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M The Weather Generally fulr tonight "d Sun day. Cooler Sunday. EDFO Temperature! Highest ytNtenliiy 4 1-owcM Mils' moi niug -18 MEDFORD. OKT.GOX. SATl'lJDAV. SKl'TK.M P.KII I I. lii'J!, islly Tweftly-fourlli ttr. No. 1' i . . O :-rrrrr": .' i " HIT WIRES I ;' Low Hanging Smoke Cause of Accident L V. Rex Reported Severely Hurt Muirhead Not Serious Plane Lands in Merriman I Yard Traffic On High- way Congested. W. H. (Moose) Muirhead, man- au'r of the Portland-Reaver Ce- ; ment plant at Ciold Hill, and h. V. . Ilex, of Portland. Giant Powder ' t'o. salesman, while riding in .Muir- j head's plane, crashed near Central ! Point, about three o'elock this af- j ternoon, when, blinded by low j hanging smoke frum forest fires, they wtruck power -wires along the j Paoifie. highway. I Rex was severely injured, and Muirhead, who was piloting the : plane,, sustained bruises and a eut hand. Rex was taken to the Com . mtmity hospital. According to offleials of the local airport, Muirhead and liex planned i u fliRlit to Portland and hopped .off about 1:1(0 this afternoon Lo test visibility. They flew over the Central Point ' district and the pall of smoke ;, thickened. Jn order to return to thf landing field Muirhead at ; tempted to follow the Pacific hifth ;jwny, being forced to fly very low. 'h At the Junction of the Pacific i highway and iieall'rOHd. the plane 1 ro w ly m issed t he roo f of a liouse. In front of the Ike Merri man dairy the plnno struck the t puwer wires, which are higner than ordinary, and nose-dived Into Ihe Merriman yard. The machine was bndly wrecked. PassiMK motoiisis carried the 'wo plane oeetipantH to the Coni : munity hospital, where Muirhead's injuries were ascertained lo he slight. Rex went under the sur .y 'on's knife, lie Is well known In this city. He arrived here this morning by plane from Portland. The accident resulted in a con . gestinn of traffic for over an hour n the Pacific highway. There ''"!" many eye witnesses to the crash. St. Helens Gets IndtistiT PORTLAND. At an expenditure of Jii.rdio.imi) the Kix-Tex insulat ing I ton rd company will erect a njw, modern plant at Kt. Helens, "ff miles north of Portland on the Columbia River. The board of di rectors of the company made the announcement last night. Pirates Ta ke Sten mer. PKIPINO, China, ept. 14. (?) The Nurwejiian legation here ;i m mm need today the Norwegian steamer Rotnio was in the hands if Pirates off Haichuw and her captain and chief officer being held fur ransom. MADISON. Wis. (p A collene course for firemen will he installed M tbe Pniversity of Wisconsin. Volunteer and paid firemen are eli gible tor the course, which will in cltnie instruction in fire fighting, . control, prevention and mnfnte- nance of equipment. Sea v; They say our ynmuc folk- are ' 1 J'tj t ii gi mk! ii t hey v or vt ere. . Inn JcM Hie -time the Youth: tp"Mon lnd lo iivrir. It gbl now titer's a Utile biilf-ln-nrtefl i frrl h hi' made to eMtihlMi , mkiio wn of ii fomlnltw wM : line, but I m ufiulil It'a too Into. ON CENTRAL PON ROAD i Back to Adam Experiment of Author Banned ' SAINT JOHN, N. M.. Kepi. b 1 4. Pj Refused permisNhm V to try his experiment of hack- to .Aila in In the Ni'W Bruns- wick wilds, Hart M . McCoit- rit ll. New Vuik writer, today sought a temporary Kilen E elsewhere. 4 Mr.. Mct'onnell proposed lo I enter . the woods without 4 clothing, weapons, imple- iio-nts in- supplies to test his theory that a modern eivil- V izeil man ean sustain himself 4 flintier primitive en millions. J Me hoped to emerge from the S woods .in laic November as 4 Well equipped as the Amerl- run ' Indian at the diaeowry 0 nf this continent. ! i 1 J ( 4 fr 4 4 l USED SUB-SEA SLED INRIVER Cable in Detroit River Was Guide for Submerged Cargo Diver Loaded Cargo On Skidway at American End of Rope. DETROIT. Sept. 14 iJP) The Detroit News today says that a. submarine cable has been used by rum runners to transport cargoes of liquor from Canada into the l.'nlted Kiutes. The cable, it says, was discovered and dismantled by border patrol inspectors yesterday. The cable stretched from Mod Island In the Detroit river . to the American shore at Ksorse, Mud island, a long narrow strin barely rising above the mul flats opposite lOsorse, long has been con sidered a transfer point for liquor cargoes, the low water about it preventing speed boats of the border patrol from landing there. Rum runners conveyed their car goes, t lie Inspectors said, in row boats to the istand and there, from t he pa rt ly su b merged house boa I, hidden by brush and tree foliage, were able to load a submerged sled attached to the cabje. In the boat well on the mainland were found a diver's helmet, an air pump and a Ifl-fnot skid. The diver, inspectors said, was lowered Into the water and placed the cases of liquor on a skid, along which they were raised to a platform. The liquor then was placed in automobiles in an adjacent garage and hurried out for delivery. GRAND HAV KN, Mbh., Sept. 1 4 (, Heavy weather today held searchers in the harbor here from a wreckage strewn spot, about 1 4 miles out Horn Ottawa Reach and 12 miles southwest of of (Holland, u here the freighter Andaste was believed to have gone down in last Monday night's storm, carry ing to death her crew of 24 men and a boy. Cnable in set out in the fa-f of the rough water today were two tugs, the Liberty and the Freedom of tile Chicago Materials company, in whose servbe the Andaste was when she b ft here last Monday night for Chicago with a cargo of gravel. After a fmitb'Ms search last night a i-oast guard boat also was in harbor today. The Andaste. which was a steel si ml-whab back, a type of freight er seldom used nowt because t"i-i-uited to th rough weather of the great lakes, cleared from here for Cbjiago at t:10 p. nf. Monday, loaded with gravel. Seamen h'V believe the cargo shifted In ih storm whb h swept southern Lake M ii h iga n a sliort t hue later, nnd caused the !-hlp to break up nnd Mnk. Another Fith Story PORTLAND. Ore. Thou sands of smelt, small eunuch to pnss through a Much mean, stallrd the 1 ritMi motor t-IPp, Nentimian. in th" (Vtumbi i t i r for an trn tine Tbe Hnv fNh clugyed in take potts and ralvcu. BOOZE RUNNERS SI01 STAYS LAKE SEARCH FOR LOST SHIP i i TO BATTLE , I IN FORESTS; .j, District Forest Officers Re- cruiting All Available Fire Fighters Some Districts Drafting Helpers Mable Blaze Spreads Umpqua Fire Undermanned, Is Re port. PORTLAND. Ore.. Sept. 1 4. ; (JP, Officals in charge of district and slate forest offices here to day faced a serious problem in tbe way of a shortage of men to; fight the ever increasing number of fires in western Oregon. "We are recruiting every avail-! able man." Major John D. tSuih-i rie of the district forest of lice j said, "but still there are several major fires undermanned." 1 Forest supervisors in several ; districts were reported to hav ! drafted men into service along ' the fin- lines. j Another fatality was added toj the growing list caused directly, or indirectly by fires when Alvin Peoples, IS, was found dead 'it .. h s home In Kugene. Peoples was Injured Thursday when a burning tree fell upon 'a group of fire fighters near .Mabel, killing J. H. McCubbins and injuring three others. Peoples was treated at Mabel, bul was not thought -to he critically Injured. He was re leased from further service on the fire lines, however,- nnd yes terday rode his motorcycle, to hid home, arriving there in the ab sence of Ills lamily. He was found dead by his mother. Internal injuries were believed to have caused his death. Communication. Cut. , Telegraphic, communication be tween Portland, southern Oregon and California was interrupted fin two hours early yesterdny when burning trees tell and took oui lines south of Roseburg. The California -Oregon Power company between Prospect and Springfield was also broken. The Mabel lire continued to spread despite the efforts of more than 200 men to head it off be fore it reached valuable stands of green timber while the Triangle lake fire in I-ane county today bad been checked on one front only to slip uway on another. It was heading toward the heavily timbered prairie mountain section. The Rock creek fire in Coos county was still out of control is was the lOUO-aere blaze In th? Mount Hood national forest. The Coos county blazo had destroyed more than 4000 acres of fir and Port Orford cedar. Only 00 men could be recruUed for the :i00-acre Elk river blaze in the L'mpqtia national forest, although it was classed as a 100 man fire. All other fires in west ern Oregon national forests were reported controlled last night. Major Guthrie described the Washington forest fire situation as "unchanged." No serious new fires we re re port ed , he na id , and all old blazes were well under eon Irol. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 1 1. fP) ! Announcement was made today ! of the purchase of the controlling Interest in the Pacific Hancorpora- tion. operating 10 banks of the state, by a group of Oregon capi talists headed by Julius L. Meier, lexerutive head of Meter & Frank Co., Portland. The controlling Interest which i changed hands In this transaction .represents the entire holdings of Charles Hall, tbe organizer ifid president of the bancorporalion. Hall retired from the organization. effective today. EXPLOSIOlTRAPS 14 SAN QI'LNTIN PRISON, Cal., Sepi, 14. tH' Fourteen convicts : were reported trapped in a tunnel at Paxtnn In Plumas county today w hen a prematura explosion m ctin ed. Woi d i eceived here by Warden James I. lPdoban did nt i-li of death ni Injuries. The war den left immediately for tJi- wth-, teuump.iiiKd by the prison doctor. SHEARER SUIT BRINGS SHIP PROPAGANDA1 INQUIRY, Suit of William B. Shearer (center), naval expert, against three American shipbuilding corpora tions for services at the naval conference 1n Geneva in 1927, has brought department of justice and senate inquiries. Senator Borah (left), foreign relations committee chairman, and Senator Hale (right), chairman of the senate naval committee, are leaders In the senate move. PROSECUTOR iSSQVIETSUMSUPCOAST UTILITY SLAIN BY SHOTS SINS OP CHINESE MERGER PLANS FROM AMBUSH IN M ANGHU R I A ARE ANNOUNCED Young Texas Attorney Dies: Blame for Crisis Will Be in Driveway of Own Home; Placed at Door of Nan- Wife, ' Mother-in-Law; king Government By IVIos See 1 Tragedy Assailant j cow List of Alleged Out Makes Get-Away. rages Is Long. RORGKR. Tex., Sept. 14. (P) District Attorney John A. Holmes was shot and killed from ambush in the drive of his home here last night. Holmes had just put his motor car away. His wife and mother I n -1: w, Mrs. Donna R. Greene, had accompanied him home and al ready had started for the housi. turned in time to see him fall with three pistol bullets In his body.' The assailant had lain In wait for the district attorney in the rear yr-rd of a vacant house about "u feet f mm the garage. Neighbors attracted by the shots, saw a man run down an alley but were unable to identify him. Authorities who organized a posse to search for the murderer, were unable to assign a motive for Hie sb.ying. Several Texas rangers were ordered by Governor Han Moody to come hero to aid in the hunt. Holmes took office January I , last. Tile most important pending cases he was to prosecute involved William J. (Whitey) Walker, re cently returned here from Denver, and l-.d Railey and Hugh Walker, all charged with the murders of two peace officers here several years ago. The young district attorney hail served two terms in that capacity at Miami, Tex., near here before t be liorger Jinllcla I dist rlcl was created. He was appointed to his post here by Governor Moody to fill an unexpired term and later was eleeied for a full term. HACK A M hr I-;, Calif., ept. 11. (Pi Mix special trains bearing ;iHio persons noni Reno, San Francisco, Portland, Klamath Falls ami f rojn , prael ica lly all western ( nvgo)i points, at rived heie today for the re le brat ion ma rking the coin pie-! tion oT the Klamath Fa Us-A It urn - j !if,-niile line com pb l ing t he new j So ut hern I 'acit c t t a nscont inental railroad. !'. L. Rui'ckhalier, general man-i tiger of the Southern Pai-ltle wa'i1 to offie ate nt the ceremonies this' afternoon, representing Presfdi-ut Paul H bou p. The driving of t he ; go Men pike eonneet ing the 1 wo dries by rail was to be tbe hfe,:i spot, of the celebration. j I FINKE BOY IS TAKEN STATE PENITENT!ARY PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. II. Wi Walfr J. Finke, Jr., IT, was one of the four prisoneis taken to the state prison today. He in under sentence of life imprisonment for Ihe murder of Herbert Ream. P. hfuh school rival for the regard f a voting i.-Pl. Fluke shot Irani to de;th in the con b!or of a hich school bore May J'J. MOSCOW, Sept. 14. (T) Mos cow today continued its campaign of paper to lay at Nanklng'st feet blame for Lite crisis In Manchuria, whore large Russian and Chinese atntieH face each other, nnd hostili ties have, been reported. The newest note of the Nanking government. , to the U. S. K. S. H.. virtually declining soviet overtures for Joint management of the con troversial Chinese Has tern railway, was made public. Home examples nf alleged out rages mentioned were: Russians bitten by mad dogs were refused medical attention. Women Russian prisoners re cently become or about to become mothers were denied admission to hospitals. One Russian physician was beaten severely for giving med ical aid to interned Russians. A Chinese police employe was assaulted by a blonde youth, flO the Chinese authorities, it was charged, arrest all hlonflo Russian young men and women and submit them to cruel treatment. Prisoners wore said (o subsist on a hread-and-waler diet, with sol itary confinement ami other forms of cruelty being practiced. Thou sands of children were Maid to he in a pitiable condition because they had lo remain in the concen tration camps with their parents or in open fields without 'shelter. Photographs were said to exist of 1 headless bodies of soviet citi zens which had been found in that dfstiict. Many peaeelul Itussian villagers were said to have- been killed by unprovoked Cbinese at tacks. Hands and feel of impris oned Kusslans went bound so tight ly with wire they bled freely. E BOSTON HIDEOUT Pof'THN. ept. U.--IA' Samuel Rbelnsteln, .supposed New York furrier, who ,oi.e said bad been "biding out" In this- y from t be vengea ne of New York's Kiriland for the pat three i no m hs was shot ami kilbd in ihe winding, dimly lighted corri dor of the Hotel H-intiimton early lod.iy. 1 : b'-insi i-in's slayers crept from behind to prt-m their weapon withm Inches of bis he..d. A qn;nl of police n-!l'd to the bote! and a Kiin li of its tooms )mm - iliiilely H Ve;ib l Unit OfO- HlPTed will citarelte bill's. Was varatr and i wo mi n who had registered i n S' pti -ruber 1 I from Pi o idence, R. 1.. bad fb-.i. The loom v;r. i to tb;.t o. copied by Rbein feiti nnd hi- wife. Sally. Mr. RbelM.dein told' tbe police do- l new of no r a "on anyoti" ho'ihl d.'re d atb. Sie r tbl that I'ley ,i,d crime to ltlln i ilv lurly .n July on a 'pleasure trip." I . V.. -v 13 Associated Press Vhoto Portland Electric Power Co Included in Proposal for Holding Corporation Ex change of Stocks Oppo sition Voiced. NKW YORK, Sept. 3 4. (P) A jirospectlve merger of several lead ing Pacific coast utilities appeared today with announcement of an offer by the newly organized pub- lie utility holding corporation i sponsored by Harris Forbes nnd company and United Founders i Corporation interests, to exchange j its stocks for stocks of the South I ern California Kdlson company, I the Pacific Gas und lOlectrle com ! pany, Pacific Lighting Corporation mul the Port la ml Kleetrle Power company. I The pIhii encountered an obsla ; de, however, In the opinion of R. ! W. Miller, executive vice-president . of the Pacific Lighting company, ; who stated that the terms of ex ; change were arbitrary and failed j to take into consideration the probability or varying increases in the business of the companies con cerned. 1 le advised stockholders of his 'company to give careful consideration to the advantages of retaining their voting Identity in a corporation listed on the. New York Stock Kxehangn. The ildd by the J lariis-Fnrbes group is a part of a major race for .control of several of (be leading public utility companies In tbe I west . Leading holding companies ; have been active recently in ae 'iiuiring operating units west of the Mississippi. A few weeks ago re ports were current 1 hat some of the pacific coast utility companies wern about to merge themselves. CHA PLOTTi;, N. C. Spct. 14. 'IV- A ra lly of members of the (Oinmunist party and textile labor orgauiat ions t his afternoon in ' bi -to nia. which union organizers said would be held despite pur ported threats of self-styled "anti communists" to lynch the speak ers, overshadowed two court hear ings here, ope involving alleged 'a ut I -communists" and 1 be other. communisis and union leaders audi workers, The mass meeting was described, in a warrant against eight tin n j active in the union movement a- j an Incident in conspiracy to over-1 throw ihe government, of North ( Carolina.. i HA I'MiANl'IHCo, S.'il. 1 I. -Tin. wratlii'i' unthmk ft'! I.Tp !''k I'CKlnnlnr,' HMpl.-mluT 15 i fittii'Minr i-ct here to.hty Ity Ihf ll'nllftt Ht;lt' weather l'llr';!ll lis j fiilliiiv: i J' :ii' y!.i n Nliit.1; 'f'h" ''ir Im.u f.- 1'itr fi.i; ;(I(II1K 1 hf .'.ml f'lir U( :ith't Willi not m;il li:lniciaturf4 over Uif lliU'iluf, nnn ik jii ii lint nil ill ii bHUNIu! KALLY IN Z COTTEPlAlEDlAGy nptfJQ IW AUTO L Merchants Told Traffic Rules Allow Double Park ing While Passengers Leaving Or Entering Cars One Hour Parking at Curb Week Days and Saturday Nights. Following a friendly and Ion-? discussion on traffic conges tion In the business district and as lo the best remedial measures to do away with it, between many members of the retail merehams association and the mayor and city council members last night, the latter body unanimously not only rejected the. efforts of the mer chants to do uway with the double parking elimination of the new traffic ordinance, but also tv sug gested compromise measure to make a double parking maximum five minutes limit, and decided to give the new ordinance a further trying out. While the new ordinance was not modified, the old parking limit of one hour, changed to a half hour limit In the new ordinance, but which change has not yet been en forced, will be allowed to continue, and the extension of the hour parking on Saturdays from 5 p. m. to y p. m. was decided on, begin ning with today. If It. is . found that the double, parking elimination, hour parking provision and other change Is not feasible after a good period of trial the city 'officials will make changes that might prove moro satisfactory. Stop For Pn.ssengerH Until that time no double park ing and., the hour parking limit will be strictly enforced, but this does not mean that no one can double nark lung enough to let a passenger off the car to enter a store, or to permit a passenger with parcels to enter n car, Curs cannot wait, hut must keep on going. For instance if a person Is let off a car to enter a store In purchase something, the driver must keep on going around the block, or elsewhere, until the pur chase is made, and can only stop again long enough to let the pur chaser enter the car again. The city officials and traffic of ficers assert that the new ordinance never contained a clause forbidding stopping for passenKcrs, and that the enforcement so far baa not in terfered with the practice. In the meantime the city council voted to put on more traffic officers to en force these rules, and to purchase a motorcycle to be. used by one of the traffic officers; will have park ing places repainted, and new signs distributed throughout the business dlsiric.t calling attention to the parking limit. Ijrw Misunderstood The discussion developed the fact that t he double parking elimina tion feature of the new traffic or dinance was misunderstood by the merchants and many of the people, flKNKVA. S' l.l. I I. fI'l Tlln IriiKm nf niillnriM iiHsi-mlily tn iiMtl oM-iii'il Ihi iluiir fin- tin' I'nHi'il Hlnti'f. Id hri'inm a meinlitT nf Ihi' pi-rmitni-nt limit of lndi--niMlonnl JiiMtli'i' ly uiluptinK tho lii-ftoi ni prnvlilliiK fur AmiM'li .'iii mllii'rini' to tin1 I'ltiirt. Tim MHI'i'i'mi'hl vvliirh (ln llfilln ci'l i'inImmIIi'M will iil'fi'i'l the I'lKht (if tin' iiMHi'tiihly In link for jilt il viMiny opinion frotn tip. woti'l court. Hitherto the ipleHtlop Ink forllieit Ihe lil'l'f Oltjeetlon on the purl, of the rniteil Hlnte.H to ontcr- lllf til" IIMUI. A 'Hi le five of the proloenl pie. Kentetl lo the MsHenillly loiliiy pro Viilf'H the mill'hlhory Wllerehy the t'nlleil Htnti'K Mill he lllllile liwill'f1 of nnv propiwal lefore the roun rll or nnnenihly of the lenirtio. for uhtfiltillttr nn nilvlory opinion, Hhih Klyinc the I'nlleil HititeH opportu nity to tmll nte vhether tier In- t'l-F-lM .nr.. of 'eeteil. Th III, the oiiti 1 1 or e emh!y enn ne tvll!i lull knowing j uf Uio ultuuUun. i A FA R m EXPLAINED IS LARGEST DOOR FOR U. S. 10 JOIN COURT RECEIPT OF Officials Expect Jackson County Exposition to Be Self-Supporting New Track Record Set Friday Exhibits Will Remain in Place Until Close Tonight Hailed as the biggest bucccsb of its kind in the county for years, the Jackson County Fair will com to a close tonight, following Grants Pass and Orange Day. uttended by thousands of Med ford nnd south ern Oregon residents. 'hlle yes terday's attendance was good at Ashland Day. it fell a little short of the N(iOt) present on .Med ford Day and on Children's Day. School students under III years were again admitted free today. While the receipts are far in ex cess of previous years, the fair is not expected to show u profit, but hopes of officials this forenoon were high that it would be self supporting, though expenses are heavier than pust fairs. The ex hibits In the various buildings will continue to bo In place until the gates are closed lata tonight. How ever, much of the livestock will probably be moved this afternoon and some of the poultry and rab bits may also be taken. New Truck HecortI Yesterday's harness races were again good and in the free-for-all trot, 'ft new track, record of 2";094 for one lnilo was seL by Guy Aubrey, breaking the former rec ord of 5:10 . A summary of the harness races, each heat a ruco, purso, $3uo, i us follows: lYeo-For-AIl Trot Millie Wonpan 1 2 3 Guy Aubrey . 3 1 a Northern King ...2 3 I Prince Charming . 4 4 4 Time: 2:124, il UilOVi. 2: Hi Puce Shaugnn Hal Ancel Li, Mo Kinney Lihnie Olive H. J. Logan I 1 1 2 B 2 4 2 3 3 3 4 5 4 ft Time; 2:124, 2:1 4ft. The one-half mile running rnce was won by fl. Thomas in 50 14 seconds, followed by Infallible, Nugget Nell and Dob Messenger. The one mile running raeo was won by Matinee Idol In 1:40, fol lowed by Alluwe Lightning nnd Joe Grant. The five-eighths mile event was won by Tom Dennlson in 1:08, followed by Beanie and Faster Hoy. Today's races were ngain ex pected to be good and ver to In clude an tHWn heat on yesterday's free-for-all rol, as three horses were tied fori first place under the three beat plan. Two harness races, each of three heats, and three running races were sched uled for this afternoon. Uiibrop ItcM Milker The milking contest, unnounerd Thursday for fi o'clock this even ing, was held last evening, as such contest was deemed inadvisable (Continued on I'age Six) Will Rogers Says: SANTA MONICA, Cal., Sept. 14. -Mussolini wnki up. yesterday, felt tired and wtirn, ho lie riivc up seven of Ids nine enliinet posilions. I wouliln't be surprised to see Mini Me eiiine so indo lent, that lie took up (,'olf. All lie is tion i S lllilllliner of Italy ami Niipei-visor of the seven positions that he nave up, mid over here we lake one eahinet joh serious. Kven the South f,'o sore be cause Mr. Hoover didn't ap point one of litem on his eab inel. lie was mighty honest .about it, though. 1 lo Raid 'there is lots of men down there biif enoutih hut they are not smart ciioukIi to bo lii'pnblifniiH. Yours, WWA, UOt'iKKS. ' "rrviiirt
