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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,