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MEDFOTCfl MAIL TRTBTJXE. rED'FO'RD, OREGON. THTTRSDAY, 'APRIL' 26, 1931. PAOE FIVE I OF TRACnjSGAPE Trail of Death Left by Mid dlewest Bandit Had Coun terpart in Northwest's Infamous Gun Wielder SEATTLE, April 26. (AP) The wild hunt tor John Dillinger, killer, highwayman, bank robber and Jail fugitive In the middle west, today re minded old timers of the northwest of the spectacular manhunt in Wash ington 32 years ago which resulted In the death oi Harry Tracy, the northweBt'a most infamous bad man. Like Dillinger. Tracy left a trail of death, killing nine men and Injuring another. In the two months he was & fugitive. In the end Tracy died by his own hand after .he had been bad ly wounded on a farm near Creston In eastern Washington. The hunt for the killer attracted nationwide attention. Rewards for his capture totaled 98,000. Escaped Often. Tracy first escaped from a prison In Utah, killed a man. and moved to Colorado, killed another man, was captured and escaped, recaptured and escaped again. He entered the Oregon penitentiary In 1902 on a charge of burglary and escaped soon thereafter with another convict, Dav id Merrill. In their dash to freedom they killed three guards. Tracy appeared several weeks later on the shores of Puget Sound near Olympia. He compelled a man to row him to Olympia where he com mandeered a launch with five men and forced them to transport him to Meadow Point near Seattle. During the trip he boasted that he had killed .his fellow convict Merrill In a duel. He explalneu they had quar reled and had agreed to shoot It out. They stood back to back with the understanding they were to walk 10 steps and then turn and fire. At the second step Tracy shot .his com panion in the back. Killed Posseman. The fugitive encountered a search ing posse north of Seattle and killed Charles Raymond, a Snohomish county deputy sheriff, and wounded Jack Williams, a King county deputy. The same day .he killed Patrolman E. E. Breese and fatally wounded Neal Rawley. Tracy then began working east ward through the forests of the Cas cade mountains. He held up timber cruisers and prospectors, compelled them to cook his meals, and stopped where he pleased . He crossed the Columbia river below Wenatchee by seizing a ferry and molding up the boatman. He left two horses and took fresh mounts from a pasture. A month later Tracy took charge of the Eddy farm and its occupants near Creston. He remained at the farm two days and helped shingle a roof. While there George E. Gold finch "slipped away and notified the sheriff who returned with a posse. Stilcde Is Climax. When Tracy saw the armed men approaching .he ran Into the barn, got his rifle and dodged out to the shelter of a haystack. He made an other dash to a boulder on the edge SIX WITNESSES FLATLY DENY DR. WIRT'S CHARGES These companions of Dr: William A. Wirt at the now-famous Virginia dinner party appeared before a special house committee In Washington and flatly contradicted Dr. Wirt's testimony that they had talked of revolution. Left to right: David Coy'e of the PWA; Miss Mary Taylor of the farm administration! Miss Alice Barrews, hostess at the dinner; Miss Hlldegarde Kneeland, agriculture department economist; Robert W. Bruere, chairman of the textile advisory committee under NRA; Laurence Todd, Washington correspondent of Tass, soviet news agency. (Associated Press Photo) of a wheat field when the posse opened fire. He was seen to stum ble. A short tlmo ater a single shot was heard. The posse sur rounded the field and waited for sunrise when they found his body. Tracy had been wounded In the leg. An Improvised tournquet with strips of his clothing failed to stop the bleeding snd the outlaw ended his Infamous career with a shot through the head. CCC FIRES FINAL CIVIL WAR SHOT BALTIMORE. (UP) Although his tory records that the final ahot of the Civil war was fired April 9, 1865, Captain Francis J. Moran, infantry reserve, disagrees. It was fired March 3, 1034, the captain contends. Moran, who Is commander of a civilian conservation corps company engaged In clearing the Gettysburg battlefield, submitted proof of .his contention to third corps area head quarters. On Saturday, March 3, he revealed, a detachment discovered an unex ploded shell and brought it to him for examination. -Moran placed the shell under sev eral logs, laid dynamlto beside it and set off the explosive. T.he detona tion burst the shell, which scattered shrapnel for a considerable distance. And this, the captain maintained, was the last shot of the Civil war. The United States gets most of Its quinine from Java via The Nether lands, Java being the source of about nine-tenths of the world's supply. $6,056 PAID WHEAT GROWERS OF TO RESTRICT CROPS WASHINGTON, April 26. (AP) Benefit payments for reduction of wheat acreage In the three Pacific northwest states of Washington. Ore gon and Ida,ho totaled 88,090,341.33 from the date of organization of the AAA to March 31, 1934, a report from the agricultural department showed today. Washington's portion of the total was $3,916,921.24, Idaho's $2,284,524.82 and Oregon's 91,789.895.27. : The total payments In dollars made 1 to the counties In Oregon follow: Oregon : Baker, $20,535; Benton, ! $8,418; Clackamas, $13,209; Clatsop, . $86; Columbia, $1,672; Crook, $5,884; I Deschutes, $1,906; Douglas, $1,195; I Gilliam, -$158,979; Jackson, $6,056; I -Jefferson, $55,258; Josephine, $1,032; J Klamath. $7,048; Lake, $3,717; Lane, i $13,779; Linn, $19,588; Malheur, 89,- 877; Marion, $22,005; Morrow, $175, 130; Polk, $23,144; Sherman, $228, 269; Umatilla, $661,839; Union. $111,- 120; Wallowa, $54,171; Wasco. $131,- 084; Washington, $19,808; Wheeler, $3,522; Yamhill, $31,542. HEAR MR. 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(AP) George Creel, author and NRA ad ministrator for California, today an nounced his candidacy for the Dem ocratic gubernatorial nomination at the August primaries. A the same time he sent his res ignation to President Roosevelt, ask ing that he be relieved of his duties as regional director of the emergency employment administration so he could devote his time to .his cam paign for the governorship. OTHER MEDIA IN INCREASE OF AOS NEW YORK, April 26. (AP) En couraging developments In the newa-j paper national advertising field were' noted today at the annual conven-: tion of the American Newspaper Pub Ushers Association. j Three symptoms of Improved con ditions In the "front office" of Amer ican newspapers were contained in the twenty-first annual report of the! A. N. P. A. bureau of advertising, as. submitted by Edwin 8. Friendly of ; Vie New York Sun. chairman of the ! committee In charge of the bureau, i "The first quarter of 1934 contin ued the Increase In national adver tising volume that began last year, with an average of 21.8 per cent over the same three months of 1933," Friendly reported. "Volume of national advertising In 1933 reflects the stability of our me-, dlum. compared with t,he year pre ceding and with records of other ma-; Jor mediums. "The newspaper's share of the na tional advertiser's dollar showed an ; appreciable Increase In 1933. "National advertisers Invested i $145,000,000 In newspaper space In' 1933, according to bureau of advertls.' lng estimates. This represented a! decline of slightly more than 9 per j cent from the figure of a year ago (1932.) T.he $94,000,000 magazine ex penditure reported for last year rep resents a drop of 18.2 per cent com pared with 1932, while $31,500,000 In vested In chain broadcast Indicates a loss of 19.2 per cent compared with the Investment of a year preceding." a lasting memory to all who knew, htm. Previous to his Illness the family was united In a reunion j which was the first in many years. The older sisters, after a rew days' at home, had returned to their homes i In California before death took their! beloved brother; little dreaming that this happy reunion was to be their last memory of their only living brother. He left to mourn his passing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jordan; three sisters, Mrs. Eva Plttock of San Diego, Cal.; Mrs. Winnie Stanley of Pacific Drove, Cal., and Mrs. Irma Perry of Murphy, Ore., and many other near relatives, besides a, large circle of friends, who will miss his cheerful greeting and hearty laugh. He passed away at the nome of his parents on Thompson creek, Wednes day evening at 8:30, April 11, 1934, after a few days' nine. of pneumo nia. Three brothers had preceded him In death. Funeral services were held at Hall's funeral home Sunday, April 16, with Christian Science services. Two songa were sung from the Christian Sel ene Hymnal. "Still With Me' and "Leave It With Him." Pallbearers were his schoolmates: Leon Offen bacher, Lance Offenbacher, Ben Ellis, Harry Brown, Tom Mea and Frank Knutzen. Interment was In Pleasant Valley cemetery. "Gone but not forgotten. TO FREMONT Serene, with conscious peaca He strewed his way With small humanities. The growth of lore Shaping to right his actions Day by day Faithful to this world And to that above. Written by a Friend. f All kinds of ia blanks for saie for rent, no hunting no trespassing and other cards for sale at Commercial Printing Dept of Mall Tribune, Be correctly corseted In an Artist Model by Ethel wyn B Hoffmann, E REIVES EAGLE PORTLAND. April 26. (AP) A policy of price slashing has resulted In removal of the blue eagle from the window the Portland Cleaning Work. "They wanted me to charge the public more money," Bald L. L. Starr, manager, "and I won't do It." General Hugh S. Johnson, adminis trator of the NRA, sent the removal order to Portland yesterday after many complaints had been received, it was announced by NRA headquar ters here. Starr said his company Is working the hours and paying the wages es tablished by Vie NRA. "But I re fuse," ha declared, "to charge the prices set by a group of cleaners and dyers in Portland, and accepted by the NRA." Dance at Rogue Elk Saturday night April 28. Obituary LESLIE FREMONT JORDAN WAS born September 10, 1902, at Grants Pass. Ore. He spent most of his life on the Applegate and attended the Applegate school. He was very am bitious, always at work, and previous to rhls death he was making plans to Improve a place he had bargained for on Humbug and also Improving the home place where his mother and father resided. He was a student of Christian Science and the acts of his services and kindness will be 1 ' 4 ( ... ' ii The clean Center Leaves are the mildest leaves Luckies are all-ways kind to your throat WHEREVER the finest u,baccot grow in our own Southland, in Turkey, in Greece all over the world, we gather the very Cream of the tobacco Cropi for Lucky Strike. And that meant eny the chart itnlir leavtt. The center leaves are the mildest leaves they taste better and farmers are paid higher prices for them. These clean center leaves are the only ones used in making Luckies. Then It's toasted"-for throat protection. And every Lucky is fully packed with these choice tobaccos made round and firm, free from loose ends that's why Luckies "keep in condition" why you'll find that Luckies do not dry out an imptrtant point to ttxry imeier. Naturally, Luckies are always in all-ways kind to your throat. "It's toasted" i Luckies are all-ways kind to your throat Only the Center Leaves these are the Mildest Leaves Cocrrlcbt. 1)34. Tt Amcrtcta Tsbicco Cwpui.
