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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather IXimwu Pir nod niild tonight 4uul Friday. HUclieHt jttrday 3 lxnient this morning; 40 Medford I Weather Year Ago HUttiest year ago Unlay.....-...-.-. 78 l.mvi.i.l year ago todiiy 46 pill Twvto-tnrth Tmt. FOURTEEN PAGES MEDFORD, 0UEGOX, TUUKSDAY, .MAY 16, 1929. No. 55. Today By Arthur Brisbane Gambling Is Foolish, But. R. H. Grant, Big Sales- man. A Surprisd Gorilla. Birth Control. (Copyright by King Fwtursa Syndicate, Inc.) Gambling in Wall Street is stupid nnd bound to end dis astrously. No mutter what Ihe gambler wins, temporarily, lie will lose tbat and more ip the end and then stop gambling. , On the other hand, buying wisely in Wall Street, in in stallments, as you buy rea es tate, meuns investing in the United States. If you want to invest in American StcelAmeriean Tele phones, or anything else Ameri can, you must buy in Wall Street. ; . For the Federal Reserve or any public official to denounce those that buy securities as though they were lepers, is ig norant impertinence. Americans have ft right to buy what they choose with their own money, the right even, to gamble with it is they are so foolish. ' . After much ... hesitation the stock exchange made up its raiiid to say something, through its president. Hut it hnsn't said half enough. , ' . A Federal Reserve bank, or ganized to prevent panics,, and to maintain credit, doing all it can to keep millions of citizens in dread of money pauicH, needs plain talft. ':':-'-&V??;i'AL Every man in the country's higgest business, automobile, is interested iii salesmanship, and the fact that R. II. Grant, form erly head salesman of the Chev rolet Motor Company, has been made viee-prcsident of General Motors in charge of ALL Gen eral Motors sales. . ' - " - .' This, as Ihe learned J. C. Paytoh, expert in advertising, points out,' is "the largest sell ing job in the world..".. ' This country has solved the problem of production. The actual problem is intense and economical distribution. And thaf means1 SALESMANSHIP. . .The. big airship firiit Zrppe- lin plans to start on its second Irip across tho ouean, with 50- odil passentrers, including a fe- jnale gorilla. . . .. Darwin never expee.tetl that,. nor tlifl the gorilla. '" ' .' , ' Passengers also ineliiile the inventor of a cipher radio ma chine, which will enable .the , passengers to send and receive inessattes in cipher, guarantee-1 ing secrecy. The Oiermans lost the war, but have not thus far lost the fight for leadership in avia tion. . - . A ' New York court sets free individuals arrested on a charge df teching birth control. That waVi not the "setup" when the people were arrested. Hut public opinion caused a change. Temporarily it is decided that the woman, not some gen tlemen with theories, may de cide bow many children the women shall have.' Tho idea that (!od wants a sickly- woman with six or seven sickly children to have another child isn't complimentary to divine wisdom. Besides, all e birth control in the world could Hot prevent it if the Lord willed it. He is omnipotent.., Tli that oppose Ihe debenture Scheme for ''farm relief" announce with horror that the "farm bounty" lan MIGHT cost the treasmy DRUE RETURNS TO GERMANY Motor Trouble Develops in Graf Zeppelin After' De parture This Morning Retracing Flight to Home Hangar Message to A. P. Says Damage in Ship's Shafting.- t PRIKDltlCHSHAFEV, Ger numy, 31 ay 16.- The irniw Allaiitk: air liner Gmf Kepixv lin, which left PricilWi'hshareii I hi morning, (leveloiH! motor trouble oiid was returning lo her home purl lute today. A muUlaUHl cipher message received by the Associated press from Alexumler It. Von Krylui, scientist and h imsscn gvr on the Graf Zeppelln, in dicated fliat the daJtiuKe to ttie ship huh in tho shaftings The message said that Uio passengers were sad at the necessity for turning back, hut were culm. FREDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, May 16. P) The dirigible Graf Zeppelin, mighty mistress of the air, raced westward with the sun today above southwestern Ku,rope on its second trip tcroHs the At lantic to America. It made a pre vious trip lost October. Before it lay a variable course above Gibraltar, probably the Azores ilnd nermudn, to Lakehurst, N.-J.. which the dirigible's master. Dr. Hugo Kckener, did not expect to reach before late Sulurduy night or Sunday morning. ' - Aboard the ship were 40 of the crew, 18 passenger, and a female gorilla, "Susi." , The only woman passenger .was-Men, Mary Pierce, wifo?of a New. York utilitiefl, brok er, Who" made the trip despite the urgent pleadings of her husband and mother. Among the men wasaily today severed the water muin Captain sir uorge iiuneri wiiKina, serving Klizubetnon and tile Amor Arctic explorer. I llcan Bum her k and the .American The ship ivn trundled from its hangar and at the pilot's command was released for its long voyage at 5:57 a. m. (11:57 p. m., astern standard time) Wednesday. It rose slowly In an intermittent breeze. while 200 or more spectators cheer ed. It circled the field once, and dlsappearod In ten minutes in thejed 100 plckoteers, charging them direction of Lake Constance and with intimidation and blocking the Ilase!. Switzerland. j highways. Dr. Kckener before he left an-1 Lieutenant IL M. Ferris report notinred his course: "After leav-ed that a girl, with the help of two Ing France - we will go along the l inen, wrested a pistol from a dep coast of Spain until we reach Gib-I nty1 sheriff and, taking a position raltnr and then wo will see what In the middle of the highway, train next." Iea the1 weapon on drivers of buses The decision to pass over Gib-land taxis bringing workers to the raltar Indicated that an almost ex-(rayon plants, prohibiting them from trcme southerly great circle course pronnniy wouiti oe louowea the distance to ' ho covered thus ap proaching 7.500 miles as against a 4.000-mlle minimum distance if the northern great circle course were followed. Passengers and members of the ship's crew began to arrive nt the dirigible's hangar shortly after 5 o'clock. The gorilla . was taken aboard first. Mrs. Pleree Knrly. Mrs. Pierce was one of the first nt the field. . She was attired in beige traveling costume, straw hat trimmed with feathers, tnn shoes nnd silk stockings. Tho silk stock ings, however, she changed for j woolen golf hose tiQon the advice nf a newspaper correspondent. Her or n newspaper corresponoem. -ner French maid brought her a small bag which contnined a costly brown fur eont. "I do hope I'll see ynu again." the mnld said with a entch In her voice. Mrs. Plerco replied: "Oh. cer tainly, and don't forget to s-nd the messoges I told you to send." Her decision to make the trip wns believed here never io have been changed after her purchase of passage Tuesday, although to relievo anxiety of relatives in Amer ica she had it reported she had changed ber booking nnd she her self sent messages to America say ing she was not going. To other relatives in New York, however, she cabled to expect her for Sun day dinner. All the windows on tho starboard side were lined with faces, whose owners waved their hands In an swer to the "hochs" of the crowd below. Al seemed in n cheerful and Jovial mood. If the frenzy of former flights was missing, it was because the Ornf's flleh's have lot their novelty: certainly no one felt any apprehension as to the out come of the voynge. i Kind Seventh Slownwnr. As the dlriglhV was token from Its hangar another stowaway the seven'h since yesteril'iy was caught ns he. dressed In mechanic's etolbes. attempted to sneTk InU 0,ho hold through n closing door. Professor Oregolre flourevlfch. rtusslnn plonist nf Paris regretted thnt Ihe garnd piano which wns mlrftn ss cargo would not he available for him to nlav nmenir the clouds, high n$ve the Atlantic. CLEVELAND General view of the building after tho blast and fire had ontrffcd out many uvea. A larne num ber of patients were rescued from the roof. (Picture by telephoto from Cleveland). RAYQN STRIKERS USE DYNAMITE ON WATER UN Explosion Cuts Service to Plants and Town Arrest Pickets for Intimidation Bus Driver Crashes Into Crowd' EUZAnETHTOIS', Tenn., May 10. (JP) An explosion o uynanille IGlantzoff rayon plants and shoitly afterward George Crow, identified by Sheriff J. M. Moreland as (lie man who warned him last nigh; that the main would, he dynamited, was arrested. Guardsmen were hurriedly dis patched to the scene. Thev arrcst- iibkhmih. The plcketeers were marched to the Carter county court house, where they wore held under guard. Joy Calhoun, driving-a bus load of workeiB, to the rayon plants, ran his bus Into a gathering of strikers wtio attempted to block the road, injuring four of them. Calhoun wns spirited to Jonesnnro, IS miles away, for safe keeping. ST. AXDKKWH. Scotland. May 1C. (yPl Glenna Collett. American woman's golf ihnmplon, won her way Into the flimis of the Ilrltlsh women's championship this after noon by defentlng Miss Doris Park, .Scotland, four up and three to piny. VICTIMS BEING PTwo women, patients of killed (cores ol persons. CLINIC EXPLOSION Basebal! Scores National First gome: R New York 3 , Boston i 4 : Benton, Walker and Hogan nigham and Spohrer. Second game: R. H. New York 4 ' 1-1 Boston 5 1.2 Hubbell and O'Farrell; Delanoy and Spohrcr. R. H. E. St. Louis .10 15 . 0 Pittsburgh ...J 9 18 1 Haines. Huid and WUbou; Petty, Inme, Swetonle, Johnson and Har greavea, Hemsley, Linton. It. H. E. Ilrooklyn 4 !) 0 Philadelphia - 7 11 0 Vance, ' Koupu.1. .. and- Deberry; WlUougllbv )ild JJuvla. ... American . R. H. E. Chicago 3 6 3 Detroit 4 9 1 Thomas and Crouse; -Carroll and Phillips. It. H. K. Cleveland 0 2 0 St.. Louis '. 19 0 Miller nnd L. Sewell; Crowder and Manlon. 1 . . WASHINGTON, May 16. (Pi tHouso Republican lendors decided today to receive the senate deben ture export farm relief bill so It might be sent to conference, but said In npproving such procedure they felt senate inclusion of the debenture proposition constituted an invasion upon the constitutional prerogative of tho house to inlliutc revenue raising legislation. This course of action was de cided upon at a meeting of the Republican steering committee. MAHHHKJKLO. re May 16. iA1) Karl W. Murphy. diKlrict com- merclal manaRer for the "WckI Coast Tele phone company In thin district, has announced his renlf?- nation, effective June IB'. REMOVED FROM HOSPITAL BLAST ' ? 4 it i I . 5v-. tin Clcond clln c ro-p't.-t, aro carried out after an explotlon an (Pic'.ure by teieplito from Clevelsnd). ..- KILLS SCORES YOUTH AWAITS h. Rinniinrniirnnrn! Ki AW NA VU Ml i Son of Wealthy Chicago Man Held As Self-Con-J : -r fessed Murderer .Body : Found Where Indicated V'in Phone Conversation. DENVER, Colo., May JO, (P) RUlmrU M. LIultowb, ia-y?ur-old riinnwoy from a .Wisconsin mili tary HcntUmiy, whofie udvpnture culminated in the murkier of a man at - Hourriuloy, Ariz., today j awaited tnc arrival of Arizona au-j thoritl.'B to take hlAi to that HtuteJ JturrowH hatt announced that he will not fiKht 4-xtrndition und will fat'e tho coiiHeiiuenres of hid crlmo "ninybo the I'lurtrlc chair. 1 KUphh you'd rail It murder,1 wouldn't you?M I With u twiHtfd Kfin on his face, : but without any other sltfn of, (mottnn; tho youth, adopted, son of a wealthy Chicago liveatoek nutn," heard yealorduy that tho body of his victim, Jat;k Martin,! an Arizona h leu man who had Kiven tlie boy a i ldn, had been found. For more than IB min-' uleM JlurrowH talked over lonK diHtaneo telephon to Arizona uu-l thuriliett yenterday, deHcrlbln the 8iot where ho hid Martln'fi body, -aft'i' beatlnK him over the heud with a piNtol, and shooting him, ' probably on April 27." A few houi-H ufter the call, i word wan received that Martin's: body had been found. Iturrowa was nrrcMted hero twt Rat urdu y on su;pi ion of driving a stolen car. Monday nlEht ho confeHHed thnt not only wn tho j car Htnlen, but thnt he hud killed Mhrtln, the owner, and robbed hlin,v in on effort to necuro money I to aid him boat his way back to I ChlcaKO. ; 1 HI V,3 A, firs M i i E it ism! ' CRAWFORD RESIGNS AS COPCQHEAD Will Become President of American Utilities Service Co., of Chicago Chaun cey M. Brewer of Moun tain States Power Will ' Be Successor Effective ! June First. Terry o. Crawford, vloc-prenl-dent nnd Kenenil nmnaKer of tho California-Oregon Hower company, with hendfiuartei-H In thia city, has resiKned, the name to take ejfoct June 1. Tho hoy, whono first Job wm pIliiiKT brick In hlH home town, Malvern. Ohio, will become preal ,dent of the American Htllltlea Herviee company, a recently form ed public utility organization with headquarters in Chicago. Chauncey M. Brewer, vk-presl-dent and general manager of the Mountain States Power company wun neauquarterH at Albnny, Ore gon, will succeed Mr. Crawford, taking charge Juno 1, next. Mr! Hrewer will continue ns vico-proHl-dent and general manager of tho Mountain states Power company. The announcement of the execu tive changes was made by ITalford Krlckson, vice-president in charge of operation of tho By tint by Kngl neering and Corporation manage ment. Mr. Crawford has been vice president and general manager of the Callfnrnla-Oregon 1'ower com pany since September 1, t26. and has been a member of that or ganization since March, 191(1. He wan construction engineer in charge of Copco Uydro-Mlectrie l'lant No. . lie then became chief engineer of the company and then rose to hia present post. Ita . ha (lieeit' nUv4i tii--oivlc affairs of the communities served by Copco, nnd has 'seen the gene rating capacity during his tenure of office, increase from 81-10 kilo watts to 88 848 kilowatts. His ca reer has carried him from Cleve land, Ohio, to Afghanistan. IJrtnwr ExH'rlenctKl. Mr. Hrewer. the new head, has been vice-president nnd general manager of the Mountain States Power company since January 1. j 1919, and has been connected with the Hyllesby organization -since August 15, 1909. lie served ns sales manager of tho Muskogee , (las and Klectric company during j 11100 nnd 1010 and ns sules man-) ager , of tho Mankato office of Northern States power company during 1910 and 1911. ' Jn Janu ary, ioil, ho went to the Pacific coast to become sales munager j of tho new business department of tho gas company in Everett, Wash., nnd later was manager of the Band point division of the company. In June. 3912, he be came manager of the Western Htnls flas nnd Electric company In Richmond, Cal.. and served In that capacity until January 1, 1919, when he was appointed vice president and general manager of the Mountain States Power com pany, t Mr. Brewer's new duties an vice president and general mnnagor of both Mountain States Power com pany and tho California Oregon power company, place him In charge of utility properties bav in (if a total generotlng capacity of 1 15,258 kilowatts and serving 158 communities In the stntes of Cnllfornla, Orr-on, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming unit Hmith Dakota. HK appointment ns vice-president nnd general man ager of tho California Oregon Power company becomes effective Juno 1, F CLEVKLAND, Oliio, ftfjiy (I1) Shocked by tho CIovcUhmI clinic disaster yesterday, the edi tor nf Ihe Ijondon. Eng., "Sketch" nnd the editor of the London. Kng., Dally News tiephoned newspaper men here for additional informs tlon. T. A. ItobortRon, managing edi tor of the Cleveland News, today talked for 25 minutes to the editor of the txwdon Dally News, 4000 miles away. Talking to John D. Marshall tho mayor of Cleveland, by telephone, the lord mayor of London asked him "pleaso convey to Uio suffer ers the condolences of London nnd nil Kngland. We only wish we could do something to aid ynu.'' Tho editor of the lmdon Dally 8ketci told Mayor Marshall "The iule world is deeply concerned T?u your mlHtortime." LONDON PAPERS ONE FOR NEWS CLEVELAND FIRE Telephone G, Is Heroine y. Cleveland Fire OLEVKLAND, May 16. (A) Among the bra vent hero- 4 lues of the Cleveland clinic 4 who deliberately faced death while sending out nlurms, and who died soon after in 4 a hospital. The bravo telephone girl 4 saw death approaching In the form of a ghastly yellow poi son gas. but she stayed at her exchange board making heroic efforts to warn every ono in the clinic of their dnngor, nnd to summon po i lice, firemen nnd ambulances. Faster than ever before In her life she worked, plugging ! 1 si in socket after socket In tho switchboard, as she set all telephones In the clinic to ringing madly their alarm of death. Finally tho heroic girl col lapsed. Someone carried her out, and soon she died In the hoHpitnl. Greater love httth not man. said a priest wun tears t In his eyes, ns he saw Gladys die. "She was a bravo nnd noble g'rl." fr Trap Laid for Chicago Ex-: tortion Gang Fails Dis guised Officer Draws Fire of Four in Parked Car m P'Leary and J o. o . t afl a ! Brothers Are Sought As Suspects. CHICAGO May 1C. OP) A po lice detective was fatally wound ed late yesterday by a gang of ex tortionists whom he had attempt ed to trap hy disguising hi nine if as the agent of their Intended victim. Ray Martin, tho detective, was shot down by the men as he ap- j preached their automobile. Thoj extortionists escaped at high speed under a spray of bullets fired by! policemen hidden nearby. ' j Immediately after the shooting, police ordered tho arrest of Mar- j tin O'Loary, west side gang char-' actor, nnd tho Fontana Hrothoru, Carlos and Krnest, who have fre quently been described by police as bootleggers and gangsters. - - Martin had disguised himself as Moses Ulumenthal brother of Philip Ulumenthal, reputed mil- ( Uonalro bootlegger who recently was kidnaped and released upon tho payment of $15,000 and his promise to pay $35,000 more by j June 1. Moses Itlumenthal was ordered yesterday by tho kidnapers j. to pny mure money Immediately, j Michael Meyer, partner of Philip Ulumenthal, notified police. Mar tin and - nher- officers stationed themselves In Moses JJIumenthal's ' home and Intercepted a telephone message from the kidnapers, In? tended for Ulumenthal, directing him to meet them nt a west Bide street Intersection. Donning his disguise, Martin, who superficially resembled Ulu menthal, left to keep the rendez vous, trailed by police riding In a rented nutomobtle. Following directions, after policemen hnd stationed themselves In weeds In vacant lots nenrby, Martin walked down the street until he came to an automobile conttning four men, pnrked nt tho euro. Ah he nppronched the enr, the men. supposedly seeing through Martin's disguise, opened fire and sped nwny. Martin died an hour later nfter declaring ho had not recognized his assassins. OHIO BESIEGED BY ISTILLW WRIGHT KIKLD, DAYTON. C).. May 16. (Pi -Ohio Is In a stags of siege today. With the stroke of last midnight the blue nation, whose army of airmen and ground troops is quartered hero declurcd "war" on the red nntion and Us cnplto, Columbus. Hostilities got under way be neath the cover nf early morning darkness when big bombers of the blue army took off from this field bent upon a mission of destruction, preceded by a squad of fast pur suit slilpn to ward off tho alert eremy aircraft, lint since .umpires Instead of ammunition nre being used to wt tie this war, which will be In prog ress of the next ten days, no esti mate of tho casualties could be obtained. KIDNAPERS mm FIRE DOOR LEFTOPEN Investigation Shows Care lessnessFirst Explosion . Occurred Celluloid Plate Storage Room Poison Fumes- Continue - Deadly Work Today As. Death ; List Grows- CLKVKUWD, May 10. () Willi another death late tliU afternoon tho list or fatalities of the Cleveland; Clinic disas ter renchcil J2-I. More of tho Injured an oxiMvted u tile toiUfht, tloctors said. CLEVELAND. Ohio. May 16. (P The fire door leading from the X-ray room In the Cleveland clinic, where the first explosion occurred yesterday had been left open, state flro wardens investigating the trugody announced today. Tho warden's statement rend: . "Tho fire door leading to the room where the celluloid X-ray ptates were stored and where the first explosion occurred, had been left open. If this door had been closed the disaster might have been averetd. CLKVKLAND, O., May 16. (A1) The noxious, brownish gas which devastated tho Cleveland cllnla hospital and droppod patients, doc tors nnd nurses In their tracks as they fought for escape, continued Its insidious work today, driving1 death total toward the 160 mark.. The two terrific explosions and tlio fire which followed Ignition of x-ray films In the basement yester- . day and which took scores of Uvea did, not do. all the damage. -The potHondus fumes continued to act on the blood of the victims thru out the, night and isulted in hotfr-" ly. reports of additional deuths. The great majority of the 120 dead reported up - to noon were residents of this otty, a score being from cities outside Ohio and a doxen or more from other cities In the state. Investigations by Governor My- erH. Y. Cooper, Coroner A. J. Peame and City Manager William It, Hopkins, wero put under way eurly in en effort to solve the trag edy In the white brick, four-story Clinic building. Although the cnuse of the flro In tho' X-ray films 'remained a mystery, authorities advanced throe theories. Home one, It was ' thought, might have been burning ru bourn In tho furnace, ten feet from the vault containing the highly Inflammable films and a spark might have been blown thru the furnace door. The second theory la thnt a steamfltter was working In the basement, which might have ac counted for tho door of tho vault being open, Had the workman been using a torch the films would easily have caught fire. It was suld the . steamfltter was carried out among the de'ad. The most frequently advanced Idea is. that crossed wires on the X-ray . apparatus provided the damaging spark. The man who perhaps holds the secret to the whole affair was In a critical condition today and may take the solution to the grave with him. Dr. Jack 11. Hwaffnrd, X-ray t room physician, was said to have1 leaped from' a window of the X-ray room and was found sitting on an automobile running board in u daxed condition after the blast. (Continued on Pago Eight.) Will Roger Say: PHILADELPHIA, May 16. Tlio oll farmer is Retting liis relief. I (tee today where they put IukIi tariff on 'shiu IfleB and flax seed." Here tofore every time a farmer r n i g e a a (?nod crop of " shingles,." why he had to compete with Arjien- tine grown " Khingleg, " but with these two new tar iffs why the old agrarian is Kitting pretty. - They have taken the "shingles" off his roof so he eun see tho Re publican viewpoint. lie puts a flux seed poultice on his head and prays that he will never be so unfortunate as to bo relieved again. Yours, WILL ROOETIS. " KUsttLJH JCopUniiMd od fast rsur). (Continued on Fag Eight,)