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Medford Mail, Tribute .The Weather Forecast: Tonight ami Wfclnwwlny fair. No change hi tcmMnuurt Temperature Highest yesterday 55 Yowcst this morning 20 Datlf Twwtty-fourth Tear. TWELVE PAGES MEDFORD, OlMXiOX, TUESDAY. N0VKM1JEU 192!). Xo. 2 IS. Today By Arthur Brisbane The President's Opportu nity. Viable (Memenceau. Saviour of France. , He Feared No Man. (Copyright by King Feature! Syndicate, Inc.) The important cities of Sc uttle n ml Tacoina, because of drought, observe a falling: off in hyilro-elcctric power that might menace the lighting of lml li cities. The problem presented will interest 1 lie President, who be lieves in making public prop erty useful to people that own it. The navy's airplane carrier, Lexington, n o w in Puftet Jpiinnd, near ; Seattle and Ta coina, has abundant power for both cities. To conned the carrier's en gines with the two ligliling plants would be simple. The President will not allow red tape or technicalities to in terfere with an important op-( portunity and obvious duty. President Taft rendered pub lic service when forest fires made it imperative! to use the army; he acted promptly and efficiently. Xavy officials may give Pres ident Hoover ten good reasons for not allowing the Lexington to be made useful. The Presi dent, doubtles, will give them one good reason for changing their minds, and they 'll change Jliem. . Ta permit inconvenience to two cities, refusing immediate and simple relief, would be pre posterous, especially ns the cit izens of Seattle and Taeoina helped to build the Lexington nnd pay their share, each day, lo maintain, ship and crew. Wit h the death of C'lencean n grejit, noble, useful man leaves the earth. Those that i knew him, or know his career, without knowing the man, think of little else. lie makes our ordinary lives seem futile, with his magnifi cent 8S years, more than "0 spent in public service. Ignorance calls him "athe ist." lie was no enemy of re ligion. His fight was against control of government by the church. ITe fought against thai' in Krance, and won. lie agreed with those that established this nation and wrote its constitu tion that church and state should be separate, lie nnd (iiinibetta separated them in Krance. (Continued on Page Four) hnnlral lllltlC nlHHIl rati f v,.s 1 1 m?UfAr IreliT n Ihiiinrrat l rcmcmborln' I nherr you put your. Ha after tliej lnt time yon hnil orroslou to ') U. What's oro'n Bltiln' U " ! in two liitolllireiitlr an' then liaej A otliT nwrliln hluff you out or. It? (Copyright John F. mile Co.) ILEAOERS 10 HEAR TALK BY HOOVER Special Meeting Called By U. S. Chamber of Com merce for December 5 Two Hundred Business Men Will Be Invited for Address By President On Prosperity Plans. WASH INGT.ON, Nov. 21!. (ff) Owen D. Young of the Cienerol Klectrlc company, Samuel Instill of Ihe Cnminonweallh h.'dison com pu ny and George 13. Corlelyou ot Ihe Consolidated Gas company, uiul 25 other puhlic utility magnates wero invited liy President Hoover today for the last of his business confer ences sot lor 10 u. m. tomorrow at the While House. WASHINGTON', Nov. 20. (VP) President Hoover will make an ad dress on December 5 at a special meeting of 200 or more business men to be called together by the Chamber of Commerce of the Unit ed Slates, as a result of the White House conferences. The last of the White House con ferences will bo held tomorrow when five representatives from each of three utility groups street railway, electric power and gas will meet. These officials are meeting .today in New York and will give the president a first-liary! report on what happened there. It was said at the White House tliat efforts to put Into practical force the ideas the president has Initiated hereafter will remain with the constituted agencies. Among these will he the Cham ber of Commerce of the United States, which looks after business matters: the department of com merce, which will prove the liusoa between the federal and state gov ernments and, the various farm, business ami trade organizations. His December 5 address will not be extended, but Mr. Hoover do sires to open the meeting called as a result of his efforts during the past week. F DETECTIVE AND Mystery Seen in Death of Police Officer and Sales ladyEmpty Liquor Bot tles Found in Auto Cabin Trysting Place. . WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 2li. (At Hot ties which had contained liquor were clues today in attempts to solve the mysterious deaths of James J. Casey, superintendent or police detectives here, and .Mrs. Doia Bingham, department store saleslady, whose bodies were found at Casey's camp at Northbrook field yesterday. Superintendent Casey's unelolh ,i i.miv una tin' nartlv clad form of .Mrs. llinsham were found on the floor of a.bedroom oi ine enmu by (wo of Casey's lieutenants. They had been ordered to Investigate his falluro to return home on Sunday. Casey, who was 56 years old, his wife, and Mrs. Bingham. -10, were reported to have been friendly for several years. Mrs. Casey first learned of the tragedy by a radio report. After an autopsy last night, city hospital physicians said they could not determine positively what had raused deuth. A chemical analysis of vital organs was ordered. . LOS ANUKLKS, Cnl., Nov. 2tl. (p, Major Owen H. lllrd. . a wealthy broker and automobile rac ing patron, was arrested early to day on suspicion of assault with Intent to commit murder following the shooting of Perclvul (i. Watson. as. In the Bird home last night. Police were Informed the affray followed an attempted attack by the major on his wife while Wat son was visiting the couple. Chinese llolllb Wncllmv. ' CANTON, Nov. 211 li Wire less dispatches from Wuchow otated th.il the Nationalist army airplane .... ,.!. .n rrtlrln.1 nn.l lttrilinfl th'tt rlty and the nearby Kwnngsl border thin afternoon, killing numerous persons, terrorizing the populace :.nd Inflicting serious properly damage. li BODIES OF WOMAN FRIEND FEDERAL RESERVE BANKERS MEET Members of the dcral 3dviccry council conferred with President Hoover on business conditions. Front row, left to rlqht: Secretaries Larr.ont and Mellon and Roy A. Young, governor of the federal reserve board andpresident of the council which ii composed of members or twelve federal reserve banking districts. PIERCE CHOICE Albany Man Is Ideal Demo cratic Candidate, View of Former Governor May Try for Second Term Himself if Drafted. KALKM. Ore. Nov. 1!6. (P) Mark Wcnthcrford of Albuny in my Ideal ucunriiriute for the Donv cratH to run for the govornorHhlp," was iho statement of Walter l'iercg of J-uGrnnde, ex-Kvernoi who wuh In Snlom today. "Ho Im chairman of the stale committee; he Is "cen trally loeiiU'.d uh to population,, nnd, ho would put on d wonflerful qam puitfn. I know he wuh defeated once by Willis Hawlcy for congress but you know everybody loves Mawley. That doe.sn't mean Any thing. Why, I have been defeated myself. "Will I be a candidate? linmem ber. I have been three times at but and knocked one home-run. "lint Koiiie of these times, a lllt! later, the boys will (:ei loKethcr and iron the matter out. It w.ll be ui lo the hoys to decide. I am not sayiiiR I won't be a eandiduio if the boys dec! do that Is the best thtnK fur the party. Nor nnt I nay ins I Vill. Sit, no; don't wiy I am Iti n receptive mood, because that Isn't it at ft II. yi am mcn-ly saying if the boys think that 1 the way It will he it Is too early much too early for me to say that I would turn them down flatly. "And then there la Jlcrt Hamy of Portland. Ho is another man who would moke a wonderful cam paign nnd a wonderful govern o. "Those arc the only two I havo hfard talked at all as logical can didates for the next turn at the wheel. Mark Weatherford is a grand fellow and 'would make r high -class governor as well as great run for the party and the place." AS GASJUNE EBBS METROPOLITAN A1UPOUT, Los Anselea. Cnl., Nov. 2G.(P) Hub ble Trout. Is AnKelPS, nnd Elinor Smith, Nfiw York, Kill fliers apok Inj! to cstiililisli a now rofuollnB endurance ftlKlit record, lumlprl the Sunbpnm biplane at 2:."o a. nr. to. day when their gasoline' supply Kave out. An attempt to refuel at 2:45 a. m. failed due to Inability to make contact In the dark. Their official time In the air was IS hours and M minutes. NOTRE DAME PONDERS POST SEASON GAME SOUTH Ur:XI). Ind., Nov. 2fi. (A) The Kcv. Michael Mulcalre, vice-president of the I'niverslty of Notre Dame, said today that the athletic faculty will, determine n est wee k whether t h e fool ball linm will p I ; a post-season game this ycfir. Howard Irnvc. 8AI.C.M. Ore.. Nov. 2 C. A. Howard, state superintendent of schools. will leave Wednesday night for New Orleans nnd Wash ington. I). ('., to attend educational conferences. (i rHr TIhii-mIhv There will hi no tsu of Hip .Mall TrUninc Tliurmlny, Th.mkfirlvlnB '!;r In nr'corft- 4 unrp Mith fnffrtnllrhr1 rtlnlrtm. filrllffOl H FIRE SEEN DfflNITE PLANS FOR GOVERNORPT.ORFORDDiST.THEATRE BLDG. i LOOKOUT IN CI RANTS TASS, Oe., Nov. 26. (Pi Delayed reports received, to day from southern Oregon forest fire lines indicated crews had brought under control the Witi chuck, ipld Ileach anil' Quotsann fires and no new flames had de veloped throughout the district. In the J'ort Orford district, how ever, the L'nlted Stales forestry officials wore Informed by a look out that a fire of considerable proportions was raging on Copper mountain. Another fire was re ported at the head of Dry creek, in the Chetco district, near 1 1 ar bor, Ore., where a previous fire threatened the town and burned out bridges. The California and Oregon Lum ber company forces are reported holding In check this big fire east of Smith River, Cnl., which men need tho Siskiyou national forest the latter part of tho week. So fur this blaze lind not entered the forest, but hundreds of men wero fighting Its spread. Hangers were still keeping th great Del Norte fire near New Hope, Cnl., out of the forest. The tiiotsana fire in the Agness dis trict and the Winchuck fires In Oregon which burned over 2Ui acres In the Siskiyou, National for est a nil a much larger area out side were being watched carefully. TELEPHONE CO. TO WESTERN. STATES PAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26. (VP) Contemplated expenditure of $333. 000.000 in new construction in th? next five years, or,0o0,000 of It in 1 It 3 0, was announced here -tod.iy by the Pacific Telephone & Tele graph company. II. D. Pillsbury of tho company referred to the plans as Hie com pany's response to President Hoov er's prosperity budget plan. Kxpenditures on the flvnyenr budget in northern California and Nevada will total $14!i.0i0,UO0; in Washington, Oregon and western Idaho, $85,000,000; In southern California $!9,000.O00. The con tern dated expend ItttrcH for 1 f 30 nnd the four years suc ceeding will break nil records fir new telephone construction, the announcement sr. Id. TRAFFIC OFFICER SHOT By ESTRANGED WIFE KLAMATH FAUX, Ore., Nov. 2C Wi .Kvan Martin, state tmf-! fie officer at Okeviow, was in j a hospital here with a gunshot j woifnd In hifc hip nnd arm be- J Meved to have been inflicted Intel Scnday by his estranged wife I when tiny quarreled over the amount .of alimony he would re ceive for herself, and minor child. Mrs. Martin 1 brlnK held In the Ijike county Jail. Don't Leave Key in Airplane Will Be Warning to Modern Traveler KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 2!. (VI'I Sucf.'en8fuly working a ch'Vcr rnsp, two nirn early today nlolr an airplane from the Hrodoii w-Hilllard hangar hero and dlnnppeared Into durkneas above the Kaliunn City airport. Last nlsht employe wore tele phoned to have the nlane fueled and ready for a Inkeoff early today, WITH HOOVER ANNOUNCED FOR Three Story Structure to Cost $100,000, Will Rise on Corner of Sixth and Holly Streets, Says Mr. Niedermeyer. L- Niedermeyer of this city an nounced today definite plans for tho construction of a three story building at the corner of Sixth and Holly streets, to cost complete In the neighborhood of $100,000. The building will cost in tho neighbor hood of $00,000, and the theater furrtlshings nnd" enulpinent" and building accessories in the neigh borhood of (35,000. On the first floor there will he four storerooms, with space for a theater, Tho second story will be used for offices, and the third floor for theater purposes. Work on the foundation is riow underway, and will he rushed to take Advantage of the weather conditions. Drawings and 'specifications lire now In lh hands of Krauk C. Clark, nvchiteet, for preparation. Mr. Niedermeyer said that n lease for tho theater spacu was underway, but hud not been com pleted. t He further stated that the struc ituie would be modern In every re spect, and of a type different from any business building now in the city. A heating plant will be erected at tho rear of the building, separate from the main structure. Air Niedermeyer conferred to day on the material to be used In the building, and was working out the numerous details with contrac tors and builders, lie staled posi tively that tile building would be erected as soon as possible. KLAMATH KAI.LS, Ore., Nov. L'fi. (P) Search for the bodies of Kd Hyrert nnd H. K. Hurt, both Klamath Kails men, -who are be lieved to ha'-e drowned In upper Klamath lake while duck hunting Sunday, started today with a group of men d nix King the bot tom of the hike. The men left Rocky Point lit a boat nnd rowed toward the west whore, but did not return .Monday. The empty boat was found float ing tipHido down about a mile from the point where other hunt ers said I hey heard screams lale Sunday nfternoou, The water of the lake at this point is about two feet deep, hut the botto rnls covered with mud. Into which Syfert and Hurt nro believed to have sunk. Kiamaih Kails Community hall being Improved. Ihe apcuker ropreaentlng himself as Harton Stevenson, the owner. I ApiH-nrlng nt the hangar heforo daylight, the two rohhers, one of j whom was masked, hound and gagged Louis W f'oghill, attendant. .Then they wheeled the ship n"t dl'le and took olf In Ihe dark. Fly ing field officials helleve at least ione of the men was firm II In r with ; Ihe runways. HUNTERS BELIEVED SUCCESS OF BOSC DRIVE IS ASSURED Third Consecutive Sale in Detroit at Figures Higher .Than Old Established Markets Seen As Insuring Success Winter Pear Committee Plan for New Consumers. Melfunl Knse pears, offered for sale on the Detroit market yester day by the Winter Pear committee, David It. Wood, chairman, scored u price triumph, at an average of J-I.G7 per liox, a figure 81 cents higher than the Chicago pear mnr kel. and "4 cents higher ihiin New Vork price overages. It was tire third consecutive ear from rhe Winter I'ear (-umiuitlee, that sold for a higher average than rhe leading markets of the country and insures the success of the campaign, which was viewed skeptically at first by some grow ers and distributors. If the present price average Is maintained until the twenty cars subscribed are sold on tho Detroit market, the Winter I'ear commit tee will break even, or practically so, financially. Tho Detroit market will be an open market after December 2. when tho committee closes, and it is estimated that ten or twelve cars will he sold heforo the closo of tho season, by local shippers, a major ity of whom have co-operated In making tho Detroit campaign a success. Alii-acling Attention The Hose campaign in Detroit has attracted wide attention thru out the Taclflo coast fruit districts, and llHin, White & Prince, Inc., ot Seattle, Wash., has li. ucit the folr lowing self-explnnatorj. bulletin to mnnngers and .directors of fruit organizations: "Detroit, while one of tho weal thiest nnd most populous cities in tho country,, has never handled Hose pears, l'rlor to this year ef forts to sell Dose pears In the De troit market would have been n sheer waste of energy. "Production, of Hose In the Hogue Hlver valley has increased at such a pace that the growers realized that they wore cdnfronteil by a real problem. Accordingly, they formed llnorgunizntlon, taxed thenuielves to raise a- fund, und sent twenty ears of finest llosc to Detroit, put the fruit In cold stor age there, worked out a regulur auction program and put on an advertising campaign, using radio and newspapers to reacii the con sumers and missionary salesmen to reach tho detail and wholesale trade. "Tho services of Professor Hart man of tho Agricultural college wero commandeered and ho has been spending his time back In tho markets making u . research and nt tho samo time assisting In the proper ripening of tho fruit sold In Detroit. CI rent care has been taken to ripen the fruit to Just the right degreo before dis tributing It to the trade, for tho llosc pour is like tho little girl with the curl, either very, very good or horrid. Tho .Medfurd growers adopted a very happy slogan, "Old gold oulside, augured sunshine In side" and have left nothing to chance that the fruit ns It reached the consumers exemplified the slogan. (iiiurniilt'cil Iti'tom "The twenty cars catc from the various shippers pro-rata. Kacli shipper was guaranteed a return on his fruit consistent with the full general marVet value. The plan was that If the Detroit market would not pay n price that equal led the average of tho other de veloped markets, the fund would be drawn upon lo inuke up the loss to the shipper. "The campaign has been a sen sational success. Tho first few curs t,hat were sold realized prices only slightly under the New York market, whero the llosc pear has Its greatest vogue end longest establishment. 'As the campaign In Detroit gathered headway prices first approached, then eciuulled, and then exceeded New York prices. Itecent sales have been on the busls of li to 80c above New York. Open Market Hoc. 2 "Tho twenty cars allocated for Introductory purposes will bo cleaned up about Ihe second of December. L'p lo that date Mo. trolt, by common consent, has been a "closed market." All shippers have supported Ihe program by keeping cars out of Detroit either on ufler-nrrlval of f.o.b. sale basis. This was neeessu'-y In order to enable the committee to keep the supply under absolute control and carry out their program In an orderly manner. The expiration of the campaign, however, nearly ap proaches and the Detroit Jobbers are already beginning lo look around for supplies. "An entirely pew market has been won by tho Hogue Hlver pear (Continued on 1'uge Bli) N fl 'iff Associated Press Photo NOMIO, Alaska, Nov. 20. (,ip) With no news from Carl Hen Kiel- son, his fellow aviators who had I been engaged with him In trans porting passengers nnd furs to tho mainland from the Icebound ship Nunuk until Kielson mysteriously disappeared early this month. Pilot Krank Dorbandt. was waiting hero today for a aecond plane to fly Willi him In tho rescue, While Ihere wns a visibility for lf miles here two planes which left Kairhanka for Uomo were re ported as stormbound at Ruby, half way point, last night. Nine members of the Academy of Science of Leningrad, passengers on the steamer Stavropol, frozen In the Altrctlc Icepack with the Na nuk three miles offshore from Noith Capo, Siberia, were believed safely aboard the soviet Ice break er l.ltke In Providence Bay today. Howard School Pupil De "Velops Meningitis Board Orders Dismissal Classes Type of Case Not Diagnosed. The first case of spinal menin gitis to have been . reported In Jackson county for months devel oped hist week at tho Howard school between Medford nnd Cen tral Point on the Pacific highway. As utresult, the schuol was ordered closed today by the Howard school hoard and it was nut leurncd whether other pupils had been ex poscd, Tho vlctinr of the malady Is Lloyd Hhepehrd, lil-year-old eighth grade student, ami ho became sick last Thursday with what was first believed, to have been on 'acute case of indigestion or a heart at tack. A county nurso was called to the school and rendered first aid. When tho case was diagnosed as spinal meningitis .Sunday, t h e county health unit mnde prepara tions for a nurse to visit tire school each morning this week to check up on an possible spread of the disease by giving the pupils exam inations for early symptoms. It was not thought other students had been expused, but it was ex plained today by county health authorities that tile examinations wero being given as u purely pre cautionary measure. Through this methud, the authorities had hoped to have the school continue Its sessions. Kltuulloil Aggravated However, now that the school Is dismissed, they say It will be a much' harder situation, ns no ex aminations can lie made ami is apt to make the spread of the malady more dangerous. A number of the Howard school children were re ported In .Medford this forenoon playing and visiting with local school children. However, health authorities were not eertnln whether the case of the Shepherd boy was of the epldcnric type, and there is possibly little ground for worry at this time. In tho future, said Dr. lOmlly llolcom, county medical director, this forenoon, it would be wise for school districts to study the situa tion carefully before ordering tile closo of tho school. It hns been Hie practice for boards to confer I with health authorities and be guided somewhat by their advice ! In regard to the course to follow. ! In somo eases, the closing of schools tends to make situations worse rather than to benefit them, It Is said. STAIE TAKES BONDS KLAMATH KALLH, Ore., Nov. 20. f11 The ir.fl.oao airport bonds recently voted by the people of this rlty were awarded to tho stale of Oregon an a par bid nt a council meeting last night. Work on tho airport has started. SPINAL MALADY CLOSES SCHOOL NORTHHIGHWAY S. P. WOULD FACE LOSS Engineer Testifies Competi tion of Klamath to Keddie Line Would Bring Big Loss First Year to Old System Cost of Pro posed Operation Placed Too Low. SAN FRANCISCO, Cul Nov. 2(1. (P) The Southern Pacific today attacked the state of California's case for the connecting lino plan ned hy the Great Northern and Western Pacific railroads. The Southern Pacific put into the in terstate commerce commission's record in ihe hearing In Ihe case statements hy Its own experts that the figures of A. J. Mott, chief en gineer of the California railroad commission, were incorrect. Kstimates of the losses the Southern Pacific would suffer by the proposed competition of tho Klamath Falls, Ore., to Keddie, Cnl.. line wero about tripled by Clarence K. Day. He is an engineer In the Southern Pacific offices. He stated that his figures showed the South ern Pacific would lose more than $3,000,000 during the first year of the new line's operation. He point' ed out that this sum is equal to a ' return on an Investment ot $52. 500,00 on the commission's accept ed yield basis of 6 per cent. Estimate Too Low The greater security of the pro posed' route would result ill un eco nomic loss of about $500,000 annu ally, he testified. The Southern Pacific engineer also challenged es timates of the petitioning road cov ering their proposed operations, equipment and taxee.' He declared the Western Pacific operating esti mates should be Increased 90 per cent. The witness went into details of car supply, car rentnl, cabooses and additional engines, which he said would be required to hnndlo the estimated traffic. The Grent Northern also had pro vided only about one-third of the outlay that actually would be nec essary, he said, to cover car rental or purchase of new cars and equi ment. The Great Northern also hnd failed properly to take account of federal taxes, he said. The witness touchedon various points brought out by witnesses for petitioners, attempting to show that In the presentation of the case for the proposed line a variety of costs had been placed too low nnd that consequently It would not be In the public Interest to sanction the establishment of the comr-et-Ing line at the highest cost which shippers would have to pay. Service Adequate J. H. Mnhan, Southern Pacific agent at Alturas, testified railroad service is already adequate In his territory. He attempted to go Into details of possible development of traffic In the valley, but was cut short by Director Mahafflo. "I do not want to hoar any more about big valley potatoes, said Ma liaffle, who Is endeavoring to rush the heurlng through by the end of this week. "If you have anything (Continued on Page Six) Will Roger Says: CALEXICO, Cal Xov. 2G. "With n good Mexican pilot 'lew down just over the limit li of the Colorado river where it empties into the Cinlf oE Lower California. Y on know we tnlk of a water prom- lerti between ti.s nnd Mexi co of t h i 8 0 o 1 o r a d o river. S n y, ivhen the Americans 'get through taking out water the Colorado river don't : hiive any mouth nnd leaves no problem. Wc have few unique spots in our country and this. Imperial valley is one of them. Below sea level ami the most fertile spot out side tho valley of thn Xile, and that's only good for bur ial purposes, but this raises real alfalfa and eottoa nnd grapefruit. Xo time to mon key with old King Tut here. Yours, WILL KOGERS. $3,0,000
