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The Weather rorecait: Partly cloudy to night and Friday; slightly cold er tonight. Highest yesterday 55 Lonest this morning 41 Precipitation last 34 houn. .oa Interesting Many people hav formed the ublt of reading the Classified Ada each day. They find them Interesting and often derive a substantial benefit In pay nient for their time. MEDFORD Tbtbune Thirtieth Year rull Associated Press MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 19H6. fou United Press Xo, 277. jj WHS MM F5 I" v BjBLd GO AHEAD SIGNAL r in. FOR LEGISLATION By PALL LLLON (Copyright. 1936, by Paul Mai Ion.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. Phantom trumpeters of the New Deal have been blowing, in here and there, and the words nave been coming out orDicu- larly that there will be no bonus taxes. That tune will be' kept up until alter congress has grappled with and has been thrown by t he problem of rais ing about five hundred million dollars for the so- called farm relief program. PAUL mallon- Wnen the taxm tax grappling match Is over and set tled, congress will get a little note, directly or Indirectly from the White House, reminding It that there Is a matter of amortizing the bonus yet to be disposed of. Just make a note of that. The amount of money which will be requested is $135,000,000 a year. . fiwwsrjrw. i rii'iii-flriiVviii Thla seems to comprise the whole Inside legislative program of the New Deal for the remainder of the session. v; A wide variety of assorted excise taxes to pay the farm Is known to have been prepared secretly by the treasury department. These will be submitted to congress, when congress asks for them, but not before. The adminis tration wants to back into that situ ation cautiously, avoiding stress on It as muob as possible and ducking di rect recommendations wherever pos sible. Less caution will be displayed later In regard to the bonus taxes, because the new dealers half-expeot congress to walk out without enacting bonus taxes. But" the Important thing now Is that the new deal program has been privately concluded, that It contem plates approximately $635,000,000 of new taxes and no more (no Income, sales and corporate Increases). No additional legislation will be request ed. No pending legislation Is consid ered Important, except routine con tinuance of neutrality and routine government appropriations bills. That is all business men and poli ticians need to expect. Hottest Inner discussion now con cerns President Roosevelt's sincerity In curtailing expenditures. New deal moderates are Jubilant. As they describe it, the "public pulse" Is right for a sharp curtail- , (Continued on Page 9lx) Iron Horse Tows Streamline Train CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Feb. 13, (AP) The old-fashioned steam engine came into its own last night when motor trouble developed on the Union Pa cific's streamlined "City of Port land'1 as It approached Laramie. A freight engine was called Into service to pull the streamliner Into Cheyenne. And to make matters more discom forting. President Carl Oray of the Union Pacific and other high officials of the rosd were aboard the City of Portland. PnMinmtor Named WASHINGTON. Peb. 13. (Pf The post office department announced to day the appointment as acting post master: Waller R. Powell, Burns, Ore. 4 SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Zoke Petttgrow. wrassler. laying down his two bits to get into the nudist movie, but having to elbow several others out of the crowd to do so. Tony Mete banking so steeply on a turn getting Into a Jewelry store that he almost fell down. Maynard Putney, now at Central Point with Faber's grocery arter two years at the same Job In Butte Falls, admitting it's about time for the C. P. establishment to be robbed again. Walter Leveret te running along Cential street amid a great Jingling of coins to get Into Oeorge Hunt's new car before that worthy had time to drive off. Principal C. O. Smith of the H. 3.1 screwing with this department by ad mitting the meet crying need in the city U another telephone exchange at the school. It takes two hours to get a call through there, on an aver age. Walt Antle and several others ad miring the Smoke Ilcuc ct. which caught a mouse today and is still t convalescing from the hard work en-1 tailed, Slum Clearance Also in Plan Means Help for Private Industry in Rem edying Housing Shortage WASHINGTON, Peb. 13. (JP) President Roosevelt today approved a, long-time, low-cost housing and slum clearance program. In conference with congressional and administration leaders, he gave his approval for action at this ses sion of congress for legislation to per mit government aid for slum clear ance, construction of houses for the low-Income group, and renewal of the present law Insuring loans for mod ernization of homes. Senator Wagner (D-, N. Y.) an nounced he would introduce the leg islation, declaring "there Is a great housing shortage in the low-Income field." Secretary Merge nthau and Peter Grim, his assistant on housing, par ticipated in the conference. Wagner said the program would in volve both loans and direct grants on alum clearance, with the government lending probably up to 90 percent on low-cost houses. He estimated the Initial outlay would not Involve more than $400, 000.000 by the federal government. Wagner estimated the program would cover a period of 10 years. Outside of the field of slum clear ance, he said the program aimed at aiding private Industry In the hous ing business. L Med ford's supplemental application for WPA funds to complete modern ization of the municipal airport is now being reviewed by officials in Washington, D. C, according to a telegram received last night by Fred W. Scheffel, city superintendent, from Senator Charles L. McNary. The telegram stated: "Works pro gress administration Just advised ap plication for Improvements to Med ford municipal airport has reached Washington office and Is new receiv ing attention. Will keep in touch and advise you of action. Regards.' The application has been approved by the WPA office in Portland and Capt. Edward Whitehead of the bu reau of air commerce. U. 8. depart ment of commerce, according to a letter received by Mr. Scheffel from A. W. Martin, aeronautics consultant for WPA in Oregon. Mr. Scheffel was of the belief the application would receive finsl approval shortly. Explains Gold Transfer. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. (Jpy Sec retary Morgenthau said today the re cent transfer of $10,000,000 In gold to China represented a conversion Into bullion of large dollar balances helrl by the nationalist government In New York as a result of treasury sil ver purchase. EUGENE, Ore.. Ft. 13. OP) Busi ness men in Eugene are organizing to support a campaign to bring Imme diate action on the construction of'a flax retting and scutching plant In the EiiTene-J?rringfleld area. Ingalls Gives Address on C. E. Ingalls. editor of the Corvallls Oasette -Times, gave what was con sidered an exceptionally eloquent and enlightening address on the life of Abraham Lincoln at the annual meet lng and banquet of the Lincoln club of Jackson county at the Hotel Med ford last night. With dramatics effect the Corral t a editor told his Urge audience about generally unknown phanee of the Ufe of the Great Emancipator, displaying an erudition that held the rapt atten tion of his hearers throughout ills 43 mlnute address. At the conclusion of Mr. Ingalls' resume. Prank J. VanDyke. presiding of leer, declared that at none of Its previous 21 annual banquets bad the Lincoln club heard a more thoroughly enjoyable addreea than that given bv the Corral lis editor. The 165 persons present accorded Mr. Ingalls a rlia vote of appreciation for his talk. Lincoln, Mr. Ingalls satd, possessed many of the best qualities of the out standing leaders of his time. Like most other great men of history, Lin coln seemingly came into the world to perform a special mission, the ed itor declsitl. Snow Paralyzes Traffic , Terrific snowa paralyzed both railroad and highway trafflo through out the Middle West aa drifts plied high. These two pictures toll the atory in brief. Above is an automobile virtually burled In drifts that also blocksd a giant plow at Algonquin, III. Below, thia Chicago and Northwestern locomotive was pulling coachea carrying 89 passengers when It stalled In a drift near Jackson, Wis. Passe igeis wsre brought Into Jackson while a rotary plow and 150 shovelera labored to free the enalne and clear the line. (Associated Press Photos) BY LARGE POSSE FOR AGED MINER A posse of SO CCO workers under forestry foremen, two deputy sher iffs, two state policemen, Ranger Lee Port and a group of neighbors are still combing the hills In the Carberry creek district today look ing for William Reed, 80. missing from his home In the district for the past several days. No trace of the old man was un covered by the group working the section yesterday, although a false report saying that he was found staying with friends on Thompson creek temporarily halted the hunt. A telephone call to check this state ment proved that Reed had not been seen In that sector. A scrutiny of the miner's cabin haa so far failed to reveal any clues as to where he might have gone, but neighbors, knowing that he was not In good health, fear that he wandered Into the woods and died. Miss Lillian Roberts, secretary of the Red Cross here, stated today that Reed is listed on the county Indigent list, but that he had not been to the Medford office recently. The last time she saw him, she said, was over a year ago. At one time she visited him at his cabin, dis covering that he made a pittance at mining in the district. In the summer he raised vegetables in a small garden. Miss Roberts said. (Continued on Page Three.) Enlightening Abe Lincoln Also like other outstanding char acters of history w'.vo .. 'ucwme im mortal. Lincoln was not appreciated by his own generation, Mr. Ingalls pointed out. Just as Wellington wee stoned on the streets of London on in annlversay of Waterloo, so was Lincoln opposed, slandered and re viled by the people of his own time, he emphasized. The emancipator's life, he said was one of romance and pathos and tragedy. With skill and eloquence Mr. In galls deftly sketched the early strug gles Lincoln faced and overcame, his romance, political life and principles. In the face of tremendous opposition and persuasion to change his course, Lincoln held steadfastly to what he believed to be right, the editor said. His early political failures and final sucrese were skillfully depicted, Mr. Ingalls pointing out that Lincoln first attained national attention by nil speech In which be said the nation could not endure half si a re and half free. With dramatic emphssls the editor told of Lincoln's list to fame and of Continued oa Tags Thret. CITED BY JAPAN AS By GLENN BARS (Copyright, 1936, by Associated Press.) TOKYO, Feb. 13. The Mancbou kuoan govern men took a most grave view of the latest border clash with Soviet-In Huenoed outer Mongolia, a Domel (Japanase) news agency, said today, especially since the enemy al legedly used bombing planes. The dispatch from Hslnklng. capi tal of the Japanese -ad vised state ' of Manohoukuo, quoting a spokesman for the Manchoukuoan foreign office, an Id the encounter yesterday at Ola hod lea was the most serious thus far of the last year's foreign incidents. Military report from the border confirmed reports that planes at tempted to bomb the Japanese-Man-ohoukuoan column Involved, but fail ed to Inflict casualties, the dispatch said. Planes Not Identified. Accounts differed as to whether two oi" three planes took part In the en gagement, and as to whether they were Russian or outer Mongolian. War Minister Yoshlyukt Kaweshlma proclaimed Japanese concern over a vast alleged concentration of Soviet military power In far eastern Siberia, close to the frontiers of Manohoukuo. Oeneral Kawashlma disavowed an Intention by the Japanese army to take military Intlative against Rua- 6ALEM. Ore.. rb. IS. (AP) Salem police today arrested Frank Jurlcek and Everett Carper, two soldiers who escaped from Vancouver Barracks last Monday In a "borrowed" taxi, The two men were picked up by policemen on the city streets shout 11 o'clock this morning. Officer Ed wards, who first noticed the pair, had his attention attracted to the pair by their regulation army she. Edwards, his suspicions aroused, no tified police headquarters which sent a car out to pick up the men. Ju rlcek, arrested first, readily admitted his Identity, but Harper refused to give his name until officers threat ened to fingerprint him. A department of justice man was reported on his way here to return the pttr to Vancouver. GRANTS PASS CHILD SWALLOWS POISON ORANTB PASS. Feb. 1SWAPI Little Phyllis Taylor, 1. of O'Brien, wee In Josephine Oeneral hospital today In serious condition after swallowing poison tablet. Attendant did not know how she obtained the tablet, nor how many ah. bad eaten. 1 - 1 i i ii in ' ' ' ' i (Continued on Page Ten) (Continued on Page Nine) I ESCAFli)IERSTOlliERSl NABBED IN SALEM MEET SATURDAY BELABORS MILLION INCREASE NEW DEAL IN 10 Former President Desig nates Main Target for G.O.P. Campaign Guns Own Role Still in Doubt PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 13. (AP) Friendly greetings. Informal political conferences, handshaking and Just plain old-fashioned get-togethers kept Herbert Hoover, titular head of the Republican party, busy here to day. Party problems and policies were discussed at conferences with the Re publican state central committee and the Multnomah county Republican central committee. "The conferences m'ere very infor mal," said Chester McCarty, chairman of the Multnomah county committee. "Yes, party politics and policies were discussed." . Among the many groups and dele gations visiting the former president at his hotel was a band of farmers from the Gresham district. Another group from the St. Johns district In North Portland visited. Mr. Hoover bad a smile and greet ing for all. Several out-of-state Republicans were among his callers. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 13. (AP) Former President Herbert Hoover's possible role In the coming political campaign remained In doubt today, but the Issue on which he hopes the Republican party will wage a victorious campaign for leadership stood out sharply the New Deal. The former president, in a vigorous and scathing attack on the present administration last night, strongly assailed President Roosevelt's recent address, charged waste and extrava gance, declared the budget to be "the worst unbalanced in history" and apparently set at rest reports that proposals to alter the consti tution might provide conflicting planks In the opposing major par ties. Balanced Budget Best Remedy. The declaration that "a balanced budget and a stable currency would put more men to work than the whole WPA" brought prolonged ap plause from the 1000 guests at the Lincoln day banquet at which Hoover was the principal speaker. Many ot his verbal barbs provoked laughter. "The president stated a month ago that the Issue before us Is the 'right of the average man and wo man to lead a finer, better, and happier life," the former executive declared. "That is an objective to which we all agree. That Is the Ideal of Americans since It was first men tioned In the declaration of Inde pendence. That Is not the Issue. The issue Is the New Deal methods and objectives which are destroying this very thing." Confusion Claimed. In referring to the constitution Hoover said: "No progressiva mind will feel that the constitution shall not be changed to meet the needs of chang ing national life." In enlarging on hie topic, "The Confused State of the Union," the titular head of the Republican party charged that "the outstanding state of the union at this hour Is a state of confusion. Confusion in thought, Tomato powers of the Rogue River velley will meet Saturday, Feb. rusry IS, at 1:30 p.m.. In the court house auditorium to dueuse matters or importance to the growing of the 1038 tomato crop, ft. O. Fowler, county sgent, announced today. Prof. Belmer of the Bo. Oregon Experiment station will talk on the subject of seed from resistant plant which he h been working on for the put seversl yesrs. Ralph Kooejer. of the Begy Canning Co., will be preeent at the meeting to talk on cannery prospects for the coming year. All tomato growers are urged to attend thla meeting. WASHINOTON. Feb. H. (API Adrireenlng hlmnelf to tormer Presi dent Hoover's latest criticism or the administration. Secretary Irkea eal today, "I nerer have known a man In public lire who waa In such a constant state of Jitters." "I suppose," the PWA adminis trator added at a press conference, "thet harlng made such a boggle-de-boteh of his own admlnlstrstlon he mas unwilling to sdmit thst any one els could do better. TALK IN NORTHWESTERN POPULATION SEEN Regional Planning Consult ant Predicts 30 Per Cent Growth in Ten Years Industry Is Main Lure SPOKANI. Wash., Feb. IS. (fl?) A population Increase of 1,000,000, or SO per cent. In the tour northwest states In 10 years waa predicted today to the northwest regional planning commis sion by R. F. Beseey, Portland, com mission consultant. Such an Increase will come, Beasey declared, despite the diminishing rate of the national Increase. He said he based his estimate on Indicated power development, new In dustrtea which will be stimulated by auch development, the capacity of the region landa for additional Battle ment to balance Industrial and mstro polltan Increases, and the balancing lncreasea In service population. Business Leaders Attend Officiate and business leadera from Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Wash ington were registered at the opening session of the three-day conference this morning. Bessey regarded checking of "tie mendoua wastes" through soil erosion aa paramount to tha land use prob lem. He would accomplish . this through the retirement of sub-marginal crop loans and their adoption tor gracing, wild life, forests, recrea tion and water conservation. The farm problem, he added, "Is especially acute In thla region because of our high dependence upon agri culture. Adjuatment of produotlon to needa 1 an economlo necessity." The problem of the forests, ha con tinued, Is Important not only to the region, but to the nation. Three years of atudy have Justified formation of the Pacific northwest planning commission, Marshall N, Dana, of Portland, Its chairman, told leadera from the four northweat statea. Plans Justified "W have progressed far enough In research and In the physical, natural and human resources of the north west to be sure that plana are Justi fied and required for a large growth and development In industry, popu lation, land and water uses," he de clared. "Aa I have worked with the people of the northwest In the first steps of a regional plan, I have come to reallae that we have resource great er In significance to the nation and to the future than our wealth In land and water, minerals and forests, cities and porta, wild life and natural beau ty," he aald. , "No single word can define that re source. It la rooted In cooperation and capacity for organization. It la dis closed In an appstlte for realism and the practical. It Is tha vision of the people. By It plan, and progress will rise through fact and chart and program to the nobility of attain ment." Dana found satisfaction In that Montana. Idaho, Oregon and Wash ington each have statutory planning counclla, Treasury Aide Named . WASHINOTON, Feb. IS. (P) Prealdent Roosevelt today appointed Wayne C, Taylor, of Chicago, assistant secretary of the treasury to succeed I. W. Robert who retires Saturday., Income Shares Maryland fund., bid el.3; asked 20.79. Quarterly Income shares, bid !.; asked ! 70 Roast Crow Is Delicacy Tulsa Diners Discover TU1JIA, Okla., Feb. IS. (AP) Fastidious Tulsa diner have de veloped a taste for roast crow and It may mean the end for the black robber of the com rows. Becauaa believes Dr. T. W. Stall ing, a corn-hater a a table deli cacy the field peat will rise to the dignity of a g.m bird. A a game bird, unprotected, he will become extinct. And Tulsa suddenly la enthuslsstlc over crow meat. Hospltala and school sre esperlmentlng In crow cookery, housewives hare proclaimed the biro a choice morsel and there la a mar ket price oa hi head. Butcher have smsll boys out scouring the field for crows at 1.80 a doeen. The whole Idea belong to Dr. Stalling, former county health r,u perlntendent. For yeara he watcheo the farmers losing war against the crop spoiling crows. Finally he de One-Man Village Proudly Reports P. O. Order Boost BEND, Ore.. Feb. IS. (API A postal business boom ha cheered the "entire" populace of the one man town of MlUlcan. W. A. Rahn, mayor, sole resident and postmaster, said proudly today that money order recelpta the last quarter were $870.64 three times aa great a for the same three months laat year, and contlnuo high. But aale of atampa last year was not very brisk, said Rahn - as he stood In hla combined atore, serv ice station, postofftoe and city hall. Most high desert people ap pear to carry their own mall, he said. FRANK VAN DIKE NEW PRESIDENT OF LINCOLN CLUB Frank J. Van Dyke, city attorney of Ashland and former resident of Med ford, was elected president of the Lincoln club of Jackson county at its 22nd annual meeting and banquet at the Hotel Medford last night. Others elected were William M. Mc Allister, first vice-president; Kenneth G. Denman, second vice-president; Herb Grey, third vice-president; and Hlldlng Bengtson, secretary-treasurer, AU were chosen unanimously. After tha election the retiring president. Earl T. Newbry, turned the meeting over to Mr. Van Dyke and he presided so efficiently that he was accorded a vote of appreciation. Two Civil war veterans. Polk Bull and J. O. Woods, were present aa guests of the club and they were given an ovation when Mr. Van Dyke In trod Iced them to tha assemblage. Mr, Van Dyke read a number of let ters and telegrams from public offi cials who expressed regret at not be ing able to attend the banquet. He also Introduced state legislators. (Continued on Pago Six) ROYALIST ATTACK ON DEPUTY BRINGS DISBANDING EDICT PARIS, Feb. IS. (Jp) President Le brun Issued a decree today disband lng all militant royalist organisations In France. The' president's drastic action fol lowed an emergency session of the cabinet called by Premier Albert Sar rut. The governmental action came hard on the heels of the royallst-soclallsti disturbances which began early In tnr day with a group of young "Klnfif.: Henchmen" beating up Deputy Leon Blum, socialist party leader. Socialist deputies threatened the life of the Sarraut government. Younger socialists threatened direct reprUals sgalnst royal Into, suggesting (hey might wreck royalist headquar ters and the royalist newspaper, L' Aotoln Fran cats, of whloh Leon Dau det la editor. Blum was attacked In taxlcab. He was hit over the head with a cane and Injured sufficiently to be taken to a hospital. Other socialist deputies, angered by the attaok, voted to abstain from par liamentary action until Premier Sar raut dissolves the royalist organlim tlon, L'Atcoln FTancalse, of which the king's henchmen Is the youth move ment. cided the beat way out waa to eat the blrda. He experimented flrat on newa papermen. Served them a banquet, neard tiivtu say they liked It, then told them they had dined on crow. He followed with another trial din ner, then sent his Idea up agalnat Ita supreme teat. Housewives, a domestic science tescher, a dean of hospital nurses and Mayor T, A. Penny's wife ate crow. They were enthusleatlc. Mr. A. C. O'Brien, the nurse, ssld she would propose the Idea to her dietician. Mlas Maud Firth, the do mestic science teacher, will open class In crow cooking. "There la no reason why crow shouldn't be good food," aald Dr Stalling. "I have Investigated the bird' feeding hablta and found It cleaner than you wouldn't believe It chickens. "It's Just a allly Idea that they aren't good to eat," OF LOHNGELES Worker Killed in Landslide' On Mt. Lowe Storm Loss Totals $100,000 More Rain Due S. F. Area LOS ANOHLDS, Feb. IS. ) A ' landslide on Mt. Lowe killed one man tOdaV as a Storm thfit. rtlrf .inn nnn damage to southern California last niRns apparently lifted. Miguel Valdevle. RO. Alma... n.i employe of the Paclflo Electrlo" com pany woramg to avert rurther falls of dirt on the scenic tnu.Vn.av .u- mountatn waa burled under to ton of ciay. Hie companions dug him out A tornado and flood. t.h.t ti... out of the foothills accounted for the property aamage. The tornado ripped a narrow oath fmm iih.mhn n Long Beach, unrooting trM tnnnii five oil derrick, and lifting the roofa v,. uiibii iiRmg DUllQinga. There la no further threat of floode In -Los Angelts county, the foreatry department reported, with debris bas ins holding back torrent caused by w, qdj, ur rain. SAN FRANCISCO. Fen. 19 jia More rain was forecast today for the Paclflo coaat, already lashed by a wind ' u.ivcu uaiuga cnai ciaimea several Uvea, Inflicted extensive nmnf. damage, delayed trains and crippled highway trafflo. Rila today, rain probably tomor row, a continuation Of the tnrmne that swelled the Calaveras river until us current rushed so powerfully float were awept from their mooring at Stockton last night . with resultant (Continued on Page Seven) ER FAVORS VALLEY While other part of the country today were recovering from- the af flictions Imposed by an exception ally long and severe cold wave, Med ford wa en.foylng the balmy touch of a characteristic February day. Costa wet ahed, atore doors thrown open end home exposed to the soft and aoothlng air of the springlike westher. , Lowest temperature this morning wsa 41, aa compared with 39 yeeter day. Yesterday maximum of 85 d greea wa exceeded by two degree In mldafternoon, the mark of B7 being five above the reading of S3 at the same hour yesterday. Slightly lower temperatures, how ever, were forecast for tonight. The weather bureau said It would be partly cloudy tonight and tomor row. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. S.iPf Stat highway crews won their battle with sliding tapioca anow on the Col umbla river highway and opened It to traffic at 0 a. m. today. The snow-bound route was opened between 3 and 5 a. m. today to per mlt a few cars to pass through, and then wa closed attain for more com plete snow clearance. Then It waa re opened to cars equipped with chains. W. H. Strohmeyer. resident state highway engineer, expressed confi dence that the well equipped crews would be able to keep the road open now. When tha road waa hinrtMi day It was only the third time In bla tory that travel wa completelv halt ed by snow. Downtown Portland waa free of Ice tOdav. but the snow and rln th... fro aa It fell Tuesday night still covered wire and shrubbery In eaat ruru.nti. git.pend Hosehurg Cop. ROSEBURO, Ore., Feb. la. (P) Mayor Charle w. Clark today an nounced the euspenelon, until March 1 ot City policeman Jack Kearn for "Insubordination." The one-word ex planation waa the only report given the city council by the mayor for hi action, William Hoeft, former city officer, la patrolling Kearn' beat until the first of the month. aulclitra In Mausoleum. MANILA. P. I., Feb. 13. (fl-Man-uel Barnahaw, 73. formsr Philippine restdent commissioner to the United State,, shot and killed himself, au thorities aald. In the family mauso leum today. Coroner's and police of ficiate said there waa no question but hla death waa a suicide.
