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Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Oreyon Fair Sunday and Monday; warmer Sunday in the Interior of northwest portion; moderate wut winds offshore. Sunday Morning Edition of the MeAford Mall Tribune with full leased wire Associated Press, and United Press Service, all the local news, fea tures, and guaranteed A. B. C. Cir culation. Twenty-Sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1931. No. 166. 4 Today By Arthur Briibant Folly and Trouble. Strikes and Riots1 Our Golden Good Fortune. Waht About Silver? ' Copyright King Feature Sysd., Inc. ,': It's a foolish troubled world. what ,e wrftntr willinra rn tr anything, usually the wrong Yesterday morning you read these items. From Chile '. Reds rioting, demand Russia's plan of government. Sailors of navy rebel, communists work .. wiT.n r.nm Aim flu nnmnR I . will be used to subdue muti- .Tiniifl cfnlnrs " L- . . J J fl ....... DCUUH WUiU Ui. OC11UUB 41 revolutionary smites Dy syn dicalists in Barcelona, city in darkness, 300,000 workers in' . ..-I j . VU1YCU. . Thin morning vmi will read Chile's ; statement, that the mutiny la under - control, and Barcelona's report, "the strike has been' put down, with few killed." But control and putting . 'down do not last."' -M- i ; Alter closing for seven weeks, Ber lln's stock exchange reopens with an exhibition of stocks tumbling 25 to 40 per cent. The drop from prices of seven weeks ago reminds you of an old lady, sent upward by an ex plosion, and on her way down, say lag to one going upward: "Come on down, we're all going down.' Austria, under. League of Nations control, which mens French control, gives up her plan for a customs pact with Germany, which might have ; saved her, but would have Increased German strength;. Vienna's population has stood still for five years, few children born. always, when a nation becomes di- ycouraged. : Now, with school half filled, the ' Viennese feel that fragmentary na- "liov, to which the Versailles treaty reduced them, will not last long. The Balkan criminal who murder d the Austrian prince little believed that his bullet would start the world's greatest war, and Its worst calamity since the Black Death, wip ing out the Kapsburgs, forever, and ending the historical career of the ancient Austrian empire, M ' V In America, instead of complain lngv we should thank Swinburne's Whatever Gods May Be." We ttlU have all that we ever had. except that part of our national con- celt and courage. President Hoover and Mr. Mellon a& a short term loan of $300,000,000 anu pjt It Instantly, at 1 per cent Interest. They ask a loan of 1800,000, 000 for 20. years, and It Is oversub ecrlbed at S per cent Interest. r: We have too much of everything oil, cotton, wheat, coal, sugar, ma chinery, automobiles, buildings, and GOLD. M And we do not know how to take care of ourselves, or restore work era to employment, while we float around on an ocean of "too much.1 This country Is like the baby hip popotamus, floating, asleep, on the river and waking Its mother up to grumble, "I want a drink. No criticism of Anybody, in or out office, is meant. We are all equally puzzled, like lit tle boys at the Sunday school festi val competing as to which could eat the most Ice cream. They needed, and got, castor oil, . We need something in the way of unpleasant experience, and shall get it. That will be followed by hard thinking, wiser planning, and a bet ter start than ever. We, tlao, have had too much Ice cream. Who understands money, mysterl 'ous "high finance?" Every pee-wee "best mind," business, Industrial or financial, will tell you all about fin ance, In good time. This week Uncle Sam brought his hoard of gold up to and above FIVE THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS. Not mere credit, or printed paper or liver money, mind you, but FIVE BILLIONS IN GOLD. An old beggar woman was found dead in New York, half starved, with thousands of dollars and several bank fcoofcs, hidden In her room. Continued oa page nine) RAIL RATE BOOST SAYS Dr." Friday Cites Upturns In Textile Industry As Proof Advertising Key To , Business Recovery t Chicago Hearing Ended CHICAGO,- Sept,' 5. (AP As the Interstate commerce commission con cluded hearings on the proposed IS per cent freight rate Increase today, Dr. David Friday, Washington econ-j mist, predicted the rate boost would stimulate the return to prosperity which he said was already Indicated by upturns In the textile Industry and other consumption goods fields. Dr. Friday was the last witness and chief economist presented by the rail roads in rebuttal to the mass of evi dence submitted by agriculture and other industries tending to show that Industry was hard hit by business depression and could not stand the boost that Its answer to the Increase would be diversion of traffic to trucks and waterways.; With the whole economic picture of the nation- before It, contained In the testimony presented during the week here and. In other hearings, the commission - announced. - U would transfer the field of final action to Washington, setting Sept. 8 as the deadline for briefs and Sept. 21 for verbal arguments. NEW YORK, Sept. 5. (AP) Gage P. Wright, editor of the Business Economic Digest, predicted today trend toward greater use of news paper advertising space to stimulate regional sales If advertisers are to take advantage of "such business re covery as may be in store for this country In .the near future.' Wright based his forecast, he said, upon conferences with many business men recently. LOSERS AT CUPID ON FLIP OF GOIN TULSA, Okla,, Sept. 81 (AP) James H. Taylor, 45, sought compan ionship in the courthouse here today. He seated himself beside Eva Wal lace, 23, on a bench In the lobby. Conversation developed that Taylor had been married five times and the young -woman had failed . In three matrimonial ventures. "Life Is all a gamble .and so Is marriage," she sighed. "Well," offered Taylor, 'Til seo how good a gambler you are. I'll match you coins. If I don't match you, you pay me a dime; If I do, you marry me." The coins were flipped. Both fell heads. Ten minutes later, after Taylor had learned the young woman's name for marriage license records, they were married by a Justice of the peace. THIEF TAKES CAR. ALSO BOI ASLEEP LOS ANGBLB5. Sept. 5. (AP) An automobile thief today unwit tingly kidnaped a six-year old boy asleep In the back seat and knew nothing of It until he was arrested six hours later. Mr. and Mrs. Luce Huerta left their son asleep in the car when they went Into a restaurant. When they re turned car and boy were gone. Two officers six hours Inter found the car at a curb, with Carlos Qulroz asleep at the wheel and the boy still slumbering In the rear. Qulroz was charged with grand theft. BY SEA TREMORS MEXICO CITY. 6pt. 8. (AP) Special dispatches from Plnotepa Naco in the state of Oaxaca today said the people there were alarmed he changing of the coast line and the appearance of thousands of dead fUn oh the shores following upon a series of. earth tremors. . The tremors were not strong It was said, but ft was believed they were accompanied by an undersea ex plosion. The sea penetrated about SO yards inland In some places, tran .ormlng hills on the shore line into islands. PENDLETON. Ore., Sept. 6. (AP) K. B. Aldrlch, editor of the Pendle ton East Oregon lan. and Charles Bak er of Walla Walla will leave tonight for Washington. D. C, where they will Join the northwest delegation In a conference with the federal farm board on the "Walla Walla wheat plan. WEST VIRGINIA 'BLUEBEARD' AND HIS VICTIMS tmmmisxmk 1 Asm&mmiii&imm Jlhfieiiumtimmmmm Jg&me&Mkxtef''' ' ' '-. yS. Harry F. Powers, 45, alias Cornelius 0. Pierson, modern-day bluebeard, la shown abova (center) with' police after ht oonfessed killing Mrs. Asta Bulck Elcher (lower right) of Park Ridge, III. and her three children. He also confessed the slaying of Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lempke (upper right) of North boro, Mass. He lured his victims to his home near Clarksburg, W. V. through advertisements In matri monial periodicals. -The bodlea were found burled near a specially constructed "narane" on his property. Thi alaln children ahown below are, left to right: Annabelle, Qreta and Harry Elcher. EX-FELON SLAIN MOOTING IT IN BERRY PATCH Third Gun Battle !n Two Days With Portland Offi cers Brings Albert Gould To Morgue A 'Petting Party' Bandit. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 0. (AP) Wanted on a hold-up charge, Albert Oould, 38, ex-convlct from San Quen tln, shot It out with Deputy Sheriff Bill Keller here today. Oould died In a hospital four hours later. It was Gould's third encounter with deputy sheriffs and hta second gun battle within a few days. The , first time Oould and a companion were stopped after an automobile chase The officers released them after ques tioning.- Thursday night, armed with John Doe warrants charging hold-up, dep uties and police stormed an apart ment In which Oould was living with James s. Smith, 28, and Mrs. Irene Williams, 28, formerly of Seattle. Oould escaped after exchanging shots with Keller. Smith, a paroled Oregon convict, was arrested and his woman com panion held as a material witness, Today's shooting happened In a berry patch on the east side after officers had been tipped off as to Gould's whereabouts by a woman he had forced to give him shelter. Gould and Smith were wanted for "petting party" hold-ups. WRECKED, 5 HURT PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 5. (AP) Five persons were Injured today when a truck, belonging to the Virginia grocery and market here and filled with loot from that store, was wreck ed on the Columbia River highway 12 miles west of Hood River, police here were notified by the Hood River sheriff. The store was broken Into last night and the loaded truck driven away. The driver of the truck gave his name as Jack Berry, police were told. With him were a woman and three children. All were taken to a hospital, while warrants for the man and wo man were obtained. Police placed the value of the loot at about 1000. SAM FRANCISCO. Sept. B-(AP) M. Dlamancesco. Rumanian consul In San Francisco, Issued a formal denial today of press reports from Belgrade on Sept. 2 that King Carol of Ru mania was seeking the hand of Prin cess Maria Franceses of Italy In mar riage. . ROSEBURO, Ore.. Sept. S. (AP) A forest service crew was today re ported en route to Roseburg from Bear Wallow, north of the South Umpqua divide, with Oscar Silenlus, fire fighter, who was injured last nht. - ESTATE OF FIFTH IN LEGAITANGLE Suit Filed Against Bank And Business Partner Of Mass Killer Safety De- i' posit Box Contents Still Mystery CLARKSBURG. W, Va., Sept. B. (AP) Whatever estate was left by Mrs. Dorothy P. Lemke, Northboro, Mass., one of five persons alleged by the state to have been slain by Harry F. Powers, was bound up tonight with a chancery writ. Wllford B. Grimm', sheriff of Harrl son county, was named administra tor of her estate, and attorneys brot suit In his behalf against Powers: his sister-in-law, Eva B. Strother; his wife, LuellaB. Powers, the latter two engaging In the retail grocery busi ness as Strother and Powers; J. Ed ward Law, attorney for the accused man; and the Empire Bank of Clarks burg. Frank M.Powell, attorney for the Lemke estate, which was said by Massachusetts relatives to have been from 112,000 to $14,000, said a bill of particulars yet to be filed would prevent any disposition of Powers' property. The bill also will charge that assets in Powers' possession at the time of the alleged killings were to Strother and Powers. Attorney Law and the bank were named as defendants because police have said that when Powers was ar rested he gave the key to a safety de posit box to his counsel. Officers have been unsuccessful in their at- tempte to ascertain the contents of the box. 1 T KALI8PEIX. Mont.. Sept. 6. (AP) Much anxiety was felt and many residents sprayed water on the roofs of their homea at White rish today as a forest fire advanced to two miles west of the city. The flames were from the Lost Creek fire, which broke away In a high wind early today. The northern Montana forestry as sociation waa battling the fire. Two hundred twenty men were on the lines. Crossing TrajEfly OAKLAND, Cal Sept. 8 (AP) Salvatore Dal Porta, 70, rancher, was killed and two other persons Injured today when a truck In which they were riding waa struck by a Santa Fe freight train near Oakley. The Injured are Henry Linker, 2S. of Stockton, who waa driving and Burt Caldwell of Oakley. They were taken to a Mar- tines hospital. , FLORENCE. Italy. Sept. (AP) Thre earth shocks early today top pled chlmneya and cracked walla In severs! vtllagea and drove ah alarmed populace Into the streeta between cere and Bologna, as miles away. AMOcialcd PresM I'ktita UPSTATE DRIZZLE CHECKS FIRE IN H1LLSB0R0 AREA Espee Sustains $25,000 Damage To Trestles And Tunnel Loss Estimated At Million Many Narrow Escapes. TIMBER, Ore., Sept. 6. (AP) Fires which raged over about 40 miles of timber In the Cochran-Mayo dl trlct an Salmonberry river yesterday were under control tonight. a drizzle, - starting about noon, checked the flames and enabled the 600 flre-flghters to get their trenches around the burned area. Though light, the rain appeared sufficient to bring the district through Its fire crisis. Today the Southern Paclflo put crews to work rebuilding two wooden trestles burned out on It. Portland HlUsboro brsnch between Cochran end Mayo. Several section houses, the decking on a steel bridge and lagging In a tunnel were also destroyed. The company estimated Its damage at S25.00O. It announced that trafflo would probably be resumed on the line Tuesday. Some timber company officials said they believed total damage from tho blaze would reach tl,0O0,00O. Besides the great acreage of merchantable timber, about 6,000,000 feet of felled and buckel dogs, two camps with all equipment, nine logging railway bridges and three skldnxids were des troyed. , While many stories of narrow es capee were told, officials believed there had been no fatalities or serious Injuries to persons, DEATHCMIVER, SLAYER INDICTED PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 8. (AP) Indictment charging Harry D. Emery. 65. with first degree murder of his former wife. Beatrice Turnstall, 38. was returned by the Multnomah County grand Jury here today. Emery Is alleged to have fatally wounded Miss Turnstall In a revolver duel on June 11. Emery suffered a superficial wound In the encounter. The jury also Indicted Ralph Hlnkle on an Involuntary man slaughter count in connection with the death of Frederick O. Hsgerman In an automobile accident on the St. Helens road. 4- BEND, Ore, Sept. 5. (AP) Jerry Ahem, sheep rancher of Klamath Palls, waa arrested here today by Sheriff McCauley on a warrant from Klamath county charging blm with sale of mortgaged property. BREMERTON, Wash., Sept. 6. (AP) The body of a woman, drown ed when a small fishlr.g launch over turned off Port Orchard last Satur day, today waa Identified as that cf Mrs. Jessie Linn, 37. daughter of for mer Senator Robert A. Booth of Oregon. EUGENE RUMORED AS HOSPITAL SITE Special Dispatch To Ore gonian Says Choice Sent To White House For Approval Ten Days Ago, With Recommendation. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept B. (AP) A special dispatch to the Morning Oregpnlan tonight said, In connection with the statement that the veterans1 board had made Its recommendation to the president of s site for the Oregon soldiers' home: . "Rumors say that the board hae favored Eugene In Its report." 'Tt is believed that the board selected Eugene and made an in formal report to the 1 White House ten days ago," the dispatch contin ued, "and this report was sent back.' The board met again Friday after noon, made Its selection and trans mitted the recommendation to the White House In more formal man ner; the dispatch continued. Under usual procedure nothing la said until the president signs approval and re turns the recommendation. 4 TURNS OUT TO BE SOVIET-WORKER Pal Also A Communist And Robbery Staged To Aid Cause Hint Bruggman Victim of 'Frame-up-' PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 5. (AP) Members of the local police commun ist squad were wondering today whether Louis Bruggman. alias Smith, was a victim of circumstances or i police double-crosser and willing ac complice in the Aurora Bank robbery which cost him 10 years In the penitentiary. Bruggman was placed In the state prison Wednesday after he, Edmund Slgmund and Prank Farley had plead ed guilty before Circuit Judge Me Mahon. Deteotlve W. B. O'Dale and Patrol man M. R. Bacon said Bruggman told them Tuesday morning, the day of the robbery, that he had been asked to participate In the robbery, the de tails of which he had not learned. Slgmund and Parley, were Com munists, the officers continued. They believed the money from the bank was to go Into funds of that party. Bruggman told the officers the two robbers had asked him to get a car. They expected to get between 1600 and I600O at the unnamed bank and were later to rob a bank In Seattle. He was to meet them at noon and at 2:00 p. m., they were to show him what they planned to do. He told the officers he believed a time for a plater hold-up would be plan ned. O'Dale and Bacon said they told Bruggman to get all the details and report back. The next they heard of him, he was in Jail In Salem. The local officers don't know just what to think about the case. They say Bruggman rendered them valu able service In their campaign against communists. NOTE GIVES CLUE TO MYSTERY LOSS DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Sept. ft. (AP) The Irish capital today buzz ed with a report that an anonymous letter, written on expensive note pa per, has been received by authorities here offering to deliver, for a ransom price, the famous crown Jewels which were stolen from Dublin castle in 1907. Police headquarters Insisted It was Ignorant of the letter, but the report continued to circulate, and It was be lieved that police reticence might be due to a desire to catch the thieves. The Jewels, which are worth taoo,- 000, were stolen from the castle 24 years ago in the very shadow of what then was the detective headquarters, snd within hsllng distance of the governor himself. BEND. OreH Sept. 5. (AP) An eight-acre fire west of Beaver marsh on The Dalles-California highway In northern Klamath county, was today brought within control by the Klam ath Fire Protective association. WESTMINSTER, Md Sept. 6. (AP) John Henry Mitten, believed to be the oldest newspaper, editor In the country, died yesterday at his .home here. He would have been 17 rears old on September 12. No Issue Monday In order to permit enjoyment of the Labor day holiday by the Mall Tribune personnel, there will be no Issue of this paper Mon day evening. IE EFFECT T Congress May Act For Workers Displaced By Machinery Relation To Depression Also Viewed Future Course Con sidered. WASHINGTON, Sept. B.(AP) Recommendations to congress may re- suit from a study of the permanent phases of tha unemployment prob lem which was In progress today thru a committee appointed by Secretary JJOAk. - The group waa composed of experts appointed by the labor secrtary to study technological unemployment and tha effect of displacement of men by machinery. . The scope of this coanmlttee's work was outlined In an Interview by unairman Charles a. Prosser. Pointing out that the value of American' Industrial output In 1939 waa (8,000.000,000 more than In 1819 with 600.000 leas workers, Dr. Prosser said technological unemployment may result in "sweeping economio and so cial- changes'l n this country. The committee, Dr. Prosser said, haa divided the problem Into two parts'. First It must be determined what effect technological lmprove ment has on opportunltnes for em ployment, and aecond, what can be done to "conserve" the worker who hss been displaced by machinery. "One group bellevea," ha said, "that the Invention and use of a machine results In the employment of more people, usually at a better wage. The other group believes that .whatever may have been true heretofore, the frequency and extent of technological changes Is producing exactly the op posite effect. "The answer can only be made on the basis of reliable statistics and the committee on technological employ ment will attempt to Indicate the kind of studies and the kind of data that needs to be collected and Inter preted to Indicate trenda In employ ment and sweeping ohangea that are under way." 1 ". ' - , l This will enable the American peo ple to get a better understanding of where wa are going with regard to opportunities for employment. We can then shape our course accordingly. Such atudles of particular Indus tries where sweeping changes have been made or are Impending will also allow those Immediately concerned to anticipate results ahead and protect themselves by long time planning against pronounced Injury or disas ter." Dr. Prosser said the problem of conserving" the worker displaced by machinery Involved tha problem of caring for all unemployed, regardless of the cause. In this connection,'' he said, "It will be well to know from technolog ical atudlaa whether displacement of workers per 100,000 workers la In creasing In number or In frequency and whether the lag or period Be' tween displacement and re-employ ment In a new Job Is Increasing or doareaslng on the average. "The committee will also make a report regarding waya and mesne of safeguarding workers before displace ment, at the tlms of displacement snd after dlsplacsment through Im proved plscement and restraining ser vice In statea and local communities. FRANCE BESET BY PARIS, Sept. . AP) Premature snow in the Alps, Pyrenees ana Auversne, menacing floods in the principal rivers and downpours which wrought havoc In the wine produc ing region and- drenched Paris itself today ushered Id the Labor day week end. Cherbourg waa hit by a violent northeaster. A sloop at Bochefort waa struck by lightning and no boats have been able to leave Lorlent for 34 houra. Several towns In tha Interior are deprived of electrlo current, hun dreds of livestock have perished many brldgea were destroyed and a property damage of several hundred thousand dollars was reported from the Carhollea region. REVOLUTIONARY DAY BEACON, N. Y., Sept. 6. (AP) The Mount Oullsn house, headquar ters of Bacon Von Steuben during the Revolutionary war waa destroyed by fire tonight. Moet of the relics, palntlnga and antiques In the house were removed by firemen. Sheriff O. Leigh Cooklngham of Dutchess county said the fire prob ably was started by a pyromanlao. rive other mysterious fires during the past week era beluf Investigated, ON WEDDING DAY HE SLEW1DDY' Body Found In Garbage Dump Youthful Killer Faints And Begs to Attend Funeral Broken Auto Trip Promise Motive. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Sept. . (AP) On the day he was to tav been married to 17-year-old Norma Solid. Arthur L. Stratum, 33, former soldier, led authorltlea to a garbage dump on the beach near CoupevtUa, Whldby Island, today to point out the body of hla "buddy," William Frawley, S3, whom he confessed to slaying In a fit of anger. Breaking under the strain, young Stratton poured out bis atory last night pleading "please let me go to Bill's funeral. Please hang me; Won't you please har.g me?" With the same caravan In which Frawley's body was returned here, Stratton came back to hla cell In tha Jefferson county Jail. He said he kill ed Frawley when the veteran army sergeant broke a promise to take Stratton and hla fiance on an auto mobile trip around the Olympic pen. Insula. . . Prosecutor W. J. Daly said he waa preparing murder charges to -be filed against Stratton. Suspicion was first attached to Stratton, a butcher's -apprentice, when he waa seen with Frawley'a car, and attempted -to transfer one of the' elder man's bank accounta from a ' Port Town send Institution to a Seat tle bank. , Sobbing, Stratton led the party to three Rarbage dumps. He collapsed and fainted. Prosecutor Daly, puah lng on ahead, found the body partly covered with grasses and boards. Sthratton told Sheriff Carroll he shot and killed Prawley August 30 In his victim's cabin near Fort War den. He said he carried the body in the back of Frawley'a automobile to the beach on Wldby Island where he dropped It down an embankment.' When It atopped rolling, face up. he went down and oovered It over, he added. His fiance's mother, Mrs. Peter Solid. Coupevllle farmer's wife, said het daughter was heartbroken. , portSdTller held for thefts, played wall st. PORTLAND, Ore.. Sept. 8 (AP) Blrger Bugge, 43, teller in the For eign Exchange . department of the Flrat National bank, waa arrested here today on a federal warrant charging embezzlement of $30,000. Officers said they believed playing the- etoolc market waa the cauee of Bugges shortage. It la charged he kited exchange checks over a period of e year. Federal court officials announced today that Carroll Doty Hulbert, al leged to have absconded In 1914 with $13,379 from the sama bank, had been arrestsd In Vera Cruz, Mexico, and would be returned here by United Btates Marshal Day, who. la now In Washington, D. O. IN RECORD HEAT KANSAS CITY, Sept. 5. (AP) A record bresklng heat wave acorced Kansas and Oklahoma today and caused other mldwestern statea to swelter. The mercury Boomed to 111 de grees at the Fort Hayea, Kan. United States agricultural experiment star tlon, a September mark unreached before In tha S4 years records have been kept. Sallna, Kan, reported 110. It waa only allghtly cooler In other parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Nebraska. 1 E FL SHANGHAI, Sept. . (AP) Chi nese press reports from Pelplng today said 1,000.000 persona drowned In the region of Kunghslen, In north cen tral Honan province, when the Yel low river recently overflowed its banks. While it wss authoritatively be- lieved this figure was vastly exag gerated, a characteristic of Chinese estimates, reports Indicated another major flood dlsastsr hae been added, to those of Uie Wuhan district, com prising the cities of Hankow, Han yang and Wuchang, and northern Klangail province.
