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' C of C Urges Attendance Ashland Highway Opening Celebration The Weather Cloudy tonight, occasional rain Wednesday; not much change In temperature. Temperature: HI chert yesterday 67 Lowest this morning 88 In a Minute If your time to nimble why spend It looklnf for a bayer when Mall Tribune Classified Ada talk to more people In minute than you possibly could In a month. T RIBUNE EDFORD Full Associated Press full United Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFOKD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 19P.7 No. 181. M First Aerial View of Wrecked Plane on Behind Washington Headlines , By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937,"by" The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. WORLD CONFERENCE MAT FOLLOW 9-POWER PARLEY TJ. 8. CONSIDERS BROAD WORLD OBJECTIVES DAVIS STUDIES SPANISH AS WELL AS JAP PROBLEMS ... BLACK'S MARITIME LAW TO BE ASSAILED BY KENNEDY WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. Import ant aa the Invoking of the nine power parley la to Anwlca. there may be something much bigger behind It. evidence revealed In a well-Informed and disinterested quarter is the baala for this prediction: If the Brussels conference suc ceeds, a world conference, with ob jective aa broad aa the League ot Natlone Itself, will probably be call ed, and America will take her place well up toward the head of the table. It la Improbable that such a plan has yet been specifically agreed upon between Great Britain and the United Statea. Only a small group could affirm or deny the poa albllity, but enough has been whis pered In authoritative enough words to clothe the Idea In more sub stantial garments than a pious wtan. One thing la certain: The Amer ican delegation to the nine-power parley, while It won't make any public sdmtsslon of the fact, is going to Brussels prepared to dis- (Oontlnued on Page Bli ) ROUTINE BUSINESS ON CITY COUNCIL AGENDA Only routine business la scheduled to come before tonight's regular semi monthly meeting of the council In eity hall at 7:30. Persona having business to transact with the council are asked to appear In chambers on the top floor of city hall promptly at 7:30. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS rrtendt of Motorcycle Patrolman Clyde lHchtncr trying to persuade this pillar of playfulness into be lieving they saw him driving a car round without a tall-light. Verne Shangle being no enthrall ed by spraying CofC fHea he refused to quit until the last insect nad folded It heel. Jim Collins and Charley Ftima seriously dlv-ussing .the heart-tfirobs of the Community Chent campaign. FriDcia Byrne having difficulty m finding a furnished house to rent betwn hre and Jay vllle. Cfcari Adair polng through ft many cnntort:on as the raaslem at w House of Houor. fV'aM Iff g)C4. : : Nineteen persons lost their Urea when the Vnlted Airlines "Malnllner crashed high In the Vlnta moun tain about 80 mile east of Salt Lake City. The wreckage (shown In top photo) was Righted early Monday from the air, about 14 hours after the huge plane waff reported missing on a flight from Rock Springs Wyo., to Spit Lake City. (Copyright in.17, by Salt Lake Telegram from Associated Pre.) The crew of the lll-fiitcri shtp (lower) Included, left to right: Co-pllot John Adams, of Cheyenne, Wyo.; Stewardess Leah Kerr, of a1t Lake City, and Pilot E. D. Woodgerd, Salt Lake City. (Photon by airmail to Mall Tribune.) OFFICERS CENTER E Orappltng hooks were used In Rogue river today as state, county and city authorities and residents of Gold Hill continued their search for Oeorge O. Timothy, 87-year-old for mer Med ford chief of police, who disappeared last Saturday afternoon After getting off a Pacific Greyhound stage in Gold Hill. Deputy Sheriff Btll Oronbemer, City Policeman Joe Cave, and State Policemen P. S. La Due and Al Stoehr were today searching the banks of Rogue river both north and south of Gold Hill. Grappling hooka. fir nls!:ed by County Coroner Pronk Perl were being used tn several dep pools In the river near Gold Hill. Sheriff 8yd I. Brown stated he had also hired two Gold Hill natives to watch tha river closely. Because of the lingering Illness suffered by Timothy and the Inti mation contained In a note the aaed man left for his ettp-daugher. Mrs. Bel P. Richardson. Saturday after noon. Sheriff Brown stated today he feared Timothy had taken hla own life. The note wu written on a piece of cardboard and found by M'.sa Lot tie Watkins, Timothy's nurse, at 1104 Wst Main street, where the well known Medford mn and his Invalid wife nave resided since September 34. The message said. i'Bel, I can't stand to see her suffer so I'm going for a long walk snd may not get back." It was signed, "Pa." This morning at 8:50 ocloric, Butr Poiicenwn Al Stoehr discovered an old. brown overcoat floating In Roc tie river about 75 ysrds north of Sardine eree and about 15 feet from shore which waa believed perhaps to have been the property of Timotny. A check, however, with Mlsa Watktns revealed that when Timothy left his home about 1 clock Saturday aft ernoon with the explsaa'ion tyst he was .'rlrj fto-rn town fT f(W (CQlmued on fai fiv.) Disorderly House Quarantine Brings Threats Of Death CHICAGO, Oct. 18. (AP) Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the board of health, said today his life had been threatened by op ponents of hts move to quarantine liswderly houses In the antt .yphUlis campaign. The doctor reported the threats fame by telephone and by letter. A venereal disease sign waa tacked or the door of a west side resort last Friday. "We won't be bullied or bluffed." Dr. Bundesen declared. "This drive la started and Is going to he finished." ROBINSON SEAT IN ARKANSAS BALLOT LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Oct. 19. (AP) A democratic congressman who campaigned as an Independent assumed the senatorial toga of the lat Joe Robinson today through a precedent-breaking defeat of a new deal Democrat. Representatlvn John E. Miller be came the first Independent candi date to win a major Arkansas of fice In 77 years when he waa elect ed over Gov. Carl C. Bailey In yes terday's special election. The contested term eiplrea Jan uary 1, 1943. and the 4tt-ear oia senator-elect aaid he would take ms sent at the apeclal aeaston Novem ber 15. New Ileal lue Hented Asaot'lated Press returns toaay (Continued on Pagt fwo ) NEWPORT. Ore., 19. ,T H. Prancklln. 91. admitted maybe his fttrei Ore, for the kidnaping of Z. T Rhra wn slewing him down when hls'der. 30 -year -old Nehswka. Neb farm jouiuT companion aiuht a 21-1 hand, were r.atnrd tx!av in first de- I pound aUvarsid salmon, Mountain SEARCHING PARTY STARTS REMOVAL SALT LAKE CITY. Oct. X9.IAP) Exhausted workmen started todny the taak of bringing back to clvtit eation the bodies of the 10 victims of the nation's most terrible air plane tragedy. The bodies, strewn about the wreckage of the once-mngnlflcent airliner that struck a ridge 80 miles east of here last Sunday, were founa by a searching crew headed by Pilot Ralph Johnson of the United Air Lines, after hla fellow pilot. Bob Bergesen, yesterday had sighted the wreckage from the air. Included among the four women and 16 men killed were an expect ant mother, a noted pathologist, and two newsreel men making a picture of "The Safety of Trans continental Plying." "The front part of the plane nan been burned aa though gasoline tanks had exploded when the ship strurk." aald Johnson. "Several of the bodlea apparently shot out through the nose of the ship, and some of them were burled in dep now. "The wreckage It In an almost inaccessible area, and it wDKbe very difficult to bring the bodies and the mall and recoverable plane part out. "Horses and mulna will have to be used for part of the work, but It may be necessary to carry tne stretchers by hand for part of tne way where the going Is loo steep for animals." The bod (en were to be brougnt down to the Knight, Wyo., airport. 26 mile north of the Uinta moun tain crash scene, and then. It waa indicated, would he taken In hearses to an Rvanton. Wyo, mortuary. Iwo ( (fed IDAHO PALI. Idaho. Oct. 19 Xt Two young men, held at La Grande, gree robbery warrant fixed nara. KIDNAPERS FAIL AFTER $50,000 STOCKS RECOVER AFTER HOURS OF Leading Shares Wipe Out Part Or All Of Early Losses; 7,500,000 Shares Traded In During Day. HYDE PARK, N. T., Oct. 19. (;Pr President Roosevelt, official sources said today, haa no Intention of exer cising hla authority to close the New York stock exchange. The president himself refused to discuss the falling market at a press conference. But It waa learned auth oritatively he la giving no thought to Invoking that aectlon of the ex change regulation act empowering him to order the securities and ex change commission to auspend trad ing. NEW YORK. Oct. 19. (PI Late buying support pulled the stock mar ket out of . a tall apln today after heaviest selling In more than 4 years had cut down leadera 1 to 13 points or better. Favored oils, utilities, farm Imple menta and speclalttea managed to weather the galo for substantial gains and many others cancelled or reduced extreme losses before the close. Investment trust were reported to have provided a prop tor the list on the theory selected Issues were at or around bottom. Some speculative lor. ccs also were 'understood to have tak- (Contlnued on Page fire.) FIESTA TO MARK SISKIYOUS ROUTE Urgent Invitation The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce haa extended an urgent request to all of Ita mem bers and to all cltleona of the county to attend the dedication of the new Blsklyou. highway at the summit, Wednesday at a:uu p. m. Offlclala of the organization are making every possible effort to stimulate attendance from all parta of Jackson county In co operation with the A ah I and Chamber of Commerce. ASHLAND. Oct. 19. (8pD The first completed aectlon of the new route through the Siskiyou moun tains will be formally opened In a celebration to be staged Wednes day afternoon and owning by Ash land leadera and highway officials. In cooperation with delegations from other nearby communltlea. Tom L. Stanley, manager of the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland associa tion, will preside at ceremonies on the now highway at a p. m., at the point 10 mllea from Ashland where the new section Jotna the old highway. Other speakers on the mountain will bo Chairman Henry F. Cabell of the Oregon atate hlgn way commission: R. H. Baldock. atate highway engineer, and State Senator Oeorge W. Dunn, personal representative of Oot. Charles H. Martin. A free barbecue will be held at 1 p. m. at the ceremonial site on the new highway. Lllhlans In Taraian The Llthlans, Ashland booster or ganisation, will form one caravan to the mountain rites, and the Grants Paaa Cavemen and others from the "climate" city will also make the drive over the new road In a body. Hundreds of other cars from Ashland, Medford, Klamath Palls and smaller southern Oregon communities, In addition to visitors from California, will converge on (Continued on Page Sit ) MINNESOTA!, HELD HERE ON PARENTAGE CHARGE The aherirra office Is holding Jack Bunn for Moorhead, Minn., author ities on a telegraphic warrant. Dunn was arrested Sunday and I held amaittng further action. The midwest complaint Is signed by a woman who accuses Dunn of the parentage of child. The sher iff's office said It waa a cast tat 'on Id be handled either a criminal or civil mttta Budget Balance Postponed By Unexplained Decline in Estimated Federal Revenue (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. A big, unexplained drop In estimated reT- enuea haa postponed until next year, balanced federal budget. President Roosevelt, In ft revised budget statement, estimated at 9695,- 345.000 the net deficit for the fUoal year ending next June 30. Inclusion of debt retirement, ho said, create a grona deficit i200.000.000 higher. Despite the backslide since Janu ary, a gross deficit of $995,245,000 would be lea than for any fiscal year since 1930. Last year gross deficit of 93.811.318,310 was the smallest since 1931. Net Deficit !.. The president carefully noted the difference between net and gross def icit In hla statement. He said the estimated net deficit waa $2,013,000, 000 less than the net deficit for last year. He also rcemphaalzed hla announc ed, deter ml nation to retrench. Ho said further commitment would be made by two agencies which In days gone by have utilized bllllona the Reconstruction Plnance corporation and the Public Work administration. The same attitude was voiced by the president In ft speech last night atartlng the annual community oheet drives. Discussing the need for cur tailed relief apendlng. he aald: "Unless federal taxea are to be greatly Increased, the expenditures have to be brought within the ex isting tax receipts.", Tax Increases Talked. Thta statement, together with the budget figures, again raised discus sion f possible, tax increases 4caplte recent administration assurance there would be none, Members of congress gathering for their special session next month, were especially concerned with this phase. They noted that the chief cai given for the upward revision of the esti mated deficit was a. drop in expected revenues. Last January, the president esti mated this year' tax receipts at $7, 393.000.000. Yesterday he estimated them at $0,060,000,000. ft drop of $643,000,000. He made no attempt to explain the difference except to say It was "more than accounted for by the reduction In the estimate of Income and social security taxea." Blame Market Drop. Noting that these two Items are (Continued on Page Sla.) 19 TOP CIST MARK Community Chest headquarters today listed 19 firms which thus far In the campaign have been awarded placards showing a con tribution record of 100 percent. Firms where both employer ana all the employee have donated to the cheat are awarded the pla cards. The 19 firms Include 11 previously announced aa having won the luu percent placard. Tho complete list to date Issued by hesdquartere fol lows: Hansen Hardware. Shirley Broth ers, Jacque Lenox, Ethelwyn B. Hoff man, Bluasere barber shop, Charles A. Wing Agency, Kennell Ellla stu dio. Crystal Sprlnga packing com pany. Medford Stationery store and Burelson's, Also United Statea national bank. Peerless Market, . First Nattonai bank. American Laundry, Lawrence Jewelery, the Pastime, Roxy theater. Craterlan theater and Rosenberg Brothers (Bear Creek orchards). Pear Markets NEW YORK, Oct. !0v (AP-USDA) Pear auction: 14 cara arrived, 3 Cali fornia, A Oregon, 1 Washington un loaded, 10 cara on track; Oregon B an ient, 745 boxes extra fancy 3.05-3.45. average 3.40; 720 boxes fancy 160 3.25. average 1.88: D'AnJoua, 720 boxes unclassified 1.55-1.75, average 1.A3. CHICAGO. Oct. 19 (AP-USDA) Pear auction: 0 Oregon. 4 Washing ton. 3 Michigan cars arrived, 19 on track, 5 sold; Oregon BartletU, 730 boxes fancy 1.36-1.80, average 1-67; Boac, 717 boxes extra fancy 1.35-3 10, average 3 07. COLUMBUS. 0..Oct" 19. V-A gasoline truck and its two trailers upset near Reynoldsburg and 6.500 gallon of gaa gushed Into a creek where a dam Impounded It, Motorists were happy. They Decked their cara down to the creek and fill ed their tan its. Nearby filling it at ton operator bad ft vary lean dar. TO FREE ROSS RANSOM IS PAID at least, the long-aought goal of a TO CHICAGO, Oct. 18. (AP) Rev. A. J. Sabath D., III.) In ft tele gram to President Roosevelt charged tho stock market slump waa direct ly traceable to a "Wall street con spiracy." He urged that "strong measure must . be taken against them im mediately to save the nation from recurrence of the 1939 debacle." HI telegram continued, "I have Just been Informed the bankers and brokers are advising people to aeli their securities before It la too late and I again urge firm steps be taken Immediately to frustrate this diabolical plan. "Short sale have to a great meas ure aided the downward trend of the market and they should be re strained by Increasing the margins of short sales to 90 percent and reducing margins on long transac tions to 35 percent. "Even Inflation should be resorted to in" order to frustrate their de structive plana," the telegram con cluded I OFFERS NEW TAX PLAN FOR OLD AGE PENSION PORTLAND, Oct. 10. Town- send pension club followers studied a plan offered by Tom Monks, the or ganization' political adviser, today to levy taxes on chain stores, liquor. dog and horse racing, Impose a trans action tax and divert gasoline reven ues to support an old age pension. Monks' program, coming soon af ter petitions bearing 85,000 signatures asked Governor Charles Martin for a special legislative session to consider the pension system. Included: A chain store tax to raise between $350,000 and $500,000 annually; a 5 to lo per cent Increase on the exist ing 40 per cent markup of liquor sold by state stores; diversion of one half of one per cent of the operator's 70 per cent share on dog and horse rac ing. The governor "can't avoid" calling a special session, he aald. "But he won't give us any credit If he does call It." John A. Jeffsry, district manager, forwarded letters to legislators today urging them to support the petition for a special call. T E Arrested by city police early this morning while allegedly attempting to rob a penny scale In front of the People's electric store, Ivan Mayes, 38. of Virginia and Ray Benson, 37, of Minnesota, bom transients, will appear In justice court this afternoon charged wttn attempted larceny. Arresting city police officer re ported that the two men -were first observed coming from the doorway of Newbury's store, and after walk ing down Sixth street to Riverside avenue, thence on Riverside to Main street and then west on Main to the electric store, started to break open the penny scales. They were arrested at 13 :60 a. m. today. Police said the pliers used were still sticking tn the machine when they were apprehended. The pair told Chief of Police Clatotis McCredie that they had ar rived in Medford last night on ft fish truck. BLACK WIDOW IN SHIRT INFLICTS POISON BITE HEPPNBR. Oct. 19. (API-Cecil Thorne of Morgan la aerloualy 111 here aa the result of two bites by a black widow spider. He found the spider in feu ahira FEAR AGED VICTIM Corps Of G-Men And State. Police Take Up Inten sive Hunt After Double Cross Announcement WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. (AP) Director J. Edgar Hoover of the federal bureau of Investigation called upon all banks today to watch for ransom bill paid for the return of Charles S. Boas, Chicago kidnap victim. With disclosure in Chicago that Robs' relatives had paid $50,000 for his aufe return, Hoover mail ed to hanks a 1 1 ft of , $10 and 990 bills comprising the ransom. CHICAGO, Oct. 19. yp Federal agenta announced today a 150.000 ransom had been paid for the release, of kidnaped Charlea S. Ross, but the abductors failed to free their iged victim. The announcement waa made after the deadline aet tor hla return t o'clock thla morning brought net word of the retired manufacturer' whereabouta. A corps of government agenta and atate'a attorney's police awung Into; an intensive hunt for the anatctt, gang. Failure to free Roes after at day, of captivity contlrmod theories the family had. been .double-oroeeed ane Increased fear he had died In the hands of his captors. ; , Like Lindbergh Case. Some federal offlolala theorized the Ross case might prove almllar to th4 traglo kidnaping of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's Infant eon. with the vic tim dead before the ransom was col lected. They said there waa a chanoe he might have succumbed to a chronic heart ailment or might bare) beea killed to prevent Identification of tha snatchera. They pointed out alee that he might still be held until tne) abductors plan their flight. D. M. Ladd. chief of the Ch lease bureau of the justice department' bureau of Investigation aald the 0. 000 ransom consisted of bills of 10 and 930 denomlnatlona. The list of currency, aent to banks. police atatlona and government of flees throughout the nation, bore the date of Ootober 8. This Indicated the ransom had beam turned over to the snatch era on before that time. Dissemination of the list of bill enhanced probability the kidnapers' trail would be uncovered If and wheat they sought to cash tn on their crime. "The payment of this ransom was handled entirely by tha family e e of Mr. Ross." aald Ladd. "We, ot course, could not be a party to tha payment of a ransom. We are ad. vised the family, upon payment of the money, waited for a reasonable period of time and then made final appeal to the kldnapera for the release of Mr. Roes.1 Call In Officers. . He referred to the public plea mad by Mrs, Ross last Sunday afternoon. At that time she begged for hla free dom snd wsrned the snatch gang that If they failed to liberate him by a. m. Tuesday, she would ask all law enforcement agencies to launch. a quartcrless hunt for the "heartless Individuate" who carried off her 79 year-old husband. Citizens throughout the nation were asked to aid the search by watching for the ransom bills. Mrs, Roes, 111 snd under a phy sician's care, was Inconsolable. Throughout her long vigil she ha4 been haunted by the fear her bus band suffering from high blood pressure and e heart ailment had succumbed to ahock. Neither Mrs. Rosa nor her attorney. Edmund Cummlnga, would discloss the circumstances of the ransom pay ment. VETERAN S.P. ENGINEER AT SAM FRANCISCO, Oct. 19. (TV- Funeral services for Frank Hultk ST, veteran Southern Pacific engineer, were held today at Rosebunf. Hultt died at the Southern Pacttlo general hospital here Friday ot pneu monia. Son of Oregon pioneers, Hultt ha4 lived st Portland many years but more recently operated on the Rote bung-Aehland division. Surviving are his son. Haines Hultt, Central Point, Ore., and two alstera. Belle Talyor, Portland, and Evelyn Waddle, Sao JMesjs. i
