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M fl,e Weather edpord Mail Tribune Temperature IllKtiFttt yesterday Ki Lowest this morning 41 Preel pit at low To 3 p. m. yesterday t o To 5 a. in. todav 0 r- ..nrniture. . ..Sixth Year TODAY'S NEWS TODAY MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST (, KM. 'KLKl'HOXK 75 No. 135. rn fa - Ira wm TO Mr Lnr Brisbane II - n I poppers a Buruen. ;eeds Help- Advice From iwyers. . f jiog Feature 8ynd., Ino. Larrimer, government Jogist, sa.vs grassnop pstroying crops in north- nd central states, are kg their ravages fifty day, by taking to tlieir There is little hope for tliiu cnaunn wminds you that proud tressed in a little brief ;n, nrnv some day tincl wiped out by a com- In of plagues, insects, de- -fcroDS, rats and grounti Lis carrying disease, ants luff everything in hot ties, rabbits and mos- d man shouid devote to .v of nrotectma himself such enemies, some of Lraitv that ho devotes La eas and explosives ling of other men. Choppers are not us as men. martial law and state l Governor Murray in -ma City, shuts down oil wells, to put up the ot oil and prevent waste lioual resources. . Itni and other fields will it mora oil. You cannot deal u oQ problem on any but a jieile, and our favorite fetish inboo, the . silly antiquated It Kt, prevents any real ac- iilMtatrf Deeds elp.' Stand'- if, California reports for the h months, of 1931, prove It. profit waa Only 43 cents as IU3 or the first six months hi Judge R. J. Hopkins, all b tram Kansas, tells New York Uut they "should not defend ill tnj know to he guilty." il New York lawyers In their wast "will get a laugh out t mused of crime and guilty HAS MONEY. The man ac- ttt Innocent usually HA8 JO. , 8 Judge from Kansas want p York criminal lawyers to deith? Let him remem- f roung corporation lawyer f4 "The only favor a com- f" n do me Is to get run " cot. Then I can make 1 defending the corporation Ms damage suit." f Joseph Medlll Patterson. oewjpsper man, will Insist ,Jt "Ithough as ho himself 1 lined article a man should "ler fifty. :1J his big amphibian : "I" him at the controls po the take-off at Roosevelt L d turned upside down. P W out, cut on the head. r happened because he l" of mind in the crash Fued on Page Pour) wMartin hum WILB NEAR DEATH IN HOSPITAL HERE Bullet Blows Off Thumb Be fore Entering Brain Second Gun Accident in Few Weeks Near Medford Hiram Wllber. 17. lies near death In a hospital here today, the victim of an accident gun shot which pene trated the youth's brain. Little hope Is held for his recovery. The "accident occurred at the Wil bur farm, formerly the King place, near Talent this morning. Earl Yary an, 16, a neighbor boy and young Vi tl ber were handling the gun In the back yard when It was accidentally discharged while In the hands of Wllber. Blowing off his right thumb which was on the barrel of the gun, the bullet then entered the skull near the nose and penetrated the brain where It lodged within an Inch of the back of the skull, a physician's ex amination revealed. Rushed to Hospital The Injured boy was rushed to an an Ashland hospital by anibulnnce, but was brought to Medford shortly after because of lack of Bpace at Ash land. He Is the son of Mary Wllber, a widow. Because of other recent grief In the Wllber family. Mrs. Wllber was reported to be near prostration following the accident this afternoon. Physicians said late this afternoon that recovery was Impossible. Earl Yaryan had brought the rme over to the Wllber house today ana It was evidently cocked when ne laid It down to test a watermelon. Wllber picked It up and It went oil Immediately. He was conscious about 20 minutes after the shot entered his brain. B.. Wllber, father of the boy, was killed in a mill accident at Chlloquin four years ago. Both grandfathers were killed In violent accidents, also, It Is recounted by neighbors of the Wilbur family. Hiram Wllber attend ed school In Talent up to vacation time in June. Second Accident The shooting today is the second accident within a month In which a boy haa been the victim of a gun shot. Stuart Robert Rice, 14, Bon of Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Rice of Alamo. Texaa, died here July 27 after being ahot In the stomach at Eagle Point July 20. Delbert Tlngleaf, his com panion, had the .32 automatic rifle In his hands. The bullet penetrated Rice's stomach and spleen. OREGON CITY, Aug. 8 (API A Jubilant dairy region today greeted the announcement that the milk war Is at an end In the Portland milk shed. Clackamas county dairymen Immediately laid plans for a "Jolli fication" picnic to be held Sunday to celebrate the settlement. HILLSBORO. Ore.. Aug. 6 (API Wild celebration greeted receipt of word here last night that a settlement had been reached In the milk war. A crowd of more than 2.000 farm ers and residents of Hlllsboro and adjoining communities gathered on the streets here to celebrate the sign ing ot the agreement between pro ducra and distributors. A parade was held, led by the fire department and the Boy Scout drum corps. ...11 f..r ItlflH . , of n,. A,i.r 8 (AP) Bids . . . nt the new lor me coiiauui;nuii - tuberculosis hospital at Salem, for .. leciKlature appropri ated aOO.000, have been called for and will be opened at Salem. August 20. It was announced today by Wil liam Elnzig, state purcnasmg gtelwrr lo Talk. .Atwnn Or. Auff. fl. (A1 Senator Frederick Stelwer of Ore gon, member or ine sen affairs Investigation committee, win be the principal speaker at the Lin coln county chamber of commerce meeting at oueia ' Negro Evangelist Preached To Death In Marathon Stunt SUMTER. S. C Aug. 8. (API Elizabeth Windham literally preached herself to death. The negro evangelist undertook a marathon sermon, starting at 8 o'clock Tuesday night. She con cluded at 4 o'clock Wednesday morning. Enroute home she collapsed and died. Death was attributed to heart failure. F IS DECLARED LIE ASOTIN, Wash., Aug. 8. (AP) The prosecutor said today he would charge Herbert Nichols, Jr., barefoot killer of Sheriff John Wormell, with first degree murder. t The penalty la the same as for an adult. Prosecutor Halsey said, but he haa not decided whether or not to ask the death penalty. Young Nichols, between 10 and 11 years old. Is accused of shooting the sheriff In cold blood while the offic ers were searching a store which the boy was robbing. Nichols Implicated William Robin son, 60, saying the latter taught him how to rob the store and how to shcot, but after finding discrepancies In the 'boy's story, authorities released Robinson. "The boy was lying," Halsey said. "Robinson had no connection with the case." Today feeling had quieted some what, and offlclala said they prob ably would return the boy here for the trial. He has been held In the Pomeroy Jail for safekeeping since the shooting early yesterday morning. The trial Is expected to be held In two months'- v .--t---"- AMY JOHNSON LANDS AT TOKYO AIRDROME TOKYO. Japan. Aug. 6. (AP) Amy Johnson. BritlBh woman flier, landed . at Tachikawa airdome ' at 6:17 p. m. (3:17 a. m. EST.) today at the conclusion uf a flight by easy stages from England. She was accom panied by C. 8. Humphries. The flight was completed In 10 and one -ha If days, beating by a few hours the eleven-day flight record between London and Tokyo made by Seljl Yo6hlhara, Japanese aviator. 4. KLAMATH FALLS. Aug. 8. ( AP) Myriads of black-and-gold butterflies hovering around the rim or Crater lake are delighting tourists who visit the park. MRS. COOLIDGE NOT SHORN OF TRESSES 1 ru -"'"n- yon kin Buy "ton, wr on than hri rti v"1 nniand after tantrum. PLYMOUTH. Vt Aug. 8. (API Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has not nad her hair bobbed and apparently has no Intention of so doing. She shook her ample tresses In smiling denial today when photographers appearea In the little Vermont village for a camera record. Former president and Mrs. Coolidge are spending a prolonged vacation at the family homestead here. BOY PLACES BOMB UNDER CANBY HOME CANBY. Ore.. Aug. 6. (AP) Law rence Dugan. 14 years old. was taken Into custody yesterday on a charge of placing a bomb under the home of Mils steffenson near Canby. The boy had lived with Steffenson for several months. Steffcnon said Dugan placed the bomb under the house because he would not permit the boy to go out nights. "Amos 'n Andy" Irritating Colored Folks of Land PITTSBURGH. Aug. 6 (API -Amu 'n Andy." the radio a -reflection on a race of people who believe they are doing a little better than 'Amoa 'n Andy' are doing with the 'Fresh Air Taxicab Company. Robert L. Vann. negro attorney and publisher, said today. Vann. with a petition he said bone the signature of between 200.000 and rtOOOOO persona, stated he would ask the federal radio commission and the United States district court In Illi nois to ban 'Amos 'n Andy' from the air. The protestanta will appeal the case "all the way up to heaven." he 1 added. " Amos and Andy do not repre 1 lent the American standard to rhlch the American negro aspires and the sketch is detriments! to the negroes' ' interest," the attorney said. VIOLENT STORMS I - AIR RACE ACROSS AT AKLAVIK HALT Take-Off for Point Barrow On Holiday Jaunt to Japan Must Wait Clearing Skies Vacationists Take Rest AKLAVIK. N. W. T, Aug. 6. (Af) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh ana Mrs. Lindbergh were still storm bound at Aklavtk today. Violent storms which broke Wednesday were still raging and a take-off was con sidered Impossible. Colonel LI nd berg announced at 3 p. m. (E.S.T.) that he would not take off until Friday unless the weather shows Immediate improvement. It was reported the daring pair would await a change In the wea ther before taking off for Point Bar row. Alaska, the next atop In the Llndbergh'a holiday trip from New York to Tokyo. Radio operators here reported com munication with the outside world almost Impossible aa violent storms were sweeping the barren lands be tween Simpson and Aklavlk. Storm After Arrival. During Wednesday the barometer fell steadily here and skies became overcast shortly after the arrival ot the Lindberghs from Baker LaKe. Rain had been falling Intermittently and flying conditions generally were extremely bad. Bad storms and fog extended along the route from Aklavlk to Point Barrow. Unless the weather changes suddenly the flight of the Lind berghs to Point Barrow may be de layed for days. The day yesterday was given over by Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh to rest and sleep alter their arrival on their 1100-ml!e flight from Baker Lake. They had a warm breaklast at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Urquhart and then had nine hours of sleop. v ' The entire population of Aklavlk and whites and Eskimos from miles around spent the day examining tne glistening low-wing monoplane and awaiting tho awakening of the va cationers to entertain them. See Eskimo Life. With only a few hours of dark ness here, 130 miles Inside the Arctic circle, between the hours of 10 p. m., and 1 a.m., P. 8. T.. the visitors had the opportunity, after rising, to see Eskimo life for the first time. Meanwhile. 700 mllea to the west, coast guardsmen aboard the North land made plana to refuel the Lind bergh's plane If the Colonel should decide to fly to It. Calm waters ot a nearby lagoon or even the waters of the Arctic ocean, with only a light wind blowing, would make such refueling possible. During the day the Northland was unable to proceed farther north be cause of the Ice pack. At Point Barrow, weeks of prepa rations to greet the Lindberghs have been under way with house cleaning of the native dwellings part of the work. The medical missionary. Dr. Henry Grlcst, has prepared his home, the only one with a bathtub, to re ceive the Lindberghs as honored guests. ASK SPECIAL SESSION FOR FARMER RELIEF ENID, Okia, Aug. 8. (AP) Or ganized wheat growers of Oklahoma and Texas Joined here today in a resolution asking President Hoover to call a special session of congress to appropriate for the use of tne federal farm board 500.000.000 "lor the purpose of checking the decline In prices of agricultural products." It also was asked that the money be used In "assisting the farm board to alleviate distress among producers In this country and to carry out. foster and promote the true purpose and Interest of the agricultural mar keting act." WIDOW OF ROOSEVELT OBSERVES BIRTHDAY OYSTER BAY. L. I.. Aug. 6. (API Mrs. Edith Kermlt Roosevelt, wid ow of Theodore Roosevelt, twenty sixth president of the United States, observed her seventieth birthday to day. In the big bouse on Sagamore HIM to which she came aa a bride in 1M7 and which once served as he sum mer White House. Mrs. Roosevelt re ceived congratulations from her fam ily and frlenda. WHEAT WORTH 75 CTS. AT FURNITURE STORE XENIA, Ohio, Aug. 6. (AP) Wheat la worth 75 cent a busnei here In trade at a Xenla furniture store. The store announced today It would accept 6000 buaheis ot wheat at 75 cent a bushel during August In return for merchandise. On the market wheat. Is worth 4 cent ft busneL PACIFIC LOOMING Herndon and Pangborn Reach Tokyo As Moyle and Allen Arrive for Pro jected Non-Stop Return TOKYO. Aug. 8. (AP) The pos sibility of & non-stop rac between monoplanes across the hazardous North Pacific between Tokyo and Seattle, with a pot of gold worth About $39,000 awaiting ti e winner. loomed today with the arrival hern by airplane end boat of four Amer ican aviators. Hugh Herndon, Jr., and Clyde Pangborn, who abandoned a round-the-world race In quest of the record et recently by Wiley Post and Har old Oatty. landed at Tachikawa air drome, near here, at 6:18 p. m. (4:10 a. m., E&.T.) today from Khabarovsk. Siberia, where a damaged wing and unfavorable weather held them on the ground until their record-breaking aspirations went glimmering. Don Moyle emd C. A. Allen arrived on the M. 8. Chlchlbu Maru from the United Stales with the announcement that they are contemplating a non stop flight to the Puget Sound me tropolis in the 'monoplane City of Tfccoma, now In a hangar at Tachi kawa airdrome. see Amy's Reception. Pangborn and Herndon descended at Tachikawa airdrome at dusk, Just In time to see the reception arranged by Japanese and British officials for Amy Johnson, British avlatrlx, who arrived from London. They -were in excellent spirits, de spite the fact their efforts to beat the record of Post and Oatty had to be abandoned. , The Americans said they had an Interesting flight from Khabarovsk. They started southeast and crossed the Japan sea. then, flew over Hok kaido, and followed the east coast of Hondu until they reached Hanedn field, where they sighted the enor mous letters marking the landing place. They descended, but a few minutes later took off for Tachikawa airdrome. Announce Plans Noon. Herndon told reporters that he would mako a definite announcement soon regarding his plans for a trans pacific flight. A scattered crowd greeted the Americans, as most of the populace which had greeted Miss Johnson had started home before the aviators ar rived. But the crowd scurried back to tne field when Pangborn's big monoplane came Into view. Many Japanese chil dren waved flags and the Japanese officials hurriedly gave the fliers an Informal welcome. Pangborn and Herndon were de tained at the Tachikawa airdrome three hours by aviation bureau of ficials, who questioned them regard ing their radio set and more particu larly a camera found In their plane. Officials asserted tha in the emerg ency landing application filed by the American embassy nothing was said concerning the camera or radio. ' SH0WS1 NEED WASHINGTON. Aug. o.--(AP) Silas Strawn of Chicago, president of the United States chamber of commerce, told President Hoover today that his organization was making a complete survey of the unemployment situa tion and hoped to have definite rec ommendations on It by Sept, 1, Strawn and Julius Barnes, chair man of the board of the chamber, discussed unemployment with the chief executive for more than an hour today. The former said his survey indi cates an appreciable increase in un employment over last winter. Unless something deflnlt is done, he said, the country will be faced wltrt "more kinds of proposals for doles than Ormany and England ever heard of." RAIL CHIEF FEARFUL FURTHER DEPRESSION THE DALLES, Ore., Aug. B (API A. 8. Edmonds, Union Pacltic traffic manager, last night told the board of directors of The Uailes Wasco county chamber of commerce that unless the railroads of the na tion are granted the 16 per cent rate Increase they ask, the economic situation will be further, and more violently, upset. GIANT SEAPLANE DO-X AT NATAL OVERNIGHT RIO DE HANEIRO, Braitll. Aug. . (AP) The sesplane DO-X arrived at Natal today for an overnight stop on the way to the United States. She tad flown from Bahla 600 mllea away. The next scheduled overnight atop Is Para. FORMER SCREEN COMEDIAN TO WED , -' .MV - J . A i I ' i vi rn J... 1AJ i f IWMfM PifU CS.f. Roacoe Arbuckle, on time motion picture funny man and now director, with hla future wife, Addle McPhall, Hollywood actress. Tha ceremony will be held aa soon aa Arbuckle obtains a final decree of divorce from tha present Mrs. Arbuckle. GANGSTERS USED CHILD AS SHIELD FROM SHOT NEW YORK, Aug. 8. ( AP) Tony Troblno admitted he was the Intend ed target of the gangster bullets that. killed one child and wounded four others In Harlem's 1)1 1 tie Italy, and told f 01 ice today he used the body of a Ittle child as a human shield from the leaden spray, , . .. ,. . .,-. The admission was made to a de tective whose Identity was not mads public. Shortly thereafter, Troblno was arraigned on a technical charge of robbery, ordered held without bail, and surrounded by a wall of silence which Police Commission Murooney refused to break except for the terse admission the prisoner was "valuable Information." ' Troblno Is said to have admitted to the detective that he was a member of a narcotic ring recently split up by civil war, and that the word had gone out that the faction of which Troblno was a follower was going to have trouble. According to the admission to the detective, Troblno said he was sitting In an automobile in Harlem when the gangsters started to fire from their automobile. Feigning a wound, he opened the door of his car and crawled along the sidewalk to where a group of .litUe onuaren were playing. Then, Troblno said, as the gangsters1 car approached the spot to which he nad crawled, he grabbed. a uttie boy and held him up as a n-umau shield. A spray of bullets burst forth from the oar, killing little Michael Ven galll, wounding four other children who had been playing In the vicinity, but harming neither himself nor the boy he held in front of him, he said When the gangsters' car put on full speed arter the wounded children be gan to scream, Troblno said, he drop ped the boy, ran over to the auto mobile In which he had been sitting, ana a rove away. Today's BASEBALL American R. H. E. Philadelphia 3 7 0 New York 6 10 1 Walberg, Mahaffey and Cochrane; Oomoz, Johnson and Dickey. Boston 1 4 0 Washington 10 10 0 RusHell, Durham and Berry, Con ally; Marberry and Spencer, Bolton. 8t. Louis 0 10 2 Chicago 7 11 4 Collins, Stewart, Gray and Terrell; Caraway, Thomas and Tate. Wire Report on the Pear Market NEW YORK, Aug. . tJ.8.D.A.) (AP) Pear auction market, prices slightly weaker. 37 cars arrived; 2 Alabama. 27 California, 1 Florida un loaded; 0 cars on track. California Bartletts, 18,510 boxes Best a. 16-2 96; few 13.00-3. 19; or dinary $1.00-2.55; common and ripe l B0-2.16; few $1.30-1.50; average $2.28. Cleveland 4 0 0 Detroit 3 0 4 Hudl-n and Bewcll; Herring, Bnrrell and Hayworlh. 4 National R. II. E. Cincinnati 3 1.1 0 Pittsburgh 2 7 2 Rlxey, Benton and Bukcforth; Spencer, Brame and Phillips. New York - 4 13 1 Philadelphia 8 13 1 Berly. Parmalee and Hogan; Blnke, 3. Elliott and McCurdy. Brooklyn 7 13 I Boston ... ... 3 14 2 PheljM. Luque and Lope; Cantwcll and Bool, Bpohrcr. , Oregon weather Tfclr tonight and Prlday hut over cast on the coast; moderate tempera ture; fresh north and northweit winds offshore; fair over the week, end. CHICAGO, Aug. 8. (UJ3.D.A.) (AP) Pear auction market, prices slightly weaker. 18 California cars and 2 others arrived; 20 California and 2 others on track; 21 cars sold. California Bartletts, 11,218 boxes: $166-2 70; averago $2.10. D'AuJnus, 170 boxes: $185-1.90; average $1.85. fligYudooies BAN ANTONIO. Texas, Aug. AF) Flying Cadet Paul K. Keler son. student pilot In the pursuit section of the advanced flying school at Kelly Field, was Instantly killed when his plane i-numed near here today. Cadet Itelrrsnn was a son of Mr, and Mrs. Mu E. ftelerson of Troy, Idaho. There were no eyo witnesses oi the accident, so far as the preliml nsry Investigation of Kelly Field of ficials could determine. Merchants Buy Heavily In Anticipation of Trade NEW YORK, Aug. 8. (AP)- John R. Young, manager of the convention bureau of the merchants' association of New York announced today that the flow of buyers Into New York has Increased at least 10 per cent this year over the normal number of 40.000 for this time of the season. "And what is more significant," he added, "they are all actually buying." "They are selecting more carefully it Is true, and some are buying a lit- i tie more frugally perhaps, but the I fact remains that they are buying, tdeprewilon reports to the contrary. Young pointed out that, prior to j the World war, August and February j were peak months for the visiting ? out-of-town buyers, but after the war there was a tendency to spread ; buying visits throughout the year, The pendulum 1 swinging again to August and February for the heaviest purchases for the following seasons, Young said, CITIZEN INTEREST L Work Will Be Strictly Unof ficial Is Pointed Out at Council Meeting Larger Group Citizens Desirable A resolution was adopted by tho city council last night, with ail members present except C. A. Meeker who Is en route to Alaska on a pleasure trip, thanking the citizens' committee for their Interest ana proffered co-operation In disposing of the aewage disposal problem. The resolution stated the council heaitn committee would be glad to work with the advisory committee of tno cltlaens' committee In Bn Inlormal capacity In studying the problem. and would welcome almllar Interest and proffers on the part of any other group of cltlsona Interested. It was made plain that the. city offlclala woutd welcome any clttwm advisory help, with all authority resting with the councllmanlo body, which la solely responsible to tho people for result. Enlargement Sought. The resolution also requested that the cltlaens' advisory aub-commltteo of eight members be enlarged by tho general cltlaena' committee to at leaat 20 membera,. so aa to be' aa representative aa possible. What the councllmen desire : to avoid la any impression that ,the city offlclala had anything to ' no with the formation or the citizens' group, which offered a solution or the disposal problem oil Tuesday night, or any other group of cltl aena that would bo formed for tho aame purpose. In fact the council health com mittee, according to expressions last night of Its members and the mayor and other councllmen, would appre ciate any Interested Individual cltl aen, ' especially those who have been radically opposed -to a sewagd dis posal bond Issue, sitting In with tha committee and Informing hlmseit of the work already done by the committee on the question 'and; go over with them the mass of detailed Information gathered. Oates' Idea Also. C. E. Gates, chairman of the cltl-tena- committee group, who laid tne plan of that committee before the council Tuesday night, at that time recommended that the entire na' sa vlsory committee to work with tno council, according to the plan, be greatly enlarged, as did Mayor B.'M. Wilson. The resolution of appreciation laat night, to be forwarded to the cltl aena' group headed by C. B. oatea, was adopted after a communication received from that committee nam ing its advisory committee was read and discussed at some length. Tnia proffered advlaory committee of eight membera consists of the following: O. E. Oatea, chairman; V. J. En-crick, E. O. Koppon, 8. V. Davla, lr. A. E. Dodson, Kay Tuoker, Olen Arn aplger and Oeorge Bchumachcr. The discussion that folloved wa good natured and waa marked all the way through by expressions or appreciation over the citizens' com mittee ofrer ot help, but all the time the eentlment waa unanimous tnat the responsibility and authority (Continued on Page Six Btory Onel m ILL OGERS Soys: UKVERLY . II I ti L S , CiiJ., Aug. ft. May, th(H0 warn if (ict thiK to be tough. 1 had no more thnn got home from the buttle of Red River with tily old eoiiiniHiiding general (I mil a colonel ontbe staff of Jtill Murray). We lieked . Texas and "made bridges free for Oklahoiuans" tp eross even if they bad no btiNineHH On the other Hide. Today my old gen eral calln ma hack into tho tronehea (let's see who we aru , fighting this weekt) Oh, yen, the Standard Oil and the ot'tji puKes. We want ifl oil and wo, ain't going to quit shooting till we get it. Old Hill has been right every time and 1 am still with him. Next week wo are going to fight for 25-cent wheat. eWMlPkeHmri,,,,
