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The Weather Forecan: Tonlirlit anil Saturday UIM-Illi'il Willi rain; moderate temperature. Medford Mail tribune Temperature Highest yesterday ,5 lamest thU morning lnvlltutlon To ft p. in. yeMtM-dity T. To ft ii . in. todtiy 41! Twenty-Fifth Year TWELVE PAGES BEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2. Xo. 282. SEARCH MIL 0 AIRMAN Today By Avthur Brisbane FOB Goodbye, 1930. Canaries' Malaria. Radio Fights Poison. Folly Fights Religion. Copyright Kino Features 8ynd., Inc. i ... r .Nineteen thirty, with its puz zti.tr problems, and innny dis appointments, is cloud nnd bur ied. Another yeiir offers vis 365 clianees. Tim country possesses every -tliiiif- that it bad a year ao last October, when the bubble burst, except some of its cour age. That will come back. The now year will be better for all (hut meet it, determined to suc ceed. Wonderful arc today's op portunities, with -everything from copper, cotton, wheat, oil and coal to stocks of greatest i-idue, wiling far below their Teal worth. 4 Two thousand scientists path ored at Cleveland continue their contribution to untaxing infor mation. Canary birds have a peculiar malaria of their own. German scientists investigating this dis ease developed plasmocbin, a drug that cures human beings. Tin? new remedy is a synthetic product called by chemists "N-dietbylamino - isopentyl-3-aniino - 6-melhoxy - quinoline," which you should remember in ease you want to order some. Jtany have .shivered with fear lest a comet should strike the earth. . : . ... It probably wouldn't do ajue.h damage if it did, and you Vould know nothing about it rxeept that if a comet did side swipe our atmosphere in pass ing, you would detect a strong smell of almonds. Science finds in the tails of comets "cyanogen," which has the almond smell. Bacteriologists are told that violent diphtheria poison, the toxin carrying the disease that has killed so many millions of children, has been successfully attacked by treatment with short radio waves. These waves with a frequency of from 80,0(10,000 to 158,000, 000 per second reduce the Jireugth of the poison by one half. It is difficult to exagger ate the importance of this sci entific announcement. With flints, bows nnd ar rows and high powered rifles, men have succeeded after -".-000,000 years in - cono'iering their huge four-footed enemies, tigers, lions, bears. They may be able now t.i destroy their in- tContinucd on Page JSlcven) Abe Martin iQ Q IT! W MWWW"W V v- enough to keep within the lew. Orth C'apiaddlo murdered hit wife without ihowin1 criminal Intent en' today h' free wort der the Masons don't put on a con trst to tee which kin die the oldest. FEAR FLIER CRASHED N T Cunningham Unheard From Since Radio Conversation Saying Forced Landing in Storm Near Planes Ready for Search. Kour nlnne.s wore in the air lato today and throe more were on the line at Med ford airport, poised to take the ait- In sea re h for J. Rus sell Cunningham, missins Pacific Air Transport pilnt. These planes, in flight forma tion, will jiU'ing over the rough area in which Cunningham is be lieved to have crashed or to have made a forced landing. He ha been missing since Xew Year morning when he became lost in a fog and sleet storm while ferry ing a plane from Med ford to Se attle. He carried no passengers or mail. Down Xrar Tiller. Forest service officers said to day they believed Cunningham came down in the Tiller district, perhaps eight or nine miles north east of Tiller, and in the vicinity of the Hutchison ranger station. This conjecture wuh arrived at after nrmy officers and rangers hud gone over the log of Cunning ham's radio con vernation with the Med ford airways station and had plotted a hypothetical course on weather .''nd topographical charts. ; - The. last message received! here from Cunningham was timed 4:2 a. m. In tlii complication the! pilot said he was apparently in canyon. He could see the walls of the ravine, he said, and they appeared to be "pinching" in on him. He then had an altitude of 3,000 feet, and said it wna appar ent he wouM have to land. NIGH HOP Iv On Wings. j Previous messages said he had j climbed to 1 1.000 feet in an al-j MAN Af Jl'A. Nlcnrngue, Jan. 2. tempt to get above the thick blan-i t'niied States Marine de itet of deep fog. Hut this strat-j tachments combed tho hills near egy failed when he began to lose Acnuarai northern Nicarague, to altitude on account of heavy ((av coking the band of insur formatinns of ice on the wings pe)tH who Wednesday killed eight of his sdiip. of a patrol of ten marines In an Fitful weather here today ham-) ambUsn between Ocutal nnd.Apnll. pered the rescue work. Alternnt-i ing sunny and stormy weather made observation difficult and flying hazardous. Nevert heless, i nd lea t ions poi nt ed to the Tiller area as the object of attention. Interent in this sec tor was intensified by a report from (inuits I'nss that Abner (lillman, a farmer, heard the crash of a plane in some hills near his place eight miles north of Tiller about dawn yesterday. OHANTS PASS, Ore., Jan. 2.-s (jp) The party headed by John Doiignl and C. V. Murrell of Wolf Creek, searching for J. liuswll Cunningham, missing pat fl'er. had not reported at noon today. It was learned they had to abandon their automobile four miles from the reported scene of thpi cmHht The men carried an emergency kit and a portable telephone. Ciinnlniihiim u- h.i.l.lv of F. A. Donaldson, llurbank pilot, who crashed to death in California last month. CHANTS PASS. Ore., Jan. 2. fP) "Construction of a new seen It highway between (iiHUts Pass nnd Yreka. Cat., will be started by the Siski ou national forest service within 30 days. J. H. Ptlhslea, sup ervisor, announced today. The road i to be l'Ma miles !NEW HIGHWAY FROM G. PASS TO YREKA SOON long and will follow a mountain, PjKit dead when found later, were! ridi.e nt an approximate altitude I imy mutilated, apparently l'Vj of 4 feet. machete. A crew of workmen, all resident; farmer Givm Alarm. j of Josephine county . already haj t Niearaiamn farmer llvlnc, le-n enuaced. nwrhy heard the firing nnd rode; The ci of the j roject hs not to Ocotal and cave the alnrm at ben establi.hed definitely. Hillins-j Mi(nut noon Joseidi J. T;'in.; lea Mid. ! Wlth 2Ti men Immi dintoly rushed j J t tne rne. Ther four.d only , R"' t,er, sentenced ; the kin,.(, th(1 wounded who HKM). t)n Jiut. L'.-iN-Lcstor, wpr,, im,VO(, mmP,,Rtlv to Oc .1. lolltns. b.tinnior 1-uke home-tal ., frnm tht.rl hv -urplane' steader. as Renteticed to one year: Thnr1,IIV to M;in;1KMIrt. ! in state prison when he pleaded. guilty here to a charge of stealing PlTTSiu lit; Johnny pntn' rattlo. Ho was arrested at the re-1 Cleveland, outpointed Jackie P."d quesl of Lake county officers, i;eis. pitMtn g (Kit. Engaged 3 M p-h' L& j - l LSI JL&J AtAlHltltut I'fKS.H I'h'.lO Gertrude Lamont, daughter of the secretary of commerce ztrd Mrs. Robert P. Lamont. whose engage ment was recently announced t$ Charles E. Saltzmart, son of Major en-rat and Mrs. Charles Saltzman. KILLED BY Nicaraguan Patrol Am bushed While Repairing Telephone Line Bodies Mutilated Two Ameri cans Wounded in Fight. Tne i0iPli wero mutilated. The patrol was repairing a new-K- erected telephone line. The Nicaraguans, who were believed to be commanded by Miguel' Ortez, a lieutenant of General AuguKino Sandino. Two remaining mem bers of the patrol were seriously injured. Tho dead: Sergeant Arthur M. Paining. Fort Collins, Colo." Private Irving P. Aron, Brook lyn, X. V. Private Lambert Hush, Hay Min ette, Ala. Private Kdward Elliott. Des Moines, Iowa. Private Joseph' Albeit Hard baugh, Washington. Pa. Private Frank Kosieradski, Uuf- i "'. i- . Private RIMmM J: Lit. Indmn- j npolU. ... n,r VvlvMv J-.seph Arthur M Car- M" - Chiilicothe. Mo. The wounded: Prank Austin Jackson. Uw renrcville. (la. Mack Hutchersbn. " Shreveport, Ui. j Ambii-bed lit Work. An account of the ambush given by I nlted States Marine headquar-l ters here today said that at 10:30; n.m.. Wednesday a marine patrol which was repalrisg a telephone line was suddenly find upon from all sides. They immediately put up a de fense, which lasted for two and one half hours. Sergeant Arthur M. Palrang. of Port Lyons. Colo.. mm m and Ins the patrol, ordereu Private Mack Hvit"hetvon to m tempt to reach Orotnl and bring help, but In trying to get through the ring of attackers he was wounded and Incapacitated. i The insurnent fire was mne quent. but accurate, the marines being gradually picket off. Pri vate Jackson was ihe lust man standing: be was wounded and crawled into a nearby field to hide from the Nit -uraKuans. The 8 MARINES INSURGENTS SEND BUSCH I SCION HOME UNHARMED Father of Kidnaper Forces Return of 13-Year-0ld Adolphus Busch Orthween After 20 Hours No Ran som Money Paid.' ST. I,OUlS, Jan. 2 (fl1) Charles V. Abernathy, 2S-ycnr-old negro and son of Pearl Abernathy, negro real estate dealer here,' was the kidnaper of Adolphus Kitsch Orth wein, 13-year-old grandson of Au gust A. Husch. president of An-heiser-Busch, Inc., Harry Troll, attorney for the family,' disclosed today. While Trill would not make a definite statement this was learn ed from him after polit e and spec, ial investigators said they had determined Charles Abernathy was the abductor. The senior Abernathy brought about the res toration of the boy to hfs parents yesterday afternoon after he had I been kidnaped from the family I chauffeur New Year's eve and! held for 20 hours. j Troll said that yesterday after noon Peurl Abernathy telephoned! Percy J. Orthweln the boy's father told him the boy was safe ' said, "as father to father, I wantj to return your boy." The attorney said no ransom! money was paid for the return ofj young Orthweln nnd let it he understood tho price for the re lease of tho boy was a promise not to prosecute CharleH Aber nathy. The son of the negro real, estate dealer today was reported) in hiding. OF REBELS DEAD THARWADDY, Burma, Jan. 2. (P) The mysterious "man who i would be king," who directed the J recent series of savage raids on j Burmese jungle villages, is be- ; lieved to have been killed by gov- j ernment troops which returned here today after sacking tho rebel j stronghold and burning nn almost j impregnable palace. In the palace was the body of a tall, muscular fair-complexioned Bui-man. on the head a royal tur ban. An examination revealed that he had wasted away with fever. He apparently had been directing the rebel troops to the last, despite severe sickness. CALIFORr Al rv, LOS ANCKLKS. Jan. 2. (Pi : Old Jupiter Pluvius descended on' southern California with a doubly; welcome New Year's gift a gen-j eral rain which averaged an inch , throughout mont of the extensively farmed southland. The rainstorm.! which opened up in showers late New Year's day, ceased at 8 a. m.I today, w.th more showers predicted' tonight by the government weatherj men. MYSTERIOUS HEAD AS FALSEHOODS: ON SNOW HIKE Tar and Feathers Applied To Woman Homesteader In Battle Over Cattle Range HIVKKSIPK. Cal., Jan. 2. & A woman homesteader in the San Jacquiuto mountain foothills. Mrs. Anna Wood, was in a nerious con dition today from being tarred and feathered early New Year's day by two masked men. Deputy Sheriff Carl Hayhurm who went to her ranch forty miles east of here, reported the tarring appar ently followed Mrs. Wood's defi ance of cattlemen's orders to move out. Mrs. Wood was found in a eV's terlcal nnd semi-conscious condi tion at her Isotawl ranch late last niglrfv by friends. 0hey reported to irrv sheriff here, who said ar rest were imminent. Hay bum aid the woman hm accused neighboring cattlemen of demanding for years that she quit her homestead and mining claims. Kidnaped New Year's Eve in i ' i'i ' i -?"-""T'r""- , "" ; Associated Press t'lephnto of Adolphus II u sell Oitliweln, til year old grandson of August A. Husch, niillfoiiaire brewci', who was kld najRMl near liis home hi St. Louis New Year's eve, by a negro. Ho is shown with mot her. Mrs. Percy .f. (rtlu;ein, nee Clara Husch, and his younger brother James. ' IFRRF nTAMPn ARHI ANn RfjVS-l ULUUL IMIIIIII W l IVI 1 t-l II 11 UJ I V S MPS N A KIHA Y fi 7FN W..M. ' ...W Chairmari of Farm -Board ; Says Further Exchange j of Personalities Can Do No Good. ( I WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 .(Pi Chairman Legge of the farm board today declared "absolutely untrue' statements concerning him made recently by John A. Simpson, presi dent of the Farmers' Kducation and Cooperative union of Olkahoma City. ' Irfgge made public his reply, dated December 3 1 , to a letter from Simpson, who recently charged the farm chairman had told the 'sen ate agriculture committee his board had sought to depress wheat prices. "I am in receipt of your letter of December 24 and no good," wrote Legge, "can result to the farmers from a further exchange of personalities between us. It would be highly improper -for m to enter into any discussion of what was said In an executive ses sion of a senate committee, but I do want to repeat most emphatic ally that the statements you have been using as having been made by me at this hearing a re abso lutely untrue." Oregon Wiiithcr. Unsettled with rain and snow over nnd east of the Cascade mountains tonigl t and Saturday: moderate tern pel -it are. K r e f h southerly winds offshore. I which are located on va luable : grazing lands. , "They told me to move out, or I I would wish I had. she told the j deputy. I A commotion In the barn among , her goats, ,Mn. Woods said, drew i her to the building early yester , day. A masked man grabbed her. : stripped her of clothing, nnd a second masked man helped In 1 applying the tar and feathers. Mrs. Wood told Haybuin she was unconscious un the barn floor for several hours after her attack ers left. She crawled into her j house, where she was found by , visiting friend. j Itaybui n reported the evidence 1 eonvineed him the woman's story was true, and that two suspected ; men would be questioned before night. . . . . ' . . . . .. Two in Klamath Falls Hos pital Following Ski Trip to Lake o' Woods One May Lose Toes. . ' result of attempting; to b. ..oil for tho other members I of Coy Scout party en route j to Lake w the ' v'oods, Raymsford (Buster I !'jvIioitse and Ernest WalUn. both of Ashland, are In the hospital at KlaHiuth Falls suffer ing from hadly frozen feet. Reports Irom Klamath Falls this j morning stated it might be neces sttry to ttmputnte one boy's toes, which were frozen ho badly they turned black and split open. They ! expect to take the boys to Ashland Sunday if their condition permits, j Members of tho party had stop I ped at a farm house Monday noon for lunch, when the two decided to I leave their packs. Including their j coats, and go ahead on skis to break trail. They were cautioned by Mickey Franklin, assistant scout master of Ashland, not to go far I ahead. Goee In Search j When he uw they intended go- Ing into the woods he called to j them to return, but they went on. j When the group made on nip for the j night, Mr. Franklin put on skis and ! went for two miles searching for ; the boys. He could not catch up with them, so returned to camp. Monday night tho two scouts made camp on a plain, the temper ature being about (I degrees nbove zero. They reached the lake, five miles Irom where they had camp ed, the next day. The caretaker at the lodge tele phoned the forest sei vise, which In . turn called Mrs. Wm. I,ee Bricker of this city. She asked them to send the boys to the hospital at i Klamath Falls. Wm, Lee Bricker land one Medford scout were going to the lake but were not wltji the j j Ashland group. j j Other members of the party and the two from Med ford return-; ed Wednesday evening. They hadj driven their cars 22 miles past I Ashland, mnliing the remainder of' the trip by tikis. j DESTROYED BY FIRE' KLAMATH FALLS. Ore , Jan. 2. j Fire here yesterday destroy- j -d the Cascade box f.iqtory, near J here, with tin estimated lo"s of j $."!. otifi. c-aU'.e of the fire was I undetermined. The pl;nt was con- ! struct d lat spring. IPRESIDENT TO REROUTE OF PANAWIAHIGHWAYTO IS OUSTED Revolutionists Headed by Dr. Arias Three Killed, Several Injured Peace and Order Prevail Is Re port in Washington. PANAMA CITY, Jan. 2. (P) President Arosemana. overthrown in a sudden revolt this morning, this afternoon named Harmodlo Arias premier of Panama, then resigned as president, leaving Arias at liberty to form a new cabinet P.OSTON. Jan. 2. (i)-s-Uevolu- t ion bits today overthrew the gov ernment of the Republic of Pana ma and forced President Arose mena at Panama City to resign, according to reports received by local business Interests. Three per sons were reported killed and sev eral others injured. American sol diers were said to he guarding the I nited States legation. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. (JP) Minister Alfaro of Panama was advised from his count it today the government of President Aro semena had been overthrown. The communication said the forces responsible were headed by Dr. Amorio Arias. President Arosemena was report ed confined to the presidental pal ace. ...... . Tho. communication said ' there had been some fighting, but that the "entire people" supported the movement. Order and tranquility I were reported to be reigning after the incidents. Dr., Alfaro described Dr. Omorio Arias ns an attorney who hitherto had devoted his prominent efforts to peaceful pursuits. Word of the troubles had not been received at either the state, war or navy departments at the time that Dr. Alfaro had made public his telegram. Dr. Alfaro's communication said: "National revolutionary move ment: government overthrown. En tire people support movement. Peace and order now reigning." E No official word has been re ceived from Governor A. W. Nor- blad relative to any action, in naming a ppecinl grand jury and prosecutor for a rehearing of the evidence In the death of Kverett Da hack, six weeks ago during a state-county enforcement officer raid on a lieese creek still. A press dispatch reported Wed nesday that Governor Norblad, at his home In Astoria had an nounced he would make the ap pointments. No confirmation of tbereport was forthcoming today. A jury in the circuit court this afternoon was hearing evidence in the trial of Haleigh Matthews, resident of the Kngle Point dis trict, charged with possession of intoxicating liquor. Matthews was among those pres ent at the Ueene creek shooting. The present case arose a week before the tragic incident. SALKM, Ore,. Jan. 2. (A'f Circuit Judge L. II. McMahan Fri day afternoon issued oral instruc tions to the Marion county grand jury to Investigate and report to him upon the circumstances nnd facts surrounding the nHeed irreg ularities In handl.ng funds- of tho office of State Kngineer Bhea Luper. recently resigned. TEACHER OF HOOVER ILL IN IOWA HOME WKHT IIKAN'I'II. Iowa, J:in. !. lPl -Mrs. Mi, 111,- llrnwn Cumin, who taught Pirsiflfnt Hoover hid ADr's I III at her home Ifre. 1 1 -r d.iiiKhter, Mis Klt-anor Curran. wild she was suffering from n tier vou:. ailment, but h,'r ronilltton was not critical. SPECIAL PROB DAHACK DEATH WA WORD CENTRAL PT. Gates Tells of Extensive Work in Medford Area for . Coming Year Widening South Without Detours Is Planned. W'hilo the state highway commis sion at present has 150 men work ing out of .Medford in the Medford district on various highway inv provements, with the big highway development work to be placed un der way next spring hundreds more of men will be placed at work, and by the end of the year about 6U0 men will have been employed in tliis work. This news was given out today by C. K. Gates, resident member of the state highway commission, who returned to the city yesterday from Salem and Portland, where he attended the recent meeting of the commission. Various Btate highway Improvements in the Med ford district will he started some time this spring as soon as all pre liminary details have been complet ed and the weather permits. Chief of immediate local interest perhaps is thai the Pacific highway between a mile this side of Talent, where it connects with the wid ened highway work done last year between that point and Medford, is to he widened to a point beyond Ashland. This will make the high way the standard 20 feet width be tween Medford and Aahlund. Use No Detouri This new widening work will not only lie done mostly by hand labor and trucks, giving employment to about. 60 men, but will be done without any detours, tho state high way commission itself doing the work by force account, Instead of letting out by contract. Next and almost paramount In local Interest Is the fact that the commission Is going to re-route the Pacific highway between this end of North Riverside and Central Point, no matter what objections might be raised. The' commission decided on this re.routing of that stretcli of tho highway last year to do away with curves und it will he remembered that much objection from certain quarters was entered, but the reason that the commission did not do this work then was that it did not have the money on band for the purpose. This year the commission has the money, and the work will be done next Bprlng, giving employ ment to about 76 men. Kniploy 12r Men. Then, too, it 38,000 will bn Kpont by tho oommlSHion on the new Diamond lake road between l.'nlon creek nnd Diamond lake, as soon as the weather permits, employing about 125 men, along with machines. On January 16 a now contract will be let for about 10 miles of regradlng ami eight miles of re surfacing on the Kagje Point-Trail section of the Crater I.oko high way. From 7", to 100 men will be employed on this Job. Another project for the Med-ford-Aslilnnd section will be the rebuilding of tile Oreensprlngs (Continued on Pago 3; Story 1) feflLL ROGERS HEVERLY HILLS, Cat., Jan. I lielii've my Christmas w ish of not linvinn our bin; rnvu "predict" on New Yeiir'H did sonic frond. Anyhow, got a love ly wire from Charley Schwab, and we arc gratified to find his "predictions" inissinfj. Of course, some of 'em can't slop. .1. V. Sloan will be "prediet inv'' as Ion as liis liniment lasts. Tom Limtont "predict ed" for J. P. Morgan (not a difficult kiiv to predict for). Morrow wisely said nothinR. If we eotdd have eaten and digest ed "optimistic predictions" during 1!K0 we would have been the fattest nation nn earth.
