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Newspaper Page Textedford Mail Tribute M 4 The Weather Forecast: Italn tonight mid Sur day. Mojlerato temperature. Temperature IllKluwe yoslorduy "I IrfiwrMt IIiIk limrtlliltf r(i I'l-fHiiltatioll, 11.111. yoscciihij.. T. I'rtH'liiltallmi. 1(1 a.m. tliiy I2 Billy Twfntr-tgurtb Tttf. tvt.ur Fifir-iibib Ymj. MEDFORD. OlM-XiOX, SATURDAY, DKCKMHKK .14. 192!). No. :(;:,. HOOVER RED MOB Communist Group Gathers at White House to Show Displeasure With Policy in Haiti and Business Conferences Fifty Ar rested New York Also Has Mob Scene. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. OP A group i'f approximately half a hundred persons who claimed nlle glanee it the Communist Party of America were arrest oil In front of tin White House today for mak Int'a demonstration against the Hoover policy in Haiti and the ad ministration's business conferences. The technical charge lodged against the group at police pre cinct No. 1 was parading without u permit. Hooch, hisses and catcalls rtiroct eil at the While J louse and the Washington police r o s o u n d e d among the crowd as the police halted t lie pa rnde. The persons submitted peacefully to arrest. Jiiht as the arrest was mnde, a White House limousine rolled into the north gate of the grounds nnd the crowd hurled jeera at the empty car. NEW YORK, Dec. 14. (A) A hand of GOO alleged communists, singing the Internationale, at tempted to storm the city hall to day. Mounted police charged into the throng to disperse them and ten arrests were made. Simultaneous demonstrations by member of the Communist Tarty of America agninst the city anil federal governments occurred In New York and Wshington today. A group of ahoirt. . GO .'persons gathered in front- of. -the' ''White Jtuse In Vashington,ln a protest demonstration against the Hoover policy in Haiti and the administra tions' business conferences. Carrying placards bearing the Inscription "Hoover Declares 'War on Workers a crowd of 600 marched on the city hall and fed eral building in New York. Ten n rrests were mad e a nd mounted police were forced to charge the crowd to disperse the gathering. A report that n bomb was to he exploded lu front of the New York city federal building, brought a force of secret service men nnd de partment of justice agents to aug ment the New York police reserves called out to guard the buildings. Fifty arrests were . made by Washington police and New York police arrested ten. One New York policeman was severely beaten by the marchers. MAHSIIFIELD, Ore., Dec. 14. (I1 Klvers In this section were ap proiiching flood stage today". The heaviest 21-hour rainfall In sev eral years was recorded hero when a fraction less than three inches of rain poured down. The tott.l precipitation In the past week lias reached nine Inches. Titer halnt enough ympntliy In tills tile world tn huMp nny nn folk who try double tlicr money. A M o people on belli' put nut n' tlio way the ilnys fer knontt' too much, lint flip situa tion won't Ik- rally t1iin till Ijtf'y hoc I ii to hump tiff I lime who (Ioii'i know nn)lhtii(f. . cm MDSiPROVEMENIS rnn iiinmiiMn Ciphers Added to Check Made Meal Cost Three Grand . CHICAGO. Dm:. 14. W) The Utile lunch Edward SternherB ule ul a certain -fr Stony IkIujh! avenue c:ifet last ' Slay cost him S3.000. which he contends was iL'.'JU" too much. Sternliere said he paid for Hie lunch by check, making il out for S3. When It cunie hack from the bank, he found a comma and three ciphers v had been added. He had the cafe owners, Mr. and Mrs. William Gibbons. arrested. The ease, ettlled yesterday, has been continued. Federal Judge Holds Search and Seizure in Prohi En forcement Must Not Be On Exploratory Basis for Possible Arrest Contra venes Anglo-American Justice. XKW- HAVEN. Conn., Dc9. II. (JP) Federal Jude Kdwln S. Thomas today f lieu an opinion with the United States district court liolditiK that search and seizme in not be tlio exploratory basis upon Which 'to. base a possibla arrest.: The ruling was made in the case of Anthony .1. Setaro of Danbury, who claimed Illegal"' ac.tr on. the, I mrt of two prohibition olficers. Judge Thomas ruled in effect that the Jones law does not auto matically make transportation o liquor or maintenance ot a nuisance felonies; that exporatoty searches by prohibition aKents with or with out a warrant in search of evi dence are "in contravention of Anglo-American justice nnd that a confession obtained after an illegal search and seizure cannot be used against the confessor." The rilllim embodied ill his deci sion to isupiircss evidence nnd to I return a seized automobile ot be taro, declares that under lite preva lent federal rule If tire search and seizure is unlawful, the evidence obtained thereunder must he sup pressed and seized propel ty re turned. Million Dollars to Be Con tracted at January Meet ing of Commission Ten Million Will Be Available for Year. PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 1 1. 0V) A million dollars worth of road improvements, nearly all of It to be done on the Oregon coast high way, was ordered advertised for the January meetnig of the state highway commission yesl culay by coiuinlssioners during a conference with federal and forest road offi cial. Estimates of revenues showed that there will be available I0. ooa.ooo beyond the bond and in terest requirements. Of this amount $3.0on.ono wlll.be required for maintenance nnd $7,000,000 for new construction and Improve ments. In addition Mo Rs own;' road schedule, the highway eornnatf-nloh allocated (flin.nno' of. forest- funds available the coming year. Nearly all of the 37.0oo.oow already has been allocated. Projects ordered advertised for the January meeting on the Ore gon const highway will leave but 22 miles of the road which has not been Improved to a certain extent. This grip will consist of two piece .of which Douglas coun ty will have 7.4 miles and 15.2 mites in Ijine county. Radio Cnunmtl Numcil. WASH I NGToN, I lee. 1 4 (Pr Thnd H. Rrown. Ohio, today was named general rounwl of the fed eral radio commission. s !$ $ MM EVIDENCE UNLAWFUL run n Midi DELEGATES TO " ' ld Associated .PresM Pfloto The American delegation to the London naval conference was completed with the appointment of Dwlght W. Morrow (above, left), ambassador to Mexico; Charles G. Dawes (above, right), ambassador to Great Britain: Hugh S. Gibson (below, left), ambassador to Belgium, and Charles F. Adams (be low, right), secretary of the navy. Henry L. Stimson (center), secretary of state, had previously been designated as chairman of the delegation. LOCA nun rnii bANRtKT SPEN I Valley Growers Received ! Over $75,000 for Fruit and Vegetables 25 to . 125 Workers Employed During Long Season. Tho Rogue River Canning com pany closed todny for the season, after-' operating slnea-Jum. ,.25lli last, in what was described rts a grower.' year." The workers num-! bered from 25 to 125, during the peak of the Reason. ' ; Over $75,000 was paid lo farmers and orehardlsts for vegetables and fruits, by the company, at excep tionally high prices. Kight hundred twenty-seven tons of pears were used, sufficient to fill all orders, and $50,000 was paid to orehardlsts for same. The tonnage of other products and amounts paid to growers weir: Apples. 300 tons, $3,000. Cherries, 37 tons, $7,000. Meets. 17 tons, $S0ft. Iteans. 6.5 tons, $400. Ttlaekherries, 2.5 tons: rhubarb, 2.5 tons, and prunes, ton: $l,2'f. TomMoes, 110 tons, $2.00. The bean crop was not tip to ex pectations, and the cannery was unable to secure but half of the amount they could us, Twenty-eight carloads of canned goods were shipped, as follows: Thirteen cars penrs to Chicago, for distribution throughout thn; city nnd tho middle west. . ' , One car of pears and cherries to( Wichita, Kans. Klve cars of salad pears to C'ali-i foinia. to he shipped later to Eu ropean markets. f ; Four cars of penrs to England J with shipment to be made In Jan uary, j i A car of cider shipped to TMio"1 nix. Ariz.. Kos Angeles nnd Ilostmt. i This season the concern made hut a small amount for vinegar , stork. I The season Just closed was one of the longest nnd busiest since tho plant started. T WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. fP) The 1 1 r,0. 000,000 income tax -r-duction was adopted today by the senate An amendment by Hennlor Rrookliart, Republican, Iowa, pro vided lor .1 graduated tax on cor poration ranging from one-half of one per rent for the flm t-iooo to 11 per ceht nn fill over $2S,(h), ,wfi then turned down. A final vote on the resolution was th n in order. ' The vote on the lirookhait amendment was 00 to 16. Football Scores I'm! Half, rnrncgip. 13: V. 8. C 13. GRANTS PAHS. Ore,, Dec. 14. Mrs. Krnnie Kg (tern 24, wui recovering today after having been taken from a gas filled room In her n part men t last hlisht. Mrs. Eggers, police said, reported he had quarreled with her husband over financial affalts. 1 THE LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE Faithful Old Tom of Nealon Ranch WW WW in ttorse neaven 5 ! TAB WO HOCK, Ore.. Dot-.! 14. (Special) Old "Tom," ! 2;t years oui(i nig grey I'cr- v chcron horse, died last week . of acute indigestion after 17 years of faithful service on 1 lh. Voulnn iiinrh. : During ins long lite old v mm never vioinieu nis irum by engaging in any runaways or other misdeeds. i" SEATTLE, Dec. 14. 7D The airplane carrier Lexington lifted anchor and proceeded for Tacoma r.hortly after 9 a. m. today. The giant vessel, one of two largest war vessels In tho world, will ha tU-d up at a Tacoma dock for the next 30 days to he used as an aux iliary electric power supply for the city. The "wonder ship" of the navy Is said to be capable of generat ing enough power to supply a city the size of Hoston, Use f one of the four ship's generators to generate a total of 240.000 kilo watt hours a day Is contemplated by Tacoma, which, together with other Pacific northwest cities, has been experiencing a power short age due to unusually dry weather ibis fall. While tho ship Is being used, the Tacoma municipal power plant at IjiUo Cush man will be operated at only t part of Its capacity to per mit the water In the storage basin to rise behind the dam. Heavy rains In the north west after a drought uncqunlhd for 40 years, was rapidly Improving the situation. Great Shires and Matched for (MI If AGO, Dec. 14. WP The Chicago Cubs will refuse to permit Hack Wilson to meet Churles r Diur fThe Great) Hhlres In a pro fessional boxing contest, William L, Week, president of the Cubs, wild today. If Wilson decide In fight In violation of the Cubs' wishes, he will do so on his own accord, Veock said. CHICAGO, Dec. 14. W "1-ct them fight," was the reply of RaNcball Commissioner K. M. Ian ills today when he was asked if he would take action against the pro posed professional ' boxing mulch between Lewis "Hack" Wilson of the Cubs and Arthur Shires of the White Sox in Chicago next Janu nry. Ity William Wocse Afsoeiutc d Press Sports Writer. CHICAGO. Dec. 14. 7P) A four round boxing match between two baseball pluyers whose pugilistic reputations largely rest on their accomplishments in extemporane ous, not-for-profit fighting, Is ot using more excitement than championship battles recently staged in Chicago. Promoter Jim Mullen has signed Charles Arthur fThe Great) Shires the Chicago White Sox exuberant first baseman, and Lewis Hack ) Vilon. slugglr.g cent erf (elder for (he National league chnmplon Chi cago Cubs, for n city net leu match U.S.S.LEXINGTON OFF TO FURNISH ITACOMA POWER I I JACK FLOREY IN COMASINCECAR CRASH AT TRAIL , i Recovery of Eagle Point Man Held Doubtful John Wahlin and Miss Oliver Also in Local Hospital Cut and Bruised. . . JacltVFlorey of Eagle Point was In a serious condition thin nftet noon: tftMho Community hospital where his chalices for ' recovery were said to he poor, following a car crash on the. Crater Lake high way last night near Trail. The, crash resulted In injuries to eight persons, three of whom were re moved to the hospital. Klorey Is suffering from head Injuries nnd has been unconscious since 1:30 atHt night. John Wahlin, occupant of a machine driven by W. U. Oliver, and Miss Josephine : Oliver of Trail, an occupant of the same machine are also in the hos j pllal, suffering from cuts nnd ibruises. (leoige Holmes, who was ' riding in the Klorey machine, sus : tallied cuts and bruises which he Is j treating at his home In Eagle Point. ! Koth cars were traveling near the ctnter of the highway when the crash took place, according to State Traffic Lieutenant O. O. Nichols, who made an Investiga tion this forenoon of the mishap. The machines collided head-on antl both are so seriously damaged that they are declared hardly worth repairing. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Oliver nnd children, Roberta and Teddy, sus tained injuries which were given first a if) treatment before they went to their home in the Trail section. j Oregon Wen (her t Oregon: Italn west, probably rain east pirtloti tonig'it and Hat j uidiiy. cooler In east portion to ' night. Fresh southerly winds on I the coast. Hack Wilson . Four Round Fight next January. So great Is interest In the fight that Mullen today was negotiating Willi Chicago Ht ad hi in oftlcials for uhc of the huge arena when he brings the American and National league battlers together. Wilson, at his home In Martins burg. W. Va., yesterday agreed to light the cocky White Sox infietder when Mullen met his price or JI't.DMii nnd $1000 for training ex pensed a record sum for a first engagement. Shires Is under con tract to fight for Mullen on a per centage basts. Shy A rt h ur w a s en I in, a I mosl boreil. when told that Wilson had agreed lo the match, but was good for one of his characteristically inodet statements:, "Hack will think' he Is looking Into tlio sun again, when I start throwing them at him. The fact that h belongs to the National league, which really Is a minor league, doesn't prod my major league pride. Wilson said he hadn't thought up any mean remarks to make at the great one. but guessed the Cubn-Hox angle would do for a grudge. The Cub slugger Immedi ately began planning his training campaign, and mentioned Tommy Loughian as his choice for an In structor. G'-orite Trnfton. 22fi-pnund cen ter of the Chicago Hears, will be Shires' opponent at White Clly In a bout Monday night. AM IN LONG GRILL IN Actions in Wemme Litiga tion Carefully Gone Over ,By Prosecuting Attorney in Disbarment Hearing Joseph As Dictator to Trustees, Sold Property, Is Claim. SALEM. Ore., Oec. 14. (P) Di rect examination of Thomas Man nix, defendant In disbarment pro ceedings here, was completed Iw A t torney Eva n 1 leames of t he prosecution at 10:30 today. Cross examination by Mannlx attorney. Frank .1. Iun-gan. was brief. Man nix was excused, subject to recall. In testimony yesterday Mannlx gave as his reason for beginning t he second Wcmme suit, which was in the federal court, was lo get the Wem me endowment fund out of the control of George Jo seph. He declared that, notwith standing Die state supreme court opinion" In the first case, declar ing the fund a trust, the trustees of the trust fund were under the dictation of Joseph and were sell ing off the property of tho estate nt less than value at secret sales and without competitive bids. At torney Ream en said In the course of his examination of Mannlx on this point today that he would produce circuit court orders au thorizing the trustees to make the sales. The property In question was ' real nnd personal property and included a building nt the wist approach of the llurnsldo bridge. Point Stressed. One Important law point stress ed by Realties related to the rela tion of the E. Henry Wemme com- pnny to tho original litigation and Mannlx' visit to the alien property custodian -at . Washington. "-itr-iin equity case, It was pointed out, all parties are supposed to be repre sented. By his trip to Washing ton, said the prosecution, Mannlx recognized the Importance or bringing In the company as a party. However, he could not got the authority of the alien property custodian to bring the company In as a plaintiff. It was pointed out by the prosecution that h should then have named the com pany ns n defendant and forced it to come In. This situation is ap parently to be the hnsis of fur ther developments In the trial. Mannlx objected to Attorney Renmes tactics. "Why do you persist In picking out pen points In tho records?' Mannlx nsked. Would It nbt he better to use the whole record?" Reames replied that the trustees in considering the case would take judicial notice of everything, nnd presiding Referee Hklpworth made a remark to the same effect. Girl Companion Rescued Lights of Approaching Car Blinded Driver, Is Claim Auto Goes Thru Bridge Railing. - NKWPOKT IIKACH, Cal Dec. 14. Ul't The body of Ross A. AVeyer, 2Ii-yoar-old mm Diego manager for a Los Angeles stock bi okerage firm, today Is In the Orange county morgue at Santa Ana, while Investigators are .en deavoring lo piece together, from the hysterical story of Miss Jewell lUnfro, Hi, Kan Diego stock ex change employee, the fads of on accident which plunged Weyer's car Into Newport bay last nlghl. MIks Itenh-o, rescued from the lop of t he almost submerged car after It had plunged from a bridge over an arm of the bay on the Los AngHos-Knn Diego coast ronL highway. Is In a Newport Reach hospital, uf fc ring from severe shock. When rescuers reached her she was In a weakened con dition from her exert'ons In try ing to get Weyer to the surface. Firemen finally exlrlcnted Weyer's body. Investigators have been unable to determine definitely from the girl's story whether she or Weyer was driving the car whon H shot through the bridge railing and Into the water. She said blinding lights of an approaching car In a dense fog had caused the acelden. Vhro the couple had been, she d d not reveal. STOCK BROKER PINNED IN CAR IN BAY PLUNGE Christmas Buying Brisk This Season Government Told WASHINGTON. Dec, 14. W) Reports received by Pres ident Hoover from the de partment of commerce and other agencies were said at the White House today to In dicate that Christmas buy ing is fully as good this year as it was In 1!2S. The reports were said to show that In some sections the volume of buying was much better than last year. The comparison for various sections of the country Is un even, it was said, with some localities showing up better than others. President Hoover considers these reports as a fair Index of tlie general situation In the Cnlted States. L E Pollution of Streams By City Sewage Systems De clared Menace By New Head State Association Help of People Needed. Ralph Cowglll, who returned Inst evening from Portland, where he had attended n meeting of the state game .commission Monday nnd nlso a meeting of the Oregon State Game Protective association, of which he was elected president, declared this afternoon he hnJ been misquoted In the Morning Oregonlan of Portland in connec tion with the report to the com mission regarding Rogue river pol lution. He recommended that Med ford, Ashland, Central. Point,. OoU Hill and Grants Pass be Induced to construct sewnge disposal plants In place of septic tanks. "The Rogue river must be kept clean," snid Mr. Cowglll in nn In terview, "it is a nationally known stream and Its 'future benefits to southern Oregon and for that mai ler tho entire stato or Oregon can hardly he estimated at this time. The fame that the stream has brought to this section can be quickly destroyed If Us waters be come polluted. Unless corrective measures are tuken now, this situ ation will he upon us before we enn realise what has happened. Apcal to People. "As president of the State Game Protective association," he con tinued, "I am going to appeal to the people of the state as a whole, to assist in putting over a con structive progrnm for the propaga tion nnd protection of our game and fish Industry. This Is not a one-mnn Job. At tho Portland meeting, the entire association promised its undivided and en thusiastic support to such a pro grnm. Thn association nlone can not bring this program, to a suc cessful completion, unless the peo ple give nil possible support. "With this end In view," said Mr. Cowglll, "It Is planned to start a campaign immediately for the following purposes: "1. To build up a largo state or ganization composed of as ninny county units nro It is possible to procure. To acquaint the people of Oregon with the value of our fish nnd game resource and the neces sity for tho protection thereof to insure a supply for the future. j "3. To gain sufficient support from all the people ho that tho next legislature will gladly accept the . recommendations of these organic-i atlons for the elimination of all loopholes In our present fish nnd game codes wheroby It Is nlmot . Impossible to convict sotno of the worst offenders of our laws, "I have not yet hod nn oppor tunity to discuss the situation with . the other officers of the stale as-' soclation," he said In conclusion, 'but as soon as It Is possible, a meeting will be called to carefully consider all phases of the work to be attempted by tho state or ganization." j James Clark, elderly local resi dent dropped dead nt 3:45 this nC ternoon as he stepped Into a chair at the liowman Harbor shop on West Main street to get a shave and hnlr cut. Three physicians were In the place of business with in the space of a few minutes but were unable to render aid. The body was removed to tho Conger Funeral home. Carl llowmnn, pro prietor of the shop drove to the home of Mr. Clark Immediately lo break the news lu his widow, and to bring her to tho funeral parlor. COWGIL I IDEAS F OR FISH AID IN U. S. STEEL PLANS e EXPANSION j Three Hundred Million to Be Spent in Three-Year Pro gram of Betterment -r-Christmas Trade Com pares Favorably With, Last Year Is Report From Large Cities to Wall St. . XKW YORK, Dec. 14. 1P) ISeavjf buying of (the railroad shares, presumably In expectation of favorable merger developments, featured today's brief session of the stock market. Renewed liquid ation developed in the Industrial nnd public utility groups, forcing many of the leaders down 1 to 3 points, but Irregular recoveries took place In the last hour of trad ing. One of the most Interesting do velopments In tho day's news was the announcement that the U. 8. Steel corporation plans to spend $300,000,000 for expansion and betterments over the next Ihreo years. Iteports from several of the lead ing cities of the country Indicated that Christmas trade to date com pared favorably with a' year ago, although tho weekly . mercantile reviews called attention to a re cession In some of the Jobbing nnd wholesale lines. . A nint cur a Are Rears. The erratic notion of the market during the past few ' days hrs scared many small' traders out of the market, until tho price trend became more clearly defined. Rro le ers report nn Increase In so-called "amateur nhort selling' 'as well as heavy hear operations by profes sional traders. Pool activity 1s more cautious In character. Wide fluctuations took place In some of the ordinarily InactU'M rails, - Jerrfey -tfentrrtV which" broke more than 4(1 points yesterdny, re covered about half of its loss. Nw York and Harlem jumped 23 points on a few sales and Chicago nn.1 Eastern Illinois preferred, which has not changed hands in so mo time, dropped 14 points to a new low at 29. Pero Marquel'.o jumped 10 points. The closing was strong. Totnl sales approximated l.fiOA.OOQ shares. I0NAL SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 14. (P) Tho weather outlook for the week beginning December 15th was an nounced horo today by tho United States weather bureau ns follows: "Far western stntes The out look Is for occasional rains In Washington, Oregon, northern Idnho and probably the northern half of California. "Temperatures will bo mostly. above normnl." ; Will Rogers Sayt: liKVERLY IIIU,S, Cnl., Dep. 14. TIipso nro linppy days for Uncle Joe Grundy, lie !ms been Htmifling out in the lobby of our enpitol for 40 yenrs nnd finally nsked to eomc in nnd sit down. And ho will mnke 'em ft v n 1 u n b 1 o m n n. "When they resume the investiga tions of lobbyists, put him on the senate committee nnd lie will know exaetly how to trnp 'em. You know the o!d sayinir, "Set n eertnin jvnrty to eittoh a eertnin party, both of the snmc industry." And Ills rise has been un paralleled in American his tory. Why,' less than six months ngo I used to get hundreds of letters, "Who is this Urundy you nro always talking about in your dis patches! I it n real char acter, or one of your inven tions!" Now here he is bet ter known than Mayor Walker or Clara How. Yours, WILT, KOOKRS.