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The Weather Forecast: Occasional rain or now tonight and Tuesday; little change In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday 4 a Lowest tills mornlnf Profit Most Keep In cIom touch with the classified page In this news paper U you would profit most. All ads are classified and easy to find. Look them over today. MEDFORD Tribune Thirtieth Year Full Associated rress iMEDFOTCD, OREGON. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1936 Full United Press No. 286. WiiZ.&r ass. IMBEI mlm r r r 5 BiMnd B.r PAIX MALLON Copyright, 163S, by Paul M&llon. WASHINGTON. Fob. 34. What snapped tha ellta flnanclera to atten ? tton on tha old forgotten war debts Issue waa a min or announcement from the state department the other day. The department cas ually said It had decided Greece could make a 35 per cent pay ment of Interest due on the next Instalment. A trivial sum of money la ln- PAUL MALLON volred. hut fi nancial Insiders know that Greek finances are generally run by London. Behind the Greek test mouse, they scented the presence of the more for midable British Hon. If Britain la leading up to a part payment of In terest, It Is time for everyone to sit up and take notice. Visions of reopening the interna tional finance market were Immedi ately conjured. That would provide a way to get rid of our excess gold. It might lead to stabilization, restor ation of foreign markets, cure of domestlo unemployment In fact to a sort of International Utopia. It la a pretty picture, but you can rest assured It la Just as remote as Utopia. Of course, it la recognized that Greece is not making the payment for fun. Nor are our authorities at the empty war debt cash box here greatly inspired by the hope that Athens has suddenly become conscience-striken, it is generally con ceded that the European debt con science is beyond repentance. No one pays on a latent obligation these daya without a. prospect of getting at least twice as much as he pays. " " The Greek purpose seems to be to get at least twice as muoh around the Johnson act. This Is the law preventing defaulting governments from seeking loans in this country. By paying a few thousand dollars, Greece may remove herself from the class of defaulters, then she may try to borrow some big money. U. S. government authorities know this or suspect it to a degree which borders on conviction. They also recognize the probability that the Greek offer la a European test case. Even so, there will be no Utopia. The reason there won't be Is that too many people In this country are against that method of temporary business expansion. The Greeks may be able to float a small loan here. There are enough good restaurant proprietors from the homeland to buy bonds within their flnanctal limitations. But even If that test case should prove to be successful In .the next six months or so, It will not be an authentic precedent. Britain would find, for Instance, that there (Continued on Page Pour.) NEW YORK TOWNSEND RALLY DISAPPOINTING NEW YORK. Feb. 2V (API Townsend plan lcadera admitted their disappointment today at the small number of adherents that attended the first ms.is meeting of f Townsendltes In Nnw York City. A crowd estlmsted by orgsnlrare at a scant 1.000 failed to fill even , the orchestra seste In the Brooklyn Academy of Music yesterday for the rally. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS .T .Tmme calllns uo Mayor Geo. Porter to Inquire about the mayor's trap shoot duel with Doc Lemery yes terday, and Porte admitting he got licked 1 to 13. statement which .tickled Jerome hall Ui death, for the poor ahootlng of both. Connie Latham and Max Rse pop ping In on Hertford after an army sojourn In Hawaii, and looking with vast dl."tsi upon the falling snow, which has frcren the smug look cm the fares of locsl cltlrenry proud of the mild weather. Otto Prohmsyer, Bill Bowerman nd Russ Achlson performing the he-rulean feat of devouring two doren rackleberrlea at one sitting, slightly less than seven eggs per man. Loll Lindsay achieving a childhood ambition by finally going on a merry-ro-round at the 8an rreneleco beach. Don Newbury, toastmaster at the Boy Scout conclave, warning the con tingent from over the California Hoe to be careful In going back, not to be ji eaiiiln by the Loa Angeles border police- i i 1 SNOW BLOCKADES ROADS TO SCENE AT Telephone Call For Help Interrupted By New Aval anche Number Of Dead Remains Undetermined. OURAY. Colo.. Feb. 34 (!) An undetermined number of men were reported killed and a, number hurt when snowslldes roared down upon the hlatorlc old Oampblrd mining property, eight miles from here, to day. First reports, which were uncon firmed, received before telephone communications at the mine prop erty waa disrupted, said nine men were killed- and an undetermined number Injured. The elides struck the mill and the boarding house on the King lease, part of the Campblrd property. Approximately 30 men were rushed from Ouray on horseback toward the scene of the tragedy. Roads to the propel ty were blocked by slides last week and the rescue party fought through drifts ten feet deep after leaving the horses half way. , "I received a call for help," said George G. Warren, manager of the Ouray telephone offtoe. The conversation was Interrupted, aparently as a bew slide tore out a new part of the line. "They asked for all the help they could get." It was on the old Campblrd prop erty that the late multimillionaire Thomas Walsh took the bulk of his wealth. He was the father of Evelyn Walsh McLean, Washington newspa per publisher. The slide, from the report Warren received, was similar to one Just a week ago yesterday which killed six and Injured three at the Hesperus mine, near. Mancos, Colo. . . IRLDlTPEACE PLAN IS OUTLINED LONDON, Feb. 24. fP) A British plan to Induce all nations, Including the United states, to Join a world wide system of collective security in an effort to end war was outlined to the house of commons today by An thony Eden, foreign secretary. "Our final objective," Eden de clared, "must be a world-wide sys tem of collective security which em braces all nations In an authority which Is unchallenged and unchal lengeable. "We are far from that objective at present. We can only hope to realize It by strengthening the authority of the existing system and facilitating, by agreement based on wide under standing, the cooperation of other nations in our work. FOR POSTAL TOURNEY Pinal arrangement have been made for the postal rifle shoot with ths Myrtle Creek Rifle club. It was announced today by Ivan Waddetl, officer of the Med ford National Rifle club. When the two clubs fire their salvo at no-foot range Wednesday night, the local altootere will do Ed Lull, Alien Perry, E. H. Pomeroy, C. A. Bander and C. R. Richmond. The team members are picked ac cording to the percentages turned In each week, a system oalculsted to al low the greatest number of club mem bers to compete. Shouldcr-to-shoulder matches with either Klamath Fills of Yreka are planned for the near ruture. INTERMITTENT SNOW FALLS OVER EUGENE EUOENE. Feb. 34. JPr A blsnket of snow covered Lane county from the Cascades to ths ocean today, but the light fall of snow at Eiarene was melting off toward noon. Snow fell Intermittently during the day Sun day and last night. At Cascade summit, where 630 per sons frolicked In the snow carnival aponaored by the Obsidian Ski club Sunday, 34 Inches of snow fell durln a 30-hour period ending thle morn ing NEBRASKA OLDEST MAN GIVEN PENSION OF $30 LINCOLN. Neb., Feb. 24 (AP) Solomon RlckneT. 116, of St. Paul. Nebraska's oldest man. today was awarded en old age periston of WO a month. The payment will start tomorrow. Governor Says Navy Aid Dies Assistant Secretary Henry Latrobe Roosevelt (above) of the navy died suddenly at Washington, D. C. (As sociated Press Photo). T WITH CAR THEFTS Two 15 -year-old Aberdeen, Wash,, youths, with an alleged penchant for taking other people's - automobiles, were scheduled to be arraigned in Justice court this afternoon, charged with the theft of a new Ford coupe belonging to Karl Bennett of Grants laee,"iaat night; ' tH cirlvaa 'trtdleif while parked on West Ninth street In this city. The two youths, Robert L. Sut ton and Marshall W. Vigns. were ar rested by state and Ashland city po lice In the Siskiyou mountains last night while they were sleeping In ths anow under a large tree. The two have allegedly admitted the theft of the Bennett car, as well as three others, stolen In Eugene, Grants Pass and Med ford. About 11 o'clock last night, Chl&f of Police Talent of Ashland, on the lookout for the stolen cars reported, caught sight of the ford coupe streaking south out of Ashland at a high rate of speed, regardless of the fact that the pavement was wet and slippery with ice and anow. Talent drew alongside the racing machine near the overhead crossing south of Ashland and sounded his siren. Ac cording to state police, the driver of the fleeing car forced him off the rood and continued. Talent drove to the Klamath Falls Junction and noti fied1 state police and the California checking station Just across the line. Accompanied by a state officer, he then proceeded south, looking for the oar. The two officers found the coupe about two miles this aide of the state line where It had skidded into a anow bank. Tracks revealed the di rection the two boys had taken, and the arrest followed. State police said today the two ad mitted the theft of a Pontlac car In Eugene, which they allegedly admit ted driving to 30 miles north of Grants Pass. Prom that point to Grants Pass, according to their story to police, they hitch-hiked a ride with "a sheriff." In-avnU Pass, police said they stole a Ford sedan belonging to C. A. WInetrout, and drove It here, abandoning It on WeA Second street. They then took a Dodge sedan be longing to J. A. Walsh. 5lo West Sec ond street, they said. Walsh had Just returned from a forestry banquet in Corral 11 and had entered hta home with the intention of returning Im mediately. The car was gone when he emerged a short time later. The youths admitted that they drove the oar around Med ford bu transferred to the Bennett machine when It was discovered that there was but little gsjwlins in Walsh'a car. police said. The car-theft reports of the city police show that a 1031 Chevrolet coupe bearing California plate, found abandoned near fie Southern Pacific freight depot here Saturday, belongs In Yreka, Cal where It waa stolen Friday night. California authorities or the owner were expected to call for it today. Clipper Hops For Midway Island HONOLULU. Peb. 24 (AP Con tinuing Its flight from Alameda, Gal . to Masilla. tha China Clipper hopped from here at 7:01 a. m. (13:91 p. m eastern standard time) for Midway Inland. 1333 miles. 7 Tie plane arrived here at 11 a m jeterdy. JIBE OF GENERAL E Commander Of 8th Corps Area At San Antonio Given Orders To Go Home Testimony Irks. WASHINGTON. Peb. 34. (AP) Major General Johnson Hagood was summarily relieved from his com mand of the 8th corps area at Han Antonio, Texas, today and ordered by President Roosevelt's direction to his home and "await orders. Hagood In recent testimony be fore a house appropriations com mittee suggested that congress take advantage of what he termed "WPA stage money" and use It to Improve housing at army posts. The order relieving him of com mand at Port Sam Houston, Texas, headquarters of the eighth corps area, was Issued on February 31 but not made public until today. Order Unexplained No explanation of his removal was forthcoming immediately In war department quarters. The order, which appeared In the regular army department orders. Is sued dally, said: "By direction of the president. Major General Johnson Hagood, U. S. army, la relieved from assign ment to the command of the eighth corps area and further duty at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Major General Hagood will proceed to his home and await orders. The travel direct ed la necessary In the military serv ice." . The . order was signed by General (Continued on Page Two.) HEIR TO 5 AND 10 LONDON. Feb. 24. (AP) An heir to one of the world's great fortunes was born today to Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwltz-Reventlow, grand daughter of p. W. Wool worth, the 5-and-10-cent store founder. The boy was born In the great regency period bouse overlooking Hyde park which his father. Count HaugwltE-Reventlow of Denmark, took over several months ago. It was reported that a "special agent" waa on guard In the big resi dence to see that "no unauthorized person enters the house and to guard against possible kidnapers." Three physicians attended the countess, and the secretary of one of them said both mother and child were in good condition. The baby was born at 10:30 a. m. He weighed T pounds. Flood Danger Passes EVANS VILLE, Ind., Peb. 24. (AP) Ice gorg-a in the Ohio river at New burg, I '.id., and dam 48. above and below this city, broke tils afternoon, freeing the stream for many miles and virtually removed all danger of a serious flood. FORTUNE ARRIVES VISITS $1.50 Week Sufficient To Dress Working Girl By Pan R United PTeea Staff CorFcapondenl. NEW YORK, Feb. 24. (UP) An American working girl can dresa on 1.50 a week or 77.75 a year and have plenty of silk storking, the sa sorlstlon for Improving the condition of the poor asserted laat night. A clothing budget was offered by the association listing the minimum wardrobe a working girl requires for "h faith and decency." The aasorutlon created a nation wide controversy a few months ago by publishing a minimum food bud get of 13 35 a week for a single gin The association will make a special appeal today to Its members for fund to buy clothing for needy per sons under 1U care. Relief agencies generally, because of lark of funds, hate failed to provide adequate clothing for the unemployed and as a result families on relief have suffered intensely during the current cold wave, the aasoclstlon said. Listed also were minimum clothing biidgeta of 958.05 a year for a work man. 32.50 for a housewife and S314 for an average poor family of five. The working girl's clothing budget Witness Against Bruno Lying Portland, Seattle Drivers Will Vie For Safety Mark PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 33. (AP) Human Ufa will be the stake In a six months contest be tween Seattle and Portland to see which city can show the greater reduction In traffic accidents. Mayor Joseph Carson and Worth W. Caldwell, chairman of the Portland accident prevention committee, accep ted tod ay the challenge thrown down by Lou Kessler, president of the Seattle Safety Observers. The contest will start March 1 and continue six months. Each city will be scored on 1U percent age of accident reduction under the corresponding six months of 1035. EX-GOV. RITCHIE, DIES OF STROKE BALTIMORE, Feb. 34. (AP) For mer Gov. Albert O. Ritchie, a nation ally known figure In the democratic party, died suddenly at his apartment here early today. He was 0. years old Rltchls, pioneer advocate of prohi bition repeal and recently an' out spoken crltlo of the Roosevelt new deal, apparently died of a stroke. He was alone in his rooms about midnight when he felt 111 and called his secretary, Mrs. Elisabeth W. Smith, at her home. Ke told her he was 111 and asked her to hurry over as fast as she oould. . . . . ' When Mrs? SmltJi Jrrlvd several Continued on Page Eight.) r- PUEBLO, Colo., Feb. 84. (IF) The "saffron scourge" churned today high In the southwest skies, threatening a dust storm season worse than the one whlcb terrified thousands laat spring. Citizens of the wide-flung south western plains country, who had been burfeted for .weeks by gritty winds a year ago and said there could be none worse, had evidence today the drought still hangs on. A 47-mlle an hour wind yesterday stirred up glgantlo clouds of slit that changed from saffron to pink to or ange to green and finally obscured the sun. Mld-dsy resembled moonless midnight, so blsck thst street lights could not be seen 60 feet away. Yesterday's sudden "black bllaxard" had blown Itself out on the ground but left a saffron hare overhead. Income Shares Marylsnd fund, bid SIP. 18; aeked $20.12. Quarterly Income aharea, bid $1.55; asked SI .70. Included 16 pairs of silk stockings, four palm of shoes, four dresses, two coats, underwear and accessories. A winter coat was presumed to last two years and a spring coat three years. Rubbers and bedroom slippers were then two years' durability, and an umbrella three years. The working girl's wardrobe com prised: Three hats St 53 each: one winter cost at 13.50: one spring coat at IS; four dreaaes at 15 eacTi; two amork at 00 cents each; four vesta at 34 cent earn: four pairs of bloomers or step-ins at 40 cents each: two slips at 60 rente each; three brassiere at 35 cents each: two nightgowns at 60 centa each: two girdles or corsets at 1 each: four pairs of shoes at M earn; for shoe repairs M.30: one pair rubbers at II; one pair bedroom slip pert at U0 cents; 15 pairs of silk stockings at SO centa each; two pa'rs of garters at 10 cents each; 13 hand kerchiefs at five centa each; two pair of gloree at 65 cenU eaoti; two pocketbeokr at ! each and one um brella at !. Ho proTlston waa made for Hp-Dttf-iM, powder, muge or other cos me -tlca. WINTER RETURNS TO VALLEY AREA ES Mercury Down To Freezing After Record Warmth Driving Made Perilous Fall Is Heavy In Hills. After abdicating for a couple of daya King Winter stepped back upon his throne yesterday and today was onoe more reigning supreme over the Rogue valley. Residents woke this wornlng to find the valley blanketed In white, the surrounding hill, once more deck ed out In winter robes. From a maximum of 03 degrees Friday, warmest day of the winter season thus far, the temperature dropped to a low of 31 this morning. witn breezes cooled by the fresh snow on all surrounding highlands, the mercury was slow In climbing, get ting only three degrees above the freezing point by forenoon. Hard Snowfall Here Snow came down hard this after noon, giving Medford Its first heavy fall of the winter. Driving became hazardous as the lakes stuck to windshields and car windows. Snow fell throughout southern Ore gon yesterday and last night and the white flakes were still falling In the higher altitudes this morning. Fore cast was for occasional rain or snow tonight and tomorrow. Orator lake national park had 13 Inchea of new anow when the datlv broadcast from headquarters was made today and It was stlU snowing this morning. Today there were 152 7 (Continued on Page Three.? CAPUENRTNOE OF POLICE DIES i BAKER, Feb. a. (P) Captain Henry Leon Koe. head of th. rtr-.. tate police In eastern Oregon, died ni nome nere Sunday night, fol lowing an Illness extending over a period of several months. He had been bedfast after h underwent a major operation In Portland laat yesr. Captain Noe waa born In Iowa In t87o and came to Oregon In 1008. He made his home In Ontario, where he waa night marshal for several years. From 1013 to 191 he waa dry marshal, and In I91S became deputy sheriff, tn 1018 Mr. Noe was elected sheriff of Malheur county, an office he beld until 103-i. when he was elected county judge. He waa ap pointed a captain In oharge of the Baker district when the Oregon stats police force was organised. launching of dally airplane service between Medford and Klamath Falls Is being considered by William Ran dall, manager of the Klamath Air Service. It was learned today. Starting of the service Is ssld to be contingent upon the amount of support Mr. Randall can enlist. It Is tits belief that If the service can be sustained and supported for eight months the line would be subsidized In part by tho government, a possible airmail contract guaranteeing contin uance of two flights a day, Mr, Randall Is now endesvorlng to enlist the Interest of Klamath Falls business men. FEATHERY FLAKES FALL IN CLIMATE CITY AREA GRANTS PASS, Feb. 94,(AP) Southern Oregon's balmy weather ws still here today, but It was grad uslly being covered by big feathery Hakes of snow which fell faster than they could melt this afternoon. Snow plows were put to work on the highway to the Oregon Caves, where 18 Inches of snow was report ed. grantspTss c-c for closing of umpqua O RANTS PASS, b. 24. ff The O rants Psss chamber of commeive went on record today favoring clos ing the Umpqua river to commercial fishing for "at least a number of years." The resolution Is to be sent to the vtate fl&h eommlssloo. Denies Confession 1- HOFFIVIANCHARGE j f . 1 jjf Fred Stettler (above), 85-yrar oia rliauffeur. repudiated a confession he allegedly made to police that he had slain Carl S. Barbour and tils wife. Dorothea, In a "murder by the dork" at their Los Angeles rooming bonne. (Associated Press lMwto), BY BRUTAL DAD ANADARK0, Okla,, Feb, 34. (AP) Emma Willis told a district court Jury here today that her father, whom she Is accused of killing had threatened to "send me to hell with scars all over me" after she had re pulsed allegedly "improper" advances. "He best me and the other children just like he did all the stock 'with rocks, sticks, pieces of Iron, or any thing he could grab " the 18 -year old brunette defendant testified. Her sharecropper father, Iddls H. Willis was slain with a shotgun lust December 31, as he lay In bed at his three-room farm home' near Kakly. Emma Willis admitted the ahootlng to Sheriff Elmer Henley, declaring she had been goaded to the act by years of brutal treatment. W. H. Cooper, defense counsel told the Jury In opening argumenta today that hla client Is now lnuine, snd was Insane at tho time of Willis slaying. Cooper asserted that several beat ings ovrr the head had rendered the girl unconscious, led toward mentat unbalance, and that she had suffered several attacks of Insanity. F-lie showed the jury a V-shaped scar over one eye, and described other fiara on her head, which she said had been caused by beatings admin istered by him. The defendant testified the Itist improper advances her father made occurred the night before the slaying. The DeMotay held their annual Washington Day banquet Saturday which waa attended by 100 OeMo lays and Invited guests. Kennth Wood, of the Medford senior high school faculty, gave a brief talk on the idesls and principles of George Washington. H. D. Kem, of the Conco, then entertained with technlcoior movies of southern Oregon's natural beauty. After the banquet a dsnce followed with prankle Rlnabarger en tertaining with a clever dance, during the lntri mission. SNOW CHASES SPRING OUT OP K. F. KLAMATH PALLS, Peb. 2V A heavy fall of snow ended Klam ath's "February spring" today and left the country choking under n blanket of four Inches. Early reports indicated timi way equipment had been successfv.) In keeping open all roads Into this section. 3 HAUPTMANN SEES I niirrunpnu 1 I lull Lll L IIUI L 111 Printed And Written Record Shows Millard Whlted Not Telling Truth Is Claim No Reprieve Planned. TRENTON. K. J., Feb. J4. (AP) Governor Harold O. Hotfman today accused Millard Whlted. Sourland mountain lumberjack, and one of tha state's chief witnesses against Bruno Richard Hauptmann. of "lying." and a short time later reiterated he has no Intention at present of granting a second reprieve. The governor was asked, through a secretary, Miss Elizabeth McLaugh lin, to comment on a report that he had told a friend he has given up hopes of saving Hauptmann's life, Tho secretary returned with tha governor's oral statement that "1 have made that remark at least fifty times." . Later the governor said, through his press aide. William Conklln, he had misunderstood the question and thought It referred to previous state ments he had mado that he la not planning a second stay of execution unless circumstances warrant. Ths governor was In conference in his private offloe when the question was submlttod to him. The governor, who questioned Whlted at length Saturday, said ths . t (Continued on Pngi Three.) IN WAKE OF STORM ny the Assoclsted Press) The icy grip that blocked the Columbia Rlvor highway more than two days was broken today, but In the wake of Oregon's week-end storms lay sit dead. Highway workers waging a con atant battle against snowdrifts fln ally cleared the scenic motorway between Portland and Hood River yesterday. The first storm victim wsa Lewis Hanel, state hlghwsy employe who was struck by a car while at work on ths Mt. Hood loop Prldsy. Two fishermen. Henry Matteon. 38, and Jim J as kola. 34, drowned In Friday night's SO-mlle gale at tho Columbia river mouth. A tree blown over by the wind crushed Uriah Hambley. 8J. of Aur ora while he was doing road work. Arthur C. Jackson. 40, of Port land, drowned In the Willamette river Sunday night when he slip ped In snow on an oil dock and fell Into the river. The storm-sgltsted waves awept Carl. A. ;ltt of Portland from a rock on which he was tuning near Yachats op the Oregon coast Sat urday. Hs drowned while compan ions sought frantically to reach him. Pear Markets CHICAGO, Feb. 34. ( AP-USDA) Paer auction: a cars Oregon, 1 Washington. 1 California arrived; 2 on track, 3 sold. Oregon D'AnJous, 750 boxes extra fancy, el .65 3.90, average t MO; J20 buiea fancy II .85 1.05, average 1.93. NEW TOrtK. rb. 34. (AP-UBDA) Pear auction: Nine ears arrived, 1 California, A Oregon unloaded; 4 on track. Oregon D'AnJous 354 boxes extra fancy 33.65. average 3.24; 3.6 boxes fancy, average $3.18. 20TH TRANSFUSION FOR COUNT OF COVADONGA HAVANA, Feb. a4. (AP) The Count of Covsdonga, former crown prince of Spain suffering from hemo philia, received today Ma 30th btocd transfusion this month, and physi cians announced his condition waa unchanged generally. BEAVa-.!. Okla., Peb. 24. (AP) Ths second dust storm In two days struck the Oklahoma panhandle shortly before noon, reducing vis ibility here to 100 yards. Top soli on wheat land was blowing mod eraHly. ro Kugene Mrs. H. U Oenunar of jwounnvllls left thle morning for 'Aureus where she will Join her hus band for a short time. 1
