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The Weather Forecast : Lnssttlsd wit A shower tonight, Thurt. part rlood j and allichtly warmer. Temperature: Hl)thrt yesterday .. . , &6 Lowest thii morning , 38 Pay the Reader On never knowi whit to ex pect when resdlng Classified Ada. That It why they are so widely read. The little aurprties often found pay the reader MANY timet over for hit trouble MEDFORD Tribune FuU Asaociated Preit United Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD. OREGON", WEDNESDAY. APRIL 28. 1937. No. 32. Wif m A aauns. uk a i ny PALI. M.U.LON (Copyright, 1937, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON. April 28. Industry Is continuing to swell Its output ven beyond 1 929 bounds. Tou may shave noticed the i"l hoard nfftclallv an- Jnounced the other Sday that Industrial production had reached 119 per scent In March, as compared with the I IIS. Now, It Is I being estimated un officially but Paul Mallon authoritatively here that April will be up 3 points more to about I2l per cent, which Is 3 points above 1929. This makes the question ol where we are going a matter or acute immeoiaie wnwu to the powers-that-be. BIewIks In the stock market gen erally know about changing trends before outsiders. At least mat is their business. Prom the manner In which the market has been .acting lately. It Is evident that they sense a recession. This guess Is sanctioned by nearly every economist In the government, but only In private, of course. The economists seem to agree unanimously that a period of read justment Is In prospect, that It probably will . not be extensive or serious. They disagree about when It will come: some say now, some say In the fall. A rather significant hint appar ently Ilea In the fact that prices, which have been going up steadily since last summer, reached a peak four weeks ago and have been casing steadily downward since that time. This may mean that expanding production has reached' a temporary (Continued on Page Plve.) WASHINGTON, April 26. (P) The house appropriations committee asked congress today to pay 9465,000 to western Oregon counties in lieu of taxes on revested grant lands of the old Oregon & California railroad. It also provided in Its deficiency appropriations bill a $12,576 allot ment to the counties as their share of proceeds from the sale of Coos county wagon road grant lands and timber. KLAMATH FALLS. April 28. Pi Frank Jenkins, publisher of the Klamath Falls News and Herald, to day was elected head of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce. John Houston, insurance man, and E. M. Chllcote, real estate agent, were named vice-president and treasurer. F R E S N 6RKT a"uRA NTS FACE STRIKE THREAT FRESNO. Cal.. April 28. fUPl Eighteen restaurant and two hotel dining rooms, employing nearly 400 workers, will close their doors to busi ness If the cooks waiters and bartend ers unions carry out their threatened walkout at noon Saturday officials of the restaurant owners association said today. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS An un-named student at the Jack son school remarking upon receiving his report card: "Well, 1 didn't get no A's and I didn't get no Fs so I ain't Cot nothln to be proud of and I ain't got nothtn' to be sorry for. Tom Oinn. on reading that the president was warning against price rises, averring that FDR wss a little late. Jack Dpnison maintaining an ad mirable .if-control whn tbe audi ence Informally Joined him In articu lating an oft-repeated remark of the character he portrayed in the senior class play last night. Mall Tribune staff being kept busy answering such telephonic questions as how to spell pate de fole gras and tf it win be cold enough tonght to butcher a steer 'BALANCE-WHEEL' BACKING TO FOES McCarran's Action Virtually Assures Unfavorable Re port Is Claim Ballot by May 18 Is Decision WASHINGTON. April 38. OP) Sen ator McCarran (D.-Nev.). the "bal ance-wheel" member of the senate Judiciary committee, announced op position today to the Roosevelt court bill. His action virtually assured an unfavorable report to the senate on the measure, those close to the com mittee said. McCarran announced his position to the committee today at an executive session at which it was decided to vote on the bill and all amendments by Msy 18. The Nevada senator strongly urged the committee to accept his com promise, which would provide for a flat Increase In the size of the court from 9 to 11 members. He announc ed positively be would oppose the president's bill as It sow stands, providing for the naming of as many as six new Justices unless those now over 70 retire. Previously, chocks of the commit tee membership had shown nine mem mers or half the committee were opposed to the president's bill and would vote against It. McCarran made the tenth adverse vote and assured an adverse report provided no one should change. McCarran had been one of the tightest-lipped members of the com mittee prior to today. No one knew how he would vote on the preal tent's bill If his and other ' compromises were rejected. Shortly after McCarran made lilt announcement, . two other heretofore publicly non-committal senators Hatch (D-NM). and O'Mahoney (D Wyo, announced they would oppose the Roosevelt bill for six new mem bers of the court. They did not change the committee count because they had privately In dicated previously how they would vote. The three announcements, however, made ten members of the committee publicly committed against the presi dential bill. Opponents expressed delight at the developments. Senator Burke (D- N'eb), one of the opposition leaders, said he no longer was fighting for a ' mere majority" against the bill, but was seeking to run It up as high as possible. Other opponents said the three committments also virtually ended eny possibility of a compromise In the committee. They said they would hold out for an adverse vote on the bill. LONDON. April 38. UP) A travel agency announced today thst It Is prepared to relieve the loneliness of Americsns and other coronation vis itors by providing them with in triguing male or female companions at 88.35 a day. Male visitors will be able to ob tain the exclusive services of pretty English girls from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m.. or alternately from 7 p. ro. to mid night. Handsome college men will be provided for women visitors at the same rate. Elderly people who prefer older companions may obtain the services of men or women about 40 years old. NEW YORK. April 28. (, The Rev. Dr. Charles LeRoy Ooodell, 82, radio preacher, died of bean disease last nleht. New Deals "Juggernaut" Rapped by Industry Head WASHINOTON, April 28. President Virgil Jordan of the na tional industrial conference board contended today the Roosevelt ad ministration has built "a vast polit ical organization designed to main tain it in permanent power." His general denunciation of tbe president's policies, prepared for tbe convention of the United States Chamber of Commerce, was the first of the meeting. Assort trig thst government mech anisms forged by the administration are designed to bring about "a sys tem of state capitalism." Jordan sakl: "The most Important thing to rs ember about this governmental Jii&vernaut is that It Is irreversible. No matter how many there are who may desire it reversed, no political Klamath Rancher Shot FAVORS AIR BASE AT TONGUE POINT Bill Authorizing Develop ment Cut to $1,500,000 Mott Says Government Failed to Keep Faith WASHINGTON, April a8. (AP) The house naval affairs committee approved today a bill authorizing de velopment of a naval air base at Tongue Point Ore., after cutting the authorized cost to $1,250,000 from 11.500,000. The bill lacks sanction of the navy d.partment which baa held tbe base Is not vital to the defense ot the Pacific coast. Representative James Mott of Salem, Ore., author of the measure, contended at committee bearings the government failed to keep faith with the people of Oregon who donated the land for the base. He asserted Oregon was without defenses and the base would serve to guard the mouth of the Columbia river, Oregon's artery to the sea. E RIVET GIVES WAY TO STEEL AT Tl BAN FRANCISCO. April 28. (p The 839,000,000 Golden Bate bridge waa officially completed today with out the benefit of a vanishing gold en rivet. Dedicatory ceremonies yesterday centered around the MOO rivet, which was supposed to be the final link In tbe great steel structure. But the riv et couldn't take It. Heavy blows of the rivet eun show ered cheering spectators with pow dered gold at the crucial point of the ceremony.. Then the rivet head popped off. The rest of tbe rivet was punched out and disappeared. Wheth er the broken pieces fell-Into waters of tho Golden Gate of somebody's pocket no one seemed to know, but anyway there wae no gold In the bridge today. The bridge's 4.200 span makes It tbe greatest single 'suspension span yet built. With approaches Its length to tals 9.000 feet. It Joins the Redwood highway on the north and San Fran cisco on the south. Ground for the bridge was first broken Feb. 36. 1033. Official opening to traffic Is set for May 27, to be celebrated by the Gold en Oste bridge fiesta. 40 Autos Stranded In Idaho Blizzard TWIN PALLS. Idaho. April 38. AF Between 40 and W motor cars were stranded today by wind-driven snow on a highway east of here and a state-owned rotary plow was dis patched to dig them out. The tieup developed on a drifted stretch between the south central Idaho villages of Hansen and Mur Uugh, on state highway No. 30. 30 miles from Twin Palls. . No concern was felt, but the state highway department announced an other rotary plow was being assem bled for use should the storm con tinue. WICHITA. Kans.. April 28. iJV Ed Carruth, 46, Herlngton. Kas., for mer national vice -commander of the American I-egton, died today. lesdr or party today would try to re7era It." Reciting various a d m tnlatratlon pollcitM, Jordan said these set up gov erBmerrui machinery "that has been operating during the past four years to undermine and destroy the ( pri vate i enterprise order. "It is practically complete but a few more gadget are being foiyed and witi be fitted Into plsce as soon as at) constitutional obstacles are re moved. "It ta tngineered out of error forg ed out of falsehood and driven by tbe porr of mass delusion mobilized by dar.vuery." T-e national industrial conference board makes studies of economic proi:r. issuing statistical and other report. It has headquarters In New Tor. J "Unloaded" Rifle Causes Death Of 6-Y ear-Old Girl IOKE. April 38. (AP) Discharge of a supposed 1 y u nl oaded .22 -caliber rifle in the hsnds of her brother, Don, 8 waa believed today to have caused the death yester day afternoon of little Edith Ball. 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ball of lone, according to the report of Dr. A. D. McMur do. Heppner, county coroner. The little girl and her brother were playing In the bathroom of their home and Mrs. Ball wss away from the house when the accident oc curred. Mrs. Ball returned to find her daughter lying in a pool of blood on the floor. The little girl was rushed to a Heppner hospital,, but died within a few minutes. CITY POLICE NAB Arthur William Rosslter, 17, Med ford youth, was bound over to the grand Jury today by Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman when he waived preliminary hearing. He was charged with burglary not In a dwell. Ing and ball was set at $1000. Rosslter, on parole for the robbery of Coleman's store In Jacksonville about a year ago, was arrested by city police at 3 o'clock this morn ing in Brown's Billiard parlor while allegedly ransacking the showcases and attempting to open the safe He wss discovered by City Officer Clyde Plchtner, who saw him througb the front door .working on the safe behind the counter. Officer Flchtner called Charles Adams, merchant night patrolman. (Continued on Pse Ten.) PLAN WIDEFLUNG GRANTS PASS. April 28. (TP) Signalled by the close of the Irriga tion district dam at Savage Rapids which win temporarily drop water almost to summer low, a 2ft-mlle patrol of Rogue river will be made tomorrow morning for the body of Dr. C. R. Lucas, drowned Sunday. It Is planned to be the greatest search ever organized here. Tho upper IS miles from tbe point Lucas sank to Robertson bridge, be low Grants pans, has been divided among 18 experienced rtvermen in boats. Scores of men from civic and business houses will patrol the banks In the community-wide search. Be tween Robertson bridge and Hell's Oste bridge the CCC will patrol the river. Exact hour for closing the dam has not yet been set. A wide-mesh stock, fence was stretched across the river this morn ing. Yesterday a McKenzie river boatman aided the search, attempting to chart the undercurrents with a dummy body. REX PUTNAM BACKED FOR SCHOOL POSITION PENDLETON, April 38. (AP) Re liable sou rce here reported tod ay that several eastern Oregon sc hool men are uniting with Willamette valley educators In support of Rex Putnsm, superintendent of Albsny schools, for the position of state su perintendent of public Instruction, which C. A. Howard said yesterday he would resign September 1 to ac cept the presidency of the Eastern Oregon Normal school at La Orande. KLAMATH STOREKEEPER SUICIDES NEAR DUMP KLAMATH FALLS. April 28. fAP Dick MOee, about 80. small store keeper, was found shot dead In an automobile parked near the city dump Tuesday afternoon. McOee bad a bullet wound in nta head and held an automatic pistol in his hand. Coroner Oeorge H. Adier pronounced it a case of suicide. PARK HOUSING BILL HIT BY DEPARTMENT WASHINOTON. April i8. ',V-The department of the Interior refused today to sanction (Senator Charles MoNarys bill authorizing loan for construction of recreational housing accommodations In nstlonal forests and parka. The bureau of the midget said the plan "la sot In accord with the pres ident's program. L UNI STAGE CLASH IN 600 Workers March Out of Plant After Night of Riot ing Closed Shop Ques tion Basis of Trouble AKRON, 0 April (AP) The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. announced today an agreement had been reached with repre sentatives of the I'nlted Rubber Workers of America to end the eight-week strike of 10.000 em ployes at the company's plants here. CONNERSVIUJS, Ind.. April S8. (AP) Eyea blood-shot from lack of sleep, approximately 600 workmen marched from the Rex Manufacturing company'a plant bare today amid hoots and catcalls of more than 300 United Automobile Workers of Amer ica who had patrolled outside of the building. Shouts of "we want a closed shop" came from UAWA pickets. The exodus from the plant was In decided contrast to the band-to-hand combat last sight In which three men suffered injuries requiring medical attention. Dozens of other workmen were cut and bruised In the rioting which followed the calling of a UAWA strike. Elmer Davis, UAWA orgsnlrer, an nounced a temporary truce bad been ordered pending a conference with Thomas Hutson, state' labor commis sioner. Early In the day a conference of labor leaders and company officials ended without agreement. Another parley was set for 7 p. m. Davis ssld he had Issued a demand for a closed shop. He asserted he had pointed out the existence of two rival uolona tn the same plant was Im possible. The too workmen who marched from the plant were membera of the Cabinet and Refrigerator Workers Protective association. They refused to Join the UAWA strike celled late yeeterdsy. The rioting began when the UAWA pickets prevented approximately 00 night shift workers from entrlng the building. Davis ssld the strike had been called "because the company discrim inated against UAWA members end declined to confer with a grievance commttee.V At Indianapolis, 80 -odd miles awsy, Gov. M. Clifford Townaend awaited Hutson's report before considering possible establlahment of martial law. TO Oregon State highway commission will visit Grants Psss and Ashland on Monday, May 17. It was stated this afternoon In an Associated Press dispatch from Portlsnd, where the commission wss In session. The commissioners will dtacuaa southern Oregon road problems at a luncheon In Oranta Pass and then continue to Ashland for a banquet meeting. At the meeting In Portland tnia afternoon the commission, acting upon the advice of 8. H. Boardman. superintendent of state parks, au thorized preliminary condemnation for an 80-acre tract for park pur poses on Crater Lake highway near Trail. Exact site of the tract could not be ascertained here Immediately as those familiar with the state park program could not be reached. PORTLAND HOT SPOTS FACE CLOSURE SUITS PORTLAND, April 28. up, The district attorney's office and the state liquor commission obtained circuit court restraining orders today against three night clubs here, the Roof Oar den, Cotton Club and Club Royale, penning trial of suits for alleged vio lation of the state liquor control act. Under the suits, the clubs would be closed for a year unless each post, ed a $1000 bond to Insure observance of the liquor act. , Income Shares Maryland Fund, bid 80.78: aiked HOW. Quarterly Income, bid 817.80; asked MM in Row RELIGIOUS FASTER NEAR DEATH Jackson Whitlow, 45-year-old farmer of Stooping Oak, Tens., con tinued his religious fast although a physician warned him he had only a few days to live unless he starts eating again. Weighing only 100 pounds and too weak to get out ot bed. Whitlow Began his forty-ninth day of fasting by declaring he will not eat until "I hear a call from the Lord." F, IN EARLY TABULATION OF LUMBERMEN'S VOTE PORTLAND. Ore.. April 28. (AP) A glimmer of hope for peace in the Columbia river district's lumber labor controversy appeared today as votes were tabulated In a lumber and sawmill workers' union referen dum on the question of submitting their differences with employers to an arbitration board. A union spokesman said early re turns showed the membership "over whelmingly" In fsvor of arbitration. Employers, however, made no com ment on tho plan, saying no pro posal for arbitration had been sub mitted to them by the unions. Operators of both logging camps and sawmills stood pat on their de mands that sympathy strikes and al leged slow-down tactics of the unions be terminated. The loggers backed their ultima tum today by closing operations em ploying 6000 men. Sawmill operators set the dead line for termination of sympathy strikes st three Oregon plants for to dsy. They did not state what meas ures they would take if their de mands were unheeded. In any case a continued shut down of logging camps would force mills to close for lack of logs within a few dsys, throwing another 7000 men out of work. British Pe7 Tariff Reduction Is Asked WASHINOTON, April It (T) Senator Lewi Schwcllenbach of Washington asked a reduction In the British tsrlff on pears In a letter to Secretary of Ststo Cordell Hull. The senstor ssld he felt that the 42-cent-pr-box tariff Imposed at the Ottawa trade conference waa not Justified by statistics. GRANTS PASS. April 38? (P Youngbrry and loganberry crops In Jonephlno county will be short this year because of cold weather and dlsesse, growers told the Redwood Granae. 1 President Would Tie Up Part of Appropriations WAAHINO'JOJI, April 28- (JT) Speaker Bar X head said today he was author teed ti state that President Roosevelt faed Impounding 18 per cent of all apropriationa for gov ernment departments and agencies for the next fiscal year. A resolution to Impound that pro portion of appropriations was intro duced yesterday by Representative Cannon (D.-Mo.). None of the 18 per cent would be available for expendi ture unless released by the president Bankhesd said he did not believe there would be any Immediate action on the resolution. He said he thought It sbouJd be deferred until after all appropriation bills have passed. "Frankly, If It goes through," Bank head said at his press confer ence, "It will be left up to the pres ident to see what savings be can make Over Chickens IS IN GORE SUIT MOTION TIME FOR REPLY SET The motion ot Jackson county seeking to have W. H. Core make "more definite and certain" his sec ond suit against the county, for 3168.33. sought for services ren dered In behalf of the Oregon-California land grant tax refund bill has been overruled by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton, and Jackson county given ten days in which to file an answer. In the present suit Qore seeks one per cent of all money paid Jackson county under the 0-0 tax refund measure, claiming he had a compro mise agreement with the 1038 county court for this sum. Payments for years before 1932 are barred by the statute of limitations. In the original suit Qore contend ed the agreement called for payment of five per cent of all O-O monies, approximating 888.000. A circuit court Jury denied hla plea. Gore Journeyed to Washington. D. O., and (Continued on Page Two.) FASTER MAY LIVE TEN DAYS LONGER STOOPING OAK. Tenn.. April 38. (API Dr. R. e. standlfer ssld today Jackson Whitlow, the fasting moun taineer could live probably 10 daye longer, 'even If he does not break his fast. The Dunlsp physician, after exam ining the man who claims he haa not enten for 40 days, said Whitlow need ed medical care If and when he eats. Whitlow, 47-year-old trapper, who weighed m when his fast begsn. Is down to 07 pounds. The mountaineer said "the Lord" told him to start fasting and that he would not take food until he had re ceived word he could end the fast. . The speaker said he, too, approved the Cannon proposal. . It appears evident, he added, that the president favors it In preference to a horizontal 10 per cent cut la all appropriations a suggested by Sena tors Byrnes (D.-o. C.) and Represen tstive Taber (R.-N. T.). "It Is practically Impossible," ths apesker asserted, "to provide for an absolute horizontal cut In alt ap propriations. You Just can't do It without injustices In certain spots" The house appropriations commit tee, spurred by the economy demands cut 818,838.805 today from the bud get's estimates (or the second defi ciency appropriation bill. The meas ure carried a total of 870.30843. .Yesterday, house committees ap proved a 878.000.000 increase In the army's allotment for next year, out rejected a 1300.000.000 pnvram for siding state school systems. NEIGHBOR FAMILY HELD BY OFFICERS FOLLOWING FIGHT Jack Roesner, 21, Admits Shooting Jeff Emmert in Head Battle With Clubs Precedes Revolver Fire KLAMATH FALLS, April 38. A Jade Roesner, 31, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pred Roesner, were be ln held In the city Jail today whlla pollco Investlgstcd the fatal ahoot lug of Jeff Emmert, 83, early this morning in an alleged row over soma chickens. Young Roesner. who surrendered to authorities shortly after the shoot ing, admitted he fired the gun whtta killed Emmert, according to Pollco Desk Officer Thomas Judge, to whom Roesner told his story. His hand was broken. Fired Five Shots Five shot were allegedly fired at Emmert, one of which pierced hla forehead. No examination has yet been held to determine whether any of the other bullets found their mark. The Roesners and Emmert are neighbors In Pleasant View, suburban tracts south ot Klamath Palls. Em mert bought some chickens from tho Roesners, and last night allegedly be came Involved In a dispute with Mrs. Pred Roesner over the deal. Shortly before 6 o'clock this morn ing, according to the story Mrs. Em mert told Officer Judge, the elder Roesner called hen husband, and re sumed the argument. They were Join ed by young Roesner and hla mother, and a fight with clubs ensued. Mother In Battle Jack Roesner claimed that Mrs. Emmert had a gun. When he aaw iha was thus armed, he told Judge, he went after his own 38 caliber pistol and returned to find Emmert alleged ly battling with his mother. He aimed at Emmert, according to his story, and fired five shots. Em mert fell at one aide of the road sep arating the two houses, rose, stsgger ed across the road and collapsed dead tn the ditch on the other side. The Roesners then drove Into Klam ath Falla and gavs themselves up to city police. CI ty police, on a warrant from the sheriff's office, last night at 8:30 arrested Oeorge Louis Kern, 44, in his room at the Lake hotel at 130 West Main street. He was charged with obtaining money by false pre tenses. Kern, who is employed by a local packing house. Is alleged to have) passed four worthless 88 checks on local business concerns. He waa turn ed over to the sheriff's office today by city police, and will probably be arraigned tomorrow. Sheriff 8yd Z. Brown said. Kern Is said to have cashed the checks, drawn on the Plrt National bank, Med ford branch, and signed with his own nsme. to the Pas time pool hall. April 31; tho Shack, April 33; the Grand hotel, April 34, and the Shack April 38. Police say all the checks were returned marked no account. BASEBALL National R. R. t. R. H. E. .10 1. a . 8 11 1 Cincinnati Chicago Derringer, and Lombardl; French, Root, Bryant, and Odea. R, H. . Brooklyn . New York .8(1 . 8 Mungo. Weir, and R. Moore: Schu macher, Smith, Oumbert, and Man cuso. R. H. . ..4 a 7 It " 0 Boston Philadelphia MecPayden, Pr aster, and Lopet; Pssseau and Atwood. American Chicago Sit Cleveland 1 11 1 lee. Rigney, and Be well; Harder, and Pytlek. New tork , T 8 Washington ...... nMm Gomes and Jorgens; Caacaretla. Cohen and Millies. FOUR BAD CHECKS CHARGEDJO KERN
