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o The Weather EDFORD J! Temperature HitilieM yctcnlnv 40 I.omohi this inoiftinjj- it ll''lillaiHin ; To ."i p.m. ycsifM'ilav . To a.m. todnv Ml Tonight nnl Friday, rain. Mml rrato lompeniiurc. Twenty-Fifth Year MEDFORlA OKKfiOX. THURSDAY, JANl'AWV 1". 1J:'.1. No. 29-1. Todav By Arthur Brisbane Across America. Our Middle Kingdom. Knowing and Seeing. Don't Be a Texas Tick. Copyright King Feature! Synd.. Inc. TRINIDAD, Colo., Jan. 14. This is written orossinfr the continent by n zigzag route from Xew York to Chicago on file New York Central "Ad vance Twentieth Century"; Chicago to Ash Fork, Ariz., on the Santa Fe "Chief"; next from Asli Fork by Fred Har vey automobile, leaving at 5 in the morning, to 1'hoenix, stop ping at Presents on the way, 1G5 miles; then after the West ern Shippers' and Growers' conference, about the same dis tance to Kogales, interesting town with Mexico on one side of the main street United States on the other. Then to Los Angeles by the Southern Pacific, up to San Francisco and back by a northern route. , The trip across America and back is as interesting aTter you have made it fifty or a hun dred times as it was the first time. It is a different and an inde pendent United States out here near the Rocky mountains. On the front page of TionfnV Denver Post no large type is devoted to any news except what happens in Colorado or in the big domain of Central States covered by the Post. Western newspapers are good newspapers an tell you every thing that happens, once yon get pnst. the front' 'page.'" But nothing that Mussolini can do, nothing that Lloyd fieorge can say, nothing that Russia can suggest is as important to the Pueblo Chieftain as the fact that "Pueblo Banks Pick Offi cers foi New Year." And in Denver the finding of Alice Lu cille Humphreys, lost 13-year-old daughter of a millionaire, is bigger news than .any. steel merger. Bonfils makes an exception in favor of Calvin Coolidge and puts his philosophy on the front page. Today Mr. .Coolidge says, and the young should remember it, "Knowing a little more about a suhject under discussion than any one else on the floor (of the legislature) will be the sur- t may to success." That's the Calvin Coolidge way and a (Continued on Pago Five) Yon ought to join the Colonial Itrldgc cluli. mi id Mrs. Leghorn Thai-p when Tell Hlnkley com plalmft t tut lot he newspapers wiun' prlntin any Joke tihont a err tain little our that's on the mar ket, 'I heard a shot an' a nrreiiin hi (lie hall, hut I yur. Jest 1 1 Men In In on Amos n Andy an' llioujtht no more of It twilfled Mm. Tilfonl IimiV I. rot her, nr" lioneil In rejtard to the murder tV hW wife. ; I Abe Martin OPEN 1 0 REG LI N ROAD W Eagle Point-Trail Section of Crater Lake Will Cost $135,443 if Low Figure Accepted Total for State Over Million. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 15. (P) BittH on more than $1,000,000 worth of highway and bridge work were opened by the state highway commiKsion here today. The total of the low bids opened on 132.4 miles of road work and 14 bridges and culvert jobs was 1,0S2,155. Included was the job of non skiddinff 31! miles of the Columbia Uiver highway out of Portland. The Interstate Construction com pany was low bidder on two of the largest projects, bidding $135,443 on 17 miles of regrading and re surfacing work on the Kagle Point-Trail-section of the Crater Lake highway in Jackson county, and $210,925 on 2! miles of re surfacing of the Bear Springs Maupin section of the Wapinitia highway in Wasco county. Other projects and low bids were: Lane county: Doyle Hill-Gate creek section of McKenzie high way, Fred Christ ensen, $55,840. Berry Creek-Klorence section of Roosevelt Coast highway. 10 miles of surfacing; Kern & Kibbe, $113,- 560. Multnomah county: Portland Hood River county line section of Columbia River highway, 32 miles of bituminous pavement; West Contract company, $66,848. Wasco and Sherman counties: The DalleH-Biggs section of Colum bia River highway, 13 miles of re grading and widening; C. R. John son, $107,607. Wilcox-Shaniko section of Sher man highway, 12 miles of regrad ing and widening, J. Rebman, $63, 130. Wheeler and Grant counties Willow creek-Valade ranch section of Ochoco nnd John Day highways, 18 miles of surfacing; VV. 11. Puckett Co.. $150,061. Lane county Three culverts be tween fish hatchery and Vida on McKenzie highway; Oscar Johnson $(i,840. . One concrete arch and two con crete bridges on Lincoln county line-Bob creek section of Roose velt const highway; Tom Lillebo, Reedsport, $33,900. Two concrete arches nnd four concrete bridges, on Ton Mile creek-China creek section of the Roosevelt coast highway; Union Bridge company. Portland, $120, 2 30. Lincoln county Two concK'te bridges on Cape Perpetun-Lane county line section of Roosevelt coast highway; Tom Lillebo. $17, 771. 1 f DKNVICR, Jan. 1 5. (VP) Three optional methods of regaining or continuing their membership In fhe Woodmen of the World, with head(iiarterH In Denver, have been proponed at n special head camp session here to permit nearly 50. 000 veteran members the oppor tunity to resume or continue their standing. Veteran members may elect to come under the legal reserve In surance adopted Tuesday as the form for the organization here after. If they reject this, they may choose to accept a "com pro mine" rale between what they have been paying under the old fraternal system and the new fig ure. The third proposal is to permit these members to regain their old policies, giving a lien to the or ganization for a portion of the money paid in. T WARHTN(?TON Jan. IS. Senator Frederick W. Stelwer or Oregon lias been Intorniod the In terstate commerce gommisxinn will enforce Its order for grain rate ri due Unas effective April 1. Stelwer had asll the commis sion for a definite statement in rn spou.se to an itulry from V. I). H. I rod (ton of the 'ortland rhumber of commerce. Much grain Is Hold lo be held hy Prowers who eiect to Miip under the new rates. THREE OPTIONS ARE OUTLINED convict man FOR WOODMEN BULLETIN PORTLAND, Ore., ,laiu 15 (P) I Mis, . H. Howard, prominent wltuoM in the Bowles murder time, wan Htabbed over the lnirt Into today us she mopped on the back pori'tt- of her home. Sho was said. to bo dying. An emergency call o police whs sent In by neighlMirs but no one knew who wicldcxi the knife. Squads of pnllw sea relied the neighborhood but found no trnce of the assailant. Mrs. Howard also lial a deep ut across the face. She was rushed to a hospital. When found sho was lying with Iter feet outside the door and head inside. She had fallen backwards through the, door. Sho liad not recovered eonst'iouH ncss half an hour later. 1 RICHFIELD Action Taken On Plea of Re public Supply Co. Claims Long Overdue Basis of Petition -Continue Business. Will LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15. (&) The Richfield Oil company of California was placed in the hands of a receiver today by Federal Judge William P. James, acting on a petition of the Republic Supply company of California, which list ed assets of Richfield at (1 20, 000, 000 and liabilities at $35,000,000. Judge James appointed William C. McDuffie, president of Richfield as receiver In equity and his bond was fixed nt 53,500,000, the largest bond ever set for a receiver In federal court here. ' C ' ' Major Compnny - The company is one of the ma jor producing and oil corporations on the Pacific coast. McDuffie recently took over direction of Richfield at the request of bankers affiliated in the financing of the company. The petition for receivership was preceded by heavy trading in Rich field common stock on Los Angeles and San Francisco exchanges yes terday nnd at the opening of the markets today. The price slumped to 2 7-8. Several months ago the stock was selling around 14. At the time McDuffie became president financial agencies re ported that Richfield owed about 120,000,000 to banks. Tn filing the petition the supply company listed claims of $275,000. which it alleged were long over due. By the action, Richfield may continue as a going cojieern in stead of being forced Into liquida tion, which would' have been nec essary if a receivership In bank ruptcy had been sought and grant ed. COOS BUY DEATH M ARSH FIKLD, Ore., Jan. 15. (TP) Mrs. Ruth Warnock was con victed on a manslaughter charge 1 by a circuit court jury here today, j The jury was out seven hours. j Mrs. Warnock shot and killed I John Schwor in n hotel here last J October. The state established the; motive ol' Jealousy and contended Mrs. Warnock tthot Schwer because he had transferred hit attentions from her to anolhcr woman. She will he sentenced next week. m BY MERCURY PLUNGE NRW YORK, Jan. 1 C (JV) New York awakened today with a shiver to find the mercury had dropped 15 degrees since midnight to 11 degrees above zero. SliKht comfort came from the weather bureau In a reminder that Jan. 15, 19U7, set a low record for the day with a temperature of 0.3 above zero. BILL PASSES HOUSE WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 .',.! The house today pawed the W;Iq department supply bill appropriat ing H-4U.ft00.oa0 for military and ( non-military activities during th( next finral yeru . It now go to the senate. RECEIVER 13 NAMED FOR POWER NOMINATIONS CONTESTED kvi ill -r R-"4 A t.s.n nm-if I'res I'Untn The senate voted to reconsider It --unfit-mat ions of Chairman George Otis Smith (left) of Maine, nnd Commissioners Claude L. Draper (upper right) of Wyoming and Marl Gaisaud of Louisiana, members of the'new power commission, ut iequested President Hoo ver to return the nominations. DEATH CALLS BEN SELLING OF PORTLAND Pioneer Merchant Noted forj Film Flapper On Verge of Large Philanthropies, I Hysterics As Testimony Succumbs After Week's Given Cries arid Pow lllness. j ders Nose. ' PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 15. (P) Ren Helling, 78, pi eminent Port land merchant and philanthropist, died here today. lie had been ill a week. Mrs. Selling, Dr. Laurence Sell ing, a son, and Mrs. A. C. U. Berry, a daughter, were at his bedside. Selling was born in San Fran cisco in 1852 and came to Portland with his parent when he was 10 years old. In 1880 he married Miss l-lllie liess of .San Francisco. For years he him been known as one of I the leading clothiers on the Pa cific coast. He wn state representative from Multnomah county for eight years, was later 'elected nenalor from the district, served as president of the senate, and was for a time, acting governor. He was leader of a number of Jewish benevolent societies, and rounder of the Wavcrly llaby home here. During the World war he pur chased a half million dollars worth of Liberty bonds. In J!28 be was elected Port land's most distinguished citizen. SALKM, Ore., Jan. 1 5 .!) State officials and Oregon political (Continued on Page 6, 8tory 1) Medford Man Makes Good Progress in Airplane Dash To Sick Father's Bedside According to a telegram sent at 1:15 p. in. today Joy I lambrb'k and Leonard Hall with John Waage as pilot, had reached Fly, Nev., after what was described as "tough going." They landed In four Inches of snow at the Fly air port. At three o'clock this morning, as the long finger of light from the beacon pierced the foggy haze which had settled over the Med ford airport, an airplane taxied from'the big hangar, roared down the graveled runway and zoomed Into tho early morning gloom on the start of thrilling . dash across seven slates to Dallas, Texas. .lay Hnmbrlck, a member of the adver tising department of the California Oregon Power company is the anxious passenger In the trim little Curtis Robin which is rushing him to the bedside of his father, criti cally 111 with pneumonia. HambrWk received word two days ago of the serious Illness of his rather In Dallas. Yesterday came word that Jay'es father's condition had become critical and the Mdford man was acquainted with the situation through a long distance telephone conversation with his sister who had rushed to Dallas by plane. In his delirium, (he father has been calling repeat edly fop his son and Jay is answer ing t he ca 1 1 with his spectncular -OMft mile cross country flight. CLARA STEALS L LOS ANORLKS, Cab, Jan. 15. (PJ -The tria4 - on., grand theft charges of Miss Daisy De Doe, for mer secretary and "best friend" of Clara How of tho films went into its fourth day today with tho movie flapper in complete posses sion of the spotlight. Alternately sobbing and stamp ing a foot wlille testifying, the red headed actress stolo the show yes terday as in previous sessions of the trial of her erstwhile confi dant, charged with theft oZ $1H,000 from Miss Bow. In her second spectacular ap pearance on the stand in two days the flapper heroine of motion pic tures neemed on the verge of hys teria under searching questioning of Miss Do Hoe's counsel, Nathan Freedman. .''She was my best friend," sob bed the actress jii'ter an Indignant outburst. She spoke as though apologizing for her temper to the court room throng forming her audience. "Sho was my best friend in the world. I'm sorry to be crying, but I can't help It." Then she daubed at her nose with a powder puff. Hidn opened for clearing L-.3 miles of Pcndloton-John Day highway 'between I'klnh and Dab-. I Owing to the weather conditions, I government regulations would not I permit Ilambrlck to take passage i on the air mail plane last night. : At his urgent request, John Waage, i velera n Medford pilot agreed to make the hazardous Journey which he estimated, would take approxi I tnnlely 2 4 hours. Leonard Hall, j Mail Tribune linotype operator nnd friend of Hambrlek's, Is also a passenger In the plane, taking this i opportunity to visit his old homo j In Texas. ! "We will a r rive n t Salt Lake City about dawn." Waage said Just before taking off last night. "We will follow the beacons to Redding where we will cut off to Salt Lake ; City, After refueling at Salt Lake ; airport, we will take off for Colo j rado Springs where we'll make another stop before cutting across Texas for Dallas. We'll begin our : flight from Medford at about 6000 , feet altitude." i Waage Is considered one of tho most able and experienced pilots i In this part of Oregon and was ; confident that hjs Utile Curtis Robin would make the grueling 2000 mile air Journey without mis- : hap. I Medford people are anxiously awaiting word from the three , travelers and hoping that Jay 1 Harnbrlck'K long dash to Dallas ! will take him to hlH father's bed ' side In time to assist In a success : ful fight again! the dangerous 1 malady. SHOW IN TRIA OF SECRETARY FRUIT MEN MAY MERGE ENDEAVORS Fruit Growers' League and Rogue River Traffic Assn. Discuss Valley-Wide Or ganization for Betterment of Industry. Following a two-hour discussion, representatives ,f the valley fruit in.liioti-i' tVtiu i. . 1 1 1 i i . , 1 name a joint committee composed! of threo memherri of the traffic as sociation, and three members of the Fruitgrowers league, to st udy and report later upon the advisa bility of merging the two organiz ations into a central organization. Pre! i mi no ry discussion looking towards the merging of the Fruit growers league and the Uogue Uiv er Traffic association, into a valley wide organization, for the better ment of the fruit industry, was th" t-hicf business at the regular meet ing the the traffic association this noon. It was fell that the merger won hi increase the membership, broaden the .eop and luorease the efficiency by unity of action in horticultural problems. There was representative attend ance at the meeting, representing all sections of t'he fruit industry of the valley. David It. Wood, manager of the Potter Palmer Interests in this sec tion, outlined the purposes of the proposed Joint organization. He said the time for united action had come, to meet the future prob lems of the rinit Industry, which he listed as follows: Increased production; Filiform pack; Curtailing sizes sold and shipped; Jjick of co-operation between growers, shippers and distributors; Maintenance of quality; (ieneral economic situation. IteaNoriH Cited. - 'Wood, in ft general talk, ald the Ui.10 fruit situation was the most disastrous In the history of the Pacific const. Ho said that some of the poor prices for valley fruit, whether anybody liked to admit It or not. was the poor quality of tho fruit shipped In 11130, nbo the varied Hlzes. He ahi the Medford district had a reputation for pro ducing a quality pack, and it does not take the distributor or live buyer long to discover when such pack retrograded. He said the Medford district should make an effort to maintain a higih quality standard, regain any lost prestige, and retain and hold the balance of power for fall and winter pear varieties. Wood said ho believed In adver tising, and that this was one of the needs of the future. He touched only In a general way upon the myriad problems and angles loom ing for the future. Finance Problem. Ralph S. Head ley of Simon, Shuttleworth & French, spoke fav oring unity, and declared the mat ter of financing was the major problem of the coming year. He said the Medford district had here tofore been a favored district In this respect, and hn felt- there would be a curtailment. He held this was the most Important mat ter to be adjusted for the l!.1 1 season. He aald It was a problem alike for grower-ri and shippers, fieorge H. Pea no, a fruitgrower, felt that tho two organizations should exist as at present, but wos open to fconvlncement. II. Van Uneven berg, Hams Valley grower, felt the same way about It. David Rosenberg, Harry Rosen berg, Paul Heherer and others prominently Identified with local fruit industry were scheduled for talks. ! n SAI.KM, Ore., Jan. 1.1. M)-ri Representative KinmcHI Howard of Lane, long one of tho most uctlve inemborH of the legislature on mat ters of roads nnd highways, an-! nounccH that he will sponsor o res-1 oliilion to make, tho state highway j Mnime across inc. migiio river ai (Inld llench a memorial to His lulu (Inventor Patterson. It has been tho custom In the past to make important highway bridges In honor of meinhorn or tho highway commission or others prominent tn stale affairs. LABOR TO SEEK DRY .MIAMI. Jan. li.M'i President William (li'een ot the Americnn Federation of I,nbor today r firmed report that the executive council of the body had approved campaign plans for modification of prohibition by the "labor's legis lative commilC'e for the modifica tion of the Volstead act." Golf Executi Herbert H. Ramsay of New York it to head the United States Golf association, succeeding Findlay S. Douglas. L APOLOGIZE IFAL DRY Republican Committee Di rector Makes Offer in Controversy Over Cam paign Cartoon Smith, Raskob Owe Apology, WAHID X ( S TO N , Jan. 15 (P)- Alfred 10. Smith had a reply today from Robert 11.' Lucas, but it con talned only a conditional offer of the apology which the former Democratic presidential candidate demanded of the executive director of the Republican National com mittee. Sinlih, In a letter to Senator "Wagner, Democrat, New York, had asked apology from the Re publican committee for "permit ting" Lucas to d 1st r Unite a bar room cartoon which he said con tained a quotation attributed to him which ho had not made. Lucas Issued a statement last night saying he won hi apologize for sending out a cartoon repre senting Smith and Chairman Ras kob of tho Democratic National committee as wets, if Smith would announce he now favored prohi bition. Owes People Apology, The Republican official asked also whether Smith and Hankob were considering: "Apologizing to the American people for the ac tion or Governor Smith's hand picked chairman, Mr. Raskob, In subsidizing with large sums of money and organized campaign extending over more thon a year to misrepresent and smear the president of thelTniled States." The letter of tho former New York governor had net forth that the quotation in Ihe cartoon which was part of the literature circulated In Nebraska In the Lu cas effort to defeeat Senator Nor-j ris, Republican Independent was one which had been presented last year by unauthorized persons at a political meeting as a hoax and was Immediately and publicly disavowed. "(iovernor Smith nsks mo to apologize," said Lucas. "Ho a cartoon was distributed which conveyed the Information that he was 'wet.' He says tho Impres sion made there was hawed on In correct information. If tho gov ernor will state that he had done a complete about-face since 11128 and Is now for prohibition then I owe him an apology." VET HOMESITE SEATTLE, Jan. 15. OT A special dispatch to tho Seattle Times from YVasblnfiton. 1). t'., today sold (ienerul (leorge II. Wood, special representative of tleneial Kiank T. lllnes. chief of the Y'elerans' llureaii, will lenve Dayton. Ohio, today or tomorrow lo Inspect slles propofcd for the national soldiers' home to be localccl In the Pacific northwest. He Is to visit Scaltle, Spokane and YVallu Walla January JO, 21 and 22, arriving at Portland Janu ary sn Vml visiting Kosehurg and Ashland the next day. After that bn will go to San Francisco to look over sites for a new veterans' ho-pltal there. LUCAS 1 NSPECTOR DUE JANUARY 24TH SOLONS TO RECONVENE ON MONDAY Adjournment of Both Houses in Respect to Late Ben Selling Old Age Pension Bill and Minor Measures Drop in Hopper. KAI.I3M, Jan. 16. P) Intro duction of the old iiko pen.sloii bill, piiHSiiKe ot" the legislation nml rules committee report providing for the naming of a public utili ties committee und reapportion ment committee in the house, und filing of minor mensuren marked the short somhIoub of the house nnd senate today. Death In Portland of Hen Sell ing, former member of the senate nnd speaker of the house, cut short the day's program in both houses, which adjourned early un til next Monday in respect to Sell ing. The introduction of the first of the administration measures, was nlso held over until next week, when It is expected severnl will be started through the legis lative Hopper and make room for the flood of bills expected to fol low from members. Pays $.10 Month. Tho old age pension bill, Intro duced by Roprewentatlves Leo. An derson, Bronough, . Mott and Schupp nnd Senators Woodward and Hall, provides for the pay ment ot $30 a month to dependent persons past the ago of 65 yearn. In order to receive the pension, applicants must have resided in the state 10 years and have been American citizens 16 years. The county court In each county won designated as the pension com mission. The funds, nre to be provided by the counties. The appointment of the special public utilities committee and the reapportionment committee will be announced Monday,. Speaker Frank J". Ionerghn announced. He Minted he would offer Governor Julluii U Meier the ; option of recommending appointees to the public utilities committee to which be referred all power bills. Gov ernor Meier declined to make any recommendation, it was announced, declaring It was not the function of the governor to Interfere with legislative procedure. lltilltllng I'lnn Study. A committee of two senators and three representatives to make a study of Btate building; needs and report back to the legislature some plan for a 10-year building program is provided In a senate Joint resolution Introduced by Sen ator Miller and Representative Hamilton. The resolution mentions the state deficit of between J3.000.000 and $4,000,000 and the Inability of present buildings at the custo dial Institutions to meet require ments. The state's asylums and hospitals are branded as "so de fective nnd Inadequate as to bo a reproach to the state." School boards In districts of first class would be empowered to join with the state in the estab lishment of training schools at stnte Institutions of higher learn ing by a bill introduced by Sen ator Eberhnrd today. It has di rect application to the new nor mal school at 1a orande, but would apply In the sumo way to tho normal schools at Ashland and Independence nnd to tho state university at Eugene and the suue college at Corvallls. . (Continued on Page 8. Story 8) JONES CLEARER BY BILL YY'ASIIINOTON, Jan. 15. 0P President Hoover today signed tho Stobbs hill designed to clarify the Joties-Stnlker prohibition law.' The hill would amend the Jones law limiting the maximum penalty ' to IftOO or six months Jail sentence tn cases where the sale of not more than one gallon of liquor is Involved, provided the defendant has not boon convicted of a. prohi bition violation within two years. . It also would permit trial before a United States commissioner for minor violntlons unless the defen dant nsks a Jury trial. RESENTS ALLEGATION YrA8HINOTON. Jan. IS. W) A charge hy Senator Hetlln, Dem ocrat, Alabama, that he was de feated for re-elcctiop last Novem ber by "thievery Bt the ballot box" brought an assertion from his colleague, Senator Block, to day that the election was "ns fair ns any election ever held In any stale in tho United States."-