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MEDFORD ' IfAlli TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OKEflOX. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 19P.1. Joe Brown Comedy Holly Feature FREEDOM FOR ALLEGED REDS 1 f I: Mrs? Yvonne Marco Agrees Railroad Official Forced Mass 'Meeting Sponsored -to Jel) of Husband's As l sociates, But Fears New From Auto and Shot Through Heart. Before Eyes of Mate. By Labor Defense Council- . Sends Protest To Hoover And Mei'eri i i York Gangs. PAIGE FOUR f ASTORIANS ASK iWIDOW WILLING DISCUSS DEATH OF RACKETEER HUSBAND SLAIN 1 TheyVc Easy to Drive . BY THUIVIBERS rm1 DECLARES WIFE, fcppife. , - .it t fj, n II CLEVELAND, Fob. i!4. W) gt MM. i VOnnc rwcnrimn .uui i ic fled when her husband mot death L.i it thfi hiind of New York eanj,'- kIci-b, is willing to talk about it hcro but not in Now York. The 2H-yeur old blond widow of Ly? Frank Mnruo would not miy wheui- er she feared a like fine from .v: the underworld if who koi'h back to New York, but prepared to fight extraditiun. I don't k n o w w hy t h ey wan t k me. I'll miHwer all their quostlonH here but 1 will not return to New York," she said after nhe whh v taken into custody at the homo tvot .!. At. Marco, her father-in-law, Sphere. She had come here fur the -funeral of Frank, who police ald had proHpered as a New York and Chfeaco rocketeer while his pnrentfl thought he wa a success ful nalcnman. New York police want to o,uen tion her reffardinK her husband's associates In 'the belief that they ihay lehrn why he wu Bhot. and Blabbed and hi body left lylnw on the waterfront. She faces a $H00 pra ml-larceny eharuo in New Vork. . Meteorological Report So effective were the a lrpln.no unties in "(Joint; Wild," tne nnnr- ioitK Joe F, lirown farce, now showing at the Holly theatre, thrtt the police were ciinimoncd. The .section were filmed over the California National tiuurd airport near (Wendale, Calif. This airport Ik not regularly used, and hence a permit for minding was obtain- od, which could nor, bo granted ai any regular airport. I if sides .loo VI. Ilrnwn, 'ma AI union, i .aura I .ei-, L.t wieiu-o j Grav and Frnnlc Mcl high are in . inc easi. j This great comedy will be the ; attraction at the 1 lolly for three j days. Tonight, tomorrow and Thursday. Also on the program i the 1 lolly Ih presenting an unus j ua lly fine selection of short sub j jects consisting of a Pat lie news reel, an nil-color ;.ct, "South Hen j Pearl," anotner of the Vagabond I Adventure sei-ies "Tale Of Tuluila" jand a (iranlland ftice HportHght, "Cobb rjocs KiMhiiiR." ? February at. ii:tl. I .Med ford and vicinity Tonighl and Wednesday cloudy; warmer to night iM . ; , Oregon: O vmru I ly cloudy to-j night and Wednesday; probably; rain In west portion and snow In " mountains; warmer west portion y tnnignt. Winnie at Rialto A Looil Data ?? a jf S-r , j m. . .Temperature (degrees).. fifi , -2!i Highest )ant 12 hi-M.).... .V , 'f.owerft (last 12 lira.) 39 ' 2H . MoV. humidity. lct,).w.i 44 !T' j Precipitation (Inches).... T. .( ' State of weuthei ..IClear Clem lowest temperature this morn- Ing, 27 degrees. ' "" : Totu1 precipitation since Septem ber .1, 1!I30. 7.40 Inches. ' - 'Temperature a year ago today: HigliCKt. 45; lowest, 30. Ktinset today, ft: ft 5 p. in. 'Sunrise "Wednesday, fl:fi3 n. m. Sunset Wednesday, 5:56 p. m. Observations Taken at 5 A. M, 120th Meridian Time hi r r b-'- Z ft s Zicn)r - It 5 i r & ft I ! ! I ftakr City llisnmrck Ilotao Denver pp Moinos Kreano Holona Los lAnRHOd .... Mnrnhficlil I'hoenix Portland lted Jlluff Ro.cbiirR: Salt l.ii ko Kan lranclscs.. Santa Fo Seattle Spokune Walla Walla .. Winnipeg ns 44 38 48 r2 08 40 (IS St! 52 ei 50 42 110 42 48 44 40 "20 p. rely 28 24 30 30 40 SG 52 30 28 52 20 3.8 28 38 30 elnml 1'len r i'louily Clear Clear Clear lear Clear Cloudy Clear 'lear Clear 'Unr Cloudy dear Clear Clear Cloudy HAMMER DEATH 1 'Aii. ...... -. . "WlHWBilB UAIiDHTOWX.Ky.. Feb. 24. (A1) AwiiHOd of Hlnying a L-ouis-vllle and Nashvillo railroad execu tive niter he had Riven them ride, in his automobile, Tony IJe ternon, 25, and Prank OnrsonH, 28, were held in the Nelson county jail today pending investigation. Carl li. .lamp, OS, Louisville, fjenernl development apent for thv railroad, was shot' through the heart on the road hetween here and HoduenvIUe yesterday. Pe teison and Carsons were .arrested soon after when they crashed .lames' car Into the couithoiiHe at Hodtfenvllle. M rs. .1 itmoH w it nessed the- k i 1 1 -hifc. She said they had. picked the two men up at llardstown, ami after they had ridden a short' distance the men forced them out of the car and one of them shot! hei husband. A passing motorist found Mi'H ! James bonding; over the body of; her husband. ASTORIA, Oi-e.V Feb,.v 24. A '-potest ' vote spiifty i'de im prisonment of 13 nien in l'oit- s;x in Atoria-as cuin- The modern automobile is easy to drive. This simple fact is proved by the hundreds of thousands and millions of women who are now driving cars.; They cross the country just as nonchalantly as we drive home at night. The car shown; here is a Chevrolet Sport sedan. The girl at the wheel shows how easy it is to drive the car because of the handy, arrangement of the controls. BAKER DECLINES IPORIlMINIj Mollie Pitcher a Problem For West Point Officials SON WILLING TO , DIE FOR FATHER ! land and j munist suspects was taken -'at -a musK meeting.- hftvc lafct' night. The. protest will take - the' form : of petitions to Irsldent"J.Hoovpr und Governor Julius L. Meier ol j Oregon declaring that tho i ft-" rested men wen Acting'. jn;V de fense of labor .and demanding their release, it was nnriounced. The meeting wun sponsored ' by the international, l:iljor. dofenpo council. " Fred Walker, npe of . the:; l' Multnomah county men:, charged with A'iolation of the stato Synd icalist law and out on $2500 .bail, was principal speaker. . Speaking in Kngluh, he attacked; 11. V lionhain, district immisiVt'ion-' di rect or, as not acting tin..---good faith in his enmnumisu investi gations, llonham last week-. caB- ! ed the arrest oC ix Astojt;.:men I connected with the Finish -lang uage . newspaper Toyei;! as ' mem ber. of the communist party'. 1 CONFESSED BY YAKIMA COUPLE "V, J. 1HutchlHon, 'Meteorologist, Thn Oklahoma Btate health de partmenl ImN Htarted nn inocu lation campaign to climinal illplithcrla from tho state hy li'JiS KDont Risk I Neglect 1.,; 1 Deal Promptly Willi Kidney IiTcctilarilict. 1 , A constant backnche, with kidney IrreRulnrilics and a stiif, achy, worn-out feeling all too oiion warn of disordered k.J neys. Don't take chanceil Use Uoan't VilU. Successful for more than 50 years. Endorsed by hundreds of thousunda of grateful users. Get Dmui's to day. Sold by dealers every wnere. DoeaVs ' ton frit- iuuui.i 'KLAMATH FALL'S. Ore., Feh. 1. ypj Deputy Sheriff Gnno said yestprday Mrs. Mahel Hopkins and t.'harles O. Itaker had made a sworn Ktatement . dcHcrihlng the murder of Frank " Smiley at Yaki pin. Wash., with a hammer. liakiM and Mr8.; Hopkins were arrested in Los . Angeles. . Oano arrived In .Klamath Falls with thorn Saturday.' He said tho con fession vh obtained on the train. The statement, (lano said, told of the disposal of the body in the I lorse Heaven hills country near Yakima. The couple was found in Ios Angeles through correspondence traced hy Klamath Falls police. , (Dmnie Ufhtnen -fc&tutetf mx Xiod Itppers of j&roadcuay" y 7 Warner Bres.Pructtictioi. '"''MaHy pe'ohle fdavo foi1 years to lay h.slde mifficirnt hank balance to keep them in their old age. hut the gold-digger believes in swifter methods to feather her nest! Such Is the conclusion which might he reached by the manner in which the charming nugget gathers take the coin from their sugar-duddles in "Onld Diggers of Broadway." Warner Ilros, and Vit aphone 100 per cent natoral color, singing, talking, dancing comedy special, which .feature ' Winnie Lighlner, Nick Lucas. Ann I'en niugtou. Lllynn Tashman, and t'onway Teaiie, and Is now playing at the Fox lilalto Theater. 4 "Passion Flower" at Craterian Tomorrow (ilrts Killed. liRASOV, Kumania, Feb." 24. (A) Three girl chemlwts were killed and ten persons were injured when a burning film 'exploded in a chemical laboratory m Tilul, Hu manla, today. Injiiiuil I'Mnt Dies rilFHALIS, Wash., Feb. 24. (JP) injured Thursday when an airplane he was piloting fell two thousand feet at Pasco airport. Harry Hrtipe, Hil, died at Pasco last night, relatives here were Informed today. XKW YOUK. Fell. 24. (A1) For nnu. Kccrt.'bVy of War Newton D. linker returned Monday from a va cation cruise in the Mediterranean. He declined to discuss the Wicker sham commission's report, which he signed as a member of the commission despite his advocacy of repeal of the ISth amendment. "Mr. Wickersham speaks for the commission," he said. Mr. linker left on tho cruise a week before the report was made public. IPAL PLANT TAX URGED : SALEM. i Feb. 4. -(.'Ptf M urilc ipalitles: engaged in the gonVr ation, transmission and distribu tion of electric energy would 'b' assessed by the stato tax com mission on the same basis 'as privately owned utilities, under provision of a bill introduced In the house und hearing the name of Representative C. .1. Taylor, of Clackamas county. XKW YORK. Feb. 24. (P) Records of the' CnHed States mili tary academy to be displayed ai an exposition of nnlkiucs here show that high officials of tho army were bothered by the prob lem id' keeping Caplain Mnlly Pitch er, I In biavc heroine who slopped iulo her husband's place yt the bat tle ol Monmouth, supplied with shifts. Shifts were tho 1 Sth cen tury equivalent of chemise. "I am informed hy the woman that takes care of Captain Molly that she is much in want of shifts," the superintendent of West Point wrote Major General Knox, secre tary of war, on Apirl 21, ITS". "If yon should think proper to order 't'hi'ce'oi' four I should lie.glad." ; J Mplly'vhad .been, pent '. o .Wesi;: Point hy Washington after 'the rev-! olulion and she was cared for ther-j; until she died. The superintendents in another ls-ttor described her as "a disagreeable person to Like, cave! ol." ! Italy Cuts TradV Balance liOM K oP; Italy reduced Iter' unfavorable balance of trade last year to- $27r..Oft,no from $33S. 00.000 in J!)2!. Relatively, how ever, the economic showing was poorer because the exports in 1030 were only a little more than two thirds of the imports while in 1929 exports were nearly three-fourths ns imu-li as imports. Tallahassee; ria., Feb. 24. (A) -The- son cf a man con demned to death for murder ap pealed to ('.overnor Carlton today to let him die in the electric chair iiiMiead of his father. ( 'laude Laramorc, a it employe at tin Florida state hospital for the. insane at Chattahoochee, made the request in a letter to the governor. The executive was not at the capital today. .1. Webb Lara mo re, a farmer and former deputy sheriff was sentenced to death last Wednes day for killing Leslie Harrell and Alex Porter, youths of his community. SALEM, Ore., Feb. 24.WVMr$. Mai-j Ciilkey. S4, Hie first InativV white girl born in Yamhill.- died at her father'. donation land claim Saturday. Funeral tiervices-Were held from Dayton today. -She. was born March 7, 1846, and was 't member of - the 1S66 graduating class of Willamette university. Her husband," W. F. Gilkey, whom sho married in 1-SRn, died -in; IflYft." 1 PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 24 Samuul Hill, famous railroad and highway builder, critically ill here, was weaker today, hospital attend ants said. He had a fairly good i niuht. Little hnim whh held for PlBwdftml nrtvrHlng gtw tawhUs. his recovery. mm- . II "Passion Flower'' Kathleen Xor rls. inlrring account f u woman who, failing to find happiness . in her own ''money marriage," at tempts to break up the domestic tranquility of her cousin who has thrown wealth overboard In order to marry her father's chauffeur, will ho the t'cuturo at tht Ora tec inn theater for two days, tuurtlng Wednesday. . An Imposing cast ws selected to fill the principal roles. Kay Johnson, who scored In "Madam Satan" and "Hilly the Kid," is seen as t'uswy Pi ingle, w ho is content to exchange n millionaire's man sion fur a two-room attic flat and the man whom she loves: Charles I tick ford, has another dra nun ic role art the chauffeur who Is driven to extiemeties in order 'o support his wife and child: Kay Francis, plays the discontented cousin, V O - ONE O TWO O THREE Pountniii Pen Sjivcm l,fe SVOKANK, Wash. (PP.) A fountain pen saved the life of Lou Cook, publicity it kom for the Milwaukee railroad, when he tell upon a j"hurp-ed;;ed st(n; siep The blow, which htndeil nVer b heart, was ciuh tuned funnewhat by thn pi n, which jit ti d as a ithock absorber between Ins bodv and the step. Re so-1. Unci iw biidien ribs. 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