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M Mail Trip! jne s The Weather EDFOED Temperatures I'll I r IiuiIkIiO ll ml Tuesday. Nul Highest yesterday 61 liouost UiU morning its UlUl'll I'lllllIKO III tclllKM11llllT'. Dally Twenty-fourth Year. ttwUy t'ifty-elihth Yeir. MEDFORD, OltlSClOX, MONDAY, OCTOKKli J8, lSttA. No. 219. Today By Arthur Brisbane Dizzy, but Better. The President on Wages. inn Rillinn a Ypqr n Years or Mussolini. (Copyrlsht by King . Featurea Syndicate, Inc.) Wall Street's big stock mar ket opened quietly Saturday. There was u slight dizziness, as of one that has fallen from a hummock while Bleeping. But prices are better. President Hoover's assertion of the soundness of national prosperity reassures many. The president, as he proved when in charge of the depart ment of commerce, under stands business as few men do in the United States. - His mind, thoroughly train ftl, is not deceived by appear ances or hopes. When he says "The funda .mcutal business of the country is on a sound and prosperous basis," the people may rely upon it that he knows. Most interesting in his state ment are the words, "There has been a tendency of wages to increase, and the output per worker in many industries again shows an increase, all of which shows a healthy condi tion." , Many foolishly believe that prosperity can be built on low wages and cheap production. President Hoover knows bet ter. The basis of prosperity is high wages that make it pos sible for workers to purchase )t merely Jifo's , necessities, but the most important luxur ies, automobiles, radios, bath tulis, electric washing ma chines. m The annual American rev enue is above one hundred thousand million dollars and Frederick II. Eckcr, president of the Metropolitan Life In surance company, shows that wage earners get more than sixty billions of the total of one hundred billions. They need forty billions for the cost of living, leaving twenty bil lions for investment, savings, and the pleasures and luxuries of life. Stock gamblers may worry, but there is nothing the mat ter with the national prosper- You arc reminded that one man can change conditions throughout an entire nation, by Italy's celebration, this week, of the seventh anniversary of Mussolini's rise to power. What that man has accomp lished will remain one of the (Continued on Page Four) "I don't believe I've ever eeen many wlvea out of employment e ther ere today," remarked Lafe Bud, today. It'a a mighty fine o' Col. Lindbergh to be lookln' for .ancient Mayan rulne, but what Vihie country hopea ia that It'll ' never have to hunt fer Col. Lindbergh. PANT AG ES GUILTY 13 Unanimous Agreement on Sentence to Prison Is Reached At 9:29 Sunday Night Sentence Friday, One to Fifty Years 'Fight to Finish,' Is Word to Attorneys. I,OS ANQHLES. Oct. 2S.(P) Haggard from a sleepless night, Alexander Pantages, theatre multi millionaire, convicted last night of a statutory offense against Eunice Pringle, 17 year old dancer, today followed county jail routine and laid plans to carry on his fight for freedom. At his request a jail hospital in terne gave him a sleeping potion last night. "Hut I couldn't sleep Just kept worrying," Pantages said today. "What did the Jury meun by that word 'clemency'," ho asked. When told that It was an appeal for mercy, Pantages brightened, but became dejected again when it was further explained that the court could but send him to prison for the one to fifty years pre scribed by law. "I got a raw deal,' ho declared. "The jury shouldn't have convicted a yellow dog on the evidence against me. Hut I'm going to ask for a new trial and I think I'll get It. If 1 don't my attorneys are going to appeal. We will win that. I'hch Mop in Cell During the morning the man who made tho beginning of a for tune in the resorts of the Yukon was given a bucket and mop and told to clean up his coll. Puntuges had been unable to eat jull food, he said, and tin orange and apple he had bought from tho Jail store went -untouched: " ' "Like the old times up in Alas ka, isn't it?" a cell mate asked as the theatre magnate mopped. Pantages did not answer. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28. ( From a beginning in the gold flecked resorts of the Yukon, where ho struggled first us a waiter and then rh a danco hall owner to lay the foundation upon which ho later built a huge for tune through n chain of vaudeville theaters bearing his name, Alex ander Pantages today occupied a cell in the county Jail and faced the end of his trail branded with conviction of a statutory offense against Eunice Pringle. a 17-year-old university dancer. After deliberating slightly over 53 hours, after being given the case at 4:17 p. m. Friday, the jury of soven women and five men at 9:29 o'clock Sunday eve ning returned a verdict of guilty, demanding a sentence to state's prison. Next Friday morning was set by Superior Judge Charles W. Krlcke for tho Imposing of sen tence, which is prescribed by law as one to fifty years. The mini mum and maximum length of the sentence, which must be set by the prison board following one year's service, may be determined somewhat by tho jury's recom mendation that clemency be ex tended. right to Finish The 54-year-old multimillionaire theater man, tried and convicted of nn attack upon Miss Prlng'e in a tiny conference room ad joining his suite of offices In the Pantages Theater building last August 9. immediately was re manded to the custody of the sher iff. He will remain In jail pend ing the action on motions for i new trial and appeals, which will be made at the time of sentenc ing Friday. Ills trio of attorney ci noted pant aires n" declaring he would "fight It out" to the finish. Mrs. Lota Pantages. wife of the convicted man, confined to her home suffering from shock and i 1 1 news as the result of her convic tion September 21 on a man slaughter charge for the death of .lino Itokumoto In an automobile accident, broke Into tears when told of' the verdict. She made no statement, however, and her physicians said she was In n seri ous condition. She Is nt liberty under $50,00(1 ball pending a hearing on her appeal for proba tion. Mins Pringle. likewise, was not In court when the verdict was read. Reached In her room In a downtown hotel where she has lived with her mother. Mrs. Iewls Pringle, during- the trial, the glti expressed satisfaction over the ver dict and recommendations of the Jury. C.lrl U (Had "I am very glad of the result, and so glad that the whole sor did thing Is over." she said "I have felt all along that only a ver dict of guilty could le returned. I told the truth on the witness stand and feel that I did my duty." Apparently much dejected, but VEW (Continued on Paga Eight) P. A, 7 Planes Are Named After High Peaks Of Coast 5 Don't bo surprised If somo- $ one hails you and says, "I'm flying north today on the Kit. Shasta," for all mail-passon- tier planes of Pacific Air ! transport wore today doslgn- 4 ated by the name of western t S mountain, printed on the 4 ship's rudder. H The names chosen for the fr E planes which shuttle back S and forth on the 1100-mile air span between Los Angeles, Med ford and Seattle are: $ 8 Kainier, Shasta, Lassen, Mc- fr Kinley, Adams, Mood, Cus- cade, Baker and and Diablo. ' 8 Thousands of Speculative Accounts Wiped Out By Continued Break in Values Leading Issues Fall Ten to Fifty Points Haggard! Traders Watch Ticker Tape. By Stanley W. PrcnoMI Associated Press Financial Editor. NEW YORK. Oct. 28. yp) The stock market wont Into another terrific nose diva today, breaking through tho low levels established In last Thursdaya record breaking session, as prices of scores of lead ing issues crashett SlOto nearly $50 a share, with final quotations around tho low levels of tho day, Net declines In the active Issues were the largest since tho selling movement started about a week ago. The ticker wan reported to he 87 minutes behind the market when tho final gong sounded. Closing quotations and net de clines of some of the other leading shares follow: (Continued on Pngo KIrIH) UNIVERSITY OF MEET TONIGHT Making a tour of tho state, for the purpose of interesting niumnl and parents In the university. Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, presiaent of the University of Oregon, Mr. and Airs. Walter M. Cook, Alfred Pow ers. Mrs. J. F. Hill and Marion lhy, secretary to the university president, arrived In the city last night, had a busy day und will climax their visit with an alumni banquet at the Hotel Medford to night. Mrs. Cook, who In prerldent of the Oregon Mothers association, and Mrs. Hill, president of the Portland group of Mothers, are concerned primarily with meeting the mothers of university students in the cities of the slate und enlist ing their cooperation and Interest In campus programs and activities I leading a group of over 7on mothers In Portland, Mrs. Hill Is distributing to the mothers thru out tiie state, a comprehensive out line pf the studies, programs of activity and campus soclul life at Oregon, in order to "bring the parents Into the university." Dr. Hull spuke at the Kiwunls club luncheon this nonn on the subject, "The CnlverMty and He search." At two-thirty, he spoke before a high school assembly on "Philosophy of Life." Around ho alumni and parents are expected to attend the banquet nt the Hotel Medford this evening at 6:30, at which the foundation for the local organization of par ents and alumni will be laid. ! President Hall, Mrs. Cook. Mrs. i Hill, iJean Alfred Powem of the university extension department. ('. T. linker, president of the Med ford Alumni association, will speak on the program. Itefore leaving for Grants Pass tomorrow, the party will be escorted to the new airport to Inspect the field and Its equipment. Dr. 1111 In sched uled to speak nt thn high reboot In Grants Pass at 11 o'clock. This fs tho eleventh city visited by the party. That she, personally.! will visit every city and town In Oregon where two' or morn uni versity mothers are located, was a statement made by Mrs. Conk Ihl noon. NOSE GIVE IN MARKET UNCHECKED ORE ALUMNI TO AVIATOR ON ATLANTIC FLIGHT Urban F. Dlteman, jr., of plane, the Golden Hind, a tiny off from Harbor Grace, N. F Dispute Over Inheritance Believed Cause of Murder Kansas Farmer and Step Daughter Land Had Oil Possibilities. AHKANSAS CITY. Kas.. Oct. 28 (A1) Three men wore held today and a fourth .was sought for the slaying of Carl Joiich, U7-yoar-old farmer und his step-daughter, Elizabeth Walworth, 25, at their farm homo four miles northwest of here Saturday night. John Phelan Jones, father of Carl Jones, and Clarence "Wal worth, 25, brother of the slain girl was held at Wliifleld and Neil Jones, brother of the slain man was held here. All live at Augus ta. Officers sought Harry Jones, another brother of Carl, who works , for a refinery company ut McCainuy, Texas. No chat-Res had been filed but county Attorney IS. T. Hlnoiner ((f Wliifleld said he was confident "we 'will clear this up in 24 hours." Dispute over land which was willed to Carl Jones by his mother upon her death last summer was seen by officers as a possible mo tive for the sluyings. The land was believed to have oil possibilities. Jones's body was found about 100 yards west of tho house, part of his head blown away by a shot gun charge. The body of his daughter was lying In the front room of the home. Her fingers still clutched a revolver but she apparently hod no opportunity to use It. The shot which caused her death was fired through a screen door. VIRDEN LOWERS AIR TO SEATTLE, Oct. 28. fpiKlyinf: tho 3115 miles between Medford and Oakland in one hour and forty minutes today In a Pnciflc Air Transport Blilp, Pilot Ralph Vlr dlu averaged 20 1 miles an hour and broke his own record of two hours fend 17 mlntiten lor for the hop. Vlidrn. piloting a Hoeing 40-H-4 type regular mall ship, carried three passengers and a good load of mull on the Jump. ninin Tiinrr mlrmmiTO iriwr iiulu mutt mmmwb mt FARIVI SLAYINGGUCHES CAR AS FOURTHSOUGHT ; POLICEPU RS U E Fire Laddies Play Tag On Brewery Roof With Sweet-Singer In Chicago CIHCAOO, Oct. 2H. bP) Two hundred firemen can be wrong, and a canary, no matter how sweet he tweet. An awful bother. The firemen one squad, three truck and four engine companies, not lo mention the fire boat crew converged at Hchocnhofen's brewery and scanned the area for n fire, A walling wonmn, wring ing her hands, rushed forward. "Hilly boy, my Hilly boy!" she cried In anguish. "Savo my Hilly boy." She pointed. High on lha brew ery roof was Hilly boy, tweeting. Associated Press Photi Billings, Mont., standing beside hi Barling monoplane, In which he took for London. Holdup Men Abandon Car - Cn Keene Way Shots in Air Fail to Halt Pair Were Seen in Ashland Early Sunday Morning. Kil (iuches of Grirrin Creek, the victim of .the holdup picn on Riverside avenue, taking cash and his uulomohllc Saturday night, has recovered the car, hut was still out $-10 today. Tho machine was recovered early yesterday morning following a chose of several miles when Police Officers McKibbon. Dizney und J.eggitt of Medford pursued tho car from tho county falrgroundH to tho end of Kust Main street. Officers fired several times into the ulr in an effort to stop the fugitives but wore unsuc cessful. The sedan was found n short time later abandoned on Keene Way, where the two holdup men had left It. fleeing on foot In the early morning darkness. (luches was held up on Hlver sMu avenue when two men, both young-and one fairly well drcssd, at lliu point of a pistol made him drivo out to a lonely spot on Hoss Lane, where they took his money and car, telling him not to call the police for four hours, at tiie end of wlilch time they would call him hy telephone, telling him where his car could be found. However. luehes lost no time in notifying the authorities, who telephoned of ficers north and south of Medford. Hern III A-hland City Traffic OfHcer Sam Prcs cott of Ashland saw the Ouches atiio In Ashland early In the morn ing stoppeil In front of a service Ntiition and started to walk over to the car, but the two occupants, whose description resembled that tiX tiie two men who robbeit Guehes, drove away headed toward Medford. The Ashland officer telephoned Mr d ford police and thrrt local officers awaited the cur nt the fair grounds, but the police were nimble to slop the llenlng cit', which narrowly missed mak ing the J urn at Riverside avenue and .Main, The car went out Mast Main and huh abandoned on Keen Way, a shott distance front the end of the street. 1 I n t tn lion Chief Thomas fleary ' confesses to no especial love of ililids. but he Is broad minded. He ordered the ladders up. The nim I hie fire laddies began risking their ' ite'-kH, leaping und diving and i sliding about the Kebnehofen roof. The canary thought it was a game, or something. He kept one hop I ahead, not forgetting to tweet. I-'iimlly the fireman saw the i futility of it nil. They Kot down and put tho ladders bark on the ; tricks, j The trucks, home bound, went I elsng.clang. I The canary went tweet-tweet. n XECUIION SI GROWS I MOSCOW Two Proniment Jewish Mer chants Added to Victims of Soviet Firing Squad 26 Rich Peasants Have Lost Lives Death List to Date Placed At 63. MOSCOW, Oct. 28. (tV) Two prominent Jewish diamond mer chants, Kleiner and TelU, were executed by a firing squad today for smuggling diamonds out of Soviet Russia. Their deaths brought to a total of f!3 known executions in soviet Kussia In the last four days for vnriotitt alleged offenses, most of them political. The two Jews were charged with getting the diamonds out through officials of the Latvian legation and Importing Illicit rubles pur chased abroad at reduced rates. Tho presidium of the contrail executive committee, tho highest executive body of tho Soviet Union, rejected the prisoners' plea for clemency. Opposition to government poli cies has cost 20 kulaks, or rich peasants, tn various parts of Soviet Russia their lives. Tass, official news agency, today said that a number had been exe cuted after Investigation of gov ernment agents Into enormous dlf flculelts In gathering ( grain fwjm the peasantry and converting small peasant farms Into largo collective farms. PeuKuniH Hunt Grain Of tho 20 rich peasants oxecutcd 15 met death at different points In Novoslbersk either for opposing a government project or deliberately burning their grain to provcut the authorities from taking It. 'Two' priestfTHiid tmr fhiri"poiiH- anU were shot at Guri, near Ivan ovna-Vusnelsenslc, whoro tho local cemetery was Included In a new government collective farm, for spreading the rumor tho govern ment would destroy (hi; graves and close tho church. Tho peasant neighbors of tho dead men took severe reprisal measures. In the yillago of Maly Pcnky, In tho same' district, two brothers named Korehangl, wero shot for opposing tho establishment of a collective farm by burning their grain and terrorizing local com munists. Death sentences wero pronounc ed yesterday on four members of tho reorajensky church, Kimrl, Moscow province, for "counter revolutionary activity." Others Identified with tho church received prison terms. AIRPLANE LOST Big Indian Air Liner Forced Down At Sea Taken in Tow By Steamer Line Parts in Storm Women Among Passengers. OK.VOA. Italy. Oct. 2S. (A) Two bodies, those of the pilot and a passenger, of the City of Home, Imperial Airways Indian Air liner which was lost near Spczfa Satur day, have heen recovered. The wreck of the plane Is be lieved to have taken place Satur day night resulting In the deaths of seven persons, Including u wom an, who were aboard. Tho steamer Kainlglia sighted the plane which hud landed be cause of a storm about fifty miles off Vturcgglo and took It In tow to a point ten miles southwest of Tfno inland, As night fell the weather grew worse and tho Ka mlgllo's tov.llne broke. Finally tho Kamlglla lost touch with tho plane and decided to make for Spnzla whero tho author II les arranged rescue measures sending throe de stroyers, one torpedo boat, one auxiliary and hydro-air planes. Search for the City of Hume was carried on nil day yesterday and was being continued today. The plane was a big threo motorcd craft capable of carrying 15 passengers. Tho nlr mall ser vice to Karachi, India, was started only lust month. On Juno 17 seven lives wore lost when tho company's City of Ottawa plunged Into the water while flying over tho Kngllsh channel. 1 SEVEN PERISH WHEN ITALIAN uelowDead Prince. VONUKLrOW" ROM H. Oct. 28. (A1) Prince Hern ha rd Von Kuelow, tier man statesman and former Imperial chancellor, died at his villa here at 0:50 a. m. today, after an Illness of several days aggravated by a heavy cold, lie was HO years old. His body ;J he taken to his home near Hamburg for burial. AWARDS GO TO Attendance Laurels Given to First Christian Church in Closing Session Speak ers, City and Church, Are Thanked. --"Huw Can -Wy Bontoty,;CJf!ty On?" was the toplo of tho Chris Hun Endeuvor session, held in the recreation hall of tho First Chris tian church last night as one of the Important meetngs of tho Crater J .alto Union, Christian I5n douyor convention, which opened hero Friday evening. Tho meet ing was in charge of Miss Marie Present t of Ashland, and a pro gram of music and genoral dis cussion proved of Interest to tho delegation of over one hundred. Immediately following the En deavor meeting Hev. Claudo H. Porter took charge of the song sorvlco in tho main auditorium, which was filled to capacity. Rev. Carman K. Mell, pastor of tho local Christian church, song ' Open the Outes" os a special number. Hev. IE. W. Nelson of McMln vllle, who has been speaker throughout tho convention, chose as his final address "Our Isadora' Covenant, 'Curry On'," In which he used as his scripture tho Great Commission. Ho took the two words, "Teach and ltoaeh(" In the flint part of his sermon, saying that "in order for tho teaching to be of any value, you must reach the heart of the person you are Instructing." "Hoys follow men," Rov. Nel son said, "and thnt docs not mean that they follow only tho Chris tian men," He emphasized tho fact that in order to "Carry On" the spirit of the J .coder was neces sary. ' Awards Matin Awards wero also inado nt yes terday's session for the most rog- , Istrations handed In hy any one society previous to the convention.! and to the church and the most! delegates present nt ull sosslons. i lloth prizes went to the First Christian church of Ashland. A report of the Future Work 1 committee was made, and tho Resolutions committee chnirmnn : made a report extending thanks to the speakers of the convention, the city of Medford and the churches that wero open for the convention. During the afternoon session the newly elected officers of the 1'nlon wero Installed by Rev. Wil liam I. Harney of Ashland, Hush Guiley, stated field secre tary for tho Christian Kndoavor, spoke on "Our Covenant, We Will See This Thing Through." The covenant, which Is made up of I KvangeliMm, World Peace and : Christian Citizenship, was adopted! at the International Kndenvor con vention In 1927, to be carried nut ( for two years. At the end of i this time It was decided at the Kansas City convention In July to 'Carry On" fr two moro yeara, and these words have been chosen an the slogan. Points Ntrvsscil Professor Guiley brought out five things In his address which ho enlarged upon nnd explnlned. They were: "Give yourself up wholly to tho guide, bo willing to pay the price, get rid of unneces sary baggage, stay close to th? guide and follow wherever the guide leads." The talk was followed by a de cision service In churgo of Pro fessor Guiley, after which the (Continued on Pag Eight) CLHON ASHLAND UNIT 8 INGHAM IN HOI REPLY I Connecticut Senator Says Lobby Probe Committee Unfair Used Police Court Methods 'Framed' Against Him Caraway Speech Full of Misstate ments and Innuendo. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. (JP) Striking back at his accusers, Sen ator Bingham, Republican, Con necticut, contended In the senate today tho lobby investigating com mittee was "unfair" and had used "police court methods' In examin ing him regarding his employment of an officer of the Connecticut Manufacturers association to assist him in tariff matters. - The Connecticut senator assert ed the committee was "framed against a friend of the administra tion." He said one member of fclio committee had used a member of the capltol police force as a chauf feur to drive him homo while tho policeman was still drawing gov ernment pay. Senator Hlalne, Republican, of Wisconsin, a former member of tho committee, leaped to his feet und insisted thut Bingham name, tho sonator. ' "It was the senator from Wis consin," Bingham replied. "I'll reply in my turn," Blalno shouted us Bingham continued his speech. 1I1U Caraway 8icccli Referring- to the senate speech Saturday by Chairman Carawu of -tho lobby committee, . Bingham said Caraway had attacked him and tho Connecticut iiaayUutlou, , "by !lnU&ido7'by " torturing and twisting of ovldenca and occasion ally by misstatements which wero corrocted later only by expressions of doubt as to their veracity." Caraway had argued employ ment by Bingham of a paid repre sentative of the association was beneath tho dignity of tho senate. "I was so u mazed by the Hpecch that I was in doubt whether to reply," Bingham said. , "I fool now that a roply Is duo mo, duo my constituents and due to tho manu facturers' association, "1 had not supposed there, 'was so much unfairness in a group of senators. "I had not supposed thnt for political purposes, In order to damago a New England senator and a friend of the administration that they would go as far as they did. 1 was asked ono question several times by the sumo senator In tho hope apparently that I would contrudlet myself." Bingham then said this senutor was the same ono who had used a capltol policeman as his private chauffeur. Shortly before tho sennto convened this morning, Bingham's- office . announced the senator would reply to Carawuy and that Caraway had been re quested to be present. Will Rogers Says: SANTA MONICA, Cal., Oct. 28. The Carnegie Foundation got their answer about paid HthleteH who were subsi dized. Less than half that many attended 50 games where the athletes were pure, but not much athletes. The pub lie don't oare how you got to n college, it's how you aro going to get front the 40. yard line to over the goal that they are worrying about. We are a ''get the dough" people, and our children are born in a com mercial age. Why if a babe in arms can cry loud enough to get paid for it wo are tickled to death. Muke 'cm pay for talent whether it's art, music, football, litera ture, radio announcing or flag pole sitting. Any actors that can draw 88 thousand people in ono day is worthy of their hire. Don't let Wall Street get nil tho gravy. .. Yours, WILL RO0KRS CHARGES
