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The WeauW Prediction Vnaecilcd; probable M Weather Year Ago EBFORD stumers. Maximum yesterday r.fl Maximum .. Rft Mliiliiitiin 30 Mliilmum today lreclpltatIoii 1 1 Daily Twenty-third YM MEDFORD, OKKOOX. TUESDAY, Al'lilL 17. l'J'JS. No. 26 wkiy mtj-iiitb Yr isssa Q-G'GRAB MAIL' 2DECISIQfl The Warmest Welcome. Secretary Davis Example Extra! Terrible Trust. A Bad Picture. (Copyright, 1927, by New York ETCD1DK JOUrUSl, IDC.) K. M. S t n t 1 e r, who built many hotels providing comfort hundreds of thousands, j died suddenly yesterday. Heii will meet i William Shenstone, who wrote:. Who'or lias trovcll'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has; found The warmest welcome at an inn. , Ten ynuiiK soldiers went up imccthcr in a three - engine, metal Ford airplane. The ten all jumped together, with para chutes, and all landed safely, breaking the simultaneous par achute jumping record. M Army aviators have enthusi asm, because Mr. Davis, secre tary of war, sets the example in flying, and his assistant, Trubee Davison, although smashed up in an airplane ac cident at the beginning of the war, is another constant flyer. Men arc ready to follow where their superiors lead. London worries about great newspaper trusts. Rothermere,' llcaverbrook and one or two others threaten to swallow all the n e w b ra p e r s "of Great liritain There is one consolation i" ! dealing with newspapers, the people have the initiative, ref erendum and recall. They can buy or refuse any paper and they can ruin any paper by re fusing to buy it. Thev would be better off if they had the ..me power over i elected officials. ( -f-f Rubber w orlioi a in llvn'il I tlmrrv down the Aimi.on to the I , ' . ir T."..J 1...,. )ince wnerc nenry rum nun bought rubber concessions 1 - . I llrom the state ot rara. inc 5 hear that Ilonry Fnrd pays lilix I t t i i.n.. nil i wascs lie lines una inrj nu want to work lor him. ' I-cd by real estate will-o'-the- I . n i ; 1..1 rfwisps a lot ot jMiieriuiuis Ito buy land, more or less in tlie neighborhood of Muscle Shoals, '"under the impression that Ford would come down nnd ,miikc .1 he land worm ten nines us real value. Ford did his best , Ktnn that exnensive foolish ness, lull it was inipossime. i Lord Birkenhead, one of . T nn.llu Ititnllitrnill 'statesmen, protested a s a i n s t the British film, "Dawn," showiiiR the life and death of Edith Cnvell, executed by Ocr- mans as a spy. Ini-rl Hirkenhead savs the"' Marlon county thereunder are v J.OKI nirkinnean J 1)e I)rorated an,i apportioned to question is, ''Do we desire, or g do we not desire, that n new Wra of peace should dawn in Europe?" France and other nations in the course of bitter war exe cuted women as spies. It was necessary, as part of the allies' . ,- Hbmilfl not be kept alive for Rliould not DC hCi in ntoncy-makintr jmrposcs. . The film "Dawn" should not h pxhihitprf iw this country. . . tru- knUimwiii anrarnmPtll Will trt .nniirir -iPdltion9 this year aome far into the north. orne to the Crimea the Caucasus, ome to the Crimea, the Caucasui Turkestan and Mongolia war l'OlU'V, to Kill lliroildll (lis-j coun(yi port ()latr(.ts , hool dis- ( H'eat Importance of psychology ease broimht on bv semi-starva-1 trictX road districts and other civil ; cal factors In health restoration, east. 1 r ui- i, IsnbdVlslons of the county In the and the manners, diction, voice and tlon, thousands of (icrmnn eliil-: game proportion , t)e tax,.s as- l"e of the nurse are vital Influ dren All that is part of assessed, levied and collected by the'ences In tho convalescence of the ', ... ,. I county for the year coverei byf patient." horrible Past and its memory 1 ,.h ...,-. r ,r,i,i and Kach afternoon Miss anda Cas. iContinued on i'age Four) BARON READY TO flPIMIOM WILT Mn 9 I En Rome to plaudus of world iDuCPIIHDQ IcAIIIIDCnc ui imiuh iiii l nu. l i . iluuuliu MILUIU. U BENEFITS BREMEN'S UGHIS AND JACKSON! IN ESCAPE! Ki Supreme Court Rules No Legal Foundation for Claim of State Stanfield Bill Clear Test Case May Be Appealed to U. S. Supreme Court. SAI.EM, Ore., Murch 17 (JP) The Hnto of OrcKon is not entitled to share In the Orenon and Call- fornia land grant tax refund In the counties under the Stanfield net,. aoonrillii.-r In nn noinion liv tho sll- , I neme court today. The case was that of the state tax commission against the Marion county court to recover $24,059.41, claimed by the state as its share. This, however, was only the pivot on which turned the interests of j 17 other counties lying along the SnntliPi n Pad fin railroad, inchul- ing Columbia county, and involv-! ing a total claim of the state (n ; amount of $l,34!l,00O. The supreme court opinion was written by Justice Bean, concurred hi hv .TiiKti'PH Cnshow. McBride iand -Brown; Chief r 'Justice- Hand wrote a dissenting opinion, con-! in . lnatlnnu 11t1t nnd Hons??m"-,tl(t, nffirm t.wia i. h ! McMahan of the circuit court for Marion county, who dismissed nn alternative writ of mandamus. ... . ( It was preuicieu uere luuay umi . the case would be appealed to the United States supreme court. "In order for a peremptory writ j to ue issued. nays uie uiniiiwii, , "the alternative writ must disclose ! ciaar iliu. uu uib ijo.i ... ...o . j "pUh 1 cTa ndeVfh?" jof the act of congress approved I June 13, 1926. The obligation or tne county 10 contribute its portion- of the .state revenue exists only by virtue of the statute, and the valid require ment of the county to contribute to the funds or revenuen of the Mnu ..nut hnva Ha fniinmlllnn ill - legislative enatt. nient prescribes Hie duties and out millions oi a couiuv iu us iu- 1 trill niaitr. "In order for a county officer to be warranted or authorized to pay out the funds of a county to a ; state ofricial or anyone else, tne law must so require and direct. I lie county omcer muKiiiK sum disbursement must be able to nut nis inKer .nn... uie . uus the demand and prescribing Ins of- i "The ailesation of the writ . . . a nfrnfl (l,nt hv rnUHfin nf mat-1 ters on dthliiKs alleged ln the writ the county of Marlon lias receive from the United tftaten now has in its possession the sum of J-M.-054.51, which it is specifically re quired and directed by law to pay to the state of OreRon is a mere conclusion based upon other allega tions of the writ, and does not ful fill the requirement. The state has not shown a legal duty on the part of the defendants lo pay It said sum, or any part thereof." Again the opinion says: "I'nder I the plain provisions of the act of Inly 13. 1926, the funds received the county port districts, school districts, road districts and other civil sub-divisions of the county as required by the state law and no! Oregon." Chief Justice Hand, in his dls,: senting opinion, takes direct Issue ! with mils and lavs stress on sec- tlon five of the act. which "directs I that when received by the counties 'nil monpva . . shall he nro-rated ... .. ,. . , annnrunneu. ano nam 10 me siaie, paid to the state, county and each : well. the. hospital's social director. ,vmi llMivlBlnn ,., re(.p,ve theiiurs tea for the nurses ami I same amount as though the money had been paid by a taxpayer for ' each year.' i i no nor t "ion nr inn arnrn ! nrtunn rniirt tndnv tn favnr nf th ! rrtimthA In th tt.mi.t nf ih tat lp rrab a portion of the OA tax i refund monies received with satisfaction here bv county offl - t (Continued oo rafiflBU) Former Local Waitress Suspected in Liberty! Dash of Alleged Bigamist' and Forger From Hos- pital at Redding Married; at Ashland Last Winter. Itl'.tmiN'ri, l'a April 17. W) Roy I). Kelly whoae two wives met and comforted each other over Kelly'a hoanltal bed in t'hico re- cently. toilny tor.k IiIm (juanl a pistol ami escaped from the county nosppni neio. Kelly was shot through the lung by a C'hico policeman who nought tn arrest him on a ch-urge of Issu ing fictitious cheek. Two wives went to his bedside and le.irned of each other's existence. IJrought here for treatment. both wives followed him to Ked ding and police said they suspected .that. .Mis. Kelly No. 2, who wns " """" "i"1" helped Kelly to escape when 1-ee iteaiiriCK, nis guard, nan lert ue lieadrirk room. The man's condition wns believ ed too diingermm to permit a court ! hearing but physiuiaiiM said today j he prohulily ni-et.ended hi& condi- . . " Sheriff's officers nnd n nosse are eking Kelly jlnd IiIn second wife, f Mrs. Kelly No. a, was formerly jThelma Kelly, the same name but nu n.uiuun iu iivr iiUMiJiimi- unu VCI, ln thlH cily ,, Ashum, f,. SPV(.,.a, monih. helns employed as a .,llu.eaii, Khp W.1H ,!ondu f Bll.lklllB a,,,,,.,,,.,,,,,, . hout 26 yCiU.H )f ai.,, , known was " widely jM, lwPmbor she was nuirrlnl to Kelly at Ashland, who during his courtship reiu-uaented hiniselt us a wealthy orane grower of southern California. T , OAKLAND, Detectives Cal., April 17. (P) are ' looking for a man who la alleged to have kid napd Mrs. Velerla C. llall.-y. a teacher at the hj(;ll B(.h(f(1 an( Oitrfleld junior after detaining h(,r for a dn robbe(1 h(.r ot a ',,, ,anlond rln !"!'.'. ..''T.-'". p0"c' f,..mB" ..viiinj. tleorge Von Vllllins, borrowed her rlnr and her car Sunday and said he would return them Monday. He returned yesterday, she said, saying he would drive her to school. Instead, she alleges,, he drove her around nil day, men aced her with a pistol and then allowed her to go with the car but kept tho ring. , .., ,.,. . ,. . . lleving a sweet ,lce and I proper Pronunciatlon.-iolse and manners "admirable things In nurses, the '-" nosimai nas esiaoiisneq "charm school," "The modern hospital," explains Miss Ruth Nichols, actress, who is Iirlm-llinl lha ..hnnl "pai.n.nl,.a ...0 -....-w.. i leaches them elegance of thought expression F'ORTUND, Ore., April 17. (P) Ten dental offices in (lownti.-u t bulldlnKfl Were fobbed of gold on I Punday, rmlir revealoH dv. T1' ! rnhber obtained about $500 In gold ! anf The only clu obtained ia " repon mat an eide-v rnnnp nope in five hours and 2 i run i;ten Been nunoay louenns about Lallways of tho builUlub. I I K -5 n r i rs t k i "fi v . tiwiv car" lLf r. I DESTINATION-MITCHEL FIELD I ' 5 SKl:;i - 5 L&SZMT? BS1 LONG 'SI ANO. HtM YORK . ljR.V. ..JWi 111 Ml ; W xk Ali j BARON HUENEFELD ' i (JAMES FirZMA(?C ' - teAMAf KOH. mm mm m mm m wm a a k m r It I i mmm m m m m ft m m m i I1 11 I'l'l Ml ' U rorceainamsor I I (If II 1 MM) UllLObLliI bill MMord. Bound TLUUU UUM I HUL HARBOR GIVEN ..."'.r. BILL ASTOUNDS MONEY RATIONteHi silVIR. C00LI0GF Apportioned $250,000 for This Year and Work to Start at Once Coast In terests Jubilant --Other Oregon Ports Helped. fl RANTS 1'AKS, Ore., April 17. ttVt Crescent (.'ity people were Jubilant today when informed that 1(1,000 would be available this year for harbor work, the general impression having prevailed there that a maximum of $100,000 would be spent during 1928. The allocation announced today Is In addition to the tr,0,000 annual maintenance allowed for the har- bor. Work to l,o undertaken this summer will be the rebuilding of sunken portions of the sea wall already constructed anil cupping this with concrete. Ilids have been called for materials for this work. Plans now call for the construc tion of the mnjor project author ized by congress when an appro priation of $710,000 was made for the harbor. ............ T IIAHIII.MIIUS, A llll 1 (f .Millions of dollars were sot aside today by Major' flenerul Hdgar ladwln, chief of army engineers for rivers and harbors improve- ""." "U""B 'h! year ncginnmg "i' I J B ' 'tments are made from a -- " ." ' """" i" "" ly provided by congress for that ipurpos.; Projects for which jnoney was set aside fncllld .('rescihit City harbor $2.10,(100; Coos Bay $2X0.000: Coos river $2000: irinpoua river $37f,.oiin: Vaoulna bay and harbor $5000; Tillamook b:,y and bar $7''(ui; Co lumbia -nnd lower Willamette rivers, below Vancouver end Port- ,M", ' !;""";' 5,'- Hametie ' 1 . 1 aissnnie 1 r ver I'firtlHnd unit Viimhlll rlv-f-r faii'iO; n-Utz river $I(ion, SALT T,AKR CIVY, Utah, April 1 7. (A) Tolchiro Arakl; r-nKaKid In n nif-e around thi world, ar rived horo from Han Kran lro hy air rnall plane shortly before one l' k thin afternoon. He tnad niinuiew. nifiKini? at ops at and Llko en route. ltcno KI STARTED FROM BALDONNEL AIRDROME, APRIL'l2t.H WAITING FOR FAVORABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS port mail plune w:ih furred t down nt Wolf Creek, in "the nionntiiins, L'O miles lo the - north of this cily, shortly 4 ' after noon todiiy. Low clouds and slioi'taisc of fiel entised the landin-:, lieeorilini; to Pilot ! H. K. Miller. Th plane was i not dainased, nml the mail was t a It e n to Medfonl hy ! automobile. FOR OIL FACTS ! , VlSlted HOme 01 NITS, mil in Search of Liberty Loan Memo Named of G. 0. P. Data On Deals Notables j WAKIIINdTON. April 17 W) , TiJln,. M-lll II M...- f...- ; m,r ,.M1,,,(. national chairman, i vilt-l h...- i.A,m u- v,.,.r i ,.,,. h r ,i. ,,..r,i ,,t n l.ii.,..iv I hond transaction with her late husband. was given the senate Teapot Dome com in it l ee today by .Mrs. John T. l'riilt of New Yolk. Previous t'-xtiiiifniy hail been thut Hurry F. Slm-hilr turned over 11 large batch of Liberty bonds to , n,IJH , ,,,,,, ,-y .,. $51) 0111) of them lo I'lult to iHfliose' of in wiping 'out a campaign deficit. Through Prill's ici-onl (lie names of Secretary Mellon, William ;M . Holler, present r, puhl!i-nii ehalr 111:1 11. and John W. Weeks, former vei-retory of war. were lnooght Into file Iniitlh-v n ,...et Un reelnl. motiey. M rn. I'i att mid pIh liiMleved Hay cmiii1 to her hiiiiii' nn IJn ntln'H Mi fh.i.iy I'M.i uu y I 2 "and nuked me if I f the I.llM-ity Mr. Print. u Id fiinl Ihe tetoid hond?! he nave to HAYS, PAINTEDr an niunnnrn . Hi H a uurtK SAI.KM, Ore., April 17. tfl') ! On-uoii Wniilii-r. Miss Urate IMmMph of IVrtland was. Vnsettled tonight and Wednea today reappointed by Governor 'I'O'; probably rains iu weKt por I'atteraon on tl;e atate board for "on, Not much change in tem- examination and reglMtradou of 'tfraduate uurws. LL FLIGHT AIDES STARTED FROM TEMPEUHOFER AIRDROME MARCH 26 AFTER t BERLIN-. PARIS Declares It Most Extortion ate Measure in His Re- gime, and Surprised at; Senate Prosperity Re serve Bill Favorably Re ported. WASIIIN'flTON, April 17. (P) resident Coolldgo rogards the pending flood control bp 53 tho most extortionate measure taut has passed any branch of congress since he lias been president. tie believes that neither the sen- ole nor the senate committee were acquainted with Its ramifications, and he Is surprised that tho meas ure passed the senate wlllt so little discussion. The president attributes the rais ing of the administration hill from approximately CliiO.OOO.Ooo to Jl 4oi),oil0,i)iMI largely nt agitation by lumber interests. 1 While not wishing the Govern- mem to take ovor limns or lumber companies w mom just compensa - tlon the. president believes the 1 op- '" involve the government In large damages by obtaining land to carry lout the flood relief proposals. WASIIIVCTOV Aorll 17 (flu The "prosperity reserve" bill of Senator Jones, Kcpuhlican, of WuHhlnKtnn, HettiiiK up n vat pub- lit: works .program to ho lined hy the president whenever employ ment drops, wns ordered favorably reported today hy the Henute com mcrre enmmlttee. Tht hill would authorize to he appropriated. In addition to the regular Atnoimtfl for hik Ii purposea, 7:,o'n,0(Mi for Kood roada construc tion, $.".n,ooo,0Wl for river and har hora workft, $10,100,000 for flood control, and $ir,0oo,ooo for con struction of public hiiildlims. Appropriations, however, wimM he made only UHn the request if the pie-fldent when the volume of contractu awarded for construction work hati fallen 10 per cent for a three mouths' period below the average of the ronespnndlnK three months' periods of the precedlim Ihreo yearn. , per.it dre. Moderate to t r o a h nuuthcrly wlnda on tho coast. I ffin I Cffl OFF! German Members of Trans- Atlantic Plane On Icy Isle Will Join Fitzmaurice for Entry Into New York Repairs Held Impos sible. Say Late Advices. FATI1I3K POINT, Que., Apr. 17. ( Ity the Canaillnn Pretui.) The Hchiller plune with - Major Flta tnaurice uiirved at Clarke Clly nt 3; 50 p. m. today. QU1211KC. Apr. 17. (&) (Hy tho Canadian Press.) Major Fltz mnurtce hopped off this afternoon from Natashqunn fur Clarke City, en route to Murray Hay. En route he panned another Canadian TraiiH conllntMital AirwajH plane tnklnK newspapermen from Huven Islands to Urec-nly Island. Improved weath er permitted the flitihtH. MONTKKAU April 17. (&) (lty tho Canadian Press) Wire less operators In touch with Cireenley Island reported today that it had been decided that the trans-Atlantic gpionoplane Bremen could not ho repaired on tho Island. They said the - German aviators would fly to Murray Hay In a relief Diana and continue to New York in the Junkers plane now In Montreal. OTTAWA, April 17. (By the Canadian l'ress) A message from Quebec this moYnlng reported that tho crew of the trans-Atlantic monoplane llremen was on It? way from Clreenly island to Mur ray Hay In a relief plane Jointly piloted by C. A. (Duke) Schiller and Dr. I.ouls Cuisinler. Tho message read: "At 11:30 a. m. Seven Islands reports crew of Hrcmen on bonrd hydroplane piloted by Culslnler and Schiller Jointly; will arrive nt Murray llay about noon. A Junkers plane from Now York will take Kitzmaurlce, Ilaron von nnnnrni,i wl rint,.ln 1,'nnlil (II- ; n "air?o7 i 1 pairs." Tho relief plane was taken to tho Island by Schiller and Cul slnler from Murray' Hay and yes terday Schiller flew bnck to the mainland with Major James FIU maurlee, Irish member of the Itremen crew, leaving llaron von lluenefeld and Captain Koeh'l, the Cermnn crew members, on the Island with Culslnler. Schiller' and Kimnaurlee land ed 200 miles from tho Island at Natashqunn and there had been no word of their having left there until today's message Indicating they had returned to tho Island and picked Up tho C.orAans and Culslnler. Tho messngo this morning was relayed by Quehee from Seven Is lands'. It was sent to J. Onebll, general agent of tho government J telegraphs here. j qi-khkc, April 17. MV ,wn ,)',., members of Tho ! t,.llm,.Atinntle Hrcmen wero wait 1 , t aro,'ny island with Iheir j (la,nllBe(1 , t0,iy a8 the Irish member of the triumvirate was , ,, c to ,, tll0 .. ,h ' , Major James Fltrmaurleo left I Greenly Island yesterday In a , lief plane piloted by Charles (Uuke) Hehlller, to seloct the parta necessary to put the Bre men aKaln In running order. As soon aa they are aelerted, Schil ler Ik to rush them back to the llremen. Tho filers' plana then call for Captain flermann Koehl and Haron von llunefeld to fly the Hremen here to pick up Major Fitzmaurice and continue on to New York the ffoal they set for (themsetvea when they headed out over tho Atlantic from Ire land Inst Thursday. Hchiller would net as (ruble for them In his plune. "' At Montreal, where It had been flown from New York for Jiift that panose, was 'lie sister ship f tne Firemen, the Junkers F-13, with all the necessnry parta for repairing the ocean plane. It wna expected the K-13 would ho flown hre today so that ho time would be Inst in stripping off the needed partn nnd starting thm for flreenly Island. (Continued oo Paca Bli) FOG DELAY Leader of Atlantic Hop Ex haustedUnable to Read Navigating Instruments Made Trip in 36 Hours First Account Received ST. JOHN, N. R, April 17. ' (Canadian Promt.) The Ti men do. e and Telegraph-Journal to duy prints a first hand account by MIhh Clretu Ferris of the (Irenfell mlNsion of the arrival of the lire men ut Clreenly island and the reception of the three trans Atlantic aviators. ler message, sent by wlrelesH and telephone was told with la conic brevity: "Bremen 36 hours Dublin to Greenly island," It ald. ' - "Fog most- of - way. Arrived noon Friday, April 13. Mltttouk lighthouse for steamer frozen In ice. Lost bearings and cqmpuHH Inacourate. Broke through ice. Injured uxle, bent propeller. HUH In same position. Plane hob ted on gasoline tank and boards. "Baron cold nnd exhausted," the simple narrative continued, "fear ed that they would never reach lnn.1':ll.l,l . ,.l.nnt . tf woi-Ht came to wortt. 'Baron came nt once to light- j house where given dry footwear. Refused to eat until his compan ions loft plane first. First meal was biscuits and fresh milk. Bnron feels the culd nnd anxious to reach New York." "ntstmaurlce says Labrador la not, Ireland Is wurmer there. Koehl does not complain, all very modest. Most thankful to have accomplished such a feat." "Klrst words of all on nrrlvlng In different languages were: 'Thank; God." Spent first night at tho- lighthouse with keeper and family. Still there. Koehl cele brated 30th birthday on April 10. "(Jrenfell workers drove fifteen miles with nine Ksklmn dogs to extend mlsulon hospitalities to heroes. Work too pressing nnd instance too great by dog team for fliers to accept. "Tho plane Gcalp from Murray May, Canada, arrived Sundny at 4 p. m. to give relief. Gcalp return ing to Murray llay to get new under-carrlage and other equip ment for damaged plane. Photo graphed piano and Kltzmaurlce with Il'lsh Ksklmn ilnn "S. S. Montcalm within 100 miles of dlsnbled plane coming to assistance. Much Ice In strait. Four men crossed Ice from Flow ers Cove Sunduy to get Information and to see plane. Specially priv--llcced here nnd allowed to. oxnm. Ine piano without Interference. No guards. "Autographs obtained from tho heroes. First Canndlan autograph. Baron kissed our hands when bid ding adieu. Koehl carries aero plane mascots sent him from Her lin with black pig given him be fore leaving Dublin attached. (Signed 'Clretu Ferris." , Miss Ferris, whoso home Is In st. John, is a nurse on the Lahra- theiHtir medical mission nt sir Wilfred Clrenfell, A party from the mis. sion stntlnn at Wane Saljon Jour neyed 39 miles by dog team to see aviators. POINT AKMOL'K. Quo.. April 17. (By Mnrconl Wireless tn the Canadian l'ress.) Fnllure of the 1 lighting system on tho Bremen a i which niiioe it impossioie ror tnem to read their instruments for hour was blamed today by Karon Von lluenefeld for the wandering which brought the trans-Atlantic plane down on (Ireenly Island, hundreds of miles from its course, Tho baron estimated that four hundred miles were flown In darkness, during which the plane swung from Its courso Into n nor therly direction. The plane had proKressed well, he said, all day Thursday after Its take-off from Ireland, but thut iiikdi n MixEHru neveiupeti. mnrm conditions forced the plane to lose altitude until It was flying "very low. Daybreak ave the avlntors nn opportunity to correct the direc tion In which they were flying, the weather became worse and worse every hour and It was with the greatest difficulty that the plane could be kept up. It was flying dangerously tow when It reached the Newfoundland coast nnd soon after sow the lighthouse on Oreen ly Island. (Continued on Pai 8U)