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Me The Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy to night and Friday. Slightly nanncr tonight. TEMPERATURE Highest yesterday Q9 Lowest this morning .......... 3-t Pay The Taxes The moat satisfactory way to rind a tenant for that rarant houw li through the riassffled roliimnt of this newspaper. Vacant houses don't help pay the taxes So advertise. Medford Tribune Thirty-first Year Fall Associated Preta MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 193G. Fti'.l Untied Pres. No. 16. m mm rn An 0)1 Vein's By PAIL MALLOX (Copyright, 1936, by Paul MaJIon) WASHINGTON, April ft. Just be cause you have not heard of the brain trusters lately Is no sign they have stopped thinking. They have 4 merely pulled the shade on their minds. Almost dally they assemble in small groups tor luncheons a t clubs where pri vacy Is assured, and also at cock tall parties and dinners around at Paul Mallon their homes. Ia these exclusive confabs lately a new economic policy has been gener ated. You will probsbly not hear about It for a while yet, perhaps not until after election. One reason Is that It is very, very secret. These remaining brain trusters live In a rarlfled atmosphere of thought which Is rarely penterated by polltlcos or newsmen and seldom by the top gov ernment officials. The ordinary herd here is not only socially but men tally Inferior. As everyone knows, professional thinkers are the only disciples of true thought. Many are hired by endowed Institutions and even, political ones to advocate cer tain lines of thought, for good fixed prices, but even these decline to de part from their background aura of exclusive mental reRpetability. Money does not tilt their haloes. Also they speak a superior lan guage, which Is not understood by laymen, and perhaps not always by themselves. , ... AU this guarantees privacy, which even the president himself Is fre quently not permitted to lnvsde un til the time for seeking his help Is thought to have arrived. Brain trusters have another advan tage over ordinary government offi cials. They can change their eco nomic philosophies In a minute, without consequences and without Renting their eternal rectitude. What ever position they hold last Is al ways the right one. It may bowl you over when you near it, but the right one currently Is the theory of co -opera five market Jug. This may sound vaguely like a Coolldgeism, but it is far from that. The idea, as Inadequately un derstood by the few outsiders who have been able to penetrate the In ner circle. Is that co-operative mar keting should be applied to Industry as well as farming. That is, the co-operative market ing theory slready has proved to be (Continued on Page Two.) f- FORTONGUE POINT SALEM, Ore.. April 9. AP Em phasizing that the Tongue Point na val base request was not a "pork barrel matter," Governor Martin last night appealed directly to President Roosevelt for reconsideration of Ore gon's need for an adequte defense at the mouth of the Columbia river. "This Is a proposal based on a well-rounded national defense sys tem for the entire Pacific coast." the governor wrote. "Adequate defense at the mouth of the Columbia river would forestall any possible Invasion of the Pacific northwest through that now vlunerable route.' SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Francis Patrick Peck, gorilla, on his rounds attempting to procure a square, yellow silk neckerchief to go with his wine-colored gaucho shirt, sent him for his birthday tomorrow, finding out from Bill Porter at Lee's that "Naw, we haven't any yellow ones, but we've got some red ones, only they aren't silk and tiw rent square" and Del cox at the Toggery proffering soma woolen green ones and F. s. Brandon at M. M. finding a sort of yellowish oblong one that was wool and Chas. Wood at Penney's admitting frsnkiy mat he had no scarfs but would he glad to sell Peck a yellow skull cap he had and How ard Leclerc at Mann's also on the n native side and Mrs. Charley Campbell tr..ig to pick out some piece ffoods that would make up Into a suitable piece And Mrs. Virginia Thompson trying to sell th poor guy a girl's scarf, all silk and yellow and dainty whtrh snapped back, and Peck finally giving up me dutae In disgust before his he-manness aarc question ed. (This Is not a paid ad for de partment atoxea.A PATROL FORCES CLASH AGAIN IN E Five Japanese Soldiers Miss ing After Skirmish Both Sides Start Shoot ing Simultaneously, Claim TOKYO, April ft. OP) The Harbin. Manchoukuo, correspondent of the Domel (Japanese) news agency re ported tonight that a Japanese lieu tenant had been killed In a new clash with Russian soldiers near sulfenho. Five Japanese soldiers were reported missing after the skirmtsh. The lieutenant, with a small com mand, was patrolling the hilly coun try east of Sulfenho, according to Do mel, when they encauntered 14 Rus sian soldiers. It was stated that the Russians were on Manchoukuoan territory. The encounter occurred at noon today. Apparently both sides started shoot ing at approximately the same time. Sulfenho, or Suifen the "ho" means "city" lies only 110 miles north-northwest of Vladivostok, Rus sia's most Important port on the Pa cific. The new clash apparently Is one of a series occurring with Increasing fre quency in recent months. Previous clashes between Japanese and Russians have been reported at various places along the northern and eastern borders of Manchoukuo, where the boundary between that Japanese-created empire and Soviet Russia Is Ill-defined . Each government has protested to the other through diplomatic chan nels, but no agreement . has . been. reached on proposals of a mixed com mission to establish definitely the border lines. SLEIGHT OF HAND PORTLAND, Ore., April . 9. (yp) Frank Hughey has police mystified. He Is accused of 11 burglaries but at the moment the curious members of the "force" are more interested In his ability as a slelght-of-hand artist. It seems that Hughey wes searched six timea for Jewelry. None was found. But Waldo Buckler, who lost two rings and a wrist watch to a prowler, wasn't satisfied. He 'Interviewed Hugh ey personally. Then Buckler saw Dis trict Attorney James Bain. A later conference between Buckler and Hughey ended when Hughey pro duced two rings and a wrist watch. Officers still do not know where they were when Hughey was searched. HEAD OF MILK GROUP Robert Hart was elected president of the Milk Distributors association at Its annual meeting In the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce last night. He succeeds B. F. Van Dyke, re tiring president. Other officers elected were Gordon Warner, vice president, and Lewis Clark, secretary-treasurer. W. J. War ner was chosen to represent the as sociation on the chamber of com merce board of directors. An albino herring gull, said to ! a rarity, has been reported found on Kent's Island. Bay of Fundy. Hungry Bears Ruin Auto, Gobble Up Girls' Lunch When Mlts Helens Aalade, daugh ter of U A. Ss lade, Jr.. of near Cen tral Point, Invited her schoolmate. Miss Georgia Richardson, to accom pany her to the valley to spend Easter vacation from their studies at Katharine Branson 'school at Rom. California, she promised her novelty la the way of entertainment. Skiing at Crater Lake was to l one of the diversions, and on Tues day afternoon the two young ladles, mounted In the Sslade family sedan, blithely set out. expecting nothing more serious than slightly frozen make-up. if that. They ate lunch in the car, left the machine carefully locked at Govern ment Camp, and m-nt about the duties of akltna. Upon their return to the machine t-ro hours later, there appeared to be someone In the car. although they distinctly remem lred lurking It. A eleer inspection disclosed the. Irool seat at U oax to toe Jul! of TOWNSEND INVESTIGATORS OPEN PENSION HEARING 4 Leaden of the congressional Investigation of the Towniend old age pentlon plan are pictured In con ference a hearlnge opened at Washington, D. C. Left to right: Chairman C. Jasper Bell (D.-Mo.) of the pedal house Investigating committee, James Sullivan, tha committee's investigator, and Representative Joseph A. Gavaaan (D.-N. Y.K a member of tha committee. (Aesoclated Press Photo) MANIAC'S BULLETS! SPEED SCHOOL BUS PASO ROBLE3, Cal., April ft. (UP) A heroic bus driver brought 43 terrified school children through a wild three-mile ride late yesterday when a madman, armed with two guns and knives, attempted to halt, the bus. Six of nine shots fired by the man. Merle I Smith, struck the vehicle, but luckily missed the occupants. One bullet punctured a rear dual tire on the machine. Price Haynes, the driver, finally succeeded In turning the bus Into a school yard, where Smith was over powered. Smith, brandishing his guns and knives, threatened death to all who approached him, but finally was overpowered by Haynes, Superintend ent of Schools C. C. Carpenter and W. I. Brush, a school trustee. The wild ride started when Smith (Continued on Page Twelve) T WARM SPRINGS. Oa April 9. (IF) President Roosevelt arranged today to confer with federal and local relief officials at Gainesville, Oa.. the heart of the tornado disaster, on his way to Washington tonight. A half-hour stop will be made by the president at Gainesville. Major-General VanHorn Moseley, commander of the fourth corps area, who has Just completed an Inspection of the tornado belt, has been Invited to join the president at Atlanta earlier In the night on the Journey northward. Mr. Roosevelt, upon his arrival here, asked representatives of the Red Cross, the Works Progress adminis tration, the Civilian Conservation corps and local M.ef offlcfals to board his train at Oalnesvtlle for a general discussion of the disaster problem. Petrels are known aa "Mother Carey's chickens," under which name thev hve found a plaoe in folk lore. bears. There were three of them, one exceptionally Urge bruin and tvo somewhat smaller, all crowded Into the seat and ravenously polish ing off the last remnants of the lunch. Included In the menu were hnm sandwiches, two quarts of milk, potato salsd and tomato Juice, but the bears had not yet come to the cup-cakes tn the rear seat. The approach of the young ladles frightened the three specimens of ursus Americenus, which all at tempted to crowd out at once, and after sucreedlrut, filed heavily but rapidly away across ths snow. Fol lowing the tracks by blood marks loft by a cut bear foot, and armed with b camera and more girlish eurloaHy tlan discretion, the students clam ored over the near snow bsnk In hot pursuit. The trail was easy to fol low, and they caught up to within 20 feet of the bruins, snapping ptc- JCoaUaued oa Paa Jivea. RETREAT HEN 1 . , ...... V ' jfe " v AS1 Income Shares Maryland Fund, bid 19.88; suited 21.38. Quarterly Income, bid 1.63; a steed 1.79. E BY CARD LOSSES FOR SLAVE RING NEW YORK, April 0. (AP)--A se ries of raids on political clubs has broken up one of the most vicious white slave rings In New York city, police officials claimed today, If the story of a woman complainant la true. At least 500 women were caught by the syndicate In the last few years, the unidentified Informant reported to Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine. Some of the vic tims, she said, were of well-to-do families and msny of them were married. Their names were not dis closed, j First of the raids was March 1 on a political club in the Bronx1 where 16 persons were arrested.' Other clubs were raided subsequently seven In all were closed but prla-; oners were taken only on gambling, and disorderly conduct charges. At explained by the Informant, the ring's system was to rent from the clubs rooms for gambling. Taxi drivers were paid ao for each wo man they could bring Into the card games, she said, adding that the wnmn tnvftrinbW found themselves tt 4ah nM bum njiraii nriavl tn atlfTl 1 notes at exorbitant rates for loan sharks. In endeavoring to extricate them selves from debt. It wss said, they became only more deeply involved and then were approached by women accomplices of the ring to persuade them that prostitution would solve their financial problems. E VATTCAM CTTT, April ft. (AP Tolling bells and organ music, end ing In a sudden silence, signalized today the opening of Holy Thursday services, commemorating Christ's in stitution of the eucharist. The solemn booming of St. Peter's bell blended with the higher pitched notes from the towers of smaller churches and chapels, while within the holy edifices resounded the vi brant notes of the "gloria in ex celsts." Then, simultaneously, the bell toll, era relinquished their ropes, the organist! dropped their hands and mourning for the passion and death -' Christ began. The period of al- t;ice will last until Saturday. PLANS ON HIGHWAYS Th roads and hltihwtys com ml t te of tha Jvkwin County Chamber of Commerce will meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to discuss various plans of highway Improvement that have received public mention lately. A group from Oranta Pass. Inter ested In Pacific highway develop ment, will attend the conference. A. A. V. Carpenter, committee chairman, vlU presid rTiTTTI I HEALTH OFFICER L TO LANE COUNTY Dr. A. N. Johnson substitute coun ty health officer since last Septem ber while Dr. B. C. Drummond la at Harvard university taking the Rocke feller foudatlon post-graduate course, will in air probability be given his release by Jackson county to accept a similar regu)ar position with Lane county, with headquarters at Eugene. County Judge Earl B. Day stated today that Dr. Johnson had request ed his release at an early date to ac cept the new berth. Dr. Drummond Is due back: on August 1. The county health position here, In the Interim, would be cared for by local physi cians. Dr. Johnson, according to reports, has accepted the Lane county posi tion, effective May 1, contingent upon his release by Jackson county. Dr. Johnson, In the Lane county position, will be engaged principally with school children. The Lane county court, the Eugene city school board and the Lane County Health association have co-operated In se curing his services. Dr. Johnson came to the local post from Ban Diego, Cal., and Is specially trained for public health work. Dur ing his stay he has won the appro bation of local folk for his courtesy, conscientiousness and medical abil ity. DEATH LEAP ENDS HONOLULU. April ft. (AP) A sensational death leap over Nuuanu Pall, a 400-foot precipice, officers said today, broke up a ring which has controlled narcotic traffic In the Hawaiian Islands for years. Joseph Xubey, 61 -year-old former assistant postmaster who was de scribed by Customs Inspector J. Wal ter Doyle a the head of the nar cotics ring, leaped over ths cliff yesterdsy. "We believe the resaon he com mitted suicide was because we were ready to close In on him after two years Investigation." Doyle said. Kubey was sought for shooting William Holt, special treasury de partment agent who acted aa body guard for Postmaster Oeneral Farley on his visit to the Islands last sum mer. Holt Is In a hospital In a critical condition. I It was expected today that a large number of Jackson county sportsmen would attend the dinner-program to be held In the Hotel Medford at 7 o'clock ton!nt under auspices of the wild life tour of the natural resources unit of the Shasts-Cascsde Wonder land association. Tha general public is invited. Prof. Irving E. Vlnln of Ashlar d will preside. The program Includes entertainment and a number of tslks by persons who are considered au thorities In their respective fields. The tour la being made In the In terest of the out r-atilon of wild life and natural resource of southern Qrtigaa and northern (Mitfprnla OWN BRAIN TRUST TO EYEEW DEAL Complete Analysis of Opera tions During Past Three Years Sought Minnesota Ballot Stirs Tension WASHINOTOK, April . (AP) The Republican national committee has engaged SO professors and other experts to make a "complete analy sis of what the new deal has done to the country In three years." Henry P. Fletcher, natlonsl chair man, announced the organisation of thla group at a presa conference to day. Dr. O. a. Saxon of Yale univer sity, who weara two academic keys on his watch chain and who atudled under Professor Felix Frankfurter at Harvard, heada the new "research" dlvlalon. Frankfurter haa been a leading New Deal adviser. WASHINGTON. April 8. (AP) Conflicting claims about support in the Minnesota unlnstructed dela tion to the republican convention made for political tension today aa President Roosevelt entered the presidential preference primary of West Virginia. Knox, London Claim Klclit. Eight of the 14 delegate, elected yesterday were claimed at St. -Paul on behalf or Oovernol Alf M. Lan don of Kansas, while backers of Col. Frank Knox of Illinois also counted eight for their man. Which side ta right may not becomo known until the state convention late In the month selects the four delegates at large, to make up the total delega- (Contlmicd on Page Two.) E VISCAUA. Calif., April 9. (UP) Dr. Tom Flint, sought by Medford. Ore., authorltlea on a bad oheck charge, waa at liberty today under 1000 bond. Dr. Flint, Bprlngvllle oamp surgeon secured a hearing on his writ of habeas corpus. In seeking the writ, attorneya for Flint declared that the warrant under which he waa arrested Is Illegal, In that it waa a carbon copy, with no seal and no affidavit. State police aald here today that the warrant for Fllnt'a arrest wss Issued out of Coos county. Accord ing to their Information the man had been camp aurgeon at a OCO camp near Myrtle Point, and allegedly Issued bad check, before hla depar ture for Sprlngvllle. WOODLAND, Calif., April t-OT Mr.. Amelia Hunter, S3, of Medford, Ore, received a broken right hip when she fell In a store here today. She waa enroute home but physician, said she would have to remain In a hospital for several days. Mra, Hunter, wife of S. P. Hunter, Uvea on Route 4, In the Phoenix neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. w. O. Dunlap have willed their 910,000 ranch on the Pecoa river to the Baptist General Conference of Texas. Rockefeller Search for By HOWARD W. BI.AKF.Nl.KF (Associated press Science fcdltor) ITHACA, N. Y., April ft. (AP) A grant of $43,600 by the Rockefeller foundation for a six-year study of ways to lengthen the life span of men and animals was announced today by President Livingston Far rand of Cornell university. The riddles of the last hslf of sdult life are the Cornell objectives. They are a new angle of attack on the problem of longevity. Science heretofore h m concen Lra ted mainly on youth, and first half of life. Direct evidence, found In the lab oratory of animal nutrition of the New York Btet College of Agricul ture at Cornell, of uneipected diet effect on longevity in the latter half of life Is responsible for this new Investigation. The study la under direction of Dr. L. A. Maynard, Dr. C. M. MrCay. and Dr. a, A, juAti Tha work is Cinema Family Plan Retreat In Oregon Forest HOLLYWOOD, Cal., April . W) The Frederlo March family Is go ing to live the good, earthy life In the forests of northwestern Ore gon. The movie actor said that he, his wife and two children hope to pet away from Hollywood the let ter part of May end retire to tlio woods for two months of Isolation, They will pitch camp there, he said, and keep tn touch with the outside world only through a short-wave wireless sending and receiving set. FLEEING SELASSIE TO EOIL PURSUERS ROME, April ft, (AP) A report from the northern field headquarters to the Stefnnt (Italian) news agency said today Emperor Halle Selassie, the last remnants of hla bodyguard fleeing "In panic." shaved off his beard to escape recognition and cap ture. Copyright, 1936. by Associated Press. GENEVA, April ft. The committee or thirteen of the Leagne of Nations decided to send a supreme appeal to Italy and Ethtopla to abstain from the use of poison gas In the East African war. The decision, mads upon the rec ommendation of British Foreign Sec retary Anthony Eden, waa approved today without passing upon allega tions that Italy haa already used gas In her Ethiopian Invasion. The committee action ..urged, the two governmenta to observe the pro- vlsiona of tha anti-gas convention, snd followed an appeal by Eden to Italy not to use poison gas against Ethiopia. He made his appeal shortly after French ministers informed him that If Germany should continue Its vio lation of trestles through erecting fortifications along the Rhine, France reserved the right to tske sny steps she felt the situation Justi fied. EDWARD PASSES LONDON, Eng., April .API King Edward today paid out shining specially minted coins to 143 per sons at services In Westminister Ab bey commemorating the age-old cere mony of Maundy Thursday. The ceremony waa aymbolle of the washing of ths feet of th disciples of Jesus Christ at the last supper. Tha money waa doled out from spe cial red and white purses carried on a golden sslvar which Is among the historic- relics at the tower of Lon don. Tha new monarch was the second British ruler In 300 yeera to take part personally In the ancient cere mony. His father, the lste King Oeorge, went with Queen Mary to hand out "Maundy pennies" at tha abbey in 1034. In other years the lord high almor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has deputized. Couldn't Miss Illm. OREGON CITY. April ft. (AP) A collision with an automobile sent Leonard Beck man, 16, cyclist, to a hospital with a fractured skull. Po lice said the automobile driver, A. McDanlel, Portland, swerved from the highway and almost struck a fence in an attempt to avoid the accident. to Finance Longer Life described as "study of the Interre lationship between the diet and the biochemical eh an gee that tske plsce during the last hslf of life." "The purpose of thla study," tha outline of the work states, "will be the development of diets to retard the changes in tha animal body that comes with old age and senility In order to extend the useful frac tion of life span of man snd domes tie animals. "Another question thst will b given consideration will be the In terrelation between tha diet and ex ercise during the last half of life, with special attention to the changes that are taking plsce in such organs as the heart." Included In ths ultimate goal are studies of controlled etrlmenie 011 animals thst may throw eom light upon the effects on Uia llf tpan of reproduction, smaller fantittefl and glandular experiments which ara aald to iielp to ptaloiif Uie' 0REG0fS0.A.R.P. Appointment of Third Man ager in Three Weeks Fol lows Coup by Three Port- landers Is Development PORTLAND, Ore., April . (AP) Oregon Townsendlsm, split In policy but not In principle, awaited It. third atate manager In three weeke ' today, A coup ataged yesterday by thro. Incorporators of the "Old Age Re volving Pension, Ltd.." waa followed by an announcement by Hal L. Sum mons of Los Angeles, acting regional Townsend director, that John Weir would be sent to Portland to succeed James Logan. Logan became state manager only two weeks a;o, succeeding Clark Hansen, resigned. To Look Into Situation Weir arrived hers thla morning and scheduled a conference for 2 p. nu with Oregon leaders. -I am here to Hook Into the situation and report to national headquarters.' said Weir. "For the present I know nothing about the Oregon problem and Z can not dlscusa It until I have examined the questions Involved. While I am here I will be acting state manager. Slemmona waa quoted at Loa An gelea aa saying the Incorporation IB Oregon of the O. A. R. P. waa af fected by frtenda of hla organlza- ' tlon. Incorporator, were Oeorge Cloven ger. retired army captain and form erly a member or the atate Town send board; M. J. Brubey, Portland attorney, and A--A. Muck, former Multnomah county (Portland) com nilasloner. Seen As Trusteeship Trubey said: "Yos, you can say we are In control of the O. A. R. P. Inc., In Oregon, but w. regard that control aa a trusteeship to hold to gether the membership and see that they are represented." He said Lo gan waa "out aa atate manager.' Slemmona expressed confidence tha Oregon Townsend organlaatlon mem bers would accept Welr'a leadership, and commented: "I think Clevenger la taking over a former Incorpora tion for our protection." He aald tha former organisation in Oregon waa known aa "Townsendltes, incorporat ed." Weir haa been a member of tli. California Townsend group for tha past year. Just A Hired Man Logan aald he telegraphed Dr. Francle a. Townsend of the new In- (Continued on Page Three.) HERRIOT FEARS U. S. ALIENATED LYON, Franca. April 0. (AP) Ed- ouard Harriot expressed fear today that France's refusal to pay her war debts to tha United States had lost her forever the possibility of Ameri can aid against Germany, The former premier, who waa overthrown by tha chamber of depu ties In 1032 for holding out for tha payment, declared President Roose velt told him at tha White House In 1033 that ha would be "happy to aid France In all International affairs' If only France had agreed to "pay something" on the debt. "Now," declared Herri ot, "th Amer leans are on another planet. They refuse to aid us." He expressed fear that President Roosevelt "will have been, perhaps, the last American president who ta favorable to Franca.1" Said Her riot: "Who knows whether wa will not see In tha White Housa one day aoina German -American. KNOT TIED HERE FAILS TQ HOLD SAN FRANCISCO, April ft. AP) Mrs. Ernest Due hi of Weed, Calif, won a divorce today after testifying her husband threw crockery at her when he came home Intoxicated. "We eloped to Medford, Ore., In 1932 but the wedding lasted only three years." Mrs. Duchl told Super ior Judge Elmer Robltison. She was given cm tody of a three-year-old daughter, Meta. SALEM, Ore, April 9. ( AP) Ths public utilities commissioner signed an order today vacating the part of Court street In Pendleton necessary for construction of an overhead cross ing over ths Union Pacific railroad. The cost of the crossing waa esti mated at a.160,000 exclusive of! prop erty march as
