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Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Forecast: Tonljsht and Wednes day (air. Not mucb change in tem perature. Hlstiest yesterday Ti Lowest this morning ....... 43 To Subscribers It yonr Mall Tribune Is not deliv ered to you promptly. Telephone 15. Oirice open until 7 etery evening. Please call us before that time and a copy uiu be delivered to your borne. Twenty-Sixth Year MEDFORD, ' OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1931. No. 209. mil BflTT Comment on the .. Day's News ) By FRANK JENKINS THK League of Nations tells Japan to get her armed forces out of China, Immediately. Then It tells BOTH Japan and China to get to gether and settle their differences by negotiation. We are about to see history made, but at this moment no one can aay Just what kind of history it will be. THIS much CAN be said: If the Japanese heed the com. mand of the league, to get out of China, and if Japan and China then get together and settle their differ ences without war, the faint begin nings of the dawn of a new and more hopeful day in world affalra will be apparent. RESIDENT Hoover, on his way .to the Yorktown victory celebration pauses at Portress Monroe and mattes a speech, In which he saya: "This nation passed through Valley Forge and came to Yorktown." . A lot of gloomy people are trying to tell us that this country Is In a terrible way right now. Is it in any more terrible way, do you suppose, than during the winter of Valley Forge? Of course not. AS the President saya, this nation passed through Valley Forge and came to Yorktown. Sometime In the next tew months It will pass out of the dark valley of economic discontent and into the bright sunshine of sound prosperity. HERE Is a rather interesting sug gestion made to this hopeless optimist by another hopeless opti mist the other day: "I hear a lot of talk about impend ing distress here In Oregon this win ter. But as I look about my neigh borhood, where I know all the peo ple, I don't seem to see many more THAN USUAL who aren't going to have enough to eat. "Of cours: ttierj will be unfortu nates this winter. But I seem to ' remember that back In 1927 and '"' 1928, which we look upon now s tremendously prosperous, there were ALSO unfortunatea who didn't have enough to eat and wear." THIS man may 'be an exception. His neighborhood may be an unusually fortunate neighborhood. But auppose you look around YOUR neighborhood. See how much more real distress you find than In nor mal, average years, remembering that In ALL years there are distressed people. You might learn something that would surprise you. THIS Isn't intended to minimize the Importance of relief of those who are in need. That is always Im portant SUPREMELY IMPORTANT. In a great, rich country such aa this, simply bursting with clothing and with food and with fuel. It would be an Indictment of our civili sation If we ahould knowingly per mit anyone to go hungry or cold. But let's not lose sight of the fact that here in fortunate Oregon needy people are not going to be so numer ous this winter that we can't take care of them. We always have before, and we will now. THOMAS A. Kdlson. we are told by his physician, no longer cared to live after he realized that com plete recovery of his health was im probable. That is to say. If he couldnt go on working he didn't care to go on liv ing. It was this complete absorption In bis work that made Edison great. Work, you see. Is the big thing In the lives of big men. -M PERFECTION of the telephone for commercial use was one of Edi son's many achlevementa, which re calls a story told to this writer by a hale and hearty man In his late seventies the other day: "When I was a iungster, Just get ting started In business, I went Into the office of a friend and found him talking Into a funny little Instru ment. I asked him what he was do ing, and he said he was talking to his wife. '1 said: "Like hell you are,' and he banded the thing over to me and told me to see for myself. Sure enough, his wife's voice spoke Into my ear. I nearly fell over." "I GOT all steamed up. My father mill, and every day we bad to talk to the station agent about ship ments. It was a lot of bother to drift over to the station with a bona and buggy, so we flied up a little (Continued on Pag. Seven) LIMITED HOIST SUGGESTED FEW PJfUCTS I. C. C. Denies Request for Flat 15 Per Cent Increase Suggestion Fails to Exempt. Fresh Pears WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. (AP) The Interstate commerce commission to day denied the railroads' request lor a flat 15 per cent Increase In freight rates, but suggested the roads might apply for specific Increases on desig nated commodities upon certain con ditions. The suggested specific raises would be for a limited period and would be primarily to enable the roads "to meet their fixed Interest payments as they mature." The commission attached to a list of products suggested for Increases a condition that In no event, should the increase levied on any carload be In excess of ten per cent of the car load charge which be assessed in the absence of the Increase. Pears Not Mentioned The suggested plan of the commis sion provides for exemption from any Increases of wheat, corn, oats, barley and rye, rice, grains not otherwise specified, flour and meal of all kinds, hay, straw and alfalfa, cotton In bales, cotton Unters, oils and raisins, cottonseed, fresh apples, fresh ber ries, fresh grapes, fresh peaches, po tatoes other than sweet, dried peas and beans, flaxseed, sugar beets, live stock of all kinds, logs, wood for fue.l railroad ties and wood excelsior and sawdust. - E MANCHURIA HELD TOKYO MANEUVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. (A P) America today Joined In in voking the Kel ore-It rlai id anti war pact In Manchuria. Secre tary 8 Unison dispatched Identi cal notes to China and Japan reminding them of their obliga tions under the treaty to re nounce war as an Instrument of national policy and to settle all disputes peaceably. The action followed that taken by five European nations. (By the Associated Press) Launching of a virile movement for Manchurlan Independence from China was reported through Japanese sources today, shortly after Japan had shown a more conciliatory atti tude at Geneva, where the League of Nations discussed, the Slno-Japanese controversy. The Independence move also fol lowed Japan's withdrawal of objec tions to American participation in the Geneva discussions seeking to bring about a peaceful settlement of the dispute between China and Ja pan over the latter's occupation of southern Manchuria. Observers professed to see in vari ous independence movements the hand of Japanese militarists and Im perialists seeking Japanese domina tion of Manc&urla without resorting to military force. The movement was headed by a Chinese general, bow ever. 1 . IN MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY, Oct. 30. (AP) Major James H. Doollt tie landed at Valbuena field here at 3:15 p. b. Mountain standard time, completing a dawn-to-dr.sk flight from Ottawa, Canada. Major Doollt tie covered the 2,500 miles from Ottowa in 13 hours and 35 minutes, having left Ottawa at 4:40 a. m. Eastern standard time, with stops at Washington, D. C, and Birmingham, Ala. F BRAZILIAN VISIT PERNAMBUCO. BrnEil. Oct. 20. (AP) Tie Graf Zeppelin. German dirigible, was In Brazil today for the third time this year. The giant ship landed last night after another non-stop flight from FriedrlchBhafen, Germany. The previous trips were made In August and September. All three have been devoted to commercial traffic, Including passenger, freight and mall carriage. La Grande Bandit Pair Captured PORTLAND T WIURDERJVIYSTERY Brother Admits Sister Guilty of Gruesome Crime Suspect Makes Getaway at Railroad Station LOS ANGELES. Oct. 20. (AP) Search for the 27-year-old wife of la physician, sought for the murder of two women whose bodies were found in trunks at a railroad sta tion here, ran against a blank wall early today when a woman suspect, questioned aboard a train In Ari zona, proved her Innocence. Operatives of the Southern Pa cific railroad took the suspect Into custody at Yuma, Ariz , but on their arrival at Phoenix' they announced that she was not Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd of Santa Monica, Cal.. be lieved by police to be the slayer. The collapse of this clue left police with a baffling hunt before them. The last trace of her was swallowed up last night In the heavy traffic along downtown Broadway, where her brother, B. J. McKlnnell, aald she left his automobile after fleeing from the station. Bodies Identified. McKlnnell, at first represented as confessing that Mrs. Judd had ad mitted the murders to him, later ..rlor! VirnlranlV! "It's a lie." The j bodies were Identified tentatively as those or Mrs. Agnes- ucrui, u ray technician at Phoenix, Ariz., clinic, and Miss Hedvlg Samuelson, her roommate. Miss Lerol formerly lived in Portland, Ore., where ahe received medical training, and Miss Samuelson's home was in Fargo, N. D. A baggage master, who saw what he believed to be blood seeping from Af tha tmnk which had been 'shipped here from Phoenix where Mrs. Judd had lived witn me no women, made the discovery of the crimes. Mrs. Judd had arrived here from Phoenix on an earlier train and Hth 1.01. brother had sone to the station to claim the trunks, which had been shipped on a later train. Makes Oetaway. The suspicion of the agent put the woman to flight and she hurried from the station with her brother ,-,i h- Tn the brief Interval between the departure from the sta tion and the time Mcammu Dtk for her disappearance from his auto mobile, a confusion of reports was at hand on what transpired between the two, and police had no plausible motive for the crimes. One detective announced that Mc Klnnell had admitted that "his sls- vfutnir the two women. MJl Vf.t.oou d whi.h wnjt believed to be that of Miss Samuelson was dis membered and bore bullet wounuo. Hwiv hiui onlv the fatal shots and was left unsevered. Por tion, of the mutilated ooay aiou were found In a suitcase. iitim tha Announcement of McKlnnell's alleged statement of In crimination of his sister, inapc.i ni.nn rinnlpri that a COU- jlesslon had been obtained and Mc- IKlnnell, In a direct awemens - reporter, cried out: "Its a lie. Husband Shocked. "If she did It," be added, "she must have been Insane." Dr. W. O. Judd. husband of the missing woman, shocked and unnerved at the horrible act. said she had lived with the two women, but that he had not seen his wife for some length of time. He claimed he could not understand why she might com mit the atrocity, although Phoenix police found a letter In Mrs. Judas room there from her husband to which he ssld he "supposed you thought much of those two girls that you would be perfectly happy with them ..." and closed with the statement: "I am not at all surprised at what you tell me." Like the other tangled and mystifying aspects of the case, this statement went unexplained, the physician of fering to throw no light upon It. LIFE SLTONCETOR SLAYER OF RANCHER; LA ORANDS, Ore, Oct. 20. (AP) I Wlllard Sullivan, convicted slayer of Horner BidwelL prominent North Powder rancher, wa today sentenced to life Imprisonment. Sentence waa passed by Circuit Judge J. W. Knowles. In Una with the recom mendation of the trial Jury. BldweU was shot to death In a Held near hi horn last June. GIRL IN TRUNK MURDER PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 39. (AP) There Is little doubt, Mr, and Mrs. Alex A. Imlah of Portland said today, that the body of one of the murder ed women found in trunks at Los Angeles, is that of their daughter, Agnes. J Stricken with grief, the parents of the former Portland girl were unable to talk over the telephone. A friend spoke for them. The lmlahs said their daughter had been living in Phoenix, Ariz., with Mrs. Redvig Samuelson who has been reported missing from Phoenix, and Mrs. Ruth Judd who Is sought for questioning in connection with the slay in gs, Agnes Imlah, whose married name was Agnes Lerol Smith, left Portland last month to do research work In a Phoenix clinic. The last letter from her was received two weeks ago. Mr. and Mrs. Imlah said they were unable to account for the tragedy or to name anyone whom they might suspect. The girl's last letter held no hint of trouble. The girl's husband's name was Dow Lerol Smith but he Is said to have used "Lerol" as his last name. They were separated. Miss Imlah was born In Cloverdale, Tillamook county. She studied nurs ing here from 1924 to 1927, later nursed In a hospital at Albany and then going to Wrangell, Alaska, and from there to Phoenix. PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 30. (AP) Dr. William C. judd, husband of, Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, the woman sought In connection with the slay ing of two girls at Phoenix, resided at Salem during his boyhood and af ter graduating from the Willamette medical school in 1905, went to Mex ico where for 11 years he was the physician for a large mining com pany. He is the younger brother of Ed O. Judd, former county Judge of Clat sop county, now practicing law In Astoria. His father, E. C. Judd, was one of teh best known and most prominent farmers of Marlon county. He lived near Turner. PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 20. (AP) Lawrence Winter, University of Ore gon football player, suffered a bro ken knee In Saturday's game against the Trojans of Southern California Saturday, X-ray pictures taken re vealed, according to word received here. The Injury to Winter spoils the 1 plan of Coach Spears to shift Bower man to the quarterback position. Spears contemplated playing Winter at Bowerman's end and using Bower- I man in the signal-calling Job. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. (AP) Secretary Adams today authorized construction of the airship ZRS-6 and ordered that the Akron be accepted. Adams notified Rear Admiral Geo. C. Day at Akron to accept the air ship Akron tomorrow as soon as nec essary work la completed and the ship starts from the hangar for her base at Lakehurst, N. J. The ZRS-5 will cost the navy 12. 450,000 and la to be delivered within 15 months after the Akron's depar ture from the construction hangar. The latter ship cost the navy almost twice as much. ANOTHFR AIRSHIP ORDERFDBY NAVY Signs of Better Times CHICAGO. Oct. 20. (AP) The higgeat month's sates In three years waa reported today by the American Washing Machine Manufacturers' as sociation. The September aales exceeded the beat 'month of 1929 by 3 per cent and the best month of 1930 by 9 per cent. They were lit per cent above September 1930. and m greater than In August, 1931. WA8HINOTON. Oct. 20, (AP) The American Federation of Labor believes that "unqueetlonably under lying factors In the business altus tlon art gradually Improving." CASHIER KILLED IN RAID Hurried Check Shows $10, 000 Taken by Four Rob bers Armed With Machine Guns Youth Wounded MENOMINEE, Wis., Oct. 20. (AP) An assistant cashier and a bandit were killed today as four machine gun raiders looted the Kraft State bank here of an undetermined sum of money. James Kraft, 19, son of W. F. Kraft, president of the bank, was kidnaped and slain hy the bandits while W. R. Kraft, 22, another son, was wounded, perhaps seriously, because he could not point out where more money was. The robber was killed by shots fired at the car In which the quartet sped out of town after spraying the street near the bank with machine gun bullets. Bank officials said a hurried check indicated the robbers took about (10,000 after terrorizing 16 persons In the bank, Including six customers. All were forced to lie on the floor. The bodies of James Kraft, and the bandit were found on the highway Blx miles from here by posaemen, who followed the raiders out of town. The younger Kraft had been shot. Officers believe he was slain In re prisal, after pursuers' bullets killed their companion, ,..., - . .... iniammestax refunds mailed dy hoss office SALEM, Ore., Oct. 20. (AP) The secretary of state today mailed out 1600 warrants totaling 947,000 as the first of the 1929 intangibles tax refund of about $930,000, including Interest. The warrants Issued ranged from 4 cents to more than 93000 each. The secretary of state's staff la busy at the present time computing interest And Issuing warrants. About 19,000 taxpayers are entitled to re funds of this tax, which was declared unconstitutional by the Oregon su preme court and whose action was upheld by the United States supreme court. The work of Issuing warrants has delayed for several weeks Secretary Hal E Hoss' plan to further reduce his clerical staff. On November 1 he announced about 10 more would be cut off his payroll. Hoss an nounced that a saving of more than 93000 a month was effected during September this year, aa compared with a year ago. His staff now consists of 90 employes, compared to 114 a year ago. SLAYER LINDSAY COMING IN PLANE LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20, (AP) An airplane carrying Everett Prank Lindsay, alleged wife slayer, left here at 10:02 a. m. today for Seattle, where he Is accused of killing Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay. Lindsay was ac companied by two deputy sheriffs. The airplane carrying Lindsay is expected at the Medford airport late this afternoon, according to Phil Sharp, local superintendent. A aurvey of business by the fede ration said today: "Debts are being paid off; replace ment demand Is accumulating; con sumer Industries continue to In crease production, business firms have been Improving efficiency; many Inefficient units have been eliminated by failure; plans are being discussed to assure Jobs for workers this wlntr. "These are Influences which create business recovery; It should be re membered that they are progressing steadily, although certain other fac tors at present prevent them from becoming fully effective," THE BATTLE OF 1 - f shp 4aoofated Press Psoto "You can't have me Louisiana state capitol," said Gov. Huey P Long to Paul N. Cyr (left) aa ha verbally shook his fist under the nosi of the lieutenant governor. Cyr had hlmeelf sworn Into office aa gov ernor on tha grounds that Long, having been elected to tha United Statea aenate, could not be governor at the same time. Long ordered aate troopers at the capitol to resist any attempt on the part of Cyi to taka over the duties of chief exeoutive. I The Jackson county budget com mittee, composed of B. E. Harder. Medford, W. H. McNair, Ashland, and B. T. Newhry. Phoenix, with the county court, will hold Its first meeting tomorrow afternoon. The principal business will be the selec tion of a chairman. Estimates compiled by the county clerk ehow decreases ranging from 300 to approximately 4O00 In the conduct of the varloua offices, with the heaviest decrease falling on the water master'a department, with a slash of 3824.02. The county clcrk a office Is next with a cut of 2012. All county offices are cut to the bone for the 1032 operations. Offsetting this and other retrench ments will be heavy Increases In al lotments for the care of the poor, schools, care of the unfortunate. widows pensions and the general fund. Hood Funds Cut. There will also be, according to preliminary estimates, substantial reduction in both the general road and the market road fund. Stress of the times Is given as the cause of a fl009.42 Increase for the care of Indigents and tho poor over 1031, but this sum embodies money for emorcency relief worK. The widow's pension fund Is boosted from 7600 to 0000. The larKest Increase comes irom the care of ths unfortunates, and amounts to an estimated $16,000. due to the "economy program" of the state administration shifting the cost from the state to the counties. Another Item, not embodied in tne last election. Is 18000 for the holding of a primary and general election, and mayhap a special one. This yesr the election fund was aiooo. General Fund Urows The general fund estimates for next year prjvldes for 212,107.08, against (196,848.74. The general road fund decrease es timate totals 21.f96.53. and the market road fund calla for tio.401.01. Road operations are cut to the limit, though frequent, petitions are filed for Improvements. A total of 115,520.80 Is sought for grade schools the coming year. In 1930, I109.B19.30 was 1 asked. High schools seek S0H.50O, against $52.- 187.80 In 1930. The school Increases, are mandatory under the Oregon law. and not subject to heavy slashing. The budget committee, at Its first meeting will make ready for con sideration of every Item, and will probably follow a policy of "construc tive economy, and Judicious spend ing." LIENS TO BE PLACED WASHINGTON, Oct. SO. (API Orders have been issued by tb Inter nai revenue bureau to place Hens for back Income taxes on the prop erty of AI Capone, convicted Chicago gangster. by , officer Posse BATON ROUGE FILES PAST BIER E WEST ORANOE, H. J.. Oct. 20. (AP) To their comrade, Thomaa A. Edison, who turned his Inventive genius to his nation's problems of nations! dofense during the world war, members of the American Le gion and Veterans of Foreign Warn paid trlbut today. . Thirty representatives of both or ganlzatlcna filed through the softly lighted library where the dead Inven tor lay In atate, stood at attention. and aaluted as two of their number draped the eosket with an American flag. Mrs. Edison, who stood silently by, was visibly impressed. At her side were her son, Theodore, Mrs. Habert Kellogg Hitchcock, her sister, and John F. Miller, hor brother. 10,000 View lller More than 10,000 persons school children, Ed l?o n plant employes, rela tives end curious hsd wsltcd In a long line throughout tha day yester day to file Into the little room. The Inventor will be burled In West Orange tomorrow. Final arrangements have not been announced, but It was thought that the Rov. Arthur H. Brown, pastor of the Methodist Epis copal ohurch or Orange, would offi ciate. Final services will bo at the grave In Rosedale cometery, hero. The funeral service hour Is 2 :30 p. m. President Hoovor was still unde cided today on his plan to attond the funeral. It was Indicated by the White House secretariat that Mr. Hoo ver would reach a decision by to night. HOOVERFAiLURE 10 IKE A BOW WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, (AP) President Hoover's failure to greet the mayor of Annapolis last Satur day while he was en route to York town was explained at the White House today as a misunderstanding. It was said at the executive of fices that neither the president, his secretaries nor any of his Imme diate aides knew of plana to greet the Annapolis mayor as they passed through his city. One of the secret service men had gone ahead of ths presidential party to make police arrangements, It was said, and he had talked with Mayor Walter B. Quenstedt. It was explained he understood the mayor would meet the presi dential party at the naval academy dock, where he was given a salute of 31 guns and other presidential honors. Work of widening grade on Cor va Ills-W aid port highway completed and new grade graveled. E POLICEJPPEAR Men Sought for Wounding Constabulary Member Found Near Gibbon Sur prise Forestalls Battle LA ORANDK, Ore., Oct. 20 (AP) Keith CroHswj'th, 80, and John Owen 19, both of Spring field, Ma, were In the Union county jsJl hero today, heavily guarded. They confessed, officers said, to have thot Amos Helms, stute policeman, here Sunday. Helms was critically wounded. PENDLETON, Ore., Oct. 20. (AP) John Owens and Keith Crosswyth, sought for the shooting of Amos Helms, state policeman, at La Grande Sunday, were captured shortly after noon today near Gibbon. The men were surprised and bad no chance to resist. The capture was made by Jesse Breshears, sheriff of Union county: Dick Robertson of state police, and Tom Gurdane, Uma tilla county sheriff. Owens, 10, and Crosswyth, 30. escaped Sunday after shooting and critically wounding Officer Helms. A sixteen-year-old girl, Orlean Wood house of Idaho Falls, was with them. She was taken Into custody after she left their company and Is held at La Grande as a material witness. Helms was shot as he and Captain Lee Noe of state police attempted to question the men after receiving word they were wanted at Idaho Palls for robbery. Gibbon la 25 miles directly east of Pendleton on the Umatilla river. The bandits after deserting their stolen car at Kamala, near the summit of the Blue mountains, apparently con tinued down the north side of the slope, following a creek to the Junc tion of the streams at Gibbon T RED'S SENTENCE SALEM, Oct. 30. (AP) The Ore gon supreme court, in an opinion by Justice George Rossman today affirm ed the conviction of Ben Boloff by the Multnomah circuit court of the crlmo of criminal syndicalism. Jus tices Rand and Belt dissented, while Chief Justice Bean and Justices Brown, Campbell and Kelly concurred with Rom man's opinion. Boloff was sentenced to 10 years Imprisonment In the state penlten-' tlary for "unlawfully and feloniously helping to organise and assembly In g the communist party of the United States of America, and as a member of such society." The circuit court charges also Involved teaching and advocating the doctrine of commun ism and criminal syndicalism. The Oregon supreme court will hold Its regular October term at Pendle ton next week. oWlLL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Cul., Oct. 20. Best Edison joke I know wns one on me. He and Mrs. Edison used to always come to Ziegfeld Follies and I played directly to him with my little jokes for four years before I knew he was deaf. Owen D. Young was making a flowery speech about him at Ford's great dinner at Dearborn. We all got to laughing. Young was mystified. It was Edison mak ing faces and pantomiming that what Young was saying was "hooey." Ford moved his old invention shop at Dearborn, even brought the red New Jer sey clay. When Edison first ' saw it he also noticed the clay. "G d, Ilonry, where 'd you got this?" He'd a been a great old man ' even if ho never invented any thing. , ' .3 1IH aVritusK SjlSaM to mm OFFERED WHEN p