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The Weather Furcoaxt -Fklr tonight and Thurs day. ... Hieiwst iwrtenlay f lwn cHt this morning 33 edfdkd Mail Trebuke Weather Year Ago lllKhext year ago today 8S Lowest year oko today - 31 Pllj Trtntr-tana Tmt. mUj rutr-Mnfi-jl lev. MEDFORD, OKEflOX, WEDNESDAY.. MAY 1, 1929. No. 40. M Today By Arthur Brisbane To Discourage Vice 5,000,000 Flying Miles. 1 Day, in- Prohibition. L (Copyright by King FMtuna t Syndicate, Ino.) The way to discourage vice is to make it expensive. To gunible iu Wall Street Monday you had to pay 13 per cent in terest for call money. In Eng land and France speculators in vesting in American stocks paid i'i and 5 per cent for money. Bankers there seem to know their business. And they have no Federal Reserve to help the game of usury, with solemn warnings, telling the people what they may and must not o. V General Motors of the Air" was predicted when Clias. E. Mitchell, head of the Na tional City. Bank, started the United Aircraft and Transpor tation Corporation. Monday United Aircraft an nounced absorption of Stout Airlines, Inc., first regular pas senger carrying line established in America. ' United Aircraft owns, besides the Stout Company,-the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, ' making Wasp and Hornet air cooled . engines ; Boeing Air plane Company, ; Pacific Air Transport Company, ' Hamilton . i Metal Piano Company;'' llamil ' ! ton Aero Manufacturing, Com pany of Seattle; Chance Vought ' Corporation; and other" airplane interests. V ..''.;'. , ".' - ' '"" And Monday Boeing Air plane Company, which unites , Chicago, .Oakland, San Fran cisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, i, with air mail, express and pus i seuger routes, flew its five mil ; liontiimile. It has now 10,600 i miles of regular flying routs. . The Boeing branch of United i Aircraft is about to establish regular flights from ocean to ocean with 19-passenger planes. At Aurora, 111., Thomas Mm inctt Lyons, 25-year-old caddy Tuaster, asked Wilder M. Bos worth, 23, "Where will you : have it; iu the stomach or in the head!" . Young Bosworth' smiled, thinking it was a joke. He is in the hospital with a bullet in his stomiach. Lyons, in jui'l, i asks, "How did I get here 1 . must have been pretty much under the weather?" He was. i; One of the best known hotels ;. iu Xcw York City was told by i neighbors across . the street ; that a gentleman was appar ( ciitly planning to jump from an j upper window. . A prosperous "rcspcctaclc" guest, spied when his legs were gver the wiudow sill, told a : short story. ' '-. ' He met, ou Fifth aveuue, a lady, who escorted him to a .speakeasy. Thut's all he re members. How he got back to his hotel he doesn't know. All murks of idcntifieat'pm had been cut from his cloth ing. He had been robbed, of course. He did not know what "they" had given him to drink. Doctors took care of him, two male nurses took him back to his wife in his home, town. That piece of prohibition news the reporters missed. tOut West, in South Dakota's tate game preserve, a hunter of tho National lBologlcal Survey has a last killed a "wild German shep herd dog" that for two years had Continued OI Fw four). RIOTS MARK MAY ENTRY EN GERMANY Communists Clash With Po lice in Berlin Stones and Bottles Fly New York Sets Guards for Officials and Buildings Impres sive Demonstration in Moscow. BERLIN-, Germany, .May l.-(JP) Numerous clashes between police and communists took place in Ber lin this afternoon, about 200 ar rests being made. The communists, after meeting in different halls, formed proces sions and marched through the streets. Mounted police interven ed and dispersed the crowd, meet ing resistance, stones and battles being thrown at them. In some cases they fired a few shots be fore scattering the demonstrators, several of whom were reported to be wounded. NEW YORK, May 1. (P) Five thousand 'policemen, one-third ot tho city's force, have been assigned to special duty today to protect city officials, ' prominent persons and public buildings from possible May day disturbances. Policemen have been assigned to guard the homos of John D. Rocke feller, Jr., J. Pierpont Morgan, Mayor 'Walker; Cit, state and fed eral judges and many public and municipal buildings. Police also have been ordered to stop any Il legal distribution of handbils and to examine any suspicious looking packages. Mass meetings were planned by both the socialist and communist organizations, tho latter receiving a permit to hold a parade for the first time since 1910. The permit was granted by Polled' Commls'-' stonor Whalen on the promise that no Incendiary placards would be carried and that the American flag would be borne aloft at the head of tho procession. MOSCOW, May 1. (&) The roar of tile Kremlin battorles. the humming of air squadrons and the clatter of masses of cavalary, ar tillery, infantry and numerous tanks blended with the blare of huge bands, the deafening hurrahs tor marching troops and the quaint chimes of the Kremlin to make this May day one of the most Impres sive and strangest symphonies ever heard in Red Square. The demonstration differed from all previous ones insofar as the foreign military attaches, (n front of Lenin's mausoleum, were given ample opportunity to witness the red army's achievements In keci lng abreast of the world's most modem war technique. Twenty-five huge black tanks, many more baby tanks and armored motor cars of recent construction drove by, causing a wave of en thusiasm. , OF CHICAGO, 111., May 1. P) The "bombing syndicate" execut ed three contracts today with pre cision and efficiency. At 3:08 a. m. a bomb exploded at tho door of a northwest side saloon and at 3:10 another at a saloon a few blocks away. At 3:13 a third went off In the doorway of a soft drink parlor in the dis trict. Each caused about $1600 damage. Two saloon keepers shook their heads when asked the motive. "I have been selling near beer only." said Joseph Kucharskl. The third told police his place and othrs in the neighborhood had been closed the day after the St. Valontine's day gang massacre and had not been allowed- to reopen. Thursday tho retail beverage deal ers met and word was passed around that things would open up again May 1. Paul Zuczkowskl. police Informer, was believed to have bought his beer from Claude iladdox of tho Circus gang, sought for questioning 1 thn Mnran street mRflSAcre and affiliated with "Scarface" Al Ca 'pone's North Side gang. Police believe gang rivalry for the ro opening beer trade was the motive tor the bombings. " Danny tjong Kllk-tl , l SAX FRANCISCO, May I. lfi "Danny" Long, former manager of the San Francisco baseball club, was killed last night when he fell beneath the wheels of a Northwes- ' tern Pacific train at Sausalito. PARLORS CHICAGO 1 BARRAGE AT RED CROSS Y'i ' ' I . Trrimm m Wl A - -:-k xjxA.-.-&f Members of central committee of American Red Cross at convention n Washington. Seated, left to right: Mabel T. Boardman, aecretary; Judge John Barton Payne, ehalijman; Mrs. Frank V. Ham mar, St. Louis. Standing: Guatavut O. Pope, Detroit; James t. Fleter, vice chairman: Mrs. August Belmont, New York: George E. Scott, Chicago: Mrs. Henry P. Davison, New York: Cornelius N. Bliss, New York; Mrs. Henry R. Rea, Pittsburgh; Maj. Gen. Merltt W. Ireland, J. Reuben Clark, CAPITAL AFTER Police Head Orders Round up of Gangster Autos, Using New Device Will Introduce Armored Cars in Fighting Booze. WASHINGTON. May 1. (Jf) A round' y iof automobiles eqquip ped. with Hinoke scnien" apparatus and hiTCHt of their owners nun Itrcn ordered by Major Henry CI. Pratt, Kuporlntendent of police. His order follows tho killing of one alleged bootlegger untng a Hinoke siiroen lust week by a police man, who has been held for tho grand jury, and tho CHcapo of Oth ers employing the same device, lJoseH.sion of such a device in an uutomobliu, Major Pratt holds, is sufficient to bring charges uruIiihL the owner under tho anti-smoke screen law which provides penal ties of not Ichs than one year nor more than tivo years imprison ment. He alno announced his Intention to introduce armored motor cars for use by tho police in efforts to capture, fleeing suspects. Tho fatal urn o ko screen chase last week brought tho subject of prohibition to tho floor of the houso for the first time at the special session; applause greeting statements by members who lauded the action of tho policeman. 1 GUILTY OF SLOT MACHINE GRAFTS .CHICAGO,. III., May 1. (!') The Cook county grand jury ended Its inquiry into the slot machine gam bling syndicate today by returning an indictment naming six police captains and 22 hoodlums, politi cians and patrolmen on four counts as conspirators lit the operation of gambling machlnos throughout the county. Among those named in the in dictment, returned before Justice John J. Sulllvun In criminal court, were : Pollco Captains Patrick .1. Col lins, brother of the Into Michael Collins, minister ot defense and fin ance of tho Irish Free state, who was assassinated; Dennis Malloy, once discharged from the police department, but reinstated; Rich ard CI 1(1. Michael Toblti. Hugh Mc Carthy and Michael Dclaney. Tho slot machine crusade grew out ot 'an Investigation Into the death of Mrs..Sclma Durnham, the wealthy widow of tne head of the Durnham Vending Machine com pany. The company's records were searched for possible clues to her death. They furnished none, but did Rive the authorities an Inkling of the vast operations of .tho slot machine syndicate. Fin? In l.lnrr LONDON. May I. Klre was dis covered In one of tho holds of the holds of the White Klar llni-r Sip. Rantlc which is lying. In her Thames river dock. Ion Chancy Hum Flu LOH ANGELEH. May 1. iff9 Lon Chaney. film actor, la confined to hin Beverly HIIIh horns suffer ing an attack of influence. CARS EQUIPPED FOR SMUDGING ANNUAL MEETING Men Spend Nearly As Much As Women on Aids to Beauty N1CW . YO UK, iJm May (P) Try and get any man to admit that he spends oven half as much as the women folks do tor aids to beauty. But they do, and it's moro than half, too, according to a survey prepared by Dorothy Gray, a beauty specialist, bas- ed on trade statistics and dc- partmont of commorco flg- ures. For facials, hair tonics 4i and barber shop luxuries men spent in 1928 in this country $1,050,000,000, tho survey shows. Tho feminine, beauty bill -was ?1,825,000,000. Facials alone cost father $100,000,000. DOUBLE PLANE SERVICE EAST STARTS TODAY SAN FRANCISCO, May 1. P) San Yancisco and New York to day were moved one business day nearer each1 other in ulr mall de liveries with tho Inauguration of a twice-daily transcontinental sched ule. Tho new schedule will utart to night when Hay Little, Hoeing Air Transport pilot will leave Oakland airport at 8 p. m. with the first night air mail for Now York. Tho early morning departures for the cast whlj!h have been In effect for some time, will remain unchanged. . Under the night schedule, letters from San Francisco will reach New York In two nights and one day. similar schedule will bring the westbound mall to tbo Pacific coast for correspondingly earlier delivery. WIFE OF OLDEST JUSTICE PASSES WASHINGTON", May 1. WV Associated .TuhIIco Oliver Wcnilell Holincf. oldCHt member of the United StatcH HUpremo court In fi(?o and service, today mourned tne wire, wno naa unurca nis mo for 57 years. Mrs. Jlolmes .died hiHt night. Her health had been failing for no mo time and her death, follow Inv a relapse , wub not unexpected. Tho daughter of Epci H. Dlx wHl, of Camhrldgo, Mass., she be came the dnuKhtor-ln-lttw of the "autocrat of tho breakfast tahlo" In 1872. For a number of years after coriitnff to Washington with her husband In 1002, -when he whs elevated to tho HUpremo bench she was aallvo In tho social life of the capital, FORESTFIRE BURNING KAN BKIINAUDINO. Cel., May 1. Ai A forest fire stirred up by a strong wind which has funned Into flames coals left from the burning of a fireforeay, today swept over valuable timber la mis In Day canyon In the Kan Oabrtel moun tains west of here, and was said by rangers to be out of control, after burning over 326 acres. IN WASHINGTON ROADS WAR FOR CONTROL N STRATEGIC AREA Millions .Involved in Fight . Between Pennsylvania and B. and 0. Com- pared to Historic Battle ; With Gould Interests- N1DW YOUK, May 1 yp)-rTho Nev..yjjrk Tinios Biilti today that "aT 'battle "of millions Tor 'control" of strategic railroads In the oast, com parablo'to that waged botwoou tho Pennsylvania and the Oould Inter ests in the early part of tho cen tury, had boon started betweou. tho Pennsylvania railroad on tho one side and the Baltimore & Ohio and tho Chosupcake & Ohio on the othor. , The Times said It Is tinderstood the Pennsylvania had sought to win the support' of the rjw Vork Cen tral by offering control of the Le high Valley in return that tho Cen tral refuse the 1). & O. full control of the Roadlng and tho Central of New Jersey, both of which the II. & O. desires. The paper said tho Pennsylvania's new plana aro In terpreted na indicating It has re linquished hope of activ'o support from tho Central. In J !04 George Gould, ns succes sor to the railroad founded by his father, Jay Gould, began aHHcmb ling a transcontinental railroad. Tho battle with tho Pennsylvania started when the Gould luturests bought tho Pittsburgh & West Vir ginia and extended it through to Pittsburgh. Only a short gup be-' tweon that road and tho Western ! Maryland, nlso acquired .by the I Goulds, remained to complete the ' transcontinental system. Recently tho Pittsburgh & West Virginia re ceived permission from the inter state commorco commission to bridge, this gap. The Oould sys tem was dismembered in a subse quent period of financial stross. HYTJN'EY, N. H. W May Tho tragic nftormath of the search for the airplane Houthern Cross was dosed to day with the report from a land party of searchers that the body of Robert Hitchcock had been found under a wing of the alrplano Kookaburra and the body of Lieut. Keith Andorson about forty yards away. Tho land party was led by IJeut, Katon from Wave Hill In an effort to solve the mystery of the fate of the two aviators, who had made a-forced landing In the wild hiinh pf the northern territory while searching for the then miss ing airplane Houthern Cross and Captain Charles Klngsford-Hmlth. SALEM STATE SESSION HAI.EM. Oro., May 1. m Delegates from most of the Mod ern Woodmen lodges of Oregon are expected here today for a stato meeting. The session will bo held Thursday. Hy decreo of the executive council of the or ganisation all state conventions hereafter will be In Balem. II E VOTE IS SO Chairman McNary Calls for Action On Moot Point Senator Watson Answers Charge of Robinson Fee Was Opposed By Arkan- san in 1926 Accepted Plan Later. , . .", ; WASHINGTON, May 1. (A1) l-'riUay afternoon was sot today by Chulrman McNary of the sonatc agricultural oommltloe for a sen ulo vote on tho export debenturo plan as a method of farm relief. WASHINGTON, May 1. (P) Re plying to a chaigo by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, tho Demo cratic leader, that Republican furm leaders bad deserted tho equalization fee for political expe diency, Senator 'WatHun of Indiana, tho Republican leader, ussd-ted in the Kcimlo odny that Robinson himself attucked tho feu and lutor accepted It, , The Indiana senator suld that in Muy, ID2U, Robinson opposed tho adoption of an amendment to a ponding cooperative mui-ltctlng bill which Rought to Incorporate the fco. At that time. Senator Wntson said, Senator Robinson doolarcd "I am unablo to comprohend how a provision to levy an equalization fee can get the approvat of tnrm ei'B aftor they have studied it," 4 E CHICAGO, May 1. fl) Maybo present duy girls aren't good cooks. Who cares? Out of 1,000 ques tionnaires in tho "Ideal homo-mato contest" of tho Chicago Own-Your-Own Home exposition only two men showed tho slightest Interest In woman's culinary skill. Hpoolflcatlons for ideal mates stressed tho following points: 1 ho Idcul wife: Sho doesn't have to bo a good cook If sho Is handy with a cun-openor; she must bo "cuddlesomo" at least part of Ihe time; sho must not nug; she ought to know how to darn socks; sho must bo neat and sensible "and beautiful, If possible. " Tho Ideal husband: Ho must understand: ho must be a comrade; ho must wash dishes with a smile; he must bo kind to tho dog and tho neighbors; ho must clean tho bathtub after using It: ho must glvo "unexpected gifts" and not brag about It aftorwards; ho must ho toleritnt of millinery bills; and ho must admit his wife to partner ship In the business of home-making. GRAIN RATE MEETING FAILS; NO QUORUM . l'OKTLAND, May 1. (P) Lack of a quorum cuncollad a mooting of tho Columbia Valley amoclatlan huro Into ymtcrdny. Portland's liliuiH tu flKht tho proposed abro Kutlon of the Columbia river grain rato differential wcro to have been dlHcusncd at a meeting: with the Portland commlHnlon and the Mer ehunta' exchange. PATTERSON ATTENDS GLENDALE CEREMONY SALESt. Ore., May 1. Wl Oovornor Patterson will bo a guest of tho town of Olcndale, Douglas county, today, whore ho will at tend the ceremonies marking tlio opening of a largo sawmill. Gov ernor Patterson will go on to Klamath Falls, whero ho will speak at a chambor of commerce meeting Friday night. Tho gov ernor Is accompanied on the trip by Mrs. Patterson. . 1 1 FartniT Hhoot OKEIILIN, Kan., May I. W'l After shooting and killing his twenty year old wlfo and wounding his sister-in-law, Mrs. James Ituscl ka, and HherlfC Gilbert Htephens, John Casper, ta, farmer living eight miles northeast of here, shot and killed himself today. FOR FR DAY Male, Study Northwest. Dumber Thu i iris KVANSTON, III., May 1. JP) Registrar Katherlno Uooi'ge of Northwestern unl- voislty has found that man students are dumber this year 4 tban girls, only alio puts it differently. - Tho mon, she snld, hud an aggrcgato average of only .092. while tho girls had 1.728. Fraternity, men, the registrar found, are smarter than the other boys who don't wear a pin; but non-sorority women are decidedly smartor (statistically) than thoir sis- tors who "boloag." Southern Oregon Pollination Factors Favorable Soil Amply Moist East of Cascades Needs More Rain Says Report. POnTLAND, Ore, May 1. !) CoiiHldornlilo urcn.'i oa.it c tho dm cado mountains nood mora rail, al though tho bo 1 1 Ih nmtily moist In weatorn counties and la tho south, Edward L, Wolla, meteorologist for the Unltod Btutos department of agriculture, said today In his week ly rouort. Several warm days during tho past week, tho roport said, wero favorable tor tjio advance of vege tation, but toward the close ot the week lower tempoiaturoa olitulnod, with noma frost, . . . Wlntor whottt niado considerable advance during tho wook. 'The report snld! " v v- v, "Turn's, prunes and cliaiTicn aro In full bloom In the mlldor dis tricts, but olsowhore bloom is very backward. In olovatod districts no bloom Ih showing. Conditions in Southern Oregon wero favorable for pollination. ''Pastures made considerable im provement but In some places are still Inadequate tor needs of stock, liny crops are Into but mado con siderable growth during tho wook. "Shearing ot sheep has been do layod by low tomperature and there has been noma loss of lambs, but In most districts stock Is Improv ing. There has been some mvo meat ot stock to summer range, "Potatoes and garden vegetables are coming up slowly and planting has boon delayed on account of cold weather. i . I "Hops are 'In good condition but late." WiASItlNGTON, May 1. (fl) Department ot agriculture figures show that the general level ot farm prices from March 15 to April 15 declined two points from 138 per cont of tho pro-war level. Tho decline was the result of a gonoral donllno In farm prices of all crops, livestock products, eggs and woll, which was only partly offset by Increases In the prices of hogs, hecf cattle, shoap, lambs, horses and chickens. Tho dopartmout found fruits .liavo had a- bad start, the April frosts having cut to one-fourth and one-hult the California peaches, cherries, plums, prunes, almonds and iwars. Ixical daniHge from frosts also was suffered In tho eastern soctlons. . CONDilff ASA KEYES ALARMING IrOH ANGHLUH, May 1. T) Tho condition of Asa Keyes, for mor district attorney of Los Ango Ics counly, was reported at tho Jail hoHpltuI today as "alarming" by Dr. Benjamin Blank, Jail phy sician. Kcyes, who Is awaiting action on his appeal from conviction on bribery chargoa, Is suffering an aculo attack of bronchitis and genoral wcukness, duo tu a kidney disease. Ho was not sleeping well and Dr. Dlank ordered a nurao kept with him constantly. Amcyliwn. It. II. K, Ht. I.ouls 4 10 0 Cleveland 3 8 1 Crowdnr and Hchang; Farrcl!, Mollowuy and I Howell. It. H. K. Philadelphia 24 i 0 Boston e II 6 Qrovo, Orwoll and Clchrano, Per klngs; M. Oaston, Durham, Bayne, Carroll and A. Oaston. GOODCOiITi FOR FRUIT SAYS METEOROLOGIST Baseball Scores SKY PHONE USED FOR A. P. STORY Reporter 2000 Feet Above Land Talks Through Tele phone Switchboard to As sociated Press Office Demonstration Staged in Rain and Fog Over Metro politan Area. Hy W. V. Chaplin, Asbocluted I'ross Stuff Writer. A B O V K NORTIIKRN NKW JKRSIOV, Muy 1, (P) This story was telephoned to the Associated Press today by a reporter high above land In the first public dem onstration of a Western Klectrlc Invention which enables an aviator to chut from the clouds with, any oarth bound telephone subscriber. Taking off In. the flying tele phone booth 'from Itadley Field, N. J., and linked by wireless wlt'.i the lend lines of tho Commercial Telephone systom, the reporter gave his number and presently heard tho Associated Press Hwilch buurd operator In New Vork City answer. : . , . "01 in mo tho city desk," he said, trying to bo noncliulant but feeling somewhat as though he wero weuring tho mantles ofV Aladdin, Merlin, the Witch of Kndor ami Cinderella's fairy godmother. "City dCHlt," ho hoard. "This Is Bill," said the souring reporter. "I got a story." "Whero are you?" asked tho city desk, 2U00 feet below. "I'm up in tho air.' "And you think that's news?" drawled the . cynical city desk. "Come down to earth and say what you want." "You .furnish , the parachute' tho reporter suggested, 'and tho nerve. Listen. I gut a hot story nd I'm given Just five minutes to !'taikil"'imsrin:o-ft'.fl-wtuo man and - gift hint quick." Tho fa-write man camo on tho "Hue." "Shoot It," ho said. Dic tation or notes?" , And so this story, tho first news paper article to come by wireless telephone, was ' dictated through tho ulr of "upper New Jersey" u,ud ovor a regular telophouo who on the ground to a news office with no more fuss than a district re porter calling In a flro from around the corner. And the latest wonder of solence was reported for all the world to read. Tho demonstration was staged na rain was falling and fog blanketed New Jersey and tho metropolis. COPCO WOULD SELL HN KRANCIHCO,' May 1 (P)--Callfornla Oregon power company, operating In northern California and southern Oregon, today ap plied to tho state rallroutl commis sion for permission to soil f 1, 51111,. 000 worth of comomn stuck to fl nanco construction work. Thn company also asked to substitute, six percent stock for Its present Issuo of seven per cent preferred In tho amount of $1,666,000. Will Roger Says: BOSTON, AInss, May 1. Lid you sec tho. figures: is: sued by the depurtment' of commerce about tho amount men spent on cosmetics to beautify- tlicrtiHclvcu Didii t l tell, you they are get ting vainer over t h ci r looks than women I They spent over one bil lion dollars and there arc more bald-headed ones und more iltfly ones and more funny looking ones tlniit wo over had before. ' They will try anything in tlui world that a woman does. They will have dresses oh in less than ten years. Beauty par lors, arc thicker than filling stutions, but more power to tltu people that run 'em, for they cam it tor having to lis ten to people with nothing on their mind but wanting to look better. Yours, WILli ROGERS. , G
