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MEDFORD. OREGON. "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 34. 19:S.
No. 334.
TRI
Today
Hercules and Borah.
The Old Crab Family.
Drifting From Religion.
Wages and Employment.
By Arthur Briibana
(Copyright, 1927, by New York
Breillat Journal, Inc.)
Hercules, looking down, ' or
lip, from Klysinn fields on Sen-
t utor Borah, must fo.cl that his
hovculcnn labors wore child's
piny.- Mr. Borah has under
taken to enforce prohibition,
and stop his Republican party's
acceptance of slush funds for
campaigns. lie even asks Re
pnblicnns to return the couple
yot hundred thousiid dollars con
tributed by Mr. Sinclair, in rov
ernmont bonds. Old-fashioned
jiolticians will enjoy that joke.
Many, including oil stock
owners, would 'like to know
' what became of the two and a
i half millions in bonds not ac-
: counted for, in the interesting
oil buying deal. What fund or
pocket did those millions go to?
-
' Voltaire annoyed aristocracy
i in his time, by showing that the
oldest title of nobility in En
rope belonged to Venetians that
fled to the marshes to escape
punishment for crime.
Kven the oldest human fam
ily known, that of Confucius,
with many descendants in one
Chinese city, seems modern
. compared with the crab family.
, Dr. Oilmore, Smithsonian In
stitute paleontologist, shows
that the North Carolina sand
, crab has relatives in the Ovand
; Canyon, dating back about 25,
,f 000,000 years. . ....
Men are interested in animal
peneologies. Ants, wasps and
oilier insects have dcveVpI
marvelous inherited knowledge,
, which we foolishly call '.' in
ijtinct," because they were here
millions of years before men
came.
Science shows that men will
continue on earth, barring ca
tastrophe, at. least 100,000,000
years more.
Some day babies will he born
inheriting accumulated knowl
edge, and ready to attack new
problems.
That will be a race worth
while.
M
Head Fabre's account of sur
gical operations performed by
v. mud wasps that never saw
father or mother, took no les
sons, and were horn knowing
how.
ThWKcv. Dr. Strnton, in Cnl
ifornin to debate on evolution,
says our people,, youth espe
cially, nro drifting from relig
ion and all respect for the laws
of God or mnn. Our nation find
race are threatened, he is sure
of it. Some centuries ago, ear-
: nest, well-meaning priests of
; Greece and Home were saying
the same thing.
And when Christianity came
along these ane.ir nts were sure
the. world was going to the
dogs. They went, hut the world
t improved.
Vnemployment, according to
experts, is hss serious than it
was. That's small comfort for
a man without n job.
f
HIr Pusl.iosB says you must ox
poet unemployment erlHes. They
will nlwuMt recur. Thoy said that
once about financial panics, but the
federal reserve system ended them.
Iliff Hvislness opposed the reserve
feystnm, now universally praiBed. It
Svould oppose anything Biwested
io abolish unemployment an "so
cialistic, anarchistic bolshevistic."
IUk lUisluesfl Is old and ae ac
cepts new Ideas reluctantly.
The marvelous thing Is that un
employment Is not worse. In the
automobile Industry today, thirty
tjiree men do ns much as 100 could
- bnve done In 11H4, thanks In Im
proved machinery and methods.
cy That's good for workers, giving
them better oars for less money.
Itcnry Ford's plan Is one that will
( (Continued on Pa Four,
GIRL FLIER
AND PILOT 13 REDUCED!
MISStNGBYCHECKUP;
. I . j
Find No Trace of Elsie
Mackay and Capt. Hinch
liffe in Monoplane 'En
deavor' Hope Not Aban
doned, However Report
Weather Favorable, Near
Atlantic Coast.
NEW YORK, Mar. 14. (p) The
America-bound monoplane "Kn
rteavour" was Ions overdue on Us
flight from Kngland today und
grave anxiety was felt for its two
occupants.
At 4:40 o'clock thin nftornoou the
plane had been 117 hours away from
Cranwell, its tannin' point, and it
had not reached its destination. At
normal consumption of gasoline
would nil be gone at 7 o'clock to
night. It had been expected to ar
rive over Newfoundland at dawn.
NEW' YOHIC, Mar. 14. P)
Thirty-four hours niter Ihe mono
plant "Endeavour" took off in Eng
land for America no word had come
liom it und anxiety was growing.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon avi
ators believed there was still hope
but acknowledged that the situa
tion was grave and that the long
silence might well be the result of
mishap.
The "Endeavour," piloted by Cap
tain Walter Hinchcliffe, British ace,
took off in England at 3:40 a. m.
astern standard time, yesterday.
Hlnchcliffe's companion was believ
ed to be the Hon. Elsie MacKay,
daughter of Lord Inchcape, and
sponsor of the expedition.
Additional information strength
ened the belief that Miss MacKay
was on board the "Endeavour" was
prevalent today when it was found
that Miss MacKay obtained nn
American visa some weeks ago.
Hinchcliffe already has an Ameri
can visa.
NEW YORK. Mar. 1 L (P) Cap
tain Walter Hinchltt'fe's plane "En
dcavoiir,".ln which he left Cran
well, England, yesterday morning
presumably with Honorable Elsie
MacKay as a passenger for Amer
ica, was unreported this forenoon,
although If all had gone well he
should have been off the Nova Sco
tia const.
Thirty hours after the war ace
had left English shores no ships be
yond European waters had reported
sihtiuK him and the big wireless
stations along the const were like
wise silent. The last positive news
of the plane reported It off the Irish
const yesterday.
His minimum average speed, un
less great storm were encountered,
was estimated nt about $0 miles an
hour. The "Endeavour," provided
It followed the great circle course,
would have covered 2100 miles at
about 9:45 a. m. and should have
been in the vicinity of Nova Scotia.
The plane was capable of
greyer speed under favorable con
ditions. The commander of the Hamburg-American
liner Deutschland
reported in a message to the Asso
ciated Press nt 7 a. m., eastern
time today that he hail seen no
sign of tho plane. The vessel is
due- In New York nbout Monday
and today, in mid-Atlantic found
visibility pood with a light wind
from the north northwest.
A little earlier the liner Cedric.
QOfl miles out of here and some
what south of the probable flight
route, had not seen the plane
nmi was running- into n north
gale.
Last reports from Newfound
land were of clear weather with
snow deep on landing fields.
Alonff the New England and
Long Island coast, there was fog
and a threat of rain.
ST. JOHNS. N. I. March 14.
Pi As n fine, clear, starlight
night gave way to dawn at four
o'clock eastern standard time this
morning, a light easterly 'wind
still prevailed and the ground
temperature was 17 degrees above
zero.
Conditions were considered ideal
for flying.
ST. JOHNS. N. F., March 14
(fl! Unconfirmed reports were re
ceived todny that several residents
of Itrigus had heard the drone of
nn airplane between six and seven
o'clock tlila morning.
NEW YORK. Mar. 14. T, Miss
Elsie MncKny. If she Is aboard the
monoplane "Endeavour" with
Captain Walter (i. Ft. Hinchcliffe
on Its flight lo America, is the
fifth woman to attempt n trans
Atlantic crossing. The four previ
ous attempts failed.
Two of the flljrhts, those nf Mrs.
Frances AYIIsnn Oraysnn and Prin
cess Lowenstein-Wert helm, ended
fatally. liuth Elder wns forc?d
down off the Azores after a flight
from New York and Lilll Dillenz.
Viennese netress. got little more
than n unlff of jalt air In her at
tempted flight to America' with
two tierman aviators. She flew
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DEATH LIS1
Many Duplications Found in
First Figures of Disaster
Official Known Dead
Placed at 251 Survivors
Start Work Of Rebuild
ing Feeling Is Bitter
Against Los Angeles.
I SANTA PAULA, Cub. Mar. 14.
,(P) Citizens of Sunta .'aula, one of
the communities that suffered
! heavily in the St. Francis dam dls-
aster yesterday, met to discuss re
habilitation today and through the
i voice of their chairman and others
;iaid tiie blamo for the catastrophe
'at the door of the City of Loh
j Angeles which owned the d;im.
! C. C. Teugue, resident of Santa
j I'auln and president of the Cali
' Torn hi Km it ( rowers exchange,
j was chosen chairman of the reha
bilitation conference, which met at
jthe call of Mayor M. J,. Strekel.
Teugue. hejded the fight waged
I against the building of the St.
: Francis d.im by the residents of
! Sunta t'b'.ra river valley, the latter
i charging that Los' Angeles.' by
i means of the structure, was usurp
! ing the water rights of the valley
by diverting the flow of the Sautu
I Clarariver.
Legal suits to test the disputed
; contests nrj still in the court.
; Dr. D. W. Mntt. former state
: senator from Santa Paula, de
: clared that "the responsibility is
(that of a selfish city that took the
water belonging to us."
Mott declared Governor Young
: had pronflsed a full Investigation
.into Santa (Mara valley water
j rights. . Tho speaker's closing;
.declaration to the'ineeting was:
i "We want Los Angeles to know
.' that it has token : inljllom: from
XEWHALL, Cal.. Mar. 14. (JP
Steam shovels groped about the
j "no-man's land" of San Franquito
! canyon today, searching for bodies
of Lhose who died under the wall
I of wateT that poured from the
broken St. Francis dam yesterday,
i A list, compiled from official
.sources except at one point, fixed
I the known life loss this morning
j at 251, but It is admitted that this
j l,s not exact owing to probable
omissions, duplications and broken
communication lines. In the
j shadow of the jagged 1 S 5-foot
(high central section of St. Francis
j dam, still standing, it is believed
.vlil lie found the grave of fifty
j Los Angeles city employes, over
whelmed nnd buried as they slept
in their construction camp.
In lodge rooms, pool halls, dance
l halls and wherever floor space can
, be obtained at various centers
j throughout tho flood region,
; morgues have been established.
ttuugh boards, mounted on chairs,
j benches or anything available are
jthe resting places for the silent
j sheet-covered rows of the dead,
j With the same courage that im
J pelled them to reclaim the desert
i in the first place, survivors of the
j catastrophe today took up ngain
the task of searching for and iden
tifying the bodies of those who
! were lost.
Hero and there throughout the
t waste left by the waters are sticks
'stuck into the mud to indicate a
j victim buried hy the flood, a mar
l ker for the searching parties set
I up by the advance guard of the
! hunt.
No estimate that is nearly ac
! curate can he made yet of the pro-
pet ty damage. Some have fixed
the f inure ns low as $7,000,000
land others ns high ns $30,000,000.
I Parallel with the search for vic
tims of the San Franclsquito trag
' edy marches an official Invest ign
ition of Its probable cause.
Why should a dam, nearly two
j years old nnd built nt a cost of
( more than n million dollars,
crumble under the pressure of the
wa t er it was construct eri to Im -j
pound is the question to which
officials of the state, counties and
! cities are seeking the answer,
j Seepage, say many residents of
the valley, started the erosion
which culminated in catastrophe,
j Itullders of the dam. who reared
its hdlk under supervision of Chief
J Engineer William Mulholland of
; the Los Angeles bureau of water
nnd power, declare It showed a
i minimum of seepage. Mutbolland
jsnid last night that he believed nn
j earth movement was responsible,
i Itiiterness mingled with grief in
i discussions of the disaster thruotit
the little Santa Clara valley down
which the flood poured yesterday
'from the mouth of San Eruncls-
quite canyon.
On every hand In that region
survivors recall the fight the val
ley residents made against the
j building of the dam by the city of
r Los Angeles.
Sheriff "ltob" Clark of Ventura
I county, who has temporary head-
quarters at Santa Paula, announc
jed that lie would go into confer
j ence tod.iy uith the district attor
ney nf Vent urn county with the
! oh)pct of jendlnjr that cvMtnty's
' . (Continued on Pag a Tvo '
I Hi I At m . nCWM I "ft ?H.
i
Above are shovui ('apt. Walter Illm-hclirrc. llrltish nvlnlnr and the Hon. KNtc MacKay. believed
to have been his companion (u the "Endeavour,"' which hopped off from England for America yester
day and has not been sighlcd since. With weather off the Atlantic coast favorable, however, there Is
still hope that the (rip will he successful, r If a mishap has hcfalloii the ptnuc, thai (he occupants will
he rcM'iiefl1 t sea.
THINK QUAKE
CAUSED BeK
Los Angeles Power Expert
Declares External Force
Responsible for Disaster
Slight Quake Reported
Saturday Night Inci
dents of Rescue Work.
SANTA PAL'LA, Cel., Mar. 14.-.
(&) c. E. Phillips, Los Angeles
water and power officiat who sup- '
crlntended the building of the big
dam, expressed the heiief that only
some external force, such an earth
quake or a dynamite blast, could
have caused tho break. It was!
pointed out that a slight earth-1
quake was registered In the neigh-';
borhood last Saturday night.
SANTA PAl'LA, Cal.. Mar. 14.
(Pi Sixteen-ytar-old ThHma Mc-
Cnuley of Fillmore, who was ill in
bed with the measles when the St.;
Francis dam delugo struck the:
town, was in the water 12 hours:
and a half, buried in silt when
found late yesterday. Doctors whoj
Trave her emergency treatment
early today said she probably ;
would survive. Her mother and I
father were among the missing. j
Nick P.axter of Santa Paula saved
three lives and recovered three ;
bodies at his yesterday's work. He'
plunged into the raging torrent j
early in the day to rescue Soledad ;
Luna from a tree. Then he plung-j
ed hack again to rescue Magdalene j
Luna from a roof. Mrs. Luna and)
three children, floated out of a ,
wrecked home on a feather matt-j
ress to safety. The Lunn family
had arrived here from San Her- j
nnrdino hut a few hours before the'
flood came. j
Rosa Samnngo battled the flood:
two hours with her aged mother j
in her arms. She won her fight
and reached shore. The mother j
wns dead: her father Is missing.
A colony of citrus growers who'
formerly lived in Missouri were
wiped out southwest of Santa !
Paula.
One of the odd incidents which;
roused laughter from grief-burden-1
ed ranchers: A four-room house j
floated r mile wP hout one piece
of its furniture helng disarranged J
Kven the table lamps were found
upright in their places.
Two million dollars worth of
oranges, ready for market, were t
Isolated nt ftardsdale. opposite 1
Killmore. where they probably will
be a total loss. i
Killmore face a possible water!
shortage. Municipal supply wells!
In the river bottom wer destroyed, i
All but one well of a private water!
company also were wrecked.
NKWDATX. raTTMar. 14.WV
Viowinc tho havoc caused by thn
St. Kraitcis dam break from the,
air. it looks like a stieak of no-'
man's land. Sticks thrust upright;
in the muck -fk the places where
bodies of th lms were found:
buried In si f The sth-ks make
them east und by rescue
workers.
Airplanes.
NEWHALL DAM
snare,! ovpr the
t'ago Two)
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FEAR THEY ARE LOST
LA OUAXDE, Ore., .Mar. 1 L l.V)
tState Senator Fred E. Kiddle,
manager of the Herbert Huover
presidential campaign in Oregon,
received word this morning from
Washington that the situation in
Ohio is very encouraging with in
dications, ithat Hoover will win a
x hmjtfrllvii the delo.muiu from Sen
ator Willis.'. ' -
! Kiddle 'believes the republican
sentiment in Oregon is overwhelm
ingly in favor of the secretary of
commerce and says that so far ii
j appears as if there will be no oppo
isition to Hoover in the primaries.
Kiddle will leave for his Port
I land headquarters this evening. Ho
! has just recently completed a visit
1 to southern Oregon, stopping al
Ashland, Grants Pass, Medford,
, Itoseliuug and Cottage drove.
PORTLAND, Ore.. Mar. 14. (A3)
Oregon supporters of Governor
At Smith decided at a meeting here
last night to -set his name on the
primary ballot in this state. The
movement will be headed by an
executive committee consisting of
A. H. Wlnfree. Charles V. C.'illoway,
W. C. Culbertson, Lester W. Hum
phreys, K. J. Grifith, Mrs. David T.
Honeyman and Mrs, Daisie Scott
Lntlock.
Democrats in other camps were
expected to get behind a movement
for placing the names of Senators
Reed of Missouri and Walsh of
Montana nn the ballot for Oregon's
ten delegates to the democratic na
tional convention. .
SALE M. Ore.. Mar. 114. (fp)
Asbhy C. Dickson of Portland, for
mer member of the Multnomah
county circuit coit bench, goes on
record in favor of Al Smith for
president in filing with the secre
tary nf state today bis candidacy
fur delegate to the democratic na
tional convention.
A. M. Collier of Klamath Falls
filed today as a candidate for the
republican nomination for repre
sentative in the legislature for
Crook, Deschutes. Jefferson, Klam
ath and Lake counties. He served
in the 1127 session.
Romeo Gouley of Prooks filed
for the republican nomination foor
representative for Marlon county.
.
DEATH Or SEVEN
NKYVHAI.I,. Cal., Mar. 14. P)
Hwit with uricf an Hired man today
stood In the temporary nnuue
h'-re. Me was Henry Kfiislnm-r,
Santa Clara valley rancher.
All HhA&t him wpif slbnt flcuren
shrouded and laid nn rouith board
slabs.
Ani;t her man walked tnwanl
him. It wns the eororrer.
"1 Htammrretl Kcn-
slng"r. "have lost M-s-sfven and I
haven't found one."
The tor;ncr i-aretl several Cnen
of utiideutifird dead.
"None of them I dn't
know any of them," Kensing.?r de
clarcd.
V
FIVE YEARS; J.E.!
WHEELER THREE
Judge Bean Sentences Twoi
Prominent Portland Men
... . -j
Convicted of Kiting Funds
of Northwestern National
Both Men Appeal.
PORTLAND. Ore., March 14.
(JP) Hniery Olmstond, former pres-
ident of the Nnrt h western Na
tional bank, was sentenced today
;to five years in prison and fined
I 1000. and J. K. Wheder, former
' president of the McCormick I.inn-
her company, was sentenced to
i three years and fined $1000.
I They were convicted recently in
federal court nn 22 counts of
ii n indietmen charging misappro
priation of approximately $SOO,000
of the bank's funds through check
: kiting.
i Federal Judge R. S. Dean im
posed the sentences.
A (to rn ey s of O lm s t ea d and
! Wheeler already have begun pro
ceediiigs for appeal of the case.
; The conviction followed a trial
of a month's duration. The de
jfendanft were found not guilty
on one count charging conspiracy
jto violate the national bank act.
' The government charged that
, Wheeler had deposited checks
'drawn on a number of Pennsyl
vania banks, which were returned
jand marked not sufficient funds.
' Judge Dean allowed until April
;20 for filing a bill of exceptions,
f New bond was fixed, so the
'convicted men will remain at lib-
lerty pending outcome of the cse.
j In passing sentence, Judge Dean
'read from a prepared statement
reviewing the case. He said that
,when the indictment was return
jed, he thought it was a mistake
, and that the charges had been
'based on technical violation of
' banking rules.
J "i regret to say, however,' he
Icoivluded, "that after bearing all
the testimony during the trial, i
i was mistaken."
i -
Death Toll of
the Automobile
j PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 13. (fP)
j Two women died here today, vic
jtlms of antwinobfle accidents. Mrs.
j Kunnie liromberg, el. was killed
when hit by an automobile driven
' by Henry Wirth of licaverton.
Wirth was arrested.
! Mrs. Jane Itjrnev. rf(. died today
from injuries suffered last night
on the Columhiu Kiver highway
! near her home at Kprlngdale. Mrs.
i Herney and her dii;v!?'-r, ;igt-d U'.
i were Ltiuck hy an nulcmoMi.? as
j thfj wr,? waihing alou. the high-
way. Mrs. Olenora Smith, her baby
jand J -year-old son occupants of thrt
car were injured when It crashed
into a ditch.
j A IXKNT' VN, V.t Mar. 14.
' IP?) -Klve persons were drow m d in
fthre fft of watnr when nn nuto
f mobile In n dens fog plunged over
;a erlvcrt lulds' into Coplay creek
. at West Hk(ndHU.ii;i todiiy.
I Th" dead are Mr. and Mrs. Frank
M-yer. 3T. and daughter. fizn, H.
" of KaiMc Point : Mike Oolle. 37,
'nf roplny, and Mrs. Frank Kckert,
23, of West Coplay.
Larry Semon Broke,
Has Only $300 to
Pay Half Million
S LOS ANGELES.
(P Larry Semon.
j film comedian, who often in
j his screen brawls has been..
j broken up, at least figurative- ',
j 4 ly, today was listed as play-
: Ing a real life version of be- ;
! 4 Ing broke this time in a K
( finaneial sense.
Yesterday Semon appeared -In
court and assumed a vol-
untary bankruptcy petition
that he owed nearly a halt
million dollars and had only
$300 to pay ii with not to "
mention the fact that he :
4 wanted to keep half of the 5v
three hundred.
In exact figures, the com- 4.
edian said he was in debt
$454.63!.87, of which secured
claims total $Ki),uoo, unsecur-
ed claims S277,t!3!t.fi7, and ;
accomodation papers $'J7,000. f
;
TALENT S PLEA
I
COURT DENIES
V 0
, j Dalles. These two outfits are
also evenly matched.
Judge McNary Refuses toi Salem h,n -hooi, which h
-always been fortunate in the
Give Federal Officer a Di-dmwinBS' drew Atoria 8Chol
.as its first opponent In it game
rfiMnrl W a n rl i a t Mpd I l he played nt 7:30 o'clock
icuigu v ciuiui ""Thumliiy night. This makes the
-r ,.x. , ! third tournament that Salem has
Grieve Testifies for State, drawn Astona as its first oppo-
. . ! nent. Under the drawing Salem
JennmgS FOrgetS. S will play but three games, while
PORTLAND, Ore., .Mar. 14. (P)
-Mrs. Kalie Grieve, foreman ot
jthe grand jury hit indicted Terry1
! A. Talent, youthful prohibition
. . . .... ....... ...
agum on iriai lor tne ueuiu or .uin-i,
ford Zlmmm lee, shot in a mid on
r':,,
based largely on testimony offered
hv Tfilnnt
'.Indira McNarv overruled r mo-f
itiou for a directed verdict brought i
: by the government after the state .
. closed its case. I
j George Newman, Informant fori
rum raiders, was called to the,
stand, resulting in objections being
j filed relative to attempts or the
i government t round up a liquor
! ring in Jackson county.
I Sheriff Ralph Jennings, Jackson
'county sheriff, brought mirth with
: him to the stand when ho admitted
I he overlooked bringinr a list of
i inpfiHommpntsi mnrlo nflai-! tho I
i shooting. The measurement!) were i"u'EM' Or0- Murch
I to show positions of aKents who Ten Oregon high school basketball
fired at I ho fleeinK farmer. teams, each team a district chain--
1 . J pion( are here for the annual In-
! PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 14. (R) ! terschohiKtlc tournament, spon
! Terry Talent, youthful federal ' sored by 'Willamette university.
1 prohibition officer, went on theDrawlnKn for the preliminary con-
staHd In federal court late today in
i his trial on a charge of iuvolun
j tary mansluaghter. lie said he
j warned Manford Zlmmerlee, ranch
I er, to stop his night before he
! fired while raiding Zimmerlee's
ranch, near Trail, Ore., last Sep-1
tember. He said that he aimed at
Zlmmerlee when he fired five shots
but did not aim to hit him. He
said the third shot he fired, which
was the one the state contends lilt
Zlmmerlee nnd proved fatal, wns
I fired just as Zlmmerlee was round-j
lag a tree.
i Talent made a general denial of
! statements by witnesses for the
I state that he acted in an arrogant
manner while making the raid.
State Hosts.
The state rested late yesterday
i in the Talent trial. Federal Judge
i McNary admitted testimony ot Dr. i
i O. Sweeney of Medrord, ouotlng
! Zlmmerlec's words before his
; death:
I "I am sure Terry Talent shot'
me." j
i -Mrs. Jane Zlmmerlee, sister-in-l
law of the deceased, n witness late
yesterday, described Talent's con
duct immediately after Zlmmerlee
Wns shot tn Dip r,Hr! r.n tho v.lm-
. merlee ranch. Zlmmerlee had fled
innd five Rho'ts had been fired at
him ns be ran to swim the Kogue ' nnm. . i.
,.jVPr jdisposing of the IGO,000 In liberty
"I heard the shooting and then1 bo,ulH ive" the committee by
heard someone groaning in the11"1'5
river nnd others attempting to get;
him to come back," testified Mrs.
Jahe Zlmmerlee. "I was frighten-
pd by the .hooting and with mv
niece. Mrs. Kill Zlmmerlee. I went
In the house av J saw the men com-
ing uVh their flashlights." said
Mrs. Zlmmerlee. She continual:
"He (pointing to Talent) shouted
for us to open the door, and when
we said wo w-er nfrai n
we were alone, he said lo open the
door or he would break It down.
Then he came in shouting "We got
h.'.i; we not him.' and whfn we
askei what he meant, he snid,
"Manford was he your husband?'
j "Thn I said that I hud noticed!
; .1 rifte shot, and he said, 'No,' that:
it wasn't n rifle shot, It was his:
revolver, and he held it out.
I "1 "k"d him who he was, and
; he wi id 'Why. I'm Talnt. federal
airent. you know me.' and whm
we said that we had never seen,
him. he said. 'Don't eet smart or
1 11 take you to Jail." '
Mattie Todd, neighbor to whose i
home Zlmmerlee crawled after
1 swimming the river, was next rail-
. ed. Akd how he looked as he
stftirgered Into the doorway shV
said; "He wai the moat niHfnt
AS TO
PLAY FIRST
Medford, As Usual, Gets the
Hardest Schedule, While
Salem Gets the Easiest
Medford Meets Tillamook
at 7:30 Tonight Dalles
Plays McLaughlin.'
SALF.M, Ore., March 14. UP)
Medford high school will oppose
tho strong Tillamook quintet to
night at- 7:30 o'clock in the first
game of the twelfth annual state
hish school basketball tournament
held under the auspices of Wil
lamette university. The drawings
were made In Couch "Spec" Keen's
office at one o'clock this ufter
noon, with representatives of all
ten teams present.
The second game tonight, start
ing at 8:30 o'clock, will find Mc
Loughlin Union high school of
Milton Freewater opposing The
I Medtord, one of the strongest
: teams entered, must play four
games, if it reaches the finals.
"" "V.
, " , ' " . " .1 . , , " T
'Held and at 10:80 o clock Wash-
, , . , , j
j '"; on '"Kh "c '.oo1 , ot r"'anrt
; tct o J'-U6ene.
Wwlnewlay.
Medford -Tillamook .7:30 p. m.
Looghlln-The OJulleH, 8:30
m
Thursday,
Wnllowa-Mnrshfieid, 9:30 a .m.
Washington (Portland)-Unlver-
i'l' (Kugene) 10:30 a. m.
Salem-Astoria. 7:30 p. m.
(The report of the game will
be broadcast by The Mall Trib
une over KMKD, and also given to
fans by loud speaker in front of
this office, through the courtesy of
the Southern Oregon Rlectrlc.
test will take place at one o'clock
this afternoon and the first game
will be played tonight at 7:30.
The first team to arrive was the
"Wallowa high school team, coach
ed by Charley Dawson, former
boxing Instructor at the Unlver
sity of Oregon, who has met In
tho ring some of the best boys
n the Northwest of his weight,
The tenms here for the meet
are: Wallowa, Mclaughlin from
Miltnn-Froewater. the Dalles. Med-
ford, .Marshrield, fnlverslty high
: from Kugene, finlem, Tillamook,
; Astoria and Washington high from
Portland.
' ,
111 HAYS CALLED
A 'FENCE' FOR LOOT
WASHINGTON'. March 14. UP)
The Teapot Dome oil scandal
again wns aired on the floor of the
! se,int lodny Scnotor Cara-
m"' , n I t.i un.in, .i.iu..,.
that Will H. Hays, former chair-
mfln ,nf iUf rnpuhllcnn national
"Recent Investigations hove dis
closed the fact that Albert B. Ka!l
wns mnrp Kl,lliy ,nan nt lirHl
tl,0',fh,;' Caraway said,
Uf wnH not nlone ln the Tea"
pnt I)oniG ransactlon. Will Hays
had full knowledge that he bonds
WP a 'mrt of tho prire of lh"
TeJot I"m 1"h nd invest -
tiona hnve disclosed that leaU
four cabinet members hart Know-
edge of the tranKs.ctlop
Will Hays veith 'a fence, dispos
ing of stolen goods nnd aiding the
thief to find n market, some of
the bonds were sent to Secretary
Mellon. He refused to disclose
thiit information and gave them
back to the fence."
Casualties of the
Air Service
MANSTON, Kent, England, Mar.
H Wl Two Hrltlsh officer wer
killed today In the crash of their
airplane after ft collision with a
second plane.
The second plane auoreedrd In
landing safely.
GAME 7:30