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P'A'flTS THREE SALEM W.P.A. AIDE HELD AS SUSPECT Father Claims Twins Abandoned by Mother DENY IS. BRITE $1000 PRIZE FOR EIGHTEEN STATES engineer of the Champion Spark Plug I company of Toledo, O., died today of Injuries received last Friday In an accident during the preliminaries of the 500-mile race at the Indiaa- spoils motor speedway. MTvDFORD MATL- TRIBUNE, fEDFORD, ORKOOy, TTRTtNT.g'DAT. TT"X"E 2, 1937. om-icm.. dune . ( Arj William j Meyera, arrestea Dy isaiem police last Saturday u a murder suspect on in formation from Pennsylvania author ities will be returned to that state If extradition papers are honored by Oovernor Charles H. Martin. A tele gram received from Captain William W. . Clark, commander of troop B, Pennsylvania state police, said offi cers would be sent to Oregon with extradition papers. Information received from Captain Clark prior to the arrest said Meyers vu suspected of the murder In 1921 of Mark Brown and Archie Carting at Wyoming, Pa. Accompanying the Information were an Indictment charging him with the murder of Brown, a warrant for his arrest and a photostatic copy of his finger prints. After the arrest Meyers' fin gerprints were taken here and, nt the identification bureau at the Ore gon state penitentiary, were com pared with those received from Pennsylvania. Chief of Police Frank Mlnto said they Identified Meyers as the man wanted. The information from Pennsyl vania sold the prints were 'Obtained from the navy department, Mlnto said he suspected that Meyers was located in Salem through having ap plied for a veteran's bonus. During the few months' residence here of Meyers, his wife and their three chil dren he has been a WPA worker and applied for relief through the Red Cross. He says he was employed by a contracting company in California at the time of the murder. COCHRANE ABLE NEW TORK, June 2. (AP) Mick ey Cochrane's recovery from the ef fects of a multiple skull fracture. due to being "beaned" eight days ago at the. Yankee stadium, con tinued so satisfactorily today that the Detroit baseball manager was permitted to smoke for the first time and was put on a more elabo rate diet. Dr. Robert Emmett Walsh, after an examination this morning, said Cochrane was "making very satisfac tory progress."' Closing time for luo Late to Clas sify Ads is 1:30 p. m. Charles Mitchell irrlns as he claims his four-ycar-old twins, Mary Ann and Jo Ann tt Ctaln orphanage. The cirls were abandoned on a Chicago street by their mother, who left photographs of herseii in one of the girl's pockets. Tolice took the children to the orohanare. FIVE SHOTS FAIL, THEN KILLS SELF KLAMATH FALLS, June 3. (JPy When all five bullets he allegedly fired at his brother-in-law missed their mark, Clifford Thomas Henry, about 30, turned his gun upon him self and with a sixth slug took his own life. The shooting occurred late yester day. Henry, whose estranged wife lives with her parents and brother, Norman Fielder, visited the family home in Homedale, suburban tract south of this city; In an ensuing altercation, Henry assertedly fired five times at Fielder with a .32 caliber pistol, then fled and hid along a canal bank. Officers called by the Fielder fam Uy heard a shot as they ncared tho spot where Fielder wild Henry was lurking. A moment later they found his body, a heart artery severed. Use Mail Tribune want ads. RECKLESS, FINED Harland L. Blaker, 39, of Klamath Falls was fined $25 and $-4.50 costs in Justice of the peace court yesterday on a charge of reckless driving. Blaker was accused by state police of arlvtng recklessly on the Pacific highway near the Jackson Hot Springs Monday night. He pleaded not guilty and was found guilty by Judge Wil liam R, Coleman after a trial. Everett Keagle, 44, of Central Point pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving a truck while he was intox icated. He asked for a jury trial and the case was set for 9:30 tomorrow morning. He was arrested by state police last Saturday night, accused of drunken . driving between Central Point and Medford. Archie Pierce Is the complaining wit ness. Keagle is represented by Attor ney Victor A. Tenij;wald. Pending in Justice court are three cases in which the defendants are SISTER ASKS A. SACRAMENTO, Cal., eune a. Mrs. Margaret firltes attempt to col lect (1,000 reward for surrendering her two sons on triple murder charge was frustrated today by California appellate court decision. The sons are John and Coke Brite, now under death sentence for killing three men, two of them sheriffa dep uties, last August 20. Mrs. Brite said she wanted the money to pay for her sons' appeal But the court held Siskiyou county supervisors had no authority to auth orize the district attorney to post the reward. When posse failed to rind tba brothers in the rugged Siskiyou coun try. District Attorney James Davis posted $500 reward each for thoir capture. On the guarantee they would be protected from lynching, the mother surrendered her sons to Davis. They were convicted of murdering Deputies Martin C. Lange and Joseph Clark, and a civilian, Fred Seaborn. When Mrs. Brlte came to collect the reward, the county supervisors refused to pay. E A total of IB specimens have ar rived so far from all over the United States to be placed In the chamber . of commerce gem and mineral friend ship exhibit. Intended to represent every state In the union. Many other samples are en route to Medford, ac cording to letters received from gov ernors and aides. Most recent samples to arrive are: Petrified rose, Oklahoma; callfornltn. California; olivine, North Carolina: fire opal, Idaho; and amason stone Virginia. The exhibits received so far are on display in a chamber window. Delaware, the state which replied to a request for a mineral by pointing out that Delaware had no peculiar or characteristic mineral, was asked to i send typical wood. A recent lotter from W. 6, Tuber, state forester, in formed the Medford chamber that a specimen of the wood of the Ameri can holly was being forwarded. The selection was made because Delaware furnishes a great portion of the holly wreaths used by the nation during the Yuletlde season, Taber stated. Other states notifying the chamber of specimens on the way were Missis sippi, North Dakota and Louisiana. Dies of Race Hurts. INDIANAPOLIS, June 2. (V) Otto C. Rohde. 40. vice-president and chief r- "CI nw MUCH" 90 PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY U FL50 GALLON $5 75 CM. M.IH.I BROWN FORMAN DiitHlery Co. Louisville, Kentucky Contact with a man named William Hinchman la being sought by his sis ter, Ellrabeth Hinchman of 14 Irving Place. New York City, Sheriff Syd Brown announced today. Hinchman left Klamath Falls about two years ago for Grants Pass or Med ford. Miss Hinchman was informed, she stated In, a letter to Sheriff Brown. Josephiue, coUnty authorities told the sheriff no one by that name was known in Grants Pass. Two letters addressed to Hinchman were sent to Sheriff Brown by Miss Hinchman. No description of the man was given by his sister. , Rural electrification allotments to taling $1,685,000,000 are being used to build 1.838 miles of electric dis tribution lines to serve rural cus tomers In Oklahoma. Hobart Price won tne annual spring handicap tournament of the Rogue Valley Oolf club over the Memorial day week-end by defeating George Roberts, 5 and 3, - In the second flight, Lei and Clark downed Bill McAllister; Ivan Harring ton beat Bayard Getchell for the third flight title; and A. L. Puchner defeated F. B. Lenuard for the cham pionship of the fourth flight. Final match in the first flight will be shot this week. charged with failure to procure dog licenses. BIRTHS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Murray of Eagle Point star route a girl weighing six pounds, six and a quarter ounces at Sacred Heart hospi tal yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, June 1. Mother and baby were pro gressing splendidly today, hospital attendants said. The child has been named Martha Josephine. 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