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c I . 1 i PAflTC six MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OI.'KC'OX, WEDNESDAY, JULY "0, 1930. w If If MENACE T01 L IS UMBERING REALIZED r IUIVIUKKUW Al QUEBEC PORT McNary Says Government : Investigating Importation of Russian Product Aid of Industry Sought for Information. PORTLAND, Ore., July 30. (ff) Realizing, he said, "the serious menace" that threatens the lumber industry of the Pacific northwest through importation or lumber from It i in h la "produced by couvlct 01 forced labor," Senator Charles U McNary, who arrived today from Washington, O. C. told newspaper men and public officials here of investigations being conducted In the national capital, i "I have been much lu conference with the treasury department," he cald, "concerning shipments that had been made to eastern ports of the United States and are at the present time in water trunsit. "Governor bowman, assistant sec retary of the treasury, states he has required proof from the Im porters that the lumber was not manufactured by convict or forced labor and In every case the inves tigation was thorough. "A few days before I loft Wash ington I had a' very nut Us factory conference with the mute depart ment which ts also Interesting Itself In discovering the facts and In every way BMHlatlng the "treasury department. Each of these depart ments stated it would like to hnve the cooperation of the lumber in terests and other organizations that may have facts concerning the e h a ra e tu r of la bo r e m p 1 oy ed 1 n Russian lumber and logging camps und lumber mills and will Invoke the strict letter of tho statute wherever supported by satisfactory proof that lumber was convict mnde." Big British Ship Making Fine Progress Across Ocean Is Report From Belle Isle Strait. HT HUHKRT, Quebec, July 30. (PThe Jirilhth dirigible U-100 Is expected to arrive at the airport here tomorrow afternoon between 4:00 p. m. and 6:00 p. m. A message received from Squad ron Leader It. S. Booth, comman der f the dirigible at 12:30 p. in. ( K. K. T.) said the hip was ap proaching the Straits of Hello Isle, making splendid progress and was getting the benefit of following winds. The dirigible radioed that she expected to sight land early in the morning. Up to seven o'clock this morning K. H. T.) she had covered 2760 miles. Tho commander of tho giant ship said that the voyage had been uneventful. SCIENCE STUDIES BABY MIX-UP IF iu CKERSON SAYS FUM E CAUSED CRASH Carbon Monoxide Escaping in Cockpit Brought Coma On Trip East, Is Belief of; Aviator. " ! BUTTK, Mont.. July 30. (A) Mujur Gilbert H. Hckeruon, trans continental flier who craHhed near here a week ago, left the hospital here today for Portland, Ore. Aaiociutta Pratt Photo Tne oabies ot nn. Charles Bamberger (left) and Mr. William Walklni are believed to have been "mixed" at Englewood hospital, Chicago. Or. Arnold Kegel (right), Chicago health commissioner, and a corps of scientists have been trying to determine which la which. FRUIT. VEGETABLE RECEIPTS HEAVY POUTt.AND, Oro., July 30. (II Top Krado ei!K8 were firm today nt the recent advance. Tho price of oft-quality okkh, however, wore roportod aa being shaded by Home dealers, lluttcr supplies wero llbornl with moderate trading. Team-track holding of 125 care or finish fruits and vendibles Man-, day, of which half wore watermel ons, marks the heaviest volume of ' supplies in the city at any ono time this year. Peaches, watermelons, canta louiies and tomatoes all docllned - nlnce Monday, under pressuro of liberal rocoipts. 4 THE MARKETS Bad Boys Throw Rocks at Tree Sitter, Otherwise It's A Great Life He Declares BUTTE, Mont.. Julv 30. OP) Major Gilbert H. Eckrsbn. trans continental flier who crashed south of here on the first leg of a Port land-New York flight last week, be lieves he was gassed by fumes from the ship's exhaust. Short exhaust pipes, he said, un doubtedly threw carbon monoxide gas into the pockplt, where it fin ally overcame him. He said he had noticed carbon spraying between him and the In strument board for an hour before he lost consciousness. When he last looked at the clock, the pilot said It showed 12:40 a. in., and the altimeter registered 11,000 feet. Produce PORTLAND, Ore., July 30. (fP) 'Kbkh Top grades firm, quota tions unchanged. Butter, milk, poultry, country meats, onions, potatoes, wool, mo hair, nuts, hay. caacara bark, hops steady, unchanged. Livestock PORTLAND. Ore., July :i0. (P) Cattle Receipts 35, calves 10.. Quotably steady for matured classes. Valves, venters, 50c high er. VealeiH, milk fed. good und choice $H)U; medium, Kfol0; cull and common, $r.50$8. Calves, 2.10 to 500 lbs., good and choice, fKtfflO; common and medium, $t ft 8.50. Hogs Receipts 150. Opening steady. Sheep Receipts 300. Talking around easy. Tort html Wheat. PORTLAND. Ore., July 30. (! Wheat futures: - Open High Iow Clone July K8 88 gti 88 Kept HT H 87 H 85 85 Deo. 0tH 01 89 M 8-W Cash markets1: Wheat Hlg Bend blucstem. $1.01 H ; Hoft white, western white, 0.87 H ; hard winter, northern spring, wuHtern red, 0.87 . Oats: No. 2, 8 8 -lb. white. $J5. Today's car rocoipts: Wheat, 135; barley. 7; flour, 9; corn, 1; outa, 1; hay. 1. Up 2JI hours and still enjoying himself sitting In a tree. Walter Holm ph. 11, at 3 o'clock this after noon was Htilt determined to be -it all existing tree-sitting records, if it took him the next three months. He declared that ho In prepared to Hit In the tree, '1307 Went Main street, until school begins, or after, if necessary. He said he was receiving con siderable company and found the only trouble in a number of boys who have boon throwing rocks at him. There are no additional tree-sitters reported in Medford today. A search revealed none in any part of the eity. UKEMICUTON, Wash.. July 30. I IVPt With a telephone installed in 1 f hnlp nrhnrcal nnrph 1 1 t-i mortrin'o j 15-year-old record aspiring tree? 'sitters. Preston Ieard and Stewart; Babbitt, will start their third week! (in the branches today in possible! I communication with all the world.) At noon today tney nau been : aloft 327 hours and intend to stay ! up until competitors everywhere A microphone to permit the boys to broadcast was to be Installed tor day by a Taconm radio station. corcm D'ALEXK, Ida., July 30. W) Klmo Wilcox. 13, who took to tree .Hitting to escape a piano les j mm, celebrated his 224th hour aloft I today by installing a hammock in 1 his pine tree. Wall Street Report Fanettes a Problem For President Chicago Cubs ES RUN-OFF BALLOT OKLAHOMA CITY. July 30. (A1) T. I (lore, blind former sen ator, who dropped out of the po litical world for 10 years only to stage a spectacular comeback, and Charles .1. Wrightsman, million-, aire oil man of Tulsa, today were racing neck and neck for the lead in the contest for the Demo-! era tie. senatorial nomination In Oklahoma. ' As returns came in from yes-J tcrday'a primary. It became ap-; parent that Gore and Wrightsman' would be forced to battle it out for' the nomination In tho runoff primary, August 12. . - ... - GALLANT FOX LEADS SAltATOtlA KPRINOH. JJuly 30 (Pj Why should automobiles ' follow n horse day after day? Tho answer Is Gallant Kox. When he goes from his stall for a moinlng workout the flivver of Trainer James Kltushnmons Is right behind and then a long line of high-priced cars filled with enthusiastic' and curious. "I had a nervous breakdown and could not do the work I have to do around the house. Through one of your booklets I found how Lvdia b. 1 ink ham's Vegetable Compound had helped other women and I went to the drug store and cot me six bottles. It has done me good in more ways than one and now I work every day without having to lie down. I will answer all letters with pleasure." Hannah M. Etvn- meyer, 707 N-IO Street, cast it. Linus, Iliinoii. NKW YORK, July 30. (fl') Hull forces oxiwrlnnced one ot their most severe reversals in todny's stock nmrkot since they undertook to lift share prices out ot tho June degression. A wide open break In tho wheat market, toKotnnr wmi tho recent inalilllty of tho opera tors for the rlso to got prices above the resistance levels of July IS. nuscd extonslvo desertions from the bull cause and Important shares tumbled 2 to 14 points. A rallv durlim tho middle of 1110 afternoon failed to hold and clos-l inn prices were iiuisuy uio a lowest. The elosliiR whs heavy, sales ap nroxlinatliiB 2.S50.000 shares. Today's closlns prices for 15 se lected stocks follow: Am. Can 2l Am. Tel. & Tel 21 1 Anaconda ; " Col. (iaa hja, Curtlss Wrlsht Ceneral Klectric (new) I!'4 Oeneral Motors 5V4 Kennlrot I'opper 39 Mont. Ward 3f.Vi Kndlo Corporation 41 " Heading 107 Sears Hoobuck B1 a. h in I'nlted Aircraft 5S U. 8. Steel - 114 ClltOAllO. July 30. UP) The ladles day nightmare has William Voock, president of Ihe Culis, hauK Inft on tho ropes aaln. KirHt It was his policy to admit liny fHnclte Into Wrlgley Kldd each Friday without tickets. Itp ult: The park waa almost wreck ed In tho rush, gate keepers were Jarred and the cash customers couldn't get in. Next an advance distribution of tickets was attempted three davs before, each game. But instead of 1 one rush the Cubs bad two on for tiie tickets and one to get Into I the park, j "Why not advertlt-e in the newt I papers that no many tickets will 1 be Dialled and ict the women write tin for thcin? someone advised, j Yeeck did. He advertised 17,500 tickets would be mailed free for ih-ai i-iniiij s ganic, one ncsoi lor I each mailed renuest. i ( -The ,;ume Is two days niyay, but 135.000 requests have been received ' nnd Veeck Is looking up tlme . tables to Alaska. IT'LL BE EASY 10 SPOT COPS flFE DAUGHTER F, STORY 1 (Continued from Pag 1) THURSDAY At Mann's See $ Day Windows f -THE STORE FOB EVEPYBODV ON( -486-407 ' 0fOW.CN . tion wero the larne office build lnn, foreign consulates and resi dences on an island In tho Slang river adjoining tho wailed city. AmtinK these were the offices of the Standard Oil company of New York and the Texas company, and the-British consulate. Tremendous stocks and installa tions of the two oil companies on the outskirts of the city also seem ed destined for destruction. ' Mont of the foreigners left the city yesterday on British. Amer- lean and Japanese gunboats. Be cause the river waa receding rap idly, the gunboats were forced to withdraw, leaving millions of dol lars worth of foreign property un protected. Official Kxccutrd. ' The Reds swarmed into the vir tually defenseless city yesterday. What resistance they met they eas ily overcame. Numerous National ist and provincial officials were executed. A brother of Ho Chlen. provincial governor, was beheaded, but the governor himself escaped. Chanusha is" considered one of the richest and. most modern of In terior China cities. It hhs a popu lation of nearly a million and Is considered one of the cleanest cities of the nation. A Changsha dispatch received here said all foreign properties in the Hunan capital except the Yale in China university hospital an.1, post office had been lutrned. - This 1 was .taken to 'mean the commun ists had destroyed that portion of the institution devoted to educa tio.n. Communists posted notices of fering ?200 reward for tho c p ture of each foreigner, Chinese of ficial or foreign employed Chinese In Changsha. Tho communists want such persons primarily for ransom as they are considered able to raise large sums of money for Ihelr release. Illlll II ON ROAD SOON AMY m You Savers HALKM, Ore., July 30. (A1) Motorists will know when the , cops Hie coming if Instructions given by Secretary of State Moss to T. 'A. Haffety, chief stute traffic Inspec tor, are carried out. Orders are to paint the automobiles and motor- rycles of the traffic department a , distinctive color. Kor automobiles, Hoss suggests i that bodies and fenders bo painted white and tops black, and he sug- i gests that motorcycles be painted white. The state traffic Insignia J will be painted on the vehicles also. I Hoss says several states have ! adopted this regulation. Two cars In original colors will be retained for secret operation. BANK ROBBER FLEES OREGON PEN ANNEX SAl.KM. Ore., July SO. (41 PoiiRlaa 1.. lay. serving 12 years st the state penitentiary for par ticipation In the Hoso City bank robbery In l'orllnnd In 19S6. escaped late yesterday, lie was a trusty employed at the prison an nex near Turner, and his Absence was noted when the count was made at 1:30 last nlxht. The state offers a reward of 150 for his re turn. . 10 FltKHNO. ChI., July . 30. (At With a f unlade uf pistol shots. John D. Carter. 50, service sta t itn employe, today killed his wife, Kmnia. aged 4a, proprietress of a downtown hotel, probably fatally wounded his stepdaughter, Ire-ne L. Cox. 19. and then turn ed the weapon upon himself. He died within a few moments. The Carters came here from Twin Kails. Idaho, three months ago. The shooting occurred in the kitchen of Mrs. Carter's apart ment. When police arrived, Mrs. Carter was dead. Carter was breathing his lust and Miss Cox was lying serous her mother, shot through the head, but partly con scious, she Is not expected to recover. 'My stepfather did It. He shot me." the girl sld. Police believe that an iimumcnt arose during breakfast and Carter whipped out a .32 calibre revolver and opened fire- Organized 1909 i ATTEMPT TO HALT DAM I.OS A NS KI-KS. July Jo. a Bay Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the Interior, said today Arizona's kg) maneuver to halt construc tion of HouldtT anyon dam would fall of Its purpose. The statement wan made to neWMpnpermen short ly before htO.pend an Address at a chamber of commerce luncheon given tn hi honor. m-KUl'KU. July 30 (P I'lan.- have been announced by a groupj of Ten .Mile farmers for a mutual electric company to serve that rap-; idly developing section of Doug las county. They plan to construct! anil operate their own power plant. The orjianltatlon Is filing an ap plication for power rights on Ten Mil creok and will construct a dam and develop power for farm uses . i KLAMATHTIMBER IS DESJROYED BY FIRE KLAMATH KAI.LS. Ore.. July jn Ten acres of timber burned IS miles west of here Iste ; yesterday In a fire started by a j burning ranch bsin. It was the only fire reported In this district I in several days, although forestry official any fire conditions have seldom been worse. 10 GALLOWS OCT. 2ND KlVKKSini:. Cal.. July 3M. (4V tiordon Stewart Northcott. Cana dian youth rnvicted here February 11, ot boy killings at his' Wlnovllle rhlcken ranch, today whs reentenced to be hansed at San Quentin prison on October 2. He has been Incarcerated at the prison pending his appeal, which was denied. Study .In ten tie Ct.urt HAI.T1.MOKK 1T A ntudy of the bst method of organizing a system o? Juvenile court in Mary land being made by the league of W omen Voters On the hasia of the study an act wiu be recom-' mended to the legislature. who want the highest yield possible WITH SAFETY will do well to deposit your surplus funds with this long-established Build ing & Loan Association. We have paid 6 7 8 on our various classes of stock which are de signed to suit the needs of the individual. " Investments in Paid-up Stock earn dividends from date of deposit. JACKSON COUNTY UILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION Mall Tribune a .In r read by 10. coo people ererjr (lay. I II o o o . I I 1 Jt 'I . J imsi'if ' 0 o o