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Mmworb Mail Trmjne The Weather Forecast Probable showers to night, Saturday; cooler tonight. Highest yesterday 5 lowest this morning Sit 84 hin. precipitation to ft a. m... .01 Weather Year Ao ICllrtunt year ago today........ 49 lowest year ago today 3A toll, Tralj fourth Tor. SIXTEEN PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929. No. 28. V Today By Arthur Brisbane The President's' Wing. Who Sold the Whiskey? A Bounty for Farmers. Bonus for Babies. What Next? . (Copyright by King FeaturM (Syndicate, Inc.) : Baseball observed that Presi dent Hoover was "wild in his piteh," throwing the bull that started Washington's baseball season .. - .... . . .. . . .; Technicians said that throw ing ! the medicine ball had "ityide the President a little strong on the wing." "Wing" is baseball language for' '''arm." Intelligent baseball men will say to President Hoover, as the artist of old said to the ruler, annoyed at being excelled by him, "God forbid that you should know as much about this as I know." ..There is such a thing as knowing too much about baseball. . .. : Henry De La Espriella, now headed for the electric chair, admits killing his mother, but says "I cannot remember kill ing my sister. I was too drunk." Such a commonplace incident in this bootleg era hardly de serves a paragraph. It would be worse than use less to ask': "What was done about the individual' that sold the whiskey that caused the ' killing of two women?" Senator McNary has invented 1 for farm relief one feature that will interest. Europe's, produc , . prs and capitalists in the United ' States. , He would give-'farmers ex porting products a bounty amounting to half the tariff, charged on such products en tering the United States.' ' Organized capital will supply money to pay that bounty, since it has most of the money and pays the greater part of the ' income taxes." Capital is accus tomed, a profit from farmers. Handing them a bounty would seem strange. - ' ' M Prime Minister Baldwin worried about the next elec- ' tion, announces- a "maternity benefit" and will pay a bonus to the mother each time a baby is born. .','- Thus the tories become more radical than the labor party. A bonus for babies and a bounty for fanners. That seems to be taking agriculture and mater nity too seriously. Japan continues industrious ly rounding up the new crop of Asiatic "reds." Local news papers are forbidden to print . the fact that 300 students were looked up in recent raids. Japan has worries more seri ous than nny "red" problem, ' more serious even than earth quakes. Most important is the low price of silk. Silk worms ; cannot compete with machines that transform wood pulp into imitation silk. -Working girls in Oormany wear silk dresses costing less than $3. -tt : Florida state troops are or- ! dered to .fight the fruit fly, lauded here from West Africa, nobody knows bow. The fly has spread over only 72 square miles and in that area fruit will ., be destroyed with' quicklime, trees sprayed to kill flies be fore they lay their eggs.- Florida sets a good example. When men nse armits to fight against nature, instead of kill ing each other, civilization will begin. Continued on Paw Four). DISCUSSION OF MELLON CONTINUED .''.:.., , I Senate Judiciary Committee Meets to Decide Question of Further Inquiry Status of Secretary Wide Dif ference of Opinion Found Treasurer May Be Summoned. WASHINGTON, April 19. (IP) The quesilon whether to proceed with Its investigation Into the right of Secretary Mellon to hold offlco, and If so, how, was the subject of a second meeting of the senate Judiciary committee, called today by Chairman Norris. ' 'a wide divergence of opinion de veloped in the first two-hour ses sion Wednesday on -what steps should be taken under -the resolu tion by Senator McKellar, Demo crat, Tennessee, directing an in quiry as to whether Mr. Mellon was serving in violation of an old statute forbidding the secretary of the treasury- to be interested In trade or commerce. - It was the general opinion of the committee membership that the .precedents supported President Hoover in continuing Secretaries Mellon and Davis, of the labor de partment, in office without renom lnation, another point brought up In the Investigation resolution. But the second phase of the resolution .questioning Mellon's right to serve In the face of the old statute, pre sented a stumbling block. ' Some members of the committee wanted to summon Mr. Melton be fore it -and hae him detail his business Interests. . Others believed this could be disposed of by writing him a' letter,- and "some contended., that the statute in question Was archaic and should be repealed, and that the McKellar resolution should be referred to the senate and re pealed. .. ' ' F, IS Advocates of Big Sum for Board Seek Method to Provide Money Farm Leaders in House Would " Hasten Action.' WASHINGTON, April 13. (IP) With , the new farm bill barely launched upon its course through congress, some of its advocates are putting their heads together to work out a way of providing the 1500.000,000 it would author ize for the federal farm board. The measure, itself, would sim ply authorize and not provide the appropriation, following the cus tomary lines of legislative pro cedure. , The house appropriations committee . which usually passes upon all government expenditures and prepares the bills making funds uvailable, howeverr has not been organized for the special session. While in the ordinnry course of events, the matter could be brought before the apprpprlatlona committee at the .opening of the regular session, some of the farm leaders In the house feel that because of the emergency nature of the legislation and the desire of the president to have the board start to function for marketing this year's crop, its fund should be provided before that time. WIFE TRADERS OF NEBRASKA TO lAll '' LINCOLN, Neb , April 19. VP) The llennet. Neb., wife traders Olto Blade and Horare Heed have been sentenced to 10 months In Jail, despite the plea that their wives faced destitution if deprived of their husbands' support. Judge ltroady. In passing sen tence yesterday, cut two months from the maximum penally of a year's imprisonment, because of the fact the men had pleaded guilty to statutory charges. 1 FUND NOW PROBLEM FOR CONGRESS Mystery Disease Alarms Residents ' Melbourne, Ont. MELBOURNE, Ont., April 19. (IP) Stringent h e n It h regulations weut Into effect In Eltrid' township today, where residents have become alarmed over a mysterious dis- ease that has caused our deaths and much lllnesH. . School sessions, church ser- viceB, -entertainments anil pull- 4 lie funerals were ordered bus- pended .by the township board of health until May 1. Persons ill with the disease were or- 4- riered quarantined and thoRe fr who have been In contact with the disease were ordered in- oculated. Severe Conditions Reported By Caretaker Winds Drifting Snow On Road to Rim May Delay Opening of Season. According to telegraphic news received by the Mall Tribune from Klamath Falls this forenoon, se vere winter conditions have been prevailing at Crater Lake National park the past few days, this situa tlon being reported by phone by Arthur Jones, caretaker of the lodge, to Fort Kiamatn today. Stone said over the phone that eight feet of Bnow covers the park. Htow ever, at this time lust year tlie snow was said to.be 13 feet deep. : - - This Ik all the more interesting in. view --of Inn' fact ' that R. W.' Pricei general -manager of the 'era ter Lake National Park company, on his return here from a brief visit at Fort Klamath the other day,' stated that the telephone in formation he obtained from Care taker Stone at that time was to the effect that the depth at the lake rim was hut 10 feet, but that the snow had been drifted by the winds to a much greater depth on the park road to the lodge. This situation then, which has become worse since, led Mr. Price to believe that the task of opening the road through the national park to the lodge by July 1, when the Crater Lake season opens, would be more difficult than for years past. This will be unwelcome news for the new Crater park superintend ent, li. C. Soltnsk'y, who is expected to return to Medfoid next week from Yosemlte National park, where he has been In conference with Horace Albright, director of the national parks system. The matter of clearing away the snow In Crater National park lor the season's opening July 1 has been n comparatively easy one for the past few years, but it is now expected that the task will be all the harder for the new park su perintendent because all the expe rienced laborers, used to facing such conditions each spring and summer, during the time when Alux Sparrow was the park superintend ent, are no longer connected with the purk service. These experienced veterans, with the use of much hard shovel work, etc., and explosives, always managed to get the park roads cleared in time for the open ing date, and it now looks a though their services will be badly missed, unless there is a radical change in the snow depth situation in the park between now and the last of June. General Manager Price, in dis cuasing the subject the other day, thought that the situation preclud ed the Idea of using power snow plows aud that only lots of muscle land powder would do the work, i He was of the idea that a new plan would be more efficacious this year that of first loosening the ', taat.lv nfw.ko.l onniv on tha nark jroad from Anna Springs or Gov- j ernment Camp, to the lodge with explosives early in July and let- ling nature do most of the work in thawing out the frozen mass and melting much of It away; then have the labor crews do the finish ing work between the park and the boundaries mid the lodge a week before the date of the park's open ing for the seasou. tMr. Price, who came here to meet and confer with Superintendent So llnsky on park matters, including the annual opening of the road 'to the lodge, not knowing that Mr. Sollnsky had not yet returned to the city fiom Yosemlte park, said before leaving the city that he had left word at the Craler National park offices here and would write Superintendent Sollnsky volunteer ing bis services in cooperating In the road opening work. Oregon Wrodier. Unsettled, probably rairl tonight and Haturday: cooler tonight. Mod erate variable winds, becoming westerly. WINTER HOLDS NATIONAL PARK IN SNOW GRIP TAFT CALLS AT '" Justices of the supreme court of the United States paying their first official calf on President Hoover. Led to right: Justice Cuther land, Chief Justice Taft and'Justice Brandeis leaving the white house. LLOYD SPARKS TAKES Former Medford Mechanic Dies in Salem Apartment Over Love Affair Tried Self-Destruction Here at Apartment. ; SALKM, Ore., April 19. (IP) Despondent over the threatened loss of another man's wife, with whom officials are informed ' he had been living in a local npart 'jnent elnce :Decembe;r, Lloyd 3parks, -local. garage, employ 4 ui; mltted suicide Thursday evening by taking poison. According to the story pieced to gether by Lloyd Hlgdont coroner, Sparks and Mrs. C. V, Hendrlck son had been living together in an apartment at 097 North . Liberty street. Mrs. Hendrlckson and her husband had been separated for about a year and he was living .at Klamath Falls, but they were cor responding with each, other and had agreed to a reconciliation. Last week Sparks wrote to Hend rickson and told him If he wunted his wife, to "come and get her." Ilendrlckson arrived here Sunday-night, and he hnd been staying at the apartmont with his wife and Sparks. . . About 8 o'clock Thursday even ing, Sparks walked Into the bath room, swallowed the poison, walk ed Into the living room and drop ped dead. According to police records here. Sparks and a married woman from Medford same to Salem two years ago in an automobllo belonging to the woman's husband and lived together here for about three weeks before they were located by the husband, who took the woman nnd .car back to Medford. At that time Sparks had a wife living in Medford. Sparks has relatives living In Jacksonville nnd 1h - fairly well ! known Jn, Medford, having worked In local garnKos. Hhortly before Sparlts left for Siilem, In nn nlleRed attampt to commit suicide, ho Jumped from a second story porch at the Klvernldo Apartments and broke his leg. Baseball Scores National Clifcnso-PlttHburgli game post poned; rain. Morning game: U. IP. K. Brooklyn 6 fi 2 Boston .. 6 6 1 McWVjeney, Klliott. Pntlison nnd Deberry; Jones, Hearn and Collins, Spohrer, R. II. B. New York .14 20 0 Philadelphia fi 0 4 . FitzsJmmons, Mays and O'Far-ret'- tov. rnllins nnd Lerin. Second game: , R. IT. K. Brooklyn 1 3 1 Ronton 6 0 0 Vance, Dudley and Deberry, llonllne; Brandt and Hpnhrer, R. H. K. St.: Louis 9 12 2 Cincinnati 4 10 2 Donk, Hald nnd Wilson; Kolp, Kemmer nnd Sukeforth. American R. II. E. 15 1 ... 8 7 1 Berry; Mtir- Boston Washington Morris nnd llevlng, berry and Tate. R. II. K. 1 4 0 2 6 0 Iloyt a 'ml Philadelphia New York Qulnn and Cochrane. Grabowskl. R. H. E Detroit ;. 4 8 2 Cleveland ..; 7 9 1 J Horrell, Prudhommn nnd Rhea; lludlin, Terrell und I. Hewcll, POISON SUICIDE ROUTE OF WHITE HOUSE -ni;-... - --nr-: -.rs; r a HEART FAILURE CAUSES DEATH E Distinguished British Banker I Broken By 'Reparations Failure Held Hope of Settlement to End, Is Be- ; lief of Friends. PARIS, April Broken and tired by the failure of the reparations j conference to arrive at.it satisfactory; settlement. Lord ft&irtfifetofce dlstlhK'ulshed 'KrliiBh banker, died in his apartment at 7:30, a. m. today. Heart failure was given as the cause. He was believed to have held, at the end some hope ,of the reparations conference might still emerge with some sort of a set tlement. This belief being based on comments to his brother when he-.arrlved at the apartment he maintained at Fauborg Saint Ho- no re. He complained of being tired and then-said t ''I don't suppose that this thing has gone beyond repair. It may be patched up yet." ) When the death of Lord'' Re v elstoke was announced Jn the con ference. room at the Hotel George .y. this morning, Dr. HJalmar Schacht, German spokesman, with whom he pleaded in vain yester day, was the first to rise. He expressed his sorrow and the sym pathy of the German delegates. Condolence Voiced. Expressions of condolence pour ed into his home. Homeone said he might have accomplished in death what he failed to do as a living mnn yeu-rday. He said the1 Englishman's death would caus3 the reparations experts to stop and think and perhaps avert tho impending failure of tlie confer ence, John Baring ltovolstoko, or lord Kcvelstoke, (he second baron of that name, was one of Brit ain's most distinguished bankers, a director In tho firm of Baring Brothers und Co., Ltd. In the 06 years of his life he held such posts as receiver gen eral of the Duchy of Cornwall, member of the council of the Prince of Wales, Lieutenant of the city of lyindon, nnd director of the bank of iingland. His decorations included commandor of the egion d'Honnour and order of the White Kagle (Hussia). F AS ENGINE LOSES SANTIAGO, Chile, April 10. (IP) Fourteen persons wero killed and twenty Injured In u railroad wreck between Irfuique and Antofagasta late last night. The locomotive of the train lost Its wheels in some 'unexplained fashion nnd tho cars which It was drawing piled Into it and over turned. A relief train parrying physicians and Hed Cross equip ment was dispatoned from Batiue dano station to aid the injured. Horses Burned HAVRE 1)15 GRACE, Md., April 1!). p) Ten horses were known today to have perished In a fire which last nlnht destroyed two tables and a collage at the Hnvro De Grace race track. Several oth era were missing, REVELSTOK CHANGES IN I Commission Makes Recom mendations for Broader Base in Determining Rates Transportation Charges Factor, Is View Finding Production Costs Difficult. WASHINGTON, April 19. (JT) Recommendations for changes in I he administrative provisions of I he tariff luw to give the president n broader base for - determining rates of duty under the flexible clause have been submitted to tho house ways and means committee by the tariff commission. vThe proposed changes, believed In the main to meet the appt'ovnl of President Hoover, would permit the commission to take into ac count a number of alternate cost factors instead of merely the dif ferences in cost of production of an article here and abroad In ar riving at a base for determining changes In duties., Declaring the cost of production of a commodity does not correctly measure its competitive advantage or disadvantage in foreign trade, the commission proposed that the I law be so written as to permit it to 'base Its reports to the president for duty changes on costs of pro jductlon, invoice prices of Imports, and wholesale prices In the United States and in the principal com peting countries. Transportation charges, Us ro port said, should also bo calculated to the principal market or markets of the United States In view of the competitive conditions affect ing particular products. . Ascertainment of production cost Is extremely difficult in many .cass, the commission report said, ami' In flo'me' canes" is practically impossible, irritation aroused Jn foreign countries, it added, could j be avoided by "setting up a more (practicable and workable stan dard." , s - I The commission . enumerated thirteen factors that might be taken Into consideration In finding the differences In competitive con- dltlons, Including the cost of pro ;duction for similar competing countries, exclusive of exoort taxes lor similar charges, and the selling expenses, including a reasonable amount for advertising. The com mission was divided on these two factors, but was unanimous on the others. L E REBEL MEXICO CITV, April 10. (IP) j Two lante fedeni! arrnlos wore be ing gnthered today on opposite :ddts of tne state of Konora for. the l last phase of Clonernl Culled' cam paign to suppress the rebellion. Under the direction of General Laznro Cardenas, 10,000 men were I moving up to Snn Bias, northern Slnaloa, and resting there, pre paratory to the movo against Na- vojoa, Sonora, whero a largo rebel army was concentrated. Near the northeastern corner of Honora, at Conns Urunde. Chihua hua, General Juan Anclreu Altna san, victor of the northern cam paign, organized a column of 10, ooo men for the trek through dan gerous Pulplto I'nss Inlo Honora for an attack at the rebels' rear. .lust as In tho campaigns which drove the rebel armies of Jose Gonzalo Escobar and Francisco Urbalejo from the states of Nuevo J-eon, Durango, Cohulla, and Chi huahua, several days were neces sary for organization and to bring up supplies, but at their conclu sion a movement as relentless nnd devastating us Its predecessors was expected. " 1 1UST SERVE PEN TERM BAN FRANCIHCO, April 10 vPh Mrs. Hdna Hharp, confssed kidnaper of Baby Doris MuTphy, was today sentenced to Han Quen- tln prison for ono to 80 years. !ast minute pleas for probation, Inclfpvling a request from Mrs. Helen Murphy, the child's mother, that the woman be given another chance, were denied. Mrs. Rharp held the Murphy g'rl for a week, SUBMITTED FINA 0 BAN FORCE PLANNED g Lost Purse aeiuriieu imuci; Finder Was Sick 19. in - TACOMA, Wash., April (yP) Three yenrs ago, September, Mrs. Luella Tuttle of 1'uyallup lost her pocket- book in Seattle. Yesterday It was returned intact, even to the lace edged handkerchief in an outside pocket of the purse nnd Ho, which was In fr a small envelope on the inside. Mrs. Ttuttle lost her purse while there on a vacation from her home In Wenatchee. The purse was first sent to We- natchee and then forwarded to Puyullup. ' A letter accompanying the package explained that the finder had been 111 during the past three years and was just able to Bend the purse, at this time. ; Missionary Reports pitiful ' r , . Conditions Eighty Peri Cent of People Foodless Children Eaten in Many Districts. PEKING,' April 10. JP) Can nibalism Is on the increase In' re mote Kansu province where thous ands of neonle -are dvintr dailv from starvation under the shadow ! i of the .great wull of China and, along the frontiers of Tibet. FAMINE CAUSES CANNIBALISM IN KANSU REGION Missionary William Simpson, oflwould mttke no. statement - untlU the Assemblies of God Mission at;a(ter meetlng with other members Minchow. Kansu, reported toduy to o( the oommttee and then perhaps the international famine relief not a tt delegation; -commission that "famine eondl- considerable speculation as to tlans vOVeLv-..ll-.Jvnns f lve now whether' the, ..ermn-.legatlon tenfold worse' , , '. ' wouM attend the plenary session Bad harvests ahd ravages of i ,v . ,. .h., nr. Moslem raiders have reduced the inhabitants of this ancient ' out post of Chinese civilization to the most pitiable condition. Moslem rebels have devastated all the south and west pf Kangu." i t(c, te n drafting a final re Mrs. S'mpson s report state,d, "and , . Mrs. S'mpson s repot they have been pursued by troops who have likewise consumed or destroyed all the food-stuffs that' they could find. ' c 1 ' "Eighty per cent of the people; are foodless nnd without seeds for the next crop planting. Knt Children, "Children are being eaten In many districts. Many of them are afraid to venture out of doors, either by day or , by night, for fear that they be lured off and eaten. , "Kansu Is doomed. There is no grain for sole. We are support ing at the mission 200 children who otherwise would have starved or fallen victim to cannibals.'' Aftor declaring that KnnBU was entering a stage of famine whero those who have heen on the vergo of starvation since the last meagre harvest were finally succumhlng In great numbers, Mr. Simpson nald that the Moslem rehela still were ravaging towns and cities, despite pursuit by Chinese troops. "The Mohammedan rebellion Is not crushed," concluded Mr. Simp son's report. "Moslems are still ravnglng towns nnd cities and are followed by ravaging soldiers!. Famine nlone Is killing millions," Kansu's diHtress is underesti mated by the outside wdrld, R. J. Mann, missionary at jLanehow, wrote to the relief commission. "It Heems to us that Kansu muni he forgotten," he stated rather bitterly In appealing for aid. In many districts men were too weak to bury the dead. L SOVIET PROJECT GI'jNKVA, April 119. (A) The preparatory commission on dis armament of the League of Na tions today rejected the Hovlet project for extensive partial world wide disarmament as a bants for Its future work. An advisory opin ion by the steering dommlltee, however,, was worded so as to foster continued Russian collabor ation In the league's' disarmament ; wfforts. , j The commission adopted the steering committee's opinion which said that If the Hovlet delegation desired, the preparatory commis sion, while deciding to continue work on Its own draft treaty, would append the Bovlet schome to its final report. This action, if I taken, would plane the project be fore any eventual International , conference. r ' EAGUE REJECTS DISARMING PARLEY IS ADJOURNED 10 MONDAY Death of Lord Revelstoke, Most Sincere Worker,' Casts Shadow Over Ex perts Schacht Attitude Made Breakup of Parley Inevitable Final Report; On Monday. i PAUia, April 19. (IP) The death of Lord Revelstoke, one o(J the most sincere workers of thenij all, cast an additional shadow .of: gloom over the experts' committee' on reparations as It met today to, report failure of its negotiations: nnd the session was Immediately, adjourned until Monday, as a mark of respect to him. Lord Revel-f stoke died at 7:30 a. m. i The experts felt the heated plav) of international passions In yesi terday's session of Lord Revel-; s,olt'vub:fmmlitiehHd,brnJC0' much for him and he had broken under the strain. . It was at this meeting the uncompromising attM tude of Dr. HJalmar Schacht. Ger- man spokeRmtrn, set at naught tho work of the conference and made Us breakup inevitable. Adjournment forced until an-S other day what may be one of the final actions of the experts. Thnti is, the drafting of the report to 1n- terested governments announcing failure of the conference, and aa-1 signing reasons. I Owen D. Young and other mem-! pera of the American delegation! let it be understood this morning, they considered the conference of- experts as ended.; They, however,' Schacht and his oonterea- arrived at the Hotel George V, a lttle late, and made their way Into the meet' tng room. ' It was announced they attnnA MnnAnv'a oaDalnn in SUIT AGAINST SOLONS SOON SALEM, Ore., April 19. The a.. It h.Minrril hi flvantr toliraun. , tRt,VM agatnat tne 8ecreUry 0f state to enjoin the payment of $5 a day extra pay to members of the state legislature will be heard In circuit court here next week. It Is rumored that a suit is to be started to test the constitutionality of the legislative act creating the state board of higher educalon, a consolidation of the three present boards of regents for the state uni versity, Oregon State college and the normal schools. The Orange suit challenging the right of the legislators to collect more than the 3 a day provided by the state conntitutlon will be carried to the supreme court re gardless' of the lower court decree.. Will Rogers Say: BOSTON, Mass., April 10. This city of Boston lias birthday' today. It's Clar ence De-Mar day. . He ecle brotes Pnnl Revere day by running , the same course quicker , o n foot than Paul did on a horse.' 1 see where t h e Demo cratic cam paign deficit department has called a meeting to be held at the llitz in New York. We never thought we would ever see the day that we would see Democrat is meeting at a Kitz hotel, They art jiwt living above their moans. That's nil the matter with them. ' Yours, . ' WILL ROGERS. HEAR GRANGER G