The Weather
ford Mail Tribune
Prediction
Fair.
Heavy frost Thursday
morning.
Maximum yesterday..
Minimum today
...66
...31
...-H. Vonf
MEDFORD, OREGOX, WEDNESDAY, MARCH HO, 1921
NO. 7
COUP D'ETAT
6Y EMPEROR
CARL FAILS
former Emperor, Austria Hun
gary Travels to Budapest
Incognito and Demands the
Throne Admiral Horthy
Refuses Effort to Secure
Aid of Army Also Fails.
BUDAPEST, Mar. 30. (By Assocl-
lied PrcflB). Former Kniperor Charles
of Austria-Hungary made his visit to
Budapest Monday with the idea. of
taking possession of the Hungariau
Ihrone, hut was unable to Induce the
Hungarian government to fall in with
Ills plan. It has heon learned from
unofficial hut excellent soiuces here.
Official confirmation of the fact of
the ex-ruler's visit was supplied today
and numerous details have developed
Irom various quarters. The former
ruler, it appears, came to Budapest,
accompanied by two friends. He ar
rived at the puluce in the afternoon
ExEmperor Charles
and Invited Admiral Horthy, the re
sent, to turn over the reins of govern
ment to him.
Horthy Refuses
The regent, however, after setting
forth constitutional and political ob
jections! refused the plea and induced
the ex-monarch to promise to return
to Switzerland.
Charles is reported now to be at
Steinamanger In West Hungary near
the Austrian frontier, at which place
he stopped on his way from Switzer
land before coming to Budapest. He
was accompanied on his return jour
ney from Budapest by Premier Teieky
and he halted at Steinamanger on the
pretext of indisposition, believing, it
os said, that he might yet win over
the troops stationed there.
Army Head Refuses
Charles on his way into Hungary
had made an effort to align the mili
tary authorities at Steinamanger with
him pleadlng-wlth General Lehar, in
command, for support. General Lehar,
hoirever, refused. "
Admiral Horthy Is said to be con
vinced that the restoration of Charles
Would be a source of danger to Hun
gary. A large party of the Budapest
Harrison, as well as General Lehar's
troops are declared to be opposed to
Charles" return
The French, British and Italian high
(Continued on taga six.)
Vli n'lliwn mill
HUSBAND KILLS WIFE 10 SIGNS
STATEMENT RENOUNCING FIDELITY
CHICAGO, Mar. 30. The bodies of
(!'orge Glenn Llndbloom, 36 and Mrs.
Lillian Llndbloom, his wife, today
were gent to Galeshurg, 111., his nioth
(r's home, according to directions left
y Llndbloom in a note written just
before he shot his wife and himself at
their apartment here lust night.
"I won't stand for her to go to
dances," Llndbloom wrote his mother,
"and before I will part with her I will
sooner die, so I take her with me to
death."
Another letter, in the handwriting
' his wife and dated Monday, shed
Administration Asks
Mexico to Apprehend
Murderers 3 Yankees
WASHINGTON, March 30.
Representations have been
made to the Mexican government
demanding that the murderers
of three Americans killed in that
country about three weeks ago
bo apprehended and punished.
TA.MPA, Pla.. March 30.
Charges lhat Mexican seamen
at Alvarado, near Vera Cruz,
tore an American flag to shreds
and threatened to kill members
of the crew of the American
schooner Telegram, will bo In
vestigated by tho Mexican gov
ernment Hafael Kuzzia, Mexi
can consul here said today. The
consul has forwarded to the
Mexican ambassador at Wash
ington a report of the Incident
received here lust night from
Captuin H. F. .Jackson, master
of the schooner,
DEBS OFFERED HIS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 30. Legisln
tion to solve the problem of prisoners
confined for violation of the war time
laws is under consideration Attorney
General Daugherty said today. Mem
bers of the senate judiciary committee
have asked Mr. Daugherty to present
his ideas on the question to the senate
committee he added, a bill already
having been drawn to cover the mat
ter. Mr. Daugherty said published re
ports that Eugene V. Debs had been
offered his freedom from Atlanta peni
tentiary on promise to abandon the
spread of bolshevik doctrine were
without foundation.
The Debs case, Mr. Daugherty said
would be the subject of careful invest!
gation on which an opinion would be
transmitted to President Harding.
NATCH LZ, Miss., Mar. 30. Physic
ians attending Lieutenant W. D.
Coney, trans-continental aviator, stat
ed at 2 o'clock this afternoon that he
could not live longer than twelve
hours.
NATCHEZ, Miss., Mar. 30. Lieu
tenant W. D. Coney, trans-continental
aviator who fell near Crowville, La.,
on a return flight from Florida to
California last Friday, is sinking rap
idly today, according to tne attending
physician. Little hope for his lire is
expressed.
JURY FOREMAN MIS-
10 KNOW MORE'N JEGE
rurf p.n Moi- .10. Desnite
almost specific instruction of Judge
Thomas Davis, a jury in ma uuu,.
viiiv fnntirl rim Smith, colored.
guilty of an offense against a IS-
,-ear-old white uoy. me juubu "
ho verdict aside as he had told the
i .... i, un,iM Hn if a verdict o(
miiltv was found, declaring the evi
dence insufficient.
You evidently feci you know more
about the law than the court," the
ludse said to the Jury.
"We do," the foreman saiu.
"To whom it may concern," said the
letter. "I do this day of my own free
will and compunction swear that I do
not promise to live with and be true
to my husband, Mr. George Uienn
Llndbloom."
si lines of erasures followed, then
came this paragraph:
..r.i -ithniit children and feeling
the way I do about things I think it
i.Dt should part while mere
only ourselves to think about."
The note was indorsed m wnu
bloom's writing: t
"This is my wife's contesslon.
DAUGHERTY DENIES
1111(10
WARE HOUSE
RED ARSENAL
Sensational Exposures Are Ex
pected to Follow Investiga
tion of Explosion on Chicago
West Side Wall Street In
vestigator on Hand Bombs
Found Among Fireworks.
CHICAGO, Mar. SO Hints of .sen
sational disclosures as a result of yes
terday's explosion in a secret fire
works factory on tho west side be
came known today with the appear
ance of fresh Investigators in the
case. At least eight ncrsonH were
killed In the blast.
It was announced that the Ameri
can Hallway association had unsigned
two men to investigate the shipment
of explosives to and from the whole
sale notion establishment of Singer,
Schaet'fer ami company and ;hcy
were closeted with the city fire mar
shal for nearly an hour. The men
save their names as K. .1. league and
J. O. Ueeser.
"Ueeser assisted In the investiga
tion of the Wall street explosion."
said John C. McDonnell, second as
sistant fire marshal. He refused to
give further information.
At the same time Shirley T. High
attorney in charge of the fire pre
vention bureau, suld his office had
located William Sinner and Nathan
Schaet'fer, members of the firm whom
tho police could not find after the
explosion.
it was rumored the men were being
held Incommunicado because .of evi
dence that not all tho fireworks were
of the harmless variety.
Members of tho building committee
of the city council who visited the
ruins yesterday and went over th'.m
again today with a coroner's jury,
composed of engineering experts, said
they would recommend that pr;secu
tions for manslaughter bo started
against owners of the buthiiirg.
CHICAGO, Mar. 30. Search for
hodies continued today in the ruins
of the warehouse destroyed by an ex
plosion yestorday. Firemen and po
lice dug also for evidence that might
throw further light upon the cause
of the disaster lit which at least eight
persons were killed and several score
hurt.
Shirley T. High, fire attorney
planned to question again today Ed
ward and Isadore Shaffer, Hons of
one of tho proprietors of a concern
which city authorities believe lias
been manufacturing und storing fire
works in a building adjacent to the
destroyed warehouse. City ordinances
forbid storage of fireworks within the
city limits.
The police were' trying also :o find
W. Singer and " Nhtliah Menu cf fur,
partners in the;' alleged fireworks
concern. When they could - not be
found yesterday It -was thought .that
they might be among the dead. Hut
today tho pollco said they bellevodthe
men fled .to escape.. possible prosecu
tion. Max Singer, a nephew of Schaef
for's partner, Is said to have told the
police that ordinarily ten men wore
used to load firecrackers In a secret
basement factory. He said that only
four were at work yesterday and that
all were killed.
"There are four salesmen out. on
the roud," Siniter is said to have re
lated, "but they never tame near tne
store. My uncle used to meet thoni
in downtown hotel Tobblos. They
would turn over their orders and my
Uncle would arrange for the delive
ries." SPARKS FROM
TODAY'S WIRE
SEATTLE, Mar. 30. Federal pro:
hihltion agents are not empowered to
stop and search citizens for liquor on
the street or in hotel lobbies unless
the officers are provided with specific
search wurrants, Federal Judge Jere
miah Neterer held ir a decision hand
ed down here today.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.. Mar. 30. A
hill to prohibit aliens from engaging
In commercial fishing was offered for
Introduction in the senutc today. The
measure, its sponsor declared, was
aimed to prevent Japanese from con
trolling a largo part of the industry.
POPE FIELD. Camp Bragg. N. C.
Mar. 30. Marino corps airplanes .in
flight from Washington to St. Thomas
Virgin Islands, arrived at pope Fluid
here at 2:45 this afternoon. The
flight from Richmond took five hours
and fifteen minutes.
ruirin Xar. 30. Judge R. M.
n,.rtnn. chairman of the United States
railroad board departed today for
Washington In response to u sum
mons from Freslrient'Hardiii for a
conference on the general railroad
situation.
Shoots Himself in
Breast and Head,
But Will Recover
6ALEM. Ore., Mar. 30 Obvi
ously despondent because his
wife had refused to live with hliu,
B. E. Otjen, 40, rancher, drove
up in front of his residence here
at 9 o'clock this morning, shot
himself in the left breast, wait
ed for the police and coroner to
arrive, explained to them that he
was the man they sought, dis
charged another bullet Into his
forehead and then walked over to
the coroner's automobile nnd
climbed in.
He will recover.
"Family trouble," Oljen told
tho officers. "Tho trouble Is,"
he went on, "they only gave mo
a 22-enllbor gun. 1 asked for a
32-caliber, hut thai little pop gun
Is all 1 got."
J
IN AUTO TAXES
IS
E
Rep.' Ben Sheldon Speaks at
C. of Commerce Forum on
Auto Tax Situation Con
stitutional Objections Chief
Obstacle.
One of the most Important subjects
to which the late legislature gave at
tention was thoroughly discussed at
today's chamber of commerce forum
luncheon, by Representative Hen C
Sheldon who gnve,4a review . of the
highway work of th..session and par
ticularly the now auto license law.
The speaker mentioned the fact
that the road program of the state was
last approaching the point where a
re-adjustment In the financing thereof
would have to be made or the program
come to an early stop, so far as large
construction work was concerned. He
expressed the opinion that whenever
the auto owners grow restless under
the increasing of fees and the only
alternative was shouldering a part of
the burden onto general property taxa
tion, the program would come to a
halt, for the reason that the taxable
property of the state was already bear
ing all the burden that It could. Hence
according to Mr. Sheldon, the impor
tance of adjusting the road building
auto tax equitably as between the Var
ious makes of machines. -Gas
Tax Unconstitutional
Reference was made to Mr. Shel
don's fight at the last session to get
the larger part of the burden put on
gasoline, Instead of the auto direct,
because of the greater equity in using
gasoline consumption as a basis of
estimating the use of the highways
by the various autos. How this- plun
was beaten by the constitutional ob
jections raised by the attorney general
and other lawyers, was fully explain
ed. . ; ,
A similar objection struck out a
clause which Mr. Sheldon had succeed
ed in Inserting in the bill, providing
for a reduced fee for the old, used
cars. When the basis of the new li
cense fee was changed to one purely
of weight of the car, the point wan
raised that a distinction in the fee
charged, based solely on the depreciat
ed value of the car rendered the whole
law of questionable legality, and again
constitutional limitations defeated
what a majority of the members or
'.he legislature wished to write Into
the law. .
Tables Displayed
Several tables were displayed by
Mr. Sheldon showing that, as between
the various cars, the new fees were
more equitable than the old, both as to
weight and as to value. The legisla
ture showed a disposition to keep the
road building program going full tilt,
hence the license rates were some
what higher than formerly and will
produce more revenue. It was shown
that the new fees practically equal
what would be paid on the cars if they
wore on the personal property tax
rolls. It was also shown that the coun
ties receive as their share of the state
fees practically what they did under
the personal property taxation plan,
and mat the tax was levied more gen
erally upon the automobiles, Instead
of a largo number escaping all taxation.-
Mr. Sheldon's discussion of the li
cense law was preceded by a general
discussion of other highway laws, in
cluding the gasoline tax, the new
rules-of-the-road law, tho Roosevelt
highway bill which was such a storm
center of the session, the new road
districting law and the various rccom
mendallons ot the highway commis
sion, ... .
READ
TINT
I
$9,948.50 IS
AWARDED IN
WALKER CASE
Jury in Circuit Court Renders
Verdict in Civil Case After
Two Hours' Deliberation
Testimony of Johnson Dis
regarded, According to Re
port. A jury in tho circuit court this
morning after two liours' delibera
tion returned a judgment for $9,-
948. ,10 ngainst A. Y. Walker in the
civil suit of tho state banking board
by F. c. nramwell. The pluintirr
asked for $40,389.95, alleged to be
due on promissory notes and over
drafts, arising from tho failure of
the Bank of Jacksonville.
The specified items allowed by the
jury were as follows: Promissory
notes for $9S0 and $830. which were
admitted by the defense, and a prom
issory noto for $1351. .10 which was
contested, all with interest nt eight
per cent. Also an overdraft for 86002.
The plaintiff claimed allowance for
$37,739.95. Attorney fees of $18?
were allowed.
The Jury took 12 ballots, one mem
ber holding out for the full amount
throughout, ono juror said. Other
Jurors said the testimony of- W. H.
Johnson, star witness for the plain
tiff, was disregarded, but that the
testimony of tho stule bunk exam
iner was accepted at full vulue.
. The case was hard fought through
out,' and In tho closing argument,
echoes of tho last campaign, and ref
erences to tho Judgment In tho Kubll
case were Injected. The plaintiff
was represented by Attorney George
M. Roberts, and tho defense by Attor
neys Gus Newbury, E. E. Kelley, and
binert Hermann, of Portland, a life
long friend of the defendant. Kelley
in the closing arguments, unmerciful
ly flayed Johnson, claiming that he
sought immunity by his testimony,
wnicn was highly sensational.
The civil action against S. T. John
ston, Thompson creek sawmill opera
tor,
tor an overdraft-of $4000 was
postponed until the May term of
court, on account of the illness of W.
H. Johnson, who is lying In the wo
man's ward of the county Jail, with
a temperature of 104. due to a severe
cold, and the nervous strain of the
trial. Tie is attehded hy Dr. E. B
rickel, and his wife is acting as
nurse, ins condition Is not regarded
as necessarily serious.
There was little Interest shown In
the verdict, and when It was read the
only spectator was William Ulrlch of
tnis city. An appeal by either side
is doubtful,, both,. reported to bo sat
isfied by the result..,;' ".I v -Closing
Argument Illder.' " Un
Closing-i.argumentMin the 'Warner
case .wero made . Tuesday afternoon',
ana tne -cnse;ivas, given to the1 :l'lry
this morning.
B. - E. Kelley-. opened for tho' de
fense, and charged that the suit "was
a willful attempt to whitewash ,-i rot
ten state bank department," and
branded W. 11. Johnson, former cash
ier of tho defunct institution, and
star witness for tho plalnlirf, as "a
liar and a thief, and an Ingratc, who
would look no man In the eye," and
that his testimony wus an attempt "to
secure immunity."
"There never was another failure
like the failure of the Hank of Jack
sonville.' said Attorney Kelley," and
it is inconceivable that a stato bank
ing board could have been so slipshod
and haphazard, in Its examination
of the bank's record and books."
Ilefcrrlng to Deputy Superintendent
of Banks E. 1). Kahlcr, Attorney Kel
ley Bald: "Ho sat hy the tahlo and
flirted with Johnson, nnd I expected
any minute to see him put his arms
around Johnson. The state banking
department Is "cheek by Jowl' with
this fellow Johnson and I say it Is
undignified for the state of Oregon
to follow such a procedure."
llobcrt Vigorous In Atuu-k.
Attorney George M. Roberts In his
opening statement declared the case
rested upon tho records. He defend
ed the state banking department, and
made a vigorous appeal for full judg
ment' asked. Ho also contested the
contention of tho defense that the
cuso was a "case of veracity between
Johnson, and business men of Med'
ford." Johnson, ho .Bald, - was the
"goat." .
Attorney Gus Newbury also spoke
in behalf of the defense stressing the
unreliability of the records of the
bank, and the testimony of Johnson,
who, he declared "was scattering
roses in his path for the days he will
spend in prison, where he should be
for the rest of his life." Attorney
Newbury contended that the "ac
counts of any depositor In tho bank
could be Juggled in a liko manner hy
Johnson, or any other bank official."
Newbury warned the Jury to beware
of "pleas for tho poor depositors of
(Continued on page six.)
Cambridge Oarsmen
Vanquish Oxford,
Lothrop Collapses
LONDON, March 30. (By
the Associated Press.) Cam-
bridge vindicated the predic-
tions of rowing experts and won
the annual boat race with Ox-
ford today over the Putney-
Mortluke course of about four
and a qunrter miles on the
Thames in 19 minutes, 4 4 sec-
onds. It was only after a des-
perato battle, in which it np-
poured to he either crew's race
until near the finish t hut tho
light bluo won.
So gruelling was tho pace
that F. H. Lothrop, of Harvard
und Trinity, at No. 4 for Ox-
ford, who was tho solo Amerl-
can among tho competing ours-
emen, together with II. O. Uoret,
the Cambridge bow, and D. I.
! ('outes, No. 3 for Oxford, col-
lapsed at tho finish under tho
strain.
ANNOUNCE DATE,
PLACE, DEIfSEY
T,
NEW YORK, Mar. 30. Tho place,
date and all details of tho Dempsey
Carpcntter heavyweight championship
bout will bo announced here Saturday,
April 9, Tex Klckard said today. He
said he had finally decided to hold the
match In the United States.
While the date of the contest has
been soml-offlclully fixed for some
time, us Saturday, July 2, the pluce
and tho general conditions to govern
tho bout have nover been authorita
tively stated. Itlekard's announcement
today is takon as indicating thnt he
has vlrtuully comploted various neces
sury preliminaries Incidental to stag
ing tho match within a reasonable ru
dlus of Greater New York. This has
been his object from the beginning of
negotiations as ho has maintained that
a contest of this magnitude could not
be staged with a reasonable chance of
profit outside an area of large popula
tion.
IIOSEIHTRO, Ore., Mnrch 30. Af
ter an all-afternoon discussion of the
proposed million dollar bond issue tor
road building, as recommended by a
special committee, tho Douglas county
tax payers' longue late yesterday
adopted a motion sanctioning the
bonds. There wore about 75 dele
gates and tax payors at tho meeting
Tho plan was Indorsed by a margin
of two votes. Farmers from various
parts of the county, representing
many road districts, opposed the plan,
alleging that latorul roads were be
Ing neglected whllo tho Pacific high
way was receiving the benefit of all
avallablo money.
GOVERNOR ASKED
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Mar. 30,
Impeachment of Governor J. B. A.
Robertson was recommended in a re
port filed In the Oklahoma house ot
representatives late today by tho in
vestlgallon committee. The report
charges gross neglect and corruption
In office.
RHINE REGION,
COBLENZ, March 30. (By tho As
sociated Pross.) Communist upris
ings broke out here this morning in
Moers and Grefeld In tho Belgian
zone ot occupation and there were
clashes in which the communists suf
fered casualties.
LONDON, March 30. Fifty per
sons were killed In yesterday's fight
ing at Gevclsberg In Westphalia,
while the police were dealing with
the communist rUlng there, according
to Berlin messages today to ReutcrB
limited. The town was re-captured
by the authorities. At Mannheim the
police were attacked and returned the
fire killing three persons an,d wound
mi live others.
SQUEEKY
RE-HEARING
PHONE CASE
REQUESTED
Portland and 19 Other Cities
in Oregon to Join in Request
April 18th Public Service
Commission Orders Cut in
Gas Rates for Portland,
Which Were Raised in Jan'y.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 30. Tha
city of Portlnnd, April 18, will pre
sent its request for a re-hearing of
the telephone rates to the state pub
lic Bervlco ocmmlsslou, It was an
nounced at tho city hall today. Nine
teen other Oregon municipalities will
bo leagued with Portland In the re
quest. PORTLAND, Ore., March 30. The
Oregon public service commission
today ordered a cut in gas rates for
Portland and environs Berved by the
Portland Gas and Coke company. To
day's order amended an order issued
January 15, which increased Port
land's gas rate. The new rates are
equivalent to a reduction of $100,
000 annually in the company's rev
enues, and are based on a new oil
contract whereby the gas company
Is enabled to obtain oil at a reduc- ..
tlon of 15 cents a barrel under the
rato prevailing January 15. .. . - .
The now rates are etfeotlve April
10. They establish a minimum
chargo of 85 cents for 300 feet ox
less. A reduction from $1.35 to
$1.30 a thousand feet is made for
gas consumers up to 8700 feet. Up. to
40,000 foot the rate is $J.20; 50,000
$1.05; .100,000 feet,. 90c, and over
200,000 feet 85c. The heating rate
is fixed R5c for 300 minimum, tfce
next 4,700 feot at $1 instead of $1.05,
the present rate, and in excess, of 5,
000 feet at 80c Instead of 8 Set j
$10,000,000 Canning '
Combine Formed tn '
Oregon, Washington
PORTLAND, Ore., March rfO.
Cannery managers and rep-
resontatlves of financial insti-
tutions and fruit growers' aaso-
clations. decided late yesterday
to incorporate the Oregon and;
Washington Canning and- Pre-
serve company under the laws ot
'Dolaware, with a capital of $10,
000,000. Eight directors from
each of tho two states will ba
chosen. - ,
, TACOMA, March 30. The
price of all classes of canned
goods have docllned this Week
an average of 25 per cent, It
was said In jobbing circloB here
today. Prices were reduced, it
was announced, because , large
stocks of last season's pacKs re- '
main unsold. Jobbers expect
the lower prices to move the ac-
cumulation before new stocks
are available In the fall. .
v..
Ijllcrtjr Bonds.
NEW YORK, Mar. 30. Liberty
bonds closed: 3's $90.20; first 4's
$87.40; second 4's $87.00; first 4H's.
$87.64: second 4's $87.10; third
414 's $90.24; fourth 414 'a $87.20: Vic-,
tory 3-Va $97.68; Victory 4 'a $97.64,
MINES ARE SEIZED
A serious communist riot In Dres
den has been put down, says a Ber
lin message to the Exchange Tele
graph company. Ninety-two com
munists were arrested among them,
fourteen women.
Reports from Duesseldort declare
the communist activity In the Rhine
region Is increasing. Some mines
have been seized by workers, It Is re
ported. At Jena, the glass manufacturing
center, some success attended the
communists In their efforts to start
a general strike. -Messages report
that they have occupied the Carl Selss
optical works, a plant of world-wide
production, and have stopped street
railway traffic.
"Sht upon the motive.
L
1