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Medpoed Mail Triune i The Weather Fort-enst: Tonight! nml Sunday fair. 'IViniH'niluio liolutv '' mill. Temperature Highest ycsltTilii.v .1 , 60 Lowest tills morning ..: Dilly Traity-fourth Yew. Wnkl KtftnldiUi Yr. MEDFORD, OREGON. SATURDAY. NOVKMHKH :iO. 1929. No. 2.11. VISITS BYRD SOUTH PO VENTURE IN ANARCTIC IS i SUCCESSFUL I Commander Returns to 'Lit tle America' Base With out MishapFirst Man to Fly Over Both Poles Radio Flashes News of Feat As Plane Soars Across Ice Waste. Hyrd's Tlnvo His Vents. 5 May 9. 1126 Flew to the North Pole and hack to King's Bay, In the nlrphme Miss Josephine Ford. , June 29, 1027 Crossed the Atlantic in the airplane Amer- ica, from Roosevelt Field, X. Y., to Ver-Sur-Mer, France. 'November 2ft, 11)21) Flew from the edge of the Antarc- tic ice barrier to the South Pole and back in the airplane Floyd .Bennett. ' NEW YORK, Nov. 30. (&). The New York Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and newspapers af filiated with theni In publishing reports from. Commander Richard E. Hyrd's expcdllhfti, Announced day that Commander llyrd had safely returned to his base, JJttle Amerlen, after "successful ' riicJit across the South Pole, in -which h.. surveyed much adjacent territory. The flight was without mishap and everything worked well; 1 The Times announced It 'had icen directed by President Hoover lo forward through its wireless sta tion the following message to Com mander Kyrd: "Commanded Richard E. F.yrd, "Little America. "I know that T speak for the American people when I express their universal pleasure at your successful flight over the South Pole. We are proud of your cour age and your leadership. We are glad of proof that the spirit of great adventure stUl lives. Our thoughts of appreciation include also your companions in the flight and your colleagues whose careful and devoted preparations have con tributed to your great success, "Herbert Hoover." (lly the Associated Press.) Commander Kichurd K. Uyrd, safely hack rit his base. Little America, from a flight to the South Pole, today holds the unln'ie distinction of bcliiR the only man to fly nvt both poles of the earth. Ity hendinp to the . use of his courape nnd skill the tools sup plied by modern moehnnleal an 1 scientific I progress, he nchleved within three and n hnlf years what no other polar explorer has ac complished In n-lifetlmo, visits to the top and bottom of the Klobo. In flyinu to the South Pole, he d.d in less than n day what It had pre viously taken moro ' than three months to accomplish. The Antarctic flight was beset with difficulties fiy greater than encountered In ilyrd's trip to the North Pole, which was made May !), 1!'2R. The distance of each (Continued on Pnco Eight) "Well. I've got to huify liontn nn uihIitms fr thf party." l.r MNs Tauncr Apple, ft Ip struck out niTo ihc strive Inst ovenlM lon Mn I n piinrc of n feller. Up hain't int n ""'kH nn" lie won't work. i A Norwegian Maid Crashes Social Gate By Wedding : NEW YOlilC, Nov. 30. (IP) A blonde Noi'wt'iiliin girl, who Immigrated recently and Kil a jnb as chambermaid, Is In the social register, -for a your at least. '1'hu latest Is sueinutes Unit .Miss Adelaldo InKbretsen 'was married - to William W. Willoek, Jr.. nt Oyster Hay. Nov. li. Wllloclc, Sr.. steel mnftnate, has for given the elopers and pre sented them a house on his estate": The reulster omits .Mr. and Mrs. .lames J. Tun ney, whose marriage it noted last year. It mentions Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. l.lnd hertrh. PARENTS DEAD DENTON, Texas, Nov. 30. &) The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bowman were found today li 'their farm home neat Pilot Point." The man's throat had been cut nnd the woman apparently had been beaten to denth. The liodies were found by chil dren of Bowman by a former marriage as they returned frohi a Thanksgiving day visit. Blood was found on the back porch ami other parts of the house, indicat ing a struggle. Bowman moved to the farm nbout two years ago from Okla homa. He was about fif years old and his wife was 2 years his junior. REPRESENT COAST S.AN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Nov. 30. (IP) Elected hy the vast radio audience of nino states, Misa Kloy Louise Hamlin and Leroy Calvin Hendricks, both of Los Angeles, will represent the far west in mid December at the national Atwuter Kent vocal audition, to he held In New York. Hendricks, who is 24 yenrs old, lias been blind from birth. Despite thd darkness in which he lives, the youth has won recognition as a musiciiiin. He Is a baritone, plays the piano and the organ, a ml lias written scvcrul musical numbers. He is n -student at the University of Southern Culifornlti. Miss Hamlin is 22 years old and n coloratura soprano. She has scored musical successes, one of which was In the nntiual Kistedd ford contests lit Los Angeles in 1928. Her musical career began at the age of 5 when she began the study of the piano. j AIX-I.A-C'HAPHLIJ-;, Germany, I Nov. 30. (&) Belgian troops who ; have occupied this section for eleven years lowered their cnlorM I shortly before noon today and be jgan evacuating the"town. j There were hundreds of eager (spectators of (he last act of the occupation In this zone and they appeared deeply moved when im mediately afterwards scores of German republican flags nppenred from house fronts. COBLISNTSC, Germany. Nov. 30. (fl The French flag wns hauled down from, the fortress of Khren btietstetn this afternoon as the last remaining French troops here be gan evacuation of the second rone. TWELVE BEACONS WILL ' - ' tlOSKIU IUi, Ore.. Nov. r.rt. (p) j The 12 government air beacons ( between Drain. Ore., and filendule. jt'nl.. will-be put Into operation on 'Monday. ! : i .j. A .J. .J. .J. .. 4. j CHILDREN FIND ! i ilN FARM CRIME! ! i (frr Tnimi m mm mco, p PATH OF IPS IK DEMON! W m Inhabitants Prepare to Flee Remote, Ore. Flames Break Through Lines Two New Fires Burning Near Coquille River fighters Exhausted by Long Battle. (ill A. NTS PASS, Ore, Nov. SO. (IP) The United States forestry service headquarters, here an nounced today that Hemote, Ore., a smalf Coos county 'village, was reported to be in immediate dan ger of being engtilfed by a forest fire which had" brolijn through the fighting lines and residents were pieparing to floe. Telephone communication with forest supervisors was intermittent because of trees falling across the wires. The China Creek rire and the Roclt Creek fire, in the Gold Beach district, had burned over 2500 acres of timber within the post two days, officials said. Two new fires out side the Siskiyou national forest were reported burning briskly along Mule creek, near Coquille river. MARSH in (OLD, Ore., Nov. 30. (IP) Exhausted by three weeks of lore6t fire fighting, during which they scurried from one end of Coos county to the far end of Curry county, settlers today continued fighting doggedly Innumerable blazes, one of which destroyed the Northrup-Ruy logging camp and swept on toward towns on Coos Bay. In addition tq destruction of the logging camp, which caused more than 100 persons to seek new lodg ings, homes of ranchers along the linos river were Imperiled and household effects were removed hastily from ranch houses us the flames crept neare,r. More Men Added Although all of the flreB ore con sidered dangerous, United Slates lorestiy officials, supervising the battle to stump out raging fires in dry forests, sent more men to the bluze smith of Powers, Ore.,where the 2000-acre fre was ravaging val uable timber. Heavy winds off the Pacific fanned this riro and swept It to ward anothir large blaze in Coos county which was' reported to be burning over a 12-mile front. John Wjtlsh, fire warden of this district, telegraphed the state board of for estry to place restrictions on brush Inirning. All available men In Curry and Coos counties are engaged In' fight ing the fires which dot the coust urea from the California line north through the two counties. A hun dred and fifty men were sent out by the Coos county fire patrol nnd more men were sent today ns new fires sprang from old ones. The supply of men, forestry officials bald, Is diminishing rnpirilv. Two more new forest Tires were reported at the Crater National forest headquarters here this fore noon, one of which Is of some im portance ns It is burning over several acres In Squaw creek In the Applegato section and Isi leaching Into good timber. Twenty men are working on this fire. Tho other fire reported this morning Is a small one on Forest' creek, also in the Applegato see-1 t'on, which Is being combatted by! eight fire fighters. All other fires In the Crater Nn-1 tlonal forest during tho past week I were reported this afternoon tin- either under control or ' entirely out. f v SPIIINOF1KLD, iP) An embargo III., Nov. HO nn hay of all kinds and eereal straw from rei Rlons infested by the alfalfa wee vel, was announced today In r proclamation by Governor louls h Kmerson. The regions said to be Infested with the Insect Include pnrts of I'tnh, Idaho, California, Colorado.1 I Nebraska, Nevada,, Oregon nnd BAN ON HAY FROM WEEVIL DISTRICTS Wyoming. j i rnor L. F. Grover In which hn The embargo nlso extends to al-; urged better pay for his were fa If a meal, ground or stored ln!tary and for the assistant secr the infested district during the tsry or state. It relates that tin months of April. May, June, July, ' legislature Increased the salary August, September, and October, j of the governor's secretary from The remaining months are subject j JfiOO a year lo $100 n month. In lo rigorous regulations. stead of Increasing tho salary of WESTERN WINNERS OF AUDITION Two youthful Gingers from Loo Angeles, Floy Hamlin and Lcroy C. Hcndnckc, will represent nine western utateo tn the final Alwater Ker.t auditions In New York City. They were selected In competition by radio listeners-ln. Hendricks has been blind tincj birth.. SEEK HUSBANDPUBLIC DANCES AS MURDERER ARE DEFINED BY WIFE, CHILDREN COUNCIL UKASE Discovery of Bodies in Cali fornia Canyon Starts Search for Father! RnarrW 5nvc P. n II n If! I Quarreled Bitterly, LOS ANGELES. Nov. 30. (P) Police today are searching for Lu oluno Garcia for questioning in connecrionrwlth Ihe slayiitfc of his wife, Mrs. Helena Alvarez-Onrcia, her two daughters, Elsie, fi, and Carmelita-v 12, and her son, Charles Alverez, 18, whose decapitated bodies have been found In Paeoi ma canyon, neur San Fernando. Tho bodies of Mrs. Garcia and the two little girls were found yesterday within a quarter of u mile of the spot at which Alvarez' body had been discovered by .pic nickers Thursday. Neighbors of the family suid Alvere?., Mrs. Gar cia and the girls had not been seen since October.0, and that they had not seen Garcia since October 10. On October 10t Garcia called on a fcan Fernando automobile dealer and inquired about Averez' ear, on which payments had been allowed to lapse. He told the dealer that his stepson had taken tho rest of the family in this car and had driven away. . Manuel Flores. 2", a San Fer nando valley ranch hand, who early In October was a boarder at the Garcia home, said that Garcia and his wife quarreled frequently and bitterly. Ho said ho drove Garcia to Azuhh, Calif., f0 miles south, on October 13, where the man said he was going to work on a ranch. Flores is being held as a material witness. The bodies of Mrs. Garcia nnd the two little girls were found In shallow graves, which partially bad been uncovered by animals. Oregon Prison Corner Stone Gives Insight On Politics And Social Customs Of Years Ago SALEM, Ore., Nov. 30. (4') Purely by accident today nn In teresting peek was offered Into Oregon political and social life ot 59 years ago. Workmen who ,are remodeling the state iKnitentiary. pried out of the foundation a big I block of granite that chanced to be the corner storio, laid August ! 24. 1878, and Inside It were found! newspapers, records, eolnsv and some other relics. The newspapers are full of the bitter polftienl controversy that 5 i a nged at that period. All th'-1 leading papers of Htilem, Portland and other Oregon towns ore rep ' rew-nted with the exception of the, Portland Oregonfan. The absence! of the Oregon inn Is probably ac counted for by Him fact that 'i Democratic administration finished the prison and several of the Journals bristle with editorial shafts directed at that newspaper,' I The weekly Salem .Mercury flays, the Oregon Ian hecause It n lieges that the legislature virtually in ' creased the salary of the pov- ernor by doubling the salary of his private secretary." The artielp then quotes from the inaugural address of Gov Matron to Visit All Func tions Where Tickets Sold to General Public Pres ence at Elks Thanksgiv ing Affair Irks. By unanimous vote and Mayor A. V. Pipes agreeing, tho city council lust night decided to xip hoid . the ' ordinance, passed years ago creating the position of dance matron, and providing that she shall attend every public danco, the operator of which must pay her $2j50 for each danco attended; and defined a public danco as any danco advertised as a public ono for which tickets are sold to the public generally. Tho question arose thru Mrs. Vivian Norman Rurto, tho dance matron, or supervisor of dancing, only recently appointed, attending; the Elks club Thanksgiving dance held at the Elks templo last Wed nesday night, in her official capa city. Hardly had her presence. been discovered than Mayor Pipes was called up and told of the general indignation felt by the Elks, wlvo held that the dance matron was exceeding her duties in attending tho dance,' as it was more in the nature of a private affair for Elks and their friends. KIks Indignant , Tho speaker, a prominent Elk and "former city official, told the mayor over tho phono that the Elks had always supervised their own dunbos and at no time admit ted any objectionable person. They always knew who their danco pa trons were, and needed no outside supervision. Mayor Pipes, who did not then understand that the dance had f font Inued on Page Eight ) the assistant secretary of state from his $400 a year, however, the legislature provided $i'.o a month for clerk hire In tho office. The mercury . has an article or two In defense of the Ku Klux Klun, and ridicules congress for ita investigating committees, which are termed "smelling committees." The Oregon militia in that day was a much bigger organization than now, according to the Mer cury with a total of Ifi.xTA men, 1 778 of whom were In Marlon ruiinty. - The weekly Democratic ProHs, a Hut em paper, in nn election Is sue, has u headline shouting that Oregon has gone Democratic nnd that bribery has been spurned and federal dictation rebuked. Hoclul practices of the day are uncovered In the following reso lution, which, according to tho dully Oregon 1 1 era hi of Portland, wits adopted by the women of tho Portland Methodist church. "We, the undersigned, believing that the use of tobacco In church, by spitting the nmbler on the floor and disfiguring the house, is ft nuisance to a majority of the congregation, dishonors Ood'a temple, and Is a filthy practice we would not tolerate In our own bom", respectfully request the pas tor of the church, to ask those so thoughtless ns to ho guilty f this Indeeency to tibstaln from the use of tobacco while In the M. E. church of this place." ADDS1300D TD BUDGET Council Adopts Expense List of $143,762 About Equal Last Year Other Departments Split $1000 Taken From Tentative Apportionment for Com munity Chest. With comparatively little debate after hearing the report of the council finance committee recom mending tho passage of the budget us outlined by it, the city council last night adopted that budget for the operating expenses of the city for next your, to raise a total of $143,762, which is about the same as last year, and which will require a tax levy of about 18.3 mills. This total is divided as follows: General levy, $00,077; general bond fund, $33,785; water bond sinking fund, $13,000. Tho water hoard had asked for $27,0(10 in the tentative budget submitted, which the citizens budget committee rec ommended bo not granted, and therefore gels $13,000. One thousand dollars toward (he additions was obtained thru also grants the following additions, totaling $1000, over What tho citi zens budget committee hail recom mended: $0() for the firo depart ment fund, $500 to the police fund, $ttoo for tho public market fund, and 51'Ofi for the public li brary fund. ''v1.. . "fv This $1000 Was obtained thru taking from the tentative budget that sum, which had been Included as the city's contribution to tho community ehest, because tho lat ter had been oversubscribed. President W. W. Allen of the local Hed Cross chapter pointed out that the city unnually provided a contribution In the budget of $50 for tho Hed Cross, which was excluded from tho tentative budget because that sum wnH Included in. the $1000, which it was planned to glvo to the chest, and he made a plea that this $250 be restored If the $1000 Item was stricken out. The council then voted to grant the Red Cross chapter $250 after the first of the year when tho city's $30,000 emergency fund would be available. Public: Market Given Life The $tloo Item for tho public market means thut the market will bo codi lnued until moa June,' In stead of being closed as had been recommended by tho citizens bud get committee, with tho under standing that every effort would be made to put tho market on a paying basis and If this could not bo dfine by next Juno then the market would bo abandoned, M. W. Hogan, chairman of the community chest fund was also present, and made an unsuccessful plea beforo the budget was tfinully adopted, for It to bo retained fol ks psychological effect on the general subscribers to tho chest fund. Delia lo Water Ponds Hamilton Palton, chairman of the citizens budget committee, also present, entered into a debate with E. M. Wilson, chairman of the council finance committee and some other councllmen, in justifi cation of his committee striking out tho $27,000 asked by the water commission. Mr, Patton pointed out that hlmseir and others of the citizens committee were of tho belief that the water board should cut down Its expenses, nud to this end had recommended that tho $27,000 the board asked rut be stricken out, thinking that by mora economical management of lis operating ex penses tho board could easily make up the difference. Chairman Wilson then called Mr. J'atton's attention to tho fact tho city water commission wns a fundamental, tho separate and self governing part of the city govern ment, created by voto of the people, and that tho city council had no control over It except on Its sinking fund. Me held that the city was obligated lo aid In retire menbof tho water bonds, and that neither the elty council, mayor nor citizens budget committee should "throw n monkey wrench Into the geurs or the water board machin ery." Mr. Pntton took umbrage at this remark, holding that ir ihu water board operation and expenditures were Immune from Investigation and cutting down of asked for appropriations, and If Its budget cutting recommendations were not upheld by the council, that "sim ply made monkeys out of n citizens budget committee, " Councilman John J. Huchter de- (Continued nn Page Two) FOR WATER New Bear Captain ! "i -" AwatiatrA Pirtt I'lima ' Carl Handy, 1929 substituts I guard, Is captain-elect of the 1930 California football squad. Hundred Yard Dash by Half back Elder Brings Lone Marker of Game Cagle Leads Gallant Fight of Cadets Navy Conquers - Dartmouth 13 to 6-Kirri Features. v Hy Ainu a. fionltl Associated Press Sports Editor.' YANKEE STADIUM, Now York, Nov, 30. (P) Producing Its only score on a spectacular one hundred yard dash for touchdown by Jack Elden, flashy halfback, after he Intercepted an Army pass on his own goal line In tho second period, Notre Dame bent tho Army, 7 to 0, today before a record crowd of X3.000. Tho Hooslers thus finished their seurson with an unbroken string of nine victories and a clear tlllo fo national championship i honors. on a froKon gridiron with wintry blastH sweeping through tho field Captain Caglo led a gallant and at times sensational fight by the sol diers to break through tho great Notre Dame line. At least three times West Point had chances to scoro but could not penetrato tho Dish defense at critical moments. Navy Ct; Dartmouth fl FltANKLIN FIELD, Philadel phia, Nov. 30. W) Navy's hard hitting eleven closed tho season In a burst of glory today, conquering a rugged Dartmouth eleven, 13 to 0, for the rirst major sailor victory of the year. Navy, beaten this year by Notre Dame, and Pennsylvania and twlco tied, won the ball game through the plunging of Lou Kirn, a recent discovery, who pounded through the Dartmouth lino In (he third and fourth periods. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 30. (A1) Percy Lee, Mississippi college stu-i dent, and football player, died in a hospital hero today of Injuries! received In the Thanksgiving day j football game between Mississippi; college and Southwestern unlver-, slty. His homo was in Ludlow, M Iss. Detroit. II; Georgetown, 1ft. DETROIT, Nov. 30. -(!)- T h e Culvers! ty of Detroit, taking ad vantage of the breaks, wound up' Ittt fimtliiill innxnn Initnv with fi H to 3 3 victory over Georgetown. FIiiiiN. Ilostnn College, 12! Holy Cross, 0. South Carolina, 20; North Caro lina State, ii. Kml Half. Southern Calif. 7; Washington Stole, 7. LATTER PART OF WEEK SAN FHANCISCO, Nov. 30. (fP) The weather outlook for the week beginning December 1st, was an nounctid here today by the United Stutes weather bureau, ns follows: Far Western States: The out look is for fair weather at the be ginning of the week, prnhnhly fol lowed by rains In the North Pa cific slates, which will extend Inter lo California nnd the plate:. ti re gions. Temperatures moderate, RAMBLERS m o V AM FARM WIFE CONFESSES DEATH PACT Conspired With Admirer on Neighboring Farm Beaten To Death With Auto Spring Body Of Wife Will Be Disinterred For Poison Examination. DL HA NT, Okla.. Nov. 30. (?) Mrs. 11a Hughes, 35, confessed to Sheriff Huel Taylor here today that she and A, J. Eastep, a neighboring farmer, killed her husband, AViU Hughes. late Tuesday night. Immediately after Mrs. Hughrs made the confession, J. A. Shirley, county attorney, filed a chargo of murder ngalnst her. A murder charge had been filed earlier In the day against Eastep. Hughes, 38-year-old' farmer of near Utlea, was beaten to death with an automobile' spring leaf nt his barn. Mrs. Hughes confessed that she and Eastep planned to kill her husband so they could marry. Mrs. Eastep died suddenly less thin a month ago, a few weeks after her husband had taken out a $1000 Insurance policy on her Ufo. tfhlrley ordered that Mrs. Eas- 1 tep's body bo disinterred' ahd tho contents of her stomach be ex amined, to determine If she was poisoned. - Gave Signal. : Mrs. a. JiUghea, mother, of thre children, toid ..officers that' under . , her home the night of the killing and gave a signal by rapping: on' the side of the house She then ' awakened her husband and told hlm their horses had broken into the corncrlb. r When he went to tho barn to investigate he was attacked and : beaten to death hy Eastep, Mrs, Hughes snld. , Her husband was slightly deaf nnd did not hear Ens-' tep's signal, she said. Alter me nttacg, tne coniession continued, Mrs. Hughes went to tho home of her parents nearby and told them that Hughes had been kicked by n horse find was dyln. She and Eastep had had Intlmae . relations for four months, Mr. Hughes said In the confession, which was taken by a court re, porter. Eastep is the father of eight children. Officers said Hughes was a World war veteran and had $1,500 government Ufo insurance. Offic ers believed Enstep and Mrs, ' Hughe.s planned the killing so they could be married and collect tho government Insurance. Eastep had collected the $1,000 policy taken ' out on his wife's llfo, they snld. Will Rogers Says: BKVERLY HILLS, Cal., Nov. H0. Mr. Hoover hnd nil tlip finimciprs of the conn try gathered nnd mndc 'cm k!ii n pledge to spend some money for t. h e general prosperity of the country, so ne.xt week ho is really going i n t,o big business: lie is calling the conches of the various football tenuis to gether and get them to prom ise to build bigger grnnd itands, make longer trips nnd pay more for promising high school talent. That's what's the matter with the country j it's not Wnll Street, it's not the senntc, it's just that a lot if cheap colleges won't go out and spend the dough foj bigger grandstands. Look nt Chicago with Soliders' Field, with Dcmpsey nnd Timney, Army nnd Navy, and Califor nia nnd Notre Dame, why that's brought 'em more pub licity, than Al Onpone ami machine guns combined, . Yours, WILL ROOKRS. (7 fvV
