Medfoed Mail' TraBfe TU Weather Forecast: ToiilRlit and Satur day, fiilr; no change lii tempera ture, 0 O MEDFORD, OliEtiOX, FRIDAY, .ll'LY 2.", HW). ,enty-Fifth Year FOURTEEN PAGES Xo. 124. Temperature Highest ycKtmlny 00 Ixiwost this morning 54 Precipitation: To A p.m. ycstrtxlay 00 To , a.m. today Todav By Arthur Brisbane Quake, Gale, Tidal Wave. Editing Coolidge. Mr. Borah in Reverse. She Shot the Wife. Copyright King Features Bynd. Inc. Already weakened, partly de molished by terrible earthquake shocks, many bouses, palaces ' and ebiirebes in Naples were leveled yesterday afternoon by ni severe gale, adding to the ; terror and loss of life. Then j came a . tidal wave driven by the gale. Kiiij; Victor Emmanuel start-! s cd for Naples as soon ns the ' I first earthquake news came. A j '' dispatch from Rome suggests that Pope I'ius XI himself will make a tour of tlie stricken re s gions to reassure the terrified , inhabitants. ' i Alter repeated earthquake J shocks, with Vesuvius blazing menacingly in the background, I a hurricane sweeping the city, ; thousands injured, two thou sand dead, no wonder the peo- pie are frightened. Calvin t'oolidge wrote a. his s tory of the i'uitcd States in ")(!() words to be engraved on a mountainside in South Dakota. Mr. Horglum, sculptor carving ; the mountain, changed the text. Mr. t'oolidge disowned it, and will probably write another. You feel as though you had : read of Moses' coming down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments, and Borglum changing his wordjng, possibly n leaving out the word "NOT." 1,'olitics in the fall will be mixed. Two years ago, Senator Borah, his noble mane shaking, lire in each eye, was telling the West, "Elect Herbert Hoover, mid see what HE will do for ,tlie farmer." This fall the West will see Miator liorali. not quite so ITi cry. telling the fanners that farm .board relief for farmers, in the language of the day, is n "flop." f The administration and Mr. Lcggc, head of the farm board, have done their best. They bought liil.lMKl.tMM) bushels of the wheat crop "to sta bilize prices." If an individual did that it would be called "cornering." When a man corners grain, he does it secretly. I'licle Sam did it openly. Wicked hoard of trade men stopped gambling in wheat, be gan building grain elevators to (Contlaued on Pagt) Four) Abe Martin jtif agriculture affected by depres " Ihr third degrre Is tnrtiirr j sinn to he given as low railroad lMrsonl led. tut 1 liollrve I prefer rates as possible, ill to a ronferenoe with relatives.' j in addition, the commission nU Hi milt Stew Nugent, this j found that wheat, coarse grains, imirnlir. he startefl huck The meanest IemXTWt know nf Vnrlc Ki PMh. lie mitA hi- flnir np ever" time vhe. Jjrop WILL Ml CANDIDATE SATURDAY NEWTORY Republican Leaders Decline to Predict Joseph Suc cessor Ten Men Eyed As Main Contenders Routine Program Today. Secret Itnllot. l'OHTl.AXl), July 2.". All balloting al the Iteonli lii'nn convention hero to kc lect it candidate for governor will lie secret. Halloting will Iks conducted 111 this nuiiiiier: As the toll is culled alpha betically by counties, each committeeman lerliiiilnf? with linker mid cnclliiK with Yiliu lilll. will turn in Ills ballot to a teller, who will collect the votes and i!cKslt tlicin in Imllot boxes. This Is in contrast to oien balloting Where each dcleKillo makes verbal announcement or bis vole. PORTLAND, Ore., July 25. (P) For the first time in Oregon's history, the Republican state com mittee gathered hero today to nominate a candidate for governor. This nominee will fill the place loft vacant by the death of Senator George W. Joseph, nominated at the May primary election. l'hil Metschan, chairman of the committee, called the convention to order at 2 p. m. Those generally credited with wide knowledge of things political in Oregon today confessed com plete confusion, and tho most prominent Republican leaders de clined to make any prediction as to the outcome. Tho delegates themselves, In general, had a be wildered air. Joat uf them are unacquainted with one another and until they arrived hero bad no op portunity for an exchange of views on. candidates or anything else. , ,. Ten Men" McnllolitNl The ten men upon whom politi cal conversation generally settled today were Tom 11. Kay, state treasurer: Julius L. Meier, Port land business man; Alfred 10. Clark Portland attorney; Phil Metschan, state chairman Republican com mittee'. Ralph S. Hamilton, Hend, speaker of the house of represen tatives; Fred 10. Kiddle. Island City, state representative; A. C. Marsters, Roseburg banker; J. H. Upton, Prlncvlllc, state senator; CJeorge Neuner. Portland, U. S. district attorney: C. K. (Pop) dales, Medford, biyiker and high way commissioner. It was expected nominations will not bo reached until Saturday afternoon. This afternoon's session was to be occupied .with routine affairs, iiuestlnns of procedure and passage nf resolutions, among other things. Whether tho chairman will bo selected before or after tho candi date ls chosen, was another ques tion to bo taken up. When all these things have been disposed nf tho convention will adjourn for the day. III! I lot Saturday llalluting on candidates ls ex pected to start tomorrow. The early balloting will bo of a com plimentary nature. At this com plimentary balloting tho strength of candidates less prominently mentioned will be seen. It ls con sldered possible, nf course, that In event of a deadlock over two or more of tho principal aspirants, a "dark horse'' will he thrown into the contest. (Continued on Page 8, Story 1) W A S H I N'f ; TO N , July 25. (IP) Substantial reduction In freight rates on wheat and other grains moving through western territory wero ordered today by tho Inter state commerce commission effee- 1 tive October 1 . The finding of the commission justifying tv decrease on wheat, other grains and grain product such hs flour and meal resulted from the commission's conii'l'"" with the Hoch-Smith resolution of congress which ordered producis i,nour na mfHi ?mium mi ue im-i :on a single rate, ana in anomon western railroads were oruerea 10 adopt a new system of making 'such rates in western territory. GRAIN FREIGHT RATE REDUCED WESTERN ZONE Air Casualties MEXICO CITY, July 25. (VP) Pour military aviators and one civilian were killed hero today wheu two armv p:aaos were wreck ed and fell into Carranza athletic field near Valliaena airport. One of the planes in its fall hit a man who was playing on a hand ball court, crushing him to death. IN OF Hungarian Comes Forward With Eye-Witness Testi mony Preparedness Day Bombing Says Mexi cans Acted Suspiciously. CI. KVF.LANl). July 25. Pi A new witness who said he was will ing to testify that Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Hillings aro Inno cent of tho Preparedness Day bombing that cost ten lives In San Francisco, 1 4 years ago, told his version here today of tho explo sion. Adam Krumesc, caretaker at tho homo of a Cleveland multimil lionaire, said bo believed three .Mexicans were to blamo for the blast, for which Mooney and Bil lings aro serving life sentences. Krumesc, a Hungarian, said ho was a 22-year-old roustabout In San Francisco at the tlmo of tho explosion. lie was sitting on a fruit box on the sidewalk 111 direct viewfcf tho blast when It occurred, ho said, "I noticed three mon who ap peared to bo Mexicans loltorlng on tho opposite sldo of tho street. I could see across tho street and noticed these threo men acted very suspiciously. I noticed they left Stewart street and turned into Market, walking as If they were in a hurry," Krumesc's signed state ment road. Noted Snlloase 'Almost simultaneously with their departure I noticed a suitcase standing on tho curb whoro they had been loitering. A terrific ex plosion occurred. I saw debris and parts of bodies flying through tho air." It was this suitcase, which ovl- denco has indicated contained tho exploslvo which Mooney and Bil lings wore convicted of having loft there. Krumesc said ho hurriedly left the scene after tho explosion, fear ing ho would bo arrested by police as a witness or as a suspicious person. In the years that followed. Krumesc said ho worked as a sailor and rarely read a newspaper, so that ho never knew Mooney ami Killings hail been convicted. It was difficult for him to read Eng lish anyhow, he said. FOUR KILLED IN Seventeen Injured When Amusement Device Jumps Track Crowd Hampers Rescuers. OMAHA. Nch July 25. P) CriiHhed when four airs of a heavy roller coaster train toppled over the eclco of a 6-foot Incline at KruE park here last night, pinnlnt! them beneath, four pemons are dead and 10 Injured, three being In a criti cal condition. The four-car coaster train had Just left the starting station and was being nulled up the first In cline by the cog chain when the front wheels of the lead car left the track and toppled over to plunge 35 feet to tho ground. The other three :ars were slowly pulled over the rail by the cog chain. Kor thrje-quarters of an hour po lice battled a surging crowd to reach the Injured and get them t ambulances. , The dead are C. H. Stout. 50, and Huth Karrell, 14, both of Oma ha, and Mrs. filadys Lundgren, -'.I, of Dcb Moines, Iowa. REC0VERB0DY FROM ROGUE NEAR G. PASS DEFENSE MOONEY COASTER CRASH OMAHA PARK GRANTS PASH, July 25. W Thin declnlon, rached by ngree Tho Rogue river hnrtly before ment between the parents, whs op nonn today gave up the body of noeed to that of a group of scien flarence Km 1 1 White. Id. of Port tlsts who late yrsterdhy rtecld'gl land, who drowned here late Wed-j the babies had be switched at nesday. The body was recovered Knglcvod hospital where they from 36 feet of water by use of were born. grappling linea. The parents, apparently In com- MEET TO CONSIDER Members of th Republican national committee meeting r.t Washing, ton to consider whether Chairman Claudius rt. nusion snomu or snouio not resign. Left to right: Rep. Wood, Ind.; J. Ft Nutt. Ohio; J Matt Chilton. Ky., proxy for Mrs. Alvln T. Hurt, vice chairman; Claudius H Huston, national chairman; Senator Moses. N. H.; Daniel E. Pomeroy. N. J.; James Francis Burke, Pa.; Earl S. Kinsley, tu . PLANT BUREAUIFRUIT SHIPPING CHIEF IS GUESTIPLAN OUTLINED OF FRUIT MENBYP.F.E. Dr. Wm. A. Taylor Says Rogue Valley Noted for Progressive Ideas in Fruit Industry. . Dr. William A. Taylor, Washing ton, D. C, chief of tho Bureau of LMant Industry of the Departmont of Agriculture, was a luncheon guest this noon at the Hotel Med ford, of representatives of the fruit i industry organizations of tho Rogue River valley. Dr. Taylor J is on a tour of governmental pro- jeets underway west of the Rockies ; and this is his first visit to this section. In a short address, Dr. 'Taylor said that hit, first notice of tho Rogue River valley as a progres sive fruit district, was 20 years ago, when the Horticultural Union secured the services of Prof. P. J., O'Oara, in the blight control cam paign "by paying him three times as much as the government would." .Since then he said he had come to know this section, through its exxpanslon and development pro grams, and that "this section has become known in tho east for Uh iuantity production on a quality basis." lie said the Winter Pear com mittee's campaign for tho proper conditioning of pears before reach ing the consumer," was an Ameri canization of what Betgian and French growers had practiced for years, with success, on a bushel instead of a box-car basis." Pledges Cooperation Dr. Taylor assured tho gathering that his department "would con tinue to co-operato In fruit work." Jie will spend this afternoon at the Southern Oregon llxperlmcnt Station at Talent, with Prof. 1 C. Helmer, an old friend, following a trip through the orchard districts and the packing houses. Dr. Taylor has been with tho Department of Agriculture for over 40 years. He has chargo of the pine beetle control work, and the refrigeration car tests for fruit being conducted In this county. Directors of the Chamber of Commerce, the Fruitgrowers league, the Rogue River Traffic association, the Pacific Pear Grow ers Council, and the Winter Pear committee were present at tho meeting. LEHMAN OUSTS BRITON nEVBULY COlfNTTlY CI.UII, Chicago, July 25. W) Johnny Mman of Chicago, former lur iluo star, galloped into tho final of the western amateur golf chain plonnhlp today by defeating T. I'hllllp rc-klnn. the Drlton. by the lopjuded margin of 8 and 7 in the semi-final. A twenty-seven and a half mile swimming race around Manhattan Island will he held July 27. Parents Agree To Ignore Savants' Decision In Scrambled Baby Case CHICAfrO. July 2.V. (IP) The 1 pieto accord, took the babies and mlxup over tho Bambcrgor-Wat- went home. They said the Incl klns babies was Ironed out at an dent was closed as fur n they early morning conference today at are concerned. which It was decided the babies The parents had demanded an of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mnniber-, investigation following the dlsi ov- ger and Mr. and Mrs. Watklns were never mixed up at all. HUSTON'S FATE HEADS General Schedule of Last Year to Again Apply, Is Word to Local Pear Shippers. Thiii'o will he no chatiKOH locally in tho fruit ahipping program ami it will he under the mimo general schedule as last year, shippers sutd tocluy following iho visit yesterday of Pacllic Fruit Kxpress officials headed by William C. Fitch, gen erul traffic manager For perish aljlos. .Tariff rales for fruit shipped via tho AlturuH ciiioff have been com piled and will ho tho Hamo as via Sacramonto. Tho tariff of $t.7It per hundred goes Into effect Aug uho H. Valloy shipments, by the new order, will uvold tho long, hot haul through tho Sacramento valley and tho congestion at Kosovillo. trnnB- for lMaiut1 foivuhlpptnir unti icing. ' Tho chief benefltH of tho flip ping via Alluras will he Iho Having of nit auction day In arrival at Chi cago, and oltior haHLorn market points. The peart will also bo in hotter condition than midor tho old time. Tho BOhndulo calls for ar rival on the eighth day out of thiH city and It Is prohahlo that womo of tho shipments will roach Chi cago on tho Hovonth day. There will he two frut trulna a day out of this city, as last year one In tho aftornnon and one at night. Tho visiting orflcialH departed hint night and this morning, after calling n local growers and ship pers. IlKUUN, July 25. Thea ltat-he, Germany's flying frauleln, was injured today when her plane crashed enroll t from Templehof to Warncmuendo, The plane fell from a hreight of 120 feet and was wrecked. Tho avlatrix had just taken off when something went wrong with her plane. T)hservers on the Templehof field said the girl flier probably went into a sudden gust of wind I which threw the plane off balance I while H was rising. Her Injuries I were said to he slight. !T WASHINGTON, July 25. (P; Tho treasury today prohibited lm portatlon from RuHsia of pulp wood purchased by the Internal lomtl Paper company on the ground that convict labor had on tered Into Its production cry of an adhesive tape on the b;ck of the Itamlierger baby bore tho name "Watkln" and a similar tape on the Watklns Imliy was marked "Hamberg.T." They now believe the tapes had been wanhed off at the hospital when both babies Were being bnthed and a nurse. In haste, had puUthem bark on the wrong Infanta. GET PERMIT Klamath Power Site, Long Sought, Near Approval By Federal Commission and State Engineer Will Develop 70,057 Horse. S A I -F. M , O re. . July 25 . (A1) Immediate license from tho federal power commission and permit from the stato for development of tho Grant power site, $7,000,000 project of the California-Oregon Power company on Klamath river 16 miles west of Klamath Falls are Indicated by an exchange of tele grams between State Kngineer Luper and Paul Relss, attorney for the power company who is now In Washington, D. C. Tho application of the California Oregon Power company for this development was filed In 1921. For years it was held up becnuse of an opinion of tho attornoy gen eral that no applications for rights In Klamath basin could bo approv ed for the reason that tho govern ment ha'd withdrawn from appro priation all waters in tho basin. 1 A modified opinion, however, was handed down by tho attorney general last September, holding that applications might be approv ed If they did not conflict with federal Interests. 70.057 Horsepower Tho Copco application calls for tho appropriation of 1500 second feet to develop an estimated 70.007 horsepower, utilizing a fall of 411 feet. A telegram from Relss to Luper yesterday stated that ho was about to agreo with tho federal power commission on terms of a liconso for development of tho so-called Grant power silo, "predicated on a progressive development contem plating completion of the first de velopment in five years and full development in 20 yoars." Uo In quired as to tho status of tho ap plication, and whether, on assur ance that tho license would ho granted, the state would act favor ably on the application. To thiH Stato Kngineer Luper re plied that "permits will be issued under your water rights applica tion when wo rocolvo notico from tho federal power commission of time for beginning and completion nf construction to bo fixed In tho license." 01 KILLED BY EXPLOSION IN POOLJARLOR Mystery Blast Shatters Win dows and Sets Fire to Oregon City Resort Before Dawn. OIIKGON CITY, Ore, July 25 (A) One man was killed In a terrific explosion that shattered windows and set fire to tho Pas time, largest pool hall hero, boforo dawn today. The dead man was Identified as Robert Pickles, 25, of West Linn. Firemen found Pickles' body In tho basement nfter battling tho flames for an hour. Tho pool hall had been closed several hours when the blast oc curred. Hundreds of residents of Oregon City were awakened by the downtown blast. It was1 not known anyone was In the building until firemen be gan clearing away the debris and seeking origin of tho explosion aft-er tho flro had been extin guished. Firemen were nnahlo to deter mine tho raiino nf the blm-tt. It was supposed, however, it origi nated In a supply of gasoline whb h was kept In tho basement. Pickles is survived hy hlw widow and a child. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. APPLES FOR PERMIT WASHINGTON, July 25. (VP) Thf Soul hern Pacific railroad which had been reported to bo ac quiring control of the St. Louis. Southwestern company today made formal application to tho interstate commerce commission for perm's fdnn to take over that line and a& ed approval of the financial ar rangements iju!equent() th pro ceeding. O ON PROJECT Inherits Estate X i l ah. niej I'resa I'hoto Miller Jameson, 9, Inherits his father's $20,000 estate. If the father, Wylle P. Jameson of New York, had outlived tho son the amount would have gone to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Gene Tunney. Chairman Announces Will Resignation at 7 Meeting Com Tender August mitteeSenator Fess Ex pected to Be Successor. Hy Francis' M, Klcphenson j WASHINGTON, July 26. UP) Tho Btormy sorvloo of Claudius Huston as chairman of tho Repub lican national commltteo Is at an ond. ' - ' Mv. Huston brought a suddon closo to tho controversy over his leadership lato last night when ho told President Hoover that ho would (call tho exQcutlvo io;nmll teo of tho national commltteo to gether on August 7 and submit hla resignation. Tho president approv ed. , - Senator Fesfl of Ohio, Is the choice of the Republican high com mand to miccoed Huston and his olectlon by tho oxocutlvo commit teo which rocoIveH the Huston res ignation next month Is confidently predicted. Robert Lucas, of Kentucky, who became oommisslonor of Internal revenue a few monthB ago, Is slat ed to take over the actlvo cam paign worlc for tho approaching congressional elections tm execu tive, assistant to Fess. And tho new organisation haa tho approval nf President Hoover. It In his In tention It tthould gtst to work early next month. Follows nf eronce Huston's announcement of re tlrement enmn suddenly last night aftep a hectic round of confer ences. ) Coming to the capital lato In tho evening, Huston went Into confer ence with James Francia Rurko, counsel of the national commlt teo. Tho White Houso visit was arranged Immediately. Baseball Scores National R Pittsburgh 1 New York 8 if. 7 0 l'Yench, Hpencor and llcmsloy; Mitchell and Ilogan. - ' n. Ht. Loll In 1 HoMon - 5 - Khcm and Mancuao; and Cronin. Kpuhrcr. H. K. 9 3 12 0 Hhcrdcl R. II. K. Cincinnati 2 8 0 Rrooklyn 7 10 0 Lucas nnd Gooch; Moss, Helm ach anil Lopez. R. H. E. Chicago 0 Philadelphia 6 Nelson, Moss, Wllloiighby, Root ami 'A. Taylor, Kcnsa; Henge and Ha vis. -4 American R. H. K Philadelphia 4 12 2 Cleveland 18 2 Orovo and Cochrano: Jablo nowski, Shoffner, Bean and Kprlnz, R. H. 13. Washington 5 10 1 Chicago 6 13 2 Crowd er, Had ley and Spencer Thomas, McKaln and Tate. R. 11. E. New York 14 11 1 Detroit 7 11 7 Wells, Johnson upd Dickey Hoyt, Hngsett and Hayworth. Oregon Weather t Kalr tonight and Saturday, hut with fog tonight along the coast. No change In temperature. Mod erate north and northwest winds offshore. HUSTON TO VACATE AS G.0.P.HEAD TO DEVELOP LOCAL A - U Hundred Thousand Dollar Organization Formed for Exploitation Roxy Ann Deposit Gas, Smelting and Other Uses Aim. Plans have been completed for . the establishment of the Allied Industries, Inc.. with tho homo office In Medford, providing for a field that will Include tho Port land and Seattle districts for the development of coals. Iron ores, copper and other minerals into marketable products. - Capital of the company was an nounced today at $100,000, and plans include tho construction of a plant south of Medford near the Southern Oregon Gas com pany holdings. When tho plant Is in complete operation, approxi mately 100 men aro expected to bo - employed. The board of directors is made up of J. Madison Lively, mining engineer of nationnl note. W. H. Lydiard, L. L. Lamb, Paul Lattner. F. C lllard and F. O. Small. Tho company Is expected to bo In op eration hero in a short time, uti lizing the Roxy Ann coal field for the prortucllon of approximately 250,000 cubic feet of gns dally for tho Southern Oregon Gas Comp any, In addition to tho manufac ture of many of tho 1200 by-products which have coal as their base. Is Heading Company Tho Allied Industries, Inc., ls a holding company that will ciu- (Continued on page 7, Story Two) 11 RELIEF HOCHETTA, 8an Antonio, Italy, July 25. (P) Italy lavished Its ut most oftorts today to bring relict t tho thousands of victims of Wed nesday's quake. Attention centered on this heart of the stricken tone with the arrival of King Victor Unimiinuel to see the progress of rollof meaauros. - Tho total dead In the province of Avelllno today was placed at 25711 hy General Blaslgocchl In con trast with tho official figures of 1520 for the provlnco given out pre viously. This, together with tho 357 re ported doad In the five other pro vinces struck by the quako, made a total thus tar of 2390. CARNERA WILL FACE IMMIGRATION QUIZ WASHINGTON, July 25. W) Prime Camera, hugo Italian prize fighter, will be given an opportu nity Monday by immigration offi cials to show why he should not leave the United States. Camera's six months leave In this country has expired and ho has boon ordered overseas. WILL 'ROGERS HBVERLY IIIM-S, July '. You don't liear ho muclt of prohibition lately. Just drink injr for the novelty pf tho thins; hits about" worn off, aud the ones that really liked it and decided to adopt it Hcrious have just settled down to steady drinking and arc keeping pret ty quiet about it. The house of commons en dorsed the iibvbI treaty yester day without the Xorris amend ment, whieh Raid, "If there is any catch in this, that wo can't see, why it don't go." Tho Uritish said, "If there is any thing in it and we can't see it before we sign, why that's our fault." tWHWlktMtllt KING HASTENS QUA FOR ITALIANS