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Medfoed Mail Tmbune Weather Year Ago fltiiltii -OiMUcloiial rutii. Maxlimim ycMtrnluy 5. Minimum today - " Pi-eciplUUloii 13 Maximum .Minimum Dally Twenty-third Yew Weekly Ki(ly-iith Year MEDFORD. O'.iKOOX. MONDAY, APRIL 1b 19S. No. Today By Arthur Brisbane CO-PILOT 0 7LANE llie WeatW BRE They're Here and Welcome. Hoover and Rubber. Sir Drummond's Idea. VShen Lasker Obliged. MAY LINDBERGH LIKES HIS NEW PLANE PLANE 10 NEW YORK Ice Breaker Nears Greenley Isle Fitzgerald Com pletes First Leg of Return Trip German Flyers Re main With Stranded Ma chineNew Storm Arises OTTAWA. April 1 (!. (Canadian Press.) The government Ice break- i Montcalm, bound for the rescue iopyright, 1927, by New York Ktsdidk journal, ino-i BARON I1UEXEFEU) and Koehl, Ci e r in a u fliers, iiutl James Fitzniauriee, the Irish man, tiOT TIIE1UC, and Unit's the main thing. The Atlantic is ehented o tis prey this time. All that skill and courage could accomplish the fliers did. Lack of fuel forced tliem down. The immediate need of air planes is fuel more compact, more power, less weight. Elec tricity doesn't weigh anything, can be sent through the air without wires. J Home day the flier will travel in an electrically driven ma- iite, picking up wireless jtver from the earth. Airtoini'liiln T A J 1Y A T? D of the marooned ti'uiis-Allantio OILi IAHOKAlUHlbb 31 A 1 this afternoon to have broken FIND A WAY TO GET MORE ENERGY INTO A GALLON OF GASOLINE. : I Commander Byrd, fine type of American sailor on water and in the air, wired to Ger- inany that American avtiators arc overjoyed. "I knew Ger many could do it." That's the 1-ight spirit and expresses the good will of all America, ii ;.J In Duron von Huenefeld you will see a man who knows how to fight as well as fly. lie iwent through the war, and not in the rear. Six times he went utiug table and came He carried as mas cot a .shamrock that his Irish friend, Fitzmauriec gave him, ;" and Fitzmauriec rccicved from Yon Huenefeld a tiny, one-inch longsilycr doll that the Ger ; man carried through the war. I away the Ice that hud blocked Us passage and to be within thirty miles of Greenly island. A message received by govern ment telegraph service said it was now intended to take the Bremen to Quebec on the Montcalm and not flv it mil as it hail earlier been I planned. ,;m tlie rear. Uo the opera' alive. 1 I1KRLIX. April 16. (IP) Mrs. Hermann Koebl, wife of Captain Koehl. will sail April ID for the United States. The ship will touch at Coburg where .Mrs. James K. Fltzmnurice will be taken aboard. Both women plan to meet their plier husbands In New York. QU12HEC, April 16. (By the Ca nadian Press.) Captain James Fltzmaurice, co-pilot of the trans Atlantic monoplane llremen, who loft Greenly Island lu a relief plane with C. A. (Duke) Schiller, this morning, landed nt Natashquan ut 3:30 this afternoon. , '-Captain Fitzmaurice and Schiller will remain there tonight. Schiller and Dr. Ixnils Cuislnler went to Greenly Island from Murray, Que., in a plane of the Canadian Trans continental Airways, arriving last night. Natasqunn is about 200 miles from Greenly Island on the north shore of the Oulf of St. Lawrence, almost exactly half way between fjp ' ' mit 111 Gangster, Wounded Unto Death, Creeps 1 o bide or Bride SEEK TRANSOCEANIC AIR TRIP 1 I.OS AXOKLKS. Apr. 16. -fr; (Hi After being nhot down In j what police Haiti was warfare between rival liquor gangs, William Norton, 24, last night Kro pod his way homo hi the j desire to spend the last min- uips of his lift with his brldo of throe months. f Hhe told the officers that who opened the door when she j r neanl HomfMine rumltlinn at the doorknob. Her husband 4 HtauKored In, called for a doc- tor and then said 'It won't do any good. I just came home 4 to dift with you." Although physicians at the 4 receiving hospital said Norton 4 4 had not a "chance to live, the 4 4 man refused to make any 4 4 statement to the police. 4 4 "Thls'll bo more interesting 4 4 for you guys to work out than 4 4 ero.ss-word nuzzles." he told 4 i 4 his ueHtloiters. 4 4 4444444444 OF POUR JAUNTi rt ' " - v Al BILL mm Branded As 'Political Ges "ture Failing to Meet Le gal Requirements, and Certain of Veto Robin ' son Splatters Oil Taint On Wilson Regime. Above, the pride and joy of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's heart his new monoplane, a sister ship to the "Spirit of St. Louis." With him, beside the plane, at San Diego, Cal., is B. F. Mahoncy presi dent of the corporation which built both planes. Below, an informal pose of the colonel peering down into the driver' compartment through a section of the windshield. DENVElt, pill 10. HP) Flylnir his new brougham cabin mon oplane, which carried him to lenver fiom the tlrand Canyon yes terday, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh hupped off again this morn ing without announcing Ills destination. He nosed his craft southeastward. Colon! ' Lindbergh -was- unttcco.iipaniedi'--- After two false starts.' in which I'.o encountered head winds, tire "lone eagle" took' off at 10:03 a. m., leaving his two companions. Harold llixby and Har ry Knight of St. Louis to continue the? flight in separate planes. It was first report e"d Colonel Lindbergh was headed for Colo rado Springs, but aviators at f.owry field believed ho would fly to another airport in the city, where a him to start with his passengers. Men escape slowly from old j Seevn l.l.d. and O-nly and belief in fetishes. News that rubber is drop ping and may fall to 15 cents a pound means a great deal to American owners of J4,0O(!,(MIO automobiles, using 96,000,000 1 f h1' ires They should remember to thank Secretary Hoover for the collapse of the Uritish rubber trust that once got rubber above $1 a pound. Long ago Mr. Hoover began lliis attacks on the ingenuous r British plan to make American buyers of tires pay the British war debt to the United States. He showed what the plan was ami now it blows up. That is a fair sample of what they call "Mr. Hoover's pro British inclination." It would be a good thing if we could plant some 'pro British" stuff of the Hoover brand in some of our other statesmen especially those the Canadian Airways w h I c h landed at Seven i Islands this morning after a stormy trip from Murray Bay with news paper men and photographers, will ! remain at Seven Island overnight. mm unDDfip nov Ainr win ULnmv iiuimuh ium niuL miiu i QrKHKC. April 1 G. Ity i Canadian Press) The Dominion service officer here an-: nounced the departure of Com mandant Kitzmauiiee from Greenly. Island for Father point, Quebec. ! In an airplane due there at 3j p. ni. today. This would connect with a train today for Quebec to. Montreal. Tho plane is piloted I by C. A. (Duke) Schiller. AHRIBUTED TOi SHOT CHICAGO FANATIC VIEW! BAILIFF HELD STOLI', I'omerania, German y, j April 10. (!) Oenerul Umberto ' Xohile brought his polar dirigible : Italia through a night of head j winds and electrical storms, land ing at Sedilin airdrome, six miles from here, this morning. The Ilullan airship with which J he hopes to explore north polar re-' glons, landed at Sediiln at H:3ii a. m., and was Immediately placed In the hangar. It had taken the craft 30 hours and 40 minutes to , com ,&x)m Milan, which Is about! U80 miles from here by air line. Apparently the only damage suf-1 fered by thu ship was the tearing j of the left stabilizer. 1 "Wo bad a terrlhlo storm over ! the Carpathian mountains," Oon-1 longer runway would enable i erH Kohllo told The Associated rress correspondent, "and I am ex ceedingly proud of the Italia. She . bchavod perfectly. 1 am quite con- fldent ' tho North Polo expedition will he a success. "The motors and our Instru ments functioned perfectly luspite I of electric storms, so 1 am conft- I dent that (he Italia-Is everything 'that could be wanted for the expe dition. I "Tho Italia was In real danger only (luring the electrical storm, hut I never for a moment though! of turnip.-? back. The crew was ex cellent, the best 1 over had." I During their stay here the Ila : Hans will he guests of the German government. The expedition will These two young Americans, Mr.i. Esther Wanner, left, and Miss Mildred Johnson, right, flew from Bremen to Berlin to persuade tlwi German aviators Koehl and Loose to take them as passengers on their non-stop flight to the L'nitcd State:). Photo, above, shows them at Templchot Field, Berlin. SOCIALISTS OF D'AUTREMQNTS LAND ACCLAIM NOT CAUSE OF THOMASLEADER JURISTS PLEA Figure in Passaic Textile High Court, As Citizens, Strike and Avowed Paci-j Who Recommended Life fist, Nominated for Presi-j for Willos and Kelley, Not dency Once Charged: influenced By Sentences With Rioting. Passed Upon Siskiyous Slayers. WASHINGTON, April 10. (P) Declaring the new McNary-Haugen bill is a "mere political gesture," and predicting its veto it passed by congress, two members of the house agriculture committee, Rep resentatives Fort of New Jersey, and Pratt of New York, both Re publicans, today (lied with' the house a minority report protestln.'; aguinst enactment of the measure. "We' are absolutely convinced that the bill as reported falls tar short of meeting the essential ob jections raised by the president In his veto message ot last year's bill," the report said. Fort last session was one of tho lenders of the unsuccessful attempt made by administration forces to defeat tho measure in the house, while Pratt consistently has op posed it. Tho two also stressed that tho new measure failed to meet consti tutional objections raised against the old bill by Attorney General Sargent. WASHINGTON, April 16. (re charges that the Salt Creek oil fields were leased by the last Dem ocratic, administration in the face of report of the assistant attorney general that the claims of the pros pective lessees wore based on fraud, wore made In the senate to day by Senator Robinson, Repub lican, of Indiana. Ni:V YOItK, Apr. 16. (!') The I socin!lt national convention today I QCEtlKC. April Hi. Pi Wire-I less operators at Clarke City this! afternoon said that Commandant j Flt.maurice of the crew of the trans-Atlantic, monoplane' llremen. j had left Greenly Island in a Cana- . dlan Trans-Continental Airways company plane. west I'LAINS, Mo., April 16. The Irish aviator will be taken " h'h 1 J,"'-NB-either to Father Point or Quebec; OT Itevengo and financial as weather conditions permit and ' troubles were two motives nd- wlll proceed when possible to New I vnneed today by Prosecuting At- York. His companions In the- ' h pressed his trnnu.AMnntln fliirht Itnrnn tOtl the explosion mat uesiruycu dance hall 40 persons. Green suggested that J. M. Wel--r. 47. who rented a garage be low the dance hall, may have been responsible for the blai'V Garademan's Firm Oppo- Police Kept Vigil Over Fede-pav om- for supplies which nicy j nominated North n. Thomas or 3 I will pnrrv into the north when the v..... v-.-.i. I t ral Building, Until Ac-''1",1,1" " ' f"r Kln , Spitsbergen, where the vessel Cltla CUbCU I UI IICU UVUI lU (i,,norl,i .0bl;e una made ar- C4ifn Pnni-to frm Tpiol rangemcnts to say In tho polar re Otaie uOUltS I0T I rial l aimm the remainder of soring and i tl,n l,,..r nurl .if (I... nmmor nun. I Federation lf Labor. Xl ' .... ....... " , . mOnin rating from icings May. from sition to Dancing Given As One Motive for Blast Acid Marks On Face! May Have Been Accident Shielded Nearly From Prosecution. ! there the numerous exploring ex I pedtltlons will set out fan-like in various directions. Huenefeld, nnd captain Koehl main on the Island and will at-1 tempt to repair the plane so as to j complete the flight to New York, j The plane which is bringing i Commandant Fitzmnurice from the, lonely islnnd. where the llremen j landed l-rtnay. ts mat iiown io .. . inMnWll them veatprdnv from Marrav by 11 r " ' . that junk brand new American n, ru.sinier and c. A. (Duke, ! ; .r' may" have U warships when Iiritain wants it 'Schiller. jnim to Mlk.1)1(V weiser. a devout ri'RTISS FI KI.D. NKW YOUK. i churchnian, was kUicu in me ex . n 1 ..L..m iin hml mil nmde DUhlic 44. 1 April ib. irft nena ana r,m- i-'--i- - Sir Drummond Kraser. vice presi-jardt Junkers, daughter and son expression of his hatred of danc- the British Institute of : of tlte (jcrman plane manufac- ins ni-ie, nm i u - Lnnrinn'a Financ lal ' Hirer, toi.k off with a nilot for in Aiion. n " fanada nt 2:13 n. m. today In opposed the Junkers tnononlane K-1S. nhlrh It wn nlnnnoH In atrin of that SO far CHICAGO, April My ron M. Cnffey, prohibition flBcnt, who has been shielded by federal of (uuthorltiCH for three weeks after a shooting William Ucatty, a rnu- here last week, killing ; n,.jimi court builiff. was surren dered to the police today. Itcatty was shot during a raid by prohibition ugents on the west side and tho affair remitted in clanh between local, and authorities. Demands of the polico for The Noted Dead NKW YOItK, April 16. OT Kllsworth Milton Slatler. who rose from bell boy to ownership of more hotels than any other man in tne worm, turn loony I dldatc for alderman last year, pneumonia ut the Hotel Pennsyl-: . utm.c.f,,). nthel!i: Hi24. He was candidate for mayor of New York In ln and was a c.tn- Ile lex. vanla, which he operated. Mr. 1 ,,, K,,.n, ,n ..in v , ,.. a Ktiitler. who was .". was owner i iu ,., , ..' federal of lhe ot(.i HItPr, inc.. which ! ,rtrl.BH ,t.r,-,. workers. lie was ' noerated hotels bearing his name , uuri,.H u.nt, ... , bis In lliiffalo. St. Louis. Cleveland, i,.,,,i -u.,,i,i , ,. SAI.KM, Ore., April 10. OT New York for president and James; w,ll!l "i"i "t H. Munrer of Heading, Pa., for vice l,l'emc court today denied that tho president. Thomas is a minister ! members ot tho court wer In-, and lecturer. Mauri-r is a member, flueiued lu iimlr attitude toward of the Heading city council and j Kllsworth Kelley and James Wil presldent of t lie Pennsylvania Stale, los by the fact that the three i k'Autremont boys were not ming led for the Nlsklyou tunnel crime. I In an. interview with news- Norman II. Thomas of New York : ,,,,,.. ,lst Thursday, Chief today was nominated for president j Ktico Hand confirmed a tele of the Culled HUUes by the nation- Krn, ont by Hradley Ewers, at ii I convention of the Socialist pnr- torney, to Governor I'atlerson, ty. Ills name was proposed by ,,. ,lt .Mmshfleld, In wlilch Louis Waldnian of New York mill .;wt ,,i !hat members of tho he was nominated by necliiiiiiitin.!g,)rcmo ,.oul.t would Individually, Thomas was the sodall-t cnndl-jM irtvalo citizens, rocomiuend ilate for governor of New York in rmim,i,1tinn f Kellev's and Wil los' sentenecs to llfo Imprisonment but that they would mako no recommendation officially as a court. - NKW YOItK, April 16. - (flt WASHINGTON, April 10. (P) Full information as to the extra cost of and the number of casual ties In American occupation of Nicaragua was asked of Secretary Wilbur In a resolution adopted to day by the senate. The resolution was offered by Senator lllalne, Republican, Wis consin, and lu Its original form It would merely have asked for the extra cost ot the Nlcarnguan expe dition. Senator Halo told tho senate Hint 21 marines had bocn killed and about 44 wounded. Senator King, Democrat,1 Utah, notified the sennlo that when tho navy appropriations bill t g a I n conicB up for action that he Intends to Introduce an amendment to the effect that no part of the appropri ation shall be usod to send or main tain American forces In Haiti. WASHINGTON, April 16. P) A bill increasing the duties on farm products under the tariff act was Introduced today by Senator Ship Bteod, Farmer-Labor of Minnesota, as "rider' 'to the tax reduction bill now before the finance committee. 4 done. dent of . Bankers, telln fcTlmeu It would be n,..,i-..i-, -,i ,.,. lu. Detroit, New vork nnd iioston j j nno bond for a time, but Hi- two days Caffey nte and slept frHt ventures were temporary : .,! li.pv rll,.,l inl,,,n., i,i, i,. structures at the rnn-Amerlrun iH un BVWed pacifist. xpositlon at Itnffalo In 190 1, and it the St. louis cx-posltion of. 1S04. fine Idea to stablish a "world storehouse of gold." All the world's gold would be put in It tot back tip the na tions on a gold basis. - Not a bad idea for Hrltaln. Of course, Mr. Kasy Mark Shylock Uncle Sam would be expected to put In his gigantic pile of gold, more than double what any other nation has. in the federal building, city of ficials being warned he could not be arrested there. A constant vigil was maintained ' outside the building, however, to 1. . . ni,,i tin see that the agent did not leave, The prosecutor pointed out also . ' . ,, , ..i It was dee ded today to end th any parts the trans-Atlantic nion- shows, to the explosion accidentally. ntiliine lirnm.n mlcltt need .,.. i.J . . v 'confident, howevjtr, that (By The Associated Press) Preparations went forward with ! accumulating seed today to res , cue the three aviators who were ' the first ever to flv an airplane Mr. Drummond kindly ponlts out j across the north Atlantic from east this would he a splendid thing for i to west, and who landed un a tiny America. We have so much gold. ; northern island cut off by Ice from sevs he. that our country Is suf- all the civilized world. fcrlna from credit inflation. Don't j The first to scale that Icy barrier direct evident Weiser might have caused He is it was not caused by gasoline fumes, ns at first supposed. Wtisers body, which was ex humed late yesterday. shortly after burial, revealed burns on the face, believed by physicians to havp been caused by acid." These, said (ireen. might have resulted while handling Held. was decided today to end the vigil by surrendering Caffey anl he was turned over to Captain William Shoemaker. Tho prohi bition agent was placed In a cell, preparatory to a formal charge of nssault with Intent to kill liclng placed against him. Fruit Prices Today SALT LA K K CITY, April Hi I (Pi Alma Katz, SO, one of lhe pin- neer railroad builders of t he west,' Is dead here following an attack I of bronchial pneumonia. Mr. Katz, horn In St. Louis In i 1IS, bad a nation-wide reputation I as a railroad contractor, and was j associated with Nelson Iteiinett In ' the construction of the Northern Pacific tunnel through the Cascade . mountains in Washington and the Twin Falls tunnel in Idaho. j E laugh; he Is serious about It. Once Albert D. Lasker, who abomniates gambling, was per suaded to play "freeze out" for the amount of a check he had won at gold from Herbert Flelshhacker, of San Francisco, l-ostng the check .In ten minutes I-asker said with deep conviction to his opponent: (Continued on Page Four) and offer assistance to the German Irish crew of the trans-Atlantic monoplane I'remen. were C. A. iDukel Schiller and Dr. Louis Cuislnler, who flew a Canadian Na tional Alrwya plane through snow and sleet Irom Murray Hny. Que bec, to Greenly Island where the Knropean aviators were marooned PANAMA A niece of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson si likely to be the first lady of Panama. Jorge Eduardo Hoyd Is a cantlldute for president. His wife was Elizabeth Polling. 4 COPENHAGEN. Pa He Hull, 1-'-year-old boy. Is hack from a trip around lb eworld In 43 days In com Schiller and Cuislnler arrived at t V , u ""-"" ; 1 Jules Verne, who wrote of such a (Continued on Page Eight) trP In 0 days. SAN FltANCIWO. April 16 Hl (Federal and Stale Mftrt't News Service) Apples: Califor nia boxes, newtown pippins, four tier, t IT.", l 2.Zr.; 3H-tler, 2lt 1 T0; poorer low as $1; Oregon unit Washington Home beauties, $2.75f?3.25: fani-, 2.r,0i 3.0n; newtown pippins, XF. 3-2f; fancy 12.7511 .1. C grnde. 22.2V wlnesaps. XF, $3.25:3.50; fancy. 12.75ft 3. Hi; Arkansas blacks, XF, 13.1 SQ 3.25; fancy, 12 .SO 1? 3. Hi. Oregon Weather. Occasional rains tonight and Tue-ilay, tnil temperature. Fresh southerly winds on the coast. PARIS. It pnahly will be kept as a momenlo on its return from the laundry. Dleudnnne Costns wore the same shirt all the way from Tokyo to Paris by air. DESERT OF GOBI I'KKINO, April K,. The ccntijif Asi'itfc expedition of liny ('Impmnn Andrews, which Is Reek ing to discover the "cradle of man" In the great (lohl destrt loft Kal guti today for Gobi. John Van A. MacMurray, Ameri can minister to China, and Mr MacMnrniy, Journeyed to Kalgan with the Andrews party and wit nesmid tlm departure of the ex plorer mi his great search. I Mr. Andrews sailed In March, I !1!7. from Heat tie to betrin prep aration for thn fourth Asiatic expe dition of (he American Museum of Natural History. One of the most striking discoveries made by his ray i field Baseball Scores if National. H. If. E. Philadelphia 1 0 0 New York 6 8 1 Ferguson. McGruw, Swootland, Walsh nnd Wilson; Walker. Fits slm mens, Chaplin and Hogan. IS. Pittsburg Cincinnati .... Grimes and wards and forth. R. H. 8 112 1 6 3 Clooch; ltlxcy, Ed Ilargrcavo, Suke- R. E. If. noston 3 12 i Brooklyn 8 8 3 I ltnbertson, Dolancy and Tay ItOSEIiritG, Ore., .April 10 W'l or. Urban; Petty and Hargreaves. l,n Aln.,-n I j.l.li.n unll,,ml nt .. .. ........... .,...,.... . , .the new Koschurg airport Sunday,, I cleared away obstructions and pro-j prfied a temporary runway. The1 field has been given standard! markings and It Is expected It will be thrown open to use In three weeks. The city recently voted $2.ri.ouO hoods for the purchase nnd improvement of the field nnd the American Legion Post Is putting In temporary improvements until per manent construction can he under taken by the city. American. R. H. E. Washington 6 10 3 Philadelphia 4 1 I. lsenl.ee and Ruol; Walbcrg and Cochrane. R. II. E. Cleveland 5 10 0 Detroit 4 10 3 I'hlc and L. Heell: Whltehlll, Smith nnd Woodoll, Hafgrave. , PORTLAND, Ore, April 111. OP) -Robert Slscho, one of 12 men ar rested In a campaign aguinst vice In Portland, v.9.it to trial today on a grand Jury 'indlclment charging a morals offense. He wao arrested In connection with a raid upon Herbert Coffin's rooms, nt which LONDON. A in o n the latest . striking discoveries made bv his time Coffin, a Portland druggist, friends of the Prince of Wales I previous expeditions lo r e n t r a I I was held on a morals charge. Cot Henry Ford, who called at St. Asia was the finding of fossilized 1 'In was sent to prison for fr"e James pslnce. I dinosaur eggs In I!t2:S), years. R. E. H. New York I H . Huston 3 6 1 Plpgras and Gruhowskl; Me Fayden, settlemeler, Garrison and Hoffman, Hevlng. LONDON, April 10. (P) Insur ance companies have been hit to such an extent through losses to horses during the atceplechasln and hurdling season that some of them refuse to accept any more such Insurance,
