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PA'GE TETT KLAMATH INDIANS ARE WEALTHIEST OF ANYJNNATION Per Capita Worth Placed At $28,000 Reservation Is Richest Community On Earth Says Bureau Head. BT H. C. HUNTER pacific Northwest Aswxlated Press Correspondent WASHINGTON. July 35.(AP Although much hu been written about the wealth of the Cherokee and Osage Indians In Oklahoma from their rich oil lands, the Klamath In diana of Oregon, In their Tillages In tha cloud-swept mountain and on the plaint, have remained compara tively unnoticed wltn their per capita wealth of almost twice that of the middle western tribesmen. The Klamath reservation, where the per capita wealth amounts to $2e,000, was d'icriDed ny ionunis sloner John Collier of the bureau of Indian affairs as the richest com munity on earth. He pointed out that the per capita wealth there at 6 per cent Interest amounted to an annual income of .1700 per person or 8600 per family each year. Million Acre Plot Recent Investigations by the Indlsn bureau turned the spotlight on the Klamaths, living peacefully on their one million-acre plot In the Oregon mountains, surrounded by vast pine and Douglas fir forest filled with deer and watered by the swift streams pouring1 down from their mountain sources. Collier pointed out that there may be other communities in the United Btatea where the per capita la more than 926,000 and cited some of the fashionable suburbs of New York. But this, he slad, would be only an average of the wealth of the rich men with the millions of dollars, and of their servants with meager salaries. In the moutalns of southern Ore gon, however, where the Klamath tribe holds forth, every person has Ms or her 1 28, 000 or it equivalent In forests in the tribal property. The picture la not so bright when ft Is considered that the wealth la In standing timber which, at the present time, would ba hard to turn Into actual cash. But figures ob tained from the bureau showed that the income of the tribe over the past SO years hns exceeded $10,000,000 In actual cash. Life Is Easy In addition to whatever Income the tribesmen obtain from the sale of forest lands, they can get aa much nn they can earn by their own efforts. They can possibly, in normal times, make fair wages working In the lum ber Industry and obtain from the stt earns nearly everything they want to eat. The Indian bureau pointed out that practically all of the more than 1300 members of the tribe ar gath ered In the three villages of Chllo quln, Bprague River and Beatty, while a few live on their own farms scat tered over the mountain aides. Life, the reports say. Is comfort able on the reservation and there Is little Incentive to Individual effort. The Indians have largely discarded the old customs and dreas of their people, only a few old men clinging to the old ways: The others have adopted the drees, ways and manners om the white mrn, living In substan tial houses and wearing "store clothes." AS CCC ADVISER n-1.4 . .1.1 I f-.l reported for duty In the Mcdford' ...... . j. . .... . to Camp Indian Creek aa educational ,i,i, Golden la a graduate of tha Unl-1 Dllllnger trap, adding that an verslty of California and majored In underworld character had seen Dll aoclal studies, commercial work and "nper and had given the Information physical education. He haa coached football, basketball, swimming and dramatica and Is an amateur wrea tter of note on the coast. Golden replaces Clarence T. Brick en at Indian Crerk and Brlckell haa been asslcned to Camp MrKlnley. Wil liam Wymer, educational adviser at both Bradford and MrKlnley, will confine his activities to Camp Brad ford. NINE MILLION SPENT BY HOLC IN OREGON PORTLAND. July 35. (A) More than nine million dollars has hern , expended In Oregon by the Home ' Owners' Loan corporation for refi nancing loans and for repairs. M. E. rset, assistant manager, said the HOLC has made i 87S loaria in Ore- pon, totaling 3.1R4.170, 1 Notice. After this date I shall no longer be responsible for debts iiwuiTed by my vlt. Mrs. U n. Chandler. (Signed) LB ROY CHANDLER. SAliEM, July 25. (Vt The pro posed prune growera' agreement will he filed with Max Gehlhar. director of agriculture, today, the committee in charp announced. Hotel Figueroa MRiieroa fit. at loth. Los An Re Irs. Calif. One of Los in teles newest ! Hotels. Outside looms of v t& co Com dirt. Downtown. O a race In Connection Ratra from fl.SU per day without batb $i.m) per da nil li bath 13.00 pet da), tnln beds and batb A a MHH, Lessee. CROWDS OF . . ... ,.. VV,.' -i-, ',' : 3 feW . ' " Ihlt wal tha scone In tha Cook county morgua In Chicago as crowd! Soronar Frank Walah (left) la ahown viewing tha bujlat-ahattarad bod ARE GIVEN POLICE (Contlnueo tiuea paga one) omen who were with the Indiana outlaw Just before lie waa killed by federal bulleta, wai Mrs. Anna Sage, 43. brown-haired and brown-eyed. Police arrested her laat night at her home Just around the corner from the Blograph theatre, out of which Dllltnger walked unsuspectingly Sun day night to hla death. Mra. Sage told police she knew jonn llllnger aa "Jim Lawrence," and that he poeed aa an employe of the Chicago board of trade. In New York Recently From the "girl In red" alter long questioning by the police came the story of the last woman Dllltnger associated with, named by Mrs. Sage aa Mra. Roy Keele, Sfl-year old di vorced wire of a Gary, Ind., police man of how Dllllnger spent his time Just prior to the fatal shooting, and of how he aald hf went to New York recently "on a business trip." He was also reported to have witnessed a Chicago baseball game. But It waa not learned whether Mra. Sage or Mrs. Keele furnished the Information with which Dllllnger waa trapped. Both fled from the scene of the shooting, but Mrs. Sage returned, after changing her red dress for another. Mrs. Keele de clined to go bark to the scene and later went to her mother'a home In Fargo, N. D., Mra. Sage said. Secrecy the government agents threw around tha affair still per sisted and It could not he learned whether either woman will make any claim to the ais.ooo rewards that hung over the public enemy'a head Peny Woman Informer Captain Timothy O'Nell of the CM. VIUIBKU -.v.. k M"nln Z"kovlch waa among ! the Indiana officers at the death """'d emphatically that Mra. Sage had anything to do with to Zarkovlrh. "All thi talk about a woman in a red dresa tipping ua off to Pil linper's whereabouts Is untrue," he said. Captain Thomas Duffy of the Shef field Avenue pollre, who with Cap tain John Stcge questioned MVa. Sage at length before she waa turn YOUNG'S Beauty Shop 24 So. 0rnp Phone 454 PERMANENTS Croquignolo f 1.95 SteAro Oil - 2.95 Duart 3.95 Young'i Special 4.50 RcatiBtio 5.50 All l ines of Heauly ttork at Res- fconattle Trite. tiuarantre to jg PI eiiw Ynu. MEDFOHD MAIL CURIOUS JAM MORGUE TO SEE DILLINGER CORPSE ed over to the custody of federal agents last night, ssld he believed that she had sheltered Dllllnger knowingly or unknowingly for sev eral weeks. It was In her apartment. the police said they lesrned, that Dllllnger snd Mrs."Keele first met. Mra. Sage, twice married, ana also known as Mrs. Anna Miller and Mrs. Anna Chllak, admitted, the police said, that Dllllnger had been In her apartment "three or iour evenlnge" but denied reports, prev iously circulated, that he had room ed there. She said she waa well ac quainted with Sergeant Zarkovich, who has been credited in some re ports as the man who trailed Dll llnger down. Phone Number Secret Mrs. Keele, also known by her maiden name of Polly Hamllon, kept company with Dllllnger, Mrs. Sage said, but the hunted outlaw would not let Mrs. Keele know his tele phone number on the pretext he was a married man. The "girl in red" told Captain Stege that D1U Inger came to her house last Sunday evening, when he played cards with Mrs. Keele, whose picture, the police said they learned, was In Dillinger'i watch. Captain Stege asked her, "After you had your dinner Sunday night, who suggested that you go to the theater?" "Dllllnger did." "He suggested that theater?' ask ed Stege. Yes. 'In the theater I found a seat In the middle. Dllllnger and Mrs. Ham ilton got a seat down front, way in front. Before the show was over I saw them coming up the aisle and they called me and said 'Come on' and I got up and walked out. Tell of Shooting "We walked out of the theater and went southeast toward my house. When we reached the National Tea store, a big man pushed me or pulled me and stepped on my foot and I locked around and aald 'Say and he had a gun. I heard a shot In front of me and I looked and saw Dllllnger on the ground and I stood there and looked. I did not know what had happened. Polly pulled me by the hand. She said 'Jimmy got shot and she gave me one puiV There was a big man with a gun and he said 'Just a minute.' and he left ua and we walked west. "One of the officers said. 'Just minute. Just a minute.' and he look ed over the crowd and ahe started to pull me and we walked west on Lincoln avenue, south n Sheffield ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME MAY BE FOUND at The Broztell A Distinctive Hotel .iittiii a 7 rr t-n i iik.iH nv IT IS t Pa IS CA5ILT accessible to shop- anil theatrical center. rhiirchrs, libraries, narki and transportation II not. Ladle traveling without escort nlll appreciate the atmosphere ot it i il J2J1 1 1 Tr erurlty and rea U offerv lit ery room ntth tub and thoner Room With Bath $1.60 Hotel Broztell Fifth Ave. & 27th St., N. Y, TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. flocked to tha body oi tha moat of John DHjlnger aa tha crowd, file to FUllerton and when we reached the elevated she said, 'Let's take the elevated,' and I ssld 'Where?' and she said. 'Any place.' We got on the elevated and got off at Belmont, and I said X waa going home and she said 'Why go home?' and I said I wsnted to find out what happened. I did not know what was happen ing. She was Just shaky snd she wanted to get out of there. She had a skirt and she slipped thst on. I changed my clothes and went to the corner and everyone waa yelling that Dllllnger was killed. Friend Flees "T did not know what to think. Dllllnger. Then I got scared. Then I went home. Sha went some place (Polly). Sh did not go home. She went to meet that girl that worked with her, Maxlne Dunn. Polly called me f:om some place on Wilson ave nue. She was with Maxlne. That was the asms night. I don't know how long after the shooting. One hour, two hours, it seemed like a year. I did not call the police. When Polly called ahe asked me If everything was all right. She said she was afraid to come home. She aald it waa John Dllllnger." Detective Prank Slattery. who Identified Mrs. Sage as the "girl In , $ Uwitt wi Mvr TpBrco Co. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, notorloua criminal of tha decade, by. Associated Preaa Photo red," said he was the mat. with the gun who attempted to halt Mrs. Sage, adding that a big man In the crowd got in his way aa she fled. The Dunn woman, who worked with Mrs. Keele in a restaurant, was also questioned by the police but was later released. She told the Investi gators it was Mrs. Keele's picture in D Hunger's watch. Slayer Vnknown The mystery as to who shot D1I fnger remained. Detective Slattery, who happened on the death scene accidentally, said it appeared to him that Pageant Zarkovich and Police man Glyn Stretch of East Chicago were the ones who fired the shots. Federal Agent Samuel A. Cowley told the coroner's Jury that the gov ernment men alone did the ahootlng. Melvin Purvis, chief of the Chicago federal bureau of investigation, de clined to discuss the case. "Dtllinger la dead and the Dlllln ger case la dead," he said. "The name of anyone who gets the reward or part of it will never be made public by the government. Pickers and packers' tally cards, In large or small quantities, ready for delivery at Job Department Mall I Tribune, 28-30 N. Grape. Ill m JULY 25, 1931 FARLEY DECLARES Genial Jim On Flying Visit To Oregon Says New Deal Is Economic Crusade To Halt Exploiting Weak. PORTLAND, July 33. P, Genial Jim Parley, postmaster-general, pat ronage dispenser, chairman of the Democratic national committee, and missionary of the new deal, told Ore gon tost night that "this new deal is a great economic crusade." and that "we must no longer permit the strong to exploit the weak." "The exchange of hopelessness for confidence," he declared, "la due to one man Franklin D. Roosevelt "Big Jim" paid the state a flying Tlslt. He reached Portland by train at 3:45 p. m. yesterday and left for Seattle at 11:30 o'clock last night. He spoke at a banquet In his honor, snd conferred with state and city of ficials snd Democratic leaders. Praise for MoNary. Declaring that the Democratic par ty, responsive to the will of the peo ple, had fulfilled "virtually every ma jor plank," Farley observed, too, xnit Senator Charles L. McNary of Ore gon, minority floor leader, had offered only "clean, and fair' oppoiltion to the administration. Farley urged that Charles H. Mar tin, retiring congressman and Demo cratic nominee for governor, be elect ed and predicted he would be "as gocd and able a governor as we in Wash ington have found him a loyal and conscientious legislator." He expjese ed hope Congressman Pierce wl'l be returned to congress "to Mice up a diligent fight for measures helpful to the people of the nation and to tne people of Oregon, and declared thot Walter B. Oleason, Democratic nom inee from the third district, and R. R. Turner, nominee from the first congressional district, "would be credit to your, state in the halls of the congress of the United states. Old Masks Seen on G. O. P. Turning from the Democratic side of the political picture, Farley aald. "Now we begin to hear complaints" about the recovery program, "and the ghost dancers of the Republican party are at large again, and I am sure if you look closely you will see the same familiar masks that they wore in the late summer and fall of 1932." "Naturally," he continued, "men are not disposed to submit without complaint when special privileges and lllecal advantages are taken from them. Those now leading in criticism of the administration, Farley charged, "are the very men who clamored moat loudy for the government to take THANK YOU- 1 thank you ever so much but I couldn't even think about smoking a cigarette." "Well, i understand, but they arc so mild and taste so good that I thought you might not mind trying one while we are riding along out here." them out of the predicament into which their own greed had plunged them.1 DISTINCT VALUE The educational program In the CCO camps of the ninth corps area haa passed the preliminary stage of organization and haa already proved one of the most valuable features of the Civilian Conservation corps proj ects." This waa the statement of J. B Grlffing, educational adviser for the ninth corps area, who conferred with officers and educational advisers of the Medford district here Tuesday. Every camp commander and educa tional adviser from the 21 camps of the district were here to discuss their vroblems and make plans for the future. Major Clare H. Armstrong, district commander, addressed the group and pointed out that the program in the camps was not one of formal study but was a project In character build ing and citizenship. Through the co operation of the forest service agen cies, the men are being given voca tional training as well as the elements necessary to make them good citizens when their "hitch" with the CCC is over. Mr. Grlffing, who came here from San Francisco for the conference, commended Major Armstrong for hav ing laid the framework for a suc cessful program here. "The camp commanders and. ad visers under Major Armstrong have completed the early stages of an en tirely new educational plan, and will now be able to go ahead with confi dence." said Mr. Grlffing. Patton Rltea Today. SALEM, July 25. (P Funeral serv ices for Hal D. Patton. Salem mer chant who died here Monday, were to be held today at 1:30 p. m., in charge of the Masonic lodge, w,th interment in the Odd Fellows 'ceme tery. Among honorary pallbearers named were Judge Charles M. Thomas, Judge L. H. McMahan. Rufus C. Hol man, A. W. Norblad and Charles A. Sprague. TWO PL1B9 (if thvr snd their offforini live) will produce 5,598,720,000,000 FLIES IN ONE SUMMER ' Plies, motqnltoes snd other I meets are the rnoit deneerousthinesthat Set In your hnmr Vy ipread dit cato and death. Guard your health salnat these vile creatures. Kill them with PLY-TOX. ..immton Via sertuma 406 EDUCATION PHASE OF CCC PROVING DRIED FRUIT HEARING SLATED WASHINOTON. July 25. (AP) A public hearing on the proposed coda for the Pacific coast dried fruit In- durtry will ba held here on Satur day. August 4. according to an an nouncement By tne national recovw7 administration. Proponente of tha code aay they reprisent 80 per cent of the trade. One of the provlslona ot tha coda la that all producte of tha dried fruit Industry be sold on a uniform con tract. A basic maximum of 40 hour work for a week Is provided for In the proposal, althoueh MB houra would be permitted during aeaaonal peaka. Minimum waeea ror oiuc wwuhi would range from ai4 to $10 a week Other employes would receive 40 cents an hour excent those engaged In wrapping, aortlng. lining and check ing. They would get 33!ic. Bicycle Tire special 28-ln. n. a. Tires. $1.10. Medford Cycle, 25 M. Fir St. indites tm tothsallOretjonept OREGON TRAIL pLt, rPIONtER PARADE, PAADEPR06Mff JMNY OTHER. . THRRUIW EVEMf.-' I, Wrlta Ore. Trail Mdqta. fop Rea. Sea's at 1.65 and $1.10 Tax I no. 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