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This Is the First Edition Printed on the Medford Mail Tribune's New Tubular Press The Weather Forecast: Tonight and Wednesday, fair, no change In temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday 91 lowest this morning 51 Twenty-Sixth Year Today By Arthur Brisbane Yes, Mr. Shaw, We're Learning. A Smart Young Girl. Mr. Steuer, et al, Go Flying. To Him That Hath. Copyright King Feature Synd., Inc. George Bernard Shaw tells the world that Russia is "the ablest and most enlightened government in the world." , H. G. Wells, who knows more about the real world than Shaw has ever known, even when he was young and doubted his in fallibility, says Russia may not get on her feet "because she has produced no body of man agers, no body of educated men, free, able and willing to work together. "An ego-centered autocrat with a political party disci plined to death, a press bu reau and secret police is no substitute for that." f Russia imports her managers from America and Germany, but that does not mean that she will never produce her own. Shaw aays an American gangster In Russia "would have as much Chance of survival as a rat In a yard full of terriers." Mr. Shaw docs not know the American gangster. -M- Mr. Shaw observes that America kills you for commltttlng murder, and praises you for making money; that In Russia they kill you for malting money, and put you In Jail four or five years for committing murder. If that's so, the Russians would kill Shaw. He makes lots of money. M Shaw aays Americans should face "the stupendous possibility that the United States may have something edifying to learn from Russia." Possibly America could learn some thing from Tlmbuctoo, as the hare learned something about racing from the tortoise. At present the whole world Is busy learning. Russia Is learning from Un erica na how to organize Industry, and American Industry and finance are learning from their own mistakes bow to avoid similar mistakes In fu ture. When Russia has a group of hundred-time millionaires and an occa sional billionaire, like ours, money wiU go to their heads as It went re cently to the heads of our big men and small stock gamblers. That "monarchies are destroyed by poverty and republics by wealth Is as true now as when Prudhomme said It. Shaw remarks that he has "cited enough to make even the most absurd American (and Americans are the most absurd people at present on earth), re member . . . that those who live In glass houses should not throw stones!" Shaw has not said enough to con- ( Continued on page two) Abe Martin I often wonder If farmers five town folks credit fer all tir rain an' heat Ihey tolerate Jot 'raw It's sood fer th' cornf Little Artie Moot. Is rnd fljt n' out a tonsil operation fer Dr. MEBFOR CHILD BEATING ANGER PROSPECT FOLK Feeling Running High Against Step-Father for Alleged Cruel Mistreat ment of Six-Year-Old Girl Peeling Is so Incensed In the Pros pect district against O. N. French, Copco propect worker, alleged to have beaten his six-year-old daughter, that violence has been threatened by men and women alike, a delegation of women, neighbors of Frenoh, told County Judge Alex Sparrow and Dis trict Attorney George A. Codding this afternoon. One of the women told Judge Spar. row that herself and other women had seriously consldored "taking French out and ministering a whip ping." She also stated a number of men had threatened to "tend to him." The delegation declared that the tot had, been whipped frequently, and "once was Blapped 15 times In suc cession." District Attorney Codding conferred with the women, and Is considering referring the case to the next grand Jury. The county court advised the dele gation that proper action would oe taken and that the child would oe brought to this city this afternoon for care. Child beating accusations were filed against C. N. French, a Copco laborer, living in the family camp on Red Blanket, near Prospect today, by County Physician Ben C. Wilson. French was accused by the county physician of beating a six-year-old girl, a step-child. The county court directed that the girl be brought to this city for medical care and obser vation. Sheriff Ralph Jennings and Dr. Wilson Investigated the case ' last night, following the receipt of tele phonic complaint from the neighbors. According to Dr. Wilson, there are five children In the family and an other visit of the stork is scheduled. Two of the children belong to French by a former wife, two to the present Mrs. French by a former husband and a baby born a year ago. Follow ing a dispute yesterday, the county physician alleged, that Frenoh "flailed the child about the place, struck her In the mouth, her screams arousing the neighbors. -He further alleged that the tot was forced to "sleep In her clothes, under the stars, though there was plenty of room In the tent." Miss Lillian Roberts of the Red Cross told the county court that Frenc,h was a former resident of this city, and last winter Journeyed to Santa Rosa, Calif., but were returned as "non-resident dependents." French and his present wife have been cited to appear before the coun ty court and explain the allegations. JEFFERSON, Ore., Sept. 1. (AP) Mrs. Amanda C. Coultard, CI, a widow died at her home a few miles south east of here in the Sanderson bridge district, at eight o'clock last night after she had shot herself In the head late In the afternoon yesterday. She went to the bedroom, and standing calmly before the mirror, fired a .25 Colts pistol, the bullet lodging in her skull. Her daughter Ruth, age 12, who was standing on the porch. Investigated the shot, and found her mother slumped on me floor. The girl called her two broth ers, Carl 28, and Kenneth 30, who were working in a nearby field. Ok's Ilutler Retirement WASHINOTON, Sept 1. (API- President Hoover today approved the application of Smedley D. Butler for retirement from Vie marine corps on October 1 after 33 yeBrs of service New Scientific Eye Finds All Elements Br Howard '. Blakeslce (Associated Press Science Editor) BUFFALO, N. T- Sept. 1, (AP) A new scientific eye which combines speed of light with magnetism to riott fifmiinii as infinitesimal as one part In 100 billion was described to the American Chemical society today. Th. rfAtwtnr 1 based on a discov ery by Its author. Dr. Fred Allison of the department of physics, Ala bama polytecnnic institute, vimi vrv one of the 82 elements compos ing the earth is affected differently by a combination of light and mag netism. Tl-.c substances to be sought lllte gold In sea water ate placed In a liquid. The liquid Is put In a mag netic, field and light passed through. FENCED TO TAKE COIN OF CUIUS Clarksburg Spot Where Women and Children Met Death Leased for Side show Officers Search CLARKSBURG, W. Va Sept. 1. (AP) county officers found a board fence erected along the highway In front of the "slaughter farm" at Quiet Dell when they went there this morn ing, and a man was selling tickets at the gate. The fence was erected by an enter prising man who expected to profit irom tne curious who have thronged to the place since the bodies of two women and three children were found there. Twenty-five cents was charged for admission of adulte and 15 cents for children. ' Two workmen at the farm said they were hired by a man named "Kln cald," and the fence was completed at 5 a. m. today. They said "Kincald told them he had leased the prop erty." Sheriff W. B. Olmm told the workmen to find the, man and direct him to report for questioning. CLARKSBURG, W. Va Sept. 1. (AP) The nation was scoured today for trace of women with whom Harry P. Powers corresponded, to learn If more yielded to his lures of wealth and social position, and died as did Mrs. Asta Elcher of Chicago, Mrs. D. P. Lempke of Worcester, Mass., and Mrs. Eicher'a three children. Officers here checked and re-checked papers found In the possession of the pudgy 43-year-old student of "sci entific crime." and admirer of Ru dolph Valentino. In Detroit, head quarters of a correspondence agency Powers used, records of the agency were sought for further clues. Cotnlnue Digging. Meanwhile digging progressed about the Powers death garage near here, for trace of any further victims- there might be; court officials discussed the possibility of a special term of court to try Powers for the five killings he had admitted, and Interest heightened In the suggestion that Powers might have been responsible for the mys terious slaying In Washington of Mary Baker, navy department clerk. Search of an old well near Powers garage revealed no further bodies yes terday, but police were not satisfied. Still doubting Powers' statement that the five he strangled and beat to death "are all there are," they dis cussed plans for using a steam shovel to tear up the acreage about the place, and prepared to search the bed of a nearby creek. AT PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, Sept. r (AP) The Graf Zeppelin arrived at Pernambuco at 0:25 p. m. today (12 p. m. E. S. T.) completing Its non stop flight from Frledrlchshafen, Gcr many. The big dirigible flew over Per nambuco while ships and factories blew their whistles and crowds of people cheered. The airship, Illuminated and flying low, proceeded southward to be moored at the landing field, eight miles from the city. Dick Ringling of Circus Fame Dies HELENA. Mont., Sept. 1. (AP) The White Sulphur Springs corres pondent of the Record Herald report ed today that Richard Ringling. 39, a member of the family of circus men, was found dead in bed today at his home. Richard T. Ringling was a nephew of John Ringling, one of five bro thers who founded Ringling Brothers' circus. For many years he has opera ted extensive ranch properties near White Sulphur Springs and was con sidered wealthy. The light Is practically extinguish ed In the magnetized liquid by the elements therein. But each element takes a different fraction of time to do the snuffing out and so reveals Its presence. "It is possible for exampls to de tect In our foods very minute quan tities of metals which until recently were not known to be a content of foods and the Importance of which to health has been a question of much concern In 1st years to cer tain research workers In the field of biochemistry." The new eye also has given traces of the two missing elements that no one yet has found on earth, although scientists are certain they eslat. They are known simply as elements 85 and 87. Chemists predict that 87 when found will be ladioactlf , MEDFORD, PRECOX, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Held In Deaths of Four 1 f . llp This Associated Press telephoto shows Cornelius O. Plerson, 45, who was held on kidnaping and manslaughter charges at Clarksburg, W. Va., where police uncovered the bodies of a woman and three chil dren believed to have been those of Mrs. Asta Bulck Elcher (Inset), missing widow of Park Ridge, III., and her children, aged 14, 12 and t. The bodies were found under a garage Plerson had built recently. '3 was alleged to have wooed Mrs. Elcher through a matrimonial T IS OUT BEVERLEY COUNTRY CLUB. CHI CAGO, Sept. l.-(AP) Charley Seav er, strapping Los Angeles youth, crea ted a triple tie for the qualifying medal In the United States amateur golf tournament today by coming through the rain with 74-74148 for the 36-hole test. Seaver, by missing an 18-Inch putt on the 17th hole, tied Arthur W. , tuucKyi xates oi Kocnesier, r. x., 74-74 148, and Johnny Lehman of Chicago, 78-70148. While the youngstcra and dnrk horses were running more or less wild through the downpour, the carnage was terrific among pre-tournnment favorites. Dr. O. F. Willing of Portland, Ore., 1929 finalist, was the first to tumble. with 159. Cyril Tolley, cx-Hritlsh champion, was completely out with 167. Others well outside tho qualify ing border line were Wllllnm Lawson Little, Jr., of San Francisco, 181; Bud McKinncy of Dallas, 102, and Charles Kocsls, Detroit, 101, Harrison R. (Jimmy) Johnston, of St. Paul, for the second successive year, failed to qualify for the title he won In 1929. Johnston required 81 today and his total of 103 was six strokes outside the qualifying limit, 167. Frank Dolp of Portland. Ore., twice former western amateur champion, appeared headed for the fnte of his fellow townsman. Dr. O. F. Willing, by soaring to an 82 and a total of 167. Today's BASEBALL American R. H. B. Boston . 3 7 1 New York " " 3 Macfayden, Oaston and Berry; Go mez and Dickey. (Second game) Boston . 18a New York 8 8 1 Morris. Llsenbee. Durham and Con nolly, Berry; Ruffing and Jirgens. Washington . 5 13 0 . 1 10 0 Phlladeiphl Jones and Spencer; Walberg. Earn- shaw and Cochrane. R. H. K. 4 7 0 0 8 8 Hew York Boston Mooney and Hogan, O'Farrell: Cantwell and spohter. PUBLIC WORKS COST COMPILED FOR MONTH oriTTtB sunt 1 -fAPl Contracts totaling 133.370.910 for 87 public works contracts in me rscinc n-jn lo west rre awarded during Aug'sst. .t.H.f...j rnmnlled here bv Pacific Builder nd Engineer, construction news magazine, revealed today, Mail Tribuj AsiOCIMttd Pf.u Phata SURPLUS CROPS WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. (AP) The farm board has abandoned the buying of cotton for price stabiliza tion purposes because it has found, after two years, the practice was not the remedy for the over-production situation. The announcement was made late yesterday by Acting Chairman Carl Williams, the board member for cot ton. He said the agency was not considering "the purchase of cotton under any circumstances," because such practice was futile In view of continued excessive outputs. The same idea, he said, applied to wheat, the price of which Is depressed by Increased production. HoiiOiernrrs KcfiiHed. With the announcement on cotton, the board rejected the scores of sug gestions by southern senators and growers that It continue the purchase of the staple to maintain prices. Asserting that for two years tho board had "cushioned the American farmer, particularly the raisers of cotton and wheat, against price de clines that have affected other com modities and Industries," Williams snld, "the board h,is discovered" that purchasing of ths commodities for price bolstering purpoties "is not the remedy for th, situation." Grange and Union Will Talkjielief SALEM, Ore., Sept. l. fAP) Un employment will bo the maor con sideration of the Joint session of the executive committees of the State Orange and the State Federation of Labor at Portland September 8, Chas. Oram, Oregon labor commissioner, said today. A definite program of relief, one upon which Oram and other officials, as well as the Grange and labor or ganizations hava been working, will be taken up for consideration. Some program is expected to come out of this session, Aged Farmer Gored to Death By Bull ASTORIA, Ore, Sept. 1, (AP Ludwlg Bchulbach. 71. Lewis and Clark district farmer, was gored to death in his garden late yesterday i by a large bull. When her husband did not return j from his farm work, Mrs. Schulbach became alarmed and Investigated.! She found the agfd farmer's body in the garden. It was badly slashed, gored and battered. CHECK PASSER BILKS MEDFORD MERCHANTS Checks amounting to 183.74 were passed on three local merchants Sat urday by Burt Clark, signed "M. F Handley" and "Fred Wolff." according to reports filid at the city police sta tion today. Clark Is being srnniht oy local officers, and said to be about 48 or 60 years of age. 1, 1931. PINCHOT ASSAILS AS A C0SMLE1N Pennsylvania Governor Urges Farm Industry Be Placed On Economic Equality With Others S ED ALIA, Mo., Sept. l.-(AP) As sailing the federal farm board ai "that huge and costly lemon," Gov Qlfford Plnchot of Pennsylvania, said in an address here today that the "welfore of America depends upon Justice to the American farmer Justice as the farmer himself under stands Justice and not some alleged panacea devised by men who neither know his problems nor comprohend his point of view." Addressing the annual convention of the Missouri Farmers association, Gov. Plnchot urged the farm Indus try "be placed on a bosls of economic equality with other Industries." He said the farmer, "for years the or phan of American politics, should be taken Into tho family and have a voice as to what type of relief should be attempted." Tariff Detrimental The present tarirf. he charged. Is detrimental to the farmer; he said he believes In the equalisation fee. and thinks the debenture plan "un qustlonibly has Its merits." The Pennsylvania governor, dis cussed as a possible candidate for the republican presidential nomination next year, criticized the railroads for seeking to Increase freight rates at a time when the farmer "already Is overburdened." The cost of distribu tion of f.rm products, he said. Is twice as high now as It was before the World war. "There are too mony profits be tween producer and consumer," he said. "The middleman regularly pays the farmer too little and charges tho consumor top rnuch. And he does It on the war-time basis, when wheat was selling five times more per bush el than It has been sold this year," Not Talking Polities Gov. Plnchot urged the farmer and city laborer to stand together but added he was not "talking about po litical control, and I do not refer to a third party. On the contrary, I am talking eoonomlo control for the greatest good of the greatest num ber, which Is the object of all gov ernment." The problem of farm relief, ho said, has been dealt with in congress not as tho farmer wanted It handled, but as "tho city men decided It must be handled. Tho farmers asked for the equalization foe. They asked for the debenture plan. Instead they wero given the huge and costly lemon, the farm board, for which they did not ask." ADMITS MURDERS HOSEBUna, Ore. Sept. 1. (AP) Cecil Becklcy, Douglas county rancher, today entered pleaa of guilty to Indictments charging him with first degree murdor In connec tion with the slaying of his wife, Alma Becklcy, and his step-daughter, Margaret Clutter, last July 3. rMrmit JiirlirA J. w. Hamilton, act ing under procedure of an old Ore gon statute, announced tne caw will be heard September 31. Ths ,,irt. win h.nr evidence without a Jury, will decide from the facts the deirree of guilt ana win puss mr telnce. Baking Powder Can Poor Savings Bank LEWISTON, Ida., Sept. 1. (API Two Nc7. Perce Indians from Kamlah, who were arrested at the Pendleton roundup where they were found squandering tlO gold pieces, will spend from two to 14 years In state prison. The two Eastman Kip. 30, and Sam Pablo, 39 were convicted of looting a money cache of Mrs. John Bedwolf. who had the gold burled In a baking powder can under a woodpile In her yard . Aerial Speedsters Reach New Velocity CLEVELAND, Sept. I (AP) New high regions of speed for land planes were reached at the national air races today by Lowell Bayles of Springfield. Mass., when he drove his Oee-Bee low-wing monoplane on speed dashes past the grandstands today. With the wind. In a mile dash, be attained 288 88 miles an hour, and against 384 9. This la faster than ths world's record of 378.8 miles an hour made by Adjutant Bonnett In Prance back In 1924. Bayles' speed aa not an olflclal record, however. , Bayles made ths speed dashes to qualify for the Thompson trophy race next Monday, ths high speed stent of UM air race. ,j E Ft Auihor Passes Associated Press Paolo Sir Hull mine, 78, noted llrltlsh novelist, died .yesterday nt his homo In the Isle of .Man. BILLION STOLEN SHAWNEE, Okie., Sept. 1. (API-Tom-toms and war whoops were still ed, but Indians gathored nevertheless In council here today to plan a sortie against the whites, with the rich gold coast and business sections of Chicago and the vicinity as their goal. Approximately 3,000 members of the Pottawatomie tribe now realdent In Oklahoma mot to draft clalma against the government for lands of which they said they wero .loprlved without adequate recompense. They seek title to land now part of four states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Il linois and Indiana. Ths oharge Is that the government officials of ths early part of ths nineteenth century drove them from their homes or forced them to soli the land plcoomeal. The property now Is valued at substantially mors than one billion dollars. , . PEAR MARKETS NEW YORK, Sept. 1. (Special to Rnmm rtlvnr Valley Traffic Assn.) Thirty-sis carloada California Bart letts auctioned here today, prices ranging from sa.oo to sjjo, average t2.au. One carload Wenatchce Flemish Beauty, XP. averaged SIflO. Three Washington Bartletts, XP, averaged S2.3S. Two carloads Medford Bartletts as follows: High Low Avg. Plconao Brand $3.00 33S S3.4D Drednaught, 19S'a and smaller . 3 35 3.0S a.n Cilen Rosa 3 35 1.00 2.08 Olen Ivy 3.15 1.85 l."t Tops Included In average, but not In range. CHICAGO, Sept. 1. (AP) (USD. A.) Pear auction market, prices slightly weaker; 9 California cars, 13 others arrived; 15 California, 38 othera on track; 11 cars sold. Oregon Bartletts. 340 boxes extra fancy 3.I0-3.15; 776 boxes fancy a 05-3 20; average S3. 10. California Bsttletls. 4.080 boxes $1.00-3.00: average 1335. NEW YORK. Sept. 1. (AP) VS. DA.) Pear auction prices, market steady; 35 cars arrived; 41 California, 4 Washington, 3 Ot-gon. 1 New York cars unloaded: 33 cars on trsck. Oregon Bartletts, 1.505 boxes extra fancy, amall 11.95-3.30: tops I85; average 12.12; fanry, medium to large 2 35-2 85: small 11.85-3.15; tops 11.85; average 12 39. Washington Bartletts, 1.485 boxes extra fancy 13.00-3 50; mostly 12.25. Calfomla Bartletts, 18.735 boxes, best 13 50-3 25: ordinary 12 30-2 80; common 13.00-2 60: sverae 13 86. Oregon Weather. Pair tonight and Wednesday, but cloudy In the extreme west portion; no change In temperature: gentle, changeable winds offshore. Lieutenant Thayer Olds of Warren, O., saved hlmai'lf from Injury when his army plane crashed several miles north of ths Cleveland airport, by a parachute Jump from 600 feet. He landed In Lake Et Is and waded ashore. The plane was wrecked when It hit the ground In a sparsely built resi dential section. Oliver Modard of Lake Wood. Ohio, fractured a let, in the crash of his glider from a height of 35 feet. Spec, tatore as Id Morard I oa. control when the rudder of ths craft broke. The accident was the fourth and most serious of the races. ' A strong wind blowing across th field mad glider flying difficult, To Subscribers If your MnU Tribune Is not deilr erril to jrou promptly, Telephone 75. Office open until 7 cvfry evening. Plwe call us before that time and a copy wm he drllierrd to your home No. 161. NEW PRESS AND This Issue First to Be Printed and Produced by Newly Added Modern Mechanical Equipment This issue of tho MM1 Tribune Is published upon its high speed Duplex Tubular Rotary press, which will bring to readers and advertisers faster service, clearer reading type, and all he advantages that come with mod ern newspaper mechanical equipment. The Installation of tho press is part of the $50,000 expansion program of the Mall Tribune. Other new and modern equipment Includes a Lud low machine, Monotype material mak ing machine and a complete stereo typing department and machinery and now Ludlow type faces. Local carpenters, electricians and workmen have been engaged for the past month erecting and providing for the new machinery. In operation, the Mall Tribune now has one of the most complete mechanical depart ments In the northwest. Other machinery Instated Includes a two-speed matrix roller, plate fin ishing machine, water-cooled plate caster, and minor, but none the lest Important, machinery. With tho new prosa, the Mall Tri bune is able to print In colors, and shortly will publish Its own comic strip section In that manner. Addition of the new machine brings a radical change In the dally con struction of the Mall Tribune. Read ing matter and advertising, as of old, Is assembled In forms, but there the similarity ends. The forms are "Justified," after which they are placed In the matrix making machine. This powerful con trivance, weighing 7.600 pounds x nu - th sKstsys rtz in 4cniu. trr vnmr square inch .A form" of type i placed In the machine, and the "mat" emerges 30 seconds later, with the entire page deeply Impressed on the surface. The "mat" Is then curved upon an eloctr.cally heated cylinder known as . "the scorcher," which dries every par ticle of moisture in the mat. This completed, the curved mat la placed in the plate caster, metal heated to between P00 and 700 degrees Is poured Into tho caster, making a cylindrical plate, on which the type and-advertisement stand out In bold relief. This process over, the plate is plac ed on the plate finishing machine, and made ready for the press cylin ders. The ends and aides are bevel vl and the center bored. Aocurao down to the thousandth part of an Inch la required In order to fit per fectly the press cylinders. The plates are now placed on the press and adjusted and tightened. Once In operation, tl.e press grinds out 30,000 copies per hour, neatly folded and counted In plies of SO. Sixteen pages can be printed at a time, and provisions are made for the addition of units to th. cress. If nec essary, for larger editions. The press, at full speed, makes less noise than an alarm clock, and la ft marvel of cogs and rollers, and me chanical accuracy. As soon as the mechanical depart ment is made tidy, the general pub lic, ctvlo organizations and school children will be Invited to call and we the Duplex press In operation. Installation of the press and other mechanical equipment has been un der the general supervision of Ernest R. Otis trap of Kugene and Medford, with Chirtes F. Young of Battle Creek, Mich., an expert press erector. W. O. PIlllriKer of Olendale, CaL, Duplex pressman and stereotyper. who assisted, will have charge in the future. WILL POGEDS BEVERLY HILLS. Sept. 1. Not much news over ths weck-uml as we look at news V 1 n A in China. JUMVUUIl A' i V w v u - drowned a million. We take that with as little concern au a New York "& killing or the 50 ceonlo killed in autog over the week-end. Mr. JMlon the headliner, borrowing one billion, one hundred million at 3 ner cent. Could have got it at ono and a half but wanted to give tho boys a break. This means they are going to fin ance by borrowing instead oi increased taxes on those able to pay. It's too close to eleo tion to antagonize the big boys.