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Medfoed Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast; Partly cloudy touUeht and Sunday. Rising tempera two Sunday; humidity above normal. Temperatures lllglicat yewtmlny M Ixiwfrtt this inornliiK 38 IM-ltour prtx-lollnllou to 5:00 A. M 1 DrfrTMOtr-fMrth Tmt. MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1929. No. 71. Today! By Arthur Brisbane I One Active City. Farewell Chicago May. Men of Three Wars. Big Marriage Problem. (Copyright by King Feature f Syndicate. Inc.) CHICAGO, June 1. Hot in other places, cool here, thanks to the big lake, cooling winds that blow over it. Gigantic buildings going up, including one with more floor space than in any other ever built on earth.. James Simpson, who owns Marshall Field & Co., is building that,; with railroad tracks under it, the Chicago river beside it, leading out to the lakes and oceans. Chicago's "I will" hag not died out. Buildings that amaz ed the world by their heighth , and size a few years ago are coming down to make room for bigger buildings. In public improvements, Chicago is cease lowly active, with parks, play grounds, bathing beaches that set an example to other cities. Great areas are reclaimed from the lake. And the scheme for development of the lake front exceeds, in scope and beauty, anything done in. America. t , All this docs not interest Thomas MeElligott, carried out of a grill room, alias speakeasy, on West Madison street. Ifis career as a racketeer ended, when one of three bullets, fired ftito him, went through his heart. Chicago ' gangsters, as a rule, observe the etiquette or their profession,' killing only other gangsters. "Chicago May" Churchill died in the Philadelphia gen eral ho:pital yesterday, aged 52. Iljer life offers to scenario writers an exciting moving pic tun.-, talking, singing, shooting and popping. May was queen of Chicago's underworld when it was a real underworld and $5 a bottle for champagne seemed a great deal. A lady of power, sho married several, knew many others in timately and was about to furry again when "death ...aimed her," as reporters put it. - France put one of her most intimate friends, Eddie Gucrin, on Devil's Island, with other convict. Chicago May took a yacht, some money aud res cued Gucrin by brihery. '. Miss May, at 15, married a bank robber, Del Churchill, in Nebraska and when ho was killed by the sheriff hor active life began on Chicago's levee. Chicago papers gave her biog raphies longer than Professor Nicholson will get. Tho pub lic) understands Chicago May and her long sealskin coat. It can't understand Nicholson's interfcromter. . V ' ' I n memorial, processions marched men of throe wars. Young men from the bin war, men of middle age from tho Spanish war. Many more wars must come How many millions will be shot, blown up, gassed, drown ed or die of diseaso to the spending of billions, before war goes to join cannibalism and slavery! Nobody knows. lSut every child might know that the way to avoid war is to be ready for it. Huild up your strength that you may success fully resist disease, says the itfiitle pacifist to his children. hy not say to the nation: "Huild your strength, that you (Continued on Tag Vow) EXCBE TAX UP 10 VOTE JUNE28TH Supreme Court Upholds Ballot Titles in Excise Tax Referendum and Fra ternal Insurance Compa nies Attack Income Tax Held Up for Vote in No vember, 1930. SAIEM', Ore., June 1. (JP) The 1929 legislative act creating two new circuit judges In Multnomah county will not be come effective before the regular election of No vember, 1930. This became a cer tainty today when the supreme court orally handed down an opin ion upholding the ballot title pre pared by Attorney General Van Winkle in the Woodward referen dum Invoked against the measure. Since the referendum petitions have been completed and filed with the secretary of state the act is held up until voted on by the peo pie and Governor Patterson will not in the meantime appoint tliei.if Vcrai ornuinna. hut sh Judges to fill the two positions. j The supreme court also upheld the attorney general s ballot titles in the excise tax referendum and in the initiative attack on fraternal insurance companies. Completed petitions in the excise tax referen dum have not yet. been filed, but it is understood they will be com pleted and filed by next Tuesday, tho final date allotted by law, so the decision of the supreme court means that a special election will be held June 28. this year. Tho legislature provided that if the ref erendum were invoked upon the excise or the Intangibles tax a spe cial election should be called. The inonmo to. a ... oiralna, U'hlh tUa referendum has been invoked. can- not be . voted on until November. 1930. Complete Petitions Should the supreme court have found the attorney general's ballot titles defective the circuit judgs act would have become effective ! June 4. The governor would then ha e had 15 days In which to make the appointments, and he indicated today that he would have takon advantage of that leeway. Completed petitions filed by I.. I). Smith yesterday In the Income tax referendum is the final move hold ing up that act a full year. Had the referendum not been Invoked on tho income tax the state tax commission would have taken it Into consideration in making the state tax levy next December. Now. however, it will be disregarded nt that time, but should the people approve it in the election of No vember, 1930, it is believed the tax commission in making the an nual levy in December,- 1930, would levy on the Incomes of both 1929 and 1930. The stato tax offlco was of this opinion today, but admitted that there was some doubt on this question. The oral opinions of the supreme court today will be followed later by written opinions. LA. AIR SERVICE KANSAS CITY. June 1. (ZD Daylight air passenger service be tween Kansas City and Los Angeles, began here today when at 8:45 a. m. the first regular ship of tho Western Air Express took tho air. Jack Dempsey, former world's heavyweight boxing champion, one of the passengers, caused a 15-mln-uto delay i the take-off. Ho ar rived from Chicago at 8 o'clock and did not reach the field until just 'In time to rllmb aboard the 111 -passenger, three-motored air plane. Tho former champion said his only object In flying to Los An geles was to see his wife, Kstelle Taylor of the movies. The take-off from the municipal airport here was made on a muddy field under lowering clouds. Koya! Leonard of Kansas City was the pilot. Pally trips, each way. are plan ned by the Western Air Kx press company, beginning today. TVe airplane scheduled to leave here at K:3 a. ni.. will n-nch lxs An geles at i p Stops will be mide for passengers at Wichita. Amu - rlllo. Tex . Albuquerque. N. M.. and Holhronk and Kingman. Arix. t VI F.NNA iJP The Austro - Ger - KANSAS CITY TO S INAUGURATED man ..eigne reports t hut 1. 004. SI 1 The Fraternity Memorial hospital, Councll ot Churches. The as of Austria's total population of 8.- built with the residue of the Anier- ipembly was urged to withdraw R00. 060 have joined the organlxa- lean people's contribution! to the! from the council In a memorial lion. It alms at the union of. Red Cross at the time of the '923 presented by the t'rgylc presby Austria nnd Germany. 'earthquake, wan dedicated today, 'tery. SPURNED MATE SLAYS WIFE IN Los Angeles Man Runs Amuck in Downtown Plant Brother-in-Law Also a Victim Slayer Takes Own Life. . LO SANOKLKS, June 1. OP) Muridened by hiB wife's refusal to roconcile their maritul differences. Casimiro Valdez, 35, shot and killed the woman In a downtown offlco building today, probably fatally wounded her employer and then took his own life. Police summoned to the scene by Mrs. Mercedes Lopez, sister-in-law of Vincente Lopez, employer of Mrs. -Valdez, were told that the husband came to Lopez tortilla manufacturing plant where, his tfe worked, and shot her as she opened a door for him. The enraged man, Mrs. Lopez said, then sought her brother-in-law and fired four shots into his body when he encountered him in the basement. Valdez committed suicide immediately afjierward, Mrs. Lopez said. ' Valdez and his wife had been estranged for some time, Mrs. Lopez told police, and he at tempted to make overtures to his had retused to live with him. , PARIS, France, June 1. (fP) The reparations experts came to a full accord on the reparations set tlement today with the exception of the troubled question of re muneration to Belgium for German nark' left in that country by the German armies oi occupation. That question, the only one re maining open In a way of a com promise settlement, probably will go over until next week, permitting H" governments concerned to extr rv n "uercnanges. MIXED IN PLOTS OFF CEBUILD NG ing in Wayne county within ii4 ' j hours. MACON, Ga., June 1. (JP) The j One death was attributed to the mysterious deaths of an unknown J heat at Paterson, N. J., and an youth and an overseer on a tarm i H -year-old girl was drowned at owned by Mrs. J. C. Powers, oc-1 Chews Landing, N. J., while switn cuptcd officers investigating Homing. (, tangle of tho "Insurance murder j Roston, one of the centers to plots," In which they believe the 'suffer most from the torrid spell, 7 1 -year-old rooming house keeper I was the first to feel relief. A may have been Involved, I thermometer reading of 84 do- Both men were believed to havelgreea at 8 a. m. yeserday made it assigned life Insurance policies to ! tho hottest place in the country j Powers, who now is hold with Karl Manchester, 21, on a charge of slaying James 114,000 insurance. Parka for his GRANTS PASS SITE GRANTS PASS, Ore., Juno 1. IP) Construction will start next Monday on a new box factory here, to be operated in connection with the Swede Basin Lumber company's mill. The box plant will have a dnily capacity of 40.000 feet and will utilize box material from the lumber company's mill. It Is being constructed by Ios Angeles Inter ests and will operate throughout the year. 1 Baseball Scores American. R. H. E. Chicago 1 6 New York 8 7 Batteries: Dugan, Adklns and Aulry; Hoyt and Grahowskl. National. R. H. K. New York 7 11 0 Chicago 4 8 4 Mays, Scott and O'Farrell; Itush and f hullo. R. H. E. Philadelphia B 11 0 Pittsburgh 4 12 0 Uenge and Ivcrlun; Petty, Urame, ; French and Hargreaves, Linton. R. H. E. Tlotton 2 7 0 Cincinnati 3 8 3 1 U. Smith and Taylor. 1 Spuhrer; j Ash, May and Sukefonh. r ; 7- ;- , Dedicate Hospital 1 TOKi O. Japan, June 1. 1P) TOKYO. Japan, June 1. 4V- FAMOUS PAIR IN 4i ; It ' - " Associated Preaa Photo The camera eauaht James Tunney and Bernard 8haw In happy mood on Island of Brloni where they pent many hours together. HEATINCREASESiNEW -VOLCANO DEATH TOLL ON E Casualties Near Fifty Mark Boston Feels First Re lief 8 A. M. Reading of 84 Degrees Yesterday Highest in Country. . NEW YORK. June 1. (P) Deaths from the extreme heat which has blistered the north At-, lantlc states four dayti neared tlie half-"hundred mark today. Nineteen persons died from tho heat yesterday and three were drowned. With the temperature in the New York City area reaching a maximum of DO degrees, the high- est thus far this season, nine per- sons succumbed and 18 were pros t rated. A New York Central railroad lineman died while working neur Auburn, N. Y. A boy was drowned at Newark, N. J., the third drown- ;at that hour, but by noon the tern . perature had fallen to 71. Five deaths occurred, however, before the heat wave broke. Other deaths were reported at Maiden, Mass., and Lawrence, Mass. A 12-year-old boy was drowned at Providence, H. I. .The break in the heat wave over New Kngland brought a drop of 33 degrees at Manchester, N. II., and a ten-degree drop at Burling ton. Vt. Ono death occurred at Phila delphia, where a temperature of 92 degrees was recorded. At Get tysburg, Pa., a farm hand was kfllled by lightning. JOSEPHINE SPORTSMEN GRANTS PASS, Ore., June 1 UP) Organization of a stato divi sion of the Iwiak Walton leaguo of America will be effected at a meet ing set for June ! at Portland, lettera are now beinc srnt to ihn 2 . 15 chaptersin Oregon by tho Jo- u senhlne rhnntrr. !hn uornnrl nlHnui in the state, upon request of many Oregon nltonlnns. Tho state chapters are asked to send at least, three delegates to this first meeting. The Portland chapter will provide entertainment for the visitors on the Sunday fol lowing the organization of the state association. PRESBYTERIANS VETO PiTTsnriiCJi. June 1. (,F The1 general assembly of the t'nlted Presbyterian church today rejected a prupnNHL that it sever ills rein; Inn with the Federal ASTERN COAST JOVIAL MOOD POURING LAVA Fate of Island Inhabitants Unknown As Ash and Plamo Rplrh Fnrth Frnm name ceicn rorin riuin New Crater Top Mountain Blown Off. of COKDOVA, Alaska, June 1. (IP) Intermittently lighting the sky with flame and darkening it with ashesJf' a. new1 volcano today was pouring molten lava down the sides of an unnamed mountain and threatening to cover all of Akutan island, resident of the upper Aleutian island reported here. The island 1000 miles south weat of Cordova, normally would have about a dozen residents at this time of year. Their fate was unknown here. If they escaped the first outbreak of the volcano which blew off the top of the mountain, they presumably fled to some neighboring itdard of the Aleutian chain. Heavy ash -from the volcano was gradually covering neighbor ing islands, observers reported, and blanketing vegetation with a coat of gray. Volcanic ash has been seen here, but whether this was from the AkuUm eruption or from some unreported disturbance In turbulent islands of the Bering sea was unknown. FORCED TO WALL CHICAGO, June l.(P) Tay lor, Ewart & Co., an investment securities house with offices in 11 cities, suspended operations today. Announcement of the suspension was made at tho firm's offices here. The company is headed by B. F. Taylor, chairman, and C. B. Bwart, president, and maintains offices In Chicago, New VurK, San Francisco, Boston, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Louis ville, New Orleans and Houston. Recalling of demand loans by New York and Chicago banks forced the company to shut down, officers of the brokerage firm an nounced. SEATTLE, June l.OP) A chain of flying schools is to be establish ed soon by tho Boeing Airplane interests, the first to be opened in about three months in some Pa cific " coant city. The schools will be somewhat different from most of those now operating, officials of the company announced. In addition to courses for beginners, advanced training in the flying of trl-motored trans port plane wftl be given. O Ignite on IjiMNinaii. NEW YOPJv. June 1. P Al Uwman. giant football star of New York university, who was se verely injured in a football game at Pittsburgh last fall, today un derwent an operation designed to repair the injury to his brain. Doc tors announced that the operation wn entirely successful. NEAR CORDOVA RUM FURY ENDED ON IRON RAILS Chicago Madman Killed By Train After Slaying Three and Wounding Three Others Believe Sober Realization Caused Sui cide Debauch Began Three Weeks Ago. CHICAGO, June 1. iff) Ferdi nand Pruess, the maniac who shot three men dead and wounded three others while in a drunken frenzy yesterday, was decapitated today by a Chicago & Northwest ern railroad train. A bpdy found on the right of way waa identified positively by a fishing license is sued to Preuss, and police bellevb the man, sobered over night, real ized the tragedy of yesterday and committed suicide. The condition of Preuss' body indicated he had lain on the track and waited for the Ira In to run over him, police said. Preuss, a war veteran and ex pert marksman, killed two police men and a civilian yesterday and wounded two policemen and two civilians with a pump shotgun. The police were members of a siiuad sent to arrest him after neighbors heard hint threaten to kill his. wife. John Lee Con ley, leader of the defective squadron, was the first to fall before the madman's on iHlaught. After mortally wounding h,m' J1'PUHH flie1 l Policeman ,iei.bm ilMKhere, wno whined, screamed, took a dozen steps, and fell dead. Had l)e(!!y Aim Preuss acquired a deadly aim during the World war, where he gained honorable mention for his marksmanship. He went mad late yesterday, his wife said, after a drink debauch that began three weeks ago. As early as yesterday morning he warned neighbors to "keep your heads Inside tho win dows if you don't want them blown off." Police got a call that a man was quarreling with his wife and threatening to kill her. Policeman John Lee Con ley's detective squad went to tho north side flat where lived Preuss and his wife. Tho , houe that had been quiet when they approached echoed with the roar of a pump gun as a charge of shot crashed through a window and tore into Con ley's chest. A second roar and Hag berg fell. Policeman Joseph J. Muiphy, Conley's chauffeur, who had re mained in the car, seized a shot gun and started to the help of the other policemen. He had taken less fhan a dozen steps when ieu1 pump gun blazed through front window and Murphy fell, badly wounded. A second later Gus Karos, who lived three doors away from the Preuss home, and John Chorazak. another neighbor, both attracted by the shooting, met where Mur phy had fallen. Karos had rushed out to meet his blind brother-in-law, Rudolph Krusche, who had been to a nearby store and was expected home. Another shot and Chorazak, who was standing not ten feet from the window, fell dead. Karos jumped to shield with his body his brother-in-law, who was just passing the house. As ho did so the fifth shell in Preuss' gun was discharged and struck him In the back. Kmntlcs Gun Preuss, in a fury, pressed the trigger again and the hammer fell on an empty chamber. Police be lieve that tho only reason Krusche, the blind man, was not numbered among the victims. Tho slayer a second later rushed out of tho rear door of his home, stood cursing the bodies of Conley and ilagberg, and then fled Into an alley after taking the police man's shotgun and, It Is believed, his revolver. In the alley. Preuss met Frank Vndlcka. who was running toward the scene of the shooting. Vod icka turned and ran into a nar ro w pa ssa ge wa y w hen he saw Preusf., foaming at the mouth and aiming the shotgun pointhlank at him. Preuss fired one shell, then threw the weapon at Vodlcka as the latter fled. The drink-crazed man was seen to take a pistol from his belt, wave it wftd'y, and run down the alley. That was the last seen of him. Mrs. Rose Preuss, the slayer's wife, was found in the home of a neighbor, where she had taken refuge when her husband fired two shots at her before the police arrived. Physirinns said Karos had been wounded 14 times and that he probably would die. Prim-p Henry Confvmcri. VICTORIA, H. C, June 1. (P . Stepping on Canadian soil for the first time. Prince Henry, Duke of! Gloucester, today expressed con- I cern for his father. King George, who on Thursday suffered a relapse which forced him to take to his bed at Windsor castle. Wit - i Savings ML Zick Man ' by Shock OMAHA, (JP) George 1 ine 1. died last night jf what phy- slciuns said was "thock and 4 "a broken heart." Last Monday night Debs returned from a hospital, 4 where , he had undergone a 4 major operation, to be in- 4 formed that his wife had run away with another man, tak- Ing his life's savings of $1600 and leaving six small f children at home. 4 Examining a trunk where 4 he had the money hidden, 4 4 Debs found it missing, lie 4 4 collapsed and was returned 4 4 to the hospital, where he 4 4 died 4'444444-444 E Dumped in Roadside Ditch Chicago Victim Feigns Death to Escape Further Brutality Attackers Make Good Escape. CHICAGO, June 1. (A1) -Oliver N. Olson, a lawyer, 52 years old, was taken for a ride' last night, beaten so badly that a leg and six ribs were broken and then dumped out for dead in a ditch. Only the fact that ho "played dead," he said, saved his life. Olsoi was lured from his Wheat on. 111., home into an auto mobile on the pretext that a friend needed him at the Villa Park po lice station. Reaching a quiet spot on the road, the men stopped the car on the plea of tire trouble. Olson wus struck down from be hind and then was attacked by both men, one of whom kept say ing, "Kill him." After he had been thrown into the ditch, Olson said, the men ad vanced upon him as though to continue the beating, but he kept motionless and the men, believ in him dead, went away. A mo torcycle officer found the lawyer shortly afterward. Olson could advance no motive for the attack. 4 SALEM. Ore.. June 1. (P) A total sum of $56,116.61 in county fair funds has been apportioned among the counties of the state by the secretary of state, It was announced today. This is a levy of one-twentieth mill on a total taxable property valuation In the state of 11,122, 332.1K0.43 with $3,041.61 additional due to the local provision that Multnomah county shall not re ceive over $1 6,51 from the levy. The Multnomah county excess of $10;i.4!t for each county Is required by law to bo ued for road pur poses. Among the apportionments are the following: Baker county, $1 247.80; Coos, $14:10.71; Douglas. $1670.14: Jack son. $1625.55; Josephine, $494.21: Klamath. $627.76; Iine, $2751.67; Marion. $1615.46; Multnomah. $16. 609.4ft; I'maltllla, $2135.25; Union, $1100.27; Wallowa. $626.91. FLOODS IN TEXAS CLAIM TEN LIVES HOUSTON. Texas. June 1. VP) Floods in south and west Tcxhs following torrential rains, tod;iy had claimed ten lives, and caused damage amounting to millions of dolla rs. Three persons, none of whom was Identified, drowned yesterday. A messenger boy on a bicycle was raughl In the swirling current In a street here and whs swept away. A terrlTied onlooker fell Into the water and he, ton, wan carried sway. bodies would It was believed the bo recovered in the basement of some nearby building when the water recedes. Seven others lost tiiolr lives earlier (his week. LAWYER TAKEN A OUTWITS THUGS JACKSON GETS $1,624 FOR AID OF COUNTY FAIR BAIDWINTO nnurrn mi ubWtK UN 4 1 PARTY AIM .Premier Faced With Two Alternatives Resign in Favor of Laborite Or Re construct Ministry Opin ion On Course Divided Strong Wing Urges Vote Challenge. LONDON, Juno 1. (P) Faced with the defeat of his party and a stalemate In parliament. Premier Stanley Baldwin went to bin coun try home at Chequers for tho week-end where It is expected ho will confer with leading members of his party. Next week he v-ill meet tho cabinet and decide upon tho courso tho government will take. "With the administration defeated at tho polls in Thursday's general elec tion and the labor party the largest In the next house, although lacking in absolute majority, the prime minister has two alterna tives. Ho may place his resignation In the hands of the king end leave to Ramsay MacDonahl. tho hibor leader, the duty of forming a labor government, or he may recon struct his stricken ministry, meet parliament and place on the lib erals the decision of eit her sup porting him or putting labor into office. With 13 constituencies out of A 15 stilt unreported, tho lineup that now confronts the prime min ister is as follows: Tjibor, 287 ; conservat Ives, 253; liberals. 54; others, 8. Conservative opinion as to Mr. Baldwin's course is divided but there Is a strong wing urging htm to challenge a vote in parliament. They argue that while the labor party is the strongest it has no clear majority, and that in about 50 constituencies won by labor tho conservative and liberal voto to gether was greater than that polled by labor. Other conservatives think It would be more dignified to resign at once. ,1 SALEM, Ore., June 1. (IP) George H. Wood ley, Portland law yer, will on June 4 be appointed by Governor Patterson " district judge for Multnomah county to fill the new district judgeship created by the 1HJJ0 legislnture. The governor so announced today. F. R. Peterson of Portland was today appointed by the governor as a member of the state board of pharmacy, succeeding R. E. Mason of Albany, whose term has expired and who was not a candi date for reappointment. Peterson formerly was president of the Na tional Association of Retail Drug gists and is now a member of tins executive committee. 4 A Jnponeso scientist has con structed an nil-glass house which Is said to be all, terla proof. dust and bac- Will Rogers Says: i'iTTiii:i:iiH, I'a., .inn" . A sure cpi-tainty nlioiil our Memorial ilny is, lis fiisl 11s the ranks from one war lliin out, the ranks fro m another take their plaec. I' r o m i -nent men rim out, of Deco ration I) a y speeches hut the world never runs out. of wars. l'eo,e talk peace, hut men ;;ive their life's work to war. It won't stop until there is as much brains and scientific study put to aid peace as there is to promote war. Yours, WILL IIOCK.I!. I'. S. : Kay, what do yon know iiliont Owen Yonnr (,'ettinir those hyenas to auree. Ileiiicinher, hoys, he is a imioerat. Don't try !o claim lliin, you Republicans. GEORGE WOODLEY -TO OCCUPY BENCH
