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Thirtv-Second Year
Uy 1WIL MALI-UN
(Copyright, 1037, hy Paul Ma I Ion;
Evaders' Text Book
WASHINGTON, June 12. Don't
tell President Roosevelt, but the mtn
who gave the helpful htnta to the
rich on how to evado federal taxes
'Is no less an nu-
" thorlty than lus
s- own under - sccre-
F 8 tary of the tress- j
I ury, Roswell Ma
Iciii. in foct. Mr.
I Mug til Is generally
t recognized as the
I leading authority
I of the, day on how
I not to pay taxes
H e established
I this reputation In
book, published only last January,
just before he was appointed to uis
present position as second In com
mm
1.4 rn
mand of the federal treasury, few
-v"rtch Mxpayers and no tax attorney,
have overlooked it. The title Is "Fed
eral Taxes on Estates', Twists. Glfte."
and It could have been 'entitled:
"How Not to Pay More Than rhe
Law Requires." Mr. Magill's collabo
rator was an eminent New York rax
attorney, Robert H. Montgomery. C.
P. A.
Messrs. Magitl and Montgomery ig
nore the questions cf tax morality or
tax ethics. These are subjects which
have only lately bzen raised. Instead,
they deal with such practical propo
sitions as how to get out bf paying
the highest rates legitimately, end
they made a thorough Job of it.
Tips
Tb tone of their tomes may be
Judged by some of the subtitles:
"Minimizing family Income taxes";
"Minimizing estate and gift taxes";
"Creation of trusts"; "Incorporation",
ate. For Instance, they tell how own
ers of estates above half a million
dollars can evade death taxes by
"divesting" themselves of 80 to 00
per cent of their property. But they
counsel owners of estates of less than
SIOO.OOO to "divest" of, no more than
55 per cent.
Unfortunately, there Is not much
in the book to help the smaller in
come taxpayer. The authors point
out that man and wife may divide
their income-producing property 50
60 and thus take advantage of lower
rates. They also tell how to create
trusts and "spread Income tax liabil
ity among several taxpayers." N.-ne
of this Is much good to a salaried
man.
In fact, no one seems to be Inter
ested In helping the great bulk of
income taxpayers. Every tax author
ity knows this class generally pays
more than Is due. Just because of
Ignorance of the law. They cannot
afford to hire attorneys; the income
tax blanks, are not much help; and
the revenue agents are rough about
allowing deductions, such aa the five
and six cents per gallon taxes paid
on gasoline, unless the taxpayer nas
documentary proof of how many gal
lons he bought- Likewise, it seems
to be virtually Impossible for the
average taxpayer to deduct his six
cents a package tax on cigarettes or
on the cosmetics his wife buys
Reports are current that Mr. Maglll
Is now working on a book telling the
low Income group how it ca n take
advantage of these- and other legiti
mate deductions. He may use as a
text the observation made by a
prominent democratic congressman
fflomera of Brooklyn) the other day.
n.t follows:
"If ignorance of the law ts no ex
'ttstf; can knowledge of the law be
penalized?"
Senators seem to oc dleglng eagerly
at their work in order to get away
from Washington as soon as possible
However, the senate record on legisla
tion does not show anything which
might be called a rapid stride in that
cMrectton. It rather suggest that the
upper house may be on a silent sit
down strike.
The other day, when the senate was
In recess, there was then pending
the relief bill, pwa extension, CCC
extension, the Interior, and war de
I artment appropriation bills, and
numerous other bills had not passed
the conference stage.
Postmaster General Farley has been
writing letters to congressmen against
those pending bills for federal tegi.ls
tlon of the commercial aviation in
dustry. He does not want the air
mail put under the Interstate com
merce commission.
However, Mr. Farley does not tem
to have as much influence now as
when he took over the air mall some
Tears ago. Conjnr wmcn have gone
to r D. R. asking him to settle the
question.
In thla coot yesterday, the ambas
sador to Switzerland. Hujrh Wilon.
was erroneously called Hugh Oibson
who la the ambassador to Brazil. Hie
confusion of their name In state
flepirtment parleys Is w common
they have come to be known unoffi
cially as the name-twins. Howeter
(Continued on page eleven)
Medford
Full Associated Press
OHIO PLANS F.D.R. i
IF
NO STRIKE PEACE
Armed Forces Ordered To
Monroe, 'To Keep Peace'
At Mass Meeting Today
(By the Associated Press)
DETROIT, June 12 Michigan mo
bilized 100 National Guardsmen and
100 state police tonight to prevent
renewed violence in the Montoc sector
oj the spreading steel strike that al
ready affect more than 75.000 work
ers
Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio may
ask President Roosevelt to intervene
.n the steel, stnge If the Ohio execu
tive's conference with company and
C. I. O. leaders Tuesday fa:ls to pro
duce an agreement, it was learned on
good authority at Columbus.
The walkout, by which the steel
workers' organising committee seeks
signed bargaining contracts, extended
:or the first time to a uiut of the
Bethlehem Steel corporation at
Johnstown, Pa.
An official of the S. W. O. C. said
there was "every possibility' It would
sm-cad to all Dlants of that coroora-
lion, second largest producer of steel, !
which employs 80,000 men.
Gov. Frank Murphy, who mediated ,
In Mlch-gaii's automobile strikes last
winter, ordered armed forces to Mon
roe after the Committee for indus
trial Organization announced a "gi
gantic mass meeting" there Sunday to
protest a gas attack that broke a steel
workers' picket line. The Monroe city
commission reported "danger of
bloodshed Is Imminent."
Emphasizing that "nobody has
risked for" martial law, Murphy nald
the troop concentration wus "to In
sure a peaceable assembly and to pro
tect the citizens of Monroe."
Murphy said Homer Martin, presi
dent of the ClO-af filiated United
Automobile workers, who issued a
call to union members In Michigan,
Ohio and Indiana to attend the Mon
roe meeting, had agreed to "discour
age" out-of-state members from do
int. so.
Martin, who left a conference with
the governor here before Murphy or
dered the troops mobilized said In
Indiana, where lie went to address a
meeting at Muncle, that It never oc
curred to him to "discourage" Indi
ana and Ohio members from attend
ing, and that he had not revofed his
message to .oca Is in those states.
Transfer of the meeting to a state
park three miles from Monroe helped
to ease the apprehensions of Monroe
residents.
Immediate effect of the Juhnstown
strike which started In Bethlehem's
Cambria plant at midnight was not
apparent, David Watkins sub re
gional 8 WOC director, expressed hope
lt spreads fast." A small Saturday
night force of workers walked past
Jeering strike pickets Into the plant,
it was the third shift to change with
out disturbance.
SPECIAL AGENTS
PREPARE REPORT
ON TAX EVASION
WASHINGTON, June 12 (UP)
Twenty-five hundred treasuy tax ex
perts worked tonight to comp.ete evi
dence on Income tax evasion which
w.ll be presented at a Joint congres
sional hearing next week. Adminis
tration leaders on Capitol Hill Indi
cated the dual committee would be
gin sessions Wednesday.
Simultaneously, Senator Augustine
Lonergen (D., Conn.) announced he
would ask the senate Judiciary com
mittee to act Monday on his proposed
constitutional amendment to remove
federal, state and municipal securi
ties from the tax-exempt classifica
tion. It la known that President Roose
velt favors auch a revision in the
statutes in order to bolster his cam-
pa gn to plug loopholes in the excise i
structure and help balance the led-1
eral budget.
Government officials revealed that,!
in addition to 350 special agents of
the bureau of Internal revenue, the
agency's force of 2250 revenue offi
cials has been drafted to scan income
tax returns In a searcb for Instances
o. evasion or avoidance of f ill ool. ga
llons. UHglum Premier On May
PARIS. June 12. (APi Premier
Paul Van Zeeland of Belgium left
today to confer with President
Roosevelt on world economic and
disarmament problem.
Male Treasurer en
OLTMPIA. Wash.. June 12 (AP
State Treasurer Phil H. Gallagner
and Misa Ada Whiting were married
at 81. Michael's churcb at 9:15 tn.
today.
jvlliyjo)
Where Ransom
if L
- S lf If
- ft
A New York State troo-ier po nts
the automobile where .was found a no
lice Parsons. mlsterlously missing f
FEAR ABDUCTORS
SLAY SOCIALITE, :
SILENCE PUZZLES
Quiz Russian Woman Ini
Case Rumor Ransom
Demand Boosted
STONY BROOK. N. Y-. June 13.
(AP) Alarmed by the absence of any
overtures for ransom. Long Lsland
police expressed fear tonight that
the missing Mrs. Alice McDonell Par
sons had been slain by her abductors.
Inspector Francis X. McGarvey of
the state troopers ordered a thor
ough rearch of the wooded areas sut
rounding the farm from which the
wife of a socially registered poultry
breeder disappeared Wednesday noun.
Suffolk county authorities, chafing
under the passngo of 73 hours with
out any further word from the writer
of a C25.0O0 ransom note found at
the scene, asked Scoutmaster Allen
Land to muster his troop of 36 Boy
Scouts tomorrow to aid in the search.
Rumors were current that a 950.000
ransom demand had been made by
telephone late today, thot Richard
son Pratt, wealthy relative of Mrs.
Parsons, had received threat notes,
and that the authors of the ransom
note had been contacted, but all the
reports were officially dented or re
mained unconfirmed.
Lacking any tangible clues, inves
tigators turned their attention to a
36-yet.r-old naturalized woman who
had lived on the Parsons' squab farm
with her 11-year-old son since 1931.
She was Mrs. Anna Kurpianolf.
who adopted the name Parsons when
she became a citizen end whose sta
tus in the household has been vari
ously described as companion and
servant.
Assistant District Attorney Harry
Brunner denied a published rep-irt
that he anld Mrs. Parsons and Mrs.
Kuprlanoff had drawn up reciprocal
wills.
CHICAOO. June 12 tVi Dr Fran
tis E. Townsend assured members of i
uis old age pension movement today
we are going ahead stronger than
.-ver" despite the recent reigiiarona
jf 12 executives of his national orga
nization. "These little storms that arise with
in an organization. the elderly phy
sician said, "are Just .ike du&t
i-torma.
But even as Dr Townsend reassured
is followers whose number he satd
ne could not estimate an offshoot of
i he controversy that brought trie res
nation of J. W. Brlnton. vice preal
dent and general manager; Oilmour
Young, secre ury -treasurer, and 10
uthers headed toward the courts
New Pine HmlneM
PORTLAND. Ore, June 12 (AP)
The Western Pine association torisy
reported new business totaling 64.3ttH.
000 tKKird feet for the week ending
June . n Increase of 4 per cent
over the previous week.
MKDFORD. OK EG ON. SUNDAY. JUNK 13, 19:57.
Note Found
to the spot under the front scat of
demanding 525.000 ransom for Mrs.
cm her Stony Brook, N. Y.. home.
FORD, PIONEER OF
NEAR
TEST
35 Years Of Auto Making
Wednesday, Ex-Baptist
Preacher Chief Foe.
DEARBORN, Mich., June 13 (AP)
Henry Ford, pioneer of masa pro
duction, will enter the 35th year of
his Industrial history next Wednes
daya year that may decide the
question of mass unionization of
some 120.000 Ford workers.
Opposing forces Bre the Ford Motor
company, wholly owned by the Ford
family, and the Committee for In
dustrial Organization, led by John L.
Lewis. The American Federation of
Labor, at odds with the O. I. O. over
policies, may tnke a hand.
Ford started his company June 16.
1903, with assets of $28,000 and i:is
own mechanical genius. Company
estimates now place Its value at ap
proximately 700.000,000. half cash.
It ow,.s the world's biggest industrial
unit here. 17 other plants in the
United States and four In Canada,
and has sold 25.000.000 cars around
the world. Ford profits for 1938
were reported at 26,426.698.
Homer Martin, president of the
United Automobile Workers, C. I. O.
union, which would unionize Ford. Is
exart!y ten months older than the
Ford romps ny. He was born August
16, 1902, near the coal mining town
of Marlon. 111., and was a Baptist
preacher before he turned labor leader.
Of all the captains of Industry.
Ford Is perhaps the most Independ
ent. The Issue between him and tl:a
union. Martin said. la "Unionism, not
Fordism."
WIAHONEYlALKS
FOR SEN. NORRIS
PORTLAND. Ore., June 12. (UP)
Willis E. Mt honey, former jmyor
of Klamath Falls, returned today
from Washington. D. C, where for
two weeks he interviewed leading po.
luteal figures.
Mn honey said Senator Oeorgc Nor
rls of Nebraska was opposed to army
engineers having anything to do with
administration of Bonneville power
after the project has been completed
"Senator Norria is for a Columbia
basin authority to administer the
power," Mahon'y said. "He doesn't
aant army engineers to have any-1
thing to do with power. They can
handle navigation end of It, but that -Is
as far as he will go."
ulrl0 round
DALLAS. June 12 f AP Cor
oner C. W. Henkle aald Mrs. William
Ellis, niece of the late Governor
James Wlthycombe. apparently took
her own life with poison yester
day. She was found fuly dressed In
the bath tub o( her home at Rlck
reall. ferry Mr Ike Continues
SEATTLE. June 12. AP The
Puget mnd ferry boat strike went
into Its 15ih day today.
BILBOA AFIRE AS
Basque Women and Children
In Flight as Attack By
Land and Air Rages
(Copyright, 1037, hy tnlted Press) I
With the Spanish rebels, aloug ;
Bilbao's El Gallo line, June 13. i
(UP) General Francisco Francos
northern army, buckling Bilbao's
last line of defenses in a smashing
assault from land and sky, was elose
enough to the besieged city tonight
to hear the screams of panicky peo
ple In the streets.
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish frontier.
June 12. ( UP ) The Northern out
skirts of Bilbao were In flames to
night as General Francisco Franco's
Insurgent legions broke through the
city's "Iron ring" of defenses, kill
ing hundreds of Basque defenders
and civilians.
Droves of terrified women and
children fled from the suburbs of
Derlo and Zamudlo, three miles
north of the besieged city, as the
best troops of the rebel armies
Moors, German and Italian volun
teers and red -capped Carllsts
poured through a three-mile gap In
the fortified line.
Sixty black-tipped bombing planes
set fire to the pine woods around
Derlo and Zamudlo while the In
surgents cracked the line at Flea, six
miles northeast of Bilbao.
For 72 days the "Iron ring" ex
tending around the city In a wide
arc from the Bay of Biscay to the
southern Nervlon valley had defied
the hammerings of Francos bombing
planes, artillery and mechanized
units.
The tine, called "El Gallo' by the
Basques, represents . the Loyalists-
last stand in defense of a -proud
city that had turned back four ter
rific sieges In the last 700 years.
seattWactory
SEATTLE. Wash., June 12. (APi
Removal of the $2,000,000 Bemta Bug
company plant from Seattle was
threatened tonight after the team
sters' union and the International
Longshoremen's association failed to
settle a Jurisdictional dispute and
permit the plant to reopen after six
months' suspension.
"Uniess a settlement Is reached
within 24 hours,' said E. L. 8 keel
the company's attorney, "you can say
that the Br mis Bag company will
have a very Important announcement.
The company either will operate or
wlthdiaw from the city."
Harry Bridges, Pacific coast presi
dent of the longshoremen, signed In
In Portland today a peace proposal
submitted by a Seattle citizens' com
ml t tee. It was rushed to Seattle by
airplane, but Dave Bock, teamster
leader, declined to sign unless fur
ther clauses suggested by his attor
ney, George Vandervcer, were includ
ed. The proposal would permit Imme
diate reopening of the Bern Is com
pany and other plants affected by a
dispute over Jurisdiction of Inland
warehousemen, pending an appeal to
the American Federation of Labor
convention in Denver next October
from a decision giving Jurisdiction
to the teamsters, Vanderveer added
clauses providing that a suit against
teamster picketing and an I. L. A.
complaint for damages received In a
scuffle at the Bemls plant be
dropped.
SHOWERY, COOLER,
T
Oregon: Increasing cloudiness Sun
day, becoming unsettled west portion
followed by showers; Monday uns!t
tied, probably tower j; cooler vlth
higher humid it wet portion Sun
day; moderate chatigcable winds off
the coast, becoming southerly.
Outlook for the period June 14-19.
inclusive; Fair, except showers prob
able In Pacific northwest middle of
week; temperature normal or alight
ly above except on coast; becoming
cooler middle ard latter part of week.
WArsttlp Heated
SAN FRANCISCO. Juna 12. (UP)
The U. 8. navy battleship Tennes-
we. aided by II tugs, three coast
guard cutters and two U, S- army
barges tonight waa pulled off mud
flats tjf San Prsneiseo bay, where It
was grounded sine Friday mom teg
Tribune
Full Unite
I,
Mary Miles Mintcr Says
Suicide Try No 'Joke
Mother Chided
LOS ANGELES. June 13 (UP)
Investigation of the 15-year-old mur
der of William Desmond Taylor,
famed film director, cont'nued to
night as the star that h'i directed.
Mary Miles Mlnter, denied that her
suicide attempt several years ago was
" Joke."
Miss Ml liter's denial followed a
newspaper Interview which attributed
to her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Shelby,
the claim that her death attempt
"waa not serious."
"It was a very serious and tragic
Affair," the former screen star said.
Meantime, District Attorney Buron
V'ltta promised the- arrest "soon" of a
tuspect in Taylors death. j
In addition to taking exception to:
tho Interview with her mother. Miss
Mlnter denounced as false the story!
of Chauncey Eaton, her former chauf-
leur. that he hid five .38 caliber bul
lets In the basement of the Shelby
home.
She termed as "highly Improbable"
the story of a taxi driver, who said
he drove Miss Mlnter and Car) Stock
dale, film character actor, from the
Ambassador hotel to Miss Mutter's
home, the night Taylor waa killed.
"My suicide attempt was no Joke
( mother tried to make out," Miss
Mlnter , declared. "I realiy didn't
a ant to live, it was a very tragic and
serious affair. X tried to commit sul
fide after one of our family quarrels.
1 locked myself in my room after I
i) ad found a small pearl-handled gun
.n mother's room. Harry Harris of
&nnta Barbara gave tho- gun to
mother. I had trouble with the
safety catch and the gun went -off
fllc they (members of thti family)
were pounding at my door. I don't
know where the bullet went."
Miss Mlnter said she deplored her
mother's "artificial attitude' through
the years after the murder. She said,
however, she was sure Mrs. Shelby
knew nothing about the murder of
th director.
"If she would frankly admit the
.'amlly life was torn for years by
quarrels and facttanal disputes, peo
ple would be more Inclined lo believe
her on more Important points," Miss
Mlnter aald.
DlSCHAiTGESDUE
BOSTON, June 12 (UP) Between
426.000 and 450,000 workers will be
dropped from the nation's WPA rolls
within three months, Deputy Federal
Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams
announced today.
En route to Wellesley Hllla to ad
dress Babson Institute graduates, he
told a group of local WPA officials
that the reduction waa ordered to
conserve the proposed $1,500 000,000
relief appropriation for winter needs.
He urged that discharges be made
'where they will least hurt,"
E
EL FAS HER, Anglo-Egyptian Su
dan. June 12 (AP) Amelia Ear-
hart completed the third trans
African hop of her round-the-world
flight today, landing here after a
900-mile Journey from Fort Lamy.
French West Africa.
A 1st .tart due to the necessity
of adjt ntlng shock absorbers on tne
plana kuit her from flying straight
inrougn vo Knarioum, aiso in me
Sudan, 660 miles northeast of here.
Miss Eaihart came In at 6:30 p-m.
local time (10:30 a.m.. EST.,), ana
planned to leave for Khartoum at
6.30 a.m. 10:30 pjn., Saturday.
EST.).
Khartoum was expected to be her
last stop In Africa before ahe push
ed on to India1,
19 YEARS, ALASKA
FAIRBANKS, Alaska. June 13.
(AP).-The weather bureau recordrd
yestei,lay'a temperature of 01 degrees
aa the highest here In la years. ,lt
wss 141 dwees above lst winter's
lowest reading of X) below
MM
Held Editor's Slayer
Harry Krrnrh (above), 30, bom on
(mil nl AHuras June 14 lor Hit
(lailnr ol I'lauclr I,. MrCrarkrll,
ntlhlltlirr of thr Modoc Ilnllr Mall
The shot Hit ooi-urretl Marrtl SS.
Krrnrh Is a slate rmploje and son or
un Allttrns nubll!her.
ALTURAS, Cal.. Juno 13. (UP)
Hurry rrench, 30. who shot and killed
Claudo L. Mccracken, rival news
paper publisher, In the climax to
a bitter rnmlly feud, goea to trial
here Monday.
Defense attorneys aald French will
plcnd "not guilty by reason of In
sanity." French has refused to submit to
sanity testa by Dr. Waldo Pate, of
Alturas. and Dr. E. M. Hummel of
Mendocino state hospital.
Superior Judge F. M. Jamison, who
will preside at the trial, denied that
the doctors had been chosen by
District Attorney A. K. Wylle aa
French claimed. The Jurist said he
hnd chosen them himself.
French Is the son of Mr and
Mrs. Robert A. French, publishers
of tho Altiiras Plain Denier. He ap
peared at Mccracken's home after
the latter publlshrd. a story stating
that "the Inst man hanged for a
horse thief In Montana was named
French."
'LIFER' GRADUATES
STILL A PROBLEM
WALLA WALLA, June 12. (T)
Herbert Nlccolls, Jr.. six yeara ago
America's No. 1 problem child, will
be ready to receive his high school
diploma after another semester of
study, officials of the Washington
state penitentiary disclosed today.
Nlccolls, sent to prison for life Oc
tober 29, 1031, nt the age of 12 years,
has followed a course of study out
lined by Walla Walla's city superin
tendent of schools more than five
years. His lessons have been the same
as taken In tho city high school and
teachers there have graded his papers
along with those of classmates whom
ho has never seen. .
The barefoot-boy murderer of John
Wormell, elderly sheriff of Asotin
county,. Wash., on August 4. 1931,
will observe his eighteenth blrthdiy
In prison June 29. Prison officials,
while terminer Herbert bright In his
studies, shakes their heads when asked
If he nppcars ready to take his place
In society. Carefully shielded from
other Inmates thus, far, Herbert la
now approaching the age of younger
"regular" prisoners In the Institution,
presenting a new problem of his In
carceration In the near future.
BULLETIN
SEATTLE. June 12. (IP) Dick Bar
:ttt pitched four-hit ball and drore
In the winning run tonight as Seat
tle's Indians defeated the Portland
Beavers, I to 0, to clinch their aeries,
four games to one.
The score came In the second when
Fred Mullrr singled and Barrett fol
lowed with a double, bringing Muller
home.
The tribe got nine hits off Pitcher
Uaka.
Portland threatened to score In the
second and the seventh but Barrett's
airtight pitching and good support
spoiled the attrmpts,-
Sesttle replaced Portland In fifth
place by virtue of the win.
Score: R. H. t.
Portland 0 4 0
Seattle 1 I
Llk.a and Cronln: Barrett and Fer
nsndes. Restore I'arm Mport
TUB DAU.ES. Juna 1J A't Horse
shoe pitching wit have a plsce on the
next convention program of the
Oregon Orange. Discontinued several
years sqo, the sport wss restored to
the Orange entertainment features by
delegate to the sUty-fourih session
l.ere alter more than t dozen coun
ties had asked for It.
Over 6000 People
How long would It take job
to Interview 6000 people by
personal callsT Hard question
to answer. Isn't It? Mall Tri
bune Classified Ads rracb that
number or homes each evening.
No. 71.
DIE I NA CELLAR
Quick Trial and Death For
Roles In Fascest Plot;
Germany Backed
MOSCOW. June 13 (UP) Tha
Soviet controlled press charged to
night that the Gcrmun secret service
recruited aa spies eight dishonored
leaders of the Russian red army shot
down by firing .squads for their con
fessed roles In a "fascist" ptot.
A terse comr.ilque announced be
fore midnight that the eight men a
marshal and seven generals had
been executed In accordance with a
sentence of a military collegium of
the supreme court.
Their bodies, stripped of all insig
nia, were understood to have 3een
taken from a Moscow prison morgue
for secret burials.
Pravda, official organ of the com
munist party, lushed out bitterly at
the naal propaganda minister. Dr,
Paul Joseph Qoebbela and aald Ger
many sought by espionage and sabo
tage to wreck the red army biggest
In the world and restore capitalism
to Russia.
"A dog'a death to dogs for these -
eight fascist spies." the newjaper
said.
The Moscow Dally Times said Oer-
many was shedding crocodile tears
over the fate of those led beforo fir
ing squads In tha Soviet's purge of
traitors.
That the fascist masters of this
spy gang had great hopes from their
traitorous activities Is evidence: by
the great hue and cry being raised In
Goebbcl'a regimented press," . tbo
Times said.
The eight mm who held control
of an army of 1,300,000 msn wew
convicted and sentenced to death in
a swift trial before a military col
legium of the Soviet supreme court
on their admissions that they eon- .
spired to aid a foreign power un
friendly to Russia.
The military court. Its session aa
secret that none outside Dictator Jo
sef v. Stalin's circle knew wheie It
waa being held, stripped tho army
leaders of their titles and decorations
and ordered them shot Immediately.
Without any avenue of appeal, the
military men were reported tonight
to have been shot In it dark cellar of
some Moscow prison.
The government waa as silent about.
the revelations of the trial as it '-as
regarding the r.ctual trial Itself.
BERLIN, June 12. (UP Sunday
morning newspapers commented at
length tonight on tha executions of
eight army leaders In Moscow and
con tem ptuoualv dented any connec
tion between them and German mil
itary authorities. .
The Loakalanzelger called the ex
ecutions "murder on principle' and
the Deutsche Allagenelne asserted:
"The butchering of communist by
communists la part of the Soviet ays-
tern, it waa politically organised mass
mutder, without which the system la
unable to exist.'
The Voelklscher Boebachter aald
that "what happened In Moscow waa
neither a "turning toward democ
racy' uor a veering toward fascism '
but merely an expression of the.
struggle between different Jewish
bolshevlst clinches."
ENDS ROSE FETE
PORTLAND, Ore.. Juna 12 flp
"King George the Wursf ascended
nla throne tonight as the "Cinderella
telgn" of Queen Dorothy m of the
Portland rose festival neared lta close
with a final night of carnival and
merrymaking.
The' "Merrykana" parade tonight''
featured a curious array of entries :
which rattled through - the streets '
with the facetious touch predominat
ing. Earlier In the day 6000 youngsters
held their own parade and teattval 1
under the scepter ol Queen Wlima
Dolores 1, '
An estimated 30,000 visitors attend
td the festival, which opened Wednee-
c;y.
NEGRO: 97, CLAIMS
WIFE. 81 DESERTS
KLIZABETKTOWN. 111.. Jun 13.
iHsrry Whitehead, B7. a former
slave and a Civil war veteran, flirt)
suit for divorce today from Anna
Whitehead, 4. also a former Slav,.
Whitehead charged desertion, stating
they were married Sept. 11, 1907, and
that his wife left him a year ago o
reside with a Kn, Wlllartt, at Ander-
son, InL - -