Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 02, 1937, Page 3, Image 3

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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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and Turkish tobaccos ...
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just as soon as you light a Chesterfield '
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and has no taste or odor.
Chesterfields are FIRMLY ROLLED and
made full cigarette size for the best
smoking . . . 2-3Ai" long and I-V16"
around ... the Chesterfield standard
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