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The Weather
Forecast: Fair today and to
morrow, with frost.
Temperature:
Highest veatcrrUy M
Lowest yesterday 36
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PAGESTODAY
Medford
TJiBUNE
Thirtieth Year
Full Associated Pre
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1936.
FnQ United Pre
No. 310.
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Uy Paul Mallou
Copyright, 1938, by Paul Mallon.
WASHINGTON. March 31. Presi
dent Kooeevelt, before leaving for
Florida., said he had high hopes that
hla housing ad
visers would
Have a plan
ready when he
returned. This
was merely ' a
polite cover - up
for the fact,
which will be
evident shortly,
that the hous
ing plan has
t v 1 blown up.
. l What Mr.
LVttUal Roosevelt would
Paul MaJlon have said. If he
had spoken his mind, la some tiling
like thlA:
The inability of any two of his
housing experts to agree cm anything
has convinced him that nothing Im
portant can be attempted along that
line. Furthermore, he has wasted so
much time on the subject that he
hopes that no one will mention It
to him soon again. And as for the
expert , . .
It Is generally understood within
the White Bouse coterie that the
president will play a new game,
ealled "housing-expert." on his Flor
ida fishing trip. He will name each
hooked sallflsh after one of his ex
perts and club It lustily on the head
aa It Is hauled into the boat.
The experts cannot even agree on
why they cannot agree. They seem
to think It Is a matter of personali
ties. Each one suspects all the oth
ers of working for subversive lnflu
evvcori. That is,, they suspect each
other of working for mortgage oanlc
era trying to block the program, or
for certain building groups with po
litical influence trying to promote
certain phases of It selfishly.
They are probably just a little bit
right In their suspicions of each
other. But the basic reason for the
futility of the idea, although they
will deny It, seems to be this:
All schemes which have been ana
lyzed and considered contain such
rank discriminations against proper
ty holders that they are economical
ly hazardous.
The foremost effect of any kind of
housing, public or private. Is the
shifting of real estate values. These
cannot be avoided. If you build
home, you take tenants away from
localities where they are now paying
rent. You deprive property owners
and mortgage holders there of tbelr
values. By your choice of a new
housing locality, you may boost the
value of property owners there.
It Is all right for private realtors
to do such things constantly, but
when the government starts doing It
on a national scale, a constitutional
as well as an economic question
arises.
There Is also some question wheth
er the cheaply constructed low cost
homes would last as long as their
mortcages. Likewise, some doubt
whether persons attracted to such
homes would be good long term
risks.
At least these were the whispered
considerations which dominated Mr.
Roosevelt's recent series of Ineffec
tive . bousing conferences. They ex
plain why the New Dealers cannot
have a program, although they con
aider one highly desirable as cam
paign ballyhoo.
What they will probably do now Is
this: Continue the existing law with
reference to renovations for six
months with some liberalisation.
Continue the government guaranteed
mortgage systm indefinitely without
any further liberalisation.
Some renewed effort may be made
In reference to low cost housing and
ilums clearance, but the Jig has been
up. as far as they are concerned,
since Mr. Morgenthau's real estate
mortgage ally, Peter Grimm, tossed
his hands m the air and returned to
New York last week.
FAIR AND COLDER
Northern Caltfomlal Fair In north
and unsettled south today and Mon
day: probably showers extreme south;
moderate temperatures; strong north
west wind off the coast.
Oregon: Fair todsy end Monday;
colder In Interior tonight; strong
northwest wind off the coast.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 31 (AP)
Weekly forecast for far western
state. March 33-39 Inclusive:
Unsettled at beginning of week In
southern California and plateau re
gion; otcrwlv Efi,rmil lair with
week and abova fiormal toward close.
INDUSTRY HALTS
IN NEVV ENGLAND;
FEAR EPIDEMICS
Believe Worst Passed in
Pennsylvania and Con-
. necticut Martial Law
Rules Many Cities Hart
ford Hardest Hit.
Flood Toll
ToUl dead In 13 states 189.
Total homeless 321 .500.
Total damage 27 1 500 ,000 .
(Copyright. 1938. by the Associated
Pres.)
PITTSBURGH. March 31 (AP)
Heavy snowi burled the prostrated
cltlea and towns of western Pennsyl
vania and northern West Virginia to
day while aa army of relief workers
fought to restore order along the trail
of the devastating flood waters that
claimed at least 100 lives and caused
damage estimated In the hundreds of
millions.
The latest siege of the elements
. bllaard that swept the area with
snoy from six to 30 Inches deep
intensified the confusion among the
homeless thousands, but brought a
ray of hope to the reconstruction
agencies that It might stem the
threats of fire and disease.
FLOOD SITUATION BY SECTIONS
Ohio Valley
Blizzard Intensifies confusion among
thousands of homeless in western
Pennsylvania and northern West Vir
ginia; Pittsburgh stlU In darkness,
but public utilities slowly being re
stored to normalcy; danger of high
waters believed pan In Pittsburgh
area; lowlands between Marietta and
Cincinnati, o.. Inundated; flood crest
expected at Cincinnati Monday noon,
at Portsmouth, O.. Sunday.
New England
Industry In Connecticut and Mer
rlmac river valleys at standstill; riv
ers receding slowly, but new rains
menace: 1,600 national guardsmen
patrol Hartford, hit by worst disaster
In Its 300-year history.
New York "
Finger lakes Inundate 300 summer
homes and cottages In central New
York; snow and slush hamper relief;
department of health reports no signs
of epidemic. '
Elsewhere:
Delaware. Potomao and other
streams which caused damage early
last week recede. Streams In parts of
North Carolina expected to reach flood
crest today or tomorrow.
(Copyright 1038, by the Associated
Press)
The unruly rivers roared fresh
threats at people and property last
night.
Behind them. In the 18 states
through which they course, were 189
dead.
Behind them, too. were 331. 800
homeless men, women and children.
Eren that figure was admittedly con
servative. The property damage was at least
$370,000,000. There waa little doubt
but that It would rise much higher.
If the loss to wage earners and to re
tailers Is considered, together with
the eventual cost of relief and re
habilitation, the money cost may ex
ceed billion dollars.
Ph. mtmtm which Suffered ITlOlt dUT-
Ing the week of unprecedented flood
Pennsylvania appeared iai aifu
to be past the worst. The waters of
the Monongahela and Allegheny
which converge at Pittsburgh to form
the Ohio, were falling. They were
still above flood stage, but the wat
ers which hsd overflown Pittsburgh
earlier In the week were receding. Re
habilitation waa definitely begun.
- Alarm Downstream
But downstream points became
.,,. mora alarmed. Flood stage
of the Ohio river at Cincinnati la 63
feet. The river waa 01.7 feet yester
.. mnminr. and rising. It Is expect
ed to reach a crest of 09 feet tomor
row (Monday).
Still further downstream at Evans
vllle. Ind., the Ohio was slightly more
than one foot under flood stage of 35
feet.
ii iii nrobablv be a week before
the flood la felt at Cairo. Engineers
predicted last night tnat oy we iun
ih. ..ten reached Cairo and the Mis
sissippi they would send the river
about six feet above iiooa k.
w wntiand continued Its weary
struggle against the flood, with more
rain adding to in menace. m w
nlght," said the Boston weather bu
rwiu, "would have some further ad
verse effect and will somewhat
delay the raw of subsidence of the
high flood levels."
The Connecticut river was leveling
off. Officials in the Connecticut val
ley were hopeful that they bad seen
the worst. They believed that even
new rains would hav negligible ef
fect. The Merrlmac. which carried much
misery and damage on Its flood crest
(Continued, on Paga Tha.
WHERE RAGING OHIO RIVER BROUGHT DEATH
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Several persons died on Wheeling Island, shown In this air view, as tha crest of ths worst Ohio river
flood In many years rolled down from Pittsburgh, Pa, through Wheeling, W. Va, Tha Island, a part of
tha city, was completely Inundatad. (Associated Press Photo) ' .
EDIATE PERIL
IS HELDRE1VED
NeW: Proposals to Hitler
Held Key to Peace
France May End Soviet
Pact.
LONDON. March 31 (AP) With
the next move In European develop
ments un tn Relchsfuehrer Hitler,
officials of the League of Nations
said tonight the threat of imme
diate peril baa been removed from
Europe.
Thev declared tfce leacue'a possi
bilities ss a new. stronger power for
peace had been Increased by the re
mnt develonmenta which included
Germany's remilitarization of tne
Bhlneland -and the league council a
subsequent decision that Germany
hsd violated both the Versailles and
Locarno treaties.
Official British quarters said It
now Is up to Hitler to make counter
proposals to the virtual ultimatum
given him by Great Britain, France,
Belgium and Italy.
Those four natlona which, with
Oermany, are the signatories of the
Locarno pact, made a series of propo
sitions to Oermany under which they
believe the peace front, bent by
treaty violations, may be realigned.
Most-important of these proposals,
from the broad International view
point, Is France's offer to submit her
military alliance pact with Soviet
Russia to the court of International
Justice at The Hague.
It waa on this Franco -Soviet pact
that Hitler baaed hla order for Ger
man troops to enter the long-de-mUlterlred
Rhlnelsnd. He claimed
France, herself, had violated tne
pact and Oermany no longer was
bound by It.
French statesmen aald that If The
Hague rules sgsinst them, France
will Immediately end her alliance
with Russia thus removing Hitler's
cause for objections.
But In the meantime and this
point Is, perhaps, of the greatest
present Interest to the Oenrian gov
ernment the Locarno treaty powers,
at the Insistence of France and Bel
glum, want a strip of territory In
Oermany, where It touchea France
and Belgium, patrolled by an inter
national police force.
OF NEW DEAL FOES
WASHINGTON. March 21. AP)
Senate lobby investigators today re
ported the reoetpt of evidence that
.several sntt-New Deal organizations
bin drswn their principal 21nsnlal
support from ' virtually Identical list
of largo contributors.
This was learned. InTestJcstora
said, in tha coursa of an x tensive
and ooatinulng examination of the
financial so tiroes of twenty or twenty-five
organizations, among them
the American Liberty league, the
Southern Committee to Uphold the
ConMttuUon, the freutirwl of the
$puttio &4 the CruMdera,
FIND COIN FOUNT
t ftp-
CLAIM --MOVES TO
BLOCK-PROBE' OF
POLITICS. IN: IPA
WASHINGTON, March 31. (UP)
Advocates of a broad investigation
Into charges of WPA political mani
pulation took sharp Issue tonight
with reports that senate administra
tion leaders were attempting to sabo
tage the proposed Inquiry .
Sen. J. Hamilton Lewis, chairman
of the seldom used senate committee
on expenditures In executive depart
ments, declared he would fight for
the Inquiry on a basis of fair and
non-partisan Jodgment.
Sen, Rush D. Holt, D.. W. Vs.. who
stirred up the dispute with charges
of political manipulation of WPA
funds In Went Virginia, aald he be
lieved that any effort to smother the
Inquiry now would be short-sighted.
"You can smother the Inquiry In
committee but you can't smother It
before the American people' Holt
aald.
PRESIDENT READY
FOR TRIP SOUTH
WASHINGTON, March 21. (UP)
After thrice delaying the start of his
vacation In order to assume charge of
national flood relief effort, President
Rosevclt Is expected to leave the
White House tomorrow for his Florida
fishing trip.
Should any new emergency arise,
however, he la prepared to delay the
trip further. Mr. Roosevelt made clear
that he placed the flood emergency
foremost among his duties.
Hla departure waa contingent upon
their report on the situation.
Mr. Roosevelt, If he leaves tomor
row, will go direct to Winter flartc.
Fla., where he is scheduled to reoette
an honorary degree Monday.
He then will go to a point on the
Florida east coast where the newly
conditioned presidential yacht, Poto
mac, awaits blm.
It had first been planned that the
cruise would take about three weeks.
Present White House plana axe for
about a two weeks cruise.
BORGIA OF TEXAS
TO EARLY TRIAL
OREENVILLE. Tex.. March 21.
f AP) A speedy murder trial for Mrs.
Velma Patterson, 34, accused poisoner
of her 11-year-old daughter, was
promised tonight as authorities has
tened sn Investigation Into the death
of another daughter.
Trial for the brooding brunet was
set for March 80. only two weeks
after ber arrest.
She is charged with poisoning BU
lie Pae MrCaaland, 11, who died Jan
uary 7. The other daughter, Dorothy
Lou MrCaaland, 13, died two weeks
later.
Mrs. Patteraon'a second husband,
Bui galteraoB, died last Acpnber,
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FINAL IVES TO
T
New Trial and Mercy to Be
Asked Defense to At
tack 'Jafsie' Identification
TRBNTGM, N. J March Sl-(AP)
Two move. wtU be made next week
by defense lawyers to save Bruno
Richard Hauptmann from death In
the electric chair the night of March
31.
O. Lloyd Fisher, an authoritative
source disclosed today, will ask for a
new trial, and falling In that direc
tion, will aeek mercy from the court
of pardons for the man convicted of
kidnaping and killing the Lindbergh
baby.
Invitations to the execution were
received today by tha official wlt
neses, and unless Hauptmann wins
one of his last moves or obtains an
executive or Judicial attay of execu
tion, he will walk to the chair a few
minutes after Charlea Zeld, Philadel
phia, gangster, la put to death.
Fisher will base hla application for
a new trial on Information uncover
ed by Oov, Harold O. Hodman since
he became Interested In the case.
Of major Importance. Fisher said,
will be Hauptmann's statement that
he frequented 01 ty Island, the Bronx,
through ell of the summer of 1992 at
a tune when Dr. John F. (Jafsie)
Condon used the Island.
Fisher will make the point that
Condon, who Identified Hauptmann
at Fleming ton aa the man to whom
he paid the 460,000 ransom on the
nlgbt of April 3, 19.13, hsd daUy op
portunities to see Hauptmann on the
Island, yet did not recognlre him.
Condon had a. real estate office,
Flaher said, near the boathouae which
Hauptmann used.
RELIEF PICKETS
MADISON, Wla., March 31. (UP)
Oov. Philip F. JUFOllette today
brought TO policemen to the capltol,
mobilised National Ouardamen and
ordered mom than loo WPA atrlkera
to raise their aeige of the state gov.
eminent. The strikers dispersed af
ter spending 10 days camped In the
assembly chamber demanding higher
waea.
Before they left the legislative
chamber a white-collared man with
a week's growth of beard moved that
the atrlkera clean up the hall. A de
tail waa assigned to the task.
Not all the atrlkera were satisfied
with the majority decision to with
draw quietly. As they struggled from
the capltol where they bed slept,
eaten and debated tor 10 days, some
expeeaaed mttar resentment against
Lyle Olson, their Jeedet, and IaFoI
lette. Re-fclert Perrlne.
ruOENI, Or... March J1-(AP)
Chamber of commerce secretaries re
elected Fred Perrtne of Oregon City
as president of tbelr organization to-
WISCONSIN CURBS
LI
7 TO 5 FOR GUILT
IN WON TRIAL
Court, Hopeful of Verdict
Will Not Discharge Until
Monday No . Further
Trials.
BAN JOSE, Cal March 31 (OP)
Seven tired men and live equally fa
tigued women, the Jury charged with
deciding the fate of young David
Lamson of 'Stanford university, left
the Issue still undecided tonight aa
they retired to their hotel for wel
comed sleep.
The Jurors will resume their de
liberations on Sunday at 9:30 a. m.
They were "locked up" for the
night at 9:37 p. m. after futile debate
which Increased tha possibility of an
other "hung Jury," such aa the one
which failed to reach an agreement
at Lamaon'a second trial on the
charge he killed his wife, Allene. for
mer Lamar, Mo., girl.
The Jury was a forlorn lot aa thay
retired from their second floor meet
ing place and tiled solemnly through
tha darkened street to the hotel.
Floral corsage which had been gay
ornaments setting off tha clothes of
the five women In ths morning were
bedraggled and wilted. The ayes of
many of the men were ringed and
their faces were drawn.
Their appearanoe told plainly of
tha deadlock Into which the contro
versial and often bitter Issue created
by Allen. Thorpe Lamson". death had
thrown them.
' SAN JOSS. CaL, March 31 (UP)
A Jury of teven men and flv. women,
middle-aged agriculturist and house
wives, appeared hopelessly deadlocked
today on the question of the guilt or
Innocennce of David lamson, former
Stanford university student leader,
accused of slaying hla wife.
It appaered likely as the Jurors an
their second day of deliberation
that It would be necessary to dis
charge them without a veroioi.
m.., In TamMn'l BSCOnd
lunu uwu'
trial, when a Jury argued for 93 hours
without reaching a oeoiaion. jj
first trial It took the Jurors only a
. .hmin in return a verdict Of
guilty of first degree murder and or
der Lamaon's oeatn on
That verdlot was reversed, however,
by the state supreme court.
The Jurors Degan weir uci,.
tlona at 13:18 p. m. Friday.
After keeping much to themselves
i. itrmt. 30 hour., the Juror sud
denly started seeking Information this
afternoon.
Shortly before 4 p. m, the Jury re
quested a transcript of certain de
fense testimony, .
In an almost unprecedented move.
Judge J. J. Trabucco took the testi
mony in himself. 'From the business
like manner of the Jurors, I believe
they will eventually reach a verdict,"
he reported on emerging. "There
..a arjnarent anser toward any
individual Juror or Jurors."
After Traouoco-a vibi. "
on rairiv reliable authority
that the Jury stood seven to five tor
conviction.
Trabucco Indicated he would not
call the Jurors baok to determine
how they atood. It waa reported he
Intended to let them argue until
Monday before Intervening.
Lamson remained In a cell tn the
county Jail, outwardly calm except
for a ahort anarp nervou. "
when Questioned. He professed to
be optimistic.
It waa considered likely If the Jury
disagree Santa Clara county would
not make another effort to convict
Lamson.
ASTORIA. Or.. March 31 (AIM
Possibility of objacuona to the pro
posal that employe of the Crown
wtn.mirttit Minn at Seaside take out
charter under th. Sawmill and
Timber Workers' union appeared to
day. Leader would not be quoted
but a lew voioea aiasuicwun
the plsn.
Crown-Wliumett employes nav.
been affiliated with th. International
Wood Sulphite union.
Th. Jurisdictional dispute broke
intn t.h ntwn March 7 when mem
ber of tha two union clashed at
the Seaside mill. Two men w.r
killed and a acor. Injured.
Three person charged wiw par
ticipation In th riot war. bound
over to the grand Jury. Fifty-three
arrest resulted.
.Older Boys Meet
SPOKANE, Wah.. March 31 (AP)
War and peace problem, occupied
the attention of older boya of th In
land Empire at th opening sewlon
nf their annual conference at th T.
LABOR PLAGE AT
SEASIDE SHAKEN
31CJL hoi Joday,
Co-Eds Slurs on
Cold Star Mothers
Rebuked by Legion
MOSCOW. Idaho, March 31 .(P)
E. s. Pawla, Lewlston, past state
American Legion commander, de
clared her today that college girls
who Join organisation which In
any way reflect on the gold star
moUiers "show questionable taste,"
Commenting on the rapid spread
of the "Veterans of Future Wars"
movement, he said, "It Is the stu
dents' own business." But he criti
cised tha coeds who In any way
reflected upon the mothers be
cause "certainly there waa noth
ing mercenary about the mothers
who gave their sons."
MARTIAL LAW TO
(Copyright, 19M. by the Associated
Press)
HARTFORD, Conn., March SI
GAP) Khaki-clad national guardsmen
took virtual control of Hartford to
night with orders to be especially
vigilant against vandal In the dark
ened, flooded are.
Relnforcementa began arriving from
armories In New Britain. Melden and
Bristol, while th cheerful sews
spread through th semi-paralyzed
and harassed, city that for th first
time In three daya eg unprecedented
flood destrctlon the Connecticut river
had begun to drop slowly.
Tonight, relief and rehabilitation
agencies faced these problems and
other:
Restoration of electric power for
hemes, street and Industries.
Care of th steadily increasing nunv
ber of homeless, estimated at mora
than 8.000.
Repair of damage along th. river
ares, which veteran or tn. last pre
vious flood that of 1937 aild would
approximated 10,000,000.
Prevention of food and fuel short
age, and spread of disease.
A checkup of flood area for build
ing In danger of collapse beoaua of
weakened, foundatlona.
Maintenance . of e oonstant vigil
along the river front for evidence of
further loss of life,,
Red Cross official old their or
ganization alone waa oaring for 3,000
refugees. They estimated a many
more had taken refuge with friend
and relatives.
MAP FARM BILL
RULES FOR WEST
CORVALLIS, Or, March 31 (AP)
Aomlnljtratlve procedure for the
new soli conservation farm act will
be outlined for western states at a
meeting In Salt Lake City March 3S
and 37, It was learned her. today,
William 6. ocbosnfeld, dean of ag
riculture at Oregon Stat college, said
be was advised from Washington two
types of payments will be made thla
year to encourage oll conservation.
Farmer may qualify for payment
averaging 110 an acre for land chang
ed to soil conservation crop, within
maximum limit.
Paymenta up to $1 an acre will be
available for those who maintain soil
building crops through 1930. No pay
ment will be made except where the
farmer "take positive action result
ing In addltl'nal soli building or con
servation.' the statement added.
Crop and acreage of 1930 will be
used a basis for calculating the
change, with certain modification
allowed.
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MIDWAY ISLAND. March 31.
(UP) (By Pan-American radio to
United Press) Th. China Clipper.
making I'e fourth air mall flight
across th Pacific landed In th
Midway lagoon today to complete
It flight from Honolulu.
Cspt, R. O. D. Sullivan set th.
four-motored plan, down at ap
proilmately 4 p.m., Island Urn
(0:18 p.m., P. S. T.)
He 1 scheduled to 'take off for
Wake Island, oo th. other side of
tha International dateline, either
Sunday or Monday. HI destination
I Manila.
LONDON. March 31 (AP) Tha
eighth case of upectd sabotage
aboard "British warships alno last
autumn wa disclosed tonight by an
admiralty official, who ald damage
to Oreat Britain' newest destroy,
tb. Ortlltn, wa "under lnrtaUga-Uon,-.
PACIFIC CLIPPER
REACHESMIDWAY
PAST WEEK ROIL
BACKERSOF BORAH
Kansas Governor Wins Dele
gations and 'Dark Horse'
May Arise Senator Bone
Speaks Up.
CHICAGO. Msrch 31 (AP)TJ
Senator Wliu.m B. Borah, candidate
for the Remibllmn r,,.u..,..
iSJJ MM tonlht would not
-... j . loet th)) ncti
Although Introducing himself to
the farm belt as the Moses of Ke
Publlcanlsm. th. th... .
,, . owoaw ae
ld he ht "no plan or pur
pose of throwing his support to
WASHINGTON vr.u
Th movement to nominate OovernOF
Landon of Kansas for president pro.
pressed measurably thte week In the
' "goniam among support
er of Senator Borah of Idaho.
Although th. principals gave no
hint of sharlnw .v.. .
tin., i. . " wnmaent, noft-
tlllty between some elements of their
follower, aroused conjecture about
where it might lead and what ef.
. u any, it might have on tha
possibility of . "H.-i. , "
. ,. - uvrae re
publican nomination.
L Mln tb 11 Oklahoma
vote In convention end the prospect
of gaining th. 83 from New Jersey.
Undone head-start in actual dele!
"""" "ngtn wa lengthened. He
ad at th, time In spite of being
taaa personally active than either
Borah or Col. Frank Knox of 1111.
" i. oeing Q
larged steadily m Missouri and else,
where,
oecom men
tioned Bum . iiw--i - k
i - .."".7 w prin
cipal beneficiary when un Instructed
.'-,u'" son- delegation face
ctulltle at Cleveland.
The practice of M,nnn. ...w
- ... -uwi iiwie.
gatlon. Instead of giving the party
M-iun 10 vox on tnerr
preference In th- mi-...
condemned by Borah at Youngstown,
Ho took his esse before a Chicago
audience tonight, in contesting
sgalnst Knox for Illinois delegate
In-the rrlmarlea next .month.
. -pub ne rerrainert .from nlMin.
hit opponent in arguing the party.
,wu,u IHIUUU.HI one wno enters tha
primaries as he la doing, hi organi
sation was not so reticent.
"It 1 mil, nj In..- . -. B .
J. Cook, chairman of th Illinol
Borah-for-presldent committee, "that
both Mr. Landon and Mr. Knox hold
th same views of sidestepping or
dodging any primary figift with
Senator Borah wherever they pos
sibly can." ,
Cook called "bombastic and un
founded" an assertion by Knox that
the contest at present lie between
Landon and him.
Hit nnover and O. O. P.
DENVER. March 31 (AP) Sen.
Homer T. Bone (D., Wash.) tonight
laid the entire blame for the de
pression -on th doorsteps of th Re
publican party and former President
Herbert Hoover,
Bone spoke before a atate-wlda
meeting of Young Democratic dub
of Colorado and waa billed a ans
wering Mr. Hoover' recent attack
on th Administration at Colorado
Spring.
Quoting Mr. Hoover aa saying he
had carried out 87 of the 30 pledge
made by the Republican party in
19 'S, Bone declared that "when 37
39th of those pledge to th. Ameri
can people had been duly and com
pletely carried out all that remained)
wa to carry out the American peo
ple." F
PEARS EN ROUTE
. PORTLAND, Ore.. March 21. AP
H. E. Wnterbury of tha bureau at
foreign and domwik cotrimsre aald
today that all American fresh applna
and pears afloat and In warehouse
and cotul?nd to Franca wilt ba ad
ml t ted. deaplla quota regulation.
Thla Interpretation c? a recent rot
ernmant announcement pleased thlp
pera here.
FOR PEORIA FIRE
PtXmtA, HI.. March 31 (UP) Fir
believed started by a prowler de
stroyed the First Oongregatlonal
church tonight and severely damaged
th adjoining Shrine tempi,
pamaga wa aUmatfd at tMUXQ.
FIREBUG BLAMED