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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'.
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KILLS SCORES
YOUTH AWAITS
h. Rinniinrniirnnrn!
Ki AW NA VU Ml
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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. ;
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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,)