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Newspaper Page TextMail Tribune Bargain Days Subscription Rates Effective This Week The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and j Tuesday, but becoming cloudy. No change In temperature. J Temperature: Highest yesterday .... 82 ! Lowest this morning S2 j Thirtieth Year Harry Jackson, Chiloquin Indian, Driver Of Death Car Faulty Brakes Claim Inquest Slated Today. Shirley Oliver, six year old daughter of Mr. and Mri. Walter Oliver of Kla math Falls waa killed late yesterday afternoon at Plnehurst when struck by a car driven by Harry Jackson, 50 year old Chtloquln Indian. According to state police, who Investigated the accident, the little girl was rurnlng across th. road from the Plnehurt hotel to Hie store, owned by her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles DeCar low. With her was her sister, Patri cia, 7, who saw the Jackson car, with trailer attached, travelling towards Klamath Falls. She called to her sis ter to stop. Shirley looked the wrong way, and seeing nothing, ran across the road In front of the machine. Jackson swung left to avoid her, but was unable to stop the car, an old sedan, because of alleged faulty brakes, according to Deputy Coroner Will Dodge, and state police. The car struck the girl down, and she clung to the front bumper, being carried for 39 yards before los ing her hold. The car rolled for 65 steps before coming to a stop, officers ssld. The child died In 15 minutes. Jackson was arrested, charged with having faulty brakes and no opera tor's license, and was scheduled to appear In Justice court here today. An .Inquest Into the death . km to have been held In Ashland this after noon. The dead girl Is survived by her parents and grandparents, three sis ters, and one brother. All five of the children were staying with their grandparents, and attending the Flnehurst school. Jackson waa returning to his home In Chiloquin, accompanied by his wife and George Bennett, a white man, after the Jacksona had, been visiting their two children who at tend the Aahland high school. Deputy coroner Dodge, who wit nessed the accident and Inspected the Jackson car afterwards, stated that '"I examined the Jackson car, and found the emergency brake handle broken off at the floor, and his other brakes were useless. The only way be could, stop was on compression." SEEK COMPROMISE L WASHINGTON. Sept. 23. (F) Representatives of coal mine workers and opera ton sought again today to compromise difference responsible for the soft coal strike. Early in ths afternoon, the Appala chian Joint wage conference resumed Its discussions, recessing subject to call after telling Its negotiating com mlttee of nine producers and nine miners to work toward an Agreement. Edward P. McGrady, assistant sec retary of labor, reported after a White Rouse visit that he thought the pros pects "good" for a. settlement. He left with one of the president's secre taries a full report of the situation, but did not ask presidential assist ance. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Harry Skyrman pondering the fact that a buzzard had spent most or the morning circling over his head while he was out deer hunting, and unable to make up his mind whether the bunM believed him to be a hunter of the old school and apt to furnish a meal, or whether the bird was pessimistic, and expected Skyrman to get shot. Bob Maentz, ex-Stanford nack ftetd ace, needling all his agility to keep out of the way In the Med ford -Normal practice scrimmage Saturday, .while refereelng. Lee G. rlock keeping from falling off ht4 rag at the rodeo, when called I 1 in to ride out and take a be re the crowd, v . . T-' fteeled looking speefmens of -X 0 entering a 5o-al fruit pac! I j sport um. and with serious met' it Id to be conducted to "Mr ftr Jlnson. husky Toloed wlin a I; jjld. refusing to try Mc CortsJ cold rure of red pepper in , dv.r ing with Uiaiuts in prefe of .e oo.4. P1NEHURST CHILD mooney kin, former defendant in court STRU(, DRAGGED F rik -:tHI MEDFORD mil Associated Press Tom Mooney's family and Israel Weinberg, who was tried and acquitted of the 1918 San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing for which Mooney Is serving a life sentence, met at Mooney's state supreme court hearing In an effort to obtain vindication. Left to right: Mrs, Rena Mooney, wife; John Mooney, brother; Anna Mooney, sister, and Weinberg. Both Mrs. Mooney and Weinberg are witnesses. (Asso ciated Press Photo! PLENTY OF DEER BUT FEW KILLED ON OPENING DAY An hour after dawn yesterday morning a barrage was laid down through southern Oregon hills as, the 1935 deer season got under way, with what Is estimated as the largest army of hunters In the hills on an open ing day In a decade. The deer are said to be plentiful, -but only scat tered reports of kills had trickled" Into the city today, with many evidently staying out for a. chance at the sec ond buck. Raymond Miksche shot a 160-pound bpek in the Unipqua divide country; John Ysunza and Bill Nelson took meat In'the Evans creek district, and Jim Dally knocked down a big buck th the Surveyor's Peek district In Klamath county. , Cars going through the city today h"d many deer strap ped on, showing that hunters from the northern part of the state and county, bearing that hunting .was good In this district this year, had driven south for a bit of shooting. The only deer reported so far from the Applegate district was a nice three-pointer bagged by Gil Knlps In the Beaver creek country. None of the several parties taking to eastern Oregon after muletall neve reported In yet, but results In tht country should be known in a day or two. WILE IN PULPIT BEL AIR. Md.. Sept. 23. ffPt Stricken In the midst of an address from the pulpit of the Bethel Pres byterian church near here. Dr. A. Norman Ward, president of Western Maryland college and noted reunions leader, was dead today of a heart at tack. Dr. Ward, who was one of a com mittee of 16 ch urch men named to effect plans for consolidating the Methodist Protestant and Southern Methodist branches of Methodism, had been president of Western Mary land for 15 years. He was 62 . Dr. Ward was graduated from West ern Maryland In 1895. and served In pulpits In Baltimore. Seattle. Wash., Washington and Salisbury, Md., In ensuing years. CALIFORNIA SEEKS OAKLAND. Cal.. Sept. 23. !Ar Stat Treasurer Chsrlen O. Johnson todav asked Oakland police to search for William D. Sherer. 7. cashier In the state treasurer's office. Sacra mento, mlssin? since Thurvlay. Johnson told officers Sherer was la.t twen at the Southern Paclf-.c de pot. Thursday, prepared to board a train for his home In Berkeley. It waa not until Mrs. Sherer opened a telegram from Johnson to her hus band the nt day. asking his return to Sacramento, that Ii'.o disappesranrr w revealed. Sherer was In poor health, his wile wud 1 ! BASEBALL National First game: R. H. E. Boston - a B a New York 5 0 Brandt and Spohrer; Hubbell and Mancuso. First game: R. H. E. Brooklyn 2 B 2 Philadelphia 4 0 0 '(10 innings). Leonard and J. Tay lor; Mulcnhy, Prim and Todd. Second game: ' R. H. E. Boswr,":.;.:.r....;.....;............. u 12 4 New York 7 11 1 Frank house, R. Smith and Dal!; Qabler, Parmelee and Myatt. Second game: Brooklyn , R. H. E. B 11 a Philadelphia 4 11 3 Benge, Zachary and Lopes. J. Tay lor; Blvln, Jorgens, Prim, Mulcahy and Holden. American R. H. E. New York .. 5 10 0 Washington 1 7 U Gomez and Glenn; Whitehall , Rus sell and Bolton, Holbrook. MAKING GETAWAY Two young men are In the Ashland Community hospital today seriously Injured as the result of a wild ride In what police say was a stolen car, last night. The two, Wallace Bertrand and Herbert Cook, according to state police, stole a Ford coupe belonging to Maurice Spatz, from In front of the Pine cone Inn some time after U o'clock last night, and. started to ward Ashland. Arriving at Talent, they were un able to negotiate the turn at the south end of town, crashing Into the bank on the right side of the high way, and then across the pavement and Into a tree, completely demol ishing the car, Wallace sustained severe gashes on the face, his lower lip was laid open to the chin bone, and both kneecaps, were broken. Cook is suffering from a fractured skull, deep cuts and bruises. The young men admitted to state police that they were driving too fast, and had too much liquor to drink.. When state police officers, checking on the crash, found the car registered to Spatz. they checked with him and found that the car had been missing for over an hour but that he bad not yet reported It stolen. When the two recover sufficiently, a felony charge of stealing an auto mobile will be placed against them, state police stated. The case Is strikingly similar to one on last April 14, state police rec ords show, when Lester Adams. Klam ath Falls auto mechanic, crashed Into a tree only a few feet from the one that figured In last night's crash, also demolishing the car, a new La Fayctte sedan. Both drivers had been drinking, the police said. BEND. Ore., Sept. 23 fP, Clause ! Burrlt. 51. Caldwell, Idaho, postal I clerk who was Injured In an suto- monue acnaeni on me ucuoco niR-n-way near Prinevilie, bptember 3, died at a hospital here Saturday. Oregon Weather. Fair tonight and Tuesday, but be coming cloudy wet portion: no char in temperature; gentle change able winJ. oil lb coast. miuwAj jjU MEDFORD. OREGON, -AT F. One of the largest crowds ever to attend any performance at the Jack son county fair grounds, estimated to be nearly 3000, saw threo men seri ously hurt at the rodeo yesterday afternoon, all three falling from the plunging backs of bucking horses. The three. Elvin McMoster, "Smoky" Moran and Charles Shetterd were taken to the Sacred Heart hospital, McMaster with a broken arm, Moran with a broken leg, and Shetterd with a crushed shoulder, where a horse Jumped on hint after he waa down. All were doing nicely today. Barring the serious accidents, the rodeo was an unqualified success. The bronco riding, the bull-dogging, or steer-wrest! Ing as It was called, the bareback riding, the stunts and other features went smoothly and the large 1 crowd was enthusiastic. American Legion officials were busy this after noon, still checking on the receipts but early estimates showed a record breaking crowd, with about 2200 paid admissions. This, with the large ga laxy of local people appearing in the parade free passes, and kids sneaking In brought the crowd to very near the 3000 mark, the officials estimated. Tlie rodeo was such a success, and declared of such high calibre, that Legion officials will probably consider making the roundup a permanent en tertainment, It was said. The cow boys, cowgirls, trick artist and others connected with the performance were loading their cars and trucks today, intending to winter In southern Call forla, Arizona and Texas- SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23. (AP) Reversing a previous decision, the state supreme court today decided ; that Warren K. Billings should be brought from Folsom Prison to San : Francisco to testify at the habeas corpus hearing of Thomas J. Mooney, convicted Sn Francisco preparedness day bomber. j The new decision was made after Assistant Attorney General William Clear y had concurred in the motion of the Mooney forces. Last week the court dented a similar motion ruling Billings' testimony should be taken at Folsom prison, where he Is serving a life term In connection with the bombing. TO SCHOOL, L C. FOX TAKES BEAT Bill Cummlngs, who has been a reporter with the Mull Tribune for the past Tear and a half, left Sat' urday morning for Eusene. to enter the University of Oregon Journalism class. Mr. Cummins, is being succeeded by M. L. C. Fo, a former eastern I newspaperman. u and Mrs, pok came to soutnprn rcgon amui o mnnth, ago from New York City, where Mr. Pox hpld a position on ih Brcc&Jga MONDAY. SEFTEMBE' A. LLE ROOSEVELT CALLS PRIVATE INDUSTRY ; TO SHARE RELIEF Governm e n t Withdrawing Rapidly As Possible From Emergency Home Relief Orzanigation Informed WASHINGTON. Sept. S3. (API Pointing to "definitely better eco nomic skies this year," President Boosevelt today called upon private agencies to take over a good share of relief work. He spoke from the porch of the White House to the leaders assem bled on the lawn for the third annual mobilisation for human needs. "We have a problem atlll," he said, "In spite of definitely better economic akiea thla year. It demands th rtMt both of us csn Blve. "I know the great mass of pri vate employera reallae they must help by offering employment to the utmost extent or their sonny. I Industry Has Been niaeu "The government has been help ins with losns to Industry, to banks and. to home owners. The actual purchasing power of the people haa greatly risen since mis mwu. that as a whole we're better able to provide for private charities." Speaking extemporaneously, Mr Roosevelt emphasized the forthcom ing task of the new soclsl secur ity commission and called for co operation with it. That 1. nnn nf the BrCfttOSt SteDS over undertaken by government, be said. The president waa Introduced by Gerard flwope, chairman of the third annual mobilization, who declared that economic life seems "more pro mising for the future than at any time alnce presidential leadership waa first given to this movement In 1031." Thanks To Leaders "Thanks. In substantial measure, to tha challenge and leadership you and your predecessor aa the chosen spokesmen for the American people have given us, we come with re newed confidence to the task bo fore us." Swop ssld. "Private wel fare services have played their part and played It well In meeting the successive shocks which the de pression has delivered to human welfare." President Roosevelt's remarks fol low In part: . Mr. Swope, ladlea and gentlemen of thla third annual meeting for the mobilization of human needs: I am happy, Indeed, to greet the national and community leaders of the human welfare services of the whole nation. For the third time we have ths opportunity, face to face, to pledge at once the sub stance and the sinews of govern ment and of private organized wel fare agenclea In" the service of the less fortunate of the land. The problem, In spite of definitely brighter economic skies this yesr, demands ths boat that both can give. Trnlie For Efforts I want to extend my congratula tion and appreciation for your heroic work and I choose that word "heroic" deliberately during these yesrs through which we have Just passed. The feet that you have maintained your aupport of welfare services with a shrinkage of only thirteen per cent of the amount ralaed alnce 182 Is remarkable. I am glad to know that you halted tha retreat at that point a year ago and now are headed once more toward the front. Let there be a general advance from that point In the 380 campaigns vhlch hsve been organized for the autumn of 193S. There are very apeclal reasons why .11 must cooperate to bring private welfare support back at least to th. 1920 level. In pursusnce of the .nnrmni-eri nollev Of th. legislative and administrative branches of the federal government, the government Is withdrawing aa rapidly aa pos albls from th. field of emergency horn, relief. W. ar. moving success fully toward the substitution of wort for direct relief. W. anticipate, in addition to the work provided by federal funds, a very definite Increase In work provided by the mnlovers of the nation during the coming year, The great mass of private employers realize today that they again must greany neip in r vimmi,! tttuMtlnn hv offerlna em. plcyment to the utmost limit of their ability. 1 Income Shares Maryland Funding, bid 17: aaked SI8 03. , , Quarterly Incom. Share., bid l.tO, asW I1H. MIBUNE T , 1935 READY TO LEAVE IS Attitude Of Italo-Ethiopian Committee Basis Of Feel ing Danger Of Hopeless Deadlock Now Developing rtOMK, Sept, S3. (AP) Two hundred thousand aoldier, of the classes of 1911, 1913, 11)13 nnd 1914 reported for duty to day, bringing Italy's total mili tary mobilization to the -1.00(1.-000 Premelr Mussolini promised would be under arms before October 1. By Wade Werner Associated Press Foreign Staff. GENEVA. Sept. 23. (AP) Rumors swept through the League of Nations lobbies today that the Italian delega tion, angered by the Italo-Ethloplan committee's attitude, might leave Geneva. These reports were heard after the British delegation took the position that Italy's counter-proposals to a : league plan for settlement of the Italo-Ethloplan diapui were unac ceptable. Tlie league plan was accepted by Ethiopia. League officials said the danger of a hopeless deadlock was developing. The officials said they based their view on the fact that the committee of five which prepared the compro mise plan had decided that an Italian oommunlque and oral statements made by the Italians constituted a definite rejection of the plan. The plan was prepared by a com mittee composed of delegates from Spain, Great Britain, France, Poland and Turkey. The chairman of the committee, Salvador de Madarlaga of Spain, received the oral statements from Baron Pompeo Alolsl, chief Ital ian delegate, last night. BICKFORD BITTEN 8Y LION DURING IE HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 23. (AP) Charles Blckford, motion pic ture actor, was attacked today by large African lion during the filming of a scene and received a deep bite in the back of the neck. Studio employes said the lion Jumped a few seconds before he was supposed to, catching Blckford un awares. The lion had been trained to Jump over Blckford'a head, but In stead the 400-pound animal struck the actor squarely and sank his teeth In Blckford'a neck. Blckford was enacting a scene In "Eastern Java" when the attack oc curred. Work at the studio wss tem porarily suspended because s of the commotion. The actor was quickly rescued by trainers on tha set, and the wound was Immediately cauterized. HEART FAILS IN GRASS FIRE FIGHT PORTLAND, Sept. 23. 4IF) H. T. Erdmann, 70, cropped dead from heart attack here yesterday while making frantic efforts to keep a grass fire from burning his chicken coop and chickens. A neighbor. Mrs. H. 8. Owen, who aided In combatting the flames, also suffered a heart attack, but was re suscitated. . The grass fire started when three small boys lighted a camp fire to cook ft mess of fish. SECTION HAND KILLS ONE, TAKES OWN LIFE OROFINO, Idaho. 6pt. 23. (AP) Chief of Police W. H. Simmon re ported early today that a section hand rsn amuck with a rifle last night near Jaypce, 50 miles from here fatally wounding a man with whom he had quarreled and then sending ft bullet through hta own heart. Chief Simmons was Informed by flection Foreman Mike Bobell that Matt Mattson. 25. died at a CCC camp hospital of wouDds lo the jaw. cne-t and stomach Full I'nlted Press Final Curtain De Wolfe Hopper, veteran comedian, died of heart disease today In Kansas City, He was III yesterday when he participated In radio broadcast. (A. P. Photo.) STAGE VETERAN, HEEDS LAST CALL KANSAS CITY. Sept. 23. (AP) DeWolfe Hopper, 77, one of the great comedians of the American atage whose name was known to theater goeri. for more than half a century, died of heart disease In Stt Luke's hospital here today. The veteran actor was ill yes ter day when he participated In a radio broadcast. After the program he was taken to the hospital" where he died at 6 a. m. He had been given a series of broadcasts each Sunday, usually coming here by plane from Chicago, After an Inauspicious start on his stage career the first production In which he appeared at New Havon, Conn., Octobor 3, 1B78, failed he struggled upward until he was rec ognized In 1800 as one of the bril liant stars of the comic opera atage. In taking up a stage career. Hop per cast aside the profession his Continued on Psge rbree) BT. FALLS HORSE a TBYHUNT Even horses, peacefully nibbling grass In their own pastures, aren't safe any more. Charley Edmondson, farmer of the Butte Falls district, was rudely awakened at 1:30 Sunday morning by the crack of a high-powered rifle near Ms barn, he told state police. Running Into the yard, he saw a car parked near the barnyard, with a powerful spotlight picking out something In his barnyard. He frightened whoever was In the oar, and they fled, he being unable to either stop them or to get their license number. The next morning, going out to saddle his horse and survey the situ ation, he found the animal shot low through the shoulder. This morning the horse died. Btate police, sus pecting two young Med ford men, are working on the case today, MOSCOW, Sept. 23. fP) Physicians In attendance on Senator J. Hamil ton Lewis of Illinois, lit with pneu monia. Issued a bulletin today de scribing his condition as 'very seri ous. The outlook, although not hopeless. Is still unfavorable. It was signed by A. Rumrelch, phy sician to the United States embassy, Dr. O. Long of ths Oerman embassy. Dr. M. Vovsi, chief of the medical clinic of, Botkln hospital, and Dr. V. Vasllleff, chief of the Kremlin di vision of the Botkln hospital. An English-speaking nurse Is com ing to Moscow from Berlin by air plane In iriponse to a telegraphed request by Mrs. Lewis. SEATTLE, Sept. 23. fP) Kin county's 1035 automobile fatality roll reached 101 ted ay when Mrs. Jane Hamblett, 40. former secretary to the 32nd district Democratic club, was killed by an autonvjbtle la Seattle's act lb end. lHaatal i'iiVii - "W V MAIL TRIBUNK BARGAIN DAYS NOW IS FILL SWINO No receipts itill he Issued at Bargain Rates after rinsing date. Better llurryl No. 157. FLIER SMASHES PLANE IN IRISH FIELD Hop To Lithuania Frorri America Halted By Bad. Weather, Low Gas Sup plyPilot Lands Unhurt. BALLINROBE, County Mayo, Ire land, Sept. 23. (P) Officers of th Irish Free State air force arrived to-' day to undertake dismantling the monoplane of Pollx Waltkus, Ameri can transatlantic filer, sme.rherf in iine. forced landing which endetT A is mile solo flight from New The 38-year-old aviator, unln)u4 in the crack-up and refreshed by 4 night's sleep, said his future plana were undecided pending a final re port from engineers who are exam tnlng the plane, but that he consid ered resumption of his flight to Kau nas, Lithuania, out of the question. Earlier, the filer had laughed off his mlehftp with the words: "I got) quite a bump, but I can hardly wait to fly on the Kaunas." While Waltkus had a long eleeiv four civic guards kept an all-night watch over the craft. Recalling the details of his harrow Ing 23-hour adventure alone over th Atlantic, he said: "Most of the time I was flying blind In fog, raln and mist filthy weather all the way. "When I tried to fly above th storm, ice formed rapidly on the, wings, the .carburetor froze and t had to thaw It out. . t almost iroze. too, wearing only a light flannel suit, ft flying packet and a bo ret." His own strength virtually exhaust ed and his gasoline , supply falling low, Waltkus put his orange end white plane down at 10 a. m. (4 s. m E. S. T.) yesterday. It struck a tree after the engine stalled. Bicycle stealing Is gaining a per, nt clous hold In Medford, according to Chief of Police Clatous McCredlai Several bicycles were stolen over the week end, and one man. Leroy XL An derson, was arrested last night charg ed with stealing a bicycle while he was taking It down an alley, accord ing to city police. Anderson Is In. the? city. . Ho told city nolle that he was drunk last nif,nt, and remerrv bers no Incident Involving a bicycle. Donald Herrled reported to city pa lice that his bicycle was stolen from the Junior high school tennis courts), and Raymond Schultz reported the) theft of his wheel from near th Holly theatre. Chief McCredle warned bicyclist, against leaving their machines un locked In the city, stating that an Inexpensive lock will discourage all thieves. 4 I SlUer. NEW TORK. Sept. 23. () Bar siW rer steady and unchanged at 6b. FIGHT FACTS (By th. Associated Press.) Time and Place Yankee Stadium, Now York. Tuesday ntht, fipptemher U. Preliminaries at 7 p. nt. (East ern Standard Time). Main bout, p. m. Principals Max Adelbert Baer, S9-yew-old Californlan and former world heavwelght champion, and Josepn (Barrow) Louis, 31-year-old Detroit neftro. Conditions 15 rounds to a de cision, with two Judges snd a refers officiating. Seating capacity 92 .869. Oat. receopte 1.17S.030. If a n out. Probable odds I to 1 Louis, S to I Baer. Distribution of "iwt" SO Pr cen of net to each fighter: 10 per cen to milk fund. Probable weather Pair nd warm. Radio broadcast Over combined NBC. WKAP and WJZ network. Referee and Judes To b. aAilxn ed by th. state athletic commission on Tuesday. Prellmlnsrles Buddy Beer, LITer more. Csl. ys. Pord Smth. KAllspel, Mont.: Hank Hanklnson. Los Angeles, vs. Eddls Mader. New York, six rounds each. George Turner, Ssllsaw, Okl. ra. Helna Kohlhaa., Oermany; Boh Pastor, New York vs. Terry Mitchell. Boston: Jorge Brescia, South America, vs. Paul Pross, New York: Nathan Msnn. New Haven. Conn. ts. Oeorn Chip. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: Tony Cancel I vs. Jun U.rlott, four round, eaco.