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The Weathac Prediction Showers. Maximum yfwtenlajr 51 Minimum tt I'reclplmll"" 12 M Weather Ymt Ago EDFORD Maximum ... Minimum ... V p,H, Twratr-thlrd Tt Wkl yillftlith Ver MEDFORD, OWEGOX, TlIlTiSDAY, AIM ML 19. 1928. Xo. 28 AIL TR i Today By Arthur Brisbam Bull Calf and Farmer. By God's Grace. Imaginary Gold Bans. Earthquakes in Mexico. (Copyright, 1927, by New York ETcntnn Journal Inc.) rn.fessor Coryiios asks the , Vntecl States to lwlp "cud tur moil in the Biilkuns." America should tell Profes Kirt C'oryllos that when the Palkans want to end the tur moil, they ijtn do it. Until then, it will not be the busi ness of the United States to end it for them. The artist, Frost, drew an old farmer starting to educate n young bull calf and harness ing himself and the calf in the sr.me yoke. As he went down hill, dragged by the calf, the fanner said: "Stop us, some body, darn our fool souls." Tho Balkans can stop run ning downhill to destruction if they want to stop. The German and Irish fliers insert the words "Thank Clod," or "by the grace of God" in every message describing their safe landing through fog and . storm across the ocean after 36 hours of danger. The professional atheist, un willing to believe nothing that -Mins not been proved to him," would find his opinions chang ing in a big earthquake, or above the ocean in a fog. f Norway has gone back to the ' ..!.! .. ...... ....tnitl-t It gOKl U M f I nil- arivim wuii country on earth to do so. That basis is more or less of a finan cial fiction. There is not nearly .enough gold on the earth to take care of its "gold basis" currency. Imagination does a pood deal of it. This country, it is said, pro- . ill (HUTU last year less gom 'Vjpiano to the aid of the fiormin toils of millions than Was AC- jtrans-Atlantlc monoplane Bremen. . . , , .,, damaged and isolated on Greenly tmilly used m art and nianu- j !iilan(1 ftnnounced t0(Iliy that the faetUTcs, quite apart from any j flight had been postponed until i -ii. i currency iieeus. ti uu make gold artificially and com mercially you VI get rich, unless your secret were known and sold demonetized. Severe earthquakes shook southern Mexico yesterday in Oaxaea and elsewhere. Several towns are believed destroyed and a sound like a cannon shot was heard from tho hilltop at Texepec before the shaking of the earth began. Tremors were felt as far as Mexico City and doubtless many will connect this earth quake and others recently with the religious trouble in Mexico. Nothing could be more grati fving to the deeply religious mind than a powerful earth quake, terrifying the enemies rnfortnnntelv mod - , . , . , I Schiller's plane was sllshtly dam crn earthquakes do not clis- aged ln ian(ijng here, the tall Bkid nriminntp. and shake dowilicatrhlnR In the soft Ice Imildinjis on the just and the X unjust. Secretary Mellon says lie will retire as secretary of the treas ury, and oiifjht to (:et a vote of thanks from every Ameri can old cnruiph to vote. "He . i i:.... ..,lf,.l " flinv- i . .ni.ii .l.niitl say, but even a republic uliould be erateful to Secretary Mel- uiiiini". nit? in li niciuii tin.. . Ion, devoting to public service jy (he ar n (WQ ihrce Ms time and onerjry, neplectinjr jdays. weather permtttlnv. . . i :,.: ii When the Hremen slipped down bis own affairs and piwng to throUf:n a r(sfnK foR on a p,-,nd the people without elinrge the -near the Greenly Island llhthoune. i V ui f- 1 Kltzmaurice said, her propeller was beneftt of the ablest financial j brohen an her ,and!nK gftar mindsn this country. (cracked up. While the hlp was , mired down in the Ice. the frost - Governor Al Smith ban decided j mined a tire. Ueyond these com Siot to attend the national Demo- ( paratively minor misfortunes, he ' ratlc convention at Houston, b.said. there was no riamaise-to the can hp it would he better taste nu to go. His friends believe that it Isn't necessary, Inasmuch as he is practically nominated at this moment. (Continued on Tat Four) BERLINERS I WAIT FOR PROPELLOR Irish Ace to R e t u r n to Greenly Island, Repair Bremen and Continue Flight to Goal Relief Plane to Hop Off Tomor rowAssemble Scientific Data. QUEBEC, Apvil 1 9. (VP) ( By Canadian Press.) A consignment of parts for the repair of the Bre men ut Greenly islam! reached here toil ay and will be forwarded on the first train to Murray Hay From there it will be flown to the inland. The shipment Included two land ing wheels, a drum of oil, an undercarriage part, a eoe of en gine parts, and special tools. NEW YOlllv, April l!t. (ft) A propeller to replace the one broken when the trans-Atlantic monoplane Bremen landed at C.rcenley island was on its way today to Murray hay, where Major James Fltzmaurlee waits to take it back to his two Gorman com rades, so all three can continue their flight to New York. The propeller was taken from the Bremen's sister ship, the Junkers F-13, flown back from Montreal yesterday, and Imme diately was sent by train back to Montreal. Messages from the Irish com mandant and Baron Gunther von Huenefeld set at rest previous In dications that the flying trium virate would arrive here sepa rately or that they 'might leave the Bremen at Greenly island and come out in a relief plane. Miris Junkers meanwhile had secured .100 gallons of Benzol, the high pressure fuel needed by the Bremen, at Montreal, and when the fuel and repairs get safely through to Greenly Island, it is believed the ocean plane can i tinue successfully her flight to I the goal she set when she left Baldonnel. Ireland, a week ago today. DETROIT. Mich.. April 19. -(P) liernt Bab-hen, who with Floyd lienneii. piuus iu Pii"i si loiiKii row i jt.M -u use tn nunm " justments to the relief plane. LAKE STE. AGNES. Que., April 19. (P1 A smiling, determined Irishman who flew the Atlantic, was intent today on finishing his job with his German companions. Casually Major James C. Fitzmau rlce dropped out of the sky Into this shivering village yesterday to draw together the loose ends of plans for bringing the trans-Atlantic monoplane Bremen out of the Ice of Greenly Island and flying her to New York. When lie stepped out of the Z Z, . .i . i ij it rter, lhat they committed robbery hrouKht h m from that J"in the ,ale penitentiary during me lip (ii Liaurauui, lie wnt juni on aviator on assignment. But when a flying wedge of newspaper men and photographers struck him he became, for the moment, one of the three men who made history on a fliht across the Atlantic from Ire land. Some of their questions he an swered readily enough, others he only smiled at or dismissed with a "We'll have to think that over be fore we say much about It." Hut one thing he Is sure of the Itremon hnnn't reached New J'ork yet, "and until we take her 1 there our trip Is not over." The major's mission here was to confer with FYauleln Herta Junk ers on the extent of the Bremen's damage and on the replacement of such parts as would be needed he-, fore the ship can fly again. Mom of the needed parts are at Montreal. They will be brought up to Murray Hay, 12 miles from here, and Pitzmaurice will carry them on to Greenly Island by airplane. The special fuel that the Ilremen hums is also on the way here from .Mon ' treal and the major, although he n()t B1ro Jui), how Bfmn ropalr, could he eniuileted. said he ex- I tl. H.mnn n.n.ll.l nM tint. pairs are com i niui. pleted she will be as airworthy as ever. The friendly Irishman wouldn't talk much about what happened to (Continued on Paa 8U) PA D M IT i mil mu I l 1 r- znmK -i AS DOOM Hjgy Kelley and Willos Silent When Told By Warden, Governor Denies Clem encyChief Executive Is sues Statement Explain ing Official Course Double Hanging Set for Tomorrow. SALEM. April 19. ft) When informed this morning of the nans, neither Kelly nor wllioa thud a word to say, according to Warden James Lewis. They were absolutely silent, according to the warden. KALKM. Ore., April 10. P The fate of Hllsworth Kelly and James Willos was finally determined late yesterday when Governor Batter- son announced that he would not commute their sentences from death to life imprisonment. At 8:30 o'clock tomorrow mor ning one of the two will walk up the gallows steps at the state peni tentiary. A few minutts later the other will follow, and the two con victs Will pay the death penalty for their part as accomplices In one of Oregon's bloodiest prison breaks. In this break, which occurred August 12, 1925, J. M. Holman and John Sweeney, two guards, were killed. Because of various legal turns In the Kelly-Willos case the death sentence was three times pro nounced against the two convicts. Both took appeals to the state Ltmpi'eme court anil tho united Stales supreme court, apu tnen habeas corpus proceedings were instituted in behalf of Kelly. While Kelly's case was in court Willos was from month to month reprieved by Governor I'atterson. In announcing his decision. Gov ernor Batterson Issued a long con-L,a,ement taking up in detail the long legal proceedure. The governor refuses to enter Into a discussion of the capital punishment law. dismissing It as a statute that must be upheld. Should he commute the sentences because of the iJeAutremont case, he declares, capital punishment would be set aside during his ad ministration and that tho whole process of law would bo endan gered. The Kelty-Willos case, says the governor, must be considered on its own merits; the clemency pow er was not given the governor for the purpose of equalizing sen tences. Meeting the argument that the prisoners are not legally guilty of first degree murder, the governor goeH at length into the story of the crime and shows that the state established the fact of first degree murder against the two men on three grounds, though neither of the two may have killed anyone. They entered with Tom Murray and Oregon Jones Into a homicidal conspiracy that resulted In mur the process of which murder was committed, and that they aided and abetted Murray In murder, which renders them equally guilty. As for the history of the prison ers, the governor mentions that both have twice been declared legally sane, that they are not youthful, one being thirty and the other 32 years old; that both hnve criminal records. He reviews the history of the fugitives after the break, the kidnaping of the un armed taxlcab driver who was threatened with death, the com mission of robbery and the intimi dation of an entire family near New Kra. all of whom were threat ened with death. The governor concludes that he is without ground to interfere with the verdict of the Jury. 4 OF E PORTLAND, Ore., April 19 ) tftl Deputy District Attorney Gcorgp Mowry today questioned Roy Hew of Pendleton, brother-in-law of Dr. G. Hlntne Garrison and one of Garrison's bondnmen. relative to what he knew regard ing (inrrlson's whereabouts. Garrison forfeited $12,000 bonds when he failed to appear In court In answer to a grand Jury In dictment on a vice charge. Rw denied that he knew where Gar rison was. but said he believed he has left the state. The $12,000 bonds were ordered forfeited. Attorneys for Garrison took steps to btork the move. Dlstrl'-t Attorney Stanley Myerr believes the state will have to sue In order to recover. QUESTION Conquer Atlantic. Westwarfl BMP MWft ! -' I f r" I l fwJ riNOEO at" 1 STAQTID f Sm5m BALOONNtt"! -m sTAOUD Fftt: ! Vf N ijP(tNLY iianO AIRDROME APRIL l2tF J iVO TEM-l lhOE i V wf.ON.APB.Li3l. L 1 : 11 AIRDROME . I DESTINATION- MITCMflUCLol )-VrT7 1; IE! IQNU HL.HO. NCW YORK. C3 Baron Ehrenfricd Gunther von Koehl, of Germany, and Commandant James Fitzmuurtcc, of the Irish Free State air force, are being honored for the first non-stop airplane flight across the north Atlantic from cast to west. Artist's sketches show, left, Captain Koehl ; upper right, Baron von Huene feld, and, below, Captain Pitzmaurice. The map shows tho route followed by the fiyers from their starting point at Dublin, Ireland, to the spot where they were forced down at Grcenely island, Quebec, ' in the Straits of Belle island, oft Labrnr. J ' ADMIRALS FACEjSLIM CREDENCE iinnor mniiimm mam mu i o nuuoL inuuiniiiii uHLL-miLLo ON POKER GAMEIMURDER STORY i . Notice Served That Party Given By Sinclair Will Be; Looked Into, As It Wasi Held While Oil Leases; Were Pending. WASHINGTON, April 10. (V Representative McClintic of Okla homa, today served notice at a house naval committee hearing that tomorrow he proposed to ask for an investigation of the poker game referred to by Rear Admiral Kobison, retired, in testimony at the Sinclair conspiracy trial. McCllntlc said that it had been reported that besides Itoblson, Harry Sinclair, Hear Admirals Latimer and Gregory also sat iu at the party. The game took place oftcr a din ner given by Sinclair, the Okla homan said, and It came at a time when Sinclair was negotiating for lease of the reserve. Representative Hritton, of 1111 no is. rep u bl len n , and VI nso n o f Georgia, and Gamhrill of Maryland democrats, indicated that they thought the question should be left to the government's oil coun sel. "WASHINGTON, April 19. (ft) Investigation of leases of the Salt Creek oil fields In Wyoming, made by the last democratic adminis tration, was asked In a resolution! introduced today by Senator Nor-J ris. republican, of Nebraska. Senator Norrls would have the senate lands committee, which In-1 quired Into tho Teapot Dome and j Klk Hills leases under Secretary! ; Fall of tho interior department,) jmake the new invitation. Asking; Immediate consideration of hlsj j resolution, S'nutor Norrls wan ad-i I vised that It must first be rc-i ferred to the committee on audit and control. Senator Hn b i n s o n has also charged that the Halt Creek leases were made In the face of n re port frf-. the department of Jos tle that the claims were based on "fraud." j PORTIAND, Ore.. April 19. fti Two alleged burglars, report led by offleers to have linen caught In the net of robbing stores, were 'In custody today. Richard C, Kriee was arretted early today by a rpeelal officer, who said he 'found him In the ect of robbing n hardware store. Klmer Rnmbo, 17. was charged with having bee,i caugh', robbing a grocery itore. I I ryL,!.'.' I lHS'l rVi ' Huenefeld and Captain Hermann Confessor Says Dentist Paid $7000 for Death of Pairi Discrepancies Found in Story New Jersey Pros ecutor Acts. SOMKRVILKK, N. J.. April 19 (ft) Although disinclined to be lieve tne confession of a pris oner in the Kl lteno, Okla., jail, that ho was the slayer of the Rev. Kdward J. Hall and Mrs. Kleanor Mills nenr here ln Sep tember, 1 'J'22, authorities today prepared to make u thorough in vestigation. I Klwin K. Allen, 28 years old. held In Kl Reno on a charge, of burglary, said he killed the couple with tho aid of his common law j wife for $700U, which was paid him by an Kllmbeth, N. J., den-i tist. who he hays- was a relative m uic niinn iuuii wmiuw. Hrosecutor Francis J. Bfrgen,lie wlHCHn(n mainland In I-ake woo pressea ine investigation oi the murder, which led to tho nr ret, trial and acquittal of Mrs. Frances Hall, her two brothers, and a cousin, snid he did not place much credence In the con fession, hut would make Inqui ries. Allen's climate wrote Pros- ecuror Hergcn a weok ago raying the former had admitted the kll Ings, and yesterday the confes sion wss made public hy tho Oklahoma sheriff. Authorities pointed out several discrepancies In the confession. Allen said he had killed the two In 1921, whereas they wero killed September 14, 1922. . : Father of Boy Killed by Jazz Slayers Is Dead 4- 4- I CHICAGO, April 19. (ft) Jacob Franks, the father of , Lobby Franks, who wus kid 1 naped and slain In 1924 by Nathan Leopold and HI-bard j Loeb, tiled loday. He had , been III for many months and 1 doctoiH attributed his illness 4 In part to ri'lef over the I death of his son, CRANK. New 80-rnlIe mull . f. but her injuries were not ierl route U established to LllUcn. oun. , 1SILIM2 DENIES AIDING HPS ESCAPE Former Local Waitress Wires Sheriff She Is With Friends in Sacramento Declares She Has En dured Enough Notoriety. RKlillN;, fallf., pill 10. (ft) Mrs. Thi'lnm Kelly, wife No. 2 of Hoy I). Kelly, ho escaped from it,,, witnttv ..uiiitfi1 twurt will I.. n ! was a prisoner on a bad check charge, wants It definitely under vol veil ln the escape of her Iiuh 1 loni t'1',to Mrs. Kell: Hy telegraphed Sheriff Sublet t as follows: "Saw false reports all San Fran- cIkcd papers regarding my part l Kelly affair. For your Information spent all day Monday and most of Tuesday with friends a well known family of Sacramento, Mrs. Kutherlne Burcer of Fair Oaks. See that newspapers get account, since 1 feel that 1 havo endured enough without additional no toriety." The sheriff has found no trace of Kelly. He was working on what he deemed a reliable clue last night. SACHAMKNTO, I'al., April 19. (A1) Mrs. Thelma Kelly, second wife of Hoy I. Kelly, fugitive from the Bedding Jail yesterday left Fair Oaks for San Francisco. Friends with whom she was visit ing state she made no explanation jot her marital affairs KKDOING, Cab. Apr. 19. (ft1) A warrant for the arest of Hoy 1). Kelly, as a fugitive, was Issued here today. Kelly escaped Tuesday from tho county hospital whore he was held until be recovered enough to remove to Joll. He was shot by a policeman In Chicago recently when he tried to escape arrest on bad check charges. Sheriff Huhlett has sent out hun dreds of cards with Kelly's picture and description, to police depart ments. The latest cluo camo from Marys ville where Mike O'ltrlen reported seeing a woman driving with a man answering Kelly's description. The man had his arm in a sling. O'l'.rfen said the woman looked like Kelly's second wife, who de nted in a t e I e g ra m f ro m Sa c ra -mento yesterday that she. had any connection with his escape. Kelly married two women- with out tho formality of divorce. AS FLU RAGES Ashland, Wis., Isolated by Ice Fields, Calls for Food and Medical Aid Popu lation On Short Rations Epidemic Not Serious. ! AHIILANO, Wlf... April 10. (P) IHevcn hunilrcil luhtihituntn uf Mitd- nH I!,,,,,! nnv -Iv n,ll,. f,., Superior, are living on short ra tions and fighting ' Influenza as efforts to give them succor go for ward here. Although it Is only a few short miles from the Island to Rayfleld, the nearest mainland point, efforts to ruch Madeline have been bulk j erf by a field of breaking Ice. slanders at the risk of their lives, have attempted to reach the main land un dobtaln food, but hnve been turned back by tho treacher ous Ice fields. Their plight and their efforts to relieve It have been related by telephone which con nected hy cuhlo with the muln- Iland. Meat, flour and staples have been exhausted. Gunned goods ore the only food supply and these are near exhaustion. I The influenza outbreak wns de- Hcrlhed as not serious, relatives and neighbors caring for the twen ty canes reported. The services of a physician, however, have been UIK'd. HCGHNK, Ore., Apr. 19. T) N. H. Lith'Tland. b3, Janitor al Oregon hall at IhP I'nlverslty of Oregon, was seriously Injured yes terday when the bicycle he was riding collided with the car driven by H. It. Tmon of Hugene. LPherland Is In a semi-conscious condition at the hospital. Miss Grave Campbell, 17, of Ku gene, was strut k by an automobile on the highway at West Spring field yesterday afternoon. She re ceived cuts and bruises about the 1 NEAR 1 Convention Appointee a Lee Nixon, nbove, veteran Washington Republican, has been named scrgeant-at-arms for the Republican national convention at Kansas City, Mo., in June. II". has been appointed to the post by the Republican national commit tee. 1 EDITORS VISIT E To Spend Several Days at Crater Lake, and Tour Valley Arrive in This City, Monday, June 24 Entire State Represented SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 (ft1) Friend W. Richardson, president of the California Press assocltlon today announced dates and Itiner ary uf the association's 3Dth an nual excursion which this year will take the editors to Crater Lake, Roguo Rlvur vulley and Klamath Falls, Oregon. One hun dred editors and their families are expected to take putt in the ex cursion. Leaving San Francisco Sunday, June 24, the editors will arrive ut Medford Monday. Several days will be spent at Crater Lake and the return will be made Saturday by way of Klamath Falls, South ern California members will leuve Los Angeles Saturday evening, June 23 in time to make connec tions with the party either at San Francisco or Oakland. Annual excursions of the associ ation have been made in the past to Mexico city. New Orleans, St. ,ouls and Portland. CHICAGO, April 19. (P) Slug ging Hack Wilson renewed his home run rampage today, slam ming out a homer In the first In ning of the Cubs' game with Cin cinnati, scoring Cuyler ahead of him, and getting unothor homer his next time up in the second Inning with the bases full, scoring Cuyler, Lnglish and Hlake. Luque was pitching. American R. H. E. Chicago 2 8 2 Cleveland 9 15 2 (latteries: Jlarnnbo, Cox, Good cell and crouse, McCurdy; Hudlln and Hewell. Morning game. H. H. E. New York tt 15 0 Iloston 7 10 2 Itatlerles: Shenly, Moore and Collins; Settlemler, Harris, Huf fing and Hoffmann. Second game: K. H. E. New York 7 11 1 Huston 2 6 0 (Culled end 6th: ruin). Pennock and Grabowskl; Wilts and Uerry. National. R. . i . 8 Ponton New York Genewlch, llrandt and Taylor; Cantwell, Faulkner and Hogan. (10 Innings.) Cincinnati u a i Chicago 13 21 P L u a U e, Jabtonnwskl, Ash and liar grave, Sukeforlh; Ollake and Hurl utt l, CALIFORNIA ER JUNE 1 Baseball Scores I in TANGLES Acceptance of Judicial Post Would Complicate, and What-to-Do Puzzle for State Officials 'Weep ing Walter' Pierce May Have Name Written In. LA GRANDE, Ore., April 19. (ft) Kx-Govcrnor Waited M. Tierce may bo a candidate for the demo cratic nomination for the house of representatives from the second congressional district to succeed N. J. Slnnott, yesterday appointed to tho United States court of claims by President Coolidge. Last night the former governor declared that If his friends wrote his name In on the primary elec tion builot, he would consent to run. Friends have been urging him to enter the race for some time. SALEM, Ore., April 10, (ft) While official and semi-official observers about the state capltol are wutchlng and waiting for more definite word from Washington as to when appointment of Congress man Nicholas Sinnott to the fed eral court of claims will become effective and whether he will re sign from his present seat In con gress and withdraw as a candidate for renomination, they seek to fathom the election problems which would arise out of 81nnott'a Immediate retirement as a con gressman and a candidate, the Capital Journal Buys today. How to fill the unexpired term of Slnnott should he resign at once, presents no difficulty the law Is clear on that score. The governor -would Issue a Writ calling -a special election which could be held simultaneously with the regu lar primary election of May 18, tho congressional central commit tees for tho second district would meet and nominate candidates and the names of these candidates would be certified to the county clerks for a place on the speclul election ballot. Rut the delvers into the Intrica cies of the election statutes do not find the provisions governing the selection of a candidate for the nomination to take Sinnott'a place on the primary election ballot so lucid. ' There Is no question as to what course the democrats of the second congressional district must take If they are to nominate a candidate for successor to Slnnott at the pri mary election. It can only be done by action of the Individual voters in writing in the name of a candi date. But with the republicans, who have a regularly qualified cundldute for the nomination in Slnnott through his action ln filing for re-election, the situation is dif ferent. The students of this new and intricate election puszle be lieve thy have discovered wherein the election laws provide a man ner In which the republicans mny substitute another cundldute for Slnnott und still get the name of the substitute on the ballot for the primary election. Although the election laws pro- . vide that the secretary of state shall not less than twenty days prior to an election certify to the county clerks the names of the candidates whose names shall be printed on the official ballots, sections 3933 and 3975 Oregon laws, together provide a means whereby candidates may be nomi nated to take the places of those who die, withdraw or are Ineligible and require that the secretary of state certify the names of such substitute candidates to the county clerks for places on the ballot even though the regular time for certi fication has expired. Section 3975 provides that where a regularly filed candidate for the nomination for congressman, "shall die, withdraw or for any reason be Ineligible," the congres sional central committee, or the executive committee thereof may nominate a candidate for ' such vacancy and file tht nomination with the secretary of state and when "such nomination Is filed with tho secretary of state he shall certify tho same to the various county clerks ln the manner pre scribed by section 8933, Oregon ' laws," J Section 3033 provides that the secretary of state shall certify to the county clerks the names of all candidates whose names are to be printed on the ballot and Imposes upon hltn the obligation of certify ing the names of candidates legally deHigniited to fill vacancies and re cites further: "In the event he (secretary o,f state) has already sent forth his certificate, he shall forthwith cer tify to each county clerk by tele graph, if necessary, the name and residence of each person so nomi nated to fill such vacancy . . . and the name of the person for which nominee or nominees are substituted. Every county clerk shall proceed thereafter In confor mity with said letter certification' (Continued on Pact Big)