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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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Prank Tlerney of Portland, chair
man of the state Democratic central
committee, wtll be guest of honor at
a, dinner Tuesday evening at 6
o'clock at Valentine's Cafe. All Demo
crats and members of the Young
Democratic club ore invited to at
tend the session. Ward Spats: will
preside during the evening.
Mr. Tlerney spent yesterday In
Klnmath Pnlls and is visiting in
Grants Pass today. He will be an
overnight guest in Medford Tuesday.
Lands Hijr Trout
PORT WILLIAM yp) Nine-year-old
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Jlmmle landed a 14-pound trout
from Lake Superior.
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Eight oars were shipped last week
and six were scheduled to be loaded
today for upstate shipment. Eastern
shipments, up to Saturday, totalled
23 oars. There were no Sunday ship
ments. Harvesting of the second crop of
Bartletts is underway and will bt
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The next crop to be harvested art
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packers estimate.
Picking of Boscs la scheduled to
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ANDERSON. Ind, (UP) A bach
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round trip to complete her collegt
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