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Second Section
Six Pages
Twenty-Sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1931.
No. 97.
Me
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2GUN BOY
DEATH III
Noted Scourges of Crime
Start Solution of , Starr
, Faithfull Mystery New
.York Desperado in Death
'House Questioned.
NEW YORK, June 27.
The bruised body of a pretty girl
is found on the, seashore of the
"richest county In the world.'!
Her brassiere, shoes, hat and
coat, are missing. - Sand is in her
lungs. She lies In a depression
In the beach of Long Island, wash
ed out. by a stormy sea: the night
before. ; ' ' V ' ' :
The body is identified as that of
a 26-year old girl who bore ; the
fanciful name of. Starr Faithfull.
Was she a suicide? Was she
accidentally drowned? Was she
Murdered?
It is, another mystery for Elvln
N. Edwards, district attorney of
Nassau county, and his partner in
crime solution, Inspector Harold
R. King.
District Attorney Edwards and
Inspector King are. becoming fa
mous In Nassau county and be
yond. Within the EdwardB-King Jur
isdiction is Center Island, a vil
lage of 80 families, the head of
each a millionaire. Within it, too,
are Sands Point and Long Beach,
centers of fashionable summer
colonies and exclusive beach clubs.
Strufigo Story Unfolds J
It was at Long Beach that
Starr Faithfull's body was found
on a Monday morning. She had
been missing since the preceding
Friday. ' ....
Her name was Starr Wyman,
hut she took the name of her
step-father. Stanley Faithfull. ..
She arid ' her ',' attractive -sister;
Elizabeth ; Tucker Faithfull, lived
with their mother and stepfather
on the top floor of an old fash
' loned three story house in Green
wich Village.
Starr occasionally was intoxi
cated. Although she had not been
drinking before1 her death, her
body contained a sleeping potion.
Her love diary indicated she
often had contempted suicide.
Hints of Blackmail
All that, with hints of black
mall and murder to save the rep
utations of prominent persons, was
tangled into a maze of mystery
for Edwards and King, who hard
ly had disposed of the spectacular
affair of Francis (Two dun)
Crowley,
Half a hundred reporters, cam
era men and newBreel fellows
swarmed out to Mineola, peace
ful seat of Nassau county. They
poured Into the vine covered
courthouse 'to :. question the 'dis
trict attorney.
They found Edwards to be a
(sturdy man of 48, with light, rum
pled hair and tf rather weary, clue
Inden air. ) Fifteen years in the
district attorney's office, first as
RHSIstant, then 'as, chief, have
given him :many" crimes to solve.
"You have a glrl.!that has been
drugged; thaV has : been bruised
and teatenj 'and; that was sober,"
he says. "Therefore, you : must
admit the 'possibility of murder."
Suicide, Says King
Over in . police headquarters
across the-street.- the reportorial
regiment invades the office of In
spector King. He la a heavier
set and younger'man, only 35.
He wears a -white handkerchief
In the upper coat pocket and he
does not chew cigars.
Inspector King holds to a theory
of suicide In the Faithful) case.
Thus Edwards and King pursue
their inquiries along " Individual
lines, at the same lime -collaborating.
King was a dispatch rider in
France during the war. Returning
home he stuck to his motorcycle
and became a speed cop at Hemp
stead, which Is In. Nassau county.
Ardent' Criminologist
He became .an ardent student
of criminology . and detective
science. When the Nassau coun
ty police force was organized In
1D25, King woa picked to develop
a detective division.
1'romlnent In he King-Edwards
career was the "Two, Gun". Crow
ley case. .
Crowley made the mistake of
Killing a Nassau county pollc.man
as the climax to his career as a
youthful desperado.
Me and a girl fled to Manhat
tan, where Crowley and a com.
Panlon. Rudolph Duringer, shot It
out with 200 policemen.
Hardly had Crowley entered the
death house at Sing Sing before
'he body of Starr Faithfull turned
up. That In how mysteries breaK
4 for the crtme specialists of Nassau
1 county. Inspector King and Pis
Irlct Attorney Edwards.
Ohio era'iluato 1 IS
ADA. Ohio., June .27. (UP)
The youngest meipbefj of the Ohio
Northern, university graduating
class Is Raymond Cummins, 18,
who received his degree from the
liberal arts college. He completed
the four-year course In three
'tan.
HOOVER DEBT
A proposal by President Herbert
Hoover to suspend all war debt end
reparations payments for one year
has etirred the Interest of virtually
very nation. ...
BARTLETT PACK CANADA WHEATjSTAGE BEAUTY ARIZONA OPENS
OF CALIFORNIA PLAN MAY OPEN SEEKS RENOWN WAR UPON AUTO
180'S OR OVERPRICE CUTTING
Large Percentage of Grow
ers Agree on Sizes For
Coming Shipping Season,
At Largely Attended
Meeting.
The California Fruit Exchange,
through its generl manager, J. L.
Nagle, hs - issued tho following
statement to the Bartlett pear
growers of California:
'Due to conditions' surrounding
the fruit - Industry ot California
this season, and in view of -the
very heavy crops of peaches In all
fruit producing districts through
out the United States, It has been
recommended that fruit of mer
chantable sizes and of good qual
ity . only should be Bhipped to
Eustern markets this season.
A meeting, therefore, to discuss
this very Important subject was
held In Sacramento on lost Thurs
day, June 11, at which were pre
sent between 80 and 00 Bnrtlett
pear growers from the different
districts in . California, together
with representatives of the fol
lowing shippers: California Fruit
Exchange, Pacific Fruit ex
change. Earl Fruit Company,
Lambert Marketing Company, Hl-
mon and French Company, and
the Thurston Fruit Company. It
was estimated thnt these shippers
represented about 98 percent of
all the Bartlett peara Bhipped
from Callfornl.
After a free discussion rela
tive to the shipment of Bartlett
pears, it was unanimously decided
by all present that Bartlett peaiB
ihl season for Eustern shipment
should be limited in size to 180
to the box, boxes weighing not
less than 52 pounds, unlldded, at
packing houBe.
There are a few non-irrigaieu
districts In California that might
have difficulty this season In dis
posing of any appreciable por
tion of their pears for Eastern
shipment If the sizes were limited
to 180, and it was agreed inni
market conditions JUBtltlcd later
In the season, it might be advltm
ble to allow these districts a t"l-
erence of not more than t percent
i or. nenra to the box, per car; out
this tolerance can be granted to
any grower or any district only
after a conference of the shippers
represented at the meeting ano
mentloned endorses such tolerance.
It Is understood, therefore, that
no pears marketed through Ihe
California Fruit Exchange this
season will be accepted foi ship
ment If they pack smaller thun
180 to the box unless written
notice is given, permitting a
small pear."
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JAP BOW-LEGGED
TOKYO, June 27. (VP) Japan's
.nmarnllf hflW leas and the short
stature of Its people are due to
the national habit of silling iur
fashion." says Dr. Fusao Ishlwara.
head of the medical department
of Tokyo Imperial university.
If the Japanese would only give
up the habit of squatting, they
1.1 ho nrnfessor asserts, ac
quire as fine physiques as Amer-
Dr. Ishlwara studied this point
with Japanese born In Hawaii and
California. He says that 65 per
cent of the height of the average
occidental is in the legs while with
the Japanese it Is only SO per
cent.
But American born Japanese
are so built that their legs make
up 64 8 per cent of their height
and they are taller than their
native countrymen.
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SUSPENSION PROPOSAL STIRS WORLD INTEREST
Secretary ot the Treasury An-
drew Mellon who conferred with
British leaders was regarded as
President Hoover's personal envoy
In the matter. ...
Government , Would Give
Producer Rebate on Ex
port Freight Argentina
and Russia to Meet Slash
. WASHINGTON,- June 27. VP)
Another world price-slashing orgy
Is feared by some American ex
perts if the Canadian plan to cut
the freight rate on export wheat
IB reflected in quotations to for
eign buyers.
i Prime Minister Bennett has pro
posed that the government absorb
five cents a bushel In tho. trans
portation - t:harge. That is,, public,
carriers would haul export wheat
to the seaboard for five cents a
bushel less than the usuul rate
and the government would refund
the difference.
1 Theoretically the exporter would
add the saving In freight to the
price he puld for wheat. He no
doubt would It there were a scar
city of wheat In the world market
and consumer countries were bid
ding for gruin.
' There Is, however, an overabun
dance of wheat, nnd every export
er In the world is fighting for a
sale. Rather thun udd Ills freight
saving to the purchase price the .
Cunadian exporter naturally might
be expected to deduct It from his
selling price. ,
Iterull IT. S. Experience I
, It is recnlied that a yonr ngo,
when President Hoover persuaded
the American railroads to lower
the rate to the senbonrd 76 cents
to alleviate the domestic emer
gency, the lower transportation
cost was reflected In export quo
tations and the general world
price of wheat dropped 10 centB
a buuhel under furious competi
tion nmong other nations to meet
American prices.
Set-Up Awaited
It seems to be the general Im
pression In Canada that parlia
ment will provide a set-up by
which the producer will get the
benefit of the lower freight rate.
Nevertheless. economists say
there la always a question who
gets the benefit of a cut In freight
rates; whether the producer If the
market la hungry, or the con
sumer If the market Is glutted.
Since 70 per cent of Canada's
wheat goes Into export, any ar
rangement whereby foreign con
sumption of the prnlrle product
cnuld be stimulated without low-
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THE
YELLOW
BOXES
-Real Proof That
Country People
Read the
MAIL TRIBUNE
Prime Minister MacDonald ot
Great Britain held conversations
with Secretary Mellon and has been
keeping a close watoh on the Qer-
man economic crisis. ...
IN PARIS HOP TAX EVASIONS
Laura Ingalls, Rival of Ruth
Nichols for Aviation Hon
ors, Set for Flight From
Newfoundland to Paris.
NEW YORK, Juno 2". Laurn
Ingails, who gave up a theatrical
career for aviation, Is tuning her
giant Lockheed air express mono
plane for a leap from Newfound
land to Paris.
This tiny, 20-year-old Brooklyn
girl Is pushing close on the heels
of -Ruth Nichols for the honor of
being tho first woman to make a
non-stop flight 'from these shores
to the French capital.
Recently she practiced blind
flying In the Canadian border re
gion, then flew to California to
get the new plane In which she
will make the ocean hop.
After nn education abroad. Miss
Ingalls returned to Broadway and
became a ballet dancer. She tried
her hand as a dramatic actress,
but decided she would rather play
among the stars In tho sky than
those on the stage.
There wos a period of Instruc
tion nt a St. Loula aviation field,
after which aho started out to set
a few records.
"Women are far better filers
than men," she told a group of
university graduates. Then she
went out to prove It with some
extraordinary Btunt maneuvers.
First she set a record for wo
men in New York to Lofl Angeles
flight and then Bet another one
a few days Inter when she made
the return trip In 26 hours, 35
minutes. Not long after this hotli
of these marks wore bettered by
Mrs. Keith-Miller.
Mlsi Ingalls then wont In strict
ly for circus stunts, and only a
year ago set a women's record
by staying In the air 3 hours, 40
minutes whllo completing 880 In
side loops.
In the Dixie derby. In which the
powder puff brigade raced from
Washington to Chicago, she fin
ished In third place.
This' Brooklyn nvlntrlx Is fear
less and doesn't enre much for
comforts. She will pilot from an
open cockpit, and the ship will
be equipped with neither radio
nor pontoons.
erlng the price to the producer
would be considered of vast Im-
portnnoe
Aiwrintrtt fruit Vhoto
Foreign Minister Curtlus ex
pressed the gratitude of Germany
and ill id his nation endorsed with
unqualified Joy the proposal ol
Pres dent Hoover.
California Truck Operators
; Under Scrutiny for Sharp
Practises in Escaping Li
cense in Both States.
PHOENIX, Ariz., June 27
(UP) Certutn trurk onenUors of
adjacent states who have been
avoiding puymont of Arizona li
cense fee will find their schemea
worthleMH, due to the observance
of Geoi'Kt) W. P. Hunt, Arlxona'H
7 1-year old governor.
' With the Mturt of tho fiscal
year,' July 1, the flrHt snuad of
traffj6 -oriiu'iB ovel-- to servo Art
Bona will roll out on the hiKh
wnyu. Their fli-Ht job will he to
prevent methods of fee dodging
which tho governor recently ex
posed. i Not long ago tho governor spent
a week-end in Yuma, on the
Arizona-California , border, and
while there, noticed a California
truck bearing one Arizona license-plate-.
Shortly thereafter he saw
another California truck using the
other half of the set of license
platea.
l'Vc-DiHlgliigr System
This disclosed a fee-dodging
system that of buying one set of
plateg for two California trucks
operating In Arizona.
Interested, the governor learned
that some California truck 'oper
ators leave Arizona plates Just
west of the state line where a
truck to enter Arizona picks them
up. Tho truck, on the return trip,
leaves the plates to be used by
another.
Governor Hunt told tho Btate
Highway Commission of his find
ings, with the result that the
squad of traffic officers will watch
for tax evasions of this sort.
Check JUcciikm PIuIoh
Another task of the traffic of
ficers will bo to check up on for
eign license plates used by per
manent residents of Arizona.
Hundreds of Arlzonlans, It Is said,
buy California plates at $3 a set
and use them here, evading Cali
fornia's personal tax law because
of the lack of a permanent ad
dress In that state nnd dodging
the Arizona personal property tax
because the car Is not registered
In this state.
It Is not ut all unlikely that the
Increase In fees paid to Arizona
will more than offset the expense
of the truffle squad of 14 men.
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German and British Scien
tists Vie to Rule Stratos
cope Rocket and Air
Tight Chamber Theory
Followed. . .
DESSAU, Germany, June 27.
(R) German aviation has started
on the long and difficult problem
of developing rgula. air service
from continent to continent via
the stratosphere.
Germany's famous aviation pio
neer, Hugo Junkers, 1h . working
on plans and models for a safe
slratosphuro airplane.
Under his supervision and In
i collaboration with, the Society for
the Advancement of German
Science and A sinus Hansen, an
engineer, the Junkers works In
this city are constructing a spec
lal stratosphere aircraft after tho
plans of Professor Junkers.
Prof. Auguste Plccard, who re
cently reached the stratosphere In
a haloon, may participate in ex
ploration flights with the strato
sphere plane.
It is the society's aim to explore
nnd study the higher regions with
the idea that future nfr services
will uso the stratosphere.
The plane Is one of the Junkers
all-metal low wing craft. It has
a width of 92 feet between the
wing tips. The building of air-
I tight chambers for the pilot and
I observer and the construction of
a satisfactory working motor were
the greutest obstacles to a realiza
tion of the project. But these dif
ficulties have been cleared away,
I Professor Junkers believes, ,
The motor Is a novelty. A apeo
lnl turblno blast-engine, driven by
, the exhaust guses, : compresses
enouKh rarlfled air to keep tho
gasoline" ehglne ' wbrklrtg ut""top
speed ut heights over 62,000 feet.
The construction of tho airtight
and preRsure-proof chambers cuus
od much trouble but Prof. Pic
card's ulumlnum gondola gave the
builders the hint they needed. The
chambers are built on the same
principle as Placard's sphere ex
cept that they have double walls
to minimize sudden changes of
temperature.
LONDON, "june 27. P) Pos
sibilities of a trip to oven greater
heights than Prof. Plccard's bal
loon achieved are being discussed
here.
Prof, A. M. Low, Brltbih scien
tist, said he had been approached
by a man who wished him to de
sign an apparatus that would car
ry Us passenger up 60 miles, or
five times as high as Plccard's
mark. '
"Ills Idea consists of a man car
rying rocket, complete with oxy
gen equipment and with a para
chute enabling a return to earth,"
Bald Professor Low.
"Theoretically the project Is
feasible. Certainly It shows tho
trend of human ambition.
There is cortatn to be a revival
of schemes foi reaching Mars,
the moon, or some other heaven
ly body. The schemes probubly
will be wildly Impracticable, but
they may bear some sclentlflo
fruit."
Experts nt the meteorological
office of tho air ministry were
keenly Interested In Plccard's ob
servations, having undertaken
balloon nltltudo experiments for a
long time themselves.
"Balloons equipped with self re
cording Instruments are released
at Intervals," an official explain-
fContlnued on Page Four)
Confessed Slayer
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Aitottaltd Pttu fAul.
John 8chopflin, 21, was said to
have admitted to 8tockton, CaU
police he killed Enid Marriott, Wig
gins, Colo., school teacher last wint
er because "she talked too much,"
VAST SUMS FOR
'HOLES IN GROUND
DENVER, Colo., June 27 (UP)
Millions of dollars have been
"thrown Into holes in the ground'
In Colorado.
Known for the gorgeous vista
presented by her mountains, Colo
rado may become famed for the
length and auantlty of her tun
nels. Already she has soma ot
the most famous In the country.
The Moffat Tunnel is the most
famous of all and was construct
ed at a cost of millions of dollars,
for railroad ' use as a cut-off
through the mountains. The tun
nel hardly had gotten well under
way until It was the subject ot a
controversy which had gone
Htirditgh most of the courts in the
land, not to mention the Inter
state. Commerce Commission.
Kullroads, and tax-payers, who
must pay for the tunnel, are bat
tling over Its uses.
The big bore Ib 6.4 miles In
longth, nnd Is but one of 62 tun
nels on the Denver and Bait Lake
Hallway between Denver and
Craig, Colo. Altogether the tun
nels total some 10.0.
The Denver and Rio Orande
Western, another railroad, has
moro than two miles of tunnels In
Cotorndo.
A flvo-mllo tunnel carries. Irri
gation water from the Gunnison
River to the Uncompaghre valley.
The Busk-Ivanhoe tunnol, a
part of state highway No. 104,
nonr the once famous mining
enmp of Leadvlllo, Colo., la nearly
two miles long.
The Bhoshone tunnel, a water
tunnel, near CHenwood Springs,
totals more thnn two miles In
length. There Is a 4.6 mile tun
nel nt Idaho flprlngs.
Hut by tnt the greatest mileage
In tunnels In Colorado Is In mine
tunnels fur beneath the surface
of the Hockles.
In one mino alone, the Fred
erick, In Las Animas county, the
totnl underground tunnel system
Is nearly 30 miles.
A state bulletin places the total
cost of tunnels In the state at
"hundreds of millions of dollars,"
and refuses to make even a guess
as to the total length of the hu
man burrows.
Couldn't Head English
RRIDOEOHT, Conn., June 27.
UJI') Thomas Kicks, 18, was dls
charged In city court when he ex
plained the reason he drove by a
"stop" sign was that he was un
it hie to rend English.
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France Starts Campaign to
Bring Decency Back to
Beach English Women
Blamed for Exposures.
PARIS, June. 27. (UP) Brit
ish Puritans have started a vio
lent campaign .to bring decency
back to the golden 'sands of. the.
French Riviera, the smart beaches
much favored, by the. fashionable
cosmopolitan crowds,' and send the
English "beach-widows' back . to
their husbands; - or . make - ttietn
sew Inner linings on. their diaphan
ous beach pajamas..! . - .v
The Vrench police long ago gave
up the Idea of making the golden
sands safe tor' Puritans.' TwO
plece bathing suits gave way to
one-piece apparel- and now . the
most daring bathers. :are back .to
two-plecera again, " a little ' Bilk
brassiere and a short pair of skin
tight "shorts," with plenty . ot
browned skin In between, above
and below the two pieces, ,, ,
Signing herself "A north-of-Gngland
Woman," a British Pur
itan has written a letter . to . the
editor. The letter was published
In the "Avenlr" of Juan-les-Plne.
smart beaeh ot sand and parasol
pines, two-piece (separated) bath
ing suits and all-laoe -.pajamae.
She protests against the -. display
ot flesh and-bad manner:;
"Hundreds ot shameless English
women Conduct themselves dally
on the beach in scandalous fash
Ion. These' so-called' emart' wo
men from my own - country brine;
a blush to my oheeks and to every -
decent - English, woman. They
came to the Riviera because they
knew that they dar not behave
In the same manner on -any. Eng
lish beuxb, where lleys would- be
lulled If thev wore -such transoaM
ent beaeh naiamas. - or -euoh .jed- .
called suits ; es 'brassiere' f apd
shorts, , which ' leaves -the middle
unclothed and which they pretend
are decont,-'.- ' - . --l '' ' ,'"'
"To my own knowledge, ' many
of these shameless women have
left their husbands In England,
I wonder what their husbands
would say It they could see the
dograded morality of their wives
under the Influenoe of the RI-.
viera. Hiven trrencn people nave
told me they ere shocked, so It la
time for the authorities to organ
ize beach censorship, . If only for
tho sake of the tew decent wo
men who come here." '
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BINOHAMTON, Ni Y., June IT.
(UP) The oft repeated story:
that Oeneral U. 8. Grant "(ought
the Civil war oh liquor'.' Is scof
fed at by 8, M. Flint, who served
as bugler eaoort ton him,'
"Absolutely a fake,'.' Flint said. -"t
was right by his Side for If
months and I ought to know," .
Flint was only IS when he en
listed In 1862 at Albany.
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