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Newspaper Page TextMail Tribune The Weather It's Vacation Time Hare the Mall Tribune follow oa on your -turner Tacatlort. Better than m letter from home. Telephone ?S or drop a postal glting your old and new address. j Forecast: Fair tonight and Saturday; i continued warm. Temperature! ; Highest yesterday ., 85 ' Lowest this mornlnjf.............. 51 Thirtieth Year (Eighteen Pases Two Sections') MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY .12, 19153. No. 95. Ml MEBPORD PiTOMO &M mini U VH LiLMLbliaw wll illlB 'vlG!ANTBAGBURSTS HHi IN SOUTHJAKOTA - ' By PALL MALLON (Copyright, 1935, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, July 12. Most arithmetics will sr.y that two plus two equals (our, but that hasty con clusion appar ently was reach ed before the new relief pro .am was worked out. The next editions will at least have to state the prob lem In a differ ent way. If they follow the relief standard, they will have to 5ay that, while two plus two equals PALL MALLO.N Jour, If you subtract two from four, you still have th same old original two. For Instance. President Roosevelt has lately been stressing the Idea that the relief matter lb one slnuly of numbers and computation. There Is a, certain fixed number of people who need relief and a fixed amount of money for that purpose. You nice ly divide the amount of money Into the number of people and you have the program $1,140 a year per man. That answer ha? been given so often that even the headline writers and copy readers over the country believe that the average payment to each man on relief Is $1,140. or near ly $100 per month. The fact Is the average wage pay ment Is to be about half that, or around 9600, which Is $50 per month. Mr. Roosevelt has always added as an afterthought to his $1,140 fig ure that It included materials and labor, but this afterthought Is not always printed. No publicity has been given out as to what the cost of materials and overhead really will amount to. xi you itok muj mat, you win iiiia these are now bring roughly esti mated (unofficially' at 40 per cent for materials and 10 per cent for overhead, or 50 per cent for both. The overhead will Include the cost of forty-nine works progress direc tors, forty-eight public works direc tors, forty-eight national emergency council directors and their staffs, as well as 4 000 to 5,000 workers now at various headquarters here. The annual cost of this set-up will be around $40.000.000. The ratio of materials cost in the state and city programs thus far examined Is about 30 per cent. This ratio will Increase to a maxi mum of 50 per cent when work starts on grade crossings. PWA pro jects, housing, roads, etc. A rough estimate of 40 per cent may be con sidered conservative. Thus, the actual rate of pay will rertalnly get down to a point where Senator McCarran mid his associated (Continued on Page Ten) TILLER-TRAIL BRIDGE PORTLAND. Ore., July 12. (API Averlll & Phllpott of Portland were low bidders today for the bridge over Elk creek and grading of ap proaches on the Tiller-Trail route three miles east of Drew in Douglas cou nty. The bids were opened in the of fice of W. H. Lynch, district en ptneer for the United States bureau of public roads. The low bid, $23,778.63. was rec ommended for award. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Hlen Rrlmlston finding, to her surprise, that white shoe paste Is not tie best material on earth for tooth brushing purposes. Red McDonald. ex-Mcdford and Ore gon State star athlete, cooling off after a hard morning's labor In the hot sun by eating his lunch and lan guishing In the city park. Passing pedestrians pulling the needles off the cedar trees In front ct the Hotel Med ford until the side walk side of each is nearly bare. Stan Sherwood In such haste to mbark on a journey to the postal convention he had to skip his lunch, and then stopping to argue (or 15 minutes about big-league baseball. A very small girl, attired In a very brief "sun suit." running barefooted almig the sidewalk with arms out itretched. to me-t her mother, and lustily singing "Get alone, little doeg'-e. set along.' to keep step with rcr ispid footsteps. A carn a! caltope down, town vAiCr? n-.ore rrte than "Rr trr L-.er-;t p-tt:r.s ready fT a;ir: h;5 rill. Air ' 375,000 Feet of Helium Gas Lost No Explanation Say Officials in Charge Investigation Planned RAPID CITY, S. D., July 12. Pi Disaster overtook the National Geo graphic Socle ty-U. S. Army Air Corps stratosphere balloon here early this morning aa the giant bag collapsed from an unexplained cause one hour before the scheduled take-off at 4 a. m. (mountain standard time). No one was Injured, but five men working on the gondola, preparatory to lashing the metal ball to the bal loon, were forced to Jump to safety. Guards scattered quickly to avoid In Jury. The top of the mammoth bag burst open without warning, permitting 375.000 cubic feet of helium gas to escape and definitely halting the pro jected flight. No Explanation. Captain Albert W. Stevens, flight commander, said he had "Absolutely no explanation" for the mlslmp. He added that an Investigation would be made, but that nothing would be done until later in the morning. Spectators watching the prepara tions for the flight sld the balloon ground ropes suddenly slackened and the top of the tmg opened like a pa per sack exploding. As -the helium. (Continued on P'e Eight) TO ELECT TODAY HOOD RIVER, Ore, July 12. (AP) Election of officers was to be the highlight of the Oregon State Edi torial association convention here today, following the preliminary meetings which opened yesterday. Hugh S. Ball of Hood River, asso ciation president, named Gedrge Aiken of Ontario as head of the nominating committee. C. L. Height of Canyon City was chosen head of the resolutions com mittee, which also includes Charles French, Moio; V e r n a McKlnney. Hillsboro; Sheldon Sackett, Salem, and C. E. Ingalls, Corvallls. The necrology committee was an nounced as consisting of Hugh Mc Cillvra, Forest Grove; Elbert Bcde, Cottage Grove; Ben Llftln. J"he Dalles, and Lee Drake, Pendleton. On the nominating committee with Aiken are Robert Ruhl. Med ford; Ralph Cronlse, Albany, and Law rence Spraker, Condon. FATHER UNO DAUGHTER LONG BEACH. Wash.. July 12. (AP) A beach outing terminated In tragedy today when Harvey Tegarckn. chief engineer of the hydro-electric powerhouse on the Kalama river and his 13-year-old daughter Jean, were drowned In the surf off the Scavicw beach. Captain Lou Wood worth and aldec of the Cape Disappointment coast guard station were summoned and were conducting i search for the bod ies this afternoon. Tegarden and his daughter were believed to have been caught In the undertow when the tide turned at 10 a. m. Oregon Weather. Fair tonight and Saturday, but oc casional clouds on coast; continued warm In Interior; gentle north to east wind off the coast. Melvin Purvis, Nemesis Of Gangs, Quits G-Men CHICAGO. July 12 fAP) Melvin Purvis, head of the Chicago office of the department of Justice's bureau of Investigation and the man who directed the successful hunt for John Dlllinger. announced today that he has resigned from the Justice depart- i ment. I Purvis said he was giving up his government Job to take over new i duties. His plans, he said, were too ! indefinite to diwiose at the present j time. j His resignation, he said, had been accepted by his chief at Washington. J. Edk-ar Hoovrr. He prepared to leave j his office today. Purvis said he would remain In Pur- iv b v.'M ni itly mild rr.annrred -yr,i.V.e:-.,.. : . c rro -; d.itcro'.i3 '.nemesis, of th d-perado. Long Preparation Ends Captain Orll A. AmierMin, pilot, shown testing radio and other Instruments Inside the national gciiKrartlilc army air corps stratosphere night gondola at Rapid City, S. I).. In preparation tor the flight p! tempt which ended disastrously this morning. The exterior view shows (left lo right:) (apt. Anderson, Albert W. Stevens and It. P. Wtlllnius before the gondola fully equipped with an emergency parachute In upper fight. (A. P. photo). L T STOP BUR BANK, Cal., July 13. (Ti Conqueror of the transcontlncntel skyways In a non-stop, cast to west night, Laura. Insslla today dreamed of new aviation laurels. The brown-haired 120-pound avla trlx landed here last night to become the first woman pilot to fly from New York without stopping. She made the gruelling but un eventful trip in 18 hours. 10 min utes, 30 seconds too slow for a n:w record. Today she rested flt a hotel here and mulled over tentative plans for a record-seeking dash from the west coast to the east to shatter a mark held by Amelia Earhart. "I may try for a west to east flight for a record that way within a few days.' she said. "I'll know definite ly in a few days." Miss Ingalls' coast-to-coast flight yesterday added a new line to women pilots' achievements In the air, but it broke no speed records. She brought her $40,000 black -cowled monoplane to a safe landing at Union air terminal at 7:51 p. m.. Pacific standard time. "Boy, what a long ride." she ex claimed, yanking a tiny beret off her (Continued on Page Eight) SUN TURNS HEAT The cool weather .that has prevail ed so far during July Is at an end and Medford and vicinity is duo for some legitimate hot summer weather for the next several days at least, ac cording to a report from the weather man this morning. Yesterday the mercury climbed to 95 degrees, hottest temperature since June 6. when it waa 87, having been 102 the day before. Although the weather bureau Is unable to forecast accurately for more than 48 hours. Indications are that the usual mid summer heat wave has arrived. The forecast for tonlRht and Sat urday was fair and continued warm. I A youthful attorney who turned sleuth, Purvis had directed the re . Icntless search that resulted In the death of Pretty Boy Floyd In Ohio, and It was his men who shot down ! John Dlllinger In Chicago. Whether Purvis himself actually , fired the shot that laid Floyd low in Ohio probably will never be known j but he's a good marksman. He iWouJon't admit that he fired the fa i tal shot at Dlllinger tn front of a north side theater on July 22, but ' men who were there sld h!s gun ; barked first. Purvis hadn't been heard of murh j until the hunt Intensified for Dil I lincer. In fact, if he hod his way. much wouldn't be heard of him yet But his work, and ti-e labor of the men uikIt him. i? -vl I.: m h littoral (Coailnued oo fai Nine) 5 DEAD 7 MISSING AFTER CLOUDBURST IN COLORADO GRANADA, Colo., July 12. (AP) Five bodies were recovered and seven persons, a father and six chjldrcn, were missing in floods that struck near here late last night following cloudbursts. The dead are Mrs. Auda Karn and her son. Leo; Mrs. Anton Edcr, her son, Glenn, and her daughter, Ruth. Several other members of the Karn family, who were visiting on the Edcr SALEM. July 12. fAP) Use of funds obtained by direct legislative appropriation for construction of a new state capltol building on the site of the old building was determined upon at a conference here today be tween the state planning board and the board of control. The legislative appropriation was approved rather than the alternative plan of raising ftinds by a bond sale. In approving location of the struc ture on the old site, the board mem bers also considered possible acquisi tion of additional adjacent grounds. Further the hoard concluded that the building should be of a flrc-proof construction of sufficient sir to pro vide for future cxpnnslon of slate business. Ask Grant Soon These conclusions, together w'th other data, will be contained In the state's application for a 45 per cent federal grant, to be sent to the pub lic works administration within the next two weeks. Governor Martin explained that the application for the grant should be filed with the PWA prior to the return of Senator Charles L. McNaty, who will leave Washington linmcdla- ( Continued on Page Three) KILLED IN CRASH BAKERSFIELD. Cal.. July 12. ( AP) A man who carried a driver's license bearing the name of Floyd Paul Bow ers. 35, of Gold Hill, Ore , was killed today when bis automobile crashed into a truck driven by F. L. Vice of Santa Ana. The aceiomt occurred 27 miles south of here. Officers said Vice was not to blame as the other man apparently was driving on the wrong side of the road Little Information was available at Gold Hill, although it waa learned by telephone communication today that a man registered as Floyd C. Bowers la listed on the Gold Hill rural postal records. Officials said he lived on Foots rreek. but were unable to bay how long he had resided there or Alien he a& lant In the M-inuy. It 1 believed that the name is that uf the deceased, despite the differ ence in the middle initial, which may hae been due to an error In regis tration. H- I ii'j f :-n'!'.c of I-clah O'IIrth B"'t, or tit Dr. Bower, both oi1 Gold Hill. in Naught ranch, five miles south of here, and Eder and six children wero reported missing. It was believed several other families might have been caught In the flood waters that swept down Granada and Wolf creeks. The streams also flooded Granada to a depth of a foot or two but the residents had Bill Helen t warning to flee before the water struck. No sc.lous dnmnvn waa believed to unvc (been done In town. FRESH OUTBREAKS DISTURB EFEORTS SEATTLE, July 12. (AP) Shots were fired, a bomb hurled and tear gas used freely a, fresh outbreaks of violence dlsturbcl efforts to settle two Pacific northwest strikes tday. Two Vancouver. B. C, waterfront workers wero beaten by longshore strike pickets while en route to woik on the Ballantyue pier. A bomb was hurled at the home of William Kenoyer Tacoma mill work er, shortly after midnight. The bomb, believed to have contained dynamite, was thrown against a front door, splintering the door and breaking the glass In a window. No one was In jured. A second clash between Tacoma timber union strikers and sympathiz ers and national guardsmen occurred at the 15th strret bridge. The clir-h followed a similar disturbance last night. Fortelie first time since the start of the sawmill and timber workers strike In Everett May 0, tear gas was brought Into use today by state pa trolmen. Three patrolmen used gas to clear pickets from the tresleway leading tp the Morrison Manufacturing company where a handful of men were at work about the plant. BASEBALL American 1 ' n. h. e. Cleveland 2 9 0 New York ., 5 10 0 j Pearson and Phillips; Ruffing and Dickey. i R. H. F. Chicago 13 17 0 Boston 2 10 2 ; Kennedy and Swall; Cascarella. Rhodes. Hockette, Ostcrmueller and : R. Ferrell. R. H. K 8t. Louis 0 7 0 Philadelphia B 14 0 j Thorns. Walkup, Andrews and HenvleJ: Blaeholder and BrTy. R. H. E. Detroit 2 7 0 Wiwhinsrton 1 5 2 Crowder and Cochrane; Llnkc and Hoi brook. PROSPECT WOMAN ASKS DIVORCE IN RENO SUIT RENO. Nev. July 12. (AP) Di vorce suits fllpd here yehterday In cluded: Lorettn Hr.zue vs. Robert V. H"sue of Primped, Ore.; married at Klamath Fails, Ore. Anjiift JfJ, 1913; cruelty. STATUS OE MARTIN MAY BE LEFT TO SPECIALSESSION Political Observers Say Question May Complicate Legislature Sponsors of Test Mum on Next Move SALEM, July 12. (AP) Clarence R. Wagoner of Salem, who has been mentioned in connection with the rumored pending move to recall Gov ernor Martin, denied .emphatically to day he waa identified in "any way with an attempted recall of the gov ernor." Wagoner declared that "only in case of an overt act being committed would I be in sympathy with a move to recall any official," and stated that he knew of no act of Governor Mar tin that would Justify a recall. SALEM. Ore.. July 12. (AP) Whether the Oregon legislature, at the proposed special session, will have a problem to contend with other than the financing of a new capttol building appeared problematical to day. Placing of the question concerning Governor Charles Martin's eligi bility to hold office squarely up to the legislature, political sponsors of the move to test the state eligibility ! laws remained non-committal con cerning future plans. District Attorney Trlndle of Marlon county yesterday declined to carry the question to the supreme court, stating In a written opinion that "the courts of Oregon have no Jurisdiction by quo -war ran to to test the eligibili ty of Oovcrnor Martin to hold of ficp." The opinion was addressed to Fred erick H. Schmalz of Portland, one of the persons who previously asked for a supreme court ruling as to whether the governor, because of his connec tion with the United Suites army as a ' pensioned major-general, could le gally continue as the state's cli'cf executive. Schmals today declined to cum- (Continued on Page Nine) nrv F PORTLAND, July 12. Yp) Region dl Forester C. J. Buck late yesterday announced that the "go" signal for the forest service portion of the emergency work relief program In Oregon and Washington had been flashed from the national capital. The message said the warrants for funds had been signed. - The two northwest states had been Allotted 91.130.788 for the work, with Oregon getting 1601,267 and Wash ington $529.5 1. A total of 653 men are to be taken from tho relief rolls of Oregon and 675 from Washington. Buck said today he was now await ing detailed Instructions concerning the method of obtaining men through the national re -employment service. WASHINGTON, July 12 (AP) In the first record vote on the AAA re vision bill, the senate today elimin ated hops from the commodities for which the secretary of agriculture could Issue marketing "orders." Hops were eliminated from the bill by a vote of 48 to 34, on the motion of Senator Duffy (D. Wis.), despite a contention by Senator McNary, (R.. Ore.), chat the price of the product waa farther away from the "parity price" than that of any other agri cultural commodity. Dreyfus, French Martyr Dies After Long Illness PARIS. Prance. July 12. (AP Colonel Alfred Drey fuse, whose Im prisonment on Devil's Inland on charnea of treason Involved France and the world In bitter controversy at tho turn of the century, died today at his home after long Illness. He was 78 years old. ! The Dreyfus case, originating In 1 1894. shook France to its foundations. well-nigh wrecked the republic, did j unmeasured harm to the French 'army and turned the questioning eye 'of the world upon French Juatlce. A you im Jewish officer In the ' French army. Dreyfun. who served on jthe (jcneral staff with the rank of captain, waa ronvleted of betraying 'French military secrets to Germany, j He waa sentenced to Devil's Island for life, ptiblifly drummed out of the army, and dlwharced. Four years after his arrival at the CCC Boy Suffers "Acute Nostalgia" Ma Asks Damages WASHINGTON, July 11. (AP) Civilian conservation corps offi cials got a chxickle from this one. A young CCC worker was re turned to his North Carolina home to recuperate from "acute nostal gia," which means simply severe homesickness. Informed by letter of her son's ailment his Indignant mother filed claim against the corps for dam ages, declaring her boy never had trouble with nostalgia until he left home. L TAKEN BY DEATH PORTLAND, Ore., July 12. (AP) W. II. Canon, 85, registrar for the United States land office at Rose burg, died In a hospital here early today. Canon underwent an operation Wednesday and had been In a semi conscious condition since that tlrne. William H. Canon, who passed away tn a Portland hospital early today fol lowing an operation, was a resident of this city for 28 years, and long active In the civic and political af fairs of Jackson county. He waa mayor of this city for two terms. 1900-1013. He waa a man of sterling qualities and many friends, deeply versed In business, the law, and po litical affairs. Ho is survived by two sons, Verne Canon of this city and Fay Canon of Lodl, Cal. His wife, Mrs. Margaret Canon, passed away In 10.14. Judge Canon waa born In Sullivan county. New York, September 21 , 1857. and was 78 years of age. Ills father waa a leading educator of the Kmpire state. The family moved to Wisconsin when he was a lad of nine years. Mr. Canon graduated from a college at Madison. Wis., and was admitted to the practice of law In 1878. He prnctlccd law In that state for ninny years and was district at torney of Lincoln county, Wisconsin, (Continued on Page Four.) .F. KLAMATH FALLS, July 12. 67V Oeore Goodson, 28. wanted In Fresno on felgamlat charges, was arrested here this morning on Information from Fred Peterson, superintendent of schools. Gooetson is held with a 16-yeax-old Fresno girl whom he married In Reno last month. Tho sheriff's office has notified California authorities. Goodson haa been employed by the county schools for about two week. The Job, obtained through the fed eral reemployment bureau, was at the school bus a lions. He and the girl whom he married at Reno on June 17, have been camping at the Sum mers schoql grounds. Petcraon held the suspect when he read an account of the search for Goodson in the morning papers. Goodson told offlcera he thought hta first wife. Marie Phlpps Goodson of Freewatcr. Ore,, already had ob tained a divorce. DEATH BY LOCKJAW FOR LAD INJURED ON FOURTH PORTLAND. Ore., July 12. (AP) Death from lockjaw came today to Lawrence McGregor, 11 years old. who was burned July 4th while playing with fireworks. The boy was standing In a group of children when some one threw a "torpedo" among them. He was severely burned on the right hip. notorlount penal colony off the coast of French Oulana. Dreyfus was re turned and again tried by court mar tial. To the astonishment of an entire world ho again was convicted and sentenced to ten years In prison. The I president of France pardoned him. however. Eight years more paued before those who believed Dreyfus the vic tim of one of the moat aroclous con spiracies In the htatory of France suc ceeded In bringing about h!a vlndl eation. The supreme court finally an nulled his conviction. His honor cleared of stain, he waa restored to his rank in the army. At the outbreak of the world war he volunteered and commanded one of the forts protecting Parts. He was promoted, to lieutenant colonel. When peare came he resumed hla cloistered existence. MARGARET WALEY FLAYED IN FINAL STATE ARGUMENT Effort to Use Mormon Teach ings to Avoid Criminal Law Seen by Prosecutor Husband Is Not Called FEDERAL COURTROOM. Tacoma, Wash., July 12. (AP) Scathingly denouncing what he said was Mar garet Thulin Waley'a effort to ua the Mormon religion to avoid the criminal law of her country, Assist ant U. S. Attorney Owen P. Hughes, summing up the George Weyerhaeu ser kidnap case, today demanded her conviction under the Lindbergh Kid nap and conspiracy law. When Judge E. E. Cushman re ceased court for lunch. Hughes told, news men he would end the govern ment's first closing argument m about half an hour of the afternoon session. While Mrs. Waley, who was her own sole witness, eat at the counsel table, staring at him angrily, Hughe tore at her contention that her only participation In the case waa "be cause she waa reared In the Mor mon faith and that It teaches abso lute subjection to the husband." Knew What She Did. "Since the state of Utah waa ad mitted to the union," Huuhea as sorted, "the women, of Utah have (Continued on Page Four.) IE FOR AMENDMENT E COMPLAINT Ten dny In which to file an mended complaint In her damags suit against Mrs. Blanch Virgin, as owner and manager of the KMED radio atatlon. was granted Mrs. Hen rietta B. Martin, president of the. "Clood Government Congress. Inc." by Federal Judge Fee In Portland this week. The action la a eontlmittnn n. .... original suit In which Mrs. Martin seeks alleged damages of 43S.00O, for mra. virgin's failure to ponnlt Mra. Martin to broadcast over KMED. In the flrBt stcD. Federal .fiirioa quashed the suit on th grounds, th allegations am not come under tin iraerai regulation act clause covering Interstate communication. The court, according to Attorney Herbert K. Hanna. representing Mrs. Virgin atyl the radio atatlon. Held that the amended comnlaini-. .hnnu contain the allegation of Interstate winmumcauon. Because of the legal question In volved, the ault la of wide lntri.f (a radio stations of the raclflo coast area. CORVALU8, Ore., July 12. (IT) Eighteen states, two territories and two foreign countries are represented at the summer session at Oregon State college. The rtglatrar haa an nounced that total enrollment la mole than 25 per cent higher than last year. Income Shares Marvland fund. hM ha ni ..v 17.63. Quarterly Income shares, bid 1.38; asked l.M. BEVEKLY HILLS, Calif., July 11. Well, we often lienrd of folks waiting for a dry day to hold a picnic, but Mussolini waiting for a dry day to hold a war is sorter new. That makes a great ad for pood roads. Our Chamber of Commerce can put out a slogan, "Build good roads in our part of the country, then in case of war we won't have to 'play off at all. Wc can fight every day. Remember, be patriotic. Have good ronds and fight, rain or shine." I wonder if this Abyssinian kin? could sue and get his dues liaek that he has paid into ths League of Nations for protec tion. Tours, C Ilia. MeNauiht SyadKata, tat.