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Mail Tribune
Thm Weather
Forecast: Tonight and Sunday fair
except tome low cloudiness to
night; normal temperature.
Temperature
Highest yesterday 81
Lowest this morning 49
Precipitation
To 5 p. m. yesterday 00
To 5 a. m. today 00
DFORD
Twenty-Fifth Year
MEDFORD, OK'KdOX. SATURDAY. Al'dl'ST 1!):!0.
No. 132.
i:
HOP OFF 10
FLY AROUND
THE GLOBE
John Henry Mears, Henry
Brown and Mary Pick-
. ford's Dog, 'Tailwind II'
Start On Effort to Break
4 World's Record Hope to
Make it in 15 Days.
HARBOR GRACE, N, F., Aug.
2. (P) The monoplane City
of New York, arrived here at
1:55 (E. 8. T.), Its first stop
of a projected round the world
tour.
Meara'nnd Honry J. Brown. Ills
pilot, apparently averaged about 110
miles per hour lor their Journey or
more than 1150 miles, which It was
at first estimated would require at
least nine hours. The fliers appar
ently chose the direct route which
would In Ue them past the tip of
Cape Cod and over the Atlantic to
Newfoundland.
The aviators said the weather
had been perfect and there had
been nothing to mar the trip.
The City of New York was not
due at Harbor Grace until 3 p. m..
according to the schedule laid out
by Henry llrown. her pilot, before
taking off at 5:40 (13. S. T.) tills
fnornlug, indicating she had been
glided by tail winds.
I(y H'osicr B. Ilullcy.
ROOSEVELT FIELD. N. Y.,
Aug. 2. () Bound for Now York
City by way of Dublin, Derlin.
.Moscow, and Seattle, Juhn Henry
Moms and Henry J. Drown took
off Vt 5:40 a.m.. (est) today in
their pin no. the City of New York
Their . first scheduled, stop was
Hilrbur Grace, Newfoundland.
Thcv are seeking the round
tlit-world record, which Mears
bus twice held only to see It
broken, and which was set at the
present figure 21 dayB. 8 hours
and 26 mlnutes-by the C.raf Zep
pelin lart summer. Mears and
Brown hope to make the trip In
les than 20 days, perhaps In ,15
with good weather.
With a red. newly risen sun at
his back. Brown sent the little
red and silver Monoplane winging
down the long trans-Atlantic run
way through the early morning
mists and pulled her nloft.
Ho circled the field once, gain
ing altitude, and then pointed the
planes nose for Harbor Grace.
Weather Is Ideal.
Ideal weather waited Mears and
Ilruwn on their nine-hour 1175
jmiie lournev. and ahead across
,'Uo Atlantic, conditions appeared
;iio
be favorable for the next 4s,
hours. They expect to hop oft
from Harbor Grace tomorrow
morning for Buldonnel airdrome,
near. Dublin. 1H00 miles away, on
their longest over-water hop on
the clrcumnavlKatlon of (he globe.
Ill-owns wife, his sister, Mary,
and Mr. Mears' daughter, Ellzu-
beth, were at the field to see
them off.
"Goodbye, lady," Brown said as
he kissed his wife and patted her
shoulder. Then he kissed his sis
ter and climbed Into the cockpit.
Miss Mears' leave taking from
her father was more extended,
but none of the women showed
emotional strain. Not until the
city of New Yok was fading into
the distance did Mrs. Brown give
way. and then only for a moment.
Miss Mears Is- the only near
relative of the head of the ex
pedition, but back In Ilcrora. Ohio,
were two small Browns. Henry
(Continued on Page 6, Story 1)
Automobile gtt rlionper nn
rltniipr nil the time, but twine
binders an other farm mac'litnery
Abe Martin
but what tho liv? "If I nur.
Th t hk-strrmii I'cf move to Washln'
Inn where a feler's purtr wfe If
he kmm. loo mm-li." said Tell
Hliikl, ). x-akln' o' Nnilonal Chair
man llu-ton.
(Copyright .thn F. Dllle Co.)
Newest Stunt of
Dare Devil Powers
Proves to Pe Last !
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.,
(&) The newest thriller ud
by Harry Powers, 47, u pro-
fessionul daredevil and para-
chute stunt Jumper, proved
his last..
A crowd of spectators on
steel pier saw him drop 1500 4
feet Into the ocean last night 4
when his parachute failed to
S open uftcr he had been shot
from a cannon, carried aloft 4
bv airplane. lie died half
an hour later.
Towers had been doing the
cannon stunt tightly for five
weokt.
4 He nlso was known as n
4 human fly. scaling the fa-
cades of hinh buildings nnd
pave airplane trapeze cxhl-
bitions before he took up
parachute jumping.
BLACK EYE IS
Vivian Duncan, Little Eva of
Famous Stage Team, Be
comes Wife of Nils Asther
Honeymoon at Tahoe.
RENO. Nov., Aug. 2. (ff)
Honeymooning "somewhere today
wore Nils Asther, Swedish film
star of Hollywood, and Vivian Dun
can. Little Eva of the Duncan sis
ters' stage team of "Topsy and
Eva."
The two were married here yes
terday by Judge Thomas F. Moron
ill the Wushoe county district court
house and left soon afterward by
automobile for an unannounced des
tination, reported, however, to be
Lake Tahoe.
Attempts were made to keep the
wedding a secret but the marriage
license In the county clerk's office
gave the Beoret away. The license
gave their ages as "over 21" and
stated neither had been married be
fore. -
th(, wedding ,)arly of five, lnclu(i.
Ing Hosetta Duncan, the other sis-
ter, and another man and woman,
was located In an automobile park
ed on a lleno street. While Vivian
was denying her Identity to a re
porter Asther. known to the re
porter by sight, emerged from a
postol'fice and expressed indigna
tion at being questioned.
"This la a private affair and we
don't want any publicity," lie
added.
Miss Duncan recently was re-
ettse( fr01n a IOS Ange)e, hospital.
where she was treated for a black
eye allegedly administered by Hex
I.piiho, motion picture actor, at tun
Malllm lleach home of Charles Kar
l-ell, film slar. The Incident was
(lc culmination of a Fourth of .Inly
party, lease, whom Miss Duncan
alleged struck her when she resis
ted to kiss him. was arrested on a
battery charge, pleaded guilty and
paid a $0 fine.
SANTA. BARBARA, Cal. Aug. 2.
(Hi An application by Dolores
Del Rio, film actress, and Ccdrlc
Gibbon, motion picture art director,
for a license to wed Is on file here
today.
Miss Del Rio and Gibbons filed
the application yesterday and said
they would be married next ert
ncRday. The actress gave her age
as 24 and Gibbons his as 40. They
declined to discuss their plans oth
er than the marriage date.
LIFER AT SALEM
PEN A
E
SALEM. Ore., Aug. 2. fPl The
body of Arnold Samloz. 3H, "lifer
at the Salem penitentiary, was
found in Mill creek noar the state
prison annex last night. Officers
believe that ho committed suicide.
Sandoz was missed early in the
day. Guards who had lung been
In contact with the prisoner felt
sure that he had not run away and
a HCRich was made of the premises,
Sandoz was sent up from Wasco
county in 1918 for killing a man
naid to have been his brother-in-law,
fie had been a trusty at the
prison for 10 years.
ALLOW PRIMO
CARNERA TO STAY
V A SHI NOT! IS. Aug. ?JF
The labor department today K""nt
M Prirno Camera. Italian prize
ftKhter, leave to ny In the 1'nltefl
Stales until Dcpmber 31, 1330.
GIVEN A
NOW A BRIDE
BUMP
MER OF
J. LINGLE
Jack Zuta, Who Planned
Jake Lingle Killing, Is
Shot Down By Gunmen in
Wisconsin Dance Hall
First Attempt Month Ago
Failed.
ClHCAtJO. Aug. 2. OP) The
death quad has finished paying
off Jack Zuta, gang leader.
Five men strode across the waxed
floor of a dance hall In a Dela-
field. Wis., summer resort where
a score of boys and girls were danc
ing lat night.
5!uta stood there, smiling, feeding
nickels into a mechanical pianu
for the dancers.
The leader of the quintet firod
a revolver bullet into Zuta's body.
Dancer stood aghast as this was
followed up by a burst of machine
gun fire. The killers stood over
the fallen gangster and pumped a
deadly round of rapldfiro and pistol
bullcta into his body.
August 1 was his last payday.
First Kffort Fulled.
Just a month ago, the night of
July 1, had been another payday
for Zuta, but the account was not
quite closed. A carload of killers
had drawn up beside the police
automobile In which the gangster
was being conveyed through tho
loop: bullets poured Into tho squad
car. stray bullets killed a street
car motorman and wounded a by
stomder; tho detective lieutenant
giving Zuta "safe" conduct emptied
his weapon at the gunmen but they
escaped, and In the midst of the
battle Zuto: disappeared.
I'nder Assumed Name.
Up at the Lakovlew hotel where
he was staying, the Moran-Atcllo
gang boss was known us J. H-
Goodman of Aurora, III., and it
wa not known until today that
Wisconsin authorities and Chicago
detectives were satisfied the dead
man was Zuta, charged by some
with planning the slaying of Jake
Lingle. Tribune crime reporter and
friend of Al Capone.
Detectives visited the home of
Mrs. Laurz Nelson, a divorcee, to
investigate her connection wi'.h
Zuta when sevoral long distance
telephone calls from "Goodman" at
Dolafleld were traced to tho wom
an's home here. She denied knowl
edge of tho calls, and when sought
later hnd disappeared.
LIQUOR FIGHT
Prohibition Informer and
Negro Rum Runners Lose
Lives in Battle Between
Dry Agents and Georgia
Bootleggers.
MACON, Ca., Aug. 2. (fl5) Two
men, one a prohibition informer
and the other n negro and an al
leged liiptor runner, were killed In
two battles at the same place be
tween a prohibition raiding party
and bootleggers late last night.
Tho informer. Herman Warr, a
figure In many liquor cases In this
section and In Florida, was fatally
wounded In the first battle. Offi
cers returned to tho scene of the
encounter, a lonely ' road not far
from Macon, and engaged In an
other exchange of fire. In this sec
ond fight the negro, Identified as
Sam Knight, was shot to death aft
er ho had opened fire on the offi
cers. A. Ij. Patterson, 5fl, planter and
member of a prominent family,
was arrested at his home In Ma
con, about eight miles from the
swamp, and was ordered held by
prohibition officers on a charge of
killing Warr. Jail officials said
Patterson denied participating In
tho shooting. They said he owned
land near the swamp.
Last June 10 Warr shot and kill
ed J. K. Saunders in a cafe in Jack
sonville, Kla. He was exonerated
by a coroner's Jury which describ
ed the act as "Justifiable homi
cide." Ixmore Itoduclnjp.
NKW YOKK. Aug. 2. i&i I-e-iiere
t.'lrlc in working out daily In
a ftyrrt to reduce a bit. In her
next play she t to appear In a
b.frhlng suit.
STOOL PIGEON
SHOT DOWN IN
Tunic In Mode. fin whih the birth of th Prince
PA RIM. Aug. 2. iff Oandhljof Walffi w;is Mt1et. b the bit
tunics are a feature of the din- lord A sun 1th.
play of styles for wlnter.O Th-yj Aiiiih fat behind a sten In
fall a foot and a half below thc(ri-n Mary room. At that time
aist.
Mears, With Dog Mascot
Plans 17-Day World Hop
John Henry Mears (left), Fred Melchoir. pilot, and the plane in
which they will attempt to fly around the world in from 12 to 17 dayc.
Mears is holding "Tailwind," the mascct.
Mears, the veteran globe trotter, la
after bis (bird record.
Piloted by Fred Melchoir, the
Swedish flier, and with a dog as
mascot. Mears has started on a
globe encircling flight to better tho
20-day record set by tho Graf Zep
pelin. The mascot is "Tailwind." a ter
rier presented by Mary Pickford.
Mears girdled tho world in 35
days, 21 hours and :ti minutes in
1913. In 102S. with tho late Cap
tain C. 11. D. Collyer. he lowered
tho mark to 23 days, 15 hours and
21 minutes.
Tho Oral's record, from . Fried
rlchshafcn and return, of 20 days,
4 hours and 18 minutes, was sat
last year.
Mears hopes to lower the mark
to between 12 and 17 days.
A lockhoad monoplane, the City
CI.KVKI.AND, O., Aug. 2. (P)
Authorltlcs were mystified today
liv rlndlnir of hodlea f IWn women
In their earlv twenties on country
TWU GIRLS AKt UUAKU Wi I NbSS tdi nnvF
MURDERED BY AS REDS MARCH S hau
DETROIT GANGSjUPON CAPITAL S
roads In localities about 25 miles j Unvcrnor c. c. loung and I ill! an
apart during tho last IS hours. vlsory pardon hoard today follow.
The circumstances of their deaths Ing receipt of word that "a number
appeared to be similar, lloth bodies I of ronilnunlsls" were en routu to
contained bullet wounds. Indicating : Hie capllal (mm San Francisco,
similar deaths. I Word from thu Sacramenio chief
One was found yesterday after- of police was to the effect that a
noon near Wadsworth, and the "sufficient number" of philn clothes
other this morning near licrea, a ; detectives would ha detailed lo pa
Cleveland suburb. I ml the capliol with more than 20
The body found near llerea was I slate officials to see that no disor-well-clothed.
with dark hair and ! dor occurred outside or w.ihln I he
eyes and about five feet tall. There I building. A reserve ton e Is lo be
was a bullet wound just above the held on call.
right eye. j All entrances to tho capliol ex-
Tho body near Wadsworth wasioept one woro locked ill. noon and
pioderatfly well dresson. She was
flvo fet five Inches tall, and welch
ed 140 pound. Her body bore two
bullrt wountbt.
Hundrrd of person who viewed
her body in the Medina county
morgue failed to !ve any indication
aa to her Identity. Hhe wan be
lieved to have b'-en slain Thurmlay
nlnht.
In neither inntan-e enuld anyone
bp found who hail heard a sun
fired.
Seaside Now filler InMalled at
Nntatorldtn, Prom and Second
avenue.
Ex-Miller Boy to Be Sole
Witness of Royal Birth at
Bedside of Duchess of York
'SLAM IH. Scotland, Auk. 2. P)
The mill boy who became, bin
maJeMy's secretary of slate for
home affairs. .!. It. 'yne, will
pofin cotno bere to be present t
the birth of the hahy expected by,cjnrled the Infimt In her iirtnn imd'Mves In Decalure, 111.
the Duchess of York early this showed him to Asqnlth, The homej niAntro IrDrillMn
month. Secretary then went back and re-j SALEM WORKER UnUUNU
This Is In accordance wit h the
ancient Mrltlsh law, which decrees
that the birth of a possible heir
to the throne must be attested
by!
a secretary "f ftfit".
Mr. dynes will carry out thi
f-laie duty In the fame manner
she wns thu Duchesq of York. The
of New York. Willi a speed of 150
miles an hour, will he used. It has
boon equipped with a supercharger
for night at high altitudes to take
advantage of l'avorablo winds.
An average of lll.OOU feet alti
tude is expected to ho maintained.
Mi'ars has mastered (ho radio
code anil will operate a powerful
two-way set with which ho hopes
to .keep In cnnslaill contact with
pre-selecled buses.
The start was made from Roose
velt field for Harbor Crace. N. F..
and across the norlhern route over
the Atlantic ocean to the Island
of Olympia, Ireland.
The itinerary will carry them lo
Moscow. Russia; Chita and Vladi
vostok. Siberia; Tokyo. J.ipnn;
Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka: Sew
ard, Alaska; Seattle, Wash., and
New York.
rxiz
SJrllAMKXTO. fill. A lie. 2.
(p.Kxtra precautions were plan-
j ned by stale and city police u
! guard against deinoiisl nil Ions al
ti'e .lonn iwaciionuiu neariug ueiore
the open door, ;endiiK into the ro- j
tunua, wan netiiH waicneti y eiviu
and Htnto ofl'lrers.
Local Htithoiilii'H naid they an-dei-Htood
"a hUik load of coniinun
iHtK" were Hem out of San Kran
cIkco to attend the hearing.
Kx-l'rrshlrnl Weds.
MIOXM'O 'ITV. -UK. 2. P)
(ietieral I'lutaiio Kliae i'mIIch, for
mer prenldeiit of Mexico and MIhh
l.eonor IJoi'ente, 2"i-yenr-otd voice
Hludent, were married at 2 uVlnck
th's afternoon at the former presl -
1 SJrllAMKXTO. fill. A lie. 2.
(.ent'K Hanta Marhara ranch near,KM McClcnncn followed and shot
I; (MIkison three times. Mra. Mc-
(j,,nn(,n W(IM Hialu Instantly.
Princess of Wales, biter Queen
Alexandra, with with AhmiiIUi.
Wb-n t he present crown prince
wns born, the Princess rf Wales,
wearing a blue dressing gown,
j ortcd the historical fact to his
government nnd the royal birth
w;is duly registered
A Knecinl room in (ibirnis cattle
has been n-MTVcii f(,r Mr. Clynevin K. Ul'kard
and he will be the guest of the! kllb-d
link- and Dohe- f York. jwhen
Should the expected Infant be ! I
;i t.oy be will le third in line,
after t he prince of le and
Duke f
displacing
r:ilwibeth.
O
York, for the crown,
his s i n t e r, princess
CHINK REDS
LunV PATI4
inn i m ii
OP BLOOD!
Rapine and Slaughter Mark
of Blood-Crazed Bolshe
viks Along Yangtze River
Defenseless People
Flee in Terror Rich
Seized for Ransom.
SHA.N'CIIAI. Auk. 2. (TJ l'he
Yangtze river cillcs of Hankow,
Hanyang and Wuchang, with a
joint population estimated at sev
eral millions, today lay in the
pnlll of China's advancing bluod
erazetl revolting armies.
Thousands of terrified Chinese,
bearing their properly, sought ref
uge in the barricaded foreign con
cessions of Hankow today, as
communist arml"s moved toward
the trl-.-Uice. fresh from the con
uurst end destruction of Cliang-
sha. The eilles were under mar
tial law. The capital at Nanking
also was under mllUary rule to
day. changsha. smouldering remnant
of what once was a prosperous
silk manufacturing city, still was
rci'Orted occupied by remnants of
l.iiil loir red forces. activity of
which prevented entry of landing
parties from foreign gunboats,
standing by in Hie Slang river.
Hundreds of wealthy Chinese
were reported captured and held
for ransom. Sixty provincial of
ficers, hiding In tho ruins of the
elty, were summarily executed by
the comiuerors. All foreigners
were believed safe aboard the
uunliouts or In other cities.
Kvacuatlon of Kioklang and the
neai-bv mountain summer resort
of Killing was under way. Chi
nese authorities gave foreigners
three days to leave, disclaiming
responsibility for them after that
time.
Nationalist authorities at Nan
king, explaining estnbjbdinienl of
martial law. said It was precau
tionary against . possible commu
nist nctlvlty within tho capital.
;La Grande, Oregon Man
Slays Wife, Shoots Her
Escort and Himself
Two Men May Recover.
J t A K Kit. A up. 2. (A't (JeoiKO
.Mcdlennen uf La (Irande, who yeH
terdny shot and killed hid wife,
Mrs. itenale Mcdlcnncu, wounded
seriously Harold (illklson and
turned the gun un himself Infllcl
liiK 11 bead wound, recovered In u
hospital today while authorities
untangled circumstances.
Authorities tmld MeOlennen bo
came enraged because. MrH. Mo
(ilennen threatened divorce pro
ceedings couplet) with a criminal
accusation against blm. They said
he brought bis twit children, ler
aldine, II, and Madeline, 0, to
Maker where Mcfllennen wan slay
ing In n lodKiim huuso whero till
kisoii roomed.
MeGlcnrien left his automobile,
and the two children parked on a
downtown street and entered tho
lodKlnK. lie beBan shooting nnd
j ,.rti ;u-rieniicn
an to an adjoln-
,n ,., where (lllklson was in
The rhlldren tob) authorities
tln-lr parentH had quarreled con
siderably. Police, who found tho trio lying
on tho floor of Gllkison's room was
able to ascertain a few facts from
Mr ilennen dcxplto the bullet
wound in his head.
A note was found on Mcfilon
nen'a person. It lead : "Mrs. Me
Olennen has done and tried every
thing she can. Now th wantu to
follow that and take my kids. IV tt
time to stop her."
Papers found In McOlennen'a
pocket indicated the family once
lived in California and bad rela-
TO DEATH IN MILL
8ALK.M.
Aug. 2. UV)VA
2S, Wits Instantly
(Ills morning at 1 1 o'clock
fiiuubt betwen two lolls of
on a mac h ie at the ()re-
xori ('nip nnd Ph per coinptiny milt
here. i" was woikiriK as a re
j winder. He leaves his widow, tt
; bride of six months, ami a father
' in (.'orvallls,
iconic Bomb
Found at Lake
By Park Chief
i
ritATKFl LAKE, Ovc. Aim.
iSpl.l The latest addition 1
i In tlir museum eullecliou in
! t'rater lnke national park in- !
formation bureau is u strange- j
ly cracked Klowsy rock, weiyh- j
! nearly l"it) nounds. While ;
i inspectiiif; seme leccnt work t
in the park. Superintendent
E. t'. Solinsky's keen eyes
noted this rock. The, irremi-
lar, deeply seamed lava block
shows characteristics of u vol-
I canic bomb. 4
I S This Ixunli probably solid!-
j Tied inside the mouutalu ami,
beiiiK Itiown through tiie vent,
was relieated, causing the
! cracks in its surface and then
cooled so nuickly that It haru-
ened into glassy texture.
f
POSTOFFICE IS
Li
Receipts for July 31 Per
Cent Above Same Month
Last Year Record Gain,
Is Assertion.
The unusually large gain In local
poKloffico receipts of last month
over those of J July, 1929, reveals
that Medford has been ill a pros
perous condition despite the gen
eral business depression thruout
the country and despite local stor
ies of local business slowness.
For tho month Just ended the
cash receipts were $H-10-I.40. and
for July, 19211, they woro $11413.65,
a gain of $ 1 .01)0.87, or of 31 poi
nt, one of tho largest monthly
gains In tho history of tho local
postofflce for many mouths past.
Postmaster Warner, In giving
out the figures today, said there
cair he no other explanation for
llin big Increase except that busl-.
ness Is good, Tho Increaso in the
special sale of envelopes last
mouth was only $000 over the July
of 1929. and the increase in sale
of advertising envelopes was only
(Contlnued on Pago 6, Story 2)
Baseball Scores
NKW YORK, Aug. 2. fyp) Mnbo
Ruth clouted his 311th homo run of
tho season In the second Rnmo of
the double header between the
Yankees and Washington.
The homer came with tho batton
empty in the riflh inning nnd left
the YankecH behind by a 0-1 count.
Kred Marberry waa pitching for the
Heiiatorn.
National.
New York - 8 B 0
Mrooklyn 0 13 2
ICIeven InninKS.)
Walker, Ilevlng and Hogan;
Thurston, Muss, Helmach and Lo
pez. It. II. II
Pittsburgh 14 16 3
Chicago 8 IB 0
Krf'iiu'r and I fool; Ma lone, Mtih,
Nelson, Shealy und Hartnett, Z.
Taylor.
n.
st. Louis ti l r i
Cincinnati 8 l'J 2
(Kleven Innings.)
Melt, (Irabowskl, 1,1 nd fey, John
son and Wilson; Menton and Suko
forth. First game: i. H. K.
Philadelphia 2 7 0
Boston II 10 0
Collard, Klliott nnd Davis; Sol
bond und Cronlii.
Kirst game:
Philadelphia
Boslou
(Ten Innings!
Men go and Kcna;
Spohrer,
II.
!
8
Hherdel mid
American
Kirst game: It.
II. K.
i 2
7 I
Hoiilon 2
Philadelphia !l
Morris. Hmlth nnd Moving,
nelly; Shores mid Cochrane.
Con-
First game: H. H, K.
Washington ! HI 0
New York 3 ft t
.font's and Spencer; Johnson, Hoi
loway and Dickey, Bengough.
II. II. K.
Chicago 2 0 5
Detroit 13 1 5 1
Thomas. Henry and Tnte; Uhlo
and Dcsaultela.
Iliminn 7)0 I
iMiili.ioiphiii ir, :
M.Tr-l'nydi'n jiikI Kerry; Itumninl
Muh.iff. v. Quinn. Hnrnnlmw. Urovo
HV'oml K.im:
WiwliiriKlon
Xi'w Vnrk
Mn rhfrry nnd Kuol;
loway and Dk'kt'y.
11. I
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6
fihi-rld
1. K.
r o
i l
ll"l-
WITNESS LOCA
BUSINESS GOOD
DEMANDS
HIGHER S
CAUGHT
Detroit Judge at Buckley
Memorial Services De
mands Arrest of Those
Who Hired Gunmen to
Kill Radio Announcer
Hold Girl Suspect.
UKTUOIT, Aug. 2. 'bert
M. lloliuann, political worker fur
Mayor Charles Howies In tho re
cent recall campaign, is bolng
sought today hy police for ques
tioning In connection with tha
slaying of Jerry IJuckley, political
commentator for radio station
WMMC.
.Mayor Howies described Hof
niann as 'a young man of means,
interested in aiding police in
rounding up violators of tho nar
cotics drug laws."
Police found a bank book Is
sued to llofmann in an apartment
occupied by Marjorio Mansoll,
"blues" singer for station WMMC,
and Pete Llcuvull, notorious gang
ster who has eluded police since
1 luck Icy was slain.
Detectives said Miss Manse II ad
mitted sho va Llcavoli's sweet
heart, but they obtained
fur-
tber information from
her
after
a day of questioning.
Ilofmnnn's bunk book showed
average, dally deposits of moro
than $2000 for tho past few
weeks. Mayor Bowles said llof
mann Is rent collector for tho
Scherer estate and his bank book
"should show largo deposits."
C. A. Pfeffer. mannger of tho
Scherer estate, said, "llofmann Is
not and never hns been connected
In any way with tho Scherer es
tate." Pollco refused to reveal what
connection they expected to estab
lish between llofmann and bis
bank deposits nnd tho slaying oC
Jerry Muckley. Tho bank book
wns found in a. tablo drawer, in.
Ml ha Mansell's apartment together
with newspaper clippings concern
ing the Muckley case, the slayinjr
of Jimmy Walters, gangster killed
Inst spring, and the attempt last
Jiinunry- 2 upon the llfo of Pollco
Inspector Henry J. Garvin.
Six thousand persons attended
memorial services for Buckley at
the Detroit national guard armory
I last niubt. .Tudcro Charles Ij. Bart-
lett, who had been n close, friend
of tho slain radio nnnouncer, said,
"tho people of Detroit want a 100
per cent Investigation," In an ad
dress at the services.
"They want tho higher tips who
did this trick." Judgo Bartlctt
said. "Thin murder, wns planned
for weeks by persons clthor JoaU
ous or afraid of tho power of my
friend. Tho men with the guns
were tho tools of others. Who
were those others?"
Miss Mansell was ordered held
for 48 hours moro after a hearing
on a writ of hnboss corpus today
before Judgo Henry S. Sweeney In
recorder's court. Her bond was
fixed at $100,000 with two sure
ties. Prosecuting Attorney James R.
Chenot told tho court Additional
tlmo would bo required to Investi
gate portions of her story.
ritrmer Kills 1 People.
NA It L'J A, Uumnnla. Aug. 2.
IP) The police today arrested a
farm laborer for the killing of his
employer, his employer's wifo and
their flvo children. The authori
ties said he had confessed.
WILL
ROGERS
HHVKUIiY HILLS, Aug. 2.
'I'lie farm board bought wheat
ami wheat went down. Now
tlioy say if they had, left it
alone it would have gone up.
The Ktork market climbed for
years on paying no dividends
but just Milling to the. next, fel
low at a higher rice. Some
body happened to think about
dividends and the thing blew
up, so they blamed Hoover for
someone demanding dividends.
So now let's get this heat thing
straightened out. Herbert is
responsible for this. You would
not have eaught Calvin allow
ing heat like this. !i give us
,mlI, tllt yyc s ,, brtTZf.
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