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Medfoid Mail tribune .v-v Twenty-Fifth Year MEDFORD, OUKOOX, SUNDAY, JULY 13. 1930. No. 112. Today By Arthur BrUbant ; Mussolini and Kemal. ! Qoyle Came Back. A New. Jersey Ghost. Interesting Marriage. Copyright King Features Bynd. Inc. Mussolini interests Europe, pauses excitement in Franee proposing an alliance with Oer ttiany. France understands that the RiiKKestion calls for a military alliance, or, at least, an agree ment that Germnny will remain neutral in case of an Italian French war. - Mussolini oufdit to know what siiejli. nn alliance really means when war really starts. In 1914, Italy had an alliance with Germany and the Kaiser was foolish enough to think it would stand up. It did not. Wheal Kemal Pasha, boss of T u r k e y, makes war, 1IE MAKES WAR. You remember that Mussolini threatened him, and Kemal replied: "If you send Italian soldiers against Aie, the difficulty will be to find room to bury the number that I shall kill." . A despatch from Turkey tells how Kcnpil trapped 1000 rebellions Kurds in his Zeylun river valley, and killed every nne,f;ranting no quarter. That sounds .like old days when Mohammed himself was leader, and later when western Kurope whispered in awe the name of "the grand Turk." The spirit of Conan Doyle has obliged by attending a seance of spiritualists. He came n long way from London, forgetting perhaps, to allow for the east ward movement of the earth, lie landed in the Bronx in up per New York City, and re marked: "I am Conan Doyle, vaihI I am glad to he here." Then he asked for pencil and paper and wrote a telephone number. M o r e important messages probably will come later, more appropriately located. Wost I;ong Branch, N. J., thinks it has a ghost. It was first set n last Sunday night by a party of young people in an automobile. They threw stones at the white figure, and swear that it stood ten feet high. Night before last at midnight WOO people waited in a grave yard, borrowing courage from each other. Twice', previously the ghost had rushed and scattered small grouns of watchers. On Wednesday of the three thousand, only half a dozen wo men saw the spook. I 2,!)!)4, including the police, ' saw nothing. That's about the average for ghosts, in real tests. It is announced that Princess Juliana, only child of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, and destined to be oueen in her turn, will marry Prince Sig vard, son of the Swedish crown prince, and grandson of the duke of Connaught. Row quickly iiumnn condi linns nnd' feelings change. I'rinee Siirvnrd is the descent lant (if Ilcrnadotte. one of Nn puleoii's niiirshiils, who was the first Swedish king of his line. And lirriiiidottc was the son of a little French lawyer, and, as Mr. IJipley tells yon, Uernn tl'itto had tattoed on his arm, the slogan of the revolution, "IVoth to Kinirs." Mivs Martha I.. I'onnole, lady lawyer, replying to Mrs. Thoin- (C'ontlnUfd un i'age Beven) MOONEY IN 'FRAME-UP' BY POLICE John Mao Donald, Long Lost Star Witness, Hurls Charges Declares Bill ings Guilty-Gov. Young Acts In Latest Turn In Case. i BALTIMORE, July 12 P) Ro- fused his liberty though no charges are pending agnintt lilni. John MacDunald worn and broken. IboiiKb but SS, today hurled charges that police of San Francis co were to .blame for his testimony which 14 years ago sent Tom Mooney to prison In California for life. Ilia retraction does not apply to Warren K. Billings, convicted with Mooney, who, he declared is guilty. Mooney and Billings, labor lead ers, were convicted of the prepared ness day bombing in San Francisco In 1910 which claimed ten lives, on MacDonald's testimony that he had seen the two plant a suitcase containing the infernal machine. This testimony, MacDonald said after his arrest last night through identification by a newspaper pho tographer, was planned by officials and he was coached in It by the state prosecutor. Along with the story of official Interference In his 1917 testimony MacDonald coupled a charge he had been offered bribes by the police and forced to identify Mooney, who he declared he never had seen before he was taken to the San Francisco Jail nnd told by police the labor leader was "his man." Now, broken and aged by the knowledge of what he has done, the suite's key witness appeared in circuit court where hbj attorney sought his freedom on a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Walter 1. Dnwklns refused to grant the action sought and ordered State's Attor ney Herbert R. O'Conner to noia him until advices of what Califor nia wanted done were received. O'Conner wired Gov C. C. Young of California the proceedings and embraced In his message the sug gestion criminal action could be brought against police nnd other offit als who MacDonald claims are responsible for the wrong he seeks to right. Whatever action la taKen oy Governor and O'Connor, MacDon ald Is going to return to California to lay his story before the eexcu tive. He says he wants at last of ficially to recant the story which the foreman of the Mooney Jury said resulted In the conviction. SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 11!. (fl) Governor C. C. Young tonight telegraphed Herbert H. lltranoi, Maryland state attorney appraising him California cannot now compel the return of John MacDonald, wit ness in the trials of Warren K. Hllllnis nnd Thomas J. Mooney. but suggesting he hold the man until such steps can he tnncn. "I understand MacDonald Is will ing to return to California volun tarily." the governor said. "The attorney general advises me there Is no wny this state can compel MacDonald's return. He al so advises I have no authority to release him. "I suggest you communicate with the Mooney defense commit tee, 040 Turk street, San Francisco, which committee I am told is will ing, to return him. "I am anxious to question Mar Donald nnd .sincerely trust he will he held until a procedure is finally determined." RULES TO A VOTE SALEM, Ore., July 12. UP) Plans for certain reforms In Ore gon judicial procedure that for sev eral months have been under con sideration of the state Judicial council have been assigned to com mittees of the council and will he drafted Into bill" for Introduction In the next legislature. The com mittees were appointed at a meet ing of the council here yes'.erday, nnd will report to the council at another meeting to be held during the state bar association conven tion in Pondleiun, Sf.itember 2" nnd 2S. WEEK'S ACCIDENTS IN STATE IS 508 PAI.KM. Ore.. July 12. f"l A total of 0 accidents were report pd in th Mate industrial accident Pfimmiiin for the week endinar July 10. None was fatal. AVIATION'S LATEST DEVELOPMENT " Associated Press Photo The hotlcopter, designed to meet the need for an airplane that will move directly up and down, received Initial tests at Curtiss field, New York. The craft consists, essentially, of four large wings or blades made to revolve by propellers mounted on each wing and receiving their power from a centrally lo-nted motor. Maitland B. Bleeker, the Inventor, Is shown In inset at the controls of the new machine. ASTORIA JUDGE Directed Verdict Ordered When Court Rules States' Case 'Flimsy' Juror Asks a Question. ASTORIA, Ore., July 12. UP) J. K. Kurke, prominent Portland and Astoria salmon packer, was acquitted of charges of Arson to day when Circuit Judge Howard K. Klmmermnn Rllstnine.l n defense motion for a directed verdlce. Burke was indicted sevornl weeks ago by the circuit court grand jury In connection with a fire- lust Janu ary which demroyetl the Hnnborn CuttinK salmon cannery, operated by Burke. Lost) was cMtlmated at about $250,000. Judge Zimmerman declared that careful examination of the cuso convinced him there was no other way to end the trial. He reviewed the testimony and explained his ruling to the jury. The judge said apparently only contradictory statements by the state 'was "flimsy." Most of the Insurance money, he said, would go to Banks and Burke would realize only $!)0,noo. He flnld Burke's car parked near the wharf was Imma terial. Hans Christenson, a' member of the jury, demanded that Burke tell about his jump into the river to save his life. Judge S51mmermnn ruled Burke did not have to testify. Capt. M. J. Lnrson, of the Tug Enterprise, who rescued Burke, said Burke's jlolhes were dry. Burke said he changed hta clothes after he was brought to the tug landing. FARMlDFLAG WASHINGTON, D. C. July 12. (I) Senator McNury today went to Oregon the flag which flew over the national capitol when the Mc'Nary-Heugen farm relief bill was passed u year ago. ' The flag was sent In response to a request from Governor A. W. Norblad who plans to Include It In a collection of historic ban ners on dlsplny In the enpitnl building at Snlem. F L RICHMOND, Va.( July 12. WP) A stuff correspondent of the TmeH Dispatch reported by tele phone at 10 o'clock tonight E. 8. T. he had located Mary Fran ces McClenny. missing Kkhmond society girl, and Horry Ui' klnson, Uit-hmond garage man, charged with secreting her, at Waynes boro, Vo. The correspondent wild he found them on the porrh of a hdUwe where they had been May ing. He rtated he wan leaving couple by automobile for ond immediately. ttboro In more than 100 miles from ItUhmond. No other details were imme diately available. The Weather Oregon Fair Sunday and Mon day but cloudy at night In the went portion. Continued high tem peratures east of the Ca wades. Humidity below normal nnd de- i creasing gene ra II y . M oderate variable wiriun. FREES PACKER IN ARSON CASE FOREST FIRES LI Blaze Near' Hiatt Prairie Dam Battled Fifteen Fires Started By Electric al Storms In Diamond Lake Section Timber Dry, Is Report. Fifteen fire-fighters battled des perately last evening to place a forest and brush fire under control along the Tllatt Prairie dam, after It had broken away from the ef forts of firo fighters who believed the firo was quelled hint Friday. The' blaze CuVorjuin nrea: nenrly-a mile long but on a narrow front age. This wan the only fire re ported by forest officials here yes terday. ENGENE, Ore., July 12. (P) Twenty forest fires were started by an electrical storm in the Cas cade National forest late today. The fires are scattered from Dia mond Lake to Three Sisters. All the fires are small and only 40 men of the Cascade forest atnff are fighting them. A larger crew Ut being held in reserve. Ono fire near Not!, Ore., has been brought under control. The storm still lingered over the mountains tonight. The timber is reported extremely dry. mmk ON LIE CHARGE MIAMI. Fla., July 12. WV "Scarface" Al C'apone was acquit ted today on the first of three per jury charge pending against him in Dodo county criminal codrt on a directed verdlet. The acquittal was ordered by Criminal Court Judge H. C. Col lins, who granted a 13 point mo2 tion for a directed verdict by Ca pone'sattorneys. Tho motion wan made as the stnte rested Its cose and was debated by attorneys for several hours. Judge Col I Inn con sidered the motion In chambers for an hour. As the Judge announced his de cision, the crowd that, has jammed the court room through the three days of the trial cheered wildly. They halted only when the Judge Instructed bailiffs to arrest any demonstrators. SAME OLDSTORY AT THE PORTLAND. Ore., July 12. fP) Percy J. Larsen, 46. Portland, was killed Instantly tonight when the automobile In which he was rid ing collided with R Southern I'a- uin: iiiriKin i, 'mi. f .......... ...... .frit.. Ing about 35 miles an hour and! " nna! drove hend on Into the side of the; locomutlve. The automobile was dragged about 100 feet before it wax cast off. J. If. Htoltz, engineer of the train, mi dhe was coming Into the rail road yards at about 1& miles an hour. ATLANTIC CITY, N. 3., July 12. iA) Two men were killed tonight as their plane nose dived In the woods at McKee 'lty on the outskirts of rieaHiintvllle. The vlf-tlrns were Charles V. Itlrw-h. 31. the pilot, nnd Kdwin Noonan, IS, who was a passenger. IN VA .EY AND EUGENE AREAS MAKES BOW TRAGEDIES OF AIR TAKE TOLL Unidentified Flyer Dies In ' Wyoming Crash Huge Plane Crashes Into Crowded Grandstand Alaska Pilot Among Miss ing.' CA8PI3R, Wyo July 12. UP) An unidentified pilot wns Instant ly killed In tho crash of his plane on u ranch' HO miles west of here. . A rancher reported the acci dent. Coroner Owen A. Much wns battllng;muddy roads In un ef fort -Joi-cac-h tho -nUme, Tho w,ords '"'Sail Diego, " 'Calif.", nnd numbers "Nil 14 W" wore pnfnted on the plane. Tho plane was flying low and suddenly crushed to the ground, witnesses said. The body was. not disturbed by those attracted to the scene and tho Identity of the flier was not determined. ' VALLEY STREAM, N. J..' July 12. (P) Two persons were killed at the Curtis-Wright flying field hero tonight when a huge tlght een passenger piano crashed into a grandstand filled with specta tors watching a night flying ex hibition. The victims were Illsmnn Knn termiin and Ills wife, Mary, both .11) jfiirs old. They wero struck by the whirling threo-bludcd pro peller of the ship as It ran thru a guard railing Into tho grand stand. Alfred Watts, 21, a licensed me chanic, was piloting tho ship. Ho was moving It from a place on the field where It hod been sta tioned oil day Into a hangar about a half mile nwny. Ho apparently lost control of tho ship as it taxied across the grotind. PITTSBURGH, Cnllf., July 12. (P) Fishermen today recovered the bodv of Frank Hllbler, 23, deck hand on a dredger, who drowned Monday night when his clothes caught firo from exploit ing gasoline and ho leaped to tho Sacramento river. Vapors In his pocket identified him lis nn airplane pilot. JUNEAU, Alaska, July 12. UP) Word was received hero today that Onptiiln Clayton Hcolt, who urn. flvlniF n florst plane from Cordova to Kctchlknn, had been unreported for two days. Clayton was on a barnstorming trip to Cordova nnd left there Thursdny nflernnoti for Ketchi kan. Tho senplnno Taku, of the Aiu.kn-Wimhlnitton Airways, was preparing to leave hero In search for the missing pilot. VACATION HEART NEW YORK, July 12 , W) Fifty-seven thousand employe of . Vn Western Klectrlc Co. leu offices today for vnenllon. B .- in non em- (doves of the Hawthorne, 111 plant. 17.000 at Kearney, N. J., 2,000 lit Ik.ltimore ami 8.000 scattered eifu-wherA over the country, A skeleton force will man the nlants until the muss vacation ends Julv 28, The company call It "probably the largest Industrial vacation exodus on record, mn etv seven per cent of the factory employes are receiving vacations with nav. The simultaneous vacation plan was tried out last summer At the Hawthorne plant, 0 ER WDEAREA STABILIZATION OF GAS PRICES Few Dealers Continue To Sell at 'Pre-War' Figure But Indications Point To Early Return to Top Fig ure. SAN FRANCISCO, July 12. (P) Although gasoline In many Inde pendent stations was sold today below prices established by several of the major oil companies, belief was e x p v esse d nil deal e r s w Mil d Aoon fall In line, ending tho gns war that started on tho Pacific coast June 12. In Han Francisco major oil com pany (nations and leading Indepen dontH sold gasoline at 20 cents hut motorists could obtain It as low a ten cent sin many places. Oil company spokesmen nnd in dependent operators said tho situa tion "whs not unexpected. ' . Other oil officials said while those companies with headquarters on the coast could get In line quickly other concerns with offices In the ast needed time to report de velopments and take measures to restore conditions similar to Kan Francisco were seen inother coast cities where officials said tho ond of the war was In sight. At lAm Angeles major concern sold at 0 1-3 cents, while others dlHplnyed signs varying 10 to 12 'A cents. In Seattle Shell, Union. lllchflold and Standard sold at 20 1-3, with n few independents holding to a 10-eent price. Most Spokane denier nsked 2 4 cents, with scaterlng of Indepen dents at 12 cents. After a confused condition In Tacoma, where, prices today opened from 5 to 20 cents, later In the day most dealers brought prices near tho major oil company figure. Portland prices varied 9 to 21 '4 cents but Indica tions wore that the price would soon bo near the top figure. TROLLEY PLUNGES F HUKNOH AIRES, July J2. (P) Plunging ere one section of a half raised cantilever .bridge, a trolly car today curried to their dentils In the wnterB o( Itlui'ho river nhout sixty persons, Includ ing flvo women. Threo passengers who had been seated on the rear platform, es caped and swum ashore. All tho other!) were trapped Insldo tho enr which wns completely sub merged, only the trolley polo sticking out above the water. At the time of the accident, a heavy fog hung over the Hlacho, a small stream dividing JJuenos Aires from Avellanda. It Is be lieved the motormun, falling In tho fog to see the far section of the bridge wns raised, ran off tho lovel section. Itescuu Biiusds wero organized nnd by noon 63 bodies had been recovered, nfost of tho dead wore laborers on their way to work. SALE RAL.KM. Ore., July 12. OT Fred Meyers. Mt. Angel bachelor, 00, years old, has disappeared. Iist week Meyers visited Krank Hidings, a relative at Kugene. When tho visit was ended Hid ings took Meyera to Albany where ho visited a friend named Ad nm. Adams took Meyers to the Albany stage termlnul Haturduy morning, but did not wait to see him aboard the stage. 'Meyers has not been seen by acquain tances since. EUGENE GIRL IS PORTLAND. July 12. UP) Miss I'nlrlclu. Hharp, Eugene, Ore., mid liollce today two men enter ed her room In a hotel to inquire how sho felt nfter she fell down stairs. She said when they left she missed her purse containing a $600 diamond ring and $108, 1 WAI-TON, N. Y., July 12. VP) Andrew 1. Iieers, 77, wns In the rjclitware county Jail at Delhi to night In consequence of the killing of his 24-year-old (laughter, iron ces. whom he could not bear lo see suffer In Illness. COAST NEAR Minister Held Z lpC ) w . I J - ' ill a. AasoctateA Prett Photo The hev. A. L. Shoemaker, for. mer pastor of Alton, III., went on trial charged with abducting Bar nice Ford, 19, member of hit con gregation, last April, E TAX IN GAINS DESPITE GLOOMYJALKS Business Slump and Stock Crash Not Reflected In Payments Total Col lections Over Three Bii lions . For Fiscal . Year . WASHINGTON, July 12. IIP) Income lax payments which con tinued to Increase in fnce of busi ness dopresslon In 1930 and the stock market collapso in 1029 brought 12,410,230,889 Into the treasury during the fiscal- year 11130, swelling the tax collections for tho twelve months to $3,038,- 498.929. Collections for the 1930 fiscal year wero announced today by the internnl revenue bureau whoso statement showed the income tax was $78,950. 400 more than collect ed In the 19 29 yenr and an Increase of t9,444,rr4 over the previous twelve months. Individual pay ments for tho year wero $1,140,782 and corporation payments $1,263,- 100. The tnhulntlon, however, showed that 40 of the collection districts returned less total tax than In the previous year, while 25 districts showed nn Increase. The six New York district returned $830,084, 032 In Income tax and In five of the districts the Individual pay ments oxceeded the corporation re turns. North Carolina had the largest amount of miscellaneous tax, which Included tho tnhncco tax. In the year It paid $257,276,180 In mis cellaneous taxes and $16,987,037 In Income tax. Illinois paid $223,874,883 In In come Uix nnd of which corpora tions paid $122,6r.8,093. Pennsyl vania paid $280,204,814 In taxes from all sources which showed a decrease ot $9,000,000 compared with tho previous year. ISIANA I IS HOMER, I,a., iuly 12. VP) Forty cuscs of Infantile paralysis, resulting In sovon deaths wero re ported in Clalrborno Parish today, and publio health officials have quarantined all persons In this town under 16 years old and or dered a ban on public meetings, In. eluding church and theatre. Hny, nesvllle nearby has taken similar action. NEW YORK. July U. UP) The Hlmplon club In West 63rd street surrounded on both sides and In front by properties belong ing to John D. Rockefeller, Jr, was bombed early today with slight damage to the club build ing and to one of the adjucent Rockefeller premises. EIWENH. Ore., July 12. UP) A telegram urging the prohtbl lion of Importation of cargoes of Russian lumber by "using the clear Intent of the present law In respect to Importation of ar ticles In whose production convict and onforced labor Is employed was sent to ths assistant secro- lary of the trensury by the Wll lamelte Volley Lumbermen's as sociation today, , INCOM QUARANTINED WAVE TOLL ENDS Mid-West Death Toll Over 100, as Relief Comes Af ter Torrid Weather Worst Conditions In Decade. CHICAGO, July 12. UP) After causing more than 100 deaths In tho middle-west this week, the worst hot wnvo in a decade seemed to be breaking up tonight as re ports of scattered showers and thunderstorms brought some relief. The official forecast said . the heat wave would be entirely broken up within 36 hours, and was dissi pating over the Mississippi valley, where 100 degree temperatures of yesterday had fallen to the 80'a and low nineties. In this city the mercury rose to 07, the hottest July 12 on record. . Tho previous high mark was 93 on July 12, 1914. The heat sont thousands scurry Ing to the beaches to seek solace In the surf. Scattered showers in Nebraska sent the mercury tumbling from 103 to thereabouts down to around 06 but not until 15 deaths In the state had been attributed to the hea. Missouri, adding 20 more victims since yesterday, suffered most from' the hot wave and had a total of 52 deaths traceable to the heat. ' Eight more deaths were re ported In Iowa', for a total of 33 during the spell. In South Dakota, where temperatures up In the 100V had been general all week, the mercury had dropped to 79. 'Five died from the heat in South Dakota during the week. More than a docen deaths ' oc curred In the wake of the heat' wave In Minnesota, but cooler weather there today brought wel come respite,, , , , , . ,.. In Illinois' outside 'Chicago and ino laKO region mere were a nan dozen deaths attributed to the weather. t IjocoI Workers Prostrated Yesterdays' heat wave, with a maximum of -96, resulted In the prostration of three road workers who were brought Into a local hos pital yesterday afternoon. These. cases are the first reported of the yoar and occurred on the Crater T,ako highway. The cases were not diagnosed lost evening and there may be some doubt -whether heat prostration was the cause ot their Illness. IflNR WAIT RY bVI IM Mill I IS I Tl Man Doomed To Die For Slaying Minister Spends 22 Years In Cell By Quirk of Law's Delavs Has Few Visitors. . TRENTON, N. J., July 12. ) Seventy -one - year old Archibald Iterron has been waiting since 1908 to attend an execution that will never take place. He doesn't mind, it's his own. . Twenty-two years ago t h I month Herron was sentenced to bo electrocuted for killing the Rev. Samual B. D. Pricket. Writs and reprieves and one thing and an other kept delaying the eexcutlon. Herron tried to be patient. Finally a supreme court Justice postponed the event until "further orders," he died In 1923 without Issuing those orders. So Herron has stayed on and on In his cell, awaiting a natural death. He has had but two visitor In 12 years. . . - - OUT LOCAL BOYS ROSEBURO, Ore., July M.4JP) The Roseburg- American lief Ion junior baseball tea mdefeated the Medford team here today, 11 to 2. and captured tho aouhtern Oregon junior league title. By virtue ot lta victory her to day the Roneburg team will Plr the Eugene junior- le ague team, Kugene defeated Toledo, 14 to I today, . ' , WITH AN JERSEY CONVICT FOR EXE