Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 04, 1929, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texto The Weather Forec Cloudy And foggy uUrlu ami Katurtlay; probably rain. IbgiheM yeMerday Ijowet thl morning 2H Medford Mail Weather Year Ago HIkIm1! year aK tUy 48 Umest year ago today 38 fi pil, Twenty-third Year Wttklv ritty-wventb Vnf FOURTEEN PAGES MEDFOUD, OliKCON. 1T4DAY. JAN I'A HY 1. Xo. 284. Tribune To day I By Arthur Brisbane Qo'ming and Going. All Skies Rosy. 1000 Universes, and More. Everything Bigger; i r- .! l. lilt K O am frt 1 By Arthur Brisbane Herbert Hoover is on his way j hack (o America and work, nr- riving next week. He will plan j his cabinet, conslill inn many,: and doing exactly as he pleases, j And two months from today he J will take charge oC the situn-j lion. ' J j Mr. Coolidge did exactly the; right thing after the war. when ' the country needed two things, j first, to save money, second, to I he let alone, free from danger-!. ous experimenting. ! Mr. Hoover will, find a dif ferent situation, a different j ,iih. The ''coasting" period is j over, the time has come to sup-1 ply power to take the engine! upliill. Mr. Hoovers reputation asj President will depend on the; things that lie himself actually j DOES. i Fortunately for hiin, he is j trained as an engineer, trained , in government work, and be ' knows from careful study what , the country needs. , i "Wall Stieet started the new! year cheerfully as was to be i expected. ,Vith a first class President going out, and a first class President coming in, and all the skies rosyA why should Wall Street he Had ? The inter est on call money was only 10 per cent. Even the solemn, quiet old Pennsylvania railroad got: excited, going up to n new high price. "What, we call the universe, with its Milky Way, in which our sun is a tiny speck, and its thousand million stars, each a sun with a planet revolving around it, turns out to he only one little corner of the universe. Scientists tell you that 1100 universes surround us, some as far away as the distance that light could travel in 1,000,000 years, going 18(1,000 miles -a second. Space is said to he "trans parent" and with improving telescopes and stellar photog raphy, scientists nope io i-- trate and measure the universe. What wionce call tlio 1000 universes tire prolinbly only H100 little nt hills with mil lion's i like them scnttered through infinite spnee. The scheme is too hip even for n ' scientific mind. Knrtu niitely, it does, not prevent the J little iniin nttendinu to business close at hand. j j Or. Osborn, heatl of the American Association for the j Advancement of Science, re- bukes another scientist who! drapeed into scientific discus- J sion the statement that mai; f '-needs to change his concepj of j Dr. Osborn quoted tlic negro preacher, who, on a stormy Sunday, "thanked the Ixrd that Thou art with us tonight despite the weather.' 4 When the bartender placed a glass of water beside her glass of gin, an old lady in an Knir-j lish public house said: "Vounirj man, 1 have trouble enough j without drinking water. Scientists have t r o u h 1 rt enough without stirrinu up rc liirtj.iin .l'w.Mti.uinfi uinI atiiniosi- ties. v .(Continued on Page Four). ENDURANCE TEST PLANE Question Mark Continues Aloft With Motors Per forming Flawlessly To Refuel Late Today Weather Conditions Im proved. MLTItOPOLITAN AIRPOHT, Los Angeles. Jan. 4. A VI) i (juration .Mark appoarl over the Metropolitan alrimrt shortly after one o'clnvlc . today compleUntf a leisurely jmrney from lmperiiil valley. The hiy ship was niven 1 tin Kalluti.s of gasoline hy refuel ins ship No. 1, which acetiinpanieil the Question .Mark here. The en tluranee plune'H Iiik molois wore performing flawlessly, as it neareil Uh sevemy-nintii hour in the air. In a ine.ssiiKo dropped to the fit-hl. ,l:ijtr furl Spat', eoniniamt inti offieei- of the ship, instructed the tM ivory of food and nuikinK of m Ki'xoline eonta.'t at A : SO o'clock this 11 ftt't'inion. lie also asked for ' a Kasnilne i-nniiiet hi midnight. The return of the Quest ion t Mark was uneventful nnd the improved weather condi tion v-re proving tin aid to the flifrht, the offieers said. L ISSUE OEFI TO l'OUTLAXD. Ore., Jan. 4.(P) The iu bile ft-hoid forces of the state ip.u lied their L'halleui;u In the property iiix relief commis.siun to day. H. K. In low, retiiiiiL: presi dent of the Oregon Htate Teachers' assueiiition and suHrlntendent of the 1'endh'lun s'hinil.s, was spokes man for the educational bodies In their fiKht aKainst the proposed eti to Ination of Ihe two-mill ele meniary sidptol tux. "We are compelled to oppoxe any attempt to abandon the two mill elementary school tax unlesK a .sound and u liable suhstitute is found for it and we see 710 ac ceptable substitute In view." said Mr. Inlowi "We will take our fiKht into the legislature or to the people if the commission recommends nbolish in this lax. Of course, if at the leglslnluro a .sound and stable so lution can be found, wo will be Klad to un Into u conference with this or any other body having- the matter in charge lo study the ques tion. Wc would like to work wlih this commission, hut will he un able to do sn if it continues to rec ommend a repeal of the two-mill elementary lux without pivhi:: a proper and suitable Mibstilillt-." Mr. In low declared many school folk oppose the. proposed tobacco tax to raise school funds in lieu of the elementary tx. He said these person hold it would be in pislent to raise educational funds this way. For himself, he declared the chief objection to he that it would lie unstable and could never be depended upon. He said any lux ury tax would be unacceptable on account of bohm tindependablc. L FAILS FOR PAIR j FIIANKMX. T-ti.. .Tan. 4. Pl Judge Jnmes D. Simon today ruled In the district court of Ht. M?iry 1'arlsh that Mrs. Ada llonner I bom'f nnd Dr. Thomas K. Dreher, senlent ; d to hang tomorrow, are sane. Karller in the day he bad over ruled a motion of defense lawyers for the appointment of n lunacy cnmm?yon to imiulrp into the present sanity of their clients and the defense now plans to appeal to the state supreme court for a stay of execution and mandamus to require nnpointmnt of a lun acy commission. The supreme court appeared to be tlG only hope for the con demned man and woman to es- caK the vallow tomorrow, .is tJovcrnor Ivmg linn n-fused to ln- tf-rvenc. "There Is no doubt In my mind that the accused are at present sane and therefore the applica tion In denied." concluded Judge bimon'i written opinion. minuet tmmmgmmii FORCES COKIN FLIERS WHO SEEK ENDURANCE RECORD Army aviatoi. ulm arc imrih'lpitihiu in ilio iiiK'iiipt 10 -ot n tvorlik s reooid uv siisiaiited lliht hi (Up Klunt 1'oUker inmioplaue "tuesiluit .Mark.1' I.oli lo rilu: M.iJr t ai l Spal. fnpialn Ira f. I jiker. Mouieniint K, It. Jue.gnla, fa plain It. Ilnyt, pilot of fuel Mdp, mid Sfrueaut It. V. IIhh. MAN HUNT FOR JACK HELPS IN PSYCHIATRISTS BANK ROBBER BALLYHOO FOR WILL EXAMINE IS CONTINUED HEAVYWEIGHTS RIVERSIDE BOY Robbery of Mexico- Mo., En Route to See Rickard,' Request for Sanity Exami- Bank Brings Death to One Bandit and Jail for. Another -Third Man Still at Large in Woods. , MKXH'O, Mo.. .Inn. 4. .Vi -A bunk robbery which became a man hunt was the IntruducLion of two Missouri sheriffs to their duties two days after they took office. Search for Tom Davis, 4u, of t'hi cuko, wanted for the flM.MHi hold up of the First National hank here yesterday, w a s continued today. Davis eluded posses one time dur ing the early morning, only again to he forced into the woods hy the sheriffs forces. One robber wah killed in the os CHpe, and the. third was jailed. Ho first aid he was John Matthews, 2U, of Dallas; later he gave his name as John JO. 1 truck of New York Oily, ile said the dead man was Willie Hightower of Fort Worth, Tex., and the robber who escaped was Davis. Illghtower was wounded as the robbers sped through Auxvarse, about 12 miles south of here. High lower collapsed over the steering wheel and when Davis attempted to control the machine it skiddcl Into a ditch. Davis and Bruck took to the woods, a posse ruptur ing Hruck soon after. loss Kluded. 1 Davis slipped through the posse, reaching a garagp on the V. H. highway 40, where he held up the atteitdant and started away in a stolen car. He saw an approaching posse and turned haute. They found his abandoned machine several miles further on, stalled in a snow bank, and later came upon a sec ond car stolen and left by the road side. s Again surrounded in the woods, Davis was chased across Auxvasse creek and Into higher ground, where several cabins offered shel ter. , Ile was known to have been arm ed with a revolver and a rifle, stolen from an automobile. The posse men were palroling the wooded hills to keep Davis penned up for a daylight sortie. It was the first bank robbery Mexico had experienced a'nil of the loot, the cash, Sft.'dlu, was recov ered near Auxvasse. E SUCI0E REASON OF BRIDE-TO-BE PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. Jan. 4. fPi The motive for the suicide, on j Miss Tola Swain, as gnents were i aHsemhlintr for her wcddliiK IhsI October, was believed by nolice to have been found today In dlscloj lure that Paul D. Italrd, the hrlde , groom-to-be, was already tt married ; mint, 1 I aird, years old, was arrested at his home to WllklnstMirK. Pa and Indicted by the -irand Jury yes terday on a diary of perjurv In having sworn In hts application for a marriage license that he never had been married, The wedding had been planned and the guests had arrived before her death became known. " Friends Biild that earlier fn Hie day she had met Halrd and also had talked with him over the tele I nhone. Her body, surrounded by her wedding finery and with a pis I iti' clutched In her l and, wan lound (on her bed. A nolo nearby read: "! have nothing to live for. Please forgive me." r; i r, . s-vv r: -- Former Champion Gives Many Interviews Will ing to Meet Victor of Sharkey-Stribling Go. M At 'ON, fin., Jan. 4. Opt Kit route to Miami. Florida to talk it over with Tex lllckard, Juck j Dempsey is Issuing a op" man 1 consensus of the heavyweight sit j uailou, mid as interpreted by his j interviewers along- Hie Hue, It runs I something like this: i "The winner ..f the Ntrfbling , Sharkey 'fight iU MlanM Mend j February 27, will be the next 'champion of the world, j "1 am willing to meet the win- tier of the Strlbllnh-Sharkoy fight, I but v ill have no announcements j to make until I see Kickard. j "I'm not sure yet that I want to j bo,x again. "I will not referee the Miami ; Heach fight. "i believe (teorge fUdfre the : negro, is the best among the crop 1 of heavyweights just at present." J These contributions . to fight j ballyhoo left the scribes in cities ; through which the former cham 1 pion has passed In the laH L'4 1 hours dazed and smut what groggy. 1 The gong will ring on the next round of the scribblers' battle with Dcnip.oy at Miami Iteach to night and It appeai'H that Deinp sey's mighty right has been bol stered with rhetoric that wjil carry a knockout punch. limis Strutting His last official conlributlon was made last night when he passed through .Macon. Young Stribliug, hack from Kansas ('lly and a New Year's day bout, h:id Just arrived and was. al I he station ttlven'the Dixie Flyer c;inu thru wtlb Dcmpsey aboard. , '"III, St rib," was Dempsey' greeting to the young f ienrgian whom he has never sen In action. 1 Dempsey said he whs in a hurry Ito reach Miami, where Kickard I Is ill after an apptmllcliis opera tion, and nutK Slrlbllng, a li censed pilot, offered to Hy him down. "No, I'd better go on," Jack replied, "but I would have been glad to have stayed ove- wllh you Tor a while if Kickard had not been 111. Thanks for your offer and 'or coming down lo the train." I To Interviewers the mauler said ' he was not stile yet Whether he (wanted to box again, and voiced , the opinion that he thought the j winner of the Strlbllng-Sharkey , seito would be the next champion. I At Atlantu earlier In the eveii j ins. Dempsey said he would not ! referee the Miami Heach eneouu- ter as had been phtnncd, but would not be drawn out I "Sharkey's a good fighter." he ; told sports writers who asked his ! opinion an to the Miami Iteach 1 fight, 'hut I haven't seen KtilbliiiK fwoi. I understand, however, j that he has got a powerful sock In jthat right hand now. and has im proved a pit m many ways. I WAHHINf'TOM. Jan. 4. M j Horace M. Albrlyht of California was appointed acting director of ithe national park service today by Secretary West, Mr. Albright, who .has been I superintendent of Yellowstone Na ftlonal purk and n member of the ' park servlo since Its foundation, will not In tie place of Stephen T. Mather, who hns been 111 In Chlca jgo aincu November 6 nation Allowed By Judge Northcott to Be Inves tigated As To Present State of Mind. roritTKooM, u i v i li side, :nl., Jan. 4. (A) Judge (ieorge, j U. Freeman today appointed Dr. : Kdson Steele and Dr. M. (. I farter of Los Angeles and Dr. M. Webster of Pultun, fal-, to iexamlue into the sanity of tior , don Stewart Northcott . The three pyehlut rlsts are tn- - ,til in an . . order signed by ' lodge Freeman to examine the 2 -year-old .Canadian, cha r g ' 1 with the murder of Lewie and Nelson W'Jnslow and an unidenti led Mexican lad, and "to report ito thiH court, their finding is to (the present state of the defend ant's mind, as to whether he is sane or insane, and. If Insane, the extent of his Insanity or mental , derangement." The compensation of the x 'petls was fixed at per day with such additional fees as ul lowd by law. Objection to the order of the provecutiou was overruled by Judge Freeman wllh a slatemenl 'that he personally al the present time believed Northcott sane, hut jthat lie was appointing the com iiiiii'x'.on as a precautionary meas f ore. Naming of such commission was asked by Norbert Havay, Norih- oH s chief counsel. WASH IN! T -V, J an. 4 . lP The wiir department bill, reported to the house, Im Hides $240. RO0 for Improvement ami maintenance of the harbor al fresccnt Cily, fal. A. brea Itwalcr 'exlenslon ror the ill out h of the rmprpia river Is list ed. For Improvement of the f mp qua river. $3:r,iuHi s sought. (jther Items for Oregon include; Coo Pay, $liU.4(iii; forts river. :toi0; f oqullle river, S7on(i; Ya cpilna river, S l O.OftO; Vaqufua bay and harbor. $17. ; Tllamook bay and harbor, mm; frdumbla and lower Willamette rivers, S3.MI. EASTERN OREGON GETS CUT IN FREIGHT RATE SALKM. fire.. Jan. 4. fPt Tile ' public service commission 'Is In i formed (hat the Southern Pacific j com puny U cstah 111 1 log tin nugh j rates on agricultural products ifrom Ilend and Hedmond soulh to San Francisco and Los Angeles, applying to 'all intcruiedlulc ( odnts. This has been brought about by the 11 rent Northern ex tension from Hend to Klamath Falls and takes the place of local rate combinations or the former routing by way of Portland. The new rates give shippers a reduc tion. Erase Rum Charge PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 3.-4V-Lloitor ( harKfff aftalnat Pldwell Pir'dle. Klamath Indian, who was ulaln November -H on the Klamath reservation, were wiped off til's federal !ourt lKHka here by order of Judge Lean yesteiday. 5240,500 SHI !rnn intirnniirnnriiT ;riiK iivraratNij CRESCENT HARBOR! 1 I ROSPERITY 5 SHIPMENTS i Valley Enjoys Greatest Year Approximately 11,000 j Cars Rolled One-Third j Fresh Fruit Lumber ! Output Heavy Gold Hill ' Cement Plant Heavy Pro ! ducer Poultry Shipped. In view of Hie carload shipments joi fruit, lumber and fit her valley products, the Rogue Hlver vallev 'in lHUS enjoyed the most prosper ous year in its history, flgutes snp j plied by the Medford flounder of fomnieice today revealed. Car- load shlpuieats had an approximate : total of ll.DOti, of which over one ! third included shipments of fresh I ft 11 it . No estimate has been made ' of Hie upproNiniute value of the I products, hut Is believed to be J easily over $IO.uou,OiHi and perhaps clone lo JIJ,mii,iHiu. I Next lo Hie shipment of fresh j fruits, which Is crediled with 4tit)0 cars, Is the lumber industry with I the shipment of 40ii(i cars finm ! Medford and valley potnis to out- I side and toreign markets. Like fruit shipments, Hie lumber was 'shipped to all parts of the I'lilted I States and also to Kuropenu and I Asiatic markets. Shipment oT ccmenl is credited to Cold Hill with L.'m cars, malt ing Hold Htll one ol the heaviest 'hhlpphm points In the state for a ;city of its size. The cement is 'manufactured by Hits Heaver Port j la no) Cement company in a plant employing 11 lai to number of men. I Lumber shipments came principally i from Medford, the Owen-Oregon j Lumber company shipping many jcais dally from Its mill nt the j north end of the city, where sev terul hundred men are employed I (hiring the busy season, with nearly jts many employed In lumber campo near Itudo Falls. I Ship Shook i Third In valley shipping Is box 1 shook, credited with N7T cars, most I of which was made in Medford by j the Tomlln Box factory and which j whs shipped to nil parts of tho mi ; lion. During ' busy Boasona the company Is mU to be ho rushed ! that numerous large orders must j be turned down. Box shook is also manufactured in Ashluud and its j carload shipments are included in .the tola). The Ashland factory also at times must turn away work. 1 .Indicating a greater than average . activity in lite canning Industry, ''2h cars of nunnery products were : shipped during PUIS, with the hulk I com It: from plants at Medford and j Ashluud. Tho next two important totals (are of poultry and hay, with B0 I chi'k for the former and 20 for the I latter. The poultry shlpmentH, Including eggs, turkeys and chickens, when especially 1 tmvy during tho Thanks giving ami Christmas holidays, when turkeys are shipped in large numbers to, California, Portland, Scuttle, eastern and New York jniarketa. Ah it result of such sbtp- njerts turkey growing Ih rapidly Oecuuiln ; one of the county's ma jor minor Industries, with some ranchers raising as many as LloO fn one season, selling every bird at good market prices. Mtacellaneout Shipments Other carload shipments from the valley Include granite products, '10 cars; grass seed. It); vegetables, 1 50 ; miscellaneous, 50. The miscel laneous shipments Include smull shipments of wheat, cuttle, sheep and other products. The shipment of fiO cars of vegetables keeps many truck gardens busy through out the valley, with some especial- j ly large. Tomatoes, melons, pota toes, greens, hrrubarb, broccoli nnd other toothsome products ore ni iron the main Items shipped. J Kxuct figures supplied by the jCbumber of Commerce for the year have a total of ll.olm and It is possible that this may be larger. No figures have been received on this mutter from the Southern Pa cific company, which handled the j smpinems, 11111 nicy nre sjyu m make Hits section the best paylnt I shipping point between Portland land Sacruniento. fal. I Several of the shlpmehtH nre aen- sonij, particularly fresh ' rults. j which ure shipped from Medlord I f rom the beginning of August lo the latter part of November, with Ifew shlpmentH made from cold stor age during December. Lumber ship I menu ure more equally divided thl'otifth the year. I LONDON. Kng.. Jan. 4. W) The K : 1 5 p. m. biitletin on King George tonight aid; . "There la no change to report In his majesty's condition. The kitiK had a quiet day." Only Hlr Htan ley Hewett and Ixjrtl Uawaon of Puna signed tula. WN ! Eli o Rabbi in C c Sea Bathing 1 n Times Daily NKU' VoitK. lun. 4 - (41 Ileitis a 7 at -old man who for the last seven yeaiH lias been diving lutti the. Kea seven lliiifK every day except un re- li:ious lttlida.VH. He Is Uahhi Narun Wci.s- niHii ni Itrooklyu. Kvery day -fr he arises at I': an a. m., Hpoiid an ttonr in nraver. drinks a 4 punch, drupes a coal over Mh linked I'urin, duns a fur nip In winter wemher -wulkn to a Coney Ishind breakwater 4 and pluiiKes Inio the ocean sev(u limes. Me usually stayM In the water I ft niinuies. Then he HkIiih a fire from newHimpeiM on the heaeh, drieri liimi-tell'. put on hln ololhoH, oen hack homo and intends to his ofriciiil ilmitx. 4 11 has lieen ill only one day In seven years. Tue annual stockholders' meet ing of t he Farm Bureau will be held at the Hotel Meilford to morrow afternoon starting at 2:00 o'clock. ne of I In chief pur potes of the meeting, will be the adopt hot ttf the plan, under con sideration by the Farm llureaii and 1 he Jackson County (image, members for the past three iiK'iit lis for 11 rcoruanizattou of the Fn mi Korean, whereby its scope will be Increased. Suffic ient new members have been se cured to increase the capitaliza tion of tin Farm Huron u to $.10. uuo, Othri matters to come before Hie meeting will be the election of -officers for the year, und tho rending of the annual reports of various departments. New plans for tho vear will be outlined and discussed. There are ifn l stockholders in l hw Farm Hureait, anil represen tatives of all districts of the county w'U be In attendance. I tun an Opiiis flog; Pool The Farm Pureau is making up a carload of hogs, un a pool basis U be t-hipped to tho Portland market, early next week, accord ing to Manager flay D. Parker. Mor.t hogs are needed to com plete the shipments. Hogs are now listed on the Portland market nt 10 cents a pound, and thin means a profit for the raiser, with a predicted further rise In (he price. Owners of marketable hogs are requested to gel In touch with the Farm Hurcuii. No returns, as yet, hnve, been received on tho turkey pool ship ments to the New York market for the holiday trade. BY CHICAGO COPS fHICAf.O, .inn. 4. (JP)- Coffins for killers was the jolly sentiment pronounced today hy Police Com missioner lltissell In response to reports that 30 New York gang sters were en rouln to Chicago. "We've a coffin for every one that gets here," he said. "We hart one to fit Frank Orlando not so long ago. and the supply Is still good." Orlando, a robber-slayer from New Jersey, with a reward on his head, was slain by police while he fled from a robbery. The report nf a gangster Influx wns based on the crusade of New York's new police commissioner, flrover Whalen, by which ninny bad men are said to have been driven from that elly. "We won't drive them out," said Commissioner Hussell. "We'll ship 'em backin boxes. Our police In the last five months hnve killed 3i gangsters nn wmyided UK niore. "Tell that to the boys In New York." 4. A Hoeing 1 'J -passenger cabin pin no, arriving from the south this forenoon at 2:4"i, attracted a large crowd of local citizens to the air port to view the giant machine, which Is one of the largest ever to land In Meilford. It has a wing spread of 80 feet. Is tf feet long and Is powered by three motors, having 11 combined strength of ap proximately 1200 horsepower. It Is In charge of Pilots Lewis and Little atul will Icuvo tomorrow for fckaUl, ARM BUREAU MEETING FOR STOCKHOLDERS MORE RAIDS IN GOTHAM LAST NIGHT Second Sortie Lands More. Than Fifty in Jail -r Strong-Arm Squad Finds Underworld Denizens Ab sent From Haunts One Resort Wrecked. NKW YOUK, Jan. 4. P) An other sortie by Police Commission- or W'halen's liquor raiders lauded ! more than 50 speakensy proprietors in Jail today. Fifty places were I raided Wednesday night nnd 00 j Inst night. ! j I The first tour of poolrooms anj jother hideaways of crooks ant) j gangsters by the newly revive "strung-arm" squads brought out the fact that underworld chnrao- ters known to the police had def seried their usual haunts. ( The Manhattan squads visited places on tho liowery, in China town and along the wharves, then swung up into tho mid-town whllel light district without finding any i of the undesirables they had been Instructed to drive out. Hut in on ; place the squud demonstrated strong-arm tactics. j The detect Ives entered a base t meni resort In West 51st street; j searched and questioned patrons j ami ordered ihem out. Then, after seizing a quantity of liquor, they , wrecked the place, f rowhars and axes were used to smash the bar, furniture, mirrors and glassware. This was the second place ile moltshed in the campaign against "crime-breeding speakeasies." A place lu Ureenwloh Village was wrecked In a similar manner Avert 1 nesday night. j , '.Votive In Harlem. ) Members of the liquor raiding j squads coneentruted thelr activ ities In Harlem whore about two thirds of tho raids weru made, lip citck .inslunco police - confiscated, supplies of liquor. Commissioner Whalen announc ed he would avail himself of the weapon placed In his hands by the court of appeals yesterday when It ruled that speakeasies violated the state nuisance law. Proceedings agalnM liquor dis pensing places under tho nuisance law would permit taking cases ln , iu iiiu nmm vuuiir us nun 11s lo- ' rit I 1 The commissioner said tho drive' against so-called "smokehouses," , places where low grade or polson-j ous liquor is sold, would he con tinued until the city had been rid, of all crime-breeding resorts. Failure of the "strong-arm' men to find gangsters last night wait rogarded by police officials as con firmation of reports that crookl and other undesirables were leav ing the city for Chicago and othetf points. 4 Battery Plant Btaxes 1-OS ANGtOLES, Jan. 4. (J)-t The plant of the National Battery works was swept by a fire here j early today which caused damage. estimuteu at sizfj.uuo. Will Rogers Says: ' WIU, ROfJKBS '' ' NKW YORK, .Inn. 3. Kvcrybody ix picking on that poor boy nut thrre in Cnli- rornia t b 11 1 . i' u n t li vrniin w a y w i t h that I'uolbnll. IE I wax an edito rial writer 1 i k o Mr. ltA. lloarst, Mr. Brisbane, Urnee Hartnn, (iloim Frank and all of tbone, I would ask bow many of tbn hundred nnd ten million of the rest of nS are beaded the wrong way, bow many of us have eVer h n d prcKence of m i n A enough to piek up a fumble, how many grabbed out of I ho serainble and don't know till they reaeh the goal lino .vhether it's the right one or not. So come, on, preaeh ers, bop on this as your text. All I want is 10 per eent of that Sunday's eolleetion to get this boy a medal for at least doing something differ ent from one million othcit eollege boys. Even if it was wrong, his mind wasn't 8tan dardixed. Yours, mjL ROGERS.