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Medford Mail Tribune Dtllr Twtntf.fourU Tmt. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUN DA V. DECKMoKR 3. J!29. No. 10 RATION 1 IN II CITIES Tacoma and Seattle Facing Acute Situation Account of Drouth Federal Aid Expected Vancouver on On Reduced Schedule-No Rain In Sight. SEATTLE. Wash., Nov. 30. (P) With no rnin predicted by the I trtled States weather bureau, the 1'Tiget Sound area which receives power from municipal plants ot Seattle and Tacoma and genera tors of ttic Puget Sound Power and Light company, today was faced with the necessity of ration ing electric energy in order to conservo tho rapidly diminishing supply. Following conferences held in Tacoma yesterday between Gover nor jtninnn ti. tiartiey, .Mayors j Frank Edwards, Seattle and James (1. Ncwbegin of Tacoma, and A. V. Konnrd, president ot the Pu get Sound power and I-ight com pany, plans were being mnde for selection of a power "rscar" here Monday. Telegrams received from Wash ington revived hope for use of the , airplane carrier Lexington as a supplementary generating plant. Congressman Albert Johnson, Ilonulnm, telegraphed mayors of the two cities that President Hoover won pleased "with plans made for pooling all power out put by both municipal and pri vately owned plants. Although the Vuget Sound com Pnny unltd -with--municipal or-, Wiials in telegraphing President Hoover that the power shortage was becoming acute and ttslted for aso of the Ixlnglon, tho power nompany today offere.d to pur chase the municipally owned lines' rquipment serving customers out llde the city limits of Seattle. In Vancouver, 13. C, whore shortage has become as great as In tho I'uget sound area, all street) and Interurlian electric trains were ordered on greatly reduced sched ules tomorrow.- Cars crept alone: at half Speed in British Columbia city except during the peak hours. In on effort to help the P.rltlsh Columbia Electric company to . conserve water, the greater Vnnc eouver water district today offer ed to supply Now Westminster and thereby save one million gal lons n dny for the company, which could be used for power purposes. POTiTI.AND, Ore.. Xov. 30. W) While other sections of the coun try ore suffering from weather un usually cold for this time of year. Portland continued to enjoy mllil weather nnd there Is no Immedi ate prospect of a sudden drop In temperature, the I'nfted States leather bureau here said today. Though the weather here has re mained mild, it has been unusually dry, weather bureau statistics re vealed. In fact, the month just ended, was the driest November ever recorded here with tho on.1 exception of November, JSiiO. The city has not suffered from the dryness, however. nro FA' B. Ore.. Xov. 30. (IP) Nnvemhor was tho coldest nnd driest month In tho history of the local weather office, reports re leased hero today revealed. The mean temperature for the month was 43 decrees, tho lowest being 19 on November 21 nnd tho high est 64 on November 1. Rainfall van only .SO of nn Inch. The river wns lower during the month than at nny time In record. Today it Mood at n low record of 1.9 feet. ATLANTA, Nov. 30. W) Held In winter's ley grasp, the south tonight watehced with misgiving a slowly sagging mercury that mark ed a continuation of the xinsea.i onuhle cold which had caused dir ifftty one death ond Incidentally xwn others. Two deaths were reported from Kentucky. John C. Smith, nn St ye: old farmer, froze In HI cabin near HopkinsvUtc. nnd Abe C. Weakley, KG. n retired farmer. wis burned to death In a fire that de. strove! his home near FhelbyvIKe, Ky. At 8aannah, Oa( on Rel peeress wa fatally burned by fall lne Into a arto fir. While weather forecast were for less severe tempernturea tomor row, prowlnp markedly wrmer by mld-nfternoon. citrus crowem n central Florida tonight took pr cautionary measures to prevent damage to orange and grapefruit crop?. SltRniOAX Pi Sixteen heep wer renorted killed on the Max O. Thles ranch by either dops or . wolvrji. Tlte Wonihrr Orecon: Fair Sunday and Miv dnv. hut with valley tos In west em portion nnd cloudy on the coast: moderate temperature; tjen tip winds. motly northerly on CRASH IN FOG IRES PILOT. Pasco-Portland Plans Hits! Columbia River Bridge And Lands Aflame Fly er Rescued By Workers 200 Pounds of Mail From East Safe. VANCOUVER. Wash., Nov. 30. (A) Clarence C. Price, Varney air lines mall pilot, was critically injured late today when his plane crashed into :i fog-bound lift tower of the interstate bridge spanning the Columbia rover be tween this city nnd Portland, carromed into power lines on the municipal dock here and landed in a plot adjoining the terminal. The pilot was taken to a hospital here where physicians said he had a slender chance to live. Most of the 200-pound cargo of mall tho plane carried was dam aped but only uhout one per cent was totally destroyed, l'ostmast er John M. Jones of Portland an nounced. Puget Sound mail Buf fered the heaviest damage, he wild, but mont of it will bo re enveloped and forwnrdon. The plane, spectators said, burst Into flame immediately after strik ing the ground. It was virtually demolished hut workmen on tho dock extricated the unconscious pilot from tho ruins before tho flames renched his cockpit. Varney officials at Portland de clared Price apparently had fol lowed the river from Pasco, I Washington, In order not to lose his bearing In tho heavy fog. A l OHt or tno man, j'ostmaHicr! Jones said, was from the east.' Ft W;ih transferred to Price's piano at Pasco - nnd wn to have been! landed -at Poriiand. r -r S VERDICT IN' LIBEL SOIT Five Methodist Church Of ficers Accused of Frame Up With Maid to Defame Girl's Testimony Evi dently Doubted Award Is Surprise. noCKFORD, 111.. Xov. 30. (A) Five officers of the Methodist church at Burand, 111., were or- iler.-d by a Jury to pny $20,000 damnRCH to their former pastor, John J. Logan Warren for the al leged besmirching of his name with the charge of Immornllty The jury verdict manifestly sur prised the courtroom midline-? which had heard thp parentH of a former domestic In the preacher's homo support her sworn story of familiarity with Mr. Warren. The Jury, asked by the unfrocked min ister for $50,050 redress for libel, returned lis verdict before .Iudsi Arthur K. Fisher nfter two hours' deliberations. The Jurors mnde no comment on their finding. The five church officers who succeeded In ousting their pastor from hts pulpit and later from the Hock Ulver Methodist conference were Albert K. Ewlnson, president of the State Hank of Durnnd; Henry Ornham, praln company of ficial; Post master Cleorne Fritz; .ludrt Vnn Sickle nnd Kdcnr Blst. Mr. Warren accused them of' trumplnii tip the defamlnR stor" as a means of driving him from their parish. FOR EXCISE IAX 8ALE.f. Ore., Nov. 30. A) Or franitatlon 'of the new Mate tax commission of three paid member preparatory to collecting the 'n tangibles tax nnd excise tax au thorlJiert by the 1 12! legislature it well under way, Karke Flfher. a member of the commission, de clared today. Ttlanksare now being printed nnd will be sent out to prospec tive taxpayer noon after January 1, Fisher wild.- IWth the return of thes blanks, together with re mittance. It ill be neeewary to add neverat' rlerk to the present MA SALVAGED OUSTED PASTOR WIN PLANES, DOG TEAMS RESCU E ICE BOUND FUR TRADERS rui-Vil I'n i, 1'tn.to Pilot Frank Dorbandt', biplane (above) at Nanuk's side picking up a valuable load of fur and six persons to carry them to Teller, Alaska, from the stranded ehlp's position 460 miles away near North Cape, Siberia. A dog team (lower picture) similarly helps. Marion Swenson, (inset) daughter of the owner, one of the last to leave the Nanuk, ' - FEDERAL WORK AID ONLY WHEN STATES ASSIST ' ? ' ' ' Oregon Solons Find String j Attached to Big Hearted j Offer Dollar for Dollar! Policy Is Joker Not Noted at Time of Proposal. ' PORTLAND, Ore., Xov. 30. The OrcKonian will my tomor rti wthat unless western "Htatcs are williny; to co-opernto by matching the increased expenditures which tho federal Kovernment Is willing to make on road construction us a means of stimulating employ ment, they are unlikely to derive as much benefit from tho ' pro grams, outlined at Washington re cently, ns was first anticipated.- Folitlons, tho newspaper will sny. which have reached Senators McNary and Stolwer and other Oregon members of congress that the federal government give a tangible evidence of Its willingness to ward off a posstble stall In con struction activities by authorizing completion of the Roosevelt high way, the Santlam Pass highway and the Mount Adams loop ro.td while others hopo to see net ton speeded up on tho Umatilla Rup iis power project on the Colum bia river. The Oroponlnn will say that th Oregon mem hers would be only too glad to obtain more federil assistance and co -operation on nny or nil of these projects, but most of them have a string at tached that was not noted when the announcement of increased fed eral impropriation for road and waterway construction was made. IS IOTP POUT LAND, Ore., Nov. 30. Following months of what of ficials described as "undercover" investigating, police tonight raided virtually one entire section of this (city and nrreflted more than 200 men nnd women on charges rang ing from vagrancy to morals vio lations. , Police Chief L.' V. Jenklbs, who personally cond'icfed many of the teries of raids, declared the drive had been directed nt alleged gamb line places, liquor ostaMI-hmenH and disorderly houses. Hhe snld the raid started by prearrnngemeni at 0 and continued until nfter 11 o'clock.' ' Virtually the entire police fore participated in the drive, the cblf declared. TUP. TlAl.t.KH Wr A I! passen per Fokker monoplane of the IV.-t roast "Air Transport, piloted by I Walter fates ond Joe Smith, li ft here for Portlnnd nrter many nour delay, due to for. SHHRWOOn MV-The third an nual pot&to, corn nnd onion show sponsored by the Chamber of rnm- BILL 10 CURB ALIEN INFLUXiLOCAL TURKEYS AGAIN 10 FORE ' ' . ' : ' Western Hemisphere-Lands Limited Along With Eu-. rope 200,000 a Year Held "All Country Can Stand," But Not Offen sive to Sister Republics; WAMIUXOTOX, Xov. 30. P Proposed restriction of Immigra tion from western hemisphere' na tions, long a controversial ques llon, again will be placed before congress this winter, this time In tho form of a bill which Chairman Johnson of the house immigration commlttoe announced today he would Introduce. While tho details of tho mens-1 r.ro have not been drawn up In 1 . ' City. , . , . . " peneral collapse of the turkey final form.. Johnson snld ono plan, nmrkpt ,,,,, turhla nt ,,.,,, under onHlderntlnn would limit land d tendency on tho part of the entry of aliens from all countries i htiylnc public to lair, as a reac- ! or North, South and Central; tion from the Wall Street debacle, j America to a maximum total of i was given as reasons. At that, the SO. 000. This would be in nddltlon Itoirue Klver birds received the j lo the IftO.OOO limit now In effect ', hlMhest price. of any section. The on ImmlKrallnn from nil other; full returns on the Thanksgiving j pons of the world, nnd wottld al-iponl will not be available until I low n maximum of 200.000 nliensilale this week. j to enter annually, which Johnson; The Christmas turkey pool will ! believes "is all the country enn open Wencmlay, and, so far tho ! stand." j lop price of 20 cents per pound will i "If based on the number of nn-1 be offered. A guarantee fund of i tlonals of the various new world i $.1o,ooo will bp posted In the Jnek nations now In this country, with 1 son County bank to cover this nd a liberal maximum for several ; vn nee. (iradlnir and shipping will South Amerlran republics from ' he under tho sumo conditions as which few Immigrants have come, I "'e Thanksgiving pool, the restriction will not bo offen-l " Is estlmnted there are 120, slve to Canada, Mexico or nny 000 Pounds of turkey left In the other country of the western valley and available for tho Christ hemisphere " he sold i mn" market. Ninety-two thousand i The last leulHl.illv. effnn in cur. I ,1ml entry of nations from other ; countries of the western heml-:CPnt i thoi-0 WflM milfln With th llnv bill nfrernd In tl.n l.i w..,,,l,- fpHHlon by Representative Bat ocrat, Texan, but which fall- reach a final vote. IN PARK TRAVEL! WASMIXOTON. Nov. 30. (P) I When vacation time comes, or! when the crops were nil In, on ' a mil zinc total of S,24S.2t4 persons packed their b.iiteaee and vUlicI the national parks and nntion.nl monuments of the t'nlted Htntes durlna !2fl. This broke nil records for nat ional park travel, of the num ber 2.CSO.S97 visited the parks, .in Increase of IS. 449 over 192. nnd 517, 6!7 the monuments, an In- j crease of 5,011 over the previous i ycr.r. UOOn RIVRfl (;P) Five' youn men from Tb-nd, who had attend ed the Itend-Warhlngton football game at Portland- Thanksgiving day. were Injured when their nnlo mohfle ttkidded nn ley pavement f.nd rolled down a 2oofoot em- OFFER 26C LB. FOR YULE POOL Advance Prfbe of 32 bents All Raisers Will Get From Thanksgiving Pool, Ad vices Indicate, Owing to Market Collapse Re ceive Christmas Receipts Wednesday To Post Guarantee. The 32 cent advance, pnlil to val ley turkey ralxeiti in the Thunki kIvIiik pool 'of tho Farm Kxrhanpe Co -operative, 1s about all they can flKiiro upon, nerordlng to tele graphic advices .received yesterday rrum Kav"8 41 01 Pounds were shipped In tho Thanksgiving pool. of ,np turkeys No. 1 birds. Ninety per offered were With tho 32 cents advance for the Thanksgiving pool, and the 2B cents offered for the rhrlstmns pool, the avernge Mr the valley turkeyn Is 29 cents. Thi In from two to four cents higher than re ceived by other count district tur key ralsera, It Is claimed. FEDERAL AID USTtMUCH GRATIFIED WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. P S-vfn thousand, four hundred nnd two miles of road In the I'nited Mtutes nnd Mawi.tl were added to the other thou winds of miles that have received federal aid In UZ9. Agrewmenln were olso negotiat ed between the bureau and Wash ington. Oregon, California, IdnhJ, Nevada, 11 ah, Arizona. Wyoming. Colorado, New Mexloo and Neb raf kn, providing for n survey ef traffic on the federal aid highway system within those states. One of the results from studies made during tho year, MacDonnld Maid, wn n classification of thn majority of the soils encountered n rond building nnd data on their' i-vif,r i t' ivwf. fop rniiU, FRUIT HAUL BY ALTURAS NEXT YEAR Espee Traffic Manager As sures Local Shippers Cut Off Will Be Ready, and That 75 - Pound Rail Heavy Enough For Fast Schedule To Establish Icing Facilities Date Mulchay Many Details. at Early! Explains In response to a query fpun tho liogue lilvcr Traffic nssociu-' Hon, .1. 11. .Mulcahy, traffic man ager of the Southern 1'nclflc rail road, bus advised that organiza tion by letter, that Ihey need have no fear about tho usn of tho Alturas cut-off in handling thu fruit crop of tho Koguo Uvor valley, In tho future or tho pres ent, 75-pound rails being of suf ficient strength to permit ot a fnst schedule. The traffic manager sols forth in his communication that tho 75-pound roll Is extensively used throughout tho land, that nn aver age of 100 carloads of freight is now handled dolly over tho Al turas cut-off, theso cars Itelnir of greater heft than I ho nverogo fruit ear, and that next season Ihe Southern Pacific expects to haul volley fruit over tho Alturas cut-off. - , It Is further explained that tho Alturas cut-off was not opened until September two" months aftoi' the -opening1 Of the fruit season, nnd It was Imposslblo to place tho lino In first class shnpo lor the 1020 business. Jt Is also stressed that the fruit could hove been hauled over tho Alturas cut off this year, hut owing to tho lark of facilities, the risk to tho shippers was more than the rail road cored to have them tako. jramo .Manager Mulcahy as sures the local traffic nssnclallbn that It Is tho Intention' ot the rail road lo build Iclnir plants ntKlnm nth Kalis nnd Sparks, Nevnda, for the proper bundling or tho 1030 fruit shipments, nnd that nil other details, such as yard facilities, tar Iffs, rales, nnd schedules will bo worked out by . the operating nnd engineering departments In ample time Tor the 11130 business. The letter conveys tho lmprcs slnn that tho Southern Pacific Is Just us anxious ns tho Kogue Vol ley shippers nnd growers to haul tho fruit ovor tho time-saving Al turas route, but that It takes tlmo to put a 200-mllo stretch of rail road In working condition, Tho Traffic association at cent mooting, instructed Its sec retary to ask tho railroad what Its plans for tho Alturas cut-off were, nnd about the theory nd vnneed that the 75-pound rails were not of sufficient heft for fruit train speed. E SLAYER OF. PORTLAND HELD POItTI.AND, Ore., Nov. 30. (A1) Walter C. VogcH, 28, wns Indict- ed by tho county grand Jury today on a charge of first degree mur- (ler. Voges killed his 2 1 -year-old bride with a razor on Nov. 6 and attempted to take hla own life. lOdward Kkolll, part-owner of the Harisnn-Hkolll foundry and machine works here, was indicted on a charge of assault With In tent to kill. UnrrlHon was shot In the face with a shotgun. Ho wild the two hnd qunrreled. C. OF C. POUTI.AND, Ore., Nov. 30. TP) Itaymnnd H, Wilcox, president of tho Portlnnd Chamber of Com merce, ft well as other executives of that body, have expressed grat ification that Henntor Htelwer has tnken up with the treasury de partment the matter of employing private architects to prepare plans for the new Federal building here, HugaeVlon that such a step might be taken was made to Ore gon's senator recently by the board of directors of ihe cham ber when It was informed that, due to Ihe deluge of work In the office of tho supervising architect Washington, that the Portland job would likely bo delayed for n conld"rnll plml rf time. In .Senate Race -; raw Aaoctnlrt I'rr.tt fhnln Joseph S. Frellnnhuysen. former United States senator, has an nounced his candidacy lor the re publican senatorial nominalion of New Jersey. JOY AGAIN RULES IHE French Troops Evacuate Second Zone After 11 Years, and Bonfires Blaze At Monument to Kaiser iRejoicing Broadcast Over All of Germany. COlirdCNZ, Oermany, Nov. 30. (I1) Tho French tii-color that re placed tho stars and stripes -over! the fnmoiiH old fortress of Khren boitHtoln nfter tho evncuatlon of the American troops from tho ithlueland wns huuied down for tho last time today, as the French soldiers began to evacuate the sec-1 ond Rhlnelund zone. Most of tho French soldiers marched to the MastcDo railway station and entrained for Metis. An automobile column of sixty cars left for Nayenco.' Tho lowering of the trl-eolor nnd the hoisting of tho German repub lican standard on tho cnstle nbove tho historic Hhlno was tho signal for celebrating throughout tho Hhlneland tonight. The evacuation proceeded quiet ly, but tho people- later gave vent to their Joy at being free from tho yoko of forolgn occupation that has lasted for eleven years. Only a few Clermnns wntched the French! soldiers depnrt. Thero were num erous camera men present. ' Hundreds of bonfires were light ed tonight on thn Hhlno and Mnj ello hills. Firework displays burst from the bridges over tho Khlne lind from Khrenbeltsteln. where the American army hoisted the Htars and Hlrlpes In 1918. j Church bells rang out tho news; of freedom nt Coblenz and Aachen, ! (Aljc la Chapniic) prominent of-1 flclals of the Heidi presided over festivities to which they brought j the congratulations of the govern ment nnd all the rest of Clermnny. j ft was "!cr Tag" for every Khlne landcr In the evacuated zone. At Cohlenr thousands of per sons gathered nt tho "Deutsches Kek,' ut thn confluence of the Ithlne nnd the Moselle, where there Is an imposing monument to he former kaiser. With bonfires burning brightly nbove Khrenbrletstein nnd on the opposite bank of tho Rhine and with hundreds of persons carrying torchlights, tho meeting made nn Impressive spectacle Dr. Wirth, Hie Reich minister for occupied territories, brought greetings from tho government. ItraxH bands played martial nnd religious music. Tho entire mass meeting observed three minutes of silence a a t ii till to of respect to the war dead, A detachment of Prussian state police, headed by a police band, marched Into Ihe city after tho evacuation to replace the foreign military police. - The celebrations at Coblena and Anchen were broadcast throughout the country. SAVED FROM NOOSE HE GOES TO CEIL SAN Ql'F.NTlN PRISON, Calif., Nov. 30. (Pi l.eo "Pat" Kelley, saved from the gallows nfter he had spent 13 months In Condemn ed Row, today was hack In Han Qnentln prison to serve a sentence of one to ten years for manslaugh er for Ihe slaying of Mrs. Myrtle Melius, f.n Angeles society wo rn i n RHINEI AND TAX SLASH FIRST JOB OF Vare Case and Tariff Con fuse Regular Session of Congress, Opening Mon day Budget Message of President Tuesday " 'Young Guard' Rally to McNary. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (P) Preparing for the opening of Urn fir.nl regular session of congren-l. in the Hoover administration. Repub lican leaders on Capitol Hill today assigned tax reduction as the flivt job for tho house but found the unsettled tariff bill and Vare case confusing tho senate program. A movo was started to lef-r again the consideration of tho right of Senator-elect William S. Vare, of Pennsylvania, to a senate seat hut Senator Norris, Republi can, Nebraska, asserted he would demand a vote next week on his resolution denying Vare admit tance to the sennte. Whether tho .Varo case la set aRldo temporarily or Is decided next week it comes up automat ically upon Tuesday by previous agreement the senate will plunge once more Into the tariff Olsputo hanging over from the special nes slon shortly after tho opening for malities have been concluded. The NoVrls resolution would deny Vare a seat because of expend!- tures of more than $G00,000 by'hls ticket In, tho 1920 primary cahw palgn. The house exjeets to get thn $100,000,000 tax reduction resolu tion to tho-sennto .beforo the jend', of the first week nnd lenders of ' t both parties In the senate . aro prepared to lay aside their other worries some time before Christ-; mas to permit a vote thero. . Thus tax reduction, the , Varo caxe and the tariff appeared to night as likely to command all at tention before tho Christmas , ' re cess. . . Brief and perfunctory sessions are In prospect on Monday. After going through tho formalities of npenlng-the senate will adjourn as a mark of respect to the lato Sen ator Warren, of "Wyoming. . On Tuesday President -Hoover wfll transmit to congress his first message on "The Stale of the Un ion," a 1 2,000-word 1 paper, . and then both branches will get io work. Tho next day tho annual budget message will bo transmitted from the. White Honse; It will be read by clerks and referred to tho housn appropriations committee which for some days has been at work on the group of bills to provldo funds for governmental depart ments nnd agencies during tho next fiscal year. On the eve of the new session, the faction-split Republican ma jority in the senate showed Bigna of getting together. Senutor McNary of Oregon, who was put forward as a spokesman of the "Voting Guard" Republican regulars, virtually was assured the post as assistant party leady to day by Senator Jones of Washing ton, announcing hut retirement from that post hecaiiso of tho heavy work facing him ns chair man of tho npproprlntlons commit tee which ho will head In tho approaching session. CONVICT, 80. FREED F JOLIET, TO GET AUBURN CELL CHICAGO, Nov. 30. (P) Thero is nothing qulto like a nice warm penitentiary, says George Fergu son who has spent 02 yeags of his 80 years In first one, then nnother, , Advised that ho wns to he re leased from Juliet penitentiary. Ferguson wrote to the warden nt tho Auburn, N. Y., prison atatlmt that while serving o term them under nn assumed name he Vio lated his parole. Auburn offlrora met him at the .Toilet prison gates yesterday nnd Ferguson express ed genulno pleasure nt seeing them. "I've lost contnet with llfo out side." he said. "I wouldn't know what to do If I wero free. You've n nleo place nt Auburn; hut I won't knock Jollet. ,11's nice, too." PORTLAND (A?) The vnlldlly of Portlnnd police regulations whic'i make It possible for officers to tow cltltens' nutomoblles to city gnr ages from parking places on puh lie streets will he tested In Ills trlet Judge Hendrleksnn's court soon. SOLONS
