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Medford Mail Teibux' The Weather - Forecast Tonight and Friday fair; mod erate temperature. Temperature Ugliest ywtiTilay 78 lrfttvt4l this morning 41 I'rcclpiiution Tn .": p. m. ycsiordny (Ml To ft:oo ii. in, this morning oil Twenty-Fifth Year TWELVE PAGES MEDFORD. ORKOON, .THURSDAY. JUNK ". 19:50. No. 73. i - II Today By Arthur Briibn Two Men Gambled. Salary, One Million? Man's Safety Valve. They Burn Them. NO NEW FRU T DISEASE : : r Copyright King Features Bynd. Inc. Two men, three thousand ! miles apart, wou by' gambling on yesterday 's derby. ? One, English, fifty-four years i old, bought a ticket in the Cal 1 e.utta sweepstakes, and drew s the favorite, expected to win. If that horse had won, the holder of the ticket on the ? favorito would have made 000,000. i The wise owner of the favor ' ite ticket sold 'it for $100,000, will invest it at 5 per cent and . live happy ever afterward. He 't took a certainty, on $100,000. And the horse on which he T had the ticket lost. An out ( sicifT, Blenheim, won at odds ot 18 to 1. The Aga Khan, who owns Hlemheim, is head of a great i religious body in Asia. They !j send him a fortune every year, i for the good of their souls. He v- Bpends it on racing, for the good of the British turf. The other gambling winner is a Brooklyn youth, 18 years of '; age. He drew the 18 to 1 win- I ner, Mleinheim, in a Canadian : sweepstakes, and is temporarily ii her -fly 14!,000. A miracle might happen, the . young winner' of : $149,000 flight invest the mon I mk cure of it,"eiijo; iight'invest the money wisely, enjoy prosper- ' ilv. The general rule is ."Once n s gambler, always a gambler un itil the money gives out." The pity is that such gambl ing news, which must be print ' ed, starts thousands gambling. I They do not hear of the. tens of I millions who gambled and lost. .. Kngene fi. (irace, (-president : of the Bethlehem Steel eom : I pany, Charles M. Schwab's ' . creation, declined to answer v questions about his salary, i ' Lawyers asked: "Is your sal '? ary more than one million a j year!" i Mr. ffraee replied in sub stance: "None of your busi ness." t ! j Once the mention of n $1, : j 000,000 salary would have "J shaken the stars in their course, 1 almost. Now it shakes nobody. .' Everything is a matter of per ; eentage. If you earn five thou ; ; sand a year for yonr employer, you are worth about twenty- i . ;. , . : ' (Continued on Pag Four. , Second Section) Abe Martin Jest . soon as they frit through tiumonUin' the submarine 1 want to eo 'cm try to dignify boon. 'What you need I an onrlildlst," Mid ManlmrM Mnile Moots, when younc stock rnNer stuck out Ills paw to Iter t is lay. . STATEMENT esi MORROW IS nr nmnm iPysiiSSSKSJ iDAPIcn cnni. ur urriuiHL dhuilu run MISQUOTED PRESIDENT! State Horticulture Board Member Made No Refer ence to Fruit, Is Claim Local Officials Absolutely Deny Menace Exists. " Assurances wore given today from officials, Htate and county, that the. fruit industry l.s not per illed by a "mystery pest," and de nials made by the same sources that the orchards of the state are In any way endangered. AVIth a bumper' crop on the trees of the Rogue River valley, the report nat urally alarmed at first, hut Inter developments show conclusively there is no cause for apprehension. In a guarded statement issued to day, M. S. Merriam. member of the state hoard of horticulture, resid ing at Goshen, charged that he wag '"misquoted." but admitted ne. had -made reference to "a new dis ease." . According to state authorities, no new disease has appeared on fruit trees of the state. Upon receipt of the Merriam statement last evening. Prof. F. C. Heimer of the Southern Oregon Kx perimental station at Talent, tele phoned the Oregon State college at Corvallls, and was Informed, emphatically, that nothing w.iw known there of the reported find ing of a new fruit tree disease in this state.' The Oregon State col lego report was: "No new fruit tree . disease ro ported in Oregon." -- r" , Allen's Statement. A. C. Allen of this city, horticul tural commissioner for southern Oregon, today issued (he following statement: "As commissioner of the state bnnrd of horticulture, I wish o state that I have just returned from a meeting of t Ii e boa rd I n Portland, and that there Is abso lutely no foundation for the report that a new disease has been discov ered in Oregon which affects or chards of this state. 1 can state positively that the state board of horticulture has made no hints nor Intimated In any way that any new disease or any other pest or dis ease is threatening the fruit in dustry. There is no such condi tion facing the growers. "I can also state that, to the best of my knowledge, Mr. Merriam never made a statement that any disease was threatening the fruit industry nor any orchard or tree. There is not the slightest truth In the reported statement that any disease threatens the fruit Indus try and that a federal quarantine Is possible or even thought of. I believe the statement will prove as great a surprise to the federal authorities as H haR proved to the state hoard of horticulture and to Mr. Merriam himself. Growers and others Interested may rest as sured that the report was abso lutely unfounded and did not orlg- (Continued on Page 6, 8tory 1) DRAIN EXHIBIT TO NEXT TOES. The date for the drainage dem onstration at the Paul Hcherer ranch has been changed from Monday afternoon until Tuesday afternoon, June 10 at two o'clock. A morning demonstration will be held on the H. C. Williamson tract on Beall Lane, one and one-half miles west of the Beall Lane-Pacific highway junction. M. R. Lewis, irrigation engineer of the Oregon State college ex periment station, will address both meetings. L. P. Wilcox, county agent, will discuss the effects of high water tables on fruit trees, and Arch Work, Irrigation engineer of the department of agriculture, will discuss various engineering phases of drainage systems under obser vation. At the meetings an Intercepting drain will be shown. A tile drain age system In all stages of con struction will be shown, with a discussion of the .ats. A large attendance Oif orchard Ists Is urged at the meeting,' as the drainage problem of the val ley Is one of paramount Interest and importance. DATE CHANGED Assoctateii Prest t'tiulO Lieut. William A. Matheny of the Army air corps receives the Cheney award for 1929. The award is con ferred annually upon an individual for an act of valor in connection with alrnra F HALF HOUR IN Threat of Storm Speeds Zeppelin On Way to German Home Passen gers Transferred. KKVILLK, Spain, June 5. Tho Graf Zeppelin left Seville for Kricdrichshafen, Tt-.K; &.:3G- p m., (12:!tr p.m., e.s.t.) after spend ing only half hour there today. The hurried departure was made Just 3 1 mlnuU'3 after the Graf had landed here because of the threat of stormy weather. Dr. Hugo Kckener did not want to be tied near the ground in view of the windy gusts. The operation of tying the ship to the mast never was completed. Instead Dr. lickener had the ground crew of 100 soldiers hold tho t'hlp beside the mast while the Spa nlsh passengers d isem ha rk ed and supplies were taken aboard. Then he immediately gave the sig nal to cast off and the Graf start ed on her last lap for home. INATE SALEM. Ore., June 5. (JP) Joe King, president of the student body at Salem high school, was today In danger of losing his graduation diploma because of a speech he made in assembly yesterday in fa vor of high school secret societies, principal Fred Wolf charged King with being a ringleader in secret societies which Wolfe has been fighting all year. The flare-up grew out of the award of athletic emblems. The student council withheld emblems from two stu dents. Wolfe overruled the coun cil. Hollis Huntington, coach, sup ported Wolfe and awarded the em blems. King assailed Huntington in a speech and the principal de clared King had insulted the coach, and threatened refusal of his credits. lX)NDON, June 5 (P) DeUillH of the conflict between the HritlHh government In Malta, Important Mediterranean naval uaHe, and the lioly see at the aVtlran were re vealed today with publication of an official blue hook on the subject. The blue book, which contains correspondence tegarding the Mal tese situation, charges the Vatican with acting In a manner "which constitutes nothing less than a claim to Interfere with the domes tic politics of a British colony." New Forrster 8ALKM. Ore., June 6. UP Harn Miller of Portland was to dar added to the stuff of the stnte forestry office. Oe 0. be field assistant in the reforestation department. hi ARE SPAN SH A MST n NT MAY BE FLUNKED OREGON New Jersey Rally Marks Launching of Boom for Ambassador State Is Proud of Record Mor row Speechless. TItKNTON. X. .1.. Juno 5. (JP)--A presidential boom for t)wight A. Morrow, ambassador to Mexico and candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination In New Jer sey, has been launched here. With Mr. Morrow occupying a seat on the platform at a political rally last night. lCdward C. Stokes, former governor of New Jerey, and Dr. John Grler Hfbben, presi dent of Princeton university, ad vanced his name as a White Mouse nntttilhflltv I "Mr. Morrow," ald Stokes, "is not only worthy to have a seat in the United States senate; Ambas sador Morrow Is presidential tim ber. "I know that I am treading on delicate ground. At Atlantic City the other day he disavowed being a candidate. I don't think he has anything to do with the question. No man in this country is big enough or great enough to decline a call to the presidency." State Proud. He cited Mr. Morrow's part In the history of the state and recall ed that New Jersey had sent AVood row Wilson to the White House. "We had a Democratic president from New Jersey," he said, "and, now,w.o are going .to hayo a puhllcun president from New..Jer ''." Dr. Hibhen in opening his ad dress said: ; r. "I wish to add that If the am bassador should become the. presi dent of our country which is not a wild flight of Imagination we are going to claim a part of him for Princeton, for while he Is not a graduate of Princeton,' we have done the next host thing by adopt ting'Jiim, for we made him a doctor of laws a few years ago." Mr. Morrow thanked Mr. Stokes "and Dr. Hibhen for their compli mentary statements which, he said, left him "almost speechless." A R FUNDS ALLOTTED FORI WORK Umpqua River Gets $100, 000, Coos River $3000 Coos Bay Given $482, 000 Federal Aid. WASHINGTON, Juno C W Allotments tutalllnK 680, 01MJ for livers mid harbors works In all purtH of the United States und inHular possessions were ap proved today by Secretary Hurley. Allotments include, for Oregon: CoquiUe river, $8400; Coos Hay, $42, 00U; Coos river, $3000; Ump qua river, $100,000; Yaqulna rJvcr $10,000; Yuquinaibay and haiTur, $24,000; Tillamook bny and bar, $48,500; Columbia and Lower Wil lamette rivers below Vancouver, Wash., and Portland $432,000; Cliitkanic river, $4500. Willamette, river above Portland nnd ' Yamhill river, Oregon, $71, 000; Snake Hlver, Oregon, Wash ington und Idaho, $6000; Skamo kawa Creek. Wash.. $2000; Cowlitz river, Wash.. $18,600; Deep Hlver, WuKh., $2400; examinations, sur veys and contingencies (general) Portland district. $13,000. Junction City Farmer Refuses To Bite On Old Bunco Proposal POHTIAND, Ore., June 5 JPy That old "bunco" game of winning money on horse races that never were run, didn't look no good to .1. W. Williams, 62, Junion City, Ore., farmer, and consequently he saved himself a few odd thousand dollars. Williams' son told pollro here today that about two weeks ago, two men, who suld their names were White and Taylor, appeared Orangemen Given Bouquet By K. C. At Annual Meet 4 BltOOK VILLK, Out., June 5 (Pi At the opening of the annual session of the Orange Association of British America yesterday n bouquet wus re ceived at lodge headquarters with a tag bearing the inscrip tion: "Greetings and best wishes for a successful con vention, from the Knights of Columbus." Last week tho Knights of Columbus convention here re ceived a homuiet bearing a tag with the inscription: "Greetings from Grand Orange Uulge to Knights of Colum bus at their annual session." Two Slain in Opening of! Hostilities Widespread Trouble Feared Boston Quarters Target. NEW YORK, Juno 5. (P) Chinese gunners and hatchet men went Into action In four cities today and last night killing two men and leading police to fear widespread tong warfare might be impending. The first trouble came last night when a group of Chinese adopting the modern manner of gangland feuds rode through Chl-cagoir-hinatown In .''nn effort to put Frank Chin "on the spot." Chin, n representative of the Chin Oak Tin Tong, was not touched by any of the bullets sprayed from pistols and machine gun. In Boston severul shots wore fired into the headnuarters of the Hip Sing tong early today, hut again no one was injured. . 1 la Gong, a waiter, was killed in New York by two m en who hid In a doorway near his home outside the hounds of Chinatown. Two revolvers were found near his body. He was Hip Slug. Scorning the modern methods of killing by gunfire, assailants attacked Kng Sing, a laundryman, in Newnrk today, and left him dead with a hatchet buried in his skull. Baseball Scores National. It. II. E. Cincinnati 4 (I 1 New York 7 13 3 Ilutteries: May and Kukeforth; Oenewlch and Hogari. It. II. 15. Chicago 10 11 1 ISoMton 7 0 1 Hatterles; Osborn nnd llnrt nett; Smith. Hnindt und Spohrer. U. II. E. St. Ixuls 4 7 1 Philadelphia 10 14 2 I In Uc lies: Unilsey, llald and Wllsun; Collurd und McCurdy. It. II. E. Pittsburg I 8 2 Brooklyn 0 14 3 Itattories; Petty, Chngnon nnd IKidI; Elliott, J.uqili! and U'lK'Z. ' American. It. II. E. Washington 0 10 0 Detroit 8 11 0 lotteries: Jones, 11 u r k e nnd Spencer; Sorrell and Ilurgrave. It. Boston 7 Cleveland 17 Batteries: (laston and Brown and U. Sewell. II. E. 2 2f. 2 Kerry; LONDON, June S. (II Prime Minister MacDonuld Informed the house of commons today tho gov ernment had decided against the construction of the proposed Eng lish channel tunnel. at the Williams home and discussed purchasing the Williams farm. Finally, they persuaded Williams to come to Portland whey they 'Met him In" on the horse race business. A week later, WIIHnms was no tified he had won $77,Mo nnd that to collect it he must first deposit the "oft thousand dollars" In a bunk. Ho didn't. O CHINESE TONGS OPEN WARFARE IN FOUR CITIES BISHOP HASlril REDS . (1DDV niii7i r" lyniiMn rui 5LUUUI UUIZ.! i . ilVIUVIIIU UN I IN QUANDRY 4X IPROVINCES Quits Witness Chair Despite Warning By Walsh Pos sible Contempt Awaits Return of Chairman Car away From Arkansas. WASHlNdTON, .1 une E. .M ustiTliiK a h'Kiil iiioruin Tor the llrsl time to deal with its recalci trant witness, nishot J times Can non, ,lr., the senate lobby com mittee today maidenly found itself with a vacant witness chair. The Itlshop's third appearance lasted just long enough to permit hhn to read u statement against attacking the committee's author ity to inn ui re about his ami-Smith campaign activities in 1!2S and to announce his voluntary testi mony was at an end. As he limped out of the com mittee room on his crutch, fol lowed by applause and hisses, he called back he could lie found at his office if the committee wanted to serve a legal suhpoenae. Walsh of Montana warned the witness he was not excused, nnd that his case would be dealt with later. Whether he is to be held in contempt of the senate prob ably will he decided on the return of Chairman Caraway from Ark ansas. llornh Arrives. .Just as the bishop left the room Senator Month, Republican, Idaho, arrived. His presence save the committee, u quorum for the first time since the examination - of Cannon began. There are five members and three make a quo rum. Horah joined In the laughter as he took hlx sent and looked across the vacant witness chair. With no wll ness before It, the committee proceeded to put into I he record various report m relat ing to the Antl-Hmlth campaign, then adjourned until Wednesday. After the adjournment Senator Wahh of Montana, tho acting chairman told newspapermen he (Continued on Pane 6, Story 2) FREE WATER USE MADE HAT FOR HOMESTEADS PORTLAND, Ore., June 5. (p) Federal uctiun has cleared par tially the WnRontlre Mountain situation which had previously been blamed for considerable ill fueling among ranchers ml culminated In the death of a father and son over a period of three years. Federal authorities here and at Hums, Ore., received word from the commissioner of the federal laud office, Washington, I). C, that homesteads which Interfere with the free use of water have been orderd cancled. The Wagontlre Moimtuln water supply Is reported to he the only olio available i'or stock over a largo and arid area during tho dry seuson. In July, lilli9, a representative of the Oregon Humane society cut the fences ot Franlt Dnhkins, who Is said to have been the only one who constructed fences around his water supply. Tho society repre sentative was arrested und brought to trial. E E HOSTON, June 6 MP) One pun-1 Rcnger was perhaps fatally Injured j and eleven othera HiirfereI nilnor Injuries and Immersion today when ! a tri-motored Colonial Air Trnns-1 port plane fell Into the wnters off ! the municipal airport. Failure of the right motor was given by one of the passengers, a French avin tor, as the cause nt tho accident. Simon A. DeAullhclr, the French aviator, of Moston, suffered minor injuries and Immorslon. He su.l the accident was due to failure of the right motor of the trl-motorcd plane. Just as the plane was turn ing southward. Tlio plane's pilots wero Vol Chick nnd Charles O'Connor. i t Associated I'resa I'hoto Bert White, 27, holds the unoffi cial world's parachute record. He leaped from an airplane as it soared 25,000 feet above the Mo Javo desert near Lancaster, Cat. Hoover Commission Hears Views of Department Heads Squatters Rights Question Open. WASHINGTON, .Tune 6. (P) Tho Hoover public, lands commis sion concerned Itseif today r With problems of closer coordination of bureaus administering the public domain. The forest service and reclama tion bureau officials having been questioned, the- general land of fice and Indian bureau heads were called upon for their views. The forest service explained Its control system for tho protection of watersheds and forest conser vation. Iteclamalton Commissioner Kl wood Mead urged continuance of that service, as nearly undisturb ed as possible, In any arrange ment for transfer of the public amis to tho eleven western states In which they lie. Questioning developed that turn ing the surface rights over to the states would make little difference in the income of tho revolving reclamation fund from oil and gas leases und forest reserve sales. Charles C. Moore, commissioner of the general land office, set forth the difficulties which might arise In land survey and Issuance of patents to settlers who already have established residence on the public domain under squaters' rights. Commission members suggested the possibility of turning the hind over to the several states, subject to settlement of the claims of squatters and completion of sur vey, lull the question remains to be settled. JUMPER FLIES WITHOUT CHUTE DIES IN CRASH UOOHKVKLT FIELD, N. Y., June 5 (!) Henry J. (Buddy) Hush ineyer,' professional parachute Jumper, paid with his life today for Kul UK up in a plane without a parachute. Ho died from Injuries suffered when the plane in which he and Clilford Muchmore, pilot, fell 1500 feet yesterday. Hoth men were pinned in the wreckage when the plane, which they had taken up to practice land ing, went into, a flat spin and ploughed Into a field. Hushmeyer has made more than 500 parachute jumps. He recently broadcast a description of his sen sations while descending from a lo.ooo-foot Jump. Muchmore Is ex pected to recover. (.rant Water Right. BALKM, Ore., June 6. (P) W. O. Lane of Kllver Lake has filed with tho state engineering depart ment an application for authority to appropriate 24 second feet pf water from Williamson river, Klamath county, for Irrigation purposes. CO-ORDINATION LANDS BUREAUS AIM Nationalist Lines Broken East of Tsinan Sharp Fighting in Progress Foreigners Apprehensive Siege of City Looms. .SHANGHAI, .lune 5. fl) For eign naval dispatches tonight from Tslngtao and Chefoo, Shantuni: province, said the northern allied forces had crossed the Yellow riv er about GO miles east of Tsinan, provincial capital, broken the na tionalist troops' lines, and reached the T-inan-Tslngtao railway line in the neighborhood of Chowtsun. The naval dispatches said the na tionalist defenses had reorganized near the strategic railway line, and that a sharp engagement was still going on at the time they wete filed. late in the day. It was stal ed, however, that service on the railroad had not been Interrupted. The development was said to have aroused apprehension among foreigners in Tsinan. Some pre pared for nn expected siege of the city, while numbers of others left for Tslngtao, on the coast, 2!0 miles to the east. This was the second setback of the day for the Nanking national ists. The first was the loss of the Important city of Changsha' capr ital of Hunan province, to a mot ley horde ot Kwangsi province reb els and bandits, known colloquial ly as the "red" army. Dispatches ..tonight, from foreign gunboats standing off Changsh. said Kwangsi forces totaling 20, 000 tnen had occupied the city, nnd that more were coming In. Tho 10,000 nationalist troops deflected from the central China front north of Chengchow, Honan province, re treated northward after making n. feeble show of resistance, it was added. All foreigners In Changsha had been concentrated on an Island In tho Slang river off the city, the dispatches explained, where they wero under the protection of the guns of the foreign gunboats. Jap anese residents were said to he evacuating the city, moving to Hankow, Hupeh province, on tho Yangtze river. PORTLANDSELLS BASEBALLPLAYER PORTLAND, Ore., June 6. OP) Thomas L. Turner, president of the Portland baseball team, an nounced today the outright sale of Carol Yerkes, Beaver southpaw pitcher, to the -Los Angeles team. Turner said Yerkes would report Immediately but mentioned no conditions. Turner nlso announced that Carl Hustu, Inflclder, who was suspend ed In 1927 for failure to report to the Portland team, has been re Instated and had been sent to Wlnston-Halem, N. C, to become, a playing manager in the Pied mont league. Will ROGERS WSVERLY HILLS, June 5 Hurrah for Ruth Bryan Ownn.' She is going back into congress from one of our insular posses sions. Politically bred, she is a thoroughbred. She was born at a national convention, weaned on niifermcnted grape juice, and raised to womanhood on campaign speeches, bhe should have run for the senate. With A 1 I .1 I!. l iwu real pureuruu political Ruths in there they might have revived that ojd body to some of its past glory. She defeated a wet in Florida. They just won't let me count these Liter ary Digest votes at these reg ular elections. , f IIM lltXatt iMMttklM,