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MEBFORB M a tt . Triirt mv. I fljg Weather i,ht and Friday fair; To Subscribers If your Mull Tribune is not deliv ered to you promptly. Telephone 75, Of fire open until 7 every evening. I'lease cull uh before that time and II copy u-lll he delivered to your home. V temperature. . - . ju. wix a w 11 i n ii if a ii ij J i v J fi . LT. 7 r- 'I'l II I I II l I l J (.jlXUl J-coa - o ixjmvs TODAY : , - MEDFORD, QKEOOX, THURSDAY, AUUUST 13, IBM. TKLr o VE 75 No 142 Sliii3iliiilipHis UnShips. MLPDfl AMI! FARMERS PRAY FOR RELIEF, FROM PLAGUE IflDPUADniQT CAVC ZZTZ 1 . . v , .... niniirn rnnmiTO I 11111111'-. -. .11 Lifl '5.H' II Mil, HI-K f-Wt- .H wh m;i--, .. zz 1 1 1 1 - luiriiiu rfiiiiuiiiiiiiu SI I W tt A 11? ''.JBkW I llrUlh Mr Zl SI' 1 A Witness Feels I. C. C- Quiz ULnMI Ul T" fass&i Present Tariff $400 Per i , :- I new of the country." ULU L MUUL IU U L dew Crimes. McA Montauk? UKlng Feature Bynd.. Inc. (Justice Hughes, who toJinal say, sent 10 iew Federal Judge lticharcl of Kansas, wlio saw Liing things in New York, told Sir.- Ewmg ot tlic Orleans "States;" Pro- L Guarnieri of Columbia tilers at luncheon yester- Hopkins surprised liieved Mr. "Legs Dia- provmg tnat teucrai L 'mean business. tent Mr. Diamond to L for four years, fined 111,000, and informed the L, uttorney that he would ilin evidence with enough send Mr. Diamond anil L to jail for thirty or rears more. t a believe that the law tt tbove bootleggers will be jHIjkI to Kansas for sending Hopkins, and prohibitionists Inn with satisfaction that the 1 1 regular Kansas prohibl- p Hopkins was Interested In with which a powerful Haiti to meet the "depres- Vuqueradlng as a- govern- Itnt, he preyed on drug ped sjlng, Ingeniously, "I don't to turn you boys In, but after Un got to live the same as Mite to the bootleg-drug in Swrlft's lines: willits observe, a flea jailer fleas that on him prey; feue mailer : still , Jxj bite proceed 'ad Infinitum'." ipntouy preys on the pub- k bootlegger on the speakeasy tt hijacker on the bootleg- pi real or pretended enforce- Pt preys on them all. k Bopklns was Interested too, !w that a man Indicted on floui counts was let off with Wihment based on one tome he had nine children, p He was due to have an- S proted It by having It a J. end the Jury was to ask: "If a man with lUw and another coming '""eg. who can? ' board, about to sell ships. Including the Riant P". U1 make sure that F win v ! Americans and operated commercial marine for 4 States. 'dl the principal bidders Mltr Line and Herbert on the Pacific coast, :relt. son of the late 18 Hoosetelt, and Vincent Bruce nr naitimnM n r Secretary Mellon's son-ln-rm on the east coast. Nniied VL Martin 'Will .K. """" a" i- " years I've llvrri K" n't'r any lit ria-JT'"" Mm. jo Kllfs k, Peculiar thlnf about "t "r Know we " till T'rs koi Pair Drove About in Auto With Bodies of Young Couples Before Fire Set Third Member of Mur der Party Taken by Cops YPSILANTI, Mich., Aug. 13. (AP) Three men, one a negro, and another a former convict, confessed Into today to the slay ing of two boys and two girls on n country rend near here early Tuesday and the subsequent burning or their bodies and the nutomolille in which they bail been parked. Frank Oliver, a 10-year-old Ypsllantl sign painter, was the third confessed member : of the murder pilrty. , YYPSILANTI, Mich.. Aug. IS. (AP) Fred Smith, white, and Nathan Black stone, negro, confessed today that they killed the two boys and two girls whose bodies were found on a country road near here ' Tuesday morning. Blackstone did most of the talking. He detailed 'to the officers how they killed the four young people, drove around with the bodies In. the automobile of one of the young men for quite a while, and then set fire to the car in which the bodies were piled. ', The negro said he and Smith came upon the two couples while tliey were parked on the Tuttle road. near Ypsllantl. .. . , , : Blackstone said Smith shot Lore, firing four times, and then the other members of the-party, were, slain. He did not tell whether they were shot or clubbed. After the four had been killed, Part of a throng of more than 1,000 Union county, South Dakota, farming people la shown kneeling be fore an outdoor altar near Jefferson, Imploring divine aid In combatting hordea of grasshoppers devastating, their crops. On the same apot 60 years ago similar rite were held. ' PINCHOT PLEADS FOR FEDERAL AID OF (Continued on Page 8, Story 1) I AVERAGING $2.04 A test train of 10 cars of Bartlett pears, under the direction of E. C. Malllnson of the department of agri culture will leave this city tomorrow night for New York City. Observa tions will be made en route on re frigeration, icing, conditioning and other data valuable to fruitgrowers and distributors. C. C. Darby, manager in this city for the Kimball Fruit company, also announced at the meeting of the Rogue River Traffic association this noon, that his company would ship pears east in cars containing dry Ice, as a test. The Kimball Fruit com pany shipped California peaches un der dry ice, and found that ripening was deferred. A car of peaches with regular refrigeration Ice was a com panion car. President Kimball order ed valley pears shipped under the same conditions, as an experiment. The New York pear committee wired that the first car of valley pears, the Olen Rosa brand, had sold in New York City for an average of 204 per box. The traffic association last week sent a letter to the president of the Pennsylvania railroad, asking that the Potomac Gateway be opened to the valley fruit,, in order that winter shipments could be made via the southern routes, thus avoiding the chill and bleak mid-west and eastern winters. Pennsylvania Governor Says Fundamental Remedy Lies in National Planning Emergency Is Seen GRASSHOPPERS FLOURISH WHEN SQUIRRELS KILLED WASHINGTON, Prof. A. Brazier Hopkins medical today charged In Aug. 13. ( AP) Howell of Johns school, Baltimore, public lotter to DETROIT. Aug. 13. (AP) Gilford Pinchot, gverntor of Pennsylvania, strongly advocated government finan cial assistance for the ' unemployed during the coming wlnted, in an ad dress today before members of Mayor Frank Murphy's unemployment com mittee. "If we can declare a moratorium to help Germany, if wo can recommend a loan of a billion to two hundred million dollars for Germany, what is there wrong in, a federal loan to feed the needy in America?" said Gov ernor Pinchot. The governor discussed various remedies for depression, insisting that the "fundamental remedy" lay in national planning "to substitute planned and orderly development of our resources, our production, and our institutions for the haphazard and unbalanced growth which has led to this depression." Mates Lark Fundi. He said that private charity should carry a heavier load of relief. Public works, he said, covers but a partial solution, since many states lack funds to finance such activities. Consti tutional provisions prevent many states from appropriating money to relieve private distress, he said, and many cities arc at the limit of tax ation and many unable to borrow further to aid the unemployed. Senator McNary of Oregon that the grasshopper menace in the middle west was a result of the government I policy of extermination of rodents. Ground squirrels and other small animals. Howell said, constitute the chief check on the Increase of In sects on the western plains where there are few Insect eating birds. Such animals eat large quantities of grasshoppers, he explained, and dig up and devour egg cases of the Insects. The department of agriculture la practically exterminating rodents by poison over thousands of square miles, Howell said, with resulting "terrible scourges of Insects." He requested Senator McNary, who la chairman of the senate agriculture committee, to use his Influence for control, rather than extermination of rodents. Practically all scientific societies having to do with vertebrate Eoology, Howell said, have petitioned that this "dangerous policy" of eradica tion of animal life by poison bo abandoned. Couple Arrested For Abandonment Of Tot In Eugene PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 13. (AP) Police here last night arrested Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hartwlg, who were in the company of Ed McCoy, and were holding them today after, of ficers announced, they admitted having left a baby at a Eugene residence. They are said to have further admitted leaving a year-old girl In Eureka, Calif. Hartwlg had a loaded automatic pistol In his possession, and McCoy had a set of license plates said by police to have been taken from a Pendleton automobile. (Continued on Page 8, Story 2) Two Lose Lives In Tehachapi Torrent TEHACHAPI, Cal.. Aug. 13. (AP) Torrential rains in the Tehachapi mountains last night claimed the lives of two persons, one of whom was drowned and the other dying of exhaustion in escaping from the flood waters. Mrs. James Davis was drowned when a wall of water swept down a canyon and demolished her cabin In the Oak creek neighborhood. Wil liam W. McFarland of Portland, Ore., died from a heart attack Induced by exhaustion In a flight from the water which swept down the Mo- jave-Bakersfield highway. EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 13. (AP) Red Cross officials and city police yesterday started a search for the parents of an Infant which was abandoned here recently. The case was reported by the Red Cross yesterday. Three weeks ago a couple of hitch hikers left the Infant at a local residence, telling the housewife they would return later with clothing and money. Officials said the mother stayed with the baby at a hotel here for a week or so and tried to give the child away. Indians Refuse To Confer In London Signs of Better Times The suiress of the rritut blanket event featured by our store evidences the marked Improvement of business conditions In Mcdford. This "' blanket sales eellpw" 'r, or any former August '"ln nf kets hi the hMory of our store W. . Bnlger, manager, . C. I enney company. (Br Ihe Associated Prw Unfilled orders of the Baldwin Locomotive Works July 31 nontd to $9,002,000. compared with e,o". 000 Jan. 1. Dividend changes in July, both fa- ,a unfavorable, dropped sharply below June figure. Standard Statistics says. Unfavorable change. totaled 185. compared wun w - Somewhat firmer tendencies in the steel Industry were noted ny ui week's trade reviews, out today. "Iron Age" said It sees signs of an upturn In i.e near future. "Steel" put cur rent output at 33 per cent, a rise of 3 points In the last week, and said demand for structural material was the most active In several months. Bendlx Aviation corp.. reported for , hslf net profit of lI2f5 equal to 72 cents a share. In like period last year corporation reported net profit of 1,530J937, equal to 73 cents a share. Reports in "usually well Informed quarters in wsll street say the sug gestion thst the United State, sell cooper to Germany on long term credits has been favorably received In copper circles. BOMBAY, India, Aug. 13. (AP) The Indian national congress today decided definitely not to participate In the second round table conference on Indian affairs at,' London this fall. The committee's decision to have no part In the conference wea based upon charges of "repoated serlo is breaches of the Delhi pact by the provincial government." Gandhi served notice on Viceroy Wllllngdon several days ago that he would not participate In the con fcrence unless he was assured that peasants In arrears with taxes or rents would not be molested by revenue authorities. Sourdoughs Recall Adventurous Days PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 13. (AP) Gold, glamorous nights, full days of the spell of Yukon trails, all recall ing memories and reminiscences to those who knew the northland In the stirring days of the gold rush, were chief topics of conversation today as former Alaskans from the north, from California New' Tribune Press v Wheels Will Turn September First Work ,of Installing the Tubular Duplex Rotary press, for the Mall Trlbuno started today, under the direction of Charles F. Young, of Battle Creek. Mich., an expert erector of the Duplex Printing Press com pany. The press, with color attachment and modern in every respect, Is the most complete press In the state, outside of Portland. It Is expected that the press will be ready for oper ation starling with the regular edi tions of September 1st. A number of test runs will be made before the machine la placed In service. W. O. Fllllnger of Olcndale, Calif., who will act as press superintendent and have charge of the stereotyping department of the Mall Tribune, ar rived yesterday. . As soon as the new mechanical equipment of the Mall Tribune Is In perfect running order, and the me chanical department made spick and span, the public wilt be Invited to call and seo the plant in operation. Tho management will sot aside spe cial days and hours, for high school and grade school students. 4 Shooting of Nurse And Medic Puzzles Police Authorities NEW YORK. Aug. 13. (AP)-HPo-llce were puzzled today by the seri ous wounding of Dr. Milton Thomas hefsky, Brooklyn physician, and the shooting to death last night of Ag nes Blrdseyo, 20-year-old nurse. Police found the physician on the floor of his office, a bullet in his spine, and the body of the nurse nearby, a bullet behind her car. Powder burns about the nurses' wound indicated to the medical ex aminer her wound were self Inflict ed. Police, however, were concerned as to how three exploded shells had been ejected from the pistol. They said Miss Blrdseye could not have done this after shooting herself. The .shooting took place while Philip Pines, a friend of the doctor, stood st the door awaiting admit tance. ' Pines told police thst last Monday night Thomsshefsky awoke to find he had been chloroformed end slashed by a knife. A nolo pinned nearby, said: "Harry. We have settled our ac count with you." CREAMERYMAN KILLED WHEN BOILER BURSTS BELL1NOHAM. Wash.. Aug. 13 (AP) E. C. Wsrd, 47. buttermsker and other western t and manager, was killed and Chris states, gathered here for the third ; Rosier, a farmer, suffered a broken annual Alaska-Yukon sourdough re- collar bone when an explosion of a union. The 35th anniversary of the dlscov ery of gold In the Yukon territory In 1906 will be commemorntwl by the celebration. steam boiler wrecked the creamery plant of the San Juan County Dairy men's Associated at Friday Harbor today. The explosion was believed to be due to a defect in the boiler. CLEVELAND, Aug. 13. (AP) Heads of the "Big Four" railroad labor brotherhoods, In a statement late to day announced their approval of the requost of the rallroadds for a 15 per cent Increase In freight revenues. Favorable action by the Interstate commerce commission, the statement saidd, will provide a 'new stimulus to strengthen and svipport tho busi ness of the country." PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 13. (AP) Further protest agatnst tho pro posed flat Increase of 15 per cent In railroad freight rates was filed with the Interstate Commerce com mission here today by fruit growers of the Paclflo northwest. H. M. Gilbert, for tho past 34 years an apple grower and business man of Yakima. Wash., told the commis sioners today that "the railroads should hesitate beforo they kill the goose that lays a $30,000,000 golden egg for thom every year.'' "It Is an a mazing economic thoory," Gilbert Insisted, "that the railroads can drive $30,000,000 a year in long haul freight rates away from their rails to water and truck trans portation, and atill hope to Increase revenue by tho rate increase." Too High Now. The Interstate commerce commis sion hearing opened yesterday, to give Paclflo northwest shippers, ranchers and lumbermen an oppor tunity to oppose the petition for lncroosed rail rates. (Continued on Page 8, Story 3) f , Today's BASEBALL i Nallonul Cincinnati 17 23 0 Boston v 3 0 1 Batteries: Lucas and Sukeforth; Seibold, Cunningham, McCafec, Huld and Spohrer, Bool. (second game) Cincinnati 4 0 3 Boston 3 4 1 Batteries: Johnson, Frcy and Styles; Zachary and Spohror. R. H. E. Pittsburgh 7 13 1 New York 6 11 3 Batteries: Brame and Grace: Fits-.-Simmons and Hogan. (second game) R. H. E. Pittsburgh I 10 I New York 0 10 3 Batteries: French and Phillips; Mitchell and O'Farrell. R. II. E. St. Louis 8 -13 2 Brooklyn 6 12 3 Batteries: Hallahan and Wilson; Vance, Shaute and Plcinlch. R. H. E. Chicago 3 7 0 Philadelphia 4 4 0 Batteries: Malnnc, May and Hart nett: Collins and Davis. Aineriiuii, R. H. E. Philadelphia. 5 10 I Detroit 2 4 I ni?9rlcs: Walbcrg and Cochrane; WhltchlU. Bridges and Grabowskl. R. H. E. Washington 8 7 3 Chicago 10 15 6 Batteries: Burke, Brown, Crow dor. Hadley and Spencer; Thomas, Wetland, Curaway and Orubo. NEW YORK, Aug. 13. (U. S. D. A.) (AP) Pear auction market, prices slightly Btronger. 25 cars urrlved; 1 Oregon car, 2 Alabama, 20 California unloadodd; 6 cars on track. Oregon Burtlctts, 630 boxes, extra fancy $3.00-2.10; average 2.04. California Burtlctts, 14.8B5 boxes, best $3.25-3.50: few $3.05; ordinary $2.10-2.55: common and ripe $1.80 3.15; few $1.65-1.76; overage $2.31. (U. 8. D. A.) market prices CHICAao. Aug. 13. (AP) Pear auction weaker. 18 California cars. I other arrived; 14 California, 4 others on track; 18 cars sold. California Bartlctts. 8084 boxes. $1.00-3.05; average $3.30. Flying Colonel Says No Great Hurry About 1000 Mile Hop to Siberia Plane Ready for Takeoff NOME, Alaska. , Aug. 13. (AP) Lowering clouds and rain-filled skies today prolonged the visit of Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, flying vaoatlonors, In this historic "gold rush" town, barring their Immediate departure for the Orient. On retiring last night. Lindbergh declared It was "very doubtful" if the take-off for the Siberian coast would be made today; and the storm and b e v e r e rain continued ' unabated through the night. . In commenting on the change of their plans, for Lindbergh hod an- iiouncen a rew noura after Arriving here Tuesday afternoon that they "must be on their way" Thursday morning, ne said they were In great hurry and could well await clearer skies for the next 1,000-mlle flight, ... All Ready to Clo. Meanwhile, the two have "thor oughly enjoyed" In their own words, tho extensive entertainment, distinct ly Alsskan In its kind, that Nome cltlsons havo given them In the past iwo aays. Last night they wero guest at an Eskimo "wolf dance," after having seen a few hours before an Eskimo blanket-tossing and wrestling exhl- onion. Kee Kynk Races, In the afternoon, on the water front, a far more primitive method of transportation than by plane was shown them, Eskimo kynk racea. In frail skin crafts, one man to a boat, a mile lulo the Bering sea and raced back to the beach. A prise of $10 was given the winner, with awards of $5 each for second and third places. "Tho races wore certainly Interest ing." Lindbergh commented, and his wife described them as "very unlquo." Early In the day, despite the rain, a visit was made to the historic gold iieias, still oxtensivoly operated, and the huge, dredges wore seen at work. In a brlor tour of the community, otiher huttorlo point wore flailed, with their hosts. Grant R. Jackson and his wife, and a numbor of others showing them about. Territorial Senator and Mrs. Alfred J. Lomen gave them a typical Alaskan dinner of roast reindeer meat, In the evening. 4 I'olltlrol lender Dies. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 13 (AP) Thomas W. Cunningham, 73, sheriff of Philadelphia, treasurer of the Republican slate committee, end one of tho leaders in the Philadelphia Republican organization, died In an Atlantic City hospital today from heart disease. Smart Women Swagger In Morning; Sedate at Night By Jane F.tuN. NEW YORK, Aug. 13. f AP) The fashion mode for fall and winter reveals a paradox daytime wear Is communistic, evening attire Is royal istic. The new evening gowns are super- soph istteated Jewel Incruated and regal with trains and trailing hems. Afternoon and street frock reriect Individualism and freedom of taste snd manner, reveals Mrs. Psul Adler. New York fashion designer, wno has returned from Paris. So Influenced are women of fash Ion by the changing tempo of 'the mode, says Mr. Adler. mat iney are not the same person at night as they are during the morning when in different attire. For Instance. Mrs. Adler noted smart women at the Rita bar In Psrla garbed In tailored woolen ol simple lines, affecting a boyish, almost aWRggerlah manner as they tilted their morning cocktails. At luncheon fn blsck crepe and coquettish hat they betrayed a more sedate air and an attitude ot "knowing a lot but saying little." The same evening this precise In dlvldusl, appearing in a gown with a demure front and an eocentrlc back would posses the proper mood for Introduction to the royal court. "These new style give women a great play of their various affec tion and moods." Mrs. Adler said. "They are dressing more and more to captivate the male, and while they are Imitating the mode of the Kmpres Eugenie, they are really Dolly Msdtson In manner." Last season's frock can be re created Into the mode of the minute with the addition of a acarf, a belt or a gadget of aome unusual aspect, she aald, FALL'S PLEA 10 PRESIDENT Last Hope of Aged Ex-Sec retary of Interior Lost by Refusal Attorney General Mitchell Submit Case WASHINGTON.. Aug. 13. (AP Executive tfomoncy was denied today to Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the Interior, serving a sentence of a year and a day for accepting a bribe. Attorney General Mitchell an nounced that the application would not be granted by President Hoover. The reason for Vio denial waa given that none of the three prose cutors and Judges .- whose opinions were asked on the petition advised clemency. A recent executive order signed by both President Hoover and Attorney General , Mitchell provided that "when none of the persons so con sulted advises clemency the papers shall not be sent to tho president" except In exceptional cases. The attorney general said he had determined there was "no reason to make a special order submitting t,he papers to the president" and thus the plea in behalf of Fall automatically was denied. - Fine Also Provided Besides the year and ft day sen tence Full waa fined 9100,000. He began serving his sentence several weeks ago In Santa Fe, N. M. (Continued on Page 8, Story 4) MEDFORD LABOR PROBE IS ASKED Br FRUlf GROUP The Rogue River Trarflc associa tion at its regular meeting this noon,' went on record, as favoring, at once, a full and complete Investigation of the local labor situation In the pack ing plants and orchards of the vnlloy and, further requested that O. OV Alenderfor, president of the Medford Chamber of Commerce appoint a, committee aomposed of business men and others, to conduct the investiga tion, and make a report as soon ns possible. ' Tho traffic association also declared packers were employing as much "lo cal labor as possible," and condemned highly exaggerated news stories and rumors, printed and In circulation throughout the county. During the past week, the county court has received a number of pro- testa from county residents, that they wero being discriminated against In the packing plants. Yesterdny, O. E. (Pop) Gates appeared before the county court, and asked that action be taken to alleviate conditions, and charges of discrimination ago I nut home people.. It is expected that rresiucnc Aienaener win ' appoint nis committee, and start Its work, by tomorrow, at tho latest. , . WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Oil., Auk. !' Sh.v, you know tliis Wbkvrnlitiin report that we all bi't'n kidding about, that thing hitri ilun uji a lot ol' mighty valuiililn dope at that. About r verytiiiiiir they went into they found was "cock eyed.'' Our deportation. of noneitizetiH they found wo had stent everybody away that we nlioiildn't and none that we should. Now they show up thin "third , degree" wheiv they heat yoil till' you admit to anything that has been donu even if it happened before you wan bom. All we got to do in thin country to. find - out anything ia wrong is just to invpatigatr) it. Anyhow liim and hia gang wasn't loufing. $tliiiiiriiimria
