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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1917)
Oregon t hrjry Medford FORECAST Partly Cloudy Tonight and Rut utility. WEATHER Maximum Ysnii biy 5:t; Minimum Twhiy 27. rortT-ilxJli Tear. tv.iilv t-;i..v-nt)i Tar. MF.DFOI.D. OI.K.iOX. 'KIM DAY. .1 AM'Al. Y l'(. NO. 'HVl t. H OF MYSTERY IN LEAK L ' J Mail Tribune WITNESS SI GERMAN DRIVE iOIN BOMB PLANTED RENEWED ALONG UPON SIBEWALK VERDUN FRONT, M SCANDAL PI V A- 1 1 PROBE HOTEL MEN OF HOW AWSON CAPITAL GRILLED IDE MONEY IN FOR EXTORTIONS STOCK SLUMP 16 . Oxmari Declares He Witnessed Bill ings, Mooney, Mrs. Mooney, Wein berg and Another Drive Up in Auto and Place Bomb Which Cost Ten Lives at San Francisco. SAX FRAXCISCO, Jnn. 2(i. F. 0. Oxman of Durkec, Or., testified in the murder trial of Thomas J. Mooney liere today lliat lie aetnally saw plant ed the, homl) tlmt eost ten lives and injured forty persons during n pre paredness parade bore July 22, J 0.1(1. lie identified Mooney, Warren K. Hillings and Israel Weinberg as the men who laid the homl). Oxman is the first witness the state has produced, either in the trial of Hillings, sentenced to prison for life, or Moonel, to testify ho saw the bomb set. lie identified Hillings in the courtroom ns the man who nrtu ally placed a suitcase containing the bomb on the sidewalk. Mooney, Weinberg, Mrs. Mooney and a man tawith a black mustache' not in the courtroom, arrived with the bomb in an automobile, Oxman testified, and fled after it was placed. Creates Consternation. Oxman is a stoek-raiscr. Up to (he time he was placed on the stand hi' "iand his story were held with the greatest secrecy. Oxman's story ercated consterna tion in the courtroom. Oxman said he knew none of the men in the automo bile, but be readily picked Mooney, Weinberg, Hillings and Mrs. Mooney. Kdward 1). Nolan, the fifth of the ac cused, was not "the man with the black mustache," Oxman said, nor was Nolan in the machine. All five arc churned with murder. Hillings was convicted and sentenced to life for the explosion. Oxman's nppeur aneo on the stand was a bomb itself to the defense, which has been contending- that the suitcase theory of the explosion was false and that the bomb was hurled from a roof top. W. Ilourke Coekrnn, chief counsel for the defense, failed to shake Ox man's identifications or testimony in a lurid cross-examination. "Could you not be mistaken in your identification of these four defend ants?'' C'ockran asked. " A. No. Q. lint you only saw them once; . your memory isn't ns sood as that, is it ? Actions Peculiar. A. Yes, but their actions were pe culiar. thought they were a set. of thieves who bad stolen a suitcase. Jlesides, Hillings brushed me out of the way in his hurry, and I took close notice. Therefore I am positive. "1 put down the number of the au tomobile on this telegram envelope." lie handed the envelope to C'ockran nnd on it was written, "Xo. filHT. Suspect, July 22, IP. Hi. Stole suit case." ' Police traffic records showed 'No. .M87'' to be Weinberg's license, the ( police said. Weinberg- admitted pri vately in court that it was his num ber. "Y"hy didn't you report this to the police immediately?" asked C'ockran. A. Well, I had ."0(l0 cattle on my hrtuds, and that's enough to have on tiSe's mind. I didn't want to pel mixed up with a bunch who would plant a bomb on a sidewalk. I have come here reluctantly, even now. FACTORY OWNER I NEW YORK, Jnn. 26. Asserting that a sentence In prison should teach a far-reaching lesson to fac tory owners and tenants who fall to provide proper tire exits, Supreme Court Justice Kapper today sent Sam uel Ilarkin to Sing Sing (or from 2 V4 to 5'i years. Barkln Is a partner in a shirt making company housed in a Urooklyn building w here nine women and four men operators lost their lives in a fire because the trap doors between their place of work and Har bin's floor was locked. Ilarkin was convicted by a Jury earlier this week. Ills partner, Sam uel Simon, and the building's owner. Mr. and Mrs. Kdward I. Diamond, proprietors of a candy company in the structure, are stili to be tried on similar charges. Important Offensive Along a Three Mile Front Teutons Penetrate the Trenches on Dead Man's Hill Fighting Along Riga Front Contin ues, Germans Having Advantage. In what appears to have been the most important offensive movement undertaken on the Fianrn-lsclgiun front in several weeks, French trenches on a front of approximately a mile in the region of Hill DIM, north west of Verdun, were stormed by German troops yesterday, the ISerlin war office announces. A connlcr-nl-lack delivered at night by I ho French failed jo drive out the Germans, who during the operation captured about .llld prisoners and ten machine suns. The Paris account of the German offensive reports it launched along a rather wide front, the attacks being delivered at four points between Avo conrt wood, on the extreme left of the French lines about Verdun ami Dead Man bill, a distance of more than three and one-half miles. The at tacks were repulsed, the French statement declares, except that the Germans penetrated advanced trenches near Hill :!fH. The German statement mentions the fighting iu the other sectors of this attack as enter prises on Dead ' Man hill which brought the desired results. In Itigu Sector. Fighting in the Itign region, the northernmost sector of the liussian front, continues to show advances for the Germans, according to licrlin, which reports additional liussian pos itions gained on both sides of the river An, southwest of 1,'ign, border ing the great Tirol marsh. Tilt' fighting in this marshy region is made possible at this season by the freezing of the swamps. A liussian offensive early this month was taken to be aimed at Milan, the German base south, of IMga. hut it failed of I decisive results. The Germans now apparently have not only regained such ground as thev lost, but are striking northward across the swampy ground in the direction of Kiga. On Other Kmnt. ' The Russians are offering strong resistance and delivered counter-attacks on the east .idc of the Aa river. They failed, liovfever, according to Merlin, which reports the capture of .1(10 prisoners during the dav's fight ing. Operations iu the other war areas have been of comparative unimpor tance. Minor attacks by the Huu.ai, ians iu western Moldavia have failed, licrlin says, as did nl.-o a Serbian at lack in the Mogjenicn mountain reg ion on the Macedonian front. E E SALEM, Ore.. .Ian. "iSlua Snnduy.s" for Oregcn verj prescribed in a bill introduce, into the house of representatives hero today by Representative YV. II. Horn of Med ford. ' The measure would close, nil lines of btiMness except drug stores, hotels, restaurants, ice cream par lors, enrages and mo'.ivo supply houses. 1'udcr the act. baseball games, theaters and oro"r forms of amusement would be oroiiiVt.-d from operating. (lore said l.c introduced the measure at the reni.e.s'. of the Oregon Retail Orocer-' association. Any poison of faith t.ot observing Sunday would be exempt. J OF SAN SALYAIiOIf. JU.Thr jrnvcrnmi'iiN ni fiiuiti-niiila, (Vt-tii I.'ii'U. Ilnni'itta iiinl Salvailur hnvr irvi;ind -tiitcntfiit h t ran Mint-j ti-l to l!i' Ami-rirjin iililiitc of tn t rii;iliin.il l;v. n in M--ii in I ;tn:i. iitjifovni tin iM-tinn or tin 111 Miliih' in fi-i-nminori'iiit'z niiiititf-njnu-r nt tin- (Yhtivt Ahiriir;'iT. court ,jt!-i-l n iiJii'li;in of jmnh-c .ninri'. titc H'I'iiuIm-. oi Liutral AjtKTU'U. HAS CAPITOL STRING OE PETTICOAT P.y CIIAS. KDWAHl) Itl'SSKU,. WASHIXdTOX, l.),ajC..,.Jan. '.'li. irs. ltiiili Thoniason Viseonli, who made such (i dramatic entry in Ihc gr'al Vnieriean farce comedy en titled -The Leak: or, Quid;, Watson! The Needle," would be worth tint old gold to a romance writer of the good old school id' intrigue and mystery. She is small, attractive, (poet, sil ent, mysterious ami elusive. She ar rives and departs and none knows whence nor whither. She baflles de tectives, subpoena sellers anil re porters, and when you feel sure die is here she glides for a moment into view Mimcwhere else. This used to be great stuff on the stage and iu fiction, and may be again. Some id' it isn't so much fic tion at that. I'.vervbodv that knows government as It really is knows that it is largely a puppet play for the de light and diversion of a large and un discnniinating audience. It is per formed by a variety of pleasing nnd well-drr.-sed figures that move about the stage in a series of most lifelike and refreshing stunls as if they did everything of their own will, but all the lime they are pulled around with strings, cords and wires not exhib ited to the enlrauced spectators. Sometimes the hands that pull these Mriniis lire a woman's small hands that make hi-dorv and pass WASHINGTON, Jan. -JH.- I'niver sal military traiuilej: iu the i'llited States will not make for militarism, Ili-liop Samuel Kallows of Chicago, chaplain of the famous Iron llrigade of the civil war. told the senate com mittee considering universal training legislation. j "We never can be and never will I be a military nation," said HUhopj Kallows. "The tct of that came at the close of the civil war, when two million mi n were mu-lered out, flush-j ed villi victory and under the com mand of a man who be ame prc-identj of the I niled Stales. There wcri' predictions that (irant would become' dictator. Instead of becoming a die-' tutor, he couid not be nominated for' a thud I nn, and that great niuiyj melted like siiowt'af.es in the slreamj of American lite. j "t lovet-al tlamiiej. be eontllillcd. "is perlcetly ica-oliable and impera tively detualided. It is tile solemn ilutv of the American nation to meet FAMOUS BISHOP ! FAVORS UNIVERSAL ILITARYFRAINING i any war conditions t liut may ari-c."j mm MMMMMWH MRS.RUTM OF away and arc forgotten. Mul the re sfilfs ;f tlmir maitinda1 ion, maneuv ers and sccrel designs last always thercallcr. Madame do Maintenon, the duchess of Marlborough. !ess of llanvick, the fair (iabrielle, and all that soil ,,f thing, mean. They show still in a fashionable avenue in I'aris the house where a red-haired woman iu the day- of the second em pire used to settle treaties and deter mine the policies of Kurope, and all the time she no better than she ought to be. It's more of a Kiiropean plot than an American, but there have been some women in our own history. Pres ident Arthur was a widower, but flcn eral Adam lladcaii charged Mint it was a pellienat admiuisl ration, al though the woman be said dominated everything was never brought before the public, lladi'au lost his job in that admini.-lralioii and charged his troubles to the same fair lady of Washington. The secret of the whisky ring scandal, which clouded the closing years id' Oram's second administra tion were understood to have hern be trayed first by a uiunan, the discard ed friend of one of the lingslers. In tin' fiftieth congress one of the republican leaders, a -enalor, made (Continued on Page Sir.) NAVY TO BUILD T: I 'WASHIXdTOX, .Ian. 2 1; . Secre-, tary Oanicls today began preparing to meet the Iiriilsh government's re fusal to permit Iladilelds limited to! manufacture projectiles, for the j American navy by making ready to equip a government plant lo do the ; work. Ordnance experts were put lo work on the plans. j "I expect work to begin on the j plant in the sju-lni:,' said Secretary' Daniels, "and (lie machinery will l,e advertised for soon." ; The navy department practically, has abandoned hope of getting satis-! factory bids from American manu facturers. Th" board felnetlng a site for the $1 i.oniiinn armor plale plant probably will local" tho projectile plant on the same site. j Secretary lianleis conferred todny I with Charles M. Schwab of liethlc-; hem, whose bids were rejected by the' navv department. ; Frank Lewis of Kaglo Point uat In Med ford on business Friday. HO.VE.UTH THOMPSON VVjlONTI GOES ASHORE ON 1 ISLE VAXCOrVHR, H. ('.. - an. 2(1. I The liranrl Trunk I'ncll'lc liner Prince I.I.ohn, bound from Prince Rupert, II. jC. to Skagway, Alnsku. struck on i Rocky Point, Wrangell narrows, jAlasku, at one o'clock this morning and began to leal; lnpirily. Captain Davies, of the Prince John, steamed for Singer Point, a few miles north of Rocky Point, and beached his ship on a soft bottom. Local craft, which gathered aorund look the passencers, between I.", and -0, to Peiersburg. Alaska, whence they will ronl:nin' their voage. None was lujuieil. The (Irand Trunk Pacific liner Prince Albert is standing ay tbf Prince John, and the salvage stivin..' Salvor left Vane uiver this al'ti raoo.l lo assist the stranded ship. The Prince John carries a crew of IIS. Wrungell I:. land Is one of the many Islands bordcr'rg the Inside par-sage to Alaska and has him the scree or several wrerl.s In .i'C past. Ilee i ilil- ing vessels sometimes ground iu the , shallow 'ral.-g"!l narrows, helv.een the island and toe : i.ilnbmd when J they attempt to nia'io tne passage at ; low tide. Several graves of wr.'ek victims dot one corner of the l-iund. liii I'r nee John is a steel y".:o of '). moss Ions, built In Knglai.d In O n. US,VICE CRUSADER SAX I'li'AN'Clscii, ,. mi. ev. Paul Smith, pa-tor of Ihc Central Meihodi-I ehnreh, wit!, drew today from a vice erii-.-ob- he -larte.l two weeks ago, and which fulminated last riii:bt in a lua-s uicctiic.: of cili-l lis calling upon M.ivor J, liolph, Jr., o nppioul a v ice eoaimis- j sion. "My work i- done. I,,r tbej time," said Rev, Smith. "It i-- now op to tile public and the con -t it ul ed , authorities earrv out the li s-alV reforms. intend, however, to keco: a close cheek I,, s,.. that the laws, applying to tin' conduct of eate- andj street soliciloi- ;M-e eanicd oat." cslcrday the pa-lor'- cliur li was invaded by nearly ."aio women who work in the tenderloin and the "liar bary Coast" di-lrict. a-kilig what he intended iloio" with llieui. Senate Voies $25,000 for Inaugural Expenses, But Members Declare Innkeepers Rub Visitors Works Objects to Pomp and Paycantry of Occasion. WAsmxdTox. Jan. -The si nate voted favorably toda on II".' f'J.", (inn appropriation to pay for the inauguration (xpenses at (ho c.pitol, brt not until lhere had been some liclv talk about how Wushingi,i)'i ho tt ! keepers ' rob" visoors aud'some I'iiM'i vut Ions ":at the liiaiigurur' cere- is. nies have come, to resembli a (ozonation p.ts"unt. ' ' , When Senator Overman biougbt up the resolution from the aproula- I lions committee, Senator McCnmbei, republican, suggested that It should ilieitul" provisions to prevent hotel peepers f, nil raising their rates, lie i u id ho had been Inrornied by one j hotel that a room' for iuaiigu,vtou v.iek wouo1 cost ?l!oo. ! ' Works Objects, j "I'm not going to object to lhf. i resolution." said Senator Works, re- t'lioiican I ul I would like to see one president inaugurated with ap propriate c 'l emonies, suitable in a democracy. We are having a oiona tion every four years and It ! un democratic and uu-Anieiicau and I would Ilk : to see It abolished. There Is no reason that such a ceremony as this should be conducted nnd every reason that II should not. 1 should like to see the president himself de clare against that sort of thing null protest against his Inaugural lining made a show of this kind, There !s iiO ' olicaslou for 'the government of the United states to spend $ 2 .1 , 0 0 0 to provide a place for the Inaugural, f should like lo see the senate raise Its voice against It; It violates every principle of our government." Senator Thomas, democrat, ex pressed himself in accord with Sen ators McCuinber and Works and de clared: Inn Keepers Robbers. "Old Spanish buccaneers who sailed the Spanish main, flying the black flag of piracy and taking their lives in their hands to rob merchant ships must turn over In their graves when they see the lavish successes of modern hotel proprietors on occa sions of the kind and the immunity from punishment they enjoy In prose cuting their business of plunder." Senator Horah. republican, observ ed thai people who come to Inaugura tions do so with eyes open and pocU els full for a good time. Senator Sherman, republican, said he hoped that "this matter will ho given wide publicity so that certain of my constituents who may come here won't have to borrow money from me to get home." TA( i. A. Wa-h., .Ian. -J(i. - The Tacoiiia (las company went into the baml- o a r icr today whin mcr Hover, president, of thi- eily was appointed by l-'ederal .Indue Cii-hmoi!. on a plea of .Mnllhcvv ,. M,,i risiei of Cbicimo, on a claim of . III. mill in b.-. halt' oi l be c it-odors. Tile 'I'.o-oina (las company -uie.li,-. arlilieial gas lo fa na, Huston, I III lb III and PiiyaM-!;'. !l i- cnpilulicd lor 7..'iim.ii0(l, ,, w hich ."i.lMI0,lu)tl is common mul (lie remainder piefern-d slock. DEWEY'S PROPERTY LEFT 10 WASIII VdTOX, .Ian. 2i! --Adlilir.il , Hivvev's will, dated Deniiiher 17.! 1 !!, was filed today for probate, it j berpieaths a life annuity of n 0 to ! his sister. Mrs. Mary P. drcetey, and' dlrecls that a suitable stone he placed j over his grave u Arlington national c.-lneterv . The remaining estate, of which no estimate is made. s left for' the widow and his son (borge Dewey, lr., wlio are named as cx'Tutors with, out bond. Note:. Financial Authority Tells How Fortunes Can Be Piled Up on a Breaking Market as Well as on a Risinti One Process of Stock Margin Deals Explained. XKW YORK. .Ian. L'li.- llow did Thomas W. Law-sou and the "boar' crowd make money when stocks went; down with a hang Unit is, if he did' make money.' Cnu money be niada when stocks are dropping on the ex-, clinmre "Yotf mean, how are short sale-i Hindi' ,'" 'said John .Moody, financial w riter and expert, and one of Ihc best informed men on Willi street. Very Simple Transaction. "That is very simple. Suppose you! sell I no shares of Iniled States Steel' at I'J.'i, going on the theory Unit Steel stock will be worth less money short ly, 'flic customer goes to a broker, deposits n margin' or 111, '((, :t( ppu cent of the price of the slock ( vvhicli at 2r, is .1-J,.-(I(I fur nil) shares), nml instructs the broker to sell 100 shares! at PJ.'t. 'flic broker execute-, the or-.-der. Thai elisloiuel.'s ueeollllt stands) short inn shares of stock. Xnvv, ac cording to the rules id' the stock ex change, the broker must deliver 1(10 shares id' stock lo the buyer tomor row. The broker goes into the 'lonn crowd' and borrows a certificate toe 1(1(1 shares of steel slock. That eer--til'icate, at the' market price, is wortU $l'J.olltl, and the broker must put U that amount of money as security foi? the loan of Ihc slock. The broken uses his borrowed certificate to de-i liver o Ihc mini lo whnnr he sold irl I lie first in-.lance. . , Covering Ihc H(ick. 1 "Thiil is Ihc way the I rnnsactiorf slanils nn I il the slock is 'covered.' To rover is to buy enough stock lo cover a sale. The broker, for the cus tomer, has sold 100 shares of Sleel al I'J.'i. Hut the customer does not own any Steel stock; he bus merely borrowed Hill shares, putting up for II -l.."i(IO. He stands short until he. has seemed lull shares of stock ti deliver lo the person who loaned tho ccllificale. "Suppose the trausnelion slander for a week or so. lii ordinary limes he has no premium to pay because the mull who loans the cerliticalc has tho -lil'.',."li(l to use. Of course, if tint market should go up, instead of down. as he expects and hopes it will, he will have to Vovor' by buying Sleel slock at a higher price than ho sold' lor. and iu thai case be will lose; or if he conl inues to stand 'short' he will have lo keep pulling ii)i nililitionul iiinrgin as long as Ihc slock goes up. Process is lleverscd. ''Hid he made the sale in the fir-.fi in-lMiicc on Ihc Iheory thut the mm kel is going to break. Suppose. t doc- brink ten points, and he ile- eiiles that is about as far as it is go ing. He decides to cover.' lie gives hi- broker an order to buy lilt) shares of Sleel al I lo. That lakes .ll,."ill0, and Hie cel l II i.-al e for the till) .-.hares, which he gets by purchase, goes to replace the one he has borrowed. Tho ceililieale returned, the broker gets the .J2,."Min back, and the customer has made .-I nun on the deal, less com. missions, and so on. "Tlinl is how short trading is ne-eompli-heil. On the other hand, the process i- reversed and money is niade or lost on a ri-ing market. The two groups of traders interested in seeing the markets go up or down are known il.- bulls and bears." M ly a--ers that he donbr whether the famous breuk in Hie mnr ':( last month was due to tho peace nole. "Whether lhere had I n any nole or nut, there would have been a ' (Continued on Page Six.) WIXiiXA. Minn.. .Ian. L'li. - The henv v blanket id snow over southern Mmncsole lias covered the f 1 ol the birds and I hoi els are dying of -lunation. Feed will be ilistribuled tree lo any person who will assist in fcediu'.. ituii il during the prc-ent se vere weather. m HEAVY BLANKET OF