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Medford Mail Tribune Weather Forecast Oregon: Fair Sunday; Monday gen erally uniettled probably wltn rami on the cout; troiu In the eaat por tion Sunday morning; moderate changeable winds becoming aoutberly offshore by Sunday night. Sunday Morning Edition of th. Medford Mall Tribune with full leased wire Associated Preu, and United Pre ii service, all the local newe, fea turee, and guaranteed A. B. C Cir culation. MEDFORD, ' OREGON", SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1931. Twenty-Sixth Year No. 200. GUN TOTER FOR WHERE GANG CHIEF WILL SERVE PRISON TERM 'S Comment on the Day's News ON POLITICS AS '0' FEDERAL JURIST E AS TIE THREATENS Cotton Bill w.WNMMiMr'Waai By FBANK JENKINS r 1031, which haa been a year ot general decrease In travel, tourist travel to Crater Lake has INCREAS ED. Last year, during the season, there were 167,693 visitors. This year there were 170,384 visitors. The increase amounts to eight per . cent. OREGON, aa might be 'supposed, sent the largest number of vis itors to Crater Lake this year, the total number ot Oregonlans visiting this blue Jewel of the high Cascades ' being 91,835. California la next alter Oregon, with a total of 61,494. That Is to aay, for each three visitors from Oregon there were TWO visitors from California. C RATER LAKE was discovered by a party composed about equally of Oregonlans and Callfornlans. Its Interest, to this day, remains ab'.ut equally divided between Oregon and California. OF THE somewhat more than 170, 000 visitors to Crater lake this summer, approximately 80,000 came from outside the state ot Oregon. This writer, so tar, has seen no es timates as to what these 80,000 visit ors spent while they were here. It la bard to believe, however, that they could have got out of Southern Ore gon without spending fct least 1C each. If that la true, these 80.000 visitors left some $800,000 of NEW MONEY In Southern Oregon. WHEN we list 'the cash value of our resources, we don't Include nnorv. But scenery la a resouroe that has actual cash value. If you doubt that, consider the $800,000 of new money that must have been left In Southern Oregon this summer by visitors to Crater lake. K ND don't forget this: Scenery, "when It is sold, ISNT TAKEN AWAY. It la left by the purchaser, to be sold over and over again. And the more It is sold the more saleable It becomes. Every visitor to Crater lake, South em Oregon's great scenlo asset, be comes an ADVERTISER for Crater lake. II B. VAN DUZER, tor eight years a member of the Oregon high way commission and for the past five years Its chairman, resigns. The undoubted excellence ot his successor, who la J. O. Alnswortn, ot Portland, can not alter the fact that Mr. Van Duzer'a retirement la a real lose to Oregon. During his eight years ot service, Mr. Van Duzer acquired a knowledge of highway conditions !n Oregon that made him of tremendous value to the people of this state. "pHE chairmanship ot the highway commission of Oregon, during the years when Oregon's system of state highways was going through Its most Important period ot construction, was a great responsibility. It was a responsibility that was lived up to admirably by H. B. Van. Duzer. To every problem brought be tore him and there were many of them he gave a quality of sound Judgment and broad fairness that has been of priceless value to this state Oregon la fortunate to have been served for more than eight yeara by a man of Mr. Van Duzer'a ability. t - PORTLAND, Oregon's largest city. wants a third highway to the northern beaches and Justifies that desire by the statement that she (Continued on Page Two) LADY BANDIT OFF FOR SALEM CELL SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 10 (API Under heavy guard, Vrs. Ellen Ellis, convicted of participation in the Mo Avoy and Nobel train robbwles, left tonight for the state penitentiary at Salem, Ore, where she will start serv Ing two consecutive sentences ol 25 years each. However, ahe had the prospect of pending only eight yeara In prison, aa Federal Judge Frank H. Kerrigan, who heard her second trial on the Nobel charge, said he would recom mend probation at the end of that Urn, Bosom Companion Of Ca- pone Nabbed With Gun In Court, Held Without Bail, Scored From Bench Gang Chief A Lavish Spender. FEDERAL BUILDING, Chicago, Oct. 10 (AP) Philip D'Andrea, per sonal friend and constant companion of Al Capone at the scar-faced gang chief's Income tax trial was ordered by Federal Judge James H. Wllker- son today to stand trial for carrying a pistol in the courtroom. D'Andrea, suave, natuiy-aressea, and secretive appearing, was seized by three deputy United States mar shals as he left the court room alter today's session. The marshals found a .38 calibre pistol tucked under his belt. Capone and his attorneys pleaded unsuccessfully for his release, and he was taken away to jail. Judge WUkerson called his court Into spec ial session again this afternoon and ordered D'Andrea to be arraigned be fore him Monday morning on a rule requiring him to show cause why he should not be punished for con tempt of court. I had been informed tnat men with pistols were coming Into the courtroom during the trial," Judge WUkerson announced, "and it was I who ordered D'Andrea arrested." The Judge then ordered govern ment officials and court officers to take strict precautions beginning Monday to prevent "gun-toters" from entering the court. There is a rule in the federal court of long standing that any man who comes Into the court armed should be punished," Judge WUker son said. "The offense Is so fla grant and the affront to the court Is so serious that no application for ball for this defendant will be con sidered until Monday morning. Take him back to Jail." D'Andrea first told officials he Is a deputy- bailiff of municipal, court and declared be had a permit to car ry a pistol. Investigators said, how ever, they nad round nis Damn ap pointment had expired and the gun carrying permit had been revoked. Witnesses testified Capone spent $35,000 for incidental expenses such as telephone bills, kitchen utensils, meats, bakery goods, and Improve ments to his home during three winters In Florida. All said they regarded the. defend ant as "good pay and a fine cus tomer." One said he saw "a roll of bills that would choke an ox and a couple of handfulls of money wrap pers marked 91000," at the Capone home on Palm Island, Fla. The defense objected to each state ment made by each witness and Judge WUkerson overruled them, A final and sweeping objection also was made by defense attorneys to evidence that about $80,000 was sent by telegram to Capone In Florida from persons In Chicago. H. F. Ryder, builder of a boat house on the Capone property, was the witness who told of Al's 9125 "oversight" and of the roll of cur rency In the home. The big gang ster directed hla attorneys In ques tioning Ryder, and It was brought out tihat Ryder never asked for the overdue bill, "because I was busy every day and afraid to go to Ca pone a place at night." Capone paid most of his bills In cash, the witness said, but a few times they were given checks bear ing the names of Jack Guzlk. The gang chief also was said to have pre vailed upon the tradesmen to cash telegraphic money orders for him. The case against D'Andrea was said by government agents to be more serious than they at first believed. D'Andrea claimed to be a deputy bailiff of municipal court, but the Investigation said that time was long ago. A permit to carry a gun under that type of service has since been revoked, they said. E PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 10. (AP) Alleging a conspiracy among gasoline dealers forced It to close, the Inde pendent service atatlon filed suit In circuit court today for $38,985 eerier al damages and 100.000 punitive damages. Defendants named lnclue the stan dard Oil company of California. AS' sociated Oil company. . Union Oil company of California, Shell Oil com pany. General Petroleum Corporation of California, Oregon Petroleum com pany, Louis Tost, doing business as the Red Tank OH company, The Tex. aa company, Ollmore Oil company. im, E. R. Tappen, and W L. Vuney. The complaint charges the service station, "by reason of unlawful and malicious conspiracy" on the part of the defendants, was unable to ob tain gasoline from any source and wss compelled to close. PORTLAND. Ore, Oct. 10 (AP) Governor Meier announced today he bad appointed M. J. Ounderaon, 811 verton banker, aa a member of the state board of agriculture. Ounderaon la the owner of a fine herd of dairy oaiua, w. governor, aaloj, I iiiiiiniH',M,5h;s(rw;S'1 1 iitiiimn",,,inJ h i ' ; llUrr; Al Capone, Chicago gang leader, may fall In line with a group similar to that shown above wnen ne starta serving hla term In the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kas. He pleaded guilty to chargea of violating the Income tax law and conspiracy against the prohibition act. An air view of the priaort la ahown below. TO BE CHIEF TOPIC ON LAVAUS VISIT French Proposals To Amer ica Predicted President Greets Women Peace Leaders Bearing Petition To .White House. PARIS. Oct. 10. (AP) The Im pending visit of Premier Pierre La val was hailed today as an event of the first Importance by two of France's former ambassadors to the United States Jules Jusserand, long the dean of the Washington diplo matic corps, and Jules Cambon, France's envoy at the turn of the century. M. Jusserand declared that In Pre mier Laval President Hoover "will find a man according to bis heart" a man who prefers to do things rather than to talk about them. M. Canbon said In a similar state ment that the Laval trip Indicates Franco-American relations "have never been more cordial." The French premier la sailing for the United States October 18, tak ing, with him Louis Aubert, expert on the armament problem. It was authoritatively reported that when the premier meets the president he will make disarmament proposals based on budgetary considerations. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. (AP) A common goal of world disarma ment, President Hoover said today. Is the objective of the leaders of the nations. Standing In the ornate east room of the White House, the chief exec utive had Just received a 125.000-slg-nature petition borne across the con tinent by the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom Leaders of the organization had spoken, ask ing vast cuts in armament expendi tures. The prcslde.it made no mention ot war debts and .reparations, a subject that has been interlocked with dis armament In recent weeks. Mr. Hoo ver Intends to demand a reduction of Europe's military and naval expend! turea before he concedes the nations of that continent any further finan cial relief. Most congressional leaders nre of the same mind. They are awaiting re sults of February's disarmament con ference at Geneva before making any commitments on such moves as an extension of the intergovernmental nfortttorlum. The whole situation Is to be thor oughly dissected in Intimate discus sions between Mr. Hoover and Pre mier Laval of France two weeks hence. Two administration leaders, Sena tors Reed of Pennsylvania and Ring ham of Connecticut, made fresh de mands for congressional authoriza tion of an American navy of the size permitted by the London treaty. It Is obviously the desire of a consider able group in congress to show Eu rope that America Intends building war ships unless the old world na tions consider some measure of dis armament. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10 (AP) A fire that swept the Chatham ho tel here today took three Uvea and Injured nine persons. The dead: Charles Demanges, 82. formerly of New Orleans, La. Fred A. Kordt, 68, and a man ten tatively Identified as Wllhetm Block- linger, 71, an inmate of the Young ville veterans' home. The injured included Pi re Chief Charles Brennan, cut and bruises; several guests and firemen and i policeman. The cause of the fire was unde termined but Fire Marshal Frank Kelly expressed the belief it started frp-B ft lighted clgamta stub, jjiiiilaffft aa- TtBttTiTitifami WOODEN LEG IS DEPOSITORY FOR OF State Started Suit For Board During Stay At Asylum And Wins Action Limb Was Hollow. BOISE, Ida., Oct. 10. (AP) Mrs. Emma .Oilman's leg, the one with the money In It, has yielded the state $1714. It came about because Mrs. Gil man's leg was discovered to have ,$2500 secreted In It when she was at the state asylum for the Insane at Oroflno. For five years she was cared for at the expense of the state but recently It was found she had cached many shares of bank stock in the hollow of her wooden leg. Since the state requires that pat ients pay for their keep If they are able, a suit was started In Shoshone county district court for "back board" at the rate of a dollar a day. The state won, Lewis Williams, com missioner of public welfare was ad vised today. E FLAME DESTROYED Charred timbers were all that re mained of the six-room, two-story house on Stewart avenue, belonging to William O'Hara which burned lost evening at 11 o'clock. The fire was discovered in the back of the house by D. Hendrlckson, a neighbor, no one being at home In the O'Hara house at the time. The cause was undetermined. Mr. O'Hara stated that the house was covered by Insurance amounting to 2000, Only a part of the furniture from the living room was saved from the burning structure, the fire spreading rapidly, until the whole house was a mass of flames. A part of the pump house, which was adjacent to the residence, was burned. The barn and garage, a short distance further back on the property, was not dam aged. Immediately after the call was phoned, two trucks from the Med ford fire department went to the residence, where the flames were soon extinguished. However, the fire had spread to such an extent by that time, the firemen were unable to save any part of the house. A steady stream of cars from the city went the various roads to Spring street, where city traffic officers and state police kept the traffic lanes open. ON FISHING TRIP SEATTLE, Oct. 10. AP Slipping quietly from the University of Wash ington stadium where they watched the Washington - Oregon football game, the air's newest heroes, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., ended their three days of tumultous acclaim to seek rest and quiet fish ing in the mountains north of We natcbee. Meanwhile their plane will be re- ! fitted here with a landing gear and la new prcpellor and probably will be readj for flight by Tuesdaf. EDISON ABLE TO E AS DEATH NEARS White-Haired Mate The World For Wizard Last Farewells To Family Nourishment Limited Last Day. WEST ORANGE, N. J., Oct. 10. (AP)-f-Tbe world for Thomas A, Edi son now Is Just one person his wife. Aa the In von tor lay In a stupor to day, on the verge of a coma. Dr. Hu bert S. Howe said Mr. Edison for days has been able to recognize no ono except his white-haired wife, who has been at his bedside almost constantly. In the past, because of the pecul iar timbre of her voice, her words have been clear to Mr. Edison despite his deafness. To this circumstance Is partially attributed his ability to recognize her now. Other members of his family are maintaining a vigil near the sick room but the last word of farewell between them and Mr. Edison ap parently has been exchanged. How much longer he will be able to recognize Mrs. Edison waa beyond prediction. She remains close at hand to keep alive his last contact with Vie world. As Dr. Howe came from his routine examination of the patient he told reporters: "About the only change In Mr. Edison's condition is that it Is in creasingly difficult for him to take nourishment. He has had nothing In the Inst 24 hours. In the pre ceding 24 hours he bad only six tcBspoonsful of cereal. "He la not taking liquids, which are very necessary If the uremic poisoning Is to be kept from spread ing through his system." Dr. Howe described as "a lot of nonsense" a state by Mr. Edison's barber that the Inventor had rec ognized him yesterday. LATIN LANDS AIM WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, (AP) An International conference to see what must be done to rehabilitate silver was recommended tonight by the fourth Pan American commer cial conference. Of the 21 nations of the two Amer ica's represented, only the United States and Brazil did not vote. An unanimous vote of all the countries represented at the meeting carried the resolution. NO ALIMONY FOR POLISH SINGER CHICAGO. Oct. 10. (AP) Harold r. McCormlck and th glamorous Oanna Walaka parted ways amicably today. The tn year romanco of the millionaire head of the International Harvester company and the Pollab prima donna waa aevered after a ten minute divorce hearing before Judge Daniel P. Trade. The charge waa desertion. Today'a decree' waa the climax of a decade of lncompntlblllty. Mme. WaUka In March, 1929 re turned to Parle. McCormlck baa not been abroad alnce. Last January a separation waa agreed upon and today aaw Its con summation. Mme. Walska received no property settlement or allon, Non-Partisan Only To Cause Dollars To Flow Hoover Policies Seen As Vantage As Democrats Plan Heavy Growling. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. (AP) Republicans and Democrats are Join ed behind the Hoover plan to make dollars flow more freely, but the party leaders have by no means lost sight of Its political possibilities. The care taken by the president to make his White House conference this week a bi-partisan affair won the unity of action he considered im perative. That It will be maintained In any broad program to alleviate business distress Is taken as assured. However, veteran politicians expect plenty of debate on details of the legislation sought. Neither party will overlook the potentialities offered, especially with ft presidential cam paign ahead. Should the next few months see business steadily improving, more than one Republican doubtless will add to the rejoicing every good word for the administration that can be fitted in. Likewise, reminders of co operation given the president by the Democrats will be plentiful. Abundant conflict Is in store for congress from the start on the first Monday In December. The two ma jor actions It faces first have huge support In both parties. These are the year's moratorium on lnter-gov-ernmental debts, and amendments to the banking laws needed to effect the program on behalf of easier credit conditions. Acceptance of the moratorium la sure, but one of the leading Demo crats on Capital hill, Representative Garner, will be In the lead of ob jectors. How much strength hla op position can command Is uncertain. One reason that the bi-partisan approach to these major economic questions was so desirable can be seen In the close division of both senate and house membership, aa between the parties. There la no absolute certainty as to which party will organize either branch. .. P DETAILS LACKING POINT PLEASANT, W. Va.. Oct. 11. (AP) Searchers were penetrat ing the Isolated and woody hills south of here this morning In quest of a dirigible reported to have burst Into flames and dropped to the coun try side yesterday. Reports by some of the persons who said they saw the airship drop were to the effect that men, parachuted from the craft as It broke Into two pieces. Those who said they witnessed the fall of the dirigible were for the most part from Galllpolos, Ohio, Just across the Ohio river from Vie ob? Jectlve of the searchers. Checking In an effort to establish the Identity of air craft which might have been In this section failed to bring any definite result. The Good year Zeppelin corporation at Akron, Ohio, reported all of their blimps accounted for, and various army posts and the navy said their air ships were safe. YOUNG WIFE STABS SPOKANE, Oct. 10. (AP) Weary of constant bickering, police said Mrs. Betty Fisher, 25, told them to day, she stabbed her 61-year old husband In the groin with a butcher knife In their hotel room last night. He died In a few minutes. "I was tired of family rows," po lice quoted her, "and when he came at me with an empty gun, X stabbed him." Friends of Shelley Fisher, the hus band, said they often quarreled. The wife refused to talk until the cou ple's six year old son said there was an argument over a purse "and mama cut daddy on the knee." Mrs, Fischer was charged with manslaughter with ball at 2500. HELD FOR KILLING KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., Oct. 10. (AP) A corner's Jury tonight rec ommended that Fred Morrow, sheep herder, be held for further Investi gation in connection with the slay ing yesterday of Russell Fogg, sheep man. Morrow, authorities said, confessed he shot Fogg during a quarrel about wages he claimed were due him. Six witnesses were called before the Jury. Among them was Mrs. Melissa Chase who said she found Fogg's body while Morrow was tele phoning lot doqtof ajid, otera, Associated I'reaa Photo Here's Oklahoma's governor, W, H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray. In hit fa mous cotton attire. Except for the soles and heels of hit shoes ho Is clad entirely in cotton. IDENT EVENTFUL WEEK - OF WIDE IMPORT World. And Domestic Prob lems Met Credit And Disarmament Plans Take Shape As Cabinet Pon ders Orient Rift. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10-(AP) President Hoover tonight reached the end of one of the most eventful weeks of his presidency, crowded with momentous happenings. It began last Sunday with a hur ried return from the Rapldlan to join a group of prominent bankers in a conference at Secretary Mellon'a luxurious apurtment. There was sorrow In the preslden tlal household on Mondsy at the death of his friend, Dwlght Morrow, who passed on suddenly while the Hoovers were attending a world aer ies baseball game. Then came the historic White House conference of Tuesday night, at which the president's credit plan was unfolded and plana were made for the Impending visit of Premier Laval of France. As machinery for the credit exten sion plan was taking shape, the presl dent plunged with hla cabinet Into consideration of the Slno-Japancse rift In Manchuria. Finally, there waa a study of means of stabilising railroad bonds and help ing many small savings banks, which Mr. Hoover interrupted today to ac cept an Invitation to open the Olym pic games at Los Angeles next July. The day, too, saw the president as suring a large delegation of women of his complnte support for a program of world disarmament. BEND AREA FEELS QUAKE WITH ROAR BEND, Ore., Oct. 10. (AP) W. A. P.ahn, Mllllcan, Ore., postmaster, re ported today two distinct earth tremors were felt In Mllllcan Fri day. The tremors, Rahn said, were ac companied by a dull roar. He said the general theory was the quake was caused by a fault slip or by the dropping of a cave roof. There are many caves In the lava country of Deschutes county. II OLD STORY AT THE CROSSING TACOMA. Wn., Oct. 10. (AP) Oscar Ernest Halverson, 46, Roches ter, Wash., was instantly killed and his wife, Albertlna, 40, was serious ly Injured when their car collided with an ens t bound Northern Pacific train eight miles east of here this afternoon. Mrs, Halverson waa taken to a Puyallup hospital where phy sicians reported she had suffered 4 I compound leg fracture and a scalp Vwound. The oar va demolished l-ormer High School Star Races 87 Yards On In tercepted Pass To Pro vide Thrill And Cinch 13 To 0 Battle Negro Flash Also Scores. WASHINGTON STADIUM, Seattle, Oct. 10. (AP) On the wings of a dazzling 87-yard "non-stop flight" down this turf covered field this aft ernoon went the University of Wash ington's hopes for the Pacific coast football championship when BUI Bowerman, aubstltute Oregon end, landed" safely behind the Husky goal line to give the Webfootera a 13 to 0 victory. The spectacular dash came In the dying minutes of play when Wash ington was driving like mad under the shadow of the Oregon goal posts and It turned a possible tie. Into a sure win for the green clad grlddera of Eugene. Even though It killed the Huskies chances In the battle It sent a thrill through the 33,000 spectators In eluding Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. The two a via torn were the guest of Governor Roland H. Hartley at the game. Both Oregon touchdowns came In the last period, the first on a one foot buck by "Shufflin' Joe" LIU lard, sensational negro half-back, and the other by Bowerman when the Webfoot end grabbed an intend ed Washington touchdown pass by Merle Hufford, Husky halfback, on Washington's 13 yard line and raced like a scared deer down the side line to the purple and gold goal. Opening the fourth period with the ball in Oregon's possession on Washington's 36 yard line the Web footera started a vicious drive with Don Watts and .his team mate LU lard back in the fray. The two halfbacks made It a first down on the Huskies' 35 yard line on tn roe plays and then came the forward pass that put the Webfoot-. ers In a position to score. On a reverse play LI Hard handed the ball to Watts and the tow-. headed youngster dropped 30 yards behind the line ,of scrimmage and then began running back again to give his ends time enough to reach the goal line. Just before he reach ed the line of scrimmage again ha let go of the pigskin. Lawrence Winter hauled It down one foot from the double white pay Unea. The reat was easy with LUlard driving over for the touchdown and Ed Moeller converting the try for point from placement. The touchdown put a spark Into the Huskies that sent them charg ing down the field like mad shortly after the klckoff. Benny Sohn, sub stitute Washington halfback, put the purple and gold grlddera In a posi tion to score when be startled the fans with a 47 yard run after catch ing a punt. It gave the Huskies the ball on Orogon'a 33 yard line and the big crowd went Into frenzy. Hufford sneaked through center on a spin play for three yards and then tossed a short pass to Bledsoe for 10 yards and, a first down on the Ducks 10 yard line. The spectators were howling for s touchdown and the Huskies were trying to give it to them. Bledsoe battered center for three more yards but was stopped dead on a reverse play around right end. Then came the bolt that rocked the stadium. Hufford dropped back . for another pass, a short one as It wss only the third down, and the ball sailed plunk Into the arms of Bowerman and the Webfooter hot footed through a scramble of play ers for 87 yards and the touchdown. A big band of Huskies set out to catch him but be shoved two would (Continued on Page Six) TO GET ROAD MONEY PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 10 (AP) Governor Julius L. Meier today telegraphed Senator Charles L. Mo Nary In Washington, D. C, urging congressional action to advance the date for release of the $1,238,000 of forest highway funds allocated to Oregon so that the money might be available for unemployment relief this winter. Normally the money would not be available until July 1, 1933. The governor also asked Senator McNary to use hla Influence to ob tain favorable action by the bureau of public roads on the petition of the Oregon state highway commis sion for federal aid on the proposed shortcut highway to the sea. In a statement released today the governor commended the commission for placing the Wilson river road on the state highway map and for or dering surveys of the other two pro posed routes. Governor Meier said be had dis cussed with Senator McNary the pos sibility of obtaining federal aid oa the shortcut highway and had re ceived reassuring answet.
