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The Weather Forecast: Rain tonight and Friday, moderate temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday M Lowest thli niprnlnj 38 Precipitation To 5 p. m. yesterday .15 To 5 a. m. today Cash in a Hurry When you have no nit thing to sell and "need rash in a hurry" Just run an Ad In the rhuslfled rnlumns of this newspaper. You will be delighted wtlh re Milla. It surely pays to adver tise. MEDFORD Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940. No. 245. 111 WEB ENMRff ((SE mm Washington, D. C, Jan. 4. Anticipating the charge (sup ported by statistics) that Ore gon's McNary will make to the effect that the reciprocal trade treaties have caused losses to agriculture and other Pacific Northwest products, Secretary of State Cordell Hull inquires what farmer was hurt by the rubber brought in, the coffee. the raw silk, bananas, cocoa beans, carpet wool and tea? The secretary studiously avoided mentioning canned beef, fruits and vegetables also brought in under his treaties, or shingles or lumber. As heretofore stated, the trade treaties will be a major issue in the current congress sionai session. Few regions of the United States are more di rectly affected than the Pacific Northwest. The issue cuts across party lines and there is disagreement among top-flight new dealers as to the advan tages of the agreements. REPUBLICAN leaders Mc Nary and Joe Martin (in the house), and practically all congressmen of that political belief, will oppose extending the trade agreement act, which expires in June. However, some of the fat boys who have been important contributors to. the Republican war chest favor these treaties, for they are in the heavy industries which ben efit. (One of the heaviest con tributors is personally attempt ing to call off Republican oppo sition). Col. Frank Knox, Re publican nominee for vice pres ident in 1938, is on record for what amounts to free trade with the Latin American republics, tills being the essence of the agreements Secretary Hull has made already and is now ne gotiating with Chili and Ar gentina. Secretary Hull talks of South American bananas and coffee, but is mum on apples, pears, onions, etc. Col. Knox comes from a state more industrial than agricultural, as do the big contributors to the Republican campaign fund. JANUARY 16 the agricultural " advisory council of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace will show how Britain and France (Continued on Pags six.) T LISTED IN BUDGET Washington, Jan. 4. (IP) Budget estimates submitted to congress today contained re quests for $375,000 for pay ments to Oregon counties for Oregon and California land grant funds. The amount is the same as last year. Other estimates included $25, 000 for payments to counties from the Coos Bay wagon road grant fund. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bob Bryant triumphantly de claring no one could spy on him in a certain room because the door had no key-hole. Dick Wright finding it neces sary to pedal his bicycle down hill, so cyclonic was the wind that blew in his face. Georgie Patterson exploding the theory that chivalry died some time ago by helping a maiden in distress through the torrent of rain yesterday. Greeta Humphrey advising a friend that the reason there were no "don't walk on the grass" signs in her former home years town of Butte, Montana, was;vear! that there was no grass. Drastic Cuts Urged In Farm, Relief and Public Work Outlay Washington, Jan. 4. (IP) President Roosevelt urged con gress today to slash farm, relief and public work spending in a budget message asking 5460,000.000 of special defense taxes and proposing one of the smallest deficits in a decade. If all his recommendations are followed, he forecast a net deficit for the fiscal year be ginning July 1 of $1,716,000, 000, compared with an esti mated $3,933,000,000 for the current year. No Defense Cut Cutting nearly everything in the budget except defense funds, the president estimated expenditures for the next fiscal year at $8,424,000,000, which he said would be $675,000,000 less than this year. Net receipts from existing taxes, not count ing social security levies, would increase $382,000,000 to $5,548. 000,000 because of better busi ness. Mr. Roosevelt bluntly told the legislators intent on making election-year records that "those who call for further cuts should have the courage and honesty to specify where they should be made." For himself, he said, he was satisfied that no lower figures could be attained without im pairing the administration of laws or working "undue hard ships on individuals and eco nomic groups." "I refuse to accept the re- sponsibility of adopting either alternative, he added. Gradual Tapering The message, read to the sen ate and the house by clerks, said that the government was "prepared to move forward on reduced rations." It proposed "a gradual tapering off, rather than an abrupt cessation of the deficit" lest, Mr. Roosevelt said, there be a "too drastic or too sudden curtailment" of support afforded the national economy by government spending. The president shaved things so close that, on the basis of his figures, the federal debt on June 30, 1941, would be $61,000,000 short of the $45,000,000,000 maximum authorized by law. This would permit congress to defer until next year the con troversial issue of whether that maximum should be increased. Dramatizing proposed expen ditures into approximate sub divisions which he said "any layman can understand," Mr. Roosevelt gave this picture of where the treasury's money is going: (Continued on Page Five.) E- TRAGEDJP TICKS Butte, Mont., Jan. 4. (U.B A fourth disease "nine mile fever" has been traced to ticks and the infectious agent iso lated at the U. S. public health service laboratory at Hamilton, Mont., Dr. H. R. Cox, labora tory bacteriologist, revealed to night. Three years of research were required before the disease was traced definitely to the tick, Cox said. The infectious agent was classified as rickettsia dia porcia, in honor of Dr. Howard T. Ricketts, one of the first scientists to investigate tick bite fever. Ickes Blames In Administrative Sabotage Washington, Jan. 4. UP) Secretary Ickes, saying he dis charged John W. Finch as director of the bureau of mines be cause Finch lacked "iron in his veins," charged today that "cliques" born of the civil service system sabotaged the work of administrative officers. "When man comes in as the head of a department some of the old, entrenched civil ser vice employes frequently take the attitude that all they have to do is dig in and wait," Ickes told his press conference. "They adopt the attitude that they are here now, will always be here, and that the department head may last two years, four or at the most eight ' "With this in mind, if the BREAK OUT OVER iL By D. Harold Oliver. Washington, Jan. 4. (IP) Amid general congressional ap plause for President Roosevelt's pleas for peace and economy, sharp disputes broke out today over his recommendations for special defense taxes and con tinuance of the reciprocal trade program. Party leaders scanned the chief executive's annual mes sage for issues to be fought out in the coming presidential cam paign. Democrats were warm in their praise of the tone of the address, especially its re-declaration that the United States must stay out of war while trying to promote peace. Many Republicans joined in lauding this statement, although some termed the entire discussion of foreign and domestic . policies too indefinite. There was bi-partisan acclaim, too, for the promise of retrench ment, but Mr. Roosevelt smil ingly retorted to the cheers at yesterday's joint session that "you can't eat your cake and have it too." In the next breath he talked of higher taxation. Just as both parties are split over extending the reciprocal trade program beyond next June 12, so are they divided over the President's advocacy of sufficient additional taxes to pay for emergency defense spending. One or two congress men privately predicted that no special tax would be passed at this session, J. H. FULLER DIES IN ASHLAND Ashland, Jan. 4. (IP) Mrs. John H. Fuller, wife of Ash land's postmaster, died this morning in her home at 150 North Main street. She had been ill for more than a year. Funeral service will be held in the Methodist church at 2 p.m. Saturday, the Rev. Melville T. Wire, pastor officiating. Pupils Escape As Fire Takes School Providence, R. I., Jan. 4. (IP) Fire forced several hundred pupils to leave the Point street grammar school here today. The upper floors of the structure were quickly consumed by the flames. All 400 pupils escaped, some by fire escapes from the third floor. They were forced to flee without overcoats into the frigid winter atmosphere. Civil Service man wants to sabotage he has a better opportunity if he is un der the civil service." Ickes hastened to say that he favored more civil service (the merit system) in government that he considered it the lesser of two evils in directing federal employes, "But," he added, "government must be alert against the small cliques which show resistance I ready to try to run the British ; had been delayed pending con to order from their temporary 1 blockade to reach a German; firmatlon the Golden Gate ex superiors." ipor I position would re-open. HEAVY SLASH IN RELIEF SPENDING ROOSEVELT IDEA Continued Expansion of Bus iness Relied on to Increase Private Employment. Washington, Jan. 4. (?) Relying on a "continued expan sion of business" to increase em ployment, President Roosevelt proposed in his budget message today an expenditure of $1 300,000,000 for relief during the year beginning July 1. That sum, $500,000,000 under the estimated expenditures for the current fiscal year, repre sents what the president des cribed as "a large perhaps too large reduction." He left the way open to re vise his estimates and ask for more funds later if business fails to improve according to his ex pectations. Putting out relief cash at a rate of $1,300,000,000 in the year beginning next July 1 would mean: A slash in WPA employment from an average of 1,850,000 in dividuals this year to an aver age of 1,350,000 next year. Cutting down employment by the National Youth Administra tion from 706,000 to 600,000. Lowering the monthly aver age enrollment in the CCC from 295,000 to 230,000. Operating the Farm Security Administration at about SO per cent of the 1940 level. The Public Works program, linked closely with the relief agencies in supplying jobs for the needy, likewise felt the presidential pruning knife. Mr. Roosevelt said the admin, istration expected to spend $1,' 100,000,000 on public works in the year starting next July 1, a reduction of about $300,000,000. General works, such as con. struction of dams, improvement of rivers and harbors, and erec tion of federal buildings, he said, would take $641,281,300. This means virtually no new pro jects. The Public Works Adminis tration, once a multi-billion dol lar agency, will be down to $122,750,000. It has been in a process of liquidation for some time. OF MT. LASSEN FOR MISSING SICK BOY Redding, Cal., Jan. 4. (IP) A sick, lost boy, Billy Coleman, 14, who vanished New Years day into the vast wilderness at the foot of Mount Lassen, was hunted by 400 men today. They drained a creek yester day in a futile search for his body. The only clues were provided by the discovery near the creek of part of the boy s clothing and by tangled tracks partly washed out by rain. Sheriff -W. W. Sublett said there was a possibility the boy still was alive, but expressed doubt he could survive another winter night. The search has been under way since Tuesday near the hamlet of Viola, 40 miles east of Redding. It is an area of dense forests, prowled by cou- gars and coyotes, and swept by icy winds and occasional snow flurries from 10,000-foot Mount Lassen, American's only active volcano. Young Coleman, still weak from a recent influenza attack went there for a holiday with his mother, Mrs. Patrick Colo man, and a group of friends from Redding. His mother saw him last at about 4 p. m. New Year's day, playing under th trees nearby. Guayaquil, Ecuador, Jan. 4 IIP) Two German freighters the 615-ton Quito and the 613 ton Bogota, sailed from this port at midnight and were reported F.D.R. NOMINATES;! TO SEAT Jackson to be Attorney Gen eral Biddle Nominated As Solicitor General. Washington, Jan. 4. (IP) President Roosevelt nominated Attorney-General Frank Murphy today to be an associate justice of the supreme court and So licitor General Robert H. Jack son to succeed him as head of the justice department. The President also sent to the senate the nomination of Judge Francis Biddle of the third circuit court of appeals to be solicitor-general. The 46-year-old Murphy, who had said he thought others were much better qualified than he for a seat on the high court bench, has been attorney-general since January 2, 1939. Was Michigan Governor. Formerly he was high com missioner to the Philippines and he headed the anti-trust divi sion prior to moving up to the job of solicitor-general when Stanley Reed went to the su preme court. Biddle, a Pennsylvanian, once was chairman of the national labor relations board and last year served as counsel for the congressional committee which investigated the Tennessee Val ley authority." '-, The vacancy on the supreme court, which Murphy will fill if the senate confirms him, was created by the death, November 16, of Associate Justice Pierce Butler. Fifth Appointment. The appointment was Presi dent Roosevelt's fifth to the nine-man tribunal. Thus the chief executive has personally picked a majority of the mem bers. Although Murphy was named to succeed Butler, regarded by the administration as a "con- (Continued on Page fhree ) VOTE ON ASPIRANTS FOR GOLD HILL P. M. Executive committee of the Jackson county Democratic central committee has en dorsed Harry D. Force for appointment as postmaster of Gold Hill, .it was announced late this afternoon by Ward Spats, county chairman. En dorsement is considered tanta mount to appointment. Members of the executive committee of the Jackson coun ty Democratic central commit tee were being polled today in an effort to procure an endorse ment of one of the two ellglbles for the postmastership of Gold Hill. Only two In the race for the postmastership now are Harry D. Force, the incumbent, and Justice of the Peace John Chis holm. They were the only two of ten applicants to qualify for the position in a civil service examination, Mr. Force being rated the higher of the two. In addition Mr. Force is a World war veteran and these two fac tors have given him an edge op Mr. Chisholm, political observ-1. ers pointed out. In Mr. Force's favor, too, Is his endorsement by Gold Hill's precinct committeeman, W. H. rerguson, and committeewoman, Mrs. Millie Walker. It is under stood their endorsement will have great weight with the exe cutive committee. To Keep Exhibits Olympla, Wash., Jan. 4. (U.R) Washington state exhibits at the New York and San Fran cisco world fairs will remain in tact for 1940 re-openings, the state progress commission an nounced today. Final decision 'on the San Francisco exhibit Ready to Open Congress Speaker William Bankhead (D Ala.) of the house of rep resentatives, mounted the speaker's rostrum at Washington. D. C, and gave his desk a few smart taps with his gavel In practice for the opening of congress yesterday when President Roosevelt delivered his annual message before a joint session. TARGET FOR EGGS New Orleans, Jan. 4. (IP) The mystery of who threw the eggs at Governor Earl K. Long of Louisiana was among the problems of the day before Po lice Chief John Fletcher of Kap lan, La. Fletcher said three eggs were tossed while the chief execu tive, a candidate to succeed himself in the Democratic pri mary January 16, was speaking in Kaplan last Sunday. One, according to reports, found its mark. The police chief and a state patrolman questioned a barber six hours yesterday, then re leased him upon his protesta tions of innocence. The governor was the second politician of statewide note to become the target of eggs in re cent years. The other was his brother, the late Senator Hucy P. Long. Wins Long Shot Portland, Jan. 4.- U.P It was a 300,000-to-l chance but it came home. That was the re port today of Bend Dick of Gladstone, whose 1940 license plates were identical to those he drew last year. His number is 214-987. Goering Takes Dictatorship Over German War Industry By Louis P. Lochner. Berlin, Jan. 4. (IP) Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering has decided to take the supreme direction of the entire war Industry- into his own hands, it was announced to day. , The avowed purpose is to bring about the greatest con centration and unification of everything that concerns Ger many's economic policy during the war. Goering, No. 2 nazl, thus be comes the "supereme war-economic authority." All chief offices of the na tion having to do with war economic policy are united in a general council under Gocr Ing's presidency. By this measure, it was stat ed, the "absolutely essential co operation is to be Insured'." Georing's right hand man, States Secretary Paul Koerner of the Prussian state ministry has been appointed his deputy Writing in "the four-year plan," Koerner points out thatch war lasts a long tun. i'"" P 1 K'l IS Cyrenlus Combest has been named county dog catcher by the county dog control board, and is now in the field admon ishing dog owners to buy their annual dog licenses. Combest is hired on a yearly basis, and will operate every month of the year, and cover the entire county. Licenses are now puchasable at the county clerk's office, at a cost of $1 for male dogs and $1.50 for female dogs. On March 2 next, the $1 penalty will be In force. , For several years, the num ber of licenses issued has hov ered around 3,000, but It is fig ured there are between 1,000 and 1,500 unlicensed dogs. It is planned to put these on the license rolls this year. Several citizens are known to own from eight to 14 dogs. Licenses for all would represent quite an outlay In cash, and attention will be paid to this portion cf the dog population. Dog license fees are used to pay for sheep killed by dogs, and a portion turned over to the cities, as their share. Rome, Jan. 4. (IP) Eleven persons were reported today to have been killed in a landslide near Udinc, northeastern Italy, transition of the highly devel oped German economy from peace to war was accomplished without friction. , To, meet the British blockade' by superior moves on the chessboard of war, German economic policy must be adapted to new possl bllities. Koerner wrote. Three pre-conditions must be fulfilled, Koerner held "First, clear authority to give orders and the most rigid auth ority for the direction of the entire war economy, "Second, closest cooperation of all offices having to do with questions of war economy. "Third, discipline and under standing cooperation by the en tire people." Koerner said Goering would utilize existing ministries as well as tried and trusted insti tutions of the four-year plan for economic self-sufficiency. Under the scheme envisaged, Germany according to Koerner, will be able to meet fully all economic tasks arising even in the event E CRATER LAKE IN President Includes $92,040 For Year Begining July 1 Leavitt Gratified. Washington, Jan. 4. (Spl.V President Roosevelt's budget carries $92,040 for Crater Lake national park for the fiscal year beginning July 1. This compares with $85,000 for the previous fiscal year. E. P. Leavitt, superintendent of Crater Lake national park, declared this afternoon when in formed of the foregoing dispatch that the increased budget for the park was "gratifying, espec ially in view ot the president s determination to reduce appro priations," Mr. Leavitt attributed the in crease to the greater use that is being made of the park. He pointed out that until a few years ago the park was closed for the winter whereas now it is being maintained for year- around use. Such all-year use, he emphasized, Increases costs of operation In all phases of service. "Congress is always slow In recognizing changing conditions and so it is necessary to prove that conditions have changed before any action can be pro cured," Mr. Leavitt said. "In our-case, we had to prove that a ( greater use of the park had developed, that we could keep it open throughout the year and that it would be used in th winter If It was kept open. "I am glad to know we are getting a little more money. I hope it is for operation and not for equipment. Appropriations for equipment are not recurring items." Mr. Leavitt Indicated the in crease was needed to keep th park in operation all year around, pointing out that In th past there has been no financial provision for keeping the park open In the winter. TRIP FROM GERMANY Folkestone, Eng., Jan. 4. (IP) Haggard and travel-weary in contrast to her once-buoyant, statuesque beauty, Unity Val kyrie Freeman -Mitford, friend of Adolf Hitler, today reached the home ot her father after a stretcher journey from Germany The blonde 2 5-y ear-old daugh ter of s British peer arrived at the family country place at High Wycombe, about 20 miles from London, in an ambulance from Folkestone, a channel port where she landed yesterday. She was described by her father as "very ill," but th exact nature of her ailment still was a mystery. "My daughter is rapidly get ting better but she has been desperately ill," said Lord Redesdale. "She is quit worn out. poor thing." She was reported by the Brit ih press to have suffered a gunshot wound in Munich five days before the outbreak of th war. CALL TROOPS TO Meadville, Miss., Jan. 4. (IP) Governor Hugh White order ed out a detachment of national guardsmen here today after a posse reportedly had shot and surrounded a negro wanted to the slaying of one whit man and the wounding of two others. Deputy Sheriff Graham Hearing, asked If the guards men had been summoned to prevent lynching of th negro surrounded by a poss of 75 men In the underbrush one ndl Q9TU &SXVUlti wpUwli
