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The Weather
Forecast: Unsettled and cold
tonight and Tuesday, with
showers or snow flurries.
TEMPERATLRE
Highest yesterday . , 48
LoueAt this morning , ,, 37
The Very Thing
Did you read tha CUsslrled
Ads tn Sunday's Mall Tribune?
If not, better refer to them
now. The. Tery thing you ara
looking for may be advertised
In that edition.
Medford
Thirty-first Year
Fall Associated Press
UtEDFOED, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1936.
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By Paul Mull on
Copyright, 1936, by Paul MaUon
WASHINGTON, March 33. The
Hying squadron of new dealers la do
ing a good Inside Job of selling the
new corporation tax reform to con
gress.
Squadmen are
laying hands on
congress lonal
shoulders in the
corners and whis
pering a more
complete expla
nation of the
purposes behind
the proposal
than any which
have been made
public.
The a x
change, they say,
was written par
Paul Mallon
ticularly to get at 300 corporations,
the big 300, the high society of the
corporate world. The 300 would be
forced to pay a larger percentage of
their earnings for taxes than they
do now. All other corporations (they
contend) would pay less. Also the
proposal would tend to freeze the 200
at their existing size. The others
would be permitted to grow.
This sales talk la having an effect.
Not more than a few dozen congress
men come from districts where the
300 are. The others are being per
suaded that It would be politically
wise to soak high corporate society.
Good non-partisan tax technicians
laugh at the argument. They say
that Treasury Counsel OUphant and
whoever else was behind the program
did not give extensive consideration
n wVint. It. umillri do.
For one. thing, the big fellows al
ready have their reserves. These would
not be affected by the new program,
president Roosevelt specifically stat
ed that he wanted distribution only
of future earnings.
The little fellows generally have no
auch reserves. Theirs were dissipated
fighting the depression. If they ever
bad any. They are entering now upon
si period of business expansion. If all
their coming earnings are to be dis
tributed, they will never have any
thing for a rainy day.
Thus they will droop at the first
rainfall, even though their stock
holders meanwhile pay somewhat less
taxes.
Even more revealing la the Inside
promise being made by members of
the tax squad that they would repeal
their plan at the first sign of a rainy
day. They will not admit It In print,
but they recognize that the bad point
Is that their program Induces cor
poraatlons to save nothing for times
of stress.
Somo congressmen to whom this
promise has been advanced noticed
that It seemed to be a confession of
the economic weakness of the pro
gram. Also they wonder whether a
repealer would do any good after the
rain has started. The only time you
can lay aside earnings la when earn
ings are coming In.
What will happen la this: The few
tax-wise congressmen In charge will
rewrite the program, soften It with
exemptions, make It "workable." The
result will be based on an entirely
different theory than the attack
against bignese upon which the orig
inal tax suggestion was based, al-
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SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Mrs. Earl Blgalow, nee Barbara
Fulton. Investing In a cotton golf
ball to knock about, after finding
the hard rubber sort Impractical
for indoor uw and too bard to
chase outdoor.
Harry Hlnman wanting to Insert
a classified add offering hta equity
In the Rogue River valley for two
bit, after coming shlverlngly in out
of the enow, bareheaded aa peruaueJ.
Tommy Culberteon getting a fiend
Ish delight out of -caring a re.
porter ailly by descending from 1300
to 500 feet In a rapid aplral In hla
airplane, and trying to get the re
porter to pick up hla feet while the
spin waa going on.
Jack Smith bragging about all the
hard work he put In at California
mine, while comfortably langulahtng
on a davenport, half asleep.
George Porter mayor, cotrar-entlng
upon hl shoot. ng at the dun club:
'Ye, I hd a pretty fair ly. I
miurd Just aa many blrda aa I ever
did."
The same mayor hot under the
ce'.lar when, upon arising Sunday
morning, he found that aometne had j
left a WPA project on baa front j
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TO LELAND WILL
TAP VAST AREA
I. C. C. Action Permits Con
struction of $4,150,000
Project Equipment Cost
$350,000 Say Backers
WASHINGTON. March 28. ()
The Gold Coast railroad today was
authorized by the ICC to construct
a 90-mlle line from Port Orford to
Leland In Curry and Josephine coun
ties, Oregon.
The commission cited that port Or
ford 'ia represented to be the only
natural deep water harbor along a
thousand miles of coast-line between
Portland and San Pranclsco and the
applicant predicts that It has great
possibilities as an important seaport."
The raldroad also stated construc
tion of the line would make It pos
sible to tap a vast new area of stand
ing timber.
Cost of the construction waa esti
mated at $4,150,000. Equipment would
be purchased second hand at a cost
of $350,000 and would Include nine
locomotives, six passenger coaches,
100 flat cars and 100 gondola cars.
GRANTS PASS, March 21. (AP)
Interstate commerce commission ap
proval of thb Gold Coast railroad ap
plication to build a 90-mlle line
from Port Orford to the Southern
Pacific at Leland, 20 miles north of
here waa hailed today by all South
ern Oregon as providing greatest
business opportunity tn years If the
railroad la constructed.
The railroad la a major project of
one of the half-dozen development
corporations at Port Orford headed
by .Gilbert E. Gable.. Docks and ter
minals, sawmills, mining, and other
developments are handled by the
other companies.
Chief question la not profitable
operation of the line, according to
studies made by public official, but
Is method of financing. Government
funds may he requested on a 40-prl-vat,
60-publle basts, It has been de
clared. When and If construction start,
crows would begin work both at
Leland and Port Orford, working to
gether to join rails.
CLOUDY WEATHER
WARDS OFF FROST
Continuation of the present cloudy
weather, reduces frost danger to the
minimum, County Agent Robert O.
Fowler said today.
Orchard Ists up to nine o'clock last
Saturday night viewed with alarm the
clearing skies, and were prepared for
the first general smudging of the sea
son. Clouds rolled In, and the tem
perature moderated.
The present blustery and typical
end of March weather may retard
growths slightly but bring no dam
age. Three tnchea of'new snow fell Sat
urday and Sunday at Pish lake, with
the mercury dropping to 30 degree.
Thirty tnchea of snow now lays on
the ground at Fish lake. There has
been no general thaw there.
Laborite For Job
Of Portland Mayor
PORTLAND. March 38.AP) -The
race for mayor of Portland brought
a new candidate today, D. B. Nlcker
aon, president of the Oregon atate
federation of labor.
It will be Nickerson'a first attempt
to win public office. He aald that
if he were elected and waa confront
ed with labor outbreaks during strikes
he would attempt to settle them
without "calling out of troops."
Snow Blanket
DENVER, Colo.. March 23. (AP)
Snow blanketed most of Colorado and
Wyoming And spotted Montana to
day aa temperatures dropped to near
the aero mark In some mountain
regions. In Colorado, mountain passes
were cioeea ay Diuxarde and the
Denver area received six Inches of
snow.
Flood Hellef Grows.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 23- (AP)
Bed Cross receipts for flood relief
Jumped from the $10,971 reported
yesterday afternoon to $26,334 for
the Pacific coast area. The quota for
this area tn the $3,000,000 national
fund la $275,000.
MOSCOW, Idaho, March 23 (API
The University of Idaho, like Prince
ton. Whitman and numerous other
schools, had If newly organlred
"veterans of future wars" today.
Seventy men student organized and
elreted Shull Arms. Rhodes scholar
elect, commander because of his
X&boUfl fiJUSH,
Montgomery Ward Plans Big Store Improvement
POLICY GROWING
SAYS ROOSEVELT
President in Address On Re
ceipt of Honorary College
Degree Cites Wane of
Old Group Domination
ROLLINS COLLEGE. WINTER
PARK. Fla., March 33. (AP) The
"good neighbors" policy waa credited
today by President Roosevelt with
developing "national understanding"
among the people In contrast to In
dividual and group domination. He
made the statement In accepting an
honorary degree from Rollins college.
Arriving early today on his annual
fishing cruise in southern waters,
both the president and Mrs. Roose
velt were awarded honors at special
exercises of this college.
The honorary degree of doctor of
literature waa conferred on the presi
dent. The Algernon Sydney Sullivan
medallion was given to Mrs. Roose
velt. Greeted by Governor SholtE of
Florida, Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt don
ned the scholastic robes to partici
pate In the chapel exercises.
Ha good Sees F. R.
Major General Johnson Hagood.
disciplined Eighth Army Corps area
commander, remained aboard the
president's special train to talk with
Mr. Roosevelt when he returned later
today at Tltuavllle.
He got on the train shortly after
midnight this morning at Charleston,
S. C.
"The development of national
understanding," Mr. Roosevelt said,
"as opposed to purely Individual or
local group domination Is growing by
leaps and bounds throughout the
nation. It la the logical develop
ment of the extension of what X
fcome times call the policy of good
neighbor."
Applauded vigorously, the presi
dent Interpolated In his prepared ad-
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K1WANIANS HEAR
Medford Oleemen entertained the
Klwania club at Its weekly luncheon
meetLng In the Hotel Medford today.
Sebastian Apollo directed the alngers
in the absence of their regular dir
ector. Jamas Stevens, who waa In
Klamath Falls. The Gleemen organi
zation la sponsored by the Klwanls
club.
The atngera presented five num
bers: 1 When My Fancy's Running
High; 2-Kelly the Fullback; 3 To
bacco's a Dirty Weed; 4 The Oregon
Trail; 5 Bella of St. Marys. ..
The club received an Invitation to
attend a meeting of the Klwanlana
in Klamath Falls. It was decided to
accept the Invitation, the local club
to make the Journey within the
month.
SI BROWN 10 FILE
SALEM. March 23. (AP) Sam
Brown, Marlon county Republican
who had announced he would be
a candidate for United States sen
ator, today said he had "no comment
to make at the present time" on
the failure to receive the endorse
ment of the Oregon State boards of
the Townnend old age revolving pen.
slon plan.
Brown was here today to receive
blanks for formal filing and aald he
would definitely enter the race for
the nomination again at Senator
Charles L. McNary tomorrow, despite
the Townsend action.
INE
PORTLAND. March 23. i&t Mrs.
Penny Markle. mother of Lou Ann
Markle, Anchorage, AJsks, girl, re
turned here today from a vtult to
Medford, Ore., to find the hospital
whwe her daughter It recovering from
a serious leg Infection, closed to vis
itors. Tt was placed under quarantine to
protect patients against the spread of
measles, chicken pox and mumps in
the eitajr.
LEAGUE SEEKING
WAR QUESTIONS
Would Liquidate Both Ger
man Question and Italo
Ethiopian War Plan New
Direct Plea for Peace
By Devon Francis
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
The European crisis which sprang
into being with the clump of the
nazl military boot In the demilitar
ized Rhlneland culminated swiftly
today In efforts to liquidate both
the German question and the Italo
Ethloplan war.
Foreign offices and the League of
Nations linked both questions to a
final solution of the problem of
Eurpean peace.
The league'a conciliation commit
tee of 13, gathered In London, order
ed a new, direct plea for peace trans
mitted to Italy and Ethiopia even as
fascist soldiers Inaugurated a new.
slashing offensive on the southern
front.
The committee, which previously'
had received from the two nations
acceptances of a atiU nebulous plan
for ending hostilities, acted on the
east African problem while It awaited
a reply from Relchafuehrer Hitler, of
Germany, to proposals for settling
the Rhlneland Imbroglio amicably.
Events of critical Importance,
meantime, transpired in Rome. Pre
mier Mussolini climaxed hla eteson
of a "corporative" fascist state In
1933 by abolishing the Italian cham
ber of deputies and replacing It with
a "chamber of fascists and corp r
tlona." -
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BY
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 33. (AP)
Jurors trying David A. Lamson for
wife-murder trudged back into court
today, 66 hours since they began de
liberating the defendant's innocence
or guilt and still deadlocked.
First on the calendar Is a re-reading
of final portions of testimony by
expert medical wltnessea on the head
injuries that caused Mrs. Aliens
Thorpe Lamson 'a death.
Eleven pages of the transcript yet
remain to be read, before the Jurors
file back to deliberation chambers
and resume efforts to reach a ver
dict. While pondering the case yesterday
the Jury axked to re-hear testimony
by Dr. A, W. Meyers, Stanford uni
versity anatomy professor. He testi
fied, aa a chief state witness, there
ware hemorrhagic areas in Mrs. Lam
son 'a head, indicating her hair had
been pulled violently.
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REFUNDING AIDED
SALEM, March 33. (A!) The
atate reclamation commlaBlon today
approved the valuation of property
against which Hen, were placed by
the Rogue River Irrigation dlatrlct
to secure a bond Issue of ane.ooo.
The approval waa necessary before
refunding could be completed through
the Reconstruction Finance corpora
tion. The action. Charlea E. Strlcklln,
secretary, said, amounted to official
sanction of the "lien docket" of the
Irrigation district operating In south-
era Oregon.
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SWAMP FOES 103 10 1
WICHITA. Km.. March 38. (AP)
The tall Eldorado, Ark., Uona, a sei-
tet expected to be Mmn-c Usnw; pres
ent when the tournament closes Fri
day niht, opened the woman's nat
ional A. A. U. basketball meet here
today with a record-ahatterlng per
formanr .as it swamped the Wichita
On trl. 103 to 3.
The Eldorado score waa the highest
tn tournament history, and never be
fore has a team been held without a
field goal. The Wichita Sir is scored
two tree throne.
FACTORY SUBMERGED BY FLOOD WATERS
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Thla Industrial plant at Paw Paw, W. Vs., bore the brunt of high water as the raln-awollen Potomao
river awept through the town. The Potomao waa only one of many eaatern rivers which caused the worst
floods In msny years throughout the East in which Pittsburgh and Johnatown, Pa, scene of the famous
flood of 1889, were among the cities hardest hit. Many lives ware lost, thousands made homeless and
milliont of dollars of damage dona. (Associated Press Photo)
REINSTATE HANSEN
AS STATE LEADER
PORTLAND, Ore., March 23. (AP)
The tide of battle within the ranks
of the Townsend pension plan move
ment in Oregon turned again to
day, bringing orders for the rein
statement of Charlea F. Hansen of
Portland as state manager.
Hansen, who resigned Thursday
after a stormy session with the atate
area board of 21' members, aald he
received a telegram from Hal E.
Slemons, western regional director
at Loe Angeles, instructing him to
hold his Job and unseat hla oppo
nents. The white-haired Oregon leader,
who brought Townsendlsm to the
state two years ago, had fallen out
with the area board over hla rein
statement of J. N. Bnrde, Portland
business man, as lecturer after pre
viously ousting Barde.
Hansen asserted that Slemons in
structions would mean the reinstate
ment of Barde; retention or Lewia
C. Cooke, young photographer, as
Hansen's assistant; designation or
the Rev. George K. Magwood as dls-
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BY TOWNSENDITES
PORTLAND, Ore.. March 23. (AP)
State and congressional area boards
of the Town end clubs of Oregon en
dorsed the following candidates at a
week-end session here:
United States senate: John A. Jef
frey of Portland, democrat, and
Theodore O. Nelson, Salem, republi
can.
First congressional district repre
sentative: James W. Mott, republican
Incumbent.
Second district representative:
Clint P, Height of Canyon City, dem
ocrat, and C. D. Ntchelsen of Hood
River, republican.
Third district representative: Wal
ter Whltbeck, Portland, democrat,
and Judge Charlea M. Thomas of
Portland, republican.
Republican national committee
man: Charles L. Paine, Eugene.
Democratic national committee
man: Dr. C. B. Caasel, Klamath Fall.
DINNER-METING PLAN
BEGUN BY RETAILERS
Medford retail merchant will hold
a dinner-meeting in the First Chris
tian church at 6 o'clock tomorrow
evening to discuss plana for future
events. Dinner will be served by wo
men of the church. C. D. Bean wt'J
preside.
This is to be the first of a aerlts of
monthly dtnner-meettnjts to be lltl
by the merchants in Medford church
es, Mr. Bean said.
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If" s.
Income Shares
Maryland Funding, bid $19.46;
asked 131.03.
Quarterly Income shares, bid
asked 41.73.
FHA EXTENSION
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WASHINGTON, March 28. (AP)
The houae banking committee today
approved a bill to extend from April
1 to December 31, 1033 the authority
of the federal housing adrninlstratlon
to Insure loans for home modernisa
tion. It waa amended to give FHA per
mission to guarantee loans by pri
vate Institutions for construct ton of
new homes costing up to (2000.
The committee also approved, a bill
passed by the senate, to continue
the electric farm and home authority
until next February t.
24 LIVES TOLL IN
MEXICO CITY, March 23. (UP)
Riots between rebels and federal
soldiers over the week-end cost 24
Uvea and resulted In the wounding
of several persons.
The war department received re
ports from Duraruto that a rebel
group headed by Frederloo Vazquee
had been defeated at Taxlcorlnga and
had lost 10 men.
Six more rebels were reported kill
ed when federal troops repulsed an
attack on Canatlan. Eight lives were
lost In fighting at San Pedro and
AJalpa In Puebla atate.
PORT EVERO LADES, Fla., March
33, (UP) -Major Oeneral Johnson
Hagood, stripped of his command of
the eighth corps area for criticism of
WPA, today was ordered to take a
three months leave of absence while
bis future assignment to duty la de
termined. Announcement of Hagood s future
was nude by President Roosevelt aa
he boarded the destroyer Monaghan
here for hla annual spring vacation
In southern waters. The warship will
carry the president to the yacht Po
tomac at a rendezvous off the Florida
coast.
BLOTS OKLAHOMA SUN
QUYMON, Okla., March 33. TV
Dust rlnuda swept out of the Okla
home panhandle late today and sift
ed down over most of central Okla
homa in 'he worst storm of the year.
Thick clouds of dutt obscured the
sun at Oklahoma City, - - - -
FEEL BRUNT OF
By Theodore F. Koop
Copyright, 1938, by Associated Press,
Unchecked flood waters of the
Ohio river poured through a score of
small communities tn Kentucky and
Ohio today, the last menace of the
13 -state disaster that took 181 Uvea
and made thousands homeless.
In Now England and Pennsylvania,
swollen waters gradually subsided,
leaving behind a tremendous Job of
relief and rehabilitation.
Wh!! Cincinnati and Portsmouth,
O., were battening down against the
Imminent approach of the Onto flood
crest, Hartford, Conn., went under
strict military discipline to prevent
looting.
The national guard kept all visi
tors out of Hartford until the Con
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2 AUTOISTSDIE
IN CLIFF PLUNGE
EUREKA, Calif.. March 23. (API
Bodies of a woman and a girl, re
covered today from an automobile
submerged In the Eel river 60 miles
south of here, bore mute evidence
of a highway tragedy which officers
aald occurred day and a half ago.
The victims were Mrs. Viola Lan
dergren. 30, and Marjorle Brlceland.
17, both of Miranda, Calif.
Their car plunged 160 feet over
a aheer cliff, landing on a sub
merged log. Ray Wood, Eureka cat
tleman, espied the glint of nickeled
fittings aa he drove by today.
Boatmen retrieved the bodies by
chopping through the top. The vic
tims died from drowning, authori
ties said.
Neither had been missed, the fam
ilies of each thinking they were
staying with the other. They last
were seen at high school dance in
Miranda Friday night.
JACK OAKIE WEDS
EX-FOLLIES GIRL
YUMA. Aria., March 33.-WJP) Jack
Oakle, film comedian, reenacted a
scene from his last picture, "Florida
ftpeclal," when he married Venlta Var
den. a farmer Follies beauty aboard
the Southern Pacific'! Apache luring
a is minute atop last night.
E. A. Freeman, Yuma's "marryln?
Justice of the peace." officiated at the
ceremony In Oakle'a compartment
while several hundred persona cheer
ed from the station platform.
Railroad Conductor Ortho Lock
wood and J. A. Brloe were witnesses.
The newlywede will honeymoon to
ViorldA.
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L BE FINEST
IN LARGE AREA
Theater to Be Eliminated
Modem Design to Be
Used Work Begins With
in 90 Days Says Manager
Plans for ths camplets remodellim
snd snlarglng of the Montgomery
Ward store In this olty were mads
publlo today by H. L. Brown, manager
bere. The expansion program, whlca
will make the Medford store the fin-
eat Ward unit between Portland. Ore.
And Sacramento, CsX, will represent :
a major building project In this
city during losfl. Work on the new
store will begin within 90 days.
Brown said.
The present building now occupied
by Montgomery Ward st Eighth
street snd North Central avenue, has
been purchased by Wards snd, It 1a
understood, the major portion will
be used for the new store. W. H. Cook.
s member of the company'a construc
tion department, spent ten days tn
Medford making a. comprehensive
survey of the property for the nsa
of company architects In Chicago la
planning the modern new store. One
of the first steps In remodeling will
be the elimination of the forms
Studio theatre, occupying a portion
of the building.
"Our new store will be a real credit
to Medford." H. L. Brown said to.
dsy. "Tho very newest trend in mod.
era store designing will be embodied
In snd It will be unquestionably
the finest unit between PorMand snd
Sacramento. Wards Investment her
Is another evidence of the Import,
snce of Medford as the trade cents,
for an Increasingly Important are.
We can assure people of southern
Oregon a store of which they may
well be proud." .
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SALEM, March 23. (AP) Ralph
Schwetgert, 14. wss almost lnstsntly
killed here late yesterday by a bullet,
city police said, from the 23-eillbre
rifle held by Bud Eperldlng, 13, whlla
on a Sunday bloycle ride. The kill
ing, police officiate said, was believed
to have been accidental.
The victim of the accident, accord
lng to the story told police by yomig
Eperldlng, waa riding hla (EperU
dlng'a) bicycle and In an effort to
stop him he "ahot over his head.
The bullet, Instead, hit the rider In
the head. He died before ho could
be taken to the hospital. Polios)
called to the scene declared the
were Informed both carried rules to
do some shooting.
The victim wss the son of Mr.
snd Mrs. Oeorge Schwelgert, of Sa
lem while the other lsd, held by
Juvenile officers for further quae
tlonlng. Is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. P. Eperdllng, also of Sslem. M
chsrgen had been filed.
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JURY LATE TODAY
The 410,000 dsmsge suit of Orra
Schenck, ss sdmlnlstrstor of the es
tate of his father, sgslnat Dr. n, W,
Slecter, Richard Sleeter, snd Richard
Reum, wss scheduled to go to the
Jury early thla afternoon. Closing ar
guments were underway this mom
lng.
Ths cast of the state against Boyd
Hamilton, Applegate district resident
charged with Isrceny of livestock,
orlglnelly aet tor this morning, waa
deferred until tomorrow morning.
The Schenck suit grew out of an
auto accident on West Main street
Isst September, wherein Daniel K.
Schenck, 88, was struck while cross
ing the street. Ths csr wss drlrsn by
Reum, with Richard Sleeter, Robert
Sherwood, and William Cummlngs as
occupants.
JEAN PARKER MARRIES
N. Y. NEWSPAPERMAN
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.. March 31
(&) Jean Parker, brunette screen as
tress, snd oeorge MscDonald, Nsw
York new-paperman, were honeye
mooning today after a surprise wad
ding la Nevada,