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MEDFOED, OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH 13. 1936.
Full United Press
No. 302.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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