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o The Weather Forecast Cloudy; probable rain or Miinv. No change lu tempera lure. High yofcterdar 46 Ixmoil this morning 20 Medford Weather Year Ago RIBUNE hikIhmi 4a Lowest ft! D.lljr Twraty-third Tclt Weekly Kiftv-Mventh Yeir FOURTEEN PAGES MEDFORD, OUMXiON. FKMDAY. IK 'KM BKIJ 21, 1SW. No. 272. Today By Arthur Brisbane This Old, Old Earth. The Smallest Light. A G. M. of the Air. Unlike Salome. (Copyright. 1&28. by Btr Co.) IIowloniihastliisfartUbecBSecretary jar(jjne Endorses wlnrlimr around the sun, 101- lowing a spiral path through endless space. Professors Camp and Vttu dcrliouf of California Univer sity don't know exactly. Hut it New Mexico they have found IOKS11K gOlllg DUCK I . years, some "as recent 1)00,000 years ago,"; 7.- , , .. .. Endorsing the new McNary faun Natives employed to diji '"e j marketing t))n secretary Jardlno fossils "arc decplv religious, j today wroto a letter to Senator Mc . . ., I Nary, Republican, of Oregon, urg They castigate themselves with ',nK it8 enactment at this session In whins wear lone cactus in their 1 ' . . . ' sandals as peiiancc for their sins. j :lf they knew how old the ce,)t , n,o letter tha't ho would earth is, and knew that it will lres his hill for n vote at this aos 1 ' . . sion. Ho said he would seek to keep on rolling for at least 1,- iiHaemhle the agricultural commit- 000 million vcars longer, they during the Christmas recess or i Immediately thereafter, would postpone the cactus. "if we ate golmt to make thu -4 ' proponed farm relief applicable to The University of Pittsburgh the l2'j crop," Senator M-Nary d , , . . i:i,t ' clared, "wo must get this 1)111 has developed a point or lignt lhrmlK)l u, lne 3nort HeKKon. so small that onlv a microscope i Senator Watson of Indiana, the . ' j prospective Republican leader of can detect it. ; 10 senate, succeeding Viee-I'rcsi- The light comes from the dent-elect Curtis, already has in ' ., f. itiatcd stops looking to snob action point ot a quartz pencil liner an(1 atl(!m,,tB re now being made than the point of a needle, j to learn the views of Herbert Hoo l 'It ra violet light applied to the j Senut01. McNary conferred ves liii? end of the pencil produces j terday with President Coolidge on h , , ,u , the legislation and he is confident the world s. Imiest llgUt, tnat0f administration approval of the will he used under the micro-, bill. . , 1 ' There arc some senators who say scope to pick up sllll?"J they would prefer to leave the ag- II ' iricultural problem to the Hoover . . 11 'administration. There have been With this quartz pencil, ui- reports from farm .'organizations Ira violet ravs may be intro- that tltey also would favor that " 10111 course, but It Is believed hy ad duced directly into individual ministration leaders (,hat the presi iHseased cells, not wasting their dent In naming the proposed rami ' ' . . , . board would take Into consider- yiergy by pertctriltlTfg,. .0P-ttle ,u) ihc wishes 0r Mr. Hoover.' t i iipu Provides Board 1 issues. I The McNary bill would provide . , ; , ' ,ai :nin,, or the estulilisliment of n farm The most importaut an piano nlHrkfitin(5 honr(, wl, nWHr t0 news concerns tnu orgauizu- tion of a the Air," "lieneral Motors ot under the wing of New 1 orlt s national i Bank . . r l V tmoving me surpluses irum uie iimi- A few weeks ago Charles h. ket ln ,!, of p,cnty ttIlrt sem,lg "Mitchell, uresideut of the bank, ; It again when shortages occurred. , ,. V. , . ... ,, : Discussing the bill! Secretary and his friends in aviation ac- , ,ardin )n his )e,,r saM: diiircd the Hoeing Airplane "The main objective ot this moaa- '. e u ..i ..,, ulre. In my oplniun, are: Company, ot Seattle, m men j "nrmTo provide moans of runs air lines from Chicago to handling recurring surpluses in or- ,, . , . , ... der to stabtll.o prices of fBrm pro- bau tranciseo ana Jseuttie. ducts, and thereby to secure by orderly marketing the maximum re Now the National City crowd turns for the crop as a whole. . i . i, r,.u Wliitin.v ' "Second To enable the producer takes in the Pratt &. Whitney w n grea(er aharc of he con. Company that manufactures the sunicr-s dollar by reducin'j the cost '-...' anrl "Unriiel" nir- of marketing and by preventing Wasp and lloint.1 air sl,el.ullUlon Bnd WBSte handling cooled engines,- and tnc cry successful Vought Company. . t That air unit now amounts 1o $150,000,0110 and will grow. "Watch it. llut don't gamble in airplane stocks; they are dan gerous. "Whitcy Shephard, sentenced to die in Georgia "Wednesday, demanded that Dttvie Uraswell, witness against him in his trial and now a prisoner at Milledge ville prison," should witness his execution. "I want her to sec the cur rent going through my body, then she will lake back her lies," says "Whitey." Miss ' Diivie is understood to have said, "I am too much of lady to watch any "gentleman die." Salome, who danced the "Sevi Veils" for the pleasure of having a man beheaded, was a different kind of lady. KxpcrlmenlH with a short wave of the new "beam wlrelen8" show that two or three telegraphic mes sugeA and a talking volte could all iio over the interesting beum at the same time. Singing from a distant town, and two Morse telegraph messages, came over the same aerial, receiv ed on the name apparatus. The world of science la getting complicated. r'Mrv.u.u-ii Vuii U'Im tonia trt'he wan caiiimr inc maint lo in know why Mrs. Brown' moved to auction 'f 'c huuc bccue of Mr. Hpldelborncr-a farm lo ber"oent aKn for a HUtntner h..MV.w.r whil Mr-. irlrf-ll.-r. gcr moved to Mr. Brown's farm to bo h on lie keeper, each taking her children with her. ( Continued on ra Four.) 1 PRESS BILL j FOR RELIEF New Marketing Measure and Urges Enactment Oregon Senator to Urge Passage in Short Session Coolidge Approval Is Expected. I WASHINOTON, 1)00. 21. ) m,ier to mako It applicable to tlio 1929 crop. Seuator McNary, who Is chair man of the agricultural committee. rant licenses to aianiiizaunn cor- nnmllnno nnil In If.an mnnev frnlll a j3UOOOOi00( revolving fund to co-operative marketing associations The corporations would be empow ered to hny and sell crops, thus re- .farm products: and 1 mru 10 cncouiage piuuiinin to organize effective associations under Ihelr control for a heller bal anced production, more economical distribution and greater bargaining power In the market. "I am firmlv convinced that these objectives are essential to a sound program for permanent Improve ment In agriculture and that they are attainable with the aid of the plan proposed In this bill." ROSE CITY IN E SITE J1TEST WASMINfiTUN, I'f. L'l. Wl ('tHlmt f Portiiiiul, OrcK'Hi. l'' for a, BUJiinifT . Wlilti? IIU(e vor? IvchI todny ly lteprt'HntHttv K. I. Korcll. n'HibltLnn of that Stilt.'. "Airways arc Ih Iiik ImM uiit." lie iij . "h ml triin-(orillni'titiil uh travel (m JufI tieglnniiKC. All of thlK nicatw that illwlarn't brtwrcn the Atlaiitlr and Pat'lflc i-naMtn Iiuh tjenn rcfhucd tu Unit with In aiiKUrallun of a 24-hour air M'vkM' the relative distance bcl wncn Hjh)n(rtn ami any unv ot tli major i'Mi-lftc coaft rlticK will nut bo as Rrrat uh the illHtanrf Ip twrcn WnffhltiRtiin on! I'lillad''! phla In thi dayn of 'ui4ttlii(ctun, AdtttiiH and Jrffernon." HIh Htutement. Inrtrd In lh.' ronifre-lonnl Heeonl added that M "e IIOUBC. lie said DO wan 'anxious that the claims of my na tive city, which arc groat from the ictandpolnt of health, beauty, con venience, and acceHKAbtllty, shall not be overlooked.'' IT HOUSE HUNDREDS ARRESTED IN PORTLAND bUr-v av f i -X flAUemJ iW'Wit t'M liI It 'K y'v ' is n Following a woek of education, police etarteel a drive against careless autoiots with the result that several hundred violator: were crowded into a courtroom dally. Inset shows C.iptnin Frank clvin, chief traffic officer of the Oregon city. SHORTEST DAY BIGS CHILL Three Deaths in Chicago From Cold Many Are Forced to Shelter Sub- Zero Weather Reported Portland Also Freezes CHICAC.O, Dec. L'l. (Ti Win- ter i-nnie to tho nilddlo-wcst today' jUHt. as tho almanac nald It would. Three deaths In f'hlcnpo weiM attributed to the cold and police reported curing for 250 other men and women forced Into tho various stations for nbelter. Thre; degrees above zero waa tho lowent temperature recorded in Chicago. Ah the sun scooted to its winter 8u 1st ice to give tho United States its shortent day of the year ami herald the official beginning of w. titer, cold weather swept into t he m id - west fro in Ca u u da. Winter officially begins at 8:01 p. m. tonight, but for the Iakotaw. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and parts of Canada il olready has become established. Devil's Luke, N. D.. bud a mini mum of IS below yesterday and at B'smarck. N. D., the mercury fell to six botow. Ht. Paul ex perienced a low tomperature of four below while Duluth and Moorchcad, Minn., each recorded j readings of eight below. Zero weather gripped La Crosse. Wh., ( and The 'as. Man. shivered in. 30 below weather. More Fnow was accompanied by a slight teniperaturu rise over most of the Koe.y Mountutn sec tion. POHTLA.ND, Ore,, Dec. 21. JP) A drizzle of ruin, and freezing temperature today caused lee to form on pavements and sidewalks. The Columbia river highway, near here, was icy. Hk id ding off n slippery pave ment on a turn above Washington circle, Harold D. Marsh archi tect, plunged down 1 50 feet in bis car, and escaped with .only a few hrulses. BANK ROBBERS FLEE NDTASl'I.CA. Ola.. Xt. 21. (A'l A woman wutkrd tnto thi Firnt National bank of XotatMllKu yrtr terday and llliun n4all.-lnK up aaw a Nitmher or people lined iiKtifOHl the wall with their hmidH extended upwind, nnd mto(h"r woui of threr men pointing nlntols at them. .She wreMined. 4. n. impe, pieMueiu, who WIII'a ti....nu ut . -ni iiiijvn, inriiin, i-iiim,-fi iium captivity in the vault n few mo ment h Inter, allied hy officer, ouickly congratulated the woman. She had naveri flii.ooo In currency in the loller'H cane which wan with in KfflMp of the trio until they fled. feurliiK the woman's Fcrcams would fummon police. Court IfcaM ArKanicfilM, 0nnwered by tho coiiiuilfwioncr' SA I .KM , On-., Dec. 2 1. - teat Imwny. Two murder vasea were amued The senator had felt that Alt mday before tho supremo court, I c hlnon had held up valuation of In one esse Robert Oroen. a Coos I telephone companfea for an un Bay man wan sentenced In tho reasonable time. Altchlson as lower court to be executed. In aerted th&t tho budKQt bureau's thb other CeorRO Hnnnula of As- j H "rta to carry out President torla was sentenced to serve life U'oolldge'a economy program were for killing his wile. j largely roponlblo for tho delay. BOULDER 1 BILL IS SIGNED i BY PRESIDE Act Provides for Reclama-; tion, Flood Control and! Power Project Group! Witnesses Signing- $165,000,000 Provided.-! WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.Ay) President Coolidge today signed tho Moulder Dam bill making ef fective the act providing for a reclamation, flood control mid power project on tho Colorado river. The president affixed his signa ture before a gathering of propo nents of the Hwlng-Johnson bill, who were brought to the executive uftice by Senator Johnson and Representative Swing. California Republicans, who for years had led tho fight for enactment of the oill. The measure provides thst the government shall BUpply tho $165, uOO.UOO estimated as necessary to construct a dam and accompany ing works in Black canyon. The money is to be repaid under an amortization plan from the pro ceeds of the sale of power. The signature of the president was the last official act required In providing federal authority for the construction, but either Utah or Arizona of the seven Colorado rier basin statcn must ratify the Colorado river compact lor distri bution of water before the act can become effective. WASHINGTON, !''. SI. A'i Thi' mimlnnlUm of Clyilo II. Alt i'IiImiii of Orrgun to br a lnrnibir of Ibi! Int'-rMtat! c:oiiiiit.'rru rnm inbt.Hiun, Wii, approved today by thi? wnato liit'i-Ktnlo roiNiiiori-o iMininilttpi afti-f oIiJhcUoiih to bin "MirniHiion nan limn wlin.lruwn. I III- 1-JI1I III 11 ICC II IHO f.'Hvr ll approval to the fundi mitt Ion of " la u d 1 1, Porter of I o vn and 1'atrlck .!. Km-rell of tlio cllntrlet of 'oltimhia. to ho niemberH of the coinmirixtoii. There Iihh been np flRht on Hie nomination of Kartell uud Por ter. Heimlor AVhceler, Jfc'inorrat, of Montana, who wan Instrumental in delay (ntf a voir? In the rmnmtt teo on Altchinon's nomination, an nounced after n meetlnK of the committee toda.O that hln coiii plaintM had lHen yatlnfacfortly NOMINATION OFi C. 0. BISON IS SANCTIONED 1 II ! SAFETY DRIVE MAIL SERVICE PILOT Tossed By Gale and Blinded By Snow Plane Strikes Tree Unable Locate Beacon Naval Flier trSslies in California ! lU'RON, O.. Dee. 1 . Tho air ina.l lost another pilot last night when tho plane of Leo McCiun, tossed a 00-mile gul" (luring a heavy snowstorm plunged Into un apple tree near here. MeOinn was thrown from tho j cockpit and tho plane burned, j McGinn, who lived In Maywood, ! 111., was carrying the night air ma. I from Cleveland to Chicago for tho national air transport com pany. .Most of the mail was saved although It was badly damaged by fire or soaked with water or j gHSoline. McGinn circled the town throe ! times, apparently trying to locate jlho air mall beacon. A moment ' I re fore th,o fatal crash ho tossed a landing flam from tho piano. (Then il crashed Into tho troo and S into u barn owned by Wright M. Stein, Huron undertaker. Five minutes later the snow stopped entirely and tho sky became clear. The pilot's body was found about a hundred feet from the wreckage. Ills parachute was W i tact. This and the fact that the ; motor of the plane wiw not shut J off led to tho belief that McGinn was not expecting the crash. 8KATTMS. Dec. 21. (P) En sign K. 12. JIauck who was killed when his plane crashed near ''iinip Kearny. Calif., was to have gone on leave last Saturday, but a last minute change in nuval orders kept hlni on duty. An hour In-fore he wan to havo ! h'ft the ( ulti'd States aii plano carrier lxlnglou, to which ho was uttui-hed, to visit his parents In "Kmltln; all ircs Wfuu ean- ! relh-d as the ship Is to leave shortly on a prolonged trip, his mother suld lien. CAL'S CONGRATULATION: WAKIl I N( iTO.V, I Xt. 2 I . ') Kli'hard James, KluHhliiK. I hlli hcIiouI boy, received tho con Ki'tiiulutlotiH of President CoolldKO today upon IiIh achievement In winning a 11000 prize offered to the fh'Kt yotilh of Ickh than 11 yfiiiM to fly HcroHM tho continent. lair.ctt who Is 17, called at the White Hoiiho today after flying ElSffl FL1G WAHIIINGToN. Die 21. (IV Presldi-nt Coolidge signed a meas ure today awarding tho distin guished (lying cross to Orvlllo Wr'ght. and his brother, tho lato Wilbur Wright, builders of the first airplane to make an actual flight. CRASHES NUN SNOWSTORM I i E PROVLVm Corvallis Coach Sue - This Morning Assa..ant to Face First Degree Murder Charge Had Po lice Record. COUVAIJ.IS. Ore.. Dec. 2. tP 1ewls (Hip) Dlckerson, assistant Oregon State college athletic coach, died at 4 o'clock' this morning, as the result of a stsb wound, said lo have been Inflicted last Tuesday by Lanza Bryant, a Corvallis youth, in an altercation ovor a waitress. ltryai.il, who was being held on un open charge, was removed lo Port land by Corvallis authorities, when sentiment became strong against him. Dlckerson met Miss Mae Troxall when she quit work at the Benton hotel coffeo shop Monday night and they encountered Bryant on the street. A rough ami tumble fight occurred, according to reports received by local officers, and in the melee Diekerson received a five-Inch stab wound In tho back, the blade of the knife penetrating one of his lungs. Dlckerson was Just recovering from Influenza, and congestion of the lungs set In. Mc was a power- j ful athlete, more than six feet tall, and mode a hard fight for life. Ills physicians suld he would have re- covered had not complications re-' suiting from Influenza developed. , Dlckerson wuh born at Weiser, Idaho, February a7, ' 18UH, and graduated from the Weiser high .riiiiiii. He served In the armv dur- ! lug the World war. and In 1 it U 3 he entered Oregon State college. He played one year on the fresh man football team, and three years on tho varsity. Ho left college tem porarily to work, and had returned for a degree In commorce. In ad dition to his studlea ho was serv ing as assistant football couch. Bryant, who Is lilt, said after his arrest that "there was a misunder standing over a 'date with u girl." He said he could not account for the stubbing. "I muM have lost control of myself I don't remem berr"bevas quoted as saying. u Hl'ht JfftHN Bryant will be charged with first degree murder, said District At torney Fred Mcllenry- He declar ed the attack clearly woh premedi tated. District Attorney McHenry said today that Bryant had been in trouble frequently with police, and that ho had frightened Miss Trox all with attempted attentions, which led Diekerson to offer to take her home after her work at midnight. Officers said that Dlckerson re covered the knife with which he was stabbed in tho street fight, and spared his attacker who begged for mercy, Dlckerson was six feet He von Inches tall. Ills fdzo earned htm tiho nickname of "Hippo" later (shortened to "Hip"- when ho wuh a (tickle on the Oregon Htuto col legrt football team, Dlekerron is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mm. L. M. Dicker son. Weiser, Ida,, and two sisters. Mrs. K. O. Finney, Weiser, and Mrs. W. W. Smith of Portland, all of whom were with him when he died. I.cwln llliil Dlokersnn, trcsli-1 man football coacb at O. 8. C. who illeri thla morning from a knlfu Utah at tlio lianda of a CorvallU ' youth, angered ovur tlm attpntlona j nirkurmm ialil to a young lady, waa i wall known In tills city anil the i Kognc Ulvnr valley among former : O. A. C. nntl high school atuURnta. I Ulckoron vlnlted thin city lant miring anil offlclutml at naveriil AHhlanilMeilfiiril football '(ainoii. Mo iih a giant In al. nnil of a ; llkoaliln dlHKHltlon and ui'ed aa a son of good will onilHKary to nlgn uehool atlilutoH. 1 ALL OIL HELD BIDS WAHMINIiTOX, Dec. Zi.W) Hecreiary Went today rejected "II bids for government oil from the Hull Creek field, WyomlUK. berauMC the highest bidder ruftmed to muke bond and give Information request ed by the department, and then entered into a eun tract with I he White Kttgle OH and Keflntng com pany und the Texas company for the oil ut a private sale. ' The Noted Dead HOMK. Italy. Doe. 21. () The Htofanl News Agency today report ed tho death of Count l.ulgl Ca dorna, commander of thn Italian army from 1015 to 1U17, at his home In llordlghera. Ti t famous statesman anil sol dier, who has been seriously II! for tba past week, died at 4 o'clock thia afternoon. He had been suf fering from arterial chleroala and on Monday nl'dit waa stricken 'with cerebral thrombosis. KN WOUND FOR DICK Will Rogers Says: XKW YORK, IW. There is some nuts ot a hub it here in New York I doubt if it lias reaclu'd your town, for moi of your states have Asylums. It 's to go bare lieatlotl on tho street. Now he lias worn something on his head ever since his mot her tied a hood under his chin, hut he has never at tracted any alteutimi, so he lets it rain down his neck to show people that he bathes. If your head hasn't not enough in it to carry n hat, why all the sunshine on it in the world won't do any tfond. We have a scene in our show where another comedian and myself come out with dress suits and barefooted, no dif ference from being barehead ed nn the street. Only we get paid for attracting attention and being funny. Let women leave off something, they do it much better than men. Every lime a woman leaves off something she looks bet ter, but every time a man leaves off something lie looks, wodse. Yours, WJLTi HOOKRS. SATISFACTORY NEWS OF 1 Ifs nilfril nilT' Mr Hoover'8 Plurality did not Iv I 111 L III llllllr'arh ,ho registered for I 1 IllVril I II I I I'rp',ident Coolidge In 1924, nlthu 1 LI f )y j the former secretary of commerce Brief Bulletin Says Monarch PaSSed ReStfUl NiPht Pllhlin lmnrP5Sinn Kind ruuuc inifJiebbiuii miiu . fMH.. ou,u..:fil.. ouilllliuca oiuvy Twain Prince George Arrives. i i I,ONUON, Dec. 21. (JP) Today s bulletin from Buckingham palaco on King Oeorge, one of tho bnoteHt yet Issued, brought tho satisfactory news that he hud passed u restful night calculated to help build up his strength from the extremo ex haustion caused hy his prolonged and grni'r, Illness. The bulletin, taken In the light of yesterday's lengthy and guard edly optimistic report by tho king's physicians, wns felt to Indlcuto Lhui there was nothing appreclnblo to add to what on tho whole was considerod a favorable situation. This morning's bulletin read: "Tho king has had a reMful bight. There Is no -appreciable change to bo noted." The view taken ln palaco circles. It was learned, coincided with tho publlu Impression from the bulle tin that his majesty Is continuing to gain slowly. His physicians It was lifdlcuted, urc satisfied with tho course that events aro taking. They aro pot expected to mako any further statement on the king's case until the usual hour for the n I fill t bulletin. While the physicians were at tending his majesty In tho sick chamber, the council of state which was appointed to act for tho king during his Illness held a brief privy council In another part of tho palaco. All of tho six counsellors were present, tho queen, the Prlnco of Wales, the Duko of York, Premier Baldwin, tho Archbishop of Can terbury un.". Lord llalirm.im, the lord hiKh chancellor. It was un derstood that tho queen presided. IONDON, Dec. 21. P) Prince f Icoi'sre. completing his trip from Hermuda where he had been sta tioned un II, M. H. Durban, arrived in l-ondon at 4:05 o'clock this afternoon to sec bis father. IS PAIS II Y HOUND. (nl Deo. 21. ifl'i John fturowskl, convicted of the murder ot Thomas Juck- Hon, farmer, after a mall car holdup near hero last August Is.j was bunged In a - snowstorm lu i the courtyard of tho district Jail today. I A . lilting wind whirled snuw down on lite courtyard aa Hur owskl walked up the stepa to the platform, lighted by a single bulb. He objected momentarily to the bluck cap, but yielded to the hangman's Insistence und mur mured n abort pruyor as tho trap waa sprung. Oregon Woollier Oregon: Cloudy east and rain and snow west portion tonight and Haturduy, no change In tempera ture Increasing southeast winds. PLURALITY F 6.423,61 2 Total Vote 36,789,669 Largest in History As sociated Press Gives Comparative Figures Hoover Higher Than Coolidge in Every State Except Rhode Island. (Copyright litis by the Aawoclated Pi-chb. ) WASHINGTON, Jec. 21. .P) Herbert Hoover'a plurality over Clovernor Smith in tho November election wuh 6, 413. 61 2. Figures gathered by the Associ ated PreaK from tho election off! clnls of the 4K stato show thebo totals: Hoover 21.429,109. Smith 15,005,497. Tho total vote caHt, tho largest In the hlHtory of the United Staten, was 36.7H,titl9. Tho votes not accounted for ln the Hoover nnd Smith columna went to minor parties. Norman Thomas, tho sociality candidate, received tho majority of these votes, polling 2G7, 836. Foster, workers party candidate, got 48,228 und Reynolds, socialist -labor 21,181. Varney, prohibition ist candidate, got almost an many art Reynolds, 20,101, and Webb, I farmer-labor 6391. i jxmru u muni iui kct voie. in mat Wear Mr. CoolldKe received 15,726,- 01B votes, giving him a lead of 7.338,513 over John Davis, I liemoerfltle nnmlnnn Tlin 1 .n T?r1 lctte-Whelr Independent ticket, however, had 4,823.8r0 votea. Hoover carried forty atatca as a(tiiinst thlrty.8evon Vroaldeut .Coolldgo four years ngo. i Ponn-ylvanla, gv blni hla lrat majority, 987,7116, while Governor Hnuth'a largest plurality waa In loulalana whero lio had a lead of 1 13.496. While overwhelmed both In tho popular vuto and In tho electoral college, Clovernor Hmlth'a total waa mora than alx million higher than the 8,386.603 cuat for .Mr. Davla In 1024. Higher Than Coolidge Mr. Iloovor'a voto waa higher In every state than that of Mr. Cool idge four yeora ago with tho ex ception of Hhodo Island. Thia held true In President Coolidge'a homo mate of Maaauchuaetta which waa carried by Governor Kmltli. Tho governor's total waa lens than tho Democratic figures of. four years ago In flew Mexico, Tennea aco and Texas, notwithstanding tho large Increase In the number of ballots cast, - ... . .- t Tho Hoover column showa bo received moro than a million voloa In five states C.'allfoVnla, Illinois, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Governor Mmlth reached tho mil lion mark In Illinois, Now York and Pennsylvania. States of thu once-solid south re corded 3.004,1 16 votes for the two major party candidates, almost a million lens than cast in New York for Mr. Hoover und Clovernor Smith. Hoover polled 1.306.48S of tbcao and Smith 1,697,1137 In -Alabama, Arknnaua, Florida. Georgia, louisi una, Mississippi, Houtb , Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and North Caro lina, all of whom hod supported tho Democratic presidential candi date alnca reconstruction duya until the present election. Moiilhorii Voto Mr. Hoover's ucuthorn voto WiiK more than double that of Mr. Cool lilge four yeara ago and almost twice the combined figures for the president nnd Henntor l.aFolli-tlu that year. It came within OI.OOl) votes of equalling Mr. Davla' totul in the Name .territory. The voto of 10.7(g,(9 showed a big Jump over the figures for 1921 when 'J1I.OHI.417 persona cast bal lots In the presidential rare. This increase was CMpecially reflected In the south, AtAbamn aa an examplo recording 248,Bt ballots aa against IHrt.GB:! four yeura ago. Other states in various sections showed a similar result. Tho Increasu for tho nation us a whole ovor IU24 wiia slightly moro than 26 per cent. In the notttb the flgurra wen) approximately 33 Vj per cent higher than they were four yeurs ago. ( ROCKS OFF TAMPICO MUX ICO t'lTV, Dec. 21. Wi Dlsuatehes from Tamplcu today said that tho American steamer Nevarla had gone on the rocks off Tamplco In A galo. Heavy seas prevailed and efforts to rescue tho crew were fruitless. They woro In no Immediate dnrigor. OR HOOVER
