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Medfoed MablTr The Weather . Temperature j'; v I ,il ii 'II I .ill' !! llla-hcxc yestcnla ' -I .4 est: Tonight and Friday un Ixiwosr 1 morning- ' Precipitation To IT " yetnly....... settled, probably nbowers. Mod erate temperature. -...00 00 To " today Twenty-Sixth Tear TWILVE PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1931. No. 94. ! " r - J - Today By Arthur Brisbane Americans Can Fly.'., v A Wasted Life.1: :: ; , . ocks Wha Hae.. . Money in the Purse. : . , i Copyright Kins Feature Synd., Ino. A:;.-- --- :.' .-.'-,;' i,!;: i I . ': , ; Americans can fly and prove . it. : ' Wiley Post and Harold Satty on their way around the world, planning to. make the trip "in ten days," if possible, dropped down at the Royal Air Force airdrome in England at 7 :45 a. m., New York time, yes- ' terday. They had crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 16 hours and 17 minutes', beating all world's records. They stayed 40 minutes ;in ' England, then started for Mos cow via Berlin. Later in the day they landed at Berlin and they, expect to be in Moscow today. That would interest' Jules Verne, who described a purely imaginary trip around tie world in 80 DAYS, i ' Oklahoma is interested in that flight. Wiley Post lives in Ok lahoma City. The flying ship . is named "Winnie Mae," who is the wife of Leslie Payne, whose father backed the expe dition. Flying will be a "regular business" some day, and soon. ' Recently the body of a very young woman was found wash ed up by the surf near New York. Photographs show that she ' was most beautiful as a child and a marvelously beauti-ful,irL.at..-.18. The,.- waves, washed up a young woman barely- 20, ruined by alcohol, I ilrugs and the life to Which they lead. :" . . Murder had been suspected, hut letters writter to a man show that it was suicide. One public official says the letters - were forged to shield a mur derer, but no murderer icould have written the ;iotes j the let ters are too genuine. - .. The unhappy girl writes that she made "a sordid, futureless mess" of her life on earth, did not "want to ruin anybody else's life."' She goes out .of, this world i hoping and believing that there is no life .beyond.- "If there is an after-life, it would be a dirty trick, but I am sure 50, 000,000 . priests a re wrong. Nothing' makes any difference now." '..'. " "It. is no pne's fault but my own. - jT hite; everything so lite is soliorrible. I take dope to forget, and drink to try ami like people, but it is of no use." (Continued on Page Ten) Sheriff Meadows Invited a com mine o' Irreproachable citizens over V tK-jall last nigh f watch him destroy last week's catch o' Scotch, but" after a .brief confer net It wut decided f split it up. There's no frati Jn th' school o' experience. Abe Martin INTANGIBLE TAX ATTACK IS LAUNCHED Constitutionality of Oregon Measure Questioned in ' Suit Violates Five Sec tions, Is Claim Injunc tion Against Bill Is Sought SALEM, Ore., June 26. (P) The constitutionality of the Oregon In tangibles tax law was attacked in a suit tiled In circuit court here today, and an injunction was de manded enjoining the state tax commission trom enforcing compli ance with the act. Today waB the last day for the filing of returns on the Intangible!) tax law. The income tax was not questioned in the suit. Maude Oreen and Mary A. Cas well were named as plaintiffs In the suit, which was filed by their attorneys Sidney J. Graham and J. O. Stearns, Jr., both of Port land. ' , Earl L. Fisher, Charles V. Gallo way and John H. Carkin as tax commissioners; Julius L. Meier as governor, and I. II. Van Winkle, as attorney general, were named as defendants. I Violates Five Sections ' The suit contends the intangibles t".x act violates five sections of the state constitution and, therefore, is unconstitutional. - Tho points of alleged unconstitu tionality are five, the principal one being that It violates the 6 per cent limitations statute. In making special note of the tax limitations angle, the suit says the intangibles tax law violates section 11, article 11 of the constitution, which provides that unless specif), cally authorized by a majority of the legal voters voting upon the question, neither the state nor any county, municipality, district or bady which has the power to levy a tax shall have .been delegated, shall in any year V'L.oxerc,Be tnat 'power as to raise a veater amount of revenue excluding payment of bonded indebtedness and interest thereon, than the total amount lev led by It in the year Immediately preceding, plus 6 per cent thereof. Points Are Cited The other points of alleged uncon stitutionality follow: The law violates the section pro viding that no law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens special privileges or immu nities which upon the same terms Bhall not equally belong to all citi zens. It violates the section which pro vides that all taxation be uniform on the same class of subjects. It violates the section providing that the legislature provide by law uniform rules of assessment and taxation and that nil taxes shall bo levied and collected under general laws operating uniformly through out the state. And, finally, that It violates the equal clause of the 14th amend ment of the constitution of the United States. Ask Restrain!- The plaintiffs demand Issuance of a temporury restraining order enjoining ttu defendants from en forcing or t.temptlng to enforce any of the iirovtslona of the In tangibles act. The body of the complaint de crales that the plaintiffs during 1830 individually and separately owned Intangibles and that they made return to the tax commission. The complaint contends that the tax Is Imposed upon groRS income from' Intangibles, the only deduc tion being interest paid, if any, and a personal exemption, if any. - The complaint sets forth thaft no provision is made for capital losses or In the case or an individual en gaged In business as an Investment banker or mortgage broker, for act ual and necessary expenses of con ducting such business, although capital losses on Intangibles sub stantial in amount when compared with the entire Income subject to tax, have been sustained by Indi viduals during 1930. Banks Excluded Banks and financing corpora tions, however are specifically ex cluded from the operation of this act and are charged only with an excise tax of 6 per cent which 1b measureu by net income rather than by gross Income, and under which banks and financing corpo rations may deduct all capital losses and expenses in determining the net Income; r.' SOVIET PERMISSION WASHINGTON June 25. (P) Charles A. Lindbergh today ob tained th consent of the Russian government to fly over that coun try on his projected aerial tour of the Far fcast. Permission was granted in a ca blegram from the foreign office to the Soviet Union Information bu reau here and forwarded to the filer. One-Third Of Globe Girdle . ; 4Moc4atod rrs lsote Wiley Post (loft) and Harold Gatty are shown In front of their plane, tho "Winnie Mas of Okla homa," In which they hope to clrcla tho world In Jess thsn eight days. They wore photographed at Roosevelt field, N. Y as thsy concluded preparations for ths flight. " ;" COUNTY SEEKS F Delegation Present at State Highway Commission Meet $1,500,000 Cost of Project Held Too High SALEM, Ore.. June 28. WO Contracts for the construction of two highway projects were award ed by the stat highway commis sion at its morning session here today to the lowest bidders. The two projects, one on the Pacific highway and the other . on the Coast highway, totaled about $60,- 000. Jacobsen - Jensen company of Portland was the low bidder on surfacing the Multnomah county Oswego section of ' the Pacific highway at $39,992.80. 1 The-BrookfttCttwusBnye-As-torla was awarded the contract for the Warren-Hug Point section of the Coast highway, at $19,029. Delegations from Harney, Hood River, Jackson, Union, ClaUop, Linn, Coos and Josephine counties were heard by the commission. Re quests for new construction, pre liminary surveys and '- advancing funds for county work were re quested and taken under advise ment by the commission': The Jackson county court re quested the immediate considera tion of the 14-mile stretch of the Pacific highwny over the Siskiyou mountains. The delegation re quested if xthe highway could not he rebuilt from south of Ashlnnd to the California line, non-skid surfacing should he considered. Consideration of the proposal was promised by the commission, but it was pointed out that recon struction of the highway at this time would be too costly, the entire project estimated at $1,G00, 000. Endorsement of the highway from Powers in Coos county to Grants Pass, a distance of 72 miles over forest area, was requested of the commission by the Coos and JoRenhine county delegations. The project has been approved by the two counties. A preliminary sur vey wns also requested by the commission. The commissioners did not state what action it would take. WASHINGTON. June 26. () Evidence showing tTie extent of distribution of electricity and gas propaganda materinl to schools and newspapers In various parts of the country wns Introduced to duy In the federal trade commis sion's public utility inquiry. Among the states In which dis tribution of pamphlets to schools wns reported were about 75,000 school children in Washington and others in Oregon reported reached by "a monograph; school pamphlet sent to 299 schools, three normal schools and 39 county su perintendent. ... WASHINGTON, Juno 23" P) The federal trade commiw'or to day dismissed a complaint charK lng the Hailio Corporation of Amer ica with unfair methods of compe tition In the sale of vacuum tubes. The dtamiBsal was explained as a routine move, since the case al ready had been decided by the courts. The commission had withheld taking testimony pending court set-tlemeot, REBUILDING 0 SISKIYOU ROAD tl 111 2 Today's , BASEBALL American. ST. LOUIS. June 26. P) The Erowns ended big George Earn shaw's winning streak of 12 games here today by defeating the Ath letics, 0 to 6 In the first game of a doubleheader. A circuit drive by Ralph Kress netted the Browns three runs In the fourth. R. H. E. Boston 8 IS U Cleveland 3 12 1 Bntterles: Klein and Berry; Lawson, Jublonowakl and Sewell. First gume: R. H. E. Philadelphia 6 11 0 St., Louis 6 8 0 Batteries: Earnshaw and Coch rane; Orny, Stiles and Young. First game: R. H. E. New York 10 13 2 Chicago 10 Batteries: Gomez. Welnert, Mc Evoy. Johnson and Jorgens, Per kins; Thomas, McKaln, Fuber and Grube. National. R. II. E. Cincinnati 6 10 1 New York 0 6 1 Batteries: Frey and Sukefortli; Mitchell, Morrell, Schumacher and 0'FaiTelW-'r'''''"1"-,'-7l:H1? , n. h. -'e. Pittsburg 1 6 . 1 Philadelphia .v 6 10 0 : Batteries: Brame and Orace; Dudley and Davis. R. H. E. St. Louis 1 3 0 Brooklyn 0 0 1 Batteries: Derringer and Wil son; Vance and Lopez, Lomhardl. R. H. E. Chicago 3 7 1 Boston 4 7 2 Batteries: Baecht and Hartnett, Hemsley; Frankhouse and Bpoh rer. , .. - FORCED 10 HALT PORTLAND. Ore., June 25. (fit Three hundred spectators shouted their disapproval last night when an officer of the court of domestic relations stopped a children's "walkathon" being held in a va cant store building on the east side. It was the second contest sponsored by children to be closed on court order. Hlx children were on the floor. They had been walking 64 hours. In addition, there wore four con testants In a "sitting contest." The "contestants" were spon sored by business firms in the neighborhood. McCLURG MUST HANG FOR SLAYING WIFE ROISK. Idaho, June 25 OP) The supreme court today affirmed the conviction of John McClurg for murder of his wife near Emmett, Idaho, In December, 1929, for which he Is under sentence of death, Wiley Post's Dad Recalls Home Farm Landing That Wrought Ruin In Melons MAYSVII.I.B. Okla., June 2i. Pt Maybe, some day. after Wiley Pont gets back to the home farm here from his 'round-the-world gadding. Mrs. W. F. Pout, his RS-ypar-old mother, will take a flight with him. "Somehow or other he and I haven't been able to get together on that point yet," she said today. "But I'm going to fly with him. I'm not a bit afraid." The father, sturdy Oklahoma planter, 4s not so sure about this flying buftinesft, even now, lie related that once Wiley flew home unexpectedly and landed In hl father's prise watermelon patch, scaring a team of horses so badly Completed MIDWEST IPS HEATED BROWS AS SOL BEAMS Near Records Attained in Iowa Four Die Crops Scorched by Hot Winds Rain in Some Regions CHICAGO, June 25. ) Sum mer, got down to business today. Still smarting from last week's blister, the midwest sweltered anew under temperatures that n on red all tlmerecords. Iowa wa.3 hardest hit. The ther mometer was up at 105 in Water loo yesterday, within three deftt-ees of Xie suite maximum for June. Three, men and. .a baby died from hoat.4 Crops- wdre scorched by a week ; of hot winds and were in critical condition. uM.fciU.$.Wi and luijiajia. WW iiiutieniti'iy i'ooi uui Illinois rousiea. At Canton, the mercury stood at the century mark. It was 98 at Peoria and Quincy. In Chicago, it wasn't the heat but the humidity, and one death was chalked up. Thunderstorms brought Mine re lief downstnte. A farmer dropped dead In a cornfield near Quincy. Four Drown. 'It was plenty hot, too, in Ne braska. Freeport reported 100. Crowded beaches . brought four drownings In the Inst three days, Northern Minnesota was cool, the southern parr, senred. New records for the year were recorded in the twin cities Minneapolis, 96; St Paul, 95. - The Dukottu were cool but Mlo- souri was hot. Rains brought n 17 -degree drop overnight in HI. Louis, with the promise of "not so warm today." The heat has accounted for seven deaths so far this week in Missouri, although none were recorded In yesterday's welter. AUTO THEFT PAIR AT A Ford rmistor parked on Riverside avenue, belonging to Jliihbard Brothers, wan stolen thin noon, the theft being discovered by Asa Hubbard. Two men were arrested at CirantH pass an hour later by Jose phine county authorities and traf fic officers, who trailed them from this city. Deputy Sheriffs Louis Jennings and Ike Dunford left to bring tlmm back. Sheriff Jennings thinks a ham burger stand holdup and lumber office burglary last night were committed by (he same pair and the district attorney will question them upon that- theory, In the county Jail late' today. Ihey ran away and scattered melons about the field. Mrs. Post related that Wiley "always was one to be craxy ubout any kind of machinery, especially anything that flew." "He oiirn told me." she said, "that he would 'give an eye' to be able to fly." Htrangely, that Is-exactly what Post had to give before he actually flew. Whll working st an oil well near Holdenvllle, Okla., hot metal flew into his face and caused the m of an eye. The oil company paid him 12.0110 damages, and with the monny Wiley bought his first airplane, . , PAIR HAL! WW FOR NIGHT Post and Gatty Push Globe - Girdle One-Third Distance Soviet Officials Extend 'Welcome Irkutsk Next Objective for Oklahomans , By Stanley 1 Hiehanlnou 'MOSCOW, June 5. Wiley Post and Harold Oatty, American trans-Atluntio fliers, landed at October airdrome this afternoon, completing about one-third of ,thelr rapid flight around the .world which they hopa to make in ten days. . Theyy were officially welcomed by officers of the Soviet Society for the Development uf Aviation and the civil organization for the promotion of avlution. Outside of air field attaches and correspon dents, there were few other spec tutors on hand to greet them. Tho foreign office wns not represented at the reception. When the filers set their plane down on October air field on the outskirts of Moscow, they had flown about 3000 miles and still had between 1)00(1 and 10.000 miles to go, including a flight across Siberia to Alaska. l'ost and Outty will spend the night at Moscow and will hop off tomorrow for Irkutsk, HtJOQ miles distant. A bunquet has been arranged for them at the Grand Hotel to night by the Soviet Society for the Development of Aviation. BBRLIN, June 26. (fl1) It's any port in a storm for a weary trans Atlantic airman. . Harold Oatty, of tho flying team of Post and Oatty, was so tired last night from his rigorous trip across tho Atlantic that he fell asleep In a bath tub. Attendants ut the Templehof ulrdrotne balled him out and sent him to bed; : ,,iV. E Jean Norris, First of Six to Be Named, Altered Records, Signed Yeast Ads and harsh in Court NEW YORK, June 26. (yp) Magistrate Jean Norris, first wom an to be appointed to the magis tracy in New York, was removed today hy the appellate division of the supreme court. The rive Justices of the appellate division unanimously agreed that four of five counts of nmlfeusunce brought by Referee Hamuel Hea bury, fnvestlgutor of the lower courts, were sustained, and Mrs. Norris was removed from tho bench. Mrn. Norris was charged with be ing unfit to hold office, her accus ers declaring she had altered the court records, permitted her name to be used In a yeast advertise ment, been unnecessarily harsn with prisoners In women's court and committed other unfitting acts. E FALLST0 DEATH HOHBHUnO. Ore., June 2S. OP) It, H. Mlsner, 68, of Portland, was killed today when he f'll from a steel pier on the bridge being constructed at Hancock mountain on tho Draln-Itoedsport hlxhwny. -He wns steel foreman for Clyde Catchlnic, Hoseburg con tractor, builder of the hridse. It was reported Mlsner wns en Rased In unlossenlng a plate top on the 90-foot pier. He lost his balance end Tell. His neck was broken and his head crushed. ARREST HELD VALID RAN FRANCISCO, June 25. &T) federal Judge K. If. Kerrigan ruled today that a search warrant, secured by federal prohibition agents on a flat whose existence wns alleged In an affidavit de claring a telephone ueed by a 'phone bootlegger wan Installed there, was valid. GOTHAM PORT A REMOVED MALFEASANC In Hoax Hanging : , slMocluied 'raaa Photo B. P. Bnnvn, part-time preacher of Dallas, Texas, lias rontONMcd that ho hound mid nunihmuIciI him. self to a chandelier above the pul pit In n Dallus rluin-h after first discarding his elothliiK. Suit Filed Against S. P. for $50,C00 by California Ranch Wife Gave In formation, is Allegation Mrs. Katie Alice Moss uf Point Arena, Calif., a ranch woman, yes terday filed suit In the Mendocino county, California, courts against the Southern Pacific railroad for : 0.000, which she alleges Is due as her share of the reward of fered for the capture and convic tion of the notorious DeAutre mont brothers, Siskiyou tunnel bandits and murderers, serving life terms at Hulem nrlson. ' Tho tolal amount offered "ITbf their capture was 114,400. Mrs. Mohs claims she furnished Information that led to the arrest of the three brothers In the Phil ippines and Ohio coal mine clia trlcts, The Southern Pacific rail road contends that Mrs. Mohs fur nished no Information. . 8D Claimants. Following; the confession and sentencing of the DoAutremonts, there were 3d claimants of the $14,400 reward. The bulk of the money for the urrest of Hugh was awarded to Corporal Peck, who served In the army with him at Manila. Th reward for th ar rest of the twins Hay and Roy was granted to four residents or Hanging Hock, Ohio, ah obscure humlet, where they had lived for three years. Pictures of the twins were posted In the village post office and were the first step In Identification, and a few days later they were arrested at Steu- benvllle, Ohio, The three DuAutremonts at noon October 9, 1D23, held up Southern Pacific passenger train No. 13, In Hlsklyou tunnel. They dynamited tho mail coach, killing the mall clerk and then coldbloodedly slew the engineer, fireman and a brake. man, the first two with their hands above their heads. ON PRISON TERM HA MOM, Ore., June 25 (JP) Linn W. Nesmlth, widely known Oregon man, was received at the state penitentiary today where he Is under a five-year sentence for at tempted assault, the case Involving a young woman. He was sent up from Coos county. Nesmlth was assigned to a re ceiving cell, and has not yet been assigned to any employment at the prison. - Nesmlth several years ago was admitted to the Oregon bar. For many years he has been active politically and was employed at many sessions of the state legisla ture. . CITY TREASURER DAKKK, Ore., Juno 25. (IP) Charged with hnvlnir mtnaiiproprl atrd more than IIOS.OOO in (he 1 yeurs she was city treasurer of la Qramle, Mrs. Kmma Fowler, GO. today heard A. K. Bawtell, account ant, twtiry that annually since 1922 he "covered up" large short ajces In her accounts. Pnwtell Is tho chief state witness In ths case. Lon lists uf warrants and checks flKurtng In transactions were placed before ths jury today, I WOMAN SEEKS D'AUIREMONT REWARD SHARE Ami L : 1LU Ln 1U A 0 HE FUEL' ' IN GERMANY Hillig and Hoiriis Miss Co penhagen Objective J in Overseas Flight Stop at Krefeld for Gas and Food Before ; Continuing Hop BREMEN, Ger, June 25 Otto Hlllig and Holder Hot rlls, American trsn-Atlsnto ; filers, landed here tonight, ' about 240 mile short of Copen hagen, Denmark, th goal of their flight from Newfoundland.- ..; COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 26. (pi-Otto Hilllg, who landed with Holger Hoiriis at Bremen, Germany, tonight In the trans-At- ; lantic monoplane "Liberty," tele phoned to the airport here that he , i. would continue to Copenhagen Im mediately, arriving probably be- ; ' tween 1 and 2 a. m. (between 7 and 8 p. m. E. 3. T.) . . KREFELD, Germany, June 2S VP) Otto Hilllg and Holger Hoi. rlls, trans-Atlantic airmen, made a . . t forced landing here today, S3 " hours after their departure from Newfoundland, and an hour and a q iianor later took off for Bo'- utmhaiitin, : Donmark, . their goal, : which they ..haA missed on their crosHlni?. . .. . Before hopping off . th men took in a supply of gasoline and ! had a '..elil iuncheon of hat cof w ? fbe, sanuwlchfs, ' plckels and ft . ' "rhntuel.'V Nor did their ex- . j Heme haste -prevent them from seisins' the opportunity to' toss i down several, sretm of beer, fur which the region is. famous. " j -' ; Only some 30 pamoq wltnesKeoV- : 1 the arrival of the tllert. ?. . Stay In Brief. .' ' By the' time word got rouwt ' "; to' the populace of 'the unexpected 1 visit, .. and the crowd h-tiviiT 1 to head for the airport, the pro- f peller of the Liberty was already - ,.' whirring and the airmen were on their way, '. V , . ' In coming down at this particu lar Rhlneland city the fliers might well be said to have landed "In f velvet," for Krefeld Is one of the i principal centers of velvet menu- i facture In Germany. It Is a city " j of more than 100,000 population. . "We were certainly surprised ' j when this strange plane hove Into j: slght," said an air police officer i on duty a; the field near here. "We . . didn't know what to make of It. It was an . unexpected ' friendly ' ; visit, but altogether too short. We hardly had time to get acquainted when. they were off again'. .'One . j of them could speak Oorman, ,so j we got along nicely." ..i..', " ? LIBERTY, N. Y., June J6. ) j "Boy, that's good news," Said Liberty, home town of Otto : Hll- llg, when -It received word from the Aasoclatsd Press of 'V saf landing of Hllllg's tranv-tlantla ' ' ' , airplane at Krefeld, Germany, this . j afternoon. ' 1 W ' i The town, or at least -tits i Ton ! . j man delegated t6 keep In ipuch i with news of the plane, hunt UD ' ' the telephone receiver and dashed ' ' i away to spread the news by the . , village tire alarm, the school bells -1 and to blow any and all whistles -. ; available. . "stsres - BEVERLY HILLS, CoI.iHue 25. There's one biff advantage about proposing plans . and schemes for the world's solu tion. None of them can be act- .1 mi . ... 1- T v CU Ull lilt UU11K1CHN JUUt'lH 111 UVT,. W ceinbt'r and by that tima all of V' S the onpg proposed now -will 'bQ j j be brotlghf oiit. We cW!f raathr; j i tain excitement over any one ,1 thing over a couple of weeks td,-aln.'j: go-Wjbwir-wHl.i' lug to ; be snved by scheme, It's tho fell schemes that got ' In into; this mess. Plans get you into things but you got to work your way. out. P. S.i Vanderbilt arid his at the most. .World .ain't ro- t wife are bavins s duel and the ' - ' , publio hopes itjill be meoes'itT,'ii ? fuJ.', 1 ; ''.'..i!.'':-X't Zi,Mtt.l m s'sieri l!