Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 17, 1929, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textedford Mail Tribune J The Weather I'nsotllnl tonight, nnd Friday goti rally fair. Not much rlmiigu in temperature. Temperatures Highest yestenlny fl. lx)vtNt till morning .. 41 pill; Twotj-fourtfa Tftr. KMtlr FUU-libtb Veu. FOURTEEN PAGES MEDFORD,. ORKGOX, THURSDAY, OCT011EK 17, 192!). No. 208 M Today By Arthur Brisbane What Is Happiness? Money and Labor. Piparl for a Lady. Birth Control. Yes? No? (Copyright by King features Syndicate, Inc.) The Rev. C. Everett Wagner, Methodist Episcopal, will start a "happiness clinic" with phil osophers engaged to lecture on happiness, how to start to reach it., The clinic will pay especial attention to marriage, health, work, and human na ture. 1 In starting n "happiness clinic" it im important to re member Voltaire's advice to de fine the meaning o words. What IS happiness? Sheridan calls it "An exutie of celestial birth." Socrates said, "Happiness is linrepented pleasure." Schoepenhauer called happi ness "Abscnt'c of pain." A dull definition. Rousseau's definition, "A good hank account, a good cook, and a good digestion," is also rather dull. Schiller thought he h a d found "earthly happiness" be cause he had "lived and loved." There are two kinds of hap piness. The lesser consists in finding the work for which you are fit and doing it. The greater, reserved for a few, is in working for others. A strike of gasoline truck ilrivers for big oil companies il. New York,., the , .companies refusing to recognize unions, is nn important struggle between organized labor and organized money. Labor has the difficult end of what will be a long fight ; $100,000,000 would make no difference to the companies in this struggle. If drivers could succeed in cutting off gasoline supplies, tying up automobiles, which is doubtful, they would have pub lic opinion against them. They will find political au thorities temporarily very friendly, less so after election. A diver in the Persian Gulf went "all naked to the hungry shark" and avoiding the shark flame up with a perfect pearl Weighing 50 grains, worth !p2ri0,0(M). The pearl will go to some lady, not very young, probably. Young husbands of young wives cannot afford such pearls. The lady will wear it oeea- (t (Continued on Page Four. Second Section) I'll bet tlie Cool Id home I n noisy old piaco with Oil an the both iKM-kln au.it n-Htln out Umt innffmlno muff... Tell Blnkley addrrNMMl a W. V. T. .trntlon. was designated today by rTlIn yortenlny, on It hain't horn! President Hoover to be chairman week inr lie nabl he mm hint' f thP commission on consera hiTf any office within th irlft n'j,lon oml management of the puh th nation. He domain. SEVEN DIE IN SEATTLE HOLOCAOSI Old Hotel Destroyed in Early Morning Blaze Twelve Injured Several in Critical Condition Cause Undetermined Dead Unidentified Place Was Landmark. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 17. (iT) Trapped In a mass of flames, Heven persons lost their lives and 12 others were burned and Injured In a fire that swept through the Port land hotel here early today. Firemen believed that all bodies had been recovered from the smol dering; building. Several of the in jured were In a critical condition and some were, not expected to live. The cause of the blaze, which was discovered at 4:30 a. m., was undetermined. The dead apparently had been suffocated while they slept, fire men said. None had been identi fied early today. John Kitzhenry, a roomer In the Grand Central hotel, across the street, turned In the alarm. He said he looked out his window at 4:30 and Saw the fire through a window of the Portland hotel. He added that it looked like It was burning on a stairway. The hotel, an old structure of brick construction, was located on First Aavenue South, below Yes ler Way, in the oldest section of Seattle. It was operated by U. Okada, Japanese, whose wife was critically injured when she leaped from a third story window. The dead were all white persons. 1 . T ON LATE DEALS NEW YORK, Oct. 1". IP) Prices rebounded in startling fash ion in tlie last half hour of trad ing on the New York Stock Ex change toduy, a wide assortment of prominent issues selling up $5 to $18 from the low levels reached in yesterday's drastic decline. The losses of the previous session were in many cases sharply reduced and in a few comparatively conceled.' The brisk return came after sev eral hours of uncertain and con fusing price movements anil had the appearance of a rush of shorts to cover their commitments. U. S. Steel, nfter selling off more than $:! a share to JJI0.J5, shot up to $L'19.25, a net gain of $5.75. Air Reduction was a high flier, selling up $18. Montgomery Wurd, after selling off about $" in the early afternoon, more 111 nn regained its loss. Such Issues as American Tele phone, American & Foreign Power, Oeneral Electric, U. S. Industrial Alcohol, Radio, Simmons, West inghouse Klectric, Western Union, Johns-Manville and the American Tobacco shares closed about $5 to $10 above last night's closing. FILIBUSTER ON TARIFF WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 7 () Senator Johnson, Republican, of California, charged In the senate today that some of the administra tion leaders were trying to filibus ter against the tariff hill. GREAT ELEVEN CULT VENTl'lU. Cal., Oct. 1 T . (TP) Furniture belonging to the (ireat Kleven, a rellRfouft cult under in vent Igat Ion hy Lob AiiRelen and Ventura county authorltlen, van ftHzeri today and hauled here by sr-prlffn deputies. The property In valued at $20,000. Name Garfield. WASHINGTON. Oct. 17. f) James It, Garfield, secretary of Interior In the Itoosevelt adminls UPWARD BOUND STOCK MAR LAY PLANS FOR It-' j-5 lrS 1 rt -ft President Hoover and Premier Ramsay MacDonald (left) are taking the lead In preliminary nego. tiatloni i for a five power naval disarmament conference next January. Prime Minister Hamaguchi of . ...c.,, rnmur right) are expected to receive Employment of Manufac turers' Agent As Tariff Advisor Upheld By Con necticut Solon Senator Walsh Is Caustic. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (P) Full responsibility wart assumed today by Senator Wiikiuum, Re publican, Connecticut, before the nennte lobby committee today fori his employment of Charles L. Eyanson, nn officer of the Connec ticut Manufacturers' association, as a tariff advisor at the time the tariff bill was before tho flonnte finance committee. lliiiKhuni, a member . of the finance committee, praised the work Kyanson had done and said 'if anyone ever served a senutor loyally, it was he." "Except he was serving two masters,' observed Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, a member of tho lobby committee. "Senator Walsh, I don't think that is fair," replied HinKhnin. "He worked as hard for the fisheries as for the manufacturers." "At the same time he wan your aid and assistant he was being paid by the Manufacturers assocU Hon," replied Walsh. "Certainly, there is no secret of that." Hi nullum then said If there was anything "wtuiik with it the fault Is mine." "Well, do you think there was anything wrong with It," asked Caraway. "Possibly I made a mistake," said Bingham, adding if he had known that It was "not considered proper for government employes who were hired to do one job to be used by senators to help do another Job" he probably would not have usked the Manufacturers' association to "loan' him n man. MURDERED SAYS I'S LETTER WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. () The Washington Evening Star says today that Senator Ulease of South Carolina, had received a letter ex pressing the belief Hint tho late Senator Frank H. Hrandegep of Connecticut wu murdered. At the time of his death In 19U4, n cor oner's Jury had "reported death oc curred from suicide. The Star added Itlease had re ceived the letter from a woman, and proposed to place It before a senate committee Investigating the Washington police department. At the time of Senator Urnnde gee'fl death a note was found in his home, written on senate sta tionery, telling that his body could be found In a bathroom on an up per floor. Asphyxiation by Illu minating gas was the medical finding. SENATOR TAKES RESPONSIBILITY IFOR TARIFF AIDE FIVE POWER DISARMAMENT PARLEYj musionni or naiy (upper center) and Invitation to the conference soon. Sociable Drink Not As Harmful As Cigarettes NEW YORK, Oct. 17. (yP) Drinking for sociability's sake Is regarded by Dr. Uurrill C. Crohn as less werious than "tlie current abuse of smok- Jng"; the one is in fact re- sponsible for only a very ex- ceptional functional gastric disturbance; to the other, many highly excitable and nervous stutes are founded upon excessive cigarette con- sumption, the possible effects of which are heartburn, -hy- perucidity, nervous constlpu- Hon, insomnia, duodenal nnd gastric ulcers. Dr. Crohn spoke at the New York Acad- emy of Medicine. ENGINEERED BY SAN FUANCISCO, Oct. 17. P) The San Francisco Examiner today said abolishment of the socalleil "Shasta differential" which would mean it saving of approximately $1S in round trip train fares be tween eastern points and Califor nia, nnd 1'uget Sound, has bein virtually decided upon by the transcontinental railroads. The "Shasta differential" is the difference in passenger fares be tween eastern points and Califor nia nnd the fares direct between eastern points and the two termi nals. A less Involved explanation is that If the Shasta differential be eliminated, n passenger going to I'uget Sound from the east can visit California at no extra cost and vlre versa. Tho Examiner says the purpose of the railroads in deciding to abolish the differential Is twofold. The main purpose, the newspaper declares is to block one of the ai-Kuments the Great Northern and Western Pacific railroad Is expect ed to use before the Interstate commerce commission In seeking permission to construct tho Klam ath Falls-Paxton link. The second reason Is declared to be the na tural desire to stimulate travel i nnd increase the volume of bust- ness. The newspaper snys that South ern Pacific officials stated last j night that they have been trying for some time to put tho tower rate In effect but northern rail roads objected. COAST FARE CUT SOUTHERN PA I KM SUCCEDSS& FATHER IN MINNESOTA WIU.MAIt. Minn., Ot. 17. Minnesota will continue to hnv th only fnrmpr-lubor party ripr wntiitlve In the lower houe of ronKrew. Pnul J. Kvuli. llmnon, fnrmer lnborltf, wan thoNen connreHtnan from the seventh Minnesota dls trlet nt n npeclnl el-tlon yester day Bnd will succeed his father, the Her. . J. Kvnle. also of that party who was burned to death In a summer cottage last month. Asioclalcd Pre Photo Premier Brland of France (lower ' $750,000 YIELD FROM ACREAGE IN PAST YEAR Report of New Rogue River Irrigation District Shows Water Has Brought Huge Profits' On Less 'Than 5000 Acres. How valuable Irrigation has be come in southern Oregon is shown by figures' released today by of ficials of the new Rogue River Valley Irrigation district, which was recently formed by an over whelming vote of the property owners, The ensh prop receipts this year total 7fi0,00 In an area of 4774 acres, in which approximately 4530 acres nro Included In con tracts for water, and 4214 acres have been Irrigated. In other words, the revenue from this dis trict Is over twice the nssessed vnl- I uatlon as fixed hy the appraisal board consisting of J. A. Perry, Joe Itrown nnd O. F. Mays. The basis of this appraisal was placing or chard lands at $3 GO per acre, nnd irrigated land not orchard nt $150 per acre. It Is estimated that nt least 70 per cent of the revenue came from Irrigated pear .orchards. With these figures as n basis, Ponald Clark, Mike llanley, .John Carkln, Victor Itursell and City Engineer F. C. Dillard, officials 'and advisers of the district, leave tonight for Salem, to secure the final (). K. of the state reclamn- tion board, consisting of Governor, Patterson, State Engineer Rhea" I,up'r, Secretary of State Hal HosB and State Treasurer Tom Kay. It Is believed the endorsement will bo Immediately secured and the next step will be for the prop erty owners In the dlstrh-t to vote to take over the old canal com pany properties via n bond Issue or other satisfactory financial ar rangement. This district was formed under the new state reclamation net pass ed in Oregon two years no. Hy the terms of this act the O. K. of the reclamation board Is neces sary, nnd a provision which has worked a hardship ngalnst Irriga tion districts In the past has been removed, namely. Instead of the water being a blanket obligation n all property In the dhtrlct, the individual who has paid up or who nun kept up In his payments Is not liable fur nny dlntriot Indebt edness caused by dlwtrlet members In arre.-.rs. This provision Is ex pected to render the necessary fi nancing of the district a relatively simplo matter. m the main crop following table shows that there Is also n consld erablo nlfalfu and truck Harden yield. 'Acrcnirf In Crops. Acres. Pears 1709. Bf. Apples 17H.75 Mif'cllaneous orchards 74. IB Alfalfa HI 6. OB Clover &IB.74 Truck garden 175.94 flraln Sr,2.09 irncultlvnted 241.75 Miscellaneous crops 179. US Total 4345.02 Xehalem highway being widened and danger spots removed In vi cinity of Jewell nnd Klsle. E E UP Million Dollar Atlantic Coast Ring Surprised On Wide Front 130 Officers Join in Action 32 Arrested Secret Radio, Arsenal, Liquor Vessels Escape. Gigantic Rum Ring's Extent Seized In 32 ruidn along the 200-inllo front between New York and Atluntic City: Thirty-two men. 4 One radio station. One fortified mansion. One suite of city offices. Landing stations. Storage plants. Uuns, tear bombs, pistols. ammunition, much liquor. Unseized: Six ocean-going vesselB. A fleet of small speed boats. Smuggling capacity, 10,000 caHes a week, NEW YORK, Oct. 1 7. (P) A fortified arsenal equipped with emplacements for its battery of machine Runs, nnd used ns head quarters for a Jl.Ouo.OOO rum smug Kllng syndicate, wds in tho hands of federal asonts today after a sur prise attack on the syndlcute ex tending along; the Atlnntlc const rrom here to Atluntic City, N. J. A mile from the armed base of operations at Highlands, N. .1., tho raiders captured a hidden radio sta tion from which orderB In code were sent to the fleet ol' liquor ships and speed bontB operated by the syndicate. A force of 130 special treasury agents, doputy U. 8. marshals and Nefr Jersey Btate police, going Into action simultaneously, -made .32 raids, arrested 32 men and seized quantities of Imported liquor. Among those arrested were: ICmanitcl (Mannle) Kessler and Morris Sweetwood, both of whom have Borved terms In tho fodornl prison at Atlanta for lurgo bcuIu bootlegging operations. Kessler and Sweetwood, how over, were released later at Tren ton, the authorities there being satlsried that they had nothing to do with the present operations. Secret Indictments Tito rtililH were based on secret Indictments returned by a federal grand Jury nt Trenton, N. J. Al though! Kessler and Sweetwood were not named In the Indictments they wore found In tho homo of one of tlie men named and taken Into custody. Preparations for the raldB began six months ago, when nn Inter cepted mcssnge was decoded. Prom that and other messages informa tion was gleaned which led to the raids. When the federal agents entered the station nt 4:30 p. m. yesterday, the zero hour for tho raids, thev found M ilcolm McMnstors, the op erator, at his key. lie was arrest ed for operating an unlicensed sta tion. A lednral operator famlllur with tho smugglers' code then be gan sending messages hy which tho raiders hoped to lure a rum ship off Mnntauk Point into n trap where a coast guard patrol boat luy In wait. Arsenal In Mansion The nrsennl was located In a mnnslon formerly owned by Osc.nr llnmmersteln, Jr. Its 20 rooms woro fitted like a club. In tho basement the raiders found tunnels leading to underground vaults In which liquor was stored nnd where a number of machine guns and n qunntity of small arms were hid den. The cupola on top of tho man sion was equipped with telescopes nnd was apparently used as a look out tower from where the smug glers could watch for their craft. One of tho raids was made on what the agents said was tho Now York headquarters of the syndicate ill 4llrd street. Here, the federal men said, members of the organiza tion met regularly to divide the profits of the business and discuss plans. Tho other raids were on (Continued nn Vaee Eight) T nosKHi;no, ore., Oct. 17. id Harry nnd Itnymond t'nrr, sus pected of attempting a safe, rob bery at ftrants l'ass, were tnken to thnt city today by Sheriff R ). Lister nnd Chief of Pollen lcwls. Unth men, who claim to bo brothers and of Portland, Ore., refused to talk when Hherlff Uster endeavored to obtnln a statement. Hherlff Lister said he had gained ! sufficient evldehro to convict them, I A BROKEN Chicken Pickers " Read Tribune Ad; 106 Sought Job There arc nt least 100 women readers of the Med- ( ford Mail Tribune who want 4 work and are willing to pick 4 chickens. What's more, that numher of persons read the fr 4 want ad page of this paper 4 Monday and Tuesday this 8 4 week. 4 4 K. M. Cumpbell, of Swift 4 and Company produce de- 4 4 partment, reports that !13 4 women answered his ad for 4 4 "lady chicken pickers" tho 4 4 first day It was inserted in 4 the Tribune. A total of 1 0t 4 4 answers were received after 4 4 tho advertisement had up- 4 4 peared twice. Nine women 4 4 were hired. All of which 4 4 proves that "It pays to advor- 4 Use." 4 4 4 444444444 Mechanical Trouble Causes Delay Stop in Medforcl Depends On Weather New Airport Will Be Used if Landing Made. If present weather conditions prevail, it Is probable that the plane, "Ijtnd of the Soviets," will only circle over Modford around noon tomorrow on Its nlr journey from Seattle to San FranclBco en route to New York City. However, If weather conditions are adverse, the plane will land at Medford'B new airport, depending upon advice from the local weather office. The ulrplane will probably circle over Med l ord two or throe times at a fairly low nltltude If It does-npU innu. . . SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 17. (P) iiroiten control wires, discovered just as the Russian fliers were pre paring to take off from Snnd Point field here, cnused lustponement ot the projected flight to Oakland to day, S. A. Shestukov, chief pilot. nnnounced. The Kusslans hoped to resume their flight tomorrow. They ar rived nere Sunday from Waterfall, Alaska, where they were delayed a wook after being forced down because of motor trouble. Since tholr urrlvnl here the four aviators have Installed wheolB on tholr plane, "Land 'of the Soviets," replacing pontoons that were usod on the flight nc.ross the Pacific from Siberia along the Aleutian Islands. From Oakland they will go to Now York, terminus of their flight from Moscow. senatTSfirms FOR FARM RELIEF WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (IP) Tho eight men appointed to tho federal farm board by President! Hoover today wero formally and fully empowered to go ahead with1 their task of bringing prosperity j to tho Amerlcnn farmer. i Henato confirmation, the lasti obstacle to thn administration's j desire for a bonrd of Its own I choosing to carry out a broad and significant program of its own designing had been successfully removed. All wero nunrovod earlv last night after tho senate had laid I aside the tariff debute und de-! oled n full day to discussing tbeiri respective merits und uunliflca-j tlons for the Important posts to i which tho chief executive had! nppolnted them. Opposition tol three of Mr. Hoover's appointees ' Alexnnder II. I'gge, representing the field of finnneo nnd hiislnos, I Samuel Tl. McKelvIn, spokesman j for the wheat Rrowlng Industry: and Carl Williams, cotton, repra-l sentatlve developed hut was un-i able to block their confirmation. I 1 IP. CAMnilirxirc, Mass., Oct. 17. tlP) J. I'lerpont Morgan, Harvard 8", and head of tho New York banking firm of J. P. Morgan Company, has been elected presi dent of the llsrvard Alumni asso ciation for the current year In suc- ena.l.in lA A 1 1 t r, . 1 ' 1 1 r SO nf Una. ton, It was announced today. RUSSIAN FLIERS LEAVING FRIDAY IS WORD TODAY T by George Joseph, Henry Han zen of Portland Conspired to Injure Supreme Court Justice Rand, Is Charge of Lawyer Disbarment Proceedings Filed Cite Joseph. SALEM, Ore., Oct. 17. (JP) That Oeorge W. Joseph, Portland lawyer, and Henry Hunzen and other ier8ons unknown entered into a conspiracy to plant liquor at the Salem home of Justice John L. Hand of the state supreme court is the charge made by Thomas Mannlx, another Portland lawyer, who yesterday filed disbarment proceedings against Joseph. The proceedings are filed with the su preme court. Chief Justice Coshow Immedi ately signed an order citing Joseph to appear before the supreme court on Monday, November 4, and show cuuse why lie should not be dis barred. Mannlx avers that It was the purpose of the conspirators to make It appear that lie was the carrier of the liquor, and that the intent of the conspiracy was to re flect against the supreme court and Its members. "As a part of the liquor con spiracy," says the Mannlx com print, "Hanzeti notified the fed oral prohibition officers that your complainant waa about to deliver ' the liquor to Justice Rand. The affidavit disclosing this conspiracy Is In the bands of W, M. Newell,, prohibition director. It was only by discovery ot the plot that th liquor was not planted." Intimidation Attempt Further alienations that Josenh ntfcmifited to Intimidate the court " In . connection with litigation In which he was Interested are con tained In the complaint. "While the case of Wemme s. Selling was pending on appeal In the supreme court," says the com plaint "and before a decision was given, for the purpose of Influenc ing and coercing the court to ren der a decision in his favor, falsely with actual malice published and caused to be published in the Port-' land Telegram statements that one of the justices who heard the case had been corrupted and influenced by your complainant to give a do- clBion unfavorable to Joseph, who at the time was an attorney in the case. Circulated Charges "Thereafter. Joseph, for the pur pose of bringing the Bupreme court' into disrepute and controlling and making the court afraid of him. cir culated by means of newspapers, ratuo anu circular lettera, state ments charging Justice Hand with corruption in connection with the decision In the Wemme enne. It ' was alleged that the consideration which caused the corruption of the said justice was a secret mining venture which Justice Rand had with your complainant and other parties, and out of which he. Jus tice Rand, expected to reap a large profit In consideration of the al leged corrupt decision. All of (Continued on Pae Right) Will Rogers Says t SANT AMONICA, Cal., Oct. 17. Acceptances are flowing in mighty fust to the invitations to be at the dis armament conference. Na tions are just like people, They never have any trouble gct tint 'cm to go to some sort of con vention, but it's getting 'era to tlo anything that amounts to anything after they get there. I just want to hear a movietone of France trans lated in English when some body suggests doing away with submarines. Russia and China wasn't invited. They have disarmed now till they are practically fighting with their fists. Japan has to have a navy, otherwise . there would be none in the Far East, Yours, WILL ROGERS. 1 AN WA FO LED Ills n Li