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MmwoehMml Tribune Weather Year Ago f HUthmt year 0 today . 47 l-owcst yea niRO today Sit Daily Twntr fourth Year. Wkly Klfty-wwnlh Year. MEDFORD. OREGON,' -MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1929 The Weather Forecast ' Cloudy tonight anil Tuesday, with rnln. Ilhthcst yesterday 01 lxiwest this morning 113 84 tirn. prot-iltiitloii to 5 a. tn... V. . ' No. , ' Today : By Arthur Brisbane Hoover's Home Economy 89 Years, 89 Millions. ; Kahn Loses Titta. Jews As Immigrants. (Copyright by Klnff Features Syndicate, Inc.) President Hoover, . believing Unit econoiny should begin nt home, will. put the presidential yacht Mayflower out of com mission. The President will do his yatching in a rowhoat, when fishing. The country will save .$.'100,000 a year, and 148 sail ors that have wasted their time on the Mayflower will be as signed to new naval vessels; : 4 Tlio Mayflower has beep add ed to the cost of maintaining a President ever since the days of Theodore Roosevelt, and President Hoover's determina tion to dixeont inne a thorough ly undemocratic arrangement will be generally appreciated. The people would not grudge a good President any comfort, or , luxury. . But a $:100,000 yacht, tacked, on to $75,000 salary, seems fantastic. ' Xext Wednesday, George F. Baker, dean of American bank ers, ruler of the gigantic First National of.Xew York, 'which is one of his minor possessions, will celebrate his 89th birth day. For every year that he has lived, Mr. Baker' has given. at least a million dollars to edu cation and other gojnd purposes. ' KxcVy'holy..w'iKhcii;'His'"innny more years to get and give. Since the people do not' yet know enough to develop their own resources and supply what they need, it is fortunate that they have such men as Baker, Rockefeller, and others, to ihow them how. ntti IT Vnlin nrnfnetor ot grand opera, learns that his enemy is the talking moving picture. That must surprise i him, as much as it surprised the 70-foot dinosaurs when the rats ate them. Mc'tro-Goldwyn-Miiyer have taken Titta Kutfo from Mr. ICalm's jretronolitnn opera to s'iiir for the movies, and it wasi, ns simple ;"ns taking candy from a child."' Mr. Titta sings ten times hc- fore a recording machine and is paid 50,000, or irll.'i.OOO for eacli short sinking period. , Even the Metropolitan's dia mond horse shoe cannot com pete with that. f ' , Young Indies njid gentlemen, cultivate your voices and learn to speak intelligently and not through your noses. Discouraged teachers of elo cution, take courage. Your time has come around again. Tlio President! 'onalnst his will and judgment, solely because the law compels It, has proclaimed tlio new "origins" act, limiting Immi gration and tracing the wouliljbe immigr-dt to his national origin. That act. which President Hoo ver deplores, was drawn and in tended 1n diminish the number of Jewish immigranis and Immigra tion from southern Kurope, where live the people described by W ood; low Wilson as "the baser sort Arehmtdes once lived In that neigh hnrhood, also Caesar. Michael An gelo, Dante, and some others able to hold their own. Some, perhaps, the mental eiiunls of Woodrow II son. ..n' As to tho desire to prevent Jew ish Immigration, by no means lim ited to tho K. K. K., It is well for sensible Americans to bear mind certain historical facts. Spain and Portugal drove out the Jews, inspired by religious super stllion and hatred. ' Holland rose to great power and wealth. Portu gal and Spain went to the devil, commercially and otherwise, and are still there. England excluded Jews, and per secuted tho few on Knfllsh soil, be fore Cromwe:!. Cromwell admitted XCoptinued on Vug Four). St ORM AND CONSIDER f 1000 T TOLL OF 49 Kentucky and Tennessee Hit . By Freshets Over Week End 37 Lives Lost Tornadoes Spread Death Over Four Other States Rapid Rise of Streams Traps Victims. i LOUISVILLE, Ky., Mar. 25. UP) Floods rushing clown from the Cumberland mountain watersheds took a toll of 37 Uvea in south eastern Kentucky and. northeast ern Tennessee over the week end. while tornadoes and storms spread j ARE death over four other southern "la now before the commission, states, bringing the south's death I Among those for whom numer toll to 41) and possibly more. I ous rceomm'cndalinns - have been ' Tennrwwo was the hardest hit j with 31 known deaths. Kentucky j had six. Alabama had five negro ( children killed in a tornado. Two negroes wore .killed in Georgia by Another who is widely recoin a tornado nnd a white man by ( mended in Portland is Guy R. Har lightning. Three negroes were kill- j per, who Is tax man for the firm cd in Mississippi In a storm. A boy! of Lybran, Ross Brothers & Mont was killed In North Carolina by a 1 gomery. storm. .' Most of the county Assessors of Mountain streams irt eastern j Eastern Oregon have united in Kentucky and Tennessee receded as support of August A. Anderson of rapidly as they -rose and trapped Bend, Deschutes county assessor, their victims. Twenty persons, ! other county assessors who are mostly .women and children, were j recommended nro C. L. Tallman lost when the Emery river at Har- i of Benton county, Andrew M. ra- riman, Tenn., left its banks at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. . Seven ! Boy Scouts nnd their scoutmaster ommendatlons for the latter, how were swept Into AVhlto creek and ! ever, appear to bo contingent on drowned tm they slept. They on- j whether the attorney general holds copied a cottage on the creek bai.k i that Representative John H. Car dura 5 a, week end hike, inreejkin of Medford Is eligible to serve. m e m b o r 8 of one . family we'e drowned nt Webster, Tenn. . Bodies of nix Boy KcoutB, their sewt master and two others, have been recovered. : Kcntue.lcy's dentil toll wjis.Jiejivl est in Know und Bell countled. whero tive Uvea were taken by tlio sudden freshet. Three were drown- ed near Barbourvllle, and two near , Plnevllle. - One was drowned In , Perry county. CHICAGO, Mnr. 20. OT Tho Mississippi nnd Missouri rivers still threaten to batter down levees and overrun their banks today as pa trolmen and apprehensive residents watched eagerly for signs of relief. Kcports from Keokuk, Iowa, that the river had fallen six Inches were gratefully received by leveo patrol men, especially In the Oregory, Mo., district, whero the fight Imd been almost given up as hopeless yes terday. ' Canton, Mo., was also threaten ed by the exceedingly high stage of the riven Members of the nntlonnl guard and naval militia patroled tho flooded Indian Grave district near Quincy to prevent looting when the water recedes, and to assist the families driven from their homes. The first fatality from that section occurred nt Henrslown when a youth fell from a dike nnd was drowned. F WHEN PILOT IS LOST IN MIST MOUNT GRETNA. Pa.. Mnr. 25. (P) Four persons were killed when a Ryan monoplane struck a tree ns it was flying low attempting to nscertnln i!s position While over the nntlonnl guard encampment ground near hero lodny. , The pilot had a card in his pock et rending "John I.. Cnmplon. east ern fnctory representative of tho Mahoney-Hynn Aircraft corpora tion. St. Louis." Another victim had a card benr Ina the name of Harold W. I.loy." Worlhington. Ohio. The accident occurred a half mile from Colebrook. on land ad joining the national guard reser vation. The pilot apparently hod lost his way In the mist and fog and wus flying low in an effort to regain his hearings. Flying over a "l covered by woods, part of a wing of tho plnne was torn off by a tree. The pilot tried to gain altitude, started up ward and then turned over, crash ing to earth ngnlnst a tree stump. The mnchinc was wrecked. The bodies wero badly mangled. All the men were well dressed nnd the pilot had evidently been giving a riemontratlon. The plane was n'silver nnd blue j monoplane, manufactured by the I M.'ihoney-Kyan company, si. i-ouis. Coroner J. Herbert Manheck of Lebanon, took the bodies to 1h. nmtn, whf-re furtherlnvtlgatlon wnn to be made In an effort to as- certain their Identity. R MANGLED LONG LIS! IN TAX 8 J. B. Coleman Is Mentioned if Carkin Eligibility Ques tion Interferes Recom mendations Pour in for Many F. W. Skiff and Guy Harper, Portland, Have Backing. ; SALEM, Ore., Mar. 25. (&) Recommendations In behalf of per sons proposed for uppointment to the new state tax commission cre ated by the 11)29 legislature are reaching the state board of con trol daily and a lone; list of names received is Frederick V. Skiff of Portland, who for 1! years was tax expert for the firm of Olds, Wort- man & King. Skiff Js now retired.; ham of Malheur county and J. B. ( Coleman of Jackson county. Rec-1 . lien P. West ot Salem, former assessor pf Marlon county, is un derstood to' be an applicant for one of the two appointment.- A. nqniljpr . of recommendations have cornein for. OeorKO I'almiter of Ho'od'Mrveiv. waster of the state CVanKe. Palmiier was in Salem throughout the lORislatlve 'Session and took an Important part in the tax lobby. Representative Carkin of Med ford Ik known to he in a' receptive mood. The question of his eligi bility hinges on tho constitutional provision that no member of the legislature shall be eligible for appointment, during the term of j his membership, to an office ere-1 ated by the session in which he snt, or an office the salary of which was increased by such ses sion. ' .Carkin's friends use the argu ment that In providing for the new salaried tax commission the legis lature did not create a new office, but merely removed the governor, secretary of state and state treas urer as ex-offlclo members and providing for two other members to sit in their places along with the existing snlarled commissioner, who at the present time is Earl Fisher.' - Medford Airport Outstanding One, Says Oil Official ' W. H. Cotrel. Of the Hich- f eld Oil Co., writing tho air- port publicity committee, un- 4 der date of March 5, 1029, snys: , "We appreciate tho fact 4 that the new Medford air- port. If nuthoriwd by the 4- people, will be -an outstanding 9 one in tho state of Oregon, 4 because of the plans and de- 4 velopments as outlined by 4 4 your community. "You nnd tho city of Med- 4 4 ford ore to be congratulated 4 on making tho rnp'.d strides 4 4 you nro for aiding aviation 4 4 eo thoroughly." 4 4 4 4 44 4 L HOME. March 25. (JP) Tho rllr igible Graf Zeppelin, on a 6000 mile flight over tho Mediterranean and central Kurope, arrived over Rome at 3 o'clock this afternoon. It I'ircled the city three times and twertH minutes later left in a southerly dirertlon. BelMoerent Beauty NEW YORK. March iil. 6D Worn ont by the exe tlon of sbat- terlng three umbrellas over the manners heads. Keena Blettel, beauty prize winner, called a po ; licenian when 8 fourth accosted her. She tnlthe judge she was too tired to bit aim. Bryant Faces Mnr Troxell (lefl) will Ik one of the chief wii losses Tor the Mate when Lanw Itryunt, EO, t right)- goes in trial totlny for morlnlly Klnli hliiff Itvls "Hip" Dlckerson -(Insei). The affray wvurml In I'orvul 11m, when Dlckcrson, Oregon Slate fo4dlr:ill cimcli, was escorting Miss Tro.velt liomt. ' . R. R. JOHNSON FREAK WEATHER DIES OF HEART HITS COLORADO ATTACK SUNDAY ANO CALIFORNIA Local Dentist Stricken After Round of Golf In Good! . . .... ... i Health During Morning j Burial in Montana On Friday. . As tho result of n sudden heart attack, Dr. Richard Roy Johnson, well known Medford dentist, died yesterday afternoon at his home, 10 Keene way. - He had Just return ed from the Rogue Valley golf coitise and was preparing for din ner when death overtook hint. He was born September 25, 18T4, and had followed dentistry ill Medford since 1923, with offices in the Med ford Center building. Yesterday morning he remarked to his wife that he was feeling es pecially well,- preparatory to leav ing with three friends to lilay IS holes or golf. He returned at 1:30, declared he enjoyod a good game, and went to his loom to prepare for company expected to arrive nt 3 o'clock. Dr. and Mrs. 'Johnson conversed with each other through different rooms, but aflttr a few minutes he failed to answer, t'pon entering his room. Mrs.' Johnson found him outstretched on the bed, having apparently fallen from a sit- ff!nntlniierf on Pare TOfvht. Medford Can Become a Main Link Coast Airways C. Etifrciie Johnson, operations niiiniisrer for tho 1'imifie Air Transport, csjinplinionts Medfortl on i1s rndcnvni' to keep pace with aerial progress, as follows : 1 Oakland, Cal., March 11, 1929. Wc.-wish to compliment Medford on their .foresight in the proposed rf-talilishniont of it first class airport. Many cities have, shelved airport negotiations for the present, feeling the time was not yet ripe for such action on the part of munici palities. Those cities now on regularly cstahlished mail and passenger routes have been favored with a closcnp view of what is to conic ii) tho irtalter of air transportation, and for tho most part are rapidly roundiiif? into shape splendid air. port programs. There can be no question in the minds of those close to aviation as to its ultimate development.- The rapid strides of the industry 'in Hie. past couple of years should convince the skeptical that the possibilities are limitless. Coast travel and enrso movement, via air has a definite future. Medfor is fortunately situated in this picture in having: so strategic a location. It. is virtually a "key city" and we can see no reason for anything otherwise, evtn from a most pessimistic viewpoint, To (to ahead as Medford has outlined on their airport program will play n bit,' part in hastening airways develop ment on the const, because, strange as it may seem, airplanes cannot be efficiently operated without adequate, airways. Kor instance, at the present time, our plans call for certain developments on our coast line, bi'Qsume cannot and will not be fulfilled until airway facilities aid complete. Medford should be proud to be considered one of the main links in the coist airway chain, and the future unques tionably will prove the wiscness of the decision of the city to provide an adoouate airport. PACIFIC MU TKAXSPOKT, O. Ku(cnfl Johnson, Operations Manager. Murder Tiial Mountain Area Buried Under Deep Snow Towns Iso lated By Slides Cali fornia Citrus Belt Feels v .- Low Temperature. DENVER. March 2C T) The mountainous area of southwestern Colorado today was burled under another deep, snow following yes tetrday's storm that dropped tem peratures as far west as Cali fornia, whero . the southwest en- j joyed spring weather. ., Sllyerton, famous mining town atop the . continental divide was blocked for the- tli rd time this J winter by avnlanches that burled ; tho only railroad track to tle town t from ; JJurango. Cumhres, ninny times storm-lldden In the Inst few I mouths und Lizard Head Puss, also were lrtolated.. ' , California had tricky woathor. which; Included hall, snow, h gh winds and occassional showers. Tho temperature dropped to 30 degrees Irt the citrus belt and fruit grow ers were prepared for smudging should tho mercury, drop much lower. A temperature of 1)2-2 degrees tPnnrlnued nn Pacta Rlrht.) SlSONTOvfENmii MEET CHIEF Mew Secretary of State Due ,, in Washington Tomorrow . Will Be White House ; Guest During Week Kellogg Remains On Duty Until Friday, Then Takes European Trip. Tty James It. West, ; (Associated I'rcss Stuff Writer.) '.WASHINGTON. Mar. 2!.. W') President Hoover and his new sec retary of state will have their first meeting tomorrow Willi the arrival of Henry L,. Ktimson after his lonir trip from Manila by way ot Wan Krant-Lsco and Xew York. Mr, Ktimson found that ho would bo unable to como to tho capital until tomorrow afternoon. The chief executivo ' and Mr. Stimson have a host of subjects to discuss and in order that they may facilitate tho work ahead, . the new offlcinl will bo a Whlto . House truest for tho remainder of the week. Tho Root formula for 'American adherence to the world court, tho Mexican situation, and Kuropenn HENV c. STlMSON repartitions nre some of the ques tions facing Mr.rtitlmson. but per haps tho foremast is tho reorganiz ation of the diplomatic corps nnd the selection of new hlKh officials of tho state department. , . Krank 11. KoIIukk, who has ro malned In his post at tho urgent request of President Hoover, will Mr. Btimson takes tho oath of of-' flee, but he will remain hero until Friday, on which data ho sails for Kurope where ho will 'spend sev eral weeks on a vacation tour. The new and retlrhiK secretaries will meet dully so that Mr. Ktim son can be acquainted with inti mate details of the problems pend ing before the department and the nf.ions that Jiavo been taken in such current affairs as the Mexican rebellion and the preparations for! tho preliminary nrniH conference to ho held at (leneva next month. Hugh 8. Gibson, ambassador to Belgium, who Is chairman of the American delegation to this con ference,, also Is a White House guest and ho nnd tho new secre tary thus will huvo opportunity for extensive con versat inns con cerning the meeting and the atti tude of tho United States with ra sped to the several proposals that will come up for consideration at Geneva. WASHINGTON.. Mnr. 25. IIP) flecrelary KoIIork will represent President Hoover nt services for Marshal Foch to bo conductod hero tomorrow at Bt. Patrick's cathed ral, nt tho same hour that flinernl services nro held In Paris for tho Kcncrullxsjmo of tho nlllcd armies. PRICE OF STOCKS NKW YORK, March 27.(p) An nrute scarcity of call money, sendhiK tho rate to 14 per cent, caused, a sharp break on the New York Htock ICxchanKO today. Tlila h the highest rate that stock mar ket funds have commanded since J illy 1, liHiO, and prices nf scores of stock dropped " to $13, to new low pr:'tMi for lit-'H. A. M. Hyers fell $13, while nnch Issues an Johns fnnvllle, Green Cunanea Copper, naeondn Copper, and American Hallway Kx press IohL from $7,50 to $10X0. . The ticker fell about 25 minutes behind the market In the rush to sell (hiring the last hour of trad ing. I'tiilfd Htales Hteel and Gen eral Motors were each depreHjted more thua yl a sliutu. ON TUESDAY SAMUEL RE A PIHI.ADKl.riHA. .March 85. (P) Samuel Ilea, who rfife from ehalnmail in a Pennsylvania rail road enKlnecr corps to tho ttresl dency of the fvroat railway system is dead. ' With hi wife ( nnd duufthter nt bis bedside, he died yesterday at his home near Ardmore. a su burb, of heart d'seaso. He was "3 yooiM old.' Kunerul services will be held tomorrow. Mr. Ilea retired from the presi dency of the Pennsylvania in 1H2:i. after M years of almost continu ous servl e and nine days after he bail celebrated his 70th birth day anniversary. Ono of his outstandins ach'eve ments was the construction of the Pennsylvania tunnels under the Hudson and K.ist rivers at New York. Kor this work lite rnlver sity of Pennsylvania, Princeton und Ijifnyottc college, Ktive him honorary dCKrees. SILENT THRONG PASSES COFFIN Remains -of - Foch ' Rest -in Cathedral ot Notre Dame Today 25,000 View Bier in Six Hours Prepare for Funeral. PARIS, Mar. 25. yP) The peo ple of Paris again todny for rix solid riours passed heforo the bier of tho Into Marshal Foch which during tho night had been con-" voyod from the Arc de Trlompho to tho Cathedral of Notre Dome. When the doors of the great edi fice opened for the first mnss of tho day nt 0 o'clock this morning, there was a line of people waiting to pass by the coffin of the allied gonernl isslmo. At noon tho doors were closed ngnln so that workmen might prepare the cathedral for tho natlonnl funeral services to morrow. In the six hours that the doors wero opeh this morning, 25,000 persons filed in an orderly and silent column past tho black nnd silver mortuary chapel where tho famous soldier lay guarded by two priests and two Hoy Scout. The priests who took turns standing guard ovor the flag draped bier wero nil soldiers at tho front during the war. Tho liny Scouts, who wero relieved at fre quent Intervals, were stationed there nt a wlch once expressed by Marshal Koch that tho young gen eration might do honor to the old. Only once during the morning was there a paiine in the slow nnd steady rhythm of the passing col umn of pilgrims. This was at 10 o'clock when tho marshal's widow came to pray a few moments be fore tho body of her devout ami Illustrious husband. Meanwhile tho French govern ment wa.n preparing for tomor row's national funernl a procession of such solemn pomp ns even Paris has seldom witnessed. From Ku rnpean capitals, near and far, rep resentatives of sovereigns and gov ernments nro on their way hore to take pail In the religious nnd secu lar ceremony. PAUIH. Mar. 2.1. M Marshal Joffro Is suffering from a sprained knee and will bo llnnble to be one of the honorary pallbearers at the funernl tomorrow of Marshal Foch. Tho marshal hod hoped to ren der this last sen-Ice to his old com rado, hut his doctor decided bis knee would not stand Ihe strain of marching In tho cortene. . The Noted Dead TOPKKA, Knns.. Mnr. 25. -(Ti W. H. Htuhhs, governor of Kansas from J '.Kill to ) 9 1 S. died here today, following an extended Illness, He was 70 yenrs old. Miners Die tn Hide. LAKK CITY. Colo.. Mar. 25. (T) Four miners wero killed when they wero caught In a huge snow slldo that crashed down upon thorn yes turduy ul Ilunscn crci-k. WARRIOR SLAYER OF DICKERSON Lanza Bryant Faces First Degree Murder Charge at Corvallis Today Trial; Expected to Last Through5 Week F o o t b a 1 1 Star! Stabbed December 17.'' i COUVAM-IS. Ore, Mar. 2 5. .(P) I.unzu Urynnt, 20, went on trial for bin lir horc today, ehsirfioo" with' first (U'Krpo murder In connection' with the futal HtnhhiriK of Lewls tlllp) DU'kcrvon, senior . student: nnd former football stnr nt Oreson State college, : ; Sheriff 10. J. Newton of lnton county' yoHterday brought Urynnt from Diillus to the new lientijjn county Jul! here. He had heen held in F'olK county while the new Jnll was under contruction. ,T The prOHecuilon expects the trlnlf to lust mast of the week. -t Ulckerson wax stabbed early ,in the morning of December 17 an hef was escorting; Misa Mae TroxulU CorvatllK waitress, to her home. Ho' died five days later. "" f Uryunt piended not sullty to'-aj churne of first dopfee murder. ' j Selection of a jury started thin ninrnhiR after a new UdlctinfiU clinrKinK Urynnt with flint deKiWi murder hud been retnrnert by the! Lenton county grand jti.y. ,- i' Kied MoHenry, district n"tforney, auhmltted the case the second time: heranHo of a. tochnlcal qtieHltoh oft IftKallly found in the firm true bill.! Thn reindictment wuh to caune no delay In the trial; T r ' j MEXICO CITY. March 25. IB Three hundred federal soldiers un der General Armentu were report, ed todny in a precarious position ut Miituchlc, near the Honora-Chl-hnaJnia border. A government bul letin said these loyal troops, who were without food or adequate am munition, would be captured by rebels disguised as federals If mes sengers from the -federal army dH not reach them In time. The bulletin declared that Gen eral Armenia was not aware that General Caiaveo, ex-governor ot Chihuahua, had Joined the Insur gents and had asked Cnraveo for food, ammunition and clothes after his troops had made a forced march to Matachlo. Caraveo had wired congratulations to Armenia for hU loyalty to the federals, promised him supplies and was about to make prisoners of his lorces, huh-, gry and ragged after their march.' . t ' : , ' ! Oregon Weather. '. ri i . Orogon: Hnin In west and snnW4 and rains onst tonljtht nnd Tnes ' day, normal temperature.' leresK to strong southerly winds on conKU Will Rogers Saytt NKW YORK, March 2.'i.r M'r. Hoover is not RoiriR to use the Mayflower. After bciiiH nil full on these big battleships, getting, onto the Mayflower would be like Rliiinininr. Besides, Mr.' Hop' ver in all his travels h n tj had to ride on too many boots t o get to s o m "3 'pi nee w i t h out wanting to go nowhere purposclyi Mr.-Coolidge used to get ft kick out of taking'those seu; ntors on it, and watelt 'em get sick. I guess they will be selling it iiow, nnd some hody will buy it for a nnji runner. They ought to keep it nnd send our delegations to disarmament conferences on, for in two more confer ences wo will have to borrow a bont to get there. . Yours, :, ',. wrr,L kooers.-." . : . IcSI : (