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MEDFOKl), OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1933.
No. 99.
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CO. COURT ORDER ISCHER1
RETAINS OFFICER
NAMED BY MEIER
Schermerhorn's Conviction
. in Ballot Theft Held As
Vacating Office May At
tempt to Block Action
. An order declaring the office of
aherlff want, and re-appolntlng
Walter J. Olmscheld to tbe post, wis
made by the county court thl morn
ing. The order wa. signed by Commls
lonera R. E. Nealon. and Ralph S.
Billings, with County Judge Earl H
Fehl, taking no action. The county
Judge was apprised of the Intention
of the county commleslonera to con-
alder the matter but declined to leave
the circuit courtroom, where he was
present at the drawing of the Jury
for his trial for ballot-thert, acneoui'
ed to start tomorrow.
The order of the county court, made
la accordance with provisions of Ore
gon law. la aa follows:
"Whereas on July 18, 1933,
Gordon L. flchermerhorn was con
victed in the circuit court of the
state of Oregon, county of Jack
eon, of the crime of burglary not
in a dwelling.
And. whereas, by reason of such
conviction the office of the sher
iff of Jackson county, has become,
. and Is now vacant.
How, therefore. It la hereby or
dered that Walter J. Olmscheld
. be. and hereby la appointed to fill
such vacancy and to hold office
until his successor Is elected and
qualified.
Dated this 17th day of July.
A. D 1033.
HELD GUILTY IN
BALLOT THEFTS
Verdict Against Suspended
Sheriff Brought in at 8:20
A. M. Sunday After 18
Hours of Deliberation
1 If. BE
ED WBffi
Attorneya for Gordon L. Schermer
horn this morning were granted ten
days In which to (lie a motion for a
new trial.
Attorney Von Schmals said the
new trial plea would be based upon,
opening statements of Assistant At
torney General Ralph E Moody, In
which he mentioned Schermerhorn's
absence In California, before the re
count: the Walker episode, wherein
the wife of one of the Jurors was
Interviewed; certain evidence admit
ted over the objections of the de
fense, and evidence proffered by the
defense but not accepted.
The present bonds of 97500. with
Jens Jenson and Tom I. Taylor, as
curettes was ordered continued by
the court.
County Judge.
' RALPH 8. BILLINGS,
County. Commissioner,
R. F.. NBALON,
County Commissioner.
The county Judge did not sign the.
order. i
Schermerhorn Has Bonds 1
The county court will meet at two
o'clock this afternoon, to consider,
aa a matter or form, new bonds pre
pared last week by Schermerhom.
Private citizens are listed as sureties
on the bonds. They Include E. M.
Conley, Prof. C. Englehardt, and John
Glenn and wife. Glenn, former county
Jailer was acquitted by circuit court
Jury, July 4, on a ballot-theft charge.
Schermerhorn appeared in couit
this morning, with counsel, prepared
to return to the office, if and when,
his bonds were approved. Hts attor
ney. Prank J. Nwmon, threatened
mandamus proceedlne, to compel
the court to accept them.
Remark Protested
Attorney Newman in the course oT
his comment, declared, "no official
can now get a surety bond in Jackson
county." Deputy District Attorney
Nellson protested the remark
Bonds of Appointee-Sheriff Olm-
achetd, provided when he was named
by the governor to the post, when
Schermerhorn was ousted by executive
order, have nine months to run. Olm
acheid was originally appointed for
a 90-day period which expired July
S last.
The court held that Olmscheld was
"sheriff de facto." and further com
mented, that it was "moot question'
he did not care to decide.
Attorney A. C. Hough, counsel for
Phl. offered to provide legal authori
ties upon the Issue.
The defense contended that the
, conviction of Schermerhorn. until it
Is affirmed by a high court, has no
bearing upon his qualifications to act
as sheriff.
Many Question Action
Legal action to block the appoint
ment is- anticipated, and it is ex
pected that the opinion either of the
state supreme court, or the attorney
general will be sought, to settle the
controversy.
The state's Interests in the absence
of Assistant Attorney General Moody,
on his honeymoon, were safeguarded
by Deputy District Attorney George
W. Nellson. Moody Is expected to re
turn late today.
Owing to the controversy. Coroner
Prank Perl was directed by the court
to draw the Jury list in the Fehl ballot-theft
case, which starts In the
morning.
The law provides that when the
ahertff is disqualified from acting,
for any reason, the coroner ahall per
form the duties. Coroner Perl was
delegated by the court, to summon
the Jury list to report at 9:30 o'clock
in the morning. The ihertlTi office
will aid him in this work.
Gordon L. Schermerhorn, suspend
ed sheriff, and for 40 years a resident
of this county, was found guilty of
ballot-theft complicity, by a circuit
court Jury, Sunday after IS hours
deliberation; The verdict was return
ed Sunday morning at 8:20 o'clock,
They retired at 2:10 Saturday afternoon.
Dr. W. E. Blake of Ashland was
foreman.
Schermerhorn received the verdict
without any show of emotion.
Three Held Out
Though it has been agreed among
the Jurors, they would tell nothing of
their long vigil, It is reported from
a highly reliable source, that the vote
stood ten to two for conviction, until
six o'clock Saturday evening; and
from then until the conclusion at 11
to one for conviction.
The state presented Its strongest
chain of evidence, to date, against
Schermerhorn, fourth of the score ac
cused In the crime.
Jurors Weary
In the, final stages of the delibera
tions, it was reported, recommenda
tions of leniency were broached, but
were not embodied In the verdict.
The Jury composed of nine men
and three women was worn and weary
from their long selge, which was ag
gravated by the heat. They rested
throughout the night, on the court
room benches, and in the Jury chairs.
They left for their homes Sunday
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MOSCOW, July 17. (fl) Wiley
Foat, American round-the-world eo,o
flier, landed here from Koenlgsburg.
Germany, thla afternoon and a few
houra later soared eastward on the
1 .818-mile Journey to Novosibirsk in
Siberia.
The moat perfect possible weather
conditions prevailed from Moscow as
for aa the Ural mountains local
weather officiate, who gave the air
man full meteorological Information
before he left, said It was probable
the present cloudlneaa between the
Urals and Novosibirsk would clear up
before he reached that area.
Post refused a- chance to anatch a
few mlnutea sleep at the Moscow air
port that he might speed up me
chanlca working on his plane.
Post landed here at 3 :30 p. m. Mos
cow time (6:20 a. m., E. S. T.)
Post, who seeks to hotter the mark
he and Harold Catty set on a globe-
circling tourney In 1831, had left
Koenlgsberg at 6:45 v m., local time
(13:43 a. m.. E. 8. T.)
Post and Oatty had an elapsed time
of- 54 houra and 34 minutes when
they -reached Moacow. - v - , - .
Post made the trip from Koenlgs.
berg to .Moscow In 5 hours and 35
mlnutea and had therefore an elapsed
time of 50. hours and 10 mlnutea on
hla arrival In the soviet capital.
His monoplane awooped down Bud
denly out of the west, circled October
field, and then made a perfect land
ing. The airman took by surprise air
port officials and the corps or lor
elgn correspondenta. who had not ex
pected him to halt In Moscow, partic
ularly because he spent the night at
Koenlgsberg. a comparatlcely ahort
dlsninace away.
Post climbed out stiffly aa his plane
taxied to a halt. He swayed from ex
haustion after his feet touched the
ground.
I need some work on the ship and
BAKERS AGREE ON JOHNSON READY
OF
Southern Oregon Bakers' assocla
tion met here the last of the week
to formulate a code In compliance
with tbe request made by federal
authorities, and prices of bread were
adopted. Wages and hours were left
to the action of the state association,
aa all southern Oregon bakers are in
advance of the minimum wage scale
at the present time.
Prices of bread was one of the main
subjects discussed and resulted In the
adoption of the following agreement,
based on the different prices of wheat,
Wheat price 60c to 76c per bushel.
pound loaves to retail at 8c, 1V4
pound retail at 13c. With wheat 75c
to $1 (the present market price and
these prices become effective all over
southern Oregon Monday, July 17th),
1 lb. loaf 9c or 3 for 35c; t pound
loaf 13s or 3 for 35c. Provision wag
also made for prices in the event of
further rises In wheat price as fol
io un: Wheat at II to 1.25 bread
prices retail, pound loaf 10c; l lb,
loaf 14c, the latter scale of prices not
to be placed In effect until the gov
ernment order or until the wheat
price shows further advance.
WORLD MEET RUiNED
BY TOO MM COOKS
LONDON. July t7. fAP) The
leaders of th'j world economic con
ference have decided arter long and
solemn consideration that too man7
cooks spo'.l -the broth. Unleis they
chancr this view the rrmferenrf
whic.i v.ill take a rives July 37. will
not bt reconvened la l' entirety.
"Hurry Home" Is
WifJs Word To
Globe Girdler
NEW YORK. July 17. (AP)
The prospect of glory Is not the
only spur that la sending Wiley
Post hurtling around the globe.
There Is also a stern Injunction
from his wife to "hurry home."
Mrs. Post talked with her hus
band at Koenlgsberg, Germany, by
telephone last night.. The conver
sation was terse.
"Well, how do you feel?" she
asked.
. "Swell."
"Well, hurry home."
-You bet I will.-
"Well, I'll be seeing you soon."
"O. K. So long."
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WASHINGTON, July 17. UP) Hush
8. Johnson, the tnduatrlal adminis
trator, told newspapermen today he
might be ready tomorrow to start a
national movement for Immediate ap
plication of wage raising and hour
limiting agreements to all business.
Johnson made the statement after
s meeting with the cabinet advisory
committee at which the question was
taken up by him following a thor
ough canvasa of hts staff tbla morn
ing tn checking preparations for the
movement.
He Indicated that the queatlon
would be taken up at the White
House tomorrow In th meeting of
the executive council.
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GRANTS PASS. July ,17. (API
Declaring that John Alvln Barrier, IT
la Innocent of the murder of state
Policeman,!!?? paucom.by Jhs; evi
dence the state Itself Introduced that
Barrier was a good boy with no crim
inal record until 19 days ago, while
hla grown companion Harry Bowles
baa terma In both lone reformatory
and San Quentln behind him, Attor
ney W. T. Miller today closed the
case for Barrier after offering only
two witnesses Jin hla behalf, hla fath
ei and his mother.'
Bowles led arrler Into a career of
crime, engineered the first hold-ups
as witnesses Tor the state testified,
discussed shooting it out with offi
cers because he "wasn't going to go
back to Snn Quentln." and finally
got the younger Barrier to take the
rap" for Officer Baucom'a murder
with a. story that the 17-year-old
youth would get off with a year In
the reformatory while he, Bowles,
would hang. Miller told the Jury.
The eye-witnesses, he told the Jur
ors, at first described Bowles to the
officers as the killer, and then were
misled and caused to change their
mtnda when Barrier declared ha did
the slaying and went bo far aa to act
out before them. Mr And Mss. L. E.
Klumpp of the Greenback mine, and
offlcera, the tragedy with Barrier as
suming the part of the killer.
He declared the state had shown It
waa Bowies' gun that fired the fatal
shots. Bowles who had aimed It a
moment later at the eye-witnesses,
and Bowlea who had hung back
without answering "yes" or "no"
when accused at hla capture, until
Barrier had stepped forward with
the full assumption of the blame.
He declared that Bowlea' statement
all the way through had blamed Bar
rier while the Los Angelea service
station operators who testified to
their hold-ups by the pair had Iden
tified Bowles only aa the actual per
petrator. The case will go to the Jury during
the afternoon.
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PORTLAND, July 17. P) About
7.000 peraons from many sections of
Oregon gathered at a picnic grounds
on the Sandy river near here Sunday
at a state Democratic gathering in
honor of Congressman Charles L.
Martin of the third district. Governor
Meier, city, officials, and prominent
Democratic leaders attended the meet
ing.
DRAW JURY LIST
FOR FEHL TRIAL
IN BALLOT THEFT
Upon orders of Circuit Judge
George F. Sklpworth, Coroner Prank
Perl this morning drew the namea of
100 voters from the registration cards
of the county to be examined aa pros
pective Jurors In the trial of County
Judge Earl H. Fehl. charged with bal.
lot-theft, and acheduled to start In
the morning.
Before the drawing of the Jury Hat,
T. J. Enrlght Bought a change of venue
on the grounda that The Mall Trib
une had published an account of the
Amos W. Walker episode, wherein
Walker, aa a witness, admitted that
at the Instigation of Fehl, he hsd
visited the home of George B. Mc
clain, a Juror In the Schermerhorn
trial, after he had been sworn and
selected. Attorney Enrlght branded
the account of the incident as "acur
rlloua" and "prejudicial."
The matter waa referred by the
court to the district attorney'a office
aa contempt of court, and la atlll
pending before that official for fu
ture action.
The court denied the motion for a
change of venue, with the proviso It
could beUrouglvfup again.'.
The Jury Hat, aa drawn by the Coro
ner, has a preponderance of women
and waa drawn by precincts, as fol
lows:
Medford.
Maude S. Holmes, housewife: Ira
C. Moss, merchant: Fannie M. Lynch
housewife; Malzle Mlksche, house
wife: Robert Murray, abstractor;
Genevieve St. John, housewife; Laura
Gates Dean, housewife: Lulu M. Pen
land, housewife: Richard B. Smith
accountant; ' Ivan Billings, miner;
Christine Holt, teacher; Malzle Bui
loch, nurae: Ethel C. Scott, teacher;
Eulalle Bailey, housewife; L. P. Fis
cher, mechanic; Vames V. Boardman.
laborer, and Jamea McKray, laborer.
Ashland.
Margaret Dean, housewife;- L. H
Dyer, laborer: Emma Balntor, house
wife: Ada Candy, housewife; Cloma
T. Burton, housewife; Ledda 8.
Bishop, housewife; G. R. Hult, la
borer: Margaret J. Engle, housewife:
Elizabeth Hach, housewife; C. W. Fra-
ley.
Aids Recovery
Frank C.Walker, treasurer of thl
demooratlo national committee, Is
executive secretary of the Presl-
ent's nw super-cabinet which will
direct the government's emergency
measures for economic recovery.
(Associated Press Photo)
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OLEO IS COSTLY
SALEM. July 17. W Expense of
the oleomargerlne tax law referendum
aggregated t4045, the anti-food tax
league reported to the secretary of
state.
The entire fund necesaary to de
fray the cost was contributed by the
Bent Foods. Inc.. and Durkee'a la
mouj foods.
The law under attack provides a
tax of four cents a pound on all oleo
margerlne manufactured and sold in
the state of Oregon.
The referendum will go before the
-otr-s at the special e!c-l.on Julv 31
me law was passed by the 1833 legl-latira.
PORTLAND. July 17 (API Ralph
E. Moody, assistant state attorney
general, and Mrs. Moody, the former
Miss Reglna Johnson, Ashland news
paper woman, were to return to
Medford tonight. They were married
In Vancouver. Wash.. Saturday.
Moody, who haa been prosecuting
the Jackson county ballot theft cases
flew to Portland by plane Saturday
aa soon aa tho case of Gordon Scher
merhorn, former sheriff went to th.
Jury.
BASEBALL
National
(first game) R H t
Broklyn 3 7 3
Plttaburgh 14 l 1
Carroll. Sheute, Helmach, Ryan and
Loper, Outen: Swift and Orace.
(second game) R. H. B
Brooklyn 0 7 0
Pitt.burzh 7 16 0
Benge. Thu.-tton. fthaute. and Lo
pes; Swetonto and Plclnlch,
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CHICAGO. July 17. (API Oeneral
Italo Balbo accepted today an Invita
tion to visit President Roosevelt at
the White House late this week.
Postmaster Oenersl Jamea A. Far
ley presented the president's Invita
tion while the Italian air minister
waa paying an official call at the city
hall.
Hundreds- of gallone of gasoline
were pumped Into the 34 seaplanea of
General Balbo's 96 trans-Atlantic
fliers aa they prepared for the second
phase of their epic flight, the return
trip to Italy.
Oregon Weather.
Fog on the coast and otherwise fslr
tonight and Tucsdey: no change in
temperature; gentle changeable wlnda
offshore.
Prices of Food, Clothing
Continue Upward Swing
WASHINGTON. July 17. P) The
butcher, the baker and the grocer, to
aay nothing of the drygooda atore
keeper, had to pay an Increase of i
per cent more for their atocka during
Jure than In May.
The labor department aaid today
that wholesale prices for the month
showed an Index figure of 65 when
compared with 100 In 1936.
Thla was the fourth consecutive
.month wholesale prices have ahown
an upward awing. In February the
Index waa HI: March 60 3 and April
60.4. The June Increase when com
pared with a year ago, however, waa
only 14 per cent.
Everv eroun ln:o which the 784
product, r;psrt;da:e d
almost six per cent, a sharp rise be
ing ahown In average prlcea of grains,
cattle, sheep, cotton, lemons, orangea,
fresh milk, tobacco, onions, white po
tatoes and wool.
There were decreases In the average
prices of calves, live poultry, g.
freah apples, dried beana, hay and
sweet potatoes.
Food prloea increased were reported
for butter, cheese flour, corn meal,
rice, dried fruit, canned vegetables,
cured beef, lamba ham, pork, sugar
aru1 vegetable oils.
Leather products were up 7 per
cent In June aa compared with May
textile products 10: coke and petro-
eum products l'i: metals and mela
POONA TERRORIZED BY
5-HOUR EARTHQUAKE
POONA, India. July 17. (AP) An
earthquake caused a five-hour reign
of terror here last night, when Inhabi
tants lied from th'tr homes Into
d st.ow-1 nroducti 3: chemical. 7.1: and mla-1 open places In panic. First rcporta
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FOREST FOR FIELD
JOB MAKI
Copyrighted by McCIur Newspaper
Syndicate.
By GEO ROB DtRNO.
WASHINGTON. July 17. The foam
from three-point-two is oozing over
thousands of hungry workers like a
benediction.
Government atatlsttclans estimate
that the beer brewera today are em
ploying about 50 per cent of the per
aounel they had back in 1914 before
the war and everything. Thla appllea
only to those who actually brew and
do the office work.
Diffusion Into allied Ilelda Is ob
vious. Cereals, bottlea, caps, barrels,
tnlcks, eto.
Fifty per nt of a dead Induatry
come to life la 100 per cent new em
ployment.
SOLDIN, Pomeranla, Germany, July
17. ( AP) The airplane Llthuantlca.
in which Stephen Dartua and'8tanley
Glrenaa were attempting a non-stop
flight from New York to Lithuania.
crashed early today at Kuhdamm and
both filers were killed.
Kuhdamm la five miles south of
Soldln.
The plana waa discovered In
foreat. The bodlea of the airmen
were under It.
A local farmer heard th crash
about seven o'clock thla morning but
actual dlacovery of the ahlp waa not.
made until a few houra later.
A party of aviators and police offi
ciate left immediately from Berlin
for Soldln.
Soldln la altuated on a lake of the
same name near the border line of
the two Prussian provinces of Nep
mark and Pomeranla. Police aur
mlsed that the avlatora in attempt
ing to land mistook treetopa for
meadow.
There waa some doubt about the
exact time of the crash. Inveatiga-
tore aaid th bodlea Indicated the
men died between 3 and 5 a. m.
Women gathering berrlea aaid they
heard a machine about five o'clock
and the nolae suddeuly ceased. Later
a oycllat discovered the plane,' with
the fltera burled beneath and the
wlnga hanging from trees.
A rural policeman found a route
map, copies of , Chicago newspapera
and a pouch with lettera on which
were th namea of Darius and Glre
naa and also .of Victor Vesglsltea of
Wllkeabarre, Pa. (who served aa the
mechanlo for the aviators).
A guard waa placed at the scene
by the police and. for the time being.
the bodlea were left there.
Police found the gasoline tank of
he Llthuanlca empty. Hence they
believed that the pilot came down
Intentionally but, because of the fog,
waa unable to see the treetopa.
The bodlea were badly mangled.
Several trees snapped under the
weight of the plane. Near th apot
American cigarette and candle were
found.
The beer trade Is growing by hops
and bounds according to factory fig-
urea tent In for federal Inspection.
Automobile factorlea are being
turned Into breweries. Bo ar cider
mills. A th new onee open up men
get lobs and th burden of supply
ing a voracious demand la taken on
those now operating.
"Beverage employment" and pay
roll Indexes have led the field for
increases sine th beer bill became
effective. They will run around
100 or better for June aa compared
to the 100 average based on 1936.
The summer montha are certain to
boost our -non-Intoxicating Imbibing,
Border-line business around the
states not yet supposed to sell 6.3 Is
tremendous. "Dry" Kansaa la In the
midst of open revolt.
Soldln. nesr where th Lithuanian
fliera craahed on their attempted
flight from New Tork to Kaunas,
Lithuania, la about 400 miles ahort
of their goal. They had covered a
little over 4000 miles of the 4400
mile distance.
An Illustration of by-product ex-
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EUGENE. July 17. JP) Th Or
gon state retell meat dealara associa
tion waa formed at a meeting her
yesterday and a cod of fair business
practices adopted. Harold F. Alien
Walker waa elected president; E. C
Walker, vie prealden: arid E. O. Har
lan. Eugen. secretary-treasurer,
Th cod to be submitted to Wash
ington for approval provide for
minimum wage scale of 116 per week
and a maximum work week of 50
hours. If approved' the code becomea
effective In two weeka.
d increase. Farm product went up Icellaneou commodities 3',,
aaid then was no damsg.
lea for Separation Filed As
Evangel Speeding Home
From Europe Theater
Career Is Planned Soon
LOS ANGELES, July 17 (AP) Th
marriage of Almee Semple McPheraon
Hutton, blonde evangelist of Angelus
Temple, and David Hutton, portly
alnger. moved into the divorce courts
today In a ault In which Hutton al
leged he had heard that ahe wished
to sever marital ties with him.
Hutton's complaint, filed after 33
montha of wedded life, th laat of -which
were rir with rumors that all
waa not wall between th couple,
charged that before the evangelist
went abroad last January, ahe let It
be known aha wished to "eliminate"
him from the temple.
For some tlma after Mrs. McPher-
aon-Hutton sailed to Europe. Hutton
waa regarded publicly as the business
manager of the religious edifice In
which the evangelist had preached
her way to prominence.
The complaint alleged that the
plaintiff had been "fired" from th
tempi under orders from th defend
ant, while she waa in Europe. Thl
allegation waa prefaced with th
statement that "before ahe left, th
defendant told various - persona ah
wlahed to sever her marital relation
with th plaintiff and to eliminate,
him from the business of th tem
ple." Preoeded aa It was by varied ru
mors, th filing of th suit was not
a complete surprise and waa mad
even leas so by th announcement of
Hutton early today that he Intended
to asek a dlvoroa. There was touch
of drama In the filing of tbe ault,-'
however, aa there haa been with many
of the event of th evangellat'a '
checkered life, In that It cam a
Slater Almee aped, homeward bound.
across tbe seas from Europe, due In '
Baltimore on July 36.
Hutton said he waa tired of having
the Intimate details of his married
life "publicly discussed."
Divorce, olten rumored In and
about the yellow edifice on th bank
of Echo Park lake, la ought by Hut-
ton aa a climax to a tumultuous
wedded life which, only a fortnight or
so ago, waa punctuated by serio
comic cablegram from hla wife In
Parla, announcing th birth of a aon.
(Continued on Pag Five)
O'CONNELL NEAR
RITES TUESDAY
Funeral services for Lovella L. Bur
nett, who died July 16, will be held
tomorrow afternoon at 3:80 o'clock.
In the Methodist church at Talent, It
waa announced today.
Mra. Bumette waa born at Almeda,
Ore., Auguat 33, 1910. She gradu
ated from the Talent high school In
1039. Surviving ar her husband,
Howard O. Burnett, 13-months-old
son, Charlee Howard, her father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Long
of Talent; three sisters. Mra. H. Mc-
Intyre of Grant Pas, Mra. V. Helblg
of Roseburg and Irla Long of Talent;
three brothers, Chsrles O, Long of
Talent, Donald Long of Santa Rosa,
Calif., and Floyd Long of Granger,
Wash.
BANKER HARRIMAN
AGAIN DISAPPEARS
NEW TORK. July 17. (AP) JO-
seph W. Harrlmsn, former chairman
of the Harrlmsn National Bank ana
Trust company disappeared today for
a second time from the regent nurs
ing home In Eaat 61at street.
William 1. Donovan, chuf of coun
sel for Harrlman, who la under ball
on $36,000 on federal Indictment
charging alternation of the book of
the hank, notified U. 8. Attorney
George Z. Medall of Harrlman', dis
appearance.
Donovan said Harrlman "allpped
out" through th aervlc ntranc to
th home, and entered taxlcab. A
boy who waa close by ,ld th taxi
driver waa told to "drlv to Fort Lee
I ferry."
FREEDOM BELIEF
By the Associated Press.
A belief waa held today In Albanr.
N. T.,- that kidnaper of John J.
O'Connell, Jr., member of a political
ly powerful family, might free him In
New York City. Bolstering thla feel
ing waa th disclosure that two notes
received by hla family were noat
marked In th metropolitan area.
Auguat Luer. aged banker of Alton.
111., freed yesterday by a kidnap
gang, told of being detained five
daya In a sub-basement. Many be
llsv a 610.000 ransom waa paid; th
oanaer a aon denies It.
Two ex-convlcte were seised vaster-
day at Cicero, III., In th kldnanlng
of John Factor, epeculator, who wa
freed on payment of 650.000 ransom.
The pair, Martin O'Leary and Carl
Fontana, were taken In a hotel for
merly a Capon stronghold.
CAN'T GO TO FAIR,
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PORTLAND, Or., July IT. P)
A shocked crowd saw Edward SnelL
19. leap into th Willamette river
from th center (pan of th Morrison
bridge today. He refused a lira preser
ver thrown by a bridge tender. An
alert truck driver plunged Into th
stream and rescued him.
-What' th Idea," policeman
wanted to know.
"I'm Juat disgusted because I cant
go to the Chicago fair." young Snelt
answered aa they took him to the
emergency hospital.
SALEM. July 17. (API Charlea M.
Thomas, publlo utilities commissioner,
hsa been requested to conduct a hear
ing involving protests against th ap
plication of th Southern Pacific
company for permission to abandon
Its line between Monmouth and Th
Dalle. ,
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