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The Weather Forecast: Unsettled tonight and Saturday. Normal temper ature. Temperature: Ugliest yesterday . 7S Lowest this morning St Till 8 o'clock For quick result! try classified Ads In the big Sunday Edition or the Mall Trlhune. For your convenience the bunlneaa of llre Hill accept Clasnlflrd Ads uturdny cvenlnc until 8:0(1 o'clock. Medford TRIBUNE Thirtieth Year MEDFORD. OREGON, "FRIDAY, MARCH 6. 19H6 Full Associated Press hll United Press No. 2. "Mi Uti a. ;c.'.' T.-y v aeaajis Siwr fsfcajeAasaa' aaaaBe mm IE 'I A'divs I HARRY FOSTER By PAUL MALLON (Copyright, 1936, by Paul Mellon.) I WASHINGTON. March . The: quiet little gsme of . congressional ! leaders now Is to provide President , Roosevelt's corporation reform taxes with what' may be more or less seriously called "safeguards." j Mr. Roosevelt failed to m e n- i tlon any one of ; these In his mes- j sage, hut, of: course, they are necessary. One eminent house leader suggested a flat $500,000 exemption before the sound of the PAUL MALLON reading clerk's voice had died down. An equally prominent senator point ed out that such-and-such additional exemptions were advisable. There will be many 'more of these before and If the corporate phase of the hill Is enacted. Consequently. All the present ex citement as to the effects of the re form appear to be premature. The proof of the pudding will be in the making and eating thereof, a.id not In the recipe which the White House submitted. The real effect will not be the tax, but In the exemption. The matter Is being taken care of with s smoothness and celerity which suggests mutual consent, if not pre arrangement. Note There are two accepted con gressional methods of killing a White House suggestion4 with which the leaders are not personally in sym pathy. One is to fight it and the other Is to smother It with affection, to safeguard It to death. The latter method is always less painful In 8 campaign year. . Mr. Roosevelt's smile waa as - wlie aa a watermelon rind when he sent hla tax message to congress. In fact, one of the reasons why he did not go up to read It himself la supposed to be that he could not trust himself to keep from laughing. The inner mirth was widespread. Some of the New Deal tax .reform ex perts fell out of their chairs chuck ling. The reason for all the merriment was this: Here waa Mr. Roosevelt, who tried last year to tax bigness, and congress turned blm down. Here was a con gress passing & bonua bill and the supreme court knocking out a pro cessing tax. both over hla objections. So what doea he do, but disguise his old bigness-tax idea as a needed rev enue correction and ship It back up to congress as almost a routine sug gestion I Everyone except the congressmen could see the Joke. Congress and Wall Street may have been a little confused about Mr. Roosevelt's purpose, but any tax er pert could see through It. What they generally saw was this: .Mr. Roosevelt took a bad enforce ment defect to start with. Several rich people are escaping high surtax rates by having their corporations ac cumulate undivided profits. Every one Is against that. Vice-President Garner, who la not exactly a brain truster, campaigned against ' it for veers. He wrote severs! restrictions Into tax laws designed to correct the situation, but all have been Ineffe; tlve. Upon that technical defect. Mr. Roosevelt built a new and bigger ides. He proposed to plug the loophole with a whole new system of corporate taxes. He would force all corpora (Continued on Page Pour.) 1 '' SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Barney Brock allowing aa how he waa one pretty tough cookie, and re ining to anyone who would listen how they ran him out of Oklahoma because he waa so hard-bollcd. Jean Eberhsrt pulling his hair In perplexity In trying to arrange con solution games In the RONS tourney, since Henley failed to appear, and Rlv erton, Hrnley's opponents, thinking they should go Into the consolation bracket after being dropped by Port Orford. Chuck Rcum and prsnklln George hetiing snme heavy wear as to what kind of car It was parked across :he strut Dai, n. nntna bt 1 ,IV. 1 1 L.'S t SUd Oeorge Retting down on hla hands and knees on the aidewaii to the proceedings, looking under trie obstructions In the path. RIm Moore: -What the ne5 tarr ht.;in do I" prnt more eel 'P tific stuff and a lot less crime news." 3i; HANGS SELF WITH LENGIHJF WIRE Body Found in Rear of Col year Company Store This Morning After Night's Ab senceIll Health Cause Harry K. Poster. 31. manager of the Colyear Motor Sales company In thla city since 1933, committed sui cide by hanging -himself with a length of high tension electric wire In the rear of th Colyear store, 103 south Riverside, aome time last night. In a short note to till wife and two children, who lived with him at 612 North Bartlett street, he said goodbye to hla family, and In dicated he waa "taking thla way out," because of despondency over poor health. The body waa found hanging by the ' wire from a sliding door track In the rear of the salesroom at 7:45 thla morning by Oscar E. Sabln, company salesman, when he opened up the store. City and state police and Coroner Prank Perl were Imme diately summoned. Poster wsa pronounced dead by the coroner, who said that death was due to strangulation, fixing the time aa somewhere before midnight last night. The man had stepped off a three-step ladder, which was found still standing upright at his feet. Friends of the dead man said that (Continues on Page SIX) LOCAL QUINTETS ARE ELIMINATED N SONS TOURNEY The difficulty of who would take the place of Henly high school In the consolation bracket at Ashland was settled today when a group of coaches elected to put Rlverton in the place of the missing team. Rlverton moved Into the sermd round when Henley failed to appear, and was then drop ped by Port Orford In an overtime game. Looklngglass and Rlverton were scheduled to clash at 2:30 this afternoon. Coaches teams headed by B. Weber of Wilbur and johnny Ham ilton of Bonanza, were slated to play a friendly game later in the after noon. - Merrill, Malm, Powers and Myrtle Creek high school basketball teams battled their way to the seml-flnala of the southern Oregon Invitational B basketball tournament In Ashland tbls morning. . Tonight Merrill and Malln tangle on the Junior high school floor at 8:00 o'clock, and Pow ers and Myrtle Creek meet on the Armory floor at the same hour. The winners of these two brackets will clash tomorrow night st 9:00 p. m. on the Junior high school court for the right to represent district 14 at the stato tournament In Salem. Myrtle Creek edged out a atubborn but flu-weakened Port Orford team this morning, 30-16. Coach Ruth B.' Clark, the only lady mentor repre sented among the 30 teams, had her entire squad struck by flu several days before the start of the tour ney. In the moat exciting game so far In the mad scramble, the Powers high basket fllngers nosed out Jacksonville 22-31 In an overtime game. Malln guyed In the race at the expense of the Phoenix squad, whom they eliminated 30-13 thla morntng. Mer rill moved on to the upper bracket (Continued on Page Six) f- LONDON. Msrch 6 (API An In formed source aald today British am bassadors In Berlin and Rom had been Instructed to ascertain the truth or falsity of rumors Italy and Germany plan to denounce the Locarno pact. BICRLIN. March S. (AP) The Oeimsn RelchstAg today waa called tor a special session at noon tomor row, apparently to hear Adolf Hitler's definition of the future Ksr.1 course under the tocerno treaty. Income Shares Maryland fund, bid. MAS; asked, a? 1.00 Quarterly income shares, bid ! -J: asked, $1.79. ASK PERMISSION TO RESIGN p., i lj... i i. mmm!mrmmmm'1''- f 1 Because they felt indirectly responsible for the military rebellion and assassination of government leaders at Tokyo, seven high ranking generala of the Japanese army asked permission to resign from the empire's supreme war council. Above are two of them, Senjura Hayashl (left) and Nobuyukl Abe. (Associated Press Photos) WARDEN, CONVICT KILLED 111 PENITENTIARY BREAK SIOUX FALLS, S. D., March 6. (AP) The warden of the South Da kota penitentiary and a convict were shot to death and four other persons were wounded here this afternoon In the most sensational prison break In the history of the state. Warden Reiley died In a hospital U.S. MINISTER IN LINE OF ASSASSINS BULLETS BELGRADE, ' Yugoslavia, March 6 (AP) An assassin, firing wildly at Premier, Milan Stoyadinovtch, nar rowly missed .shooting Charles 8. Wilson, United States minister to Yugoslavia today. Wilson was sitting In the diplo matic gallery of the chamber of dep uties when a deputy of the opposi tion . party, suddenly Jerked a pistol from his pocket and started firing at the premier. Other deputies seized him and the first shot plugged Into the wall Just over the heads of the diplomats. The remaining three shots went Into the floor. Other diplomats In the gallery ALAMEDA SCHOOL STRIKE CAUSES CIVIC TURMOIL ALAMEDA." Cal., March fl. (AIM Alameda's high school student strike In protest against dismissal of School Superintendent William Paden threatened civic turmoil today. A move to recall the mayor and two councilmen responsible for the ousting of Paden was instituted at a mass meeting last night. Strikers estimated 10.000 were at the meeting. While the mass meeting was in progress striking students burned In effigy a mile away, the mayor, city manager and two city councilmen. Reports were circulated of contem plated "physical seizure" of city of fice. A grand Jury Investigation was RUN LAKLRESORT Hugh B. Rsnkin, former super visor of the Rogue river national forest, who retired two years ago, has traded his Eagle Point dairy ranch for the Pish lake resort, owned by his nephew, Clarence Rankin, It was learned today. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh B. Rsnkin have moved to town and taken up residence at IM3 South Holly street, ft la understood Mr. Rankin will operate the lake resort when the season opens this spring. The resort Is used extensively by fluhermen. It Is comprised of cabins, a store, boats and fishing equip ment. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rankin and small child have been residing at Lake Creek during the winter. JURORS QUIZ WITNESS IN TRIAL OF LAMSON PAN JOPE. Cel.. Marrh fl ( AP) Jurors took a hand at questioning a defense medical expert today at the third trial of David Lamaon for wife i murder, when he testified to his be lief the fractures In Mrs. Aliens Lam fin's skull could not have been caus ed by blown from tht length of pipe Introduced by the prosecution as a "death weapon." here from his wounds at 3:40 P-m. The slain convict was Phil Ray, bank robber, who was killed In a gun fight with officers after he and two companions had kidnaped the warden and -fled In a stolen auto- mobile In a desperate effort to escape. scattered for cover but Wilson re malned In his seat and watched the struggle on the floor below him with a serious expression on Xxia face. Several other deputies whipped out pistols but none of them fired. The assassin was Dam tan Arnanto- vlch. He was taken Into custody by gendarmes. At the time1 of the shooting, Pre mier Stoyadlnovlch was reading a message on next year's budget. In recent months the opposition parties In Yugoslavia have become Increasingly critical of the govern ment. Their deputies have walked out of the chamber on several oc Clintons. demanded. Police were ordered to halt ''Intimidation and picketing" at once. City Manager B. Ray Fita ordered chief of police Vern Smith to en. force the state compulsory school at tendance law. There were about 1400 of the city's 3000 high school stu dents on strike at the opening of classes today. An unconfirmed report said one faction wanted to march on the city hall, declared all offices vacant, and "elect" new officers. Irked at use of Its name In calling the mass meeting the Parent-Teacher association asked county authorities to convene the gtand Jury. WASHINGTON. Mairh (API Senator Copeland (D, N. Y.) told the senate finance committee today that a t30.000.000 Increase In federal and state liquor tax revenues and lower consumer costs would result from his bit) to transfer all federal liquor taxes to the retailer. He said the1 present federal tax en distillers and wholesalers and local taxes on ritatlera resulted in a "pyra miding" system by wnich profits were collected on each tax turnover. "The result Is." ne said, "that for every tl In taxes the government col lects, the consumer pays 2,M Freight Loading Increase Shown WASHINGTON. March . (API The AwvKlatlon of American rsll rosds reported today loading of revenue freight for the week end ing last Saturday totaled S73.I33 cars. This waa an Increase of M 41 1 cars, or 14.7 per cent, compered wth the preceding week; an increaae of M.79J. or 114 per cent compared with a y-ar sao. and sn lrreae of HI. tot or 11 1 prr cent, compared with two years ago. Y HARTS EFFORT Some of Hirota's Liberal Nominations Disliked by Jap Militarists Situation Remains in Deadlock By Olenn Babb (Copyright, 1936. by the Associated Press) . . TOKYO, March 6. ff) Kokl Hiro ta's hopes of Introducing a new na tional cabinet to Emperor Hlrohlto Immediately disappeared today when the army arose to demonstrate that It was still politically powerful enough to wreck any efforts to form a minis try, despite Its loss of prestige and popularity after last week's military uprising. Because high militarists disliked some of Hirota's liberal nominations, they Influenced Count Julcht Tcra- uchl. proposed as war minister, to withdraw from the cabinet slate and Indicated no other general would be (Continued on Page Three.) OF APPLEGATE AREA' The Jackson county court today signed an order authorleinfg, as re- quired by stato law, a roundup of the wild horses of the Applegate, upon petition of 10 stockmen of the dls trlct. The order provides the round up shall be under direction of the forest service, acting In conjunction with the sheriff. The outlaw band, numbering be tween 75 and 100 horses, roves be tween Sterling and the Oregon -Cali fornia state line, winter and sum mer, and are "abandoned, starving and neglected horses," constituting a range nuisance, the petition sets forth. They are led by six stallions and trample grazing land, raid al falfa fields, break down fences, and with their flashing hoofs kick to death young stock. No date has been set for the start of the roundup, but Applegate district (Continued on Page Nine; PORTLAND. Ore., March 0. (AP) A delicate operation, believed the second successful one of its kind In tho world, waa successful when Dr. Ralph Matson and assistants re moved the right lung of Joe Wolno. wlch of Portland. Dr. Matson, who . performed the operation yesterday at the county hospital, said the other successful operation for the removal of a right lung waa performed In Boston. Seven or eight successful removals of left lungs have been made. But thinness of the blood vessels on the right side and the presence of large veins close to the heart make the re moval of the right lung more hae- ardaus. The lung was cancerous. Wolno- wlch still was In a critical condition, due to his weakened state prlo to the operation. GROWING BETTER PORTLAND. Ore., March .!) Ttn-yesr-old Lou Ann Murk If. with the aid of Portland's police depart ment, continued her fight today for recovery from an operation for a seriously Infected hip. The Anchorage, Alaska, child, who waa rushed here for treatment of a spreading Infection which started from a scratch received while skating, underwent her third blood trans fusion. Again It was a policeman who sup plied tht blood. A. C, Mulligan, vice squsd detective. Toluntered this time. Previously Patrolman Pred A West and anils B. bpivey hu ilven their blood to strengthen the child for the operation, which was perform ed Wednesday. t Miss Let ha Humphrey, superinten dent of the Shrlners hospital for crip pled children, where the girl will be confined for etral months, said Lou Ann was showing unexpected Improvement. HOTEL WORKERS ORDERED TO J Union Leader Says Crews of 135 Hotels Will Be Out by Night Disorders De crease Strike Spreads By Tom Hajcenbtion Aaaoclated Presa staff Writer NEW I.ORK, March . () Carry ing out their promise to aupport the strike of building service employes, of ficials of the hotel employes' union made flying trips to Manhattan ho tels today to order worlters away from Jobs. Union leaders and notel managers gave contradictory reports concerning the' effectiveness of tho move. Chrla Houlihan, president of the hotel workers' organisation, person ally called upon the hostelrles. At the Hotel McAlpln, In mid-town Manhat tan, 400 union members responded to his strike order, he said. John J. Woelfle, manager of the place, said not more than 30 employes hsd walked out. Mlnlmlte Union Claims Other hotels visited by the strike leaders Included the BarblKm-Plasa, Windsor and Woylan. In every in stance managers minimized the claims of union officials. Houlihan predicted that by tonight workers In 13S hotels would be called out on strike. Efforts to obtain peace botween tho union and Individual property own ers bore fruit when an agreement be tween representatives of Prudence company, owner of 46 large buildings In the city, and union officials was signed In the presence of Mayor La Ouardla. ,The company It not affiliated with (Continued on Page Nine) FAIRBANKSGETS PARIS, March fl. (AP) The last legal obstacles to the marriage of Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and Lady Ashley were removed today when the state's attorney delivered to the actor's lawyer papers suspending tho French marriage laws. The couple ex pect to be married by the mayor to. morrow. Fairbanks' attorney, Milt. Susan ne Blum, who la secretary to Joseph Paul-Boncour, minister of state with out portfolio, Induced the state's at torney to waive the usual require ments. Fairbanks' reason for hsate was given aa hla dislre to go to China Immediately to make a film play of the adventures of. Marco Polo and take Lady Ashley with him as Ma MODOC GATEWAY HELD WIDE OPEN ALTURAS, Oat, March e ryr) Modoc county today officially da el a red Itself the tourist gateway to California, In a formal statement. Sheriff John C. 6 rap invited tourists to enter the state through this northeast corner county and criticized the "border pa trol" activities sponsored by Chief of Police James E. Davis of Los Angeles. Slmultaenously, Sharp made pub He a letter he said he had written Davis, asking blm to delete the word "Modoc" from hls report of border patrol activities. . . "Chief, he wrote, "you know your activity is at a standstill on our high ways and your continued use of the name of our county Is not only mis leading but is simply wrong. Tou will oblige me by omitting the name of this county In your subsequent statement to the press and radio, CROSSING VICTIM HAS CHANCE FOB RECOVERY Hope frir the recovery of William Wright, 60, Injured in a crash at Central Point Monday morning when a northbound passenger train struck his wood tnKk, went up this morn ing when the elderly man partially recovered oonrtoitnea. Although Wright la still unable to speak, he ran now take liquid foods, and tne attending physician said today that "he has a fair chanco to recover Wright had been lying In a corns unable to move, since the time of the rrsfth at about 9 a. m. Monday morning. Zig-Zag Musher Is Arrested For Drunken Driving SANTA MONICA, Cnllf.. March 8. (AP) What with the movies and all, Sheriffs Captain William Morley has seen many things even dog teams on the highway. But, he reasoned, when 10 dogs and a sled suddenly go from the right side of the road to the left, then back to the right, then to the left again, something Is amiss. He stopped the team and arrested Mtisher Carl Llndauer for alleged drunken driving of a dog sled. BRITISH PROTEST LONDON, Eng., March 8. (AP) The British government todsy In structed Its ambassador to Rome, Sir Krle Drummond, to protest to Italy against the bombing of a British Red Cross unit In Ethiopia. Sir Erto waa ordered to ask the Italian government to make an Im mediate Investigation of the arrair and to Instruct ita military com mand to see to It that nothing of the aort occurred again. The decision to take this step waa reached at a long conference between Anthony Eden, foreign secretary, and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Official quarters were plainly In dignant at the bombing In which a Red Cross Identification flag spread out on the ground was hit, according to official British sources. ADDIS ABABA, March 6. (AP) A British Red Cross worker, MaJ. O. A Burgoyne, was killed by a bomb drop, pod from an Italian plane, an Ethl oplan government communique said todsy. whll epartlcipsting in an Etni- aplan withdrawn! back of .the north ern front. Burgoyne, 01 years old, a trans port o f f 1 o e r In the Ethl plan Red Cross organisation, had been retiring from Amba Alaji to quoram, 30 miles south of Amba Alajt. wltb the forces of Ras Kabeda. A heavy Italian air bombardment was reported in that sector. The government communique saia he died north of Quoram. An unconfirmed report from Dessye said that another Italian airplane had bombed the headquarters of Crown Prince Asfa Woaan and that two Greeks had been killed A battle Is developing In the moun tains about Amba Alalt, the govern- ment announced, In Its blanket de nial of Italian claims of victory In that sector. NQUIRY VETOED WASHINGTON, March fl. (AP) The senate military committee today voted, 12 to 3, against the proposed Investigation of the removal of Ma jor General Johnson Hngood from commnnd of tha eighth corns area for criticising federal spending. , Shortly before this action. Presi dent Roosevelt st 1.1s press confer-, ence refused to comment on the Hsgood case. In rejecting the resolution of Sen ator Metcalf R R. I.) for the In quiry, the committee upheld a sub committee of three which unani mously recommended dlsspprovsl of the resolution. The sub-committee, composed of Senators Logan (D., Ky.) Duffy (D., Wis.) Cs,-ey (R., Wyo.). declared In Its report thst while army officers should be permitted to answer le gitimate questions before congres slonsl committees without subject ing themselves to discipline or pun ishment, freedom of speech aa guar anteed by the constitution does not mean "a license" to use Isngusge which may be Interpreted as criti cs! of the president, the congress or other government officials. CL Unsettled weather predicted for to night snd tomorrow will probaoly narrow the range of the mercury, holding temperatures below the maxi mums and above the mlnlmuma reg Istered the past week. No rain was expected In the Rogue valley although It was forecast for the northern end of the state.. Maximum temperature yesterday was 73 degrees, the highest mark reached on Msrch s since 120 when the mercury soared to 78. Lowest temperature this morning was S4, one degree above yesterday's minimum At ml ct after noon the mercury was hovering flte decrees below the mark at the corresponding time yesterday, SENT TO CAPITAL Needy Children, Blind and Those Over 70 WouW Benefit Speedy Action Is Hope of Gov. Martin PORTLAND. Or. M.. . ' ' Oregon's social security program, calling for a maximum expenditure of 833.093 everv thru. . toward Washington. D. c, today for s nnai skirmish. The nlan. eV.ionAft - . . " biu aonij children, the blind and tho than 70. was approved by Governor Charles Martin late yesterday after aa attorney general'a benediction paved the way for lta presentation to the national capiioi. The governor .nthnH. Ooudy, state relief administrator, to icave ior wasnington Immediately la an attempt to Obtain ferier&l nmrt4- patlon under the government's secur- ivj measure, uouay was to entrain late today. Four Main Points The program, formulated tn iw.,.. operative under the state-federal 0 00 basis of payment. Included: urn-age assistance for those over 70 787,50O quarterly. Bund assistance 23,M4 quarterly. Crippled children's nrvlca ate . 669 quarterly. Child welfare survey, total S2.200. The four-nolnt nlan m rmimj. by the relief committee several days ugu. a. was u&sea on mo assumption that the 11,000,000 relief appropria tion allowed by the regular session at tne legislature In 1935 again beoaaw (Continued on Psge Five.) ,F NAVAL AIR BASE T WASHINGTON, March 0. jp Th house naval affairs committee eon eluded today Its hearing on the' Tongue Point naval aviation base bin after Major General Amos A. Pries, retired, former chief of the chemical warfare service, described the area as a "good location for a naval air base.' He also told the committee tt would be relatively Inexpensive to enlarge and raise the level of the site by fill material dredged from the Columbia river. Pries, last witness to be ceiled, said he became familiar with the Tongue Point site near the mouth of the Col umbia while serving as an srmy en gineer In that district before he en tered the chemical warfare service. "I have also studied the mouth of the Columbia from a defense angle and believe there la no area of such value economically that has so little protection," he told the committee. "If a naval air base is not estab- . Juried there In peacetime the navy would have no time to do It In war time." A one-foot fill on 700 acres as Tongue Point, he estimated, would cost about 930,000. W. O. B. Dodson, executive rice president of the Portland, Ore., cham ber of commerce only other witness heard during the closing session, said only the spirit of national de fense has animated Oregon In lta long battle to win recognition of the mouth ot the Columbia as a vulner able snd vital point In the realm of coastal protection In time of war. There are no basis or defenses of any consequence between San Fran cisco and Cape Flattery, Wasn., he as sorted. K.F. EXPECTED REOPEN KI,AMATH PAU, March T 7 tt is understood here the Shaw Ber tram mill. Idle since Its sale, will be leased and operated by the Long-Bell company of longvlew. Wash. John Kennett of Longvlew has been In Klamath Palls In connection with his company's Interest. The mill will be leased from South ern Pacific units which purchased tha plant last year from J. R. Shaw of Klamath Palls. About 350 men will be employed In the mill and box factory. Logs will be brought tn from the Long Bell holding In Yamsey mountain. The Long-Bell company la also understood to be contemplating tak ing over the Kesterson mill at Dorris, Cal.
