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The Weather Forecast: Clearing tonljht; Saturday partly cloudy; tenv peruture somewhat below normal. Highest yesterday ,. 61 Lowest thli morning ,.. .. S2 Up 'til 8 Medford Tribune Ton have thli erenhif, all day Saturday and op til S o'clock Saturday evenlnjr, to jtrt your ad on the clasfllflrfl page of the big Sunday edition, Thirtieth Year Full Associated Press MEDFOED, OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH 13. 1936. Full United Press No. 302. iil Fl UJ By PAUL MALLON' (Cop) right. 1038, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON. March 13. A small group of top business men have al ready ordered their cigars and begun another "amoke fllled room" at the Cleveland Re- j tlon. They are not going around making speeches about It, but they have an Idea they can noml- n a t e "another Harding" (their own phrase). Paul Mallon Tb ey have al ready picked the man. : Hs la not one of the candidates how being prominently mentioned. The chief argument being advanced for him Is that "he looks like a presi dent." . Also that he Is "safer" than most of those now receiving public attention. He will go Into the con vention with very few delegates. But if mri when . stalemate develops, they hope to bring him out of the darkest of the darn norse swim no the compromise winner. The advance grooming work so far has been excellent, but It will un doubtedly not work out bs planned. .uw 1. that a more nooular choice will probably develop out of the existing contest oeiore w w ventlon. Another Is that too many Republican authorities believe such a course would be fatal. Incidentally. Mr. Harding was not nominated In the old smoke-filled hotel room st the Chicago enventton, as popularly supposed. He was chQS mnr. than a week before the con vention by less than half a down of the party bigwigs meeting in uium city. They saw the stalemate coming and got together. The widely adver tised hotel room meeting was called by them at the proper time to get the minor leaders In on the agree ment and to pass the word along. This historical correction will be made officially when one of the men who attended the earlier conference publishes his memoirs In the next few years. Political leaders are not so Improvl dent In these modern days aa to let nominations get down to smoke-filled convention rooms. That only hap pens In political fairy tales. ' The lucky candidates In the current melee will be the ones who lose. Only those who have been president or very close to the Inside of the White House can realise how the presidency has wrecked many lives. The trials and tribulations, and their effect on health and personal enjoyment, really make the glamor of being a big man In history hsrdly worth while. It has never before been published, but the same Jovial Mr. Hahrdlng, on his Inauguration day. long before his real troubles started, regretted his own election. He nudged his secre tary, George Christian, as he passed through the senate chamber on hie way to the Inaugural stand, saying: "George, being senator was the best Job we ever had. God only knows why we gave It up for this." The personal plans of great politi cal success were suggested to one of the eminent Republican candidates not long ago by a friend. The friend observed that the candidate would never be as contented In the White House as where he then was. The (Continued on Pago Three.) SIDE GLANCES by . TRIBUNE REPORTERS Col. W. H. Paine and Ray Wright halting to converse with each other, and each absently scratching the back of his head, with uptllted hats, while doing so. Gob OUstrap assembling glue, silk thread and vertous other parapher nalia In preparation . for repairing Jack Porters fishing rod. which jack found In the river after It hftd been under water for two weeks. Dick Singer parked cn the main thoroughfare perusing the Sunday comics with many chuckles, while his young son at with very bored expreton on his face, poawibly be cause the old mnn was hogging the only page. Katte IVblnjton puMengrrlng up the name a vert no. hr mouth open, one eve pqirnted nf th other -3rwed while she errat-hed the but orb with the bark cf a finger nail, reflectively. Vtc Tengwald admitting that the lad was looking a little far ahead when he akfd Vic if he were the TVnciva.d "who tn running for at- torner general.'' j L- swiff RELIEF PURPOSE At Least 19 Deaths Re corded Additional Dis tricts Submerged. by Flood New England Hard Hit HARRISBURO, Pa., r March 13. (AP) Firemen took boats today to reach a fire In the home of Joseph Stump. Stump's home was surrounded with water too deep . for apparatus. The firemen carried extinguishers by boat to put out the blaze. By the Associated Press. Rampaging., rivers ..swirled -.over their banks In northeastern United States and Canada and the federal government came to the aid of flood sufferers. ' At least M persons lost their Uvea. President Roosevelt authorized the expenditure of $5,304,000 In work re lief funds to combat the floods In New England and the middle Atlan tic states. . Dropping temperatures Increased the suffering tn the afflicted areas as rising waters covered new districts crippling communication and trans portation. The death toll rose to 19 with the finding of the body of John Prentiss. 50, in the West river near Upton, Mass. He was found drowned In his automobile. Four bodies were found In a home In Kingston. Penn., across the Sus quehanna river from Wllkes-Barre. . Need for relief Is acute In the Wllkes-Barre zone and the coast guard ordered held In readiness to. move there if-needed, neven amphib ian plane and ten powered surf boats with food and medical sup plies. New devastation was wrought by New England rivers, especially the Merrlmac In New Hampshire and the Connecticut In Connecticut. In New Jersey residents along the Pas saic river were warned by officials to be ready to abandon their homes if the rise continues. DIES OF HEM ATTACK WHILE UNDER BUILDING John W. Stroub, shout 45 years old. a plumber, died from a heart attack, aa he worked under a house on Summit avenue late Thursday. Fellow workers alarmed by the ex tended silence of Stroub, called to him and receiving no response, crnwled utWtr the dwelling, to find life eitlncf. Dr. R. W. Sleeter, attending phy sician, pronounced heart failure as the cause of death. Stroub according to hie fellow workers, Jack Heyland and Lloyd Smith, electricians, was hesitant about crawling under the building because "It Is too dark." They of fered him the use of their flashlight. Stroub said he would let them know If he needed It. Heyland and Smith heard a tapping hammer for severs) minutes, as Stroub worked. It ceased. Then they Investigated and found him dead. Heyland applied artificial respira tion to no avail, as Smith telephoned for aid. PORTLAND, Ore.. March 18. (AP) A thug who seised the content of a metal box Richard Reeves was carry ing, fled in disorder when he found a snapping turtle Instead of a roll of bills In his hands. Friday, 1 3th Proves Jinx For Gold Hill Maidens Launching an adventurous moving picture career on the eve of Friday the 13th holds leas terror than gold en promise, apparently, for two young Oold Hill ladiea. The two girl, (Catherine Maxlne Cook. 13. and Mary Amanda Fleming. 13, decided to journey to Hollywood and "work in the moviea." With no more ado than that, they ran away from their homes laat evening but today are eourly cnwrlng the MM ford dty police as sadly lacking -in romantle outlook. For. with proa I c policemen practi cality, the two damsels were gathered in by the police and returned to their parent last n;ght. "Korget about Shirley Temple." the two were ad- r:ed by the minions of the la-r. who aeaured the UtUe girl that Shir Sanctions Against Germany Blocked by Italy' COMMISSION BflSEj'fflOO STRIKERS tTF ETIPIWUTE FISH BOOTLEGGING WILL RETURN TO LO ..uPti MUST BE SETTLED BY BARRING SALE Rescind Privilege of Sports men Selling Catch 57 ' Tons Tagged As Hook and Line Catch in 1935 PORTLAND. Ore., March IS. (p) Ti e Oregon state game and fish com mission voted today to halt asserted fish bootlegging by rescinding rhe privilege for sportsmen to sell fish caught with hook and line In non commercial waters. Fish Commissioner John C. Veatch said "flan bootleggers' msde catches with nets in closed waters and then had the catches tagged as caught with hock and Una. He said the 07 tons tagged in 1935 could not possibly have been caught by hook and line. A depression measure, few persons on relief took advantage of the priv ilege, he said. Would Bar Umpqua Nets. - A group of Roseburg citizens re quested that use of nets in the Ump qua river be prohibited. The com mvslon voted to defer action on the matter until the next meeting. April 14. when a more complete study could be made. - Vhe commission rejected a number of proposals by the Clackamaa coun ty planning board, declaring they arcse from Incomplete research and Inaccurate findings. ' The planners recorameuded merg ing the fish and game commissions, The Joint groups pointed out the slnple board plan was unsuccessful In jtates where commercial fishing Is Involved. In answer to a report by the plan ning board that fish hatcheries were largely a failure, the commission stat ed that artificial propagation returns 85 percent on the take as compared with 33 percent by natural means. Would Curb Turbines. the report also urged efforts to eliminate excessive killing of fish by electric turbines. Modern turbines, the fish commissioners said, do not harm flngerllugs. The commission declared In answer to another suggestion that It was powerless to halt stream pollution. Earlier attempts to do so resulted in a ruling from the attorney-general which-definitely precluded them frnm thl activity, members said. L PLANS APPROVED WASHINGTON, March W. (AP) The federal air commerce bureau an nounced today approval of 3A addi tional airport projects and 17 air marking program proposed for de velopment with works progress ad ministration funds. The bureau's approval la required before the WPA will allot funds for the projects and means they are considered satisfactory from a tech nical standpoint but does not assure allotments of funds. The project Included: Oregon Bandon, 118.306; Madras. 6,168, air marking (state-wide) 112,- 833. Washington tSpokane, 151 10. Idaho Pocatello, 1,7M; atr marking ( state-wide) 914,070. 4 - Everglade park In Florida is 00i miles farther south than Calio Efrypt. ley hadn't hitch-hiked her way into picture fame. 8POKANT, March 13. ( AP) If Friday the thirteenth catches H. t. Strong today. It'll have to sneak up on him at home. Afield on the jinx day several years ago he lost three fingers, and that misfortune's anni versaries' have seen him break a leg and lose his automobile by fire. So today he planned to keep indoor. LOfl ANGELES. Mvch 13. AP) At one minute after midnight, th Jinx of Friday the 13th hit Jaofc Fontaine today. Fontaine, a chef, waa atirrlng ' a kettle of soup In a downtown re, taurant. At 13:01 a. m.. It upset and spilled over hi leg. He given emewncy treatment tot second degree bora. plate discovered burled In the wood of a maple tree on Willam ette university campus here, re vealed the tree had been plant ed nearly 80 years ago. The plate bore the Inscription. -Planted by F. H. Grubbs, 1857." Its presence was discovered by Or. Robert M. Oatke, Willamette pro fessor of political science. F. H. Grubbs, one of the first Instructors at Willamette, was a Bon-ln-law of Jason Lee, founder of the school. SEEK E TURKEY SHIPPERS FOR LOCAL TRIAL Seeking the extradition of Clar ence Mollnarl and Albert Michel 1, under Indictment In this county on a charge of larceny by embezzlement, Deputy District Attorney George W, Neilson and Sheriff Syd I. Brown left this morning for Sacramento, Calif., to present requisition issued yester day by Governor Martin, to the Cali fornia . governor. The requisition papers arrived this morning. Mollnarl and Michel!, under arrest In San Francisco, oppose return here for trial and have filed a motion for a writ of habeas corpus, the district attorney's office reports.- They are alleged to have defrauded 35 turkey raieers of the Rogue river vauey out or approximately 7500 in the purchase and sale of fowls for the San Francisco Christmas trade. Claims against them have been filed by turkey raisers of the Sams Valley, Reese Creek, Eagle Point, Central Point,- Table Rock and Applegate dis tricts. Mollnarl and Mich ell operated In thli county for four years aa the Bear Fruit and Produce company. John Nelson of the Beagle district, was one of the heaviest losers, in forming the grand jury he sold a consignment of turkeys valued at $1000 or more, for which he received no payments. ECCENTRIC KILLER WHISKED TO PEN SAN QUENTIB. Cal, March 13. (AP) Life imprisonment behind Ban Quentln's drab vails ushered In a new scheme of living today for eccen tric Ralph Jerome Sels. The 27-year-old adventurer pleaded guilty of the first degree murder of Mrs. Ida French Rice, was sentenced to life and brought here from Red wood City all In the space of a few hours yesterday. - Superior Judge A. S. Cotton spared the youth's life on recommendation of District Attorney Gilbert Ferrell. Redwood City officers, under Sher iff James J. McOrsth, continued the search for the body and Identity of a man 8els named as Michael Borono vlch. Selz said he clubbed the man to death with the butt of a gun and dumped the body Into San Francisco bay because he threatened "black mall" tn connection with Mrs. Rice's death. Selz plea and sentence yesterday came swiftly and unexpectedly. With out previous announcement the pris oner was taken before Judge Cotton late in the day. "What Is your plea?" he was asked. "Oullty," said Sell. In a trice he was removed from the court room bundled Into an offi cial car and on his way to San Quen tln. QUISENBERRY TO MOVE SOUTH OAKDALE HOUSE W. p. Qulaenfcefty la planning to move his house at 710 South Oak- dale avenue to an adjoining lot on the north acquired from W. Z. Crews, it was learned today. The lot on which the Qiilaenberry home now standi. It is understood, will be acquired by school district 40 to provide additional parking apace and create a wldr entrance to Mod ford htzh school. MRS. VARE DEFEATED BY KATHRYN HEMPHILL BELtXAIlt, Fla, Mar. 13. (AP) Kathryn Hemphill, of Columbia, S. C. today won the Bellealr women's Rolf churplomhlp by defeating Mra. Olenna Collet! Vare of Philadelphia, six times national champion, three Jul two, i Building Owners Reach Arbi tration Agreement With Union Workers Will Get Former Jobs Back NEW YORK, March 13. (AV-Slx ! thousand striking building service workers will return to their Jobs to morrow In buildings owned by mem bers of the Association of Metropol itan Building Owners, under an arbi tration agreement made with the un.on, it was announced today, Jacob E. Hurwltz, counsel for the association, announced the agreement had been reached. Ihe association members control some 600 buildings, flurwlte said It was understood each worker would get his Job back and "replacement workers' who have taken their places since the walkout began March 1 would be dismissed. The announcement followed a con ference in which arbitration was based on Mayor LaGuardla'a plans for settlement of the strike. A request was sent Jointly by the union and the association to Ferd inand A. Sllcox, chief United States forester, to act as arbitrator. IS ON SEWAGE PLANT Work on Medford "a sewage disposal plant Is now progressing rapidly, with a crew of 80 men on the Job at present, it was stated today by Fred W. Scheffel, city superintendent. The plant la now about 60 percent completed and the contract la being carried out by R, I. Stuart it Sons on schedule,- Mr. Scheffel said. Final section of the aeration tank la now being poured. Units completed, he related, Include the lower floor of the blower building, the primary and final clarlfiera and the chlorine con tact tank. "The construction aan progress faster now than In the paat because the men are working above ground and in another fortnight they will be entirely out of the water that haa been a hindrance to dite," Mr. Scheffel explained. E TRENTON. N. J., March 13.(AP) Bruno Richard Hauptmann. hla last reprieve deadline psased at midnight last night, paced his cell today still convinced he would not die for the kldnap-siaylng of the Lindbergh baby. dov. Harold O. Hoffman, who stayed Hauptmann's execution on January 17, announced yesterday that he does not Intend to grant a new reprieve; tha, in fact, he has no legal pdwer to do so now. FOUND FAR TOO HIGH PORTTjAND, Ore., March 18. (AP) Bids th. stats highway commission opened today on (muting 9.17 miles of the Bear creek Motion of the Wolf Creek highway far exceeded estlmstet. Lowest of the bids was. anooso. by J. A. Lyons of Portland. The roadside beautlfieatton pro gram was offloUlly launched when the commission opened bids for two wells and Irrigation facilities to wa ter shrubs, trees and lawn grass on the Columbia River highway near Castle Rock and Boardman In Mor row county Pierce and Connor of Portland was low bidder at tnsoo. TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED ON TAX PLAN WASHINGTON. March 18. (AP)- A house ways and mesna subcom mittee today announced "tentative'' agreement on a schedule of rates snd bracket for a tax on unolatrlb urrd corporate earnings, the key pro pwal in the edministrstlon's. new tax program- 1 iW fj Thousands of troops were moved Into France's border fortifications In answer to Hitler1' sudden reocoupatlon of tha Rhlneland with German military forces. Thli picture, telephotoed to London and radio photoed to New Vork, shows General Jean Gultry, military governor of Metz and commander of th. Sixth French Army Corps, on an In spection tour. (Associated Press Photo) T Ralph B. Sweeney, savings teller of the Medford branch of the First Na tional Bank of Portland, today en tered the prlmafy political campaign by filing for the Democratic nomina tion for Jackson county treasurer. Mr. Sweeney recorded his intentions In the county clerk's office and will file for- the nomination by peti tion, i F. Kramer Deuel, Medford attorney who declared his Intentions some time ago of seeking the Republican nomination for district attorney of Jackson county, today had filed with the secretary or state in Salem. Like Mr. Sweeney, he Is circularising a pe tition. Mr. Sweeney, it was learned, plans to resign from his bank position In the near future. Hla entrance Into (Continued on Pago Thirteen) T WBHINOTON. March 13. (AP) William Randolph Hearst filed ault In District of Columbia supreme court today for an Injunction to bar the senate lobby committee from use of any Hearst telegrams It may have seized, or contemplated seising. The suit also named the federal communications commission as de fendant, and sought to restrain the committee from "mnking any use whatsoever of any of the messages sent by or received by plaintiff which have been copied from the records of sny of the communications com panies and from disclosing the con tents of such messages to anybody other thsn the plaintiff." Hitler a Messiah Type Declares Psychologist J. U Moreno, M.D, psychiatrist and psychologist, Is the author of th following analysis of the Influen ce on the present European crisis of the paycholofflcal make-up of lt do mlnating personalities. Dr. Moreno haa lived In Oermany, Italy. France and England, and haa come In con trt with Hitler and Mussolini. . By J. I Mnrrno, M-O. (Written for th AMorlated Press.) HUDSON. If. V.. March 13 (AP) T;. outatandlng person all ties of the RhtnHand crlals are five four n Hi 1 nit one with two others In the baf kit round. In the front row there are: Adolf Hitler, pechplogicall ft BY SURETY BOSTON, Mass., March 13. (AP) The Traveler says Charles M. Hawks, Massachunetta director of the Town send plan, announced today the Na tional Surety Company of New Cork had ordered all surety bonds of Town send workers cancelled, the order ef fective 85 days from today. Hawks would not comment, the Traveler says, beyond describing the action aa "a purely political move,1 WASHINOTON, March 18. (AP) The bouse today voted 50.000 to da fray expenses of Its special bi-partisan committee Investigating the Town send and other old age pension plans. Supporters of the Townaend move ment to pay $200 a month pensions to those over 60 charged the amount was excessive and forced a roll call on the question of whether the reso lution for the fund should be open to amendment. Speaker Byrne announced the vote on this question as 241 to 113 against any amendments. The resolution was then adopted on a voice vote. 20 PIGLETS OVERTAX MOTHER'S FOOD SUPPLY PROSSEB. Wash.. March 13. (AP) Nlppled bottles were the food source today for many of a 30-plg litter under the csre of Mrs. Tony Prceburn. A Chester White sow de livered the record fsmlly, but was unable to feed them all. "Mother snd Infants doing well, thsnk you,'' Mrs. Freeburn reported. . I . . IS Her Number BELLINCIKAM, March 13. (API Elaine Compton, who has thirteen letters In her name and who weighed 13 pounds at birth, was celebrating her 13th birthday today, Friday the 13th. The figures of her street ad dreea also tots) 13. "meastah,H Atihony Eden and Maxim Lltvlnoff, "the negotiators," and two French statesmen, Pierre-Etienne Flandln and Albert Sarraut, who take the attributes of "La Femnw," in particular, a type of apprehenslva nets. The central figure Is Hitler man whose strategy la to take br aurprtae, to attack when an opponent la hot prepared for defense; to frighten, to dlanrm hla opponent, to crush with one blow. He doea not reveal to anyone what he may apeak or do at a critical mo ment, and he appears tryhg to con vey the impression that he acta under an inspiration that like a CcQtinue4 un Pe even MUST BE SETTLED T, SAYS HE Action Places Stumbling Block in Way of French Demand Flandin Is Placed in Delicate Position BERLIN, Germany, March IS. (.IP) Reichsfnehrer Hitler unex pectedly broke his stumping tour short and returned to Berlin to night to confer with his cabinet and party leaders. Official, as serted, however, that no new communication had arrived from -Indon. An earlier report said s -final appeal to Hitler to with draw his troops from the Rhine land was due from the confer ence of remaining members of the Locarno pact. (Copyright, lf3, by the Associated Press) LONDON, March 13. A high au thority stated today that Italy had flatly refused to Impose sane t loss against Oermanr shortilv after tha British foreign office announced: rne aoor is still open for Oermany to make any kind of an offer It wishes." The Italian action was regarded as a stumbling blook In the way of tns French demand that military and economlo sanctions be applied against Oermany for sending troops Into the Rhlneland. . i Russia Backing France " Russia had been supporting Prance in demanding those sanctions. So had Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Ru mania, the members of toe Little en tente. This sudden Interruption In tn progress toward punishment of Rsiohafuehrer Hitler became known after Ambassador von Hoesch of Oer many went to the foreign office for a conference. At the foreign office It was said officially that there was not a dead- loo in tne parley, however. It was stated Italy told tha other (Continued on Psge Sloven) WILL GET UNDER WAY AT DAWN ON SUNDAY At the crack of dawn Sunday mor ning, the roundup of the wild horses of the Applegate will start under supervision of Leo Port, forest ranger of the Rogue River National forest. A score of cowboys of the Apple gate, and CCO enrolles front nearby cainpa will assemble Saturday night and camp at the'recently construct ed oorral, to be ready for an early start from Muddy marsh. The CCC enrolles will be stationed at vantage points near the oorrsl to steer the outlaw nags Into a chute leading to tns main corral while the buckaroos ride the range. The stock men who petitioned thi county court for the round-up will be on band with their ponies to raslat. The wild horse band numbers be tween 75 and 100 and are described by Ranger Port ss "wilder thsn wild, and meaner than mean." Moat of the lot have never been In a barn, and have grown up In the moun tains. be Impounded for ten days. Owners of branded animals, If any, may claim them. Tha remainder will be sold at a sheriff's suction to the highest bidder. The horses are held to be of little vslue, save aa feed for commercial fox farms, or for rodeo performances. BANK ROBBER SUSPECT IS NABBED BY G-MEN BROOKLYN, March 13. (AP) Bdward Bens, sought In Vermont. Pennsylvania and North Carolina on charges of bank robbery, today was --ntiid hy four department of Jus. ties agenta trying to escape through the dumb waiter of an apartment which they had besieged with tear gss. Bens, the arresting agents said. had been mentioned In connection with the kidnaping of Oeorge Weyer haeuser In Tacoms, Wash, last spring. Income Shares Maryland fund, bid 18.M; aaked SI20.0.V Quarterly Income, bid ll.Mi aakea
