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MEDFOKD, OREGON", SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1936.
Full Grilled Press
No. 12.
By Paul Mallon
Copyright, 1936, by Paul Mallon.
WASHINGTON, April 4. The Ethi
opian war has been going big from a
movie standpoint. Likewise the com
muniques issued by both Bides have
contributed; to
the development
of romantic lit
erature. But
those who are
really on the in
side of the mili
tary situation
here have sensed
that Messrs.
Mussolini and
Selassie have
long been weary
of the one sided
sham battles.
Paul Mallon In fact, the
best sources have suspected that the
. war has been conducted since Janu
ary on something like a cooperative
basis. , .
That la, public and private evi
dence exists Indicating that both
General Bagdollo and Selassie have
had a mutual understanding on a
method for promoting a satisfactory
peace.
What first aroused these suspicions
was the tone of Italian communiques
during the so-called big drive two
months ago. The Italians were an
nouncing every day that they had
slaughtered Increasing thousands of
Ethlops. During It all, Mr. Selassie's
mimeograph machine became
strangely silent. He suddenly stopped
the usual denials.
Since that time, word has come to
'responsible quarters here from no
less an authority than an Italian
general at the front that the Febru
ary drive was staged to work the
Italian populace back home up to
the point necessary for a peace agree
ment. What delayed It then was the
Hitler move into the Rhineland.
which took the spotlight off the
African sideshow.
Now that Interest in Hitler's move
Is cooling, Badogllo has marched un
molested up to Lake Tana, the head
waters of the British Nile. Simul
taneously he started writing home
about his bigger and better victories
over the great black warriors, who
were mostly frightened negro vil
lagers. The purpose apparently was to re
build the Italian mind at home for
the pence suggestion which was ffst
hinted In Rome two days ago.
The reason Mussolini Is in such a
hurry Is because the rainy season
will start shortly. It certainly will
set In heavily by mid-June. After
that, operations will be impossible
until October. It will cost Slgnor
Mussolini a pretty penny to keep his
troops where they are during the
rainy season. Also there Is nothing
be can gain by it.
The Selassie angle la this: By giv
ing Italy most of the territory It now
holds, he will keep his plateau and,
what Is far moro Important, his Job.
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Continued on Page Eight.)
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ROSIER AS BORAH
STRENGTH FADES
WASHINGTON. Apr. 4. (-Governor
Landon of Kansas held a formidable
lead for the presidential nomination
tonight as republican assaults on the
new dral ended another politically
eventful week.
While Senator Borah of Idaho trav
eled westward in quest of delegates
to offset the advantage, many at the
capital looked upon the way his sup
porters were overwhelmed In the New
York primary as anything but dis
couraging to Landon prospect.
By gaining IB of the 23 Kentucky
delegates. La n don's total reached" 74
during the week to 34 for Col. Frank
Knox of Illinois and none as yet for
Borah. News dispatches told Increas
ingly of Landon talk In eastern and
southern states.
Counting on some help from the
90 uninstructed delegates chosen In
New York, as well as from other states
where the delegations are not pledged,
or support "favorite sons," some Lan
don backers are already talking of
having 250 of the 1.001 votea on the
first ballot at Cleveland and the nom
ination by the fourth ballot.
Income Shares
Maryland funding bid 178; ssxed
f 31 SO.
Quarterly Ipcome bid $1.63; aed
11.78.
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BRUNO DEAD, BUT
LIVING ISSUE IN
JERSEHOLITICS
Noted ' Sleuth Quizzed On
Role in 'Confession'v
Governor Hoffman Seeks
Vindication.
TRENTON. N. J April 4. (UP)
Department of Justice agents, enter
ing the manifold Investigations of
the alleged kidnaping and torturing
of Paul H. Wendel, disbarred Trenton
lawyer, questioned Detective Ellis
Parker today regarding hLs part In
obtaining "confessions" of the Lind
bergh crime from Wendel.
Wendel's "confessions," which he
repudiated as soon as New Jersey
state authorities obtained custody of
him, delayed the execution of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann for 72 hours and
were used by the defense in en ef
fort to force further delays. Wendel
charged that he waa held prisoner
in New York, tortured and later
taken to New Jersey and placed In
Parker's hands.
The G-men's entrance Into the
case Apparently was based on the
possibility that federal kidnaping
laws might have been violated in
Wendel's alleged forcible transporta
tion from New York to New Jersey.
Two bureau of investigation agents
from Philadelphia, it was learned,
went to the Mt. Holly office of Park
er, who 1 chief of Burlington county
detectives, and questioned blm ex
haustively. Two other Investigations of the
Wendel case already were In progress
and two more were in prospect.
TRENTON, N. J.. April 4. (AP)
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, dead at
last from the avenging volta of Jer
sey Justice but a living issue still in
Jersey politics, was taken from his
last prison place the dingy, death
house morgue late today to New
York for cremation.
With the removal of his body by
a New York undertaker acting under
orders of his widow. New Jersey would
have liked to have written "closed"
to the blotted pages of her most fam
ous crime, the Lindbergh baby mur
der; but several agencies, topped by
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman himself,
continued today to challenge that
Jersey Justice had been served.
Even aa the hearse was rolling slow
ly along tbe sombre street that edges
the prison walls, a man was held In
jail less than a mile distant on a
rormal charge that he, not Haupt
mann, kidnaped and killed the blonde
baby son of the Charles A. Lind
berghs the night of March 1, 1932.
And even as the widow who cried
out at the execution hour last night,
"Oh God, why did you have to do
this?" was arranging for cremation
of the man she fought desperately
to the last moment to save, a new
charge of kidnaping awaited grand
Jury consideration in nearby Hunter
don county.
The man held here for the Lind
bergh murder and the man charged
in Hunterdon county In a complaint
by Mrs. Hauptman herself with the
Lindbergh kidnaping. Is Paul H.
Wendel.
No one tekes seriously the charges;
no one, that Is, save Burlington coun
ty's famous "country detective," EHla
Parker, whose Independent investiga
tion led to Wendel's arrest. But the
chcargea remain. The 49-year old
salesman cannot leave his cell until
the murder charge Is disposed of and
the Hunterdon county retainer which
has been placed against him la drop
ped. (Continued on Page Nine)
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TO DEATH HOUSE;
VANCOUVER, Wash., April 4. (AP)
Sheriff IHand Morrow disclosed to
day that Olenn Stringer, 33, of Med
ford, Ore.. sentenced to death for th
murder of Herbert Caplea, Vancouver
aaleaman, In a holdup In March, ISM,
waa taken secretly to the state prison
at Walla. Walla Friday.
.The sheriff had aald he would take
Stringer to the prlaon Monday but
he decided to deliver him Friday
rather than keep him longer In the
brick cell here from which he tried
twice to escape.
Morrow aald Sflntfer Joked with
offlcra on the trip and said he waa
ready "to pay the penalty and that'a
all there la to It."
The aherllf aald that Beulah Wll
ooi, Tacoma sweetheart of Stringer,
haa given up the idea of marrying
him. Morrow said he understood ahe
planned to return to her Medford.
Ore., home. ' ,
WATER TANK PLUNGES THROUGH ROOF
During an electrical and wind atorm at Memphis, Ttnn, this huge water tank atop a platform on a
three-story building, waa blown from its base and plunged to the basement. Several thousand gallona of
water splashed from It aa it fell. Here i the result. (Associated Press Photo)
T. SNOW. FROST
AND FLOODS DEAL
Freezing Weather in Dixie
, Slackens High Water
Quake Shakes. Helena. -
(By the Associated Press)
New snow storms In northern states,
flood waters and unseasonable cold
In the south almost crowded spring
out of the April weather picture Sat
urday. Additional earth shocks In Montana
and severe dust storms In the south
west gave other unwelcome variety.
Deaths from the week's tornadoes
in the south mounted to 41 with 19
in South Georgia alone when another
victim died at a Cordele hospital.
Elsewhere In the south flood waters
and frost Tuined crops to the extent
of millions of dollars.
Subfreezing temperatures extended
from Arkansas to Georgia with read
ings as low aa 19 In Arkansas where
the damage waa estimated at $1,000,
000 to fruit and berry crops.
Snow fell in Chicago, over northern
Illinois, part of Iowa, Minnesota and
Wisconsin. There were three inches of
snow aa the 1816th earth shock was
recorded In Helena, Mont., since last
October's disastrous quakes.
The low temperatures in Dixie
helped reduce the threat of flovl
damage. Though the rate of the Ten
nessee river was reduced, arrange
ments were made in Chattanooga to
open four city schools Monday for
use of flood refugees. The Ohio con
tinued Its slow rise over lt south
ern Illinois banks but no serious
damage was looked for.
A contrasting condition plagued
parts of Kansas. Colorado and Okla
homa where new dust storms ewlrled.
LINDBERGHS PLAN
LONG STAY AWAY
WEALD. Kent, Eng. April 4.
(AP) Col. and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh have arranged to remain
in England for many more months,
close friends said today, even though
Bruno Richard Hauptmann has died
for the slaying of their kidnaped
first son.
Under a friendly agreement with
the owner. Colonel Lindbergh has
been promised the use of "Ling
Barn," his temporary residence here,
for the reat of this year long enough
for many persons to forget the
tragic Amerlcsn kidnaping and elec
trocution. (
Friend said they were confident
the Lindbergh famtly. Charles. Ann.
and their second son, Jon, would
not return to the United States at
least until next wlner.
Woman's Tale Falls
MERCED. Cal, April 4. (UP) An
nouncing he was convinced no crime
has been committed within the Jur
isdiction of Meroed county authori
ties. Sheriff N. L. Cornell today of
ficially closed his investigation Into
the asserted kldnaylng of Rose Adams,
23-year old San Jose divorcee.
Hind lilts Kouth
L06 ANGELES, April 4- (AP)
High winds swept in from the ocean
on southern California today In the
wake of an a l.-night. drcnciiui rala.
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Iowa Paper Puts
Bruno's Execution
On 'Inside Page9
MUSCATINE, la., April 4. (AP)
The Muscatine Journal, which
in February started a policy of
keeping crime news off its front
page, today carried the story of
Bruno Hauptmann's execution on
an Inside page. Previous recent
developments In the case likewise
have been carried inside.
AIDE NOW BROKE;
T HELP WIFE
NYACK, N. Y., April 4. fP) Ed
ward C. Rellly testified today thnt
the Flemington trial of Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann at which he was
chief of defense counsel, had cost
him $3500 in expense money advanced
out of his own pocket.
At a hearing before Supreme Court
Justice Mortimer Patterson Reilly tes
tified he had been Impoverished by
the unfavorable publicity of his wife's
suit for separate maintenance which
caused his appearance today.
He said he had no practice now and
produced an affidavit purporting to
show that he was unable to pay his
office rent.,
His wife, who said she had been re
ceiving MO monthly payments from
Rellly since she started the proceed
ings against him. testified her hus
band formerly had made annual voy
ages to the tropics and Europe, kept
three motor cars, and had expensive
quarters In a South Central Park
apartment- and In the Westchester
country club at Harrison, N. Y.
She aked that the temporary pay
ments be increased.
Justice Patterson took the case un
der advisement.
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T
MIAMI, Fla.. April 4. (UP) High
winds that churned the waters off
the British Bahamas kept President
Roosevelt aboard the yacht Potomac
today and prevented his usual fish
ing excursion.
Aa a result, the chief executive, on
the second week of a sea-going holi
day, spent hla time working on ad
ministrative affairs preparatory to a
return to American shores and Wash
ington early next meek.
No definite word has yet been re
ceived as to the daw set for Mr.
Roosevelt's return to a Florida port,
but it waa expected the vacation
would terminate Monday or Tuesday.
Prom Florida he plans to go by
special train to Warm Springs, Oa.,
where he will Inspect recent Improve
ment to the Warm Springs founda
tion. After a day or two spent there,
he will move on to Washington.
No Hruno Souvenirs
TUJWTON, N. J, April 4, (AP)
Invitations to Bruno Hauptmann'a
electrocution which would make sou
venirs, are back in their place of
origin the warden' office.
Land fcerl finther
SALT LAKE CITY, April 4. AP)
Two score resettlement administra
tion special I its from 1 states opened
a three-da? study of land utilization
' here today.
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SENATE ACTS TO
OVERRIDE F.D.R.'S
SEED LOAN VETO
Report On Big AAA Farm
Aid Checks Sought Also
in Surprise Move.
WASH INO TON, April 4. (fl In
two swift, surprise moves, the senate
agricultural committee voted today
to attempt to override the president's
veto of the $60,000,000 feed and seed
loan bill, and to demand from Sec
retary Wallace a full report on big
AAA benefit payments.
So unexpected waa the decision to
force a senate vote on the Beed loan
veto that leaders were wary of pub
Ho predictions aa to the outcome.
Privately, it waa argued that either
the senate,- or house, would sustain
the president.
Thirty-nine days have elapsed since
Mr. Roosevelt refused to sign the
measure. The same senate group that
today favored a vote to override him
decided weeks ago to let the veto
stand. The reversal waa attributed to
what some senators termed the fail
ure of farmers to obtain loans, de
spite a $30,000,000 fund promised by
the chief executive.
The reporting out of the resolution
by Senator Vsndenberg (R Mich.)
calling upon Secretary Wallace for a
report on big benefit payments, alao
was hinted by some committeemen to
Involve a reversal.
The agricultural secretary, who at
first asserted the compiling of these
figures would tie up the machinery
for putting the new soil conservation
plan into operation, was reported by
committeemen to have come forward
In the past few days with a pledge of
cooperation in efforts to compile the
data.
Vandenberg asked reports on all
benefit payments above $10,000, but
the committee after its chairman
had consulted Wallace voted to
one one better and ask a report on
all payments above 1,000. In addi
tion, the revised resolution would
call for a statement of the land, crops
and cattle Involved in the payments
Senator Wheeler (D.. Mont.), who
made the motion in committee to re
port out the veto bill for overriding
the president's veto of the seed and
feed loan bill, expected It would be
advanced on the floor by Smith early
net week.
FEAR TELEIVSION
WASHINGTON, April 4. (AP) The
federal communications commission
was urged today. to keep television
on an experimental basis until it haa
determined what effect It will have
on radio broadcasting, newspapers
and the motion picture Industry,
T. A. M. Craven, the commission's
chief engineer, made the recommen
dation tn a report in which he pro
poned a broad investigation to chart
a definite long-time radio and tele
vision policy, made necesaary by swift
technical progress.
The communion, after reading Cra
ven's report, fixed June 19 aa a date
for a public hearing at which all
radio and television Interest will be
represented-
HE MAY QUIT AS
PENSIONJ.EADER
Health Given As Reason for
Retiring Urgees Fol
lowers to Keep Faith in
Cause.
WASHINGTON. April 4. (UP)
Dr. Francis K. Townsend hinted In
hla weekly newspaper today that he
soon may quit as head of the old age
revolving pension movement.
"I feel that very soon I am going
to ba compelled to retire from the life
I have been leading for the past two
years," the elderly doctor wrote in a
front page "plea" to his friends for
"courage and true loyalty to our
cause."
'This retirement may be very sud
den," said Dr. Townsend, whose old
age pension program la the subject
of a congressional Investigation. "The
physical frailty of a man of 70 Is well
known to all. Tomorrow I may not
be with you."
He asked his followera not to lose
faith bocause "of the disclosure of
frailty and Incompetence (or worse)
of a few men" and closed his article
with these words:
"If we break faith with each other
now and permit scandal and recrim
ination to divide us, I can see noth
ing in the future but despair for us
and your children."
WASHINGTON. April 4. (PV-The
congressional Inquiry Into the Town
send old age pension organization was
directed today toward the Pacific
coast, stronghold and birthplace of
the movement.
Representative Gavagan (D., N. Y.h
of the house Investigating committee
planned to leave Washington either
today or tomorrow for Los Angeles
and other west coaat cities to secure
information the nature of which
Chairman Bell (D.( Mo.), declined to
disclose.
LANDS' IN BRAZIL
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 4.
(UP) Germany's giant new Zeppe
lin, Hlndenburg, rested tonight In
its hangar at Santa Cruz, 25 miles
from Rto de Janeiro, after complet
ing its maiden Atlantic crossing.
The huge airship was moored safely
to Its mobile mast at 6:20 a. m. after
a first attempt had proved unsuc
cessful, The mooring cable broke
when the dirigible nosed gently
against the mast and tho giant of
the air drifted away. It waa neces
sary to secure it by hand. It was
the only mishap of the flight.
Pasengera unanimously praised the
craft's behavior on the flight despite
severe storms encountered en route.
Commander Ernst A. Lehmann in
charge of the flight described the
new airship aa "faster and more sta
ble than the Graf Zeppelin."
FOR 'BIG HOUSE'
PORTLAND. Ore., April 4. (p
The state interim commission for the
investigation of penal Institutions
considered the possible Industrialize'
tion of the Oregon state penitentiary
tonight.
Paul A. Preus of the John R. Wald
company, consulting englneera of
Huntington, pa., presented sugges
tions calling for the establlahment
of departments to make auto tax and
road signs, soap, flour and feed, foun
dry equipment, woolens, knitted goods
and tire re-treads.
It was explained the program, add
ed to the proposed expansion of the
shoe and tailor shops, would employ
431 men and cost about $237,000, ex
clusive of buildings or alterations.
VOTE FOR STRIKE
PORTLAND, Ore., April 4. (AP)
John H, Sullivan, union representa
tive, Mid today that the Portland
Lumber and Sawmill Workers union
voted B to l to strike, if necessary,
but an amicable settlement of It
wage dispute with operators la being
sought.
Sullivan, who aald conference with
employers will begin shortly, declar
ed that the dperators discarded an
agreement proposed by tbe union
and submitted their own.
OTSYEW
Father Ignites Self
In Family Rumpus,
Daughter Rescues
ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 4. (AP)
August Bova, 39, a chauffeur,
and hla wife had a wordy quarrel
about how to feed their children
and as the words grew hotter Bova
poured kerosene on his clothing
and lit a match.
A daughter smothered resulting
flames with a blanket and Bova
was taken to a hospital with
burns about his face, arms and
body.
STRAFE CAPITOL;
IT ETHII
Imperial Bodyguard of Se
. lassie Beaten Protest
. to L of N. European
Peace Hopes Aired On
Wednesday.
(By the Associated Press)
Emperor Halle Selassie's Imperial
bodyguard, beaten lor the second
time In a week, was moving south
ward Saturday night before the pres
sure of the Italian northern army.
Not so far to the south, the popu
lace of their capital waa thrown Into
a furore when five fascist airplanes,
oblivious to the fire from Ethiopian
riflemen on the ground, poured ma
chine gun bullets on the Addis Ababa
airport.
Ethiopia Immediately protested-to
the League of Nations that the as
sault violated The Hague convention
of 1907, which prohibited "attaok or
bombardment by whatever means,"
on undefended points.
The league council's committee of
13 was called to meet next Wednes
day to consider the likelihood of
pence. At the same time, the dele
gates will discuss the proposals for
European security presented, on the
one side, by the remaining adherents
to the Locarno treaty, an, on the
other, by Germany, denouncing the
past.
Anthony Eden, Britain's foreign
secretary, refused a French request
that the Locarno slgnatorlea meet at
Brussels, preferring lnstaed that the
Rhineland remilitarization and Its at
tendant problems be cnsldered at
the time of the league council sea'
slon.
France decided to seek Its support
against the feared nazls at the league,
planning to broaden its collective se
curity scheme Inside that body,
Oermany, some of its officials said
contemplates taking no part In in
ternational policies for at leaat ten
days. Adolf Hitler was at his Ba
varlan country home.
PEOPLE MAY VOTE
ON STREET FUSS
PENDLETON, Ore., April 4. (AP)
Steps to refer to the people at the
May 12 primary election the Court
street closing controversy on which
the city council and Mayor C. A.
Moll have split, were started by Moll
and supporters today.
Cloning of the street, traversed by
the Old Oregon trail route to the
east, la a requisite to erection of a
grade separation of the highway and
three sets of railroad tracks. The
council voted the closing, Moll vetoed
the ordinance and last night the
council orerrodo the veto.
Moll support hla veto by stating
that the overhead will cause removal
of 17 dwellings and affect realty
values. He holds that the closing
wilt hinder fire protection and states
he and other property owners there
prefer an underpass.
WASHINGTON, April 4. (UP)
Madam Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins struck back tonight at what
she called an un-American whisper
Ing campaign concerning her ances
try. Miss Perkins, history's first woman
cabinet member and close friend of
President Roosevelt through her work
as state secretary of labor In New
York when he was governor, made
public two letters denying that the
Is Jewish. She added:
"If X were a Jew Z would make no
secret of H. On lh contrary I would
be proud to acknowledge It.
Tactics Called 'Boundinn
White Rabbits' Asked
F. D. R. to Promise Bal
anced Budget.
FORT WAYNE. Tnd.. April 4. (UP 4
Former president Herbert Hoover
tonight ailed upon the American
people to follow the "sure footed"
Republican elephant nthr t.v
"bounding whit rabbit r h
deal."
'I recommend that mao-icim.'
imal aa the symbol of the new deal
party," Hoover said in the Mventh
of hla series of addresses. "It travel"
m uncertain directions at hkrh atvn.
It multiplies rapidly."
Hoover's speech waa anonsonwl h
the fourth district Republican organ
Usation of Fort Wayne.
In his new-found epl grama tie
style, the former president charged
the Roosevelt administration had
felled to keen lte oamnalmi nromiuM
and had not solved "our great nat
ional problems.
"Some of the multitude of new
deal promisee have been rlsht" h
conceded. "The American people do
not expect policies undertaken to
reacn i,wu per cent batting aver
age-
"But a baseball statistician say
their batting average on promise
haa been .0ttU. On major policies it
haa been .030. On the constitution It
has been .006."
Hoover charged that new deal "sub
ordlnatea" In answerlnar hla TintTlniM
speeches "have loosed a amok screen
(Continued on Page Nine)
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Mrs. Sarah Elisabeth Howlett, be
loved pioneer of Orogon and resident
of Eagle Point for the past 54 years,
pased away at her home there yes
terday morning at the age of 88.
Death came as a result of lnflrmltte .
of old age.
Mrs. Howlett had lived In Oregon
for 84 years, coming across the plain
with her family when only four years
old. She had an extremely wide ac
quaintance In this part of the atata,
and heg denih will be mourned by
hundreds.
The funeral will be held from tho
Eagle Point Grange hall at 3 p. m.
Tuesday. She will be Interred along
side her husband, who preceded her
In death In 1924, at the Antelope
cemetery.
A complete funeral notloa and
obituary will appear in this paper
Monday. The Perl Funeral Home 1
in charge
EGAN'S CONDITION
STILLCRITICAL
EVERETT, Wash., Aplrl 4. (API
Chandler Egan, Medford, Ore, former
national amateur golf champion, re
mained In a critical condition from
pneumonia tn a hospital here to
night, after a second blood transfu
sion waa given him earlier In the
day.
Egan became 111 a week ago whUs
her supervising construction of a
new golf course.
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Washington and Oregon! Pair Bun
day and Monday; continued cold;
moderate northerly wind off the
coaat.
BAN FRANCISCO, Aplrl 4. fAP)
Weekty weather outlook for far west
ern state. April 8-11: Fair weather
but followed by rain about middle of
week; temperature below normal but
rising near middle of week.
BULLETIN
LOS ANOKt.ES, April . (UP)
Approximately two-acore parsons wer
rracued and several others. Including;
throe boys, vers still nUsalng lata
tonight In storm-laahed waters off
the southern California coast. -
Hours sfter the first rescue was
reported, tired oosat gusrd crews wsra
searching the acaa tor mlMlna craft
or towing dteablad, meal to pors,