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MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1928.
No. 27
Today
By Arthur Brisbane
A Mussolini Plan.
Costes and Lebrix.
The Missing Link. .v ,
Richest Country.
(Copyright, 1927, by New Tork
y Evening Journal, inc.)
Mussolini says facism will be
permanent. He plans it so
there will be '"a place in Italy
for each person and each per
son will occupy it." That, for
tunately, is not so. In such a
country, uo Mussolini would be
possible.
He did not stay in his place,
or in the prison to which he
was sent, lie began as a so
cialist aucl became as powerful
a dictator as the w o r 1 d has
seen.
Cromwell did not stay in his
plitwc, so Charles the First lost
his. Hanton did not stay in
his place, Mirabeau abandoned
his place, Robespierre gave up
the law, and Louis Sixteenth
went via the guillotine. Ability
refuses to "stay in its place,"
and for that rcrtsou there is
progress.
Don't forget tho flying
Frenchmen, Costes and Lebrix,
back in Paris from Tokio, fly
ing 10,370 miles in six days,
with seven stops, sleeping not
more than four hours on any
night,: sometimes not sleeping
at all.
Those are real flitirs, . and
when they start, w c s t w a v d.
across the Atlantic, as- the
tojJl.Lloyds will. not .betflgauist
h I eir success.-
Civilization will begin when
K :.. r-:.n,.
men cuttc uin m inum.ii.,
loyal competition, as t h c s)e
fliers do, instead of killing each
other in war, and cheating each
other in business.
Roy Chapman Andrews leads
an exploring -party from the
New York Museum of Natural
History to search for the miss
ing link in Mongolia. Man's
career on this earth is supposed
to have begun in Mongolia. It
is utore likely, as Haeekel sug
rrrtKtu liof it hoo-an in several
Iplaees at about the same time,
ions races coming up
Mouirh evolution, from an-
tors quite different.
On theory says "the African
fee from gorilla the Mon-
bl in n race from ourang-
tangs. the Caucasian race
om chimpaii7.es," the last ani-
al being the most intelligent
nd, in some way, most . un-
leasant of the three.
However and wherever wo
tnrtcd, it will be hard to find
hat missing link between ani-
Bnal and man, and bard to
identify him, if found. You
annot identify the link be-
:wecu babyhood and childhood,
between childhood and man-
Vood. It is all so gradual. We
lip from infancy to dolage as
le climbed from protoplasm to
a s n t forms, with
a v .. ,
nges imperceptible.
In Xew Zealand, everything
nossible is done for the average
man. Workers are protected,
public contracts provide for
employing older men,, on a
friendly basis. Kailroads owned
bv the people transport labor
ers, seeking work, frctf of
charge. If they find the work,
they pay their fare.
It is no place for a man to
get very rich, too many laws
protect the average man. It is
'no country for a go-getter
American, that wants to get
4js" no matter what happens
to others.
(Contlnued on rage Four)
IRISH Iff f
IB IIWI I I lL
HOMESICK,
SPEEDS ON
Fitzmaurice Reaches Mur
ray Bay in Flight to Civili
zation To Sail for Ire
land Soon Left German
Flyers, Fixing Plane Be
lieves Newfoundland Is
Aerial Graveyard.
QUErEC, April IS (By The Ca
nadian Press.) The second Ca
nadian Airways plane to leave Mur
ray Bay for Greenly Island reached
the Island at noon today. The
plane, piloted by R. Vachon and
carrying a Canadian Press reiiorter
and camera man, left Seven Islands
this morning and flew tha 400
miles to Greenly Island in five
hours.
MURRAY HAY, Que., April 18.
(By The Canadian Press.) Major
James Fitzmaurice of the Bremen
crew landed here at 2:27 o'clock In
the Canadian Airways piano piloted
by C. A. Schiller.
"SEVEN ISLANDsTcjue., April 18.
(Hy The Canadian Press.) Ma
jor James Fitzmaurice. Irish mem
ber of the trans-Atlantltc Bremen
flight, left Greenly Island on Sun
day because he was anxious to re-
A new photo of Captain Her
man Koehl, German pilot of the
plane Bremen; snapped at Bal
donncl airport, Dublin, Ireland,
while awaiting favorable weather
for his transatlantic flight attempt
with Baron von Hucncficld and
Walter Spindler, mechanic.
turn home, he told, the Canadian
Press correspondent here today.
"I will go to Murray -Bay today
and then to New York," he said.
"From New York I will sail for
Ireland."
Major Fitzmaurice said lie had
not the "slightest idea" what Baron
von Huenefeld and Captain Koehl,
it.iiL li cut iicinuu, iiiiciiutu tu
"I left them fixing up the ma- j
chine," he said, "and It seemed as j
though it would be ready very
soon. I
"What they will do then or
where they will fly. I do not know.
All I can say is that I left them
and today I w.l, go on U), to Mur-
ray Lay and then to New lork
to take a boat for Ireland."
The major said his experience
Inclined him to believe that other
expeditions by air across the ocean
from eas to west had probably
met their tragic ends in the same
general region that the Bremen
landed in.
"Flying conditions over the New
foundland banks," he said, "are
anything but pleasant. As a mat
ter of fact, they are such as exist,
I believe, In no other part of the
world."
Fitzmaurice and Schiller had left
Clnrkp CW-t ?Mft mili.a au-nv thro a
j hours earlier, making fast time
against a hoad wind. They had
(spent the night at Clarke City, on
their way opt to civilization from
(Jreenly Island, where they left the
Bremen and the (Jerman members
of the crew. Baron von Huenefeld
and Captain Koehl.
Waiting for Major Fitzmaurice
at Murray Bsy was Miss Herta
Junkers, daughter of the German
manufacturer of ihe Bremen, who
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OF LOCAL GIRL
ELUDESPOSSE
Belief Grows That Redding
Escape With Thelma
Kelly, Wife No. 2, Known
in City Father-in-Law
Predicted Departure Ill
ness Feigned.
RKDDINO, Cul.. April 18. jT)
The whereabouts of Roy D. Kelly,
who escaped from the coi;r.ty hoa
pltnl here yesterday morning, were
.still unknown to Shasta county
authorities today, altho Sheriff W.
W. Sublett and a posse made a
thorough search for him.
The belief Is growing that Kelly
Is with his second wife whom he
married in Oregon a short time
before he was shot In Chlco, Cal.,
February 25. Kelly was shot while
fleeing from a policeman who
sought to arrest him on a bad
check 'charge.
At the Chico hospital where
Kelly was taken it developed Kelly
had two wives. Wife number one
said she married Kelly in Redding
in 1926. It was finally agreed that
his first wifo should be admitted
to the hospital in Chico and the
second wife excluded. The first
wife is a brunette and the second
a hlopd. She formerly lived in
Med ford and was a waitress. Her
maiden name was Thelma Kelly.
Kelly suddenly became ill or
pretended to be ill Monday when
he was about to be removed from
the hospital here to the county
jail. It is believed now his "illness"
was part of a frame-up. Whether
ho had inside help has not been
determined.
Tenuis Ilarkard. Kelly's step
father predicted he would escape.
AS
SIKICUII.I.E, w. Vn Apr. is.
Kour children were burned ,to
death lost night when fire destroy
ed their home on Mcblroy creek 1
1 5 miles from here. I
The dead, all children of Mr. and!
-Mrs. Denton Tennant, are Vonda,
S: Mroks, 10; Garnet
I.ee. 3.
7 nnH Itrttlv
Two older boys escaped but were
burned.
Tho children were trapped In
Iheir bedrooms. The purents were
downstairs when the fire broke out.
Hearing screms, they rushed for
the second floor, but were drlvon
bnck by the .flames.
rilUSCM'H ISI.K, Mnlne, Apr. IS.
(Pi Three children were burned t')
donth, another was In crltlcnl con
dition and their mother was in
.lured when .the home of Harold
Farley was destroyed by fire to
day. WHEAT IN STATE
DELAYED BY RAIN
PORTLAND, Ore.. April 18. (A)
Winter wheat in Oregon la doing
well except in some western locali
ties, where It is suffering from ex
cessive moisture, says the weather
bureau's weekly crop report otday.
Seeding of spring grain has been
delayed by rain in northwestern
districts and in elevated localities
the eastern counties, and the
i .. , . , . . ,
nan it is u ue ui pi trjiui auuii ui inc
soil for corn. 1
Pears, peaches and cherries are
setting well in the milder districts
and apples are beginning to bloom
Bloom is generally late in the east
ern portion. The extent of the
damage done by the frosts of the
J1" W"" .
I cloudy weather Is somewhat un-
. certain.
TO
HIS FORMER CELL
I'ORTLAXD, Ore., April 18.
(Pi Arrested late yesterday on a
chnrge of parsing counterfeit
mnnev. V.lnn Vtfelihln. '71 told
officers that he learned how to
jmake counterfeit coins from a
: fellow ' convict while serving a
'term at .McNeil Island prison. I
where he recently completed al
j three-year sentence for violation j
of the national motor theft net. !
Police said he admitted passing
1.11 counterfeit dollars and 12
J counterfeit half-dollars In the (
i past two weeks. ,
, "iii'rra sei-i ales ana.
I equipment at his home.
End of
s.
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Sentenced to be hanged Friday, April 13, at Benton, HI., for the murder of Mayor Joe Adams, of
West City, 111., Charlie Birger, Williamson county gang leader, watched the erection ot the scaffold just
outside his prison window. Death finds Birger alone. His erstwhile comrades cither are dead, serving
life sentences for murder or in hiding. The window marked by an arrow, above, is opposite Birger'g
cell. The scaffold v.as erected between the iron fence and the jail building.
IlEN'TON, 111., April 18. (;P) Deserted even by his attorneys. Charllo liirwr. condemned loodor of
a'southern Illinois gang thai terrorized the countryside for several years, dies on the sallows hero
tomorrow.
Robert E. Smith, his attorney, who has fought with every leKnl resource at his command to save
Birger, sadi: "This Is the end of the road nothing further will be done for him." A circuit court
Jury yesterday found the gangster sane and his hanging was set for 10 a. m.
An Insanity liearln-3 lasting only one day ended abruptly yesterday and Hii-gor's hopra went Kllm
meriD.; when the Jury deliberated only ten minutes before pronouncing him snno. Circuit Judge
Charles Miller then re sentenced the condemned man for the murdor of Joe Adams, 300-pound mayor
of West City, 111.
CONFESSES HE
SLEW PI IN
JERSEY PUZZLE
I
M.i-i o How
UKiailUIIld OUopCvlo ma , candidates for vice president gen
, !erul of the Daughters of tho Amer-
SOlVe Hall-WllllS WIUruerlenn Revolution, prompted a sharp
Mystery Declares Rec
tor and Affinity - Slain
After Auto Hold-Up On
Lover's Lane.
KI, RKNO, Okla.. April 18. (JP)
A purported confession to the fa
mous Hall-MIUs murdi-r in New
Jersey in 1922 has been obtained
from Klwln K. Alien, held here on
a DUTgmry CIlHI'lff, it WH lllliiuuin-
ed today by T. t Slmcklott, sheriff
of Canadian county. Oklahoma, i
Sheriff Khacklett said he could not '
tell whether Allen was sincere in
making the confession.
,, ,' .
was paid fuOQU and given an auto-
mobile for the crimes, lie refuse,
to name the person who he Haid
employed him. Sheriff Shacklott
was of the opinion that ho whm
holding out the name for "trading
purposes."
Allen Is about 2H years old and
a citizen of Mexico.
The confession said that Allen
held up the Rev. Kdward W. Hall
and Mrs. Klcanor It. Mills as they
sat in an automobile parked along
the highway and shot them after
driving Into a corn field. He said
he arranged the bodies side by side
In "Plum I-ane." Tho New Jersey
spot where the bodies were found
Is called "Derusscy's I-ane."
Allen said that after shooting
the couple, whose deaths have
been a mystery for nearly six
years, he smoked a couple of ciga
rettes. Then he removed the bodies
to the spot where they were found,
He said he drove the automobile
in which his victims had been rid
ing, to near Vernon, Delaware.
There he burned tho car near an
old saw mill.
4
WIN'XIPBC, Man., April 18.
- inter again visited tne prairie
provinces today with heavy snow
rail, storms of near blizzard pro
portions and sharp drops in tem
perature. The snowfall reached Its maxi
mum depth In the Qu Aiinello dis
trict of Saskatchewan, where morel
than five Inches were reported.
Drifts were piled alonit roadways
In areas along the Canadian bor
ders of Saskatchewan and certain
sections of Manitoba. At The Pas,
Manitoba, the temperature fell to
five below zero, the cilest point
In Canada durln-i the night.
The official weather forecast
I Kyes promise of early relief, how
ever, with the announcement thot
a """terste depression Is moving
toward Alberta.
KfRKKA. I'ul.T April in. (Pi
,.p,,woort h,KnwHV m)ri)V.r,B.
un,,er .,. nrt contemplated, will
.., o'-inwil at a meeting here
Thursday, members of the state
,,. c..mmb.l.,n will mske an
Insertion trip over Ihe hlihunv
otherjto the Oregon state line, Itnlph W.
'Bull, chairman said.
the Trail for a Gangster
CANiliisiiof
D. A. R.
;GETS SPITE NOTE;'
SESSION ROILED
WASHINGTON, April 18. j
An anonymous attack upon Mrs.
,lvn'y ' ' uf I'etroll, one ot the I
cnuiicngc louay rrom mi-h. Airreu
J. UrOHsenu, head of the organiza
tion which Is In biennial conven
tion, lyi'e, . , ' i
The unsigned note as made pub
lic by .Mrs. llrosseau said:
"Will your conscience allow you
to vote for a woman whose hus
band did this?" and was attached
to n two year old newspaper clip
ping which contended Mrs. Joy's
husband had objected to the Vol
stead act. -
"If tho wielder of the poisoned
pen is afralfl to fight In Ihe open."
-Mrs. llrosseau challenged, "wo are
not' nfrald lo lake the field' in de
fense of the one attacked, or lo
trace the mm ice of the article und !
dlwredit the offender. , 1
"lty that anonymous act," said i
Mrs. llrosseau, "every women In
',ihls organization Is automatically
1, ,t . . i ' .
belle e that any loyal ami sincere
embers have been gu lly of any-
- thing so cowardly anil rcprehcu-
si I tie. I f there are such disloyal
inein hers with in our ranks u if
outside forces tire respo risible, I
wish to state unequivocally that
the national society will not coun
tenance methods uf this sort."
Support of the national officers'
Muck list and national defense
policy was voiced from Arizona
and California In reports read to
j the convention by state regents,
"Objectionable speakesr have
been prevented from appearing I
upon our platforms," said Mis.
William F. Hammett, statu regent;
I of Arizona. j
1 "We believe in the wisdom and
'patriotism of (he members of the
I national board," Mrs. W. H.
Ishreve. state regent of California.
1 declared.
Baseball Scores
American.
Chicago - 1 ft
Cleveland -...,:; t.:, 7 13
Adklns. Wilson and ' McCurdy,
CroiiHf; Khaute und Kewcll.
I .11.
H.
Xew York 10 Ki J
Iloston i 7 12 2
lloyt and Grahowskl; 1 Ilrudlev.
j ItUNKcll, Simmons, Morris and
Horry, Hevlng.
! n.
H. E.
10 0
1
Ulac-
j Detroit 4
HI. I-ouls I
Carroll and Hargrave
holder. Coffman and Schang.
II. H.E.
Washington 11 IB 1
Philadelphia 6 14 3
Zachary, Braxton and Tate;
Quinn, Johnson and Fox.
National.
II.
Philadelphia 1
New York G
H.
7
r
Walsh, Prliect and Wilson; Hen
ton and Hognn, Cummlngs.
It.
Itoslnn G
Hroollyn 10
Wertr.. Edwards. II, am,
smith. Dclancy and Taylor;
H. E
9 S
1
Hold
Vance und Ueberry.
,
WASHINGTON. April IS. (A7)
The Xorbeck bill to authorize es
tablishment of migratory game
tahllshment of migratory game
'fli'lrd refuges wan passed today by
Hie senate and sent to tho houne.
OREGON
SOLON
Ti
Eastern Oregon Congress
man May Not Yield Place
in House for Judiciary
0 HIGH BENCH
' JqHj ' UpSCtS ' Vote jrr""'y t'nlv nut retire without-pay.
Coming Primary Election.
WAHH 1 XOTON, April 18, ()
Kenton W. iiuuth of Illinois was
nominated today by President
Coolidge to be chief Justlco of tho
court of claims, succeeding Judge
Kdward K. I'nmpbelt, who resign
ed earlier In tho day.
Representative Nicholas J. Sln-
nott, republican,
of Oregon, was
appointed
the court to succeed
Judge
Ilonth.
I Mr. Slnnott for
Slnnott for a number of
has served as chairman of
1 years
1 thf house public lands committee,
prospective reUre.nent would
, ju.prcscnta.lvc Hmlth of
I , , ... . 11r u ,. ,,,, ,,.
tnrihmui'h ii h Hni II h already is
chairman (if the Irrigation com
mittee. It Is problematical whether,
he would retire from his present
chairmanship.
Representative Colt on of Utah,
would bo the next republican in
line for Ihe public hinds chairman
ship. J UHtico 'ampbell resigned be
cause he had reached retirement
age.
HALK.M, tire.. April IS. (P In
the event that Representative Sln
nott of the second Oregon congres
sional district, who has been nomi
nated by the president for Justice
of the court of claims, withdraws
as a candidate for the republican
nomination for congress, It will be
the duty of the congressional com
mittee of tho second Oregon dis
trict to nominate his successor.
The law applying to tho case was
pointed out hoi e today by Secre
tary of Htuto Kozcr,
This, however, will not prevent
I ; tho voters of his district from ex
ercising their privilege of nominat
ing In-tho primary election of May
18, by the writing In uf names.
I'OHTLAXIJ, Ore., April 18. (!)
Nicholas J. Hiunoll, representative
In congress from the second Ore
gon district which embraces the
eastern part of ihe stale, Is now
serving his eighth term In the
house. Ills home city Is The
Dalles, where he was born Decem
ber ", 1886.
He has filed as a candidato on
the republican ticket In his dis
trict. His successor must be chosen
al an election.
aeisSSer
NEEDS REFORMING:
0;!0N CITV, Ot?., Apr. J8.
'h Wart nlH for the arret of W. J
J. -'Hub" Klnucsne, Hill Freeman!
and I Mum power, alleged fish
!Ufi-iiin in wh-kum njr, were in- m ,
sueil today by Jostle flurr Tatro. j N K w YOltK. April I S Due to
The trio Is accused uf fishing Injun abscess on the neck. Tod Mor
the Clsckamas river with a net. gun. Junior lightweight rhamplon
which was seized Monday night by (from Seattle. Wash., will be unahle
Jai k Albright and H. Korshner. to defend his title against Cannon
deputy game wnrdns. Ft oilcan Is'lmll IMdle .Martin of New York in
sponsoring rii Initiative measure
to close the ow-r tv.himbl
to fish trups, seinA and gll
lllnets.
10-C TAX COIK
SET ASIDE FOk
COURTHOUSE
County Court to Study Plans
and Sites for New Build
ingFunds On Hand for
Retiring Road Bonds
Balk at Paying Excessive
Premiums.
The county court, at Its regu
lar session today, Issued the fol
lowing statement upon tho disposi
tion of tha U. & C. tax refund
i monlfs, mudo available by the de
cision of the state supreme court
yesterday holding that the stale
of Oregon had no cllm thereto:
"The county court, in session
today, discussed tho decision of
tho supremo coui t, which uphold i
the circuit court of Marlon coun - jn
ty. In decreeing that the state of!l -
orcaon had no claim to tho taxi'"1 cuneu 10 pay u
monies paid into tho counties by
the government on the revested
U. & O. lands, and agreed that It
was the proper time to advise the
people ot thia county that It la
their Intention that the monny
saved to tho county by this de
cision, ho mo ?270,000, should be.
set aside as a fund for tho con
struction of a new court house,
as authorised by the people and
decided to Investigate pluns for
the now building and Inspect dif
ferent sites for Its erection.
"In using this money the court
will obviate tho necessity of levy
ing special taxes tor the court
house construction.
Members ot the county court
feel that It Is well to act on thlsf
matter at this early date, In order!
that If tho taxpayers wish, theyj
might refer tho matter to the
people at the November election.
JU " u,no "w ru LU"U1
on hand to rotlre all outstanding ,
uonus, wiin 1110. exception ot sonio
S170.000 of Crater Ijiko hlvhwav
bonds, which the court' has found
ing, to tho present holders, an
excessive premium;"nnd. they-will
retire theso bonds from the yearly
payments rocelved from ho county
Into the general fund, from the
yearly payments made by tho gov
ernment -on the abovo lands,
which approximates some $70,000
per year."
ON HOWIE FIELD
ST. I.OUIH, April IS. UP)
Colonol Charles A. Undborgli Is
homo nKaln, this time with . a
new monoplnno, which ho will
use In place of tho "Spirit of St.
Louis," which ho said would be
given to tho Smithsonian Insti
tution at "Washington.
KlKhtlng strong head winds,
Lindbergh flew 400 miles from
Wichita. Kas., and landed hero
shortly tafler six p. m., last night,
with two passengers, II. M. Ulxby,
president of the St. Louis cham
ber of commerce, and Harry H.
Knight, a broker.
Tho colonel, still rangy and
conditioned, looked fresher than
when ho Innded here after his
South American tour. -Ho snld
I ho likes his new plane very well,
and that It was built for other
I work than tho "Spirit of St.
Louis.' Ho denied having nny
plans other than lo glance over
his voluminous mail.
TAKES HIGH TOLL
MOSCOW. Apr. 18. tP) Twen
ty-one deaths. 13 of them from
vodka, were reported In Moscow
over the Hauler celebration. Six
of the dead were killed by vio
lence while many persons were
wounded with pistols and knives
In drunken brawls. More than
1.R00 arrests were made.
MrmeovPes consumed about four
and u half million bottles of vod
ka, two million bottles of wine and
38. 000,000 eggs during the holi
days. On the first day nmhirVnees
were unable to cope with the calls.
With brains befogged by vodksu
I men fell under automobiles, busses
and trams, while others even drank
kerosene and fought with fists.
knives and other weapons at fca-
ter celebration parties. Hooligans
started smashing shop windows,
but the militia soon put a stop to
this.
Madison Square Garden May 4.
la rlverlThe fifteen round match has been
postponed until May 2-t,
1(1 Mil 111
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HER PICE
FORGHILD
Kresge Charges Wife With
Avarice in Divorce Papers
Mary Hill Exonerated
of Attempted Tax Eva
sionWidow of .Armour
Makes Sacrifice to Pay
Debts of Husband.
NEW YORK, April 18. (A) De
talis of the Detroit divorce com
plaint of Sebastian 8. Kresga
which had been hidden tor months
under court seal, were published
todny. The complaint alleges that
- H wire set ?io.0o,ooo a her
ri - ' f,l bearing him a child and
This material came Into the open
when Hupreme Court Justice Ma
honey signed an order at Mr.
Kresae's behest discontinuing an
order for the lntter's examination
In connection with his dlvorco
suit. Mrs. Kresge won an Interlo
cutory decree In New York Febru
ary IS.
"At that time (April, 1925)" the
complaint says, "she took a Blbla
In her hand, shook It In tho plain
tiff's (Mr. Kresge's) face and said
'1 swear to Ood If you don't do
what I want there will bo the big
gest expose the biggest scandal
you ever heard of and you must
get out by tho first of May or 1
will have the lock changed as I did
for Mr. Harden.' " '
.Mr. Hardin, -It was explained,
was Mrs. Kresge's first husband.
The wealthy chain store opera
tor, who gavo Mrs. Kresge secur
ities worth 13. 000. 000 before he
married her In April 1924, sld !l
had become plain to him that shto
had nut married him fur love but
rather to obtain from him all the
money she could. . In March, 1926,
the cumnlalnt' shows., he anirn( hi
, wlfe $ioo,QOO for which sum he
alleges she agreed to drop suit
against him ' fur Home monies sho
claimed.
ST. LOUIH, April B.-r-(JPi The
United Hiatus circuit court ot ap
peals today exhoneratcd the latj
Mm. Mary T. Hill, widow of James
J. Hill, Northwestern railroad
magnate, of any attempt to evade
pnylng the government $1,000,000
Inheritance tuxes when sho created
two trust funds transferring
$5,000,000 to her nine children and
thirteen grandchildren.
A district court had held that
Mrs. 1 lilt, in creating the trust
funds within two years of her death
had done so In contemplation
of death and had acted to defeut
tho government's inheritance tax
law.
In reversing the lower court tho.
oourt of appeals held that Mrs.
Kill had first drafted plans for tho
trust Xunds throe yoars before her :
death and whon the funds were -actually
transferred she wan in '
good health and had no anticipa
tion of approaching demise. Khe 1
died November 22, 1 9 2 1 .
Tho estate left hy Mrs. Hill ap
proximated $LO,000,000 and was
subjected to $2,010,060 taxes. Tho '.
government sought to collect an
additional 11.000,000 on the alio- '
gatlons overborne by theippollute
division.
Circuit Judge Lewis wrote the';
opinion exonerating Mrs. Hill.
Presiding Circuit Judge Kunborn :
and District Judge J'hllllps con-
cur red. . . .. .
CHICAGO, April 18. &) Tho ;
Chicago Dally jS'ews today says the
widow and daughter of J. Ogden '
Armour voluntarily will pay $10,-
000,000 of their personal fortunes '
to settle the debts of the packer. I
At his death Armour owed $18.
000,000 to Armour and company.
of whose board he was chairman
and had assumed liability for pay
rncnt of $7,000,000 worth of bonds 1
of the Sutter Basin company.
a California land enterprise. '.
In addition to the sum- of
$10,000,000 It Was indicated that i
all marketable securities of the .
Armour estate Would be used in ;
the settlement, paying the debt to ;
Armour and company in full and .
furnishing capital for re-organlxa-
tlon of the Sutter Basin company. i
The debt to Armour and, com-
pany will be paid by the sale ot
securities which have been on de- i
posit with the company to guaran- :
tee tho loan.
In financial circles It was said '
there was no precedent for tha
action of Mrs. .Armour and her
daughter. Mrn. Lollta Armour '
Mitchell.
M YKTI.-K FOINT, Ore.. April J 8
P), Fourteen hour after her j
husband died from pneumonia, '
Mrs. Snrah M. Ieach; succumbed to !
the same disease here, Tuesday. !
She was a Coos county pioneer.
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KL'ltKKA. Cal.. Apr. 18. (Pi J
The local office of the state high-
way commission announced late
yesterday that the Parker-Schram
company. Portland, was the low
bidder on a steel cantilever bridge
across Smith river, on the Red-
wood highway, eight miles north of
hertv The hid was $170,479. and
the engineer's estimate $169,794.50.