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Weather ...at and Friday fair; no r ,.rds ....S3 r'.. -,nrniig w -- M edford Mml Tribune - ffSxth Year today's news today " ' fJ. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1931. TKLEPI1 S I I IKinV DCDAiniMn Itinniinniiiirr I, n . u Aloir UMUI wmm NtMMtU Today's am hm AN WHFAT To Subscribers ' ir your Mall Tribune Is not deliv ered to you promptly, Telephone 75. Office open until 7 every evening. Please call us before that time and a copy wlU be delivered to your home. .Arthur Brisbane Ujt Battleship. Viisfi Him. ipy Mother. : Small Baby! LjTog Feature 8ynd., Inc. Lid battleship Utah is to l, " 7 L i man aboard, direct- hdio control tar away. L:n firs hombs. trims. Hill ' " ' L small, steer the ship b direction, lay uunu screens. ; . L nun hp. done With Lwith no pilot. Men C- fnllv nnhifiverl the ran ,uv . . fighting, at a distance danger to themselves. Ling like the animals, Llit face to face, ram- Jfson each others' heads. klii't like that and some nereon invented the Lid, hurling it, killed an rthat never saw him. One Lr invented the bow W.then came the rifle, k airplane bomb. And Mot'! battleships and twill pursue the ene- lided by men at a safe That is close enough bicle. " Mr, from Will Rogers to Hoover, agrees that con- tt to "do something for la ibtt can congress do for d the 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 Mid roads, erect buildings, kid undoubtedly do both, h ue needed, and with an Man need. Such building bloy comparatively few, pos- itinireds of thousands In tides. If -ma program, .were miny machines and com I little labor on toad build- -f-f- I 1 TT " put ibout the stenographer who swallowed poison, inn a talking macnine a tfor her father, mother to hear? m be done for the MIL- ULth.WhlfA enl!., man thn kun! Congress should ap- f ad ipend money of course. Hunt has It, or can get It, j 111 big deficit, tiling tetter than artift- of Jobs Is needed. Thlnk eUnlng are needed,-and an ) of the depression, Its ,l turn to cure It. Pt M.'u Pollette. widow Fntor, Is dead. She saw r11 make his courageous " It, never wavering to J. 8he lived to see one We his father's place In Kim another son elected tht state of Wisconsin. husband died friends run for the senate, Iffctred to live through her " on sons. Every mother a that their success meant -Wie to tho wife and ' all personal success 11 meant. Page Seven) Martin tjff ' T'1 ,- believe lui" ,n"'art th' most. tr .... "1 a - . " til!n1 tnke my . ENGINE TROUBLE AT ISLAND Couple May Spend Second ' Night At Sea-Japanese Ships Tows Plane To Quiet Water-Fog Holds. NEMCRo, Hokkaido Island. Japan, Aug. 21. (Friday) (AP) Repairs to eliminate engine trouble from Charles and Anne Lindbergh's monoplane had not been completed at 4:30 a. m Fri day (2:30 p. m., Thursday E.8.T.) said a radio message from the steamer Shlmuslilru Maru to the Ochllshl radio station here. NEMURO, Japan, Aug. 20. (AP) - "u ana "wnite darkness" held Colonel and Mrs. Charles A 0.. av twwi istana, one of the world's worst foe annec Bnan night. - ' The flying couple, forced down then. Int.a u..t..rf. i.,,- ..u., wiiue on tnetr way from Petropavlovsk to Ncmuro were described in radio reports i.s rather weary, having spent last night In the' cramped quarters of their plane and getting little If any sleep. Tfl RTllfo nt thai- . . . - mt-niiiicbs una ac cumulation of trouble during today, the filers were said to be In good spir its. They started to taxi their piano to Muroton Bay, 15 miles to the ulf WIB engine irouDie developed. Toward evening the t-uuciiut ui tt.ewn Degan u...iBu uinuucigii una tne plane towed to another anchorage "j (suvciuuieiib tiwuincr ShlmUShlni Mnni - Whlrh ViaH arrlt,- ed early in the day. uncomfortable Mgnt Messages Bald the couple had spent an uncomfortable night in the plane and remained there until after 8 o' clock In the morning, when the Shi mushiru Maru arrived. They went aboard the ship, stretch ing their limbs and having breakfast whllA holnir Interviewed hv thA ftkin- per on their landing at Ketol. Later tney returned to tne plane, noping fnp wpnt-her fn.vnrnhle to reHlimntlon of their flight to Numero, or falling that, enough visibility to taxi their ship to Muroton Bay. But the motor trouble forestalled even that. On top of that, the weather began fn thicken. Mrs. Lindborch stuck by hM rnrtin net until niehtfall. receiv ing weatberi -messages that,-for her spelled another night orr tne vna little island which even mariners ap proach with caution. Many Board Ships Tonignt Whether the Lindberghs would re- main ahmrH t.helr flnatinS blanO tO nlght or abandon it temporarily for more comfortable quarters aDoara n,c ...... nin wan not stated. Aviation authorities here said 'Mrs. Lindbergh probably would sleep aboard hhlp but that Lindbergh likely would stick with his plane despite the prospect of Bnother sleepless night. Wireless reports late tonigni. mu . ,u.. timrictnff on the ailing motor but the repairs had not yet been completed. The coionei was , ..j v,ir,o- hnneful that the trouble would soon be remedied, and that they would be able to tane at 5 o'clock tomorrow inu....o p m E. S. T. today) tor Murovoi. Bay or Menuro If the weather clear ed. Towing mnicim ... .-ehim Maru transmlt- me oiiiiiiu" - . ted tonight's messages from Its posi ..... ... -n. .Me of Ketol Island. lion on v" ' , It had towed the plane there from the south side of the isibuu. Some dlfflculay was experienced in uAnA,,.. nf r roueh sea. tne towiiis - - Th. and the breaking of tow lines. The ships captain expressed some anxiety !."..... . .h. threatening weather and said he hoped It would be pos slble for the Llndbergns iu .- Muroton Bay tomorrow. At Muroton Bay the cache of sup plies for Snljl Yoshkhara.. W""' aviator who recently failed 1 . two rt Amnrica vln me KurnePand the Aleutian Islands was Disced at the disposal oi m Serghs. Yoshlhara smashed his P ne mTndlng on , the rough waters near Muroton Bay. Ouertionen j ... j .. l.lndberah were qunedbhe captain of the ship Shout theforced lan at AlthOUgn Jpn " ,-rrUorv hlblting fllghta over its te rltory without permission, . "' . d -f the questioning wn P.-lned. . Before leaving rc""J '. ,, mlhie in the Kurues " ' . ,flririn government, through the erlcan embassy in ij;. , Th, permit to land In the ""'"' permit was granted yesterday Hcn t was believed the 'n the ship did not concern any possible violation of Japanese law. From K. F . Canal KLAMATH PALLS Ore.. (AP)-The oooy nl who drowned in tne j,,. here WedneRday. was "nd Tf after the water had been shut off from the canal. , t The body was found about 400 feet downstream from the point the boy went under. steamer Aeround BRIDGEPORT, Conn . (AP)-The tramp steamer rom Seattle. Washington. Inbound with 2 000.000 feet of lumbCTto?"i ground on a sand br outside the harbor. No. 119. TO SHREDS WHEN !EL FLARES Repeated Stab's Lay Farm ers Heart Bare Assail ant Gives Self Up With Boast Of Doing Good Job. SOUTH BEND. Wash., Aug. 20. (AP) Stabbed 23 times and so badly that hts heart was exposed Robert Carlson. 33, member of a pio neer Wlllapa Harbor family, Is dead here and his self-confessed assailant, Leo Bezemer, 51. is In the Pacific county Jail. Carlson resided about a mile east of Raymond, and Bezemer. a bache lor, was his neighbor. There had been a quarrel for some time over range pasturage. Last week Carlson's dog died of poison. Yesterday afternoon Carlson met Bezemer in the road near the Carlson place and, during further argument, accused Bezemer of killing the animal. A fight ensued In which Bezemer drew a long knife and cut Carlson to shreds, stabbing him many times in tho back when he was down from earlier thrusts In his breast and abdomen. Sheriff On Scene Carlson crawled some distance back to his barn. A telephone call was sent to Raymond for an ambulance. Sher iff R. W. Trczlse was on the streets of Raymond, heard the siren and fol lowed. He was able to get the story from the injured man and then start ed on a hunt for Bezemer. The knife could not be located. But when the sheriff returned to his office, he found that Bezemer had gone there of his own accord, report ing to a deputy: . "I've Just been In a cutting scrape with a fellow and I did a d good Job of it, too." Carlson died about 3 o'clock this morning. He Is survived by his wife and several brothers. - Bezemer has been in trouble here before. Records show that when- he was drafted during the late war he went to Mexico1 and stayed there seven years, escaping service. Nautilus Noses Into Dangers of - i, Northern Region LONG YEAR CITY;""' Spitsbergen, Aug. 20. (AP) Winter's advance guard closed in on the Spitzbergen archipelago today and made Sir Hub ert Wllklns' submarine trip toward the North pole appear extremely hazardous. There was snow, whipped along by a near gale and when the wind died fog settled down. The temperature was one degree below freezing. The bad woather has come much earlier than usual and the Ice al ready Is further south than It or dinarily Is at this time of year. In view of these conditions It was felt here that the voyage of the Nautilus was fraught with danger, but she sailed into the north yesterday de spite engine trouble and there was no way of knowing wnetner sir Hub ert Intended to continue. Ashland Pioneer Claimed By Death nhnrlrs W. Simons. 82, pioneer wv.lrimt of Ashland, and one of its best known citizens died at his home this morning, of ailments common to age. Simons crossed the plains In iui with his narcnts. and settled In the Willamette valley later moving to Ashland, where he uvea ior more than 60 years. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Alfalfa Surplus in Klamath Area . i... nr ro non tan. of alfalfa n 6uiiiuo ui Is reported In tho Klamath basin in Information received by the Southern n ..lot-iet .rriee hero. There is ratlin- ...nw.,, also a large surplus of grain hay, It Is learned. This Is of particular In terest to Rogue valley stockmen who plan to move tneir sioca iruin valley for winter feeding. v Hoover Requests Aid of Prominent WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (AP) r....iM.nt Hoover today requested 61 prominent men and women to be come members of the advisory com mittee to assist Walter S. Olfford In organizing unemployment rn-. the coming winter Butler Applies For Marine Retirement WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. (AP) His formal request for retirement from the Marine corps on October 1. after more than 30 years of service, was received at the navy department today from Major Smedley D. Butler. Early approval is expected. BALD HEADS SHY AT . WORK IN PICTURES .,e,r,n Ann 20. (AP) Bald- keaded men may be shy J H. Kicnaruov... o - them for a motion picture of some kind! put the following ad In a news- Wanted-rmy bald-headed men. neat appearing; one day ! work: ap ply 10 a. m." Nobody responded. Today's BASEBALL American R. H. K. Philadelphia , .. 6 a 4 Chicago 11 18 3 Hoyt, Rommell and Cochrane, Hav ing; Thomas, Frazier and' Tate. ' R. H. E. Washington , .. 8 9 1 Cleveland 10 17 2 Marberry, Fischer and Spencer; Harder, Connally and Sewell. R. H. E. Boston .. 2 9 2 Detroit u..... 7 13 1 Ltsenbee. Morris, McLaughlin and Berry; Herring and Hayworth. National R.' H. E. Pittsburgh 14 2 Boston 2 ' 5 0 (10 Innings) Kremcr. Osborn, ' 8wetonlc ' and Phillips; Brandt and Spohrer, Bool. Second game: Plttsburprt 8 11 2 Boston 4 12 2 Melne and Phillips; Sherdel, Cun ningham and Bool. Cincinnati . 19 1 New York 3 7 1 Benton and Sukeforth; Hubbell and Hogan. ... Chicago 14 1 Brooklyn 4 8 3 Root and Hartnett; Clark and Lopez. At Philadelphia: St. Louts, post poned, threatening weather. 300 SIge IN THREE STATES IS SPOKANE. Wash., Aug. 20. (AP) Foresters said today that an area -almost as large as Delaware and Rhode Island was already burned over, and nearly 300 fires still flamed In forests of Idaho, Montana, and Washington. Blackened areas were estimated at $1,500,000 aeres or about 2350 square miles. Up to August 10, the United States forest service fought 944 fires, and several hundred more burned over state and private timber. , Of these 566 were aused by light-nlngq-y .rlrrjacl trains, 41 by smokers, 51 by ampere, at least 75 by lnendiarles V LA GRANDE, Ore., VVug. 20. (AP) The forest fire raging along Cath erine creek east of Union today had spread to 3000 acres. Three hundred men were on the fire fronts and authorities In charge said cloudy woather today might help them control the fire. The fire, temporarily under control Wednesday, broke through the guards late In the day. In one place the wind whipped the flames Into fresh timber while at another point a burning log rolled down a hill and started a new fire. BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 20. (AP) A band of 300 fire fighters was desper ately battling a circle of forest fires around Centervllle and near Quarts burg today with hopes of saving both towns as well as the Mayflower and Belshazzar gold, mines. The telephone operator at Placer vllle, within a mile of the fire, said the town of Centervllle was comple tely encircled by flames but has not yet burned. PIONEER 0REG0NIAN SUCCUMBS IN SALEM SALEM. Ore., Aug. 20. (AP) Henry Eberhard, 66. who came to Oregon In 1853. died at his home here late yesterday. He was the son of Barney and Elizabeth Eberhard, early pio neers from Colen, Mich. HI widow, four daughters and a son, residing at Alameda, California and Salem, sur vive. , 4 Wanted In California. SALEM, Aug. 20. (AP) The gov ernor's office here today received a requisition from Governor James Rolph of California for the return of Felix McNeese, wanted in Orange county for grand theft. McNeeee Is under arrest at Pendleton. In ."Love Nest" Shootiv J Farm Board Glad To Neg Utiate For 15 Million Bushel Sale Is Reply To 'i Nationalist Officials. : WASHINGTON.. Aug. 20. (AP) The farm board has replied to the Chinese government that the grain stabilisation corporation would be glad to enter negotiations for the sale of 16.000,000 bushels of wheat for relief of food sufferers. Chairman Stone said today the board's answer had been transmit ted to the Nanking government through the state department In response to an informal Inquiry about the purchase of wheat on long term credit. The question of payment has not yet; been considered, Stone said, but he . said he assumed It would be on the basis of a straight obliga tion on the part of that govern ment if negotiations were satisfac tory. He added that a governmental obligation was the best credit China had to offer. y Want Market Price The sale price would be the mar ket price on the day of shipment. Stone said a stipulation probably would be made that the wheat would be used for food relief pur poses only. The Chinese inquiry was referred to the White House as well as the board. President Hoover has ex pressed himself as concerned over the serious situation In the Yangtse valley and yesterday so assured the Chinese president. The board has more than 200,000.000 bushels of wheat bought In price stabilization operations. - Muy Aid Jobless c The chairman revealed today that board members have been discussing the possibility of making some of Its store available free for domestic foodt relief. Congressional action would be necessary for this. Stone said he thought only three or four days would be required for consummation of the ' Chinese negotiations. ' He added a quantity of wheat now is stored on the Pacific coast whence it could be shipped with out ,delay. 1 ' v ; Here and There In the Air COCHRANE. Ont.. Aug. 20. ( AP) Edwin L. Preston and Robert H. Col lington, Detroit fliers, attempting a flight from Detroit, Mioh., to Copen hagen, Denmark, via Greenland, hop ped off for Rupert's House on James Bay nt 4:10 p. m. (G. S. T.) after a throe-hour stop here. PRIED RICH8HAFEN, Aug. 20.-(AP) Flying over Belgium for tho first tlmo, the Graf Zeppelin came home from England In a pouring rain today to complete a cruise which marked the Initial landing of a Oerman air ship on British soil since the war. A flight over Switzerland, schedul ed for today, was abandoned because of unfavorable weather. KAZAN, U. 8. 8. R., Aug. 20 (AP) Fraulcln Marga von Etzdorf, Ger man flier, left here this morning for Sverdlovsk on the third lap of her Journey from Berlin to Tokyo. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Aug. 20 (AP) The German seaplane DO-X landed here at 4:25 p. m. today on Its way from South America to the United 8tnt.es, HALIFAX, N. S-. Aug. 20. (AP) Igor Sikorsky, airplane magnate, pre dicted in an Interview today that Halifax will be the base for a regular trans-Atlantic air service between Europe and North America within five years. Mrs. (Hidnhy Dies. PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 20 -(AP) Mrs. Nellie Oadsby, 83, mother of Ben and Walter Oadsby, prominent Portland business men, died at her home In Seaside Tuesday night. She had been an Invalid for several years. CON MEN USE FAMILIAR TRICK TO GAIN $12,000 LOS ANGELES. Aug. 20 (API Three confidence men, one a cripple, were sought by authorities today after A. H. Bmlth, Portland. Ore., solool teacher, told a deputy district attorney an amazing story of high finance and Hated his losses at (12, 000. A warrant for the arrest of a "Mr. Grant," the cripple, and two pseudo brokers was Issued by A. S. Colgrove, deputy district attorney on Smith's story. Smith said he learned of the deception Just as he was about to turn over another 110,000 borrowed from Portland friends. Smith told authorities he became acquainted with "Mr. prant" aboard a coastwise steamer en route here from Portland. From Los Angeles Smith said ,he and his companion went to Redondo Beach where Orant found a wallet containing 850 and a bond apparently worth 8100,000. The wallet, Smith said, contained newspaper clippings relating how a George Hubert, reputed Wall Street broker, had met with sensational success In stock trading. Before they completed reading the clippings. Smith said, a man who Identified himself as George Hubert approached and asked If the wsliet had been found. From t.hen on. Bmlth said, It was a case of high financing. Hubert re warded Grant with 850 for finding the wsliet and "tipped" them to In vest In a certain stock. Grant re turned to Smith's hotel room several days later to Inform him he made 11000 on the recommended stock. A few days later Grant reappeared and said he had realized 890,000 but needed 890,000 margin before collect ing. , Smith said he went to Ventura and later to Reno In search for money but later established himself at Reno and withdrew 812,000 from a Portland ban. This he turned over to Orant. ' ' Aaaoctated Press Paoto Ruth Jayno, 27, was confronted with charge of felonious assault after she had related, under questioning, a story of a drinking party In her New York apartment during which Stat 8enator Roy Yates (Inset, right) of Passaic, N. J was shot and seriously wounded. Miss Jayns hid her face as cameraman tried to take her picture In the district at. torney's office. Mer picture Is shown In Inset below. 10,000 DROWNED IN FLOOD WATER OF LU HO RIVER SHANGHAI. Aug. 20. (AP) A death toll estimated at 10,000 per sons in the Important Lo Ho river towns of Tzechow. Netklang and Fu shun was reported today by Kuo Mln. official Nationalist government news agency, as floods similar to those which have devastated Hupeh and Anhwel provinces swept through S&echwan province, the most dense ly populated province in China. Only the northern part of flsie- cbwan province was reported to have escaped tne inundations of the Yang tee river and Its tributaries, while in the central and southern areas thousands are reported to liave per ished. Street Are Riven In Chengtu, the provincial capital, the street!, were reported turned Into rivers and several hundred wore be lieved to hav prlshd in Cungklang. Many villages wero reported obliter ated overnight. The national flood relief commis sion announced the American federal farm board In Washington wae glvlng careful consideration to a proposal to sell the board's wheat surplus on credit to the Nationalist government for the relief of flood victims. T FLAYED OF OF Medford Woman Must Re linquish Boy To Former Husband Is Court Ruling No Prosecution Asked. HANKOW, China, Aug. 20. (AP) With 300,000 parsons In the Wuhan area, composing the cities of Han kow, Wuchang and Hanyang, esti mated to be homeless and destitute, the Yangtse river hero today was five Inches below the record high of yesterday, when It reached 83 feet, six inches. Dykes continued to collapse, how ever, especially at Wuchang, and was still pouring through the falter ing defenses of the walled city. There has- been a considerable exodus of flood victims from tho Wuhan area, but those remaining are in pitiful circumstances. ;- Roosevelt Query Based On False Idea of Situation WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (AP) An explanation of why President Hoover did not personally answer a letter from Governor Hoosevolt of New York, Inquiring whether any secret negotiations were under way with Canada on the St. Lawrence waterway has been made by the ad ministration. . Acting Secretary Castle of the state department, said in a formal state, ment late yesterday the New York executive had written tils letter un der a misapprehension and President Hoover felt an Informal communis tion to Mr. Roosevelt would clarify the matter. : Pacifists and Reds Will Never Govern U. S., Says Butler NEW BRITAIN, Conn.. Aug.' 20. Major Smedley D. Butler, United States Marino corps, addressing the annual convention of Connecticut department, American Legion, today said the United States would never be governed by pacifists or commun ists "because there's too much com mon sense here." Asserting there was "a great dif ference between disliking the form cf government and the way the govern ment Is being run," he told the Le glonnslree that if any attempt were made by pacifists or communists to gain possession of the government, "there will be 7,000.000 men Just like the men of the American Legion who will rise up and strangle them." WASHINGTON,' Aug. 20. (API- Governor Plnchot of Pennsylvania was taken to 4ask today by Senator Reed, republican of that stste, for hla appeal to President Hoovef to call congress In apodal session- to deal With unemployment. "The governors oi : the several states and the local authorities un der' them'- Reed said in a statement "should not and must 'evade their resuonsibtlltles. , "Why should thc'jr be sending ap peals to n, harassed president to do for them what thoy ought to be do ing for themsolvos? "Pennsylvania Is solvent, her cred it Is perfect, and she Is Just as well able to ralso the money to help her unemployed as she Is to besr her share of a federal fund for that pur pose." ' Senator Reed Is vacationing In norlnorn Michigan. Ills statement was telephoned here. Farmers to Talk . Money Troubles Over With Meier NEWBERO, Ore., Aug. 20. (AP) A oommlttoe of 20 men to call on Governor Meier to discuss their fln snclal problems was appointed at a meeting of farmers at the Chshalem Center school house last night. Tho farmers expressed themselves In favor of a debt moratorium for American home owners and said roan rural and urban home owners face loss of their property unless suspen sion of foreclosures and extension of credit for at least one year were granted. W. H. Dean, Sprlngbrook, declared tliat much of the trouble now facing the people was brought about by their voting bonds and taxes. Three Lose Lives in Forest Flames ftONORA. Cel., Aug. 20. '(API- While fighting a raging fire on the north fork of the Merced river yes terday, three young men were burned to death after they had been sur rounded by flames. The blaze was turned toward the firefighters by ft sudden change of wind. The dead am James Whalley, Frank Smith and Arnold Love, all of Mariposa. - In an opinion filed today with op posing counsel, but not formally filed with the county clerk, Circuit Judge H, D. Norton awards the custody of Bradford K. (Buddy) Sears, nine, to his fattier, Bernard G. Sears of Santa Rosa, Cal., former deputy sheriff, now engaged In i legal battle waged here last spring. - - The opinion in Its closing para graph seeks assurances that the moth er will -not be prosecuted for abduc tion, as alleged in a California 'In dictment. Otherwlso, the opinion reads, : "the court ' will further con sider ..." It was alleged that Mrs. Northey, remarried, "clandestinely removed" the boy from California to this city. Attorney E.. E, Kelly, representing Mrs. Northey, wife of a clerk former ly employed In the Economy Groce teria shoe department here, said this afternoon that an appeal would be taken. , , Order Is Cited. The court in its findings holds that the custody of the boy was awarded to the father by the California court, when a divorce 'was secured, and that no grounds have" been established for the changing of this order. . It Is fur ther held that the boy Is. approach ing the age when ha wUl moro natur ally seek the father than the mother, and holds that tt la best tnat during the .adolescent period he be close to the father. : The- court also finds that tho grandmother, In whose care the child has been conalaerably,' Is qualified and' able to perform the task. ' A letter, Introduced at the local hearing and written by Mrs. Northey while on a trip to Montana, Is stress ed by the court In Its findings. In It Mrs. Northey says she regrets tne divorce action, and declares she ..was Influenced toy 'word carried to her by another woman. " The court tiolda that In this letber Mrs. . Northey ex pressed her . true feeling,. Extracts from other letters Mrs. Northey wrote are quoted, Best for Boy, i ' The court also holds that the chief purpose is to decide what Is best for the boy, and after careful considera tion has shaped his opinion to that end.-'- .' ! ' - ' -' .... .t '-,-!-' The opinion cites that Mrs. Northey Is now happily married and that her husband la worthy man, with real afeotlon for the boy, but the court must consider the contingency that he may have children of his own by the present marriage, which would throw the lad; in the position of a step-child, . . : The case attracted wide fnterest here when tried last spring. Ber nard, a bright little chap, was a stu dent at the Washington' school. Th court had the case undor ad visement for three months, i . . . ' : Discover Torso On Sacramento Dump SACRAMENTO, Cal., Aug. 30.-(AP) Authorities today were hopeful that fingerprints would reveal the Identity of a man whose headless body was found in a dump outside the olty limits yesterday." A close examination of the finger nails, led authorities to believe tne victim was not a laborer. His finger nails were well kept, and his soft palms showed no signs of manual labor. PEAR MARKETS NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (U. 8. D. A) (AP) Pear auction market prices slightly stronger. Thirteen cars arrived; 1 Alabama, 31 California. 8 Oregon unloaded; 17 cars on track. Oregon Burtletts 1IW5 boxes, extra fancy 2.!3.; average 83 .48: faney 205m24; few 81.70 IM: average 82 29. California Burtletts 20,833 boxes; best 82 88 3-28; few 38S: ordin ary 82 30m 2 .76; common 82.102.80; average 82 80. Clalrgeaus, 820 boxes, 82 26i2.S8; average 8174. -IU. 8. D. A.) market prices CHICAGO. Aug. 20.- ( AP) Pear suction slightly stronger. Seventeen California and 3 others arrived: 13 California and 6 othsrs on track; 13 cars sold. Oregon Bartletts 420 boxes, 82 2.48; average 83.28. California Bartletts 8382 boxes, 82si3 as; mostly 8280. Bose S34 boxes, 83.01. HKVKRIjY IIIi.LS, Auk. 20. Kvery dny ftriiiKS new schemea in tlio papci-H for relief. Tho BuissiiinH got a five yenr plan. Maybe it' terrible but they upt one. We been two youre jtiHt trying to gat a plan, The latest two came from Mr. JfeKelvie nf the - North and Oovumof1 Ijoiip; of the South,- Neither one helps tlio corn raiser or tho eity fellow. One wants to give all the surplus wheat to the unemployed (that has been sug gested more times than thero are 'bushels'),. Long; wants to plant no cotton next year. Both arc good schemes, but neither don't put anybody to work, so we are still in the market for tt plan. We will just about havo to save ourselves accidentally. That's the way we stumbled on prosperity. i , tfub s88l8l8lnlls, II CW, . ,
