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Newspaper Page TextI The Weather What Happens j Sale are being made. souse rented, loet articles returned, altuatlona secured, and many ' other things are being accom- ! pllshed through Mall Tribun ClMiUled advertisement. Tribune Forecast: Cloud; with fog tonight and Friday. No change In temperature. Temperatura Highest yesterday 34 Lowest this morning u EDFORD Thirl ieth Year Full associated Press MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY. JANUARY 23. 1936. Full United Press No. 259. fMllfO) U IM UPL0)LS ST MX El latteBBBtfeBBBBBBBl XBtBBBBBaBBF Bv Paul MaNon (Copyright, 1936, by Paul Mallon) SYRACUSE. N. Y., Jan. ,33. The mnat. tiAVArfiil farm lalr lln here like Inflation, and Borah. You may a1 njgwpwwwj tnins. mat one r i eaas. , u nf those two would be enough but apparently not lor them. Thev attended the meeting of farm counselors, held In Wash ington r e entry after the AAA b r e a k-up, but were shunted , c I Into group meet lnes In which daiti. iiiij.ov their voice waa not the loudest. Neverthetesa. you will notice, If you look up we inriftt.innarv idea was men- nn.j BnmHwhfLt nolnted way In more than one of the general farm counsellors' statements iu at that time. These went unnoticed In Washington, during the majority rush for the sou conservation uu atltute. What was apparently behind the pointed suggestion was the old com modity dollsr theory. It was orlgl nslly suggested by President Roose velt, but shelved early In the new Tfc rt. nr the country may have forgotten about It, but not the farm folks In tnis neca 01 national woods. In this connection, train 'con-.,n-a nnt.i(wt Prof. Warren on the Washington-bound sleeper once since the AAA decision. They saw him return to his Cornell university post shortly therealter. noming awu appeared In the papers because the Invisible professor has a way of get ting In and out of Washington un noticed. Persons with long memories will recall he waa the original com modity dollar man, but do not let that mean too much to you. He formerly taught Treasury Secretary MnnrenthSIl. Mr. MornthaU OCCS- atonally calls him In for private advice on a variety 01 monetary Ject. It does not necessarily Indicate that Mr. Morgenthau la toying again with the Warren theory. He la prob ably now Interested In. only one phase of It, and the White House may not be Interested at all. Best guess amona.the best guess era Is that the largest of all state delegations to the coming Republi can convention will be spilt three ways. They expect New York to be divided among Knox, Borah and Landon. The Idaho farm orstor will prob ably get the bulk of the upstate farm delegates. It Is not generally known, but he haa been playing ball with thla crowd for many years. (Continued on Page 811) Coos Bay, Frisco Air Line Planned NORTH BEND. Ore.. Jan. S3. AP) Vem O. Oorst, operating the Oorst Air Transport company of Bremerton and Seattle, said plans are under way to extend an airline from Coos Bsy to Oakland, Cel., In March. Oorst said he would affiliate with an airline company which proposed to obtain air rights from Vancouver. Wash, to Bandon and Cooa Bay within the near future. Work on development of the North Bend airport under a $10,000 federal fund will begin Monday, weather permitting, works progress officials here said. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Walt Olmscheid. a bright orange feather In his hat, walking across Central on Main, crossing Main, then back arrnas Central on the opposite aide of the itreet to get from the United National bank corner to the Woods drug store. Bert Orr uktng "Papa Bote if mrkel cigars were three for a dime when tou had to wait on yourself, cafeteria style. The answer was "NO." Vie Patton honking his way up Main atreet In a shiny Pl mouth coupe, and almost running over another car while waving at ac quaintance. Howard Osult setting up cokes for the force at the sheriff's office, which Is common practice. The stall ilm has ftinkln (iinti With which to buy apple. Jack Hughes promising, albeit grudgingly, to try to do something about the sticky fog that enveloped the sows last night. E ASSERTSSH E R i F F Fresno Officers Hustle Cap tive to Folsom Prison to Thwart Lynching Possi bility Motive Obscure FRESNO, Calif., Jan. 33. 4AP) Elton Stone, 30, a paroled convict who Sheriff George J. Overholt said. confessed slaying Mary Louise Stam mer, 14, was hustled Into Folsom prison today by deputy sheriffs to thwart any possible lynching at tempts. Stone, heavily guarded, was taken from jail here after sheriff Overholt reported, the man had admitted shooting the daughter of a promln ent attorney to '"get" one of the family. "When Stammer hears my name he wtU know why I did It," Over holt quoted Stone, Unknown To Father The slain girl's father, Walter H. Stammer, prominent attorney, de clared he did not recall Stone's name nor did he recognize the former con vict from a photograph. Sheriff Overholt said there was no Indication of mob violence, but Im mediate steps were taken to prevent a lynching such as occurred at San Jore and Yreka. Sheriff Overholt said Stone told in detail of lying In wait near the Stammer home the night of last November 24 to "get" one of the family. - Officers took the ex-convlct Into custody at North Fork 60 miles from here. He offered no resistance and readily admitted the slaying, Over holt said. District Attorney Dan Conway said Stone would be charged with mur der. . Shot From Window It was a shot out of the dark that fatally wounded the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Stammer as she sat alone In the beautiful family home in an exclusive residential sec tion outside the city limits. Having determined to Mget" one of the Stammers that night, Overholt said Stone related, be dtove to with in a block of the Stammer home and parked his car. Ho formerly lived In the. district bordering the exclusive section and was familiar with the territory. After parking ha car he watched the Stammer home. He saw Mr. and Mrs. Stammer and ther younger daughter leave the house and drive away In an automobile. It was learned later Mrs. Stammer was taking her husband to the rail road station. As the automobile disappeared down the street Overholt said the former convict told him, Stone stepped from his hiding place. stealthily approached the house where a light had been left burning and peered In at a window. He saw Mary sitting before 'the fireplace, deeply engrossed In a transcript of a legal document. For a brief moment he watched her, then pointed his small calibre auto matic pistol at her bowed head and pulled the trigger. The bullet, an autopsy determin ed, plowed through her head from the top and lodged at the base of her skull. Broke Into House Stone saw the girl slump to the floor, Overholt ssld he was told. Then he raced around to the rear door. Using his pistol as a mallet he smashed through the screen and glass doors and let himself In. He dragged the dying girl Into an other room and disrobed her, plac ing her on the floor with a pillow under her hear!. The sound of some one returning came to htm and he hurried out the back door end drove away, Mrs. Stammer, who was returning from the station, found her daugh ter and called for help. The girt was taken to a hospital but died two hours later. LOCAL PLANE SERVICE IS STILL FOG-BOUND Fog continued today to tie up the Medford schedules of United Air Lines. No Immediate relief was In ight as the weather burwau fore cast fof for tonight and tomorrow. Instead of calling here United Air Itr.ere were landing at Redding. Cal., today. Local passengers were being conveyed by train for part of their Journey. VIMbltlty today was ranclng be taeen one-eighth and one-fifth of a mile, there being no celling The fog was general In th valleys up and down the coast, the weather bureau reported. 51 Perish as Severe Cold Grips In Winters Straight-Jacket ( J II 'I A straight-Jacket of Ice furmea aver Atlanta, In the heart or tlis "Nuniiv foil I h," mille the Fast and Middle lint suffered hemy lire and property toll from a Inter storms. Here Is a scene In Atlanta, where the streets were hesped with fallen limbs and trolley ear senlee was halted. (A. P. Photo.) OF All county offices of Jackson coun ty completed last year within their budget allowances, though for several It was a narrowsqueak. The four principal funds of the county also closed well within their budget limi tations. The general rosd fund closed with a deficit of $3,553.08. or 4.3 per cent In the red. but reimbursements to this fund for outside work amount ing to (3.743.64 left the fund with an actual budget balance credit of $190.46, The county library fund expended 78.8 per cent of Its budget, and closed the year with a balance of (1.267.08. The emergency fund expended 93.6 per cent of Ita allotment and closed with a balance of (606.36. The market road fund ended with a (472.42 balance, after expending 96.8 per cent of the allotment. The percentage of budget expendi tures and balances at the close of the year for county offices Is: Justice courts Pet. District attorney M 90. Balance ( 2.S4 111.12 2,589.28 127.97 16.51 8.33 187.34 270.19 973.21 205.54 29.23 189.84 324.74 6.10 4 30 County court .. 98.1 Circuit court 69.5 Sheriff 99.1 89.5 Medford Ashland Gold Hill . 97.9 . 37.6 97.B . 80.1 .... 98. Clerk Treasurer ... Assessor Court house- Maintenance 99.9 County Jail 96.3 Coroner 59.4 Surveyor , 99.6 Srhool superintendent 99 6 BONUS ADVOCATES CELEBRATE r f l FVI fl l4JmM4tiJmim-mmammmmmmmmmmmaJi 4,'&..tt'W. y jiy&iasiawgjws m mimmt Thus eenatortal and veteran adveestea of the bonus oathered for a celebration of the senate's passage of the "bond bonus" plan. Left to right: Senator f'st McCarran 0.-Nev.); Ray Murphy, com minder of the American Legion; Senator Frederick Stelwer R,-Ore.), co-author of the bill; J. T. Taylor, American Legion representative; Senator Jamea F. Burnt (O.-t. C) and Jame Van Zandt, commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Associated Press Photo iLT TAKES DEAD KING L By BURDETTE JOHNS (Copyright, 1936. by the Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 33. The body oi King George V was returned to London this afternoon for the four days lylng-ln-stste in the capital of his former empire. Only a few hours earlier, a sad farewell had been accorded the dead monarch at Sandrlngham, where his reign came to an end shortly be fore midnight Monday. Tho 10-car royal funeral train pulled Into the smoke - encrusted King's Cross station at 3:46 p.m., while tens of thousands of Britons packed the adjacent streets. They stood waiting silently and mournfully In the ohlll air, to pay their last tribute of reverence to the man they had honored in life with loyalty. An honor guard from the three fighting services the army, navy and air force stood rigidly at at tention on the purple-carpeted plat form as grenadier guardsmen car ried the oaken coffin from the black and purple funeral coach. The guardsmen placed It on royal horse artillery caisson for the procession through the streets of central London to Westminster hall. There, the great folk of the land were assembling for the lylng-ln- state ceremonies. The new king, Edward VIII, who accompanied the body of hli father, already had communicated to the house of common the declaration: "I am resolved to follow In the way he ha Mt before me." LIBERTY LEAGUE LEADERS. SCORED BY DEI SOLON Al Smith, DuPont and Ras kob Target for Bitter Re marksControl by 'Ras cals, Crooks' Is Claimed WASHINGTON. Jan. 33. (AP) The financial Integrity and personal loy alty of three leaders of the American Liberty league Alfred E. Smith, Pierre DuPont and John J. Raskob were challenged sharply In the sen ate today by Senator Schwellenbach (D., Wash.) Almost on the eve of the league meeting which Smith la to address Saturday, Schwellenbach referred to the several occasions when President Roosevelt had supported Smith for kob, asserting that Pierre DuPont Yorker to rememtwr that "No man can successfully turn his back on a friend." Picturing Smith as surrounded by "leeches and bloodsuckers' 'and the "rascals and crooks that control the American Liberty league." the west erner expressed, hope that Smith would remember how Roosevelt ran for governor of New York In 1928 at Smith's request. He said that Smith, campaigning for president, had phoned Roosevelt, then at Warm' Springs, to run for governor, 'He (Smith) made the request de spite the fact that It Involved risk ing the life of his very best friend." Schwellenbach shouted. - Schwellenbach began by attacking the DuPont family and John J. Ras the presidency and called on the New and Raskob pttbsed "rubber checks" to establish stock losses to evade In come taxes. BOTH SIDES LIST By the AriAorlated Press. A general engagement In northern Ethiopia with several thousand men killed on both sides were reported by Italian and Ethiopian sources today. The Italian news agency, fitefanl, said i several thousand Ethiopians had been slain; the Ethiopian gov ernment Issued a communique de claring several thousand Italians had been killed. There were lnd Icatlons tile f igh t Ing was somewhere west of Makale In the Temblen region. HOLMAN, ALEXANDER TO ADDRESS OFFICERS Rufus O. Hoi man, state treasurer, has accepted an Invitation to attend and apeak at the meeting of the Southern Oregon Law Enforcement Officers association meeting to be held tn Grants Pass Saturday, Feb ruary 6, George P. Alexander, assist ant superintendent of state police, will also be present. Peace officers from Douglas, Coos, Curry, Josephine, Klamath, Lake, Jackson and Dos chutes countfe will attend. SENATE VOTE AAA SUBSTITUTE, CREATEJSCORD Farm Bill Too Loosely Drawn Is Protest in Sen ate Aides Study Bonus Bill for Recommendations WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. (p) A senate agriculture sub-committee vir tually scrapped the administration's soil conservation substitute for AAA today n favor of legislation built on the principle of "48 little AAA's" In the states. Simultaneously, Attorney General Cummlngs told newsmen that new taxes to finance a farm program are "In process" or formation by the Jus tice department and the treasury. WASHINTON. Jan. 33. DlS cord among senators over the stop gap farm subsidy bill and the muni tions Investigation burst forth today while the house disputed over allot ting ai.ooo.OOO for control. of potato production. . The administration discovered lta AAA substitute would either have to be drawn more strictly or face pro tests that It does not square with the constitution. A closed senate com mittee mooting revealed such friction that some members declined even to serve on a aub-commlttee to study the plan. Public Demand Claimed Senator Nye. (R N. D.), put op ponents on the munitions Inquiry on notice that he would Insist on more funds to carry through. A "vio lent demand" from the public sup ported him, he said. The senate Itself worked ea minor legislation. In the house, Representative Lud low, (D., Ind.). argued the potato act "la positively on Its way out," tn urging that no enforcement funds be voted. "There was a time when a million dollars was regarded as an enormous sum," he said, "Here Is a chance to do a good turn for the taxpayers b; saving a million." Bonus Bill Studied In downtown departments aa he spoke the cash-bond bonus bill was being studied for reports to be made to the president, Treasury officials considered how to raise the money In time to start redeeming the vet erans certificates June 15, If the bill becomes taw. Secretary Mongenthau said tho sit uation created by this potential de mand for almost 92,500,000.000 on top of some 9877.000,000 expected to be required to straighten out the post AAA confusion, had his men bending over their desks. In several weeks, he expects to "see things much more clearly. For one thing. It should be clearer then whether new taxes can safely be attempted or It would be simpler to rely on borrowing. And Mr. Roosevelt will have had his say on the bonus. Every one was trying to guesc what was In the president's mind with re gard to the full payment measure which emerged from congress yester day and was laid on his desk. Veto Bet of Intimates Most of bis Intimates continued to "bet" he would veto the 93,401,000, 000 bill which would pay off 3,800.- 000 bonus certificates with 950 bonds cashable after next June 15. Politicians were trying to figure what the effect on the presidential election will be If Mr, Roosevelt ve toes the measure and his supporters In congress vote to override . the veto. aa many figure they will. JOURNALIST. DIES WASHmOTON. Jan 93. (P) Frank H. Simooda. notnl Journalist, author and student ot foreign af fairs, dlad at Uls horn hr. today shortly after noon. Ha mi M aars old Tn trim sraa born at Concord, Mass. Aftsr baintj graduated from Har ard In IVOO ejlmonda started a nsrs paper oareai wluob began with tlui New Tork rrlb ina ai,d has included servtos as a writer ami editor on the New Turk Eteuu Tc&t. New Tork flun. and the Keriew of Review. Por some year-a be hae wiiUibuted to a syndicate o: half a hundred American aid foreign newspapers. He held numerous forelg"! orders. Among his works la a history of tne world war in fir volumes. . Tenneosee'e 1830 auto license plates are shaped In th geographical out line of the .tat. Eastern States Used Razor Blades Are Highly Prized By Africa Natives CHATTANOOGA Tenn.. Jan. 3fl. (j Used razor blades are going to church next Sunday to supply eggs for a missionary In the Bel gian Cojiko, Walter Johnson, president of the Layman's club of the First Pres byterian church, arranged 't when he learned ot the demand for discarded raoor blade among native of Africa. The Rev. Carroll fitegall, Chat tanooga missionary in the Congo, wrote that natives used the blades to maks decorative scars on tholr bod.ee and out furrows In the hair. He said his wife was charging the natives an egg for each blade. Thiy paid readily. 3 TO MANY SEEK DATA Definite arrangements were made for the construction of three new Medford homes at the mortgage clinic held today In the Jackson County Chamber of Com mere, it was an-! nounoed thla afternoon by Leslie ! Peyton, Oregon manager of financial relations for the federal housing ad ministration which la promoting a building program here. Tentative plans were made for the building of several other homes snd arrangements were completed for the modernization of a number of resi dences and the purchase of nous hold and farm equipment,1' Mr. Peyton said. He did not disclose the iden tity of the prospective builders or purchasers. "Wo are more than gratified with the response shown snd the results obtained during the first morning of the clinlo," Mr, Peyton stated. Exactly 83 persons consulted the federal housing administration agents between 0 a. m. and noon, Mr. Pey ton related. So much Interest was shown In the building compalgn that the clinic will be continued Saturday at the chamber of commerce, he said, adding that an evening session be tween 7 and 0 would be held tonight and tomorrow. The clinic, therefore, will be open tonight, all day snd evening tomor row and all day Saturday. Persons Interested In new construction or the purchase of household and farm equipment are Invited to confer with the FHA agents who are prepared to answer all pertinent questions and offer helpful suggestions. Four PHA representatives are con ducting the clinic. In addition to Mr. Peyton, the staff consists of John H. Hoppes, Stewart Jameson and Miss Manche I. Langley. ARRESTED IN EAST Word was received here this morn ing of the amt at Slkeston. Mo., of C. B. Swift and wife of Rogue River, Ore., on a burglary charge from Butler. Mo, The two were ac companied bv William and James Bal lard, who ev their homes aa Ven tura, Cal, When the four were apprehended they were riding In an automobile registered to otft, but legally be longing to thi Commercial Finance oorporatlon of Medford company of ficials said today. Missouri officials contacted the local company, asking to be advised as to the disposition of the machine Finance officials stated that Swift had not received permission to take the machine out of the state. They have not yet decided disposition of the auto. State police hae as yet not heard from the Mlsuourl police regarding the case, but expect Information on the cause of the arrest shortly, they said today. EVANS VALLEY YOUTHS CITED TO GRAND JURY Wilson Nesthamer, Newton Jami son. Harlan Pelcher and Don Camp bell, ffrana valley district youths, charged In a nomplalnt aigned by Lloyd Beer with larceny not In a Iwelltng, we. ordered held to the grai.d Jury oy Juatloa of th Peace William R. Coleman yesterday. Upon recommendation of the district attor ney. the were allowed to go on trwir own recoxnlKanc pending call to ap pear before th grand Jury. Th youth allegedly removed ar ticle frum a gas. ADDED DISTRESS PREDICTED WITH HEAVY SNOWFALL Twenty States Feel Effects of Blasts From Arctic Mercury Takes Sharp Dive in Many Sections 100 Weeks Death Ton CH1CACJO. Jan. JS. (AP) Mora than 300 deaths within tha last week wer attributed today directly or Indirectly to the weather. At least 177 died In snow-cor. ered northern states last Satur day. Sunday and Monday, mostly In traffic accldenta on Icy high ways. At least 54 more have been froeen to death, died of exposure or In fires yesterday and today aa dded warmth waa sought sgalnst some of the lowest temperatures ilnce the turn of th century. CHIOAOO, Jan. 33. (AP) Bub zero temperatures and whistling winds from the Canadian northwest doubled their toll ot human Uvea today aa they swept from th Da kotas to the Atlantic. .At leaat fil dead wer counted In a dosen of twenty state covered by th Arctlo blaat. Heavy snow was due to fell to night or tomorrow, and the weather man waa uncertain when real relief would come. Slowly rising tempera tures were predicted for tomorrow or Ssturday in th midwest a th Arctic wave moved eastward. The rawest cold still centered over the midwest, with M below aero at International Falls bridge In northern Minnesota the worst on the continent, but aero chill ex tended from the Rockies to th dg of New England and south to Ten nessee and North Carolina. - ' Mercnry Goes Low. Thermometers registered between 35 and 35 below cero In Minnesota and Wisconsin, and from 10 to 30 below In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, eastern Kansas, Ne braska and th Dakota. ' From Ohio eastward the mercury sagged below aero aa far a New Tork city, where th column showed a below, and the harbor sent up clouds ot vapor because th air was so cold. Across Pennsylvania and New Tork, leaving snow and Ice locked high ways, the wind ripped Into New England and tore th Nantucket lightship adrift from her mooring oft the Massachusetts cosst. "Hell" Free re i Over. Even the Satan'a Kingdom pond In Connecticut froze over with 111 Inches of 1c. Snow drltu were lk feet high around the tiny commu nity, and the temperature drop ped to below. In Michigan, Hell (an almost abandoned village) was froeen over. Oslea off the Virginia capes blew the Danish steamer Maryland aground In Baltimore harbor and unroofed three homes In the city. A St-mlle wind smashed windows la Washington, D. C. Thirty psssenger wer reported marooned In a Pennsylvania raU road train stalled by snow nesr Stsrkey, N. T. An emergency crew was sent to free them. The worst of the blleeard was Juet moving In on th east coast, however. Westward from the western fringe of Pennsylvania, wher th mer cury slid to 35 below at Cnsson In the Allelghenle. roads remained blocked by snow. In many state and score of school were closed. IT Below In Chicago. Chicago escaped Ita predicted low of 39 below, because th wind changed Ita course, but 17 below waa touched before a rise began. Trains from the east wer an hour and a half 1st, but some from th northwest wer two hours behind schedule. Illinois low spot ws Mundeleln, north of Chicago, with 3a below. Other below aero point: Pomeroy. Ohio, 39; Indian-polls, U: Madison, Mil.. 34: S. Bte. Marls, Mich., 18; Internatlonal Falls Bridge. Minn., M; Cedar Raplda. Is. SO; Hsnnlball, Mo.r 17: Orand Forks. N. D., SS: Huron. 8. D.t 34; Omsha, Neb.. 10; Elwood. Kss., 13. 10O0 Autos linowhoand. In New Tork more than a thou sand automobiles wer snowbound near Buffalo, and hundred of car were abandoned near Rochester. Th eastern half of Kansaa waa froeen. while western Kansan watch ed the first robins of spili. Call- (ornlsns bathed In sunny comfort, but frost was expected In th muck- lands of southern Florida.