The Weather Medfo Mailt Temperature Highest yesterday 40 t,m cm ehu morning Precipitation To . p. m, yesterday no I To ." ii, in. today (12 BIJM Forecast : cloudy, turv. Tonight hi id Saturday No change In tempera- Twenty-Fifth Year FOURTEEN PAGES MED FORD, OKMXIOX. FRIDAY. DKOK.M I1KK 1!). 1!K!(. No. 270. Today DENIS IRKED By Arthur Brisbane f OrfllOAl Letting the Court Die. The World's Copper. Sewed in a Bear Skin. Earth's Strange Motions , A Copyright King Features 8ynd., Inc. According to Mussolini, the world is preparing feverishly for war. Therefore, he cannot allow Italy to disarm, although he would like to ave the money and turn his thoughts and efforts to peace. Every other ruler in Kurope will say the same thing, except ing sonic Balkan little coun tries. They say "fighting is the only occupation worthy of a gentleman." This country, if it would at tend to its own business, keep its defences in order and keep them MODERN, could save half What it spends on preparation now, and be well prepared. Meanwhile, it is a pleasure to hear that the World Court has been postponed for another year. Perhaps that is "letting the old eat die out." Our government, ' afraid of Big Business, might learn some thing' from the British. The.v showed us recently what could be done with rubber, making Americans pay 'outrageously high prices, enough to meet, the British debt installments. And now two .great copper companies in Rhodesia combine, making one company of the B'Wana M'Kubwn and the N'Clianga mines. ... .. .. Sir Auckland Geddes tells of the great advantages to be had from a. well planned trust .and .as sorry that all companies could not have been pul into it. Tho British hope to' get up a tionipmiy that will ikmiinah the w.ti-Ui. Ixmr Hgo this column (Milled attention to the ('fleet that copper production in Af rica might have on vnlucs here. If the United State? would lot American copper men, Ryan, ilufUIiiigaml others that under stand the industry, combine, to protect the United Stales inter rsts regardless of mi antiquat ed Sherman law, the British would not dominate the copper world Hi easily. n Another more cheerful day in Wall Street.. Perhaps the bot tom of the financial world is mt Koiug to fall out after all. The better feeling comes a little late for many, unfortunately. They must eonifort themselves with the old German saying: "Wer j;r!t .hat Unnn speltu liren. Wer keins hat kann ii'n'hts verlirene.'' ("Who has money can speculate. Who has none can lose nothing.") Everything In comparative.' even (Continued on Phro Four) Abe Martin i One o the whim combination?' ' K lots innant mi' nn nhility. ) Dan (lipid U jot like any other. MAlcMiuin. Jrt u rtwn a h m'H, ii ap he nff o n. (Copyright Jtihn K, Dill DI ittruoML FA A m m h U II U I LI A N S Heflin Asks Rejection of Re lief Compromise When Funds for Farmers' Gro ceries Eliminated Many Hungry in South. WASHINGTON. Ufi: IK. P) The t212.OUU.OOU agriculture ile imrtmi'iit annual supply bill was asrd today liy tho house und Kent to tho senate. Tile meuHure enrries ?12."i,000,- 000 for federal hlKlnvay aid and 1 12.500.000 for rorest roads and trails, along with substantial pro visions for tho weather bureau, en forcing the grain futures, market ing act and counteracting crop pesU and diseases of livestock. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. &) Semite Democrats itUterly assailed the elimination from the com promise S4a.OOC.000 drought re lief bill today of direct provision for loans to fanners for purchase of personal food, and Senator Hef lin, Democrat. Alabama, asked re-1 jection of the compromise on that ground. Senator liarkley. Democrat, of Kentucky, asserted that between -100.000 and oOO.OOO people in the rural sections of Kentucky were hungry. He called attention to the appropriations of food by the 1'nited States for tho starving in Europe and Ittissia. Senator Me Nary, Republican, of Oregon, asked support of the com promise, calling attention to the refusal of the tin use of the pro vision for' food loans and to nil amendment which he said gave the secretary of agriculture au thority to make the loans for food In cases of dire emergency. Ifarktey "said "tho secretary of agriculture had no aceuruto in formation on the situation. ' WASHINGTON. Dee. 19. The senate bill to create a $f)5, 000,000 fund to aid f a r m era through loans to drainage dis tricts and other political subdi visions, was unanimously approved today by the liotiMo Irrigation com mittee. WASH 1 Nil TON, Dee. 1 fl. P) The house hill lo authorize an ad ditional appropriation of $150.01)0. 000 for the farm board was re ported to the senate today, but Senator Ilorab. republican, Idaho, objected to immediate considera tion. Borah said he wanted to know "hat the farm board intends to do with this appropriation Hnd what it has done with the other $-7(0,-000.0 it 0. for as far as I can see it has not benefitted the farmer at all." Til K DALLKS. Ore.. Dec. HI. (tVt Contending the late F. A. Seufert. . pioneer cannery operator, was mentally incompetent, his daughter, M rs. Lily Seufert Uice of 1'ortland, yesterday filed a peti tion in probate court here contest ing his will. Seufert, who died a year ago, left an estate of $ 1,50, - 000. Mrs. Ilice charges her brothers, Arthur, Kdward and William .1. Seufert with using coercion and duress in obtaining execution of the will. Tho will bequeathed $.10,000 to Mrs. Hlie and left the rest of the estate to the executors; SAl'TOIll), Alii.. Dec. l!t.-l') Two nirplHiies Joined tho search today (or four hank bandits believ ed hiillnu' in Ikigiie Chiito Kwuinp. three miles from here. The planen circled at low altitude over th two mile stretch nf swamp lands while the ground forroH of more than :!.". composed of na tional c'lHl'ilsineri, sheriff's depu ties and citizens, continued the hunt with ft new puck of blood hounds. The (ilanos were equipped with machine guns and smoke bombs. FAMOUS OLD THEATER DAMAGED BY BLAZE NKW Y"I:K. I)---. 1". "V Firemen foiicht bour eiirly today to extinguish a fi'1 in qIi- ' American Mi;c ii-iil at 4.'nd f'.ieet and Kighth avenue. Th theater. hiwe li'Miih fW.-e J been trod by om of America's ( nio-t fam'Ui playe -. iv;i b.olly damaged. nniiTrnm w 1 Umiftld WILL v&- I canneryownerBUILDING AIDS; iiniifiinn TnrAin BEACH FIRE DESTROYS HOMES OF N.neteen residences, many of by fire at Malibu Beach, Cal., with Fiend Rushed to St. Joseph! As Mob Violence Feared Brutal Story Related to! Prosecutor. MAKYSVILLK. Mo., Dec. !!. (P) Declared by county authori ties to have confessed slaying l!i-year-old Velma t'olter, rural school teacher, Itaytnond Ciunn, 30, negro ex-convlct was held at St, 'Jowph, Mo., today, where ho was rushed! to avoid possible mob violence. 1 The negro was arrested y ester-. day while hunting. After hours of questioning the suspect, County Attorney I'aul ii. Jones announced Gunn had confessed. lie wu spir ited away Immediately. The prosecutor said Gunn re lated how. he had met the young teacher at the door.nl1 her school room and followed her within when she fled screaming. Jones quoted t be ex-eolivlet as saying Miss Colter fought viciously as lie attempted to seize her. Gun n then rushed at her wit h a club and beit her about the head, the prosoeuto, said. Teeth marks were visible on the negro's hand when he was arrested. j Gunn was sentenced to a prison: term for criminally assaulting a young girl attending the north- j west Missouri Slate TeacheiH col-j lege here, officers said, and had been sought since the murder of M tNs ( 'niter Tuesday. FOR BUSINESS NF.W VDi:K. Dec :'. (!)--j Kngmeerin construction contracts j awarded throughout the country! In the past week recorded gains In every branch of engineering rx'ept indu.-'trial bulldiiiL-H, engi neering news record reports. Ad-, vancini- to K.:..4:i.ean for the pe ilod. letting compared with loin! of K.:"-'.nuo In the preced ing week and $I8.K I 1 .i"0 Hie corresponding week laM year. The New Yolk Central has or dered to 1 1 ud "on type locomotives f i urn A merit an Ivnomoi i e Co., and t-n of the same type ti'om Lima locomotive. The value of ro is $ r. nao.oao. I'OliTLAND. One. I'.i. 'V) Work on the fMWt.WMi buildings f tho I'oribind I'ublic Market cor poration tn Front st rot started today. Fifty men were put t" work immediately and ns eonstroe tion prnceicrh. more th.in Ii."t0 men will be hit nished employment. WASHINGTON. Iec, t.-iAi j Chief .Iiistb-e Hugbef. today gtive. his youngest dnughter. Klizabeth f;ns Hughes, in marriiige to Wil- j Imm Thomas Goswett. f New , V-.rk. The noon ceremony, wit tu-n-d only by ininiedltite relatives, ; perfornietl by Dr. Hurry Krnerson J Fovllek. ' NEGRO CONVICT STAR TREATED GOSSIP BLAMED ADMITS KILLING) HUSBAND LIKE BY MAGOON FOR RURAL TEACHER! BUTLER, CLAIM DEED IN AFRICA - i I UrWMKU I 1 them belunumg, to persons prominent an estimated loss of $300.0001 l.OS ANGKLKS. Dec. 19. P) For the .fourth time tho marring barque of Paulino Frederick, stage and screen actress, lay in wreck age today on the shoals of divorce. Her latest venture in matrimony launched with Hugh C. Ieighton, wealthy hotel owner in New York last April, ended yesterday In an nulment. Kclghton, being too 111 to go to court to prosecute his suit, was granted bis freedom after a brief hearing in u superior eourt, con vened at his bedside in tho Ueverly Hills hotel. "She treated me like a butler,'' Leigh ton testified, aH he lay prop ped up on pillows. I was lior hud band in name only." MihH Frederick was not present yesterday when Lcighton won IiIh suit. WILL SCAN SITES FOR VETS' HOI WASHINGTON. Dee. 10. ') General George II. Woods, special representative of Veterans Admin istrator llines, will leave Washing ton within the next ten days to inspect sites In northwestern states for the $-OUO.00O soldiers home to be established by the veterans bureau. General Woods' itinerary has not bren completed but he is ex pected to visit Oregon, Washington Ha bo and other northwestern states. LOS ANGELES AH I TONOI'AH. Nov., Dec. III. (A1), Mrs. Clair Fahy, Los Angeles avi-1 atrix. died here today from injuries received in a plane crash Monday. ! Mrs. Fahy crashed from an ultl- tndc of about f.O feet as she was! taking off for Los Angeles. Americans Like Ridicule Says Shaw Explaining Why Sinclair Lewis Is Popular NKW YGIIK. Dec. 1 .(! l The New York Times today prints the following from London: A New York Times correspon dent asked George liernard Shaw for his opinion of Sinclair Lewis's address at Stockholm, in which t be Nobel prize winner nltaekcl present literary h t a n d a r fl s In America. This is Mr. Shaw'n reply as delivered in his own handwrit ing. "Ah far as I nm qualified to Judge, Mr. Sinclair Lewis lias naid just the right thing In the right way to the Swedish academy, and at bis own countrymen. They will not resent It. They expect to lie Hal t-i ed ; but far from being grateful to their flatterer, they accept thetribute hh n matter of course, just uk they accept the cleiining of their hoots at a hotel. "To rouse their eiiger Interest, their dint Inguished consideration and their undying devotion, all tha' i- necessary Is to hold them upwi the ridicule of the rest of the universe. Dickens won them to him for-vr by merciless projec tions of typical Americans as wind hag, swindler and assafslns. FILM FL AYERS in motion picture, were ruined Ashland Woman's Slayer Left Note Saying Life In nocent, But Indiscreet Read at Inquest. ' UMTALI, Southern IHiudesia, Africa, Dec. ID. (!') A posthum ous statement that he wuh the Innocent target of scandalmongers wuh read today at tho final inquest on the body of Dr. R, L. Magoon, Amerlomi big game hunter, . c Dr.JMagoonM body und that of his wifo wero found Monday at their homo here. A col-oner ren dered a verdict the hunter had killed his wife and then committed suicide. "1 love my wife dearly," the statement read today said. "She doesn't know, that scandalmongers are responsible. Let this bu a lesson to (hem who hate.' The - statement, .signed "Hoy Ivcslic AhiKoon," said the hmder, a dentist', hud lived a life "Innocent, but indiscreet." Family den Ions During the last few years, It continued, Dr. Ma goon, who for merly lived in Chicago, had en gaged two nativo girls as his assis tants. Keconlly when Mrs. Magoon and her two daughters by A for mer marriage came to Unit all, they seemed Jejilous of the native girls. Dr. Magoon wrote. He then decided, the statement said, io end tho IIvch of all con cerned as "an act of mercy.' After slaying IHh wife Dr. Magoon woij mled the two native girls. They will recover. The dentist, ami Mrs. Magoon, who came to I'mtaM from Ashland, Oregon, hud been married only two months. The Noted Dead COI'KNIIAGKN, Denmark. Dec. 13. (!' M. !. C. ChrlsteiiHen, one of the most noted of Danish liberal politicians, died hern today at 74. He was many times premier of this country. "Mr. Sinclair IjcwIh has knocked Washington off his pcdcKt'il a nd substituted Ibibbitt, Who Is now a l' ii ro pea n by-word. Thereby he has become so Indisputably Amer ica's leading sol hor I bat a I tho early ago of tf he has been mark ed out for th Nohel prize. "I myself have been porlieularly careful never to (ny a civil wotd to tho I'nlfcd States. I have scof fed at their Inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 per cent American as !f per ; cent an idiot. Ami they just adore ! me and will go on adoring me j until In a moment of senile send mentality I say so met htng nice 1 about them, when they will at once begin to suspect me of being only a eheap-skate after all, and drop me like a hot potato. "Most of t he things f wiy of ; them are obviously ti ne of all peo. pie that on earth do dwell; but us the A mer leans can tie y?r believe other nations could posdhly re semblo thrn( I get them every time. Junt an Mr. Sinclair Lewis does. "I hope he will keep pegging nwoy at them. Otherwise there will h no holding them." LINDBERGH IS HERO OF PLANE FIRE Noted Flier Wields Hand Ex tinguisher to Good Pur pose As Flames Threaten Wife and Ship at Balti more Airport. liALTlMtiltK. Dec. 1l. (V) Colonel Chai 1cm A. Lindbergh's l lano caught fire at Logan field today as ho was about to leave for New York with Mrs. Lind bergh, but he extinguished the flames unaided,. Colonel Lindbergh was not In the plane, the motor of which was being warmed up preparatory to the take-off. He run back to the cockpit, snatched the firo ex tinguisher, opened the cowl cov ering and began squirting the chemical into the motor. National guardsmen rushed to his assistance. During the excite, mcut Mrs. Lindbergh sat quietly in the cockpit. I -iter workmen made sure the fire was out by briiiKug up ap paratus of the guardsmen and giv ing the motor u thorough dose, of tho chcmicitl. Wile In Plane. Mrs. Lindbergh was In the cock pit ns tdl or gasoline on an ex haust pipe e.'fught fire, apparently from backfire. Colonel Lindbergh seized a hand fire extinguisher and put out the flames almost luime diatcly. Mrs. Lindbergh did not leave I ho cockpit, as she was reassured the danger was past almost as soon a m it appeared. The plane was taken in charge by mechanics for an cxnniina tion and it wuh said it would be ready for flight In about an hour, Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh were overnlitht gnestH at tho home of Dr. William H. Winner, eye specialist nt Johns Hopkins--hos pital. They flew hero yesterday from Wanhfngton and visited the clinic named for Dr. Wil nun and Gaucher college. AUTO HITS TREES COTTAGli CHOVU, Ore., Dee. IS). (A) Mi'H. Louis K. Kchwarlz of Cottage; liroVB was killed and Glen li. Hughes probably fatally injured today when the light roadster In which they wero rifling skidded on the slippery pavement 15 miles north of hero un crushed Into u group of trees. , FhystclunH at ttm Fugoim hos pital, to which the victims wore taken, expressed Ml tie hope that Hughes, who suffered a possible fractured skull und Injuries lo IiIh side, would live. Mrs. Schwartz was tho mother of Samuel (J. Schwartz, until roeeiitly postmaster hern and now iusiector lor tho postal depHiitneiit. KLAMATH KILLERS T KLAMATH FALLS, Ore,, Dee. lit. Jlobart Jtryunt, 2'A, was sentenced to a llfo term In stato prison when ho pleaded guilty yes terday to a charge of second de gree murder. I lo was charged with shool Ing to death Tlioiiiui; Mills, a friend, in a 0,110m l over a watch. Three Klamath men, all sen leuced to life terms, weil on their way to thn penitentiary today. They are Donnld Nueker, Wlnftelil H. Cnhlll and Bryant. Lavorno Cn rter, sentenced to 1 6 years for manslaughter, was In tho group. PEACE FOLLOWS LT MA I HI I), Dec. 1 fl. WIN Post revolution peace arid security be came something of nn act uality today with announce tueniM troopn would bo Withdrawn from several elites In which martial law has prevailed for tho past week. At IdiM-f lomi tho commanding genei f I h unoenced that ho won xl take ttut him men Immediatidy. u was believed similar action would be taken In other cities. Oregon Weather Generally Cloudy tonight and Sat urday; prolmhly rainn In the north west; 110 change In tnmperature. Moderate, changeable v.-tdn. EN ROUTETO CELL ENDANGERED BY Visit to Toyla Too Exciting or Philadelphia Lad ! rmi.ADICM'lllA, I'll.. Hit. i:. vVi Nine yi'in-nlcl Ah-x- umli,r Canii tliml lust nilii in a small hoy's pai'iulisi'. Willi tlu thrill of Christmas In his inart lie I't'll dratl in tin "Invland" nf a West l'ltilu ilcllihlu il'-parlimMtt More iimiil an array til I'liu-lrii: trains, air planes unit hnats the lliinns lie wanteit most for Christ mas. Physicians said death was eailseil by a rerehral liemnr-l-liai;e, iirohalily broimht on by excitement. 4 4 4 White Hot Lava Pours Over Javanese Villages When Long Dormant Crater Springs to Life Wide Area Devastated By Heat HWim itG, Germany. Dee;. 10. (!') Professor Woriui lloivlmrdt, with a Kiiroitcnn assistant, fell Into tho crater of tho volcano Alerapl, In Sumatra, al the moment that It hecumo Hiuldenly eruptive) yesterday and HM'lslie(i In. tho boiling lava. HATAVIA, .lava, Dec. 18. (fl1) .Vent pi, great volcano dormant for eighty years, hurst Into violent eruption unit poured u river of whito hot lava upon tho llttlo vil liitfcf ut ItH foot yoHttirday Today as (he eruption continued It was fearod ninety natives had lout their lives. Thoso killed woro nt work In field near the volcano's baso when an avalanche of whitu hot luvu, 70 fcot high and IMH) yards wide, slid down tho mountainside and over whelmed them heforo they could escape. Neighboring valley and farms wero covered with tho mass of lava, stoncK and ashes, and n sur rounding wide area was devastated by tho intense heat. Itumhlltigs Incroaso Loud rumhlingn accompanlel tho eruption ami wero last report ed Increasing although tho rain of ashcH had subsided somewhat. Tho volcano last night presented a terrifying night. Clouds of black srnokn enveloped Us summit und flaahes of fin shot from tho cono. Tho volcano observation post Iuih spread a warning to residents In a wide area about tho baso to leave their homes and find places of so fety. Tho volcano has been In a stato of agitation tor two weeks hut no one anticipated a serious eruption, ft wuh In violent eruption onco bo fore, September H-17, IK I!. NEW OIL FIELD WKWOKA, Oklu., Dec. I ft. (A) Tho Houlh Wewoka oil field, less than two months old with threo prolific producers, wan endangered hero this morning and part of tho resident la 1 district was flvacuated when ti well believed to bo thn Deeprock Oil Cor no! at Ion's No. 3 Davis, caught tire. The well, whleh caught fire Im mediately upon being drilled In bail 11 flow of gas estimated at over ao.oon.iimi feet which blew In a heavy spruy of oil. Townspeople wero awakened by the roar which was reported heard more than five miles away. Hun dreds huHtily dressed nnd went to the field. I 'OliTLA N O, 1 )ec. I !. P Dr. Gcoitre n. (tuck, Portland physic ian, was at liberty under $5000 hail today, charged with manslau ghter In connection with tho death of llecicb-ator, 20, who died In a hospital hero yesterday. Tho doctor Is charged with having per formed an Illegal nporntlon. NATIVES DIE AS VOLCANO SPEWS FIRE FLAM NG WELL 6 DROWNED IAS LAUNCH IOVERTURNS San Francisco Coast Scene of Tragic Encounter With Huge Waves Rescue Craft Capsized By Woman Fear 3 Others Lost. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 111. (!) Caught In a tUong out-running tide, at least six persons. pofKibly nine, were believed to JUavo drown ed when their 26-foot launch cap sized late yesterday at tho mouth of Tomales hay, 3l) miles northwest of San Francisco. The boat wan overturned by a huge wave i in mod la t Icy after an intended rescue craft waa upset by one of the women from the dis abled launch. With a wrecked launch found on a reef three-quarters of a mile away, eearcheni hunted for bodies today. Two men who risked their lives In the unsuccessful attempt to save tho party, swam, to shore. One of them, Ornburn Gray, 25-ycar-old farmer from Ksparto, Yolo coun ty, dragged a" woman with him until he was knocked almost un conscious ngalnst rocks along1 the Mhoro. HLs brother Grant. 2L. himself nenr exhaustion, pulled Ornburn through the surf. Six in Water. Five women and a man from tbe launch Wero floundering- In tho water after the two llttlo boats up set, the Grays said. Tho possibility that nine persons might have boon victims arose when relatives re ported two families were missing from the Uttlo fitdtlng village of MarHha.ll, not far from where tho boats capsized. 1 "! The mtsHlng persons werfl Jark Freas, fisherman,' and his daugh ters, Helen and Mary, and Mr, and 1r. Antone Atiffustluo and their Cjinqron, jvmiintM, " uuu, i - glnhi and Daniel, - ' Freas owned a launch answortng the description of the "wrecked craft. 'Tho Gray brothers Bold ono of tho wotnon called to ."Tony." who Investigators said mny have been Mr. Augustine. Screams Ilewrtl. The, Gray brothers wero fishing with their father, G. W. dray. Yolo county farmer, when they, heard the He renins of women on the launch. The young men fmt out . In a small .boat, powered .hy.nn outboard motor, towards the launch which, with Its ' motor disabled, was being carried rapidly on tho tide townrd the Pacific ocean. The Grays threw a 100-foot line to the launch, intending to tow It to shore. When they succeeded in getting It aboard on tho third attempt, one of tho women seized It. Presumably 'terror- sftrlckon, she jumped overboard and wn hauled into the Grays' little boat. The man was pulled aboard In tho same manner. They hauled another woman to tho boat. As eho grabbed tho gunwale to climb In the rescuo boat was capsized. Almost sim ultaneously a big wave struvk tho launch and bowled It over. Tho three remaining women climbed onto the bottom, the Grays said, nnd the last they saw of them they woro being enrrlod away on the tide. Ono of the women In the Gray boat sunk. WILL DOGEBS HOIil-YWOOD, C11I.. Dec. 10. Well, the World Court Mow ed up till next December any how. 1'npers are calling it a defeat for Mr. Hoover. Hay. I lift you lieis liekled lo death. It's one of those things he was under obligations lo propose, and to get it off his IiiiikIh this easy, why he is just laiti'liing up his sleeve for tho first time in mouths." If there1 is one thing that it would fin laugh able for this country to try und show the rest of the world how lo do it would be to run H court. Of all the ciekeycd things we got in this country at the present lime, it'A somo of our judges and courts, nnd jus tice. Wo got more bandits out on bonds than wo got pcoplo for 'em to rob. WHiMM(ia s