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Mail Trbbun Temperatures '-; HlgA-st yesterday 85 lxm-ertt llibt morning 30 i Ddlf Twtani-fourtb Tur, Wwklr Iftr-Mtmtii Xml. SIXTEEN PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929. No. 63. The Weather Forecast Part cJomly.lonlfilit and KntunUy, with stumers. Could vllli rlnlng liuinlUliy. MEDFORD E Today By Arthur Brisbane ' Chimpanzee and Man. j Would, if I Dared. , News of the Air. ' ; Ashamed of Their Job. (Copyright by King Features ; Syndicate. Inc.) Frofcssor Eddington, able British astronomer, admits that man with his science cumiot pretend to penetrate the realms o religion, or understand God. ' Quite so. The, chimpanzee 'peers from his jungle home at the strange white, "man, unable to under stand or explain the strange ' creature that lights and extin guishes fires, and kills at a dis tance with a loud noise. Man, through' his telescope, photographs another universe, 100,000,000 light years distant, but cannot understand or ex plain the power-that rules space and time. . lie finds case of mind in the blessed word "relativity," but he cannot explain anything. All that he can do is describe, guess and deny. However, it is his right to investigate and TRY. lie w far abovo the chim panzee, thanks to evolution. . He may, some day, be as far above his present self. Kven then, he will not know much. New York's Federal Reserve could not quite make up its mind to raise the discount rate to 6 per cent 'Wednesday.' 1 Some real bankers might, bo persuaded to replace some of the small financial fish on that reserve board. J,AfiniixciHjMB.va:,. tern that in prosperous times compels business to pay 15 per cent one day and 0 per cent the next, is pitifully incompetent. Some of our financial geniuses should be sent to study the methods of the Hank of France. Its discount rate Wednesday wuii 3 per cent, and money, for borrowers, was abundant at 4 per cent. A French monoplane planned Wednesday to start a New York to Paris flight and the world is only mildly interested. Flying across- the Atlantic is an old story. ' Crowds in New York watch ed a giant bombing plane, tak ing a fuel supply at flight, five Separate times, froth a smaller plane. A broadcaster in the machine talked the details to the crowd 'below. At Old Orchard, it French Bcllanca plane is ready for a non-top flight to Home. Over Fort Worth, Texas, a plitnc has been flying five days, taking fuel in flight. At '200 miles an hour, which will soon be slow flying speed, that plane in five day? could have flown around the earth. . , The three greatest industrial (lowers in America (leneral Motors, Ford and the National City Hank arc friendly rivals in airplane building. The real flying days are not far away. At 14 Wall Street an able board of directors will manage a fire insurance company, created by the Protestant Epis copal church to protect its churches and other combustible property. ' ' , Aji elderly colored lady, mov ing from the brick to the wood en church, after the earthquake, told her inquiring pastor Ohat she believed in the Lord, but did not believe in fooling with Him. Nothing !in more modernist thmi the lightning rods seen on oven- church. Why should the (Conllnned on I'ogo Knur) SPOKANE SUSPECT Ernest Garner Held in Mc-Minnville-Found Asleep in Auto Admits Being in Spokane Wednesday Night Copper Wire Found in Car Will Face Victims of Attack. ' McMJNNVILLE, Ore., May 24. VP) -r The sheriff of Yamhill county today wan holding Ernest It. Garner, 61. "for questioning In connection with tho attack late Wednesday . night upon William Johnson und Huzel Hullor near Hpokane. After shooting Johnson the bandit tied him and the girl, placed them in , Johnson's auto mobile and fired tho car. Garner was. arrested at 3:30 p. m. yesterday as he slept in his automobile near Newberg. Earl Nott. district attorney, and Sheriff Manning today questioned Garner in his cell. The man ad mitted, they said, that he was in Spokane Wednesday night. He said he loft Tacoma Tuesday morning. He was driving a small coupe. In tho automobile the sheriff found a quantity of cord and some copper wire, said to he simi lar to that used by tho man who attacked Johnxon and Miss Hutler. Garner is five feet six inches tall, and weighs about 135 pounds. He says he is 51 years old, but appears to be no more than 40. When arrested he was attired in tan trousers, a dark coat and a dark cap. He has a round smooth face, covered now with a four-day growth of beard. SPOKANE, Wash.,, May 24. P) Sheriff Floyd Brower said to day he was making preparations to have , a man arrested, at Mc-Minnyi)Uv.,pj-e.r.aH. .; .a.,- suspect, brought' cro to W examined by William Johnson and Miss Hostel Huller, who reported that - thty were bound and robbed by a ban dit who shot Johnson and attacked the girl and left them to burn in their car, which bo bad fired. OF ARMY PLANE TORT WORTH. Texas, May 24. (JP) On Its sixth day in tho air, tho civilian monoplane Fort Worth today was driving steadily on to ward the world's endurance record of the army piano Question Mark. Reg. I. Rohhtna and Jamos Kel lcy, pilots of the Fort Worth, pass ed the 120th hour, aloft at 11:33 a. m. and had little more than 30 hours to no to hetter the Question Mark's time of 151) hours, 40 min utes and 15 Beconds. 'I LOS ANGELES, May 24. (JF An alleged confession naming J-.ee Cochran and M. B. Colson- as the perpetrators of the sensational 185,000 holdup of the Agua Call- rente and Tiajuana company's mon ey car near Han Diego Monday, In which two guards were killed, were mado to police here today by Coch ran's wife. Marie Cochran. Suspect Indians Tortured Girl As Old Tribal Rite vv VK1A11, Cab. May 24.- (TP) Whether the Indians of this district have been Invoking a centuries-oid tribal cuHtom of torture to drive evil spirits from the persons of their tribesmen was bring Investl- gated by government agents 4 today as a result of the death of Katherine Williams, eight years old. Miss Lucy Keenun. govern- ment Indian nurse, an- nounced last night that lacer- ations covering the upper part of the little girl's body hart been found shortly before 4 her death in a himpiial here. tMttf MONOPLANE IS NFARING MARK UNION OF CHURCHES IS FAVORED . : 1 ' General Assembly Presbyte rians Recommend (Or ganic Union Five' Large Protestant Bodies Re port of Director Urges Newspaper Publicity' for Churches- - . ST. PAUL, Minn., May 24. VP) By practically .unanimous rbj Ing vote, llio Hlt general assem bly of the Presbyteiian church in tho United States of Amorica to day adopted a far-raaching recom mendation : looking towards or ganic union of flvo largo Protest ant church bodies. The proposal, made on the floor Of tho assembly, provided for appointment of commissions to confer with ' similur commissions from the Protestant Episcopal church, the Methodist '( Episcopal j church, tho Methodist 'Episcopal! Church, South, and the ' Presbyte- I rian church of the United States, generally known Ks thof Presby to rian Church, South. ! . The action was taken tin answer to an invitation for a commission to consider union, extended by the Protestant Episcopal church at its general convention In Wash ington in October, 1928. . Similarly the other church bodies have had under 'consideration the proposal for union for some tlmo, but to day's action marks the most ac tive participation in the move ment reached by tho body meet ing here. , ST. PAUL May 24. (rf) News papers were rccummendod as the best means of reaching tho pub lic, and tho use of paid advertis ing In, the press was , urged to the churches of th? United States, in tho . annual .report presented "today to the .lilst- Presbyterian general assembly- of i Walter - Irv-, ing Clarke, national director of publicity for the denomination. "The business world spends. mil lions . for publicity whoro the church spends dollars," said Mr. Clarke. "The church gets a. great deal of reading spaco In tho news papers as legitimate news. But tho church has a message for humanity which it could to ad vantage express In tho large uso of paid advertising space. Cities of the United States upend 6,000 -000 a year for publicity to ex ololt their attractions. "One single brand of cigarettes of tho many brands advertising. appropriated 112,600.000 for this year's advertising, ono half of wh.chls being spent In newspapers alone. The continued experience of regular advertisers demonstrates that newspapers offer the nipst effective medium of appeal. Pio neers in the use of tho radio ap peal, apportion their advertising budgets accordingly "Tho Presbyterian publicity de partment has faith that some day religion will bo adequately adver tised and will roap vast rewards as are now accumulated by less worthy enterprises." EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 24. (P) Tho church of Scotland and tho United Freo Church of .Scotland In their respective as semblies, today agreed by over whelming majorities to unite. The formal aft of Union will tako place In .October. Today's vote made final an af firmative decision on the momen tous question for these great Pres byterian churches, negotiations re garding which have been in pro gress for tho past 20 years. F NORTH JUNCTION. Ore., May 24. (P A body, believed to be that of Lester W, Humphreys, Port land attorney, was recovered from the Deschutes river today a mile and a half below North Junction, between this city and Nathan. Al though positive Identification had not been mado, there appeared to be no doubt hut that the body was that of the Portland attorney, who disappeared a week or so ago while fishing In the river. Students Mrlke. URBAN A. III.. May 24. Nearly 500 students in Urbsna public schools were on strike to- day to p-o est the removal of Ml-! chael 'I Fianingham. super'nten-j dent of schools, who was charged, with talking too freely with leach-I era on sex questions. Arrest Feuft Yo NANKING, May 24.OP) The nationalist government In Nanking has ordered the arrest of Feng Yu-Hsiang, formerly known as the Christian genernl fts ft rebel. PURSE ATTRACTS DRIVERS VI- vfH' : Tho 2 Vt -mile rough brick Kiiecitwajr nt ImllniuipullH again lures ut racers. The hackstretoll turn marked with an ' A" Is tne imost dangerous of tho four .-urve. clirr Duraiit (inset), million aire driver, again Is seeking America's grand prize race, as is Peter Drl'aiilo (below), winner lit 125, - FT. BRAGG GIRL FOUND DEAD BYjENDED BY EUSS SEARCH PARTYIAMONG PILOTS Six-Year-Old Schoolgirl Vic tim of Attack Body Is ; Thrown Across Log - Mute Evidence of Tragedy Found in Clearing. - ,, - VOJIT liRAGUrf Cnli,, May 24. (JP) -A Hheriff'a pohho which had been Hearehing throughout the night for ThereHa Johnnon, fi-yoar-old Hchool girl who waa reported mlHHlng yeterday, found her dead body near a, lonely road, twelve ml lew Houth of here today. 8ht bad been Htranglcd to death, fin--ger mai-kH of her Hlayer atill evi dent on her throat. The body had been thrown across a log by the girl's altarker while her Hchoolhooka and lunch box were found scattered In a nearby clearing. Footprints and other marks in the road Indicated she had struggled desperately to escape. A gag made out of the girl's cap was stuffed In her mouth which was cut and bruised as from a heavy blow. Preliminary examination by Dr. I R. W. Foster Indicated, he said,1 that she had been attacked before life had been choked, from,, her J body. Sheriff K. R. Hymen had the body removed from Bast Mendo cino where It was taken earlier to the morgue here. WALLA WALLA OPENS T PORTIAND, Ore., May 24. (fll With a stiff tail wind promising swift passage, six airplanes took off from the airport here today In a race to Walla Walla. The planes will participate in an air clrcuu there celebrating dcflloYttion of new municipal airport. "T Baseball Scores National. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh Post poned; wet grounds. R. Philadelphia 2 7 0 Rrooklyn 3 8 0 Mweetland.and DhvIh; Clark, lial lou, McWeeny and Plclnlch. R. ' If, K. Mostun , 3,7 ft New York 7 9 3 Cantwpll. trandt. Jone.s and Tay lor; Kcott, Mays and llogan. -American. n. h. k. Washington 3 1 Philadelphia 10 14 I Had ley, Campbell and Hurl: Kurnshaw, Rommel and Cochrane. It. H. K. St. Trills 5 12 1 Cleveland 0 7 0 Gray and tichun; 2ln:i and My- Hit. R. If. R. Xew York o 5 1 Boston ... 6 10 0 Pennock and Dickey; .Macfavden, Hhorld and Itprrv, FAMOUS TO INDIANAPOLIS ENDURANCE TRY Three Musketeers Forget i Dumas Tradition Rips in j Fuselage Fabric Caused By Refueling Device nsen Contentious. TtOOSrs.VKT IKLD, N. V., May 24. fl) Falling to live up to the buniHiV- tmilltlon of "ono for nil and nil for ono," ' the crow of the Monoplane Three MuHketeora today after a quarrel Indefinitely postponed any further attempt to Hot a refueling endurunco record. A dlnputo between H. B, Clarke, chief pilot, and Martin Jensen that atftited in the nlr pn their neoond lattempt fo patot the record of the I army plane Quontion Mark rcHult ed In CTlurkn'H withdrawal from any future attempts. Clarke brought the plane down at 0:19 o'clock last night after 22 hours and 28 minutes in the air when a hook uxed In the refueling o vice tore four rips In the fu iselagc fabric. .innsen contended 'he could have repaired tho damage in the air as ho did twice during the day. PLANES TO FLY FIRST OF TRIP Green Flash and Yellow Bird Await Fair Weather for Atlantic Take-Of f Will Leave Saturday Morning if Possible. OLD ORCHARD HKACH, Me., May 24 (P) The monoplane Green Flash, bound for Rome and Ar- i mano I o til's huge yellow bird, I which has Paris for Its goal, rested here today awaiting fair weather over the Atlantic. Prospects are that the two planes will fly togeth er for 1000 miles. Roger Q. Wflllaqis. pilot, and Iwls A. Yancey, navigator of the (Ireen Flash, hoped that conditions would permit them to leave tomor row morning. They indicated,, however, that tho arrival here last night of the Yellow Itlrd would not stampede them Into a hasty take otf. While no announcement was mude that the planes would hop together. It was learned that Lottl and his companions, Jeun Assotant and Rene Ie Fevre, had changed their projected circle course to that which tho Oreen Flash will pursue along the 4lt parallel. i Casualties of the Air Service I'OHT AU I'UINCU. 1 lu III, My Hlrplann crnxhed at Cnpo HHllIrn eterdy. Klmt l,letit. rilnddcn wan killed and l.lcut. Khodoii, who wan piloting the machine, whh wriniMly Injiirod. 9 TOGETHER OVER ROGUE FISH ARE FACING EXTINCTION Drastic Steps Needed to Preserve Famous Sport, Game Protective Associa tion Told Commercial Interests Flaunt Law, Is Claim Stronger Organi zation Needed. If iliiHtic Htcpa arc not taken, the flNhliiK Industry In the Horuu river and other aouthwestern Ore Ron Htt-eama will he a thing of tho pitat In the lapHe of only a few yeara. and aouthern OreKon'a fam- nuH atreatn will no longer . be knuu-n for -tho flahlnK ' tnat haa mntle It famoua throuRhout tho na tion, accordhiR to lenRthy dlacliH alona of the cominerelal flanlng lirohlem at the annual Jackaon County Game Proteetlve aaaoela tlon meeting at the Hotel Medford laat evening, attended by over 200 aportamen. The situation haa never been ao aerioua and In. Curry county, com mercial Intereata are oiienly flaunt Insr the law and aro depicting tho atreama in that aectlon of thou aanda of flah, tranaported by trucks Into California. It waa de clared. From a high record of nearly two million pounda of flah taken from the Kngtie river In l!CM. the total last year dropped to 31,000 potinria. With Indications tho total wtll be oven lower thia year, only loo salmon having born caught by a largo commercial can jnery in the Clold Beach section. I '., These interesting factH wore told (by Ralph Cowglll, who has been I making a survey of the flah situa tion In Oregon, and by K, W. llal jlior, well known Bandon hotel proprietor. , . Kor years tho average season catch at tho mouth of tho Kngue iivjr ,btii.,ovrivKeib . pmintifcf anu it -was not until last year that "tho sudden drop came, said Mr. Cowglll, Ho declared tho Ruguo river to bo nearly depleted t( fish In comparison to condltiona exist ing In former years because of the greed of commercial Interests. To bring a 26 pound fish Into exis tence, 130 eggs is the usual propor tion used. Only one egg out of 130 reaches maturity. Kef uso C'ooHratluii In speaking of condltiona on the river. Sin Cowglll declared co operation of the fishing Industry haa beon sought In making the survey, bringing about later reme dies for tho situation, but the co operation waa absolutely refused. Fish and game wardena operating in tho section have had no 4 easy life. Ihe speaker related, ami are practically powerless to cope with the situation. These officers have found tires slashed, automobile engines put out of commission and sometimes filled with Byrup. Conditions are Just as had In other Curry county streams, ac cording to Mr. Clalller. Ho declared several streams have been depleted by commercial fishermen and said one commercial fisherman had caught 18,000 worth of fish in tho last fhroo months, but that another fisherman- a short dlstanco abovo him had only beon able to catch 200 worth, Indicating how thuruly the stroum had been depleted. Curry county, In tho belief of Mr. Clalllor, is the least populatod county In tho United Htntes and Is a haven ' for commercial and poaching Interests, us fish Ing law'' thoro do not meet with 100 per cent onforcoment. lie declared a small army of game wardens would be needed to rectify tho situation, preventing tho uso of nets In eddies of fishing streams, cleaning each eddy of the fish, lh'lorvi Situation Sta suggested the United Hint en government could take an active hand and place the section under Its direct care, as it has dono In Alaska. He Insinuated sportsmen of the. section were not receiving 100 per cent cooperation from the stato fish and game commissions and deplored the situation from various angles. Klsh aro taken from streams by the thousands In defiance of law, while sportsmen of the section stand Idly hj' help less to prevent tho operations. If any ono sportsman takes an active Intorest In an effort to prevent the work, ho finds his boat filled wllli rocks or is soon acquainted wj'n other forms of sabotage. , A remedy for this serious prob lem was advanced in the proposal of forming a hetter and stronger sportsmen organization ,ln Jack son county, more representative of sportsmen Interests In this section. Will further strength would be given the local organization by af filiation with tho Oregon Oame Protective association. A member ship foe of three dollars per year Is to be charged, one dollar re maining n the treasury of the county association and the remain der going to tho stale association for dues and for subscription to the association magazine. However, to bring the money Into the trensury actually needed, (Continued on Page four) St - Tragedy mm: (' . Htuciatra Prm ptimut Walter J. Flnke, Jr., (below) 17 year old Portland High student who shot and killed Herbert Beem, 17, over jealousy of Mildred Knott, 16, high school girl. Finks failed In an attempt at suicide. D .,,, r C., r-n. Return From Cuers. Franc. )f VVIUIUUl .-' IIIUIUtfflLr UJJ ' ' , . , . wreatn in Memory uix- mude Victims Passen gers View Moonlight Pan oramaMrs. Pierce Tired But Happy. KRlKDUICHSllAKVEN, May 24, j W) The Uraf Zeppelin returned at dawn today to Krlodrlchshalon from Cuers, Franco, where It made an emergency landing Just a week ago after turning back near Gib raltar from an attempt lo cross tho Atlantic. Aboard Mm ttlrlglhlo whou It landed horn wore 14 of the 18 pas sengers who mado tho outward bound trip, and In addition seven French navul officers, invited as AMOrlntptl Prean I'hotO Mra. Henry P, J, Pierce tho special gliosis of Dr. Hugo Bckener, the ship's master, In ap preciation for French aid in land ing his mnchlno In lln emergency last woek. A lending crew seized the haw sers tho Craf let down and brought It to eirth at 5:0 a. m. ( 1 1 :0i p. m., Thursday, easlorn standard time). Hy &:.'I0 a. m. thn airship was safely In its kangar. The .eppollit's constructor, lr. I.udwig Duerr, who waa almost grief stricken at the failure of lis four motors oi the abnrtlvo American flight, superin tended Hie ground oiwratlons him self. Tho Zeppelin cut south to the Mediterranean and dropped n wreath in commemoration of those who Inst their lives aboard the Dlxmudo. turning northward then and passing over Marseilles shortly afterwards. Noarly all the passengora remained- at the windows all of last night. Mrs. Mary Pierce nf New York arrived fatigued but happy, after having simnt most of the night at the windows of the Ural watching the moonlit pnnornma below her. ZEP LANDS SAFELY AT HOI PORT H v ' U jlarn n i IX. POLICE USE GUNS ON R W Students Stage Dramatic Uprising Against Exami nationsOne Killed, Many Wounded Fire men Use Axes and Hose to Quell Disturbance Boy Orator Pleads Peace. M1CXICO CITY, May 24. (tP- One student was knled ami 32 -persons wounded, four of them htM'iuusiy, in a series 01 nigniy ora. nmtlo riots last night and early to day, growing out of the strike , of students at the national university law school In protest at monthly examinations. "Police and firemen adopted ex treme measures in breaking up the crowds of striking students antl their sympathizers. Police fired, firemen wielded axes and played hose. At one place, the national university medical school, the con flict was a veritable battle : ' . In tho midst of the demonstra tion) which included maltreatment jof an effigy of Kmlquo Padfllu. i minister of education, police and firemen arrived In force. Kfrnln Hraito Rosa do. Mexico's boy ora Uor, who participated In an orator ical contest held at Washington I lust year, was asked to go insido j und warn tho strikers not to , leave the building, ' ; Apparently the warning did- not arrive in Jime, fur some . of Mho (students started out of Uie build itnir. Then, according to th ntu- ! dents' accounts, the. police opened ; rire, fatally wounding one.- Stu dents ' remuiplng lnulda barricaded the doors and thoso .. carrying pistols returned police fire until their ammunition was exnaumuu. Meanwhile those outside had bc- hM.i i nn ,.fn,.f ,m, 10, use tnt-ir ax en as weapons, nvy jiuieged afterwards, they we I'M foi-ced to- adopt.' extremo measures In thell defense.' -. ,- EPT BY RAIN TOKYO, Japan, May 24. Twelve persons are known to havo perished And great .damage has u?fii uuuu iiruporiy anu crops uy torrential, rains which swept over tho prefecture of Fukushlina yes terday,. ' More than &.000 houses were in undated hy floods, 3K bridges were detroypd and the railways wero damaged nt several points. Tho 'material losses were ostl mated at D,0O0,0U0 yen ($2,2.10, 000 ). Hoventeen fishing aniucky also wero roportcd missing, r, . ALLOT $400,000 FOR . WAHHINOTOi, .May 24. P)-r ' Tho war department today ulloletl I40Q.0U0 for Improvement of Coos Hay, Oregon, , from the current year's rivers and hurburs fundi V Will Rogers Says:v ; DKTROIT, Jfich., May 24.2 Kvcfyliody tliHt I hoar kick ing about the federal reserve is soniflono trying to nmke mutiny by siieeiilalion. So I about c o in c to the', con clusion that t h e federal r c h o r v ( might ncei- dentally , b c working i n the ilitcrcKls of tho luitKired million who don't know a stoek from a stoekynrd. 1 per eent raise in rule can upset, tho whole of Wall Street, then they are work ing on a mighty slim mar gin. Your, ' f WIIX UOCiEUS. ' .1'. S. If Kntu Fuglirty had stietl Tuiiiiey'g friend, Ber nard Shaw, she would have gotten more publicity, and the Mm money. ' t mm
