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Medford Mail Tribune The Weather ItMTentilnjr eloudliifws lonllit and - Wednesday; occasional raliin. ' Not- much t'liaiitfo lu taiucra lure. Temperatuies HighcM. yesterday 79 lxinwi (lii morning 39 Piily Twntyfoufth Tftr. ItMkl; rutr-elihth Vur. TWELVE PAGES MEDFORD, ORKflON, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 13. 1929 No. 20 Today By Arthur Brisbane What Her Money Did. Mussolini And Solon. What Is Life? No Answer. Why Submarines? -(Copyright by King Features " (;,;,' Syndicate, Inc.) A woman, 80 years old, is found dead, in an apartment for which she paid .$12 a month, very little in a big city. Miss Brandt,' who brought her a bowl of hot soup every day, found the body, called the po lice. Detectives found hidden in the ajiartutcnt $400,000 in bills, gold, silver, bonds and bank ac counts. y Every one asks "What good nid all her money do her?" Thousands of old people will answer: "Great good. It kept lter from worry in her old ago, -Jtind allowed her to die in peace." Few realize the bitterness of poverty, as years creep on, and strength and friends fade away. That old woman 's money brought her just one thing, IN DEPENDENCE, , and nothing could be more precious. ' Mussolini says he relin quishes seven portfolios, impor tant places in the Italian gov ernment, to create a machine that will keep Italy going "and 1 no longer guide it." This indicates that the dicta tor does not take the royal fam ily seriously, as a governing machine. But he has treated that family royally, preserving its constitutional rights, and v showing ajl respect to the king,, Vtvhoni he doubtless regards as a necessary part f government paraphernalia. To understand Mussolini, con sider Draco, Solon, and others of the law-making type, more recent. Mussolini is their ra cial descendant.. He asks him self what laws the people need, invents and promulgates them. Draco punished great and little crimes with death "be cause the lesser crimes deserv ed death, and he had no greater penalty for the great crimes." Solon, asked if he had given Athens the best laws that could be given, said he had given the Athenians "the best laws they could receive." He knew and allowed for the weaknesses of liuman beings, as docs Musso lini. He would not hesitate to repeal existing laws, as Solon did, cancel debts, make special rules for the relations of a hus band with a wife, or grade the (Continued on Pane Four, Socond Section) Tliir'n a pop'lar Iniprvjolnn that doctors an' dentins arc iy marks, but Jnt the samp they don't Mvm to have Joined any "book o tlip month" Hub. lon Moon's iici1hw wits Jugtcd Inst nlirtit fer drlvln' a car after tut In' patent medicine. JOSEPHINE FORYEGGS Two Suspects In Grants Pass Safe Blowing Attempt Are Nabbed In Roseburg One Seriously Injured Officers Believe Robber Rendezvous Is Located In Wilds. GRANTS PASS, Ore., Oct. 15. (A) A posse ot deputy sheriffs from Josephine and Dowlas coun ties, headed by Sheriff E. H. Lister, woro penetrating the wild und mountainouH section uf Josephine county today In search of an al-j lctfcd robbers' rendezvous. I Sheriff Lister organized the i posse after he and Douglas county i authorities had questioned Ray mond Carr, 29, who with his broth- er Harry, 116, arc held in the Rose burg jail, suspected of attempting to blow the Golden Rule depart-: ment store safe Sunday night. A finger and an ear were found in the wreckage, and authorities said j they corresponded with the .miss-j ing portions of Harry Carr's body. 1 He U in a hospital at Roseburg, near death. j Ruymond Car brought his broth er to the hospital Monday and ex plained that Harry had been in jured in a hunting accident, but hospital officials became suspicious and notified authorities. The Carr brothers were placed under arrest. Sheriff Lister Indicated he be lieved the rendezvous In the moun tainous section of Josephine coun-1 ty is the base for operations of a gang of robbers who have worked in southern Oregon cities the past six months. Raymond Carr denied all knowl edge of the robbery. He denied he and his brother had entered a physician's office at Grants Pass where opiates and surgical tools were stolen. Authorities said the brothers stole the medical appli ances and thvn .endPHVored to ad minister aid to Harry, who they said was Injured by the blast of explosive In the safe. RORKBl'RG. Ore.. Oct. 15. Further developments in connec tion with the case of Raymond and Harry Carr, suspected of attempt ing to crack a department store safe at Grants Pass. Ore., awaited the arrival of Sheriff E. H. Lister, who is expected here today. No attempt has been made to secure a confession irom ciuicr ui the brothers. Aside from a short questioning last night, Sheriff Lis ter said he desired to check up on their past movements so -that he would be able to refute their stories that they were hunting in Coos county when J lurry Carr If said to have suffered an injury that caused him to lose about half of his hand. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Oct. 15. P) 1" a farewell message today to the American people. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald said he left the United States "rich with the proof that, while tho Atlantic divides us, the cause of peace unites us." The Hritlch statesman read his statement to a group of British and American correspondents just be fore ho set out for a trip around the American side of the falls which carried liim across the In ternational boundary and back on British soil after 12 days In this country on a good-will mission without precedent in the relations of the United States and Britain. "I have spent 12 days among you," he said. "They have indeed gone swiftly and havo been very crowded. From the moment of mv arrival to this moment when I must say good bye 1 have met with nothing but hearty demonstra tions of friendship and with a hos pitality bdth public and private which has approached the over whelming." WHO HAS "BILL" DOLLAR? 4- Will the person who has "Bill" Dollar In their posses- slon please call this office, phone 75. We want to get in touch with "Bill." , The Weather Oregon: Increasing cloudiness tonight and Wednesday. Occasion al rains west portion: cooler cast portion Wednesday. Fresh south erly winds on the coast. PEACE UNITES COUNTRIES IS M'DONALD VIEW MACDONALD DELIVERS PEACE MESSAGE TO SENATE jiJll James Ramsay MacDonald. States senate making an Impassioned plea for the cause ot peace OF CITY TO BE MADE BY!: Chamber of Commerce Is Informed That Big Plane Will Maneuver Over Medford On Thursday Seattle Fetes Visitors Today. KKATTLK, Oct. 15. Conver sion of the Russian plane "La mi of .thft Soviet-'? "from bou, -to - a land ship was completed today and Chief Pilot S. A. Shestakov was confident ho would be ready to leave here Thursday morning for Oakland, Cal., on his Moscow-New York flight. A Hinrniiirh si 1 1-VP V nf the two big motors of the piano was being j made and all apparatus was test ed. While the plane's schedule will j not permit stops enroute to Oak land, the Russian aviators prom ised to circle over Tucomii, Port land, and Medford to give resi dents of those cities an opportunity to see the ship. Regrets were sent to many telegrams of Invitation from cities which can not bo visit ed, including Long 'Reach and Los Angeles which are off tho route laid out between Oakland and New York. The four Soviet fliers were out fitted with new suits of street clothes today and were to be feted at an elaborate dinner given in their honor by the chamber of commerce and the Seattle chapter of tho National Aeronautical asso ciation. A tnlf'Kram was rocelved today by Seoloy V. Hall, chairman of tho :hambor of commerce aviation committee from 8. A, HhCHlukov of the pintle 'Iand of the KnvletH," on a niKhi from aiohcow 10 iscxv York City, Indicating that tho plane would not Mop at Medford but would circle over tho city while en route from Scuttle to San FiMnciMcou Thiuwlay forenoon. Tho wire, sent in renlv to an invitation to land (We. Ih as fol- lnw: "In appreciation of your telegram, we shall be pIcaHCd to circle over your city while enroute to San FranciHcn. IeavliK Seattle Thursday morniim." The plane will probnhly pass over Medford late in the fiirenoon, hut if the sky Is In anyway over rant, It Is possible the ship may land here for weather information and supplier Mr., Hall thought this afternoon. . 4 , . I'AIUS. Oct. 13 (Pi The French rwhlnet turtHy tleetded formally to acrept the Hrltlnh invitation to participate in n five power nuvHl limitation conference at London In January. TOKYO, (let. 16. liPl The ,Tap nPHP. cabinet today approved the final draft of the Japanese reply tn the HrltlKh Invitation to a naval dlwirmamcnt conference. LONDON, Oet. IS. VP) Italy has aci'eplert the HrltlKh Invitation to a five power naval conference. . Peru, 111. Paul Pnntnlen, f'hl cnRo, knocked out Kddle Andernon of Haltlmore, (; Kernnndet !on salen, Mexico, knocked out Ixiu Penny, Aurora. III., (5). CIRCLE rain Great Britain's premier, armeared Driving Elevator While Intoxicated Brings Fine, Cell PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 12. (If) And now wo have tho driving a n elevator while drunk ehnrBC. .loo Hoos, who has Ills nps and downs in a downtown of- $ flcp building, wus sentenced to "pay a - fl"" and spend 10 dnys in jail today when a po- licoman testified Joe's erratic elovator acted that way bo- causa tho driver was intoxl- cnted. Police said Hoos was Intoxi- catod when brought before the police judge. STATEISLOSER Curtailment of Season Cuts Hunting License Income $30,000 Is Report Of State Warden Develop ment Work Dropped. P( UTLA N P, Ore., Oct. 15. (A) Harold Clifford, state game warden, told the stato game com mission yesterday that .postpone ment of the deer hunting- Heason for 12 days this fall not only cut Into the time limit for the hunter to ban his deer but also sliced the income of the state from licenses nearly :i0,000. Clifford said that as a result of this unusual slice in state Income, every department of the state pmin commission, would ho operated on a saving basis and promises to be one of tho lean est years experienced In Ore gon. Kvcry Item of development now programmed, unless they are of major importance, will he dropped, tho stnto Bmo chief said. Tho commission Vroposcd yes terday to present to the next session of tho legislature an amendment providing for the lengthening of the deer hunt ing aeason In direct proportion to the time cut from tho start this year. Commissioners said tblH would Insure the stability of Income. Kiigcnc rantur I -caving l;CiKNi:, Ore. fP( Dr. Charles Lewis Trawln, for four years pas tor of the First Baptist church here, has received a call to the lirst Ita ptist church of Kresno, Calif. HUNTERS STAY AT HOME Slide for Life Has Fatal Ending; Several Chicago Spectators Hurt CHIOA'IO. 111., Oct. H.. (P Rudy Clmlno, 23, New York dare devil, fell to his death while slid ing down a rope from tho 41th floor of the new Civic t))iera build lng toilay and In hla fall injured several spectators, one of whom was thought to have suffered B broken neck. Clmlno was perform ing for moving picture cameras. Clmlno landed half way between Washington and Madison on South Wacker drive. He struck the base of the elevated structure as he! Isnded. ! Hundred of workmen had gath-i Associated Press Photo before members of !h. Unliut among all nations. Iron and Steel Production, Auto Sales, Mail Order And Chain Store Earnings Show The Prosperity Of Country. WASHINGTON. Oct. IS. -(P) Secretary limont nald today that buslnofH Ih in u very healthy cntvUtlon, .Jind. that it had main tained a .high level for tho first .nine months of 1929. The output of pig Iron and steel Ingots, he. said, was "usually regarded as an accurate, reflec tor of industrial conditions," and he cited that the output of these products was mora than 17 per cent greater than for the cor responding period of last year. Silk consumption, ho reported showed moro than nine per cent gain and wooI( cotton and rayon consumption Increased. Automo bile production "often used as n measure of consumer-purchasing power," also Increased, his statement said, and industrial em ployment was larger, payrolls showing expanse. J total 1 trade, Including mail order houses, de partment stores, and ten cent chain stores, showed a business well above last year's record, ac cording to the commerce sec retary. The secretary reported dividend and Interest payments twelve per cent u hove the corresponding per iod of last year, while default ed llballtles of failing business rirms declined 11 per cent. He said wholesale prices woro stable, and foreign trade showed height ened activity. (' Mr. Ijimont asserted ho was making "no prognostications' hut was merely "recording what happened." 1 has P,U CONVENTION TO OPEN TONIGHT AT G. P. fl HA NTS PASS. Ore., Oct. 15. (pi Arrival of a large delegation of Parent-Teacher Association rep resentatives from Portland and noi l hern Oregon today gave con vent Ion heado,uarteiH Us first of ficial Htiitosplmre. Scores of other dclegales an mining 1V automobile. Plans have been mado for tlii) entertainment of morn than 500 delegates. Tho convention will open officially tn night with Mrs. V. W. Gabriel, president of Hie HSKOiiatlon, pro siding. ered to watch Clmlno'B feat. He was performing without pay, and ! few seconds before the accident j moving picture operators had pho- icKraphnd him for talking films. Clmlno had proposed to slide down the rope head downward hut : had difficulty trying to gel. his kj- nlllnn. fCach time he flung his feet ! upward they ' traveled hack to a normal position, until ho began slowly somersaulting In an attempt to turn himself upside down, Clmlno, who lived In New York, 1,8,1 been engaged by the Paths company for the stunt. FIRST 9 MONTHS 1929 BUSINESS AT HIGH LEVEL AL CAPONt TARGET OF Chicago Police Holding Self Styled Execution Chicago Gang Wife Wrote Let ters to Incarcerated; Leader Asking $10,000 On Threat To Tell Police. CHICAGO. Oct. 15. VP) Knink liiege, alias Perry, wus hold on an extortion churgo today while county officers investigated a charge that bo slew a former nttacho of tho stnlo attorney's office, who, tho Daily News said, bud offered a gangster $50,000 In kill Alphonso (Scnrtaco) Ca poiie. ClllCACiO, Oct. IB. W) Tho state's attorney today held In custody a man he believes holds the key to some of tho most vicious gafig; murders in recent years. The man Frank lllege, alias Ilige. alias Perry was being ask ed these questions: "Who killed McSwiggen (as sistant States Attorney William H. McSwIggin who was nssassin ated In front of tho Pony, cafe April 27, 11I2G)? , "Wero you one of tho mon who took part in tho execution of seven of Hugs Moians gang stors, lining them up against a garage wall and shooting them clown last Valentines day?" ltlege's arrest last Saturday fol lowed three months of Hurveil- lance. Three letters written by ltlege's wlfo to Al (Scarface) Ca pono,. now in jail In Phila delphia for gun toting, put tho stato's attorney on Diego's trial. The letters were intercepted In Philadelphia and turned .over to suite's Attorney Hwanson, who has since directed tho Invostl gallon which led to lUcgo's ar rest. Asked $10,000 Mrri.' lilege'a letters to Capon'o asked $ 10,000 from him to en able her husband to flee Chi cago nnd gangster enemies who sought his life. The letters threatened to "tell the cops ev erything" If Capono failed to pro- vldo flight , money for lllege. The first letter said, In part "You know what Frank hns done for you. He's got to get out of town pronto, for tho other mob (gang) are wise. So you get us $10,000 In cash, and get It quick. Tho second letter was some what stronger In tone and told Capone to "kick across" with tho cash, "or Frank will go to tho police und spill everything he knows. Everything. Tho third letter was abrupt: "All right. You are Just ns good as putting Frank on the spot. Well, howil you llko got ting tho finger on yourself? Frank's going to tell. He re members 15 shootings he did be-' cause you ordered him to do them. He's going to tell Just who killed McSwiggln for a start er. And hen going to tell about why you had him bump off Hon Newmark because you heard Hon wanted to steal your racket and had put tip a cash offer to the man that got you. (Newmark was an Investigator for former Stato's Attorney Robert E. Crowe.) Would Tell Massacrn "Yest and then he's going to tell about your sending him to New York along with others, to let tho daylight through Frank Ualo. Of course he's going to sing about that Valentino's day affair. And how aro you going to like that, Mr. Al Hrown?" (Capone also is known as Hrown). Mrs. Hlege gave officers addi tional Information, they said. They quoted her as saying: "I guess you've got the goods on Frank. I probably could help him a bit by giving you tho entlro goods on that doiiblo-crosn-Ing A I Hrown. He thinks he's nice and saTe, tucked Into that Pennsylvania Jail, while Frank's left behind to takn tho big rap. PALL WITNESSES TO TELL STORY WAHIMNOTON, Oct. IS. (II The government rested Its case In the bribery trial of Albert H. Knll today after Introducing testimony concerning his deals wltli Harry P. Hlnclalr, oil mag nate. Tho defense motion for a dlr eeted vordlet was overruled by Justice Hits and the first de fenso wltneB (!ano Dunn, pres ident of the J. (I. White IOngln- cerliiK corporation, which con strueted th naval nil storage tanks nt Pearl Harbor, was call ed. EXID IN iggest Change it t'rean I'holo John McNab, a San Francises attorney, has been designated ts study federal judicial procedure and formulate changes to be rec ommended to congress. 1 AIR SYSTEM PLAN OF PRESIDENT Administration Hopes to Set Up System of Mail And Passenger Airways War And Navy Departments Making Study. WASHINGTON. Oct. 15. (P) Tho administration Is giving close attention lo tho principal air routes In the hope or setting up a Bystem of national airways as mediums of mail transportation and passenger trattlc. The question ot determining what airlnnes could constitute a national system has boon placed by Presi dent Hoover before the aviation Boctlons of the postoftlco, war and navy departments foF study, s Regarding tho letting of mall contracts, Mr. Hoover believes that a liberal government subsidy is ad vlxable and necessary to establish tills method of transporting malls, and It was said the poBtot'flce de partment had been proceeding on that basis. The question, however, is viewed by the administration as one In volving complex and difficult prob lems. It was said also the administra tion was considering mail contracts for the mercliant marine In much the same light because It was de sired to determine what the moBt Important trndo routes wore and to try to build these up as a really important part of the merchant murine by the granting of suitable contracts. . TO E EFFORT WITH C. OF C. As a result of n unanimous vnto nt the 'Merchants' Association meeting In the Hotel Medford last night, Hint organization became n special division of tho Chamho of Commerce, to be known as tho He tall Merchants' Bureau. This special merchants' division will be administered by its own officers and will not lose ItB Iden tity as a group, developed primar ily to trade promotion work. Its policies nnd activities will bo con trolled through an elected group of officers who shall act as a retail trade cotnmlttoo of the Chamber of Commerce. According to tho plan of organi zation submitted by J. D. Itussell, chairman, and Ills committee, mer chants must agree not to subscribe to funds which have not tho en dorsement of the committee, nnd all solicitors must ho referred to that committee Tor approval. Dues, which have heretofore been paid tn the Merchants' asso' elation, will lie paid to the Cham ber of Commerco anil tho funds received will bo deposited in a sep arate fund known as tho retail trade fund. This will be utilized only for tho purposes approvod by the retail trade committee, which comprises tho officers ot the de partment. That Armlsllc day, November It, will he observed as a holiday by all tho stores In tho city wbb an other decision reached at last night's meeting. Fire Chief Hoy Kl llott rurnlshed the principal means of entertainment by demnstrating salvage covers tn prevent loss by fire In department stores. Ho was assisted In the demonstration by Fireman Joe Krcdrlckson. NATIONA MERCHANTS MERG PANTAGES TO TEST I FY IN DEFENSE State Finishes Presentation Of Case Today Theater Magnate Will Have 20 Witnesses Surprise Is Intimated Chemist Up holds Story of Assault On Dancer. l.OS ANGELU, Oct. 15. (P) With tho announcement by Dis trict Attorney Huron Fitta that Police Chomist Hex Welch, whoso cross examination was to he com pleted today was to be the last wltnosa called by the prosecu tion, attorneys for Alexander Pnntages, wealthy theatre man on trial In superior court on a statutory charge brought by Eunice Prlngle 17-year old danc er, expected to produce the first of somo twenty defense witnesses. Defense counsel did not make public tho orders In which their witnesses will testify, but said that at least four days will bo required to hear them all. Pan tages will take tho stand In his own defense, and Attorney W. I. Gilbert, Pantagos' chief coun sel, intimated that several sur prise wltnosses will be present- i ed. Welch was the most Import ant of six now witnesses called by the state yesterday. Ho ldent- ifled clothing, presented as a state exhibit, as the garments worn by Miss Prlnglo at tho time of the alleged attack in Pantagoa' cubbyhole office In a downtown theatre building and told of mak ing chemical examinations of tho . various articles of wearing ap parel. The chemist testified that . his examination convinced him that an attack had been made , on the dancer, t Tllllo Russo, usheretto, whose . testimony was Interrupted by ad journment for itha- week-end hol iday last Friday, was the first witness called yesterday. . 8h had previously testified that Pan tagos had ."coached" her In the story sho wag to tell the dis trict attorney. Girl . Was Bruised Catherine Belles, a police wo-, man who made the first exam ination of Miss Prlnglo on the night of August 0 a few hours following the alleged attack, test ified that hor examination dls- -closed marks and bruises on tho girl's body. "I first saw Miss Prlngle about 7 o'clook In the evening," de clared Mrs. Belles. "I was In structed to make a comploto examination of her nnd her cloth ing. This I did, and then re ported to Captain J. J. Bruttlg of the police crime prevention bureau.' At the time Miss Prlnglo was very nervous nnd hysterical. I discovered, bruises on her body and noticed that her clothing waa ' torn. After the examina tion. I turned hor over to her mother." (Continued on Page 8lx Will Rogers Says: BEVERLY .1IILLS, Cal., Oct. 15.-That was a mighty fino thiiiR of President nnd Mrs. Hoover going to I'liia dclphiti to see that liaseball game. ' BiihcIxiU is still and always will be our na tional name, requires brains, more pruetii'e and more real skill tlinii all otbt'i's put together. It's the only ujamo when '6u see it played you know ' whether the ones playing it are being paid or not. There was 20, 000,000 baseball fans that listened to the world's series that knew every play made, Btid why, nnd how it was made, but still don't know whether Harvard is a town or a mouth wash, whether Yjtlo is a yell or a loek, and think all Notre Dames are ehurohes. So viva baseball. It's for us unfortunate ones who won't have no alumni. Yours, WILL ROGERS. n
