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Don't Forget The Weather forecast: Fair tonight and sat. urday, not much change In tempera turf. Highest yesterday .'. fli Lowest this mornlng.........HM..3& Medford TIIBUNE B4 sure to pat that Classlflet Adv. to work In the Sunday mornlns; edition. Write your Adv. now. For proper classifi cation your copy must be In by 3:30 p. M. Saturday. Oont forget. Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY. MAY 6, 193S. No. 39. rrrui Ml Ml n Mo) J UN 1TQ MM IS MA anniQ)fp IV! u ULru . . The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 1037, by The North American News paper Allinnce, Inc. DECENTRALIZATION OF REVENUE SYSTEM AIM MOKIiKNTHAU TO SET IT It REGIONAL OITICKS VTOL'LD SETTLE TAX ROWS IN HOME LOCALITIES LOS ANfiEI.KS EXPERIMENT HM1.FI AS SUCCESS WASHINGTON, May 6. Painless tax collection (which will probably be about as free of pain as painless dentistry) la aoon to be offered to the citizens by the considerate secre tary of the treasury. Mr. Morgenthau plana to decentralize the entire reve nue system before the year Is out. In future. Instead of heartless and occasionally rapacious emissaries of a distant Washington, the tax collec tors will be Just home folks. Seriously, the new plan will oniy be regretted by the leeching swarm of Washington lawyers and lobbyists now battening on innocents who hare disagreed with the bureau o Internal revenue. The plan Is so simple, so sensible that one wonders why no one ever thought of it b-fore Henry Morgenthau. At present, the power to decide tax disputes la lodged In the Washington bureau of Internal revenue. To Its chilly marble halls, unhappy pleaders must come hat In hand, from Maine or Oregon, New Orleans or Chicago. The technical staff at the bureau, be ing perfectly unacquainted with local conditions, in chilly and more than Impersonal. Collisions with the bu reau are said to be worse for the blood pressure than any other form of contact with an often irritating government. How Mr. Morgenthau expects to delegate the bureau's powers to eleven regional offices. Whenever a revenuer and a citizen quarrel, the regional offices will Judge the row on the spot and in the field, without long litigation or costly Washington expeditions. Each regional office will even ,hnve circuit riders attached to It. who will travel to smaller cities where disputes arise. Appeal will be taken direct from the regional offices to the board of tax appeals. And the Washington bureau will survive mere ly as a standard-setting and super visory agency. . . . The new plan is, in fact, an ex ample of the sort of thing the gov- i Continued an Pajte Pwelve, BASEBALL American R. H. E Cleveland -- - 4 13 4 Philadelphia 1 0 l Allen and Pytlak; Caster, Potter, Kelson, and Brucker. R. H. S. t. Louis L 3 10 4 Boston 7 10 2 Ncwsom and Sullivan; Marcum and tsautels. Detroit et New York, postponed: rain. National R. H. E. New York ... II 11 3 Pittsburgh .... - 7 14 1 Melton. Coffman, and Danning. Brown. Sewell. Kllnger, Heitwlman and Berres. R. H. .. 3 10 ..10 0 BrookJyn Cincinnati Mungo, Marrow, Prankhouse, and Spencer, Shea; HDllingsworth and V Davis. '. 4 SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Dayl Burrea putting out a big wash to dry at hi service station. Ray Lapp averring he was such t good angler he would give all comers a handicap at the catfish derby. Theodore Mesch talking glowingly about the prospects of tho picklo In dustry here. Jo Rostel thinking the new candy dresses are cute. Teller Gordon Ringoen converting Into stiver 200 pennies assertedly tolen from the homo of bis boss, pan Thamnlsa. PROWLING DOZEN RESIDENCES HERE Man Who Claimed to Have Been With Chinese Forces Recently, Found in Pos session of Assorted Loot Readily confessing, according to Chief of Police Clatous McCredle. to the robbery of 12 Medford homes In the past two and a half weeks and to the attempt to enter another Ronald Rollo. 29, alias John Zwlck. was scheduled to appear In Justice of the peace court this afternoon for preliminary hearing on a charge of larceny from a dwelling. City Policemen Clyde Fichtner and Ray Sloneker arrested Rollo at 9:30 last nteht on West Main street be tween Orange and Sixth streets a short time after he had allegedly burglarized the home of D. D. Rob erts at 32 Rose avenue. From that house he allegedly stole a Schick electric razor, a gold ring and an agate lavaller. Chief McCredle said the articles were in Rollo's posses sion when ho was arrested and the owner Identified them this morning Huge Pile of Loot Huf,e piles of loot, men's shirts neckties, socks, handkerchiefs, three suitcases, watches, rings and miscel laneous articles, were discovered' In a room Rollo had occupied In the Hotel Jackson, where he had regis tered under the name of John Zwlck. end in a room In the Hotel Holland, where he had moved May 4, Chief McCredle said. Police were today checking local Jewelry stores after Rollo allegedly told them ho sold several gold rings after taking out the settings. Suave, polished, well-dressed and a brilliant conversationalist, Rollo came to Medford by stage rrom Klamath Palls April 18. according to Chief McCredle. In ad Interview with the Mall Tribune last Monday Rollo. then using the name of Zwlclt. said he had been an aerial machine-gunner in the Chinese j Brmy, and had been wounded In a battle with a Japanese plane. He claimed he was a native of Long Deach, Cat., and was in Medford looking over pear orchards for a pos sible investment. Severat local busi ness men, Impressed with his ap pearance, extended him their friend ship. Rollo still maintained to police that he was a machine-gunner for th Chinese, and engaged In half a dozen aerial battles before being Bhot in the leg after his plane was forced down. He showed police scars on his leg where he said the machine-gun bullets entered. Chief McCredle and other city policemen said they were' Inclined to believe his story. Armed With Pistol Rollo was armed with a Colt auto matic pistol when arrested by Offi cers Sloneker and Plchtner, they re ported. Driving in the patrol car tho two policemen first saw Rollo loitering on Rose avenue. They stop ped, and when asked what he was doing, Rollo reported he was Just "out to get some air." Tha police men drove on and when they re turned In about a half hour. Rollo was lingering along the sidewalk on the north side of West Main street, they sold. Suspicious of him because ho had been In the neighborhood an undue length of time, the two officers placed him In the patrol car and took him to the atatlon for question ing. He surrendered willingly. There according to Chief McCredle, he vol ubly confessed to the amazing series of house robberies, many of which were not even known to the vtctlm until several days afterwards or un til police told them today. Rollo told police. Chief McCredle said, that ho' would ring the door bell and If he received no answer would then enter the house. He got In all the homes by us of a passkey mostly through the back door, he was quoted as saying. Denies rrltrhett Robbery Although readily confessing, ac cording to Chief McCredle, to the long list of robberies, Rollo claimed (Continued on Pag Thirteen) Light Smudging Table Rock Area Light smudging occurred In the Table Rock district orchards this morning when the mercury approach ed the 31-degree mark. There was no genera! smudging and It was re ported as more of a precaution than a necessity. There was no damage. County HortlculUlrlat A. B. Cordy reported. It was the second time this season there has been a light firing of smudge-pot. CHARLESTON. S. C May 6. (AP) The cruiser Philadelphia arrived off West Calcos Island in tho Bahamas today and President Roosevelt and his party organ the third and last fishing expedition of a nlns-day va cation crulsa. Wage-Hour Bill All Bets -t ' ? 'j uwf. u Lm lew Brlce (left) brother of Fanny Brlce, screen comedienne, Isn't going to collect the $1150,000 which lie won from Harry T. Clifton (right), wealthy Englishman, In a recent Los Angeles poker game. Krlre re turned the Englishman's checks yesterday and a superior court has dis missed an Injunction against their payment. $150,000 POKER GAME I WASHED UP BY COURT; CHECKS ARE RETURNED LOB ANGEIiES. May . fAP) That celebrated $160,000 poker game, which didn't end according to Hoyle. was officially washed up today. A superior court dismissed the in junction against payment of Squire Harry Clifton's checks and dissolved a restraining order directing a bank not to pay them. Lew Brlce, brother of Comedian Fanny Brlce. who won the money from the Englishman, returned the checks yesterday., 'This Is tough, said Brlce. "Here I've taken ohances on the Irish sweepstakes for years and never won a cent. Now. I win the equivalent of the capital prize of $150,000 at poker and I can't collect I "It's like getting edged out In & photo finish. I always play 'em on. the nose, you know." Equally Insignificant has become the writ of attachment obtained by Miss Marchen Jorgensen, pianist, to hold the checks should Brlce have tried to cash them. Miss Jorgensen wop a $1000 Judg ment against Brlce three years ago. charging him with attacking and be traying her. Court records do not show that It was ever paid. GRANGE VOTE RESULT READY THIS EVENING PORTLAND, May 6. (AP) A spec ial counting committee will alft the returns from approximately 300 grange units today to determine the result of the election contest for stat grange master between Ray Olll. Incumbent, and Ralph Perry of Hood River. ' The board will begin tabulating the returns for about 16 state of fices at 1:00 p.m. The grange head quarters said that totals probably would not be announced until 0:00 or 6:00 pjm. ... - Hoover Has Ill-Point Plan For Banishing Recession OKLAHOMA CITY. May 8. ( AP) Herbert Hoover presented to the na tion today an 11 -point attack upon depression and called upon the Roosevelt administration to abandon what he termed "a dangerous road for democracy." The former president was en route to New York by train after deliver ing one of a series of major ad dresses here last night at a "grass roots" convention of Oklahoma- Re publicans, attended by more than 7500 persons. In tha speech, which was broad cast nationally. Hoover again as sailed New Deal policies and warned: "We have been following that dan gerous road for democracy that led to disaster In Europe." Declaring that "despite every alibi, this depression is the direct result of governmental actions, Hoover as serted Uie New Deal "proposes to Are Off TOTALITARIAN WARFARE FOR HITLER'S BENEFIT ROME, May . (AP) The next European war if It comes will be largely a struggle with chemicals, flames and artillery If Premier Mus solini's lineup of armed forces to day In honor of Relchsfuehrer Hitler was an Indication. Also. It will be the "totalitarian war" of whloh the lata master strate-. gist. Oerieral Erich Ludendorff, wrote. meaning that women and children would bo quite as much drafted into service as men. Mussolini showed his guest a whole "chemical regiment" that sent shudder through the mass of spec tators. The soldiers looked like beings from another planet In their gas masks. A further feature of the Impres sive two-hour parade was the promi nence given to artillery, from ma chine guns and anti-aircraft pieces, to heavy cannon. II Duce seemed de termined to show his German guests he was not lacking in the gruesome Implements of war. Besides Hitler and his entourage of high nazls, Mussolini's guests in eluded two former kings, Alfonso of Spain and Amanullah of Afghanis tan. 4 HOLLYWOOD. Msy fl. (AP) Joan Crawford has signed a straight five- year contract with Metro-Ooldwyn Mayer Studio, M. C. Levee, her repre sentative, said today. Terms were not revealed, but it la understood the deal Involves $1,500,- 000. The agreement permits the star to take off at least two years to appear on the stage. travel further down this dangerous road ..." "And." he said firmly, "we are not going down that road without more fighting free speech." The former chief executive aatd constructive action to allay fear and re-establish confidence in the fu ture "would release the enormous re serves of private enterprise in place of a trickle of government money' and would "take men back to their Jobs tomorrow and permanently." A snub by Oklahoma's Democratic governor. E. W. Msrland, who ssld he "never liked Hoover." and don't like hire now," left the former president unruffled, Marland refused to welcome him. "I'm glad Oovemor Marland doesn't set the standard of politeness for the whole state of Oklahoma." Hoo ver smiled. -From what I have seen in Oklahoma, I'm sure he doesn't, t have had ft very beautiful reoep-Uon." Assured Consideration in OF C. TO Improvement Program Is Based On Less Federal Regulation. Better Employer-Labor Feeling, Aim WASHINGTON, May 8. (API Tho United States chamber of com mercfl began a nation-wide campaign today to win support for a business Improvement program based on a minimum of government regulation and on new employer relations with labor. ' President George H. Davis of Kan sas City, Mo., said Just berore we chamber's annual convention closed; The real benefit of thla meeting will come in how well you apply It locally." He spoke after the delegates adopt . resolutions asking a re-examina tion of all federal measures for In dustrial aid, "because efforts of gov ernment and business for recovery from the disastrous depression of the last eight years have fallen short In their objectives." The resolutions proposed congres sional Investigations of the Wagner labor act, under which the national labor relations board functions, and of the railroad problem. The labor resolution advocated out right repeal- of the Waguer act or, falling that, extensive., amendments.. "We believe the prime considera tion of the federal government," it said, "should always be to maintain impartiality aa between employer and employees, and as between different types of labor organisations." ELKS RULER WILL E Charles B. Hart, grand exalted ruler of B. P. O. Elks, on a national tour, will spend Sunday fishing In Rogue river and will be an overnight guest at the summer home of W. F. Isaacs on the fishing stream. Harry Ruth of Eugene, district deputy for south ern Oregon of the Elks, will accom pany the' grand exalted ruler, who will leave by plane Monday morning for San Francisco. Hart will arrive in Medford, Sntur day at 11 a. m., by plane, special arrangements being made to permit the southbound Malnllner to land here. After an auto trip to tho top of Roxy Ann, for a view of the valley, Hart will be a luncheon guest at the Elks' temple, attended by the present officers and past exalted rulers of the local lodge. Following the luncheon. Hart will fly by plane to Klamath Falls where he will address a ceremonial Satur day night of southern Oregon and northern California lodges. Sunday morning Hart will return for the day's fishing In the Rogue, with Isaacs as-host, and K. W. Winkle as fishing tutor. Exalted Ruler W, E. Lantls and Secretary Ernest Scott will also 'be present. The party will spend the night at. the Isaacs home. A large number of Medford Elks, traveling In ft chartered bus and pri vate cars, and the Elks band, will attend the Klamath Falls meeting. LOWER ROGUEITES URGED 10 BE FAIR PORTLAND. May . (API Eajl Nixon, director of the state depart ment of geology and mineral Indus tries, made tha following comment on a report that Curry county would not be satisfied with weekend cessa tion of mining operations In Jackson and Josephine counties: "With respect to tha concession which Jackson and Josephine county miners are msklng in fairness and in deference to fishing Interest, I teel that the lower rlter iRogus river) people will be fair enough to reserve any comment until tha effect of the weekend closing of the mines can be studied. "As 1 stated before, the present ar rangement should partlcu'trly favor .fishing for salmon during Mf." At Nazarene I II 1 ENOUGH SIGNERS 11 ' h I!!. : f j Dr. J. O. Morrison, (left) general superintendent, who la acting as presiding offlrer at the North Pacific assembly of the Naiarene church, in progress here. Mr. Henry R. tvallln. (right) psstor of the First Church or the Nninrene. In Los Angeles, Is guest evangelist fnr the assembly. (Story on Page Three.) , No 'Rubber Hose' Reception For Congressmen in Jersey JERSEY CITY. N. May 6. (AP) Public Safety Director Daniel J. Casey asserted today police vrould not permit two congressmen who pro pose to spealt here tomorrow night "to infringe upon tne ngnia 01 our cltltens." but said he was assured thert would ba no disorder by war veteran,-"- '- "-------' - .; ;y- ; Casey said he had Investigated a reported statement that war veterans would be at Journal Square, equipped with rubber hose, prepared for resis tance. ' "There is nothing to it," Casey said. "The statement was merely made by an over-enthualastic veteran who was Imbued with an ardent desire to pre vent the congressmen from speak ing." Addressing various veterans' groups and Gold Star mothers last night, Charlea Brophy, senior vice comman der of Catholic war veterans, ssld that "if necessary, wa will have 800 uniformed men there, each with two feet of rubber hose." Rep. Jerry O'Connell (D-Mont) said in Washington he had ""heard the same kind of threats before" but would speak nevertheless. Rep. Jahn T. Bernard (PL-Minn) was to accom pany him. They planned to apeak In the same mid-town square where police last week prevented a speech by Norman Thoma. soclsllst leader, who was ejected from the city for attempting to speak without a per mit. "What Congressmen O'Connell and Bernard and their Imported reds may do toward creating a disturbance csnnot be foretold at this time," Oasey said. WASHINGTON. -May 6. (AP) Representative O'Connell (D-Mont) said today he would ask Attorney Ocneral cummlngs for tho protection of federal agents In Jersey City, N J., tomorrow night when he and Repre sentative Bernard (PL-Minn) plan to address a mssa meeting, O'Connell said he wanted the fed eral agent "to protect me against Mayor Prank Hague' hoodlums." O'Connell said he and Bernard would go to Jersey City by train to morrow afternoon. CHINESTlfBACK HALF OF TERRITORY CAPTURED BY JAPS SHANGHAI, Msy (AP) Chinese claimed the recspture of approxi mately half the territory In south Shantung province won by Japanese In a three-weeks offensive from Unl a the undeclared war ended Its tenth month today. And while the two armies battled doggedly about Tancheng and Talerh- chwang, there were slgnlflcsnt devel opment on several other front. Pelplng'a gate were closed and barred and that ancient city of Chi nese culture, occupied by Jspaneae troops soon alter tha war broke out. spent one of Ita most anxious daya . Japanese plsnes yesterday busily bombed objective but a few mile west of the city walls, and thore were persistent reports Chinese guer- rllls snd communists were epproacn Inc the city. Pollc searched houses for Irregular believed to have slipped within th gate Pelplng'a Japanese gtrrlson was greatly reduced by dispatching of re inforcement to Shin tun g. Conference ALL SCHOOL FAIR GIVES INSIGHT ON WORK OF PUPILS Work of the Medford aohool In art I being displayed In room i In the high school, thla afternoon and even ing during the All-School Pair. TH exhibit Illustrate tha quality of work that ha won recognition for Med ford schools and brought prizes for Medford children In state poppy eon. test and other state art exhibits to which the work of tha city school Is frequently sent. , Another interesting' display Is th work of penmsnshlp department, un der direction of Miss Florence Most haf, supervisor. Th exhibit fea ture th level and growth of pen manship In the Mcdfdrd schools. In a recent aurvey. It waa found that 70 percent of sixth grade pupil grad uating from the elementary schools, have won their eighth grade Rice penmanship certificate and write with eighth grade ability before they enter Junior high. Of those sixth grade pupil who have been In Med ford schools for three yeara or more, 77 percent have won their eighth grade certificates. Many Win Certificates. Of the 6A'a who have been In Med ford school two yeara. 67 percent have their eighth grade certificate, and of thoss who have been in Med ford one year, 40 percent have their certificates. The Rice system of pen manship which wa recently Adopted a th writing yatem of the state, ha been in use In Medford for th paat ten yeara. All adult are cor dially Invited to try their skill In the Contest to determine Medford' best dult writer. A prise will be given the winner. . On of th new department ex hibiting outstanding work I the lei sure art course In the elementary school. In this course, pupils are given Instruction In such arte a ba ketry, pottery, coping hw construc tion, knitting, weaving, toymaklng, raffia work and the like, in order to earn time to pursue- these interesting hobbles, pupils sre encouraged to concentrate on their work end get It done promptly wltb little time wast as possible. In soma skill subjects a spelling and penmanship, where th object ts training the pupil to a high decree of automatic skill, the pupil is al lowed to work ahead, and If he can pas a pretest before regular class Instruction with a high a grade a he would be expected to mka st th end of regular class work f )r the period, he I excused from fur ther work In th ubjct for th peri od. He may than use the time so Rsln.d for ny of the arts and craft that ha msy be Interested In. The purpose of the course in activities I to provide Intra motivation (or MM House IPETITION GAINS TO FOKIION Move Relieves Rules Com mittee of Further Action; May 23 Earliest for Con:. sideration; Passage Seen WASHINGTON, May . (AP) Houae members completed a petition today to force house consideration of the revised wsgo-hour bill. The 318th signature wa affixed leas than three hours after the peti tion waa filed. Representative Mouton (D., La.) was the 318Ut signer. Signatures of 'a majority of the 435 members of th bouse are ncoss ssry to petitions discharging house committees from consideration of bills. Completion of the wage-hour peti tion rellevea the rules committee from further aatlon on the measure, and has tha effect of bringing the revised wage-hour bill to the house floor for consideration this month. A moment before Mouton signed, the 4en tire Louisiana delegation marched into the well In a body to sign. Under the rules, th earliest data at which the house can consider the legislation la May as and proponent I declared passage of the bill waa "certain." ' Shortly after the aoothvnama waa signed; Majority Leader Rayburn of Texas advanced to the well and af fixed his name. Thla apparently wa a signal for a last-minute rush and members of the Louisiana delegation came forward. The signing progressed during . a desultory debate on the $476,000,000 federal aid highway appropriation for 1840 and 1841. A dozen time th hous virtually suspended It work because of the signing activity, 1 NAMED FOR CITY Selection of polling place for 11 Medford precinct, In the My 30 primary was completed today by tti sheriff's office. They are: North Main. Holland Hotel. . South Main, 134 South Ivy. North Central, city hall.. South Central, Jackson hotel. North Riverside, Lincoln school. South Riverside, Parker's Chip House. North, Camp Wlthus. Onkdal. Senior high school. Newtown, Courthouse (basement floor). King. 811 West 11th (porncrooa borne). Northeast. Woods Lumber company. Cottage. Boy Scout h'dq'trs. Southeast. German Lutheran ch. Queen Ann. Roosevelt school. Esst. Hermsn Powell resldene. Southwest. Washington school. South, 1215 West Tenth. West, 137 North Oakdal. Kenwood, 33 Rose. Northwest, Jackson school. ' Haven, Junior high chool. MEDFORD CORPORATION PRESIDENT VISITS CITY H. P. Chney. president of th Medford Corporation (Owen-Oregon Lumber company) has been In th city the past two day inspecting the sawmill, and holdings of the con cern, and conferring with Jam If, Owen, general manager. work of th regular class, to de velop concentration and good habit of work. Instead of dawdling. well to stimulate Interest In th crafts sa means of occupying leisure tlm. Band Concert Tonight. An outstanding feature of th All- School Fair, for this evening, will be th iDDearanee of th Medford high school championship band in a short concert which will begin at 7:80 In th high school gymnasium. Thl band, which has been developed under the leadership of Wilson Walt, recent ly won the state championship for band of It class. In th contest held last month at CorvaUl. Several member of thl band won individual a ward a: Wayne Keeeee on the tuba; Ted Marshsll. cornet; Burton Isaacs on th drum: Wllraa Fleming on th saxophone. Four out of five of those Medford pupil who tried out won first award. Th bead, a itat champion, will compete In th con test to ba held In Seattle. If fund can b secured to end them to th northwest oont.
