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r"The Weather flttttf- Tonleht anil Tuesday "j,,,. wmKtuiu temiK'nilure. vr-Fifth Year Today By Arthur Brtabani the Marvelous Zeppelin. Chinese Practice lor Russia. Hn Interesting Crime. bbie Jones, He Wins. Opirlght King Features oyna. inc. The giant Oriif Zeppelin sail j, scroiiflv from Brazil to Lakelmrst, X. J., V. S. A., 3000 iles in three days, is a iniig- jificcnt demonstration of deter- ioatioii, engineering skill and fewer of the German people. Defeated, humiliated, snaci;- (d industrially and financially (or years tn come, and hnmper- nl by (lie : Versailles treaty, fierainny leads the world in nvi ition. There is no substitute for sei- atific intelligence. Riissin finds China a conven ient parade ground to practice "A troops." , The French litt n saying, "An easy as heat ing China." Exhausted, starv ed, liarrassed, the Chinese field of chaos offers excellent oppor tunity for marching troops up Hid down and shooting and bombing. however, there is a "tomor ivr." Mongolians are hereditary en emies of Slavs. Russia's chil dren for a thousand years have been taught to fear and hute the men whose eyes slant upward. Russia now shows many things in China about fighting, killing, bombs, etc. Later, Asia may show some of Nose same things to .Rusnia,-ou rnssian territory. Xcw York's latest ",big head line" murder becomes more in- lerestilng.. The dead ' woman wore jewelry, including il ring irith several small but genuine diamonds. That attracted at tention. Diamonds are import ant. Detectives find a dentist rto made the woman's false teeth. She was the wife of Mo mi, gangster recently mur dered. Newark police had been look lag for his wife to tell who mur dered him. But gangster meth h include efficiency. They murder the man in one it)', then kill his wife in an Jker, throw her into the river, d sho.will never tell. M r. Reid publishes in his New Tork Tribune, Republican, an tutorial, most useful. He points out that our sys- ,em of allowing Japan and Britain to regulate our defenses does not even let us build, in ,l,e l'hilippins Islands, gas Proof chambers, in which sol ars and civilians might take Abe Martin ibT" a,n mm rtopo 1 h "I"r o- pomilnllon'll remain , ,,"'l Imlrnrurti at Blnomln--j,. '"'"""nr." Mid l4ifo Hull to- Ml Hll .,.l.. t. .1 I., V I , !", ..Ill IIM'IIKII ' np I m n w... ... . i ... i.. Med FORMU LM I L! LES Shipping and Growing Inter ests of Rogue River and Hood River Areas in Port land Meeting With Horti culture Board. PORTLAND, Ore, June -.?) .Delegation or pear growers rrom Medford and Hood Hlver were meeting here today Willi represen tatives of the state hoard of horti cnlliire in nn attempt to agree upon proposed specilk-ations for Oregon standards for cannery pears. The meeting will continue fov two or three days. Those who attended today's meeting said little was done other than to read the proposed specifications. It was decided to hold a meeting In Salem lit 10 a m. June 14. The tentative schedule was drawn up by the slate hoard of horticul ture ami would hring cannery pears under three classifications, I lie specifications being applicable only tp unlidded containers. Grades Outlined No. 1 grade would consist of pears of one variety which are ma ture, well formed, tree from broken skins, decay nnd free from damage caused by limb rubs, bruises, drouth spots, sunburn, bail marks, russet ing, disease, Insects or mechanical agencies. The diameter of the smallest pear permitted in this grade would be not less than 24 inches. No. 2 grade would consist oi pears of one variety which ure ma ture, fairly well formed, and free from "serious damage" from agen cies mentioned in relation to grade Xo. 1. The diameter of the small est pear permitted In this grade would be not less than two inches. Culls would be classified as pears which do not meet the requlre ments of either No. - 1 or No. - .grade. . ":-,.,, j .... , . ' "Serious dnmage" is specified as meaning any injury which affects the paring quality of more than one-half of the fruit. After paring, cutting in halves and coring, one of the halves shall be well formed or the pear is considered seriously damaged. "Damage'' is considered as indicating that neither half is injured to tlio extent that the form if either hall' is Impaired. A meeting of high interest to the pear growers of the state, principally the Hood Itiver nnd ItoKlie Itiver districts. Is being held in Portland today, between representatives of the shipping and growing interests of the two (Continued on Page 6, Story 1) OVER JUNE 7TH FOR OFFICIALS The frost season for Medford nnd the valley will officially end next Saturday nigni, us the government frost warning ser vice Is concerned, for this even ing Kloyd I). Young, who Is In charge of the frost warning and research work of the Pacific coast slates, nnd who has been stationed here on this work since Inst March will depart to look over the frost work' of the past season at the stations In the Washington m it districts and other parts of tnc northwest, after wnicn ne turn to his home at Pomona, taHln assistant here In this work. Roy Itogers. who Is "lo a me . ' th 1'. S. weather .'.in remain until June 10 . . .i r..r fhiirles City, wnen ne ui.-i'..i - -----la., to do relief duty three weeks for the head of tna weather station. Mr. Hogers w 1 1 continue the dally evening f.ost broadcasts until naJ5unda: PEAR Rll IN CANNING FROST SEASON Honeymoon Hubby Shoots Friend Who Played Joke on Bridal Trip DENVER, Colo., June 2. P) A short lived honeymoon ended here last night in the death of man whom police believe to have been a practical Joker, following sup posedly "faked' 'hol'lnp- Everett K. Stewart. 2b who was married In Colorado WWa one minute past mining, .hot his Ln'LZ WD. Maloney 38. art screamed: "Help! lollce. small w! ' ...r, . rooming house while M art re ford i Eighteen Perish Off Santa Monica r - - -.- ..... . i ',; "- - 1 ' 1 "' 'wiurvCS isiyM Associated Press Photo. g i &J?ZzJ3k. jiul." " " 1 1 IgllK-en ln-llcl imtUIhhI off k f l),'!'.,'r sjl ' ., aiita loiiiiu. Cal. I e.ifli. v!ien .x1 -tXLM HMb&ji i v v mei. 4-,-lool ruhlnit boat, cup- L--x C' 3oJ . s ' ' V -J il les, thiin mile ofMioio on . V frfK jffc l " J1S t s jfX&Sjls. N MeiiKiil.il dn 'llnee iKMlies ic- SV lJ . ! J. i " WyB cineriil and lilteen s.i-st nirei-s or- f Z.'Ww X 1 i . ' , .if ' f...all, n,Kslff. IM.010 ol boat FH' 'T4'(?$ " Jllv! ? ' 1 ifi'Wk ' bef.e ,li,.s... , .r snrMo.s. w 1 7 1 &ll3 , ,fi iiuiiinii I iiL.lv IK, w t's : k , i . i u y from kia; hkmm Found By Freight Engineer Near Hilt Railroad Of ficials Unable Account for Accident. In a critical condition and not ex pected to live, Mrs. K K. Garrison, 55, Salem, is a patient at the Hilt, Cal., hospital following a mysterl- nim Tnll from tlio nnilt htlOlind South ern Pacific. Shasta limited Saturday nignt. sue was louuu u louia later in nn unconscious condition along the railroad tracks near Zu leka, close to Hilt, by an engineer, Prank Deane, on a local freight. Reports from Ashland today indi cated that the woman had no chance for recovery. She was still unconscious nt noon. Mrs. Garrison, a passanger on the day coach. Is believed to be a wom an of small means. Itailroad au thorities havebeen unable to deter mine how or why she fell off. Doors are nlwuys kept tightly closed and to get off she would have had to open two latches to reach the ear steps. Kfforts were also being made to day to locate relatives but they were unsuccessful. Saturday's Shasta must have been in line for unusual events, as dis patches from Salem tell of an en raged negro chef who threatened to attack a waiter when the latter at tempted to tell the cook how to r utu u.ttrl Tlio elinf seized a long knile and threatened to carve .. i ..m..n i.ita I the culinary w hi rci "ihqh I while the Shasta was approaching I Salem from Portland. The enraged i negro was taken off the train but ! was permitted intar to proceed to iKlnmalh Kails on another truiu. T F OAKLAND, Cal.. June 2. (P) .. ..unnpnr Mrs J Cno- 1 per of San KranclBco. was so seri louslv Injured she may die, when a San Francisco air ferry, bearing eight passengers, struck a tug and i nose dived Into the Oakland estu- i ary. ijauncucs irom m o.i...c -" i cued the Imprisoned passengers. . rn. u-na tnkpn to an Oak- 1 ill.i. v.u"tvi " land hospital, where physicians said I she was suffering from severe cere i hral hemorrhage. Hearintc the words, "Stlcp 'em up!" followed by hi wife's cry for help, he turned and fired three times, a bullet piercing Malony's chest and 'resulting In his death in a local hos pital 45 minutes later. An nnlden tltlnd man, according to Stewart, was with Maloney hut fled when the shooting started and has not yet been located. Stewart told police that about a 'year ago his wife, then Miss Alta Srhnelder. was held up and robbed In the same neighborhood and that i . liml r-nrritwl a rnvnlvpr i since i h" . ....- - - for protection against any similar MEDFOliD, OuJTnON, Fifty Per Cent Loss of Fruit Crop Seen Local Or chards Lucky in Escaping Scourge. Prof, V. C. Reimor Kpeaking on tho KIwaniH club program toduy, loltl nt the blight Hltuiitlun uh it affects orchards in California and Oregon, lie visited one orchard rt'rt'iitly near Sacramento and there found J0 men at work and late reporiH indicate tbat this num ber lias been increased to 176. The blight, never bo serious In the hiKtory of California, linn al ready r en u lied in the general Iokh of 50 per cent of the fruit crop and a much an 05 per cent in certain sections, he' said. iillght han entered regionH where It was unknown before and Is the biggest problem the fruit industry in Cali fornia has had in yearn. The Kogue Hlver valley has been fortunate in escaping the ncuuigc, made eHpeclally dangeroun thin year because of weather condition. which have been favorable to the spread of the diseaue, caused by a form of bacteria. If there had been much "hold-over" blight from last year, the local orchards might have suffered oh did thofte in Cali fornia but orchardista were careful tn keeping the dlseawe under con trol, cooperating with fruit Inspec tor and horticulture commlnslon crB in a commendable way. I'rof. Itelmer foresees a big crop for this valley with better than average prices due to the condl tiotiH In California. Kiwanlun Karl Newbry gave a report of the Joint meeting with tho Talent grange Thursday even ing and said plans were going for ward fur a similar meeting with tho Central Point grunge In a nhort time. It. A. Addis was a visiting Ki wanlun from Pendleton. TYPOS RE-ELECT INDIANAPOLIS. June 2. Fh The plurality of Charles P. How ard, candidate for re-election as president of the International Typographical union, today had reach erf 10.020 when tho votes of 539 unions had ft-en unofficial ly tabulated. The vote was virtu ally complete. The vote Howard was 31,306. His closest opponent, Iged Darker of Spokane, Wash., had 1 l.ssS. R. K. Hoderstrom of Streator, III., 'was third with 9401. iMlilir BLIGHT MENAGEf LOCAL AIRMAN OF CALIFORNIA DIES IN CRASH MAILT MONDAY. Jl'XK ii)::u. Plane Hit By Gust of Wind During Race in- New Jer sey Was Pioneer of Medford Flying. TKTIORBOUO AinPOHT, Has brouck Heights, N. J., June 2. (JP) Captain - Ive McKenney, Has brouck heights, died Suturd y night of injuries received when his plane was turned over by a gut of wind during a race, and crashed from a height of 50 fi Ht. Captain Ive Me.Klnney, 35, pio neer Oregon aviator and former Medford resident, was killed at Telerboro, N. J., Saturday, wh-n his piano crashed In an lr race, according to word received here yesterday by relatives. Captain McKlnney lived here for several yearn and U remembered by many southern Oregon residents. He was born In Ilarriman, Tenn., April 15, 1815, and came to Med ford with his family in 1SU. He joined the air corps here in. 1919 and was stationed at the local airport for some time while In the service. Later, ho engaged In fly ing service nnd was one of tho first to carry passengers here. Mr. McKlnney Is also remem bered for his stunt flying at loci I fairs and celebrations. He crash ed at the fairgrounds once In 192ft, but wns not injured. For several years he has been In the airport and flying business at Teterboro, N. J. Ho Is survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. McKlnney. two brothers. -John and I fuse, nnd a sister, Mrs. Sam Colton. all resi dents of Medford. Tho funeral will probably be held here. ROBBERS ARE SHOT LOS ANGELES, June 2. (P) Two bank robbers were jhot and probably fatally wounded In a gun fight with bank employes and po lice officers who pursued their fleeing automobile down Washing ton Boulevard today. Six hundred dollars cash, which the robbers had obtained from the West Side State bank, wns recovered from their drlverless automobile. ttonn Open Congress ASnt'RY PARK, N. J., June 2. The annual congress of the national society of the Hons of the American uevoiuuon openeu ncre today with 600 delegates attending. . i IE SLAIN; BY GUNS OF! unnuuiLiiu i 'Little Massacre' in Chicago i Accounts for 3 Woman ; Wounded Fourth Man Is : Killed in Second Attack 5 Die in Detroit. CHICAGO. June 2- P) Mnltt- pie murder, raised to its high point St. V alenttne's Day, 1 passed another milestone yesterday. Three, men were slain and two persons, one a woman, were wounded per haps fatally. The killers used machine guns. An hour, later mid nt a spot on North Clin k street not half a mile from the scene of the Moran gang massAcre. of last year, another fusillade was fired, critically wounding two others, and killing a nother. Police said the attacks nmrkrd tlio opening of new, intense gam; gunnery, and they hud substanti ation today when the body of n ride" victim wiw found propped against the alley wall of the Ital ia n Trust a nd Sav Inge ban k on Milwaukee avenue. Resort. Hotel Sceno Sunday's "little massacre" was at u resort hotel at lux Lake. The victims, believed to have been members of tho gang faction head ed by the Druggan brothers, wore seated at a table on a glass en closed porch. Without warning, the machine gun attack was open ed on them from outside. The dead: Michael Quirk, west side gangster; Horn Pellar, Identi fied as a west side hoodlum; and Joseph Bertsche, whose brother, Barney, has been called a pioneer In north side, gang life. George Druggan. brother of tho better known Terry, now in trou ble with the federal government over his Income tax. was wounded so severely In the machine gun attack, that H Is unlikely he will - - woman Wounded The wounded woman, Mrs. Viv ien McOlnnls. 27, wife of a Chi cago lawyer, also may not sur vive her wounds, flhe. was IDrug- gan'fl companion at the table. The subsequent gnng attack, !n which three Were wounded, was .conducted in the gang manner, machine guns blazing from thn dark interior of a passing motor car which sped away leaving two men wounded. Tony Tornatoro and Joseph Ferrari and 8nm Min istero are d-ad. DKTKOIT, June 2. Gang sters guns, breaking Into activity pfter several weeks quiet, took five liven n the metropolitan area dur ing the week-end, two of tho vic tims being) policemen w'ho wero shot down from nn automoht'o vestlgallon of a hit-run accident, which they stopped In their in- The fifth victim, nn Italian who wus not Immediately Identified was sent to his death with four bullets in his head and body .it daybreak today. Police connected this killing with the shooting ot two Italians in a fish market Sat urday afternoon. The policemen, were believed to have been killed by rum runners. Two men were held In connection with this crime. The 'slain policemen, described by their chief as "tha best men in the department," were Krhardt W. Meyer. 28, and Claude Lnnstra, 24. They had been sent out Sun day morning to look for an auto mobile which had run down Mrs. Ina Fiasco, fifl. Quest Inn AiilolstH A license number which h id been given by a witness of the ac cident caused the policemen to question three occupants of nn automobile. Meyer, who had left the police car,' was shot down by the occupants of the (it her ma chine, who then turned their guns on l-anstra. The latter had open ed fire but wns shot three times as he did so. The killers sped awn. A bullet pierced automobile bearing the reported number of tho killers' car was found In i garage at the home of Frank K. Mercurfo In Detroit. Ho and his father, Ham, were, nrrnsted, (iaspere Koibllln and Samuel Parlno were shot by two men as they sat at lunch In the rear room of n fish mnrket Saturday. Prisoner Would Trade Invention Based Upon Vision For Freedom JOL1ET. III., June 2. WV-John King, nn nged convict. Inventor of nn airplane propellor of revolu t binary design, has refused all monetary offers. Insisting thnt when society releases hlnj from prison, It will receive the benefits of his discovery. Though King has been Incar cerated for 15 yenrs and has never seen a modern airplane, the Unti ed States navy, Henry For,d anJ the Guggenheim Foundation hnvo communicated with him about the propeller. The original Idea for his inven tion c0o In a dream while h was Baseball Scores .National It. 11. K. St. Louis II 111 1 Philadelphia a 1 5 1 HullaliMii. lhihl. Hell ami Wil son: CmIIIum, Kill, itt and IJavls. i:hiblllnll It. II. K. i New York I A 1 S 1 a 1 j VlncliumlJ .l 5 I I 1 IMwMrds and lteiiKnuh; S. John ; son and bukeforth. I-'lilhltloil R. ! " I 1 and Philadelphia (A ) i'iitbu,Kh .. Shores and Perkins i"i. Resolution Introduced in G. 0. P. Central Committee Meeting for Return of Old Selective System for Candidates. SALEM, Ore., May 2.JP) A resolution was introduced nt n meeting of tho Marlon county II publlcnn central committee here today by Henry Porter, commit teeman from Aumsvllle, asking for a virtual return of the old conven tion system In Marlon county. The resoltulon asks that delegates be apportioned to each precinct based on the vote for Hoover, thnt these delegates and precinct committee- en meet before the next primaries and nominate a county ticket. The resolution was referred to the county central committee's tnves: Ignting committee to be ' reported on at a later meeting. Vi'h r)solutton -tcorMrtng 01rot primary, says the present methods of nominating candidates have been weighed in the balance and found wanting, that they do not express a truo majority opinion of the party electorate, that the sys tem is too expensive for many worthy men and women to place their names before the- people as candidates, that the majority of voters have no way of ascertain ing tho qualifications and fitness for office of candidates and that candidates announce their own pri vate and meaningless slogans in stead, of standing upon party plat forms and that the present system Is causing less Interest among the voters than the old system. T OF E POIITLANO, Ore., June 2. (fl) Robert Gordon Duncan, defeated candidate for tho Republican nomi nation to congress, and self-styled "Oregon Wildcat, " was arrested to day by John Day, United States marshal, on charges of violating the federal radio act forbidding the broadcasting of "obsecene. Indecent or profane Innguu.e." The license of station KVKP over which Dun can has been broadcasting lor three months, was revoked last week by tho federal radio commis sion. Duncatl, who termed himself the "chain store Nemesis," wus arrest ed May 17 for electioneering on election day and will have a hear ing on that charge next week. Ills talks over the radio were de clared by rodlo commissioners to have been "shocking," Protests of Portland business men and Individ uals brought the case to the com mission, which found that Duncan had Indulged In "obscene, Indecent and vulgar" language in attacking purumlnent Portland men. In solitary confinement, King said. He worked for flvo years on plans. After MaJ. Henry C. Hill became warden of thi state penitentiary. King wan permitted the use of the prison work shop to complete a model, Hl discovery Is a multiple pro peller designed to utilize every otince of l'0rsepouO' Riving 90 per cent efficiency Instead of 40 per cent as In tho present types. There are four blades, each connected separately to a hollow central shaft. As the outer shaft revolves, thO blade move back and forth along the length of the shaft. OLD STYLE SYSTEM IS MARlnl ARRES DUNCAN VIOLATIONS RAD 0 Temperature Highest yesterday 6ft InnwrtL this morning 46 Precipitation: To 5 p. in. yeMortlny 06 Tn ii. in. Mils morning T. No. 72. BY GAS IS Crowd Peers Through Win dow in Lethal Chamber As Nevada Gambler Pays Price of Murder Doctor Records Heart Beats. CAKSON CITV, .'ev. June 2. iA') It. II. -Bob" White. Klko gambler, died todi4y in the lethal gas chamber at the Nevada slate prison here, lie had been convict ed on circumstantial evidence of Hie murder (f Louis Lavell, an other gambler. White was taken at 4:40 a. m. Into the Htoue chamber he helped build an Air-tight room nine feet long by eight wide and seven hlga and strapped Into u chair. I le smiled and nodded to the people looking In the window. There were Ii3 witnesses including two women. Before White's chair stood n two-gallon crockery jar containing a quart of sulphuric acid and half u gallon of water. Pulling a string In the next room opened a con tainer, dropping nearly a dozen one-ounce "eggs" of cyanide of potassium Into the acid solution. The deadly gas was generated almost instantly. Doomed Man Nod White nodded again as the g;s slatted to come up from the gen erator. Then he took five deep breaths, as deep a he could take. He leaned back easily. At thif third breath his head fell back. His arms and body twitched as In a convulsion, then was still. Three minutes after he entered the death chamber he was appar ently dead. White wns not a bit nervous. He shook hands with the warden and the other two men who help ed strap him In the chair. He was dressed In a hlue shl't and ni pair of overalls.. 1 Miss-' Margaret fikeeter, h. "' N., Reno, and Miss May E. Kenney, another nurse, Carson City, were the women witnesses. They were . admitted at their own request.. There was no minister present, White wanted none. lteronls Heart Bouts Officially, the gus was turned on at 4:37 n. m. White's heart stopped beating for ten seconds at 4:3ft V4 . nnd natural breathing stopped at 4:39 V4. After a lapse of ten seconds the heart started beating again, but stopped com pletely at 4:47, nine- and a half minute from the time the gus was turned on. At the start White's pulse was 10s, contrasted to a normal of 72.' Ono minute after the gus came on his pulse reached 120. At 4:42 his respiration became very con vulsive, long nnd short breaths. At 4:37 his head fell back, a quarter minute after the gas came on. Then he took five deep breaths nnd his head fell forward. From 4:43 to 4:46 huj respira tion -was very convulsive. This figures a,nd data were given nut after the execution by Dr. K. E. Humer, Btate health of ficer, who kept a specially do vised stethescope on the condemn ed man throughout the execution proceedings. How strange that prominent peo ple always happen to be slumming the very duy that tough joints are raided. WILL ROGERS f$qys: HEVKRIiY IIIIiLS, Oil. Juno 2. Kt'iul the new oenHiis. Talk about n quota on immigration, why the Yankees nre swurniinu' into the South like locusts. Get some of these giiiiw. Houston, Texas, showed a gain of 110 per. cent, llest bet in the South . Atlanta, 73 per cent gain. Will he Houston's nearest rival in 20 years. Miami, 273 per cent. Oklahoma City, 100 per cent. Amnn, Carterville( registered under the postoffice name. of Fort Worth), away over 100 per pent. Tulsa, 95 per cent. Bir mingham, 44 ; Memphis, 55 ; Sun Ar.ionio, 57. And the Caroli nes just packed 'em in. Only one drawback, the rascals bring their Republican politics with 'cm ; they ought to be met at the lino nnd de-loused. iw M.K.Mi In imiiM. EXECUTION WITNESSED attempt. i " In now si raw hue todnjr. maiued benina i w-