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o o The Weather tedicticm Probable rain. .MiUimutn yctuentajr S3 Minimum today 41 . Precipitation 01 M EDFORD 2 Q W Year Ago UNE toily Twenty-third Yew rfcly Pifty-aiith Year TWELVE PAGES MEDFORD, ORlXiOX, THURSDAY. MAHCII -!). 1028. No. 7. MA B . . . IMaylllSQM CABIN Stars 'and Stocks Split A Happy Moment Learning to Live . Obregon, Be Warned By Arthur Briabant (CopyTteht, 1927, by New Tork Evening Journal, Inc.) j Pmm &mltll Afrien usdrnnn-! fiers send word the preut star l'ova Pictoris has split in two. AVe are excited on this little itfth ball when a li; stock splits two for one. it we 51 't'rc a few billion miles nearer fJova I'ietoris, Ave should have new meaning for ' "split." ! How safely we livp in our little j isomer of space with fearful : cataclysms' around ' us. We j jilinuld be grateful. ' I a The bears had a happy mo- j Mncnt Tuesday while Wall j i 1 t.i 1 . 1.1 I OT-. !jb(l shares ot stock, hreaHin" -ill records sinee tlio lie"inniiiL' i- . I 1 M - , pi time, ana ii-cnemi .uoiwrs ;droiped nearly twenty points, fjhey were nut so happy when it clind)ed back again above 190. As Mayor Thompson, of ; Chicago, would say, any ml "vicc not to sell the stock mar ket short "goes double" for General Motors. j Some poor bears celebrated by selling "Radio" short. Hulls were ready to buy n quarter of a million shares of that stock. The bears' paws were burned, Radio rose $12. i PASTK THIS IX YOUR 'tt tvvi,'JT nnv'T r' AM ue to democratic acts oi ooin leg JIAT. l.Whbl, DU.N 1 "A.U-. administration." JtliE, DON'T SELL SHORT. American business men arc learning to prolong life. John D. Rockefeller, one of the hard est workers, who has given away half a billion, is well on his way to 00. George F. Ra ker, one of the world's three tidiest men, celebrated his 84th birthday Tuesday and will soon come back from Georgia to Xcw York, tired of being away from business. 5 In the old days of Jay Gould fighting business men did not live long. They had not learned how to eat or when to exercise , ; President Obregon thinks Mexico needs prohibition. Al cohol, savs he, "is the enemy of ' ... tlie repuouc. 11 lie win pin on a bullet-proof suit and in Jjiect sonic of our better boot leg districts, he will find that bootlegging can also be an en emy Obregon should take away from Mexicans their horrible pulque, close to wood alcohol, and persuade Mexicans to drink lipht wine and been ' , tit he tries absolute prohibi tion, he will .succeed no better lHan wc do, and will be getting bootleg pulque, if possible even worse than the original article. m Ogden Mills, assistant secretory of the treasury, tells Yole boys that newspapers are important and "raise or lower the tone of national life." It is national life that raises or lowers the tone of newspopers. Civilization creates them and they reflect civilization, they don't crc tru, It. i "The editor who thinks ho makes the world go round Is In the class with the editor of "Sklhhereen E'jle" who said, "We have our eye on the czar of Kusslu." Vnlted States Senator Deneen. according to the Associated Press, attended the funeral of "Diamond Joe" Ksiiosltn, notorious Rang lead er murdered by his followers. Now Deneen's Chicago house Is bombed, presumably by those that disapproved of Eposlto. It seems dangerous for Vfyed States Senator lu attend fun.'rols of gang leaders, even wher they are good Republican workers. Postmaster John M. Garrett, of , fense of his atllitude at that time, Mnulton, Iowa, believes there Is no i that Ihe scheme of turning public Bch thlni? as "the ether," there- nil lands over to private corpora fore radio cannot travel through lions was fathered by leads of ether. "I am Instructed to offer i the democratic nartv. with P cre- tn thousand dollars In gold for sub-; (Continued on Tape Four. 0cond Btctiop) AOTIWITirP 11 . If I- ! Ul UrUILLU'. ;',r. ' f "Ns- ; i UNDER FIREi :-4: :;S&.;4 Senator Robinson Charges I -. t?V AUVj Senator Robinson Charges1 Scandal Fathered by! Democratic Leaders Long Before G. 0. P. Meet Vicious Circle of Con-1 spiring Officials Shown! Quick With Denials. WASHINGTON, Mar. 29 AkuIii liriuBlin I lie oil scandal In 1 tlm Keuute floor toduy, Senator Hubinsim, repulillcun, liiillanu, lie- clured that "Hie conHplrucy" to get i conlrol of the niival oil reserves was not formed iu I'lilciiKo dnrinK the t-eimlilicaii convention of VJ-H, j "but In Hie city or iiHliinKton dur ing the democratic administration ot President Wilson." "It was participated in." he said, "by high officiuls of that adminis tration, and aided and abetted by still other democrats of hih stand ins. "The record tdiojvs that the wholesale InfluencinK of federal of ficials, i including cabinet officers and their important assistants, by private oil interests was in full bloom under the Wilson adminis tration and that lite exhaustion of the nation's and the navy's supply ' ,,f nil u'no fllrpilllv WPlI Ullllpr WilV KeviewliiK what he described as . . some of the sullent facts regarding oil leases, ItohinBon first centered bis attack on Josephus Daniels, na val secretary In the Wilson cabi net. He claimed it wad known that j "when the oil scandal first broke Secretary Danleis, along with oth-1 ers of the former Wilson cabinet were running for cover and issuing i futile denials of complicity in leas-1 ins the oil reserves of the United j States." I The Indlananan said that no sooner had President Wilson ap proved the leasing act ot February 25, 1920, than Daniels suggested to congress that the law be amended j "so as to give mm ansouue power to be used ot his discretion over all naval oil reserves existing then or which should be crated later. "No one can claim that this proposition was in the interest of conserving the oil that was in the ground." Robinson shouted. "No sooner was the amendment which he wrote, and which the democratic senators In this body supported, operative than he begun : to permit the navy oil I to . be . taken 'out of reserves by private oil cor- porotlons He did this without advertising for or permitting competitive bids. He did it merely by holding con ferences. Asserting that Daniels hod given leases for 55 wells to the Hoston Faciflc Oil company and the Con solidated Mutual Oil company in reserve No. 2 in California, Robin son declared that if this were de fensible, Daniels should have ad mitted his course and defended it "instead of assuming the role of injured honor and righteous indig nation and proclaiming that lie had fought every propsitlon to permit the oil in the naval reserves to be taken out by anybody. "So far as the official records show," Robinson continued, "Frank lin K. l.nnc, secretary of the inte rior in the democratic administra tion, was opposed to the naval oil reserve lands to private interests i to be exploited by them. j "Tim record showes that August ; 1, Iftl", Secretary Iane communi-i cated with other cabinet members, namely, Secretory of the Navy Dan- j iels. Secretary of War Haker. Sec-! retary of Labor Wilson, Secretary I of Commerce lledfleld and Secre tary of Agriculture Houston to the I effect that novol reserve No. 2 was being drained by private w ells lo-: cated Just outside Its borders and . that an offset territory ought to be , leased fit once to private corpora-; tfons. This recommendation was in the form of a letter. "The ate Senator IjiFollette made the charge' that the leasing act of which the senator from Mon tana w-as the leading advocate, was j a meare in favor of the Standard ! Oil company and other private oil corporations. "It was In an attempted answer ! this direct ond serious charge ; of the late Senator liFnlleltp th.nf i I the senator from Montana, Walsh, I divulged the fact, offered in de- tary l.ane as the head of the move- -'ment,'' Robinson continued. jQ (ConUnutd oa vg Four, FIRST INTERIOR VIEW OF S-4 AFTER First view of the Interior of navy yard of the victims' bodies. awaited death. Wife and Father of Pilot Go Aloft To Visit Him Flor ida Weather Aids Attempt To Break Endurance Flight Record. JACKSONV1I.LK, Via., Mar. 29. (P) Aloft 30 hours ut 1:30 p. m. and well beyond the htilfway mark of their projected 56 hour world endurance record flight. Captain (ieorge Htiltleman and Kddle Htin son continued to fly easily over their thirty mile course today. Mrs. Ilaldeman. Halde in a n's father and Stlnson's father went skyward lo "visit" the aviators during the day, making the trip in a plane of the Tropical Airways, Inc., which is being used lo carry weather reports lo the endurance ship. They waved and shouted encouraging messages to the filers. JACKSON VI IjLK BKACII. Klu., Star. 29. (P) Their huge liluek nnt) orange monoplane Hulling usily back and forth nlong its appointed 3U mile h( rip of Houshoi e, Kddle Stinson and Captain (ieorge llalde mun toduy entered well Into the second day of their attempt to wt a new v91ld record for Nustuined flight. At 11 a. in. the plane had been in the air more than 2h hoftrs. The morning sun revealed the monoplane at a greater altitude than that maintained yesterday and aviatoi-H explained that went winds during the night had forced the craft fnr the height of 2n0f feet. The engine wuh functioning Hinoothly and as the burden of gasoline ever lightened, the plane's performance 1 ml irn led hucccsh, should weather conditions con tinue good. By nine o'clock the nkiea cleareo and Hpring-like weather prevailed. Since taking off yesterday Ht 7:37 a. m. only one message ha been dropped. ThiH note picked out nf an empty ganoline can dropped overboard assured the ground watchers that "all Ih well." U Al rWAV MADl? ri'AI ITDFMnNTQ PHI! RRFM PflV unLi Tim mnm u nu i ULinuniu uiiiluiilii mi nnRinirTcn DV'nnnADn riomcv imnv a iioit uumrLLiLU Di:iLimiumunLi liiiui m vioil nTiiinnii m nir ati i i iiiiniirti uinr m mm is nsun mw m mm, mi iu m tf'he steady drone of tho mono-!11 nlunp kint ltih1.hlt..tu nf tho beach ciSmv nwake throuifh miwt of the night but It gave constant assurance of the welfare of the fliers and their craft, , io back mm RAXfSOn. Maine, .Mar. !!t A MIteen delegates to the national republican convention at Kansns City. In Junf, uninstructecVbut deputy I rilted States attorney at avowedlw favorable to Herbert I l'ortl;.nd. according to Senator Hoover Wi- the presidential noml- ' M Nhi y. Iitrl t Attorney Ceoig nation, were chosen today by thelNeuner Is In Washington, but h Maine republicans In state and (lis i could not be ra h-d today for o irici cnventlons here. 'itottment on tho matter. the rammed submarine S-4 after the removal at Charlestown, Mass., This shows the battery room, where pait of the trapped crew calmly . Corporal To Get $5300 For; Hugh's Arrest, but Must Wait Until Captors of ,Twins Decided Riddi ford Leaves For East On Official Business, i SPOKANE, Wash., Mar. 29. (tf5) The government has not yet paid any of the rewinds offered for the rapture of Kay, Koy and Hugh De Autremont, notorious banditti, who are serving life sentences in the Oregon penitentiary. This was an nounced from the office oW'harles , Klddirord, I iUUmI Stutort iqptofUee inspector for the northwest district. j (It was reported here Monday I by the district attorney that $5;ii0 reward had been paid for the cap- ! ture of Hugh DeAutremont). It was stated at Mr. Kiddiford'H office that a "Corporal KeynoIdH was responsible for the capture of Hugh, but that h Ih reward has not yet been paid. Rewards for the apprehension of all three bandiu will be paid at the same thm. It is understood here that the govern ment will base payment on I he re - port of Itlddlford, who was active in the manhunt. Mr. Itlddlford is now on his way to Washington, I)..!""" """' C, on official business, the nature j" f,w "ilnuies later shouting "I of which has not been announced, i "aw llln'- h""k wl,h . 'me. He had a pistol In one hand, TO GET LETTER;. PORTLAND. Ore., March 29 The utterances of Judge Arlie Walker, made from the bench of the Multnomah county circuit i-uti't yesterday when he de nounced club women' of Port la wl who had taken an active Inlej cHt in the prosecution of 'vice cases. I resulted today In the1 drafting if ,clM'r 10 Juufi a iser by the I "Xerutive committee of the I'ai- ent-Teachrs' association, charac- i lpr'zlnp nlH a I c in e n t Ul" n Ior ! WApillXfiTO.V. March 21. Wi I L I.y!e I'.iue of Hnleui. Is slated to rueceed .Millar ET AIDES OIL SMIRCHED VICTIMS' REMOVAL Lone Eagle's Desire For Quiet Broken by Kiddies, Who Find Him In Base ment at Pistol Practice Flies to St. Louis Today. ST. LOUIS. Mar. M M') Colonel Charles A. l.lndhereh landed at Lambert field, St. Louis, at 2:82 p. m. todaydoy. He left Lexington. Ky., this morning. LKXINf 1TON, Ky., Mar. 29. (A Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh hop - ped off today. His destination was said to he Cincinnati. Despite his desire for quiet the flier was stormed this morning by a group of children who discovered that lio was at the home of Dr. Scott Breckinridge, brother of Col. Henry Breckinridge, Lindbergh's personal attorney. tindy enjoyed, here In the blue grass section of Kentucky, one of tin most rent tul nights he has known since initiating a new era hi ijviatiun ii- spanning the Allan- t)c rrom .New T 01 k to fails. The children found Lindbergh In 1 ",0 '"'Xement of tho homo at tar - I Bl'' l"eil. e. The only gh I In Ihe K''ou" K" lne r"'"t received and and took my hand In the other. I was frightened but It was worth It." A boy said "he did not say any thing .10 ine, but 'hello' und when told him I was going to be an nviulor when 1 grew up, ho Just smiled." WASIII.VdTO.V. March The department of agriculture 1 appropriation bill, carrying about 1 3S. 0011, (Mm for nexl y tlvltlen, was passed lodiiy by the , senate. , WASIILNfiTOX. ii I'll 20. fP; The .McXiii-y-HiiiiKen farm re-; 'lief bill was mode the order of ; business in tho 'senate bite today itmd cbalrnnin Mc.Nary of the; agriculture comniltlee announced ' ) he would bring it up for octlon Jon Monday. ; j MAKSHI-'IKLI). Ore.. Mnr. 29 (a.,- (' w. Itobertsnn. head of the ! M'Oilrhrist nsjKlnmttlli Kails Laundry company,; ls here making arrangements to take over the huildlng formerly oc- three subordinate officers, charged copied by the defunct Coo Hav I with the murder of negro prls stem laundry. Hi- will go to Han oner, were denied writ of habeas Francisco to purchase machinery i corpus today by Circuit Judge H. for the new laundry. F. Atkinson, o n unn , A h UK i P U, U. UUMIIU E AVuLM L IU ! I'M hoilu rui i , U i 'CHI' VOTE1 ! Request Filed For 500 Mar shals at Primary Polls! i April 10 Sen. Deneen 1 On Way From Capital i New Threat of Bombs I Phoned to Candidate. j CI1ICAOO. .March 2!. ( The I I'nittd States government today was a.sked to guard Chicago polls t April 10, .when voters mark their '. answer to a turbulent, bomh ; studded primary election cam- ; paign. rainier Anderson, U. marshal, has forwarded to Wash ington a recommendation that he be authorized to use 500 deputy marshals In Chicago that day. The additional officers would have to be specially deputized and An derson asked that he be given that authority. The bid for federal action was generally construed as a reply from the Senator Deneen faction of the Republican party to the bombing of the senator's home and that of Circuit Judge Swan- I ium lUUiiuiiy ingiii. 1 iiu uu 1 1 itinera I have been blamed on followers I of Mayor Thompson, and State's i Attorney Crowe wing. The latter group has been equally Insistent that Deneen followers themselves tossi'd the bombs to arouse ln- l te-rest In the Ueneen campaign. Mayor Thompson s comment '-on the report that federal officials had interested themselves in the election, brought this statement: "Charles S. Deneen was state's I attorney and made himself gov ernor by the indictment roiiM). In my opii ion, the people under stand his o.d trick. ! "Deneen can bring in all the ! dry agents and deputy marshals j he wants, but he will no more get ; the people to vote for his fol lowers than Attorney General Calrstrom (Deneen candidate for re-election) did when ho sent word to our headquarters that If we would not mark our ballots for ltl 111 he would indict our friends. "We sent word back to him. Ve are not In Russia, and you run go to blazes.' " Senator Deneen was to reach Chicago today from Washington . to take personal charge of the I campaign. Thus far he has been 1 inactive personally in the Chicago situation. Threat of a second attempt upon Judge Swansea's life was made by telephone to the Swan son home last night. A man's voice asked Mrs. Henry Klaas, Judge Swanson's daughter, where her father was speaking. When she replied that she did not know, the voice said: "This Is the fellow who bombed your house two duys ago. Tell tj10 ju,B0 that the next time we i wltl do a better iob " i state Senator llermun Haen- . scn, Deneen candidate for vice 1)r(,HU,.nt KKhtb ward committee man, was a n o t h e r who was threatened. An anonymous letter said his home would tie bombed and ono of his children "got." Haenisch announced last night that he had taken his three chll dVn from school and sent them out . of the city until the pri maries are over. HELD AS THIEF HALIOM, Ore., Mar. 2(1. W) A uood memory for faces enabled Mrs. Alnin Hchlmmel, food demon strator, to cause Ihe arrest here loday of W. J. Miller, wanted In .Portland on a charge of stealing diamonds from her, valued at ! $1,0110. i Miller has been serving a two- year sentence at the slat epenl- lentlary on another robbery charge, He was paroled In W-hruary. Mrs. Hchlinlnel noticed too man on the street here today, recognized him as the man who robbed her, ond bad officers make the arrest. The man will bo held hero until I'ort- land officers arrive to tuko him In ...!.. MIAMI. Flu., Mar. 2ft. (4) Po i lice Chief H. LeHlle Quige and Leap Year Union ? " Folks know it's leap year in Bloomington, III, The reason? The city has had its first real leap year wedding with the bride tak ing the initiative.' Betty Maurcr, 20, and James Milton Kiddie, pals from childhood, eloped to Chicago and were wed. Betty proposed, procured the license, and arranged all the dtails of the affair. Boy, 14, Slaps Teacher Who Twitted Him About Love Affair, and Then Dies Father Flees From Vengeance of Student Mob. I'RHZEMYSL, Poland, Mar. 29. (fl'J Hlotlug, during which a num-1 her of students were wounded, broke out here following the sui cide of one of their comrades. Kranz Hrokuwski, 14, threw him self under the wheels of un ex- press train Tuesday because he had t been chafed by a professor for his ( youthful love for an unnamed ac- I tress. The youth slapped tho face nf the teacher, and tho student's I father, hearing of this, said: "There Is no placo for you at home." Stricken with sorrow and shame Sroliowskl wrote farewell letters to the professor, hla father and his comrailes, saying that life wus a disappointment lo Ium. All the schools und colleges were closed yesterday to commemorate his death. After the youth's funeral, which was attended by evory school child in the whole city and thousands of their elders, the students rushed to the school building and demol ished all the furniture. They did the same to the professor's home. Hlollln broke out ond police wound ed n number of students. The youth's father, who Is a high Polish orrirlul, was compelled I lo flee for fear of vengance at the j hands at comrades of his son. ASSAULT CASE IN PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 29. fP) Police admitted loday that they were iiU standstill In their Inves tigatlo.of circumstances that led to Mrs. Opal K. Kirk wood being re moved to a hospital Wednesday night after a reported disturbance at her home. When she reniovercd late yesterday she dented that she had been attacked hy an unknown! man. Her husband, Robert Kirk wood, last night denied renorts that I jho und his wifo were on the verge j & n . I 1 11 11 1 HIM 1 "SSSA, "V S II I IIULr HIV I I Z POLISH YOUTH SUICIDES AND RIOTS FOLLOW PORTLAND BAFFLES Inn rm i rn UHALLtU I W k A - J BY WALTER Mr. Pierce, In Long Letter, Asks Mr. West Where He Stands On Issues Other Than Prohibition Merger Campaign Hits Dryness of Coolidge Is Attacked. PORTLAND, Ore.. Mar. 29. (P) Walter M. Pierce, former governor lit A letter today replied to Oswald West, former governor, who had asked Pierce whether reports cir culating In private beer circles," thut Pierce favored Governor Al fred K. Smith of New York for the democratic presidential nomination were correct. Pierce said he was for Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. He launched Into a personal attack on West, asking him "is it not a fact that you are a lobbyist for special interests?" Pierce also outlined his own political principles: "World peace, universal law en forcement, electric power control, party regeneration and farm relief. "I wonder by what authority you assume, to speak for the dem ocrats of Oregon?" Pierce wrote. "If my memory serves me' cor rectly, you advocated Herbert Hoover eight years ago for the presidency. "Many wonder today where you stand on Issues besides prohibition. For Instance, power control. You are today advocating a merger of the electric companies In Portland. A few yearn ago you advocated a merger of the telephone companies which resulted in greatly increased rates. . . . "Is It not a fact that you are a lobbyist for . the special interests and uppeared at every recent ses sion of the Oregon legislature In their behalf. "Is it not a fact that you op posed and hampered my adminis tration in every way possible after I refused to allow the state to guarantee the Interest upon Irriga tion bonds In districts In central Oregon In which you were person ally Interested? - - "Is It not true that special in terests in one guise or another are more potent in securing legislation at Halum thun the political parties under whose banner the politicians arc elected to Office? "And, Is It not also true that you, a former governor of this state, are today the outspoken champion of those special inter ests? "Many people wonder today what can be your real reason for attempting to create a breach In the democratic ranks. "I am a dry democrat and be lieve with all of my soul in the principles of government us enun ciated by Jefferson, Jackson, Uryan and Wilson. "From an ungle of vision I can see five great issues before the American people. "First, the greatest of American Interests Is world peace. Shall we have international peuce, or are we going to allow selfish Interests to embroil uo In another great world war which may result in the downfall of our present marvelous civilization. We may not be forced to become a militaristic nation. "Second, Universal law enforce ment including prohibition, educa tion of the masses to the value of prohibition, no suspension of our efforts to enforce the law while temperance education, In the home, school and church Is being pushed to the uttermost. "Third, electric power control In the Interests of the people and not in the Interest of a few business and political manipulators for the multl-mllllonatres. "Fourth, political party regen eration. Everyone can easily see that this experimental form of government of ours Is In serious danger unless this era of political corruption is speedily ended. Prin ciples must be our rallying point and not necessarily men or party. Corruption follows In the wske of plutocracy which controls party government. - i ( "Fifth, farm relief which Is necesMary to save the present farm 9pulatlon front sinking to peas antry. "For eight years we have had In the White Houho an administration that professed to be dry, still both presidents have kept at the bend of the prohibition department un ex-dlstiller of whiskey nnd the largest owner of whhdtey In the United States today. He has made no honest effort to enforce the prohibition law. "I believe It Is the duty of every drmoernt to come to the primaries (Continued on Po Four O