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lint""' e o o edford Mail Tribune The Weather Pmllftloti Tartly cloudy Maxlmulu yettralay ., v:i Minimum liMlay :..55 Preciiiitutlou . Trace Weather Year Ago Maximum NO Minimum .......SO n.lly TwntlU Tot. Trtly rirt-loutth Vrar. FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY . M EDFORD, OK"K(.ONf. V HI DAY. SKITKMBKU 4, 1!)-J." NO. U2 DEWY RE NAVY PLAN FLARE SEEN Caretaker of Golf Course Run Over By Tractor, Killed Claim That Cheese , Should Be Classed With Rubber Tires MAY KEEP Reginald Vanderbilt Dies Suddenly PORT OF FINDING WHO E Hopes Raised By Reports of Rescue Dashed By Official Denials No Trace of the Missing Aircraft Found Hope Practically Abandoned Believe Airplane Wrecked ST. AUOUSTINH. Klu., Sept. 4. Tho St. Auguslino Record today Mays a local rudiu operator talked with a United Suites warship 4110 miles off tho Samoa IhIuiuIh, and learned the missing seaplane PN-9 So. 1 had been found with all aboard safe. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. (A. P.) The navy department had no Informa tiun today hearing out the report of a tit. Augustine amateur wlrclens ope rator that the PN-9 No. 1, navy plane IohL In the I'aciflc. hud been found and all on board wero safe. The last ' onicial word they received regarding tho plano'H plight wuh yomerday morn ing and that was Indefinite. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4. (A. P.) The flight commander's office here. to which ships searching for the miss-j lug seaplane are reporting, said no information had been received to con firm a report from St. Augustine that the lout fliers had been-found, ; t SAN FRANCISC, Sept. 4. (A. P.) A mcssago from the U. S. S. Aroo stook, sent at 1 o'clock, Pacific stand ard Mine, reported the search for tho PN-9 No. 1 continuing. The- flight commander's oflce said this disposed of ro ports that the lost piano had been found. HONOLULU, Sept. 4. (A. P.) Just before midnight the tender U. S. 8. Whippoorwill, searching In mid Pacific waters for the missing PN-9 No. 1, naval seaplane, reported: "At 7:10 P. M. saw white flare ahead. We headed for tho spot lor one hour and then saw two flares or rockets from starboard. Have been steaming now for half hour but have Boon nothing more." SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4. (A, P.) Tlie navy department lias instructed Admiral Hobison to dispatch 18 de stroyers that loft Samoa September 1 for Hawaii to tlio search zone to par ticipate In the hunt for tho missing PN-9 No. 1, and its crew. In announcing that tho ships which wero returning from the Australian cruise would he used to endeavor to find Commander .noclgiM's' plane, the flight command hero staled that 'Ihoro is a ray of hope" In tho tele gram which the Whlpponrwill sent that it had seen a white flare and two flares or rockets at 7:10 and 8:10 last night. These. were seen In the Kauai channel on the far aide of the Island of Oahu. HONOLULU, Bept. 4. (A. P.) Into the limbo of "ships lost at sea without a trace" has gone the giant seaplane PN-9 No. 1, prldo of tho navy and Commander John Rodgors with his four companions, pioneers of naval aviation, who set forth fearless ly from San Francisco last Monday afternoon and disappeared on Tuesday afternoon. It seemed most probable with the passing of the 60th hour since the plane came down. Although the search for the missing blane and members nf her crew is still proceeding with Increasing forces ! and frantic intensity, air station offi cers, who had maintained rigid faith.' In tho hope that the plane would be discovered, yielded from their position last night dolefully shaking their heads and saying: "Too bad, but we had better scratch Commander John 1 Rodgers and his- crew from the list." In spite of the halting expression of the unwilling fooling that it would only be a miracle If the plane were discovered and the occupants rescued, now searching detachments roinforced , by the destroyer Reno are proceeding i (Continued on page six.) I ATTEMPT OF BQY TO PLAN OF RATTLESNAKE RESULTS FATALLY TL18A. Okla., Sept. 4. (A. P.) - 1-ffurts of F. L. Tuttlo, 19-year-old farmer boy, living near hero, to make a pet of a rattlesnake, cost him his life. He found tho snake in a cotton tfleld and when it sounded a warning 0 before attempting to strike, Tuttle caught It and stroked It gently. I ' The reptile became docile. In con TAC'OMA, Sept. 4. ' Mike 4 Adams, 41. was crushed and burned to death today when his tractor inn over him at tho Ta- comu Rolf and country club. In some manner the tractor backed 4 over tho man and pinned him down under the exhaust of the motor. His clothing caught flro 4 and. he was badly burned. He 4 was dead when found. Tlio victim had been care- taker of tho golf courso at the. club for eight years. ... . FOR DISASTER Mrs- Lansdowne, Wife of the Shenandoah's Commander, Says Politics Forced Hus band to Take Fatal Trip Secy. Wilbur Denies Charge LA KK HUH ST. N. J.. Sept. 4. (A. P.) Children left fatherless by the naval dirigible Shenandoah's Ill-fated weulern trip, were mourninR today in their homos near the naval air sta tion, the headquarters of tho "Daugh ter' of the Stars," and her mute, the "Angela.",. '.,. '.. llva.'-t? H.,JCloin, Jj:., Jwlfe..Jif tlii commanding- officer at Lakchurst, culled on all the bereaved families and found them taking their sorrow wlth the philosophy uf the blrdmun's wife, as expressed by Mis. Zuchury Lansdowne, widow of Lieutenant Commander Iinsdownc.Jwho was kill ed. "When I married an aviator," said Mm. Lansdowne, "I knew .what chances we were taking, and I will not knuckle down now. I um glad Uttch died with his boots on. 1 in tend to go through life with mine on. When a girl inurrtes an aviator she lakes a chance. I have gambled and lost." Mrs, Klein, after consoling the be reaved, said: "They were all perfect ly wonderful. Every eye was dry and their only thoughts were to help each other. They are great sports." Young, with black bobbed hair and blue eyes and dressed entirely In white, Mrs. Lansdowne said her hus band hud a premonition of disaster. Since last June, sho declared, the lieutenant commander used all his in fluence to call off both this and a previous western trip because ho fear ed the battle with Ohio thunder storms would wreck the ship. But politics, sho charged, demanded that the trip be made. Never beforo had Lansdowne failed to circlo over their bungalow, but on this last trip she noted he sailed away without oven ap proaching their home. "Ho knew conditions In Ohio, she said. "Ho was burn in Ohio and killed In Ohio, 100 miles from tho spot where he was born. "Tho commander often said tho ship was likely to get Into trouble In thun der storms with tho hot air going up and the cold air coming down. A big airship getting Into this would snap In two. "Ho used every bit of influence he had to keop from going.- but tho sec retary of the navy wantod to play pol ities by sending the ship ovor middle weslorn cities, so he had to go. He novor appeared worried over nny pre vious flight, but boforo starting on this one, he was extremely nervous and fearful that he could not get through." Home officers uf the station ' dis agreed with Mrs. Lansduwne's asser tion that politics caused tho trip. The purpose of the trip, they suld, was to experiment with untrained ground crows -and test tho pew mast erected by Henry Ford at Detroit. A Washington dispatch to tlio Now (Continued on pnge six.) MAKE PET tinuing his efforts at friendship ho Tallowed tho snake to wind Itself about him. atcr, the boy who heard to scream as he threw .the snako from him. The rattler landed In a coll and sprang Instantly, sinking Its fangs In the boy's face. He was rushed to his home where first aid treatment was given, but he died five hours later. WIDOW BLAMES NAVY SECRETARY GAS VALVES CONDEMNED Construction Adviser in Build ing of Shenandoah Declares Change in Gas Safety Valves Caused Destruction of Di rigible and Loss of. 14 Lives Navy Dept. Says Nothing. PHILADELPHIA,' Sept. 4 (A. P.) Tho breaking of a gas bug over power car No. 3, the starboard car of tho dirigible Shenandoah, was blamod by some of the survivors of the wreck for the tragedy yesterday in Ohio. When the 18 survivors who cume by speclal car from the scene of the wreck en route to their home station, arrived at Philadelphia at 7:50 A. M. today, some of them agreed that this accident, in conjunction with tho ter rific storm, was responsible for the wreck and its ensuing loss of lire. - The storm was described by the survivors as "a western twlBter." a miniature cyclone. Some of the men said they had been able to Bee the storm coming but that the ship had been powerless to get out of Its way. As the men trooped from the train at the North Philadelphia station of the Pennsylvania railroad to take an other train to Lakehurst, all of them were carrying heavy bags. Are they your affects?" someone asked one of the men, pointing to the bags. j I . i- : '"No," he said. ""They are the thlhfcs that belonged tb Otir ' comrades who are dead " . j Richardson . Wilson of Txwlsvllle. Ky a seaman, second class, listed yesterday as Injured, waB among tho survivors.' unhurt. The 18 men came on the train In charge of Lieutenant Hendiey. They wore stiff and sore from the leaps they had made from the airship as it neared the ground. They were grimy and very tired. A number of them described how they clung to the framework and worked their way from the top of the airship almost a hun dred feet, to a' hand hold near the bottom, where they were able when the broken sections of the airship dropped near the ground to let go and drop tan or fifteen feet to safety. TOMS RlBR, N. J.. SepL 4. (A. P.) Captain Anton Heinen, former German dirigible pilot and construc tion advisor In the building nf the Shenandoah, said today that the re moval of eight of the eighteen safety valves on the dirigible's gas bags was the cause of yestorday's disaster and that the victims of the crash "gave their lives to save this precious helium." In the storm the craft rose too fast for the remaining valves to lot off sufficient gas. he said, the upward movement of the ship causing rapid expansion of the gas bags, which broke the shell of the ship In the middle. "I would not call It murder," said Captain Helnon, "but I cannot put It too strongly that if it had not been for the foolishness in cutting down the safety valves the crash would not have occurred " Captain Heinen said the shin should have been able to discharge 21.000 foet of helium for every 340 foot that she rose above an altitude of 3000 feet, and that he had understood from Commander Klein that she was nearly filled with helium when sho left the station. Insisting that the Shenandoah as originally designed was the "sBfest thing In the world." Captain Hoinen asserted that due to tho reduction of the number of valves about six weeks ago hn would not have anne on the dirigible "for a million dollars." "It was not fe w"h the valve changes." ha added ""Tho men that went and knew of the changes wore bravo, indeed." Captain Heinen asnnrted that 20 valves were lntallod In the Ixis An geles' hecaum It was felt that the 18 orlglnallv In the 8henandoah wero not enough for the greatest safety. "Now there will be a whitewash board of Inquiry and some camouflage to rnvor un the real story of the raune. which was the foolish action of the crow at the station In changing thp vbIvos. Already thov are trying to lav th blame on poor doad Lansdowne." Captain Heinen also asserted that changes In the water recovery system and the Installation of machine guns could not have caused the disaster. WASHINGTON. Sent. 4. fA. P.I Navy department officials declined to comment today, on the assertion of Captain Anton Heinen, consulting on f'ueer In the construction of the Shv-nnndnah, that the reduction In tire , number nf safety valves In th b m in. nngioio was responsible ror tbowreck. f1 . H laiMM win a ''mi ' r am il NEW YORK, Sept.' 4. (A. P.) Reginald C. Vanderbilt, who died sud denly today at his country homo in Rhode Island, was one of tho leading horsemen of the country. He was president of the Nutional llorseshow association of America which he or ganized, and also was president uf tlio Hackney Horse society. 1 Ho was the youngost son of tho late Cornelius Vanderbilt, Ho inherited 110,000,000 from his father when ho was 21 years of ago and later, in 11)19, he inherited $5,000,000 from Ills brother, Alfred Vanderbilt, who was lost in the sinking of the Lusitanlu. Mr. Vanderbilt was the brother of General Cornelius Vnnderbilt of the Countess Lasclo Uzeclienyi and of Mrs. Harry 'Payne Whitney. Reginald Van IS CONFESSED BY EX CONVICT W. R. Lloyd. Makes Complete Confession .of Killing of Taxi Driver Robbery Mo tive of Crime Shot Driver When He Resisted. THE DAIXHfl, Ore.. Sept. 4. W. Rt Lloyd, .ex-convict who yeatnrilny confeHHcd to tho murder of Clinton 1. Biiun, Independence garusc mnn. today wuh taken to Portland by Sheriff Hooker of Polk county. In hl confOHnlon, according to the district attorney ' office, Lloyd Raid that robbery wan the only mottvo for the killing: of Baun. "Wo were riding along In tlio car about ten mllea south of Indepen dence Tuesday night when the ma chine developed ignition trouble," uatd the purported .confession, "iiaun got out to fix It- I got out at tho i&mo time. I drew a gun and told tiaun to 'stick 'cm up.' He made a move towardrt mo and I fired. 1 don't know how ninny times." When Baun fell Lloyd took a small sum of money from the man's pock ets and fled In Baun's automobile, the confession rotated. Lloyd said he had planned to hold up Baun, steal his car and drive to Kugene, there abandon the machine and work In, the hop yards. Instead, he said, ho drove to Portland and on up the Columbia river highway to Mosler whero tho machine again de veloped ' trouble. There he aban doned the car and went on to Tho Dalles, where he was arrested Wed nesday night, following tho discovery of Baun's car at Muster. Casualties of the ' Air Service ! CLEVELAND. Ohio. 8opt. 4. (A. P.) A twelve yoar old boy and a man wero killed hero today when an alrpluna crashed muro than 1000 foot into HlRhlund park cemetery. The piano had heen circling uhnvn tho municipal golf courso ami tho cemetery when It seemed to duvoup trouble. - rind New dUllbut Bank. I SEATTLE IS. A. Wakefield, tho American coHmuI at Prince Kupert, B. C, reported the discovery of a1 new halibut bank off Kannak Island uth of the t'nlmak Islands of the Aleutian arcftpclngo In the north Pacific. T ... N derbilt murrled Miss Kallierlno Nell son, a daughter of Mrs. Frederick Neilson and u nlere of Frederick Ccbliuril. in April, 1903. They have ono child. Miss Kathleen Vanderbilt, who married Harry C. Cushing, 111. Air. Yanderlilll and his wife sepa rated and she brought suit for divorce, which was granted in April, lie was in his 4Ith year. Mr. Vanderbilt was married for tlio second time to Miss fllorla Morgan, daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, con sul general at Buenos Aires. Their marriage . was In 1923. A daughter, Gloriu Morgan Vanderbilt, was born to them 17 months ago. (The photograph above shows Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, nee Gloria Morgan, taken while on their wedding trip in 1923.) Important Part of Wrecked Dirigible Stolen By Vandals Entire Motors Taken Farmers Charge Admission to Sec Wreck. CALDWKLL. Ohio, hept. 4. (A, P.) Air rushing Into holes, torn In the Hhonandoah by (ho twisting off of the' radio nml control cabins euusod the buckling of the ship and its break ing up Into two major parts. In tho opinion of the naval hoard of Inquiry that visited the wreckage of the ship's prow today. ' Progress of the Investigation was greatly Impeded because of looting. Loss of the ship's liarogruph by theft and the theft of the cont nils and some o flho motors were deplored. Looting continued all night. Naval officers expressed deep eon- (if t)iA Wt'PrkiiD'P mm whuln nutlni'M tlin control wheel, switchboards and vari ous minor controls. These are vital in the investigation, but they have been scattered far and wide. A control wheel was reported to be somewhere in Caldwell and a switch board six feet long wftH seen going through Cnuibiirige yesterday, per sons were found who said they saw one motor lining carted uway. Farmers around tho Hbona.ndoah wreckage seen ok charged admission prices to the grounds today. Their (Scale was 20 cents per person, or one noiiar ior automobiles. water was sold at 10 cents a glass. News Briefs Biimey to Itsco iMirnnt. ' 8AN KKAMTIHCO.- Barney Old field and Cliff Uurant, former cham pion automobile racing drivers, will oome from retirement to meet In n special match race at Tanforan track during tho Jubilee racing program. Tent VatfliiHtlon Iaw, BAN KKANCIHCO. W. H. Walburo of Oakland has obtained an alterna tive writ of mandate, icq ul ling tho University of California to show cause why they should not permit his son. Italph C, Wallaco, to enter the uni versity. Tho youngnr Wallace has re fused to comply with the state law requiring that students be vaccinated. OernpMfy ApKul lo PolUt. ' LOH A NO I'JLKH. William Harrison Dcmpsey, woiW's heavyweight boxing champion, appealed to the polhft to find his automobile tlch was stolen from Us parking place. LOOTING DELAYS IRK OF NAVAL INQUIRY BOARD I'llll'Ado, Kept. 4. Proposed fr freight rates on choose wore defended before the inter-Btato commerce commission on tho ground that cheese should havo tho aalue classification as rub- ber tires, being a similar com- modify. LIMA, Ohio, Sept. 4. t'nlfi- cation of tho Methodist Epls- copal churches of tho north and tho south was approved by tho west Ohio M. K, annual con- fereiu-o, 2f7 to 9. SKYLINE TRAIL IS OPPOSED BY T State Medical Society Goes On Record Against Construc , tion of Cascade Range Road , As Menace to Water Sup ply New Officers Are Elected. Tho fifty-first annual session of th Oregon Htale Medical society is at an end following the electiou of officers and the adoption of several resolu tions this forenoon. In tho opinion of tho visiting doctors it was one of the most successful conventions ever held v - Dr. PittM TtdPltoV of Portland, ureal fle'nt-olect last year, took' his office for the ensuing year, following a brlof farewell address by Dr. A. C. Kinney of Astoria, retiring president, urging the doctors to continue the good work of the society. Other officers elected were: W. B. Morce, Kalem, president eloct: W. .W. P. Holt, Mcdford, 1st vice president; Warren L. Junt, Klamath Falls, 2nd vice president; Dr. J. H. Kohnott, Al bany. 3rd vice president; .1. Karl Else, Portland, treasurer; F. D. Htrlekler, Portland, secrotary; William Kuykon- dnll, J'jiigcne, delegate to tho conven tion of tho American Medical associa tion at Dallas, Texas. April, l!t2ti; K. B. McDanlel, Portland, alternate. Councilors oloctnd Include Tjoe Bouvy, La Orande; C. L. Booth, Port land; and C. U. Hears. Portland. Dr. K. A. Hommer of Portlund was elected president at the election of of ficers of the O retro n Public Health League, while Dr. W. P. McAdory. La (Jrancje, was elected 1st vice president. Dr. CI. K Houck, lloseburg, 2nd vice president. Dr. h D. Htrlcker, Port land, secretary; and Dr. C. J. Mc Cusker. Portland, tronsuror. Unanimously the riiembers of the society condemned tho proposed Hky line Boulevard along the Cascade mountains, from the .northern to southern ends of the state, as being a menace to public health. As the water 'supplies of several cities have their source In tho mouutalns, doctors say, tho water would be easily con taminated, Tho boulevard has been proposed for sovornl years past, and Is also under consideration by the na tional forest service, It is said. As n result the Htato Board of Health will use efforts to discourage building of thvi scenic drive. The society also went on record to give a voto of thanks to the local Medical Association, tto the Klks' club for tendorlng favors during tho ses sion. According to a report of tho Kxecu tivo secretary, Frank H. Ward, the so ciety Is in a healthy financial condi tion and during the pnst If) months has hod a 14 per cent Increase In membership. Out of a possible 632 physicians In the state, 4U6 are paid up members. The attendance was fully 25 per cent better, said the secretary, than was expected, which he believes was due to the fact that the fame and scenery of Itogue Hlver acted as a lure to (he doctors and also lo the fact that the papers, which were read at thin seswslon. were of vital Interest lo each member. Subjects had been chosen of a nature that In many cases fitted the -doctor's 'ndlvidual wishes. As a result 135 doctors were In attendance. 3(i of whom wero; ac companied by their wives. No Invitation for the next session Were offered, the location nf which will probably bo decided by the coun cilors at their regular meeting nt Portland, It Is believed the session will be held In that cltv next year. ' The majority of the visiting doc tors are leaving fr Mietr homes tndv many of whom will visit Crater lake en route, rflhe doctors declared as they left that they had boon entertain ed royally and that they wore greatly Impressed with the beauties of the valley. One doctor, who has been rMtmt of Portland fxr the past 40 yesrs, declared If ho should retire. Med ford would be where . he would live. DOCTORS MS AS Salem Reports That Pierce Intends to Keep Warden With Dillard Elkins As His Advisor Governor Again Refuses to Make Public Re port On Prison Conditions. KALEM. Ore., Bept. 4. Reports current here this altornoon that Gov ernor Pierce had assured A. M. Dal rymple that he would be allowed to remain as warden of tho state penitentiary under the arrangements by which Dillard A. Elkins. chair man, of the Industrial accident com mission, would become advisory su perintendent of the prison tempo rarily, could not be confirmed cither at the governor's offico or at tho prison. . ) Both Governor Pierce and Warden Dalrymple declined to discuss the re ports which followed, quickly upon a conference between Governor Pierce. Dalrymple und W. A. Dal zell, secretary to the governor, in tho governor's apartments here last even ing. The conference lusted for about two hours. . - ' Meanwhile the contents of the re port of tho special committee, named . by the governor to Investigate con ditions at the prison and tho causes for the Murray-Kolly-Wlllos escape of August 12, when two guards were, shot to Ueth, ro mains a ,-seorpt 'to;1 bui very few - persnns mo1os to Governor Plorce who declines to make tho findings of the committee public. ' 1 ' y 1 1 Friends of the governor have de clared, however, that tho report flat ly recommends the removal of -Dalrymple. BY OAK MONT, Pa., Sept. i, (A. P.I Atlanta, Oh., Is to have the national ainatour golt championship once again. The southern city was ansuroil tho honor today when Bobby Jones, tlio present tltloholder, and Watts tiunn, 10-year old Mend and neighbor or the amateur king, won their . seml-rinal matches.. The former had an easy time with George Von Elm of Los Angoled, winning at the UOtU hole, soven and six. Ounn was given a great battle by Dick Jones of Whito Plains, N. Y. But the youth ended the match on the 33rd nolo, being flvo up and threo to go. ' .lonos and Ounn will meet' In a IHi hole match tomorrow for the crown. OAKMONT, Pa., 8ept. l. (A. P.) Bobby Jones, tho champion, was four tip on George Von Kim of I Is Angeles, at tho end of the morning round In their semi-final match of the national amateur golf championship . today. Watts Gunn of Atlanta was one up on Dick Jones of White Plains. N. V, SEATTLE, Sept, 4. (A; P.J--JacIc Matson, Victoria, i. C, was eliminated hero today from the Washington ama teur golf tournumont, Harry Hiert, Scuttle, defeated him threo and ono. Wire Report on the Pear Market NKW YOBK. Sept. 4. Today:-26 California; 1 Colorado; 1 Uulnware: 3 Oregon; 13 New York; 8 Wash ington: Id New York by tiout. 'Steady on good stock. California bartletts. 8R -cars: best 13. 103. DO; few ta.DG04.4RV.onll. nary. t.HGfS.25: ripe. fi.'i&Qi-SO. Hum wasty, tt.S691.90.'- Oregon barileltM, 4 cars: extras, t2.663.sr; ripe, ' H.tSftl.ftO: aver aao, 2.9S; fancy, 2.6r,3.t,; ripe ..2Mf2.8G; average, 2.8. , ' Washington ImrtlFtls, 4 cars; t. 40 4( 3.25; ripe, t'.10fi i.40; average, 3.80. ; CHICAflO, Hopt. 4. Yotorda.y: 13 Cnllfornfl; 1 Illinois; 4 Now York; 1 Oregon: 1' Michigan by boat; ill on track, Including broken. California hartlelta, 5700 boxes; 13 V3.25; mostly 12. 661,2.70. . . . Oregon bartletts,all80 boxes; 13.45 03.60; mostly, tl. ' WARDEN