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tl Medford Mail; Twenty-Fifth Year MEDFORU. ORKOOX, SUNDAY. MAY 4. WH). No. 4fS. .Today BOYS SLAY IWUCM AUTO .The President Hopes. A Bad School Quarrel. Cement Could Be theaper. n Cutting Dog's Ear. Copyright King Features Synd. Inc. I President Hoover tells the Unileil States Chamber of Com merce, "'While the crash only took )laee six months ago, I am convineed we have passed the Worst and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly re cover." '.' That will eii(t()iirit,'c many. And the banks, milium"; intew est charges here and nbrnad will help. When money is olieap capital looks to new en terprises, which means hirins; labor. i.owerinn the federal reserve omit rate to three per cent in thv New York district sur prised all that lack advance in formation. ! In accordance" with our ens torn we followed the British, lowering our rates here when theirs was lowered. i This gratifies England, which feared that a rate lower than qnrs would cause British gold shipments lo this country. 5 New York has a public school book quarrel, based on relig ious differences, which should have nothing to do with public schools. The Reverend Lcfferd M. A. Ilaugbwout, Episcopal- vWi mnusior, complains unit u JX.,i i. l, prmi. sors Hayes and Parker, of Co lumbia college, shows bias in favor of the Catholic religion. An Episcopalian church paper calls attention to the fact that both authors of the history arc Catholic. Professor Hayes says he was, long ago, converted to Catholicism, but the charges that "modern history" was in tended to subvert government and serve the Koman Catholic church are preposterous, i: The really preposterous fact "is that religious qestions. which should have nothing at all to do with public scjiool management, arc dragged into "wubliu school control. JW In this case the book was , withdrawn from public school Use to avoid any possible mis understanding, although the highest . authorities in New V..l.. ..1,n.lu uvutlltll 4 111 h n MIIMIU nillin'i'i -V ' Bre Catholics. ,v The house agrees to the sen ile's cement tariff, six cents per 100 pounds. The industry needs protection against, cheap Cement Poming from Europe, -Sometimes as ballast, x But cement ought not to need protection. With unlimited raw Jnaterial, practically free, scat tered all over the country, . Aeap oil and coal for power Bud modern machinery, this Uiountry's cement industry JBiotiWHie as indifferent to fnr- Hun competition as is our an tomobile industrv. I I The late W. J. Bryan would be amazed to hear congress discussing tariff protection for kilver. He thought silver, at Sixteen to one, could stand for ever, as gold's younger bro ther. He did not forsee Chinese Svars releasing Chinese silver boards, or India stopping sil ver purchases that have stabi lized silver ning for gencra- lions. f If it were not for moving pictures, with "silver screens" frs'nR ens millions worth of , Silver yearly, more mines woubl i (Continued on Page Seven) niim huiu o USE DENIED Lad 16, Admits Dynamiting Farm Couple as They Sleep Confession Fol lows Similar Murder In Polk County Each Pro moted By Same Trivial Motive. VANCOUVKIl. Wn May 3. (JPt Clark county officers said late today that Clifford Campbell, It!, had confessed In n signed state ment that he killed his efbptoyers. Mr. nnd Mrs. Henjamin A. Nurlh- rup, hy exploding a charge of dyn amite under their farm house. The Northrups were killed shortly af ter 11:30 p. m., Wednesday. Their house was demolished hy the ex plosion of the blast of dynamite. Dale M cMullen, prosecuting at torney, said young Campbell told hi in that Xorthrups hnd mistreut ed him. Jle admitted, McMullen said, that he had wailed until the couple was asleep last "Wednesday night, and then stealthily left the house, took a box of dynamite from a nearby shed, placed it un der a sill directly benenth the bed in which the Northrups were sleeping, attached a fuse and ex ploded the charge. Campbell said he had "no idea" that the box of dynamite he plac ed under the house would kill the couple in whose employ he wuh. He said he plannerl to "cripple" them. District Attorney McMul len said the boy's statement gave as his motive the fear- of being discharged from the farm. He said, too, that he resented the "kidding" of Mr. and Mrs. North rup. By crippling his employers, Mc Mullen said, the boy hoped to re tain his Job. on the, farm. .:. PORTLAND, Ore., May 3. VP) Two 15-year old farm boys were in jails in Clark county, Washing ton, nnd I'olk county, Oregon, less than tiO miles apart tonight, fac ing charges of murdering three persons, two women and one man, in two separate counties on the same day for practically the same reason the dcsi.re to drive an automobile. One of the youths is' Clifford Campbell, who sheriff H. 13. Mc Crite of Clark county, said con fessed that he fired the blast of dynamite which killed Benjnmin Northrup, ft 5, and his wife, Mrs. Louise Northrup, 51, and reduced their modest farm home near Heisson, Wash., to splinters. The other youth is Dale Law- son, who last night is said to have confesssd to shooting and killing Mrs. Cieorge Dickinson, 45, in her farm home in I'olk county, near Independence, Ore. Young Law son was held to the grand Jury today on a charge of murder. He told W. W Harcombe, Polk coun ty district attorney, he slew Mrs. Dickinson because she objected to his using the Dickinson automo bile for a pleasure trip to Port land. Campbell's alleged confession followed four days of almost In cessant questioning by Clark coun ty authorities. Up until late to day young Ca?npbell maintained his innocence and said that the blast which snuffed out the lives of Mr. aijd Mrs. Northrup was as much a mystery to him as to au thorities. He said the blast knocked him to the ground while he was enroutc to round up cat tle which he said had strayed. The blast which killed the Northrups in Clark county occur red just before midnight Wednes day and Lawson is said to have shot and killed Mrs. Dickinson on Wednesday morning. In tho confession Campbell Is said by Clark county authorities to have made, the youth declared he did not meaiOto kill the farm couple but to cripple them be cause they refused to allow him the use of the family automobile, a new small car. Campbell, ac cording to authorities, admitted his guilt to a serious morals j charge The youth said Northrup ! had discovered him In the act of i commltting a moral digression and authorities said they believed this coupled with the automobile phase !ympted the youth to piuce several slicks of dynamite under the bedroom of the Northrups' and fire it while they slept. Sheriff McCrite said the bent fenders of the new Northrup auto mobile caused him to grill Camp bell severely. The sheriff said he thought the youth had taken the car irom the garage nnd either benihe fonder when he backed the car out or placing it back in the gunue. ClurlMcounty authorities said they would arraign the youth Mon day. ALTL'S, Okla., May 3.-F Several small buildings were des-,nt tnG place for nn average cost ' thousand acres of upper Deschutes troyed the city grandstand was of eleven cents, while women': country was spread with poison to wrecked and trees were uprooted j meals cost let than a dime. The j day. after the United States blolog nnd hurled 0 to streets hen- f.u tory Is American owned and j leal survey had placed temptation tonight when a brief wind storm ! rnnk'-s fifty per cent of the lamps! in the paths of thousands of sage struck the city. 0 ' used in Brazil. rata. NORTHWEST HUNTS . pi H ' Everett Frank Lindsay (right) Is sought by Seattle police in con nection with the murder of hie wife (upper left) believed to have been slain In February. His adopted daughter, Pearl, 12, (lower left) Is also missing and officials fear she may have been killed. OFFICIALS SHY AT ATTENDING TO BOOTLEGGER ASTORIA MEET FACE SEIZURE i Invited to Protest Session Owners Also Face Prison Against Bank Charter By, For Failure To Report Citizens, Only Tom Kay Operation of Stills Gov Shows Signs of Accept-1 ernment Invokes an Old ing. j Law. SALEM, Ore., May 3. OP) In protest against n decision of the state banking board denying a charter for the proposed Bank og Astoria, citizens of that city who want, a new uanK nave called a , tnflny fllcea loKS of tnoir llim! to mass meeting fur Monday night, j llu. KVernment. It was conlend according to a telegram received tlu, lantl OWners failed to re by A. A. Schramm, stale bank ' rl lne operation of distilleries superintendent. Schramm and the ! nn their m-oncrtv members of the biinklng board are invited to attend, but indica tions today wore that none would be present. State Treasurer Kay declared that if he attended ami the As toria people "Jumped onto him ..r nuuiii ku .Hi.. ui men. jusijnK oulfjt on the 520 aero farm as hard.' Secretary of State Hoss j of Jofl(.ph Knglehaupt. In Putnam declared emphatically that he j coUntV( aml ft imilar though wuuiu nut iiuunu. ijowi l.ay OI1U ' lloss voted against granting the charier. (iovernor Norblad, who volorl fV.i- tl -.,1,1 If ti.n,,1,l l ,.. I voled for it, said It would be use less for him to attend tho meeting since his views were expressed nt the time the charter was denied by the vote of the other two mem bers. Schramm said ho would not attend. The Astoria citizens who peti tioned for tho charter first applied to the bank superintendent. When he filled It they appealed to ho banking board. The law provides for no appeal from a decision of the board. The only recourse of the Astoria group, members of the board believe. Is to uwit a change of economic conditions in that city and then make a new appli cation. 1 m SURVEY SALKM, Ore.. May 3. fp Governor Norblad today appoint ed an agricultural advisory com mittee of 22 members, the func tion of hich will be to make a survey of tho needs of the agri cultural industries in Oregon, and report to the governor next No- vembrr so he may embody the committee's recommended lelsla- tion In his meHsae to the 1 f 3 Jf legislature. David ltnsnnberg was named as the Rogue Kivcr valley represen tative. TACOMA. May 3. (P One man received possible fatal in1 les and three others wero serious ly hurt In a spectacular hit-and- I run auto crash 10 mllea north of Tacoma on Tacoma-Scattle high way ea rly this a ft ernoo rv M rs. It. Scarlet. 74, of Portlar, is suf fering from a broken nose, rom prewed cheat nnd Sponsible frac tured ribs. niO JANK1UO. May 2. iJP Men employers of an Incandescent , lamp far-tory here get luncheons IWI.lt KUCODUKLi: SLAYER SUSPECT FARMS RENTED Hl'RlXUFIKLD, May 3. 0P) fii a novel move to enforce the prohibit ion laws by confiscation of farms on which liquor it distilled by a tenant, two Illinois farmers Libel action directed at tho fore- feiture of the two farms was started In federal court by Walter M. Provine, federal district attor- i ney, as a - sequel to two raids by , federal ugents this week In which i thev ttiMzeri n 17fi OOll (lliefl rliwltll. ,,,,, u,. mlff nn lim 9nH.nm farm of Klmer Plaherty in Bur ea countv . 3' in instituting the libel actions, the government Invoked an old statute under the Internal revenue law. Tho suits wero made ans werable May 23 in Peoria. The farmers also face criminal charges of violating the felony act. which provides for punish ment of persons who permit law violation without reporting it to tho proper authorities. The gov ernment contends the two farifters rented their property to bootleg gers with the knowledge it would be used for illicit liquor manu facture. BY GIRL FLYER ST. LoriS, .May 3. (P)M iss I .aura In vails, 2'i, of New York. Otabllshed a nO women's rec ord for censecutlvo loops In nn airplane by executing 3-14 loops at I-imlrei t-St. Louis field ito today. The former record of 40 limps was held by Miss Mildred Kauffman of Kannas City. M Is Ingalls made 66 more loops which did not count as she had to slop to pump gasoline from a riOrve tank. S K A TTLK, M 11 y 3 . K) 1 1 ero Ism of Henry Dick saved Mrs. K'aiherine Stewart from probable death early today when the Itich rnond Inn, near Itichmond Beach, was burned to the ground. Mrs. Stewart had fainted in a urcond floor room and Dick carried tho un.nnrious woman down a rope ofstf-d sheets to safety. WASHINGTON, May 3. W) President Hoover announced to rl a y that A d m I ra I W. V. P rati would become chief of naval ope rations upon the expiration of the t"rm of Admiral Char lea F. Hughes. HKND, Ore., .VTTiy 3. fP) Kight ijm i hnno niAnr POLITICAL POISON GAS ABOUT DUE Vitriol To Be Hurled As Race Nears End-Corbett and Norblad Main Con tenders 48,000 Demo crats Registered as Re publicans. (By the Associated Press) Unconcealed tension prevailed tonight In the so far comparative ly calm ramps of Oregon Repub licans and Democrats thirteen days before the primaries May 16 and political observers, who have been following the trend of the present gubernatorial contest said they firml) expected the i-oming heolic days would unloosen a flood of poiHun atmosphere. The expected controversies be tween the various candidates, par ticularly in the Hopuhllcan field, failed to develop during past two months and observers said that the trend has been toward the outburst fully expected when cer tain candidates followed,each oth er in filing for the governor's chair. From an unbiased standpoint the gubernatorial contest seems to be between Governor A. W Norblad and Harry L. Oorbett, nl though the management of Char les Hall said this was much to their liking because they were working on the quiet nnd did not want their candidate to take a front position. George W, Joseph, senator, whose entry Into the political contest was looked upon much as If a volcano was to have been suddenly loosened, has failed to cause much stir except for a fow short Jabs at what he termed power owners newspapers. Observers saw to significant Joint "Mttih'"trtu?netr':tlie Cornett campaign. Qn is an editorial which nppeflred In nn eastern Oregon newspaper which quoted Joseph as saying to a friend that "if you can not vote for me vote for Harry Corbett," and the oth er is .1. W. Bennett's expressed hope that Corbett Is nominated. Joseph, observers said, appar ently understands that his chances of success are poor and ho would rather soo Corbett elected than Governor Norblad with whom ho has n feud. Democratic developments lire more difficult to estomate than the Republican situation, becauso the Democrats have taken the state campaign silently, A. C Hough, one of the four Demo cratic candidates said there are 84.000 Democrats registered ns Republicans and if the Republi cans would divide all the regls trotlons. the parties would be about even. HIPS SLAPPED AS I NEW YORK, May 3. IP) He ported hlp-HlapplriK of vitdtom on tho North German l.loyd Liner Bremen hy fumtoms men In near'h of liiiiior, a practice forbidden by treasury department order, wuh under InveHtlKatlon here nnd In WihinKton toda. dexplte denlnlH from h ciiHtoms man nnd a line official that there wan no muh search. Iteports of tho hlp-slnppliiK, which was ordered stopped some time nR-o hy Assistant Hei retary of the Treasury Heyniour .1. l.ow mnn, wero published In mornlnK newspnper and Inqulriea wero be Kun at once. humMSTbeats KUIIKKA, Cal., May 3. (!) The Humboldt Htute Teachers' college baseball team defeated the Southern Oregon Normal nine of Ashland, Ore.. 7 to 1, at Areata today In the first game of a dou hleheadcr. Harold Hrundln, In dian southpaw, held the losers to four hits and struck out fourteen. The Humboldt team nick Bchull for thirteen hits. HINOK.N, Germany, May 2. (A1 Graves dating from 3,000 to 100 H. C. were found at the foot of the ancient fortrens "Hohentwell" at the erostO'ads of tho old high ways from the Ilhlne and Iako Constantino nrQ from Stuttgart to Zuerich. In many of the graves mutilation of the corpses Indica ted that thn living feared resur rection of the dead and sought to prevent It. MONUMENT TO WILD WEST HEROES j ; ; Memorial to be unve.lcJ in Ft. Lcwia, YYasil., Memorial in honor of the Ninety-First Army division of the World War. The chart is fiif t of Col. Frank McDermolt of Seattle. NEW llMiSlPATHY ALL CENSUS MAKESi BIG BUSINESS TOTAL-11.000 Since preliminary ment of Med fords census one week ago Saturday, as 10.S47, ap proximately 200 names have been added through efforts of the lo cal chamber of commerce and In terested workers, according to re port made yesterday by Secretary C. T. Raker to .1. H. Koke, super visor of the sixth district with headquarters In Kugeno. More names, missed by tho of ficial enumerators, could have been gathered, had lime permit ted, it was thought at re-check headquarters. Kven tlwiugh some duplications are found, it was felt certain that. Aled ford's official census will show over 1 1,000 when tho final count Is given out. Local enumerators, nccording to chamber of com mere offli lalK ! were generally efficient, nnd In view of the fact that It required many trips In some instances to find famllb's at home, nnd that various .ther difficulties were encountered, their work which necessitated long hours and per siHlant effort was described as well done. -4 IN OREGON LESS Oregon Is suffering less from labor depression than nny of tho eleven western states, according to ). M. l.owe, Koguo Itlver val ley rancher, who has returned from a two weeks official iour through the states as president of tho Western Htates Kxposltion as- soeiatlon. California has tho great est crop in history, is another mes sage ho brings on his return and all states are planning to attend the 70lh annual Oregon state fair In 1031, which will bo In the form i of an exposition. "This show with tho proper en- couiQ'cment, will bo tho greatest In the history of the state." Mr. Lowe added. "Tho exposition of western Htates this year will bo held In Sacramento during the California stato fair, August 30 to September 7. Most of the states will bo represented," Mr. I,owe states, after traveling as far south as 1'hoenlx, Ariz., ear.t through I t tiiorami, anu norm inrougn I Washington. Tho exhibits will bo of a differ ent, naturo tln those shown dur 1 Ing prevlouV?ears. The temperature In tho-i'outh . was 1 1 4, when he visited There, 1 Mr. l.nwfl said vesterdav. and In 0" north he struck zero weather before his return. Q SAN' IHKGO. Cal., May I. (IP) Final distribution of the estate of the late John 1) Hpreeklcs, who dieil June S. ltl20. has been or dered by Superior Judge Andrews. ft 1 mm mm am GIVES TILLERS AH Ml ifr """T'ZiiU. S. Chamber of Com merce Fearful Lest Per manent Aid Will Hurt Middlemen Legge Serv es Notice Farm Aid Will Be Potent. WASHINGTON, Mliy 3. (IP) Tho Bland of tho Chamber of Coniint'lco ot tho United Sllltos on Kvorn mental aid for ngrlcul turn v.'iih defined today hy Its proHhlont, William Iluttorworth, u "oppHed to any permanent not- I,y '" "' employment of public funds for tho purpose of partici pating in business In competition with established OKoncles." In a, statement explaining the attitude of tho chamhor as ex pressed In Kh resolution advocating repeal ot sections of tho agricul tural marketing act, Iluttorworth said the chamber did not want to bo understood as being opposed "to tho Interest and purposos of Improving tho agricultural mar keting system." "Tho discussions leading up to the resolution and Its Intent woro dlrerted largely against ono or two sections of tho act," ho said. "It was recognized that tho balance of the act contains many con structive points." Tho resolution urged repeal of the authority of tho federal farm board to use federal funds for "tho purpose of participation In lillulm.ua In r .V ,. 1 1 ,..I,V. .. tabllshed agencies." It ndvncatcd, : however, continuanco of tho fed- i cral farm board us an agency for tho dissemination of Information and for ascertaining and dealing with over production. It also recommended that the rhamber call a conforenco of "wide wiresentatlon, Including farm cooperative leaders, to study and, deflno measures of sound I and effective aid to agriculture." ! The resolution, adopted after j chairman l,eggo of tho farm ; board had debated, with follow j members of tho chamber, brought j from I-eggo tho assertion "The j chamber proposed to make the farm hoard Impotent and ndopt sumo resolutions of sympathy for agriculture." I.eggo said tho "farm board's client Is the farmer and wo are going to contlnuo toferve him Just as the agrlculturnHmarkotlng act Intended we should for his benefit nnd not the benefit of someone else." Tho Wcnllicr Oregon: Generally unsettled on Sunday and Monday; showers and snowMriurrles In mountains Sun day: local frosts in east portion Sunday morning; moderate to fresh northwest winds on he coast. ULO STAR KIN LEAVE Cirst Contingent of 6000 War Mothers and Wid ows to Visit Graves of Their Dead Overseas Liner Sails This Week A Pilgrimage of Senti ment. By Suo McXniiuira (Associated 1'ress Staff Writer) I WASIIINC1TON, Way 3. (IP) Two hundred and thirty-two wo men, many of whose horizons have been limited to rows of corn or cactus and sage brush glimpsed from their kftchvn windows, nro tomorrow starting on a 6,000-mlle journey by rail nnd steamer. They arc the first contingent of tho 0,000 Child Star widows and mothers who will be tuken this spring and summer on one of the most unique Journeys of sentiment ever undertaken by any govern ment. They are to visit the graves of their sons and husbands In the war cemeteries In France. Tho first woman to stnrt on the pilgrimage was Mrs. Helen Slmkln of Salem, Iowa. Mrs. Slmkln Is 05. Because no Sunday trains run out ot Salem she was sched uled to leave her home this morn ing. She has been supplied by the war department with a com pleto Itinerary showing where ehe will take a bus, where a train and what time she will leave each place, Kvery step of her trip has been carefully mapepd for her by Captain H. 13. Shannon, who, act ing tor the quartermaster general of the army, us charge of all trans portation for the Oold Star pll giiiringe. Ton women, who will Ball -with the first contingent Wednesday arrive here Monday morning on their way to New York. They con stitute the first group from the west and south. They are Mrs. Susie Shelton, Fayettevllle, Ark.; Mis. Emma Taylor, Hunter, Ark.; Mrs. Minnie Throckmorton, Red : Cloud, Neb.; Mrs. Nola Durham, Chester, Neb.; Mrs. Minnie Can non, l'oru, Nob.; Mrs. Lillian Gar rison, Union, Ky.; Mrs. : Minnie JJaker, WilllamBlonw, Ky.; Mrs. Thorosa l'hllllps, Chretien, Okla.j Mrs. Adolla Werner, Perry, Okla., and Mrs. Slmkln of Salem, Iowa. A delegation of 16 Ohio women will pass through here Tuesday, The war department has made no plans for a stopover here, but Major General Charles P. Summer all, chief of staff of the army, will go to New York to see the entire delegation of 233 women sail down the bay Wednesday. Thoy leave at 11 a. m., on the U. S. Linos steamship America. A roooptlon at the city hall and an evonlng entortalnmont has been urranged for Tuesday, The pilgrimages which will sail from New York each week throughout the summer, have been arranged with military pre cision and thoroughness. The wo men ara relloved ot all responsi bility and expense. No matter how remote from civilization she may live each woman has her ticket delivered to her door by agonts employed by the govern ment. Word of Mrs. Slmkln's journey from Sulom to that faraway grave ofher son Frank In Surenes cem, etery In France, has been sent to every division point agent, every conductor and brakeman along her routo of travel. Thus It Is with every woman making the trip. The little black and gold Identi fication folder carried by each mother and widow, the blue and gold badge pinned to her dreBS will obtain for her such courtesy and service as probably no group of women traveling together has over had. GLIDER FALLS AS HAN DIEGO, May J. fP) Jack Iiarstuw crashed on Point Loma nt about 7 o'clock tonight, after having been up 8 hours and one minute in an effort to officially break the world's glider record. Mo was found among the ruins nt his machine In a canyon, bleed ing from the head and mouth and Injured In the back, but able to ,tt'0 , 0 NEW YORK, May . VP) The request of Peter A, Bogdanov, chairman cf the Amtorg Trading corporation, for permission to de termine the authenticity ot docu ments purporting to link the com munist Internationals with red ac tivities In the United States, was denied today by Police Commis sioner Whalen. FOR FRANCE o