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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Fsrrowt Fair tonight and Satur day. Temperature above normal. ford MAil Tribune Temperatures ' Highest yesterday ..;.' 80 Ixweett this morning ' 43 0n Timotta Tier. wu rutrmaia taw. FOURTEEN PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON," FRIDAY,'- MAY 17, 1929. No. 56. 1 Today By Arthur Brisbane Yes, Quite Prosperous. Gold and Credit The Church and School. ' The King Returns. ; (Copyright by King Feature Syndicate, Inc.) . ; : Those that read the Iloovcr report of extraordinary Amcrir can prosperity ' constantly in creasing will nsk "How. long can it last?" : '. - . ' - It can last indefinitely, un-. less our supply of common sense piyes out. The President Hoover report declares that this country has not more than "scratched the surface of its gigantic possibili ties." Write that On your cuff, i and 'don't still things short in this country.- ' ; ','., :. Amcrican.money and Ameri can credit are SUPPOSED to be upheld by a certain amount Of gold. '' ,' -:'.: ; . Nobody knows anything about money ' or its history. Blinkers, perhaps, less than any body clse.: They were much op posed fo the Federal Reserve . banking system' when it was proposed. Later they decided that it was a. blessing. '' ; Now they adopt it, since it . assists them in the profitable practice of 15 and 20 per cent usury. ' " ' ' ' Mr. Ayres, authority of a big Cleveland banking concern, is amazed at the weight of credit that a little gold jsair bear. ;' i In 3924 we had four and a t a. bank credit of forty -five ibil lions ten to one,.', '- '..' In 1925 the gold supply imounted lo 9 per cent of our bank credit. In 1927 it fell to 8 per cent and last year to less than 7 per cent. Now the per centage is lower than it ever .was. , The fact, of course, is that gold is merely an idea like an African' witch doctor's fetish. The real thing back of credit is the wealth of the United States iu lands, resources, factories, people NOT gold. In connection with recogni tion of the pope's temporal sov ereignty, in Italy, there has been- discussion' as to control of schools... The matter was : settled, for the Vatican, by the pope's address to the pupils of . Jtundragone College, published in the "Observatpre Romano." The pope, according to the Associated Prcs, holds that the , education of the young is the reponsiliility of the church, not of the state, and the pope does not relinquish ; the church's ' ''precious charge held for ccn- '. turics.", .. :'''? ; It is believed that his posi tive statement may1 cause dif- : ferences of opinion in the ranks of the Fascisti. King Oeorge has returned to his favorite residence, Windsor .castle, with years of life prom ised by doctors. Loyal subjects turned out to cheer their king. Newspapers print his picture .headed "Long to Reign Over Us." . The idea that men do not want to be ruled is a mistake. To be ruled is exactly what they DO want, and to be freed from the responsibility of self . rule. It is painful for a dog to walk , on its hind legs, painful for hu man beings to rule themselves . and think for themselves. "Everybody in in the market." That la almost literally true. The (Continued on page 4, 2nd section) ANNOUNCE GRAF WINS MERGER OF BATTLE FOR BUS LINES SAFE BERTH Three Key Transport Com panies Form Capitalized at $30,000,000-iPacific Coast Lines Include Yel loway, Pickwick, South ern Pacific, Oregon and Pacific Stages- ' ; CHICAGO. 111., May' 17. (ff) Consummation of a merger ot three key motor transport companies con trolling stage Hues in nearly every state and representing a capitaliza tion of :IO,000,000, was announced today. . - The merger will bring .together, through an exchange of stock, the Greyhound lines operated by the Motor Transport corparatlon, with hajadquarterB In Cblcago; the Yel loway systems, with offices on the 'Pacific coast, and the Pickwick stages, with general offices at Los Angeles. Paoiflc coast operations of the new company will be controlled by Packlc Transportation Securities, Inc., and will Include lines in Ore gon and California; formerly oper ated by Yelloway, Pickwick stages, Southern Pacific Motor Transport company, Oregon stages and Pa cific stages, and lineB from Los Angeles to El Paso and San Fran cisco to Salt Lake City. One-third ownership will be held each by the Motor Transit corporation of Chi cago, the Pickwick corporation and the Southern Pacific company. . All the-companies involved will retain their individual identities, but will be operated under com bined control. - :., , . REPARATIONS TAIUS, May 1 7. (P) The repa rations experts of the creditor na tions today were studying the pro posed text of the commttee's re port with the Gorman conditions preparatory to a full discussion among themselves later in the day. Dr. HJalnmr Schacht, head of the German delegation, remained at his hotel pending an'agreement between the allies and the Ameri can representatives, hut one of the German experts called at the head, quarters of the committee Just after noon with a response to inquiries as to the meaning of some uf the phrases in the Ger man conditions. The principal opposition to the annuities suggested by Owen D. Young, is now coming from thn Belgians- und Italians, but all the creditors found what they held to be objectionable features in the German conditions. t IN BLAZEATIWIE LONDON, May 17. (VP) The Ex change - Telegraph company dis patches from Warsaw today said more than 100 persons were burnt to death In a huge fire at Iwle, Poland. -'.. WARSAW, Poland, May 17. WP) More thun 4000 persons are home less and destitute as a consequence of the burning of almost the entire township of Iwle, on the eastern frontier ot Poland. STEEL CORPORATION INVADES PORTLAND PORTLAND, Ore., May 17. (P) George W.- McMuth, industries committee chairman of the cham ber of commerce announced today that the Sonic Steel Corporation of California has purchased a site In the Guild's Industrial district on St. Helen's road and will begin at once the erection of a plant n.nui square feet In area. The initial In vestment will he about J12.i.000 and the plant will employ from 40 to 50 men. Bank President Suicides OKMl'UIKK, Okla., May 17. A'I The American National bank of Okmulgee, whose president. Tom King, shot and killed himself last i night, fulled to open Its doors ,.. uay. allies agreement on Crippled Dirigible -Battles I Heavy Storms" Over . France to Mooring Mast . at Cuers, France Nine p Hours Spent in Struggle With! Mistral Wind of Rhone Valley. ! ' ' OUKns, France, May 17. (P) The trans-Atlantic air liner Graf Zeppelin, after an all day struggle against sotrms, landed here at S:3G o'clock tonight , (2:35 p. m. R. S. T.) .-; '., s '' '- . ' The big dirigible was safely brought to earth beside the only landing mast in France. It wan the same . which had served to moor the French dirigible Dix mude, lost in a storm over the Mediterranean sea nearly six years ago. She concluded her perilous odyssey 'through the air after 3x and a half hours of flight, nine of which were spent in tenacious struggle with the famous Mistral wind which blows down the Rhone valley intermtttentely,,, 4 EIGHTY PER CENT CLEVELAND. May '' 17. . -Fear tmulfch1 percent ' of the surviving victims of the Cleveland Clinic disaster will, die in afew days from the effects of the poison gas they inhaled, was expressed to day by Harry- L; Rock wood, city health commissioner and concur red in by a number of doctors and chemists. ' : The exact number of persons who Inhaled the deadly tunics thai came from burning X-ray films and other chemlcalH Is unknown, but doctors estimated there were at least 100 besides those who already have died. ,. If Itockwood's fears prove true, eighty more deaths will bo added to the present total of 125. FRIENDS S P. L SAN FRANCISCO, May. 17. Action by rail shippers along the Southern Pacific and Its subsidiary lines toward Intervening before the Interstate Commerce commission to oppose appllcatoln of the Great Northern and Western Pacific rail ways for permission to construct a line from Oregon Into California, was taken today. - - - The Good Hallway Service asso ciation, said to have members from California, Oregon, Washington. Idaho and Nevada, held a meeting here today and adopted a resolu tion to oppose the line. Kdwln O. Edgerton, former president of the .state rallroud commission, presided. Baseball Scores National R. II. E. Brooklyn ..:....... 14 17 5 Philadelphia 13 2 Clark, Ferguson, Moss, Ballou and Plcnich! Hoy, Elliott, Milllgan, McOraw, Holloway, Wllloughby nnd Davis, Lerlan. R. H. E. Cincinnati 3 6 0 Chicago 9 11 1 Donohue, Ashland Gooch, Dixon; Blake and Gonzales. I R. H. E. New York .-,.,.... -10. o Boston . f 16 3 .Mays, Fitzslmmons nnd O'Far rell; Jones and Taylor,- , R. H. E. St. Louis ......;........'.. 2 7 , I Pittsburgh 6 10 3 Alexander and Wilson; French and llnrgreaves. . . American , R. H. E. Boston fill 2 New York . 3 0 0 Morris and Heving; Jloyt and Hlckey. IIS Innings. n. ii. e. Chicago : 6 14 n Detroit . S 9 3. Kaher and Crduse; Whltchill and Phillips. MR. COOLIDGE ASSUMES NEW ROLE ( A w ' ' . , . !, . Associated lrcas Vhota It la now "Calvin Coolldge, director of the New York Life Insurance company." The former president is shown with Darwin Kingsley, president of the company, at the meeting at which Mr. Coolldge was formally elected. RALPH BAILEY ELEGTEDO.S.C: Two Nledford Men Gain Of fice in Close Vote at State College Independent . Party Elects Student Body President. 1 : ConVAlXlS,-' Ore., May 17. OP) eiecren preaitient ui . t,u urwuvmiuu student body of Oregon Ktato col lege, and Carl Totten, Days Creek, was elected editor of the Dully Barometer In the second student' body election here yesterday, made necesHary oy inrowiug um me u.n lots In the first vote because of irregulurltles. The vote again .' was extremely ctose with victories split between the two rival parties. The nHSOd ated fruternlty-soroiity puvty how ever, won five more major offices than It did In the first election, and lost one minor office. Votes cast numbered 2850. . . i In the class elections the assocl ated nurty won every office over the Independent rod-fruternltr party. Cheater Hubbard of Med furd won the senior presidency by a sinKle vote over Henry Deboest of Corvallls. The result of the student body election, classified b parties, fol lows: ' Associated party: . Carl Totten, Days Creek, editor Barometer; Dorothy Crawford, .Oregon. City. Hecrctury; Harone Hoone, Corvallis first vice president: Heater uavis, Salem, second vice president; Ralph Huorke. Corvallis, l'atil Toreh and Klayne Hearing, rort- lund. members Greater Oretfon State committee; Milton Leishman, Baker; Heyman IjUdwfg, Corval lis; Wlllium Bruce, 1m Grande, and Joe Mulligan, Portland, members of Co-op board. Independent-red party: Hnnson Melnke, Corvallls, pres ident; Harold Kwalt, Kstai-ada, third vice president; May Johnston BirkenfelU; Ralph Bailey, Med- ford, and Delmar Brown, memberH' co-op store board; Ronald John son, president Memorial Union. 1 The election was closely supervised- by faculty representatives and the strictest secret method was used. In balloting, I'resfdent W., J. Kerr nf the .Slate college declared void the previous election after a commit tee had discovered what -It termed "gross irregularities" in the ballot ing. SEATTLE PASTOR TO BE UNFROCKED TACOMA, Wash., Mny 17. fP) Uov. i'Vnuk Lindhlad of Scuttle will bo unfrnrkpfl and Htrlpped nf nil mlnlNtoHal rights and prlvllrjtcit when hln cnno In prencnlPd hofirp a moeilng of the wcirtern ntftt?a leadprn of the Asuembllri? of n.jd In Han Fram-iiico nrxt "week, the Hv. P.ank flray, , northwpdt dlstHrt Hiiporintpndpnt nf the denomination dpclared here today. , Undhlad rfKinn-'l hln brittle pastorntp after confining the truth of rharKPH made hy a yolinfr matron of the ronKrepatlon on whnt ihe believed to be her death bed. Rev. Gray on Id today that he had Jut returned from Hpoknne, where he placed I.lndhlad'ft ran before the northwest dlntrk-t board. ir attended the-rittle meeting at which UndPdndVnade hli confeji lon'and tendered hi reniynution. , CHEIHKIAIM HEADS 1 FUTU RESAFETY National : Convention Hears Prediction Increase of 100,000 Private' Planes Next Two Years Many Port Problems. CLEVELAND, May 17, UP) r- for solving airplane safety prob lems, expected to Increase more than ten .fold In the next two years, were brought out today at thq, natlonul airport convention heo. 1 ' Prominentia 1 r p o r t authorities spent the morning In endeavoring to answer more than 200 ques tions asked by. persons in all parts of the v United States, who have airport problem? on their hands. The grid glow tube, now acting as truffle director on some cor ners; will in the futuro afford filers Immediate und well-lighted havens In fogs and darkness when trouble arises, according to U. C. HlmpKun of South Bend, engineer from the Westinghouse electric and manufacturing company. The tulu extremely sensitlvo to minute electric currents, can bo made sensitive to a particular sound, such us a siren on a plane. The siren would act on the tube, causing it to turn on flood lights at smalt fields, close together and qnmanm-d, where a flier In diffi culty could ullght. , The prediction that the hazards of flying would be augmented in the next two years by an increase to 100,000 in the number of prl vately operated airplanes, wero made by Wlllium B. Stout, De troit airplane magnate. White Medicine Fails As Cure for Aged Squaw FKISHNOf Cal May 17. (P) All the pomp of formor days' marked the ceremonial f held at Ahwahnee Indian roundhouse, 40 nillea east of here, today when "Mrs. Char- He Hart," sister of the later 4 Chief Peter and one of the last of her Indian trlbo was burled. Her Indian name Is known to but a few of the Digger, Indians and by them , kept secret as was also that of her sinter "Mrs. Jin Roan," last known of the tribal f witch doctors, who died two 4 years ago. She was believed 4 to be more than 90 years of age. "Mrs. Charllo Hart," be- camo Ml several days ago and f after fulling to respond to "white medicine." prescribed by physicians, sent her hus- 4 bund to a secluded Sierra 4 Nevada canyon to obtain cer- lulu roots and bfrbs. She died before his retffrn. 4 Humphreys Still Missing POltTI-ANI). Ore., May 17. P) Search for Lester V. Humph reys, Portland altorney, last seen Tuesday fishing in the Deschutes river near North Junction, contin ued toilay, although there was little encouragement to spur on the HT-archers. (irapplera continued lo drag the river In case, as Is feared, Humphreys fell Into the swift-run-nlng stream and drowned. ' .. DISCUSS PLANS ALS VISIT IN PHILLY Scarface Capone and Body guard Given Short Shrift in Quaker City. Con cealed Weapons - Bring Sentences of Year in . Prison Soon After Arrival From Resort City. rillLADKM'illA, May 1?. (P) Scarface "A1M Capone and Frank Cllne, Chicago gangsters, sentenced to one year for carrying ooncenled deadly weapons entered Moyamen slng prison at 12;B0 p. in. llcful-A ha U'HH Mi.ntfini'pil. Pfl- Ipone told Director pchofield of puniicity public safety that ho had .iust fixed un a "nem'M nnct" be tween rival bootleg gangs of Chi cago ending the war which has resulted in wholesale killings by gunmen. . PIliLADKMMHA, May 17. (P) Alphonue (Seurfuce Al) Cupone, and Prank Cllne, his reputed body guard, were Indicted placed on trial and sentenced to a year's Im prisonment hero today, a little more tlan twelve hours after they had been arrested charged with carrying concealed deadly weap ' ons. . " ' . ! The sentence of the court was 'the maximum prison terms under the law, ' , Capone. and Cllno nrrlved here yesterday from Atlantta City. Last J night they were picked up leaving a motion picture houso by two Philadelphia detectives who were tlooktng over theatre crowds for suspicious persons. - They did not resist arrest and we.re tuken to the central police station In city hall where they , were charged with carrying concealed weapons after a--8 calibre pistol - War found' -on each. . . SAW WHITE PINE OC1DEN, Utah, 'May 17. (PI Announcement of the organlwtlon of a (2,000,000 corporation Involv ing important lumber Interests of Oregon with headquarters at Og den was made today by M. S. Ec cles announced that the corpora tion will cut between 60,000,000 and 00,000,000 feet of white pine lumner annually.. URGE LIVESTOCK RATE WASHINGTON, May 17. (IP) A cevislon of rallrpud freight rates on livostock In western territory, which would Involve some general, but slight Increases, was recom mended today to the Interstate commerce .commission hy ngents who have dumpleted an Investiga tion Into existing schedules, The commission assigned the re port for oral nrgument here July 10. "'Livestock In much of the west, cm district Is not nt present bear ing Its fair allure of the transpor tation burden of . Its new scales," the report said. TENNESSEE ARRESTED ELIZABBTI1TON, Tenn., May 17. (P)--Ad)utant Oeneral W. C. uoyu or Tennessee was arrested here today on a warrant charging 'aiding and abetting an attempt to commit murder," sworn out by icvolyn lleaton, a striking textUn worker Injured yesterday by an au tomobile that dashed through a group of plckelors who blocked the road. lie was released on $1000 bond. ' A warrant also was 'Issued for Joe Calhoun, drlvor of the car thai struck Mis Hoaion, and a deputy left for Jonesboro, whero he was taken yesterday for safekeeping. Art Ix-nlrr !lo. KANSAH CITV, Muy 17. IP f'onrnd Hug, 6, Kansas C'lly art dealer, whose testimony figured prominently In the recent half million dollar "In. Hello Ferrlon- nlero" portrait damage suit In New York, died here today. I CUT Says' I Vc , Guilty XHUHP rnrr- -irmffinMinmMwrrr Mis. Kva Itableti HONOHA, Cal., May 1 7. (P) Mrs. Kva Brandon Rabten, 3J, ac cused, of poiHonlng tb death her war veteran husband, Carroll, at a . Tutlletown dance April 27. pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder when she was arraigned before Superior' Judge J. T. B. Warne here today. Judge Warne set the trial fortune 10. The courtroom was thronged with spectators as the so-called "mall order bride." formerly from Quanah, Tcxuh, entered on the arm of her attorney, Charles Vance. The proceedings wtro brief. SEND PLAN TO VOTE OF HOUSE : WASHINGTON.. Vay l)7.1-(P)-r Tho house todny voted to Bend the farm relief, bill' carrying tl)e ,djsr "puted export - debenture r'plan Ttb conference for conciliation- of" the differences with the senate i' The- house Republican : leader ship decided to' waive what- they contended 'constituted an invasion of the constitutional rights of the houso so that tho bill could be sent to conference ' Immediately and thereby - materially expedite final action ot farm relief legislation. As a result, of the house's aatlon the bill now Is placed In tho hands of a conference committee, composed of members of both tho house und sonuto. ' , . 1 . j , House Republican leaders are hopeful this conference group will decldo to eliminate the debenture plan, : , The house vodted 249 to 119 to send tho measurd to conference. ' WALLA. WALLA, -Wash., .May 17. (IP) Two aviation students wero. killed todny when a plane, owned by the Walla Walla Air ways company, crashed from 1600 foet. The dead: Elvln Cnssell of Hammer, Wn , and Allen U'.Mara, believed to be from Athena, Ore.- The plane was demolished. : It carried no other pussengers. ' , Officials of the company refused to . discuss the accident (or tof venturo un opinion as lo Its cause until an Investigation was made. FOUR YEAR PEN TERM PORTLAND, May 17. (P) B. I Holman 85, former cashier of the First National Hank of To ledo, Ore., was today sentenced to four yearn nt McNeil inland' after he pleaded guilty In federal court to mlmippllcntlon of 1000 In hank fundi. The "specific charge on which Ilolman was Indicted wan the $1000 theft, hut he was eald to have ahHconded with neveral thoun and dollnrn over a one-year perldd. Me wan arrested recently at I-ob Angelen. Ho Is married and has two children , . The Noted Dead IIKHLI.V, May 17. (IP) Mill Ijf-hmnnn. famous opera' singer, died toilay at the age of 81. FMimI llody Fugrlie Malt ' MKUCHU, Cal., Mny 17. (IP) Tho body of a man Identified ns Thomas -Onlen, about (10 years of ago, formerly of Kugene. Ore., was found In a lot near the Golden State highway, neur here this tnor-1 nlnf, I CONFERENCE BY GROCER IN FLORIDA IS M0B1I1 Bullet Riddled Body Found in Ditch Taken From Jail Early Today Had Altercation With Police Chief Wife Who Insti tuted Gun Play Dies of Bullet Wounds. .. I.AKH CITY, I'-ln., May 17. (P) N. (1. Unmey, a grocer, was taken' from the Jail here by a mob early' today and lynched. The man was arrested last night after an alter cation with police during which Chief of Police John If, Buker was wounded and -Mrs. Romey was wounded fatally. Romey's body, containing many bullet wounds, was found by a tar. mer, sitting upright In a ditch on the Columbia road. - .. r Romey's trouble with the au thorities started . yesterday when Chief of 1'ollca Baker told hlnj that he would have to clean up some rubbish In front of his store. Shortly afterward, according to Judge Guy Glllem, Romey tele phoned Chief Buker and told iln he had placed the produce back on the sidewalk nnd for the officer to "come back and try to make me move it again." ; . . . . . . . ; Baker returned to the store and another, argument ensued. . Mrs. Romey, who Joined in the alterca tion, is alleged to have procured a pistol and fired, three shots . ut Baker, one of which broke the of ficer's shoulder blade. Chief Baker then opened fire bt me woman, wounding her five times. .She , died in a hospital about midnight. , . Romey was arrested and placed In Jul). ' '., :, , :- ..' ;: . know, exactly- when - the lynching took, place. ..'but thought ,, it was about i o'clock (his morning. ; ' A coroner's Jury was summoned hut the verdll.it was not made pub lic. ' , . - " .. , - SEARS ROEBUCK MAY CHICAGO, May 17. (P) Sears, Roobuck and company has signed an agreement with Gardner Mo tors - for ,.y Joint investigation of the status of - the . motor car as merchandise and the possibility of large scale pruductrjn of low priced automobiles In the future for distribution through the Sears, Roebuck channels. General Rob ert E. Wood, president of Sears Roebuck, confirmed a report Qf the contract today. OREGON'!' WILL PLAY i GAINESVILtli,Tlh., May 17. () Athletic' Director Charles V, Bachman of the University of Flor ida announced yesterday that the University of Oregon will meet the 'Gators here In the last (tame of the, llrZb foothall season, Decemher Approval was received' for the game this afternoon from Coach John J. McKwnn of Oregon, and contracts will be mailed Immedi ately to close the deal, Bachman said. 1 . ' ' ; Will Rogers Says: PHILADELPHIA, May 17. The Zeppelin turned back, trouble with riding on that is. if anything goes wrong it 'a too titr to 11 hitching post. Went over to New York today.i See where Police Com-mission- er Whttlcn appointed a crime committee of 20 to help him keep a list of tho crimes. If they hear of any that he don't, why they report them to him, then at the end of the year the one that has heard about the most crimed gets (he prize. Tours, . - WILL KOCJKRS.