Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 27, 1929, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSDPORD M Temperature Forecast: ToiiIkIu Satur ilny fuir, but wlili riK in nmniliiK. Sot iiiuili I'liniiKi- ill li'iliiM'luuiri'. Ml The Weather Highest yesterday 45 Lowest iliis nmrnlnic HO IrMliltat Ion. To A p.m. ycsU'rttuy OH To ft ii.in. this niornli- .( AIL o Dll Tmnty-founli Tr. HmUt Plfty-lbUi Yew. TWELVE PAGES MED FORD. OM-XiOX. FKIDAV, DKCKMlJKlt 1!7, 19Uy, No. Til. Today LOCAL COPS By Arthur Brisban. M PI M IP Adopt, Adapt, Improve. Three Good New Year Words. A Plan for Gandhi. Lindberg Has An Estate. Copyright Kins Features Synd. Inc. ADOPT, ADAPT, IMI'KOVK. Those three words, recom mended by tiie l'rincn of Wales lo his fellow eounlrymeii, might well be ADOPTED, ADAPTED mid IMPROVED iii this conn try. The young prince, one of the most useful, hard working citi zens of Great Britain, said to Hritish industrialists: "We British think we are very efficient, and we are at the bead of the world in lots of Millings, but to keep in the van we must be conscious of that very valuable thing the knowl edge that we learn something new every day. To put it in three words: We must learn to adopt, to adapt and to improve.-' We Americans think we are very efficient. In fact, we are absolutely sure of it. But we do not always "adopt, adapt, improve." For instance, railroad man agers of the United States stood looking, doing nothing, while automobile, omnibuses a n d trucks took away some of their most profitable business. They woke up late to that situation and they are not thor oughly awake yet. And to 'nearby " Suburban points they drag gigantically heavy "local trains," stopping and starting at every station, wasting money, men, niachin rry, rails. They could .just as ell send out in rapid succession light pars driven by gas engines, each me an express, each one going without stop to its own diminu tion and no farther. A little ADOPTING, ADAPTING and IPI50VING would arrange that. n The late President Ripley of the Santa Fe, brilliant railroad man, chose for his motto three very important words: "OR GANIZE, DEPUTIZE, SUPER VISE." Three good words. The Prince of Wales' three words are also needed, even in this super-efficient land. A big silver pool in China , (Continued on page four.) lxtcr Pino hain't got no dear trip ml lege days to look back 011. hut ho Mld Ml vacuum Kwccer til root to the roitMitncr diirin' lb month o November. M.n JrM at I pulled up t" hhHt 1 happened in think that I her hain't no yaks In (hl country. m I Imuwl mv gun." mi hi Ike Sole, w bo rnme ulihln mi nco o' tlHHitln' A lifelong DciiHH'iut liMlnr. lCn;yr!ht John K. Dill Co.) iinuunuuLL mm Two Men and Woman Lodged in Jail After Night of Crime Junk Dealer Tortured By Flame in Ef fort to Locate Money Rex Cafe Patron Robbed at Pistol Point. As the result of a holdup, boilUy assault on an eldorly junk dealer and gun buttle with police in Med ford early this morning; Mr. and Mrs. .lack Donovan of this city and A. K. Johnson of Jacksonville are held in llv county jail on open charges. Donovan is accused of holding up A. C. Uiwrence in the Hex cafe shortly before '1 o'clock tins morning and of taking part in a pistol duel on Central avenue between .Main and Kighth streets with Policeman William Peck. All three are implicated in as saulting Pat Hohan, junk dealer on Plum street, at midnight, when they ure accused by officers of at tempting to make Hohan teU the hiding place of money the trio de sired. Hohan declared n blanket was thrown over his face, after he was striiuk behind the ear by n hard object, rendering him uncon scious. I lis eye was also injured by a blow. Torture Applied Because of a badly burned leg. sustained when his assailants held an open flame against it in an ef fort to make Mm talk, Hohun is in the Sacred Heart hospital today, recovering from the effects of the burns which practically cooked a portion of his foot, the skin being all burned away. Unsuccessful in their efforts, Mohan's ussailants left, cutting the telephone wires before departing. He was unable to call the officers until this morn ing. Uiwrence hndaJjeen In the Ttex cafe for some time visiting Seth Blake, proprietor, when Donovan entered the establishment to order a cap of coffee. Hefore the order was taken, Donovan arose from the counter and approached Lawrence, holding a long barreled caliber fOnntlniiPd on P:ie Four) FLAYS FOES ' OF HEFLINMP Alleged Proclamation Says "Will Lick Enemies Until They Can't Stand U?" Wizard Evans Denies Klan in Politics. 111 HM I SH HAM, Atn., Dee. 17. (A't The I'.ir m Ingham News today published what purported to be tin official proclamation from high authorities of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama to klan members which denounced recent nction of the state Democratic executive committee in refusing to permit persons who bolted thi? party a year nyo to become candidates in the forthcoming primary and which asserted "we intend to lick our enemies until they can't stand up." The statement, us published by the News, declared "Senator Tom lief lin and 1 1 ujih Lock e ( ca nd i -dates respectively for re-election as senator and governor, who were barred from the primary for sup porting President Hoover) nnd hundred of other of the nubelest. cleanest, most patriotic and Intelli gent citizens of Alabama ure dis criminated nvainst because they exercised t h'-ir pollt ical freedom last year." lames Ksdalc, grand dragon of the Klan. declined to comment on authenticity of the statement but indicated ho possibly would have n statement later. ATLANTA. Iee. 27 itf) Dr. Hiram V. Kvan. Imperii; I wizard ! of the Ku Klux Klan, said here to I day that the klan 11s an organiza tion 1 not in politic and would not take part In the Alabama cam paign. He made this Ktatoment after the report from Mirmlncham that the Alabama Klan had de nounced the Alabama Democratic exerutlve committee for barring a candidate 1hoc who failed to support the Democrat ic national ticket l.iM year, had been read to him Mr. Kvnn t-aid the report from llirininuham w .is pews to him. ALABAMA KtAN Five Acquitted in Torture Murder Trial . ulii inniL yum. &LiVffl Tff i jbrlliu uKIIVIt The Mountain Vleu. Ark., court riinkliii. a runner Insane asylum found not guilty. The iktmm'iI in W hite and Henna 11 (ireeiiuuy. PANTAGES HAS FEAR OF DEATH Physicians Say Theater: Magnate Genuinely Sick, Needs Rest and Better Diet Worry" Over Con finement Also Factor. LOS ANflKLKS, JJec. 27. (VP) Alexander i'untagcs, multi-millionaire, convicted of a urlminul at tack on Kunlcu .Cringle, co-ed dancer, today is confined to the county jail hospital while Superior Judge Charles Kricke .heart addi tional testimony of physicians con cerning the showman's physical condition, in his plea for release from jail on bond. Two physicians yesterday test; -fied Vantages has suffered "thr"o dangerous heart attacks" and is "genuinely sick.' Dr. Charles Decker, one of the five physicians appointed by District Attorney IVi ron Kilts and Judge Krlcke to ex amine 1 'ant ages, said the theater man "needs rest and a better diet than he can get in Jail." Dr. Deck er expressed the opinion that woi ry over his confinement, more than the actual confinement,, is respon sibly for the patient's condition. "Mr. I'antages is in constant fear that he will die In jail," the wii ne.ss said. Dr. Benjamin Itlank, jail phy sician, characterzeid the three heart nttaclts I'antages 'has suf fered in recent weeks as "danger ous." Ho said the showman might die if he Is not released for con stant medical attention. Four (date and seven defense physicians re main to be heard. SMITHS (iKOVlfi. Ky., Dlt. 2't. (A1) Knihaltled sntnlu.-rn Kentucky tarnini'H and officers. Incensed by the killing of a country bank presi- dent by three bank bandits, today gunrded highways, brhlges ami miles of railway track, and peered Into woods and caves for the slay ers of .1. Hubert Khby, -lit. Although it whs believed that one or more of the men had been wounded nnd two stolen automo biles the bandits used nnd a portion of the hank loot had been recov ered, Ihn posses, comprised of armed men who at one time num bered Mm or KMio men, had been balked after a search of alt day and night. The aid t;f TenncKsen officials 8S Invoked late last nfht Aftcr officeis at Scotsvllle. L'u mtb s south of the robbery and shooting, had pursued two men In an auto mobile toward Gallatin. Tenn. .icoitsvllle officers wero Informed one of the men had been shot In the shoulder. Klrhy. president of the Farmers hank of Smiths drove, wan shot nnd killed early yesterday us he and fl parly of others tried to hn)l the bandits' tar phout five mite north of here. The three despera does had robbed (he Oakland tvnl; nt Onkland, near )wvt. of between fliaia dud $ I .Vim m.d Kliby tml been n-dified by telephone. IN COUNTY JAIL POSSES SEARCH FOR KENTUCKY BAND ROBBERS ( Associated Press I'hoto house where live men a reused of toi-tiiriug unci slaying (. 01111(0 hitiiale to t'oiesiiill his niarrhige lo n luiiivo girl of the hills, were en were, left to right: Hubert Heeler. Kill C. Young. Alev Talks, .lor Coolidg'e Demurs On Red Dress for Wife in Picture NEW YORK, Dec. 27. (P) Howard Chandler Christy has a Coolidge story. The uuesilon rose as to what sort of a dress Mrs. Coolldge should wear when posing before him for a portrait. The artist suggested red with a white dog beside the siuer for contract. The president preferred a white dress. There was a little iii KUinent which ended when the president said: "Let It be a white dress, if you please. To allow for your contrast let us have the dog dyed red." 1 4. -V -V McKelvie Says Next Objec tive for Agricultural Co operatives Will Be Mas tery of Terminals for Dis tribution. LINCOLN, Net)., Dec. 27. (Pt--Hamuel H. McKelvie uf the Fed eral Karm board, told members of tho State J Jar association toda v that mastery of the terminal nnu'-j kets was the next point for thej agricultural couperat Ive.s to gain. "There are over I'J.fltiO farmers co-operative societies in this coun- j try today, having a membership j of 2.oan. t and handlluu' annual -1 ly products of the value of over J I f 2..lm.u(in.oon, ho said. For the most part, tnese co-operatives are back in the rountdy. and have no, reached the terndnal ' markis where the greatest Influence is ex-J erelsed hi orderly distribution an If price control. "It is the Jo of the Koderil Farm board to see that these c opeiMffve take the next step In organization which will give them mastery of the terminals." M'-Kelvie said had the farm board not stepped in with loan of fers and moral support at the time of the Ptock market crrsh, th--wheat market wouid have decline) seriously nlpo. FARMER NEEDS MARKET POWER AT TERMINALS Uncle Sam Will Refund Millions Through Errors in Tax Figures WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. WT Sometimes, even tbul master of arithmct Ical ca Ictilat Ion, the I 'nit -fd States treasury makes mistakes; but when ft doci, ft odmftit them. Toda it made known an error tf f I in,(iiMi.OOO In the collection of las year's taxes and, In It an nual announcement of Aax refund-", nt . forth that restitution in h mounts rancinu upward to $:'.". Gnn.ono win beinii madn to cor porations nnd Individuals, Includ ing John D. Itorkefeller. the Cnr neyie steel company a nil Mary Pbkford. Mr. Rockefeller, one of the world's wealthiest men. received ll.S7.227; MlfM Plrkford, $10,H;i: the Carnegie company 2S.H-17,2r!. the riiKet single refund listed; the William Waldorf Astor Trust 4"i',2'.i and Daniel Ouggcriheim ( YULE SHOPPING iiMPUcnicn dv UUUIILUIVLU Ul liSHARE SLUMP President Told Trading Fully As Good As Last Year Decline Feared State Building Plans Announced for 1930." The department of commerce has reported to President Hoover that Christmas shopping this year was fully up to thai of last year, and he considers the condition very encouraging. Special interest in the subject was taken by the administration, in view of Its campaign In the interest of business stabilization, since there bad been fears that the effect of the stock market crash last November would be seriously damaging to the retail trade. Some of the advance calcula tions made to the president indi cated that as much as ten percent decllno in Christmas trade volume tH anticipated. WASHINCTON, Dec. zT.ifr) Oovernors of li states have re ported public works programs to taling $8 25,000,000 for next year to President Hoover. The reports from some of the 20 slates are only partial and the president is hopeful of receiving n more complete outline of the state building proKrams by the first of the yeur. TOPI- KA, Kan., Dec. 27. A') Kxpcnditures hkk regaling S'.'MO, oan.doo in l!3o by the Kanta Fe i n flu ay were announced today iy W. t '. Storey, president of t he syslein, acting in conpcratlon with Presld'-nt Hoover's program for stablllathm of business and Indus I ry. OIL WORKERS DIE IN EXPLOSION AMD FIRE TA FT. Calif., Dec. 27. (Pi Two oil workers were burned to death and two others Hiiffvred In jur! en whb-h may prove fatal In an xplosion and fire in an oil well In the lluena Vista hills near here today. The dead are K. W. W11 them and Arthur Nance, who were working on a rig at the Standard oil company's well, C1-7D when It bb w In spoiitlnu natural gas. New Yotk $s.l.- Hundreds of icfuiids, all tit $.'(0o or more, were .lifted, fuel 11 it frig beneficiaries In every slate of the union and Ma wall. Among the western slates, Cali fornia with its wealthy motion pic ture und su!sldlary interest vu predominant amonu the refunds, alt hotiKh Miss Pit k ford was the only cinema actreH mentioned. In the middle west, Illinois furnished the government's great enl refund burden, while Pennsylvania nnd New York wer outstanding In the cant. Florida was the heaviest beneficiary in the south. Four citizens of flermnny bene fitted substantially from the re funds, more than a million dollars Kuing to each through the rindo dlnri of alien properly, for errors In tax collections fn estate con fl seated during the ut. mi tp aii New York and Chicago Sleuths Renew Efforts to Solve Slaying of Frankie Yale and Frank Marlow Bronx Racketeer Signed Murder Contract Is State ment. XKW VOI!K. Dec. 27. (V) Trails leading through the under world's of Chicago and New York City today were being followed by ,joliee in a renewed effort lu solve the slayings of Krankie Yale. I Drooklyn gangster, and F rank Marlow. Itroaiiway raeketeei .1 iiionibs old. seemed buried in the du.st of police records until the statement ot Police Inspector Jo seph J. Donovan that the two New York gangsters were killed by a Chicago Kuniunn tinder the terms of a $20. OUO contract fgncd by Clro Terra nova, known lo police' as a ltronx racketeer. Police Commissioner drover A. Whalen was on his way to Chi cago today to make n study of traffic theru and it was reported he also would personally investi gate the Chicago angles of the killings. Link Killings. inspector Donovan's statement linking the two killings was given yesterday at the police trial of Detective A r t h u r Johnson for dereliction of duty, where he testi fied that the holdup of a testimo nial dinner given for Magistrate Albert Vltale was staged at Ter ra nova's orders to recover the con tract. Johnson, who was it guest nt the dinner December 7, Is or trial for losing his Hervlcti pistol to tho hold-up men and failing to report. me crime promptly. Donovan said that members of the police secret service bureau had learned that Terranova had paid only $r,000 of tho $20,000 stipulated In the contract for the slayhiKS of Valo and Marlow nnd that the Chicago gunman had threatened to turn the document over to police If the rest was nol forthcoming. Holdup Hiked. The witness said Terranova In vited the gunman to the dinner In structing him to bring the con tract, then arranged for tho hold up, which was put on by se veil men. They searched the BiiOHtrf, took the contract from tho gun man's pocket and took Jewelry and money from the other guests 10 make tho robbery appear genu ine. The Jewelry, money and John son's gun Inter were returned thru undisclosed sources. Frankie Yale wus shot to death in his automobile In Itrooklyn July 1, 1H28. The name of Al Cnponc, Chicago gaiiR leader, was linked with the killing when police found a gun which they said wan similar to one purchased for Capone. Fra n k M a r I o w was mot by t wo men as he left a mid-town restau rant on the night of June 24, last. He entered an nulomoblle with them. His body was found by l he roadside near a cemetery in Queens a few hours later. SCULPTRESS IS CIIICAOO, Dec. 27. if) Tennes see Mitchell Anderson, Chicago Hculptresn and divorced wife of Sherwood A nderson, the novelist, was found dead last night in her studio In the Artists' colony on tho near North Side. She was f 2 years old. Despite the appearance of blood stains on the pillows of tho bed on which Mrs. Anderson's body was found, death was believed to ha ve been from na t ura 1 causes. The death certificate had not been signed early today, but the coro ner's office Indicated there would be no Impiest. Death, according to coroner's physicians, was caused by 11 hemorrhage. Death came some time between last Friday night nnd yesterday. A maid found the apartment locked Saturday nnd on subsequent days when she knocked. Yesterday she heca me alarmed and notified po lice. Two Christmas packages ready for mailing were found In tin room. They were addressed to relatives. There was a small bot tle of whMtey near the bed. and on a stand Were bottle of giimer ale and mineral water. FOUND DEAD IN CHICAGO STUDIO Mom . Stiu Shut in v ael Prank ST. IXU'IS, .Mo.. Dec. 21. OP) Rewards for information Hading ti arrest of the per Min who sewed ii tlu mouth of n small dog and released the anitnal to starve to death hud mounted to more than $100(1 lust night, thi' humane society announced. The dog, ftiund liehind a hospital, was killed by the humane society, with a pain less injection because of its weakened condition. The re ward fund mounted hourly all day, amounts ranging from rd rents to $100 being pledged by persons w;in tele phoned the society's office. SCHOOL IS 1 Little Red Schoolhouse Served Admirably in Pio- neer Times, But Consoli dation Is Modern Need, Says Educator Tax Re forms Needed to Aid Ore gon Schools. PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 27 (P) The one-room Huhool house, Inat Biirvlvor of tho pioneer duys in American education, rurulnhod n pivotal point for two spcakerH nt today's sesHiun of tile Oregon Stute Teuchers association meeting hero. The little red school house is all right .Jin. long uh It doesn't pack too muuy grudes within Its walls, said Dr. J. C'nyso Morrison, assist ant . commissioner of elementary education of New York. Over-consolidation, especially In rural dis tricts, has proven unpopular in New York, ho said. The one-room school fitted the stringent pioneer times admirably hut now it is as antiquated as the covered wagon, Dr. George Wlllard Krazler, president of the Colorado Slute Teachers' college, said. He declared the modern reformors of the curriculum ara as much pio neers as any of Oregon's first set tlers. Consolidation of rural dis tricts, with Intelligent supervision, was urged. Need of bettor system of school financing Tor Oregon was express ed ly many prominent, educators today. A personal income tax was recommended ns the only way of reaching all branches of taxable Income. A half-sorious proposal to tax tobacco for the benefit of edu cation received thunderous a pjlause, although tho speaker im mediately qualified It by declaring his doubts whether the teacher "could Bell a piece of legislation like this." "Oregon has a bogus rnthor than a real state tax," declared Dr. B. O. Blsson of Heed collcgo, when asked for nn opinion. "Tho state collects a school tax and turns it back to the counties.. It should be distrib uted through the slate according to needs." POltTl.ANI). Ore., Dec. 27. IIP Krnnelh lliirlnn, rate expprt, re tained by the chy of Portland, today told I hi public service com inh.Hlnn investigating rates of the Portland Klectrlc Power company Ihiit since 1MB the public had puld the power company 97,386, 0.",4, or almunt I no per cent, on the vestrrt water rights, overhead on hind iibuve the original cost, and other Intangible Hems. These Items the chy contends, should not be Included In the operating property of the utility. T rmilXiKPOUT, Conn., Dec. 27, IAt Judgment In favor of James J. (Gene I Tunney, former heavy weight boxing chnmpion of the world, was given In superior court today in the $500,000 breach nf promise suit filed against him by Mrs. Khthciliie King Fognrty. ONE ROOM I NOW PASS SCALP OF MELLON IS DEMANDED Resignation Treasury Head Should Be First Step in Cleanup of Dry Enforce ment, Is View Senator Norris Politics Blamed for Alleged Failure Pro hibition. WASHINGTON. Ie-. 7 (, The resignation of Herreiary .Mel lon was demanded a the first ste'i o fa "cleanup" of prohibition en forcement today by Senator Norm of Nebraska, a Hepubllean dry, who joined with Senator Horah. Uepubliean. Idaho, lu condemning the personnel of the enforcement service. The Nebraskan blamed "polities" In the enforcement service for what he described as the "failure" of enforcement. When asked where he would start In reorsa nlzatlon, he replied quickly, "With Andrew W. Mellon." "I don't say the law is not en forced everywhere," said Norn.-, who is chairman ot the judiciary committee. '"But I do say It Is not generally enforced and I thin!; there is evidence that, the poli ticians are meddling too much. I don't think Andrew Mellon, who Is the chief enforcement officer, Is In sympathy with the law, I don't demand prohibition cranks. Don't Want franks. . "In fact, I don't want any cranks In the service, but 1 want an ad ministration of that law which Is free from political Influence." The prohibition storm continued to rumble in the capital today. Senator Jones, Kepuhllcnn, AVasii inRton, culling upon the law en forcement commission to urge an' early report by It, Opposition to a plan announced, by the treasury to reduce the num ber of ports .of. entry front CanaJ.w wrfs-indicated : by " Representative EMttenger, Hepubllean. Minnesota, WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (Pi The president's cabinet met today in an atmosphere replete with the early history of the American re public. Because the executive offices of th president wore destroyed by fire bn Christmas eve members of the cabinet gathered in tho study where Lincoln signed the emnncl p at Ion proclamation nnd snt around the table used by President Adams nnd his Cabinet In the early days of the White House. Will Rogers Says: BEVERLY HILLS, C'nl., Dec. 27. The AVIiito Houso fire burned quite a while duo to the following: When Mr. Hoover discovered that "some kind of condition existed" he sent out let ters inviting nil the fire in Washington; when arriv ed appointed them on a com mission "to investigntr, and recommend remedies." They did investigate and on ac count of there being no prominent business men on the commission they turned in their report fairly quick. "We find a fire does ex ist, nnd in keeping with the spirit of every amendment, recommend nothing but water to extinguish it," Of course by this time the house burned down, but it was nevertheless gratifying to Mr. Hoover, for it was the first commission that he had ever appointed in his life that hnd really ever turned in a report. So he figures the loss of the building well worth it. It will renew his faith in commissions. Yours, , WILL ROUKUS.