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fEDFORD UfATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1939. RACKET OVERLORD PLANNED 'FIX' FOR Youth Impaled On Board I BARRETTS MOVE "Hot"-- Freight Car Closes Warehouses FUNERAL SERVICE IN IRE VOLUME pxoe TrrrniT' MARGARET SOLISS L MACHI Policy Bank Operator Tcsti fies Race Bet Machines Juggled to Prevent Big 'Hits' in Number Game NEW YORK. Aug.' 22. (AP) Tes timony the notorious New York gang overlord, the 'ate Dutch Beta ul to, Spread graft or "Ice" money across the nation In connection with the multl -mill ion dollar Harlem policy racket was worded today In the conspiracy trial of Tammany leader June J. Hlnes. Alexander Pompez, 48, negro sports promoter and one-time operator of r 42, 000,000 -a-year policy "bank," testified that In August, 193D, one of Schultz's henchmen came to htm and demanded 2400 a week to "fix" the pnrl-mutuel machines at the Coney Inland race track In Cincin nati, O. , Agreed to Aid Previous testimony showed , Schuttz attempted to "fix" race-track fig urea In Florida and other states. Pompez ""id the mob lieutenant, George Weinberg, made the demand on him and his partner, "Big Joe" Ison, alias "Spasm," and they agreed to pay part of the money to pre vent big "hits" from draining the policy bank's coffers. By manipulating the parl-mutuel payoff numbers, he explained, they could keep winners in tht "numbers" game down to small bets. He said he and Ison finally agreed to pay $1200 a week to "fix" the Cincinnati part-mutuel machines. Pompefc said he asked Weinberg why they should contribute further to "the Dutchman," when they had split with Schultz after the gang leader "welched" on money owed Pompes and that Weinberg told him: lllnes Aide Arrives. 'The Dutchman say If we pay him this money, he try to pay us back the money he owes us." As Pom pea testified, a stir was created by the arrival In the court room of Max D. Stcucrk noted crimi nal lawyer. Steuer said he was not under sub poena, but was there at the request of Dlst. Atty. Thomas E. Dewey. It was Indicated, however, S teucr'B appearance precluded questioning at .the trial on the efforts of Hlnea to gain control of the New York Giants , baseball club. Btouer aided Hlnes In his attempt to get control of the Giants and was a witness in the Hlnes case when It was under consideration by the grand Jury. Earlier, Pompesi had testified Schultz mobsters "took care" of policy ar rest after organizing the racket In 1032. URGES 2 PER CENT TAX ON INCOMES SALEM, Aug. 32. (AP) National recovery through a two per cent gross Income tax was advocated at a chamber of commerce luncheon today by Arthur L. Johnson of Cali fornia, national secretary of the general welfare board nnd author of the Townscnd old ape pension plan before congress. The measure, he said. Is sound and Is bnsrd on the law of supply and demand. Old people would re ceive about no a month at the start, increase slightly each month to a maximum set by congress. He said the measure would wipe out the present social security pay roll tax. which In a few years would be nine per cent of payrolls. IN HOLDUP CASE OtlANTS PASS. Aug. 23. (AP) Frl YarbroiiBh nf Cave Junction wns In the county Jell today, ehm-Rel on two countn with larceny and him self churning that he snd a com panion had been robbed of abo'it 190. Yarbrongh and a companion, How ard Rnpcr. transient, told state po lice officer Louis Johnson tb!it they had been robbed of ftinds reeelw.1 when they canned flrit. Hunting checks. Tbey blamed five other men and a woman who picked them tt. Saturday nlRht after a dance mtl ejected them near elm on t! nedwnod hlk'hway. State police v,ere called. The, promptly arrested Yarbroiwh on v warrontn Issued last November, charglne theft of beans, copper tub Ing, and other smaller articles In tlu county. BIRTHS Born to Mr. nnd Mm. Roy j. Mm. of Prospeet In Community hospltii I 8:13 p. m. AiiKust 31. a boy mid.. In 8 puunds, 04 ounce,. The bah; Ilia been named Harold Rotwt Moore. LA GRANDS. Ore., A. 33 lAI", -Will Vowel, 6, well-known bul neaman and the second preMdenl of the Caatrrn Oregon Livestock na. socintioyi, died here today after an extender) lllnoaa fliterruplln till fishing to rescue A girl from drowning, a 13-year old Boy went home, changed h! elothet and was bark with rod and lln-1 within half an hour, at Oxford, Bng ' Wherever till freight car huff gone, warehouses III tho Nan rranelsco-Oakland area have heen tied up and men huvo lost their John. CIO warehousemen have refused to unload the whool supplies It contains, claim lug It was loaded hy "strlkehreakern," and the ear has been shunted front wurehouso to warehouse. At each on e, refusal to load It has been followed by shut-downs, until 31 plareswere closed and more than 1,000 me n thrown out of work. The men shown arc pickets and employes of thelatest warehouse to shut down, (A.l. Photo) IS BY NIGHT fly .lock .Stinnett (AP Feature Writer) NEW YORK The Black Art, streamlined and spotlighted, have In vaded the Manhattan night clubs. At the Caslno-on-the-Park. Rich ard Hlmber, tho dance orchestra maestro, drops bis baton frequently for a bit of prestidigitation. At Vin cent Astor'a St. Regis. Joseph Rlnes. another orchestra leader, alternates rhumbaa with card and gogot tricks Russell Swann docs his lt's-not-posslble tricks from the Orient at the Savoy-Plaza, Hnrdeen lenves Leon and Eddie's customers gasping and ' Dal Vernon, mystifies the customers at tho RalnboW Drill. It took no more than Vernon's first trick to mystify me. nipping the folds of his cope back over his shoulders, he peels off his white gloves, folds them once and tosses them Into the air. Tho gloves take wing and turn into a whlto dove. Tho night I was Investigating, tho dove described ft half are around the dance floor and alighted on tho fin ger of a guest. "HI Toots." said the guest. Tho dove didn't reply. Dal (short for David) Vernon is known to the conjuring fraternity as "the magician's magician." He gives credit for the apparent revival of public Interest In magi.- to the fact that the art has been streamlined. The old cumbersome ap paratus tricks have been replaced by greater skill and speed and a higher development of what he calls "the )sycho!ogy of misdirection." Vernon once traveled over the mid west searching for a Mississippi gam bler named Kennedy who, he had heard, did a "center deal" deallns from the center of a deck of card? after It had been cut, while appear ing to deal from the top. "One of tho great moments of my llfo csme when I first saw Kennedy do his center deal," Vernon bbvs. "The man had devoted IP yetars to perfecting that trick nad had made ft fortune with It. It wits beautiful, owe-lnsplrlng like the discovery of ft new world." Prisoner Prod PruRress BOSTON (UP) Bemuse a prison er . ripped up floorboards of an old horse-drawn police van and lowered himself to freedom, two antiquated vehicles which for years have been used to trans)Hrt prisoners between Charles street Jsll and the courthouse are being replaced .by one motor vehicle. Closing time for Too Late to Clan eify Ads Is 1 :30 p. m. Pay for this ;n . GET THIS TLISSy EMULSIFIED CLEANSING CREAM $1.75 size for $1 famously flood cream for cleansing one) imoonVng )h ikin Now creamiei and loftei than evet because ol mv ptoved processing. Especially good for your skin in ma wiaed weolher. Buy a winter's supply ONE WEEK ONLY VVAINSCOTT'S EAST SIDE Mnin find Riverside HOT CAR CLOSES SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22. Another wnrehouse, tho 36th. closed In tho wake of the "hot cargo" per ambulating box car today and the San Francisco distributors associa tion said the car was on the way to No. 37. Thirty-five warehouseman at the plant of Safeway Btores, Inc., tho 30th place shut-down by arrival of the car on San Francisco and east bay spur tracks, wero paid off when they refused to unload the freight. The quarrel grew out of a five-week-old strike at a warehouse of the F. W. Wool worth company, where CIO unionists and Wool worth offi cials deadlocked over a $12 weekly difference In wages demanded by the union. TOOTS OWN HORN BUFFALO, N. Y, (AP) Regularly, twice a month, the niArtlol notos of a bugle sound on the doorstep of a downtown bank here. Customers look surprised, but bank, clerks know It's George H. Neureuther coming to deposit his latest pay check. He's been doing It for 28 years. "It's Just a habit," he explain. Neureuther Is a Lehigh valley rall rnad switchman, his b lie; to Is home made, and besides ploying It at the bank he toots It on his way down town. "The cops all know me and If t t don't piny when I go down Main street they all say, 'What's the mat l ter'J dive us a tune'." he said. "So I play 'Taps,' Reveille' or 'Pay May.' Rut usually I play 'pay day'." His buglo consists of a mouth piece, a rtve-foot rubber hose and a tunnel. The nmMc comes out or the funnel, and hy using a larger funnel he ;etH louder note.v "I call It a trench horn," he said, "tf yon stand In a trench and blow one of those regular bugles, some one will bean you. "But you con put one end of this outside, nnd blow your calls from dugout and be perfectly safe." 4 Mnrrlnfie rterk Travels DILLON, Mont, (UP) County Clerk Normnn Oiles hns developed a method for Increasing marrlsges. He merely puts his marriage license book under his arm and makes the tour of tho county, ifo booked four couples on his first trip. Us Mall Tribune Want Ad PHARMACY Phone GO I CACHE OF NARCOTICS LOCATED IN ICE BOX NAB NOTORIOUS PAIR SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22. (Jp) A complaint charging conspiracy and possesion of narcotics was filed to day with U. S. Commissioner E. E. Williams against William Ingram. 34. and his wife, Ann, 33. The Ingrams were arrested yester day in a raid on tn apartment In winch federal agents said they con fiscated 70 ouncea of narcotics wrap- Oed in nnn-OllnfA cullrrnhnnr. harm j and concealed in a compartment in a refrigerator. A complaint also was filed today against Joseph Woods. 36, in connec tion with the case. Joseph Manning, supecrvisor of the narcotic bureau here, said Woods had not been ar rested. His bail and that of Ingram was set at $10,000. Mrs. Ingram's ball wm fixed at $2,600. Ingram and his wife were described by Manning as "two of the principal narcotic operators on this const, both wholesale and retail." Manning said he was hoping for more arrests. SIX IN AUTOMOBILE KILLED ON CROSSING ALTOONA. Kas.. Aug. 32. -(API-Six peraons wero killed In a Missouri Pacific grade crossing accident here today. Dead were Mrs. James Kepley. 19. of Altoona: her two children. Barbara Lee, 3, and Harold Wllbert. 6- months; her two young slaters, Isabel Ware and Ethel Ware, and a young brother. Billy Ware, all of Pall River, Kas. Et.hel died several hours after the accident In a Neodesha hospital, the other five were killed outright. Ages of h Ware children ran;:ed from 8 to 10. The Kepley automobile was struck by a Missouri Pacific passenger train at the north edge of Altoona and car ried five blocks through town. Sues Trnm rnmptinr PORTLAND-. Aug. 23. i,TV-Ellta-betli Relmann asserted n bus driver accused her of not paying full faro and brought a $18,100 damago suit against the Portland Traction com pany. Closing time for loo Late to Clas sify Ads is 1:30 p. m. (orcAW."9WUP., 1 slant Y . ,., i Margaret fiophia Sottas, 61, beloved rjloneer resident of Medford. oassed away Saturday at 6 p. m., at the noma or ner eon, jonn sollss, 1837 N. Riverside avenue, after a very ahort Illness, from acute asthma. She was sick Just a few houra. Mrs. Sollss, who made her home for many yeara a 137 N. Oakdale avenue, was born at Darlington, Wisconsin, Fcbruarv 1. 1847. and when five venrn of age came by wagon train with her parents to California. They settled at Weavervllle, and also lived In Ne vada City, and Sacramento, Calif. The trip across, the plains took almost six months, and trouble was encmin. tered twice with the Indians. Mrs. Sollss was united in marriage to Daniel B. Sollss at Sacramento, Calif., May 4. 1883. Thev lived In Sacramento until 1877, when they moved to southern Oregon. Mr. Sollss passed away In 1918. She leaves to mourn her departure five daughters. Mrs. Adeline McCoy, Medford; Mrs. ninry urmin. van Nuys, Calif.: Mrs. Mildred Clark, Monterey. Calif.: Mrs. Eva Cooper. San Jose, Calif., and Mrs. Nettle Alice Stoner, Portland, Ore.: threo sons. John Sollss, Medford; Al bert N. Sollss. ComDton ' rnf on Daniel B. Sollss, Los Angeles, also nine grandchildren and one brother, Art T. Newman of Washington. Mrs. ao::ss was a fine nlm. mother and a gracious neighbor, and ioves many mends to mourn her de parturo. Puueral services will be m.ti from the Perl Funeral home Tuesday - h in.., usv. u. a. Millard officiat ing. Interment will take place In the family plot In Jacksonville cemetery TEXASlDlN RETURN TO JAIL DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 23 (API Two Texas gunmen who terrorlzsd the southwest four months were he'd here today for action by state and federal authorities. Coming back home brought the downfall of Floyd Hamilton, 30, and Ted Walters, 25, who escaped from the Montague eount.v lati tague. Tex., last April, since then mey nao neen sought in connection With numerous rnhherin. 1 .1.. southwest and mlddlewest. iney were arrested here yesterday, unarmed and almost penniless. Hamilton had a buckshot wound In his left leg and was nabbed as he hobbled alone a rnlli-rvaH of-way near their hideout. Walters was arrested nearby. He told officers they made their headouarter h... at a negro's home. Pool Returned For Delinquency Quiz Ioula Pool, arrested at ryvii.o. last Saturday, on a phnrr f 'con tributing ta the delinquency of . U- year-oia gin, was returned to the county jail here Sunday. The local mlftS, Who alleeedlv Rrrnmtvinlorf D.vi to Roseburg, wa also returned. Pool wan ocneauiea to oe arraigned In Justice court today. Pool, accordlnng to the district at torney's office, has a state orlaon rec ord. He was sentenced from this county, once for forgpry, and onci for theft. Fears Work (Jang SANDUSKY, O. (UP) News of a "work gang" proposed by police to keep vagrants from the city Intimi dated a 75-year-old, ahabblly tiremwd man who arted police for lodging. He Mid that he would like a place to sleep overnight, but added. don't want to get into one of vmr 'chain gangs ." Addressing university students In Wales, Lord Baldwin said "When learning becomes prostituted to pol itic there are no depth to which 1 1 ca nnot descend ." 1 John Chrontster, 24-ycar-old salesman, was riding In an auto when It struck a hay wagon near Santa Monica, Calif., and a two-Inch square, eight-foot plank, torn from the wagon pierced his neck. He Is shown with his wife (left), and an unidentified friend, as he smil ingly entered a hospital where doctors cut away the flesh and removed the plank. ; GETS UNDER WAY Harvesting of the tomato crop of the Rogue river valley started todav in most of the fields, with a prica &f 12 per ton for No. 1 United States grades, and 6.60 per ton for lower grades, it was reported. The Bagley cannery at Ashlanu started making tomato Juice last SJt urday, and will start packing this week. Ralph Koozer, manager of the can nery estimates the medium tomato crop, at "slightly under 2.000 tons. The last ten days has caused the crop to ripen nnd improve in size. The planted acreage Is under last year. Work to -Music LONDON (UP) Music is being used to aid the workers in 100 fac tories In England, Dr. Agnca Savlll revcnled at the Music and Life Con gress here. In a cracker works, she said, girls engaged in mopotonous repetition work were brightened and Increased their outputs when fox trots and waltzes were played. Closlnc time for Too Late to clas sify Ads is 1 :30 p ra. lo pur rm io ant un ...ORIN Beck's Bread and Milk Are the Foods Children Need in Largest Amounts! BECK'S BREAD AND OROW1NO CHILDREN are perfect team mates. They like each other and together they bring home lot of Tictorles. For. 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