two main frontiers, were reported today pushing aerial at tacks on southwestern river valley settlements, A neutral observer who flew back to Addis Ababa after a visit to Ras Desta Demtu's camp said the Italian air squadrons ,bomb the courses oi the Wobbe Shlbell and the Oanale Dorla dally between 7 and t a. m. The crash of an Italian bomber on a hillside nesr Asmara took the Uvea of three fascist soldier hesded by Lieutenant Lenta, pilot. Troop movement In the north have been hindered by driving early rains which have turned Italian constructed roads Into mud holes or have washed them away. Lack of water In the terrlflo heat of the desert south, together with malarial fever also have complicated the Invaders' drives. Starting December 20. Wood county. West Virginia, children received 13 days cf Chrlstmaa vacation Religious Group Prays As Girl Lays in Trance DETROIT, Jan. 13. (AP) Mem bers of th "Pull'salvatlon Union." a rellgiou sect, kept up an almost un broken series of prayer services today about tha couch of 17 year old Shir ley Tapp. uncotuclou since last Wednesday In what a physician said was an "auto-hypnotlo" etat Into which she entered at a meeting of the group. Th high school girl lay on a couch In th living room of her home, respiration and reflexes apparently normal, but In a trance-llka sleep. At Intervals, a th exhortation of th worshipper reached It height, she would intend her clenched hands rljldly Into the air. holding that po sition until th prayer ended. Her father, Lavern Tapp. automo bile factory worker, said th girl Rules Against Law ' .! v .... VI $k V 1 J mi LJ A L Federal Olstrlet Judge Merrill E. Otis In a ruling made at Kansas City declared tha entire Wagner labor dispute act, New Deal law giving employe th right to organ ize and bargain without Interfer ence from mployer. was Unconsti tutional. (Associated Press Photo) E OF APPLEGATE T latJtnnn r.mltU.V. thfOllBh Sheriff Syd I. Brojvrt announced today tha onering oi a rewara or e.w evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of the party or parties who shot and seriously wounded John W. Pernoll, Applegate store keeper and postmastor In an at tempted hold-up last Thursday evening. Rumors to the contrary notwith standing, i there have been no ar rests of suspects, Sheriff Brown said today. Street corner gossip has re ported all the way from three to .1 fttini,nt in citatodv. The sherllt aald a number of men had been questioned but all were eliminated furnishing perfect alibis. Pi,rnnll Imnrnvlnc Pernnll waa renorted aa resting caay today and on me roaa to im provement. Th. fit-tt. tmllAt fired bv th thug grazed Pernoll's chest, going through his coat nd vest, ine ouuoi grazed the elbow. The margin of an in.h wmiiH have sent the leaden pellet crashing through hi chest The second bullet passed inrougu the fleshy part of the leg and thigh, missed the leg none and arteries. An inrh htuher uo' and It would have entered the lower abdomen ann Rtniek vital oraans. Stat police and sheriff deputies are at'.ll Marching tne ppi district for cluea. Thou officers are (Continued on Page . rhree) 4- BACHELOR'S DEGREE ITtHVAnn TTNIVFRfllTY. Calif. Jan. 13. (Spl.) Edward Reamea or Medford was awarded tne argree bachelor of art here this week, fol lowing th conclusion of the autumn quarter. Edward Reames, son ot Mr. ana Mrs. A. I. Reamea. transferred from Stanford to Oregon university at th beginning of the new semester. "slain by th power of Ood" In her (tort to attain a greater sense of rellgiou grac. He explained she had been deeply religious alnc she waa "saved" at a meeting of the sect, but th "sinful nature" which remained had been "slain" by th trance-like sleep. He said she would awaken on tha seventh day of th trance. Roaa Kllgore, leader ot the sect, aid th prayer service at horn would continue unabated until the . girl awakened. Under belief ot the members, the unconsclcu girl 1 "suffering from the whol world" while her natural Impulse ar subdued or "slain" by th unconscious state. Th parent said Shirley answered questions relative to rellgiou sub ject, but responded to Da other questions. Astoria HURRICANE SINKS FREIGHTER IOWA WITH ALL ABOARD Eight Bodies Wash Ashore Crew Never Had a Chance After Ship Hurled on Sands by Terrific Wind ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 13. iify The crushed hulk of the 410-foot freighter Iowa awayed to the swells in It grave of sand today while coast guardsmen searched for the bodies of It crew of 34 men. All were lost. At 10:30 a. m. eight bodies had been reported found. Three had been Identified. In th worst hurricane tha north Paclflo had experienced In year, th States Line freighter crashed Sunday on the sands of the southwestern Washington ooast. Captain Edgar L. Tate, M, veter an of th line, and hi crew of 34, "never had a chance." It waa said by Captain R. Stanley Patch, command er of the coast guard cutter Onon daga. Captain Patch and hla crew of 53 almost shared a similar fate aa they drove through the raging gala In futile attempt, at rescue. The fllAfcjwm Mimt. ww.n -...a Identification had been completed of the bodies of Marlon J. Perlch, car penter, New Orleans: Theodore J. F.-l-on, second assistant engineer, Port land, and Charles Ogan. third assist ant engineer, San Pedro. . By Wendell w. Webb- Associated Press staff Writer' ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 13. vp Aa angry Paclflo, apparently little -sauged by the 34 lives It treacherous waters olalmed from tha Steamer Iowa, oontlnued to crash th Ore gon and Washington shores today a menace to all things which dared It wrath. Six bodies were recovered from th foam-capped surf and coast guards men maintained their constant patrol for others. The hammering wave pounded th Iowa to bit on tha sand of Peacock spit off th coast ot southern Wash ington yesterday. The entlr crew (Continued on Pff rhrae) . AND CHEESE THIEF BELIEVED NABBED Thrr men, 4wo of them long sought for crlmtu in Jnctuon county., were apprehended ymterday and lodged In tha county Jill, the sheriff reported today. Raleigh H. Hoylman, vented tor an alleged aeries of check forgeries and auto thefts In thla city and county, and who mads aa escape from state policemen recently by fleeing from his room In his under clothes, was caught Sunday at Camp Kerby In Jnaephlne county by CCO enrottees. Hoylman was captured when he attempted to break Into the ganollne warehouse of the CCO camp. His captors stood guard over him with meat cleavers until the (Continued on Pag Pin) AUTO SMASHUP FATAL FOR TACOMA YAKIMA. Jan. IS (AP) Dac Roberta ot th Robert and Johnson Construction company of Tacoma. died yesterday following an automo bile crash on the TaJtlma Canyon highway and hla partner, George W Johnson, died shortly after 10 o'olooc today. Johnson suffered a skull trao ture from which he did not rally nd Robert died as a result of head and Internal Injuries, Jack Klaasen. driver of the car, and Oeorg Warter. architect for the company and aloo from Tacoma. received sever Injuries but ar expected to recover. . Their sedan crashed Into a trailer behind a truck loaded with hay. KIPLING'S CONDITION REMAINS VERY GRAVE LONDON, Jan. 13 (AP) A bul letin Issued at 1:80 p. m, tonight said the condition ot Rurtyard Kip ling remained extremely grav. but that there had been no Chang u th last tour.