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Newspaper Page TextCol- 4,, Medfoid Mail Tribune The Weather Predirtlou Tulr Minimum yesterday lot Minima tu today ttl Weather Year Ago Mifxlimiiii .......'....95 Minimum ,....(11 Dillj TVrailnh Tur. WrrlXy rilty-lourtb Vm. MKOFOUD, Olil'XIOX, MONDAY. AlKiUST 10, 1 9l. NO. 120 CASE MYSTERY SUICIDE SOLVES ARSON i T BY 118 SELF Charles Henry Schwartz, Au thor of Perfect Crime, Trapped in Oakland Apart ' ment House, Shoots Himself Throuah Brain Leaves a Note in Effort to Clear Name . OAKLAND. Cul.. . Aug. 10. With Charles llcnry Schwartz deud by his own hand and hia "too perfect" crime plot in complete collapse, police today worked to establish legal proof of the identity of the insurance hoax victim as O.-.W. Barbe, wandering lay min ister of the -gospel. Having the positive assertions of thro persons that it la Barbce. who was . killed, authorities feel that the Identi fication is virtually certain, hut a few looso ends .remain to be gathered in the writing of the final chapter of the grim tragedy to disclose irrefutably the name of the murdered man. '. The end of tho mystery that puzzled authorities for nlno days came dra matically. Trapped In tho apartment in which he . had taken refuge the night of July 30 aftor sotting fire to the laboratory of the Pacific Cellulose company to coVBr - up his crime. Schwartz soht a bullet through his drain. He chose daath to capture unci utmost certain conviction for tho of fleers hud. reconstructed the 4uipn.cn--'iii hi 4he'lHhUid fmUfttlon'silk plant at Walnut Creek to accurately to leave him any hope.' , - x- Bo lt: waa . thut Avhon policemen knocked upoivhls door In an Oakland apartment house, they heard a muf fled shot and breaking In found him dying. Pulls In Death Note. ' An explanatory, note addressed to . the wife. Mrs. Schwartz, mild the fu gitive chemist had come to the point of saying good byo because he had killed a stranger who had asked him for work and attacked him when re fused. Hut the liiveHtigatorg branded this as a falsehood, written In tho face of death, the explanation of the occurrence made by, the man about to terminate his existence. They believe their proof is complete that Schwartz planned the killing for months t do fraud the insurance companies out of more than 100,000 which he carried In fsvor of Mrs. Hrhwnrtz and the Cellulose company, in which she was a heavy stockholder. His note, the police believe, was a dying effort to ' erae the Image of himself as a pre meditated murderer In, the minds of his wife end children, when his sui cide should reveal his pint to fake his own death in the Walnut Creek fire. K"('io Plan Katls . Through his scheming, fate worked sun I list the Berkolov chemist. who was vlc;o president and general ninnnger of tho ccllulosc company. The explo sion and fire which were to have wiped nut ovldonco of tho slaying of tho man lured to tho plant under promise of employment failed to ac complish Its purpose. Investigators learned, because thoniglit watchman Schwartz had sent on an errand re turned unexpectedly and extinguished tho blazo. Ills plan to escape that night fnllod when he missed a train on which he had a reservation for Bar stow, Cal. His hiding place In Oak land was revealod In a casual way, by another stroke- of fate; The apart- ment. houso proprietor attending a dinner party Saturday night becan suspicions of his tenant when shown a newspaper photograph of the mur der fugitive. After reflection, the din ner guest became certain ns to the Identity of his new tenant arid early next morning he notified , tho police. The houso wss quickly surrounded and the suicide followed.. Wife r'alntt Away Mrs. Sohwartx. who had consistently maintained that tho fharrod body found in the partly -wrecked labora tory was that of her husband, fainted when Informed that he had taken his CAUGH POLICE MAN SALEM CONVICT PROVES TO BE A IT DESK BALEM, Aug. . CHarles Swlft.i who claims to have been an assist ant to John B. Herreshoff In do- signing several American yachts that have competed successfully agalfreii Sir Thomas Upton's Bhamroekf yachts, 1s n Inmate of the Oregii state penitentiary. Thfc became known today when lie sent to ins uinuo Oovernor pierce a replica of one of j Says Prohibition Is Making Americans Race of Ping Pongers NEW YORK,' Aug. 10. (A. 1'.) Declaring thut tho lack of whiskey is bleeding a "raco of ping pong players," Nathan Dou- 4 chy, 91 years old, champion of rum and tobacco, has spoken his mind about what this world r is coming to. e Celebrating his birthday a few days ago with friends at Diuicn, Conn., ho attributed his 4 ago to, whiskey and smoking. S HEAT RECORD IN SALEM BROKEN; - MERCURY FAILS 60-Day Period Without Drop of Rain Sets New Record in . Valley Smoke and Haze Add to Discomfort, But Mer cury Starts Drop. SALEM, Aug. 10. Today marks tho cloae of a 60-day rainless period for Saloiii, the longest on record here since the summer of 1914. and stated to he the longest sustained hot spell In the history of tho city. Last Satur day, August 8, tho mercury ciiino just VtftA imlnt fv,m tlm Aiiirtiut muyininm. Saturday's- frfcrk iltffbg" T; esfanl iHlietH late in the afternoon, unu me record .for all time Cor August hero being 98. Yesterday's maximum whs 01, and with cloudy skies tills morning evnrv Indication was that today's high marlc would be still lower. The last rain at Salom to fall In sufficient quantities to ho measured occurred on .lune U. The. first heat prostration of the summer occurred i Saturday ntternoon. Mrs. Marry . Crain, wife of tho managing editor of the Capital Journal, was overcome while traveling to Portland bv auto mobile and had to he removed from the car and given medical attention at Foley's Cornors, five miles north of Salem. She was brought back to lior home hero Saturday evening. KUtiENIi, Aug. 10. Though smoke and a haze still hung over Eugene today, there was relief from the op pressive heat of tho past three days. Yesterday tho maximum temperature was 911 degrees, hut the atmosphere was sticky and dense. Today there are clouds to aid. and It Is much ooolcr, though there is some Indication that the sun may break through. This Is tho 58th day without ruin hero. VORTLANIJ, Aug. 10. (A. r.) Tho record for prolonged dry weather was broken today when Portland had Its 5Sth consecutive rainless day. The previous record was 67 days without rain In 1883. Kdward L.. Wells, government observer, said ho saw no Indications of rain for 24 hours, at least. Hlghor humidity and lower tempe rature Improved the. forest fire situ ation somewhat today. '. , Daily Report on the Crime Wave AUSTIN. Tex.. Aug. 10 An entire family ' of threo were found dead, apparently murdered, tho bodies' lying about the house at the home three miles east of Dolvalle. The dead nre 13. B. Engler, farmer: Mrs. Kngler, his wife, nnd Emma Kcglcr, 25, their adopted daughter. The victims apparently were killed Saturday night. A. neighbor dis covered the bodies which were brought to Austin Sunday night for examination by finger print experts. Authorities thus far are without clues regarding the deaths. the American yachts which he made at the prison almost entirely wltlf a jack knife. and a pin that tie used for drilling holes. Ha clalny to be a graduate of Harvard. Swift was received nl tho peniten tiary June 20. 1923, from Kl'imath couyy to serve two sentences' for forgery, one for three years and an- other fo one year. S20.000.000 CUT USA: EXPENSES IS AUTHORIZED SWAMI'HCOTT, Mass., Aug. 10. (A. P.) President CooliUge today approved a tentative budget for next year's appropriations, calling for a reduction of (20,000,000 over- this year. . ' Director Lord of the budget, pre sented the csllmutes which conic with the figuro directed by Mr. Cool Idgo In Ills address at tho last busi ness meeting of the government. Although the datu was not made public. It Is understood that the army and nuvy will bear a good portion of the cut In next yonr's appropria tions. Prosldcnt Coolidgo hus de clared he believed an adequate de fenso . could be maintained at less expense. ... The budget, which Is for $3.0X0. 000.000, Is only tentntivo and hear ings will bo held In tho fall before final figures vuro presented to con gress. On a basis of a surplus of $250, 000.000 in tho treasury on June 30 'and an estimated, surplus of $290, 000.000 for this fiscal year, Director Lord Informed the president that ho believes tax reductions amounting to at loast $300,000,000 would be war ranted. Whllo only $20 000,000 will lie saved In appropriations next year, government financial experts estl mato tho reduction In taxes will be offset by Increased roturns. Increased appropriations are ac-j counted for in tho new budget for some bureaus; Mr. Lord said, hut these will be offset by heavier slashes in the funds to be allowed other government departments. Just what portion the national de fense will carry In tho reductions and whore the cuts will be made In the military levies have not been dis closed. Wall Street Report NEW YOftK, Aug. 10. The closing was irregular. A renewed demand for k t.KII Illll... I ' mo iiuuiii, uiiiuittii, nuvurui 01 which 1 wliied out their earlier losses and moved substantially above last week's final quotations, featured the late trading. Independent strength also was shown by Chesapeake & Ohio, Pullman and New York Air Brake. Heavy selling of the motor and oil shares, based on unfavorable trade news, temporarily 1 unsettled today's stock market, which witnessed some rather violent and erratic fluctuations In the high priced Industrial Issues. Supporting orders eventually found their way Into the mnrkot and stoadind the general list which showed ngxed changes on the day. Total sales ap proximated 1,250.00) shares. oil City Water. Although the oity water Isjiot con taminated, as usual at this time of year, residents are advised to play safe and boll tha same. 21 FGREST FIDES HEBE, AID RUSHED Entire Force of Fire Fighters . Called Out to Prevent the Spread of Flames Morgan McNeil Sawmill Burns Sit uation Serious, But Is Not Alarming. . , Twenty one forest fires caused by lightning, 10 of which are III the Crater national forest and five on state tim ber land in Jackson county, worn re ported to the local forest service uffico during the past 48 hours. Tbe largest fire, which is near Nluinalia crook, six miles southeast of Prospect In the na tional forest, covers an urea of ap proximately 40 acres and Is still out of control. A 30-acre fire In thn Applegate country Is reported ns tho largest on state land and, according to late reports, is not yet undnr control. The majority of tho fires started Saturday night, at which tlini) elec trical storms were raging In tho mountain country. Many of the blazes were merely burning snags and woru quickly put under control, but others due to the low humidity spread rapidly to the surrounding timber nnd had covered several acres beforo I'iny fighters could be rushed to the scone. ileside tho N'linnaha creek fire In tho national forest, another of nearly the same area Is burning in a section known as Moon prairie, 10 miles north of Plnehurst on tbe Green Spring mountain. Twenty-five men under Korea! Hanger K. .1. Hodgors arc com batting this blnne, which Is bullnved to lie spreading Local forest service officials do not regard the remaining 14 fires, five of which a,re now under control, as being serious. Four of these blar.es are centered about Klsh lake, throe others are quite close to the Buzzard mine In the Trail district, whllo the other half Is scattered. According to P. M. Lnwd, district slate fire warden, the fire situation on state land is not extremely serious, as only one of the five fires Is of any size. However, reports have enmn to him ofa fire near llyboe springs In the Evans creek dlslct, which Is spreading end Is covering considerable acreage. He has sent several men to the scene. Two swell fires are burning on the valley slope of Oreon Spring moun tain and are nearly under control, while another Is burning near the (Continued on Page Eight) C P . ARANnnNt uiiiL nuniiuunu, CHANNEL SWIM 8 MILES AWAY1 HOUlXKiNK, Franco. Auk. 10- (A. p.) MIhh Ulliiin HarrlHui), thft Argent I no girl Hwlmmer u bun du tied hor : attempt to hwIiii Iho ISnullHli uhnnnnl ut 7:10 oVIock thlH ovoiilng when hIip was olglK in I Ion from Ciipo (iriH-Nrz., At r:2I oViink thl afternoon after more than noun in tho water Mlna HarriHoti wah wven inllca out from1 Cano ClriK-Ncz. Weather coniHtlona were fmprovlnff. 1 no rain had cou fl ed, the ea was calm and tho tide had turned, carrying tho swimmer northward ho that alio wan directly ahrniHt nf Capo (IrlH-Nez. The vIhI hllliy Hit II whh poor and tho swim mer could ho Hoen only Intermittently through tho haze. PRINK CALLISON WILL UNIVBUHITY ()!' OIIKIION. Mil- gene. Aug. II). Prince "I'llnk" Culll son, three-year letlorinun In football at Iho University of Oregon; rorolved his bachelor of business administra tion degree at tho termination of tho summer session this year. Calllson was athletic director and couch at M nil foul high school lust year and re turned this summer to finish his work (ur a degree. i Ho will coach at Meilford again I Ills year, hut plans on going to tlalirurnla next, year, ho says. Calllson played football on tho university teams dur ing the years Mill, I!I2I) and Death Toll of the Automobile Kt.'fiKNB, Aiir. -10 A. I'.) Kafh ryn fJeNcffn, 20. dauKhtnr of Mr. und MrH. C. K. LJe.Vefo of KuifRne, died at a local hoHpltal yenterduy morning following nn autotnoblln nccnVnl at JudkliiH Point, on Iho Pacific high way, JiiHt out of KuHenn, to the nouth. MIhh DcNef-c, lin' nlnler, Ituth, Dun KnrriH nnd Richard (Dick) Heed, for mer fouthn.il utar at Iho Ltnlvef-Hlty of Oregon, wore In the machine driven by Itned, which locked whrflM with another car at tho turn. The KoimI car overturpfd, crushing Minn Un iNcffo henoHth. Koun occupanot uf the other car and the trn othrr occu pant of the He id uufomohlla nua tain td only minor Injurlen. 1 MIhh DcNeffo wax n IJulvsrHlty of Oregon student and a. member of (Jam ma Phi Beta sorority. 928,882 Pints Hooch Used for Medicine California in Year LOS ANCEI.liS, Aug. ID. T (A. i) I'h.vslciuns presciip- tions fur (I2S.R8:! pints of whls- "r'key and brandy were Issued in California during the fiscal year ending .lima IK). Stnllstlcs to this effect, unacccnupanlod by any comment on tho ailments which gave liso to the proscrip- r tions, wore matin public today by Hex (ioodcoll. collector of Internal revenue. BY PHILIPPINES Dept. of Commerce Makes Re port On 18 Months' Survey of Crude Rubber Situation Soil and Climate Favorable to Rubber Cultivation. WAHII1NGTON, Aug. 10. (A. 1'.) 9The Philippine lulandH gave prom tau nf eventually bringing to the American rubber UHor a part of IiIh crude Hiipply. Tho commerce do partment In u ropurt toduy on un oxhHUHtlvo InvcHtlgatlon -of the po tential value of tho archlpelngo ti' crudo rubber cxpreKKOd tho opinion. (hat ju;ijfj tub 1 p i vo tl ii 1 10 ul. 1H pvtwiblo Tho.Vlreport, reprcHctitlhg in a n y nionuiH in muay,. nem mut, .unaer favorable chndltlouH an uniluiil mnx huum output of 70,000 - tuna could be produced In the Inland, In tho fluuihern portion of which jiuipi'oxl matoly l.flOO.imo iicrcH aru Huitablo for rubber ralHing. The 70,000 ton potential Philippine output would compare with an nn litial Import now of 3-10,000 tono by tho United HlatCH . The lack of poll tlcut dlsturbancoH and tho utiliza tion of tho prcHent available lubor forceH In the tahrhda wero KtrctiHed ub factm-H in rcaehlni? this OHtlmate. Tho rcpoiiH miikH the completion of anothor Htago in tho dopartmcnt'n world wide Hiirvey of tho rubber Hit-1 uatlon, utiirtcd 18 munthH agu at the In at unto of cougrcHH and tho rubber 1 1 ad oh. when It hecamn apparent that1 (he legalizod rcHtrlctlun of tho plan! tatloit rubber ouput In HiKIhIi po- ueHHlona might menace American i conHumera. In recent month high rubber price, feared by tho Amorl-I can Industry at the outHot of tho Hrltinh rcHtrlctlon program, havo' been realized. ' I ProvioiiH department ropurtn have dealt with tho ItritiHh program an now OBlabllHhed in that imtlon'H colo nies, whllo today's report wan de voted to a study of tho pOHHlblllty of creating competitive plantation urean In tho Philippines. Tho In vestigation Is being continued to study tho advisability of oxpundllig tho crude output of Bouth America, Africa and tho Caribbean area. Jn tho Philippines, tho survey dis closed conHldorahlo commercial rub ber planting now under way with sufficient plantations In cultivation to give a highly favornblo hono of, ih iuK7.i.i4. i. : " in-vuiiiiii( ti, II UW HUlirCiJ for tho rubber. Tho Para rubber tree, mainstay of the Atlantic plan tations, bus shown satisfactory pro gress In the more southern Islands. Hull and botimlciil experts of tho de partmont found that thn tilnni ihrn Is less troubled hv HiMm.Ui th.. i ' Iho plmitatlons of Mayalsla and on Iho Islands of Mindanao, Join and Kasilan, soil conditions are highly mitlsfailory m areas already charted. Imitortallon of somo Inbor and soino inodlfleailoii (Jf Philippine land legis lation were recommended to facili tate cummcrclul production. r . War Veteran Expires. POH'I'I.AVIi Atltr IAf A lit .. Iirt Wilkin, who shot himself on the night of August I, -lied Ht a hosnllnl n.irn cHny muay, In Hpltf) of blood transfusions last wook from two f0. low wsr vetnrans. CALIFORNIA TOWN IS BY BRAWLKV, Calif., Aug. 10 (A. P.) The little town of Kockwond, four mllw from here, was reported demol ished by. a cloudburst and two tor nadoos, which met over the little set tlement today. No casualties have been reported. The twisters and heavy downpour are said to have undermined the roads RUBBER SUPPLY MAM WED CINDERELLA WILL EIGH1 BENEFACTOR Mary Louise Spas ' Leaves Fairyland to Take Job in the Movies, Write Memoirs and Get Even With Foster Father 'Never Again!' 'Says Mr, Browning. ' :Y NKW YORK. Aug. 10 (A. ' P.) Mary Louise Spim'has ktcked uff her t'lndorella slippers and left Her mil lloiialro foster father, Kdward W. Itrowning. to make her own way In the world by writing her fairy story for a newspaper for $500 and prob ably acting It In the movies. She didn't even say good-bye last night. The clothes she wore wero those given her by Mr. Browning. She took them, she said, only because she had nothing else to wear. She left the GO frocks, strings of pearls.. and other articles ho bought in her recent shopping tour of Fifth avenue.'' . . "I spent $20,000 trying to make that girl my foster daughter," Mr. Brown ing said. "You have a hard time be ing honest In this world. . If you. are, . uomobody'a sure .to double cross you. . "I hat) confidence n her to the very last. ' If she had been 16 years old it would havo been different.1 But 21 Is too much. Her age defeats the sole nift'lKwe Cor- whleh T' udojHed jWty. Ui it oompanionror u-year-oia uor- v othy 'Huntihine BrawnliMf.. v.. i. "Will r, adopt another?"' Absolutely never. I um through, trying to do good for . people, Hhe Js the smartest actress in New York." ; , - . Mr. Browning.. In full sympathy with officers who had been Investi gating tho case, said that today . ho would seek to annul the Adoption on grounds of fraud, ho that Mary could havo no claim on his -fortune. Yet, ho said, ho would do all he could to. help her make hor way. ' When Mr. Browning made up his mind sbo must leave Saturday night' Mary and her maids wero sent toothy home of Hubert H., Luno to estJlp ' publicity. Mr. Browning said ;lha "literary agent" found hoc there. ..' "lie's my best friend,'1 Mary said; of the agent. "The world has been mk lug me suffer and now I'm go In to got even. 1 huvon't any money, but I pointing to Mi. Browning) 1 will fight him." "...'. ' The dislllusluned " fairy .godfather wus not so resigned about an attorapA to take Dorothy Hunshtne from him. Bird H. Color, commissioner of pub lic welfare, was to confer today with Dorothy's foster mother, Mrs. Anna Hi, John, of Rye, N. Y.. who had com plained that Browning's adoption pt a 21 -year-old ghi was evidence that 'ho was nut a fit guardian for Dorothy. NKW YORK, Aug. 10 (A. P.) While Mury Louise Spas, 81-year-old Bohomlan actress, was In, hiding to day, Kdward W. Browning, , wealthy real estato operator, who wished to adopt her, frankly admitted he was a "damn fool." ! Boforo entering a conference with District Attorney Newcombe of Queens county, regarding annulment of Mary's adoption. Browning Issued a statement dealing with the girl's as sertion that sho Intended "to punish him." scd me," stijjelt been ' a daftin "Mary doubled crossed Browning. "I have fool, but I have not done anything '4 need be ashamed of. 1 have foie stalled Commissioner Coler and N6vA combo, by demanding a physical ex- ' ainluatton of the girl be made." ' Browning told of a visit Sunday by,' a nowspuper. man who offered Mary t&00 for a scries of articles. 1 1 ' ' "J am vjtry sorry to say 1 am con vinced that a $50 btll cart sway her very largely," Browning said, "Hcra-l after If I havo anything to do with girls they will bo Americans.'' 'K'v Browning said that ho Was through with philanthropy for ever. "I. want ed to give her an education,? he srtUtfv.." "but I started wrong. Thn story that- frinnttnuMf nn Paare fetaht) WIPED OUT T t 'I r -V' and streets of RockwOod.' ' Packing sheds, barns and houses were laid low.' Telephone polos and wagons were tar1 rled Into Ihs air.- .' " '" Kmergnncy crews are being rushed to Rook wood by all pulillo utility com panlea hero. . , -, Telephone and telegraphic otim munlcatlon Is down.