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9 Grani« Pass — Gateway to the Oregon Caves VOL. XIV.. No. *1. ■■ 'i ■ « ■■J J 1 SUSPECT GIVES STRONG ALIBI UPON CAPTURE IIERNARD LA ('RANCE PICKED IT IN PORTLAND BI T 1H RE- LEANED INFORMATION IS SECURED Data on Three DeAutremont Broth- era Furalabed Officers New Ver sion Given Holdup Portland, Oct. 33.—(A. P.)—Ber nard La Chance, sought as a suspect io the Southern Pacific Siskiyou train holdup, was picked up here last night by special agents and after be ing quitted was released, having fur nished a satisfactory alibi, according to Captain of Detectives Moore. I .a Chance was taken to the special agent's office and questioned by rail road and postal detectives and In spector Leonard, of the Portland po lice department, said Moore. Chief of Houtbern Pacific Special Agents O'Connell, in an announcement from Medterd, said La Chance gave a strong alibi for himself, but furnish ed valuable Information regarding the DeAutremont brothers, sought by officers In connection with the holdup. t A > .O,^»■nsi.n ■ ■■ f-Jh. GRANTS PARH, JOSEPHINE COUNTY. OREGON. FARMERS HAVE AUTOS; RAILROAD GOES BROKE COURT DECIDES AGAINST CHURCHES IN BIG SUIT ♦ ♦ 0 ♦ ♦ 4 8al«m, Oct. 23.—(A. P.J— Th« supreme court today decid ed against the Portland Chris- tian Scientist churches In a suit involving $350,000 claimed by ths Wemme heirs. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 I ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ CONNECTICUT BOAHTH LOW AUTO SMASH RATE Ifsrtford, Conn., Oct. 23.—(1. N. 8.) — Railroad trains and autos came together In 38 collisions in Connecticut In the first eoven months of the year, the State Motor Vehicle Department announces, killing 3 and Injuring 17. Connecticut Is lucky the department believes, for the Slate baa one-eightieth of all the autos in the country, and if it bad one-eightieth of all the crossings fatalities—which total 1820 through out the land each twelve months— the Hat here would have been 14 deaths In the 7 months. The record for 1923 Is 23 motor vehicles hit byWaln* and 13 trains hit by motor vehicles, while the 1922 record was 22 machines hit by trains and 7 trains bit by machines. WOMAN HEADS BIG GAME PARTY Will Take Expedition Into Heart of Belgian Congo lyindon, Oct. 23.—(I. N. 8.)—A 3,000-mlle big-game pleasure and exploration trip through the canni bal wilds of the Belgian Congo un der the direction and organisation of a woman Is about to start from London. The woman Is Mrs. Diana Strick Medford, Ore . Oct. 23 —(A. P.)— land, and she has conceived and or Another arm of the government has ganised the whole expedition, com been enlisted in the man hunt for posed of herself, a woman klnema the Siskiyou train robbers. All operator and three men. available forest rangers have been She expects to be away about ordered to the Klamath National three mopths, and anticipates little foreet reserve, where the fugitives or no trouble during the expedition. are believed to be hiding, and re "While the original purpose of ports todsy from that section tell of the expedition is for pleasure," said cabins being ransacked for food. Mrs. Strickland in an interview, A patrol of national guardsmen is "we have been asked and have de being maintained night and day at cided to secure specimens for various Tunnel 13, acene of the hold up. soos, and to take 'movies* and 'stills' Chief Daniel O'Connell of the of nature in its wildest form. Houtbern pacific railway said today "We are making Boma our start that none of the four men sought ing point, and from there shall pro were drug users, and characterised ceed by river and rail to Kenshasa, the bandits as "crasy kids." about 250 miles. From Kenshasa It has been adduced from the evi we will endeavor to proceed as far aa dence collected that the four men possible with the aid of 'stern masqueraded as hunters, In the vi wheelers' and 'dugouts’ up the Sun cinity of the tunnel, for ten days pro kern river. ceeding the crime, with frequent , “After leaving the river we leave trips Into Medford and Ashland. , clvilixation behind us, and start a The De Autremont twins are bar Journey along native tracks through bers, and it is through they will try unsurveyed country. "We hope to eventually make to secure work at this trade. Their stepmother is at present living at Wamba foreet, where we shall halt to collect moths and butterfly spe Lakeview, New Mexico. Ray and Roy DeAutremonte, twin cimens for the various people who brothers, aged 23, Hugh De Autre- > have asked us to undertake that monte aged 1*. another brother, with work.” aa alias of K. E. James, and Bar nard La Chance, aged 30, all loggers, all radicals of the I. W. W. type, are the four men sought by federal, state and railroad agencies, as the 8iaki- yous tunnel murderers and bandits of October 11th, in which four South ern Pacific trainmen were slain. The De Autremont brothers claim Eu gene, Oregon, as their home town. LaChance had no regular stopping place. Hall De Autremont, father of the three brothers, is held by the author ities for questioning, and has been taken to Berkeley, Calif., for examl- WHOLE NUMBER TM1M. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2», 1021«. W nation by Prof. Helnreich, noted criminologist. The father was brought from Eugene Saturday night and left Sunday morning with Dis trict Attorney Rawles Moore of Jack- son county, and two guards for the university city. It was from the father that the authorities obtained photos of the twins. The parent’s attitude has been “a willingness to talk," according to Chief Daniel O’Connell of the Southern Pacific special agents. Somewhere in the fastnesses of HELD FAILURE ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4- MEPAHATIMTH HAVE RICEN GEN ♦ ERALLY DEFEATED SAYS 4 BERLIN 4 4 4 4 41 + 4* Food RIoU Result in Plundering of 4 Buildings—-Tilrc<- Towns Still 4 Fly Rebel Flag 4 HAMBURG POUCE ATTACKED Berlin, Oct. 23. 8:30 p. m.—-(A. P.) —Reports from various Rhine land points this afternoon indicate that the Separatists have been gener ally defeated, especially at AI x -L a - Chapeile, Muenchen - Glabach and At Alx-l« Chapelle thffy were severe ly beaten by the trade unionists and then ejected from the public build ings which they had been holding since midnight on Saturday. Berlin. Oct. 23.—'(A. P.)—Ham burg police stations were stormed in food riots here. Some police were disarmed but reinforcements recap tured the stations. Food shops were plundered. London, Oct. 33.—(A. P.)—Ac cording to Berlin dispatches, the green, white and red flag of the se cessionists files over W(gsbaden, Erkelenn and Bensberg. TURKISH EMBASSY IN LONDON CIOHED SINCE 1914, TO REOPEN London. Oct. 33, —(A. P.)—It is expected that the Turkish embassy which has been closed since 1914 will be reopened soon. The Embas sy which Is in Portland place presents a grimy exterior for it has remained untouched all these years. A soli tary caretaker has been In charge of the building and he stated today that the furniture was Just as it had been, left in 1914. He complained that he had been without wages for months but he expects his little account will be satisfactorily settled. "No wo have had no burgulars. There is nothing to steal," he con cluded. WASTE IN BUREAU IS BARED Renate Investigating Committee Hears Evidence by Hines Washington. Oct. 23.—(A. P.J— The special senate committee inves tigating the. veterans bureau was told today by Director Hines that before he came Into office, the bureau paid $84.000 for architects plans for a hospital at Livermore, Cal., and then found the drawings unsuitable. K. K. KUBLI MAY ENTER RAGE Speaker of House May Make Try for Senator Job of State (Continued on Faffs Three) HI THOUSAND IMMIGRANTS IN HAVANA FROM RIM COUNTRIES RODIO ENTER U.S Havana, Oct. 23.—(A. P.)—Care wayfarers are easy prey for crooks. ful estimates place at 8,000 the num Many of them are persuaded to pay money to strangers In the belief that ber of Immigrants now in Havana, their entry to America will be has hoping in some way to be able to get tened. Not long ago a trusting Pols to the United States. They Include gave $100 as first payment to an im Spaniards, Germans, Poles, Ukrain poster who promised, in return to ians, and men from almost every land him in the United States for country in southern Europe. Many $200. From timo to time small groups do of them, according to Arthur C. Frost, the American consul, were start for the American shore, but lured from their native land by hardly a day passes but hardlyky steamship agents who promised high hardly a day passes without some wages in the cane fields of Cuba unfortunate foreigner turning up at while waiting. And in addition the American consulate here with a there are several thousand Chinamen pitiful tale of a fraudulent scheme whose only hope of entry Is in being worked on him under the promise of smuggled ashore at some remote a speedy passage across the Florida straits. The Cuban police are help spot on tho American coast. Those credulous and Ignorant ing to break up the practice. Eugene, Ore., Oct. 23.—(A. P.)— K. K. Kubli, speaker of the house the last session of the legislature and prominent in Multnomah county politics for years, will be a candidate for United States senator from Ore gon, to the best belief of his wide circle of friends here. It is expected that a statement will come from Kubli in little more than a week’s time. This much is known: Should Kubli enter the battle he will make a per sonal campaign of the state from one end to the other. No front porch campaign for this ex-Univenity of Oregon athlete. His opponents would, in all likl- hood be George Baker and "Pat" Mc Arthur of Portland, and Charles Mc Nary at Salem, present incumbent. Kubli is a graduate of the Univer sity of Oregon, class of 1893, and even then won wide fame as sn ath lete and student leader. No authentic confirmation or de nial of the report has come from him. Philadelphia, Oct. 23.—(I. N H.)—The fact that every farmer along the lines of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Street Railway Company owns an automobile is given as one of the reasons for the abandon- ment of that enterprise by Gay- lord Thompson. Ils president. The abandonment was recently approved by the Pennsylvania public service commission after It was shown that during 1922 the trolley road, which connects Bristol and Doylestown, in Buck county, lost $25,000. The line was originally built 30 years ago at an estimated cost of $250,000. It is 28 miles long. Today it Is valued at less that $10,000. SLAYS FAMILY AND SETS FIRE TO FARM HOUSE ♦ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 CHARRED REMAINS FOUND NEAR DEM CHUTEN EARLY TODAY. 4 FIVE ARE KILLED 4 4 4 4 4 ♦ 4 Confexeion Made That Man and 4 Woman Were Shot While In Bed 4 room of Home Today 4 DENVER MAN KILLS COUPLE Bend, Ore., Oct. 23.—(A. P.)— IT IS HAFER TO FLY OVER THAN WALK THROUGH LONDON Six charred bodies were found in the Ixmdon.Oct. 23 —(A. P.)— Ac cording to officials of the London "Safety First Council,” It is less safe to walk the streets of London than to travel by rail or air. During the past year 884 people were killed and 28,322 injured in London's streets. During the same time the toll ou the whole of Eng- lund's railways whs only 728 killed and 19,462 injured. Long period of flying occur with out a single passenger being killed. Of the fatal accidents In London, 505 were caused by motor cars and motor vans, etc., and 63 by motor buses. In the first quarter of the present year, street accidents in the metrop olitan area totalled 13,930, of which 149 were fatal. Of the latter 107 were caused by motor cars, motor vans, etc., and 16 by motor buses. OREGON CAVES ARE CLOSED Resort Quits for Winter ■ 14,549 Visitors During Season ruins of a farm, house near Des Chutes early today. The dead: Eli Chasse, whose body was found near a stove in the ruins with a revolver close to his head; Mrs. Anna Lordee, his sister, whose body was found in bed with her smell daughter, Rita Lordee, 9; Wilfred Chasse, 9; Viola Chasse, 7, also a Chasse boy, aged 13. Officers believe that Chaste killed the family and then himself. Denver, Oct. 23.—(A. P.)—A. H. Mitchell has confessed that he shot and killed Mrs. Georgia A. Bryan, 30, and A. J. Sherrie, 50, in a bedroom at the Sherrie home early today near Morningside. Mitchell declared he could not atand seeing Mrs. Bryan loving a man not her husband. TELU4 COURT BRIDE IN NOT FEEDING SON RIGHT St. Clairsville, Ohio, Oct. 23.—(I. N. 3.)—An elderly woman, calling at the office of Prosecutor Herbert W. Mitchell, complained that her son was "being slowly starved to death" because his bride “won't cook the same way" the mother-in-law does. Mother-in-law wanted prosecstor to step in and "save" her son’s life. Prosecutor Mitchell told her that the young man "should speak for himself" to the bride. Being mar ried himself, the prosecutor knows what an outsider might expect if he intervened. "That« just the trouble. The poor boy seems to like her cooking, but I know what's good for him. didn't I cook for him for 26 years’” asked the indignant mother-in-law as she left the prosecutor's office. The Oregon Caves resort has been closed for the winter months and will not be opened again until May 15, next year. The remaining members of the staff employed at the resort during the summer have been re leased and the place boarded up, Monday having been the last day it was open. George C. Sabin, man ager of the resort, came into Grants Pass today and reports a total Of 14,549 visitors during the season, attendance having dropped to a min imum the past few weeks. Guide service is not obtainable at the re sort and no accommodations can be secured. University Goce Against Vandals at Eugene on Saturday Mr. Sabin states that he expects 25,000 visitors to the resort during University of Oregon, Oct. 23.— the next tourist season. The atten Although the University of Oregon dance this year was declared to have been entirely satisfactory as it ap football squad cleared another hur dle toward the Northwest champion proached the number of persons ex pected. 8even guides, two girls for ship when Whitman was taken into the dining room, a chef and woman camp last Saturday the real test of helper in the kitchen and a woman the varsity’s strength and the hope of her future success depends largely to care for children, care for cover on the outcome of the Idaho-Oregon alls and tent houses formed the staff game to be played in Eugene next of workers this summer. This will be augmented to a considerable ex Saturday. So far this season the varsity ag tent next year, in order to care for the expected Increase in the number gregation has had pretty much its own way in football. All of the of visitors. A meeting of the Oregon Caves Re Northwest conference games were comparatively easy: but the Idaho sort Company will be held In a short time at which plans for the coming game, the first of the Pacific confer season will be taken up and dis ence, looms up like a gigantic spec cussed. The corporation is composed tre. If Oregon can defeat Matthew's of local business men who took over Vandals in a decisive game next Sat urday nothing seems to be impos the financing of the resort. A complete list <^f the visitors was sible for the varsity this year. The Whitman game proved to the kept during the summer and a com pilation of the people from the dif Oregon mentors that the Lemon-Yel ferent states and towns will soon be low gridsters still have a few weak made. California is believed to have nesses. First, the line lacks the ex Bent the most visitors. The last peo perience it should have when it Then ple at the Caves this season were comes to meet the Vandals. the vanity lacks weight. This, from San Francisco. however, is not easily remedied, so Coach "Shy” Huntington, aided by Bert Spellman, is working overtime in giving their men gridiron exper ience. In the Whitman game defensive Michigan Clubs Will Issue Call for New Political Party playing was the backbone of the vanity'a strength. Holding the fast Detroit. Oct. 23.—(A. P.)—The traveling Whitman backs to four formation of a new national political fint downs is some little feat In it party with Henry Ford as the stand self. , None of the vanity playera were ard bearer will be undertaken at the national organisation conference of injured in the Whitman game, and all the Ford-for-PresIdent clubs here with much hard practice the men are on December 12th. Several Michi expected to be in fine condition to gan Ford clubs have decided to issue meet the Vandal Invasion next Satur the call. day. IDAHO GAMEISREAL TEST FORD PARTY IS BEIN6 FORMED BULLET STAYS LODGED IN BRAIN FOR 14 YEARS 4 4 4 4 ♦ 4 4 4 4 4 ♦. Athens, Oct. 23.—(I. N. S.) Ira Nichols, express man, for 14 yean has had a bullet rest- ing on his brain and did not know it. His left eye was shot out at that time, but Nickola thought ths bullet plowed Its way out. Recently his skull was fractured in an accident and an X-ray picture showed the bullet. HIGHWAY JOBS ARE ORDERED ♦ 4 ♦ 4- ♦ -4 4' + 4 ♦ THE DALLEH4ALIFORNLA ROAD IM AUTHORIZED RY ♦ COMMISSION RED CROHN SOCIETIES RECEIVES GERMA X AID LOAN IS MADE 10 KLAMATH Pari«, Oct. S3—(A. P.)—The Ger ff —.SI I me IS. man Red Cross Society baa just made Forest Service Asked to Give More It« annual contribution to the ex Fuada Toward Completion of ‘ pense« of the League of Red Croea Orel* Project Societies, thus furnishing material contradiction of the supposition that Is entertained tn some quarters that Portland. Oct. 23.—(A. P.J—The the league 1« an "Allied and Associ State Highway Commission has or ated” concern. The German contribution, the dered the starting of the last unit of equivalent of >100 was In the form The Dalles - California highway, giv of French paper francs, and repre ing Klamath county authority to sented In Germany paper money fif clear the right of way from the for est project north to the Deschutes teen billion marks. Nineteen societies contributed in county line. The state will then 1922 to the budget, (200,000 a year, grade and surface the road. County which is guaranteed by the Ameri Judge Bunnell, of Klamath, asked ' the commission to designate route can Red Cross. Twelve new members have aent in of the Klamath Falls-Lakeview high their contributions to the league, and way. Chairman Du by promised ac. it is expected that all the old mem tion on the project. The commission bers will respond, bringing the to agreed to lend Klamath county the tal mambership this year to il so money to tide over the road con- i tracts until the road bonds are sold. cieties. The commission requested the fed eral forest service to give $20,000 more towards completing the Drain- Reedsport highway. Douglas county agreed to pay all expenses over the Hartman Syndicate At Ashland Will sum offered, by the government. Four Receive Machinery eastern Oregon contracts were let. SHALE OIL RETORT ON WAY Ashland, Oct. >3.—(A. P.)—Com ing as*tbe beet news that will have met ths ears of Hartman Syndicate stockholders' since work has been pushed at the holdings, is the report given by the officials of the concern that the first 250 ton retort la in transit. Delivery has been guaranteed by the different roads over which the huge piece of machinery will be di rected, to be made in 12 days, plac ing the retort here next week. A derrick will immediately be swung into place unloading the dis membered parts In the Ashland freight yards and a slow procession started to the shale city. t Zvery bit of preparation will have been completed, A is thought, pre paratory to installing the retort, which when installed, will soon de termine the value of the shale oil deposits upon which the Hartman Syndicate is operating, and on which several thousand dollars have been expended. COMBINED AGES OF FOUR BROTHERR IS SI* YEARS Seymour, Ind., Oct. 23.—(I. N. S.) —“Ftootwood Bros., 315 years of a*s.*' was the heading of an inter esting story printed by the Nashville Brown County, Banner, recently. The brothers, are John, Thomas. William and Dennis. Dennis is the “tmby” of the family and is 74 years of age. William, &3, is the oldest. While in this city on a visit they had their pictures taken together. HIGHWAY TRAFFIC DECREASES Large Number of Machines Still Use Pacific Highway Traffic on the highways has fallen off to some extent this past month but the tourists are still on the move. A traffic census taken by the high way office here shows that 1041 ma chines passed on the Pacific highway at the Junction with the Redwood highway a half mile south of Grants ENGLISH COAST BOMBER Pass. Of this number 644 were Ore HAS 1. OOQ H. P. ENGINE gon cars while a majority of the rest were, from other states. 3ome of the London. Oct. 33 —(I. N. 8.)— vehicles were trucks and horse drawn aeroplane. Just perfected by the Air conveyances. Ministry will shortly undergo her i The traffic on the Redwood high trials. way was comparatively heavy. Five Her engine Is the new Napier Cub hundred and forty six vehicles passed engine of 1,000 horsepower and it the Junction on the Redwood high is stated by her designers that a way. The greater number of these light plane could easily be carried were cars belonging In the district on her tail. The wing spread la 120 southwest of Grants Pass as only 72 feet. machines passed on the Redwood Her speed will be about 100 miles highway at the Junction with the per hour, and she will be able to Caves highway. A total of 72 ma carry comfortably about two tons of chines passed by on the Caves high bombs, in addition to four machine way. At Wolf Creek. 447 cars guns in her cockpits. passed on the Pacific highway. WO Han DOH Stiff AS1IN ph su»« ni ios meles test Los Angeles, Oct. >2.—(I. N. 8.) —Remarkable success Ln imparting radio Instruction to backward stu dents at the Pensacola Naval Avia tion School some months ago has been duplicated kero by naval au thorities. The experiments are said to have been carried out with surprisingly good results aboard the V. 8. 8. Cali fornia in Los Angeles Harbor when two sleeping radio operators were given messages during their slum bers and awoke hours later to clear ly relate the content. .According to Lieutenant-Comman der Condle Winn and Lieutenant Francis W. Gibbs, naval medical corps officer, wao conducted the test, the experiment definitely establishes that a man's sub-conscious mind more quickly grasps radio telegra phy. They pointed out that a sleep ing operator's mind Is susceptible only to the direct matter being con veyed to It, and the sub-conscious mind is not interfered with by ex ternal impressions. The two operators upon whom the test was made were B. 8. Uhl and M. L. Peterson, students of the naval radio class. Receivers were attached to the ears of the men before they went to sleep. Messages were then sent with moderate rate of speed. When the pair awoke they clearly re counted the messages sent them dur ing their sleep.
