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edford Mail Tribune Weather Year Ago lllghcwt year ago today... ..., 77 Liuwott your ago unlay 38 Dtlly twtnty-fourtb Tnr. 1 WMkly flftjr-MttaUi Yur, MEDFORD, OREO ON, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 92J. No. 31. The Weather Jjraut Fnlr tonight and Tuefl . day; sllgbtfr wnrroc Tuesday- ' Highest yesterday 65 Ipivcat UUa morning:....'...:..... 40 84 Mrs. precipitation to S b. m... .S M Today By Arthur Brisbane California's Schools. Capital Gain Taxes. Their Excellent Majesties. Princely Power. (Copyright by King Featuna Syndicate, Inc.) In California "Public Suhool week" sets a Rood example to the rest of -the country. ' :, CaliforniaiM, talking about better scIiooIk, mean what they say, and BULP better schools. The public school system of New York, richest city in the world, is disgracefully back ward compared with Califor nia's public schools. . The reason is that the gov ernment of New York City does not sympathize with public schools, and does ' reluctantly and grudgingly for the public school children only as mnch as public opinion compels. And public opinion is feeble in New York. In California, when you see a magnificent building with a beautiful big park around it, on a wide street, THAT USU ALLY A . PUBLIC SCHOOL. Public schools have gardens and Orchards attached, for the education of the children. Charles E. Mitchell, of the National City, biggest bank in America, urges repeal of in come tax on capital gain. ...Taking a large part of profit on sales of property, stocks or real estate, the,' tax hampers business. Owners with a profit hold on to avoid the tax, tieing tip gigantic sums, complicating the credit "siiuatioh; ' ; Canada has no such tax, and meets expenses, largely by a sales tax. - ' . Any tax discouraging active business, causing stagnation in loans, is a harmful tax. ' ' . ' The government gains noth ing by a tax that is offset by deductions for losses. Specu lators take losses, charging them against profits, often buy ing 'back immediately what they have sold, to obtain in come tax deductions. Taxes ou capital gains are evaded easily. Tn jibnliKh tar fin cunitnt gain, abolishing ut the same tittle allowances for corre sponding losses, would increase government income and help business. Statements by President Hoover indicate disapproval of a plan to pay farmers a bounty on exports. It is an old bounty. Alexander R. Smith, of Koso bnnk, Staten Island, calls atten tion to a law -under William and Mary, called "An act for the encouraging the exporta tion of com." By that act ".The king's and queen's most excellent majes ties" advis;d "by the lord spiritual and temporal and the commons," auuounced "It hatlt been found by experience that exportation of corn and grain into foreign parts, when the price thereof is at a low rate in this kingdom, hath been a great advantage to owners of land and the trade of thisking dom in general." The bounty was paid only when grain dropped to a cer tain price, and when exported "in English shipping, the mas ter and two-thirds of his mariners at least being their majesty's .subjects." . . Until lately the "reddest" radical in Britain was Arthur J. Cook, leader ofminers. lie was a republican, determined to get rid of kings and queens, (Continued on Tic Four). RESPECT OF LAW FADING IN COUNTRY President Makes Earnest Appeal for Observance of Law in First Address Foundation of Country Crumbling Is Assertion Prohibition Only Part of Problem. NEW YORK, April 22. (P) President Hooved departed tor Washington at 2:54 o'clock this afternoon after addreRBtng the an nual luncheon of the Associated Press at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. NEW YORK, April 22. VP) President Hoover, In an earnest appeal to his follow citizens to observe the law, declared hero today that life and property In tile United States '"are relatively moro unsafe than in any other civilized country in the world." In his first address since his In auguration, delivered at the- an nual luncheon of tile Associated Press, the chief executive said ho waa confronted with a national necessity of the first degree, that wo are not suffering from an ephemeral crimo wave but from a subsidence of our foundations." "In order to dispel certain il lusions In the public mind on this subject," Mr. iloover said, "let ni say at once that while vio lations of law have been Increased by Inclusion of crimes under the ,18th amendment and by the vast sums that' are poured Into the hands - of -criminal classes by the patronage of illicit liquor by otherwise responsible citizens, yet this is :but one segment of our problem." lie explained that he cited tho extent of murder, burglary, rob bery, . forgory, and embezzlement because, only.. .a small percentage of these could bo attributed to the 18th amendment, and lie as serted that of tho total number of convictions for felony last year Iosh than eight per cent camo from the source of tho dry law. Face Big Issue. j "What we are facing today is something far larger and more fundamental tho possibility that respect for law as law is fading from the sensibilities of our peo- i pie," he continued. j "No individual has a right to dolermlno what law shall be obey- j cd and what law. shall not be, enforced. If a law Is wrong, lis; rigid enforcement Is tho surett , guaranty of its repeal. If It la right, Its enforcement is the quick est method of compelling respect for It." Mr. Hoover said there wero two Immediate problems before tho government to Investigate the ex- isting agencies of enforcement ana to reorganize the system of en forcement in such manner as to eliminate its weaknesses. "If Is the purpose of tho ad ministration." ho added, "to strengthen Us law enforcement agencies week by week, month by month, year by year, not by dramatic displays and violent at tacks In order to make headlines, not by violating tho law itself through misuses of the law In Its enforcement, but by steady pressure, steady weeding out of (Continued on Page Eight.) POLICE SEEKING OF CHICAGO, April 22. (P) Search for Frank Thompson of Klrkland. III., who In BlInKod to have, pur chased six machine guns from a sporting goods dealer here, just be fore the massacre of seven Morati gangHlers, was Intensified tonight following tho arrest of Thompson's wife, Vera, who, police-Mid, threw additional light on the case. Following the -stimony last week of Peter von Frantzluw, the sporting goods dealer, ueforo tho coroner's Jury Investigating IUp . massacre, that he sold the guns Tu ; Thompson, police were dispatched to Klrkland In search of the man. Unable to find TInpson, the offi cers questioned his wife, who told that her husband was employed by a university In enrollment work. Iast hlght Mrs. Thomimon and a male companion were arrested here when they attempted to obtain an automobile from a garage owned by Thompson. Taken to headquar ters, Mr. Thompson waa said to have confessed knowledge that her husband purchased the gtiip,from tun riuuiAius. BUYER GUNS MASSACRE Approve bill to aid farm ass, - k J The house agriculture committee approved a bill to create a federal, board to aid farm marketing. The measure will be Introduced at special session of congress. Left to right: Representatives Thomas F. Williams, Illinois; James B. Aswell, Louisiana; David H. Klncheloo, Kentucky: Fred S. Purnell, Indiana, and Gilbert N. Haugen, Iowa, chairman. Picture was taken after sub-committee members presentee draft of bill to President Hoover, 0. S. DISPOSED ACCEPT FRENCH NAVY CUT PLAN American Delegate at Gen eva Conference An: nounces Favorable Atti tudeBritish Spokesman Expresses Agreement, fSKNEVA, April 2''. UP) Hugh S. Gibson, A merlean detenu to to the preparatory disarmament con ference in session here, announced today the United Staten was dis poned to accept France's proposal of limitation of naval tonnage by categories. .The offer, he said, was made In the hope of facilitating a general agreement on naval re duction, . . GKNKVA, April 22. R) Lord Cushendun, Hrittsh disarmament delegate, hardly awaited fur the speech of Hugh H. Gibson, present ing American views of naval dis armament, to be translated Into French before he took tho floor to answer It. He said while ho was unable (o comment on Its specific proposals and as far as any gen eral principle whs concerned there waa nothing In It with which he could not express agreement. The French proposa I Is that which provides for assignment of a total tonnage to each nation. This total Is to bo divided among cate gories of ships by specified ton nages as a basis of discussion. Lord 'ushendun was followed by N". Sato, of Japan, who an nounced Tokyo hail also been studying the question of categories of warships and was likely to have some proposals to make. Jle stressed J a pa n 's welcom o of the cordial friendly spirit of the Amer ican declaration. Count Massigll spoke for France. JIo characterized the American's statement as one of conciliation and realization. Ho said the con troversy as to the best method of limiting navies had waged for two years and he emphasized that France always preferred tho flex ible method of combining total tonnage with tonnage by categories of warships. WASHINGTON. Apii l .-(I") Farni relief claimed overwhelm ingly predominating attention on bolh sides of tho capilol today us congress entered the second week of Its special session. Not only had President Hoover's declaration against the export de benture plils focused interest on this subjecr? but the house had reached tho last day of Its gen oral debate on a farm relief bill which meets his views, and the senate was at tho &;liinliiK of a discussion of Its measure. As the principal piece of legis lation recommended by President oHover. both chambers are Riving farm relief right of way. A marriage license w as hfoff ri thin forenoon at the county clerk'a office to Chester Edson. 21, and Marlon Mercer, 18, both of Wil lows, Cal. Magyars Warned Race Fading Fast Birth Rate Low nUDAPKST. (JP) Vrofes- nor Wilhelm Taufer, a leading gnyecologist of Hungary, has at allied society by declaring that, the Magyar race will be extin . in SO (years, if the present rate of decline In tho national birth rato is con- 4 tinned. "Hungarian homes today are cradleless," the doctor lamented. "Society seeks by 4 every possible means to re 4 main childless. The birth rate of last year was the lowest in 4 the history of the, country."" Dr. Taufer especially at- 4 tacked one-child marriages. , 4 44- HINES TO PROBE AIR CRASH AT SAN DIEGO, CAL WASHINGTON, April 22. (IP) F. Trufoee Davison, UHsistant secre tary of war for aviation, announc ed, today that orders had been sent to Major General .lohn L. Minos, corns area commander at Hat) Ki-HiiclHcit. to make ati Inve.stlBu tion, additional to Unit required liy army regulations, of the airplane collision between army and civilian planes yesterday at San IJIog-o. SAN lltt;u, ')., April 22. (TP) The colliHion of mi army pursuit phi no and an air liner cost six lives here yesterday. It was the second air tragedy of Its kind In San Diego in three days and the worst in the flying history of the city. Tho larger plane, belonging to the Aluddux Air JlneH, Inc., and carrying five persons, had Just taken off for Phoenix, Ariz. The army 'plane, piloted by Lieut. How ard Keefcr. was a much swifter ship than the air llnor and hail been following the big transport. Ground observers salil the army pilot had in Ih judged his distance and his ship had crashed Into one wing of tho air liner. The two planes were seen to lurch simul taneously. Tho army plane rolled over a few times and then fell Into a canyon. The air liner held Its course for a few minutes or so but loose parts began to break away, and It fell to the earth in a heap. CAMIOKUN, Texas, Airll T3. fPl A (lotallfI rnpnrt of licnisy cliarKos on which their paHtor, die Itflv. It. I). Kfinney, whh nxnitlleil lKHt Tliitrmlay hy thn Centntl Toxhk I'leHhylcry, will ho nimln In mem horn of Cameron PreHliytorlun church tliiH aflornoim. Mr. KimiH'y whh notified of th' governing hoard's action hy lotlnr Saturday and hln pulpit was occu pied ycitcrday by Dr. W. 8. Heed of AiiHtln. The charnea KKlnM Mr. Konnny have resulted In a division of the ihurih. marketing ELECTRICITY FOR BLUE LEDGE IS Estimate Prepared Furnish ing Power at Big Copper Workings Syndicate Member and Engineer Due This I The Caltfornia-Oreiziin V o w e r company - has prepared an esti mate for tho furnishing of power to the Blue ledgo mine, and sub mitted the snnie to J. H. ' Hoof and associates of Ios Angeles, who recently took un option from tho Uuggenhelms for tho opera-tf-on of the mine. J. C. Thomp son, district malinger of C'opco, yesterday journeyed to tho mine, on a trip of Inspection.' It la figured that the Installa tion of the power lino would cost In tho neighborhood of $140,000. Consideration Is also given to a plan to build a power line from Hilt, Cal., to Jhn mine, a shorter distance than from this city. J. U. Murphy, Jr., a member of the; Los Angeles syndicate, and a mining engineer by the name of Henford, a copper expert, are duo this -week for a visit to the mine. Walter Robinson, former superin tendent of the mine, who has been act lug In a similar capacity fn an upstate quicksilver mine. Is In tho city and will be employed as a technical expert, in connection with the operation of the Hluo Ledgn. Uoblnsnu knows every foot of the diggings. The county court, us soon an the wcu titer den i-H. will make a trip to tho state line, to find out what is needed In I he way of road Im provements. They have been re quested to appropriate $1500 and have It under advisement. According to people who have visited the mine the past week, the weather and the wood rats have ployed haven; with the build ings, wilh tho roofs of all struc tures caved In. BEDE TO PREPARE KAI,KM. Ore. April 22. t'l nihert llodo. editor of t lie Cotlane llrove Hcntlncl ami rcadliiK clerk of the Oroiron house of repreHentn tlvcH, Ih here to tu-epfire the copy for Hie journal of the llti!! IcplHla lure. This Ih the first time Kedo hart lieen employed for this work, lie estimates the work will require three or four weeks. NINE THOUSAND SIGN I'dltTI.ANI). April 22. lift r.co. llylHiider, In chsiKe of the local campaign lo olitalu signers to the oersonal Income lax referendum petitions eiretllslerl liy the fli-eiiler Oregon association, sold toilsrilne thousand signatures hsd been ob tained In Portland. The Portland circulators have been dismissed. Of the names on the petitions so far cbei-ked by the county clerk's office. 85 per cent have been regis tered voters. COPCO PROJECT E : Ml IS Senate Committee Votes to Override Hoover Opposi tion in Drafting Farm Re lief Bill McNary Sides With Executive Letter to Oregon Senator Op poses Plan. WASHINGTON, April 22. (A) In spite, of the emphatic opposi tion of President Hoover, tho sen ate agriculture committee voted today to rota in tho export deben ture plan In its farm relief bill. The vote to retain the deben ture plan was 8 to ti. Thoso vot ing for retention wero Senators Norris of Nebraska; Frazier of North Dakota and Nor bock of South Dakota. Kepnhllcans and Whaeler of Montana, Heflln of Alabama, Thomas of Oklahoma and Caraway of Arkansas, Demo crats and HlVpsted (by proxy) farmer-labor, Minnesota. ' Those voting to eliminate the plan were Chairman McNary and Senators Capper of Kansas, Gould of Malno and Thomas of Idaho, Republicans and Hansdell of Lou isiana. Kendrlclc of Wyoming, DemorratHy Senator Hmlth, Democrat, South Carolina, was not recorded. WASHINGTON, April 2 2. (P) President Hoover stood today, definitely and emphatically ranged in opposition to the export deben ture plan of farm relief. ' I am convinced that It would bring disaster to tho American farmer," ho said In a letter to Chairman McNary of tho senate agriculture committee, which ui-nto n ilplmntiirfl nrnvlston into the tentative bill It introduced last week. , The chibf fcxeoutlve's IcUmv Wis In responso to a request from tho committee for Hhr 'oplnion on tho proposal, which did not figure in tho d'seusslon of farm relief dur ing the presidential campaign, and was forwarded with statements analyzing the plan by Secretaries Mellon and Hyde and the com merce department. The committee, to which tho senate referred tho bill for formal action and a report today, was promptly called by Chairpian Mc Nary to meet this morning for consideration of the communica tions from tho White House, prior to this meeting, its membership was represented as being oloHcly divided on tho question whether to leave the debenture provision in tho bill or report the measure back to. tho senate with the plan eliminated. FLEE IN DISORDER OUKKOO, ShantutiK, China, April 22. '(P) (Innural Un Ohon-NInn Inrlicted a serious defeat durlnn tho nlKht at NltiRlialcliow on rorces of Marshal Chans Thiiiik Chiing, who retreated In great disorder through Cltofoo. It was reported that Chant! whh fleeing to IJaiion, Japanese terri tory, leaving 20,000 ieadorless liandlt-soldlers In north Uhantung. Itesldcnts and merchants here wero apprehensive. Uu gained his victory nndor cover of darkness, making ropentod sorties from tho walled city, where ho has been hosloged for weeks. Tho attacks produced the greatest conTuslon among Chang's forces, who fell ujion each other In I he darkness and killed many of their own men. As the retreating Iroops of Chang rushed pell mell and In tho greatest dlsordor through Chefon, repreHentutlvoH of Hie former war lord demanded $'.'.1)110,000 Mexican of the Chefoo merchants. Many of Chang'H soldiers wore discarding their uniforms to escape the vengeance of the nationalists, who wero believed to bo Just be hind them. FOR BOARD OF TRADE M)N1K)N, April 22. (p) A searchtnK Inquiry into the slnklm of the Hrltlsh sf efimnlil) Vestrls off the United Htutes coast IhhI November with the 1dh of '116 lives was opened In Ixmdon today ut the reojieHt of the board ofyrade. UPHELD iFORCES OF CHANG LIU ARMY GIBSON . . j Sentc " Upheld Harry l Sinclair. . WASHINGTON, April 22.(flV Tho supreme court ruled today that Harry 1 Sinclair, unless par doned, must servo throe months In Jail for refusal to answer ques tions before the senato Teapot Dome committee. Sinclair had appealed from a recent decision of the court, which upheld the sent once of three months In Jail imposed upon him, but the highest court today re fused to reconsider (bat opinion. FOR MEDFORD The budget of the California i Oregon . Power company for. the I year 1!ri!, in the territory it aervea j li..)pi'tlorn, California; and nouth; j eru Oreftort'nnd entullinft un ex penditure of over $1,300,000 f or Improvements In service and new; construction, haa been approved by. the general offices of tho Hyllesby : Engineering and Managing Cor-j poratlon of Chicago, 111. Word to; thla effect wuh received by Ferry ! O. Crawford, general manager and i vice president, and unnounced to- j day. i Allotlng of the sums to various projects will be made at . once. 1 Work will Htart at once, and haa I been underway in a ( preliminary i manner for Home time. j Tho principal Item for this .city j Ih the construction of a new. mod-i em-equipped sub-station ' at an ' Initial cost of nn.ro than $100,000 ! and additiona to present transmlM- j Hlon and distribution lines. The budget provldeH for exten sive Improvements In the Rogue River, Klamath, Umpqua and HIm klyou divisions, ' affecting over a Mcore of cltlcH. It also provided for new power lines to servo new areaa. 1 It was a I ho announced that In tho carrying- out of the budget plans, homo labor would be em ployed ua far as possible. ARMSPARLEY (iKNIiVA, April Hugh S. dihson,' American ambassador to Belgium, presenting an oagorly awaited American thesis before the preparatory disarmament commlH Hlon today, appealed Tor a fresh examination of Mm cntlrn problem based nti Iho Idoa that h1) naliona are going lo bo Mends and aettln t h e I r dlfficultloH by peaceful rneatiH, Through Mx. (llhsou's uddreaM. I'roNldeiiL Hoover la generally deemed In (Jenova lo h u v launched un Important niovo to place the rclatfona between tho United States and Great llritaln on a firm f'oiiudatlou of collaboration and rrlcmlllncMH. . DESJROYED BY BLAZE 8AN IMtANCIHCO, April 22.-P Kulus of tho Lincoln hotel. Third Ktrcet rooming houso, were being xcarehed today for possible victim following a bhrzo shortly after midnight which spread and destroyed three adjoining hulld 4rt:. The building was condemned 1 years ago as a fire trap, but remained In uc during subsequent litigation over the property. Whether anyone perished in tho fir has not been determined. NEW SI 00,000 SUB STATION URGES m A A S TOTAL 26 I Midwest and South Suffer Visitation Over Week-End 13 Killed in Arkansas Flood Waters Threaten in Three States Colorado and Wyoming Piled With Snow. (Ilylho Associated Preas, April 22) Outbursts of the elementa floods, tornadoes, and wind, hall and rain storms took 2ti Uvea In : tho midwest, southwest and soutn over the weekend; Injured two score persons or more, and did hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage. Arkansas tornadoes killed 1 3 persons, 1 1 of them negroes work ing on a plantation at Tillar, Pro perty damage was reported from other sections of that state. Ar kansas also waa fighting, against the rising waters of tho Mississippi river. 500 workmon reinforcing' tho levee at Knowlton's Landing near Snow lake. After many hours work, engineers believed that the danger of a break at that point had boon averted. A Jfi-minute storm at Louisville and ut New Albany, Ind., across the Ohio river, cost two lives and did property damago of approxi mately a quarter of- a million dol lars. Wind and hail shattered win dows in many buildings. At Wal ton, Ky., two boyB were killed when lightning struck u barn on which they had perched to watch a ball game. Three negroes were killed and 25 persona were Injured when an other of the series of tornadoes that caromed about the south and southwest struck, Dahomey, Miss. A twister alBO ' descended upon. Wham, Ila., but no loss of life waa toported, there. , -.Colorado.- and" Wyoming .were plied with snow In some sections while Oklahoma, Kansas and Mis souri were having flood and torna do worries. V .- , Three Indiana wero killed- In Oklahoma tornadoes. A man waa kilted In a storm at Reece, Kas. A baby was crushed to death in a Texas storm; and a boy drowned at Wyandotte, Okla. ' Reece, and Bolivar, Mo., wero particularly hard hit by the midwest storms. There was renewed alarm along the Mississippi river near Qulncy.t III., and Canton, Mo., with gov ernment observers predicting the highest stage in 75 years. There was no known loss of life when the levee crumbled at Canton, but 200 wero homeless and many other families were moved from their homes as a precaution against other levee breaks. A break in tho levee of the Fablus rlver, emptying5 Into the Mississippi, preceded the Canton break, flooding 4000 acres of farm land. IN REDWOOD CITY REDWOOD CITV, Calif., April . 2 2,-7-P) Ono mun was killed and eight persons. Including a year old baby, wero Injured In a collision between two automobiles un tho highway near liclmont today. Tho dead: , Jack Cardtn. i driver of one car. 0, of Jun Jose, Tho injured:- R. E. Cullen, K-iamath l'alKf Ore., lacerations and bruises, . Richard Cullen, 7, his son, shock and possible spinal Injury, r Mrs. R. K. Cullen, his wife, bruises and shock. ' Frank Vogel, San Francisco, dri ver of tho second car, back Injur ies, cuts and bruises. Mrs. Frank Vogel, his wife, head Injuries, lacerations. Paul KauKsele, Kan Francisco, shock and euta on face. Mrs, Paul Hausscic, his wife.'" deep cuts on head and faeo, V Helen tiausscle, their year old daughter, bruises und cuts, Tho Cullen were riding in Car din's machine while tho othors woro occupants of Vogol's car, i i IS WASHINGTON, April 22. fP)l. Nomination of Irvine I Lien root, former Republican senator from WlKcomdn, to be a .ludgo of tho court of customs and patent ap peals waa resubmitted tn tho senate today by Proaldont Hooveft INS
