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The Weather Forecast: Ttrmljrlit and Sunday fair; no i-liango In unieralure. MEDfOMD U9 W m IL 1MBTJM MA Temperature Highest yestortlay :t UnveNt till morning , &a lretalltAiloii: To S p. m, yesterday 00 To n. m. tinluy 'l Twenty-Fifth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 19:10. No. 104. 178 KILLED Prize Homing Dove Has to Walk Back Minus His Feathers Girl Pilot Win Today By Arthur BriibaiM Many Happy Returns Biggest Tree Farm 40,000,000 Bibles. Flying Brothers Come Down To Earth With Record E British Air Race Against Experts ENOURANC II i - EES! ENDS Copyright King Features Synd. Inc. Uncle 'Sam was 154 years old yesterday. Since his infancy in 1776 he has managed liis own affairs, ti't consulting Europe, or nsk iiiR permission to build ships. Some of his managers, be lieving him no logger able to take care of himself, would submit his decisions to a for-, eign . court ' iind . a r foreign league. ' "' ; ; They are mistaken. ;: The weakness is in them, not in this country. They will pass; their mistakes and .confessions of weakness will! be : forgotten! The nation will end.ure,; self governing. f' t ; : ' This is written at Amawalk, in Westchester county, N. Y., where Evelyn Smith able, in telligent young woman owns and manages the greatest nurs jB"y for fine trees in the United States. Thonsands of country editors throughout the nation will re member with admiration the lute Major Orlando Smith, who built up the American I'rcss asssociation. He started, the Amawalk nursery as a hobby, because he loved fine trees. ; His daughter has increased the nursery to more than a thousand acres, with hundreds of thousands pf. ..magnificent trees. Modern methods make it possible to transplant trees 50 feet high. Fisher Brothers of automobile body" fame, have bought these big trees tens of carloads at a time, shipped by fxpress to Detroit. Owners of country real es tate should plant; young trees u and around their property low. They can be bought for a trifle, and the increase in tree value often equals the increase in land values, greatly increas ing the latter. The Bible is the best seller among the world's books, and next comes Shakespeare, prov ing that the people's taste is sound. The British and Foreign Bible society says more than 40,000,000 Bibles were sold in !'.!!). This country bought 15. 000,000, E n g 1 n ll d 12,000,(HI0, Scotland 5,00(UMIO. Wales bought (10,0(10 Bibles printed in Welsh. , The Bible and Shakespeare' (Continued on Page Four) "Hut halnt no sunset. It's a .nti mnntor " fXIlnlflCd Constable Mum to an nUmlaslo rtranavr 'last CTenln'. as he liurriMiir jump ed In hl car an' mil orf. "tiosli. i i.,. np don't have rain anj-wnv soon for I've Jrst ahed mr mr." Abe Martin ' remarked Farmer Jnke m-niicy lay. , (Copyright John F. Wile Co.) MANY HURT Property Damage Totals Thousands , As Citizens Celebrate Fireworks Ac count for Twelve Auto Blamed for 81 Deaths. CHICAOO. July 6. (VP) Ameri ca, jmiil its inevitable price In hiftttan . life; .yesterday to celebrate the- lB4tli;'(inniversai'y of its In 'denoutlence. ' I i; v ; i tHm rieurt numbered 178. -Many other 'htimUeds' worn .injured. Property ilntmiRo : was unusually high and ran into many thous ands of dollars. Deaths due directly to fireworks totalled ;l2. This was the largest number fit such deaths recorded In the three years the Associated ProRH has been Keeping a nation wide cheek upon independence. day fatalities. A year ago there' were never, deaths from fireworks. In 1028 there were 11. The automobile, however,, took the most lives 81. In the past, three years its holiday toil has steadily increased. ' In 1928 it took G4 lives, last year, 70. There were 57 drownings yes terday, a decline of 14 from a year ngo and of 40 from 192S. This was attributable to- much cooler weather , generally. . The Fourth of July two years ago was one of the hot days of the year, heat atone being responsible for 12 deaths that day. Deaths iroiifetl. Dea t h s from firework s wore concentrated yesterday, as In the two. previous years, in the New, England. Middle Atlantic and Middle Western states. These sec-I tions also had lengthy lists of In-1 jured. j In New York City, where the ilo of fireworks - is forbidden, 275 persons were treated for burns frorn bootleg firecrackers, Homan candles, pin wheels and "rockets. At least 17 persons were-seriously injured in Chicago, where celebra tion of the day with fire crackers went on virtually unrestricted. Chicago, too, hnd Its celebrants who employed firearms and even dynamite for their noiwemaking; and five persons were injured by stray bullets. Two others were seriously In jured while they were "making a lot of noise" with dynamite. The two men had 100 sticks of dyna mite, police learned. In Springfield, 111., a 77-year-old woman who was celebrating both her own birthday and the nation's, was seriously injured when a bomb exploded at her home, destroying it. Midwest Hard lilt. The largest number of fatali ties was reported from the mid dlewest where there were 63 from all cuuses. The densely, populated Middle Atlantic States followed with 39: and the south had 33, compared with 21 a year ago. The Mountain States continued to have a low death list for the holiday. There were only two there. Kansas City had the noisiest celebration of many years, , and yet reported no. serious injuries. In Michigan, home of the auto mobile, tho number killed in mb tor accidents was smaller than on the ordinary Sunday. That state had the smallest number of killed rind Injured In many years. A state law prohibits the use of fireworks, except by licensed per sons. GRANTS PASS TO CHANTS PAHS, July 6. Wi the city council today agreed to purchase from n group of Denver, Colo., cnpltn lists the water system for $65,000. Representatives of Jhe compnny ore reported to have accepted, thereby ending a series of contests nnd litigations over a period of years. A special election will be called.- . IN PORTLAND CELLS PORTLAND, July g.-MPH-Mflfrn Ray Rowland, 29. charged with stealing an automobile nt Red din, Cal.. tfho was arrested at Klamath Falls, was lodged in the county Jail today. James Jameeon. Bly. Ore., In dieted by the federal grand Jury for aliened liquor viotatlons, hIo wan returned from Klamath Kalis and Indued In jail here. BALTIMORE, July 6. (JP) John Butz's prize homing pigeon, Mr." Butz said today, had to walk back part of the way from St. Paul, Minn, lie exhibited a denud S ed bird and pointed to what S he said were calouses as evl- dence. 4 . Somewhere between St. Paul and Baltimore, said Mr. Butz, a storm overtook the 4 pigeon, an Imported flier from Belgium, named Ant fi werpp, and stripped it of its feathers. There was nothing for Antwerp to do but walk. and Antwerp did, arriving fr after four days at the Butz. ( home at breakfast time, said Mr. Butz. SIX KILLED Quarrel Over Auto Battery Leads to Lynching Negroes Burned Alive in . House Where Refuge Sought From Angry Mob EM ELLIS, Ala., July 5 (P) Six persons were dead today In race warfare which flared here late yesterday and resulted In a gun battle, the lynching of a negro and the burning of a negro dwell ing. . 1 Two of those killed were white men.,;. The others were negroes. The dead: . r -. '.. i - ;:!'- CI. T. Boyd, White; a man named Marrs, white; Jean Robertson, negro; three unidentified negroes. A. quarrel between Clarence Boyd a nephew o CI. T. Boyd, and a negro to whom the Boyds had sold an automobile battery was credited by officers as start ing the riot. After the argument the negro left tho Boyd place of business, and returned later with two other negroes, who renewed the quarrel. One of tho negroes struck Clar ence Boyd on the head with a bottle and as the Elder Boyd came to his nephew's rescue, he was shot four times In the back by one of the negroes. Refuge Siirroimilcxl. All three negroes then sought refuge in the house of John Rob ertson, a negro. In an exchange of shots .between negro occupants of the house and one group of white men on the outside, Marrs and Robertson were killed and two negroes were wounded. With the death of Marrs, a rush was mude on tho negro's house and the building was set afire. When the fire died down, the embers were searched and the bodies of two negroes wero found. They had been burned to death. Intermittent battles between whttPH and blacks, but with no bloodshed continued through yes terday afternoon and last night, while, search was continued for the negro alleged to have shot G. T. Boyd. Bosses were formed to sea rch the section around Emelle for the slayer. This morning the body of one negro, alleged to have been one of the ring leaders In the race riot, was found hanging to a tree near here. partyTeaders IN ORANGE, N. J.. July G. (A, President Hoover had the chance today to talk about the Republi can national chairmanship with Senator Fess, who had been men tioned prominently as a possible successor to Ctaudtut Huston. The Ohioan arrived at the presi dential lodge on the Rapidlan while the day was young. His vlfilt was coincident with wide spread reports that M r. Hoover is to take a hand shortly In the controversy over the continuation of Huston in office. Five days from now the national committee officers are to meet. The senate Republican leader. Watson of Indiana, and hit as Kstant MrNary of Oronon were exnected nt the camn later today I with their wives. 1 N ALABAMA RACIAL WAR FRFNR COMMITTEE HEAD' i i I After droning over Sky Harbor, Ohiciijfo, in., Tor .V;1 hours and telephoto shows tho Hunter family al'tot two members, ulded by Hm nil of the rest, landed alter breaking: -all previous emluraniv records, friend nf the family; Kenneth, John, sister Irene, Mrs. Allwrt Hunter. NIARARA FAI I S U,M u-" !MH v 1 lilHufmH rHLLO ni r II 1 1 rn George Stathakis, Self ' Styled Greek Philosopher, Believed Dead After Drop in Oak Barrel. NIAGARA FALIJ3. N. Y., July 5. (P) Shooting the Horseshoe falls In nn oak barrel of his own design is believed to have cont George E. Stathakis, 4G, Buffalo, self-styled Greek philosopher, his life today. Stathakis took the plunge over the falls at 3:35 p.m., and an hour later river men were lined along the shore of the river below the fall still waiting for him and his barrel to appear. The barrel was liHieved to have been crushed against the jagged rocks at the foot of the cataract. William (Red) Hilt, Niagara Falls, Ont., rlverman. who has aided In many rescues on tho up per and lower river and who went through the lower rapids and whirlpool In a steel barrel on May 30 of this year, examined Stathakis' barrel today and said thnt If Stathakis made the trip as planned, he wa h to n v I need h e would be killed. Hill, who had been engaged to recover the bar rel after it takes the plunge over the cataract, said he had engaged a physician and undertaker to go out with him. Took n Mattress. Stathakis entered the barrel on Navy island. A steel casting was clamped down over the opening at the top nnd the barrel was towed out into the Canadian chan nel and then to within about one half mile of the beginning of the rapids above the falls. The barrel was said to weigh at least a ton.iind It was 10 feet long. The Interior was padded and equipped with a spring mat tress. Witnesses said It was 10 minutes! from the time the barrel was cut loose from the tug until it made the plunge. The barrel rode the (Continued on Page 6, 8tory 1) Alphonse, 510,000 Blue Ribbon Bull, Tries to Swim Atlantic; Beats Tugs, But Sinks To Watery Grave phonse, $10,000 blue ribbon bull, aspired to be the first trans-Atlantic swimmer, or perhaps, hear ing so much aboiif his Impending trip to Europe, he got the notion that he was supposed to get there under his own power. His owner, Lewis Satterthwalte of Newton, Pa., was shipping Al phonse to Europe to compete in Cierman fairs, und had loaded him aboard a ferry this morning for the trip to Brooklyn, his port of embarkation. Half way across Buttermilk channel Alphonse burst nut of his rrate, paced a first mate a cou- uiiniM i mLu UIKIMLLLU Samuel Elkins, Bluejacket on U. S. Gunboat Guam, Is Victim of Bandit Volley British Rush Warships As Terror Reigns in Yochow. WASHINGTON, July 5. The navy was advised today of the death of bluejacket, Hamuel Klklns of Brooklyn, N. Y. In nn encounter between Chinese bandits and the United States gunboat Guam yes terday ftt Yochow, Hunan, China. Two messages confirming unof ficial advices from Shanghai that sirch an engagement ' had taken place during tho looting of Yochow by bandlUi, wor received. The state department will be no tified of the conflict. Details were not mwlo public Immediately. The merlcnn legation at Paip lng already had been Instructed to make "urgent protects" against treatment reported received by American citizens at Sniping, .llo nnn, China, Krnnk P. Lock hurt, consul general at Hankow, report ed A mericitii missionaries were driven through the. streets there with sticks. LONDON, July 5. 4Vi A Ren ter' dispatch from Hankow says that the British gunboat Teal was fired upon yesterday nt Yochow by the bandit hordes who captured and sacked that city. Two British Bailors were wounded. Tho gun nont returned the fire nnd If, M. S. Bee h a s bee n o rd o red to Yochow from Hankow. HANKOW, July S. M; Au thoritative reports tonight Indi cated tho communist outbreak at Yochow In which hundreds were massacred yesterday was but a part of the larger communist movement seeking to gain control of western Hupeh provinco and all Hunan. pie of trial laps around the deck. I then leaped overboard, t Through the channel, down Into ! the narrow, and finally Into Gravesend bay swam Alphonse, with police tugs snorting In his j wake and seeking to surround j him. ! Another police tug was called, and then another, until there were four but the problem of rescuing Alphonse was one with which j they wero unequipped to cope. 1 For a while Alphonse seemed to be In fine fettle but he tired j as he proceed d out beyond the 1 Narrows, und nomewhere In the , s;dt renter of Gravesend bay he ' liisapp ared from view, in minutes, this Associated 1-css ground and refueling; ships by Lett to right; (ilndyn Unburn, AllK'it and mother. Ida Hunter. KILLED CAR HITS POLE W. H. Wing, Veteran Ce "ment Worker Meets Death When Auto Swerves From Pacific Highway William H. Wing, 00, Gold Hill, was instantly killed Thursday night on the Pacific highway a short distance north of Gold Hill when a car driven by H. T. Chlsholm swerved off tho highway. Report. Indicated thut Wing's head, pro truding from tho car, struck a telephone pole as the auto narrow ly a,verted a collision with the nolo. An inquest may be held this afternoon or tonight, Four othcrH 1 tho auto, John Chlsholm, S. T. Chlsholm, Douglas Cameron and VV. McOreug, escaped with minor injuries. The machine was northbound at a time when there was little traffic on the high way and none of tho passengers was able to give a reason for the crash today. Wing had been employed by tho I leaver-Portland Cement company at Gold J I J 1 1 for nine years and was well known In that section. He is survived by his wife, Lulu Wing, and one daughter, M rs. W. it. Kleckner, Oakland, Calif. The body will be shipped today to Oakland Tor cremation. State Traffic Sergeant C. V. Talent was at the scene of tho era h today making a completo Investigation. Three KIIImI In Oregon PORTLAND, Ore., July 5. OP) The aftermath of Fourth of July traffic resounded from hospitals, morgues and police stations today. Traffic mishaps killed three, score: were injured, some seriously and many wero arrested on various charges. William H. Wing, 00, was killed and several other persons were injured In an automobile accident at Gold Hill, Ore. Their car left the road and crashed Into a pole and overturned In a ditch. Wing was master mechanic at the Gold Mill cement plant. A stago smashed Into a rock near Gohle, Ore,, und Injured five. They are: Mr. Churlea Alston, ; Helena, Ore., nnd .L A. Whatlon, 1 Mrs, Matchcller, Jrmu Doronan and William Hilt, all of Portland. ' Leslie Kennlston, 2Z, and Jack Clifford, 25, occupants of an auto mobile stolen from Portland, be longing to W. A, Woodruff, were found unconscious In tho wreckage of the machine by a Washington state traffic officer near Vancou ver. Dale Westran, 7, Portland, was taken to a hospital after a bunch of firecrackers exploded tn his pocket. Emma Marie Olscn, 2, daughter of Mr. and Mr. Hans Olsen, of Jewell, Ore., was killed near Jewell when the family car skidded on louse gravel, The parents escaped Injuries. Seven were Injured when a speeding roadster driven by Mrs. jiii'iic nciin-y, iiitmiiii, vrunni'ii nuo : a parked car belonging to Victor Hpfaring. aUo Tacoma, at Gray , land ocean beach, (Continued on Page 6, 8tory 2) 4 LONDON'. July 5. (?) Winifred Brown, 2 2 -year-old girl, today won the King's i cup air race, beating many 4 of lOli.rtn iwl'u fl-nr l- nilolu A around the TftO-mfle course. Lighty-eight airplanes, six nf which were piloted by & women, participated. Miss Brown's average speed was 102.7 miles an hour. She fs the first woman to I win great Britain' must tm portant air race. Denial of Billings Plea by High Court Disappoints Pair Accused of Pre paredness Day Bombing Future Plans Outlined. SAN FRANCISCO, July 6. (P) DlMiiHxtlntpcl hut nut (ItacounlRed lt.v tlu Ciillfurula Huprome coui't'H iluclxlon denying Wairen K. Bll HriKs' ploa for a put-don recommen dation, Billings and Thonuis J. Jluoney mill hupo to establish themselves Innocent nnd obtain their freedom. HilllniCH, who has spent 14 years of a life sentence In Folsom prison fur murder In connection with the UIKi preparedness duy bomblns here, outlined two future plans of action, designating one as "loop holes In tho supreme court's de cision," and the other as habeas corpus proceedings, loading pos sibly to tho United Stutes supremo court. Mouhey, serving a similar sen tence In Kan Quentln prison, when Informed of tho decision yesterday, declared "the fight Is not over yet." Witness A.slocp "The governor snys If Billings Is guilty, I am," he commented. "However, Mr, Oxman, who suld lie saw Hillings and mo at the cor ner of Market and Stuart streets In San Francisco tho day of the bombing has been proved to have been asleep In a friend's house In Woodland that ily." Frank Ox mun, Durkec, Oregon cattleman, was one of tho prosecution's star witnesses. Mooney cut off his brief com ment with "pleuse excuso mo, I want to see tho ball game." The game was part of the prisoners' Independence day celebration. A quite different position wus Uikcn by Charles M. Flckert, dis trict attorney when Mooney and Hillings were convicted. Flckert, now a Los Angeles resident, was visiting In Han Francisco yester day. "I have always been confident," Flckert said, "that tho distorted framework renred In years ot oJV fort to release these men would, under seurching inquiry, tumble like a house of cards." l-'lckei't said he wus confident they wero guilty when they were convicted und was "still of thut opinion." Baseball Scores America, it. R. 11. E. Philadelphia 7 12 Si Boston 2 6 0 Batteries: Mnhaffey nnd Coch rane; (laston, Smith, Durham nnd Deny, Hevlng. R. II. E. St. Lnuis 1 7 I Chicago 8 13 I C'offniun, Mnlshauser nnd M an ion; Knhor nnd Tate. R. II. K. Cleveland II It a Detroit 8 21 1 Mean, Miller nnd Myutt; llogsett and llnyworth. R. H. E. New York 2 H I Washington 3 10 0 I'nncuck and Margrave and lien goug; Ilrown and Spencer. National. n. h. e. Ilrooklyn 8 10 2 New York '..11 11 0 Butteries: Luqtie, Thurston and Lopez, IMclnlch; Mubbell and Ho gan, O'Farrell. First game: It. H. E. Boston .....17 111 2 Philadelphia 8 II 8 Ilatterles: Sherdel and fipoh rer; Elliott, Smith, Hunsen and Itensa. Chl.ngo .....12 1 0 Pittsburg 4 MOlE? 10 BATTLE ON FOR LIBERTY ON FOURTH Hunter Brothers Forced to Land at 5:21 Friday Evening As Oiling System Fails Huge Crowd Mills About Landing Field. CHICAOO, July 5. W) The longest . sustained airplane flight In the world's history has ended. J The finish "came at 5:21:80 (central standard time) last night. John and Kenneth Hunter, who rose, from the plow to the plane. landed in the Fuurth of July twi light nt sky harbor airport with a world's refueling endurance rec- . orcl. of 0!i:i hours, 41 minutes and seconds blavtened on the wings of their "City of Chicago."..' The end was ns . unexpected nw the beginning 2.1 days ago was In auspicious. A clogged fitter stopped the oil flow; the motor was seared from luck of lubrication; a hurried landing was made: and the old record of 420:21:30 wus left 1M hours und 20 minutes behind. llolldny thousands who had .Uimmed .the airport since early day, floundered in tho suddenness of the descent. They had Just seen the endur ance ship succored by "Big Ben." the providing pluno, manned by Albert, und Walter Hunter, two more of the brothers who learned to fly In pastures of their farm nt Sparln, 111. . ; Diri'louliy Unrealized. Thousands thought the "City of Chicago" was set for ; another night of monotony; they could not see the oil spurting back onto '.the filers Instead of flowing Into the overheated motor. . ' ) So many' planes pock-marked the nir thnt the blue monoplane "City of Chicago" sped to, with in 100 feet 'of th' ground before it was noticed. Thn enme the spontaneous combustion , of hu man enthusiasm. The mob milled to the center of the field Ignoring the death-sweep of the plane's propeller. John Hunter at the controls, outwitted the pack, tnxled to the far south-' west corner of the field, back tracked his trail twice, pivoted and then skirted the north' of the field Into the hangnr. But the pack was nearlts quar ry. Police nnd airport officials were helpless and tho spartans of the air were besieged In the hangnr. Officials of the Nutlonal Aeronautical association managed to muscle In and grab the baro graph. Protection for the plane wns finally established and sou venir hunters were denied ''even a speck of the oil that splotched the fuselage and wings. Filers Greet Nation. The world soon knew of -the descent; a radio man plunged through with a microphone and John and Kenneth HtffUvr greeted tho nation ns champions. lleporters and cumeramen had to fight for their news and pic tures. Tho first flash was clicked off luckily 'before hedlam broke loose; then their wire setups were torn asunder In the confusion, and it wns severnl minutes before the wires eould bo repnlred and the Btory of a new record telegraphed to waiting editors nnd tho world. It was fully 10 minutes beforo the fliers could escape Into the hangar office. There they had tholr first chance to relax If re laxation could be had midst the flashlight flares and reporters' questions. . ' When the boys awoke this morning, they ench found a' new bed with a 100 bill attached as tho gift of a bed manufacturer. Having nlrendy enrned about 125,000, tho Hunter brothers hesi tuted to estimate what their new world endurance record would ultlmntely mean to them In the way of riches. Tho 10,000 of fered them by . the oil company sponsoring their: flight. Is contin gent on appearances the Hunters must make, at Various headquar-.; ten of the M firm. V V . They earned more than ' J7000 from the malt extract company, under whose auspices they broad cast by radio during their flight, und their share of the gate re ceipts amounted to more . than $B0O0. Other offers and gifts swelled the 'total. - ; Fisherman Drowned ' ' SEATTLE, July S.,-P Malta Peterson, 24-year old logging fore man of North Bend, Wash., slip ped from a rock while fishing on the south fork of tho Snoqualmle river yesterday and wag drownod. Batteries: Moss, . Osborri and Hartnett; French, Chagnon and Hemsley, Bool, R. H. E. Boston i 1 11 ,,2 Philadelphia ' 1 0 Cenlwnll, Brandt and SpohreT: Collard. NIcholuH, Colllna and Davis. .. .. . . . j