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Medfokd Mail Tribune The Weather Temperatures Highest yesterday Hfl Lowest tlilK morning M ForNnt -Cloudy tonight ami VYI ttay. Slightly cooler tonight. Pilly Twenty. fourth Yr. Fifty -mwith Vw. TWELVE PAGES MEDFORD. OU'WiON, TIIUKsn.w. -JUNK 1;!, 192!). No. SI!. Today C By Arthur Brisbane U RENCHMEN Thou Shalt Not Drink. To Teach Thinking. Hail Miss Goldarbeiter. Thoughtful Bourbon. (Copyright by King Features I Syndicate. Inc.) The novoriimt'iit is employing IIIKI new men in a determined . effort ' to - prevent shipping: Vliiskey from Cumuli! to De troit. They will find it diffi cult, according to a reliable person, who says whiskey is sent across now by torpedoes, dragging eases attached to a buoy, which are picked up later by waiting boats, guided by a flare. An official of t lie Canadian government, traveling on a rum running boat from the Ca nadian shore to Detroit, was assured by the bootleg comman der that government officials "never happened to lie just where the rum boat landed, and never would happen to be there, for good reasons." Enforcing prohibitonn is hard, and is not mado easier by the rather frequent- killings by prohibition agents. A youth recently shot by pro hibition agents has just died. A man driving an automobile with his wife and two children was shot dead by prohibition agents. Such incidents might worry sincere prohibitionists. Too nied by a coast guard amphibian. Auanv such killings will arouse The "tireen Flash," American 4 ' plane, with an American crew, nns liilltHgonism. ed over on the beach and swerved . 'Into a ground loop about midway The 11 o w commandment, of her run. "Thou shall not..' ,lrink,-r:: h''.!d'in?r2hSutl00l '"" """" not yet elimtnaU'd tlte older iMimimuulinrnl, "Thou shnlt not kill," us Mr. Harding-points nut in a forceful cartoon. Don n Hutcliins, soon to 1m1 Iirad of the I'niversity of Clii- . , -li p' cago and youngest president ol any big college in the United SUites, says the teachers' real work is teaching students to THINK. "A university is not made to reform or amuse young men, hut to tench him to think, to think straight, if possible, hut to think always for them selves." No educator ever said any thing more important or ex pressed more accurately the purpose of education. Hut how can you tench men ' TO THINK? That is the (ues t ion. You must take them young. I'rofessor Hutcliins says "It is sad hut true that ttt 18 of 1!) it is too late to take a hoy and make a man of him and interest him in his st in lies. He is solidified too often in f Continued on Paire Fourl They're glitlti' after grape m!- Suspend But Fare rrs. an' prj-ln' Into burti'y roln'' S.M.KM. Ore.. June 1.1 Pj The It's ontv a question ol time till public rvlce rntnmlu'lnn today .tlnwc liartairln' dandelion 'II lie extended to and Including Novem len the green carpet. DoH'l you her 23. this year. Its snsponslon of wish you'll INtenetl to that life the Portland Kleclrlc Power cum InsurniNv an-iu ou almost kick- pany's proposal Increase in street cd out of jour office SO years no. 'ear fares from S to 10 cents. AMERICANS !IN TROUBLE ON TAKEOFF Yellow Bird Makes Fine Start 1C:08 A. M. Today Green Flash Ground Loops When Wheels Give Way Prop el let and Other Portions of Plane Badly Damaged By Mishap. OLD ORCHARD, Maine. June. IX (P) Rumors that a youth Htowed away in the "Yellow Ulrcl" before it took off for Paris today received some credence this afternoon. Arthur Schreiber. 22, of Portland was said by two other youths to have crawled into the big plane while the motor was being warmed up. OLD ORCHARD. Maine. June 13. -TP) One of two trans-Atlantic airplanes got away to a Rood start today for Paris, but the second, destined for Rome, crashed before she left the ground. I he "Yellow Bird, huge French i monoplane, manned by a crew of three young Frenchmen, made a 1 beautiful tnliR.nff at 1(l:hX a. in. and LowIh A. Yancey anil ItoRor Q. Williams of the Aineiiuan piano were not injured. The "Green Flash" nearly dupli cated Its accident of two weeks bko today. At that time one of the wheels dropped into soft Hand and caused it to ground loop, hut only I the wheel and a few alay wires were uuiiiHKt-u. The )HUe wag travolinB ttt much higher rate of speed today unit il in umit'vcu tiiu utiiiiunv would be more serious. The French plane got away two weeks ago hut was forced lo re turn after 20 minutes because of a leak in the main fuel tank. Using Mixed Fuel The "Yellow Bird" lodity was using a mixlure of benzol and gaso line. The benzol was pul in the fuel lo reduce Hie detonation and vibration which caused Hie leak on the first lake-off. The mixture will he about 10 per cent benzol for Hie first two hours of flight. It will then lie fill to per cent and later to 2U per cent. The crew of, the "Yellow Illrd" aro Armona lotti, Jr., sponsor and co-pilot; Jean Assnlant, pilot, and Keno I.eKevre, navigator. Assolant, a -:i-year-old pink cheeked youth, was married three days ago In Miss Pauline Parker of New York. She accompanied him to the beach this morning and was very grave as she bade him goodbye and saw the plane roar tlown the hard packed Hands of the bench. The Frenchmen carried two au tomobile Inner tubes for use as life preservers. l.oltl ordered a good sized rubber boat discarded because i of the added weight. One-half of the propeller was broken when the "Green Flash" nosed over, Ihe left wing strut was broken and the lauding gear was smashed. Yancey said the right wheel let go beneath I hem and the ship twlslpd In Die right al Dial mo ment and centered Into a nosn over. The rear part of the fusclng's near Ihe tall assemblage was bad ly dented and the left wing lorn. The cowling over tho mnlor also was badly 4"iilcd. ;. Gasoline leaked from the tanks and spread annul the ground and the throng about tlte plane was pushed hack for four sotwonc might toss a lighted cigarette or match on the ground and Ignite tin. ruel. The roast guard timphlhiiin, pi loted by l.leut. L. M. Malka. which accompanied the "Yellow Mlrd" at the start, returned above the bead, I to minutes later. The coast guardsman in charge of a porthole short-wave rncoivinc sel hero said that Malka had re j purled Ihe "Yellow Illrd" at K'fi miles out 2miu feet up nnd going : strong. LONG WAIT FOR FAIR WEATHER ENDED The fast IlclfluiYl luonoilnllc IJudlH'rKli trail lo I'urls. Ikdow, WOMAN AVERS'CAL NOT KEN M E INVADED Hollywood Intruder De scribed As Much Sought Tallman Gains Entrance By Ruse Place Ran sackedGuard Vicinity. 1 ,OS A Sd K I liS, Juno 13 (A1) Police announced today thut fiUKd-printe photographed In the apartment of .Mrs. Harry Stern, Hollywood, who reported lnvunlon of her home by a mun answering description of William 1. Tallman, were not those of tho former mdio operator. Mrs. Stern reported to polico hitu lat night thut she had been hound and gagged hy a man who entered her home. Kho identi fied pictures of Tallman, wanted in connnr-tion with the murder of Mrs. Virginia Patty a8 tho in truder. "J am a radioman," Mrs. .Stern told police tho man Hairi as he entered her apartment, "and the police are looking for me." Men. Stern Haid tho intruder waa dressed in a blue suit, which was mudHtained and had been ap parently walersoaked. His face was covered with Hcverat days' growth of beard. The fingerprints taken in Mrs. Stern'H apartment were wild by polico to bo very "smudgy" and somewhat uncertain In detail. They e.xpressed belief that tho raider had worn cloth gloves. Mrs. Stern reported that the man gained entrance hy a ruse. She said he told her ho was a radioman, and thinking he had come to repair her radio net, sho admitted him. Ho Haid he had been in an automobile accident and asked to wash his hand. Showing him to tho bath room. Mrs. Slern said ho reappeared with several bath towels with which he bound her hands and feet, then gauged her and forced her into a telephone closet, locking the door. She succeeded in freeing herself sufficiently to be able to tlrpholie police. Shown pletureH of Tall mtin, Mrs. Stern Identified him as the raider, polico said. Officers arriving at the apart ment found furnlthre and fixtures In disarray, Indicating the man bad ransacked the plnco thor oughly. f STUDENT SLAYER PORTLAND. Ore.. June 13.- (Ti Sanity examination of Walter Flnke Jr.. I i. charged with the murder of his student rival in love, Herbert lleem. 1 S, Ktarted today in Juvenile court. The examina tion Is customary in cafes before this court. Circuit Judge Ollbert has under advisement the. question of whether Kinke will be tried is a Juvenile or turned over to circuit j court for trial. ' W RADIO MAN AS LIFE WORK PREMIER S VISIT I . ' : QUESTION SANITY t i &)'-, tiff SA h , ilu4u Yellow Jtlnl. ill which three young left to right: Ariiieuo llli, Jr.. ABOUT Forrner President Finds it Easy to Write On Known Subjects Output in Longhand Injured On Recent Fishing Trip. N F, V V O K K , Juno 13 . (P) Calvin Coolidge. In an Interview published in the New York World I today, discloses that writing as a career has no apeal to him. j Mr. Coolidge, who was in New ' York to attend a meeting of the , board of directors of the New , York I-ife Insurance company, was i Asked whether he liked to write. "I don't," he said, "oh, I don't find it so difficult to sit and write about something that I know very well, such as my own life, but a ! career of writing" and he left j the sentence unfinished. I The former president also dfs- elot-ed that all his writing is done In longhand. He said lie hail heard of per- I sons who coulon t write, a. word unless they sat at their type writers. "They always said that Presi dent Wilson had that habit," he added. "He would use Just two or three fingers at his own ma chine. At least that was the story about Washington. ! don't know whether it was true or not." Mr. . Coolidge carried bis left hand bound in a black silk hand kerchief as a result of a sprain he suffered while on a fishing trip last week. "I was Just trying to laud a big trout," he said, "and in my excite ment during the hattlo I slipped ! over a large rock and hurt my hand. The doctor says II is a bad sprain." !' He was asked whether ho got the rish. "Oh, yes," ho replied, "I landed I him nil right, and 1 guess he was worth It." SUE FOR TAX CUT POUTI-ANl), Ore., .Iiino i:i. -pj rive large lumber companies op em ting in the Kin ma I h conn t ry filed Hull in federal eourt here to day to restrain the Klamath coun ty court to revise Its annual budget downward. The rmupanlcH are: Weyerhaeuser, IrfihK Hell, (i IIHiiTh! , Shevlln-liixon and Italph K, (ill christ. The complaint asks for a decree holding void general taxes levied against the plaintiffs for Hrjs and now collectable. Casualties of the Air Service SAX ANTONIO. Texas. June 13. j (A'f adet L. II. Troup. IM, stu- ! cut in the Hdvanccd fiytnu school j at K el ley field, was killed n nd , Cadet Floyd lirna i d Wood, if I . escaped death by taking to his j parachute when their plane locked wings over Kelley field today. ' AMsoeinted J'reM Photo Treneiiinetl ulv oViiyiiiir the Jean snlant tunl Keiie Irf'ffvrc. DAIS 10 GIVE Ambassador Will Meet Mac Donald in Scotland Sun- -ay-Present Credentials to King Saturday Ad vice On Visit Desired. LONDON, June 13. (P) It was stated authoritatively today Am bassador Dawes would travel to Scotland Sunday to meet Promle'r MacDonald at Forres, a little town 17 miles from LIhsIc mouth, where the premier is spending a short vacation. The new ambnsador will be re ceived by King tJeorge at Windsor castle Saturday, when he will pro sent his credentials, the presenta tion taking place, possibly within i hours of Ills landing at South ampton from the Olympic. This procedure is necessary, ac cording to the code observed by diplomats, which would not sanc tion an Interview with t he prlpio minister .prior to presentation to his majesty. At Lossiemouth, Mr. MacDonald (old an tlntervlewer with regurd to his prospective visitor: "We shall meet over the luncheon tahlo and In Ihe short space of three or four hours great questions of A nglo Amerlcan cooperation In the eaio.o of disarmament and permanent peace will be opened." It was said plans for the pre mier's projected visit to the Cnlted States depended upon the message li r 'i ii k h t him by Ambassadnr Dawes. who was assumed generally to have been authorized to convey a cordial invitation to Mr. Mac Donald. Mr. MacDonald. It was under stood, would be guided by tieneral Dawes as regards the program of his visit, and the scope of his dis cussions while in the Cnited Slates u ould depend upon t ho ambassa dor's advice. GRANGE HOST VOTE MYltTLK POINT, Ore.. June 1 "1. - -fP) -llalloilng on location of next year's Stale (irango session started here this morning and the early count of voles indicated Iterimond will be host clly in POO. Hood Hlver, IjiUninde nnd Klain ntli Kalis alHo inxdc bidH. CLAIM 123RD VICTIM 'I.KVKLAN'D, Ohio, June 1. t1b The fatal fumes generated In an X ray film lire m the Cleveland clinic May 15 claimed another life today and Increased the toll of dead in tho disaster to l-':i. Henry Lus tig. 48, attorney and theatre oper Btr, died today. DEBENTURE BEATEN ON ROLLCALL House Backs Hoover By Rejection of Export Plan in Farm Relief Leaders View Vote As Paving Way for Senate Action Conferees to Meet Senate Committee. WASHINGTON, .Tunc. 13. (I5) A meeting of tho aonato and house conference committee on tho ftym relief bill has been called for to morrow morning, at which time they will take up the question of eliminating the debenture plan from the measure. WASHINGTON, June 1 3. fl The house today hacked Up. the views of President Hoover by re jecting the export debenture plan of farm relief. The vote was 250 to 113. The debenture proposition, which Mr. Hoover had attacked twice in public statements and which lie had termed a subsidy, was votfd down on a roll call vote taken at the insistence of the sen ate, which hud approved it on two occasions. A number of senators had been represented, however, us demand - itlir the ltictllMhin if Ihn li,n Ii, the bill in order, that the house memiiors cuuui be recorded on It. Today's action was regarded by administration leaders as paving the way. for a recossiou by . the senate in its stand and a qtitck transmittal of a relief measure, minus the debenture, to tho White House. A few minutes after the house clerk had announced the outcome of the hiillot. Senator1 Kobtnson of A rkansas. t he d omocra t lc sena t e leader, indicated ho would carry out his announced Intention of abiding by the decision of the house. Kohinson has been a leader of tho move In the senate in behalf of the debenture and has been Insistent upon a direct voto by tho houso on tho propo sition. Speaker Lnmrwnrtb Immnll. ately appointed conferees to take up consineration or the question with the senate once more. They were Haugen. Purnell of Indiana, Williams of Illinois, re publicans, and Aswell of Louisiana and Klncheloe of Kentucky, demo crats, who served on tho first con ference committee. It WHS llldlf Mtfri Ihn r.nnr,,.nau would seek an immediate meeting won senate conferees, and Ttlson, in the event nn agreement should he reached late today, obtained permission for the house group to file a report until midnight. This would onablo n voto in the house tomorrow on whatever agreement nilght be worked out. Baseball Scores America n. R. II. VI. St. Isolds l 7 j Moston 4 7a Collins. Klmsey and Schang; M, Oastoii and Merry, A. (iaston. R. If. K. Cleveland 3 11 0 Philadelphia 10 U 2 SSInn, MHJns and L. Howell; Rommel and Cochrane. R. If.. K- Detroit R 7 a New York 8 1 !i 2 WhltelilM, HI oner and Khea; Wells and flMibowskl. National. U. II. K. Philadelphia H 4 I Chicago f) 3 (Culled end or ftlh. rain.) WllloiiKhhy and Davis; Root and ( iraco, R. 11. K. New York 7 11 J Pittsburg 1 1 Li 0 Walker, Mays, Henry, and O'Karrell; petty, Jlill, Hwetonlc and lleiusley. n. ir. k Itrooklyn 2 It 2 Cincinnati t ft Vsnce and Deberry; Kolp and Oooch. 4. (Hiiiy In i YhImt. WAHIII.ViTON, June 1 3 A'i Kecretary Mood today Instructed Hrmy officials to extend courtesies nnd facilities to tho British cruiser Colombo on Its visit to t he Pa cific const this summer. The cruiser will visit Portland, Ore., August lb; Multifield, August 27. Honesi xretta Returns Diamond Worth Ten Grand M-:V YOISK. June IS. M'l Wlml a tlnill fur honest liurettu OlHtntl, clerk for tL piano company. She fouml iliamnml 1M1K in tile lohhy nf the enmpuny'.H buililitiK. notified the elevator man that she hail found it. put it on and dazzled friends display ing It. Then she took it to a jeweler for appraisal. He valued It at f 10.001). Tho thrill was hiKKer than ever. Hut Ijiuretta wan afraid of sui-h wealth. She left It in the jeweler's safe. Now she Is to et a reward from the I owner. PEAR RATE OF UNTILDEC. 31 Rogue River Traffic Asso ciation Announces Rec ommendation of S. P. Accepted By Other Routes Prof. Hartman Engaged It was announced at the meet ing of the Rogue River Traffic as social Ion today that the Central Freight association bad ordered tho emergency rate of $ 1.113 per hundred on pear shipments, as recommended six weeks ago by the Southern Pacific, and accepted by other railroads. The rate will bo In effect . until December 31, next. Tho association voted' to co opera I o with the I' r irtt growers' league In securing the services of Prof. K. T. llartmann of tho Ore gon Slate college, lo go to New York City the coming ' fruit ship ping season, and advise the trade on the storage and marketing of Hog tie river pears. Prof, llart mann Is an authority on this sub ject, ami will visit tho city and valley next Tuesday, with the board -of regents on a tour of In spection. A fund is being col lected among the fruit growers for the sending of Prof, llartmann to New York City, If arrangements can be ma fie. The regents and Prof. llartmann will be guests of a Krultgrowers Tarlff association luncheon next Tuesday nnon. , A committee composed of Messrs. Hamlin, David Rosenberg and Newbry was appointed to re port as soon as posslhlo and as briefly as possible, upon tho prac ticability of packing houses keep ing packers at the same bin by the day distend of rotating them every hour. It is claimed that by keeping the packers at the same size trull for a day at a time, the quality or the puck would be In creased. The abrupt elevation on Houth Kir street, where unco steamed tho Rogue River Vnlley railroad, will soon be no more. Next Tuesday evening the city council will be asked to eradicate It. Packers aver that the "big bump" is detri mental to (H-irs being hauled to the packing houses. Much of the pear hauling traffic passes over It. A ttorney Rawles Moore ex plained to the association the changes In the slate marketing law passed by the last legislature. The secretary was Instructed to get a copy of the law for each packer and, they In I urn, were urged to comply with the provisions thereof 'before July I next, or suffer the penalties therein provided. Jack (frirrils informed the meet ling I luil he was busy putting up the machinery tor the R. W. Hur- rows paper p;id factory on South Front street, and would start mak ing paper pads within a few days. MADIHON, Wis., June 11. P A resolution whs Introduced in the state legislature Inst iiUM praistiK federal dry agents "for their failure j to shoot Hnyone" during tho pinhi jhllion raid at the Republican par 'ty's diamond Jubilee celebration at Rlpon. Wis., Inst Katu-day. The resolution was killed, If to 7. j Tho measure was Introduced by Senators James A. Marker of An Ulgo and Hen Gettleman of Milwnu . kee. It declared the agents' "fail ure to kltl anyone" at Klpon "was unusual. 1.63 ORDERED IDONAID i in uAHMrn d WMItlNLU BY LIBERAL Liberalism1 Not Socialism Must Be Policy, Says Lloyd George Await Declaration With Interest Jowitt Defection Pro duced Universal Condem nation, Is Charge. LONDON, June 1 3. (P) Lib eralism and not socialism must ho the keynote of the new labor, gov ernment's policy or its career will come to a summary conclusion, declared David Lloyd George, lib eral leader, in outlining this aft ernoon the policy of tho liberal party would pursue in the coming parliamentary sessions. The little Welshman, who holds the balance of power in the houso of commons which meets Juno -5. told a meeting of the liberal par liamentary party that the noun try had given a liberal and, not a tory or labor mandate. , "We shall awuit with Interest t h e fort h uo m In g d ec la ra t ion . of ministerial policy," Raid Mr. Lloyd George, "but we must declare that as far as' lies in our power -the mandate of the government ends when it fails to pursue the liberal policy. . - "At the very hour that the min istry decides to become a socialist administration, its career ends. For it has no authority from tho nation to embark upon socialistic nVltiHi.rnlM II ,,n Irl ..)vr . Ihnn be kept In poVr- by tory votes or tory Indulgence."" t ' ( Mr. Lloyd George: dealt' sum marily with tho defection of Vy II liam Allen Jowitt from the liberal party to become attorney general of the new labor government., Ills referenco could hardly be misunderstood when, without men tioning Mr. Jowitt hy nn.mc,. he remarked, "We huve had one de fection. I shall make no comment on It or on the unparalleled cir cumstances under which It took place. I leave It to the universal nausea felt and exprossed In every circle. . . , . With reference to Anglo-American relations " and disarmament, Mr. Lloyd George said ho assumed f hat tho new labor government would take Immediate steps , "to not upon the approaches made' by the United States regarding naval disarmament. . "If the government Insists upon the solemn obligations of peace treaties, as to disarmament being curried out, then they can ' re.ly on the whole-hearted HUpport of tho liberal party." Li LOCAL AIRPORT SKATTLtJ, Juno 13. tP) Two ( tregon points, Med ford and Port land, and four California cities, wilt soon be linked hy automat lc i printer telrgruph with the Seattle j office of the Ileolhg Airplane com- puny. Officials of the company have announced that the printer ; telegraph units will he installed I' on these airfields to Insure in stantaneous communication be I ween airports. The California. I cities aro Loh Angeles, Uakersfletd. Fresno and Oakland. The usual telegraph faclittln have been relied upon in the pat, Moeiim officials said, but increased use of its service has necessitate.' a more private commiinlcathiu system. f The equipment at the local air port is expected to bo In opera tion by July 1, and wilt bn located in the present Pacific Air Trans port headquarters at tho field.- CIIATTANOOHA. T-nn.. Juno 13. (IP) llva Cofor, Gporiitown, Tenn., farm Rlrt, chnrKert with ln'ltiK Leo AU'hlcy, 35, merchant. I with a wnjron mtnlce after an nl- IpkimI Insult In hla More, waa no liinllti'U by a Jury lodny. j BOEING TO BY m V ! WAGON SPOKE SLAYER ACQUITTED BY JURORS