The Weather Forecast: Increasing cloudi ness" tonight and Saturday, be comlnf unsettled cooler Sat urday. Hlshet yesterday . 19 Lowest this morning 36 Try Sunday For your convenience- the juil Tribune Dullness office will aeoept want adit until 8 o'clock Saturday night for the Sunday morning edition. Try Sunday (or plcaMng results. Medford TRIBUNE Thirtieth Year Full Associated Press MEDFORD, OREGOX, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936. roll Doited Pin So. 309. iT f aeW V ay By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON, March 20, Presi dent Roosevelt's build-up for bta re lief appropriation, this year was what la known In the promotion trade ae a "lalapaloo aa," meaning a thing of beauty and a . work of art. , The grand scale on which it was managed would have made that old master pro moter o f syn thetic excite ment, Mr. Tex Paul Mallon Rlckard. himself, go off and lie down. If he had not al ready done so In response to a greater summons some years ago. In his absence, no one seems to have caught on to the perfect techni que, although Mr. Roosevelt has -worked it the last two years with only slight variation this year. Mr. Rosevelt asked congress for $4, 800,000.000 last year. You may recall that, Just about that time, his good stooge, Mr. Harry Hopkins, began throwing fits dally In public because be had no relief money left. He actu ally curtailed and even threatened to top relief for a while although at that very tune. Mr. Boeevelt was sit ting upon hundreds of millions of unexpended balances, some of which he has not spent yet. This year the gag was Tarled only lightly. While Mr. Roosevelt was lowly composing a request for an other 11,800,000,000, Harry began Is suing orders proposing to cut. but . not actually cutting, people off W rolls. For Instance, the cut ordered In Illinois required curtailment of ap proximately 20 per cent by June 80. This year and last, the effect was to taring the Democratic politics down en congress from everywhere. They howled about what a bad thing It was to curtail, especially In this, an elec tion year. For the past two weeks they have fretted congressmen into a state of mind where the legislators would be glad to approve anything Mr. Roosevelt asked, without serious question. Through It ell. Mr. Hopkins main tained sil'nce and a straight face. A slightly new sideline frill was added this year. For example, the Dis trict of Columbia welfare board re ceived private orders a week ago to out the local relief rolls by two thirds. This Impossibility was sug gested Just a few days before Mr. Rosevelt'a message went to congress. ft had an alarming effect on all the good budget-balancers hereabouts. They saw visions of disorders and riots. Not only that, but the relief money la sustaining many business lines whose leaders envisioned the Doaslblllty of this business being wept away. . The pressure they brought on con gress was stronger than that of the soldiers' lobby for the bonus, al though almost entirely under the surface. Thus, these advocates of a balanced budget were squeezed right out of their position. The demand tor adequate relief became almost unani mous hereabouts. The economy psych ology of the public has turned entire ly around for the occasion. These shrewd inside maneuvers would be a minor phase of an im portant matter if anyone hereabouts really thought that a substantial cur tailment of relief Is seriously in tended. No one does. (Continued on Psge rwelve) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mrs. Clyde Flchtner. apparently firmly convinced that spring has ar rived, out touching up the fsmlly baby buggy with a new coat of paint. Bill Bolger, philosophising on the return of track to Medford: "It's a mod thing track Is coming back. We've had some good fast men arouud bare, and now they'll have something to do with their speed besides run away from the cops." Wilton White, efficient grease monkey at a service station, giving the impremlon that hs hsd shifted callings and taken up taxi herding, '.belt he was )ust taking the cab up to get Its face washed. Rrd Sam. backet ball cavorter for the Blue Raiders, getting the work out of his career trying to dodge the fumes from bis own pipe, which was throwing out a mighty smudgs. Del Cox returning to work in Med ford after several months of labor in Chico. and mighty glad to be bark, where the beat won't bother klm. fo)'M Met 1 GERMANY'S HONOR BEFORE PEACE IS Four Remaining Locarno Powers Agree to Join in Military Alliance if Hitler Refuses Rhine Proposals HAMBURG. Germany, March 20. (AD Adolf Hitler asserted, here tonight that he would not retreat a single centimeter' to the Rblneland and would "ac cept nothing which Infringes on German honor." (The Locarno agreement map ped In London would require Germany to withdraw her troops In the Rhlneland 20 kilometers back of the frontier.) By Charles P. Nutter Associated Press Foreign Staff. LONDON, March 20. (AP) The house of commons was told today that, the four remaining Locarno powers have agreed to join in a virtual military alliance If Adolf Hitler refuses to consider proposals to re-establish the security of Eur ope. The proposals agreed to by Great Britain, Prance, Belgium and Italy were published In a white paper sub mitted to the commons as Anthony Eden, British foreign secretary, began sn explanation to the lower house. A German spokesman, shortly after the proposals were made public, said the plan "might form a basis for discussion "if certain unilateral parts like the police rone and The Hague court reference were elimlnatd." He declared Germany must he treated as an equal and would not tolerate for eign troops on hersolL, , . Would Overhaul League The plan envisages an Internation al conference to overhaul the League of Nations and greatly widen Its scope from existing limitations. Provision was also made to set up a buffer rone against Germany along the Franco-Belgian borders. The zone would be occupied by Interna tional troops Including British and Italian forces until a new security treaty could be drawn. The proposed rone would be 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) wide, from which German troops would be withdrawn. The proposals demand that movement of German troops (Continued on Page Eleven) SLAYSSELF, WIFE LOS ANGELEb. March 20. (AP) An Invalid, former army officer, leap ed to his death today from his sec ond story apartment, and in the apartment was found the knlfe-slash- ed body of a woman. Detective Lieutenant Reed Kofford identified the pair as Cole Randle. 38, and his wife, Marian, and found a note reading: "We love each other too much to be separated, and we will go together. Cole and Marian. "P. 8. The dearest and most won derful wife God ever gave a man. and I won't leave her to face the world alone." Kofford said a flatlron and a bunt ing knife had been used to kill Mrs. Rsndle. Randle apparently cut his wrists and turned on the gas, said the officer, but decided to leap from the window when be heard the steps of a milkman on the street below. His plunging body narrowly missed the milkman. Kofford said Randle was a first lieutenant of artillery during the world war. . ADOPTION PLANS EVANSTOW. 111.. March 20. (UP) Disgruntled at publicity attendant on the proposal of Mr. and Mrs. James J. Walker of New York to adopt a baby, the Evanston Cradle society today announced It had ad vised the former Gotham mayor and bis wife to drop adoption proceed ings, Mrs. William B. Walrath, manager director of the Cradle, made the an nouncement after wide publicity was given discovery that Jimmy, who first took to kissing babies as New Torh's wiM-crscktng mayor, and his wife bad taken out adopt ion papers. KLAMATH FALLA. March 20. The Klamath country today knew spring was here. Advance bands of big white pelicans have been sighted on Klamath lake. Flocks of wild ducks and geese are winging north ward from their winter resting MSB Flood Crest Strikes Cities in New England Area TOWNSEND CHIEF OF STATE OUSTED IN STOW MEET James Logan . Succeeds Charles Hansen as Leader of Movement Barde Re instating Cause of Action PORTLAND, Ore., March 20. (AP) Pressure by the state area Town send board of 21 members brought the resignation of Charles E. Hansen, head of Oregon Townsend clubs, early today. The board went through a stormy 14-hour session before emerging with Hansen's resignation and with Jsmes Logan in his place. The action followed open resent ment with Hansen's action In rein stating as a lecturer J. N. "Jaok" Barde, previously deposed. The board retained Hansen as state director of "visual education." The board retained Elbert Eastman In charge of broadcasts. Hansen had reinstated Barde as a "true, loyal and tireless" Townsend worker and dissatisfaction Immedi ately appeared among other Town send leaders here. Logan has been an "accredited speaker" for the organization since Hansen, who brought the Townsend (Continued on Page Three.) SALEM TO PLAY T SALEM, March 20. (AP) Astoria high school ran up the highest1 score In state tournament history In de feating Myrtle creek 60 to 28 today. Ted Sarpola, Astoria's all-state for ward for the last two years, scored 27 points alone, one more than Myrtle Creek's total score. The defeat eliminated Myrtle Creek from the tournament. SALEM. March 20. (AP) Benson high school of Portland and the host team of Salem advanced to the finals In the consolation series of the Ore gon state basketball tournament here today with fifth place as the highest award. Mill City and Bend were eliminated in the morning con tests. It was a surprised Benson team during the last half of their battle with Mill City B team when the smaller outfit took a four point lead from the Portlanders and held It up to the final minute and a half when Marchl, Benson forward, sunk two long baskets. The Benson team was aided In the closing minutes when Selm, Mill City star forward, was lost on personal fouls. Final score was 27 to 29. Sslem had little difficulty In de feating Bend after the first part of the contest. Bend started the scoring with six points, but the Salem boys soon overcame the lead and at half time the score waa 23 to 15. The final score waa 38 to 30. PERCY LOCEY TO O.S.C. STAFF DENVER. March 20 (AP) Cosch Percy Locey of Denver university re signed tods? to Join the administra tive ataff of Oregon Bute college. His resignation Is effective Immed iately. Ha has been head football coach at Denver since 1033. He said he will leave for Corvallls within three weeks and plans to quit coaching "permanently." LcniMMahoney, graduate manager of athletics, said a new contract was offered Locey but the chance "for advancement In a new field at Ore gon state was too attractive to him to turn down. "I hate to leave the coaching pro fession, but I cannot afford to pass up this opportunity," Looey said. Income Shares Maryland fund, bid. SI0 43; asked 121.00. Qusrterly Inmm. but 11(7; aied BENSON QUINTET T AREA IN OREGON BE Corn Acreage Will Be 63, 000, Compared With 59, 000 Last Year Most In dications Exceed Average PORTLAND, Ore.. March 20. (AP) Acreage planted to corn, spring wheat and potatoes in Oregon will exceed 1935 figures, the U. 6. depart ment of agriculture said today. The department said the total acre age of corn, spring wheat, oats, bar ley, potatoes and tame hay In Oregon. Washington, Idaho and Montana as Indicated for 1038 wil be 11,835,000 compared to 10,637,000 in 1035. Neither the indicated acreage for harvest nor the base acreages used for comparison has been revised to the basis of the 1035 census. Th department estimated In Ore gon an acreage of 63.000 for corn in 1938 against 59,000 last year, 242,000 for wheat against 231,000, 253,000 for oats and 1,061,000 for tame hay, both the same ae 1935, 41,000 for potatoes against 37.000 and 114,000 for barley against 127,000, the only decrease. With the exception of corn, the in dicated acreages all exceeded by sub stantial margins the 1928-32 average, which was 63,000 for corn, 177,000 for wheat, 238,000 for oats 81,000 for bar ley, 38,000 for iiotatoea and 923,000 for tame hay, - - i The department'a figures were gathered from reports made by 42,000 farmers throughout the nation on their plans as of March 1. "The reported acreage Intentions have been adjusted to show the acre ages that would be harvested In 1936 If the relations between growers' in tentions and harvested acreages are similar to those which have prevailed in the past," said O. J. Bo rum, de partment agent. E TRADING SYSTEM TOTJNOflTOWN. O.. March 20 f AP) U. S. Senator - William K Borah condemned "trade and barter" methods of choosing presidential candidates last night as he swung Into bis speaking campaign for Ohio delegates to the Republican conven tion. 'See to It that you have some voice in the selection of the party's nominee for president,' he urged an audience In Stambaugh auditorium, attacking the Ohio Republican par ty's "favorite son" plan for its dele gation to the convention. "Do you want to send an unln structed delegation which may be gathered In some hotel room at 8 a. m. under conditions I will not de scribe and have there a trade and barter entered Into that will deter mine the selection of the nominee?" INGOF GOLD BEACH, Ore.. March 20 (AP) Businessmen here petitioned Governor Charles H. Martin and the state planning board to keep the Rogue river and Its tributaries free from mud from mining operations during the salmon run The river Is teeming with salmon which cannot be taken because the waters are so muddy. It waa stated. TRAIL MAN HELD FOR BARRAGE WITH RIFLE Disorderly or riotous conduct chsrgss were to have been filed this afternoon atalnst Charlie Mathews. 50, of the Trail district, according to District Attorney Oeorge Codding. Mathews was arrested Wednesdsy night by state police after he had sllegedly taken several pot-shots at bis sister with a rifle, and than fired several shots at buildings of the Sunset -On-Tht-Rogue resort In that vicinity. He has been held In the county jail since his arrest while authori al lnwli(pltfl(l It $aajtj mm RIVER REPEATS HISTORY AT , ISA" Whsre th famous flood ef 1889 swept with a lot. of mors than 2,000 Uvea, Johnston, Pa, waa again devastated by rushing waters In one of the floods which caused tremendous Ufa toll and prop.rty dam age throughout th eastern states. Th reaulta are shown In thla aerial photograph. (Associated Press Photo AS 5 ARE BARRED The Lost Creek school has tempor arily lost one-third of Its enrollment and when the five absent pupils would be able to resume their studies seemed doubtful today. Normal regis tration at the school Is about IS chil dren. , The five absent pupils are Thomas, Jsmes and William Short, children of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Short of Lake Creek; and Dorothy and Lucille Vle aux, nieces of Mrs. Short. All five are grandchildren of the Rev. William M. Carle, . retired Presbyterian minister and father of Mrs. Short. Last fail the five children, together with Harriett, John and Carle, other children of Mr. and Mrs. Short, were stricken with scarlet fever. The quar antine, lasting 80 days, waa lifted November 6, It was stated by the Rev. Mr. Carle. Subsequently six of the eight chil dren suffered from measles and again the Short home was quarantined. Early this month Harold Patton, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Patton of Lake Creek and a pupil at the Lost Creek school, was stricken with scar let fever. After making an investiga tion. .Dr. A. N. Johnson, county health officer, found that the Patton boy had visited at the Short home a few dsys before he became ill with the fever, the doctor said today. This and other factors, Dr. Johnson stated, In dicated that the youngster hsd prob ably been Infected through contact with the other children. The children at the Short home were therefore suspected of being car riers of scarlet fever germs. Dr. John son related. An examination of the five attending the Lost Creek school showed their tonsils to be badly In fected and It was concluded the ton sils might be harboring n.ritt fevr microbes, tt waa explained. Dr. Johnson said he advised having the tonsils excised. The children were taken to the fsmlly physician, it was said, and ha gave the same advice. Mrs. Short wss willing to have the (Continued on Page Three.) SET FOR MARCH 31 TRENTON. N. March 20. (AP) Bruno Richard Hauptmann's execu tion has been fixed for the night of Msrch 81, It was definitely learned today aa Col. Mark O. Klmberllng. warden of the state prison, mailed In vitations to official witnesses. Kauptmann, convkted of killing Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.. will go to the electric chair at A p.m. Governor Harold O. Hoffman, meanwhile, was still trying to ar range an Interview with Dr. John P. (Jsfste) Condon, Lindbergh ransom Intermedisry, In the abort tuna before fhji tst&HiMQ& Jta 7wi Missing Son Seen In Roundup Photo Mother Believes GRAlrs' PASS,' WrchT o! (AP) A news photo published here of a group at the wild horse roundup in the Applegate district last Sunday may be the means of reuniting Mrs. K. O. Myers of Murphy and her son Billy, 16. Billy has been missing from home almost a year. Mrs. Myers believes she recognizes him in the photograph. She Is anxious to get In touch with him as Mr. Myers Is critically 111 In a veterans' hos pital In Walla Walla, Wash., she said. F FINANCING FIGHT AGAINST. HEARST WASHINGTON, March 20. (AP) The senate today passed legislation to make 110.000 "Immediately avall ab1e'r fur hiring a lawyer to combat Injunction proceedings brought against the lobby committee by Wil liam Randolph Hearst. The proposal now goes to the house. If approved there, It must be signed by President Roosevelt, It was Introduced by Chairman Black . (D-Ala.) after a two-hour speech defending committee action. Hearst petitioned the supreme court of the District of Columbia to enjoin the lobby committee from ex amining his telegrams. The committee's authority was questioned In the senate today by Senator Stelwer (R-Ore.) who said the courts "almost . universally" frowned on "fishing expeditions." His objection brought- from Black of the committee a contention that "these protests are not new;, they have been made against every com mit Uo Investigation." K. F .ROTARY MEETING KLAMATH TM1A. Msrch 30. Ti Oeorge Ford, 08, official of the Columbia Utilities and well known In Oregon business circles, dropped a cad ut a heart attack at the Rotary club luncheon here this noon. POLITICAL POT COLD AS DEADLINE NEARS With ten days left for candidates to file lor the May primaries, the polMtoal pot In Jtr.kmn ounty is not boiling. The state attorney general has ruled that Monday, March 20 la the final day for declarations of in tention to run for office. There have been no filings the past week. The local political scene Is so serene, few are even being "rnentloncd' as csn didaies. and there are no political USAUSttata- p U ILlLiu JOHNSTOWN Tfjr w RED CROSS SETS E FOR FLOOD HELP The local chapter of the American Red Cross was requested today to raise $450 Immediately for the relief of stricken families In flood areas. Plans were made forthwith by George T. Prey, chairman of the Jackson county unit, to raise the re quired quota. Donations, he said, may be left at any Medford bank, Red Cross officials in the courthouse, the Fltst National Bank of Ashland or the . First State Bank of JOogle Point, " Mr. Prey received the following ur gent telegram from Admiral Gary T. Grayson, notional Red Cross chair man r. "Reports Indicate 38,000 families In Continued on Pag Eight.) STORK ARRIVES DESPITE FLOODS BtniNnPIHI.n. Mui. March 30. 'l IDl TSun hihlu nut hnn, bull. with the help of the fire depart ment after flood oondltlona shut off electrlo lights. The Mercy hospital delivery room waa In darkness until firemen ar rived with flood lights. MILTON, Pa., March 30. (API Mrs. Helen Mausleller, a flood refu gee, gave birth to a daughter In the biology laboratory of the high school today. ' Bhe wss one of a number who found shelter In the building. William Wright, aged Central Point district farmer, Injured when his wood truck was atrurk by a north bound passenger train at the Central Point crossing on the morning of March 3. Is showing gradual Im provement although he la not yet out of danger, the attending physic lsn reported today. Suffering from a bndly fractured skull, Wright still hss periods of corns, but rallies with Increasing atrength each time, and the physic ian aisled Uiat ha thought the In jured man would recover fully. KLAMATH FALLS COPCO RECEIPTS SHOW GROWTH KLAMATH PALLS. Ore... March 30. (AP) Tie California - Oregon Power company reported receipt the past year were 37.ooo In excess of those for the previous 13 months' period. The year's total waa n MUBM4 H 4i947a HUNGER, DISEASE AND PANIC STALK Death Toll Placed at 138 Over 200,000 Homeless Material Damage Near $300,000,000 Surveyed By FRED VANDER8CMMIDT (Copyright, 1938. by the Associated Press) Busy cltlea of Mew Knrtnnrf anrf K Ohio valley bucked the crest of th vast eastern floods today. Elsewhere, smltf falUno' . civil and mllltarv authnrlHM nt atrtcken sections fought to quell pan ic, hunger, thirst and disease. The death toll atnnrf thi .fhmwM. at) 138.. Morn than Qnn nnn . lleved homeless; unofficial rxrt nt uomage over tne la states Beared 300,000,000. Two Score Cities lilt Late develonmenta rmm im f.n. flung area of disaster Included: 1. Two score New KmrUnrf HH Including Hartford and Mlddletown. Conn.: Springfield. Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill. Mam.; and rr.AHi Manchester, Keene and Hcoksett, H, a., were gravely distressed, Approximately 100.000 were home lee. The main aectlon of Hookaett lay in wine. Water from both th Connecticut and Oak rivers was reaching Hartford's main street and 15 per cent . of the city was under water. Sandbags wore plied n th business section. Governor Brann of Maine estimated the loss In his state at tl6.000.000. Manv mmmntiltlM had no water, light, gas or telephone service. National guardsmen prevent ed looting and calmed panicky crowds in some places. a. Debrls-fllled waters of the Ohio coursed southward Into their lower valleys, finding residents In many Ohio and West Virginia cities either " evscuated or prepared. Flood levels did not reach the 1913 figures, al though water ran deep In the street of Marietta and other cities. Back upstream, Wheeling. W. Va, polio had reports that two more persons were drowned In an attempt to re turn to' their bomea on flooded Wheeling Island. 8. Pittsburgh, thrown Into a brief psnlc by false police reports of a major bridge collapse, marshaled It (Continued on Page Eleven) fateTlamson SAN JOSE, Calif., March 30. (AP) The fat of David A. Leroson, charg ed with slaying his wife, wa placed In the Jury' hands at 13:13 p. rn. today. The Jurors were taken Immediately to lunch and will begin deliberation upon thslr return. Lamaon, who twice before bad watched th Jury file from the room, sat ilk a statue, the knuckles of his hsnds showing white s he gripped the arms of his chair. Th defense In It closing argu ment pleaded: "The defendant has suffered enough. Let him go horn end raise his young daughter." "Lot him go home?" Prosecutor A. P. Lindsay asked In a dramatlo clos ing argument. "la that the principle of Justice by which w are governed? Then we may a well abandon our penitent! arlea and let them all go home." E AT GRID CONTESTS PORTLAND, Ore, March 30 (AP) The football fan who goes to the bUt game with a bottle on his hip may run Into a lot of trouble next fall If City Attorney Prank Oraut lias his way. Orant drafted a proposed ontlneno which would prohibit drinking at games or In other public places, or appearing at such plsres Intoxicated. Mcmbcra of the city council re fused to secede to the pro pons! of th Oregon Pood and Beverag Dis pensers that a penalty be !mposta on minor who misrepresent their ag to buy liquor. The association charged yeaterday that Circuit udg O. H. Gilbert had used an attempt to curtail tbe sal of beer to minor Into a poUtloal ga ui MT AloaaUL