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Horses Due for Discard
WASHINGTON, Dec. (AP)- A
new streamlined Infantry regiment,
mailer but far more mobile and
harder hitting than either its world
ir&r counterpart or th regiment of
today, has received war department
approval.
Moving by motor truck and armed
with semi-automatic rifles, It la In
tended to become a major unit In the
high epeed army on wheels which la
being developed to keep pace witn
post-war trends.
While officials made publlo details
of these plans today. Secretary Wood
ring reported to President Roosevelt
national defense requirements may
hasten construction of a third and
possibly larger set of locks for the
Panama canal.
His report followed closely his rec
ommendation to Mr. Roosevelt that
the canal be made "Impregnable."
Ready by 1060
Current surveys, which will be
speeded up, contemplate new facili
ties costing $150,000,000 or more, U
be ready about 1960. Begun In 1936.
the surveys were ordered by congress
to meet expected Increased demands
from merchant craft and warships of
larger size and from a greater flow
of traffic.
Officials who told of the new In
fantry plans said three of the new
regiments will undergo field testa for
a year in Texas as a part of a pro
jected smaller infantry division.
At full war strength, the new unit
has but 2,411 officers and men, con
trasted with the world war's 3,742
and the present 3,009.
Whereas the 1917-18 regiment was
armed with 3.200 Springfield, single
shot rifles, and the existing regiment
has 1,852 such weapons, the new or
ganization will have 1,492 semi
automatic rifles, giving triple fire
power. It also wilt have heavier and
more numerous machine guns and
auxiliary weapons.
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marked for eventual complete dis
card. The world war regiment bad
369 animals while the present full-
strength outfit ha 457, The new
unit will depend on 141 more vehicles
of various types for movement of
men and material.
Squads have been Increased from
eight to twelve men. Until the
Oar and semi - automatic shoulder
rifles are ready in greater quantities,
each squad will have a browning ma
chine gun. The army now baa only
about 6,000 of the new seml-automa-
tlcs, although production has been
speeded up. They fire eight shots
without reloading.
The reorganization, officials said,
was the result of years of study and
test, and was in line with recom
mendations of numerous experts. In
cluding Gen. Malin Craig, chief of
staff, and Ma J. Gen, George A. Lynch,
chief of infantry.
Fighting in Spain and China, Gen
eral Craig said in his annual report,
conflrma "the testimony of history
tnat the infantry la the core and the
essential substance of an army."
UNCLE SAM SEEN
DUE TO QUIT ROLE
OF SANTA CLAUS
BALTIMORE, Dec. 3. ( AP) A
warning U. 8. cities must soon ex-
pect to see "Uncle Sam lay down
the role of promiscuous Santa Claus
to local governments,' was sounded
today before the National Municipal !
league.
Thomas H. Reed, former University
of Michigan professor and consultant
on governmental problems, coupled
hla warning with criticism of the
new deal for Its tendency "to pau
perize local governments and make
them dependent."
'For several years now, the goose
has hung high in Washington and
local government officials have worn
out the highways and rails going
after their respective slices." asserted
Reed, who also Is director of studies
for the Republican party program
committee.
End In Sight
"The end of national extravagance
. Is sufficiently imminent for
planners to begin to take thought
of what is going to be done when
cities and other units have to live
strictly within their own resources
again.
"The habit of being helped has
been growing on local government.
Can It shake It off? Or will It sit
down and cry for Santa Claus and
hla bag-full of projects?"
Communities with large dealings
through WPA will be hardest-hit
when federal lendlng-spendlng pro
grams halt. Heed predicted. Thou
sands of communities, he asserted
must "cinch up their belts" when the
WPA no longer seeks "common labor"
projects.
Punished In Writing
OTTAWA (UP) Roger Sarault,
16, probably will not ride his bicycle
on the city sidewalks any more. He
was brought into court on charges of
riding his bicycle on the sidewalk In
the Eastvlew section of the city.
Magistrate Lester Clayton punished
him by making him write "I must not
ride my bicycle on the sidewalka"
1000 times.
Cakes of salt were once used for
money In Ethiopia and Tibet.
JURY 15 SELECTED
TO TRY SUSPECTS
IN BASSETT CRIME
Eight Men and Four Women
Sworn in Death Penalty
Will Be Asked for Woman
and Man Claimed Son
SEATTLE. Deo. J (AP) A Jury of
eight men and four women was sworn
today altar counsel examined a venire
of 93 to hear the 10-year-old first de
gree murder case against Decaato Earl
Mayer, 44, and Mr. Mary Eneanor
Smith. 1.
They are accused of butchering
James Eugene Bassett, 35. Annapolis.
Md., Sept. 8, 1938. to get possession
of his blue roadster. He disappeared
while negotiating Its sale. His body
was never found.
Judge Chester A. Batchelor order
ed selection of two alternate Jurors
to prevent mistrial by Illness or dis
qualification of any of the twelve.
Prosecutor B. Gray Warner said be
would ask the death penalty for the
bespectacled old woman and the
gaunt baldlsh habitual criminal rhe
said Is her son. Warner said the atata
does not concede the blood relation
ship. SEATTLE. Dec. 3. (AP) A one
time socialite with a colorful Inter
national background, who will play
a big part in the current James Eu
gene Bassett slaying trial, talked
about everything but the trial today.
She is Mrs. Margaret Helen Tooraey
Teal Paddleford Robertson Pawcett.
by her own admission and recollec
tion. Her attorney. Roy Bullack.
ordered her not to talk of the mur
der case.
But she did reveal a colorful career
which, now. at. the age of 85, finds
her serving a prison term at the state
penitentiary at Walla Walla for de
frauding a Seattle dress shop, with
about five years still to serve.
Two Desires
She has two desires. One la to ob
tain permission of county Jail au
thorities to have her pet red Pekinese
dog, Ming Toy, In her cell. The dog.
she said, cost $400 and was obtained
from Barbara Hutton Haugwtta von
Reventlow, the Woolworth heiress.
With ra'.'b a tony bockground, Mrs.
Pawoett said she did not feel she
could entrust Ming Toy's care to cal
loused county Jail officers.
Her other desire Is to obtain her
freedom In return for her efforts In
persuading Mrs. Mary Eleanor Smith
to confess Dec as to Earl Mayer and
Mrs. smith killed and dismembered
Bassett here ten years ago.
By her own story, Mrs. Pawcett
was born in Kansas City, Mo., the
daughter of A. McKinney, life Insur
ance executive. She said she waa
married first In St. Paul, Minn., in
1904 to William Charley Toomey. fin
ancial secretary to James J. Hill of
railroad fame, and often traveled
with her husband about the country
in Hill's private railroad car.
Weds Prodqcer
She said Toomey died in 1906 and
the next year. In Boston, she married
Ben Teal, whom she described as a
New York and London theatrical pro
ducer. By htm. she said, ahe had
three children, whom ahe named a
prominent In Rome, London, the
Riviera and Argentina.
She said Teal died In 1917 and the
next year she married George E. Pad
dleford, now of Honolulu, a petro
leum company executive She said
Fhe received a million dollar settle
ment at their divorce In 1933, but
litigation followed.,
Two years later, In Cairo, Egypt,
she said she married Howells E. Rob
ertson, vice-president of an English
tobacco company. A month later he
died In a motor accident between j
Calr ond Alexandria. 1
In 1931 at Nassau In the Bahamas,
she married John C. Pawcett, vice-
j president of a Brooklyn, N.T., dental j
manufacturing firm, and hrotner oi
a New York supreme court Judge, the
said. She left him and went , to
Europe shortly after their marriage, ,
but she la still his wife, aha declared.
(Newspaper flies record Pawcett'e
announced eforts to obtain an annul
ment.) Confidence Woman
Later ahe served a sentence at Sen
Quentln prison and articles referred
to her as a "clever confidence wo
man.' This ahe dented. '
'The only occasions on which I
have' been sentenced to prison were
when a technicality on a bank over
draft caused by San Quentln incar
ceration about eight years ago, and
my present term."
(Tehachapi prison record ahow she
was received at San Quentln prison
April 11, 1939, on fictitious check
charges.)
Nevertheless. It was as a 'confi
dence woman" of another sort that
she won the confidence of Mrs. Smith
In prison and finally eked out the
confession.
"My heart went out to Mr. Bs
Aftt (mother of the alaln man) and
her family and I thought that what I
was about to do was the only thing
to do," Mrs. Pawcett said.
She was imprisoned largely because
of her tag. Seattle police circulars
told of a woman traveling with a red
Pekinese and Mrs. Pawcett was ar
rested at Pueblo, Colo., with the ani
mal. But she bears no malice toward
the pet. In prison ahe kept it In nor
cell and fed it milk from a medicine
dropper and now she does the same
whenever county Jail authorities per
mit her to be with It.
C.T.
AT
"Are prewnt dT profrewlre teach
er preparing their pupil, to uc
eeaefuilj uae matbematlca Is modern
business." Is a question which C. T.
Steward, former mtthematlcs teacher
In Medford high school and at pre,-
ent a successful business man In
Medford, will answer when he speaks
to the Jackson county upper grade
teachers' council at 11:15 a. m. Sat
urday In the county court houso
auditorium.
Mr. Steward will point out the
weaknesses and deficiencies of pres
ent mathematics courses and teach
ing techniques, and will suggest
practical and constructive remedies
In thla field of teaching.
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(Continued Uuui Page One.)
inventory at the C. D. Johnson Lum
ber corporation when tops of lumber
piles were stripped off. forcing work
era to shelter.
Trees Uprooted
At Marshfield, trees were falling,
but no serious damage was reported.
Trains ran on time, although com
munications lines were down part
of the morning. Three shins and the
coast guard cutter Pulaski stood by
outside the entrance to Coos Bay,
unable to cross In.
Wind and rain lashed Port Or
ford, In a more exposed condition
on the coast highway south of
Marshfield. Travel was reported get
ting through toward California, how
ever. A terrific lightning storm crackl
ing over Tillamook last night killed
a calf, lamed another and shattered
the windows of the home of H. E,
Brenneman. Approximately 1.76 Inches
of rain felL
More than an inch of rain fell
on Portland during the night and
morning, wind velocity reached 30
miles at 6 a. m.
Storm warning flew along the en
tire Oregon and Washington coasts
SLAYERS OF WARDEN
FIRST EXECUTED
SAN QUENTIN, Cal.. Dec. 3. (AP)
California used the lethal gas
chamber for tho first time today
when Albert Kessell, 39, and Robert
L. Cannon, 30. died together for
slaying Warden Clarence Lark In In
a futile attempt to escape from Pol
som prison September 19, 1937.
Cannon was the first to be led
Into the little execution chamber and
Kessell was supported by guards.
Cannon smiled and appeared Inter
ested In his surroundings as he
watched the guards make the death
preparations.
Kcssel nodded grimly when Cannon
smiled at his partner In death and
said a few words.
It required about a minute and
a balf for guards to strap the two
convicts Into the chairs.
Ltttle white sacks of cyanide, be
neath the chairs, dropped Into sul
phuric acid when levers outside the
chamber were pulled, and white va
por started to rise.
Cannon shook his head and gasped
for breath, while Kessell'a head drop
ped down as If he were about to
sneeze.
Then Cannon threw hack his head
and looked- straight at the celling.
Within a minute, Kessell'a head
fell forward and his whole body
quivered, his head moved slowly from
side to side and finally stopped.
Neither man uttered a sound. Their
faces became pasty.
Dr. Leo L. Stanley, prison phy
si clan, pronounced them , dead IS
minutes after they entered the cell.
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One Southbound, One North
bound Flight Held Up by
Elements Deny Trou
ble On Flight Yesterday
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 3. (AV
Reporta of cancellations of all i nth
coast service were denied todaj by
United Air Lines officials wha also
said rumors that their Medford-Osk-land
airline was In trouble yesterday
afternoon were unfounded.
One southbound and one north
bound flight were cancelled today
because of the weather but officials
at Portland said the cancellations
were only for these two trips and
that other trips were on schedule
unless weather interfered.
Reports from Santa, Rosa, Medford
and Eureka that the soundbound
plsne whloh left Medford yesterday
at 4:10 p. m. was in trouble were
blamed by the airline on apparent
misunderstanding of airway terms by
amateur radio operators.
The plane veered from its normal
course and skirted a snowstorm only
to run Into squalls near Santa Rosa.
The pilot, following customary pro
cedure, asked that the Santa. Rosa
field be lighted in the event he I
should decide to land. However, he
did not find this necessary and con
tinued on to Sacramento without
further Incident.
While United attributed the serv
ice cancellations to the weather,
postoffice men said It was unusual
to cancel trips so far In advance as
was done this time. All northbound
and southbound trips were cancelled
up to southbound trip 6 due from
Portland late tonight, following the
lending of yesterdny afternoon's ship j
at Sacramento. There waa no def
inite word available here thla after
noon on tonight's plane.
It waa reported on good authority j
that the civil aeronautics authority
began a check of the ranges In
northern California after yesterday
afternocn's plane landed In Sacra
mento 35 minutes late. The ranges
are checked periodically but special
significance was placed on the cur
rent check-up. Pilot of the Medford
Sacramento plane that crashed Into
the sea Tuesday morning said he
was unable to get his bearings be
cause several radio signals were com-
inO IOUU1UUUUU pimm jroicmaj
afternoon arrived at .Medford muni
cipal airport at 4:17 arid left at 4:31.
It arrived at Sacramento at 6:69.
25 minutes later than normal time
of two hours for the hop.
Max C. Henne, United manager
here, was the only paasengar who
boarded the ship at Medford. No
passengers got off here.
It was learned thla afternoon that
a United plane waa dispatched from I
Oakland late last night to check the j
course from Medford to Sacramento.
The plane circled over Medford
shortly after midnight and headed
back for Oakland. While no com
pany report was Issued on the flight,
it was understood the ship had no
difficulty staying on Its course.
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alleged "chorus-girl lobbying" of Wll-:
Ham P. Buckner, 81, dapper New York
financier whose rush to woo movie
tar Loretta Young bogged dowu un
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be arrived on the liner Queen Mary
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A tab showing Puckner had paid
the U. 6. government $7 50 for a
reversed telephone caU from Miss
Young in Hollywood, late last night,
lay on the desk of Asst. U. 8. Atty.
William P. Maloney as fedrral agents
questioned the youthful promoter.
Styling himself miss Young's
"very good friend" Buckner was re
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tones to the west coast screen atar.
Charles T. Murphy, chief attorney
for the Securities and Exchange com
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was questioned about a "beauty
lobby" in Washington. D. C, sn en
terprise which ran up a IS. 000 bill
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tain members of congress and others
were entertained with the aid of five
chorus girls from a New York night
club.
1
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WASHINGTON, Deo. 9. (AP) Dr.
Wlllard Thorp, department of com
merce economist, told the federal
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The economist did not immediate
ly specify the situations.
Thorp, on leave from a private
business position (with Dun and
Bradstreet), waa the second witness
to appear before the committee.
I sad or Lubtn, chief of the bureau
of labor statistics, proposed yesterday
redistribution of Income as the only
way of advancing America's standard
of living and thereby opening new
markets for industrial production.
Thorp said "Our failure to main
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standard of living Is certainly not
due to any lack of management abil
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such simple answer.
"The character of the economic
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Thorp declared. "Advances In tech
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Industries and destroy long estab
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