Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 29, 1929, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Forecast Fulr tonight uml Tins lUy. Unit cluuit In tOllllMTH- lure. Temperatures Highest yesterday ... OH UmiK this morning fitt Ptllr Twuy. fourth Yer. Yittklj FUty-wttb Yer. MEDFORD. OUIXiON. MONDAY. .Jl'LY !), 19'J). No. 128. The Woman Tempted Me. Welcome Wheat Shortage Servants of France. Two Weeks in the Air. 2 SLAIN AS CONVICTS SHOOT WAY OUT 1 JNE TodayPlj fj By Arthur Brisbane a a btxui L 0 "ssa )r 311 B !T"fn i B Bn sum asm IsJ' V (Copyright by Klntc Features Syndicate,' Jnc.) Vrofessor Snook admits that lie ''hammered Miss Theoia Ifix until she was unconscious, tlii'n cut her throat to end Ik sufferings." ,Itis defense will lie that tl lady induced him to taxe drugs which made him wild. In fact, she was responsible for her own murder. That lakes you far had: t' the Liardeii of Kden, with the snake looking on, and Adam sa.vinr, ".Mullier me decepsit.'' The woman tempted me, and I did eat, is an excuse that has been used in every age and every court. jFarmers will he glad, gam blers in wheat will lie delight ed, to hear there is a real wheat shortage. The estimated vield for this country and Can- ida is 4Sti,l)(KI bushels under ast year's crop. The government plans a gi- lantic co-operative world-wide larketing organization, with l!0,non,()O0 back of it. The krm board, and smaller agri- Lltural co-operatives wouhl erk together, and I'nele Sam kild supply 'the capital. serious effort to help the ners is important to every- xy. (ieiieral prosperity tie- nas on tne larmer s anility buy manufactured products. Raymond7 l'oincare, having ved his country for a life- Ve, through war and peace, retire ai last, asiting no re d but the satisfaction of nig worKeit welt tor r ranee. riaiul will take l'oincare 's j as premier, thus fillinir (rent office for the tenth lew of us ill America appre- the hioli character and M ability of the men that le the French republic, or erstand fully their passion- devotion to I e beau rajs France." Saturda.v afternoon the St. Louis Kobin had been thins: continuously for mure than two weeks. The tireless fliers, .lack, son and O'Hrine, sa.v they in tend to remain in the air an other week. - The endurance of the air plane is remarkable, worthy of praise. 0 ST. ' Tlicr' lot n fun tin' iTlticl-m poked at ilc foN. hut you take iuh lh f dcisMidcnr, or mohhi jitt bnNikln even, nn' he's n Icwl boaaVd - an) buddy jou'd enre to . fi. inn iii nil . r ihtt nn inn Ii, OTrr wttl In hr tlir qilillnll ii C Whin ti lenve twiro nn' w luit if Ihr IxHir. lCOirishl Julin K. IHIIr i; I I (Continued on I'iikc Four! i mm 1'J r7 ,m i FT : 2 CRASHENDSjr I I MA r I Mil "I 1 1 W W II Ij IQinilDAMPCiltf v iiii ii in iiiiii muuimnuL j I Pantain P. p i p h t n n Killpfl. Owen Hougland Injured When Big Plane Falls On Seventh Day of Soaring Machine Unable to Gain Altitude After Dropping Note. MINNKAPOI.IS, Minn.. July 20. ) .Vt The emlurnnft1 monoplane, i "The Minnesota," crushed on Wold- j Chnmberkun airport early today, j killing Cnptain P. .1. CriKhiun and perhaps' fatally injuring his ro-1 pilot, Owen Maimland. The fliers were in their seventh day in the air and at f:2 5 a. m., when the hijr plane fell, they had passed 1;")4 hnui-8 mid 4 " minutes soaring in the sliies. The iraKic endinir of the endur ance flit; ht came suddenly as L'apt. Crk-hton, then at the controls, en deavored to regain altitude after he hurt swooped low over the air port to drop a note, their lust, say inn "nil was well." Pilot Ha up land was sleeping on their impro vised bed atop the gnu tank in the fuselage, and was lifted uncon scious from his pallet. t'HPt. C r 1 c h t o n was dead when the ground crew reached the wrecked plane a few moments after it fell. apmlronTiy1-" ha'!'1 ""'mo''' m""" i in dropping ovit the airport, caus ing l)u plan1 to sidi'slip nn he startiM up aain. He Micepfilen in leveling the plane hut lost more speed, and the plane fell flat on tile concrete automobile racetrack ,,,.. ..,,' ,,,,,, .,,.,.' ...,. smashed. The motor fell hack on the pilot, crushing him. ! Doctors later said HaiiKlanil had ' TACOMA, Wash., July 2fl. ('! suffered a compound fracture of!- While his plane, the City of Ta ttle skull and possible internal in-1 coma lay badly wrecked on the juries. They expressed doubt that 1 recover. j he would recover. ri-iiMl Six Times. The ill-fated attempt, which al-1 most cost Pilot IlaiiKland his life, j rnntnl Hi fiv vl- h,l ed in failures caused hy motor trouble. Captain t'richton's death - ended his only attempt at an cn-i ,.... IX land had tried four times with 'lene Shank, a Minneapolis com- j merclal flier, and last month he '. had tried again with Thorwald i nunuer aonnson, Kn that at- tempt he achieved 149 hours and 32 minutes in the air. Dipping out of the skies this morning to drop their note of instruction- for supplies and refuel ing. Captain Crichton dived io within feet of the airport. The refueling jdiip. Ace High, sislr j ship of the Minnesota, was pre 1 paring to lake off with l"(i K;i- lons of gas for the fliers when the endurance plane was seen to side slip. bprvers said it fall "like a pancake." Captain Crichton was a World war veteran and a captain in the army air corps reserves. lie was employed at the Cnited States Vet erans" hospital at Fort Snelling. His age w.i given as 3.V Pilot Haugland. 3H. owned and operated an airport an, flying school at Buffalo. Minn., his home. Hail gland conceived the idea of attempting to fitaliish a new en durance mark soon after the army plane Question Mark set its rec ord. He tied up all hi property. nYhrt gaging everything he could. o purchase two cabin planes, one for the endurance attempt and the other for the refueling ship. In addition to hi aviation in- , leresrs. naueiumi owned a caso line filling station. lb- is n vet j eran of the World war. having i s'TVeil in the artillery. He he can ' fiying in 1 After completing his morse, he started flying by taking .Mrs. Haugland to a Marion, S. I. hoptaI eoh week for treat ment. Sit.- : p.n :ilv7( d The Noted Dead nni'Acn. in. juiv H-nrv lt!.l. Kiilli"-. 7J, :iil!i v's iimvcIh. V. ..1. rd'i IM-" li'-l I.H"n RITI 1 WIT i ni'-iiii-T tu j-nv.-ri litni. rii;i-;. in, r.f Triniti'." Tli. -Tim -i'-n," Iint,.r," " i, i, ir,,( .. :ili.l fvli.il U,u!,.i uf k,i iii Disaster '9! 1 J 4 11 I. l.t. Ilarotil Iti'omlry (IcH) onllio stiirlitii; line of Ills nun-slop d isli rnr Tokyo. I'mirr riK'u: 'I'll" City of Tufnitiii. mill (liiwrr) erowil iierluimiiiK him at the Wusliiiiloii niriiorl. 'I'lw pliine uns wns-k-eil Siimlay in an nlteiniiUil Marl. PACIFIC PLANE Disaster Attends Sunday Morning Hop for Tokyo Backers Will Bebuild Ship and Make New Try With in Sixty Days. Tacoma airport lust night. JJeu- tenant Harold Kromlev was going ahead with plans which he eS- pe. ,s will send him on a second attempt nf a non-stop flisht to Th fir-. trously early Sunday morning' when the low slung monoplane whirled Into a pround loop after GROUND LOOPSIKLAMATH SEENiBY-PRODUCTSOF Ofi TAKE-OFFBYO.-O. SURVEYjPROHl STATUTE i i '. ' r, ; , ,h.for the surveying crew Khh issuing from tanks. Following the crash yesterday ' special meeting of hackers of thi lB'n Vi cuiifu which irsunrti " a d.-rision to rebuild the City f Tacoma immediately. The wr Iced plane will he crated up today and sent tu the Lockheed ; plant in Burhank. O.I.. whil e' Tlw.v.tr.v lti-,,,,,1, hl,li..1f 1..- southward hound, uccurding to plans tutiight. plane, which was1 The orange to have winged i t h way nearly fiU'iO miles across the I'at-ifie ocean to Japan had gone less than 1500 it veered sharply to the left Into soft d,rt. tore olf the riKhl Wheel! of the landlnK Rear, demolished the right wing and stuck its sluli- by nose into the dirt. ) An examination hy Lockheed the plant experts .showed that the plane was not seriously d:im. ; iged. I FORMAT I KV YfHIK. .Inlv St. fPi p(),.ni;,li(in (.f another huge invest ment iriift. sponoied by the fiunk of Amcrica-lllair corporation Itv f erects, was reported to be undei way in Wall st reet today. 'npf taliratton of the new company. . in understood, will eonsi-t of f Mt,-j ,ll,,N"lfl -''""'I Hto. k and a snb-j "tantial block of no par common. - with . neii. mill pi !tmnedmt..v. K l; . nor tire-ldent of th' h T ok cim--' : C i.-s coriioi at imi. K r"p" h-k e (.'. n named n h id in'W i "lup.iny e. IO nf the Poy Kill-d on Roid T''WA. M",ih.. - M'i l'nnftri' nf an ;i'iMr':i' lijTur r: H.'i'li v 1,'iiu. r;'H i"lo lh I to d liv n v r ;i r p. T,t. ri'"''n driv n liv Mr- . f-'Mn of Yem. struck and l.ilb-d him. Checks Trans-Pacific WBftytl mtiiiMmi m :tv$4 GOOD ROUTE iOllRV. COBB CUES t I , Crew Completes Preliminary. Work On Extension Pro- ject On South Side Riverj From Butte Falls Owen! Finds Still. ! Reconnaissance work In connec- tlnn with the proposed Owen-Ore-! v,, ,1,' ' , , u- Kl".S, 'l," '- lias ' ' ' 1 ng.o 11 V " , , , )WC"' ""'""'" "'"""Ke-" w. , oiiiiiivi ninpiiii;, mite t'ound a pood roiiti!." Owen wl'l IelUe 1,1 tlle coming U. go OVe and the work of actual surveying will start In week or 111 days. He Raid tlmt sup. :peg we belllR-iont t Fall the proposed route runs on the south side of Kneite river out of Butte Palls nnd extends In a south- 'tlsterly direction to the area tan- . . . iif..t.... n , Spencer creek It runs exclii ,1 ''J "n n ' "m u uy m . . 1 V. "l, n"-' A ? """.T J"nr' ""; MI..r 1 MIIN ini'llKI-V to Inspect the nrellmlniiry survey I He hectinie. lost In ihe wodds nnd ,lllloW,:, n ",,srnrfi traiI- At , V " .iV i , V ...... ic. i-inii in oiei ill Mill. ,MI I one was In sight hut the poiimt of a (niiin running through the hrunh wh, I.I1-M-.I .... " ... ' , , 111 , ' heart ""' .V'";1"" "ecordlUK in ui mi-ill ill I IIIUCI , IIUtMMiy Hill ever find it." "It took me the: entire afternoon ,n r'Knin "' arliiK8 nnd If I hail he- He I couid do II." Manaeer (Iwen said. cated on land owned by his com pany. I lireetors anil officials of the Owen-Oregnn company will arrive ! here August 4. They will Inspect the local plant, and will information on the progresf survey. receive of the Baseball Scores National y Mrcftklvn f'(n,.nir) j MVfltn(, u.hrrv ) , 17 I It I" ' --"in t -.-1, 'i i; -j I .-l.-i Mv. .luiiri. Canlwi-ll and S:.(hriT. 1'il'v. .l.'lti. S'-vi-rnnlr. Kn-miT ii n. I Hurt p iivi'i. Il.-nmli-y !' 1 American It M h r 2 i; h and He Chfe.-irjo I'H'.-ul l.diin 1'aber. I.V'Kis, Ci 1 c: h Iv'" n-ha , H Inn tjui nn inoj Co uane. Attempt Noted Author Flays Amend- ment in First Statement As Head of Committee Writers and Artists Against Dry Law. WASH IXdTO.N, July 211. (!)- Irvin S. Cobb. In his first state- " cnauiiia i , ...0 iiuuioi, and urllsts comn.ll.ee o the Asso. cm.ion Against tne i-ronimtlon Amendment, exiiresses the opinion illllll 11 ll IHIIIHIIIIII IK 11 IHINI1 t"X- periment, then the San Francisco fire and the (ialveston flood also should he listed among the noble exeiiments of our national his tory." Asserting the right to agitate for repeal or re-lnterpretatlon f pro hibition hy congress, he Raid, "We know that millions of otherwise or derly citizens are engaged In con stant violations of the 'letter und spirit' nf the Volstead net." 1 Pe cited "corruption, bribery, graft, hypocrisy, perjury, beer wars, machine gun battleH, de bauchery of minors and a grow ing contempt for law and order" as outstanding "by-products of this general evasion of statutory regu lations," nnd said: "We have only to take the or dinary experiences of the ordin ary man, along with his personal knowledge, and the dependable hearsay terntimony which comes to his ears, and the Indict ment stands complete nnd perfected." REPORT BIG FIRE GRANTS PASS, Ore., July 29. fPr-'KepoTtn of ii large lire in the Klamath forest in Californln, Just across the Oregon line. ceived ment here today by the govern- ! forestry of I ice. Siskivou ' lookouts near Holep lake said they could see the flameH. Tliev also i reported a ffro on Horse. Sign creek i In the Agness district and six for -I jesters have been dispatched in j fight the flames. i IN TABERNACLE WtrtL. WAHSAW, Ind . Jolv 2'. M'i Thiet. women were suffocated to- dnv when the gospel ta hi-rnu' le. i ! where they were rooming was loriniiig - d by file. The ib-ad ai" i Mrs Sarah ('lark. Tj. of Winotri ' fvike. Mis Dva Clark. 4'i, daugb- iter (,f Mrs Claik. ftNo of Wlnoni U.f ntid Mb l r.i Carper, of ' Til ie aitoe. Hid. I COUNTRY ISlmERS MY IPRISONERS PflRfHPn RVl fVI INflPPC I AT AIIRIIDM I fll II II II I I I I I I I I I II til 1 1 Mil ft I Ml II II 111 I V I I II IV 1 IB.&S LS V I bit 1LUIIU III I lULSUIll 1 HEAT WAVEi WEAKENEDlIN REVOLT I ! i Sections Suffer As Mercury Continues at High Mark Cities Deserted Over Week-End Dry Spell Alarms Farmers Do minion Faces Fire Menace PORTLAND. Ore., July 29. Scorching temperatures nhot the thermometer up to new marks for the year in many Oregon cities yesterday .and today threatened to reach even higher marks. The weather bureau gave- eastern Ore gon some encouragement, however, by predicting cooler weather to morrow. The situation In western Oregon was dismissed with the words "not much chungo In tem peraturo." Umatilla was the hottest place in the state yesterday with nn official tempera turn nf 101 de grees. 1'endleton experienced Its second hottest day of the. summer when the mrcury touched (19 de grees. The highest temperature there this yenr was 102. Medford and (irants Pnsa were next In line, the temperature reaching OS degrees In both cities. It was the hottest day of the year. Brufch fires at royoto nnd jFnn ther creek districts nnd nt Wil liams, Ore., kept ranchent " nnd rangers busy over the week-end. There wan no material damage. Itogne liiver. Ore., reported 108 degrees, unofficial reading. At Hoseburg the temperature rose to 93 degrees, eclipsing the year's previous high record by on degree. In Kugene (lie mercury stood nt the 92-degreo mark, the hot test day since August, 1928. Other temperatures were: Port land 93, Salem 87, Albany 98. Wolf Creek 99, Baker 85. Marsh field 8, Walla Walla, Wash., 92. MOW YOItK, July 29. (P) The country lay gasping today un der a hent wave. In various sections Sunday tem peratures approached the century mark. The highest point for the day was 98 degrees, which was re ported from such widespread points as Albany, N, Y., Baltimore, Phoenix, Ariz., Ht, Louis nnd Wash ington. The mercury stood at 92 in Montreal. Host on, Cleveland. Cincinnati, Detroit. Philadelphia and San Antonio, Tex. New York City, where the tem perature was Uli degrees, was de serted by nbout 3,000,000 people who sought comfort hy jamming nearby benches nnd filling high ways leaving the city. Seven per sons were drowned In the metro politan area. Tim drought , which has been virtually unbroken for a month, gave further cause for alarm to farmers nnd brought to Canada n forest fire sit unt Ion which do minion officials believe to be the must serious since 1 !t23. While crops were wilting throughout the Atlantic seaboard slntcH nnd east ern Canada, nnd the wheat crop of western Canada was reported hope lessly scorched, produce farmers in the metropolitan district faced ruin unless the drought endn speed ily. CJIK'A(K), July 29. Ml The mid-west waited hopefully todi.y for the relief promised by govern ment weather forecasters from the torrid temperatures of the past few days. ' The relief, however, wiih expected to be slight and brief, 1 tenches nnd highways were erowded over the week end by hundreds of thousands of persons seeking temporary respite from the uncomfortable weather. Thirty five men were overcome by the heat while marching in nn Amer- lean J-eglon parade nt Oeratur, III Several of them were In n serious condition today. I-'ifteen denths while swimming were repotted In Illinois nnd Wis consin yesterday. Six death due to automobile accident also were July 29 A I heavy rain h.is put sudden nnd I uneipected end to n long and 'V drought throughout Knglnnd. The rain, which began yesterday "d is expected to continue, broke what has been the longest drought ever experienced in London. Thoiand of agriculturists nnd 'he wi.ter upily authorirle of the Innumerable towns were relieved from w eeks of anxiety. St Louis Robin Near 400 Hour Mark Motor Still Turns at Good Speed, De spite "Minor Defects Huge Crowds Visit Field to See Endurance Flight Over Sunday. ST. LOl'IS, July 29. fP) Oeorge Lea Iamhert, 23. vice-president of the Von Hoffman Aircraft com pany and a son of Major Albert Bond lumber I, official observer of the St. Louis Kobin endurance flight, unit Harold ( Jones, IK, of New Vork City, a Von Hoffmnn student, were killed today In a crash of n biplane near ItlncUJack, St. Louis county. Lambert was killed outright and Jones was found tu he dead when he reached n St. Louis hospital. ST. LOUIS, July 29. (flV-Dalo (lied) Jackson und Forest O'Hrine. fliers of the St. Louis Kobin, hnd completed 391 hours in the air at 2:17 p. m4 today and hnd exceeded the endurance record of the An- goleno hy '145 hour, or Big full tiays. Shortly before noon the fliers dropped a message for Ohnffee, answering nn Impilry concerning the condition of the motor. It read : "Dear Shorty: Our old motor turns up just as much now r.s when wo took off. We know we have a couple (of cylinders) get ting weak. Have been that wny for t ho Inst 100 hou rs. N u m her four und number six. Can tell easiy at night, hut we still fly at 13 THi-1300 (revolutions per min ute) easy, not using much gns, a littto more oil. The gaskets on the push rods are leaking. I was sleeping up to (he time Ohle threw nut the note (first one today). Sure can sleep; Just go up nnd find the temp (temperature) and saw ft off. Hoping wo put-put for an other week. Uegnrds. Ited." Chafe turned the message over to C Itny Wnssnl, pilot of the re fueling plane, who remarked: "That doesn't mean a thing. They have hnd thnt condition for a week hut the old motor keeps turning over." No Indication when the motor will croon Its swan song was ap parent to ground observers ns the airmen went Into their seventeenth day. According to Major William H. Itobertson of the Ctirtlss-Koh. ertson company, sponsoring t he (Continued on lng Klgbt.) The expectation of ltogue Hlver valley fruit shippers, that the 1 !i 2 y fruit crop would move over the AliuniH cut-off of the South ern l'aclflc will not be realized, It was nnnuunced today by rail road officials. The Hue will he operated lor fruit shipments In mu. The Alturas branch will be reudy for business, August Ifi, hut the roadbed will not be in shape for fast freight. A few t ruins ut the winter vtirleiies of pears, may be hauled over the new lin, but the main portion of the esti mated fruit crop of 4000 tars will be routed via Ha vis, Calif., as of old. The Southern rmific strove it high i-eed to complete the mud for this season, but were unable to complete the Job. Beside the settling or the ballant, there was the making of tariff rates nnd running schedules, stilt underway. Official of the Southern I'ncifL nnd the i'nctfie Fruit Kprens will meet this week, with shippers nnd growers of the Itogu Itiver valley, ru hiding tlie Crants I'nss sec- tion to di.cus plans for tho com- lug nhlpphiK season. ALTURAS ROUTE NOT READY FOR 1 929 PEAR HAUL Fifty Long Term Convicts in New York Prison Lead Break for Liberty Two Mutineers Killed Four Guards Wounded Cap ture Arsenal Set Fire to Several Shops. AUHL'UN, N. Y.. July $. Fifty long-term convb'ts at Au burn state prison vosterday, Ird a revolt of the 1700 Inmates, cap tured the prison arsenal, with Its stock of npproxlmutely no rifles nnd four r.inehine guns, storiiied Ihe main tfntes; fired several orison shops, with an estlmntf! loss of Jf.00.000 and shot four guards, one seriously. Four convictH escaped from the prison In tho first rush; two of the mutineers were killed hy the fire of the guards, and a third was wounded seriously. A mere handful of guards, two thirds of the staff being off duty because It wan Sunday, heat back the first attack of the rioters, then,' rotnforced by tho remaining" guards, hastily recalled, and by state troopers, they held a yelling, surging mob of convicts at bay until the outbreak spent Um force and quiet was restored. Tho four convicts who escuped. were: (leorge Small, serving a term of 12 years for robbery; Joseph Cap rlro, serving a 20-yenr term for robbery; Arthur Barry, serving 25 yearn for burglary, and Steve 1'nwlik, robber, serving life as a fourth offender. A chock-up today showed that, with the exception of the sluin convicts, one In a hospital, and th four who escaped, every In mnte of the prison was In a cell. although the cells were crowded been use of the damage to a cell block by fire. While most of the rifles stolen from the prison arsenal hnd been recovered, three machine guns were missing. Hr'son officials pointed to the similarity between tho outbreak nt Auburn yesterday nnd the re volt of the prisoners at Clinton prison. Pnnnemorn. a week ago. News of such attempts to gain freedom travels fast along th;i "grapevine telegrnph" a myste rious method of communication known to the underworld. IiirroMW Vlgllaiiiv. Today v'Kllance at prisons was even more keen, four mnenine guns were plnced on the docks nt Sing Sing prison, to guard the fence that separates the prison grounds from the Hudson river. Sunday Is a day of recreation nnd relaxation of strict disci) dine (Continued on Pit ire Kltrht.) Will Rogers Says: SANTA MONICA, Oil., July L'O. As I t.iki' my pn in luinrt to (1p .vou tlicsc fi-w linen, lliose old boys in S. I. o II I M just won't come (I n w n. You know tlicir .'rpiit est danger from now on i h their whiskers entehini; in the pro peller, nnd don't compliment them for slaying up in the nir over St. Iiuis this hot weiither. lSestow your grati tude on the folks who have to stay on the ;rouiid in St. I .ti in in the summer time. One thinsj about this war of China's nnd Russia's, nobody ean ever accuse either one of them of tiring quick tem pered. Yours, Wlhh IlOdKIiS.