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The Weather Forecast Cloud? tonight and Son day, witli shower. Highest yesterday 60 Lowest this morning 43 24 Iith. precipitation to S a. m. . .01 MEDFORD MMIL TRBBU1 E Weather Year Ago Highest year ago today. ........... S8 Lowest year ago today 40 T. , Dillr Twnlf-fourtb Tttf. 4 ttntir mtr-ttteuui tu. MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 19129. No. 29. V Today By Arthur Brisbane Another Little Lady. 32,000 to' One. Two-Gun Bob.' Pity Poor China. (Copyright by King Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Police raided a birth control clinic in New York. The crime charged against the doctors and women was teaching mo thers too sick or poor to take .care of more children how to , avoid having them. ) There was only one birth eontrol clinic "in New York. The police found it and closed it. r 41. A !..,,,,) rwillj.A nn. J vii tin" in 111 i iiiuiii liorities say there are- 3,000 t 'speakeasies in New York. No 1 birth control taught in any of them; quite the contrary. rnnkenness is responsible for many undesirable births. The' speakeasies are not raided. Perhaps the solitary birth control clinic didn't have any "good argument'' to offer. , Another dear little lady stage Rtar is set free by a sympa thetic jury. Government agents accused her of helping the sab of liquor, and consuming much of it herself. Struck to the heart by such 1 Cruelty, the little lady would not say n word, simply sat and wept: Did the New York jury turn her loose? -Yes, indeed.' ' Perhaps the admission by government agents that tliey spent public money in an ef ; fort to make a woman drunk ' impressed the jury unfavor ably. J Mr. Bob Limbert, from Idaho, nicknamed "Two-Gun Bob," disappointed in Chicago gun men, would gladly take- on ten of them'. "They can't shoot," says he, as he tosses a 5-cent jiieec in the air and sends a bullet through it. "Two-Gun Bob" does not understand Chicago's system. When you take men by sur prise, stand them .with their faces, to the wall and open fire with machine guns, ten feet away, no great skill is required. - - China's famine is killing mil lions in Kansu, near the great wall and the frontier ctf Tibet. Missionaries report that can nibalism increasing, many chil dren devoured. Meanwhile, Mohammedans in fur awny provinces, delight in murdering religious opponents nnd are busy, murdering. Mothers guard their ehil dren from Mohammedans and cannibals. Shanghai reports furious fighting with guns roar ing oii both sides of the Yang tze. Perhaps the old rule would 1st an improvement. f Canada, puzzled by a myste rious disease attributed to an unknown source of "streptococ cus" infections, seeks that source in the water supply. There are many kinds of fftrcptococci. Descriptions of tin- disease, with death striking those at'tendinsf funerals of vic tims, suggest the pncuimic plague. Mats and grnd squirrels spad this most deadly of mod em plagues. Portes fill, Mexlco'st president. fn-ks to slop gambling, worse than ny vice except taking drugs. Automatic gonibllngOmarlilnes brought from the Unite States have been ordered broken up be cause they represent a vicious pas time and are dishonestly hullt. Here, In racing, priw fighting. (Continued oa Fact Four), 16,900 FOR TRUSTEES' Chicago Grand Jury Given More Information On Sanitary District Trustees Party, at Waldorf-Astoria Rough Laid Bar rage of Light Globes Threw Furniture. OTIICAfiO. April 20. (P) More talcs oT "whoopee parties" liy members of the sanitary district trustees were reported today to have been laid before the grand jury investigating alleged extrava sation nnd graft by Ibe board. Arthur Mathlesen, described as privet" seerWary to Timothy J. Crowe, , fnrmer president of the board who was defeated at the November election, was before the jury yesterday. The story he was reported to have told detailed a trip by members of the board to New York In 19'27, and mentioned a "whoopee party" at the Waldorf- i Astoria hotel in which broken furniture was tossed out of win dows and property damaged to the extent of $0900. The jury was understood to have been told that vouchers were pad ded in order to cover up large expenditures for the delegation of trustees and their friends who chartered a special train which set out for a" flood control confer ence In Washington, but which, ac cording to Mathlesen, also touched at New York. Liquor and revelry were said to have been Indulged In, and there were expenditures of tho district's...moneys, according to Mathtesen'H story, for flowers and candy for night club hostesses. Prosecutors ,wero told that the Waldorf-Astoria party started when members of the Chicago party . supplied themselves with electric light bulbs and began a bombardment of the walls and the sidewalk. This was followed by the hurling about of pieces of fur niture, the hotel later presenting a bill for $ti900 damages. BUI BOOZE FOR ALL ON LINER SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., April 20. (JP) The glani liner Leviathan left for New York this morning with a stock of liquor aboard for sale to passengers. It was understood there was to be no bar aboard the Leviathan, but that wines nnd other liquors onee bought might be served when and where passengers chose. Ship's officers refused to discuss the quantity of liquor put aboard. The loading was done with the ut most secrecy, officials at the pier refusing to give any information.' It was learned, however, the Sup ply had been estimated so ns to have little left over when the liner reaches the 12-mile limit where what Is left will be thrown over board. WAY CALL KEYES SACRAMENTO. Cal.. April 20. Pi Adjournment until next Tues day of Hie Impeachment court try ing Superior Judge Carlos S. Hardy today gave defense and prosecu tion forces an opportunity to pre pare for the final stages of the case. Several witnesses on tho defense list had not been called when the court adjourned yesterday for the week end. Whether Asa Keyes, former district attorney of Los An gples county, now under sentence after a bribery conviction, would be cntled here to take the stand was raised Just before adjourn ment. The defense obtained permission to read Keyes testimony before a legislative committee which prob ed Judge Hardy's connection with the legal affairs of Aimee Semple Mcl'herHon. This was granted over the objection of prosecution offlelsls, who hinted that Keyes might be called before the Im peachment court as a rebuttal witness. WHOOPEE NO BAR ABOARD LEVIATHAN The Leviathan, queen of the American merchant marina and tailed for Europe on her maiden voyage under private ownership Sheedy, vice president of the United Statet lines, announced liquor cabins and dining rooms. BIGGEST BATTLE OF REVOLUTION CRDSH FOUR IN ALLEGED MOVIE SEEN IN 0FFING1N. Y. ACCIDENT1PICTURE TRUST . . ! ..! . Government Bulletin Pre ' diets Action at Masiaca As Forerunner Conflict Near Navajoa Defeat Means End Revolt. MKXICO CITY, April 20. (P) A government bulletin today predicted a battle "very, very soon' at MaslacH' southern So nora,, between 2000 federal cav alry under General Talnmentes and tho rebel west coast ' army roar guard. t '. General Talamentes' cavalry, was less than 25 miles, south of Mas iaca when last reported and mov ing upon the rebels, believed not to outnumber hiin, who were en trenched there. The battle, it was expected here, would be the forerunner of a greater conflict at Navajoa, whore the principal rebel army in south ern Sonora was concentrated. Hero if the rebels stand and fight, the biggest battle of the revolt on the west coast may take place. ' Defeat here will leave the rebel army little alternative .other than dispersal, since the army of Gene ral Almazan and the gunboat Progresso, with Us cannon com manding the railroad at Quay mad, will cut off retreat to the north. General Calles was still at Ban Bias, northern Slnaloa, directing concentration of his troops there prepnrotory to the move of tho army , proper Into Sonora toward Navojoa. NOG ALES, Sonora, Mexico, April 20 (P) American women were called angels of mercy to day by 18 rehels who escaped from Hasahe, Sonora, yesterday after the battle In which federal sol diers killed and wounded 20 reb els and took the town. The es caping rehels said the American women, Mrs. Arthur Hardgrave, formerly of Kansas City; Mrs. James IT. Jones and Mrs. A. Hardy who live at Hacienda do la Osa, Sonora. and San Fernando, Ariz., went to Rasobe after the battle and acted as nurses, tending tho wounded and cheering the In jured soldiers. The 18 rebels, commanded by Lieutenant Carnaclon Kojas, who crossed over the International line tho United Stales to escape cap ture by the federals, were taken to Tucson by members of tho United States bordor patrol. It Is expected that they will be brought to Nogales, Ariz., and turned over to United States military authori ties for internment. ITALIAN KING STRONG FASCIST REGIE ROM R. April 20, (At ttnly's soldier king, Victor Emanuel III in u ringing speech before the 2Sth Italian legislature today attributed Italy's "high place" in the family of nations to Its seven years of fascist rule. GOLF MEN BEATEN SEATTLE. Wash., April 20. fT) Every player of the Oregon utate five man golf team fell before Tniverslty of Wahlngton divot diggers over 30 holes here yesterday. SAILS WITH LIQUOR FOR SALE STEEL GIRDERS NEW YORK, April 20. (JP) Several steel girders fell today from the eleventh floor of the Western Union building, under i construction at Thomas street and i West Roardway, killed at least four; workmen on a scaffolding at the ; eighth floor and burled at least! five more In wreckage at the street level. The girders were being hoisted on a derrick when the boom broke and let them crash down through the building, breaking through steel framework and new masonry and shattering the fronts of build ings across "tlie" street. The new building is In the com mission house district of the lower west side, crowded with trucks carting produce of ail kind's through narrow cobbled streets, and -the nelEhborhood was thrown i Into a panic by the accident. ! - fnKftjk rnuorvnu vara oa Hurl ntit to handle the crowds as rescue crews and repair gangs set to work to save tho injured nnd prevent further damage. i AT FLOOD STAGE, ISSUE WARNINGS TOPE K A, Kas,' April 20. () Swollen by torrential spring rains me past two aays, streams in eastern Kansas today were nt flood stages, disrupting highway and railway traffic. The Kaw, largest of Kansas rivers, stood at 21.8 feet at To peka early today, the highest stage here since June, 11U5. Flood warnings had been Issued along the Verdigris, while reports to the weather bureau indicated the Ma- rain des Gygnes nnd Neosho also j were rising rapidly. Many smnller rivers and creeks a Iko we ro re ported on tho ra m -page, tho result of downpours ranging from one to three inches the past 24 hours throughout a large portion of the state. , The crest of the Kaw was be lieved to, have reached Topeka and the river was expected to be j gin falling early this afternoon. SNOW LA K E, Ark., April 20. (JP) One hundred additional la borers, recruited In Helena, Ark., this morning were on the;r way in Knowleton's Landing to Join a small army of workers fightlng( to prevent the breaking of tho Mississippi river levee. The reinforcements were at old town landing, south of Helena, awaiting a government boat to take them to the scene of the threatened break. E TWO YEAR TERM Gil ANTS PASS, Ore., April 20. (p ciydi Moore. 22, was today sentenced to serve two irs In stale prison for killing his uncle, Raymond ?.ore. In an argument nverV'yment for work, ltaymond Moore was shot at Hadfo park, near hfrn, last January 2. Clyde was convicted last week of Inovl un'ary manslaughter. Notice of appeal was filed by Moore's attorney after a motion for retrial was denied. Moore was tried on a charge of second degree murder, but after deliberating 12 hours the Jury brought in a ver dict of manslaughter. lor six yeart a prohibition ship, with llouor for tale. Joseph E. would be served passengers in : INDICT LEADERS Government Moves On Ten Leading Producing and Distributing Companies Restraint of Trade and Zoning Charged. LOS ANGELAS, April 20. (tf) A rising crescendo of long, loud yells from independent motion pic ture ijxhihjtors .. throughout the country today had led the federal government to take action against un alleged giant, "motion picture trust" charged with virtually con trolling me production, distribu tion and showing of pictures. Scores of picture theater owners charged that they had been driven out of business, while others claimed they were In a position to be forced out unless they "played ball." , Officials of ten leading produc ing and distributing companies wore indicted by a federal grand Jury yesterday on charges of con spiracy to violate the Sherman anti-trust act. Tho defendant com panies named are West Coast The aters, Inc.; Parnmount-Famous-Lasky Corporation: Metro-Gold-wyn-AIayer; First National Pic tures; Universal Film Exchange; United Artists, inc.; Fox Film Cor poration; Vitngraph Inc.; Pathe Exchange, Inc., and Warner Bro thers. The Indictment charges that the companies combined in restraint of trade to discriminate against independent theaters; especially against theaters giving two feature pictures on one program or giving prizes to patrons, or charging un admission fee of ten -cents or less. It is stated that under an asserted "zoning and clearunce" schedule Independent theaters cannot obtain a picture until six months after it is released. Representatives of the defendant firms Indicated that bonds would be filed immediately In the nmounts demnnded. Federal Judge I'M ward J. Henning Instructed his court clerks to issue bunch war rants, If necessary. ., 1 FOR NEXT WEEK SAN FltANCIHCO, April 20. (fP) Tho weather outlook for the week beginning Aprjl 21, was an nounced here today by the United States weather bureau as follows: "Far western states Tho out look is for normal temperatures, considerable cloudiness with rains at times over Washington, Ore gon, Idaho and (ho extreme north portion of Nevada and probably the north portion of northern California." EARTH SHOCKS AGAIN IIOLOOXA, Italy, April 20. ifP) Two earthshocks early this morn nlng In liolngnn brought the total to six for this week. Most of the shocks have been felt early In the morning arousing ihe Inhabitants from their beds and sending hundreds to the open squares In fear of disaster. The only damage thus far, however, has been the collapse of a number of chimneys. Faenxa experienced three shocks this morning. E GO IN BILL Chairman M c N a r y An nounces Decision to In corporate Plan in Relief Measure Administration Awaits Reaction toi , Hoover Plea for Harmony of Farm Interests. WA8HLNOTOX. April 20. (P) Lrnairman Aic.Nary or tno senato agriculture committee announced today tho committee definitely had decided to incorporate the export : debenture plan in the farm bill to be Introduced Monday, Irrespec tive of whether President Hoover or other administration officials definitely declared against the pro posal. Hy Initios Ij. West, Associated Press Staff Writer. WASHINGTON, April 20. (&) Administration officials had their ears attuned today for a reaction to the nppeal of President Hoover to the farm organizations to com pose their differences over meas ures of farm relief and present a solid front during congressional consideration of such legislation. They woro hopeful that rosults would flow from tho warning of the chief executive that divisions in the rangs of the farmers them selves encouraged those opposed to all farm relief and at best could bring only delays and danger of failure. Since tho debenture plaii of the National Grange now Is the chief point at Issue lietwcen the agricul tural, organizations,, there was a general opinion here that Mr. llZVT .r" fhe f1?6"0". vr ...... i ... I...I.U, ,.n6i dld not mention this or any other suggestion except that In the Re publican platform ndopted ut Kan aan City laM June. Thero appears to be a feeling among administration leaders on Capitol hill that tho president does not look with favor on the deben ture plan, but he him made no public statement on the subject. After the Orange proposal was presented to the senato agriculture committee a sub-committee watt nppolnted to obtain Mr. Hoover's views on It. He declined to give an off-hand opinion, but called at tention that the debenture plan had not been Included In the party platform and that It had not been discussed In the last campaign. AT ARMS PARLEY GENEVA, April 20. (JP) Max im Litvlnoff, soviet vice-commlsar for foreign affairs, received an other setback In the preparatory disarmament conference today and it made him very angry. Ho did not immediately fulfill expecta tions of some that he would leave the conference, however, ' Early in today's meeting the question of publicity for arma ments, representing the German project, was disposed of by the disarmament commission by tabl ing It for reference to a Hub committee or later discussion In connection with limitation of ef fectives. Shortly after the action was taken M. Litvlnoff arose and de manded tho right of speech. "I am very sorry," remarked M. ludon coldly, "but wo abso lutely must get on with our work." Shortly after the Incident the soviet delegation distributed a five-page typewritten statement. In which they said that while the commission's attitude Justified their wlthdraway from the con ference, they had decided to ro main since they never wanted :t to lie said a disarmament confer ence had failed because the soviet had not participated, WF.MME TO STAY IN POrtTI.AND, April 20 VP) August Wemrne will remain In the county Jail until 2:20 p. m. Monday, the time set for hearing on a writ of habeas corpus appli cation filed by his attorney. Warn me was nrrestrd late yesterday on a body execution based on a Judgment of ff!7,646.sO returned against him, along with E. W. Wlckcy and Dow V, Walker, DEBENTUR PLAN RHSS SPOKESMAN RECEIVES REBUFF "Two-Gun" Libert Declares Chicago Is A Sissy Town f CHICAGO, April 20. vP) "Two-dun" Bob Limbert from the wide open spaces of Idaho 4 Is deeply disappointed in Chi- 4 cago gunmen. He ald so last 9 night as he tossed a nickel Into the air, pointed his piHtol 4 and banged the buffalo be- 4 4 tween the eyes. fr "I had heard," said Two- Oun liob, who is demonstrut- Ing his pistol prowess for Iz- akk Walton leaguers at their 4 annual show, "that Chicago had some regular he-shooters. 4" 4 Hut so far, I'vo found this tp 4i be a sissy town. 4 4 "Why," continued Mr. Llm- 4 4 bert, tossing a small bottle In- 4 4 to tho air, "I'd like to take on 4 4 ten of these collaf-and-tio 4 j 4 gunmen at once." He paused, 4 whipped out weapon and 4 shattered the whirling bottle 4 4 "I never miss, said the 4 1 4 man from Idaho. , 4 4 TAX LEAGUE TO TEST LEGALITY League Files Suit On Con stitutionality Financial Features of Point at Issue tion Sought. Act Main Clarifica- RALEM, Ore.. April 20. 1 B. Hmllh of Portland, representing tho Oregon Taxpayers' leaKue, late Frliluy filod In tho circuit oouit hero - a- -buU challonglns: the .con' fitltutlonallty of the legislative aat I consolidating the boards of regents ,0( tha University of Oregon, Oro- gon State college and the State Normal schools Into one board known as the state board of higher education. Defendants In the suit are Gov ernor Patterson, Secretary of State H oss, State Treasurer Kay, State Tax Commissioner Fisher and the members of the new board of edu cation. . The complaint Is based largely on financial features of the act. Smith declared In a statement that his only purpose is to obtain a clari fication of the act, so that, if It Is declared unconstitutional, there will he opportunity for the next legislature to work out a plan that will carry out In a legal way the Intent of the Bell-Schulmerlch bill, as the consolidation measure Is known. Smith's attorney Is Fred W. Parkwood, who declares In the complaint thut the act Is In viola tion of the constitutional provision that revenue measures must or iginate In 'the house and not the senate. He further alleges that allocation by the new board of all funds raised by taxation for the Institutions of higher learning Is contrary to the constitutional pro vision that requires the levying of every tax to be accompanied by a, statement as to the purpose of tho levy. I Other allegations of violation of the constitution are that the act Is contrary to the six per cent tnx limitation provision, and that tho appointment provision conflicts with a constitutional Inhibition against appoint lvo offices being filled for longer periods than four years. Baseball Scores Aniprtcait R. H, Boston II 2 Washington C 5 1 Uussell, riayno anil Asbgorson; Jones, iturke and Tule, Cloveland ChlcaKo game postpon ed; rain. WASHINOTON. April 20. W) The Washington Senators dropped i today's gnme to tho Uoston Ited Sox, 0 to G. National II. H. E. Piltshurgh 6 11 4 Cincinnati " 4 0 s Orlmes nnd Ilurgreaves; Klxey, Johnson and Dixon, Mc.Mullen. R. Ilrooklyn 2 Philadelphia 5 Clark, Moss nnd Deberry; land and Davis, Lerlon. 11. K. 12 0 1 1 0 Sweet- New York at Uoston postponed; rain. St. Louis at Chicago, postponed; rain. Itandlts rnlclcnllflrd. OAKLAND, Cal.. April 20. P) Attempts to connect the three men, arrested hero yesterday, with the $12,000 robbery Wednesdnr of the Herkeloy branch of the Oakland bank, failed today when bank employees and others woro unable to identify tho tuspecu. A MERGER PARLEY ON WAR BILL Rumor Germans Willing to Increase Offer Slightly See No Real Hope of Ac cordWorld Blame Mel lows Teuton Firmness How to End Parley Now Main Problem. PARIS. April 20.-T-CP) Efforts j to revive the almost dead repara tions conference went on steadily today, but the prospect looked ex ceedingly dark. ' The Germans wero understood to be willing to Increase their rep arations offer slightly, but they were flank to Intimate that they sow no real hope of tho present conference reaching an accord. Dr. HJatmar Schact, leader of the German delegation, has been talking with Owen D. Young and the allied delegates at Informal conferences on the situation, at the same. time exploring the possibility of a ten-year agreement. He ap peared at the Hotel George V, this morning and went Into conference with Mr. Young, Thomas W. La ment nnd two other reparations exnerts. He looked verv srrnvA nnri The world-wide blame upon the Germans for wrecking the confer ence, as reported In the press, or the Berlin cabinet's disapproval to day seemed to have softened the German firmness. The delegation, however, still asserted that it van composed of "Independent expert." They wero neither taking nor ask- In i? tho eHhlnnt'a tnatriintlnna thoo Rnd anrt wore seeking only solu- Hons which rrheyvras experts and as Germans, could approve.. . While the hope that the confer ences might result in a reopening of the negotiations existed, it was felt It was more likely the discus sions would turn toward consider ation of how the reparations com mittee shall announce termination of tta work. . . IRVA FEWELL TO ENTER FINAL C. E, T SALEM, Ore., April 20. W! Preliminary trials in the Chris tian Endenvor Intermediate ora torical contest were held In tha high school auditorium this morn ing. Ten young men and women from various parts of the Btate took part In the trials. The five who will enter (the finals Saturday night are Franklin Buckman, of Washington Union; Josephine Oil strap, I.ane; Winifred Ayres, Port land; Evelyn Zwlcker, Myrtle nnd Irva Fewcll, Crater Lake. The winner tonight will be sent to the International Christian Endeavor convention at Kansas City July 3-D to try for natlonnl honors.' Will Rogers Says: BOSTON, Mush., April 20, When Mr. Hoover appoints some judge or some promi nent position, he Rends out the names of the fellows who wanted him. appointed. That is to stop these politicians from nuto Rraphing ev ery applica tion that eomes along. Some of 'era were so pro m i s c u o n s with their endorsements that they must have been work ing on a commission. Now a lot of them are kicking on this new plan. But for every politician ho loses he will gain two more friends. The biggest marathon race we have in this country fin ished here yesterda;', and an old boy from Canada won it, because he never owned Ford and didn't know how to run one. . Outsiders won everything. We ride good, but we get out of wind walk ing to the garage. Yours, - .. .WILL BOGERS. mm
