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Forecast: Fair tonight, with
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Temperature.
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Precipitation last U hra, .02
EDFORD
Full Associated Presi'
Fall United Preu
Thirty-Third Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1938.
No. 19.
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The
Capital
Parade
By Joseph Alsop
and
Robert Kintner
Copyright 1937, by The
North American News
" paper Alliance, Inc.
INGENIOUS FINANCING PLAN
IN PROPOSED PRIMING BILL
CITIES' STATES WOULD SELL
PUBLIC WORKS BONDS
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
TO GUARANTEE INTEREST
WOULD AVOID OUTRIGHT
INCREASE IN DEBT LOAD
WASHINGTON, April 13. The curt,
two-page bill drawn at the president's
orders to embody hts pump-priming
scheme is the shortest, and one of the
moat Ingenious New Deal measures
over devised. Among other things, It
provide for the creation at a brand
new type of security, skirts the dan
ger of an Increased government debt,
and makes It possible for private dol
lars to prime the pump In some other
fashion than by the gorging banks'
purchases of United States bonds.
Unless the president has already
torn up the draft measure prepared
for him over the week-end. the re
ports outlining; the new pump-prlm-lng
scheme have been somewhat mis
leading. The $1,500,000,000 of RFC
lending to anyone who will use the
money, the expanded WPA program,
the gesture In the direction of hous
ing these have all been correctly ex
pounded. But the nubbin of his pro
gram the additional 91 ,600,000,000
which Is to be spent on public works
by statiM and cities has a new and
remarkably interesting twist to It.
It has been supposed that the $1,
500,000,000 of public works money
would be dstrlbutcd In non-interest
bearing, fifty-year loans to states and
municipalities, which would be re
quired to repay the principal at the
rate of 2 per cent annually. Actually,
the program embodied In the draft
bill la Just the opposite.
Instead of lending money to the
(Continued on Page Six)
PRESBYTERY SELECTS
GRANTS PASS, April 13. iP) Dr.
H. S. Reichard of Grants Pass was
eltacted moderator of the Presbytery
of southern Oregon holding Its con
cluding two-day sessions this after
noon. Rev. Wm. o. Faucet t of Row
burg is retiring numerator.
Also elected were. Rev. E. E. Rosen
kelde of Malln. stated clerk: Rev. H
T. Mitchelmorc of Bandon, perma
nent clerk: Rev. Thomas Robinson of
Oakland, temporary clerk; and Rev.
John W. Hoyt of Med ford, reporting
clerk.
The 21 'Presbyterian minister and
18 elders attending were to elect one
from each group this afternoon to at
tend the general assembly.
East Oregon Town
Destroyed By Fire
CRANE. Ore.. April 13. (API
plans to rebuild this tiny town. 30
mile southeast of Burns, were
launched today as It emerged from
the ashes of a 20.000 fire.
The postofflce. a bnrber shop,
cleaning establishment and four resi
dences were destroyed with ft garage
In which fire broke out Sunday.
Mall and equipment from the post
office were saved. Wot blankets pre
sented the spread of flames to the
Denman hotel.
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Walter Leverette lamenting his
failure to get his car tagged and
Officer Ray Sloneker trying to make
up for It by cnalktng his pants leg.
Cappy Lee Bown telling of the
steady habits of his police officer
Frank Beers.
Flomic Seherrer and Juanltn
Yerton siting and oohttii over pansy
bouquets brought them by Fred
Scheflel.
Joe E Wood inquiring good-naturedly
why no one was present to
let him and associates Into the ColC
for a nocturnal meeting.
Sit. Harold Howard a:..: D uty
?herf Bill Grenbember scurrying off
en ft secret mission.
MACHINE PLUNGES
FROM. HIGHWAY AT
SEVEN OAKS
Maurice O'Brien of San
Francisco Suffers Pos
sibly Fatal Injury Ernest
Schwarts Also Injured
Maurice Edward O'Brien, 40, of
the Mendeli apartments, 415 Jones
street, San Francisco, received a
fractured skull at 2 a. m. today
when the automobile he was driv
ing plunged off the Pacific highway
at a curve about two miles north
of Central Point. Critically Injured,
with the entire front of his head
caved in, he Is not expected to live,
Dr. W. G. Bishop, his attending
physician, said this afternoon. He Is
confined in Community hospital.
O'Brien's companion In the car,
Ernest Schwarts, 43, of 387 Ellis
street, San Francisco, sustained three
fractured ribs on the left side of
his chest and severe body bruises,
Dr. Bishop said. Otherwise he was
uninjured, and his condition Is not
serious, the physician reported.
Recovery Hone Dim.
O'Brien was conscious only at
times this afternoon, and was suf
fering hemorrhages at the mouth,
Dr. Bishop said. Little hope was
held for his recovery.
The two men were speeding north
ward to BelUngham, Wash., to at
tend the funeral of O'Brien's father
when the accident occurred. Schwarts
told Deputy Coroner Herb Brown,
who rushed them to the Commu
nity hospital. Driving a Buick coupe.
O'Brien negotiated part of the curve
before the car started to wobble.
Schwartz told Brown. It then shot
off the left side of the highway,
lea ped over a f ou r - too t d t tch and
crashed Into a fence bordering the
orchard of A. V. Carlson, Schwarts
explained.
Car Demolished.
The machine was hnlted mo
mentarily on top or the fence, with
Its two front wheels off the ground,
then ifc smashed on through and
Into the orchard. The car was almost
entirely demolished.
Schwarts told Brown that the ma
chine was traveling at a high rate
of speed, and that It was Impossible
to make the curve. He said he had
driven to Ashland, and that O'Brien
had taken the wheel there. Schwarts
Is a close friend of O'Brien's and
had accompanied him merely for the
ride.
The accident happened at the end
of the long straightaway north of
Central Point. At Seven Oaks, the
road bends to the right on the flat,
there being no bank to the high
way at that point..
Schwarts Called Aid.
Deputy Coroner Brown said that
when he arrived at the scene, O'Brien
was laying on the ground 10 feet
from the car, and Schwarts was sit
ting on the edge of the highway
tillable to move. It was first believed
that Schwarts suffered a broken
back, but examination showed htm
to have only a bad back bruise.
State Police Officer Frank Beers,
who Investigated the accident, said
that Schwarts climbed through the
fence and over the ditch to reach
the highway. There he yelled for
help, attracting the attention of a
fanner and his wife, who live near
by. The farmer, after going to the
scene, Immediately telephoned the
tate police office.
Sheriff Freed On
Larceny Charges
OREGON CITY. April 13. (AP)
Sheriff E. T. Mass and his chief tax
depxity. Jessie Paddock, were freed
of charges of larceny of public funds
yesterday when Circuit Judge Carl
Hendricks slsned orders voiding In
dictments. Assistant Attorney-General Francis
Wade recommended the action be
cause he said prosecution would con
stttute a needless expense.
Mass had been Indicted on untried
charges of larceny of $41,000 and
!f637. His son. Deputy Howard Mass.
recently was acquitted of a Joint
indictment on the latter charge.
I INCH SNOW MELTS FAST
ilN KLAMATH SUNSHINE
KLAMATH PALLS. April 13. (AP)
j A strong north wind dropped the
i thermometer to 30 degrees here last
night and deposited an Inch of snow
over the Klamath basin.
Brieht sunshine today promptly
'melted the snow.
Weather
Northern California: Fair tonight
and Thursday, hut rain tol iv ex
treme southeast portion with snow
over the Sierra-Nevadas, slightly
warmer In the interior Thursday;
fresh northwest wind off the coaM.
i Oregon: Fair tontcht with frosla
'In the interior. Thursday increasing
cloudiness followed by rain in rest
(portion: moderate changeable wind
be coming southerly and Increasing
loff the coast Thursday.
TURN!
Thurston's Spook
. Breaks Date With
Skeptical Friends
NEW YORK. April 13. (AP)
Joseph Dunnlnger, president of
the universal council for psychic
research, today announced the
late Howard Thurston had failed
thus far to keep a promise to
return from the spirit world.
Dunnlnger said he and five
companions, all skeptics of psy
chic phenomena, had kept a vigil
last night over a glass case con
taining an. image of Raraeses the
Second. Before Thurston's death
three years ago today, Dunnlnger
explained, the magician gave hlra
the image with a promise that
he would return from the spirit
world, break the glass case and
knock the Image down.
T GIVE UP PENNY
OF MOVIE-MADE COIN
LOS ANGELES, April 13.
Brewery owner Arthur L. Bernstein
says his stepson. Jackie Coogan,
"isn't going to get a penny" of the
fortune Coogan amassed as a child
movie actor.
Coogan, estimating that (4.000.000
is due him from his mother, the for-,
mer Mrs. John Henry Coogan, has
sued her and Bernstein for that
amount. The case reaches court next
Wednesday, when Judge Emmet Wil
son hears a motion for an Injunc
tion against the mother and step
father transferring or disposing of any
of the property In question.
Jackie, sitting In his modest home
In West Los Angeles, figuring out
ways to earn a living for himself and
hts prettty bride, Betty Gmble. took
time to display several newspaper
clippings telling of his earnings 10
years ago. ,
Jackie claims that when hia father
waa killed in an automobile accident
near San Diego In 1935. his mother
told him his fortune as a child actor
had been Invested and would be turn
ed over to htm when he was 21. Now
that he Is 23, he wants the money.
DEFENDERS STALL
JAP WAR MACHINE
SHANGHAI. April 13 (AP) Em
ploying European military tactics with
Increasing skill, or. when necessary,
the big swords of their ancestors, the
Chinese, temporarily at least;,- have
stalled the Japanese war machine
on the central China front.
The real test of the new Chinese
resistance, however, Is yet to come,
with numbers, geographical position
and Improvement in training of sold
iers among the factors In China's
favor.
Japanese reinforcements are con
tinuing to pour into Shantung pro
vince, and this probably means a
smashing drive to regain what is left
of Talerhchwang. embattled southern
Shantung town.
Chief credit for the recent
Talerhchwang victory Is given to ir
regular Chinese units who demoral
ized Japanese communications along
the Tlentsin-Pukow railway. If these
irregulars operated according to plan,
then it was the highest form of
strategy. In the opinion of foreign
military experts here.
GRAND CHAMPION LAMB
OWNED BY BOY FARMER
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO. April 13
(AP) The coveted ribbon for the
grand champion lamb of the Inter
state Junior livestock arid baby beef
show was awarded today to 18 -year-old
Severa Wllford of Santa Rosa,
Calif.
A sister of Wllford 'a newly -crowned
grand champion lamb won a similar
award at the Great Western Livestock
show in Los Angeles last year. Wll
ford Is a future farmer of America.
MAHONEY SPEAKS AT
GRANTS PASS MEET
GRANTS PASS. April 13. (API
Willis E. Mahoney, candidate for
Democratic nomination for United
States senate, last night urged a
three-point recovery program here:
Farm products tariff. Townsend pen
sion, and a wage-hour bill.
PhtlanlhropM files
MANCHESTER. N. H.. April 13
(API Frank Pierce Carpenter. 92.
philanthropist, banker and manufac
turer, died here today. It Is estimat
ed his charities amounted to 4 000,
000. He was president of the Amos
kcag Paper Mill.
Fire On Rioters
LUCKNOW. India. April 13. fAPl
: Three persons were killed and about
: 100 injured today when police fired
into crouds In an attempt to halt
j rioting between Hindus and Moslems.
The rioting began after a Moaiem had
1 attacked a Hindu girl.
LUCAS
LEAD IN
NATION ME
Gov. Horner's Candidate
Holds Commanding Mar
gin Over Igoe for Demo
cratic Choice As Senator
WASHINGTON. April 13. (AP)
A presidential boom started In the
house today for Governor Henry
Horner of Illinois on the strength of
his apparent second victory over the
Kelly-Nash Chicago democratic or
ganization. Representative Arnold (D-Hl.), an
nounced he wanted to call attention
to the availability of Horner as a
presidential candidate in 1040.
"In my opinion Henry Horner is
the greatest man in this country to
day and he should be president of
these United States," Arnold said.
CHICAGO. April 13. Scott W.
Lucas, backed by Governor Horner's
recently developed power In Illinois
Democratic politics, assumed a grow
ing lead for the party's senatorial
nomination today over Michael L.
Igoe, adherent of the faction domin
ated by Mayor Edward J. Kelly and
National Committeeman Patrick A,
Nash.
Lucas, serving hia second term tn
the national house from the district
of the late Speaker Henry T- Ralney,
held a lead of 28.036 with 988 of the
state's 8,286 precincts reported In yes
terday's primaries.
Igoe, United States district attor
ney at Chicago, scored heavily In the
Cook county bailiwick of Nosh-Kelly
forces, but the Havana congressman
more than made up the difference tn
the '"downstatc" vote.
State Senator Richard J. Lyons of
Llbertyvllle, bitter foe of the New
Deal, was assured of the Republican
senatorial nomination.
The Democratic vote, In 7,211 pre
cincts, was: Lucas 674.388; Igoe 649.
533. Horner forces likewise claimed a
victory In County Judge Edmund K.
Jareckl's lead over John Prystalskl,
Nash-Kelly entry, on the basis of In
complete returns.
Both Democratic factions, although
vowing support of the Roosevelt ad
ministration, engaged in the faction
al fight on cries of "bossUm" leveled
at each other.
WITH THE INSURGENTS IN
SPAIN, April 13. ( AP) The Insur
gent drive toward the Mediterranean
quickened Ita pace today on tne
southern sector and Generalissimo
Franco's troops captured Chert, only
14 miles from the coastal city of
Vinaroz.
The insurgents, commanded by
General Miguel' Aranda. also occu
pied the entire Sierra Monte del Tur
mell and the Sierra de Valdancha.
rugged highlands lying north and
south, respectively, of the vital high
way from Morella through flan Mnteo
to Vinaroz.
Chert, three miles north of San
Mateo, was strongly defended by gov
ernment infantry, supported by artll
'lery and airplanes,
j On the front further north the in
surgent command announced today
a crushing defeat was Inflicted upon
:B strong government force that coun
ter-attacked in the Balaguer sector.
Huulan Jewel stolen
LONDON, April 13. ( AP) An un
determined amount of Jewelry be
longing to the Russian imperial fam
ily was stolen today from the home
of Sir Harold and Lady Anastasia
Wernher. Thorpe Lnbenham Hall, in
Leicestershire. Lady Anastasia Is the
eldest daughter of the Russian grand
duke Michael.
FRANCO OUICKENS
MARCH TO COAST
Stream Purification League
Not Hitting at Mining Mud
O RANTS PASS. April 13 (AP)
Rufus Holman. state treasurer and
president of the Oregon Stream Pur
ification league, by letter today de
fined Intent of the sponsors of a
proposed initiative to preserve "nat
jural purity" of Oregon waters,
The question was prompted here by
debate whether mud such as is dis-
charged by gold mines would be
termed natural. Legislative and legal
battles have been fought recently
along the Rogue river over m'nlng
mud.
j "The natural purity of the waters
'of our lakes and flowing stream,"
Offers Cornea
l,,, UNI fill 'l,,,S3a
laaaBBBkatV ; -,- pyfti
Albert Kessell (above), doomed to
be one of the first persons executed
In the new lethal ga chamber In San
Quentln, Calif., prison revealed he
had bequeathed the cornea of his left
eye to the Rev. U. E. Harding of
Portland, Ore.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
UNUSED PROFITS TAX
WASHINGTON. April 13. (P)
president Roosevelt urged congress to
day to retain the principle of the bit-
terly.dlsputed undistributed profits
tax, but. met stubborn resistance from
the senate .finance committee.
Attacking provisions of the senate
tax bill which would eliminate the
undistributed profits tax opposed by
business and substitute a flat capi
tal gains tax for the graduated sys
tem now employed. Mr. Roosevelt
wrote chairman of the senate finance
and house ways and means commit
tee: "The repeal, of the undistributed
profit tax and the reduction of the
tax on capital gains to a fraction of
the tax on other forms of Income
strike at the root "of fundamental
principles of taxation.
"Business will be helped, not hurt,
by these suggestions."
Chairman Harrison (D.-Miss.) of
the finance committee, gave out the
communication and commented terse
ly: "The senate conferees will insist in
conference on the amendments adopt
ed by the senate."
Life Sentences For
Bathtub Murderers
SEATTLE, April 13. (AP) Life
sentences were imposed yesterday
by Superior Judge Donald A. Mc
Donald on Dell and Claire Richard
son, convicted in the "bathtub mur
der case." They were convicted of
the slaying of Dell's bride, the for
mer Clara Compton of San Fran
cisco, who died of pneumonia and
a head Injury last fall after sub
mersion in a tub of scalding water.
The Richardsons attorneys served
notice of appeal to the state su
preme court.
PALMBERG tTcOACH
ASTORIA BASKETBALL
ASTORIA. April 13.--IAP) Wally
Palmberg. who set a northern divis
ion scaring record in the 1038 basket
ball race of the Pacific coast con
ference, wes elected basketball coaoh
of Astoria high school.
By its action, the school board
spilt fwtball and basketball coach
ing assignments. George .Emlgh re
taining the football post.
THE DALLES. April 13. (API
Charles B. "Pud" Reese, 75. city mar
shal and more than 50 years resident
of Antelope, stock country center In
southern Wasco county, died yester
day. I Holman wrote from Portland, "would
contemplate the absence of chemicals,
garbage, sewage, etc., but would not
Icontemplate the shsence of earthly
sediment. We know that It Is natural
jfor all streams to carry earthly sedi
ment and sometime the water la
naturally quite heavily Impregnated
with earthly sediment during fresh
ets, particularly, which is not injur
ious to fish in that It does not ex
haust the oxygen In the water. whlln
on the contrary sewage, chemicals,
etc do exhaust the oxygen tn the
water and are injurious to fish and
offensive and dangerous to recrea
tional tjm of the water by human "
F
TO FACE STRIFE
Cabinet Gives Approval to
Chamberlain's Pact With
Italy Premier Daladier
Voted Power for Decrees
By the Associated Press
Great Britain and France, Europe's
democratic partners, both surveyed
Europe's turmoil today from new
positions of strength.
The British cabinet gave approval
to the friendship pact which Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain has en
gineered with Italy and which. It haa,
been indicated, will be signed Sat
urday.
The senate today voted by 288 to
1 to give Premier Edouard Daladler'a
"national defense" cabinet powera to
govern France by decree until July
The chamber of deputies previ
ously had approved the decree powers
bill.
Senate approval completed parlia
mentary action on the measure
clothing the new premier lth un
usual powers to cope with the re
public's acute financial and labor
problems.
Daladier turned immediately to
fight the strike movement as hia first
step toward jmttlng France's house
In order.
With publication of parliament's
action In the official gazette tomor
row, Daladier automatically wlll be
gin governing by .decree of the coun
cil of ministers, the cabinet meeting
with President Albert Lebrun.
Daladier, determined to end "pol
itical strikes," told the finance com
mittee one of his first decrees would
make a government-controlled vote of
workers necessary before a strike
could be declared.
Chamberlain's "personal touch'- to
the sealing of a new British-Italian
accord, hia dispatch of War Secretary
Leslie Horo-Bellsha to confer with
Premier Benito Mussolini In Rome
April 23, also was approved by the
British cabinet.
MOO PLEADS .
FOR TOWNSEND
WASHINGTON. April 13. (AP)
Senator McAdoo (D., Calif.) has
asked President Roosevelt to pardon
Dr. FranciB E. Townsend, old age
pension advocate, who faces a 30
day Jail term for contempt of a
house committee.
McAdoo disclosed his request today
In a letter to Attorney Oeneral Cum
mlnga asking him to give his con
sideration to the proposal to save
the elderly California physician from
the Jail term.
McAdoo. describing Townsend as
a "respected citizen of California,"
said he believed he was "ill-advised"
In defying a house committee which
was Investigating his old age revolv
ing pension plan last year.
The supreme court last Monday
denied Townsend'a petition for a re
view of hts conviction on the con
tempt charge.
Several members of congress, also
have suggested a presidential par
don. King Vidor Weds
Ex-Script Girl
HOLLYWOOD. April 13. ( AP)
King Vidor, film director, and Betty
Hill, former scriDt girl, were mar
ried In Mexico last July, friends dis
closed today.
They said Mrs. Vidor. her son
Robert Hill, and the director's moth
er. Mrs. Charles Vidor. would accom
pany him to England where he will
film "The Citadel."
Vidor Is the former husband of
Eleanor Boardman and Florence Vi
dor. Poison Slayer's
Appeal Dismissed
COLUMBUS. O., April 13. (AP)
The Ohio supreme court today dis
missed the appeal of Anna Marie
Hahn. convicted Cincinnati poison
slayer, and sentenced her to die in
the electric chair May 4.
The court held there mas no con
stitutional question Involved in her
appeal.
Mrs. Hahn had been scheduled to
die March 10. but her appeal to the
supreme court automat irslly stayed
the electrocution date.
General To Retire
WASHINGTON, April 13. (API
The war department announced to
day retirement of Major Oeneral An
drew Moses, effective June 30. Oen
eral Moses, who will reach the retire
ment age of 64 June 6. has been in
command of the Hawaiian depart
ment. Ha i now tnrouta to Kw
Tork,
Convict Whitney
Makes Breakfast
On Mush, Bread
OSSINING. X. T.. April 13.
(AP) Richard Whitney, former
president of the New York stock
exchange, was initiated into the
dally routine of Sing Sing prison
today when he. arose at 6:30 a.m.,
and sat down to a breakfast of
corn meal mush. 9
Whitney, who entered "the big
house" yesterday under a 8-10
year sentence for grand larceny,
passed his first night in an an
cient atone cell block fairly com
fortably. Guards said he slept, or
appeared to sleep, eight or nine
hours.
He was permitted to exercise
Briefly in an open yard before he
went to a mess hall for breakfast,
tn addition to the corn meal
mush he had bread and coffee.
The luncheon menu was boiled
ham and cabbage, potatoes, stew
ed apples and cocoa.
R. RETER RESIGNS
OF
Raymond R. Refer today announced
his resignation aa vice-president and
general manager of the Pinnacle
Packing company. '
It was learned that the following
also had resigned: Frank Isaacs, fore
man of packing plant No. 1: Clarence
Pankey, foreman of plant 8; Samuel
Wade, chief engineer of cold storage
plant No, 4: Al Collins, chief me
chanic of plant 3: and Edward Good
man, head carpenter.
Reginald H. Parsons, company pres
ident, said he would serve aa general
manager for the tlnf being.
Mr. Reter stated that he would
establish his own fruit packing and
marketing business here, details of
which would be announced later.
All of the resignations, it was un
derstood, were in effect today.
Mr. Reter had been with the com
pany since 1827. He Is considered one
of the state's leading authorities on
fruit packing and marketing.
Prominent In west coast fruit mar
keting circles. Mr. Reter is president
of the Oregon-Washlngton-Callfornia
Pear league, a director of the Oregon-
Washington-Callfomla Pear bureau
and executive secretary of the North
Pacific Advisory Board of the Amer
ican Association of Railroads.
Mr. Reter also has been Identified
with civic activities here and was in
strumental in organizing the valley's
first "Pear Blossom Week" last year.
Mr. Isaacs said he had definite
plans for the future but was not
ready to discuss them. Others who
resigned had no comment to make
or could not be reached immediately
WHEN WIFE UNHID
PORTLAND, April 13. (AP) Be
cause the school board had no Job
for Max Krone's wife, the Northwest
ern University musician lost an op
portunity today for a 13030 Job as
director of music in Portland's pub
lic schools.
Krone was offered the post and
the board presumed he had accepted
it. when, after the vote, Krone said
his wife must have a Job, too.
The board rescinded Its action and
turned to consideration of two other
candidates. Chester Duncan, Van
cotiver. Wash., and Robert B. Walsh
Portland.
Workers League
President Dies
EUGENE. April 13. (AP) Harry
H. Johnson. 50, president of the
United Workers league here, candl
date for the Democratic nomination
for state representative and a cham
plon of the "common man," died
suddenly in a hospital here last night
following a heart attack brought on
by a sligM arm injury.
Mr. Johnson, a WPA worker, suf
fered the arm injury while at work
on a university WPA project late
yesterday. Physicians said the heart
attack was caused by the shock of
the injury.
Martin Invited To
Pershing Wedding
SALEM. April 18. (frf Oen. John
J. Pershing, commander of the Amer
ican troops during the World war.
today invited hia old claMmate, Gov
ernor Martin, to attend the weddliig
of hts son, Francla Warren Pershing
The wedding will be held In New
York April 22. but the governor will
not attend.
Pershing and Martin were graduat
ed from the U. a military academy
at West Point in 1867. Martin served
under Pershing during the war aa ft
major general.
MANAGEMENT
PINNACLE FIRM
$3930 JOB SPURNED
NEW DEAL WORKS
AT TOP SPEED ON
RELIEF PR0GRAM
Reach Apparent Agreement
at Long Night Confer
ence Public Works
Spending Main Feature
On Radio Thursday
Time has been reserved on NBC,
CBS and Mutual Radio chains for
a proposed 46-mlnute fireside
chat Thursday by President
Roosevelt, beginning at 7:30 p.m.,
roast time.
WASHINGTON, April 13. (A P)
President Roosevelt signed to
day the G)ass-8teagall bill per
mitting the Reconstruction Fi
nance corporation to lend $1,500,
000,000 to Industry and munici
palities. The president made the meas
ure a law Just prior to a final
conference with senate and house
advisors on the recovery-reltef
message he will send tn congress
tomorrow. ,
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T7 ACUIMnTAM lnrM 11 IDi
President Rdpsevelt and till eco
nomic advisers wonted at top speed
today to complete a new recovery
and relief program, apparently agreed
upon at a lengthy night confer
ence at the White House.
While the conferees did not dis
close details, it was Indicated the
keystone probably would be a pro
posal to spend 11.600,000,000 on pub
lic vorfc aa a means of reviving"
business and industry.
Message Tomorrow.
This would be in addition to i
$1,250,000,000 relief appropriation,
which would let the works progress
administration carry a peak load
of unemployed from next July 1 to
February 1, 1930.
Both the public works and relief
proposals wera to be covered in a
presidential message to congress to
morrow noon. Its first draft was
gone over by the five oablnet mem
bers and three other administration
officials at last night's three-hour
meeting.
The president will have a final
talk on the message with congres--slonal
leaders at 5 p.m. (EST.)
Those Invited were Barkley of
Kentucky and Rayburn of Texas,
Democratic leadors of senate and
house, respectively; Chairmen Glazta
(D., Va.) and Taylor (D., Colo.) of
the senate and house appropriations
committees, and Senator Byrnes (.D.,
S. C.) and Representatives Cannon
(D., Mo.) and Woodrum (D., Va.) of
those committees.
Radio Talk Planned.
Official White House sources bad
disclosed earlier that the message
would discuss not only the state of
affairs in this country, but also
touch on conditions abroad.
It probably will be followed to
morrow night by a 46-miriute "fire
side chat" In which the president
may explain to the nation his views
on the general economic situation
and the reasons for hia new pro
gram. Cabinet members who went over
the message with the president were
Secretaries Hull, Ickea, Wallace and
Morgenthau and Postmaster General
Farley.
Present also were Chairman Jesse
H. Jones of the reconstruct ion fi
nance corporation: Harry Hopkins,
WPA administrator, and James Roose
velt, the president's son and secre
tary. Absent were the Democratic con
gressional leaders, Including Vice
President Garner, who has been
widely reported as looking with dis
favor on any renewal of heavy gov
ernment spending.
While the white-haired. Influential
Texan remained publicly silent, Mr.
Roosevelt told his press conference
yesterday that he and Garner had
not had- an argument over "pump
priming" or anything else when they
met st a legislative conference Mon
day. There had been reports that Gar
ner had sharply expressed his dislike
of "spending for recovery" plans,
creating a coolnew between himself
and "the boss." as he calls the presi
dent. Hosch Defendant
In Smashup Suit
At.BANV. Aml 13. (APt Dr. .
P. Hosch, Bend, who withdrew aa a
candidate for the Democratic nomi
nation for ttovernor. was made a de
fendant today In two suite based on
sn automobile accident near sew
last January 16.
Mrs. Llla Barber asked damages of
15.050 and her son, Russell, soughs
$10,500 for lujurlea alleged to hava
been received when Dr. Hoseh's auto
mobile crashed into their trsller car.
MADRID, April 13. (APt Berafin
Alvsrez Qulntero. 67, Spanish play
wright and member of the Royal
Academy of Languages for more than
a half century, died here yesterday.